I think that's in the web.

All right.

We will call tonight's uh Monday, March 30th.

Waukeshaw Parks Recreation and Forestry Board to order with roll call.

All right.

Alderman Camacho.

Eric Hummer.

Steve Johnson.

Sarah Roth.

Here.

John Schmidt.

Absent.

Alderman Wells.

Here.

Jennifer Walner.

Here.

And Erica Yoss is absent.

And that completes roll call.

Great.

Thank you.

Okay.

Moving right along to public comment.

We do not have any public comment this evening.

So we will move along to the approval of the minutes from the Waukesha Parks Recreation and Forestry Board from February 16th, 2026.

Motion to approve.

Motion.

Motion by Eric Hummer, second by Alderman Camacho.

Any further discussion?

Great.

We'll take that to a vote.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed.

And that passes unanimously.

Moving on to discussion decision items.

Item A, review and possible action on proposed 2026 summer season recreation program fees and charges schedule.

All right.

Thank you, Jennifer.

Spring break is taking the toll on our staff.

But we still have the few of the proud, the recreation team.

The uh here tonight to go over the programs.

Um we're real close to uh getting our activity guide out for the summer.

So very important that we take action on these uh on these uh fees and charges that are proposed.

Uh I think Gail is leading the show here.

And then we got uh Cheryl and and uh we got Logan to cover the rest.

Good evening, everybody.

Thank you for being here.

Uh so we are very excited to kick off summer, another wonderful summer in the great city of Waukesha.

Uh we're going to be offering a total of uh 635 different uh program offerings, 457 youth classes, 126 adult classes, 42 55 and plus classes, and 10 family classes.

So if we turn to uh the summer youth development page, uh we will be offering youth dance.

This is um a contractual agreement with Sandy Culler down uh downtown Waukeshaw.

She is uh decided to keep her fees the same.

Uh so $63 for residents, $8, I should say, $88 for um non-residents.

And then we also partner um with uh Tree Climb, which is um Curtis, he does a phenomenal job in our parks.

He has decided to increase uh his offerings to keep up with the cost of doing business.

So he's going from $52 to $55 for 6% increase.

Um another great partnership with Dave Galuski.

He does phenomenal uh work with youth and adult and families with Taekwondo.

He is uh decided to keep things and and fees the same.

Um and then we do offer some preschool programs uh at our David's Park location.

Uh we've been doing this for a number of years.

It's a wonderful program, has a great following.

Uh we have decided to keep those fees the same.

And then of course, our swim and park play program.

This is uh used with uh community block grant dollars for families um that need assistance.

We also have a fee-based program as well for families that can uh can't afford to pay for that class.

Um so we're we're setting those fees at $85 for residents and 110 uh for non-residents.

It's an eight-week class.

We partner with the Salvation Army and the kettles not only get fabulous enrichment, they get a swim lesson by our phenomenal aquatics team.

Uh plus they get a really nutritious meal from Salvation Army.

Um so that those are all the fees that I have.

I'm gonna turn this over now to Cheryl.

Programs for this summer.

Um, as you can see, we only have increases in our Skyhawks, which again is a contractual program.

Um they're taking some prices up a little bit, so we have a one percent increase there.

They are offering quite a few additional classes this summer, so things are um picking up there.

Everything else with the exception of Challenger, which is our soccer camp from the guys that come out from Chicago and do the camp there.

So naturally a little bit of an increase with that one.

Bucks held their prices for this year.

Same with our golf lessons, prices are being held and the adult leagues that are offered in the fall.

Yeah, which is a softball and the men's softball, those prices are held.

So things are looking good.

Thank you, evening one everyone.

Just kind of go over briefly.

Just with me starting everything until I can further review these items for next year.

The teachers are super excited to have that ahead of time with probably a few more joining that program.

Our homeschool programming for art and PE, both combined classes are still seeing continuous uh number increases, which is really good.

