I call this regular meeting of the Parks and Recreation Commission to order at 6 34 p.m.

Okay.

And all members are present.

All members are present with Commissioner Carter joining us remotely.

And we'll move on to approval of minutes.

We have the approval of the Parks and Recreation Commission minutes from March 11th, 2025.

We have one set of minutes for approval.

Are there any objections or changes to note?

Okay, I'm seeing a shaking of heads, seeing no objection, the minutes stand adopted.

We will move on to public business from the floor.

This is a time for members of the public to address the commission on non-agenda items.

Is there public business from the floor?

All right.

Seeing no one coming forward, we will move on to our next item.

Our next item is reports.

So Parks Wreck and Cultural Services Acting Director Bridget Rich is going to report on change in leadership for the department.

So I will let Bridge.

Hi guys.

So you know it's nice to see you all again.

I think I know most of you, and um, like I said, good to see you.

So I started as interim director as of May 5th.

Um, so gosh, I'm into my second week now.

Just to give you all an update, um, Ken is on approved leave through July 7th.

As of July 7th, I will be acting director from their fourth.

Um, I just wanted to kind of give you a heads up.

Uh so while I am interim now, eventually I kind of roll into that position.

Um so I I just wanted to say, and I'm I'm going into my eighth year now with parks and recreation.

And I, of course, you know, I think I spent gosh almost five years as a part-time staff for our department.

Um, and I'm just really excited about this uh this next chapter, and I'm really excited to continue working with you all in a different capacity.

And um yeah, I'm a local homegrown, homegrown kid.

So parks and recreation has a really near and dear place to my heart.

So I'm happy to be here and again looking forward to working with you all.

Wonderful.

Well, welcome, Bridget.

It'll be nice working with you in a little closer capacity now as acting director and soon to be director.

Um are there any I'll if raise your hand um or let me know.

Do you does anybody have any questions for Bridget regarding uh this update?

Okay.

Yeah.

Yeah, just so I understand that sorry, so I understand the semantics.

So Bridget, you're you were interim as of May 5th, and then you said it you are taking on the director role then as of July.

Okay.

I know it sounds a little bit weird.

Um yeah, it's a little funky, but technically interim director is my title until the 7th.

That makes sense.

Ken is still technically director, he's just on leave.

So and until his leave is done and he is then finishes his term, like his um appointment.

I guess um, then Bridget will become the full full acting.

I mean, well, she's acting director, but she'll become director.

It's it's really a paper thing.

Um all right, any other questions for Bridget.

Okay.

Um, all right, moving on to the next report, commission trail report.

Uh, I'm going to go ahead and kind of give a little background.

So part of this is bringing Bridget up to speed on the new goals that we just um came up with in our our March and then our April um co work session.

Um so filling Bridget in a little bit there, letting her know what like the idea behind the trail report was, and then we will then be given our first assignment for a trail report for next month.

So the idea behind the trail report.

So we um for years now we've kind of tried to get a trail subcommittee off the ground, sort of had one started, but it didn't really go very far.

Um it was put on pause before Ken came along, and then when Ken came on, it was you know, uh we wanted to give him some time to to get his his feet under him.

Long story short, it it's kind of keeps getting brought up or kept getting brought up, and we wanted to do something about the trails.