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Right. Good evening. Welcome to the February 6th, 2025, parks and community enrichment commission meeting.

The meeting is now called to order.

Will the clerk please call the roll to establish a quorum.

Thank you, Chair. Commissioner Ford.

Commissioner Robbins.

Present.

Commissioner Labour.

Present.

Commissioner King.

Is absent.

Commissioner Vasquez.

Present.

Commissioner Flores.

Present.

Commissioner Kingis.

Present.

Vice Chair Boone.

Present.

And Chair Gaines.

Present.

Thank you, we have a quorum.

Thank you.

I would like to remind members of the public and chambers that if you would like to speak on an agenda item, please turn it in a speaker slip when the item begins.

You will have two minutes to speak once you are called on.

After the first speaker, we will no longer accept speaker slips.

We will now proceed with today's agenda.

Please rise for the opening acknowledgments in honor of Sacramento's Indigenous People and Tribal Lands.

To the original people of this land, the Nisanan people, the southern Maidu, Valiant Plains Maywalk, Patwin-Win-Tun peoples, and the people of the Wilton Rancharia, Sacramento's only federally recognized tribe.

May we acknowledge and honor the native people who came before us and still walk beside us today on these ancestral lands by choosing to gather together today in the active practice of acknowledgement and appreciation for Sacramento's Indigenous Peoples, history, contributions and lives.

Migwetch, thank you.

Please remain standing for the Pledge of Allegiance.

I pledge allegiance to the plan of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you. You may be seated.

Before we get started with the consent calendar, I did have a few items, few business items personally that I wanted to take care of.

Before we get started, I wanted to formally introduce myself.

And, honestly, as Sacramento is the first major city to adopt a land acknowledgement before any of our meetings, and I just think it's really important that we don't just acknowledge that people who are originally here, but what does that mean for us?

And on the Parks Commission, I think that it means that we ensure that we are advocating for and including the voices of the original caretakers of this land and the decisions that we make, and that we're ensuring that the programs that we have, and all of the community enrichment that we have, that Native youth and their families are included in that.

I just wanted to make sure that we keep that top of mind as we do with the land acknowledgement, and as the first native person to hold this seat, I just think that it's really important that we acknowledge that.

So I just wanted to share that with you all.

Also, since it's my first meeting, I did have a couple of thank yous that I wanted to share.

So first to council member Maiveng, who has appointed me to my second term here as a commissioner.

You guys know I love South Sack, boring a raise, and so it's my honor to still represent the Southside of the city.

And then to Commissioner Joe Flores and to our past Commissioner Rita Garo, good doctor, you know, both of them when I started really took me under their wings and showed me what it meant to be a commissioner and really supported me to really understand what that meant.

And we were very supportive, and I thank you to all of you guys for nominated me, believing in me, voting yes.

I think we're going to have a great year, and I hope to make you proud.

And then finally, I always believe you stand on the shoulders of those who came before you.

So to our former chair, Victoria, just, you know, you've been with me the entire time.

I started at the same time almost four years ago, and so your first term, you had a year as vice chair, two years as chair.

And so I just appreciate your advocacy and all that you've done.

And so while it's not a tree, because I couldn't bring that in, I did want to give you this closest thing I could find to a tree.

All right, and now before we start the meeting, I actually did want to hand it over to our vice chair if she would like to say any words.

Thank you.

I wrote down some ideas so that I stay on track.

So bear with me.

I want to say thank you all so much for this opportunity.

It's truly an honor to be selected as your vice chair.

I did reflect on the words that were shared at the last meeting, so it does mean a lot and to have your faith and trust is something I don't take lightly or for granted.

I am excited to continue to work alongside of each of you to serve our community.

I really do see us as neighbors over commissioners.

So I think that's like the spirit that I want to conduct myself in first and foremost.

I do want to take just a moment to acknowledge all of their incredible work that the staff has done to even provide this opportunity and to make it as enriching as it has been.

So thank you for supporting me, believing me and congratulating me, wishing me well.

And as an at-large commissioner, I think I've grown to understand my role as one of service and support to the indistrict commissioners and not to interfere but to really help when I can so that we're working as a team and like a well-oiled machine to the benefit of our entire community.

So I think that's the lens at which I want to approach second beyond like being neighborly.

So with that, I'd like to propose an idea. You don't have to be supportive but I would really appreciate the opportunity to do walks with each of you every month.

One to one just to learn more about your districts and your priorities because one thing I think I could improve on is being more proactive to come out and support beyond just like a 916 day or a major tree planting.

I know that you all do such incredible work on a weekly basis. So I just think that doing the walks could be helpful for me to learn like what are the things that really make up the fabric of your of your neighborhoods.

So if you'd like, I brought some post-its of my cell phone and I'd love to connect with each of you. I know I have like most of everyone's numbers but to our newer commissioner. That would be something I'd love to do on a monthly basis.

And I think the last thing I want to say is that my third goal is to really foster stronger connections, not just among us as staff but also within the communities we serve.

I know we can set the best of intentions but our impact is what we really gauge our success on.

So I hope that this year we carry out that. I think we do in general but yeah and all of our actions and all of our decisions that we lead with that. So thank you.

Thank you Vice Chair. All right. So now we're going to get down to business. So our first order of business is approval of the consent calendar. Clerk, are there any members of the public who would like to speak on this item?

Thank you Chair. I have no speaker slips on this item.

All right. Thank you. Are there any commissioners who would like to speak on this item? All right. Hearing none. Is there a motion and a second for the consent calendar?

Second.

All right. I have a motion by Commissioner Ford and a second by Commissioner Kingis.

All right. And I think for this one we do a.

That's his vote called people just say I just.

Oh, do I do that or do you do that? All in favor.

All right. All right. The motion passes. I thought it had a better name than just a vote.

All right.

So next up we are going to head to our discussion calendar. So up first our camp Sacramento updates.

Is there a staff presentation for this one?

I invite Sean Swanson, our recreation manager over the Aquatics Program in Camp Sacramento.

Before Sean gets to us here I'll remind you all.

We did publish a very lengthy camp Sacramento staff report for your review and shall we be covering some of the highlights.

Those of you some of you may know but if you're unaware Thomas Semetta our camp Sacramento manager who've been very

good to have for the last handful of years has is no longer with the city.

So he's done a wonderful job and left a very incredible mark on Camp Sacramento and we look forward to carrying on much of the work that he that he started and implemented at camp.

But we're very good hands with Sean and we also have our assistant camp manager.

Chad here as well tonight. So I'll pass it over to Sean.

Thank you Jackie. Sean Swanson, recreation manager.

I work with the Camp Sacramento team. We have just a quick high level overview of Camp Sacramento's last season.

We had 2,717 visits to Camp Sacramento last year.

The primary that composed primarily of family camp visits and group rental visits.

Our family camp is kind of the typical portion that we think of as the majority of what Camp Sacramento is.

We had 998 adult visits to family camp.

881 youth visits for a total of 1,879 visits to our family camp sessions last summer.

Group rentals is the other major portion that we have.

It typically is the additional weekends in the post season or different types of groups.

Many of them are listed in the report.

We'll have rent the facility and we'll do some programming as well.

We had a total of 838 group rental visits.

550 of those were adults. 288 of those were youth.

So we'll have the key numbers for what our visits were last year.

But the one thing that I do really want to highlight is a change in process that we did and how we do registrations for the next season.

