Okay, welcome everybody to the March 18th, 2026 regular meeting for the Parks Recreation and Trees Advisory Commission.

Can I have roll call, please?

Board donor.

Here.

Stoltz.

Here.

Richard.

Here.

Strang.

Here.

Wallace.

Cats O'Neal is absent.

Grafuis.

Here.

And bin on.

Here.

Great.

Thank you.

A quick agenda review.

Next up we'll have public comment.

This is an opportunity for folks to comment on items that are not on the agenda today.

We'll move to approval of minutes.

And then we have just one presentation today regarding the Napa golf course at Kennedy Park from Sean Silva and Bob Becker.

And then we have one administrative report regarding uh capital project updates.

With that, I'll move to public comment.

Is there anybody from the public present that wishes to speak on any items nine on the agenda?

Not seeing any.

Okay, we'll move to approval of minutes.

Review and approve regular meeting minutes of February 18th, 2026.

Any edits or a motion?

I'll move to approve minutes.

Second.

All in favor, say aye.

All right.

Motion passes.

Okay.

Moving right along.

Presentation 5A.

Course Co.

Mr.

Silva and Mr.

Becker.

You can come on up to the middle podium.

Okay.

Thank you.

Okay.

Am I in control of the advancing the slides or uh we we unfortunately we've got it on PDF here, so if you don't mind, I'll just scroll through as I go.

Okay.

Well, first of all, I'm Sean Silva.

I'm senior operations manager with Coursco.

Uh been involved with Napa Golf Course for just over 13 years.

Was actually the general manager at Napa Golf Course back in 2012, 13 and 14.

Um now I uh manage and support multiple properties.

This is Bob Becker, he's our general manager at Napa Golf Course.

So just want to thank everyone on the commission and uh Brianna, I don't see Katrina Katrina here and Jeff, but the opportunity to come in uh and talk to all of you.

Seems like we're on a uh kind of a rotation where every couple years we speak to the council, and then every couple years we talk to the commission, and it's really it's just a phenomenal opportunity for us to stand in front of you, talk about the great work we've done as partners.

Uh it's been a phenomenal partnership with uh the C of NAP over years.

It goes way past my involvement, but um the collaboration between Brianna and Katrina and Jeff has been phenomenal.

I can't say enough about their support and thank them.

And there's a couple slides in here where um we'll talk a little about some of the the work that we've collaborated on.

But first of all, Corsco.

Um we're a golf course management company.

We operate 47 golf courses in eight states now.

Um when I started with Corsco, I think we're at 18 golf courses back in 2013, so kind of steady progressive growth.

We usually it's you know one or two golf courses every year.

Um we're very particular about who we align with.

Um we're very municipality focused, whether it's city or county owned.

Um 40 of the 47 are owned by either cities or counties.

That's kind of our sweet spot.

Uh and there's a reason for that.

It's because our core values.

They're very much in alignment with typically the core values of cities and and counties and municipalities.

Um we live and breathe by them.

We take them very seriously.

None of them are any on their own more important than the other.

The collectively are really critically important to our success.

And so going on to the core values.

Start with financial performance.

If you go back, um, and I know the next slide talks a little bit about our history.

Um, but there was a time back, you know, pre-2013 where the golf course was subsidized from the general fund.

It was struggling.

I remember in those days, um, there were serious conversations about closing the golf course.

Um I don't know what was going to happen to it if that if that actually came to fruition, but at that time, Corsco engaged uh we were managing the golf course, engaged in conversations, and there were uh discussions said, Hey, look, we would really like to add this an outlet here to be able to host events and vacuums and have an FMB component.

Um and I believe the investment at that point in time, what Corsco brought to the table is hey, look, um, we'll fund that.

It was about a million dollar project in uh in exchange for a long-term lease, and that's when the um the lease started, which was back in 2013.

So, you know, we have a duty and a responsibility to financially perform.

We pay rent to the to the city.

Um I'm pretty sure we make our rent payments on time.

I think someone would tell me if we didn't.

Um so rather than being subsidized from the golf course, actually, is uh as a revenue generator now for the city of Napa, so we're proud of that.

Um community inclusion.

You know, we we get it, about 10% of the population typically golfs, right?

It's a very small um component of the the general population in general, right?

Um, and so what are we doing to accommodate the other 90%?

And so community inclusion is foundational to CourseCo.

So when we look at the golf course, how do we create a hub of activity?

How is it the epicenter beyond just golf?

We get it.

What are the things that we're doing for the true stakeholders, the taxpayers, and the residents of the community to utilize it as a hub of social activity, and so we'll talk a little bit about that later on as well.

Um stakeholder communication, what we're doing today.

Um opportunity to come talk to you about what we're doing, what we've done, what we have planned for the future, um, how we communicate internally, externally, and with our guests.

Um and then lastly, environmental stewardship.

Um we're not shy about this.

We're very, very proud of our record.

We're we are the most decorated golf management company in the United States.

There isn't even a close second.

Um there are other management companies who are in excess of 600 golf courses, we're 47.

Uh they have maybe one-tenth of the accolades and uh and acknowledgements through the golf course uh superintendent association of America, and we're very, very proud of our work there at the LGA.

Back in 2016 when I was here, uh, we were awarded the JT uh Fulner Award for uh recycling efforts, um, which was awesome.

We took just for context, um, when I took over Napa golf course, when I was hired as the general manager, we contributed over 400 cubic yards of waste of landfill at that point in time.

Annually, it's less than 50 now.

Um, our goal, we which we haven't got there yet, but our stated goal I remember at that point in time was can we get down to just a household garbage can on a weekly basis?

So um so that's just you know a little bit about us and how we feel like you know from a value perspective, how we align with the city of Napa.

Um a little history, a little timeline.

So the partnership commenced in 1999.

It was a management contract at that point in time.

And then in May of 2013, uh that's when the City of Napa and uh CORSCO agreed to the 20-year lease.

Uh it has a progressively increasing uh increasing or escalating rent structure uh that establishes the following.

Um we take on the future uh financial risk, and we also provide capital infusion.

Now it's co-contributed, the city provides some contributions, we provide contributions and they're tied to top line revenues every year.

Um then in July of 22, um, after the first 10 years, uh we had notified the city of our uh that we wanted to exercise the first of the two five-year lease extensions, and so that carries through 2028, and I fully expect that we would extend that again um and take us through 2033.

Kind of a year in review, some of the accomplishments.

I could list a bazillion things here.

When I first did this slide, there was like 16 things that like no one's gonna be able to see that.

So I had to kind of narrow it down.

But some of the things we're particularly proud of is uh we are the and have been for many, many years the practice and match uh host course for Napa College, vent to vintage high school, boys and girls golf teams.

Uh we hosted over 280 middle school and high school cross-country athletes for a meet um last year.

If anyone has any questions about that, Bob personally spearheaded that, he can give you more details.

Club Napa, as we changed the structure of um our programming last year, uh we registered over 900 people in Club Napa.

We changed the pricing, the programming significantly.

