For folks waiting on the call, we're just waiting for a city attorney and then we'll get this meeting starting.

Chair Becker, how are you?

I'm doing great place, Chair Niger.

Thanks for asking you.

Let's get this meeting started.

Call to order.

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Moving on to item number one, call to order and roll call, please.

Chair Becker.

Vice Chair Niger.

Commissioner Arminian.

Excuse Commissioner Gabra.

Excuse Commissioner Howard.

Excuse Commissioner Keller.

Present.

Commissioner Martin.

Commissioner Zamora.

Commissioner Cornwall.

Commissioner Burgos.

Excuse Commissioner Robinson.

Present.

Commissioner Stitt.

Excuse Commissioner Vogitz.

Present.

Commissioner Jones.

Present.

Commissioner Wall.

You have a quorum.

Thank you very much.

Moving on to agenda item number two, an announcement regarding compliance with open meeting law.

Are we in compliance?

We are.

Wonderful.

Moving on to number three, public comment.

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If you wish to be heard, come forward and give your name for the record.

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Hello.

Good afternoon.

I think given the new location, I wanted to jump in toward the beginning of the agenda today and um participate during public comment for my uh welcoming remarks.

Uh for the record, Patomara, Deputy Director of Parks Recreation and Cultural Affairs.

Um, it's my privilege today to welcome you to uh this beautiful new Civic Center building.

Um the new home of our administrative team for parks recreation and cultural affairs as well as other departments.

We have human resources down on the first floor where you entered and then IT above us, bringing a lot of not quite all of, but a lot of the city's staff together in a more cohesive unit.

So it's been a dream for a lot of people for a lot of years, and it's it's great to see it coming to fruition.

Um I wanted to mention to you uh that this Thursday, September 4th at 8 30 in the morning.

Um we will be doing our ribbon cutting uh for the building and for our Goodman Plaza outside, which you uh may have seen on your way into the building.

Um I encourage you to uh be taking a look from um some of our uh higher vantage points here on the second floor to see the beautiful space that we have for some of our special events and is part of our city hall campus.

Um and then uh finally I did want to also uh welcome and introduce all of you to uh Miss Rebecca Holden.

She is with our administrative team here uh for parks recreation cultural affairs.

She'll be helping Ashley with the administration of this board.

Um and you will see her uh on days like today where Ashley is unavailable, um, but then you'll you will see them uh working in tandem throughout the time.

But did want to make sure that uh I I welcomed you all to this space and uh look forward to welcoming those of you who are on the call and on unavailable today in the future as we have our meetings in this beautiful building.

Um so again, thank you.

Uh welcome and have a great meeting.

Thank you very much.

New building smells wonderful.

Any other public comments?

Very good.

Moving on to item number four for possible action to approve the final minutes by reference of the regular meeting of June 3, 2025.

Do we have a motion to approve the meeting meeting minutes?

Commissioner Vogus, I saw move motion, commissioners.

I have a second.

Any objections, all approved.

Aye, aye.

Aye.

Motion carries minutes approved.

Moving on to item number five.

There was a request to hear items five and eight at the same time, and unless I have any objections.

Seeing none, I will read both.

Item number five, report by the department of public safety regarding issues at city facilities and parks, all wards, and item number eight, presentation by the Department of Public Safety regarding an overview of the department and its role in maintaining safety within city parks and facilities all wards.

Hi, I think if you just push the person with the uh good luck with your mic, I guess.

Lieutenant Cheryl Manning, Department of Public Safety, C H E R Y L Manning, M A N N I N G.

Good afternoon.

I am Rob Strauby, R O B S T R A U B E, Assistant Chief, Department of Public Safety.

For the month of August, the Department of Public Safety had eight hundred and forty-seven calls for service in the month of August.

We had a total of three hundred and twenty-four either arrests or citations during the month of August.

And please note that the calls for service total does not include our perimeter checks, the securing of facilities, or our out of vehicle calls.

For ward one, there was a total of a hundred and thirty-six calls for service.

We had a total of 56 citations or arrests, and the top three parks in Ward One was Rotary Park with 15 citation and arrests for different park violations.