Typically in previous years, registrations for each session of family camp had opened up at the end of the camp.

So we run multiple sessions throughout the year so there were multiple registration dates where it opened up.

Actually taking some feedback from this commission here.

Last year we had made a change on that, consolidated all of those registrations onto one day that we were very intentional about our marketing for.

We marketed it both through our website, for communication with previous campers, and then heavily through flyers and posters at our community centers.

So having one single marketing day where it opened up to everybody online at the same time we consolidated and took registrations.

The camp team did have to work to see this was new for our camp registration system to be able to do it that way.

They were able to make it work and it was actually a successful thing.

A couple of key metrics that I'd like to point out about it is we had over 100 cabins available.

And you know if those cabins range from two and four person cabins or sorry three and four person cabins up to six person cabins.

So it can serve quite a few people overall in those.

About 81 of those cabins went to new families this year.

And that was a significant increase over previous years.

The year prior we had 23 cabins were new families.

So we do really feel that this change actually made a good impact on making camp more accessible to everybody.

And so we consider that a good good practice.

Additionally we're going to continue that practice.

Actually just put out on our website yesterday.

August 16th is going to be the day that registration opens to everybody for this following year for it.

And I just really wanted to highlight that as you can see in there the trend for families.

New families coming to camp was significantly increased.

So that kind of concludes the high level overview here.

There are more details in the report.

But I could also be available for any questions.

I had a question.

Oh sorry.

Oh I should do that.

All right clerk are there any members of the public who would like to speak on this item.

Thank you chair.

I have no speaker slips on this item.

Thank you. All right. Commissioner Ford.

Thank you for the update and the presentation.

Really appreciate it.

And I appreciate that you took also the feedback on you know just making a more accessible at one time,

making more of that equitable access for the camp.

Just have a couple clarifying questions.

One.

The new registration system.

Is that similar to all the other.

Is that currently the park department uses or is it a still a separate system?

It's the same system that has previously been used for camp Sacramento.

It was new to when I said it was new is new to release all of them at the same time.

Ford it's ultra camp is the name of the system.

It's an online system that we use that in addition to managing the registrations and the payments.

It also manages many of the forms that are required by the ACA accreditation.

Like health forms and so forth.

Is there a plan to integrate at some point?

I'm just wondering because that is the one system that most folks are aware of right in terms of using or enrolling to all the other programs that parks offers.

And some wondering if you think at this point there is an opportunity.

Could we pilot something in the future?

We would certainly be open to it at the time or other registration system.

Actonant that we used would not meet the needs to meet the ACA documents that we had.

And that's the reason we're on a different system.

But I certainly hear the feedback and we'll continue to see if capabilities with our main registration system do change.

We would certainly be open to that.

And then the next item.

How did you define new families and how did you verify that process?

I think it was going through the previous registrations to see that they had not previously rented cabins in camp.

Okay, so there was an actual like one-to-one verification process or.

Yes, I believe it was manually looked at the registrations for who reserved those cabins.

Well, I appreciate the update.

Thank you so much.

And you know, let us know how we can support the next opening season.

Thank you so much.

Commissioner Labor.

Thank you, Sean. How are you?

So I had a question.

I work for a nonprofit called UCP.

And I think about a year ago there were a couple staff members that traveled up to see your camp.

And I don't know enough about it to make comments really, but is it accessible for like a special needs kid or the disability community?

Because I'm looking at another camp at Sly Park where we could create a camp there for our families and others.

But this camp Sacramento might be a neat option one day to look at.

But I know it's got older cabins like from the 20s and there was like a water leak.

I think there are things that you've worked on.

But I think in the future it might be neat to explore ways that we could get families that have special kids maybe up there.

But it might be a goal of not sure if it's something that you could do.

But I'd like to help you attain that.

Yeah, we're certainly open to any opportunities to bring in any types of groups and different diverse groups of people.

Different abilities would be great.

We do have some limitations with you mentioned it.

It's an old facility and with that old facility.

You know in the mountains and some some limitations on that.

But we do work with groups and we have like you know come into groups and they can take a look at the facility and if it meets their needs.

You know we have had interest in some group rentals specifically for people with special needs.

Do you like trails like an off road bike that electric bike that's for disabled individuals.

Other trails that you could go on?

There are hiking trails around there.

It's National Forest Land and they maintain some trails in the area.

I don't think there are designated specifically for special needs.

But I can check and give a little bit more information about the accessibility and get back to you on that.

I think the context of the companies that are important these really unique bikes that have abilities to take people out on trails.

Outdoor trails.

Awesome.

Thank you.

Commissioner Vazquez?

Well thank you.

Thank you for the slides and for providing the data for the last few years.

Making it easy to see in advance and on the agenda I really appreciate that.

My question is the same as last year is what kind of maintenance are you looking for.

You know as we're expanding 916 day and making new connections with possible funders and donors.

I know that you have a healthy nonprofit helping you out up there.

Families of Camp Sacramento but do you need more help maintenance wise.

How's that going?

Well we have significant deferred maintenance needs on some of the facilities.

We are looking at some options for updating those pieces where we can.

We do have volunteer days that we coordinate when we're open and closing.

And certainly you can always use more bodies of people willing to help carry and clean up and get the facility going.

And certainly as we coordinate those for this upcoming season I'd be happy to share those dates with the commission.

And if you want to help us recruit volunteers we would appreciate that.

Please do. Thank you very much.

Awesome. Well thank you so much for your presentation.

I just have a couple questions.

So I know last year you guys had mentioned doing some kind of one day, three days for people to come up.

Are you planning on doing this this year and how many do you have planned?

Yes, we did four of them last year and we are planning on doing some this year.

However we haven't picked the dates yet.

But yes we do plan on offering a few free days.

I think we're going to consolidate them into into a few less days on there that we can get larger amounts of people to.

We had significant interest in the days and had a lot of people sign up for them.

However, you know as three days and free events often go sometimes your attendance is a little bit lower on that.

So I think learning from the previous year I think that we can do fewer days with larger capacities and the amount of people that will show up I think will be a good quantity.

We haven't planned those, haven't set those dates yet but yes we do plan on offering some.

Awesome. And then I read in the report that there were nine scholarships given through the Friends of Camp Sac for this past year.

Can you tell me more about like that process and if there's ways that we can support like as Friends of Camp Sac.

I'm assuming it's a group like outside of the city of Sacramento and like do they have like fundraisers or the ways that we can support.

Yes, I mean we certainly could could work with them and looking ways to increase funding available for those for the families that they scholarship on there.

Friends of Camp Sac is a nonprofit organization that is partnered kind of embedded with Camp Sacramento in a sense that they're bored and all those do their own fundraising and then they sponsor some families every year for Camp.

And they are the ones that kind of select the families typically they're looking for families with financial need in the Sacramento area.

And then they are allocated some of the cabins and then the Friends of Camp Sac pays for the funding for.

Awesome. Yeah, I love if you could maybe email out some information about that and how they do their fundraising if there's any way that we can support and just help share that out to be able to support that.

And lastly, I noticed in the report it had said that 75% of the attendees to camp were from the city of Sacramento.

So is there when people are like applying for cabins, is there like people from Sacramento get first dibs or is that just how it goes with people who are outside of the city limits?

Yeah, great question. We do not differentiate in the registration process time window for who can apply for the cabins or reserve cabins on there.

There is however a fee difference between a resident and non-resident for both group rental and also family camp.

