* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. I'D LIKE TO CALL [00:00:01] THE [Parks and Recreation Board Meeting on December 7, 2022] DECEMBER 7TH, 2022 MEETING AND OF THE PARKS AND RECORD. AND THAT'S DES SAYS DECEMBER 7TH. AND, OH GOD, I'M LOOKING, WHAT AM I LOOKING AT HERE? IT IS DECEMBER 7TH. IT IS DECEMBER 7TH. OH MY GOSH. MY WATCH HAS TO HARBOR DAY. YEAH. NO, I MEAN THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT GOT ME. OKAY. I'M SORRY. LET WE START OVER AGAIN. HELLO . HELLO EVERYONE. I'D LIKE TO CALL THE DECEMBER 7TH, 2022 MEETING OF THE GARLAND PARKS AND RECREATION BOARD TO MEETING. I WANNA THANK EVERYONE FOR ATTENDANCE TODAY. UH, NOTE THAT WE DO HAVE A QUORUM, UH, IN THIS MEETING. SO LET'S GET STARTED. AND THE FIRST ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS THE APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES OF OUR NOVEMBER 2ND, UH, MEETING. UH, EVERYBODY TAKE A LOOK AT THOSE, MAKE SURE THEY'RE CORRECT. MAKE SURE YOUR NAME'S ON THERE IF YOU WERE HERE. OKAY? THIS IS YOUR ONLY CHANCE TO DO THAT, MR. PARISH. UH, I WAS JUST WONDERING YOU, SINCE WE'RE GETTING SEVERAL RECREATION SUPERVISOR REPORTS, IF WE OUGHT TO INDICATE WHICH, YOU KNOW, THAT IT WAS ERIC, WAS IT ERIC LAST MONTH? YES. YEAH. MM-HMM. THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, HE WAS TALKING ABOUT BRADFIELD ON THE VERBAL BRIEFINGS. UM, NO. WELL, YES. UNDER VERBAL BRIEFING. MM-HMM. . OKAY. YOU LIKE TO PUT THAT, THAT BE, UH, UNDER VERBAL BRIEFINGS. RECREATION SUPERVISOR REPORT. OKAY. AND THAT WAS ERIC AND HE WAS WITH WHICH? BRAD BRADFIELD. YES. BRADFIELD. YES. THANK YOU MR. PARISH. DULY NOTED AND DONE. ANY OTHER, UH, CHANGES, ADDITION CONDITIONS, MODIFICATIONS, UH, TO THE MINUTES? HEARING NONE THE CHAIR WILL, UH, ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO APPROVE. MOTION TO APPROVE AS AMENDED. OKAY, WELL SECOND. I, OKAY, THERE YOU GO. MOTION, UH, MADE BY, UH, MOLLY BISHOP AND SECONDED BY DAVID PERISH. IS THERE ANY OTHER DISCUSSION ON THE MINUTES? C NONE. ALL THOSE IN FAVORS SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. ALL THOSE OPPOSED? LIKEWISE. NOTE THAT THE MINUTES WERE APPROVED UNANIMOUSLY AND WE AN ITEM TWO, WE HAVE, UH, ITEMS FOR INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION. UH, A IS CONSIDERED CANCELING OR RESCHEDULING THE JANUARY 4TH BOARD. WE'RE GONNA GET THIS UP EARLY. UH, JANUARY 4TH, 2023. REGULAR PARKS AND RECREATION BOARD MEETING. UM, MR. HESSER, WOULD YOU WANNA FILL US IN ON WHAT I CAN HEAR? SURE. UH, THE, IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE TRADITIONALLY WILL PUT ON THE AGENDA THIS TIME OF YEAR. UH, THE WAY THE, THE MEETING WOULD FALL. UM, THE HOLIDAYS, UM, TYPICALLY ARE VERY STAFF LIGHT, SO WE MAY NOT HAVE STAFF TO PREPARE AN AGENDA THIS YEAR. IT WOULD PUT US ON THE FOURTH. STAFF IS OFF ON THAT MONDAY FOR, FOR NEW YEAR'S. UM, AND THEN ALSO WE GET TWO DAYS OFF THE 26TH AND 27TH FOR CHRISTMAS BECAUSE IT FALLS ON A SUNDAY. SO PACKET PREP, UH, IS A CHALLENGE AND, AND THIS TIME OF YEAR THE AGENDAS TEND TO BE LIGHT ANYWAY, SO WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT, UH, THE BOARD WAS OKAY WITH. OKAY. AND WE ALSO HAVE THE, UH, OPTION OF, UH, MOVING THE DATE OF THE MEETING. CORRECT. AND, UM, UM, WHAT WOULD BE THE, WE'D HAVE TO FIND SPACE, RIGHT? CORRECT. WE WOULD HAVE TO FIND A WEDNESDAY OR A THURSDAY. I THINK THOSE ARE THE OPTIONS SET WERE GIVEN TO ME PREVIOUSLY IN THIS, IN THIS ROOM? YES. OKAY. WOULD THE, I START OFF WITH WEDNESDAY THE 11TH, BE AVAILABLE? THAT'D BE THE NEXT WEDNESDAY. I DO NOT KNOW WHETHER THAT'LL BE AVAILABLE, BUT I MOST DEFINITELY WILL CHECK IF COURT IS AVAILABLE. OKAY. UM, SO WHAT DO WE HAVE COMING UP THAT YOU WOULD LIKELY BE DISCUSSED AND REQUIRE ACTION IN JANUARY? THAT'S A QUESTION FOR YOU, MR. HESSER. UH, MATT, DO WE HAVE, AS A RESULT OF THE URBAN FORESTRY CONVERSATION, IS THAT PLANNED FOR JANUARY OR IS THAT TONIGHT ONLY, BUT THAT WOULD, THAT WAS PLANNED FOR TONIGHT. OKAY. UNLESS THERE WAS ADDITIONAL, UM, QUESTIONS WE COULD BRING BACK. THE OTHER THING WOULD BE THE ORDINANCE, BUT TO BE HONEST, I DON'T KNOW IF, BE READY DEPEND ON HOW THE MEETING GOES NEXT MONDAY. OKAY. OKAY. MOLLY, YOU HAD A COMMENT? DID I HEAR YOU SAY SOMETHING? UM, I'LL CIRCLE BACK IN A SECOND. TRAIN OF THOUGHT. SORRY, . IT ONLY GETS WORSE. . SO THE OTHER THING WE HAD IN OUR SUGGESTED AGENDA ITEMS HAD DECEMBER BY IT. UM, IS DONATION POLICY, IS THAT SOMETHING WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT IN JANUARY? I DON'T KNOW THAT WE WOULD BE READY BY THEN. THAT WAS SOMETHING WE COULD PROBABLY NO POINT IN. YES, SIR. WISHING THAT IF IT'S NOT [00:05:01] RIGHT, READY TO, SO WAS KEITH PART OF THIS? YOUR MIC ON? YEAH, IT SAYS MIKE IF MIKE IS ON. OKAY. HI MIKE. UM, I HAD TO TURN MINE OFF AND TURN IT BACK ON TO ACTUALLY GET IT TO WORK. I DON'T THINK YOU'RE UP, MOLLY. NOW IS, YEAH. SO IT WORKS. OKAY. SO IT SEEMS LIKE WE HAVE SOME SORT OF COMMITTEE MEETINGS THAT HAPPEN BEFORE WE HAVE THE PART BOARD MEETING. IS THERE ANY SORT OF THINGS ON THE FUTURE AGENDA THAT WILL REQUIRE A COMMITTEE MEETING THAT WE COULD DO THAT IN JANUARY AND, AND HAVE THE MEETING, THE COMMITTEE MEETING, THE MEETING AND KIND OF GET IT ADVANCED TOWARD COUNCIL RATHER THAN SOME OF THE USUAL TIMING DELAYS THAT WE HAVE? YEAH, SO WE DID TALK ABOUT, UH, FOLLOWING THAT FORMAT TO WHERE WE COULD DO, UM, SUBCOMMITTEE MEETINGS, UH, IN THE PREVIOUS MONTH AND THEN GIVE TIME TO STUDY IT AND RESEARCH IT AND SO FORTH. I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING PLANNED FOR JAN FOR JANUARY, UH, JUST YET. BUT I DO THINK THAT'S A GOOD WAY GOING FORWARD TO HANDLE THE SUBCOMMITTEE MEETINGS, GIVE IT A A MONTH IN BETWEEN THE SUBCOMMITTEE AND THE ACTUAL FULL, FULL BOARD IF THAT'S SUITABLE FOR CHAIRMAN. WHEN, WHEN DID WE ANTICIPATE STARTING THE C I P DISCUSSIONS FOR NEXT YEAR? THAT WAS LAST MONTH. WELL, WE DID . I JUST DIDN'T KNOW IF THERE WAS ANYTHING NEEDED TO COME TO US. WELL, SO WE WOULD ONCE COUNSEL, UH, APPROVES, UH, OR EVEN PRELIMINARILY APPROVES THAT WE WOULD PRESENT AT THAT TIME. I JUST DON'T KNOW. I DON'T BELIEVE THAT'LL BE JANUARY EITHER. IT'S, IT'S USUALLY FEBRUARY OR MARCH. YEAH. OKAY. OKAY. I MAKE A MOTION THAT WE, UNLESS WE HAVE SUBCOMMITTEE MEETINGS, SO WE CANCEL THE, UH, JANUARY BOARD MEETING. OKAY. WE'LL SECOND THAT. OKAY. WE HAVE A MOTION. SECOND, UH, I DO HAVE SOME DISCUSSION ON THAT AND BASICS BECAUSE, UH, I'VE FOLLOWED SUCH A WONDERFUL CHAIRMAN. UH, I, I STILL FEEL LIKE I'M TRYING TO GET MY LEGS TOGETHER, UH, AND GET MY ARMS AROUND WHAT IT IS THAT WE, YOU AND I, WE CAN HAVE COFFEE AND YEAH, WE, WE CAN COME MEET FOR A FEW DAYS AND, AND I WAS, I WAS HOPING THAT, THAT WE COULD HAVE THE JANUARY MEETING SO THAT, AND NOT ON THE FOURTH, UH, HOPEFULLY MOVE IT TO THE 11TH SO THAT WE COULD, UM, UM, SO I COULD BEGIN TO WORK THROUGH WITH, UM, SOME MORE OF WHAT I'M GONNA TALK ABOUT LATER ON THIS EVENING ABOUT, UM, EXPECTATIONS TO THE BOARD. UH, I'M FINE IF YOU, IF THE MAJORITY SAYS THEY WANT TO, UH, CANCEL THE JANUARY MEETING. THAT WAS THE ONLY THING I HAD AND I WANTED TO SAY THAT YVONNE, MOST LIKELY, IF Y'ALL DO CHOOSE TO DO THAT, IT WON'T BE TILL THE THIRD WEEK OF JANUARY. WHICH, SO THE 18TH, THE SECOND WEEK IS, UM, OTHER, OTHER PEOPLE HAVE MEETINGS HERE. SO DO YOU SEE THEIR SPACE ON THE THIRD WEEK OF THE MONTH? OKAY. SO WE'RE ALREADY, WE'RE ALREADY GETTING SO CLOSE TO THE NEXT MONTH AND RIGHT. CAUSE THEN THAT'D BE THE 18TH. FIRST WEDNESDAY IS, UM, FEBRUARY 1ST. WEDNESDAY IS FEBRUARY 1ST, WHICH IS JUST TWO WEEKS AFTER THAT. CORRECT. OKAY. WE HAVE A MOTION OF FLOOR ON THE SECOND. DO WE HAVE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? ERIC? NONE. AND CALL FOR THE VOTE. ALL US IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. ALL OPPOSED. LIKEWISE. MOTION, CARRIE UNANIMOUSLY. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. UH, SECOND ITEM, ITEM B TWO B, CONSIDER APPROVAL OF THE 2223 PROPOSED URBAN FORESTRY PLAN. HAPPY. THANK YOU. UH, PARK BOARD MEMBERS, NOTHING TECHNOLOGY WISE IS WORKING TONIGHT. SO, SO I'M JUST GONNA SPEAK UP SO, UM, YOU GUYS CAN ALL HEAR ME JUST FINE. UM, AND I'M GLAD WE HAD A LITTLE BIT OF A DISCUSSION ABOUT THAT. CAUSE WE COULDN'T FIND THE REMOTE WAS IN THE OTHER ROOM. SO, UM, WE HAD A CHANCE TO BRIEF THE URBAN FORESTRY, THE TREE BOARD, UH, BEFORE THIS. UM, AND I'M GONNA KIND OF COMBINE, I'M GONNA DO THE LITTLE BIT OF THE VERBAL BRIEFING, WHICH IS THE URBAN FORESTRY PROGRAM REPORT AS PART OF THIS AND KIND OF KNOCK 'EM BOTH OUT, UM, SINCE THEY'RE TOGETHER SO THAT YOU GUYS CAN KIND OF SEE WHAT WE DID LAST YEAR IN TERMS OF URBAN FORESTRY, UH, IN TREE WORK WITHIN THE CITY OF GARLAND. AND THEN, UM, KIND OF LAY OUT A PLAN. UH, IT'S A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT THAN YOU MAY BE USED TO, OF WHAT WE'VE DONE IN THE PAST IN TERMS OF, UH, THESE ARE SOME OF THE ACTIVITIES THAT WE'RE GONNA DO FOLLOWING THE NEXT INTO THE NEXT YEAR. AND REALLY START TO LAY OUT A PROGRAM FOR WHAT URBAN FORESTRY COULD LOOK LIKE FOR THE CITY OF GARLAND MOVING FORWARD. UM, AND THERE'S A BIG REASON WHY THAT I'LL GET TO AS WE [00:10:01] START TO GO THROUGH THIS CUZ THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY FOR, UM, QUITE A LOT OF MONEY THAT'S GONNA BE COMING DOWN THROUGH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO BE ABLE TO HELP SUPPORT SOME OF OUR PROGRAMS. SO I'M GONNA START WITH JUST SOME QUICK UPDATES FROM 2122. UH, ONE OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS I'M GONNA MAKE IS STARTING NEXT YEAR IS INSTEAD OF DOING A FISCAL YEAR REPORT, I'M GONNA DO IT BASED ON A CALENDAR YEAR. UM, BECAUSE WE HOLD OUR ARBOR DAY IN NOVEMBER, WHICH IS OBVIOUSLY THE MONTH AFTER THE END OF OUR FISCAL YEAR. SO WHAT YOU'RE ACTUALLY SEEING IS OUR ARBOR DAY FROM 2021. SO IT'S KIND OF SEEMS LIKE IT'S A LITTLE BIT BEHIND . SO NEXT YEAR WE'LL PROBABLY DO THIS IN JANUARY, FEBRUARY TIMEFRAME AND DO IT AS A A CALENDAR YEAR. SO YOU'RE GETTING A LITTLE BIT MORE, UH, UP TO DATE OF, OF WHAT WE'VE ALREADY DONE BECAUSE WE'VE ALREADY HAD OUR ARBOR DAY FOR THIS YEAR, BUT YET IT'S NOT GONNA BE REPORTED UNTIL NEXT YEAR BASED ON HOW WE CURRENTLY DO IT. SO WE DID HOLD OUR ARBOR DAY IN 2021, UH, TO GET US OUR 14TH CONSECUTIVE YEAR AS A TREE CITY USA. WE PARTNERED WITH A NONPROFIT CALLED RETREAT KGV AND G P AND L, AND WE PLANTED 184 TREES IN, IN CENTRAL PARK AND THE SURROUNDING NEIGHBORHOODS, UH, THAT WERE HIT BY THE 2019 TORNADO, WE HAD, OH, OVER 160 VOLUNTEERS THAT HELPED OUT ON THAT DAY. IT WAS A FANTASTIC YEAH, FANTASTIC EVENT. UH, WE'RE, WE BEGAN THE REVIEW, A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF THE CITY'S TREE PRESERVATION ORDINANCE THAT'S ONGOING, UH, THAT'S CURRENTLY AT COMMUNITY, UH, SERVICES COMMITTEE AT COUNCIL. AND ONCE WE GET SOME FEEDBACK FROM THEM, WE'LL COME BACK AND GIVE AN UPDATE OF OF THOSE BEFORE IT GOES TO FULL COUNCIL FOR APPROVAL. WE ALSO COMPLETED SOME MAJOR UPGRADES ON A LOT OF LANDSCAPING ACROSS TOWN. I'LL SHOW YOU SOME PICTURES OF THOSE, THOSE HERE IN A MINUTE, INCLUDING, UM, THE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, QUARTZ BUILDING CARVER CENTER, AND A LOT OF ENTRYWAY MEDIANS. AND WE CLEAN AND WE CONTINUE TO WORK IN SOME OF OUR OVERGROWN FORESTED AREAS TO DO FORESTRY MULTRY ACTIVITIES TO BE ABLE TO CLEAN THOSE AREAS UP TO MAKE 'EM, UM, MORE VISIBLE, MORE USABLE, UM, SAFER, CLEANER. UH, REMOVING INVASIVE SPECIES IS, IS NOT ONLY GOOD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT, GOOD FOR THE ECOSYSTEM, BUT IT ALSO MAKES 'EM SAFER, UH, AND EASIER TO USE. SO HERE'S JUST A COUPLE OF COOL PITCHERS. YOU KNOW, WE HAD THE MAYOR OUT, THAT'S HIM HOLDING THE SHOVEL. HE ACTUALLY GOT OUT AND GOT DIRTY, UH, WITH SOME OF OUR VOLUNTEERS PLANTING TREES AND, UH, PEOPLE'S FRONT YARDS. AND AS I DRIVE AROUND THIS NEIGHBORHOOD, WE'VE HAD ABOUT 98% SURVIVAL RATE, WHICH IS REALLY, REALLY GOOD. REALLY GOOD. YOU KNOW, SO THAT MEANS THESE PEOPLE REALLY WANTED TO TAKE CARE OF THESE TREES AND THEY'RE DOING A REALLY GOOD JOB OF IT. THIS SOME MORE TREE PLANTING PITCHERS. WE PARTNERED WITH NEIGHBORHOOD VITALITY. KEEP GARLAND BEAUTIFUL, WAS A GREAT EVENT. UH, THIS IS SOME NEW LANDSCAPING THAT WE DID OUTSIDE THE CARVER HEALTH CENTER. THIS WAS OVERGROWN OLD DEAD, LOOKED LIKE, JUST DIDN'T LOOK GOOD. AND EVERY TIME IT RAINED, THE SIDEWALK GOT COVERED IN MUD. SO WE HAVE TO GO CLEAN IT OFF. UH, SO WE USED A LOT OF ROCK, UH, AS THIS MATURES AND FILLS IN, IT'LL LOOK REALLY GOOD. HERE'S A COUPLE OF ENTRYWAY MEDIUM BEDS THAT WE'VE DONE. THIS IS PART OF OUR CORE FOCUS AREAS THAT WE HAVE FOR THE CITY IS MAKING OUR ENTRYWAYS REALLY POP SO THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE ARRIVED IN GARLAND AND I THINK THEY'VE TURNED OUT REALLY, REALLY WELL. WE WERE REALLY ABLE TO STRETCH THE MONEY, UH, THAT WE HAD FOR THIS TO MAKE A BIG IMPACT. THE ROCK LOOKS REALLY SHARP AGAIN, AS SOME OF THAT PLANT MATERIAL FILLS IN, IT'LL EVEN FILL IN SOME OF THAT NEGATIVE SPACE AND LOOK EVEN BETTER. I DID WANT TO HIGHLIGHT THIS AND SHOW YOU A PICTURE IF YOU'RE NOT AWARE OF IT. UM, IN THE DOWNTOWN SQUARE PLANTING WHERE THE TREE WELLS ARE GONNA GO, UH, WE, THEY USED A PRODUCT. WE WERE ABLE TO USE A PRODUCT CALLED CIVIL CELLS. AND CIVIL CELLS ARE A PRODUCT THAT ALLOW TREE ROOT GROWTH WITHOUT HAVING TO IMPEDE THE STRUCTURAL SUPPORT THAT IS NEEDED TO GET THE BULK DENSITY IN THE SOIL TO BE ABLE TO SUPPORT TRAFFIC. AND SO WHAT THESE ARE IS LITERALLY, THEY'RE LIKE GIANT LEGO BLOCKS. AND SO THE PAVEMENT SITS ON TOP OF THESE BLOCKS AND THEN ALL OF THAT NEGATIVE SPACE IN THERE IS FILLED WITH SOIL. AND THEN THESE OPEN SPOTS WHERE YOU CAN SEE HIM STANDING, THAT'S WHERE A TREE WILL EVENTUALLY GO. AND SO THAT TREE WILL BE ABLE TO GROW IN BETWEEN THOSE LEGO BLOCKS AND GET THE NUTRIENTS IN THE WATER THAT IT NEEDS, AND THEY'LL BE ABLE TO GROW AND BE HEALTHY, HEALTHY TREES. AND YOU WON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT ANY TYPE OF IMPEDIMENT IN TERMS OF TERMS OF THEM BREAKING THE SIDEWALK IN THE FUTURE, UH, AND GROWING OUT AND HAVING ROOTS THAT BECOME TRIP HAZARDS AND THEY'RE CRACKING THE SIDEWALK AND THEY'RE DOING ALL OF THOSE KINDS OF THINGS THAT, THAT WHY WE DON'T WANT TO PLANT TREES IN, IN SMALL LITTLE TREE COFFINS. AND SO THIS IS A FANTASTIC PRODUCT. UM, THAT IS A GREAT EXAMPLE OF BEING ABLE TO, HOW, HOW YOU CAN GROW TREES IN A DOWNTOWN URBAN AREA AND BE ABLE TO GET THAT URBAN AREA AND TREES AND NOT HAVE [00:15:01] THE CONFLICTS THAT YOU NORMALLY SEE. SO THIS IS A REALLY COOL PRODUCT, SO WHEN YOU WALK DOWN ON THE SQUARE, YOU'LL KNOW WHAT'S UNDERNEATH IT. UM, SO THAT'S KIND OF ONE OF OUR UPDATES WERE FROM THIS YEAR. UH, HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU GUYS HAD FOR THE PREVIOUS YEAR'S ACTIVITY BEFORE I REALLY KIND OF DIVE INTO WHAT THE PLAN IS MOVING FORWARD. YES, SIR. UM, YOU TALKED ABOUT THE PLANNING AREAS INTO THE, UM, ENTRANCES TO GARLAND MM-HMM. . AND, UM, WE, WE'VE STARTED TALKING ABOUT FRONT DOORS TO GARLAND. UH, WE'RE GONNA DISCUSS THAT A LITTLE BIT MORE IN JUST A MINUTE HERE. UH, WHERE, WHERE HAVE YOU DONE THESE PLANTINGS? WHERE ARE THESE AT? UH, SO THE ONE ON THE LEFT THAT'S AT APOLLO, THE ONE ON THE RIGHT IS, I THINK THAT'S CENTERVILLE COMING IN MIGHT BE WRONG. NOJ, WHICH, UH, ON THE RIGHT. I DON'T REMEMBER WHICH EXIT OFF OF LBJ. THAT IS, THAT'S ALMOST LOOKS LIKE KINGSLEY. IT COULD BE. IT'S EITHER KINGSLEY OR CENTERVILLE OR GARLAND ROAD. IT'S NOT, IT'S IT'S NOT CENTERVILLE THEN, UNLESS YOU DID IT YESTERDAY DAY. . IT WASN'T YESTERDAY. UH, THAT WITH THAT, THAT LOOKS LIKE SHILOH OR, OH YEAH. YOU KNOW WHAT, THAT'S A, UH, HOLIDAY AND EXPRESS OVER THERE. THAT'S KINGSLEY THOUGH. KINGSLEY, YEAH. THAT'S A HOLIDAY IN EXPRESS. THAT'S HOW I TAKE MY KID OVER TO, UH, SCHOOL. SO APOLLO AND KINGSLEY. SO WE, WE'VE GOTTEN TWO APOLLO AND KINGSLEY AND THAT, THAT'S TWO NEW ONES. AND, UH, HOW MANY OTHER AREAS DO WE ALREADY HAVE PLANTINGS THAT, UH, DO OTHER ENTRANCES? UM, I DON'T HAVE THE FULL LIST OF ALL OF 'EM THAT WE DID, BUT I'D BE HAPPY TO PUT TOGETHER A LIST AND WE CAN SEND IT OUT TO YOU. BUT WE DID OVER 20 BEDS, UH, THROUGHOUT THE CITY, UH, AND THROUGHOUT DIFFERENT ENTRYWAY. OKAY. I CAN GET TOGETHER A COMPREHENSIVE LIST TO SEND IT. WHAT? HANG ON A SECOND, MOLLY. I'LL BE RIGHT WITH YOU. OKAY. UM, WHAT I'D LIKE TO KNOW IS HOW MANY, HOW MANY FRONT DOORS DO WE HAVE TO GARLAND AND HOW MANY OF THEM HAVE WE BEEN ABLE TO, UH, BEGIN THE WORK ON, UH, WITH, WITH THE LANDSCAPING? OKAY. SO I NEED, NEED BOTH THOSE NUMBERS TO BE IRRELEVANT TO WHERE I'D WE'D LIKE TO GO. MOLLY, YOU HAD, I WAS GOING TO ASK A QUESTION ALONG THIS, THE SAME, UM, LINE AS WERE THESE NEW ONES THAT YOU, THAT YOU REDID IN ADDITION TO WHAT'S BEEN OUT THERE IN OUR, A LOT OF THESE WERE