Bob Baskin Park, eight citation and arrests for different park violations, and Gary Dexter Park for eight citation or arrests for warrants and other park violations.

For ward two, there was a total of 60 calls for service.

We had 25 citation or arrest.

Angel Park had a total of 13 citation arrest, and some of the charges, the top charges was lewd behavior and park violations.

Kellogg Zair had five citation arrests for wrongful possession of shopping cart, and Bruce Trent Park had five citation arrests for park violations.

In ward three, we had 282 calls for service with 126 citation or arrest.

Justice Levitt, Rafael Rivera, and Gary Reese were top three parks.

In Justice Levitt, we had 38 citation or arrests for park violations and warrants.

Rafael Rivera had 11 citation or arrests for different park violations.

In ward four, we had a total of 37 calls for service.

We had two citation or arrest.

And the top two parks was Winding Trails Park and Buckskin Park.

In Ward 5, we had 274 calls for service, 112 citation arrests.

Lorenzi Park, Ethel Pearson, and Fitzgerald Park were our top three parks.

Lorenzi Park had 20 citations or arrests for park violations.

In ward six, we had a total of 58 calls for service.

We had three citation or arrests.

The first one was at Tom Boulevard in Iron Mountain.

This one was down towards the end of June for annual service.

The second camera was deployed to the Llama lot for potential protest.

And the third camera was still down for service for the month of June.

In June, we had two community oriented policing events on June 25th at Doolittle Community Center for a summer camp.

We'll pause there for any questions or comments.

Oh Commissioner Wall, is this comparable to previous years, or what's the difference?

So on the um the document that uh was provided to you, it does show um our 2000 uh when compares month to month from August 25 to August of 2024, and um you can see that uh the majority of um them are a little either higher or about the same, like for example, in ward three, um in ward five went down a little bit, but I want to applaud you for the presence that you guys have brought to our community with the young kids and being over there.

I understand is the city is is growing and growing and growing, and you guys don't have enough staff, but I do applaud you guys for being over at the parks and also helping out in the community with uh code enforcement.

So applaud you for that.

Um Commissioner Vogates Ward 1.

Um again, um please share with your staff our gratitude for what they do.

Um I I do frequent the parks in the mornings, um, but by around 11 o'clock, there's folks that are are kind of succumbing to the heat.

So my general question is if uh individual passes out or is over exercising.

Who do we call?

Do we call the park marshals?

Do we call um 311?

Uh I mean, what's the best way to handle someone who essentially is overheated?

I would always say that you should always call 911 because it will divert the um information to the appropriate um department.

So for if you called 911 and it was a medical emergency, it would be sent over to fire uh to handle and to get dispatched out.

So I would always say 911, and if it does happen in the park and uh Metro's 911 system uh takes the call, they will inform us as well so that we can be dispatched to the park.

Commissioner Keller here, ward three.

Um, is there any policing events that we can share with our community for the month of September?

I will I will get back with you and check the different wards and and let you know what events are coming up.

Uh Vice Chair Niger, I've got one for you.

Um the trailer cam being dispatched for potential protest.

Is that a is that a typical use for those?

Rob's excuse me, I'm loading the weather, so bear with me.

Rob strawby for the record.

Um, it's it's not the norm.

Uh what we're more talking about is the um quite often frequent protot protests that we had there for a while.

It was another asset that we can use eyes on the on the ground.

Most of the times those cameras are going to be used for council action request and or um other places that we deem uh need a little more attention.

A lot of times just the camera itself is a deterrent along with the lights on it and whatnot.

So not the norm, but we will utilize it in that kind of scenario again as a force multiplier with our other assets.

Thank you.

I'm not uh seeing any other questions, so is that clear item number five, and you want to move on to eight?

Wonderful.

All right, again, Rob Strawby for the record assistant chief.

I currently oversee the uh deputy city marshals again.

Appreciate uh the commission for having me here today to just talk a little bit about DPS, what we look like, kind of what we do.

Um so I'll kind of give you a brief overview of that.

I'm not sure which slide this is.

That looks like still on yours.

Here we go.

