Ms.

Burroughs, are you calling roll?

Please.

Commissioner Pana.

Here.

Commissioner Cass.

Mr.

Frazy.

Here.

Mr.

Perkins.

Here.

Miss Serena?

Here.

Miss Tipton.

Here.

Commissioner Pota?

Here.

Commissioner Jones.

Here.

Brian Davis.

Mr.

McClamo.

Here.

Thank you, Claire.

Before we get started, I want to welcome our two newest members.

Mr.

Perkins is joining us and Mr.

McLamore flanking us at each end here.

Welcome to bookings.

All right.

First on the agenda, we have the approval of our last meeting, which was February 23rd.

You have the minutes before you and they were emailed to each of us prior to the meeting.

Do I have a motion for approval?

So move.

Second.

I have a motion and a second.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Anyone opposed?

Same sign.

Minutes are approved.

Next under on the agenda, we have our new business.

And first, we have request for approval of discussion and recommendation regarding the parks capital improvement list.

Mr.

Hooper.

Yes, ma'am.

Commissioner, how are you doing tonight?

Good.

Um thank you all all for hearing this.

Uh we keep doing segments of this, so I hate to go back to the very beginning and boost everything.

Uh there was included the list of uh that we have completed and have done.

Um our last approval had to do with the lights for the fields.

Um so we got those approved.

Uh once we did, we had to go back through, re-get our bids, finalized, make sure national wage rates, uh, some of these other things, some bonds come on it.

So ultimately, once that came through, and it came through at a million and twenty-eight thousand three hundred and forty-seven.

Well, that leaves a remaining balance starting from our original funds of a little over a hundred thousand dollars.

I'm kind of hesitant to give an exact number just because I had to buy some more rocks on something.

So some of the numbers do change, but 99% of the projects are complete at this point in time.

Uh but we do have a balance of a little over 100,000.

What we're doing is like to repurpose some of those funds for that.

Uh we just and I have looked at some of our larger projects that we still kind of need to get completed, uh, that weren't part of the original capital improvement.

Um 55,000 that we would like to use to resurface Gym 2 at Roy Walker Gym.

It's just getting in bad shape.

At some point we've got to resurface it.

It needs to be done.

This is some funds that we can use to do that.

Uh the surfacing will be done with a material called plastic.

And it wasn't a typo.

It's really the way it's spelled.

So um basically it's a rubberized flooring, kind of similar to what's there.

Uh it's got a good lifespan, but again, it depends how bad we abuse it.

Uh we got bids for hardwood flooring that was astronomical, and then no one would be able to step on it for fear of denting it type floor, and then you know, so then we work down.

We just felt this was the best option.

Uh the court's gonna be striped for basketball, volleyball, which is long ways, then practice volleyball, which is the sideways ones, and then pickleball also.

So it will have all the stripings that the current gyms have.

It'll just be permanent and real, if that makes sense, not tape.

So, something to get done.

Um the second amount we want to use $11,000 for a uh fountain at uh Green Acres Pond.

Uh there was one out there originally, or years ago I should say.

It was also real close to the shore.

Uh the lake would drop a little bit and it'd start dry running.

Um so it got burned up and was removed.

Uh what we're looking at now is something with like a 400-foot cord that we're gonna put out in the deeper part of the lake.

It's not gonna be near any shoreline, so there shouldn't be any overspray.

Although with the 60 mile an hour winds we had the other, maybe a different issue.

But uh no, and we're trying to get something big, something that we can put some colors on.

It'll have uh LED lights on it, so uh smoke on the water, it's gonna be red, white, and blue.

During Christmas, it's gonna be red, green, and white.

Uh you know, just some different things we can do to make something visual while also stirring the water around trying to keep that pond in a little bit better shape.

And right now, those are our recommendations.

I'll be glad to answer any questions.

Thank you, Mr.

Hooper.

I am gonna open it up to any questions on the committee.

I'm really happy to see the fountain.

I figured you would be, Helen.

I've had a lot of complaints about that.

And currently we're looking at a couple of different styles.

There were two different one had a big tr big one with eight different things going, you know.

We just decide gotta decide on which nozzles, and that'll probably be just a discussion because there's not much difference.

But we're looking at something that'll shoot about 70 foot in the air and have a 70 foot diameter.

