The Parks and Recreation Board met on June 11, 2026, at 12:45 PM to discuss safety improvements at Ashley Pond, working group assignments, open space updates, staff reports, and council communications. The board approved minutes from the previous meeting and received community input on bollard designs.
All right. Good afternoon, everybody. We'll call this meeting to order. As we open any public comment for any items that are not currently on the agenda. Okay. And we'll move on. First order of business approval of the minutes from May 14th, 2026. Any discussion from board members on those minutes. Okay. Anybody like to make a motion to approve those minutes. I move that we accept the minutes from the May 14th, 2026 meeting as presented. I second the motion. All right. Vote. All in favor. Aye. Aye. Paula, are you online? I'm online. I agree. Yes. All right. Thank you. All right. Next item presentation and possible action giving recommendation on Ashley Pond safety improvements design. Everybody should have a copy of that in their packets. Hi, Chair, uh members. Thank you so much for letting me do this presentation today. So the whole purpose of this, as you know, when we get on see news in the media, we often see where a car has either intentionally or accidentally departed from a road. And it results in often pedestrian injuries and sometimes fatalities, especially when it's a purposeful departure. And so it came to the attention of the county that we have large crowds out at Ashley Pond, and that this could be a scenario that would be really horrible for the community. So uh the county's been moving forward with taking safety measures. As you know, we got the Jersey barriers out there right now. And um we were hoping to have some bollard items in place for this year, but uh we learned that there are a lot of options of bollards out there. There's a lot of different ways you can go. And uh we uh at Anne Lawrence's suggestion, we move forward with a landscape architect groundwork studio. And I'm so glad that we did because I think this really gave us some good ideas just having the graphics, because before we were just looking at bollards and trying to imagine what they would like look like in that space. Uh we did go to the historic board yesterday and get a recommendation from them. And they um uh and also to make sure that all three of these designs met what they would consider keeping the historic atmosphere. We do know Ashley Pond is a marquee location for Los Alamos, so that's really important to us to make sure that we keep that ambiance and that that uh feel for it. Okay, oh we're good. I can hear you the whole time just I have the question. Okay, all right, thank you so much. All right, so um we worked with the landscape architect architect, uh, groundwork studio, and they came up with these three options to uh to move forward with. And what we're looking for is we're looking for input on which option is the preferred option. We currently have a survey out. Well, let me go through the options first. So our first option we're calling it the peer option. It has um, oh, it looks like we lost it again. Oh, there we go.