Thank you.

All right, well this item is received and discussed so no vote is needed so we will move on to the next item. So thank you so much.

And that is expanded learning annual update. Is there a staff presentation for this?

Yes, thank you, Chair. I'll invite Katie Hauser, Recreation Manager over our expanded learning unit to share an update on this program.

Good evening commissioners. As Jackie mentioned, I'm Katie Hauser, Recreation Manager supporting expanded learning.

So you have a detailed staff report for you that has a lot more information but just to cover some of the highlights because we really have seen some growth in these programs.

It was a little bit rough in the years coming out of COVID and I think all the programs have finally recovered attendance wise.

For fourth hour, we have over 2600 participants in that program an increase of 9% at 17 locations in three school districts across the city.

And that's licensed childcare that we have on the campuses. It's open 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. For our start program that's enrobly unified, we saw 14% increase in enrollment.

That program is funded by our ACIS programs from the state of California. That program had over 700 youth participating in the last year.

It also includes its after school program, but it also includes spring and summer break camps.

And then lastly is our summer early, this program, which is our summer camp program that's that's how last year out in our parks.

And there was a 25% increase last year, which is a really big increase and we served over a thousand youth last summer.

I also wanted to highlight some key partnerships. There's some details about these partnerships in the staff report.

But with the three districts that we're working with, we've partnered to receive ELOP funding, which is the expanded learning opportunities program, that the school district received funding directly for from the state.

And Natomas, we received this year $1.4 million that served an extra 400 youth at four sites in Natomas.

In Twin Rivers, we partnered. We're continuing to partner with what we offering break camps at our Regency Park for our location.

And then in Robla, we also received ELOP funds, $1.4 million. That includes expansion of ACIS after school programming, because ACIS only covers a certain amount of funding for per participant.

So it includes CK and kindergarteners, and also includes spring break and summer camps.

I also add that four-thr is now serving TK students at all of our sites, which is new in the last year, year and a half, which is also, I think, part of the increase that you're seeing in participation.

So again, there's a lot more detail in your staff report, but I'm happy to take any questions that you might have.

Clerk, are there any members of the public who would like to speak on this item?

Thank you, Chair. I have no speaker slips on this item. Thank you. All right. Commissioner Robbins.

Hi, I was trying to look in my notes last year, but I can't see why the why is it when Rivers only have one school and is it just hard partnering with them?

And how is District 2 completely obsolete? There's no schools in District 2 that are on the R4. Is there a reason why?

For fourth-art? Yes.

Perfectly. Well, I think the program is long-standing. So I mean, I think it's like 30 plus years old. It wasn't before ACIS was there.

Fourth-art is an enterprise fund, which means it's revenue-based. It's revenue generating. It receives no subsidy from the general fund or from measure you.

So as an example, the fee for, you know, as many hours as you need for care, like in a summertime as an example, is close to $600 a month. So it's a very, very high threshold to participate.

So why the initial decision to not be in Twin Rivers? I'm not sure. I know that there's a lot of ACIS programs on-site there, which make having two programs on one campus, one that is, you know, a fee.

And sometimes a large fee to pay on the number of hours that you want to use. And a free program is difficult. So we may, I can't, I can't honestly speak. I have to look and see if we had more sites in Twin Rivers and we just don't know.

Versus what we are doing now. So really with expanded learning in District 2, we have all the programming in Robla, which really has expanded quite a bit with the LOP. So now we're doing more spring break there, more summer programs.

Really, then we have done out in District 2. And then working through summer ACIS and kids camp over at Hagenwood.

I have to get back to you though about where that kind of went with Twin Rivers. Yeah, because it's only one school and it's in deep North Natomas. It's almost a D3 has a few, but it's like a huge gap right there.

There was nothing going on and it's the same statistics last year. So I just had to clarify. So thank you for all that. Thank you.

Commissioner Ford.

And then I'm just to follow up on that. There is no restrictions right out of like district or schools that kids can attend those programs or they have to be in that.

For the school day, they do. Yes. For ACIS programs for sure, they attend the, the attend the ACIS program that they go to school for. For fourth are same. The only thing that that is different is for breaks.

So if you were spring break, Christmas break, summer program, you can attend any one of them.

Thank you. I just had to follow up on, you know, obviously we're seeing an increase of numbers and attendance.

In terms of like programming and curriculum, is that also evolving as there's more growth or just evolution and just like best practices?

That's a great question. Yes. So we actually work. One of the amazing things about the relationships that we have is that we get a lot of information on how things are changing in current trends from the actual schools themselves.

Right. At Roblox specifically, we have academic alignment coaches who are teachers who are working there with the students during the day and then they advise to the start program at the after school.

So that they can say, hey, fourth grade is working on this. You should continue to work on this or so and so how to tough day and second grade.

You know, so they really work with us on a regular basis. Fourth are also is very unique and that it has a program developer classification and that program developer just works on curriculum development.

And so we do it. We're really intentional about working through our PQA and our youth development institute model where we really take feedback.

We do assessments on a regular basis and then debrief. We actually just had a session last month for fourth or a kilometer where all the staff came in reviewed all of the reviews and assessments and surveys that the youth had did.

But everything out on their, you know, their post abortants that okay, how can we troubleshoot with curriculum these issues that the students were having and how do we continue to celebrate the successes that they've reported in these surveys.

So that's a great question and it's something that we're working on on a regular basis.

Thank you so much. Sure.

Thank you. So I said a couple questions about summer Oasis.

So I noticed there were five summer programs last year. So two in district seven with Commissioner Flores and none in district eight.

So I'm just wondering how we decide where to put programs if it's based on I mean I know there's a lot already happening at Penel Center.

So I don't know if it's based on like what's already going on or just you know how many people sign up that if you could walk us through those decisions.

And it's a great question. Thank you for asking it because truthfully is a question that we ask ourselves right when we say okay how where are we going to run these programs.

And so in the last probably couple of years we have really looked and said okay what are we offering especially post COVID right everything was revaluated after COVID truthfully because we said well everything's changed for families what do they need now.

And then of course the city isn't a new budget situation. So we really are trying to be as efficient as possible with the resources that we have.

So actually what we have done this year to your point and I think Anthony shared with you the fire that has all the information for summer Oasis with the fees the locations the dates all the scholarship information etc.

And so what we really did this year was take a look we went with all the staff look through all of the analytics of who was attending where are the most wait lists where do we have a major major wait list issue.

And where are we where do we know there are other programs we want to make sure that we are again using our resources as best as possible to make sure that we're serving as many people as possible.

But again without a duplication of services so that's kind of how we got to where we are we did sort of real lines of our camps this year because we wanted to be as efficient as possible with our resources.

So panel does have of course panel is one of our flagship locations for all things recreation I would say and they have a really robust program there so there should be there is a fair I would say more this summer than we have seen in summers past.

Or years past I think there's a better representation of summer offerings for summer Oasis across the districts this year.

Perfect and you know what I think the reason I did not see that because he did in the fire was because I got caught on the fee part so I will admit I did not even look at the locations because summer Oasis was previously free.

So summer good good question it's good clarifying question summer Oasis has always been fee based summer Oasis and it was always held out at the parks.

And then kids camp was hosted at the community centers and that one was historically free and so we said okay but what is the dip what really realistically what is the difference between these camps right away the numbers the hours that were offering the quality of programming that we're offering.

