The first item on the agenda is the approval of the June 15th, 2026 minutes.

I'm going to recommend that we postpone the approval of those minutes after a brief review.

I noticed that there were some inconsistencies, probably pertaining to a cut and paste from a prior prior month.

So may I have a motion to postpone the approval of those minutes?

Okay.

Noah, would you do a roll call for this?

Romero is a first, and then Ellen, you were the second, correct?

So uh roll call.

Uh Commissioner Romero.

Uh Commissioner Hereta.

Present.

Commissioner Edwards.

Present.

Commissioner French Barger.

Present.

Commissioner Leading.

I didn't see her on there.

She was coming.

And then Commissioner Marsh, who's absent.

He's absent.

So the minute the approval of the minutes for June 15th, 2026, which was our last meeting because we did not have a meeting in July, has been postponed until the September meeting, so that the minutes can be corrected.

Next on the agenda is staff presentations, reports, and comments.

First is projects update from Diane Sony, Project Division Manager.

Good evening, Commissioners.

Is that possible?

Some of the upcoming projects we have very very happening very soon.

Sorry, the first one would be we will be looking at holding public meetings about our multi-generation center, the conceptual plans.

And they will be coming up in the next couple of months.

And one of those meetings will be held here with the parks and rec commission.

So you can look forward to seeing that.

Once we have input from the public, it'll be taken into consideration with the work that was already completed with the overall conceptual plan in order to generate construction drawings for that facility.

Also, we are wrapping up the design for our King parking lot rehabilitation where it's a very large asphalt parking lot, very old.

It had had striped in it and placed goals for two basketball courts within the parking lot.

So hopefully it'll last a very long time.

So we look forward to seeing those changes.

Then also we are at 90% for our Sierra Norte 2 phase two playground or sorry park renovation or improvements, and that specifically would add a small grass turf area, a couple of shade structures near the playground and turf area, as well as eight pickleball courts and associated parking.

So we hope to get that design going and then finding additional funding so that we can construct that improvement to Sierra Norte Park.

In the past, I've talked about our upcoming expansion of the Animal Resource Center Kennels.

That was something that was being handled by our department, but at this time is being handed over to the building maintenance division.

The design has been completed, and hopefully they will be able to begin construction on that in the next few months.

And then we also have park impact fees that the city has been amassing for a few years so that we can build Sports Complex North Phase 3, which is another standard little league field that matches the size of the existing two fields at Sports Complex North.

It will also be artificial turf and basically look very similar to what's already there, meaning it would have field lighting, dugouts, bleachers, all of that.

And in the future phase six, so this is phase three, but in future phase six, there will be a larger field, kind of like at our high resort sports complex.

We have field seven, which adults can play on it, and like the older youth.

And this is doing some of literally laying some of the groundwork for that future field because there's economy of scale to do it now, and they're tied together.

Their contours will be somewhat tied together.

So we are just waiting for those grant agreements to come in.

Sometimes they come in in July, sometimes they come in in December.

We have answered all the state's questions, and this is funding that was approved in the 2026 legislature, and so we know it's on their on their plans to get it rolled out to us.

And as soon as we can create the budget for that, meaning we would have to take those grant agreements to the governing body, we will likely go out to bid for those improvements.

I don't anticipate it being completed until 2028.

Then we also have a state grant.

We're waiting for this agreement as well to replace the two basketball courts at Havasu Park.

Again, an asphalt park that was created in 2005-2006.

And we're moving towards trying to make them concrete because they hold up better.

They end up having fewer cracks, which means they maintain also their ADA compliance, and then also looking at striping those basketball courts, even the ones at the King Park parking lot for a pickleball as well.

So if the public wishes to bring their net and come out and play, they'll already have courts striped for their use.

So that's also at Habasu Park.

And then we will also be utilizing city funds to make similar improvements, but more like half-court type improvements with one pickleball court at Clayton Meadows Park and at Enchanted Hills Park.

Both of those basketball courts are very, very old and they are very, very rough.