We can talk about that uh at a later slide.

Uh, we've been longtime members of the first tea of North Coast junior golf uh is something that's near and dear to all of us.

My first memories as a young child was going to a golf course, participating through programs through park and rec, whether it was golf or basketball or flag football or soccer, like you know, I grew up in that environment.

Um, and uh in season we've done all kinds of social events, golf events, FMB oriented events.

We'll talk more about that in a moment, but Globe Ball and night golf events, the summer junior camps and clinics that we offer, summer music series where we hire local bands to come out and enjoy music uh for the residents.

Uh we hosted the Napa City Championship.

We've been hosting that for a long time.

The Napa City Championship isn't actually it's actually an uh NCGA points event.

It's a big deal for the ABVA golfers to be on that counter.

It's hard to get on uh to be a points event in the NCGA, and we have a long history there, and then um the community work that we've done.

So we're a community hub uh food for donation hub for uh the Napa food bank.

So just quick this is top line uh high-level kind of summary of uh revenues over the last five years, and so um you might wonder as you look at this, huh?

That's kind of interesting.

What happened in 2024?

Well, I think uh most people know Napa uh golf course is in the middle of a flood zone.

So when we have extreme rain, it's uh this is what happens.

So every three or four years, um it's flooded.

I was there when uh we had some golf uh holes there.

I don't remember what year, but it was probably 14 or 15.

It was the last it was the first major flood that I experienced at the golf course.

Um and I know that there were some holes closed until July 4th.

Um so that's just you know, it's it's one of the risks associated with where we're at, um, and it's it's one of the major challenges that we have to deal with every year operationally.

We flooded again this January and February from the rains.

Um the next slide.

So this is our five-year revenue performance.

Uh I broke it out here.

What you're looking at is goes from 2001 to 2025, um, left to right.

The uh the blue line is golf revenue, the orange uh line would be FMB specific revenue, and then the total.

So you can kind of see the progression there.

Um, and what's interesting is that um one of your own, uh Jordan Plecker, who used to be uh banquet event and sales director for us.

I know she worked for Parks and Wreck.

Uh I think she still does some part-time stuff.

Um interesting that those years where the orange line peaks was when Jordan was leading those efforts.

And so um there's been a pullback.

Uh everyone probably knows tourism struggled the last few years, a little little movement up this last year, but 23 and 24 were were difficult.

Um when you're running a big banquet, wedding and events business, um, and you're a destination location in the country, uh that that tends to have an impact um on the amount of business that's coming in.

And and then it's no accident also.

That's when Jordan left.

Well, we just hired her back as our food and beverage director.

So we're expecting good things, and we see that we've already seen an uptick uh since she returned.

So she's been an awesome addition to come back to the team.

This is a long list, probably hard to read.

Um I update it every time I do these, but uh over the last 12 years, it's just all the capital investments that uh that we've done.

Um important to note that uh maintenance equipment is separate from this.

Um FF and E, which would be like air conditioning or kitchen equipment, that would be something that would be on here.

But the actual maintenance when you're talking about mowers and spray rigs and things, things of that nature, those are operational expenses.

Those are not those are not part of the capital infusion, completely separate.

So a lot of good work we've done over the years, some real um large scope major projects that we're really proud of.

Um go to the next slide if we could.

So many of you are probably aware of this, but I know faces change uh over the years, so it's kind of a good opportunity to kind of remind everybody this is that banquet space.

Um it's kind of I don't know if we would call it a grove.

Uh when I got there, the foundation was just put in.

Um but we're proud of this.

This allows us to host uh a variety of different FMB functions, a lot of weddings, it's a big uh certainly a big portion of our business.

It's an outdoor pavilion, um beautiful setting, uh ceremony site, and we've had some over the years, we've also had some city meetings there as well.

So adjacent to that, there used to be a small putting green in this location.

As you walk into the golf course, on the right hand side is the pavilion, we call it the pavilion, the slide that you just saw.

On the left hand side, there was a small chipping green there.

And a lot of the feedback that we had from prospective clients was you know, when we're going to a wedding, um there the the room was set, it's beautiful, but that by the time we get there, you know, and and they're going out to take their wedding pictures, it's all kind of disheveled, or you know, it's it's just not what it looked like.

And so we want you know a lot of them said we want a space where um our our participants, our guests can can kind of socialize outdoor in a cocktail reception setting, and then have everybody come in at once when the wedding starts.

And so um, this cocktail reception site's been a big hit.

Um, and we take the the feedback pretty seriously.

A lot of the capital projects that we've uh deployed over the last few years is directly related to feedback of what the desires and wants are from our guests and uh and our patrons.

This is uh the the old grill way back, you know, some of you might remember way back, years, years back.

I don't know if it was that way when you were uh first at Napa, but the clubhouse should be uh used to be on this side, and the restaurant be on the other side.

It's over the years it flip-flop.

That happened before I was involved, but nonetheless, remodeling the tap house, trying to create uh more of a pub type atmosphere, um, and also allows for the groomsman of our events to have a location where they can gather before weddings as well.

That was feedback we heard um pretty loud and clear.

Like, hey, we have a bridal suite, but where did the groomsman go?

And so we wanted to create a space that they found comfortable, and so we remodeled that years ago.

Specific to last year, uh here's some of the projects we did last year.

So in fairways nine, twelve, and fourteen, uh, some irrigation upgrades, uh invested about twenty-three thousand dollars in new sprinklers.

Did a drainage and flooding mitigation project on hole number three that was about twenty thousand dollars.

Had to replace uh the HVAC uh unit uh for the pavilion, uh that was 14,000.

And every year we allocate 10,000 to dead tree removal, which we can talk about more later.

So next slide is just a visual.

You know, there's a visual of kind of a linear representation of where the sprinklers were replaced.

I don't remember exactly which hole that is of nine or twelve or fourteen from this vantage point, but nonetheless, just kind of gives you a visual of what that looks like.

Um the dead tree removal has been a problem for years.

Um what's the good news is is that um in partnership with Jeff and the good work of uh of the trees department uh just recently, and we'll get to that slide, um, uh have planted 150 trees.

So over the years, somewhere between I can get the exact number if someone actually wanted somewhere between 60 to 70 of these old Monterey Pines have died.

Plus the reasons.

Way back when the golf course was built, somebody decided, hey, we want to put in trees that grow fast.

Um let's put in Monterey Pines.

And at that moment, the people who made that decision probably weren't thinking about having to deal with that 40 or 50 years later, let alone the impact that having to reclaim water on the site would um uh would have on them.

So they've reached in the lifespan.

Introducing bark beetle in the area also is a problem, so they just die.

Um and so uh from 60 to 70 in all all told.

I think we were talking about earlier, Jeff and I, but we've planted in collaboration of the city and complete credit goes to them.

We couldn't have done it without um without Jeff and his team.

But we planted almost 300 trees over the last 13 years, so almost three times as many that have been taken out.

So the reforestation efforts have been awesome, and just thank you again for all of your help, your help with that.