REDOS, RED REDOS OKAY. AREAS THAT JUST THE HAD A LOT OF DEAD PLANT MATERIAL EITHER FROM THE FREEZE OR JUST LACK OF MAINTENANCE IRRIGATION HAD HAD BROKEN ON IT OR JUST WORN OUT AND OUT OF DATE. AND SO A LOT OF THEM WERE, WERE UPGRADED OKAY. TO, TO WHAT WAS THERE. SO WE WEREN'T, WE DIDN'T DO ANY NEW BEDS. WE WEREN'T REHABBING OLD EXISTING BEDS. BUT I CAN DEFINITELY TELL YOU, AND I'LL, I'LL, I'LL GET A COMPREHENSIVE LIFT OF, OF EXACTLY WHICH ENTRYWAYS, HOW MANY OF THEM HAVE LANDSCAPE BEDS, HOW MANY WE WERE ABLE TO REDO, AND HOW MANY ARE LEFT TO STILL BE DONE FOR SURE. UM, IS THIS PART OF YOUR STAFF THAT DOES THIS? SO THIS IS NOT CONTRACTED WORK. UH, THIS WAS ALL CONTRACTED WORK. THIS WAS THE MONEY THAT WE REQUESTED IN THE 2021, UH, BUDGET TO REPLACE A LOT OF PLANT MATERIAL THAT WAS LOST IN THE FREEZE OF 20 20 20 20 21. WE LOST A LOT OF PLANT MATERIAL IN THAT FEBRUARY FREEZE. AND SO WE ASKED FOR, FOR BUDGET TO BE ABLE TO REPLACE PLANT MATERIAL AND WE WERE ABLE TO STRETCH IT A LOT FURTHER THAN, UH, A LOT FURTHER THAN WE THOUGHT WE WERE GONNA BE ABLE TO. SO THAT'S FANTASTIC. ANYTHING ELSE, MOLLY? ANYTHING ELSE? MOLLY? UM, YOU CAN'T HEAR THE BEANS RATTLE? NO. THANK YOU, . THANK YOU. I KNOW YOU WERE CONCENTRATING THERE. UH, ANYONE ELSE OVER HERE? ANYONE ELSE? UM, DID, WERE YOU WANTING TO SAY SOMETHING, DAVE? OH, GO AHEAD. IT'S NOT GELLING. IT'S . IT'S THAT KIND OF NIGHT GUYS. NOT WELL. OKAY. DEPEND ON THE OLD GUY, HUH? OKAY. MATT, I JUST WANNA SAY, UM, THANK YOU TO YOU GUYS FOR, FOR DOING THIS WAS OUT OF OUR, OUT OF OUR BOND ELECTION. THERE WAS A, THERE WAS QUITE A BIT OF TALK ABOUT THE, THE FRONT DOORS TO GARLAND AND, UH, AND LA AND OUR LAST, UH, BOARD MEETING. UM, WE HAD, UM, UH, MR. MOOREHEAD DOWN THERE, UH, BRINGING ON THE FACT OF MILLER ROAD AND IT BEING, IT BEING IN, UH, FRONT DOOR TO GARLAND AND ESPECIALLY WITH THE, THE WORK BEING DONE IN ETTE ALL AROUND 66 DEXON ROAD. UM, THEY'RE COMING THROUGH MILLER ROAD WITH DIFFERENT, DIFFERENT THINGS. THEY'RE DOING QUITE A BIT OF WORK. AND, AND WE, WE'VE DONE, WE'VE DONE NOTHING SO FAR. OKAY. SO FAR. AND PART OF THIS, PART OF THIS, SOMETHING THAT WE COULD DO WOULD JUST BE TO A, A [00:20:01] GOOD SERIOUS CUTBACK OF, OF OVERGROWN, UM, LIMBS AND, AND, UM, HIGH WEEDS AND THINGS LIKE THAT, THAT ARE, THAT ARE IN THE RIGHT OF WAY OR OUTSIDE THE RIGHT OF WAY, NEAR THE RIGHT OF WAY. SO THAT WE HAD A, WE HAD A FAIRLY GOOD ENTRANCE. AND THEN, AND THEN WITH THIS, UH, WE JUST GOT A BIG, UH, SHOT IN THE ARM FOR THAT, UM, FOR THAT FRONT DOOR OF THE GARLAND LAST NIGHT AT THE COUNCIL MEETING, UH, WITH THE, THE APARTMENT COMPLEX THAT'S, UH, GONNA BE COMING IN ON MILLER ROAD AND WITH A LITTLE BIT OF FACING ON THE CENTERVILLE ROAD. THEIR BIG FACING WAS ON MILLER ROAD. AND, UM, IN LOOKING AT THEIR PLANS, UH, THEY HAD, THEY HAD A PARKING LINE ALL THE WAY ALONG THAT AREA, WHICH WOULD'VE BEEN 50 CARS OR SOMETHING LIKE, LIKE THAT, THAT YOU WOULD'VE SEEN THE REAR ENDS OF AS YOU'D BEEN COMING DOWN THE STREET. AND THEY WERE ORIGINALLY GOING TO PUT JUST PLANTS AND, AND, UM, OR ROD ARM FENCING IN THERE. AND AFTER SOME DISCUSSIONS WITH SOME PEOPLE WHO WERE KIND ENOUGH TO TALK TO 'EM AND, UH, ASK 'EM IF THEY JUST WOULDN'T CONSIDER DOING THAT WITH A MASONRY WALL SO THAT THE PEOPLE OVER THERE IN THE AREA WOULD BE A LOT HAPPIER AND A LOT MORE, UM, ACCEPTABLE TO THEIR PROGRAM. UH, EVEN THOUGH IT WAS NOT REQUIRED BY, UH, THE CITY, THEY DECIDED YES TO PUT IN A MASONRY WALL. SO WE, WE, WE STARTED THE DECORATION. THANK YOU DAVID, UH, FOR GETTING THIS, THINKING ABOUT THAT, UH, AT THE LAST MEETING. SO WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE TRYING TO, WE'RE TRYING TO MOVE AS INDIVIDUALS AS LIKE, WE'RE DOING THIS IN THE CITY. SO, OKAY. THAT'S ENOUGH OF ALL THAT. KEEP GOING. OH, I'M SORRY. CAN YOU THANK YOU. UM, I HAVE A QUESTION. I LOVE WHAT YOU HAVE DONE. THE CITY IS LOOKING REALLY BEAUTIFUL, BUT I WONDER, UH, SINCE IT WAS DONE BY CONTRACTORS, SO WHAT IS THE DEPARTMENT DOING TO KEEP THEM, TO MAINTAIN THEM? IF SOMETHING BREAKS OR SOMETHING IS NOT LOOKING THAT PRETTY ANYMORE, UH, DO WE HAVE A PLAN TO ROLL AFTER AND FIX IT AND KEEP IT AS PRETTY AS IS RIGHT NOW? YES. AND SO, UH, A HANDFUL OF THESE BAGS ARE, ARE ON OUR, OUR MAINTENANCE CONTRACT WITH THE CONTRACTOR. WE DO ALL OF OUR OWN IN-HOUSE IRRIGATION INSPECTIONS. SO OUR LAND, OUR MEETINGS AND RIGHT, RIGHT AWAY CREWS DO THE LANDSCAPE OR DO THE IRRIGATION INSPECTIONS. UM, SOME WE DO, UH, MAINTAIN IN-HOUSE. UH, JUST TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA, WE HAVE 11 ACRES OF LANDSCAPE BEDS IN THE CITY OF GARLAND. WE HAVE ONE U COUNT ALL OF OUR ENTRYWAYS FOREST LANE IN FRONT OF ALL OF OUR PUBLIC BUILDINGS. UM, OTHER RIGHT OF WAY AREAS THAT WE HAVE AGREEMENTS WITH, UM, HOAS AND OTHER, OTHER GROUPS THAT HAVE BEEN SIGNED THROUGHOUT THE YEARS. IT TOTALS OUT TO 11 ACRES. UM, I WOULD SAY A LITTLE UNDER HALF IS, IS ON CONTRACT AND THEN WE MAINTAIN THE OTHER HALF. UM, I WILL SAY THAT SOMETHING THAT WE'VE BEEN CLAWING BACK ON AND WILL CONTINUE TO ADD INTO FUTURE BUDGETS IS REPLACEMENT PLANT MATERIAL. UH, WE HAVE REALLY KICKED BACK UP AND RAMPED UP OUR, OUR GREENHOUSE PROGRAM. AND WHEN WE PLANT A NEW, UH, A NEW BED LIKE THIS, UH, JR LANDSCAPE SUPERVISOR STARTS TO GET SMALLER PLANT MATERIAL THAT WE'VE STARTED TO GROW OUT. SO IF WE LOSE PLANT MATERIAL THROUGHOUT THE YEARS, WE'RE ABLE TO VERY QUICKLY GO IN AND REPLACE IT. UM, BUT YOU CAN IMAGINE WITH 11 ACRES OF, OF LANDSCAPE BEDS, OUR PLANT REPLACEMENT BUDGET IS ABOUT $9,000. SO THAT DOESN'T GO A LONG WAYS. AND SO WE'RE, WE TRY TO BE VERY, VERY, UH, CAREFUL IN HOW WE PLANT, WE PLANT IN MASS GROUPINGS. WE, WE ARE VERY SELECTIVE IN THE PLANT, PLANT MATERIAL THAT WE, WE USE. SO IF YOU LOSE ONE, IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE THERE'S A BIG HOLE IN IT. SO IF YOU HAVE TOO MANY OF DIFFERENT KINDS IN THERE AND YOU LOSE ONE, THEN IT LOOKS LIKE A HOLE WHERE YOU TRY TO USE DIFFERENT LANDSCAPE TECHNIQUES WHERE IF YOU PLANT 'EM IN IN GROUPS AND THEY'RE SAME, YOU LOSE ONE. SOMETIMES IT DOESN'T ALWAYS LOOK AS BAD. UM, BUT WE ARE FINDING WAYS TO BE CREATIVE AND REALLY USE THE GREENHOUSE AND GET IT BACK UP OPERATIONAL SO THAT WE CAN AGAIN STRETCH THAT, THAT, UH, UM, PLANT REPLACEMENT BUDGET AS FAR AS WE CAN. BUT YES, THESE ARE ACTIVELY, UH, MANAGED AND MAINTAINED. UM, AND WE ACTUALLY HAVE PUT, WE ALREADY HAVE ALL OF OUR PRE-EMERGE OUT IN OUR BEDS THAT WAS DONE RIGHT NOW. THEY'RE ACTIVELY RE MULCHING ALL OF THE BEDS. THAT'S WHAT WE DO IN THE WINTERTIME IS RE MULCH ALL OF THE BEDS. AND THEN IN THE SPRINGTIME IT'LL BE, UH, PRE ER, POST EMERGENT AND WEEDING AND LOOKING TO SEE WHAT DIDN'T COME OUT FROM THE WINTER AND REPLACING THAT PLANT MATERIAL. UH, AND THEN MANAGING THEMS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, CHECKING IRRIGATION, UH, AND MAKING SURE THAT THOSE THINGS ARE STAYING ACTIVE AND THEN REPAIRS AS NEEDED. THANK YOU. MM-HMM. . NICE. SO I WILL GET YOU THOSE NUMBERS AND, AND WE'LL GET 'EM TO YVONNE AND SHE CAN SEND 'EM OUT TO THE, THE, THE BOARD AND THAT. IT GOT IT. THAT WAS IT. MORE QUESTIONS. [00:25:01] HALFWAY THERE. WE'RE HALFWAY THERE. HALFWAY THERE. UM, SO WHERE I WANTED TO KIND OF TAKE YOU IS, YOU KNOW, IN THE PAST YOU GUYS ARE PROBABLY USED TO, HEY, WE'RE GONNA TRY TO PLANT X NUMBER OF TREES. UH, WE'RE GONNA DO AN OROROR DAY AND WE'RE GONNA DO SOME THINGS. AND, AND WE HAVE A GREAT ASSET IN THIS CITY. UH, WE HAVE A LOT OF OLD MATURE TREES. WE HAVE A LOT OF AREAS THAT WERE, WERE DONATED THROUGHOUT THE YEARS FROM FAMILIES. SO WE HAVE LOTS OF LIKE SPRING CREEK FOREST AND IN THE AREA AROUND ETTE CREEK WHERE THE, THE MOUNTAIN BIKE TRAILS ARE, UH, EVEN PARKS LIKE AUDUBON THAT, THAT ARE, YOU KNOW, HAVE WERE DONATED YEARS AND YEARS AGO THAT JUST HAVE REALLY GREAT BIG TREES. THERE'S, THERE'S PARKS DEPARTMENTS AND OTHER PARTS OF THE STATE THAT WOULD DIE TO HAVE TREES LIKE THAT, BUT WE HAVEN'T ACTIVELY MANAGED THEM. UH, WE'VE KIND OF BEEN REACTIONARY TO TOWARDS THOSE REMOVING TREES AS THEY GO DOWN. UH, DIDN'T REALLY HAVE A PLAN TO REPLACE THEM, WE JUST KIND OF WERE BEING REACTIONARY. AND SO WHAT REALLY WANT US, US TO START DOING IS MOVING TOWARDS A TRUE URBAN FORESTRY PROGRAM. UM, THESE ARE A COUPLE OF PLANS THAT THAT MEASURE WHAT YOU HAVE. AND THEN KIND OF, UH, AN URBAN FORESTRY MASTER PLAN, WHICH THEN TELLS YOU WHERE TO GO. I'M GONNA PASS THIS ONE AROUND. THIS