The Los Alamos Parks and Recreation Board met on Thursday, July 9, 2026, at 5:30 PM at 1000 Central Avenue. The meeting included approval of previous minutes, a working group process discussion, a vote on the Grand Canyon Playground relocation, a presentation on the LA Mesa Trail project, and a series of staff and council updates.
All right, good afternoon, everybody. Let's get started. We'll call this meeting to order. First item on the agenda, public comment for any topics not currently on the agenda. Okay. We'll go to the next uh topic, which is business. So uh first item uh approval of minutes from the July June 11th, 2026 meeting. Uh any discussion on those minutes before uh we move forward. Okay, someone would like to make a motion to approve those minutes. I move that the board approve the attached meeting minutes from the June 11th, 2026 meeting as presented. Anybody second? I second. Right. Uh we'll vote. Uh I don't know that we need to do a call for this one. All in favor. I I think Jerry, you're abstaining for you because you weren't here. Okay. Right. And David's an eye. Okay. Thank you. Jasmine. Oh, yeah. I thank you. Uh next item is working group discussion. This is one of the topics that we had uh talked about at the last week for the last session, um, that we would just kind of make this a standing session on work group uh discussion assignments, anything appropriately anything appropriate to either discuss um or to make assignments. Does anybody have any um topics they'd like to bring up? Um items. Okay, we did uh have what was good. I want to make sure we don't have this later on. Um I don't think so. So we'll talk so um Wendy passed out the Parkson Rec board this draft for uh request form. Um we uh draft circulated for this. I think everybody has a copy. Um obviously take time, but I guess you know, for just general discussion, uh we had uh talked at the last meeting about a little more of a formal process for either uh group working groups uh requesting or volunteering or kind of soliciting an endorsement to do uh new items or new topics or uh for the board to discuss and assign and then kind of capture that formally. Um in previous discussions, uh these uh working groups should have kind of clear relatively clearly defined tasks uh or assignments, and uh those should include uh some deliverables that are relatively measurable and uh a timeline for those. Um hope is that this would uh maybe fit that. I mean, I think this is a uh kind of a an adaptation of what art in public places is using. Is that accurate? Yes. Okay, thanks. Um discussion of the members on this. You know, are we are are we for um kind of capturing these items more formally uh or uh preferred format that may be different? Um I think it's a good idea to get a um clearly defined um subject of work for each of the working groups, and I think this is a good way to maybe approach doing that in the next month. We can try and fill these out, come back in a month and discuss them at that point. Maybe you can then have a clear idea of exactly what you want to task each of the working groups with. So yeah, and I think that is kind of the idea, just so it's both clear what the assignment is and and then it's it's bounded and well understood and easy to discuss and again for transparency for the public as well. Sure. Yeah.