How what what is the difference and what how are we how did we get to this place and so we said you know to again to sort of realign everything and be as efficient as possible and to be as equitable as possible.

Everything is summer Oasis this year right it's sort of summer Oasis 2.0 with the scholarship mechanism in place for families who went to kids camp previously to make sure that there's no barrier to those to to registration and participation in those camps.

Thank you you're welcome. Commissioner Vescaz.

And I had written written my hand after you started sorry because I wanted to address the flyers I'm glad that you brought it up I wasn't sure if this was the right time but while we're on the subject.

The timing of 530 I thought could be more equitable for families to be able to get there since it's only in three different locations I think there's not one at panel.

So it there's again this kind of gap and where you can go visit one of the information sessions about how use the night.

Right how you can use the scholarship so is hoping maybe we can do later at night or a weekend morning and definitely some sort of live streams some sort of recording for one of those so families who can't get there at 530 because they're racing to get to 4th hour to pick up their kids at 6 o'clock they're not going to be able to attend any of the information sessions so hopefully that's something that we can record and share out.

So that everyone can understand how to apply for the scholarship program please.

That's a great feedback thank you I actually feel like we because we do have some schedule already that I turn the remainder of this year as we get closer to summer but we know that again things just gets

a lot of stuff and it's jam it's no it's February and people might not be thinking about summer program right this moment right so we might get to April right before registration day and people might say oh my gosh I need to apply for that scholarship so we're really as we lead in we're sort of monitoring how many people are really coming how many people are coming to the sessions do we feel like enough marketing has gone out do we need to offer more sessions can we offer some virtually and record them and then post them up on the website so we are monitoring that in real time to make sure that we're doing enough to educate.

Everyone on how the process works.

I please request a report back when all three are done is to what kind of participation you had.

Sure I think we have an item and summer update and scholarship update in April so we can definitely do that at that time.

Director Beacham. Thank you chair.

During the director's reports I'll actually be providing an update on where we're currently at with youth program scholarship fund what our enrollment is looking like you can also expect to see a more detailed summer update coming up.

Update coming in April and that is planned the week before summer registration opens so we'll continue providing information up to that point but have a more detailed report for you at the beginning of April before registration opens more information on the scholarship program continue to track what participation looks like but happy to share some of that information with you during the director's report.

Also I would like to share regarding the twin rivers question I think it's a fantastic question but having formally been over that program several years ago and confirming with staff actually beyond Regency Park all of the other twin rivers school sites have a

very important meeting but are already offering an Aces program like Katie mentioned so you'll even see we've had to make you know the most risklier

responsible decision in some cases and come off of campuses where we do have another program that's being offered for free because they're able to manage the demand for programs and services through a free Aces program whereas the fourth

is receiving any general fund or measure you dollars as Katie shared so we're unable to continue running that program without the participation numbers or demand that's needed so I can tell you right now we have a very eager fourth our team where they do see an opportunity to expand that program if there is a need for child care and we have families that are willing and able to pay to participate or you know through the means of some of the other fee barrier option

you know options that we have like child action to participate then they will absolutely work with those schools to see if there's potential to set up a site.

Thank you for that question.

Now thank you for the clarification I just lost into my notes last year I just want to make sure it wasn't one of those the other side of the track things you look geographically there's a huge square where it's just not but it's totally

understandable now that there's these free programs that they can use and we don't want to compete with that so thank you.

Thank you and can I request either in the director's report or in the follow-up log in May I would just be interested to see because I think I under I hear what we're saying about like kind of the summer oasis and the kids camp kind of being together but since there was like a fee based program and then a free program and then now it's all fee based I just like to hear if how the community is responding to it and then kind of like the talking points that we have and what that process has been like after it.

It launches in April absolutely we're happy to provide I'm committing to a monthly Rudy during our meetings on the scholarship programs we can absolutely include report back on that and I will say you'll hear more about this in April as well but by combining these programs it's a line is actually expand the number of youth that were serving in those programs so there it's going to be a much more enhanced program than we were seeing with the kids camp.

I would argue that while you know families are still receiving a quality program in summer camp there's much more structure and enhancements to the summer oasis program where they're having trips to the pool they're having enrichment opportunities and so that's what we're able to do now with this realignment and also expand those offerings to more participants but happy to bring some information back because we're going to be tracking that data as well to help make some more informed decisions moving forward.

Thank you and thank you so much and I just really appreciate the the care and thoughtfulness that you guys have taken to expand the programming that I completely missed on the flyer so I really appreciate that just being able to see all of the different places that it is in the city to go from like five to I think like 11 different locations that's awesome.

And we should have a much better feel even in April when we do the summer presentation where you get a lot more detail information with curriculum examples and special event examples that Jack keep us talking about we should have an idea at that point of how how the community is responding.

Awesome thank you.

Thank you.

Well that was received and discussed so now we will move on to 916 day.

All right so I see my birthday twin walking up so which our birthday is in February everyone February 20th.

So I'm assuming that we have a staff presentation.

Yes.

Happy birthday month.

Yes happy month to you too.

It's meeting to both of you.

So I'm here to discuss 916 day.

I'm both severe familiar with me but Anne Mark I know you're familiar with me too but I'll just restate I'm Deanna Reed I am the special events liaison for city wide events and I'll be helping you with 916 day.

So Sierra and I met last month to kind of organize a calendar of goals for 916 day.

You may have seen it attached to the agenda if you clicked on it on the city website.

For February we would like for you all to begin research in consultation with the council office and parks maintenance to start to narrow down a site for 916 day.

I know it seems a bit early this year but I think we got a little bit of a late start last year and we're hoping to for recruitment.

Purpose is we want to be able to get these flyers out to the key clubs before school gets out in June.

So if we could at least get the site and date time and location narrowed down.

And then I would like to schedule a meeting with each of you and parks maintenance so whoever's in charge of your area.

So we could start to discuss like some tasks that can be done at each of these sites to improve your parks.

And of course no pressure to do your own. You're more than welcome to partner with someone from another district.

If you feel like your skills would be more beneficial.

Yeah so just I'm here to open it up to see if you guys would like to take a meeting hopefully this month.

I'd like to get it all done by the end of February and then by March have your locations narrowed down.

And then lastly there are some special tasks that have to be done that take a little bit more extra work.

Nikki you was involved last year for sponsorships but that doesn't necessarily mean you're on the hook this year.

But I wanted to put sponsorships marketing and task management back out on the table for anybody who would like to express interest in being involved in those.

And that's it.

Thank you. Are there any members of the public who would like to speak on this item?

Thank you chair. I have no speaker slips on this item.

Thank you Commissioner Robbins.

Hi cousin. I just wanted to say thank you for everything all the 916 day to get some better better better each year.

I worked last year and I just wanted to make sure that we do everything right going forward. So thank you.

Yes, I plan to stagger it again this year 916 day falls on a Tuesday so weekend before the weekend after or during the week.

Commissioner Ford.

Thank you. I'm wondering if there is an opportunity to maybe consolidate like maybe instead of doing every single district kind of like an event maybe staggering in app with certain districts and maybe selecting like a central location.

So we could have like a bigger turnout and more collaboration. So I'm just thinking out loud wondering what folks are thinking just so we could collaborate a little bit more we can get different neighbors together from different districts.

I think the other thing could be as we could continue to do individual hosting at each district but then also have like one big kind of close out where at that time you could just do ceremony and you know just celebrate that day and it could be just a

bigger celebration I think for the city. So just some thoughts but we'd love to hear reactions and thoughts from my commissioners.