So for 2026, we got three three projects here.

The tree removal, as I mentioned, we always allocate $10,000 a year for that.

Um we're gonna do some cart path work this year.

Uh it's kind of phase one.

Uh we got about five years forward where we got to do some cart path replacement.

Um, and then uh similar project that we did on hole number three, we need to do one number 15.

It is uh it's a pinch point, it's where one of the last places when it floods, you cannot get by there.

Um we often have to modify the golf course format to 10 or 12 holes until it reset uh recedes.

And so we would love to be able to address that this year.

Uh it's probably about a 90 or 95,000 project.

It was initially earmarked for last year.

And as I work uh with Katrina on the funds that are available in the capital fund, became evident we needed to punt on that and push it to this year.

So I think our goal would be to get this done in the fall.

Growing the game with uh with junior golf uh is gonna always be something that's important to us.

Um, our goal is we want we want Napa golf course to a place where uh it's accessible and affordable for everybody.

It doesn't matter.

And so when it comes to junior golf, um, over the years, you know, there are a number of things we've done, not just camps and clinics, but really and truly, if there was someone who could not afford to be in that camp, we've personally sponsored it.

Now, if you said, Sean, hey, I've got you know 300 kids, we'd love you to sponsor, okay.

That's different.

But if somebody really and truly cannot afford any of the programs, we will take care of it for them.

We do our own fundraising efforts.

Um, we will take care of that as an operational expense, but we're we're really proud of the work we've done with the first T.

Um, kids can play free any every day, every day of the week after three o'clock with the paid adult.

We have junior club rentals, and then we're also uh partners with Youth on Course Initiative where they can play any day of the week, anytime for five dollars.

What's that?

There you go.

Ah, I did miss that.

I'm sorry, I jumped ahead.

Okay.

So affordable uh and accessible golf for everyone.

Uh, did jump to the junior golf.

So one of the things we did this last year is we had so many programs, so many different pricing.

It was one rate Monday through Thursday, a different rate Friday, a different rate Saturday and Sunday.

There was walking or there was riding.

Uh there's Twilight, there's super twilight.

Um we decided we need to streamline this.

We need to be the low price leader in the market.

So if you were to take uh and and actually draw a circle of about a 60 mile radius, there isn't another golf course that's less expensive than Napa golf course.

In fact, our direct and nearest competitors almost twice as much as us if you were to compare us against Blue Rock.

If you look at the Fairfield properties, I manage some of the other properties in this market.

Um on the weekend, those properties are somewhere between 70 and 100.

You can play golf at Napa Golf Course on the weekend at prime time for 49 dollars, including a golf cart.

We launched Club Napa.

For $35 a month, you can come out, you can hit range balls anytime as much as you'd like.

And you can play around golf for $26.

That includes a cart anytime.

There isn't anybody anywhere near us that offers those kinds of rates.

So and it's it's been well received.

We've taken the rounds from around 30 to 32,000 rounds a year up to around 40.

Um, and that was really the intent of that.

Is okay, let's just streamline it.

Let's make it easy to understand.

Very simple rates.

We have four rates, that's it.

Always card inclusive, um, not a barrier from a price point for anyone.

Uh and then we often launch things like the Ryzen 9 program.

I just threw that in there.

That's the opportunity for those who don't want to play 18.

You want to come in in the morning for 20 dollars, you can walk, play the back nine.

I guess we'll skip junior.

So from a community perspective, this is something that's really near and dear to my heart.

Um I don't know if Brianna knows this, but years ago I used to work for the City of Gilroy.

I ran the youth and adult sports programs for a C A Gullier while I was going to graduate school.

Um, having programming that allows us to be uh accessible to everybody is very important to me.

Some of my fondest memories were breakfast with Santa's trunk or treat events, um going to the Easter egg hunt on um you know, and and in Gilroy, we didn't do it with the golf course, but it was wherever, the parks and whatnot.

Um so you know, there's just some examples of what we do.

We have a broad calendar of events that are both social oriented, F and B oriented.

Of course, we're doing the golf stuff.

Everyone does the golf stuff.

It's what are you doing beyond just golf that is going to be attractive to the rest of the community?

So it is that hub of activity.

So a summary music series.

We've always, since I've been involved with Napa for the last 13 years, had discounts for students and uh the faculty at Napa College.

Um and I just love Breakfast with Santa.

And these events are free.

We don't charge people to come out.

You can come participate in any one of them, and that's just a small sample set.

Of course, we're doing night golf.

That's something Bob launched um last year.

It's a little bit of a challenge, so you have to modify it because with you know, 18 16 of the 18 holes that have water on them, you gotta be a little careful when you're gonna do night golf.

Um so he created it in a way that um logistically allowed us to be able to execute it in a safe uh in a safe fashion.

So that was kind of cool.

Uh along with uh our core values, environmental stewardship.

Um we've been uh Autobond certified since 2008.

Um we you have to get recertified every three years.

This year is the year where they do a site visit.

Um so we're very proud of that.

It's there's some people who just stamp that um and I think they probably utilize it to to be something that um tries to convey the something they're not, but uh I can tell you uh that this is something that we are immersed in.

We're very, very proud of this.

If you go into the property, there's bird boxes, you know, throughout the entire property, how we co how we coexist in the environment, um, our agronomic practices, um there are buffer zones on all the waterways, and there isn't anywhere more restrictive, probably in the country than Napa when it comes to uh in you know environmental stewardship and and the regulations therein.

So we're very, very proud of that.

This next slide, this was just the recent uh reforced reforestation efforts that uh that we did with uh Jeff and the team and the city.

So um thank you again.

Uh 150 trees planted throughout the property.

Um so I certainly encourage any of you if you're curious.

If you just drive in the parking lot and look to your left and look to your right, you'll see a lot of them.

They're also on hold three.

Um so thank you.

That was that was awesome.

Thank you again.

First grain.

So these are uh pictures from a few years ago.

Um we have a strategic alignment with the first grain.

Essentially, what it is is it's utilizing the golf course as the laboratory for learning.

So we've had a number of schools from Napa come out and we invite superintendents, our course superintendent is uh of course involved, but we invite superintendents from our sister properties to come out.

They're doing water testing, soil testing.

There's typically stations that tie to steam, so science, technology, engineering, art and math, and we rotate the kids.

Last year the school that we had canceled, I don't remember who that was.

But I am happy to uh to announce that we do have West Park Elementary School scheduled for October 15th uh this year, so we'd be excited to have the kids out.

It's awesome.

But uh it's really one of those things.

The first time I did this, honestly, I I remember looking into it thinking, oh, oh, I gotta do this, we're gonna organize this.

I remember coordinating with the fifth and sixth grade teacher.

We went in a classroom, we actually built the bird boxes with the kids in the classroom, we put on.

And then the day came and we rotated, and I handled the math station.

So we are, you know, we were working with the teachers, like what's the curriculum?

What do you what are you studying right now?

And in this particular case, so we're trying to figure out the square footage of square footage of an irregularly shaped object.

