Okay, we'll call us reading a little recreation park commission to order five thirty nine sound good.

Here commissioner from District Two, Dina Gonzalez.

Here commissioner from District Three, John R.

Carlos.

Here.

Commissioner from District 4, Marcus S.

Ariano.

Here.

Commissioner from District 5.

April P.

Halloway.

Here.

Commissioner at large.

Marissa K.

Lewis.

Absent.

Ex officio second alt fusion.

Absent.

Ex officio Sarah Boyle.

Absent.

Ex officio first alt.

Saren S.

DuPont.

Absent.

Okay, uh, I don't see anybody here from the public, so I don't think we have any public comment.

I want to thank the city staff and commissioners for everything you guys did Thursday night.

It was a rather long evening, but very, very productive.

Thank you for all your all your input on that.

I think we have a good document coming up.

Okay, moving right along into action items.

E one uh the the result of all our hard work.

Uh the master plan.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Um, just to kind of recalibrate everybody's process um for the group and the public.

The City of Merced undertook an initiative about a year and a half ago to update our parks, recreation, and open space master plan or our pros.

This effort is a five to ten year plan that um outlays what type of capital improvements, programming practices, and standards of practice the city desires to take on over the next five to ten years.

Um, this includes not only our own operation, but also the operation of our counterparts in public works, such as parks and facility maintenance, our community-based partners that utilize our youth centers, um, and our youth sports act um leagues that utilize our fields.

So I want to thank this commission for their ongoing support of this this initiative.

Um as uh Commissioner John reflected last Thursday was the longest commission meeting I've been a part of in the city of Merced.

Um we uh competed with rather lengthy council meetings last week.

Um, but you guys, in all seriousness, did a fantastic job of looking through a lot of material all at once.

I think the recommendations that you made uh were um were from the heart and also very smart recommendations, putting our staff and our community in a better position.

And so um instead of going through just the recommendations that were made and the revisions that were done, I want to just revisit each pillar and the final objectives in each of those areas for our review this evening and make sure that the changes that were made are reflective of this group's will.

So uh once again, our parks recreation open space master plan was a culminating plan that highlights four key areas which we call pillars or priorities.

They include infrastructure and maintenance, community connection, safety inclusivity, and resources and stewardship.

In each of those four priority or pillars are a series of objectives that are intended to meet certain community outcomes that our residents and visitors shared as values or qualities of life that they wanted to see achieved.

We have conducting a comprehensive park asset inventory report, once again for everybody's recollection that includes what types of materials, uh services or supplies are offered at different parks.

1.2 is to enhance the existing aging park amenities with modern amenities.

Um aging park inventory with modern amenities.

1.3 was to develop a comprehensive maintenance management plan.

We do have a great tool in Merced Connect, which is allows staff and community to report any disrepair, vandalism, broken features within our park or trail system.

However, having an ongoing maintenance management plan that is the standard maintenance schedule for fields, facilities, and park infrastructure will go a great deal to prevent any ongoing disrepair in our system.

1.4 is to establish a trail maintenance program.

This was specific to our bike trail and path system in our in our city.

We have a fantastic bike path infrastructure that's utilized heavily by our residents, and we want to make sure that that trail system is has a maintenance management program as well.

1.5 design walkable and bike friendly trails.

And we added in parentheses here off-road throughout the city for safe and equitable access to parks and facilities.

And I really appreciate the commission's request to identify off-road as our area of focus.

I think sometimes plans can get grandiose and it creates some confusion as to who's responsible for taking the initiative to either build or maintain or repair certain infrastructure.

So I'm not 100% sure, but I think Commissioner Halloway, it might have been some other commissioners that brought up that recommendation.