I think we should call it Fount Helen.

Uh I have a question uh on the striping of the court.

Is it gonna be different colors for the different sports, please?

I believe so, but it'll be we're gonna try to stick with as much of regulation as we can.

Um like say it depends on the stripes, but yes.

Um there's also multiple colors, but we're gonna try to keep something simple.

We're not gonna do logos or things like that.

No, I know, but I I meant like sometimes you need the different colors to visualize what line you're playing.

Some will be white stripes, some will be the the black, some will be.

Yeah, because it's hard right now because I always serve from the wrong line in volleyball.

The green and the going with that is your excuse.

Okay.

That sounds good.

Uh do I any more discussion?

I just have a couple of quick questions.

Um did you Russell, did you say there you want the lifespan of that floor?

Was that um they told us it was like gonna be fifty years.

Up to fifty years?

Yes.

But you know how that's always up to.

Yeah.

Um is that fifty years for a gym that's used once a week or once used daily?

Is it you know so there are some variables, but this was a longer time frame.

It's one of the reasons we also chose it.

I have uh a little experience with this flooring type.

Uh we did it for Air Force Base up in Great Falls, Montana, for an outdoor field, and they guaranteed it for 50 years with a warranty in the whole nine.

Uh similar striping pattern to what uh he's saying.

Um every uh orientation or sport had its own color, so it was real easy to tell and and they're real good about uh setting up uh contrast enough to where you can tell which is which.

So it's not a a close pair.

And uh with it being outdoors, it was negative thirty to a hundred and ten during the summer and they guaranteed it for fifty years.

Nice.

And then I have another question.

Uh again, lifespan.

Did was there a lifespan or some kind of warranty on the on the fountain?

Until it runs out of water?

No, there wasn't.

I have not looked at it at this point in time.

Um it's we're basically we located a a company that does it.

We're dealing with the distributor of them.

I I'm just not sure.

Uh it's probably gonna be one of those three to five year warranty.

Uh we're getting we looked at the uh shallow kit on it, because we know there is some lake fluctuations, but I actually had a couple of my guys go out there and found a good spot about eight foot deep now.

So that gives us a little bit of range when when it's out there at the depth.

Awesome.

Thank you.

Anyone else have discussion?

Do I have a recommendation?

Move for approval.

Second.

I have a uh move for approval and a second.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Anyone opposed?

Same sign?

Okay.

Sounds like we're gonna get a fountain and a new floor.

Sorry.

Yes.

Claire.

George and Kim was the second.

All right.

Next, under new business, we have a request for approval of dis approval and discussion and recommendation regarding age requirements without a guardian at Roy Walker and Club's Aquatic Center.

Mr.

Hooper.

Excuse me.

Uh yes, thank you again.

Um we've had a lot of discussion on this in-house.

Um we discussed it last meeting also, and kind of put it on for a I guess a formal vote or recommendation at this meeting.

Um kind of want to reiterate uh what we originally asked for was over 16, the legal guardian, the parent, someone more responsible.

Um discussions with Justin and even with Amy.

Where our biggest fear is is it's spring break.

So there's a bunch of kids that need something to do.

We're about to get into summer and a bunch of kids need something to do.

So we're kind of at backing up a little bit and saying, all right, let's just leave it where it is now, which is 16 with a guardian.

Keep it more generic.

Um but we would like to make sure we get rid of the waivers and do all the paperwork.

Um and following along with this, we'd still like the outdoor sign, which will be our next item.

But we also would like we don't want to punish the good kids for the the the few messing up.

We'd like to give some people some opportunities and we will then at that point hold individuals accountable, more so than just raising the general age limit if that's acceptable with the board.

So let me get this.

I want to make sure I understand it correctly.

You would, Mr.

Hooper and Ms.

Wyatt like to leave it as is, correct?

Correct.

Okay.

Is there anyone on the board or the committee who thinks otherwise who would like to have a discussion?

Okay.

Sounds good.

I think you're on the right path.

I hate to punish the kids, the good kids who are there and do it.

So will this need a vote, or we since we're not voting, it's a kind of table and it it will just say that the motion would be just to leave it as is.

Okay.

So I'll make a motion that we leave the rule of the age requirements as is.

