Hey, good afternoon.

This is the uh Parks and Recreation Advisory Commission.

It's November 4th at 4 p.m.

And we're about to get started today.

So just so everybody knows items listed on this agenda may be taken out of the order presented.

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And any item on the agenda may be removed or related discussion may be delayed at any time.

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And I'd like to go ahead and call the meeting to order.

And do roll call, please.

Chair Becker.

I hear Vice Chair Niger.

Commissioner Arminian.

Excuse Commissioner Gabra.

Here.

Commissioner Howard.

Excuse Commissioner Keller.

Present.

Commissioner Martin.

Excuse Commissioner Zamora.

Here.

Commissioner Burgos.

Here.

Commissioner Cornwall.

Commissioner Robinson.

Present.

Commissioner Bockitz.

Present.

Commissioner Jones.

Commissioner Wall.

Excuse do you have a quorum?

Thank you so much.

Um I'd like to go ahead and have an announcement regarding the compliance of the open meeting law.

Are we in compliance?

We are compliant.

Great.

Agenda item number three.

This period is for public comment.

Comment during this portion of the agenda must be limited to matters on the agenda for action.

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

The amount of discussion as well as the amount of time of any single speakers allowed may be limited.

Uh seeing no one, I'm gonna go to action item number four or agenda item number four for possible action to approve the final minutes by reference of the regular meeting of October seventh, twenty twenty-five.

Do I have a motion to approve the meeting minutes?

Commissioner Gorma, motion to approve.

Do I have a second?

Second, Commissioner Jones.

Second.

Great.

I have a motion and a second to approve the meeting minutes.

Uh all those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

All those opposed.

Aye.

Okay.

And no one's opposed.

Great.

The motion carries.

Agenda item number five, a report by the Department of Public Safety regarding a review of arrest citations and calls for service at the city facilities and parks all wards.

Hi, officer.

How are you?

Good, good to see you.

I'm Lieutenant Burdett with the uh say Las Vegas Department of Public Safety.

This is my um first meeting with you guys, so I appreciate you guys having me.

Uh the uh information that we were given um is the same that was presented in October.

We don't have the updated for this month because it's uh a little too early in the month um for the staff to get it together.

But I'll have the uh in January when I return, I'll have November or October, November.

Um and then February will present December and so on and so forth.

I'm here to answer any questions or need seen that we're not having uh data report today.

Uh do we have any questions from commissioners today?

Well, Lieutenant, it looks like you get off easy this time around.

I guess we'll save everything up for January, so be prepared.

I look forward to it.

Thank you.

Now I'd like to move to uh uh item number six, a report by Steve Clemp, Parks and Grounds maintenance manager regarding park maintenance updates, all wards.

Afternoon.

Uh Steve Glimp, Parks Maintenance Manager.

Um I just have a quick update for you on some stuff we've been working on in the parks.

Um ward one, we um repainted the splash pad at Gary Dexter.

Sorry, that was the best photo I could get out of the guys.

Um the next project we're working on at ward one will be the about Bob Baskin pickleball conversion, and we're also resurfacing the handball court.

Um ward two, Kellogg's air.

We installed AED units on six of the soccer fields.

Um, and then the next project will be Angel Park Trail signage um replacement.

Uh ward three, uh JC Levitt, just kind of in an effort to be able to kind of harden off the park as we need to.

Um we've installed new securable securable pedestrian gates.

Um we're also working on making the vehicle gates so that pedestrians can't walk through them when they are closed.

Um next project will be Rafael Rivera.

Um Los Vegas Lights are got a service project.

They're gonna help us with brewing and disinfecting the artificial turf fields there.

Uh ward four, um, shade replacement at Majestic, finally.

And um next project that we've been kind of continuously working on, and we'll hopefully have an update um next meeting.

It'll be all be said and done.

Great pictures and everything would be the Bleeds Memorial Playground.

Um Ward 5, Ethel Pearson Park.

We had a volunteer um group come out and help us with fence painting.

And then the next thing will also be at Ethel Pearson.

Um we're gonna be resurfacing the the ports out there.

In ward six, we had uh uh an Eagle Scout project.

It removed about a quarter mile of barbed wire fence um from the park, and then at Bradley Bridal Park, the next project will be will be regrading and and compacting and um chat parking a lot there.

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

Hey Commissioners, um yes, Commissioner, go ahead.

Commissioner Vocus Ward One.

I do have a question on uh the pickleball timeline at Bob Baskin.

Do you have an idea of the beginning and the and the close date on that?

Um I don't have firm dates yet.

Um I'd imagine the project take about a month.

Do I have any other questions?

Yeah.

Vice Chair, please.

Okay, Stephen Iger.

Uh I had a question for you.

Um I've had several conversations about the heat island effect and uh what parks can do to help that.

And I know that I I believe you already did it once where uh rocks um absorbing flecting the hunt or whatever contribute to heat.

And didn't we or you guys um replace some rocks with a different kind of material that looks like rock so that it's putting out less heat?