IS ONE THAT WE DID IN DENTON, SO THAT YOU GUYS CAN KIND OF LOOK AT THAT WHILE I'M GOING THROUGH THIS. THANK YOU, SIR. BUT I ALSO WANT TO START WITH A LITTLE BIT OF, OF EDUCATION. SO WHEN WE TALK ABOUT AN URBAN FORESTRY PLAN, WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE? FIRST THING YOU NEED TO KNOW IS WHAT YOU HAVE. WE'VE NEVER HAD A TRUE, UH, INVENTORY OR CANOPY COVER ANALYSIS DONE FOR THE CITY OF GARLAND. SO THE FIRST PART NEEDS TO BE ABLE TO FIGURE OUT WHAT WE HAVE. THEN ONCE YOU HAVE THAT DATA, THEN YOU CAN DETERMINE WHERE YOU WANT TO GO AND THEN HOW TO MANAGE THAT. IT HELPS YOU SET BUDGETS, IT HELPS YOU SET, UH, THE RESOURCES THAT YOU'RE GONNA NEED TO MANAGE THOSE. THAT CANOPY. YOU SET THOSE GOALS, YOU IMPLEMENT THOSE GOALS, AND THEN YOU TRACK IT AND THEN YOU COME BACK AND REANALYZE WHAT YOU HAVE. SO THAT'S KIND OF WHAT THAT PROCESS IS. YOU ASSESS, YOU PLAN, YOU IMPLEMENT, YOU MONITOR, AND THEN YOU ASSESS AGAIN, WE HAVE TO START AT THE TOP. WE NEED TO START AT AN ASSESSMENT. WHY DO WE WANT TO DO THIS? AND TREES HAVE VALUE. TREES HAVE TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF VALUE JUST BEYOND THE AESTHETICS THAT THEY BRING. THEY HAVE STORM WATER MANAGEMENT VALUE, THEY HAVE HEALTH VALUE, THEY HAVE, UM, COOLING EFFECT IN TERMS OF THE URBAN HEAT ISLAND. THEY HAVE BIODIVERSITY. THEY OBVIOUSLY CLEAN OUR AIR BY REDUCING CARBON DIOXIDE THAT'S OUT OF THE AIR. SO THE AMOUNT OF, AND THAT ALL HAS A VALUE TO IT. THERE HAS BEEN A LOT OF RESEARCH WITHIN URBAN FORESTRY OVER THE LAST 20 YEARS WHERE THEY'RE ACTUALLY ABLE TO PUT A DOLLAR VALUE TO WHAT ALL OF THOSE BENEFITS ARE. AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THAT IS FOR GARLAND, WHAT ARE OUR TREES IN GARLAND DOING FOR US? AND WHAT IS THAT VALUE TREES HAVE AN AC THERE'S A, A DILEMMA, I DON'T THINK I HAVE TO TELL YOU GUYS. THIS ALSO LEADS INTO PARKS. YOU KNOW, WE HAVE WHAT CALL A NATURE DEFICIT DISORDER THAT'S OUT THERE. IF YOU'VE EVER, UH, READ THAT BOOK WHERE THERE'S A LOT OF STATS THAT ARE OUT THERE NOW WHERE ESPECIALLY CHILDREN DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO NATURE OR DON'T HAVE OR AREN'T GETTING ACCESS TO NATURE. AND IT'S LED TO THINGS LIKE INCREASED ANXIETY. IT'S LED TO THINGS LIKE OBESITY, HEALTH ISSUES, BECAUSE KIDS AREN'T GETTING OUTSIDE, THEY'RE NOT PARTAKING IN NATURE. UM, AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE AN ABUNDANCE OF IN THIS, IN THIS CITY. AND WE NEED TO GET PEOPLE CONNECTED TO IT. AND HAVING A GOOD URBAN FORESTRY PLAN CONNECTED WITH A, A GREAT PARKS MASTER PLAN CAN HELP TO PULL THOSE PEOPLE OUT OF THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS AND OUT OF THOSE SCHOOLS INTO OUR PARKS AND INTO THIS NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS. UM, AND YOU'VE SEEN THIS NATURE POOR ENVIRONMENT. THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF RESEARCH THAT'S BEEN DONE ON THIS, UM, THAT'S SHOWN AN INCREASE IN ANXIETY. AND THIS IS NOT JUST IN CHILDREN, BUT THIS IS IN ADULTS AS WELL. DEPRESSION, MENTAL ILLNESS, UM, EVEN UPPER RESPIRATORY, I INFECT INFECTIONS AND THIS ALL HAS A DOLLAR VALUE ASSOCIATED WITH IT. WE SPEND MORE ON THIS COUNTRY ON HEALTHCARE RELATED ISSUES THAN WE DO ON OUR NATIONAL DEFENSE. OUR ACTUAL, WHAT WE SPEND ON AVERAGE IS ABOUT $8,500. $8,500 PER PERSON IS WHAT THEY SPEND ON THEIR HEALTHCARE EACH YEAR. AND WE SPEND MORE IN 2022 IN THE UNITED STATES ON HEALTHCARE RELATED ISSUES THAN WE, AGAIN, THAN WE DID IN NATIONAL DEFENSE. THINK ABOUT THAT. AND ON AVERAGE, WE SPEND IN PARKS $83 PER PERSON. AND I DID A QUICK RUN OF THE NUMBERS OF WHAT WE DID HERE. AND IF YOU TAKE OUR ENTIRE BUDGET AGAINST OUR POPULATION, WE'RE AT ABOUT $54 PER PERSON IS WHAT WE INVEST INTO OUR PARKS AND RECREATION. SO YOU CAN SEE EVEN IN TERMS OF THE NATIONAL, OF THE NATIONAL AVERAGE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE, WE'RE A LITTLE BIT, WE'RE A LITTLE BIT BEHIND. IF YOU LOOK AT SOME OF THE PARK SYSTEMS THAT ARE OUT THERE, THAT TO YOUR MIND, TO SOME OF THE BEST [00:30:01] ONES, UM, IN THE NATION, MINNEAPOLIS, CHICAGO, SOME OF THOSE AREAS THAT YOU THINK OF IN BIG PARKS, THOSE ARE UPWARDS OF 120 TO 130 EVEN MORE DOLLARS THAT THEY SPEND PER PERSON. UM, YOU CAN, YOU CAN TELL THOSE, YOU CAN TELL THOSE DIFFERENCES PRETTY QUICK. BUT WE DO A LOT WITH WHAT WE HAVE AND WHAT WE WANT TO DO IS REALLY HAVE A GOOD PLAN. CAUSE IF YOU HAVE A GOOD PLAN, THEN YOU CAN IMPLEMENT THAT PLAN AND THEN THAT ALLOWS YOU TO SHOW WHAT THAT ASSET IS SO THAT THEN YOU CAN ARTICULATE WHY YOU NEED ADDITIONAL, UH, BUDGET DOLLARS AND, AND RESOURCES TO BE ABLE TO MANAGE IT THE WAY THAT IT NEEDS TO BE MANAGED. UM, AND, AND AGAIN, WHEN IT GOES BACK AND YOU ACTUALLY START PUTTING THE NUMBERS TO IT, THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF RESEARCH THAT SHOWS THAT GETTING PEOPLE OUTSIDE HELPS TO, UM, REDUCE MENTAL ILLNESS, REDUCE STRESS, REDUCE UH, COHESION AND RESILIENCY. UH, AND THAT ACTUALLY HAS HUGE DOLLAR VALUES TO IT. ONE STUDY THAT WAS DONE BY KATHY WOLF SHOWED THAT PEOPLE THAT SPENT MORE TIME OUTSIDE, UH, IN JUST IN THE REDUCTION OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES HAD A PAYBACK OF 1.2 BILLION NATIONALLY. SO THERE'S REAL DOLLARS. PEOPLE BEING OUTSIDE IN FORESTED AREAS, IN NATURAL AREAS HAVE REAL HEALTH BENEFITS. AND THOSE HEALTH BENEFITS TIED DIRECTLY BACK TO DOLLARS IF YOURS HEALTHIER. IF YOU'RE OUTSIDE MORE, YOU'RE EXERCISING MORE, YOU'RE SPENDING LESS TIME AT THE DOCTORS, LESS TIME ON MEDICATION, AND THAT ACTUALLY HAS DOLLAR SAVINGS, UM, DOWN THE LINE. PLUS WE'RE JUST, UM, PEOPLE ARE HAPPIER , THEN YOU CAN'T TAKE THAT MENTAL PIECE OF IT. AND THERE'S A LOT OF GREAT RESEARCH OUT THERE THAT I COULD GO INTO AND REALLY IN DEPTH. UM, THERE'S A WHOLE SCIENCE BEHIND IT NOW THAT'S CALLED BIOPHILIC EFFECT. BIOPHILIC EFFECT IS HOW NATURE AFFECTS OUR HEALTH. AND THERE'S A TON OF RESEARCH BEHIND IT. SO WHAT WE WANT TO DO IS PART OF PHASE ONE AND ALL THESE PHASES ARE KIND OF, KIND OF HAPPEN TOGETHER. BUT WHAT WE WANT TO DO FIRST IS WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT WHAT WHAT WE HAVE. AND SO WHAT I'M PROPOSING IS THAT WE WOULD START WITH, WE NEED TO INVENTORY ALL OF THE TREES. WE'D LIKE TO DO A HUNDRED PERCENT INVENTORY OF ALL OF OUR TREES IN OUR PARKS AND OUR MEDIANS. THESE ARE THE TREES THAT WE ACTIVELY MANAGE. AND SO I NEED TO KNOW HOW MANY TREES WE HAVE, WHAT CONDITION THEY'RE IN, HOW MUCH PRUNING THEY NEED, HOW MANY OF THEM NEED TO COME DOWN, ALL OF THAT. SO THAT THEN I CAN START TO PLAN EFFECTIVELY ON HOW WE'RE GONNA MANAGE THOSE. UM, SO THAT WE CAN HAVE, AND THAT, THAT ALSO BY INVENTORYING THOSE TREES, WE'LL BE ABLE TO SAY, OKAY, WE HAVE OUR CANOPY, OUR OUR TRUE SPECIES POPULATION IS MADE UP BY X PERCENTAGE OF THIS SPECIES VERSUS THIS SPECIES VERSUS THIS SPECIES. WHICH THEN ALSO HELPS US TO BE ABLE TO PLAN FOR FUTURE PLANTINGS SO THAT WE CAN MAKE SURE WE HAVE SPECIES DIVERSITY. UH, WE CAN MAKE SURE THAT WE DON'T HAVE MORE THAN WHAT WE NEED IN ONE PARTICULAR AREA. THIS WILL ALSO HELP GAUGE US ON HOW MANY POTENTIAL PLANTING LOCATIONS WE HAVE. SO THEN WE CAN START TO ACTIVELY PLAN FOR FUTURE PLANTINGS. AND THEN WE'LL KNOW WHAT THOSE TREES ARE DOING FOR US. HOW MUCH WORK ARE THEY ACTUALLY DOING FOR US, AND WHAT IS THAT VALUE IN TERMS OF THOSE ECOSYSTEM SERVICE BENEFITS. WE ALSO CAN GET A REPLACEMENT VALUE. AND THAT REPLACEMENT VALUE IS, IS IF WE HAD LOST ALL OF THOSE TREES AT ONE TIME, WHAT WOULD IT COST TO REPLACE THOSE TREES? AND THOSE NUMBERS ARE REALLY, REALLY BIG. THOSE CAN ALSO BE BE USED FOR INSURANCE PURPOSES. SO LET'S SAY WE HAVE A TREE THAT'S HIT BY A CAR AND A MEDIAN, OR WE HAVE SOMEBODY VANDALIZE A TREE IN A PARK AND IT DIES, THEN WE HAVE AN ASSESSMENT THAT WE CAN DO ON THAT TREE. SO WE CAN CHARGE THAT BACK TO AN INSURANCE COMPANY, UM, IF WE'RE ABLE TO DO THAT. SO WE NEED TO INVENTORY THOUGH. SO THAT WOULD BE THE FIRST STEP. SECOND, AND, AND THE KIND OF THE REAL AND WHAT ABOUT TREES IN, IN NEIGHBORHOODS? YOU KNOW, I MEAN, I KNOW THEY'RE NOT UNDER OUR PURVIEW, BUT THEY DO COUNT TOWARDS THE RIGHT CANOPY OF THE UH, EXACTLY RIGHT. SO HOW YOU CAPTURE THOSE IS WE WOULD DO, AT THE SAME TIME AS WE'RE INVENTORYING THOSE TREES, WE DO WHAT'S CALLED THE UTC OR AN URBAN TREE CANOPY COVER STUDY. AND THAT'S USING AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY AND REMOTE SENSING TO MEASURE