So as you know, uh one of you mentioned uh Commissioner Jones how much we're growing, right?

And so we oversee um as a city as a whole, over 130 plus facilities, 140 square miles.

Uh the city is that includes over 100 plus parks.

As you stated, uh so eloquently couldn't agree more, right?

We're trying to do more with less.

And so, how how do we deploy our our marshals?

You know, um, we are are fairly fortunate that we are not, which I'm gonna talk about.

We are not a 911 agency.

Um, so our officers have the ability to be a little bit more proactive, and we can really get in our marshals into certain areas that uh may need some more assistance.

Talk about uh DPS as a whole, not only the Marshals, we have big footprint in all these areas.

As you probably know, we have a big footprint on Fremont as well.

Um, so a lot of the times you'll see our marshals down there on the different shifts.

Um, day shifts a little lighter than our swings and and our graveyard shift that goes down there two, three in the morning to help with some of the cleanups, as you can imagine, as people are leaving from uh from their night of fun.

Uh we make sure we help them out.

We also have bike patrol down there that helps as well.

We have a canine officer that is deployed down there.

We obviously our substation down there is is Metro Unified, so both of us have a footprint down on Fremont.

They regularly patrol around the area.

They also have their bikes that they they get in there with as well.

Just DPS as a whole.

Um, I'm sure you know we have a detention center.

It's another piece of our pie that is a um uh a misdemeanor facility, and we average around 500 inmates, misdemeanor uh and misdemeanant inmates, pretrial inmates uh in that facility.

We also have our our APS, and they do tens of thousands of calls.

The the numbers are um astonishing how much work they do.

So I want to make sure I mention they're also a piece not only of what the marshals do.

We have almost 200 plus sworn officers all together between our corrections and our marshals, and just to give you a sense of what that looks like.

Our marshals are category one piece officers.

That means they're better known as as police.

We have our um bread and butter, lack of better words, which is our city properties and city-owned lease properties.

Our corrections officers are category three officers, which are better known as corrections officers.

Um, just to just to kind of give you an idea of who who we have out there.

The other um 100 plus, almost 200 are our administrative staff, the ones that do all this, made these pretty slides and provide the information so we can uh put it out to you guys and and um again they're the ones that do everything behind the scenes.

I talked about uh our our officers being proactive.

Um what you'll find, and and Lieutenant Manning touched on a little bit.

If there's a violent crime in one of our parks, most of the time, Metro will take lead on that.

Um if you're involving guns or other kind of weapons, things like that, again, violent crimes, uh, some of the felonies, we have full capabilities to do that, but our partnership with Metro allows them, we have a good partnership and an understanding more of the violent crimes they will come in and handle for us.

On the marshals side, I just want to hit a few on a few of the um specialty units and just kind of what like the our marshals look like overall.

So we obviously have our patrol marshals, which is a bulk um of our staff that are out there patrolling and the different wards and the ones you see on a day-to-day basis.

We have a motors team that specifically consists of four officers, two of them are daily on their motorcycles.

Their objective is to hit our washes and trails to get in and get out, as you can imagine.

Vehicles are not an optimal resource to be able to get in and out of a lot of these washing trails, so they do a great job of getting in there, breaking up some of these encampments and enforcing in in the parks and and those areas that are our vehicles just cannot get in.

We have a um a POP team, our police-oriented um problem-oriented policing team.

Sorry, I almost messed that up.

And what they do, we have four officers.

Um they are looking at specifically downtown area arts district.

They're looking at the underlying causes of crime.

That's our specific job.

Why are these things happening?

How can we try to get out ahead of it?

They do an excellent job of meeting with our business owners downtown, seeing what's going on, getting feedback from them.

We just, I believe it's this week, a fifth officer starting.

We call it a tour tourist um liaison, and basically what that officer is going to be is on Fremont specifically that will work with Fremont security up and down, looking at busker violations, those types of things again, make it a safe area for our uh visitors to be able to conduct business and and visit a safe place.

We also have our conditions team.

They are in our gray uniforms.

Sometimes you might see them, they work with our city rapid response, and basically that is dealing with encampments and cleanups.

