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The Redmond City Council met in a joint session with the Parks, Trails, and Recreation Commission (PTRC) on October 13, 2026, at 6:20 PM. The PTRC presented a recap of the past year's work, three priority projects, and engaged in discussion with council members. No formal votes were taken, but several budget recommendations and next steps were outlined.
Redmond City Council held on Tuesday, October 13th, commencing at 6.20 p.m. We are here tonight for a joint session with our Parks Trails Recreation Commission. And we have a full house. So I'll first kick it to uh Parks Director Lorene Hamilton to introduce uh the commission. Thank you. Good evening, City Council. Um, we're very excited to be with you tonight and have our Parks Trails and Com Uh Recreation Commission here for their annual joint commission meeting. Um we're really excited. Thank you all for being here tonight. And I'm actually just gonna kick it over to our chair, Siri Bleasner to help lead this meeting. Well, thank you. And we are very excited to be here. So thank you so much for having this opportunity. Um I'm not quite sure how you want to advance. There we go. So our agenda tonight is short, but we'll start with some introductions, then we'll give an update on what's happened over the past year since we last spoke with you. And then there are three priority projects you'll hear about that have been being worked on, and we'll have different commissioners speaking to those, and then we'll open that up at the end to questions, feedback, and discussion directly with the council. So our goal is to get there and to have that opportunity. So with that, with introductions, I'll go ahead and start and then we can just pass right down the line here. So I as they mentioned I'm Sari Blezner. I'm currently the chair of the Parks, Trails, and Rec Commission. Hello. Hello. Hi, everyone. My name is Jody Pena. Uh, I am a commissioner. Clint Smith, I am a commissioner. Uh Eugenia Vidalis, Commissioner. Jim Cleppy, Commissioner. I've beaten the Jane, I'm a youth advocate. Henry Weston, also youth advocate. Cindy Yoon. And then our next slide. I'm gonna hand this off to Clint Smith, and he's gonna do our recap for us. Yeah, so I'll just give you a quick recap of what's happened in the last year plus with the commission. Um we in February we all met for a retreat. It was the first one that we've done, at least since I've been on commission and and most of us have, but there were seven of us commissioners there, Lindsay and Cameron were there as well, and we really focused on the process of our meetings because we'd sort of gone astray on how our uh meeting agendas go, and we it was a really good way to bring that back into focus and to focus on the process of the meetings to be more efficient and inclusive with our discussion. So we also talked about our top tier projects we wanted to focus on and the discussion of the importance of this commission and how we can impact residents' lives, because I think that's probably why we're here.