Second.

Okay.

I have a motion and a second.

All those in favor say aye.

Anyone opposed, same sign.

Okay.

Mr.

Hooper, let's move on to number three.

Request for uh recommendation regarding new rules sign at Roy Walker.

And and what we would like to do, obviously is change the route change the wording on the rule sign to show what you we just voted on.

So it will go back to the other wording.

Um so basically we just want to put a rule sign outside so people know what they're getting into before they get into it, if that makes sense.

Uh I don't know if that's an approval item or we'll just do it the same way we did the first one.

Let's put a sign.

The only thing I do I want and I feel like the committee feels the same way that if you do have troublemakers, we are okay with you guys banning them for a time period, whatever you need to do to make everyone else still be allowed to come in.

And and I was talking to Mr.

Howell today about it, and some of the things um obviously the last two rules.

They kind of say the same thing.

Um refer reveal the right to refuse service if you're causing a problem or a condition that disrupts business or things experience of others.

And then if you're not adhering to the rules, you'll be asked to leave.

Okay.

So I I I guess that kind of keeps it as a two-fold is hey, we can stop you from coming in if you're causing a problem or have caused a problem, and we can ask you to leave if you have caused a problem.

Um as far as we talked about different penalties.

It's kind of gonna be so much on a case by case basis.

I hate to try to put anything down.

Um is a minor offense.

We ask you, hey man, come on back tomorrow, get out of here.

And is it something a little bit more major?

Hey guys, y'all need to be gone for the rest of the month or a year.

It just depends on the offense.

Is it their third time, first time?

So kind of don't have a good definition on that one.

It's kind of gonna be case by case.

Very good.

Understood.

Does anyone have any questions?

No, I agree with that.

Okay.

Yes, Mr.

Perkins.

Yes.

So the the hours that are listed on the rules, are those subject to change or is that the summer schedule or what exactly?

That's just our yearly schedule.

Okay.

So if it changes, it would be for a special event and wouldn't necessarily be on the rules.

Unless they run by the boxes.

Yeah, like a volleyball running late or a boxing event on the weekend, but those are special occasions.

Sure.

Anyone else have another question?

Yeah.

I don't want to stretch this out at all, but I'm I was curious, it caught my attention too.

I it seems like the weekend hours I mean should be longer, like Saturdays.

I mean I'd I don't want to I'm not trying to work you guys to death.

No, not at all.

I but just we think Saturdays for would seem like we would want to run a full day on a Saturday.

Um is there Am I thinking wrong here?

No, and Madam Chairman and Commissioner Porter, uh the way that we initially set those rules is we actually used to keep track of when people were utilizing the facility.

And so there is actually a point in time where we were open later and nobody came.

And so we revised it back and adjusted those hours.

And that's how we initially set the hours.

Thank you.

Thank you for that.

And and by the same token, they everything's up for adjustment.

We've talked about adjusting some of the pool hours, uh, like at Potter Pool, to have some late nights so people can get off work and then go swimming on Tuesdays and Thursdays and things along those lines.

Same type of situation here.

And I'll be more than willing to bring it to commission for a budget change and we extend hours.

That's what you're you're nominating and seconding that, sir.

Russell, I'm not scared.

Okay.

Do I have a motion to accept the Roy Walker Center rules?

I move for approval.

Second.

Have a motion and a second.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Anyone opposed, same sign?

Okay.

Very good.

Claire, did you get what you needed?

Uh next up on the agenda, we have a report.

Stephanie.

We're ready to hear what's going on at the zoo.

No slideshow.

No, the first time.

That's everyone's like, that's why it's so cold outside.

That's exactly why.

Actually, no, um, they have maybe like two quick updates.

Um the MLK was this past weekend, the whole city event.

I just want to let you know that we had um in between the hours of 11 to 4 when the zoo was actually free.

We had 802 people.

So um it was a lot.

I do expect a lot this spring break.

I am pushing animal encounters a lot, and we are pretty full with animal encounters.

So it's gonna be exciting this spring break.

Um and then last update is it is baby season, so definitely stay tuned for that.

In a couple of weeks, I have an ultrasound and a blood draw to confirm two babies.

I won't say which ones.

I'll let y'all guess on those.

But um that's all I have.