Um, wherever they're called day to day, it changes, could be council action request.

They will go in there.

Um, our our number one, I want to make it clear is always provide resources.

Um, our our number one, I want to make it clear is always provide resources, but again, we go back at some point.

You there is an enforcement piece to that.

Um, they move a lot of I'll call tonnage debris throughout their shift, and so they're they do a uh a great job of just making sure they're they're clean up these areas that we're may made aware of on a daily basis.

Part of that conditions team, we have our dignitary team.

You see, with the mayor a lot, um, plain clothes, and and obviously with a new mayor, they're very busy.

Um, so again, they uh take care of our mayor and every any need she may need.

We also have a CIS team as our criminal investigations team.

So as officers make arrest, um they find crime, they will pass it off to our criminal investigations team for follow-up investigation.

And this consists of about three officers.

We also have one at the fusion center uh for Metro that can report out to us if we need information quick.

Um and again, their main job is to follow up.

It could be anything from internal throughout the city to external, dependent on the crime, it could be copper wire, could be some kind of theft.

And again, because our patrol officers are out there doing the in the daily grind, they do the follow-up on the back end.

The civic team, so the civic team is basically our marshals that you see at the front desk of City Hall, and you will currently, as this is opening up, see a few over here as well, and it's exactly what what it sounds like.

So we have one stationary at City Hall, we'll have one stationary over here at the plaza, and then we have two that roam uh the perimeter along with our um security partner that also 24 7 does a patrol in this area.

So that quickly, without boring you too much, is a kind of a quick overview of uh the department in general, specifically the the marshals.

There's some I I can't admit that I made this slide, but there's some fancy stuff on here that I'll just go quickly with you real quick.

We talked about our room team patrols, right?

Our SEPTED is crime prevention through external design, and what that is anytime we open up a new facility such as this, I think it's a perfect example.

We have officers that are trained and have been trained to go through, look at what we'll call soft spots or areas that may need an additional camera, additional security.

It could be a park that's about to open or a current part that we're seeing a lot of activity in.

Maybe it's bushes we need to come down, trim down, maybe it's more signage.

Um that that basically is is what SEPTET is talking about there, where we can be requested, we can come in and look at something and give ideas through our city partners on how we might make a place safer.

The Coper curve that you see up there, um, it's a term that's been used by Metro quite a bit.

Coper is the name of a gentleman that came up with this.

Basically, what that is, it's deterring crime by putting one of our patrol units in an area every two hours for no more than 15 minutes.

So if we talk about Lieutenant Maine talked about like a Levitt Park, we'll have our marshals go in there every few hours for about 15 minutes.

My expectation for our marshals is that they actually get out of their car, they do foot patrol, they talk to people, see who's in the park, and they enter it into their system.

One thing we just rolled out as of yesterday, we call automatic CAD.

Because our officers are able to be proactive and they do not have stalls, calls stacked like Metro.

We're able to do this program, which again we we just rolled out.

And what that looks like, and it's based off the Coper Curve model.

Through the stats that I get, we get every month I get provided to me.

I'm able to identify anywhere from five to ten what we consider hot spots, hot parks, hot city places, things that we need to be paying a little more attention to.

Through this program, I can go through our dispatch and have our officers automated calls for service where they go into these parks 24-7 throughout the shift.

So our patrol officers, every couple hours, they may go to Justice Levitt, they may go somewhere else downtown, another park that's been identified, and then eventually, you know, after a month or two, we're gonna start looking at this data.

And are are we having an effect, a positive effect?

Because we're proactive.

Our marshals, if they wanted to, they could potentially even make this area, you know, a hot spot.

But we know where our hotspots are and we know what the data and the and the crime shows.

So again, we want to be real intentional about deploying our marshals to to these specific spots that we believe need some extra attention.

So that's what the Copra Curve is, and that's what we've just implemented.

I'm I'm really looking forward to seeing some of the results on that.

On the technology uh good on the technology piece, and I'll move along here a little quicker.

On technology piece, we work with cities IT department very closely.

Um we're always leveraging uh technology to deter crime.

Not too long ago, we implemented our flock cameras.

