The Recreation & Parks Advisory Committee (RPAC) met on March 18, 2026, at 6:30 PM at 11360 Lakefield Drive, Johns Creek, GA. All members were present except Erin Eggerton (absent). The meeting included a chair update, a department update with a staff spotlight, council updates, and a presentation on the Boardwalk Town Center, followed by a tour of the newly opened park.
Okay, we're recording. Thank you. All right. Thank you so much. Welcome everyone. We're delighted to uh kick off our our meeting here. So can I get uh call to order thank you at this time I'll just call roll. Um I'm gonna just go the order of a habit in front of me. Marty Paul three, Jillian, Sandra, Alan, Richard, welcome. Paul, Lisa, Kendrick and Christie down there. All right, everyone's present. Thank you so much. Yes, we have a full house. This is uh fantastic. Um do we have uh any public comment? No, no one here for today, so thank you so much. Uh all right, so um I'll kick off with uh with a quick chair update. Uh a couple things. Want to recognize Richard who's joined us. So Richard, do you want to give us uh number one right green light with your button? Um and then give us just a little bit about who you are and your interest for uh RPAC here. Yeah, sure. Um originally from the great state of Texas, um transplant to the Georgia area. I've been involved in athletics and youth athletics for over 25 years. Recently I've coached in the area at Chattahoochee, uh Northview, and we'll be going back to Chattahoochee again this year. Um had children go through Northview, and suddenly I'm back with another one that will feed through Chattahoochee. So I'm I'm now interested again in what's offered in the city and in the programming and things like that. Excellent. Well, we're happy to hear that. What sport at Hooch? Uh football. But I'll probably do girls' basketball as well. Very good. Very good. Um, all right, so um quick update. So there were a few um in the public that had approached me asking me some questions about the uh recent OPAA survey that was done around uh OC Park. So I thought I would just bring a couple of items to them. We do have them planned for um maybe not we have to work out the the details, so we'll let everybody know when we have that special special guest, right? To have them come in and talk about their program and any updates. Um but I did want to give a quick summary from that survey, just for those obviously out in our community that may be watching or watching back, uh, a quick update about that survey. So a lot of responses, um responses came from uh parrots, coaches, and the volunteers that go through the OC programs, right? And um certainly baseball is the big one, obviously. I know it, you know, well. Um they had pulled on a number of topics around priorities that if they were to do something at OC Park, what would they like to see? So it was all kinds of things around lighting and replacing the fields, um, right, and netting and things of that nature. Um so they did give me uh a bit of a summary, and they'll go into more detail when they come for our next meeting. Um top priorities were around the turf fields, uh specifically the turf length field. Um so if you all are familiar with that, um, is uh under consideration, it had one of the highest priority scores, which uh I thought was great, right? They're looking for something, right? Community's looking for something durable, weather resistant.