Was that wherever we can, wherever it's like practical, we try to use wood mulch, um which does a lot better job.

Um that's not all as practical in a park.

Um if it's a uh a raised planner or a planner that can be like curved off so the mulch doesn't migrate.

We do turf reduction projects, that's the first thing we can do.

So, you know, any opportunity we can to not use rocks, we do, but like I said, it's gotta be practical.

And why is it typically not practical practical?

Um, because the the alternative to using DG or D could decompose granite is is like mulch and mulch tends to migrate in the wind, the wind blows and blows around the park.

Yeah.

Are there all other alternatives that are just too expensive?

Um it depends on like what we're using, what the area needs to be, right?

We've used um bonded rubber mulch for areas before, which is kind of like a uh cycled tire product that's it's bonded with uh adhesive.

Um under and near playgrounds, like that one's that one's something that we've explored certain areas, and in our streetscapes downtown.

Um use um a product called KVI, it's called Flex Bay, which is basically the same thing, just smaller particles, bonded rubber.

What is that cheap?

It's not wood mulch.

Thank you.

Not free, wood mulch is usually free.

Got it.

Thanks.

Um yeah, go ahead.

Uh Commissioner Keller first and then Commissioner Jones.

Commissioner Keller here.

Um, I just wanted to give actually a compliment to you and your team.

I actually received a phone call on the way here from a neighbor who's actually my mother as well, Maria Morales.

Um she lives in Ward 3, but she could not say enough good things about Rotary Park in Ward 1.

Um, she was there over the weekend with her grandchildren and just said that it was absolutely clean, even the parking lot was clean, they felt completely safe.

So she just gave you a lot of kudos.

So just wanted to pass that along.

Very cool.

Thank you.

Commissioner Generals Ward Ward 5.

I want to um ethical park fence came out.

Look, it looks nice.

Um question are we is the city responsible for the AD guys center right there on uh Washington and Martin Luther King.

It's a YMC.

I don't know if that's a joint venture with the housing authority in the city or or do the city have anything to do with that.

That's not our facility.

Oh, okay.

I was concerned because they've done such a good job on at the Pearson Fence, and that fence being hit a couple times.

So but it looks nice, and I'm looking forward to the great job you guys are doing for the park that's coming up on Washington and D Street.

Any other questions, Commissioners?

Uh yeah, one more commissioner.

Commissioner Cornwell.

Do we need to notify the residents over by Bradley Park when you're gonna do the grounds there?

Uh we'll we'll post signs before we do it.

We'll use it, give them about two weeks' notice.

Okay.

All right, and do you know about when that's gonna happen or no?

I would imagine early December.

Early December.

Okay, I'll kind of spread the word with my group.

Thank you.

Great.

Uh seeing no other questions.

I think we'll move to agenda item number seven.

Uh report by Lisa Tover, recreation manager regarding recreation and center updates all words.

Thanks, Steve.

Yeah.

Good afternoon, Lisa Tovar Recreation Manager.

We had a ton of fun last week and last weekend at our trunk retreats.

We had a scare yourself healthy fair at the senior center, fall festivals, all kinds of fun events.

So I just wanted to share a few pictures with you guys.

And of course, we have more great events coming up heading into Thanksgiving and um the holiday season.

And we've got our a Veterans Day celebration coming up at Doolittle Active Adult Center, a ninja turkey trot over at Pavilion Pool, um, a car show over at Chuck Minker, uh, turkey shoot basketball event at Chuck Minker, uh tinsel tidings and tree trimming at our Centennial Hills Active Adult Center, holiday tea at Liburn Active Adult Center, a toy drive and car show at Veterans Memorial, Winter Wonderland Swim Party at Pavilion, a New Year's Eve noon countdown over at Do Little Active Adult Center, Mary Grinchman's at Mirror Valley, and a ton more holiday events coming up as well.

Our next registration will be December 2nd.

We'll open up our classes for January through May.

And then I also wanted to share with um with the board that we've uh had a little bit of a staffing updates.

We have five uh frozen or held positions within the recreation division.

So we just completed some staff moves to kind of rebalance our staffing compliment at each center.

You can see um pretty clearly becker technology, all the staff there.

Um, those positions have been frozen or held.

We actually had our municipal sports unit working on it becker to keep it up and running.

Um, some of our larger centers were were short staffed, so we recently did an update um and moved a few positions around.

So if you're at any of the centers, you may see some new uh faces.

Introduce yourselves.

We'll encourage them to introduce ourselves to the community as well.

And now I'm gonna introduce Adam Sakiros.

He's our uh one of our coordinators with our municipal sports unit.

Adam oversees all of our field allocations, so almost pretty much all of the athletics in Las Vegas.

He's gonna share a little bit of information with you guys about our sports unit.

Good afternoon.

I see a lot of new faces.

Uh Commissioner Becker, good to see you again.

Um yeah, new building, new faces.