Commissioner Flores.

No, thank you and Commissioner Ford that that's a good thing to keep in mind in 25 and then there's probably other externalities that we have to also keep in mind with with the city too so like everything will be converging by the time September rolls around and then I know taking district seven and and pushing it off into November.

So we're going to help alleviate some of that right like we felt that taking one off the one district off the map felt in September felt like oh there's cushion here there's other other events could have the room debris so along those lines that we saw we we saw it kind of happened last year and now we can be more intentional about it this year and then what other items that are you know under the park some

of the city that's been engaged that multi district partnership and so yeah I think that's good great food for thought and and it's February so we can start thinking about it now and and in my original comment was back to you Deanna so thank you for keeping thank you for being the catalyst for keeping us accountable yes it is February but it's going to be around the corner very soon and so I just wanted to acknowledge that.

Commissioner Kangus.

Thank you Sierra and Deanna for getting together I would love to help again with sponsorship this year just curious I guess my term ends after June so will I be able to just keep volunteering and supporting you guys in the same capacity or

or how that works does anybody follow up maybe later.

I mean in the spirit of volunteers and I don't see why not that's really what the day is all about so absolutely okay cool.

Yeah Nikki we're really used your plug on that central kitchen last year that was clutch so appreciate it that'd be great.

Commissioner Kangus.

Yeah on the on the thread of cohesiveness so what commissioner Ford had said I'd love to have like a central thing that's maybe at each event so like yes we had the hats and that was amazing but maybe like we had separate events and we could like travel something so either like a piece of art that we could all like be a part of that volunteers could like maybe put their hands on or something that would really

bring this whole project together other than our videos and our promo ideas.

It's just a thought that like there's all these separate locations and all this separateness that's happened across the city but if there's one thing that brings us all together that kind of brings this project and these volunteers together without the city I think it would be really nice and I think like something like we can present it to council and say like we did this and this is you know what we shown I think they would appreciate that and

just an idea.

Commissioner Robbins.

Yes I'll just piggyback on Commissioner over here like we talked last time like I'm kind of borrowing the idea for Commissioner Flores over here the Del Rio Trail cleanup was at the corner of three different districts when he did this last year and so we could identify some of these areas where we can really meet at the borders of these states and you know join together if there's some identity.

I have to just like also be D1 D2 and D3 obviously then there's some on the other side that we can connect and have that be some catalyst if there's some areas or even a close by part that we could join forces on so yeah we love to entertain that idea and keep on going forward with a great job.

Thank you.

Vice-Turban.

I just I wanted to note that I wrote down the close-out ceremony I think that's a really good idea because usually there's like a gap in our recognition so it'd be nice to have something immediately to just honor like all the attention to detail that went into it in the volunteers effort so I think that's a great idea and then I also like the commemorative object to just unify like we did this and it's something that everyone can be involved in so I think we can definitely incorporate something to that effect.

I do want to just uplift something that we've discussed and it'll come to light again and again but this year given the budget constraints it's important that we dedicate time to recruitment which is why we want to push to have everything finalized by June because one thing I learned that I didn't recognize is when the park maintenance shows up to our events that staff time and that's like a cost.

So if we could offset that by really pulling in volunteers we wouldn't be so reliant on like an FTE and I didn't learn that so I think if we can get everything kind of teed up before the summer recess then we'll all be at an advantage to really promote and push out like hey this thing is happening please come out please volunteer and we're actually in a really good place this year because we have almost

30 different organizations to tap for sponsorship because we've just been collecting so much data from the previous years and then even looking at events that have been held in Sacramento like run to feed the hungry like the five k's to see like what organizations are already willing to give so that we're not pulling teeth and our plan is to circulate that list so that if there's a relationship you hold or a relationship you want to build you could do that.

So if you could potentially own that connection right so if there's a law firm or a dentist that you know like they don't necessarily don't want to give money but they want to show up they want to be there like that's something we want to rely on and kind of delegate to each person because we don't want to have like conflicting needs and demands of our different supporters so more to come and definitely check out the calendar because that's something we put together really intentionally to set these like benchmarks for the next year.

So we're working for each month that we were all you know working in unison to be efficient so please let us know if you have questions and like Diana shared if you want to be a part of the task force it helps to express that ahead of next month's meeting that way we can get some zoom call setup.

So along the same lines of what Sierra was just expressing about you know alleviating some of that from Parks maintenance and career staff.

I think we be mindful in some of the tasks that we're choosing that we're not so ambitious that we need so much done on the back end like a lot of prep work or all that stuff because that's all Parks maintenance time.

So we want this to be primarily volunteer driven so it should be any volunteer should be able to walk up and you know maybe we could do you know three tasks like we say park cleanup painting and like one more thing and are mulching okay so those are the three easy simple things that people should be able to handle as a volunteer.

And then I could create these kits that are for park cleanups that have park you know trash pickers and I'm like everything can already be ready to go and package to go so that when they get there they just check in and they start working and it's not something that is going to take a big like undertaking from Parks maintenance or a lot of staff time from Parks maintenance.

I think if we keep it in the spirit of volunteerism and you know as long as we recruit and get lots of volunteers out there I think we'll have tremendous success this year so that's my hope.

Commissioner Ford.

Sign me up for the task force I'll happy to join and support with fundraising or anything you'd like as well.

I think I'm just hearing everyone collectively it sounds like there's an opportunity to be more efficient more cost saving like awareness and just more collective works I really would encourage us to really think through how we can maybe consolidate some of our projects a that will reduce coordination and staff cost.

And it could just you know fire just a little bit more I'm thinking of you know the feasibility of that in terms of just what you mentioned selecting projects that are feasible you know like for us we defer to park stuff to tell us what like what are the needs and so we'd love to ensure that their voices are heard this time around as well to ensure that it aligns with anything that they seem that needs to be improved.

Okay perfect.

Thank you yes I want to plus one that I always just go with whatever park staff says the park should be so whatever they say we'll go with and then I'm fine being on the marketing team again so you can go ahead and sign me up for that.

Anything anything else.

Oh thank you Commissioner Boone.

Sorry I'm in the back.

I just want to plug that so we're all supportive and I'm probably being super candid right now but we're all supportive of what park maintenance wants to do because I have this wonderful deferred maintenance list.

The hurdle sometimes can be communicating that to the city council office not in your case but in some cases because sometimes there's feedback or maybe like pushback of like why rather do this project so if we're on board as a commission to elect the deferred maintenance list great but then you know letting your city council member know like this is the most important project we can do in our district and like

selling that so that we don't have a situation where mid mid year it's like oh no actually we're going to go to this other thing so I want to maybe like men that communication breakdown that could potentially happen.

All right thank you thank you this item was received and discussed so no vote is needed so we are going to move on to the youth parks and community enrichment directors report.

Thank you chair.

Okay to start for community centers Katie mentioned earlier that a summer racist fire was shared earlier this week so all of you should have received that talking about our new enhanced summer experience or I think he said summer

racist 2.0 I like that registration again is going to open on April 9th and we do have the youth program scholarship available for families that qualify applications are available online and customer service staff are also available to assist at community centers with the process.

In addition to the scholarship information sessions we talked about I did learn that our marketing team is working on a step by step video tutorial that's going to be out this month and that will be shareable that will hopefully help address some of those concerns and make sure that that information is available.