Well, I got 19 of those.

They're called greens.

We can do this.

Um it was one of the most rewarding days of my professional career.

It was such a great break from the monotonous work that we do.

And it was so rewarding, it was very, very fulfilling.

And just see the looks on the faces of the kids coming out there.

It was an awesome day.

So I'm looking forward to being uh be able to be part of this come October again.

It's gonna be impossible for you to read all that, but just know uh that we have a broad calendar of events throughout the entire year.

We write an annual plan every year.

Part of that part of our business plan includes the marketing plan, um, which includes all these events, and so we counted these out.

This is a small sample set.

This is probably one-third of what we actually do.

Uh and again, this is social-oriented events, F and B oriented.

Of course, there's gonna be golf stuff on there as well.

And that's it.

I went longer than I anticipated.

I'm sorry.

Uh any questions.

Any questions?

Uh here, yeah.

Uh is the uh monthly rent that you pay to city.

Is that something public or private?

Can you discuss that or something?

Is that what you pay the city?

What is the rent that you pay?

So, well, it's there's a base rent that's paid quarterly, and then there is um the rent is paid in quarter quarterly installments.

So there's the base rent, and then there's supplemental rent that is above and beyond that that's tied to revenue and the different tiers of revenue categories.

So the revenue categories are broken out, you know, green fees, some percent on green fees.

If it hits a certain threshold, it's a certain percent.

If it crosses that into a different threshold, it's a higher okay.

I get it.

It's too complicated.

I was just curious about some the numbers.

I mean, when you when you talk about rent, I mean it's not a flat rate that they pay it's all broken in different uh categories.

The base rent's flat, no matter what that happens.

And so I d I don't know exactly what the number is, but we can follow up.

I mean, I'm sure Brianna could tell you what.

I actually do not know it off the top of my head either, but um we can look into that and get back to it.

I'm sorry.

I do not know the base rent off the top of my head, but we can look at it and get back to you.

I I think in total it was in excess of the ninety thousand dollars last year.

Okay.

Is that on a lease now?

As far as that rent, yeah.

Okay.

Yes.

It's a lease term.

Yeah.

Um just a quick one.

Um I lived in Pleasanton and I believe Course Co.

runs uh Calippy out there as well.

Um so just curious.

I mean, uh and you don't have to get specific, but just generally in terms of profitability, amenities, facilities, revenue, where would Napa fit in the ecosystem of the courses that you manage.

Top third, lower third.

The bottom third.

Bottom third.

Is part of that generally because of the course itself and the condition of it, and of course, you know, the fact that uh we're we're doing our best to keep the course costs uh or the cost of play uh low as well.

I'm just if you can just provide some perspective on that.

The biggest impact are two things.

One, very difficult location, right?

Trying to get to Napa golf.

If you're not one of the, I don't know, what do we around 90,000 residents in Napa now or something like that?

If you're not an immediate resident, it's almost impossible to get to with the traffic on 12 and 29.

It's very difficult.

So we're a little landlocked, particularly Monday through Friday, and that's when the vast majority of seniors are playing or during the weekday, and that's the highest percentage of golfers, the demographic.

So that's been a challenge.

Um compounding that is the flooding.

Is that it has a long reputation of uh of flooding and and there are I've been at the counter and worked, you know, hundreds and hundreds of shifts over the years where you'll field phone calls where is number nine open?

Okay, it's not okay, then I'm not coming out.

And number nine, we just toured it today.

I think we're probably you know, hole number nine, we're probably two weeks away with the weather forecast the way it looks.

So that would be great if we could open on April 1st.

But there's a significant percent of the population who they just base their decision right off of that.

Yeah.

Um and I said earlier, I I recall, you know, early on, I don't remember if it was 2013 or 14, but I remember nine was closed until July, fourth of July weekend.

So that's a barrier because it creates this perception.

No matter how good everything is, you know, it's just a certain percentage of the population just make their decision based on that alone.

So that's that.

That's that hole that winds around the back of the clubhouse.

It's uh yeah.

Um interesting.

Okay.

And so generally, then the people well, the the customer base for this course is really DAPA.

Extremely local.

Extremely local.

Okay.

Which is why the food and beverage making it a uh wedding destination can be such an important element because that actually draws people from outside.

Trevor Burrus, Jr.

When we've had our best years, that's That's when the driver.

That's that's what makes it.

When you have, you know, that you know the worst thing can happen is when you have a really, really wet year, and then you see a downturn in that with like you know, 2023 and 24 and whatnot.

So the good news is we're on upswing right now.

I look at our bookings and we're in a pretty strong position.

We'll rebound this year.

We have got very good bookings in the next year.

We track that week to week.

So feel good about our our position.

Uh the key for us was the changing the pricing and the programming.

Yeah.

Getting the rounds volume to go from around 30,000 a year to 40,000, those ten thousand now they're paying a lot less.

But that's when you make that's the bet you're making.

You've got if you're gonna make a volume play bet, you know that people are gonna play people are gonna pay substantially less.

So if you just get two or three thousand rounds, you're gonna go backwards hundreds of thousands of dollars.

But fortunately, we you know we grew from around thirty to forty thousand rounds that volume play.

So we have seen more outside traffic than ever before, particularly on the weekends though.

Like um coming from Fairfield, coming from um, exactly.

So that um that simplified pricing structure then that was in place for all of last year for the most part.

Start out of March first.

March first.

So based on what you shared revenue-wise, it paid off.

Golf revenue went up.

Right.

F and B revenue came backwards, so they uh they offset each other.

Okay.

Thank you so much.

Very informative.

Any other comments or questions?

Um I'm a infrequent and and I don't know, average golfer at best.

And they kind of go hand in hand, as Brian can attest.

I think we're playing this Friday.

But our golf course is not my first choice of places to play.

For some of the reasons that you've been mentioning here.

It's just, you know, it can be in rough shape, it could be underwater, it could be what hole it is.

I think it's the back now.

It could be like 15.

So I mean it's it's nice to get this presentation and learn more firsthand as to why things are the way they are.

And it sounded like like a real fix on some of those things would be a six-figure project.

Is that what I'm hearing?

Yeah, whole 15 is probably going to be about the the most recent quote we got was 95,000.

Yeah.

Wow.

Um and that there's other factors, right?

Like there are environmental restrictions that prohibit us from bringing dirt from outside the environment, where you know, really on some of those holes, you've got to raise the profile up.

If you want to fix nine, you've got to raise it three feet.

That's what I was wondering, yeah, at what the solutions could be, you know, topographical or whatever.

But I'll tell you after trying it today, with the exception of hole number nine, which is playing as a shorter hole right now, we convert it to typically a par three.

Um 15, that'll be a problem spot that I think we'll solve this fall.

It's the best condition that I've seen in 13 years.

Okay.

We drove every single hole today, and it's fabulous right now.

How about the path?

You said you were also working on the paths.

Yeah.

The car paths are a little bit rough too.

