We expect both the mayor and Otterman McShane to join us.

Bear with me here.

We will begin with a presentation regarding the West Side Regional Plan Action Plan, preliminary findings.

And presenting is Mark Tia Campo.

Thank you very much, Alderwoman Nash, members of the board.

Mark DeCampo, Director of Strategic Planning and Executive Projects for the Office of the Mayor.

So here before you is the Oshman Family Foundation as well as representatives from the sports facilities company, which is the consultant with the Oshman Family Foundation to discuss their activities to date and their preliminary findings of the community engagement process for the West Side Regional Park Action Plan.

So without further ado, I will pass this off to Kat Bis Ray.

Thank you, Mark.

Hi, I'm Kat Visseri.

I am with the Osham Family Foundation.

You may recall that late last year we came before before you and proposed that we create an action plan for Westside Regional Park.

The previous study, the field or study, was out of date, and uh we required more community engagement than perhaps we had the first time.

So that's a very big component of what we are coming to to present to you today.

Um I will turn it over to um Dan Morton from Sports Facilities Companies.

Good to be here.

Thank you.

Um as uh mentioned, my name is Dan Morton with Sports Facilities Companies or SFC.

Um I'm the vice president of pre-development services with our company.

I've been with the companies for right around 15 years now.

I'll tell you a little bit more about who we are, what we do, in addition to what we've been engaged to do, and and some of those preliminary findings.

I'm gonna take about 20 minutes uh to present.

I'm gonna go through a bunch of information pretty quickly, so we'll look forward to some questions uh as we go.

So, just in terms of what we're gonna cover, I'll go through an overview of who we are, what we do, I'll give you some examples of um the type of projects that we're involved in.

Um talk about the scope of work that we've engaged for and the timeline.

Uh, we're gonna give you some information on what we're doing in terms of market analysis, as well as uh really importantly community engagement.

And so we'll walk through what's been found so far, um, what we've learned so far in in community engagement and what we're continuing to learn uh through the process, give you an update for that.

I've got some facility examples as well to share with you from our portfolio just how we're serving communities uh through facilities um across the country and give you some idea on some of the modern facilities we're seeing today that are being developed to serve communities.

I think it'll give some more uh insight to this kind of things we're seeing um important across the country, but obviously we want to look at what's unique uh for this community.

So um just in terms of who we are what we do.

Um I'm sorry, just before you move forward.

Can you tell me so I I did look through all the backup?

The the things that you have listed and what you just mentioned, are those owned by SFC?

Uh our facility the facilities that we manage, uh they are not owned by SFC.

We are engaged as a manager of facilities when we're at the so you are though, you do have a financial um take stake in these facilities.

In some, yes, in the ones that we manage.

I'll give you some more background on how we get involved, but when we are managing in the operations, uh we are paid to do so.

So there's a financial stake that way, but we don't actually own them.

Okay.

So at SFC Sports Fiz Companies, we've been in uh business since uh 2003, so uh just over 20 years.

Uh we get involved and focus on the planning, development, and operational management of youth and amateur sports recreation event community facilities across the country.

The key there, and obviously from our name with sports in it, as we've grown over the last uh 20 years and expanded what we do from a study perspective as well as what we do from a management perspective.

We've in we've expanded into really the world of recreation and community service.

Um, for example, uh, and I'll give you some examples of our facilities, but we're engaged by a city in Mississippi where we essentially run their entire parks and recreation department, and that includes community centers on the indoor side as well as outdoor passive and active recreation.

So just to give you an example of that, we aren't engaged here for management, right?

We're engaged for planning for the Westside regional park.

But importantly for us is that everything that we do is based on what we know to be true from real world operations, right?

From our recommendations to what we forecast in terms of how a facility could operate.

We're drawing on our background experience across the country for facilities that we manage, but also facilities that we consult with to help give recommendations for your community.

Some of the other things we're involved in as you know, thought leaders for our industry is we help to study for several states.

We've worked with the Florida Parks and Recreation Association, we've done the same thing in Kansas as well as California to help those groups to assess the impact that their facilities and their parks are having on communities, whether that's a financial impact, health, wellness, social, right, etc.

And so we'll help them quantify those things.

So while it does say sports, it's not just sports, right?

We're involved in active and passive recreation in the communities that we serve through community service facilities.

Just an example of uh a map of uh some of the facilities that we do operate.

I mentioned you know the one in in Mississippi where it's really parks and recreation uh focused.

We've got a wide portfolio, everything from um outdoor municipal water parks to community focused facilities to sports tourism destinations, and so that breadth of experience allows us to look at this in a lot of different ways, right?

Both how we serve the community locally through again active, passive recreation or services, as well as how could we potentially drive tournaments and events from a sports tourism perspective.

And so we're involved in all of those things.

Um last thing I'll highlight as I said, right?