WHAT'S TREE CANOPY VERSUS WHAT'S GRASS, WHAT'S IMPERVIOUS SURFACE, WHAT'S HOUSES AND BUILDINGS AND THINGS LIKE THAT. AND ACTUALLY GET TO WHAT OUR TREE CANOPY COVER IS FROM THERE, THEN WE CAN ALSO START TO BREAK THAT DOWN INTO THINGS LIKE SOCIOECONOMIC AREAS INTO POPULATION CENTERS, INTO, UM, URBAN HEAT ISLANDS INTO COUNCIL DISTRICTS. YOU CAN THEN START TO SHOW WHERE IS OUR TREE CANOPY COVER? WHAT DOES THAT TREE CANOPY COVER CONSIST OF? WHERE CAN WE GROW IT? WHERE DO WE NEED TO GROW IT? WHERE DO WE HAVE ENOUGH TREES? AND THEN WHAT YOU DO IS YOU MEASURE THAT FIRST, AND THEN WHAT YOU CAN DO OVER TIME IS IN FIVE, 10 YEARS YOU DO IT AGAIN. AND THEN YOU CAN START TO SEE WHERE THAT CHANGES. AND THAT'S KIND OF WHAT THE SLIDE ON THE BOTTOM SHOWS IS. YOU CAN SHOW HOW YOUR CANOPY COVER CHANGES OVER TIME IF IT GROWS OR IF IT SHRINKS, SHRINKS IN CERTAIN AREAS, WHY DID IT SHRINK IN THAT AREA? IF IT GREW IN OTHER AREAS, WHY DID IT GROW? BUT [00:35:01] ALSO THEN ALLOWS YOU TO, TO, UH, TO BE ABLE TO PROVE OUT IF YOU HAVE A ROBUST TREE PLANTING PLAN, WHICH IS THE NEXT STEP OF HOW THAT'S WORKING, HOW THAT INVESTMENT IN TREE PLANTING IS ACTUALLY SHOWING A GROWTH IN, IN YOUR OVERALL TREE CANOPY COVER. AND AGAIN, WHAT THAT VALUE VALUE IS. AND THE COOL THING ABOUT THIS, SINCE IT IS ALL GIS, ANY OF THE GIS DATA THAT WE HAVE, WHICH, AND WE HAVE A LOT OF REALLY GREAT GIS DATA FROM THE PARKS MASTER PLAN THAT WE COULD THEN OVERLAY WITH THAT AND THEN BE ABLE TO SHOW CORRELATION BETWEEN CERTAIN HEALTH FACTORS, CERTAIN SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS AND TREE CANOPY COVER. AND THEN YOU CAN DO, WE'LL BE ABLE TO DO GROW OUT MODELS, WE'LL BE ABLE TO THEN SAY WHAT THOSE VALUES ARE AND IT REALLY ALLOWS US TO BE ABLE TO START TO, TO GROW OUR URBAN FOREST. SO PART OF THIS PHASE ONE IS TO MAP OUR URBAN FOREST, DETERMINE WHAT THAT TREE CANOPY COVER IS SET A GOAL FOR WHERE WE WANT OUR TREE CANOPY COVER TO BE DETERMINE HOW MANY TREES WE NEED TO PLANT, NOT JUST ON PRIVATE PROPERTY BUT WITH OTHER PARTNERS TO, TO GET TREES INTO OUR, UM, NOT, EXCUSE ME, NOT JUST ON PUBLIC PROPERTY, BUT TO WORK WITH OTHER PARTNERS TO PLANT TREES ON PRIVATE PROPERTY AS WELL. TO REACH THAT GOAL, DETERMINE WHAT THAT TREE'S VALUE IS, UM, AND THEN USE THAT TO ESSENTIALLY WRITE A REPORT THAT'S SIMILAR TO THE ONE THAT I'M PASSING AROUND YOU GUYS, WHICH IS ESSENTIALLY A STATE OF WHAT OUR URBAN FOREST IS. SO THAT'S GOAL ONE. THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I KIND OF WANT TO GET GOING HERE PRETTY QUICKLY. PHASE TWO IS TO DEVELOP A VERY ROBUST TREE PLANTING PROGRAM TO, ONCE WE KNOW WHERE WE CAN PLANT TREES AND WHERE THE BEST PLACE IS TO PLANT TREES. CUZ WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH, WE'RE NEVER GONNA BE HAVING ENOUGH RESOURCES TO PLANT ALL THE TREES THAT WE WANT TO. SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE TREES THAT WE DO PLANT, THAT WE'RE PLANTING THEM IN THE BEST POSSIBLE LOCATION TO MEET THE, THE GOALS OF THE CITY. SO THAT IS TO ALONG, UH, MAJOR THOROUGHFARES TO HELP WITH CO2 REDUCTION TO PLANT IN AREAS WHERE WE HAVE A LOT OF IMPERVIOUS SURFACE THAT MIGHT BE AN URBAN HEAT ISLAND TO CREATE CREAM CORRIDORS FROM A NEIGHBORHOOD TO A PARK. SO PEOPLE HAVE A SHADED WALK TO GET FROM THEIR, GET FROM THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD TO A PARK WHERE MAYBE THEY DON'T CURRENTLY HAVE A SHADED AREA. DEVELOP PARTNERS, UM, LOOK FOR SPONSORS AND ADDITIONAL FUNDING TO LEVERAGE CITY DOLLARS AND MARKET AND, UM, PRODUCE MARKETING AND PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS TO ACTUALLY HAVE A ROBUST TREE PLANTING PROGRAM THAT IS BASED OFF OF A PLAN THAT IS BASED OFF REAL NUMBERS. AND WHY IS THIS KIND OF AN URGENCY RIGHT NOW AND WHY DID I KIND OF CHOOSE TO MOVE THIS FORWARD A, A A LITTLE BIT QUICKER THAN WHAT MAYBE WE NORMALLY WOULD DO? UM, IS YOU PROBABLY, IF YOU'VE, YOU'VE WATCHED WHAT'S GOING ON IN WASHINGTON, THE INFLATION REDUCTION ACT THAT WAS PASSED BY, UM, CONGRESS AND THE HOUSE AND SIGNED BY THE PRESIDENT IS A VERY LARGE BILL THAT WENT OUT THAT IS GONNA ADDRESS A LOT OF DIFFERENT ISSUES. BUT ONE OF THE MAIN ISSUES OF THAT BILL WAS TO ADDRESS CLIMATE CHANGE. AND ONE OF THE WAYS THAT THEY'RE GONNA DO THAT IS THEY'RE INVESTING MORE MONEY IN URBAN FORESTRY THAN HAS EVER BEEN INVESTED IN URBAN FORESTRY IN, IN OUR COUNTRY. TO THE TUNE OF 1.5 BILLION THAT IS GONNA BE PUT OUT THROUGH THE US FOREST SERVICE DOWN TO THE STATE AGENCIES AND THEN GRANTED OUT TO COMMUNITIES THAT IS A, AND THAT MONEY IS GONNA BE EARMARKED FOR PLANTING TREES. IT'S NOT EARMARKED TO DO STUDIES. IT'S NOT EARMARKED TO DO MAINTENANCE BECAUSE THIS HAS A CLIMATE CHANGE PIECE TO IT. I KIND OF LOOK AT IT AS I'M A REALIST WHEN IT COMES TO FORESTRY AND YOU CAN NEVER PLANT ENOUGH TREES TO AFFECT CLIMATE CHANGE. WELL THE FED SAID WE'RE DARN WELL GONNA TRY BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT THIS IS, IS IT'S GOT A LOT OF STUFF IN US FOREST LAND TO REMOVE. IT'S GOT A LOT OF, A LOT OF MONEY'S GONNA GO TO THE EPA TO DO FOREST RESTORATION. THERE'S A LOT OF MONEY GOING INTO REDUC, UH, FUEL REDUCTION FOR FOREST FIRES. THIS COVERS A HUGE GAMBIT OF, OF, OF, OF THINGS. BUT THE FACT THAT THERE'S ONE AND A HALF BILLION DOLLARS GOING TOWARDS TREE PLANTING AND THE GOAL IS GONNA PLANT IN ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE AREAS AND, UH, LOWER SOCIOECONOMIC AREAS THAT MIGHT NOT HAVE HIGH TREE CANOPY COVER IN THOSE AREAS, WHICH MIGHT LEAD TO THOSE AREAS THAT WOULD TEND TO HAVE MORE OBESITY, MORE ASTHMA RATES, MORE THINGS LIKE THAT. LIKE PLANTING TREES CAN HELP WITH THOSE TYPES OF HEALTH FACTORS. AND IF WE CAN BE READY WITH A PLAN OF HOW WE CAN SPEND THAT MONEY AND ACTUALLY TRACK IT AND SHOW THE RESULTS OF IT, THAT'S GONNA PUT US ON THE FRONT EDGE TO BE ABLE TO CAPITALIZE ON AS MUCH OF THIS MONEY AS WE CAN POSSIBLY GET. THIS MONEY IS GONNA BE SPENT OVER 10 YEARS, SO THIS ISN'T SOMETHING THAT'S A LONG TIME. THEY'RE GONNA MOVE QUICK ON IT. UH, PROBABLY THE FIRST ROUND OF FUNDING WILL START, I WOULD ANTICIPATE PROBABLY END OF NEXT YEAR, FIRST PART OF, OF 2024. IT TAKES, IT TAKES THE FEDS A LONG TIME TO FIGURE OUT HOW THEY'RE GONNA PUT THAT MUCH MONEY OUT THAT QUICK. UM, BUT WHEN IT STARTS COMING DOWN, IT'S GONNA COME DOWN QUICK AND THERE'S GONNA BE [00:40:01] A LOT OF MONEY TO DO IT. AND SO BY US GETTING SET UP NOW AND TAKING THE NEXT YEAR TO REALLY GET A ROBUST PLAN PUT TOGETHER WILL ALLOW US TO NOT JUST PARTNER WITH GROUPS LIKE THE TEXAS FOREST SERVICE, BUT THE US FOREST SERVICE, THE ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION, UH, NATURE CONSERVANCY, THEY'RE ALL GONNA GET HUGE CHUNKS OF MONEY. ALL OF THAT MONEY IS GONNA BE FOR PLANTING TREES AND THEY'RE GONNA GO TO CITIES THAT ARE READY, SHOVEL READY TO GET LARGE NUMBER OF TREES IN THE GROUND QUICKLY. AND SO THAT'S WHAT WE END TO BE ABLE THEN TO TRACK IT AND TO BE ABLE TO SHOW WHAT THOSE RESULTS ARE GONNA BE. AND SO THIS IS WHY I'VE KIND OF CHOSEN DONE THIS PLAN TO TRY TO MOVE THIS FORWARD QUICKER. UM, HOPEFULLY, UH, USING SOME, MAYBE SOME MONEY OUT OF THE TREE MITIGATION FUND TO HELP PAY FOR SOME OF THESE INITIAL STUDIES SO THAT WE CAN BE READY TO GO. NOW YOU DO, YOU PLANT ALL OF THESE TREES, YOU PLAN FOR THIS, YOU'RE GONNA DO ALL THIS GROWTH, YOU'RE GONNA SHOW THE BENEFITS. THERE IS MAINTENANCE THAT COMES WITH TREES A HUNDRED PERCENT AND YOU NEED TO PLAN FOR THAT. SO THAT'S GONNA BE PHASE THREE THAT'LL OBVIOUSLY BE HAPPENING ON THE SAME TIME IS THEN HOW DO WE START TO ACTUALLY BUILD UPON THE TREE WORK THAT WE HAVE HERE AND ACTUALLY CREATE A TRUE URBAN FORESTRY DIVISION, UM, WITHIN OUR PARKS. THIS WILL LEAD TO BETTER MAINTAIN TREES, BE ABLE TO HELP COORDINATE PLANTINGS QUICKER, INCREASE PUBLIC AWARENESS, BE ABLE TO DO, UM, MORE, UH, TRAINING TO OUR, OUR, AND GIVE MORE RESOURCES TO, TO OUR CITIZENS. UM, AND IT, IT HELPS TO, TO CREATE A GREENER UH, GARLAND AND HELP TO PROMOTE OUR PARKS, OUR TRAILS, AND OUR FORESTS. AND PART OF THAT WOULD THEN BE TO DO A TRUE URBAN FORESTRY MASTER PLAN THAT WOULD GO ALONG WITH ALL OF OUR OTHER MASTER PLANS IN TERMS OF WHAT ARE THE RESOURCES THAT WE NEED, WHO ARE THE PARTNERS THAT WE NEED TO DEAL WITH, WHAT ARE THE RESOURCES THAT WE NEED, UM, TO BE ABLE TO HAVE A TRUE FUNCTIONING URBAN FORESTRY DEPARTMENT, UH, FOR THE CITY OF GARLAND. SO THAT IS A WHOLE LOT OF INFORMATION AND