There are many sections on the car paths.

Thanks for the presentation.

Sure.

Okay.

Any other comments or questions?

I I mostly just wanted to say um it was great to learn a little bit more about what you're doing in the community too.

Um I was actually out there on Saturday, I think it was, or two, two weeks ago.

So that was fun to see.

Um I was gonna ask about the the flood mitigation project and what that entailed.

It sounds like it's mostly Earth moving.

Is that the same thing?

Uh yeah, it's it's a little bit of of reshaping and regrading.

You have to put in some drainage work.

Um that particular hole, there's there's uh there's some soil to the left of it that aren't in play that we can kind of shift over and um and kind of level it off, but that's the challenge, and um that it we're not gonna solve the problem.

We're just gonna make it better and mitigate it.

And the hope would be similar to what happened on Hall 3 when we did that a year and a half ago, same thing.

Um that that pinch point, instead of being closed for two or three weeks after a major event, a rain event, you're closed two to four days.

You know, you when it floods, it floods.

There's no, you're not you're not walking through it, you're not driving through it.

It's there's no I was there in again, either in 13 or 14 where the flooding, and I had people coming out in kayaks uh on the golf course.

Like what if I'd heard about the rumors and then I saw it firsthand.

I'm like, what are we gonna do?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Um something that's that's really important to me is are some of the environmental issues that you spoke about.

And um, so I really appreciated that kind of your track record on on all of those items.

Um I guess I know um you know, golf courses have a tendency to use um like chemical you know, fertilizers and pesticides and things like that.

And so I was just curious what your the course's relationship to those things are and kind of what you use and most of the stuff's uh uh very organic.

Um to to be certified at the level that we are with Audubon and to receive the awards you have to be.

Um and so um it's a very sensitive area.

There are you know, there are other organizations who don't particularly care about that, and that's fine, that's their prerogative.

But for us, there are ways to coexist in the environment um that are friendly that aren't going to compromise the the waterways that aren't gonna compromise uh with the animals that you coexist.

So we we embrace it, you know, as an example.

Um we do not have a burying animal problem at Napo Golf Course, but if we did, um I would put in L boxes, right?

Um as opposed to putting baited chemicals in the ground.

Um so that's you know, just one example of things that we do.

There are ways to um to coexist.

Now are we ever gonna look like Silverado Country Club?

No, and that's okay.

Uh we'll I mean we want the best possible conditions we that we can, but we're not gonna compromise our values for that either.

So thanks.

Any other comments or questions?

Um Tyler, resident at NAPA for 30 years.

Like golf at this one, like John.

John, you want to come up to the mic, please?

Thank you.

So my question, um I'm not sure if it's for Sean or the group here.

Uh, but I understand that Napa has some subsidies for recreation for local residents across Napa.

But that does not extend to golf at the golf course that we own.

And that seems a little bit out of what I would imagine would be the case.

Is there any comments or questions?

Or can you put me straight on that?

I'll speak to that if you don't mind.

And a lot of our commissioners, especially those of that that have been with us for a few years, have been with us on our financial sustainability journey and all the work we did about cost recovery and on the spectrum.

Uh we have a limited number of uh financial dollars that we can use to subsidize programs for the community.

And as a department and as an organization, we decided to invest those subsidies into open access and programs and services and um uh facilities that are open to everybody all the time versus individual benefits where we have folks that might be uh golfing or taking an exercise class or putting your kid in lit little league where um you know a specific individual is benefiting.

The subsidy is much, much smaller.

Not much.

But yes.

Thank you for your answer.

You're welcome.

Thank you.

So thank you, Mr.

Silva, Mr.

Becker.

Appreciate um all your hard work.

Uh definitely appreciate the partnership.

Um I've golfed out there for quite some time and I can definitely see the improved condition relative to when I first started golfing.

Um I love that course layout.

It's it has so much potential, but there are limitations in terms of the improving upon the condition, and that is just it is what it is.

But nonetheless, I appreciate you guys.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Appreciate the opportunity.

I got one more just before I get uh this is the only public course in Napa.

Is is Kennedy is the only public course?

I think technically is Vintner's.

I mean, Vintner's, but I don't know.

Do you consider that Napa?

But they are public.

I don't know.

Okay.

There's no talk about any other public course coming into Napa at all.

Not that I'm aware of.

Yeah, you got it.

There's not.

That would be devastating.

I happen sometime with newspapers, you know.

Sometimes they get the competition of another newspaper, and all of a sudden both of them seem to do better.

I mean I'm an advocate for golf courses going up, you know, everywhere.

I love it.

I'm not advocating for it, but I'm really you know, very it's a great presentation, and thank you for uh the work.

I didn't realize half of that uh was happening out there.

You know.

The Vintners Golf Club in Yauntville is public, and depending on what the city of Calistoga does with the fairgrounds that they've just taken ownership of, and they used to have a nine-hole public course there, they might uh get that going again.

But it is the only I don't know what the status of Chardonnay is.

I mean anybody can go play Chardonnay.

It's public.

It's public, yeah.

And Eagle Vines is public too.

So the technically they're American Canyon, but everyone acts of them as being in the Napa market, but yeah.

But I think you know, if we're being very specific and technical, I don't know if Vintners is considered outside of Napa or not, but technically we are, I guess.

Yeah, one last quick one.

I don't know if you know the answer.

What happened at a Mare Island course?

What's the story on that?

I don't know.

It used to be there, and now all of a sudden it's not playing anymore.

It's been gone a long time.

It's been gone long, yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

Thanks.

Okay.

Formally the oldest of the Mississippi.

Um, thank you so much.

Okay.

Thank you.

Okay, moving on to item 6A.

Um, this is an administrative report regarding um capital project updates.

Good evening, commissioners.

Allie Koenig, Parks Planning Manager.

And uh this evening we'll be providing an update on our park capital projects.

Um excited to bring a lot of exciting updates uh for improvements uh recently completed and uh upcoming projects.

Um but before I get started on that, I would like to introduce one of our uh new key staff members here, Stephanie Beret.

Um Stephanie joined us at the end of January, and um she will be um focusing on capital projects.

Uh and um we've been working side by side.

We had a site visit first day, so she's jumped right in and love to invite Stephanie to come up and uh share a few words.

Thank you for that intro, Allie.

Hello, everyone.

I'm Stephanie Beret.

I'm the new management analyst for Parks and Rec.

My background is in all phases of project design and construction administration.

And I'm excited to be part of the team here, and I'm looking forward to improving community spaces for Napa residents.

Thank you.

Great.

Welcome to the team.

Is this a new position or is it?

It is.

Yes, a new limited term position with the city.

As we'll see here, we have a lot of projects coming up, and excited to have a team behind it.

So yeah.

So we'll kick it off just highlighting most recently some key projects just in the last year that have really created some great momentum for a lot of the projects that we're seeing here this year.

As we presented last year, we we had over nine parks improved, nine significant capital projects, and we say plus because we've also done a lot of improvements throughout our parks through capital maintenance improvements, amenity replacements.