So quick update on the scholarship program to date we have 254 customers that have received the scholarship over 1,000 and 520 dollars and scholarships have been used so customers can receive the scholarship before enrolling an eligible program so essentially we have qualified 254 families now they have the ability to enroll in programs so they've already gone through the process they're eligible to enroll in the scholarship.

So we've gone through the process they're eligible to enroll in programs at that wage cost.

We won't see the majority of the scholarship used until of course registration opens on April 9th so again looking forward to reporting back I think may will be a great time to share more of the information with the commission.

In addition to the youth program scholarship fund has a lot to do based on conversations we've been having here with the commission of course and with staff.

Finalizing a financial hardship option for customers so the financial hardship program waiver will cover fees for selected eligibility of C programs for youth ages 0 to 24.

They reside within the Sacramento City limits that are currently experiencing a financial hardship but do not qualify for the scholarship fund.

So applicants must specify the preferred scholarship eligible program they'd like to participate in or that they're requesting a fee waiver for applicants who qualify will receive a fee waiver for registration or membership fees for the program that they're specifying on their application.

So part of that application process again will share more information with you at the next meeting and again in April but applicants must confirm that they aren't enrolled in any of the youth programs scholarship fund qualified programs which would be with the commission.

The application also requires proof of residency within the Sacramento City limits and they must submit an explanation or justification of why they're requesting the financial hardship.

Applications are going to require supervisor manager and director approval on a case by case basis following the council approve fee waiver program that we currently have in place.

So probably still some work to do on that but I think it's a step on the right direction to address some of the concerns as we are you know even where the fees are nominal having to implement some fees for programs may have otherwise been free to help families mitigate any potential impacts even if they don't technically qualify for the youth program scholarship fund.

Again will be sharing more information about the fee waiver and reduction opportunities coming up in our future meetings.

So moving on in community centers district to Hagenwood Community Center we have a kids night out and a teen hotspot shamrock shuffle for both of these events that's on March 27th from 6 to 8 p.m.

In district three at South Natomas Community Center we have the system is in project alpha event on Saturday February 8th at 10 a.m.

We have an information session at South Natomas Community Center for the youth program scholarship fund on Wednesday February 12th from 5 30 to 7 30 and we have the kids night out event on Valentine's Day from 6 30 to 8 30 p.m.

where we will be hosting a Valentine's movie night.

At South Natomas Community Center senior programs are going to be enjoying a senior movie matinee on February 28th from 3 to 5 p.m.

In district four at Southside Club House we have kids night out on Friday so tomorrow night February 7th from 6 30 to 8 30 with a craft fest.

And at Clooney Community Center we'll be hosting an I love Bingo event on February 7th from 6 to 8 p.m.

It's a family event.

In district six at Cloma Community Center we have kids night out which will be a Valentine themed event tomorrow night from 6 to 8 p.m.

And in district seven we have at the Belk Bullage Community Center a sweet hearts potluck lunch and tea party that's on Tuesday February 11th from 11 to 1 p.m.

Our Community Recreation team is hosting the 18th annual Sports for Life Soccer Tournament that will be on April 12th through 13th at Granite Regional Park.

This is available for adults ages 50 and up and registration details are in the flyer that Shannon emailed out to commissioners this evening and also available on our website for those of you at home.

New on Friday nights at the Sacramento softball complex we will be hosting drop in San volleyball.

This is for ages 16 and up and will be available from 5 30 to 9 p.m. during the month of March.

If we generate enough interest in this program we'll look at developing a potential league for San volleyball.

We will have the cafe at the complex open for food and beverages for purchase during these events and register.

You can register for drop in dates for that program on our website.

Also new in our Community Recreation division we have the Youth Sports Basketball Camp that's going to be for ages 5 to 14 and that's starting in March.

That's $25 per person and it's a six week session hosted on the outdoor basketball courts at Penelmet of Youth Community Center and at South Nautomas Community Center.

This is a youth development based instructional league with a focus on skill development, sportsmanship and basic game rules.

You can register on the website or at either one of those community centers for that program.

And our access leads your team alongside the North and Thomas community team.

Community center team is going to be hosting a sweetheart dance on February 15th from 6 to 8 30.

Our Quatics team is well underway with Aquatics recruitment.

We also share some recruitment information with you this evening via email and it can be found on our website for those of you interested in applying.

Our team visited 11 school sites in January with recruitment visits that are going to continue throughout the spring at several other school locations.

Our spring 2025 lifeguard certification courses are going to begin next week on the 15th and they are currently open for registration.

We do have scholarships available for the lifeguard training program and you can visit our website at cityacermino.gov, such Aquatics.

There you'll find all the information about our courses, how to apply first scholarships.

You can actually apply first scholarships right there and enroll in the classes.

At North and Thomas Aquatics Center, we hosted the dark super leagues swim meet last week on the first and second with over 400 youth swimmers in participation.

And we've also resumed aquasized classes and increase our lap swim hours as of February 3rd in North and Thomas Aquatics Center.

And at the community center in North and Thomas, we will be having a front street vaccination clinic on February 9th and a spade and neuter clinic on the 21st and 23rd.

I'm moving on to the youth resource and employment fair.

We share a flyer with commissioners this evening as well and there's information on our website that will be on March 8th from 930 to noon and online registration opens in two days.

So on February 8th, this is for ages 13 to 24 and a swag bag is going to be available until supplies burn out and we probably will.

It's a very well attended event. So we encourage you to register and show up right on time at 930.

L and L will be hiring 72 youth for the spring season and fingerprinting is going to start this Saturday to continue their hiring process.

WIOA is currently seeking seniors that are interested in paid work experience opportunities and additional mentoring and coaching and you can find more information on our website.

And moving on to some park maintenance update in district one, we are we planted 17 trees at Regency Park on the 18th of January.

Scheduled coming up on the 22nd of February, we have an autumn Meadows tree planting.

At North and Thomas Regional Park, we did some ball field renovations including a turf reduction where and we skinned and filed the territory skin skinned the foul tell territory.

And at Kokomo Park, the canopy is being repaired from storm damage that we had earlier this year.

In district two, there's a large tree that's being removed from Bridal Trail in Del Paso Regional Park.

It was just removed last week and at Robert Brookings Park, we have a tree removal from the playground and also a shade canopy project that's going to be beginning from a canopy that's also destroyed at that park.

Sacramento softball complex is also undergoing field renovations.

Some were completed in January and we have others coming up.

Let's see in district four, we have a new kickball field at Roosevelt Park that's been installed.

In district five, we're addressing some irrigation issues across parks, including at Kokomo.

In district five and seven along the Del Rio Trail, I shared it to you last month that we were installing some bolder and ballards that has been completed along the Del Rio Trail.

In district eight, we just completed a renovation of Shasta Park Soccer Field.

I also want to share with you some staffing updates as it relates to the commission.

Following this meeting direct commission support is going to be transitioning from Ray Rodriguez to Shannon Brown to our assistant director.

Shannon and of course myself, we will both be available to support the commission with any communication or support needs that you may have.

But do you want to take this opportunity to thank Ray for all of his work in supporting the commission?

I know every one of you have his number on speed dial and have worked very closely with him over the last couple of years on all things commission related.

Ray's primary focus is to support our administrative and finance team.

And he has just been doing a fantastic job as we've been working on an administrative re-alignment.