Uh, just like Lisa mentioned, uh, we have a few few staffing updates.

Uh pretty much nothing new with municipal sports, other than uh so many fields to oversee and so many different uh program opportunities oversee as well.

So just to give you guys an overview of our sorry, just to give you guys an overview of our unit.

Uh there are two coordinators.

I oversee the allocation and sporting event side, and then Prey Movity oversees the more of the programming side of the youth and adult sports leagues.

We have anywhere between 30 and 40 hourly staff at any given time.

Um it's it's a it's a big operation.

Uh we do our best to continue continue to make everybody everyone happy on a daily basis.

So with that, we oversee 175 different uh athletic spaces across the community.

Most of the most of those are baseball, softball, and and soccer, as you can see.

Um a tremendous amount of pickleball courts.

Thank you, Steve, and and your staff, and um we all love pickleball, so uh we can't wait to see more of those.

Um it is it is a uh uh quite a daunting task sometimes to um to manage all of these different facilities and all these spaces.

So I hope that everyone understands it takes it takes a little bit of time to address some concerns across all of those fields and and facilities in different spaces.

And then this is more of the um this is more my side of the house as far as the sporting events and the allocations, uh the allocation or the allocated users as we uh refer to them on this slide, is more of your your daily, your daily leagues, your local leagues.

Um, and we have anywhere from 50 to 60 local user groups uh on a nightly basis out there, and then Saturdays and Sundays, unless there's a tournament or a sporting event or a clinic or something like that, they're out there.

And as you guys can see, there are several different sporting events that we host um anywhere from 75 to 100 annually.

So there's only 52 weekends in a year.

So do the math there.

It it's uh it's quite a task, but uh our team along with uh the PGM guys, the the parks ground maintenance crew, uh we work together uh fantastically, and and it's just uh kudos to Steve Glimp and his staff for for assisting us and our management team.

We never take a day off, we never take a minute off.

Uh if we do, we usually hear from somebody um that something's going on or we miss something.

So um it's it's it's a wonderful, it's a wonderful thing because I mean that's that's our motto, right?

Building community to make life better.

We truly we truly live that every single day.

Uh so it's it's it's fun, never a dull moment.

And this is more the youth and adult sports league side.

Uh Prey Movdi wasn't able to be here today, so I'll just speak on his behalf.

Uh as you guys can see from the numbers, uh, youth hot youth indoor hockey, uh, the growth there from 2023 till now um is just I mean it's outstanding.

All of our all of our leagues, uh, you know, post-COVID have been just growing, growing, growing.

Um and it's kudos to to Prey and his staff uh for staying on top of it, giving the community what what they want.

Um every single day they they strive to to you know produce quality programming for the kids and the parents.

So uh youth pickleball and adult pickleball, as we have so many different courts now, that's on the rise as well.

And really it's uh it's a it's a it's a balancing act there with with adult pickleball and youth pickleball as far as the leagues we're trying to provide or the tournaments we're trying to provide, and then also providing that time for just the public to use the courts as well.

Couple different highlights, as you guys can see here.

Sorry.

Oops.

So as I mentioned before, adult pickleball and youth or indoor hockey, um, they're on the rise.

Our professional partnerships with the Raiders and AFC Bournemouth and the Golden Knights.

Um, I mean, tremendous donations from them, but you know not just that, but just the clinics they provide, the different opportunities they provide to not just our leagues, but people you know of the community.

It's been fantastic.

We can't wait to see what uh they have in store for us uh this coming year.

Um our east side schools expanded in 2025 with basketball, basketball, soccer, and flag football.

We were able to work with um a lot of the CCSD principals to make that happen.

Our west side schools are also included in that as well.

Volleyball, we're trying to um incorporate uh leagues once again.

We used to have uh youth leagues 10 to 15 years ago, so we're trying to bring those back as well.

Our new sports, kickball and ultimate frisbee, super successful in the in the in their introductory seasons.

So we had about a hundred a hundred participants between the two of them.

Ultimate Frisbee.

I don't know if anybody's been able to to see that, but it's uh it's a great and wonderful sport, uh, very similar to flagged football.

So questions, comments.

Commissioners, uh go ahead.

Commissioner Jones, yes, no.

Yes, I have a question.

How are you guys doing today?

Great.

How are you?

Since the NIAA started a new rule for basketball.

I know they do little usually hole uh after the basketball season, though with high school, they usually have open gym for um AAU basketball in different leagues.

Are you guys anticipating on putting a 30 second clock for the older kids?

We really haven't uh we have we haven't established anything as far as shot clocks for our youth leagues at all.

That's a good idea though.

The reason why I asked because I coach high school girls.

So we they just started with the 30 second clock, like they have in college.

So that's why I was more adamant about accent.

Are they gonna put it in the different gyms for the older kids uh over the summers?

Because when the tournaments come here in town, they have they starting with the they got the 30 second clocks.

So to get them more familiar with playing with it from transition from high school to college, they're more prepared.