So significant investment over 2025 over Nine Number Parks.

We had a groundbreaking at Fuller Park for that key project to replace the playground equipment and other amenities, and we'll have some more photos here shortly, as well as the Alston Park restroom, new restroom to replace the portable unit, as well as our senior activity center for ADA upgrades and parking lot resurfacing.

So a lot to celebrate in 2025.

And just a note too we do continue to track our visitation data to see how these improvements are impacting our park users.

And we do continue to see those trend lines going up in these parks that we are improving.

So that's been exciting to see.

Something is new out there.

As you can see from the photos, a few key stages from demolition to layout.

Most recently been working all the footings for our playground equipment and equipment assembly.

So you guys may have seen some of the equipment popping up over the construction fence.

And this project includes new universal rubber surfacing, our playable art equipment, all abilities, playground equipment, overhead shade, musical play components, as well as park furnishing replacements or benches, tables.

And you'll see a new project, which was a shade improvement project.

So all wrapped into the Fuller Park improvements that are underway.

So here's a few more images of this project.

On the left-hand side is the rendering that we reviewed at over the commission.

Presently at Fuller.

So we will look at those this evening.

One Las Flores Community Center.

This is our only community center in Napa, located in North Napa.

This community center is receiving a full renovation interior and exterior.

And we'll be modernizing the facility.

But new flooring system, new wall pads, new athletic equipment, new acoustic panels.

It really will feel like a new gymnasium will provide opportunities for new programming.

And then on the exterior, we see a variety of improvements to enhance our existing sports courts with shade and bleachers, a water fountain.

And so this project, a construction got started in March.

We anticipate that to run through the end of this year with the reopening in 2027.

So here are a few more photos of the renovation underway.

Demolition got started right away in March on the interior.

And as you see our front lobby, our kitchenette and our gymnasium.

And coming up in the next month, we'll be seeing some of the exterior flat work improvements getting started.

And then park shade structures.

So this was a key recommendation that came out of our surveys from the community with the desire to enhance and add shade in our parks.

And we have a few key sites that are prioritized for this project.

As I mentioned earlier, Fuller Park, the picnic reservable picnic area adjacent to our playground.

We will have a large overhead shade structure accommodate about 60 users on a reservation basis.

And that is that is tracking towards the opening of the new playground.

So all of that will be opened at the same time.

And then following that we'll have a shade improvement at Esther Dever Park with the new playground equipment, which will show here momentarily, and Springwood Park and Fantastico Park with some of our existing picnic areas.

Playground and amenity project, phase two.

So this is the second phase of phase one, which we saw earlier with those six sites that were improved with playground and amenity replacements.

And phase two was just approved yesterday, the agreement with City Council.

And so from here we will be proceeding to contract for improvements at Esther Deaver, Monarch, and Solomon Parks.

And this follows the successful design development with this commission as well as a plan and budget development to scope out all the various amenity replacements that will accompany the playgrounds.

So we anticipate that construction to be starting here in spring and then running through the end of summer.

And then these next three slides you'll see similar project elements.

I'll show some more photos here.

But these three sites in particular were prioritized from our conditions assessment and our social equity assessment.

They were key parks that were in need of improvement, as well as we'll be reaching key neighborhoods of Napa.

And we've already gotten started with some improvements.

We've replaced the playground at Laurel.

We've relocated the playground from Fuller Park to replace that aging structure.

And then phase two will include sports court renovation and ADA upgrades.

This will include pathway and sports court rehabilitation.

We will also be creating a new fitness area.

The existing park has a large walking loop, and there were just small areas of fitness equipment that was aging over time and was needing to get replaced.

Jeff had worked with New Tech High School on collecting feedback on fitness equipment and what would be a good fit for a new fitness area.

So we've implemented that feedback into what will be our first fitness area in one of our parks.

So exciting to see to see that.

So that'll be an addition to Lake Park and then Klamath Park.

Similarly, we'll see pathway and sports court rehabilitation and then park amenity improvements.

So really excited to get these three parks underway.

So as we know with Alston Park, that's been a huge improvement to that park.

We've um heard much from residents about the desire to have permanent restrooms in our parks.

And we've identified our key community parks to add this uh facility.

Um this will include Fuller Park, Century Oaks Park, and Westwood Hills.

Um so we've kicked off the project scoping and design, starting to review some concepts um and layouts and get into some design development.

So as that starts to get um moving forward, we'll be looking to bring some updates to this commission.

And uh there is construction funding set aside for this in the next year.

So we hope to track into this next next fiscal year and enter into construction.

So we've just included some example images of uh some concepts that are out there that may match the look and feel of of some of our parks that we're targeting.

Uh and then finally uh we've kicked off a splash pad feasibility study.

So this was another key recommendation that we've heard from our community on um a gap in aquatic facilities.

Um so this is an assessment um of in addition to considering um harvest the Harvest Middle School property as a key site for aquatics.

Um if there's any opportunity within our existing parks to uh add uh splash pad facilities.

So we are currently assessing that feasibility of those of three sites Kennedy Park, O'Brien Park, and Las Flores Community Center, and these were all selected given that they are community serving parks and have some of the facilities that are typical of a splash pad style of amenities.

So uh over those next few months we'll be um analyzing these parks and understanding if there might be an opportunity there for a future project.

Where's O'Brien again?

O'Brien's um kind of right in the center of town, right off of Pueblo Avenue.

I think I'd get it get there from either Saskell or Jefferson and turn on Pueblo, and it's right there in the center of town.

So yeah, so those are some um exciting updates that we've had on our completed and upcoming capital projects and be happy to answer any questions or comments.

I I have a few.

Excellent.

Yeah.

During the construction at Las Flores, will the pickleball course be open?

They will.

Um so they will remain open for the majority of the project when we're not improving the courts.

Um so we've been in direct communication with our pickleball users to make them aware of timelines and any impacts.

Um we anticipate if if there it were to be a closure, it would be for the upgrades for the bleachers or the shade.

We'll also be adding some acoustic panels, but otherwise the courts will uh remain open for use.

Yeah, thank you.

And there's a photograph in the Las Flores part of a gym, a gymnasium.

It looks finished.

Yes.

Is that a projected how how this gym will look?

Yes, we were trying to find a strong example of what our new gym may look like.

Um yes, with a new um uh oak flooring system um and the acoustic panels and some um and new basketball hoops.

Uh so it's it's anticipated to have a similar look and feel once completed.

Uh there are currently now, and uh we we will be replacing those as part of the new flooring system.

Um then on the um Lake Park part, there's some reference to a new tech high school collaboration.

What what was that?

Jeff, you want to take that uh several years ago.

The uh Tom Wolf, I believe, a teacher there does physical education reached out to me about um kind of a senior project for the students and one of kind of the key factors of their project is that they were designing what would be their own health and fitness center.

And so you asked us if we had any places that they could go look at.

And at that time, Lake Park was kind of on our list for renovation, and we had a lot of that equipment there that was had been removed because it was old wood equipment.