So really want to make sure that he has the time to continue to support that team and know that you'll be in wonderful hands with our assistant director Shannon.

So you can continue to direct any communication questions, concerns, everything will come through Shannon myself.

So thank you Ray for all of your support.

So with this transition, as we've been working over the last several weeks and having had our first meeting in the discussion of this new item, the annual report, there was some confusion regarding the annual report as we're working through this transition.

So last is the chair identified four commissioners who serve on an ad hoc committee and they'll work with Shannon in need to provide input on the draft annual report.

We will incorporate all of that input and then bring the report back to the commission at the March meeting for discussion.

At that time, commissioners who are not on the ad hoc will have an opportunity to provide any input.

And our goal would be to approve it after input is considered to approve it by the end of that meeting to be able to bring it, bring it forward to P and P after that.

If there are any commissioners that are interested in serving on the ad hoc committee, I would just ask that the chair addressed this during our next item for commission or comments, ideas and questions.

And that concludes my direct acceptance. I'm happy to take any questions or comments.

Thank you, Director Beacham, Commissioner King.

Thank you.

Craig, we're going to miss you so much.

Yeah, I know you're still here, but you're my guy.

My cannon work is happy to have you.

So it's two clarifications. One being, well, the first one I think is fairly quick, that can you just clarify the boulders were installed on the Delridge for what purpose?

I've had a lot of questions.

I don't have Sean here, but more specifically to keep vehicles from going on to the trail, from vehicles driving on to the trail.

Okay, that's what I thought, but I just wanted to assume some of them have been moved, but then I saw that they got moved back.

So good job, staff already taking the game.

Yeah, you know, you know, yeah, just a little battle.

And then the second clarification. So the financial hardship qualification, I just want to clarify because I know I'm going to have families who are going to ask about this.

So they don't qualify for the scholarship. That meeting they are in maybe like the lowest socio-economic category, right?

Or they're on like the low, is it how is it financially based?

It would, it basically, if it's a maybe a middle income family that doesn't meet one of the criteria for low income that would qualify them for the youth program scholarship fund, but they may be experiencing a financial hardship at the time.

Perhaps it's a family that has multiple children that they want to enroll in the program and they're having a difficult time.

Perhaps they haven't been working because of illness. There could be a number of reasons.

So we just ask if they provide, you know, our policy at the end of the day is really, you know, we don't want to turn anyone away.

And so I know this is a question that has come up from the commission before, you know, because even though some of these fees are nominal, if you have multiple children you're trying to support or, you know, other other unexpected financial demands in your personal life, we want to make sure that we're still providing opportunities and accessibility for everyone.

So we want to confirm that these families do not in fact qualify for the youth program scholarship fund. So we'll be able to walk them through that process.

And then we would, we would be able to tap into the scholarship funding to reimburse obviously right for the cost of that program.

But if they did not qualify for that, then we still want to give them opportunity to, you know, be considered for participation in the program.

So it's not going to qualify them to participate in any youth program that they want to. They would need to specify exactly what it is because oftentimes hardships are in that moment or period of time, right? If somebody's experiencing a financial hardship at that time, then we want to be able to consider them for that for that option.

Really helpful. Thank you.

Commissioner Baskas.

Yes. Thank you. My question was the same. Like how you said three people are looking at the financial hardship. It sounds like you write in an answer as to what is your hardship.

So is there anything that wouldn't qualify as a right in answer? It sounds like you want to accept everybody. But is there any reason you wouldn't?

I think it really just depend on a case by case basis. We would have to, it'll go through three, three levels of review and approval to determine whether or not this is a new process for us.

So, you know, any valuating the types of scholarship programs that other organizations have done in the past, oftentimes it will be at the discretion of the director. Yes, I approve this waiver because this family's demonstrated a need based on how we're perceiving this need to be.

So, you know, we can't just waive fees for everybody. Otherwise, everything would be free. And we would love to have everyone in our parks and our programs. But we just want to see that they put the effort in, you know, to, and they're willing to bring their children to participate in a program.

But they are truly experiencing some sort of hardship that might be temporary. That's, you know, preventing them from participating in a program.

My goodness, Raymond, what is the prize? You can such a fantastic handler. That's, that's some surprising news. So, thank you very much for all of your help over the years. I think we started in the same meeting, you and Janine and I have been together for a long time.

So, good luck with the finance team and the work you're doing there.

I'll be over-transition probably, but I'll help Janine behind the scenes to make sure that, you know, get all the information as work.

Wonderful. Well, thank you so very much.

Awesome. Thank you. Well, we are now going to move on to Commissioner Commons ideas and questions. So, I'm actually going to start.

Not for my own personal stuff. I'll save that to the end. But first, I do want to talk about the annual report.

So, as Director Beacham had mentioned, we are going to be writing an annual report and that report is really focused on what we as a commission have done this past year.

So, looking at, you know, obviously, we know 916 day and then, you know, the 45 tree plantings that Commissioner Ford has done over in District 1 and all the different events that we've done.

So, there's a couple things that we're going to be doing. I want to thank Vice Chair Boone and Commissioner Flores. They have created a survey that we are going to send out.

I have sat on it. It's my fault. But we want to send it out after this meeting just to really, for you guys all to share what you've been working on, because we know you guys have done so much stuff.

Just going to different events in your district, just being there, handing out hot chocolate, all of that. We want to really be able to quantify all of those things that we've done.

So, that can be a part of the report. I know that the staff has already started kind of putting things together that they know. But that way, we can make sure everyone participates in that way.

So, we can share that. But then, in addition, because we need to bring the report draft back for all of us to discuss for March, we are creating an ad hoc committee.

So, we are looking for two volunteers who'd like to join Sierra and I on this ad hoc committee to work throughout this month of February to work on the report with staff.

So, I don't know if there are two volunteers who would like to work on that. If not, I'll just appoint people.

Oh, one too. Perfect. So, Commissioner Kangus and Commissioner Ford, you are officially a part of this committee with Vice Chair Boone and I.

So, we will be in touch. Chanin will be in touch with you. And then, so just so everyone else knows, I'm assuming that we'll have it in the agenda so everyone can review it and read it and have their notes ready for this meeting.

And then we'll discuss here any edits that we have for that.

No, I just get to a point.

Yes, you're in. All right, perfect. All right. So, now we will jump back into Commissioner comments, ideas and questions. Commissioner Ford.

Thank you so much for all your service. I know you're probably happy to transition to other bigger tasks and dealing with us, but you will be missed and I just want to express my gratitude for being so responsive to us and attentive and never complaining.

So, thank you and I hope you get to really focus now on your bigger duties. Thank you. And then, Chanin, I look forward to working with you a little bit more.

I just wanted to share for District one. We did have our first tree planning event, which I just also want to thank our chair. She stopped by and dropped off some drinks for us. Thank you for stopping by. We had actually about a hundred volunteers show. We actually wish we had more trees, but we understand that there was some limitations on tree.

So, we had a lot of different access abilities, but it was a really great turnout, different volunteers. We actually had volunteers from Amazon, from AmeriCorps, and then also from the cities, also staff and other volunteer groups there.

I'm also supporting a packs of love where we are collecting backfacts for the unhoused community, which we're having in event this event on February 16th at 8 a.m. at Sars Chavez Plaza. If you can't donate, you could definitely donate some time as well. So, feel free to come by.

I think that's all for me. Thank you.

I'm sorry, what date did you say for the packs of love? February 16th. Next Sunday at Sars Chavez Park. What time? 8 a.m.?

