The Parks and Recreation Advisory Board held its regular session on January 22, 2026, beginning at approximately 5:32 p.m. Central Time (agenda listed 5:30 p.m.; note that the user-provided timestamp indicates 11:30 UTC, which conflicts with the local time listed in the agenda and transcript). The meeting was called to order by Chair Kathy McDonald with a quorum present. Board members in attendance included Grant Mills, Brooke Cray, Rich Zimmer, and Cathy McDonald; members Kindra Lucia and Calynn Mullins were absent. Staff present included Director Jaycob Kirkpatrick. The board approved the minutes from the July 24, 2025 meeting and postponed the election of a Vice Chair to the next meeting. Director Kirkpatrick delivered a comprehensive report on departmental operations, events, and capital projects.
Call the order meeting tonight, and we'd like to call it call the City of Weather Park Room Recreation Board meeting to order today is January 2026. And then time is 532. At this time, the present board members are Grant Mills, Fort Cray, Rich, what's your last name? Zimmer. Cathy McDonald and staff. So we do have a forum process. Kathy Kathy Small. Oh, Kathy. You are here. Okay, I'm sorry. There's a lot of blogs on that. It's okay. Okay, and tonight we'll do our pledge of allegiance to the United States. And to group public for which it stands, one nation under God, individual liberty, and justice for all Texas flag pledge. Honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to the Texas. One day under If it's just I hope everybody has couples of the minutes from the last meeting. That was on July 24th. We could not have a meeting in October. Um we need to approve the agenda from that meeting. If there's no corrections, I'll entertain a motion to approve the minutes. I move. Okay. We have a rich first and second. Um we also have our regular agenda items. Uh the first is a consideration of an appointment to vice chair to the board. Um I'm going to suggest that since we are missing Kendra, we're also missing Kaelin tonight, and we have two new members that really don't know staff all of the board members. Maybe we do a little meet and greet afterwards and talk later, but how about we push this to the next meeting agenda? Can we get a vote on that motion? I'd like to make a motion that we push the vote for the vice presentation. Awesome. Okay. Um staff reports, Janet. All right. Thank you, appreciate it. Um, so just a few things I'm gonna go over today. So, first of all, uh, welcome Grant and Grote to the team. We're excited to have you here. Um love to have your opinions on things and there's discussion as we move forward and get involved. So look forward to that. Real quick before I kind of get into my thing, just uh I'm just gonna do a just a real quick overview of what we do in our department. You may already know, but just kind of just a high level real quick. So this department is parks and rec in special events, but it's also a facility maintenance. And so what that means is we do all the special events that you see in the city, uh, except for the peace festival that's cut over some of the chambers where we do help logistics on this one. So tennis barricades, you know, stuff like that. Uh but that's actually run by the chamber of commerce. Everything else that you see at Harris Park, and that is basically run through us. Uh so we have a special event team that handles that, and then our park staff, our parks maintenance workers. Um, there's about 13 or 14 of them. And that's there are parks maintenance workers, but they're also our event team as well.