THERE'S A LOT OF TO THIS. AND SO I, I KNOW I'M THROWING IT TO YOU KIND OF ALL AT ONCE. UM, THERE'LL BE A LOT MORE INFORMATION COMING DOWN ON THIS. UM, AFTER WE CAN SECURE SOME OF THE, THE FIRST ROUNDS OF FUNDING ON IT AND GET SOME OF THE PROGRAMMING, UM, STARTED. AND SOME OF THE STUDIES STARTED IS I GET MORE INFORMATION AND LEARN MORE INFORMATION ABOUT HOW THE DOLLARS ARE GONNA BE AVAILABLE AND HOW THOSE ARE GONNA BE DISSEMINATED. UM, WE'LL DEFINITELY COME BACK AND GIVE UM, MORE INFORMATION. BUT THIS IS SOMETHING THAT I THOUGHT WOULD TAKE ME 6, 7, 8 YEARS HERE IN GARLAND TO BUILD AND PUT TOGETHER. UM, BUT WHEN YOU SEE THIS AMOUNT OF RESOURCES THAT ARE GONNA BE COMING DOWN FROM THE FEDERAL LEVEL, UM, I DIDN'T THINK THAT WE HAD THE ABILITY TO WAIT THAT LONG AND WE NEEDED TO JUMPSTART THIS PROGRAM QUICKER. COOL. SO THAT WAS A LOT. I KNOW I'D BE HAPPY TO GO INTO ANY MORE DETAIL. I'D BE HAPPY TO COME BACK, UH, AT ANOTHER MEETING AND GO INTO ANY PARTICULAR PIECE OF IT IN A LOT MORE DETAIL. UM, BECAUSE EVERY PART OF THIS I COULD TALK AN HOUR ON AND WE DON'T BELIEVE IT. KILL ME. WE ONLY HAVE TIME FOR ABOUT 60, UH, QUESTIONS. SO, UH, ASK THIS WHOLE, MOLLY WANTS TO START WITH THE FIRST ONE. I HAVE THREE QUESTIONS. GOOD. OH, UM, THE FIRST ONE YOU TALKED ABOUT CHANGING THE YEAR FOR THE URBAN FORESTRY MEETING DID OH, UH, I DID. I MENTIONED THAT KIND OF AT THE BEGINNING BRIEFLY. AND SO THAT NEEDS TO BE, DOESN'T THAT NEED TO BE PART OF OUR RECOMMENDATION IN HERE? UH, IT CAN BE. UM, BUT IT, IT CAN ALSO JUST, IT CAN BE A RECOMMENDATION YET. THE REASON I WANNA BRING THAT UP IS THIS YEAR'S ARBOR DAY WAS AWESOME AND THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT CAME AND PARTICIPATED IN THAT, UM, I, I, I WAS, I WAS VERY IMPRESSED AND UM, DON WAS ABLE TO WITNESS IT. OUR MAYOR WAS THERE. UM, IT WAS, IT WAS A PRETTY, PRETTY COOL DEAL. UM, SO THAT WAS MY QUESTION ON CHANGING THE, THE YEAR AND WHEN WE PRESENT. UH, SECOND ONE, AND THIS IS REALLY NEAT THAT YOU GAVE US FROM THE CITY OF DENTON. UM, ONE OF THE, UM, TABLES OR GRAPHS THAT YOU HAVE IN THERE IS TALKING ABOUT THE TREES AND THE DOLLAR VALUES THAT ARE IN DENTON. IS THAT SIMILAR TO WHAT'S HERE, JUST BALL PARKING? IT? THAT, THAT IS, UH, I, I HAVE NO IDEA. CAUSE WE HAVEN'T STUDIED WHAT WE HAVE. UM, THAT'S WHY I SAID BALLPARK HARD TO TELL. I THINK WE HAVE MORE TREES THAN DENTON. UH, WE HAVE MORE GREEN AREAS, SO I THINK OUR NUMBERS WILL BE HIGHER. UH, DENTON IS HIGHER ELEVATION. THEY DON'T HAVE A LOT OF THE NATURAL TREES UP THERE THAT WE DO AROUND HERE. THEY DON'T HAVE AS MANY OF THE RIVER BOTTOMS THAT WE HAVE AROUND HERE. UM, THEY'VE LOST A LOT OF TREES TO DEVELOPMENT. SO I THINK OUR NUMBERS WILL BE WAY HIGHER THAN WHAT DENTONS ARE ONCE WE GET DONE WITH OUR STUDY. I WAS MORE OR LESS THE TYPES IS WHAT I WAS KIND OF CURIOUS ABOUT, IF THEY WOULD'VE BEEN SIMILAR. [00:45:01] SO YOU'RE SAYING IT'S DIFFERENT. UH, THEY'LL BE, OURS WILL BE MORE DIVERSE. WE'LL HAVE MORE, MORE WAY MORE TREE SPECIES THAN THEY HAVE IN DENTON. OKAY. AND MY THIRD QUESTION IS, YOU, YOU TALKED ABOUT, UM, CAN YOU GIMME SOME SORT OF TIMEFRAME THAT YOU'RE YEAH. LOOKING AT? THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION. SO AGAIN, IF WE'RE ABLE TO, UM, SECURE FUNDING, UH, WHAT I WOULD LIKE AND WE'RE ABLE TO START THIS WORK SOMETIME WITHIN THE FIRST QUARTER, UM, I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THE STATE OF THE URBAN FORESTAGE PLAN DONE BY THE END OF THE YEAR. SO THIS TIME NEXT YEAR, UM, WITH THAT WOULD ALSO INCLUDE A ROLLOUT OF WHAT A TREE PLANTING PROGRAMMING PLAN WOULD LOOK LIKE. UM, WITH A, A RECOMMENDATION FOR NUMBER OF TREES PER YEAR OVER THIS 10 YEAR PERIOD, UH, THAT WOULD GET US TO, UH, X CANOPY COVERED PERCENTAGE, UM, AND WHAT THAT DOLLAR VALUE WOULD LOOK LIKE. AND THEN IDENTIFY WHO THOSE PARTNERS WERE THAT WE WOULD LOOK AT, WHO WE WOULD WORK WITH, UM, AND START TO, TO LAY OUT WHAT THAT PROGRAM WOULD LOOK LIKE. SO WE'RE ABLE TO, TO MOVE THAT FORWARD TO GET THIS INITIAL RESEARCH DONE. UM, A YEAR FROM NOW, I'D LIKE TO BE PRESENTING A, A REPORT VERY SIMILAR TO WHAT YOU SEE FROM DENTON FOR, FOR US. AND THEN WE'D BE READY TO HIT THE GROUND WHEN, WHEN MONEY'S AVAILABLE TO, TO TREES. SO IS THIS SOMETHING WE DO IN-HOUSE OR SOMETHING WE GET, UM, LIKE ACCESS TREE FOUNDATION? I'LL COMMENT ON THAT. YES. BECAUSE WE'RE FORTUNATE THAT IN MATT'S PREVIOUS LIFE WE HAVE ONE OF THE BEST EXPERTS IN THE STATE. AND I DON'T SAY THAT LIGHTLY OR FLIPPANTLY. SO THERE IS SOME COST AND SOME INVESTMENT TO GET THE STUDY, THE SOFTWARE AND THE, AND THE THE AERIAL UH, PHOTOGRAPHY REMOTE SENSING COMPONENT TO IT. UH, BUT ONCE SOME OF THAT DATA'S COLLECTED, THAT'S YOUR GUY. YEAH, IF YOU THE THREE, THE THREE REPORTS THAT I SHOWED AT THE FRONT LINE, AND IF YOU GO TO THE TEXAS TREES FOUNDATION WEBSITE, UM, YOU CAN FIND THEIR TWO REPORTS RIGHT THERE. SO WE CAN DOWNLOAD THOSE AND READ 'EM, WE CAN DOWNLOAD THOSE. ALL THREE OF THOSE REPORTS I WROTE YEAH, ADD DID THE RESEARCH. I FIGURED THAT. SO WE, WE'LL SAVE SOME MONEY. THAT'S THE GREAT THING ABOUT IT IS WE DO NEED TO GET SOME OF THIS INITIAL DEAL DONE. WE'LL USE SOME OF OUR SEASONAL MONEY TO HIRE INTERNS THIS SUMMER. COOL. TO DO THE INVENTORY. BUT THE SOFTWARE DOES HAVE A, A COST AND, AND THE SOFTWARE, UH, IS A GROUP THAT'S BASED OUT OF, UM, COLORADO, DENVER, COLORADO AREA CALLED PLANET GEO. AND THEY ARE THE PROBABLY LEADING EXPERTS RIGHT NOW. UH, AND THIS TYPE OF, OF DATA AND SOFTWARE, UM, IT'S VERY, VERY WELL DONE. IT'S VERY EASY TO FOLLOW. WHAT'S REALLY COOL ABOUT IT IS ONCE WE HAVE IT, WE CAN HAVE A, A PUBLIC FACING WEBSITE, UH, THAT WE CAN SHOW AS MUCH DATA. WE CAN LET THEM SEE AS MUCH DATA AS WE WANT THEM TO SEE, UH, VERSUS WHAT WE WOULD ACTUALLY USE ON THE BACK ON THE BACK END. UH, IT HELPS US TO BE ABLE TO, WE CAN EVEN SET IT UP SO THAT IF, UH, LET'S SAY WE DO A PROMOTION FOR TREE PLANTING, WE'RE NOT GONNA BE ABLE TO PLANT ALL THE TREES THAT WE NEED TO PLANT, BUT MAYBE WE GO PARTNER WITH COVINGTON'S OR WE PARTNER WITH HOME DEPOT OR WE PARTNER WITH THEM AND SAY, HEY, THIS IS OUR TREE PLANTING PROGRAM. WE'VE GOTTA GO TO PLANT A THOUSAND TREES A YEAR AS A CITY. WE'RE GONNA PLANT 500 AND WE'RE GONNA WORK WITH RESIDENTS TO DO THIS. AND WE GET WITH NEIGHBORHOOD VITALITY AND KEEP GARLAND BEAUTIFUL. AND, UH, IN THE MONTH OF OCTOBER WE WORK LO WE WORK WITH THE LOCAL HOME DEPOT TO OFFER A 10% DISCOUNT ON TREES. THEY BUY A TREE, THEY THEN CAN GO HOME AND ACTUALLY TELL US WHERE THAT TREE WAS PLANTED AND WE CAN ACTUALLY THEN INVENTORY THAT TREE AND THEY WILL SEE THEIR TREE POP UP ON THE MAP IF THEY STILL WANTED TO DO IT. SO THERE'S LOTS OF REALLY COOL THINGS THAT WE CAN DO TO PULL, UM, THE, THE COMMUNITY AND THE PUBLIC IN AND MAKE THEM PART OF THIS PART OF THIS PROGRAM. THANK YOU MATT. UH, ANYTHING ELSE? DAVID? SO WHAT'S, WHAT'S THE RESOLUTION ON THE IMAGERY THAT YOU USE? I MEAN, ARE YOU USING, WE WE'RE KNIT COG IMAGERY OR YEAH, NC UN DOES THAT HAVE INFRARED WITH IT? IT HAS INFRARED. IT HAS TO BE INFRARED. YEAH. AND IT'S ALL SUB YEAH'S WHAT I WAS THINKING. IT'S ALL SUB METER INFRARED IN. OKAY. CAN YOU TRANSLATE ANY OF THAT ? SO YOU HAVE TO, IT'S HOW MUCH DETAIL YOU CAN SEE, HUH? HOW MUCH DETAIL THAT YOU CAN SEE. INFRARED MEANS THAT IT, IF IT SHOWS UP IN DIFFERENT SPECTRUMS OF THE INFRARED SPECTRUM, UH, AND THEN THEY, THE SOFTWARE THAT THEY USE THROUGH REMOTE SENSING THEN IS WHAT ALLOWS THEM TO BE ABLE TO, AND ACTUALLY THEY USE LIDAR DATA NOW AND NOW THAT COG HAS LIDAR, RIGHT? THEY ACTUALLY TAKE THAT LIDAR DATA AND THEY ACTUALLY OVERLAY THAT TOO. SO NOW IT'S VERY, VERY ACCURATE JUST FROM GIS TO SAY, THAT'S A TREE VERSUS THAT'S A GRASS OR A FIELD OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. AND THEN WHAT WE'LL DO IS WE'LL TAKE THE CITY'S INTERNAL GIS LAYER CUZ WE HAVE AN IMPERVIOUS LAYER, A SIDEWALK LAYER, A BUILDING'S LAYER. [00:50:01] WE'LL SHARE THAT WITH THE DEVELOPER. THEY'LL PUT THAT IN THERE AND THEN THAT ALL OVERLAYS. SO WE'LL BE ABLE TO SAY, OF OUR 20% CANOPY COVER, 5% OF IT COVERS IMPERVIOUS SURFACE. THAT'S HOW YOU DETERMINE WHAT YOUR STORM WATER VALUE IS. AND THEN WE CAN SAY, WELL, IF WE PLANT TREES IN THIS WAY AND THEY GROW TO MATURITY, WE CAN COVER THAT MUCH MORE IMPERVIOUS SURFACE, WHICH WOULD HAVE THIS BENEFIT IN STORM WATER, THIS BENEFIT IN URBAN HEAT ISLAND REDUCTION, SO ON AND SO FORTH. AND THEN THAT DATA COMES BACK INTO