That's 11 cameras that are downtown area.

They're license plate readers, they can tell the stolen vehicle.

Um maybe they're uh a missing person and whatnot, and that can flag our officers to pay attention to the vehicle.

Pay attention to this vehicle that's coming into this area.

We used to call it a flock of cameras.

Metro has tens and twenties and fifties of these cameras, and so it's a flock of cameras.

We all get to use the same system.

And there's a lot of crime, the cyber truck incident at um Trump Towers, that was through flock cameras, and so it's a really good tool when we talk about technology that we can we can leverage to again deter crime.

The collaboration, um, again, I talked, I spoke on that a little bit.

That is working with our our metro partners and our other agencies.

Uh we can't do this alone.

Um, as Commissioner Jones said, you know, with our staffing and whatnot, we have to rely on each other.

So we've really worked hard to build these relationships and ensure we can help each other out.

Maybe it's a a joint task force sometimes that we're involved in to help them out and they'll help us out as well.

The COP community order policing, uh, Lieutenant Manning talked about, but our officers are always out there.

Um, we're always going into schools, whether it's reading books and doing a lot of different things.

But I know we probably have some stuff coming up, so we'll make sure to to get that to you all.

And then for the um this is a little hard to read on my paper, but I can go through this for the month of July.

Lieutenant Manning talked about a little bit.

I think what I want to focus on here.

We've seen uh to answer one of the questions before, we have seen a quite an increase uh year to date in our arrest of citations.

You can see there's 63.7 percent, and that's that's the boots on the ground, those are the folks doing their jobs.

Nothing special I'm doing, or our leadership team.

Um, this is us putting out the message and them listening to us and getting into these areas.

And and again, we always want to provide resources what we can, but a lot of times, and unfortunately, we do have to um we do have to enforce, and as you can see on the top left, there are top park violations.

I could probably read it better up to up there.

I'm sorry I apologize.

Um, Justice Levitt, the trail, and the reason the trail you're seeing on there, our motors has been have been really um uh intentional about getting into those washes and trails.

That's why that number has has spiked like it has the top park violations, um, as you'll see, and she touched on it earlier, the rating remaining park after hours, um, unlawful presence and uh misuse of park property.

And um the the chart at the bottom, it can be a little um interesting to read, but but I think what's important to see the trend going up.

Um again, we continue to get out there uh with the resources that we have and and make a difference.

I'm really uh proud of what our our marshals that are doing, and I I I appreciate uh earlier the the mention of that being recognized.

And again, for um August, I I think it's uh important to note that Justice Levitt, um, it's one of our our properties that are on the uh Copra Curve model that we're gonna be in quite a bit.

Our conditions team also goes in there to uh um engage with the uh unhoused.

We already talked about some of the top violations, excuse me, prior months enforcement total.

So in June we had 285, July we had 300 or five, 13.7 increase from June to August.

Um, this is due to a greater focus on our parks and rec centers.

And again, I spoke about it earlier, and just want to end with every month.

Our crime analysis will send a reports to us and then let us know what what we need to be paid paying attention to.

We want to be a learning organization.

We want to make sure that um uh we're we're data-driven, and so we'll look at all these.

Not that anything at the bottom is less important important, any of these can peak at any moment.

Um, but we definitely want to make sure, like Coper Curve and things like that.

We give some of these top um parks that we're aware of, give them a little more attention than than others.

Again, we have marshals assigned to every ward, um, so they should be enforcing, and that's my expectation.

Go into your community center, say hi, visit, get out there, do foot patrols, see what's going on.

Part of that Copra curve I talked about when they go back to their their CAD system, they need to answer three questions in there, such as how many people were in the park, did you do a foot patrol, what did you see, etc.

And so those are things that we can look at.

So I'm excited for what's to come.

And again, I really appreciate you all um allowing me the opportunity today to to just briefly maybe I wasn't so briefly, but come down, just kind of give a uh department overview, talk about some of the great things that that we're doing, and again, we appreciate the support.

We're a phone call away if you see something or need something, and that's one great thing that uh we are is definitely reactive if you have something we need to be a pay attention to.