Pricing is staying the same.

Along with our youth enrichment camps, such as tumbling and uh youth programming, those are also looking very well as well, with numbers increasing.

Um pickleball, everyone's favorite sport.

Um, as again uh numbers are seeing strong participation, including across fancing low and buckner sites.

Everyone's excited as well for um us adding low on Saturdays, and also with us for our um prairie pickball complex as well.

Um adult fitness, um, Tai Chi Yoga strength business uh base programs are showing uh consensus gross as well.

Um even our Tai Chi program is requesting to have additional classes for next year, but that's under further review.

Um as Gayla mentioned as well, our adult programming is also doing very well.

We're definitely using those uh grant dollars as much as possible for the CBDB grant.

Um and then any questions on those items before I move on to aquatics.

I've got a question regarding it uh the 3K and 4K foxtail preschool.

Um if someone is in the Oxhell School District and they're outside the city.

Do they get the resident fee for that?

So 4K is uh for 4K, yes.

So that is uh used with uh taxpayer dollars uh from the school district.

Um for our 3K program, that is an independent WPRF program, so they would pay the non-resident rate for that if they're not a city.

It is separate, yes, yes, yes, um, it's a wonderful program.

They transitioned very nicely right into 4K with us, but uh it is a separate program.

Right, thank you.

Yes.

Any other questions before I move on to aquatics?

Okay.

Moving on to aquatics and pool fees, um, pool programming.

Um we had a strong emissions last year and past sales, um, continue to support our pool operations.

Uh biggest adjustments that we're doing for this year is we reformatted.

Oh, wait, yeah.

That's a separate, yeah.

Okay, hold on.

Yeah, just remember all that he said he won't say.

No, no, no.

He's very excited about that.

Yes, that's great.

Okay, any um any questions or discussion?

Okay.

I will make a motion to approve the um 2026 summer season recreation program fees and charges schedule.

Oh, second.

Motion by Jennifer Walner, second by Sarah Roth.

Any further discussion?

Sorry.

Okay, we'll take that to a vote.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Okay, and that passes unanimously.

And no.

Okay, back to the review and possible action on proposed 2026 pool program season and fees charges schedule.

Thank you, Jennifer.

Uh, as I was saying, we had strong admissions and pass sales, continuous for our pool operations.

Um, biggest adjustments for this year is we reformatted our pool party pricing and cabanas fees.

Cabanas are brand new program, which we're very excited for.

To my understanding, the structures were delivered today to the main office.

Um, but uh the birthday parties, um, we decided to create our basic pool party and then our ultimate pool party package at the Buckner facility.

Um, just kind of based off of how we decided to reformat it.

I think that's gonna be a big hit this year um and be more well utilized.

Um again, the full operational report was presented back in February.

Um other questions on pools.

And there private group swimming lessons.

Uh I see total enrollment is 22.

Is that 22 22 agencies?

Or 22 people and aquatic training private group swimming lessons for child care agencies.

Yeah.

That's a surprise.

That's why I want to read it.

I believe that's only one group with 22 enrollees.

If I can look further into that confirm that for you.

Okay, so it's one agency with 22 enrollees.

Correct.

To my understanding.

Yeah.

That would make that would make sense because it's $60 an individual.

So yeah.

Okay.

What agency is that, by the way.

I believe it's one of the day cares.

I'm sorry.

This was um this used to be Mark Thompson's uh programming, and Logan has just been with us now for a couple months, which we're so excited to have him on board.

I was just curious who taking advantage of that.

Yeah, yeah.

I know we reach out to a lot of the um other child care providers and an um so the number maybe yeah at the YMCA sometimes will use our city pools bring their students.

So um let's let's dive a little deeper and get to the correct answer because now looking at it, that that might be actual agency because I know we we've stepped that up quite a bit, and quite a bit of other programs are using our city.

Right for field trips and what have you.

All right, thank you.

