Okay, I'm gonna now call to order this uh Wednesday, February or Wednesday, May 13th, 2026 meeting of the City of Valley's Parks and Recreation Commission and for the forestry board.

Um, will you please conduct the role?

Commissioner Bryant.

Yes, Chair Dangerous, Commissioner Celester, Chair Summer here, and Chairman.

Here, okay, uh moving on to the minutes, these are the minutes from the April 8th, 2026 meeting.

Uh let's see, is there any public comment on those minutes?

Seeing none, uh, is there a motion?

So moved.

Second, moved by Commissioner Bryant, second by Commissioner Summer.

Okay, Commissioner Bryant, Commissioner Davis, Commissioner Sylvester, yes, Vice Chair Summer.

Yes, Chair.

Yes.

All right.

Uh oral communications from the public.

This portion of the meeting is reserved for persons wishing to address the commission on any matter not on the agenda.

Speakers are limited to three minutes, and state law prohibits the commission from acting on non-agenda items.

If anyone would like to provide public comment, uh please fill out a blue card.

And for those who are online, please use the raise hand feature, and Alison Flynn will recognize you.

Not online.

Not online.

Okay.

I will close public comment.

Uh we are now gonna move on to uh item 5.1, which is the public safety building project 2049.

Uh this is coming back to us uh for a second time.

Uh the process tonight.

Uh we will have a staff report.

Um, then PRC will have opportunity for questions.

Uh we'll have public comment.

Um, then there'll be PRC discussion and deliberation and then a motion and a vote.

And I believe that we need to take care of this one tonight because it's going to council uh early next month.

So with that, I will uh turn it over to I believe uh Naveen Govind and uh David Printy will also be here uh helping out.

Yes, thank you.

Um my name is Naveen Govind, and I'm a senior project manager with the Public Works.

Um, with me here today I have uh David Brenton, the project manager with Public Works as well, and uh Russell Hansen, um, forestry manager.

Um we are um following calling the March 17th PRC meeting uh the design team working with uh the adverse city advers team have addressed uh PRC comments that we've received, and uh tonight we are here to present the revised litigation plan on March 17th uh staff presented uh heritage tree mitigation plan removal of uh to heritage trees, the planting 84 trees at twos to one ratio.

Commissioner reviewed the mitigation plan and directed staff to return to PRC with a devised mitigation plan focusing on canopy replacement with the preponderance of native trees at the two is to one replacement for headphase tree and one is to one for non-heritude tree.

Additionally, uh staff will direct it to explore the placement of mitigation trees, uh, those uh that could not be accommodated within the project site.

Following the mark, uh 13th uh court uh staff uh wanted to point out two corrections.

Umnection was uh 3250 was uh found to have died, and for CP reasons it was removed by the City Average team in fall 2032.

Second correction uh is uh fee number two eleven was a mischaracterized as HD3.

It'll still be removed, but at uh one is to one receive.

So as noted uh in the March 17th uh PRC meeting, due to the constraints, due to the constraints of the construction of the new public safety building, trees will have to be removed for um accommodating the new building as well as maintaining the current uh operation of the existing building.

So for those reasons, 40 phase trees will be removed and 35 non-hit trees as well.

The plan will or the project will preserve 20 health case stream and non-heritage, 10 non-heritage trees.

The project will also select redwood trees and pre-purpose the reclaimed wood and construction of benches along uh villa in public spaces.

The trees selected for mitigation plan was selected from the draft biodiversity and urban forest plan.

The tree selected um is to meet project goals, the design acidic and no water use, as well as addressing long-term concentration commonly associated with making species such as mature height, root system impacts, and partial testing.

So in response to the March 17th BRC meeting comments, as well as the connection made um to the report.

51 sorry the the native species was increased from 9 to 51, and in 2034 trees.

So all the proposed trees were all the proposed trees was able to uh be planted within the project site, and uh staff found opportunities to plant three more trees, increasing the total count to 18 trees that includes 80 mitigation trees.

Tree canopy study was also conducted.

The goal was to make sure that proposed canopy trees, the proposed canopy programs need or exceeds the existing canopy.

So after conducting the analysis, you know, at 10 15 years maturity, the proposed trees will exceed the existing canopy by about 1.5 percent.

Here are the proposed trees.

We have added two native trees, Valley Oak and Tayon to the pallet, and this includes 34 oak trees.

This concludes our presentation.

All right.

Uh any questions from commissioners.

I don't know.

Um on your canopy calculations, how is that performed?