Yeah, we we would love to introduce it at just at some of our gyms.

It's more portable shot clocks that the tournaments bring in with them, especially the AAU tournaments that they have at our gyms.

All of our gyms don't really have the the capacity like on the on the on the baskets themselves to have those shot clocks.

Definitely something we can ask for, maybe uh Commissioner Robinson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chairman.

Bob Robinson Ward One.

Uh perhaps this is a premature question, but I notice under professional partnerships.

I see the Raiders, etc.

and the Golden Knights.

Any uh conversations with the A's at this point about partnerships?

No, well, Lisa, sorry, didn't no, go ahead.

Not at this point, but we do anticipate we have a very um very fruitful T ball and coach pitch league.

So as well as we have several different uh little leagues that that we host.

So I'm sure that it's just a matter of time once the A's get their feet under them here that we'll have a partnership with them as well.

Splendid, thank you.

Commissioner Vulcus, Commissioner Vocus Horn Um, I have two questions.

Question one is um do you have any idea the drop off in volleyball?

Is any reason for it?

Or is it not necessarily a drop off, it's just something that we we we always have had adult volleyball leagues, youth volleyball, just with the indoor sports that we hosted, such as indoor hockey and basketball.

It just kind of took that it there was no space for it.

Okay, and question two.

Does anyone know the date we dig dirt for the Wayne Bunker pickleball courts?

Um that contract is uh being finalized, hammered out right now, and so we expect to hear um about notice to proceed uh in the coming month or so.

So but by the time they get uh roll out and those kinds of things, I wouldn't uh I wouldn't be surprised if we're close enough to the holidays we're looking at just after the first of the year.

But we but we don't have an actual date yet.

Thank you.

Commissioner Burgos.

Commissioner Barkas Ward Six.

Do you have any information on adaptive leagues or sporting leagues for youth and adult information that you know the number of people who participate or are there a city adaptive leagues?

I know there's adaptive sports, but are there any actually organized leagues for our youth and our adult bills?

I think that's a great question for our adaptive uh division.

Um I know they do have youth basketball, or I'm sorry, uh they have basketball and rugby leagues.

Uh we we also have a a football team as well.

Uh so it's it's the Las Vegas uh Raiders wheelchair football team.

And I'm I know they're just always open to different athletes coming through as far as youth leagues go.

I'm not sure that we actually have any of those at this time.

No, that's correct.

And our our youth typically depending, but are welcome to participate in our youth leagues, and so that's pretty common for youth with disabilities.

Okay, thank you.

Any other questions, commissioners?

No, I just like to uh commend you.

Um, you know, I'm not sure if it's because my daughter's away at college, so I don't hear as much, but uh no, I I get no complaints.

Everybody's very excited about what's happening with sports leagues every time that I'm around the parks.

Uh I do have contacts, of course, still that I see, especially in that softball baseball uh uh arena.

Uh and then I also want to just give a kudos overall with the rec department in general.

Um it's really some inventive stuff.

I know we call just talked about the the ninja turkey trot, and just to give you guys an idea of an inventive that is, it's like it's a half mile run, a hundred and fifty yard swim, and a ninja obstacle course all wrapped up into one.

That's I I like the direction that we're going to kind of you know diversify uh some of the interest.

So thank you so much for that.

Okay.

And I guess we don't have any more questions, but thank you guys for the report.

Thank you.

Uh moving to agenda item eight, a report by Patrick O'Mira, uh, Deputy Parks Recreation and Cultural Affairs Director regarding the strategic plan for the department, Department of Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs Awards.

Good afternoon, everybody.

Uh, for the record, Pat O'Mara, Deputy Parks Recreation Cultural Affairs Director.

Um's a little tinny.

Um so I I wanted to bring this forward.

We we started talking about this about a year ago when we um let me jump to this part of the presentation in the file there.

So um we started talking a little bit about uh the process of going through a department strategic plan when we when we got started a year ago.

Um and uh so now that now that we're done and we have an opportunity to include it in the agenda, I wanted to bring it to you.

You should all actually have this document um in your spot.

And so um this is a obviously a copy for you all to um to take with you.

The I'm gonna go through a couple of different things, and then um the the hope is that toward the end of each fiscal year, uh Maggie, our our director will actually come before all of you and um kind of give you updates um as we're as we're going along and and let you know how we're doing on this five-year plan.

So uh we'll talk a little bit about the planning process, the three priorities we set, and then a handful of the objectives that we um have set for each of these three priorities.

So as I mentioned, it began just about a a year ago where we had um key department leadership meet with our office of strategic services.

So we did do this entire process in-house.

We were fortunate enough to have some amazing resources in other departments and uh and and utilize those versus uh going out.

I know the depending on the department, um, oftentimes uh they will go out and and uh contract with uh planning professionals to create strategic plans.

We thankfully were able to do this in-house, um, which is certainly a financial benefit to the city.

Um, but it's also great because we're working with these people day in and day out.