So the students actually walked over to the park, walked around the park, then they all created as their kind of senior project, they created a presentation of what they would like to see at the park for that would really be geared towards health and fitness.

They came up with a lot of things that we we couldn't afford, but there was a lot of uh really good insight.

And one of the big insights was that um most of the students said it would be best to have all the equipment kind of in one central location rather than scattered around the park like it is right now.

Um so Tom sent us all that information and Ali was able to incorporate that into the design, you know, where where feasible that park flood The bottom of it does, yeah.

So it's actually part park and then also a storm drain facility for that subdivision.

But the will the equipment be above that?

Well above that, yeah.

Thank you.

Any other comments, questions?

I only two quick ones.

Um the restroom project at Fuller Park, I assume that's just going to replace the restrooms that are there.

Okay, so they those restrooms will be taken out.

That's right.

Okay.

Yes.

Um because all the plumbing and everything like that is all on that site.

Will there be temporary restroom facilities available?

And I know it's far down the road, but will temporary facilities be available while that project is being built?

Yes, we would ensure that that continues.

And then yes, just as you pointed out, that would replace the existing and then the other two would be new services.

Um regarding the splash pad, um will you be bringing that back to the committee just for review input based on you know the direction you think you might be taking with it?

Um just obviously that's a pretty significant amenity and based on some of the locations that you've already proposed.

I think I'm I'm already coming up with some feedback for it.

So I just want to make sure that we're gonna have the opportunity to weigh in.

Yes, like I believe with um Brianna, if you want to weigh in on that.

Uh the splash pad conversation is one that was specifically requested by city council uh during the last budget cycle.

Okay.

Uh there was uh we know there's a high desire in the community to deliver as quickly as possible.

If it turns out that the hot harvest property may take too long.

Right.

Council may consider one of these alternative locations.

Okay.

Uh and so before we go into the budget cycle, we wanted to have some really concrete numbers around all of these sites and know if all three of them are feasible, if one or two or three of them are feasible.

So, yes, once we have findings from our consultant, we will be sharing that with you all, especially if we have more than one site that's feasible, then we're going to be looking for you know more more feedback and input on the priority.

Suggesting that we would slow the process down.

It was just a matter of you know, trying to make sure that we're keeping an eye on where it's going to be located and uh um before it actually goes forward to city council and everybody else for the final stamp of approval.

Absolutely.

When we first looked at it, we estimated uh about three million to do a standalone splash pad.

That was a couple years ago.

So we may be even looking in the three to four million dollar range to execute a project of this magnitude.

And there's nuances specific to each site, which Ellie's got the consultant looking at now, and it will be really come down.

We know the desires there in the community.

The question will be whether the funding and resources are available.

Excited to hear more.

It is exciting.

A lot of people are really exciting about this one.

Any other comments or questions?

Yeah, one uh Brian.

Yeah.

Um I think it was last year sometime we had someone from the committee from the audience uh talk about uh uh recreational access access for kids with disabilities.

Uh yeah, I had really a nice presentation about how difficult it was for some kids to socialize in a park and with all of the capital improvements and uh you know we're really moving forward.

Are we still in line with that and getting uh those parks having really good access?

So is that that's still part of the plan?

And yes, it is.

Yes, we've prioritized it in um our designs.

Um particularly with the park restroom project at Fuller Park with that playground serving it with the universal rubber and universal style equipment.

Um as part of the design development, we are looking into units in particular that could host family-style restrooms.

There were um uh particular recommendation about adult size changing tables and those types of facilities that would support all users.

And so as part of our design development, uh we're um considering the footprint of a of a restroom of that size to understand.

So uh yeah, excited to implement those recommendations as part of the.

Yeah, I was talking specifically about you know the actual playground equipment for you know, for for kids with uh social issues or disability, physical disabilities.

Uh it's just a great plan.

Uh uh, you know, congratulations.

But I don't know if they know about it.

That's a problem, you know.

Some way we had a way to get everybody to know that we've got this these parks and they're all moving so forward in a way to serve the public.

But congratulations.

You know, you're gonna do the night job.

Two quick things I wanted to add there, Mike.

Uh, you brought up the conversation about accessible restrooms.

Uh at that same meeting you received a request about fully enclosing the playground with a gate, and so I wanted to share that uh Alliot and Jeff have been working with a contractor and made some modifications to the original design, and it does look like we will be able to fully enclose the new Fuller Park playground.

So we're excited about that.

And uh speaking to uh community engagement, that is one of the city council's focus areas this year.

We held uh state of the city event on Monday evening right here in the council chambers that was packed pretty much standing room only.

Um but along with the state of the city presentation, there's um marketing materials.

There's a whole booklet about uh all the great things the city's working on, and there are multiple pages dedicated to all the improvements in our parks.

So uh spread the word it's available online uh and they'll be pushing that out through social media and our city newsletters as well.

Any other comments or questions?

Um just echo some of the other comments, uh so many good things happening.

I had not heard about the splash pad until this evening and when I was talking to people however many years ago when I was thinking of applying to be on the commission, that came up quite often.

So it's cool to see it happening.

And the best one I've ever seen is in Central Bordeaux along the river.

So if you ever need a field trip to go check out a really good splash pad, go to go to Bordeaux.

Um, this is really good stuff.

And and thanks.

I was gonna ask about how are we getting the this word out because this is so positive and it's great to see uh the Measure G funding like immediately in action.

And um, so it's good to see that uh communicating that to the citizens of Napa is also a part of it.

Thanks.

I just um quick question.

Something that came to my mind was um I agree and echo what everybody else has said.

I was curious on something like the um Fuller Park playground.

Like, do you have a uh estimated lifespan for something like that or maintenance costs?

Just out of curiosity what something like that, how long that would last?

Yes, yeah.

So typically with playgrounds, it's it could be up to 25 to 30 years for the life cycle.

However, it's highly dependent on the materials selected for that playground.

Um the playground that's being built at Fuller Park.

Um we anticipate that to exceed that by far, it's um highly durable steel uh equipment.

Um and there's um much netting structure too.

Uh those high priority with a lot to add lots of play value.

Um all of that can be replaced on a life cycle, but our you know, the the structure itself is is highly durable.

So anticipate a pretty long life cycle for this playground.

Any other comments or questions?

I just had uh one little quick question.

For the uh Laurel Park uh sport court, uh sports court renovation, would that just be tearing out the uh uh I don't know if it's I think it's asphalt.

I don't actually know.

Haven't been there in a while.

And replacing it with the new stuff along with the basketball stuff.

Yes, yeah, it'll be a full rehabilitation.

So we'll fully replace the asphalt surfacing and then install a new um a new basketball hoop.

So yeah, full full rehab.

Thank you.

Can you talk a little more about what went into the selection of the three sites to be studied for feasibility purposes related to the splash pad?

Sure.

So um we looked at uh for this type of facility.

Uh we looked at a few different uh of our planning documents.