I just I know Mark um kind of reviewed everything with us in February, and I'm just questioning was there any changes to what he presented, or this is all uh pretty much everything is staying the same.

Um, the only thing we kind of changed a little bit was the cabanas, but pretty much the pool party and the ultimate pool party package at Buckner is the same.

Great.

Okay, thank you.

Any additional questions?

Okay.

I'll make a motion to approve second.

Okay, motion by Steve Johnson, second by Eric Hummer.

Um, any further discussion?

Okay, we'll take it to a vote.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed, and that passes unanimously.

Great.

Moving on to item C review and possible action on proposed revision to aquatic facility group admission application.

All right, so just one small change with this application form that we have, um, and that is removing the um non-refundable application fee of $50.

Uh ultimately, the only type of cancellations that we really see um tend to be weather related, and then we're still issuing that um the refund of that $50.

So we wanted to remove that uh as uh we um see a processing fee when um refunding that amount, and then it also would help reduce a little bit of uh staff time as well.

So that was the only change that we had on this application.

Can I suggest that you rework the bullet points a little bit?

It kind of seems to jump around from form instructions to things that are I guess rules for using this.

Um I just kind of read it and it it seems like some of these things should be broken out so they're more visible.

Um you know, like there's there's instructions for the form itself, and there's like rules governing how this policy is gonna work.

And I think if you broke those out, it'd be a little bit clearer just to say um, you know, the intended use is how to pay uh seven days in advance versus please read group policies, one adult for every five kids.

Um yeah, I just think that would clarify a little bit.

Sure.

Since we're in there making changes anyway.

But I'll make a motion to approve.

Great.

I will second.

So that's a motion by Alderman Wells and a second by Jennifer Wallner.

Any further discussion?

Yeah, I'll just add as far as formatting.

That's a good point.

Is we're trying to get all our forms to get away from bullet points because when you do reference, especially like at public meetings, it's bullet point three.

It's much better to have ABC or one, two, three.

So we're trying to systematically uh eradicate that to make it very plain that's right.

Number seven is XYZ.

And it's not changed that content, so I feel like that's something you guys should just be able to do without absolutely approval or not.

Administrative.

Yeah.

Great.

Any other further discussion?

Okay, we'll take that to a vote.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed.

And that passes unanimously.

Great.

Moving right along.

Um, board president report.

I do not have anything to report uh for this month.

And we're moving along then to director and staff report.

All right.

Is hearing two all in Camacho's uh request?

Our report will be very, very brief.

We are extremely busy.

As you might suspect, we're hitting into the summer season.

So we're working on various plans.

We had a kickoff meeting with the uh park and recreation system master plan.

So much more to come with that.

And in fact, we have a uh another meeting, a second meeting with the consulting firm on that.

But uh again, lots of projects wrapping up and also beginning.

And uh we'll we'll spend more time on kind of doing an update once we're a little further along.

We just got a list from uh finance with all the CIP uh capital.

I'm sorry, Silicon Community Community Investment Program.

It's gonna take me a couple years, I think, to get used to that.

Uh we just uh received that from uh finance department and uh reviewing carryovers projects, etc.

Uh so I think next meeting and a plan on spending a little more time on uh reviewing you know where we're at with that.

But at this juncture, uh I think we're in good shape, not to get into too much detail, but a lot of a lot of things to um you know convey and keep the board in the loop.

So we definitely want to do that.

Um Mark, I don't know.

Yes.

Yeah, thank you.

Thank you.

All right, short and sweet activity guides in production.

Um people should be expecting that in their mailboxes uh at the end of next week with the following week um registration opening up.

Uh we have been focusing on uh prepping for uh concession stands opening up at Saratoga and WRO.

Um we have been uh working with Civic Plus on a website redesign for our jamboree website.

That is a four or five month uh process.

So we just started that about a month ago.

Um also been working on getting athletic banners out to complexes for the upcoming um athletic season.