Um so we you know we see them in the um down in the plaza when we're when we're having events and things like that.

So it's great to have them because we have cheerleaders outside the department who want to see us succeed as well, uh, who were who were owners in this process, so it was great.

We brought forward a lot of different uh data, uh programmatic data, what our registrations have been like, what our attendances have been like, what our customer satisfaction surveys have said, uh those kinds of things.

We do a uh staff survey um, you know, in-house um where we find out how the staff actually feel about our organizational health.

So we started with those, created uh a SWOT analysis, so SWAT stand if you're not familiar, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.

So what are the things that we're doing well, where are we lacking, what is uh an opportunity for growth, and what are things that we don't have control over that threaten our department uh either with rolling out a program or or different things.

So we evaluated a lot of those different um uh metrics, came back out with uh a plan um over a course of several workshops, uh, and then put this plan together in draft form uh over about a period of three and a half or four months.

Umce that was done, it was sent on uh for alignment with the city manager and and city um processes policies.

And um once that was done, we rolled it out to the to the department wide um in April.

We do an all-hands meeting, we call it for the entire department, bring everybody in if you know if we can depending on programs in the centers and things like that, we bring in everyone we can.

And so we had that meeting in April.

We rolled this out to the team.

And then the process that's involved is this is our our five-year plan 2025 to 2030.

And so essentially we kick this off with the new fiscal year in July.

So in you'll see on, we don't actually have page numbers, but it's actually the center page, because you'll see the staples.

We have uh priorities one and two.

Priority one is to establish we have objectives in there, and so how do how do we ensure that our staff is as well trained as possible?

We're providing them with what they need to take it upon themselves and go out and actually do what do what they can to provide for our community.

So our objectives over this five-year plan are to ensure that we have established clear expectations for every job role within our department.

We have we're going to develop and implement uh comprehensive training programs that support career development for our staff, and then develop and implement grounds keeper job descriptions uh classifications for our parks and grounds maintenance teams.

Now, all of those you can see those are those are things that we want to have done and implemented over that five-year process in order to meet that priority.

Um so every department or excuse me, every division in the department will find different ways to contribute to the objectives that meet their needs.

So, for instance, number three, that's very specific to parks and grounds maintenance.

So recreation doesn't really participate in that.

But every other spot that we can, you'll see where you'll see where the divisions can each have a little piece of that.

Our second priority is uh standardizing practices across the department.

So with um, you know, with with all the different things that we do, our cultural centers, our aquatic centers, adaptive recreation centers, um, you know, active adult centers, different sections like Adams, where they don't actually have a center, they they're just out in all of our parks.

There's a lot of different things that happen, but there are enough things that are consistent that we need to ensure that we're doing these right.

As Lisa mentioned, we do on occasion move staff around, and and this was a big one that we that we talked about.

But um, you know, the there are occasions where a staff member might move across town, so where they're where they're currently uh slated for their their job role in the next round of of requests, they may ask to move across town, be a little bit closer to how to home, those kinds of things.

And so if we have these standard practices across the department, it's easier for them to really integrate with their uh with their new team without having a whole onboarding process.

There certainly is one for the for the specific programs available at that center and um you know and and things of that nature, but this ensures that we have uh a unified process for renting out our facilities, for example, or submitting a program for consideration to start operating at one of our centers, things like that.

Another spot where uh so uh excuse me, developing and implementing uh standardized procedures for parks recreation cultural affairs most common procedures.

So again, where we have that overlap.

We have two uh aquatic facilities that are on each side of this, one on each side of town.

Um they are the main hubs for our uh for our outdoor pools when they're open during the summer, and so it's very easy for that for one of those indoor pools to have consistent processes with the two that they oversee of the outdoor pools, but we need to make sure that that's consistent citywide.

And then again, one more one more way we we touched on this last year, or excuse me, last month is uh achieving and and uh sustaining our Capra accreditation will help us because one we need to be in the process of reviewing our our procedures, our processes, our policies on a regular basis.

That is one criteria of the accreditation process that I brought to you last month.

Um so if we're in those processes and policies, we're going to ensure that uh we are being very consistent across.

Um, and so that's that's one way to um to meet that.

And finally, our third priority uh is on the next page is to deliver the highest quality services possible.

This one certainly is uh you know, where we where we focus on the city's um uh our the city's vision of of building community to make life better because this is really where we actually go and and meet our constituents, our our users.

Uh so for instance, that's maximizing the utilization of our of our centers.

Uh do we have uh an empty classroom?

Can we utilize that?

Is there a is there a nonprofit that needs a meeting space?

Maybe we you know, finding that connection to offer our space up for utilization.

It also gets people in the door so that now maybe they're picking up a flyer on the way out and they realize that there's you know football uh registration coming up soon or uh a craft program over at the senior center or something that might help us to kind of cross pollinate with the different centers that we have.

Um number two is to ensure that all special events meet established quality standards.