Yes, Stephanie, I was asked to ask you why you are requesting knives.

Oh, on your wish list.

Butter nights.

Oh, butter knives.

Yes, not everyone asked me knives on my wish list and CDs why I requested those.

So we make suncatchers and um what are those the the wind chimes.

Wind chimes.

So that's what we use for them.

Sun catchers and wind chimes.

And not necessarily the not all of them go into the exhibits.

Um the ones with like butter knives, the wind chimes we'll use like for our Raven because it's like something shiny and like super cool.

But the sun catchers, um, we can do outside the exhibits with the CDs, and we just clean them very well.

And we got a whole um a whole box of CDs that someone donated yesterday.

So we have lots of those.

And people are actually doing very, very nicely, like donating everything.

We've gotten a lot of tires and boxes and pillows and sheets.

Um, but if people want to keep donating, we're more than welcome to take stuff.

Anything they want.

Even like donated meat.

A lot of people like ask about donated meat because a lot of people are hunters around here.

Uh we'll gladly take any donated meat that isn't already, you know, has gone bad.

But we'll take anything.

Make use of everything.

Thank you.

Mm-hmm.

No.

Thank you, Stephanie.

Uh Amy, recreation update, please.

Hello.

Uh Stephanie, that was really quick.

I've never seen you be that quick.

So I only have one new thing on my report, but I'll go over some of the old stuff.

ARP is still using the building every morning for income tax.

They are slowing down a little bit, but they are gonna be there until April 15th.

Um, so that's been kind of going on.

They're using the multi-purpose room.

We had elections there on March the 3rd.

They only had about 40 people total all day long in 12 hours show up.

Um right now, volleyball is still going on.

They have about four more weeks, three for sure, and then I talked to Tish yesterday or uh last week, last Friday.

She said she may drag it on one more week.

Um she's got some makeups to do.

So they're still going.

Upward sports uh youth basketball just finished on Saturday.

Um that was their last their last Saturday that they've got.

They came today to get some of their stuff.

Um so that's kind of enjoyable because those Saturdays, the parking lot is completely full.

I drove by there one day, I was like, oh my goodness, they were parked on the street, and I mean, so uh it's it's it's big with all those little kids in there, so it's pretty neat.

So they just finished.

Uh Zumba is still growing.

She's went from she does a Monday, Tuesday, Thursday now from six to seven, and I've she's she's got about 17 to 22 to 23 people every single night in there in that one room.

So, and then we did um Russell did approve for me to get some mirrors for for that wall and in that multi-purpose room, so now they can kind of watch themselves and watch their moves.

I wouldn't want to see myself, but that's okay.

So we did we did do that for her, and um she is she's a wonderful person.

Uh her name's Stephanie Ramirez, if you ever have a chance to get to talk to her, she's a neat person.

So um we've got that going on.

Uh karate, he's still showing up.

One week he may have three people, one week it might just be him.

But he's still showing up, and I think he's just hoping that there's a little bit more interest.

Um so anyway, we'll see on that.

Um then I about three weeks ago I met with uh some of the pickleball.

I was I was talking to Commissioner Paula about that and and visited with um Dr.

Fuentes at the college and visited with them, and they I was wanting to do a little tournament, you know, pickleball tournament, and they requested having a league.

And so I said, okay, well then we'll do it.

So I started playing a league and it just opened up.

Registration just opened up today.

Um so I've already got five people, I think, on there registered.

Hopefully it'll be good.

Um, but it'll be through it's I'm gonna call it the City of Clovis outdoor pickleball league at Hillcrest.

So it'll be outdoors since that that place stays pretty busy over there it sounds like in good weather.

So gonna start April the 13th and end May the 21st.

So it'll end right before Memorial Day.

And we'll do competitive on Monday night, intermediate on Tuesday night and Thursday night there'll be seniors.

But I've got some 85 to 90 year olds that want to play but they don't want to play against 60 year olds.

So depending on how many how many enroll we may try to do two senior divisions just depending on that.

We'll just see and then I'm charging $30 a person or $60 a team which I think is pretty fair.

I know two years ago when I did was in one of the leagues I paid $50 to be in the league.

So they didn't think that was they didn't bat an eye.

I met with three of them and they didn't bat an eye on that at all.

