Somebody's coming here.

Coming in class.

So we'll just kind of apologize.

We have playing football tonight again.

We have picture gate and photographers decided to bring one photographer instead of two.

Oh, sorry.

Wow.

Oh my goodness.

Yeah, what's funny?

All right.

That being said, I am prepared.

So better you than me.

Alright, Mike's on.

Looks like we have full-on attendance.

So we're gonna call to order the September Parks and Recreation Committee meeting.

Everybody is here, so no other roll call is needed for that.

And we'll move on then to public comment.

Does anybody here have anything to say that's uh germane to the business of the parks and recreation committee?

That's not speaking of something on the agenda.

Do we have anybody online?

Nope.

Alright, go once, going twice.

And public comment is closed.

Alright, so then we have a presentation on the schedule.

Or on the docket, I should say.

Uh 26-0679, September 2026 updates on parked projects.

Alright, um, so I like to show these once in a while.

I guess we haven't had a whole lot of meetings, but it's nice to share some of the things we've been doing.

So uh parking rec project updates.

So we're gonna start out with two projects that weren't necessarily um uh capitalists or anything, but uh two projects that are parks through they kind of led um our our our our uh parks crew in these uh projects that we've that's been on our list for a while, so it was nice to see them being done.

So one of them was just the staining of the exterior of looking park um caving one and caving two.

Dave and the crew went there and we move colors of stain on and they look brand.

Um Dave Prides himself and everyone else in our in our group um on the interior, keeping it clean, keeping it um ready to rent.

Um now the type kind of just matches the inside, so it's a really nice project.

I know it doesn't get a lot of attention in these types of things, but but you know, for properties um and we do it during you know a very busy summer season.

So trying to fit these small things in our um another one is some uh accessibility update that helps us in part.

He's just finished this week, so we um they and they've worked with uh DBW crews to use this concrete installation, so pathway to the uh playground is something that showed up on our accessibility audits where um some of our playgrounds don't have accessible access paths, so having that concrete path creates um access to the playground, and then we did the same thing with the dog park.

We have two alternate entrances at the dog park.

Now you know these entrances are fully testful, you can get in the dog park and let the dog doll people involved.

So with that, we also widen the access path all the way through the park.

That just allows better uh maintenance access.

We're not creating big blocks with our garbage stuff.

So just quickly two projects that um are parts through the during the summer during the busy time we were able to get these things to check off the other list.

So here's red error access project.

We talked about this.

We're still waiting on railing, other than half the project is basically done.

Um our new stuff, the the next thing we're going with is the shelter operate for the bathroom builder.

Uh we talked about this here at this committee.

Uh we do have some initial plans, so basically the addition of a couple of restrooms dolls.

There's not a lot of room in here.

Um, but we were able to add a couple more things, more restrooms all in each of the simple windows and then uh we are adding a concession area that will be allowed to be rented out similar to what we have at like um Lincoln Park by the tennis parts.

We have the concession area, the Westfield concession area, just a small area that uh can be rented, can be utilized.

We can use it to run concessions if we wanted to.

Um have all the things of resin's uh all the stuff necessary for us to run uh concessions.

With that is an extended overhang over the uh the new pad that's being poured out um in front of this building, so it just allows more covered seating, uh, a better area for the public to use uh rentable things.

So renderings of what it may look like.

Um just from the front, the extension shown here, and then the side would extend uh the roof line all the way through a new metal rope, which is a little cleaner.

Um gutters, which will help information undecided area for um postal wetland navy area.

So we completed this.

We had a grand opening, um really well attended.