So this is one where we're ensuring that you know uh we have the run of show a certain amount of time beforehand that our vendors that we might invite out all have the proper business licenses, and it's it's really going through and establishing this is this is our vision for a quality program and and how do we implement that.

And this isn't just our festivals, as as you can see, we have an event out in the uh out on the plaza today, um, and we had Dia de los Muertos last weekend, um, and we will certainly have more, but it's not just about those larger festivals, this is you know, about um all of our events.

So if we're gonna be uh if we're you know focusing on our uh holiday events, which certainly are coming up, we want to make sure that we are we are meeting a high standard for those.

So developing that and establishing those across the city uh is um one of our objectives to to ensure that what we have to offer is is not only meeting the needs of our community but hopefully surpassing and and wowing everybody in the process.

Um effectively communicate our high quality services to the community.

So we've been working very hard over the last year or two since I have been here to ensure that uh we're partnering really well with our communications team.

Uh you may have seen them and and I I have neglected to bring them in, but we have we have done multiple things to uh try and get uh the desire out there into the community for the use of our centers.

So if you actually look on our YouTube page, several of them now have drone fly throughs to actually show off the building, to you know, show it in use, whether it's flying through the area where we have a pool table or you know, active adults playing cards or a food program, whatever it happens to be, we're able to show that off by doing some of these things and partnering with uh communications.

Uh, that also includes things like getting out on social media, quality flyers.

We have TVs in all of our centers that we're able to kind of put on a cycle and show off essentially some of the information from the flyers with uh the possibility of QR codes for registration, all of those things.

So, how do we get better at that?

And that's that's number three is is working with our communications team.

Uh number four is fully implementing city work software and ensuring that staff are educated about how the software benefits our parks and grounds maintenance division.

Again, this is one where we uh where we are focusing specifically on uh on one division.

Um we've talked a little bit about CityWorks in this room uh since I arrived about two years ago.

Uh CityWorks is our work order management system, and so we're able to pre-program for every park.

This is how often you need to get in in MO.

This is how often you need to get in, clean the bathrooms, which by the way is a daily task.

Um all of those things that are regular events that that take place, we're able to actually program through this system, and it will automatically generate a work order.

And then when we have issues like excessive trash in a certain area, um concrete that needs to be replaced, graffiti that needs to be removed, those kinds of things.

We're actually able to go into the system uh separately and add a new work order because we've now noticed that problem.

And so it's a way for us to uh ensure that the work that we need to get done is getting done, and it actually is also a way for us to quantify some of that data.

So we're able to run a report that says how long was it between when this order was generated and and closed out.

Um, how many of these types of work orders can we do?

All that information so that we can take that and and sell ourselves show our story to those who um we're asking for money, to be honest, uh, to ensure that we have the proper resources, we have the proper staff levels, all of those kinds of things.

Um and so it really is uh a benefit to have this uh program in place.

We are certainly in the in the uh beginnings of the rollout phase um uh of this process.

It it is now at an every single one of our crews, it's now just about constant use and and ensuring that um those wheels keep turning.

And then the last one is collaborating with public works to renovate our facilities that to ensure that we're meeting both the current and the future needs of our department and of our community.

Uh this is something that we that we are uh good at, but we can always be better at.

Um we are fortunate that we have a very good relationship with our public works team when we have a renovation.

Certainly that's a project large enough that they are running it for us.

Um when we have new facilities coming online, like the pickleball complex, the new pool over at uh on Pavilion Center, those types of things, they are running those larger public works type projects, those CIP projects.

Um and so uh ensuring that we we have regular communications with them to uh to meet the needs of our community uh is certainly something that's vital.

Uh in the last several years, we've uh renovated Doula Um Doolaric Center, um, East Las Vegas Community Center, and the um Doolittle Active Adult Center, which phase two is coming uh later this year, uh fiscal year.

And so um, you know, having those relationships really does help us to meet the needs of our community.

Um I am happy to take any questions at this time if you have them.

Yeah, commissioners questions.

So a little bit I think everybody's digesting, right?

Yeah, lots of information.

I'm sorry.

Okay, Commissioner, go ahead.

Commissioner Wall, is there any this?

I don't know if this would come under your department, but there is any vehicle for um volunteers, engaging youth, engaging seniors.

Sure.

We we do have uh volunteers within our system.

Um a lot of our volunteer efforts uh on the on the parks and grounds maintenance side are handled through our partnership with Get Outdoors Nevada, uh, but we do have volunteer instructors and things through our recenter uh programs.

Um Deputy Director, I'd just like to just to mention uh just to give you guys kudos, the department overall, because I don't I don't know if everybody always appreciates like the work that goes into developing uh department and all the services that go along with it because you're looking at everything that you have, all the assets that you have and all the stewardship responsibilities that you have through the lens of multiple lenses, whether it's the the city of Las Vegas' future or the or CAPRA accreditation programs, etc.

So I just want to commend you uh and your and your staff for that.

I was also just out of my own curiosity, um, maybe like just one off on this.