Please uh please reach out.

Sure and I appreciate that commissioner you know it's always the see something say something right and like Lieutenant Manning talked about um you know 911 is always the emergency then officers 311 we also have our dispatch at 702 229644 and that can put put you through to um you see something in the park again we we are very reactive but again I think it comes down to the the see something say something um be engaged to come to those community meetings all my lieutenants hold ward meetings and there's each lieutenant that I have is assigned to a specific ward and they have these meetings please encourage them to come ask questions or or bring up any any concerns they may have and we're gonna do our our darnest to make sure that uh we're responsive to those requests hopefully answer your question.

Oh one thing I gotta mention too we also have a Citizens Police Academy which just started last week and I'm not sure how many were in there was 30 approximately 30 and what that is almost what I just talked about they come in and learn everything from all walks of life come in and learn about our department from um APS our animal protection services our detention our marshals they get to do ride alongs they get to just they get to meet our canine they get to go out in the field and see things it's really a behind the scenes look it's this is nothing new we invented this has been going on at Metro and other agencies for quite a while it's just something we decided we want to do this is I believe our third or fourth and it's been very very successful and uh something we're gonna continue to do so that's another way to to get involved is become part of the Citizen Police Academy and really learn what it is we do versus like a metro or some other agency Commissioner Keller here at ward three what's the best way a neighbor can report an encampment site so kind of like um Commissioner Burgos right see something say something so we have on our website obviously I don't have it in front of me we through our website DPS we have multiple ways to communicate with this I believe there's a form stack on there where somebody can go on there and actually report it and it will come to us there's also other communication on there I'm not sure if I'm on there or my lieutenants are on there but I do know and I'm sorry I can't answer question fully because I don't have the site in front of me but there are ways to to report through our our DPS website.

Welcome wonderful thank you very much for being here thank you for your time thank you good afternoon moving on to item number six report by Steve Glimp Parks and grounds maintenance manager regarding park maintenance updates all wards hello sir Steve Glint manager of parks and grounds maintenance got a brief update for you guys um on what we've been up to since we last met in June everybody hear me okay all right um so in ward one we built some new bull pens on the little league fields at Rainbow Family Park next project for ward one is going to be a Bob Baskin um of the tennis courts or pickleball courts um in ward two um Bruce Trent Park we um had to replace the park dedication sign that was stolen which happens on occasion um the next project will be um just a sign refresh at Angel Park Trailhead way finding signs um in ward three at JC Levitt we replaced the botchiball shades um the next project will be at the healing garden we're doing a tile project um I don't know how many of you have been there but there's a lot of tiles that that people have created right and there there was an excess of them that didn't get put up and we have a few walls and those will be going up on those blank walls ward four we have a new part or new playground at Sky Ridge Park with new surfacing and then the next project will be uh um the big playground at police memorial um and ward five new playground at children's memorial park with surfacing and then um next project will be at Ethel Pearson basketball court we've re resurfacing ethel Pearson we're gonna be doing a few separate projects so you'll see that park particularly for ward five popping up in the next few months with stuff being done there um then ward six we um

Um ward five, new playground at children's memorial park with surfacing, and then um next project will be uh Ethel Pearson basketball court re resurfacing.

Ethel Pearson, we're gonna be doing a few separate projects, so you'll see that park particularly for ward five popping up in the next few months with stuff being done there.

Um then ward six.

We um actually installed uh uh a new plaque for Poly Gonzalez at Polygonzalez Park.

There wasn't a dedication plaque specifically for her.

Um then the next project in ward six is kind of TBD.

We have a couple things in the shoot.

Um replacement of Floyd Lamb, some work at Teton Trails, splash bad.

Um we just don't know which one next.

If you have any questions, I'd be happy to answer them.

Yes.

How are you doing today?

Good.

So over at my over in uh ward five, I can honestly say you guys have been doing a great job on the parks.

Uh Lorenzi Park, um Circle Park, and not only not only in the park, but in uh I see you guys have came through and cleaned up some of the communities in the area, so I appreciate you guys with it.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Commissioner Burgos, Ward Six.