It's in collaboration with the nonprofit who's going to be serving meals, food, and other stuff, so it's going to be a wide event. It's their 10-year anniversary, so it's going to be good to know.

And you need backpacks donated. Backpacks socks.

All right, Commissioner Lever.

I just want to share a quick story. Jackie knows about it. About a week and a half ago, as someone called up, and they had an event at the Southside Park pond. It was a fishing in the city event.

And I ended up letting Sean and Joey know there was an area that this gentleman needed cleared up for his event, and I'm appreciative to the staff.

And then also, it kind of turned into another neat story. We were trying to protect the fish that get planted there the day before to help so the kids get to go fishing.

Because what happens is people find out about it because a fishing game, they end up putting on their website, so then people know about it, and they come and deplete the stock.

So this happened in November because I'm familiar with it. We had one at Hagen Park, and we ended up having a security company come to help protect the fish.

So I just wanted to let you know that it's going to probably be rescheduled because the rain canceled the event for it's called a hooked on fishing not violence.

Do you guys know, Thurman, Coach Thurman, and Tim Poole? So they're great people in their event. It's great. So I just wanted to help support them.

You know, the city doesn't advertise the event, but I just think it's great that they use the park there. And then I ended up contacting by chance a company through the tower district.

And there was a gentleman that has a security company, and he's going to volunteer his time to come out and patrol the park during that night.

So it probably have to be cleared with the rangers and Jackie, but I just think it was a neat story, and I'm grateful for Joey and Sean and Jackie, and thank you.

Thank you.

Commissioner Vasquez.

Yes, thank you. Artificio Guerrero Park in D6 has a tree planting coming up this Saturday morning. We've it's at 9.930 AM, which is really exciting. Very last minute that I found out about it, and we're really excited to share it with the neighborhood council member, Garros office is excited about it too.

And I wanted to give a special thank you to our at larges whom I feel very safe to tag in when I'm not able to attend a neighborhood association meeting. So thank you for jumping in and and tagging into D6 when I can go to a neighborhood association meeting. Thank you very much.

I really appreciate it. And for the draft plan for annual report is highlighted what we did last year, but also what we want to work on for 2025.

So it is also a year in advance. And so one thing for the crew who's going to be working on our ad hoc committee is that I would like to discuss our tree plantings and how they are in line and what is the pecking order to get to the top, how are we making sure that our tree canopies that need the most trees are rising to the top of that.

So just being planning ahead as to what parks need what trees and that way we can organize them in order in advance.

You know, it's a scary time. A lot of our tree canopy depends heavily on nonprofit assistance and volunteer assistance. And as we know our urban forestry dollars for California right now are all under our federal freeze, which is disappointing because our general funds with our state allotted zero dollars.

Because we had such a wealth of money come through to urban forestry through the federal administration last year. So it's kind of a double whammy. So we cannot rely this year on our nonprofits to put that bill.

We have to be more specific in our spending if we want to continue to enhance our tree canopy right now. So that's my request for the annual report for next year is to address tree canopy equity and funding.

Where does the city council hope to supplement where our nonprofits are not going to be able to do as much as they have done in the past.

So that's my request, please. And thank you.

Thank you. Commissioner Flores.

Thank you, Chair. A couple of items I'm working on with neighbors across District 7. First, I want to acknowledge the E-Team and Director Beacham.

I'm working on Elzworth and Jason over there helping me out across a milestone with a neighbor.

And I can't wait to fully explain this story that we're working on.

And it's a story of neighbors helping neighbors. And it's also a story where it's when we hit the finish line also as encompass the entirety of my tenure here as a commissioner.

I'm not going to do that, but it crossed a milestone in the past a week or so to hit other new milestones with the Parks Department. So I just want to acknowledge the E-Team's help in that.

And then also because in District 7, we are about partnerships this upcoming March 8th, we are going to be hosting a Dell Rio Trail cleanup.

And then the next section between Floren Road and Pocket Road.

We are partnering with Council Member Jennings Office, the Yipsey, the Southland Park Neighborhood Association, Pocket Area Churches together, and some hopefully some area youth from Kennedy High School.

The main thing is it's a neighbor led effort to help clean up the trail. And because it's also Arbor Day Month Week, Arbor Day Month Week, or it's Arbor Day Week, that week also at Zeeburg Park where we're going to be checking in at we're also going to be planting a few trees over there.

So at the high level event, but the main event is cleaning up the Dell Rio Trail weather permitting, obviously with it's been the rain season and the safety of neighbor's budget one to acknowledge that part. So thank you.

Thank you. Commissioner Robbins.

So I mean, it's just one individual with a viral video could do so much, speaking as one that done it before. So Joe showed me or he went and checked it out the other day.

So we haven't seen the video. I would recommend everybody to go see it. It was really awesome and just thank you for all the hard work and keep on spreading the good word.

So I went the other way of Joe and I was like, do we send him a cease and desist?

Thank you, Commissioner Robbins. All right. So just my one update. Well, first, you know, congratulations, Commissioner Ford on an amazing event.

I actually heard word on the street was that you had 118 volunteers sign in. That's what.

Yes, that's what I had heard. So congratulations.

So I was fortunate enough to have a mulching event on January 28th. It was super last minute.

I had a concern citizen. Ron reach out to me just about some of our young trees that needed to be mulched. And so when I reached out to our city staff, Dennis Harris, our new volunteer coordinator had said, hey, we actually have that day open.

There was another event that was canceled. So if you guys can get some volunteers together, then, you know, we can mulch. And so I asked Ron, I was like, are you free that day?

We're free, then like, let's do it. So, you know, in like a week turnaround, we were able to put something together. We were able to get 35 people out to mulch 30 trees out there.

So first off, thank you to the staff and especially Dennis for just the quick turnaround that we had to really make that happen.

And then obviously, thank you to Ron. It's a nice said to this to all of our volunteers. You know, we're not always at all the parks and we really need.

Everyone to let us know what's happens. Like all the citizens are eyes and ears to let us know what's happening at our parks.

So also, thank you Jeff was there. So and Jeff's out here in the audience. So thank you for coming out. Big, thank you to Alexis from Councilmember Vings office.

She reached out to a lot of the previous volunteers and that's how we were able to get people out, you know, with just a few days notice.

And Councilmember Vings was out and Samantha from her office came.

Maeva from Job Corps. She brought a group out. Danny from Champs for Life brought a group out. So we really had a wonderful turn out. So just thank you to all of my South Sack folks for coming out and supporting those trees at Cabrillo Park.

Especially last last minute. So thank you for that. And yeah, like I said, thank you to Dennis. So if you guys have not had chance to meet Dennis, he's fantastic and just a joy to work with Commissioner Ford.

I was just going to say something about Dennis Jackie big, big recognition for Dennis. He's amazing. Super responsive and like day of event. He totally organized all the little baskets. And usually I organize the baskets and then spread them out for tools.

And he had it all down. So he's really well prepared. Really really look forward to working with him.

All right. And the last item is public comments matters not only agenda. Clerk, are there any members of the public who wish to speak on public comments matters not on the agenda?

Thank you, Chair. I have no speaker slips on this item.

Excellent. And if I can bang this gavel right now, then that means the meeting is adjourned in 90 minutes. So this concludes today's agenda. Thank you everyone for your participation.

I mean, it's adjourned in 90 minutes.