Um am I gonna see any uh any at Las Vegas people running for president of uh NRPS?

I know that's coming up.

Um yeah, so uh the nominations for next year's elections uh just opened uh three days ago, four days ago.

Um we have not had anybody submit themselves for president at all for the state, but again, first of three, you know, only three days in to uh I think it's a two-month nomination process.

So are we are we gonna see your name pop up in there?

Uh I will not be running for the presidential cycle.

Um I actually was I I actually won that cycle prior to leaving for Tennessee, so I never served in that role.

Um, but uh I I'm actually the only representative from uh city of Las Vegas right now that's on the board.

We've had we we we generally always have somebody but we've we we had quite a few in the last cycles that have rolled off and right now I'm I'm the only one on the board.

But um, you know, I I have my feelers out there trying to get the right candidates in the on the ballot this year.

Well excellent.

If I can help inspire anybody to do go for it, I'll I'm definitely uh I can be your wingman on that.

But but thank you.

Um and thank you for your service on that level too, because that is important that we you know represent uh Las Vegas through the state organization and national whenever possible.

Great.

Any other questions, commissioners?

No.

Uh seeing none, I think we can go to, and I think you're gonna stay there, Deputy Director.

Uh to agenda item number nine, which is discussing for possible action regarding the revisions to parks recreation facilities and other city facilities, property naming policy and procedures allwards.

Okay, so uh we had been looking at a a couple of different adjustments just to kind of clarify language and really put um some language in here that really reflects the way that um the current situation is uh within how were we soliciting name opportunities, uh uh nominations, I should say, uh, for new parks and new amenities and and things like that.

So this really is designed to be uh clarifying language.

Uh there are a couple of uh things that I want to run through with you.

So um we only touched this policy as it relates to the parks and recreation facilities because the city does use this same policy for other facilities that are not related to our department.

So we are only um handling that small section.

So if you look at um, let's see, this should be page two under the procedure.

That's where that's where our edits are.

You should all have received the red line um document here.

So in um A1A and A2A, we added the word designee just to ensure that should the director role be vacant, um, or uh she is you know on vacation or any any sort of reason that we need to kick this off, um, that gives us the ability to to get started and not delay.

Uh so we did add or designee uh to those two sentences on A1B, we updated the language here to um to to be more inclusive in how we could uh you know solicit the the name recommendations.

Um and so you'll see that.

Um and then we added C saying that the council person for the ward in which a park sits may request consideration for a specific name.

Just we do that by practice, it's just not in the in the policy and procedure.

So the the ward uh office, either the councilperson or or somebody that they have requested um, you know, attend could say I'd like consideration for this, and this is this is why this similarly to how the public would bring a name forward, they would still justify it to this group um and that kind of thing.

It doesn't mean that you uh are are bound by it, but it's their their specific request.

Um again, we we do it in practice, it's just not in the policy right now.

Um A2A we're just providing um some information that uh we are bound to provide the council person in the ward that that this property is in uh with a copy of the report.

We again do this in practice, it's not in the policy.

Um it's it's just something that we want to make sure actually happens in the future um should we not be in our our existing roles.

Um 3B, we're adding amenities so that when we're referring to it in the next line, we um don't have to spell it all out, you know, mono monument substructure uh special activity area.

Uh and then in 3B1, we actually provide the the naming convention for those substructures, those smaller amenities.

So um a year ago, this process was undertaken for uh the tennis center at Lorenzi Park.

And so officially now it is the Marty Hennessy uh tennis complex at Lorenzi Park.

And so just to ensure that we have a standard naming convention, we added that line in.

And then the final point there is 3C one, where uh the city council member in whose ward the park or facility resides has the discretion as to when or if the renaming recommendation appears for the before the city council for consideration.

Now the reason we added this is because this is part of the renaming of a park, which does require uh a unanimous vote at the city council.

So this gives that person an opportunity to move it forward when there is uh support and it's not just constantly move moving forward by default and getting you know um being rejected or or something along those lines.

So it's just uh insuring that they they can uh uh you know uh and ensure that that it would actually be um you know met with uh with curiosity and and actual deliberation.

So those are all the adjustments we made again, trying just to clarify it doesn't change the procedure.

Um we will still be bringing you the naming recommendations as I have in the past, breaking it down by who actually is providing this from the ward um versus the remainder of the valley or even nation and and worldwide, like we've had in these last two years that I've been with you.

So and deputy director, just for clarification, so this is something we should move to discuss moving forward today, or is this something that we should do in January?

Uh you you can continue it.

That is a procedure.

Um I'll defer to Jim to give some real quick.

That's I understand, but go ahead, Jim.

Yeah, Chairman, I don't need to take a lot of time here.

You have the you're the you're the committee.

You you can you have the discretion to decide whether or not you want to hold this and have this heard again so you can think about it and come back and discuss amongst yourselves.

Um at the same time, I think the uh recommendation from parks and recreation is to move forward with this today so we can get to the city council.

