The meeting covered presentations from city partners and staff on watershed restoration, golf course operations, summer programs, and open space management. Public comments addressed PGE vegetation clearing impacts, lighting effects on wildlife at Boundary Oak, and requests for more project status updates. The Consent Calendar approving April 6, 2026 minutes passed unanimously. No formal actions were taken on other items, but the Commission directed staff to explore lighting studies and report back.
Good evening. I'm Sharon Pinkstaff, Chair of PROS Commission. Welcome to Monday, June 1st, 2026, regular PROS Commission meeting. Commission Secretary Mike Vickers, would you please call roll? Yes, student commissioner Conson. Here. Commissioner Oler. Here. Commissioner Garland. Here. Commissioner Brockhouse? Yeah. Vice Chair Sasser. Here. And Chair Pinkstaff. Here. Let the record show that everyone is present. All right. Next on the agenda is public communications. This portion of the meeting is reserved for comment on items not on the agenda. Under the Brown Act, the Commission cannot act on items raised during public communications but may respond briefly to statements made or questions posed. Request clear clarification or refer the item to staff. Written comments submitted have been posted to the city's website for public review and are included in the meeting record, but will not be separately read into the record. Any public comments? Yeah, you have two uh minutes to comment on item and state the name and just city of residence for the record. You can fill out the card, Barbara, afterwards. Hello, my name is Barbara Yenis. I've been a resident of Walnut Creek since 1996. Um you may or may not know that uh areas around the um power lines in Lime Ridge were cleared by probably PGE or PGE contractors. This was back in July 2025. Um when they cleared, they cleared about 20 Mount Diablo Manzanitas down to the ground level and just left stumps, and chaparral was totally cleared in another area where there's a California endangered native plant called the Ariasrum. Uh I have I put I wrote an email and gave you some information on the uh ranking of these plants and shrubs. Um apparently there was a uh apparently city staff did not uh or has an agreement with PGE that would that PGE would contact them before they do any work within Lime Ridge, but in early uh July 2025, this did not happen. Um in late uh July 2025, city staff met with PGE representatives and city staff uh assured that an agreement email stating uh the need to communicate more often and communication with PN PGE will continue to improve and this will help prevent future challenges. Then in May 2026, just just happened, uh apparently PGE workers or contractors, I think, although I haven't verified this with city as I haven't been contacted. Uh they went up there and did further clearing around the power lines down to the ground level. So there were things that were growing back and took them all down. I uh citizens notified staff on 522 is right before labor day or memorial day, and um uh appears, additional clearing except for a small area was was not continued. So um, okay. I just have a remaining question. If uh city staff uh uh it doesn't have the okay from PG and E that they're gonna contact them before something needs to be done to protect some of the endangered plants and things. Thank you very much. Sorry for being out of breath. All right, thank you. Commissioners, um, any questions the public comments? Thank you. Any other public comments? No. All right. We'll move to the next portion of the agenda, consent calendar.