The Parks and Recreation Commission of Valdez, Alaska, held its regular meeting on July 8, 2025, at 6:30 PM in the Council Chambers. All members were present. The meeting included approval of minutes, a public appearance regarding Gold Rush Days, discussion of trail assessments, reports from the Park Maintenance Supervisor and PRCS Director, and commission business.
All right. I call this regular meeting of the Parks and Recreation Commission to order at 6:30 p.m. All members are present and accounted for. I'm gonna steal that. And we will move on to the approval of minutes. We have one set of minutes for approval. Are there any objections or changes to note? Okay. Seeing no objections. The minutes stand adopted. All right. And then we'll move on to public appearances since the public appearance is going to be by myself. I will hand my gavel over to Peter. Momentarily, just because I'm off the dais. So all right. Hi. My name is Sarah Jorgensen Owen of Valdez, Alaska. I am here to just give an appearance for the Valdez Goldrush days, which will be occurring before our next commission meeting. Since we are a CSO event, I just wanted to acknowledge that and let you know that we've been working with uh Martha who handles the CSO requests. And all of those requests have been funneled to Parks and Rec. We don't have a whole lot with Parks and Rec as far as assets. They help us a little bit with trash cans and they'll bring in they um I know Brian will help bring in like tables and things like that, although those technically aren't owned by Parks and Rec, they're on by economic development. Um yada yada yada. It's um it's a pretty well-oiled machine at this point. So there will be a meeting about a week ahead of time with Martha. Um parks and rec, public works, um, you know, everybody that's kind of has uh a finger or a hand in gold rush days, just so that we're all on board as to where dumpsters go, et cetera. Um, but I don't anticipate any. I don't anticipate any um extra needs or anything um from parks and rec besides what has already been put in the CSO and discussed. So are there any questions for me? Um working in some of the hospitality already, a lot of the locals and the tourists are already looking forward uh to gold rush days. So thank you for all your hard work for that because I know it's not easy. So yeah, thank you for you and your committee. Thank you. All right, thank you all. Sorry, and I am back on the diets, so taking back the gavel. Um right, we'll move on to public business from the floor, which is a time for members of the public to address the commission on non-agenda items. Is there any public business from the floor? I do not see anybody from the public, so we will proceed to the next item. New business, we have one item for new business, which is the commission assessment of the trails reports for overlook trail in East Dyke Trail. Um, are there any questions regarding the commission assessment that was handed out to us? Yes, Aidan. Um I just wanted to double check the continuing with this assessment, the travel posters trail reports assessment that we would be continuing to do that through the winter because I saw some of the comments are specifically for like winter use stuff. And it just seems like maybe not the right time to really be talking about the winter stuff because it's not winter. I I think that's part of it's part of the rubric, and I think the idea is it's just there as like a placeholder so that when we are in winter and assessing a trail during the winter time, it's just like a reminder. Um I I believe that is the intent of that wording. Any other questions? Yes. Okay. There's um two different forms, both labeled East Dyke. I'm thinking they're probably just a naming thing happen here because it was East Dike and then the overlook trail, correct?