Sure, absolutely with that in mind, uh commissioners.

I'd like to open it for discussion on some of the changes that we've seen here.

And just as uh just as a clarifying point, generally what happens is the the parks department does a lot of the work, they do a lot of the public outreach that goes into the naming as well as working with the city council members.

Uh they come together and we get all that information and then we kind of just make a recommendation that goes to the city council so that they can feel better about any naming or renaming that happens.

Whether we say yes or no doesn't necessarily matter on whether or not that gets named or renamed.

Um and this is pretty procedural on some of the changes that I've seen, so I just wanted to make that comment ahead of time.

But if you have questions, uh anyone uh vice chair Niger.

Thank you, Stephen Iger.

Two questions.

Uh I assume council has reviewed and approve of these changes.

And question number two, um, does the deputy director recommend we move to approve?

Uh Chairman, the answer is I have I have I have read uh parks and recommend uh parks and recommended changes and uh they look appropriate to to me.

Uh we can sit here and nitpick language, but that's not what we're gonna do.

It looks fine to me, and uh I uh the front pad.

Yeah, well the department would like to move forward again.

The intent of any of these changes was just to provide a little bit of clarification.

Um go ahead, Commissioner.

Is do you have a question?

Commissioner Vogue, it's sworn one.

Have the the city council representatives all reviewed this policy?

The changes in this policy.

Uh I I don't know that I have the answer to that.

Yeah, usually so this is um this is usually reviewed just by the city manager's office, which we've we've worked with the the individuals over there who go through the policies all the time.

We've been working with them.

So and and unless I'm mistaken, uh technically uh this is our this is our policy, right?

Uh and the department originally, yes, it was your policy.

This is now a city manager policy.

Got it.

Yeah.

Thanks for the clarification.

Other questions?

Um, do I have uh any commissioners here that would like to entertain a motion?

Stephen Iger motioned to uh approve these changes as written.

Okay and do I have a second?

Walter Jones, Ward 5, second it second.

Okay, I have uh a motion and a second.

Uh all those in favor.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Okay, any opposed.

Uh the motion carries unanimously.

Thank you for bringing this forward, Deputy Director.

Thank you very much.

I've lost my place.

Okay.

There's a lot of papers here.

Um great.

I'd now like to move to agenda item number 10, which is report by commission members regarding parks issues and events within their respective council wards at large all boards.

Go ahead.

Commissioner Burgos Ward 6.

On uh Thursday, November 6th, there'll be a town hall meeting with uh councilwoman Nancy Bruni and the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and City Departments to discuss efforts to keep ward six clean and safe.

Plus, there are also be updates on parks and development, so it should be a great meeting.

It's November 6th from 6 to 8 to 8 p.m.

And um the location is on the website because it's not on the flyer.

So but I believe you can get it at Las Vegas Nevada.gov for more accurate for information.

Also, December 6th, Saturday, December 6th will be the Cowboy Christmas and Classic Car Show at Floyd Lamb Park at Thule Springs, that's 9200 Thule Springs Road.

Families will enjoy a classic car show, arts and crafts fair, jump house, live DJ performance, and a visit from Santa.

Awesome.

Any other commissioner Jones?

Yes, ward five, Commissioner Jones.

Um Councilwoman Armstrong is having uh cleanup at Lorenzi Park on Saturday, November the 8th from 8 to 11th, sponsored by the city and Cox Cable.

And she's having another neighborhood cleanup Saturday, November the 15th.

The corner of Sydney Sioux and Holly.

And that's it.

Other com thank you.

Other commissioners?

No.

I do have an update for Ward 2.

Uh in addition to that really cool ninja turkey trot.

Uh they have a family fun night coming up uh this Friday uh from 6 to 745 at Veterans Memorial Community Center.

That's at 101 North Pavilion Center Drive.

And it's basically a family game night.

It's only five dollars per person, so you could either call up and and join.

Uh the number to call to RSVP would be 702-229-1100.

And that's what I have for ward two.

Great.

Would those are our commission updates?

And I'd like to move to agenda item number 11, which is 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, and the amount of discussion of any single subject, as well as the amount of time of any single speaker is allowed, may be limited.

And I don't see anybody, but I actually I have something today.

Um so my understanding was that our last meeting we were talking about the healing gardens, and our very own commissioner um Cornwell received this wonderful award, and she was too shy and embarrassed to mention it.

So I'd like to call on her now to tell us a little bit about the award that she received.

Hi, Commissioner Cornwell.

Um the mayor gave me a proclamation and um awarded me for my volunteer work at the healing garden, and um so September 17th is now Sue Ann Cornwell Day.

And it's not though we don't always agree, we do manage to work things through and and get things done.

So thank you all very much.

I appreciate that.

That's just absolutely wonderful.

You guys have no idea how hard she works out there, too.

It's uh I think that's her full-time job, if you ask me.

Great.

Uh with that, I I don't see any other things on our agenda today, so I'm happy to say that this meeting is adjourned on time.