The Rio Rancho Parks and Recreation Commission met on July 21, 2025, at 1:00 PM. The meeting began at 6:30 PM and covered project updates, staff reports, and a presentation on proposed general obligation bond questions for the March 3, 2026 ballot. Commissioners approved the meeting minutes as amended and received updates on parks maintenance, aquatics, summer programs, and upcoming events.
Projects Update (Diane Sonye, Project Division Manager):
Parks & Facilities Update (Charles Fernandez, Superintendent):
Aquatics Update (Noah Trujillo for Bianca Baca):
Deputy Director’s Report (Noah Trujillo):
Bond Question Discussion (Connie Peterson, Director):
Director’s Report (Connie Peterson):
Commissioner Comments: None additional; meeting adjourned at 6:30 PM.
Twenty-five minutes. Has everyone had a chance to read them? They're about four pages long, three pages long. I have one correction which uh our director has made under um approval of the minutes. I found a typo actually. Um it's not November 18th, 2024, it's April 20th or 21st, 2025. And I will sign the corrected copy. Do I have a motion to approve the minutes? I make a motion to approve the minutes as uh amended. We have a second. I'll second. Do a roll call. Commissioner Romero. Uh, do you approve the minutes? Do you approve the minutes? Uh Commissioner Herrera? Present, yes. And do you approve the minutes? Uh Commissioner French Barger. I approve the minutes. Uh Commissioner Marsh. Yes. So the minutes are approved as amended. Thank you. We'll go on to staff presentations, reports, and comments. The first one is projects. Update. Diane Sonye, project division manager. Good evening, Commissioners. I believe many of you have had an opportunity to actually visit campus park now that it is complete. If you haven't, please do so. It's turned out quite lovely. Um I believe that our park maintenance staff have already started taking care of it, and it's I I want to say I I hope it will flourish like phase one has. Um so please visit it if you get a chance. Um at the last meeting, I mentioned that we had completed part of our multi-generation center conceptual planning process. Um we are moving forward with phasing that process further. Um, once we get to something that is more complete and accepted by our city management, we will likely be bringing that to the commission for your review and information. Um I don't know the full time frame on when any type of construction would occur, but right now we still are in that um conceptual planning phase. Once that is completed and accepted, we would then move forward with completing at least the first phase construction plans. So timing on that again is is open at this time. We also have coming up our Vista Sandia playground replacement project and installation of new shade structure. That's part of our 2024 bond projects. We completed the other one, which was our uh Star Heights basketball courts. That's been completed. So next up is the Vista um Vista Sandia playground. Um hopefully that will be completed, if not by the end of this calendar year, very early in 2026. We've also ordered and are hoping to receive in the next two months the shade structure, a large metal shade structure, 30 by 30 feet um in size for our Star Heights Park. It would be adjacent to the refurbished basketball courts, and that is being funded through community development block grant funds. We have also um reached out to two different contractors to get prices for design and slash design build to replace the Haynes parking lot. That is the parking lot that's south of the recreation center and the pool.