We have the parks and facilities master plan which identifies uh uh aquatic style facilities in our parks, um, and that prioritized mostly our community parks.

Um and so those are the types of parks for that will provide sufficient access for community-wide use.

Um there's also key supporting facilities for a splash pad, uh parking, restroom, um, and other local features.

Um there's also key supporting facilities for a splash pad, uh parking, restroom, um, and other f local features, and so we tr we identify it within our community parks, which parks were prioritized for aquatic improvements as well as which parks have those supporting facilities to make to ensure that we have options that would be the most feasible to be able to build.

Um because that $3 million mark for splash pad facilities, that's primarily for the splash pad.

Um but the facility would also need parking, it needs a restroom, it needs shower facilities, and so those are above can be above and beyond that cost.

And so we're trying to manage what might be a future projected budget for this type of project.

Great, thanks.

Okay, moving along.

Um item 7A.

Um report out on the bicycle and pedestrian advisory commission.

Um should be Simone, but we'll get that fixed for next time.

Okay.

Um moving on to 7B.

Commissioner Streng.

Yeah, very very quick update, uh, especially since the last uh minutes noted that we were prepared.

The MPRF was prepared to allocate $15,000 to youth recreation scholarships.

Um we we've had to adjust our allocation for that.

Um just for background, the 15K that we had planned was originally 10K from our operating budget and a five thousand dollar grant from PGE.

Um we've received that grant from PG ⁇ E annually uh for quite a while.

Um so we were we were dependent on it.

Uh we've since learned that PGE may be adjusting its funding priorities.

I have not heard yet whether they've said no definitively, but uh we felt like we couldn't really rely on it.

So um with that uh we increased our contribution from our general budget uh to twelve thousand five hundred dollars to try to make up some of that gap.

Um and we've applied for a $7500 grant from a different organization, actually Lewis Sellers.

So we are hopeful that we can make up that uh lost revenue uh if the grant does not come through.

Uh if it does come through and then we get the Lewis Sellers grant, then we get $25,000 to put forward, and that'd be awesome.

But uh minimum uh is gonna be $12.5, and that will come specifically from the NPRF general fund.

That's great.

That's great news.

And we're able to do that because we had a very successful Give Guide fundraising.

Yeah.

Okay.

Do you have any updates on item 7C, park maintenance and recreation division updates?

Yeah, I have a few things to go over.

Um two weeks ago, our urban forestry staff attended the career day at the Napa Valley Expo for the eighth graders.

Um we've done that for gosh, I don't know, four or five years running.

Really great event.

We usually bring uh either our urban forestry division or we'll bring the parks division.

It's just a great opportunity for students to see the opportunities out there for further employment within the city.

Um then uh like like Sean talked about uh the planting event, which was super successful, just to clarify was 160 trees.

Um no one's counting, but I have to count because it it finishes our 400 trees for our urban forestry grant as well.

So those were the last trees of our required 400 trees.

Big shout out to Woody and his team.

Um they just did a ton of work to get that event ready.

Um I think we had about mid-20s on the volunteers.

Um couple of commissioners were there, which was nice to see everybody.

Uh really good event, just really really went well.

Um, and the golf course is always great at hosting those kind of things.

Um and then along those lines with the urban forestry management plan, we brought that plan to the council last night for uh an update and an overview to them.

They were very supportive.

They had uh had some some really good questions and some insight.

It was a big night for them.

There was a lot on the agenda, and then to throw an 85-page report on there was a lot as well, but uh really pleased about about the project as well.

So good good comments and they're they're very excited about what else will come from that plan.

Um and then moving on to harvest and measure GA talk.

So we just uh we obviously purchased harvest the synthetic field there needed some repairs, so we just wrapped up those repairs last week.

That field's getting utilized every day I drive by and it's all the time.

So we were happy to get those repairs and get that somewhat old field into much better shape and usable shape for the users as well.

Um then uh we are in the process of hiring a limited term maintenance labor for supporting the kind of temporary use of harvest and the maintenance of that.

Uh we have an offer letter out, so we're hopeful that we'll get that individual here soon.

And then a promotional opportunity to a lead in our department is uh an internal promotion.

It was just posted last week.

So uh that closes on Sunday.

Uh we have lots of qualified great people on staff right now, so we're hopeful uh to get several applications and and get another person that can really help us with you're seeing all the improvements coming through.

We're gonna have uh you're not gonna have more to do, and and we're gonna really need some some form and level expertise to get that work done.

So that's it for my update.

Great, thank you.

Let me ask Jeff some one question.

What kind of shape is that turf uh grass like at harvest?

Is there a expectation that it's gonna wear out soon or what?

Yeah, so usually turf carries about an eight to ten year warranty.

We're we're past that cycle.

It doesn't mean that it's kind of a similar question that Ali got about playgrounds.

Um turf carries about an eight to ten year warranty.

Um, but you know how warranties goes, usually things are gonna last longer than that.

Uh it's definitely very near or nearing its its life cycle.

Um now that we've gone in and done some improvements, there were some areas that were kind of the turf was completely worn out.

We've replaced some some areas.

Uh I think I think it's gonna buy us some time and it's pretty usable as well.

Um and all weather fields are just they're hard to come by, so it's something that we wanted to make sure that we kept open as long as possible for you know the two or three thousand folks that play soccer in this town and other users as well.

But you still think it's cheaper to stay with the turf and go back to dirt and soil or regular.

Uh definitely, yeah, definitely.

And and really that's more um a little personal opinion here, but uh really more so from the user perspective, just because so many sports now are being played all the time, and turf just can't handle that kind of abuse and that kind of use.

Any other comments or questions?

I've got two quick updates.

First, I wanted to uh let you all know that the new Century Napa pickleball courts have opened thanks to a partnership with the Gaster Foundation who paid for the construction of four new courts outside the movie theater, kind of over um near the frontage road.

And we are now operating those as public courts uh through this partnership.

It is uh based upon a temporary use permit, so we don't know how many years they will stay open, but it was a vacant lot, and they were willing to um do that investment to just try to activate the site and get back to the community.

So we're excited to add four more to our existing four courts at um Las Flores.

We now have eight courts, you guys.

So good progress.

And then secondly, I wanted to let you know we are still hoping to do a park tour uh in lieu of your meeting next month.

Uh we'd like to get you out to Fuller Park, uh, which hopefully the playground will mostly be done and they'll be doing working on surfacing, but we'd like to get you in there before we open to the public if it's uh possible.

And then uh we'll go by harvest and take a look at the condition of that property.

Um we do know that we need to do a full field replacement at harvest.

However, until we do the design for the property, we didn't want to spend all the money until we're positive 100% sure we're not moving the field somewhere else, like based on the design.

So uh thankfully Jeff had this interim solution that would buy us some time till we get to that point.

But there's so many things out there that we're excited to show you at Harvest, so hopefully that will be on your agenda for April.

Great, thank you.

Any last comments or questions?

Okay.

Well, with that, we'll move to adjourn to our next regular scheduled meeting on April 15th.

Thank you.