THE CITY'S GIS. AND THAT WOULD BE A GIS LAYER THAT WE WOULD HAVE THAT WE WOULD UPLOAD INTO OUR LAYER. AND THEN THE SOFTWARE YOU PAY FOR, IT'S A ROLLING SOFTWARE, YOU PAY FOR IT ON THREE YEAR INCREMENTS. SO IT WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT WE WOULD HAVE TO BUDGET IN, INTO OUR ANNUAL BUDGET ON A THREE YEAR INCREMENTS. BUT THEN WHAT IS INCLUDED IN THAT PAYMENT AT LU THREE YEARS IS THEN EVERY 10 YEARS THEY REDO YOUR UTC, WHICH MEANS THEN WE GET, IN 10 YEARS, WE GET TO SEE WHAT OUR CANOPY COVERAGE HAS BEEN. AND THAT'S NOT NEW MONEY THAT WE WOULD'VE TO SPEND AS PART OF THE ESSENTIALLY SOFTWARE COST THAT, THAT WE INVEST INTO IT. AND THEIR OPPORTUNITY TO KEEP YOU IN FOR 10 YEARS TOO. THAT'S, THAT'S OKAY. THAT THAT'S OKAY. ARE YOU THROUGH DAVID? I I'VE BEEN THERE. YEAH. I'VE BEEN THERE. DONE THAT. OKAY. UM, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? I I HAVE A FEW RIGHT QUICK ONES. SHORT, SHORT ANSWERS. I HOPE. WELL FIRST OFF, I WANNA THANK ANDY FOR TELLING US WHO WAS, WHO WAS, UH, GIVING US THIS REPORT. I'M SITTING THERE WATCHING YOU GO AS FAST AS YOU'RE GOING AND GIVING THE, THE SERIOUS DETAIL THAT YOU WERE GIVING. I SAID, HOW'S HE DOING ALL THIS? YOU KNOW? AND, AND UH, NOW WE KNOW AND THANK YOU FOR THANK YOU FOR LETTING US KNOW THAT. CAUSE NOW WE CAN EVEN APPRECIATE YOU EVEN MORE. OKAY. FIRST QUESTION, IS THERE, IS THERE ANY FUNDING THAT'S GONNA BE REQUIRED BEFORE YOU CAN DO ANYTHING? YES. AND WHERE'S THAT GONNA COME FROM? SO THE, THE QUICKLY INITIAL, THE, THE INITIAL MAPPING, I WOULD LIKE TO REQUEST FUNDING. WE'VE TALKED TO ANDY ABOUT THIS TO REQUEST THAT FUNDING OUT OF OUR TREE MITIGATION FUNDS AND OUR TREE MITIGATION TREE ORDINANCE IS WORDED IN SUCH A WAY THAT I THINK WE CAN, WE CAN MAKE THAT A STRONG ARGUMENT THAT THAT COULD BE GOOD. CUZ WE HAD SEVERAL HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS IN THAT. THE ONE TIME WE GOT A REPORT ON THAT ONE. I HAVEN'T HEARD BACK. OKAY. UM, THE SECOND THING THIS UM, UH, WE WE'RE NOT HEARING ANYTHING FROM THE COUNCIL, UH, ON THEIR, THEIR RETREAT TREE WORK OKAY. ON THIS. AND I WAS WONDERING IS, IS FIRST OFF, IS THIS GONNA, UM, INTERFACE WITH THE COUNCIL'S OBJECTIVES AND HOW ARE WE GONNA KNOW THAT? CUZ WE DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON THERE. UH, IN TERMS OF THE REWRITING OF THE TREE ORDINANCE? YES SIR. UM, YES. SO THE TREE ORDINANCE WAS, THEY HAD SOME MORE ISSUES IN TERMS OF, UM, MAKING SURE WE WEREN'T OVER PENALIZING SOMEBODY FOR REMOVING TREES, UH, TO, FOR SAFETY ISSUES AND THINGS LIKE THAT, WHICH IT DOESN'T. UH, AND THEN IT WAS JUST CLEANING UP SOME THINGS THAT DIDN'T, THERE WERE SOME THINGS IN THAT ORDINANCE THAT DIDN'T MAKE A LOT OF SENSE. AND SO IT'S KIND OF CLEANING UP SOME OF THAT STUFF AND THEN WE'RE KIND OF STREAMLINING IT A LITTLE BIT. UM, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE, THE COUNCIL'S VIEW IS ON THIS TOPIC IS A BROADER TOPIC. UM, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT I WOULD LIKE TO PRESENT A SIMILAR PRESENTATION TO THIS, TO THEM EVENTUALLY TO LET 'EM KNOW WHAT WE ARE GONNA BE DOING. UM, BUT IN TERMS OF THE TREE ORDINANCE, THAT WAS KIND OF A SEPARATE DEAL. BUT THIS WOULD TIE IN WITH THAT BECAUSE AGAIN, IF WE HAVE THAT ORDINANCE, WE CAN THEN SHOW THAT, THAT WE HAVE AN AVENUE OF WHERE THAT TREE MITIGATION MONEY CAN BE SPENT. AND SO WHAT CITIES DON'T USUALLY LIKE IS TO SEE THAT BALANCE GROW AND GROW AND GROW AND NOT BE SPENT ON WHAT IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE SPENT ON HERE. NOW WE WOULD HAVE A PLAN TO BE ABLE TO SHOW HOW WE'RE GONNA LEVERAGE THAT MONEY TO GET MORE MONEY TO PLANT TREES FOR WHAT IT WAS INTENDED FOR, AND THEN WHAT THE RETURN ON THE INVESTMENT OF THAT MONEY IS. SO IN THAT ASPECT, I THINK IT WOULD LINE UP WITH WHAT THEIR PLANS ARE. I WOULD, I WOULD HOPE THAT WE WOULD NOT SPEND THE MONEY ANYWHERE OUTSIDE WHAT IT WAS INTENDED FOR WHEN IT WAS, UH, UH, REQUIRED CONTRIBUTIONS BY DEVELOPERS AND AND SUCH IN THE CITY. OKAY. SO, UH, SO, AND WE CAN'T, WE CAN'T, NO. RIGHT. OKAY. ANDY'S GONNA ALLOW YOU TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT ONE . WHEN, WHEN, WHEN SOME OF THOSE MEN IN BLUE COME LOOKING. OKAY. OKAY. I SEE. RIGHT. QUICKLY. OKAY. UH, AND YOU, YOU MADE A COMMENT, YOU REALLY DIDN'T KNOW HOW MANY TREES THAT, THAT WE HAD IN THE CITY GARDEN, BUT YOU THOUGHT MORE THAN DENTON, IN THAT LITTLE, UH, DENTON THING, THEY SHOWED 3.46 MILLION WITH A VALUE OF OVER $2 BILLION, UH, IN THOSE TREES. VERY INTERESTING. THEY'RE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY PAGES. I SHOT PICTURES OF THOSE FOR, IT GOT AWAY FROM, BECAUSE IT REALLY, IT REALLY HAD A ROADMAP, UH, AS TO WHAT YOU, THE INFORMATION THAT YOU SHOULD BE TRYING TO, UH, TO GET OUT OF THIS. AND THEN, UH, LET'S SEE. UH, AND THEN THE LAST THING, CAN WE GET AN ELECTRONIC COPY OF WHAT YOU JUST PRESENTED TO US? COULD YOU THEN SEND THAT TO US? YES, I WILL SEND THAT ONE. UH, I SEND THE ENTRYWAY STUFF SO YOU'LL GET IT. ALL ONE. OKAY. ANY, ANY OTHER [00:55:01] QUESTIONS TO MATT SING, SING NOW OR FOREVER? HOLD YOUR PIECE. THANK. OH, NO. OH, NO. OKAY. MY COMMENT'S GONNA COME LATER ON. I'M ON, ON THIS ON THIS ISSUE. OKAY. ON THIS ISSUE. THANK YOU, MATT. THERE WAS A, THERE WAS A FANTASTIC, UH, PRESENTATION THERE, SIR. WE NEED A, RIGHT. WE NEED URBAN. OH, THAT'S RIGHT. UM, FOR, YES. SORRY. YEAH, THERE'S A MOTION , RIGHT. RECOMMENDATION TO, FOR A MOTION TO APPROVE THE 2023 PRO PROPOSED URBAN FORESTRY PLAN AS PRESENTED. SECOND. CAN YOU SECOND BY KENYA? UH, MOTION MADE BY, UH, MOLLY, UH, ANDY. IS THIS, UH, IS THIS WHAT YOU NEED FROM US AT THIS POINT IN TIME? YES, SIR. DID THAT MOTION HANDLE WHAT YOU NEED? YES, SIR. I THANK YOU, SIR. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? ANYONE MORE STATEMENTS? UH, THE CHAIR WILL CALL FOR A MOTION BEFORE I VOTE ON THE MOTION AT THIS POINT IN TIME. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. ALL OPPOSED, LIKEWISE. PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. WAY TO GO. MATT. WAY TO GO, SIR. NICE JOB. I NEVER GOT ANY APPLAUSE. SO THAT'S YOU. YOU KNOW THIS , YOU KNOW THIS BOARD LOVES SOME TREES, RIGHT? . THAT'S RIGHT. WE LOVE OUR TREES. UM, THAT'S WHY HE HIRED . THAT'S, THAT'S WHY HE HIRED HIM. HE MAKES YOU LOOK GOOD. . OH MAN. UH, NEXT UP IS, UH, SUPERVISOR REPORT. THE GAIL FIELDS REC CENTER. FOLLOW THAT. BRIAN . YEAH, THESE ARE NOT ON, SO WE'LL TALK LOUDLY. SO, UM, GOOD EVENING TONIGHT. UH, TO CONTINUE ON OUR SUPERVISOR REPORTS, UH, WE HAVE GUEST BRIAN GAIS. HE HAS BEEN WITH OUR CITY SINCE 2009. HE STARTED AS A RECREATION SPECIALIST AND HE IS NOW THE SUPERVISOR OVER AT GALE FIELDS'S RECREATION CENTER, AND I AM GOING TO LET HIM TAKE IT FROM HERE. THANK YOU. UM, FIRST OFF, UH, THIS THANKS FOR HAVING ME HERE TODAY. UH, AND I WANTED TO, UH, GO THROUGH OUR RECENTLY, UH, COMPLETED RENOVATION. IT WAS FROM THE BOND A FEW YEARS AGO. UH, AND IT WAS COMPLETED IN NOVEMBER, 2021. AND HERE'S A FEW PICTURES. UM, WE DID A LOT WITH FLOORING CEILINGS AND MAKING, UM, OUR FACILITY MORE APPEALING FOR RESERVATIONS, WHICH WE DO BRING IN A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF REVENUE FROM. UM, AND YOU CAN SEE KIND OF IN THOSE, UH, OUT THOSE WINDOWS IN OUR MULTIPURPOSE ROOM, WE ADDED A, UH, A PATIO. SO WE WILL ALSO BE ABLE TO POST EVENTS OUTSIDE AS WELL. AND AS FAR AS THE GYMNASIUM, WE WERE ABLE TO RE RE REALLY REDO EVERYTHING INSIDE THAT BASKETBALL COURT. UM, AND AS WELL AS ADD LINES FOR PICKLEBALL. SO WE HAVE PICKLEBALL QUARTS THERE AS WELL, WHICH IS GONNA BE REAL POPULAR. AND HERE'S OUR RIBBON CUTTING. YOU CAN SEE THREE CUTS THE RIBBON. SO THAT WAS, UH, THAT WAS A LITTLE BIT AFTER WE OFFICIALLY OPENED OUR DOORS. UH, AND AS WELL, DUE TO MORE RENOVATIONS, WE HAVE OUR, UM, SENIOR CENTER, OUR DOWNTOWN SENIOR ACTIVITY CENTER THAT IS TEMPORAL TEMPORARILY MEETING, UM, AT FIELDS. AND WE ARE LOVING IT. UM, WE HAVE DONE A TON WITH A BRAND NEW FACILITY TO US, AS WELL AS IT'S A NEW FACILITY TO THEM. AND WE, AS YOU CAN SEE, WE'RE ABLE TO UTILIZE OUR PATIO, UM, OUR ROUND TABLES AS WE'VE JUST RECENTLY STARTED HAVING THEM, UM, YOU KNOW, EATING ONSITE AGAIN. SO IT'S REALLY, REALLY COOL TO SEE, UM, OUR FACILITY BEING UTILIZED BY THEM IN THE MORNING TIME, UM, AS THEY REALLY DID NOT MISS A BEAT AS THEY MOVED IN IN NOVEMBER. WE HAVE, UH, GREAT AMOUNT OF PROGRAMMING GOING ON, AS YOU CAN SEE, BASKETBALL