Um, at Floyd Lamb, I've been there several times in the last over the summer and as recently as this weekend, but there's a couple of benches around the lake that I sent an email, but I hadn't heard anything yet.

But uh they're covered by foliage and trees that people can't access.

We were there and actually there was some people using it and couldn't get to it and were complaining about it.

So I don't know if that's something that it can be done.

Yeah, um, and then as well as um at I was gonna ask at the garden air, the garden beds, um, which we're utilizing a lot for our our nonprofit, but uh we were uh you guys we did a great cleanup several months ago and a great response, and we're hoping that maybe we can organize another one.

I know a councilman Bruni is on board for it.

Um so if maybe we could get something together again because those weeds have come back exponentially, and so I was hoping that maybe we can get something done out there to get that going, and we'd be happy to help.

I have several organizations that would love to step up and and do the cleanup.

So if we can work something out.

Yeah, sounds good.

We can definitely set something up, and I'll have staff address the the park benches.

Okay, thank you.

Commissioner Vocus Ward uh one.

A question on Cragen Park.

I know it's a public works project, but can anyone comment on the status of Cragen Park and when we can expect to have uh an opening?

We are nearing the end of that project.

Um it we I think we got the contractor was just about done with um the fields.

We're gonna do uh an update on the synthetic fields um coming up here soon, and then uh we're waiting for a little bit cooler weather to actually plant the uh to to lay out the natural turf on uh the practice area and the uh ball field.

That's really the last thing I believe that we have left is for cooler weather to lay that out, and then those would be open uh sometime in the spring, I believe.

Yeah, but there but the remainder of the park will be prior to that.

Yeah, uh, I believe that the school may even already be on the field of the synthetic fields.

So at least at least one of them was complete before school started.

Um, I think that we were still working with public works to get the school access to the synthetics before uh about about the time that they went back into session last month.

So we're nearing the end.

Vice Chair Niger, I had one question for you.

Um children's play structures.

Do we cover all of them?

And how frequently do you have to replace those covers?

So uh any any new ones we build, we're definitely putting shade over.

We do have a few that do not have shade structures, but very few.

I'd say maybe less than five percent within the system.

Um and then again, so replacing the the shade itself depends on the construction of it.

If it's fabric, I mean they can last, you know, best case they can probably last about 10-12 years.

Um, worst case, you put them up and the storm comes along and rips them apart and you're replacing them again.

So yeah, we've actually started leaning more towards hard top shades in our parks, so kind of getting away from the fabrics.

We've actually started leaning more towards hard top shades in our parks, so kind of getting away from the fabrics.

Thanks, sir.

Any other questions, comments?

Thank you very much.

Moving on to item number seven, report by Lisa Tovar, recreation manager regarding recreation and center updates, all awards.

Hello.

Good afternoon.

My name is Lisa Tovar.

I'm the recreation manager, L-I-SA-T-O-V-A-R.

So summer camp ended on August 8th.

I wanted to share with you guys that we had 1,590 youth participate in our camps this summer, which is fantastic.

We have about 700 spots every week.

Um, but kids come and go throughout the summer.

This is a picture of our all camp challenge held in June that um the marshals mentioned earlier that they come out and support.

And then today our after-school programs started up.

So we have uh five locations at our community centers that we offer after school care programs.

So those started today for the school year.

And we have our fall sports starting soon.

It's a record breaking season.

I wanted to share a few stats with you.

Our silver and black youth flag football league, which is for our east side and west side schools start September 11th.

We have 392 players registered, which is our largest fall season to date.

We have a new youth ultimate frisbee league starting September 11th.

Right now we have 17 kids registered.

We've expanded registration to hope to pick up a few more.

And then we have indoor hockey starting September 13th for youth.

That's a partnership with the Las Vegas Golden Knights.

We have 180 registered players, which is also um our largest hockey season to date.

Adult softball starts the week of September 15th, and we currently have 17 teams.

Our adult and senior pickleball leagues start the week of September 29th.

We've added 10 more leagues this fall because of the growing interest in pickleball.

So we went from 21 to 31 leagues.

We'll have 500 plus players this fall.