Um, and then from a CIP uh standpoint, we have uh cameras and keyless entry being installed at Pebble Creek and Rivers Crossing this week.

And that is my report.

Thank you.

All right, and uh while we had the recreation report, but you want have anything else to add?

Yeah, besides the programs and the fees.

Very busy uh preparing for summer.

We are um currently working on our community block grants um and getting those in for 2027, so that's um always exciting.

And then uh for me personally, I'm I am working with the Department of Public Instruction as as you know.

Um Hawthorne is one of our community learning centers, and that school will be closing at the end of this year.

So working with the school district of Waukesha, collecting data and then petitioning to the Department of Public Instruction.

Hopefully, we'll be able to get that grant transferred over to Lowell Elementary, as uh it looks like 75% of the current Hawthorne students that are enrolled this year will be moving over to Lowell Elementary.

So in talking with our liaison at DPI, it looks like it it's a good you know, good thing, and and we shouldn't have any issues.

So, and as you know, this is our fourth year, so next year will be the the last year of the community learning center grant.

Um at this point, they are not opening up uh the grant application because of um you know some some concerns with with the grant being funded at the federal level.

So we are currently working with um a state representative to see if um there's something that maybe at the state level uh they're gonna be willing to do for before and after school.

So that's my update.

I don't know if anybody else has anything.

Sure.

Uh the men's basketball league winter league has wrapped up.

That was with 16 teams that was considered two full leagues there.

And of course, last week we started our youth soccer league.

We have 75 teams registered in that program with probably 74 of those teams filled with kids of 12 players or more.

So do your math, talking about 900 kids.

Um softball and kickball registration is going on through tomorrow.

As of this point, when I walked in this meeting, I had 84 teams registered for the adults, and I'm sure that's gonna top 90 close to 100.

So very proud of that because we have staff that works very hard to push that program.

Just some brief aquatics updates.

We've uh already put in our first order for chemicals for the season, so that was kind of fun to do for both facilities.

Um we just completed today our first WSI class, which is water safety instructor uh instructures for the pool that just got completed today.

So we had five people complete that and pass it.

Tomorrow starts our first lifeguarding course for the season.

I believe we have 12 participants in that class, so super excited to go meet the new candidates for that.

And then just working on summer hiring for um both facilities at the pool and everything.

So but we're already looking at scheduling to when hopefully we can start putting water in the pools, um, come early May.

So yeah.

All right, that concludes our report.

Great.

Well, thanks everyone.

Oh, yes.

Any uh uh report or feedback on who is utilizing our uh Prairie Avenue parking lot.

Uh no report on that.

I brought that up last month.

Parking lot down by the ball diamonds, down by well.

Right, right.

I'm just curious if uh there's any because they're they're parking here.

The uh baseball uh South baseball team will start this week, so that will bring cars in there at 3 30 prior to that.

I don't know.

I mean, I'm talking in the morning, the parking lot is full.

Okay.

That's yeah, where you stage the uh wood chips and stuff?

Yeah, yeah.

It's been like that every time I've gone past here.

Yeah, we haven't last month.

Yeah, we haven't had any report on it other than what you mentioned.

And uh, I mean, we could suspect uh who's using it.

Well, I'm sure it's well ball, I mean construction people have 12.

Okay.

Yeah, we haven't had a chance to really dig into that.

Uh, but with the summer season now, that's gonna ramp up use of the parking lot and and exposure and and uh on occasion we do get people that use parking lots that really don't have permission, but kind of take inch.

Uh give it well, we haven't we haven't permitted it to any private organization.

So those lots are for the park use and in that case uh primarily for the ball field, which stays pretty quiet up until right around this time.

So once you know south start practicing the document parking.

Yeah, so we'll we'll definitely find out, investigate as much as we can and uh kind of go from there.

Any further discussion?

Great.

Well, thanks everyone.

We are adjourned.

Enjoy the warm weather.

Thank you.