All right, we are on the air.

It is our August 5th, 2025 work session, and we have only one item on the agenda, which is our parks and green space goal update.

So I will hand it off.

I don't know if I'm handing it to Peter or to Councillor Massey or thank you, Mayor.

I'm Peter Passerelli.

I'm the public works director, and with me this afternoon, also with Adam Moore of Parks Development Coordinator, and we've put together a presentation of our uh accomplishments that we have over the last quarter, what we see coming up in the future quarters uh from the staff perspective, but also some slides that reflect the reflecting up some council work that's been gonna later.

Um so moving on April June staff uh accomplishments.

I think we met last time in May, beginning of May was our first iteration uh where we we sat down and talked about the the action program and open book and for the next uh next two years or three years, I should say.

Um so this is to spend a little bit of time on what we've done uh over April June at this quarter and where we're headed uh this quarter as well.

Um I wanted to start off talking about the Good Navy program, and this might be a little premature because I had intended yesterday to have a discussion with our community utility advisory committee.

That meeting, unfortunately, got canceled because of a lack of war.

So uh I haven't really out, I haven't walked them through this yet, but our application period for our first uh cycle of uh for the for the program closed June 30th.

Uh we ended up receiving seven applications.

Um the applications uh Johnson Creek Watershed Council uh withdrew their application because they were unable to get like uh an agreement from a property owner that uh would would have would have been part of that project.

Uh staff reviewed the applications uh during the month of July.

Um we were recommending to the community utility advisory committee for applications for uh approval that would total up to 188,738.

Uh there's a coup to the application we were looking at doing some minor modifications on.

Uh so we're gonna have to sit there and we'll have to take a look at it in terms of some of the scope uh of work there, and then once we get done with that, we're gonna start working on the screen with things uh total 188,000.

I believe at the end of July, depending on uh the EU's that we're one dollar for BD fee that we get from West.

We should have possibly about fair 50,000 groups.

I put together a little table.

Uh all of the applications were eligible, they're all they were all within the uh the area, the geographic area that we had outlined on on the map.

Uh we went through the scored and we had four uh evaluators, myself, uh Adam and Katie and uh Emma, one of our uh administrative specialists.

Um they were all uh very well put together, but you could definitely tell that there were some ever put together.

Uh so we're looking at moving for the North Clackness watershed council uh application, which had a focus on community stormwater engagement in our community in our community.

Okay.

And what does that look like?

Um, just in Broadbrush.

It it it relates to uh doing some for a second.

Uh well, I was gonna say when I used to sit on that board at Celia back when I was a counselor, I was always pushing them to do more education about pesticides and stuff like that.

Um, I think you know, people think if they can buy it at Fred Meyer, it must be okay, and that's not true.

Um so um I didn't know if that was kind of what they were doing, or they were doing like you know, actual.

Uh cool uh and you know, so water quality facilities or land gardens and things like that.

I think there's a small demonstration project associated with it.

Um I I don't know if I don't believe there's anything specifically called out the application purposing this decuse.

Uh the wetlands conservancy, they've uh they've got a project where they're looking to uh build a boardwalk out in the wetlands in Thorn in Love Springs area.

It's a multi-year project.

This is a piece of their overall funding.

Uh they're also they have some technical assistance uh from uh the interior parks found the National Park Service to help with that program as well.

Uh so this grid the grid dollars here are going to be used for some wetland delineation and some design share that's for the community.

Sort of that one's uh there's also some survey work and little last spend some more on their salaries as they work on this project.

Uh the Milwaukee Parks Foundation uh has a large sort of uh they've identified a large Uprock Island Restoration Project.

This is one of the projects that we want to have a discussion work about school work and and make sure that it's designed appropriately and and doesn't create uh doesn't create additional work for us.

Uh so that's that's part of what we need to do there.

Uh the Bird Alliance uh of Oregon, uh they have some program related to uh backyard for habitat and uh burden nature walks at Elk Rock Island and West Restoration.

The same thing applies there.

There's some some tweaks that we're gonna look for from them on them on their programs there just to make sure that it uh doesn't cause us some additional work, and it's not being do it's not being duplicated by maybe some of the I'm sorry, the Milwaukee Parks Foundation, Island Station NDA application that was programmed.

Um and then we had solved and another island station ADA application.

Uh those that you know they were eligible.

They met some of the criteria, but they scored lower because they they didn't really meet sort of the full goals of the program.

Uh you know, one of them was just really sort of a small cleanup event that uh solvents with the virtual support on uh and then the uh station ADA was focused on some big thing on the benches, islands for the park, uh out near the uh sort of the north, or I should say the southwestern portion of a spray park that would require would require some uh a lot of work, a lot of work and didn't necessarily have the full support, all the staple.

So we didn't recommend moving those forward there.

And I just mentioned since the the Bird Alliance one says West Restoration.

I don't know if that's here in Milwaukee or if that's the three creeks, you know.

I know they're getting ready to kick off their restoration work in the three creeks, but um they plant Wes planted a pollinator garden along the sidewalk coming by the plant up toward Eagle Street last year, and um only like three of the plants are still alive.

They did not do a very good job of maintaining there.

They planted probably you know, a dozen 15, 20 plants in two rows, and there's like three that are still alive.

Yeah, this is more in that small part here in the creek and okay.

So it was West maintainer, was it secure data?

West maintained.