So hopefully it'll turn out really good.

I did talk to Russell about possibly getting one of the little portajons out there for some especially for some of the seniors and he said that would be fine.

I've already talked to them but you said the bathrooms are finished anyway so that'll help as well.

So we'll just see next month I'll give y'all a a report on how well it did.

So does anybody have any questions?

On the porta potties I think that's a very good idea because when we had our tournament for the cat that was a big people were leaving going to all sips and everything and then they were saying that the bathrooms were too far away so that's a good idea to have them closer to the Yeah and they were they were asking me if I could leave somebody with a key to get into the YRB and I was like no.

So I was like could I possibly do the portapotty and you know have them deliver it right there and I already talked to the people and they said oh yeah we can put it right there by the courts.

So we probably will do that.

It's not very expensive to do that.

So it's a good idea.

Absolutely any questions all right thank y'all.

Sounds great thank you.

Let's see Mr.

Hooper you're up next with our parks update.

She didn't have anything now thank you again.

So updates we've g been given some updates on the leagues.

So where we're standing right now is uh Clovis Softball Association we're still looking for uh exclusivity fees from them we did have a meeting with them uh we told them to get us some of the information some of the stuff uh we just have not heard anything back as far as I know um that was three weeks ago I believe give or take so yeah just haven't had any any updates on that one um Western Little League were still at 6,000 for their exclusivity fees we've had some meetings with them and some meetings with little leagues and we're trying to get some things out with them not being under an exclusivity fee we have sent them an option to go with a non-exclusive user fees for this spring and gave them some option on the days because we've had just so many other requests of people doing it so we've talked to the girls task pitch softball which would like to use it the other days of the week and the off times on the weekend.

So we're negotiating through all that Walter came in and covered his tournament fee and he still owes for the 707 league and he's gonna be getting that to us he just didn't um okay from a maintenance updates we had 52 trees delivered to actually this morning they picked another cold weather day for the trees being out there.

Most of those are going to be going at the new we're calling it veterans 2.0 which is down across from veterans we've had irrigation installed out there between veterans and maverick it's going in across the road if you all seen uh we've had irrigation installed now we're gonna be putting out a bunch of trees we're gonna overseed it with grass and try to get a good good looking corner there opposite of veterans um we've completed uh Ryerson and Hillcrest with stones so the North entrance now we've taken out some of the fence and we've got stones lining that there was a car accident I say a car accident there was a uh designated driver that went through one of our fences at Hillcrest Zoo and busted up the pipe rail so instead of just replacing the pipe rail for the sixth time we pulled that out and put stones there.

So now if they hit one of those stones it's gonna leave a mark.

So it will definitely wake them up.

Did some things on the north on the east side or the north side of the zoo entrance same way the pick the parking lot just ended and there was no barricade there so people would go into the grass and stuff like that.

So we got some stones there.

Like I say Ryerson we've got fence pulled out that's all looking a lot better it really is Ned Halk we did some work on infrastructure replacing some pipe.

I think Brian is guys did a lot 4,400 and some odd feet of four inch pipe they went from one well to another well because the pipe was just it kept breaking and breaking so we put in new pipe we're tying back into our irrigation system that way just for reliability because as y'all know it all only breaks on the hottest days of the year.

So we put in new pipe, we're tying back into our irrigation system.

That way just for reliability.

Because as y'all know, it all only breaks on the hottest days of the year.

So and then it takes two weeks to fix, and then you start having grass problems and everything else.

Um speaking of pickleball courts.

If anyone's been out there, you can get on the court and there's not even a breeze.

We put up windscreen, uh, got those windscreens put up.

We had uh sign company donate some of the rule signs and court signs, so now we have signs up there, you know which court you're on.

Uh etiquette rules for pickleball.

We put up some pickleball holders.

So it was basically one of those things to where obviously it's getting a lot of play.

And so let's make upgrades and we'll help it, stuff like that.

We've got it all in our system.

If someone wants to rent a pickleball court, it's ten bucks an hour.

You can rent court one, court three, you know, whatever it might be, whatever your lucky court is, and that way do some of that.

Um we'll be setting that up for the league to where it's going to be reserved for them the nights of the play.

So that's pretty much where we're at with park maintenance.

Any questions?