And then lastly, we have our youth soccer league starting October 4th.

We have 749 players currently registered, and that's our largest fall soccer season to date.

So great job to our sports team.

They're really um growing and doing a great job running all of those programs.

And lastly, I wanted to share some upcoming events.

We have our grandparents' day at Doolittle Active Adult Center on September 6th, our fall cop power wheels at Veterans Memorial on September 20th, a picnic and health fair at Doolittle Active Adult Center on September 25th.

We have National Night Out at Doolittle Community Center on October 7th, and then our staff at Veterans Memorial will be participating in Summerland Nights, which is um a version of a national night out event that'll be on October 8th.

Um, and then next month I'll have a lot more exciting Halloween events to share for you as we get later into October.

Wow.

I am astounded by the numbers.

Sounds like everyone's doing a great job.

Questions, comments.

Yes, Miss Lisa, how are you doing today?

Good, how are you?

Quick question on your.

Yeah, so from my understanding, our indoor hockey program is mainly at Vets.

They started the partnership with the Golden Ice, but we actually had a conversation today about expanding that out with our sports unit.

So definitely I will make a note, Ward 5, that that's another location that we want to grow it to.

Yeah, because I spoke with a guy over at the Fiesta one time.

Um about trying to get more kids involved coming out of Ward 5 into hockey.

But I understand pickleball is growing.

I mean, it's pickleball and flag football is really like taking over, especially for young women, but it's it's going along good.

And the summer programs you put on this year was real nice.

I seen a couple of them.

Well, thank you.

And I'll bring it back to the sports team for indoor hockey in ward five.

Now those all volunteer uh coaches for the activities that you have going on.

Yes, we use volunteer coaches.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Commissioner Virgo Sports 6.

I just wanted to say thank you very much here uh earlier this year to Beyond the Boots, the women's retreat um for our women veterans and lawyers, and uh, it was uh great success.

I heard from a lot of uh female veterans that really enjoyed it.

I know you have one coming up beyond the boots, women's retreat at Mount Charleston September 12th and September 13th.

So I know a lot of the women are really looking forward.

So I just wanted to comment, uh, say thank you very much.

Appreciate that uh you're actually reaching out to you know our lawyers in the community, and it's greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

See you no others.

Excellent work.

Thank you very much.

All right, moving on to item number nine, I believe, as eight was covered during item number five.

Report by Commissioner, Commission members regarding parks issues and events within the respective council wards and at large all wards.

Commissioner Burgos, Ward 6.

Um, September 13th, Saturday is the 91th Remembrance Day and Service Day bash.

It's from 8 to 10 a.m.

at Floyd Land Park at Thule Springs.

Join us as we honor the lives lost on 9 11 and the brave first responders.

Um last year it was an amazing um service, and we also had a cleanup, so that's going to be the same thing at on the September 13th.

There is also on Saturday, September 19th, critters of the night at Floydland Park.

Um it's from 6 30 to 8 p.m.

And you can sign up through the city of Las Vegas, but it's a great event.

They had one earlier this year and was very successful.

The kids loved it, so really I would encourage anybody to get out and attend it.

And that's it.

Any others?

Uh Commissioners chair via teleconference.

Any comments.

Yeah, um, sure, Becker.

I just wanted to thank you, uh, Vice Chair Niger for stepping up today and running the meeting.

You did an excellent job.

Uh so kudos, kudos for that.

Um, I'm very happy to say that I'll be back in October.

Uh my recovery is going in a traductory that suggests that.

So I'm excited to see you all again and check out the new.

So thank you so much.

Thanks.

Happy to hear it.

See you in October.

No other comments.

Moving on to item number 10, citizens' participation.

Public comment during this portion of the agenda must be limited to matters within the jurisdiction of the commission.

No subject may be acted upon by the commission unless that subject is on the agenda and is scheduled for action.

If you wish to be heard, come forward and give your name for the record.

The amount of discussion on any single subject as well as the amount of time any single speaker is allowed may be limited.

Seeing no one in the chairs or audience.

I will move on to item number 11, which is adjournment.

Meeting adjourned.

Thank you very much.