I just know that you probably want to start getting the word out on the pickleball because it's crowded.

I mean, from the time I leave my the chamber and go home.

It's 5 05 and it's crowded over there, so you might want to let them know.

Hey guys.

So a lot of those people are the ones that are going to be in the league.

Perfect.

Well, it's just great, like I said, seeing pickleball, seeing the basketball courts, seeing the playground, it's packed.

It's great seeing all of that.

So great job.

It's a great thing.

Absolutely.

Okay.

Does anybody have anything for the good of the order tonight?

Yes, Claire.

Yes, uh, good evening.

Um, Madam Chair, members of the Parks Bull Wood.

Just wanted to remind you, and I think I sent an email out to you all.

We are conducting a survey for the Hillcrest Park Zoo as part of the master plan.

So through the end of, I think it's March the 30th, we're asking people to take the survey.

As of Friday afternoon, I think 326 people had completed the survey.

So just want to let the people in the viewing audience know in yourselves if you could share them this information with your uh with your associates, friends.

Ask them to complete it so that we can get some good survey information back.

Thank you.

Very good.

Thank you, Claire.

Yes.

Claire, how long Claire, how long are you going to be before before you actually finalize that survey?

I'm just curious.

Um Madam Chair, uh Mr.

Frazy.

We uh so we're out until March the 30th for public input for the survey.

Um and then we have a uh company that we have hired, a national firm that does zoom master plans, and we uh having many meetings with them uh to go through marketing and all the analysis of all the data that we provided them.

So I'm it will it won't come out uh it won't probably come out for at least a month or so, I wouldn't have thought.

I mean we can share it with you.

It would come out as part of the plan itself, but I'm happy to share it with you guys if you'd like to see it before that.

Thank you.

And and following up on that survey, it it's interesting the way they set it up because if you've been a recent zoo visitor, it takes you down one set of questions.

If you hadn't visited in three to five years, it takes you down a different set.

And if you've never been there, there's other questions.

You know, why haven't you been there?

What would bring you to?

It takes five minutes.

I mean, it's really it's not one of those that keeps going and going and going.

There really is an ending to it, and it's pretty quick just to take it.

Absolutely.

It is a quick survey.

We appreciate that.

For sure.

Thank you, Mr.

Hooper.

Anyone else?

Uh, and members of the committee.

And also just wanted to let you know the city of Clovis, we did receive capital outlay funding this last legislative session.

Uh there was a reauthorization from Curry County to the city of Clovis for a little bit over a million dollars, which we will be replacing the playgrounds in both of the uh park areas out at Ned Halk Park.

And so uh you're all probably familiar with the NetHalk Park Master Plan, which shows us consolidating uh those playgrounds and coming back in with a uh destination style playground like we we have out at Hillcrest.

So we'll uh once we receive grant agreements, we'll be able to get that project going.

Uh we also received uh three million dollars.

Uh we had applied for a four million dollar uh recreation fund uh grant.

We didn't receive that grant.

However, during the legislative session, we did receive uh which was a four million dollar request.

Uh during the session, we did receive three million dollars out of that four million dollar request.

And so what we had originally applied for uh in that four million dollars was to replace uh the the little league lights, which we have now self-funded uh that million dollars.

And so that left left us with that three million, which was originally allocated to go towards the three playgrounds at uh veteran or at Sunset Park, at Potter Park, and at Pat Sandoval.

Pat Sandoval Park.

And so uh with those funds that will now completely replace all of our playgrounds uh within our park systems.

Um the one at Bob Spencer.

And the Green Acres Adult or Green Acres Older.

Correct.

And so that was uh then we also had allocated in there for the lighting for the uh softball fields.

And so uh hopefully we'll be able to replace all the lighting at the softball fields with modern lighting, and then also we had the irrigation system uh for the front nine at the at the golf course.

And so that was the original request that we had put in place for that four million dollars, which obviously was is now three million dollars.

But just wanted to provide uh the committee with uh update on since the governor has now signed the Capital Atlee bill.

Thank you.

Very exciting, thank you.

I think we've got some great upgrades coming to our parks.

So with that, our next meeting will be Monday, April 20th at 5.30 here in the North Annex.

If anybody doesn't have anything else to add, we are adjourned.