VALLEY FOLKLORICO, UH, EXCELLENCE RISING BASKETBALL, AND WE HAVE, UH, JIUJITSU. AND THAT GENTLEMAN TEACHING IT IS ACTUALLY ONE OF GARLAND'S FINEST, UH, OFFICER MATT STOKES STOKES. AND HE IS, UH, HE IS, IS VERY, VERY POPULAR AND JUST FOUND FIELDS AS HIS, UH, NEW HOME IN THE LAST ABOUT SIX MONTHS HE STARTED AGO. AND HE IS TEACHING JIUJITSU. UM, SO YEAH, WE ARE DOING WELL. UH, AS PART OF, AS I'M A SUPERVISOR, I TAKE ON A FEW OTHER ROLES IN REGARDS TO, UH, FOR ME SPECIFICALLY, IT'S FITNESS. SO, UM, RIGHT NOW WE WILL BE IN THE [01:00:01] PLANNING STAGES OF ACQUIRING PRODUCTS FOR MARKETING TO KIND OF APPEAL TO THE, UH, NEW YEAR RESOLUTION PEOPLE. AS YOU CAN SEE, UH, , THAT PICTURE MIGHT NOT BE THE BEST, BUT WE ARE BUS BUSTLING IN THE MORNING. WE'LL BE EVEN MORE SO, UH, JANUARY 1ST, OR WHEN WE OPEN RIGHT AFTER THAT. AND WE WILL BE GIVING AWAY, UM, KIND OF FUN LITTLE, UH, I BELIEVE THEY'RE GONNA BE SHAKERS, UM, TO NEW, UH, FITNESS PASS HOLDERS. UH, I THINK WE'RE GONNA BUY ABOUT 500 ACROSS TO BE GIVEN OUT ACROSS THE THREE, UH, BODY SHOPS LOCATIONS THAT ARE STILL OPEN. WE HAVE, UM, WE HAVE THREE BODY SHOPS, AND THEN WE DO HAVE A FITNESS ROOM AT CARVER CENTER. SO AUTOBAHN, I DON'T KNOW IF Y'ALL, Y'ALL WERE FAMILIAR WITH THE, THEIR RECENT OPENING IN THEIR, UH, OUR NEW, OUR NEWEST FITNESS ROOM AS WELL AS GRANGER. AND, UH, SO WE'RE THE THREE BODY SHOPS WITH, UH, WITH, WITH HOLLOW VOLUME, HOLFORD CLOSED AND AS WELL, ONE MORE HAT I HOLD, UH, WHEREAS I'M ON THE LEGISLATIVE TASK FORCE FOR, UH, TRAPS. AND, UH, WE'RE GEARING UP FOR, UH, THIS, THIS NEXT SESSION. AND SO WE'RE, WE'RE CURRENTLY TRACKING A FEW BILLS, SO THAT KEEPS ME A LITTLE BUSY. UM, AND SO TWO THINGS THEY KIND OF WANTED TO, FOR US TO PASS ON TO THE DEPARTMENT. AND, YOU KNOW, PARK BOARD IS OBVIOUSLY, UM, YOU KNOW, THEY WANT EVERYBODY INVOLVED, BUT THEY FIRST WANT YOU TO ACTUALLY BUILD RAPPORT WITH YOUR LEGISLATORS. SO WE'RE JUST INVITING, UM, YOU KNOW, PARKS AND REC PROFESSIONALS TO GET, YOU GET TO KNOW YOUR LEGISLATURE. LEGISLATURE AND, UM, TO PREPARE FOR OUR BIG EVENT WHERE WE DO WHAT'S KNOWN AS WALKING THE HALLS. BUT BASICALLY WE ARE GETTING TO KNOW OUR, UM, LEGISLATORS, UH, FACE-TO-FACE OR AS A GROUP, YOU KNOW, CUZ THERE'S STRENGTH IN NUMBERS. SO WE GO AS GROUPS THROUGHOUT THE CAPITAL TO, UM, MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE. AND, YOU KNOW, MOST, MOST OFTEN IT'S THEIR AIDS. UH, BUT WE JUST TALK TO THEM ABOUT, UM, DIFFERENT BILLS THAT WE ARE TRACKING. MOST RECENTLY, IT HAS BEEN MORE OF AN EMPHASIS ON RESTORING, UH, THE SPORTING GOOD SALES TAX, UM, AND NOT HAVING IT, UM, UNDER, UM, APPROPRIATIONS. BUT DUE TO THE MOST RECENT, UM, CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT, THAT HAS KIND OF SHIFTED OUR FOCUS, BUT WE STILL VERY MUCH WANT TO KEEP THAT AS A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. BUT WE ALSO ARE JUST GEARING UP FOR THE DIFFERENT BILLS THAT, UM, KIND OF TML AND, UH, LEGISLATURE IS HELPING US TRACK. SO THAT'S KIND OF, KIND OF ME AND TRAPS AND FIELDS. SO, QUESTION, WHAT ARE SOME OF THE BILLS THAT YOU GUYS ARE LOOKING AT WE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT? YEAH, THEY'RE, THEY'RE ALWAYS CHANGING, I THINK. SURE. BUT THEY'RE ALL GETTING FILED RIGHT NOW MM-HMM. . YEAH. SO THEY HAD PRE-FILE AND I THINK IT WAS IN THE, I THINK IN THE LO LIKE OVER A THOUSAND BILLS WERE FILED, UM, RIGHT OFF THE BAT. BUT IT'S, IT'S, UM, IN REGARDS TO I THINK THE MOST RECENT LEGISLATOR, IT WAS STUFF LIKE, YOU KNOW, HAVING, UM, LIFEGUARDS REQUIRING LIFEGUARDS AT CERTAIN, YOU KNOW, PUBLIC BEACHES. AND, UM, BUT YOU KNOW, IT'S ALSO A LOT OF HAVING TO DO WITH WAGES AND, UM, CAPS TO DIFFERENT FUNDING AND WHATNOT. AND, YOU KNOW, THE PROPERTY TAX CAP AND EVERYTHING THAT KIND OF GOES ALONG WITH, I KNOW THERE IS STUFF ABOUT, UH, HOT, UH, REVENUE GOING TOWARDS BEING ABLE TO BE IN DIFFERENT PARKS AND RECREATION FUNDS. YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY IT'S, THAT'S USUALLY A CVB THING. BUT YEAH, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S ABOUT THE LAST MEETING WE HAD, WE HAD ABOUT 10 BILLS, BUT I SEE THAT GROWING, UM, AS, AS REALLY TEXAS MUNICIPAL LEAGUE IS HELPING US OUT A LOT WITH, UH, WITH THEIR STAFF AS WELL. THEY'RE THE ONES KIND OF THAT GIVE US THE BRIEF QUESTION. SO WHEN WOULD WE BE ABLE TO SEE KIND OF A SUMMARY OF THE BILLS THAT IMPACT US AND THEIR TALKING POINTS? YEAH, WE CAN, UM, I CAN SEND Y'ALL THAT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. IT'S, IT'S IN MY INBOX. I GET THAT FROM JEFF FACHE. UH, HE'S THE LEGISLATIVE TASK FORCE, UH, CHAIR, WHICH TRAPS. BUT, UM, I, I THINK THAT IS ACTUALLY TML PRODUCES THAT FOR HIM. UM, BUT YEAH, I CAN GIVE YOU THAT. I THINK IT CHANGES. IT DOES, YEAH. CHANGES, WELL, I GUESS THE BILLS AS FAR AS WHERE THEY'RE AT. UM, AND THE WHOLE PROCESS. SOMETIMES IT, IT KIND OF IS MORE APPARENT THAT IT IS SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO TRACK. BUT RIGHT NOW I THINK IT'S ABOUT 15, 15 BILLS. YEAH. I THINK PARK WARD MIGHT ENJOY HAVING SOME OF THOSE TALKING POINTS ON THE ONES THAT ARE RELEVANT MOST TO US. THERE'S SOME THAT ARE, THAT ARE TML, THAT THERE'S SOME CROSSOVER THAT DON'T DIRECTLY SCREEN PARKS AND REC, BUT THEY DO WHEN THEY IMPACT OUR FUNDING. SO THAT, I THINK THOSE ALSO WOULD QUALIFY FOR SOMETHING IF PARK BOARD WANTED TO WRITE THEIR CONGRESSMEN, STATE CONGRESSMEN AND, AND SENATORS TO LET 'EM KNOW HOW WE FEEL ABOUT THOSE BILLS WOULD BE HELPFUL. ALL [01:05:01] RIGHT. UH, THANK YOU BRIAN. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? AND I'VE GOT A COUPLE HERE. I HAD A COUPLE QUESTIONS CUZ YOU DIDN'T HOLD YOUR HAND UP. I DID THIS BEFORE, RIGHT? NOT MOLLY AND I, AND THAT'S FUN. SOME PASSPORT MEMBERS. UM, THE, ARE ARE YOU WANTING US TO TALK TO OUR LEGISLATURES? FOR SURE. WE, WE DEFINITELY FEEL THAT, UM, ANYBODY AND EVERYBODY ASSOCIATED WITH PARKS AND REC, UM, IS, UH, IT WOULD BE A, A GREAT VOICE, UH, FOR THE LEGISLATORS. UM, NOW AND THEN AT WALK THE HALLS, LIKE THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE SAYING YEAH. IS TO GET TO KNOW YOUR LEGISLATOR AND TALK TO THEM. AND THEN OBVIOUSLY WE DON'T YOUR INBOX, BUT THERE'S ALSO CALL TO ACTIONS ALL THE TIME WHERE THEY'RE SAYING, HEY, YOU KNOW, YOU MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO GET DOWN TO AUSTIN, YOU KNOW, FOR PUBLIC, UM, INPUT, BUT PLEASE LET YOUR LEGISLATOR OR ANYBODY WHO WAS WILLING TO TALK TO YOU FROM THEIR OFFICE KNOW WHERE WE STAND ON THIS. I WOULD LIKE TO FLOOD YOUR INBOX, IF THAT'S OKAY. AND, AND THE WELL, YEAH. I THINK THE MAIN THING ON, ON THAT CALL TO ACTION IS TIMELINESS. BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, IF YOU GET IT IN YOUR INBOX IN THE MORNING AND YOU DON'T OPEN YOUR EMAIL UNTIL THE EVENING, IT'S TOO LATE TO, AND THE REASON FOR THAT IS FOR EVERYBODY'S BENEFIT, IT'S, THAT HASN'T DONE IT, IS THAT IT, ONCE THEY'RE FILED, THAT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THEY'RE, YOU KNOW, DONE THAT, THAT'S JUST THE BEGINNING. IT'S GONNA GO FROM, FROM THERE TO CALENDARS AND THEN IT GOES TO ALL THESE DIFFERENT SUBCOMMITTEES. SO THERE'S A A MILLION WAYS THAT THEY CAN SUCCEED OR FAIL AND YOU HAVE TO TRACK WHERE THEY'RE COMING AND GOING OUT OF EACH COMMITTEE AT STARTING WITH CALENDARS. AND IT'S, IT'S A, IT'S, IT'S A CHALLENGE, BUT I THINK IT'S, MANY OF THESE ARE WORTH, WORTH A GOOD FIGHT. THERE'S, THERE'S A LOT OF BAD BILLS THAT, THAT IF, EVEN IF NOTHING ELSE NEED TO HAVE THE PROFESSION, THE PROFESSIONALS LOOK AT IT AND GO NICE INTENT, BUT TERRIBLY IMPRACTICAL OR YET ANOTHER UNFUNDED MANDATE. THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE ORIGINAL DRAFT OF, UH, OF SPLASH PADS. MM-HMM. AND, AND THE CONCERN WITH ALL THE, UH, CRYPTO, THE INTENT WAS GOOD, BUT IT WAS BASED ON A LACK OF KNOWLEDGE OF THE PROFESSION. AND SO IT TOOK THE COMMITTEES AND TRAPS QUITE A BIT OF TIME TO GET THAT CLEANED UP. THE LEGISLATOR, UM, THE EVENT OH, OF OUR, NO, THE, THE THE ACTUAL PERSON YOU TO LOOK JUST KIND, YOU'LL HAVE TO LOOK IT UP. WE HAVE A FEW ANGIE CHIN BUTTON. THE ONE I GOT A NEW ONE YOU RAMOS OR SOMETHING. YEAH, IT'S RIGHT. IT'S WHERE YOU, WHERE YOU RESIDE. SO WE LIKE, AS WE GO, WE TRY TO DO TO MEET WITH LEGISLATORS THAT ARE FROM THE AREA YOU DO WORK IN. BUT YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY BE FREE. I MEAN, CAUSE I LIVE IN DALLAS, BUT, SO IF YOU LOOK ON THE, ON YOUR VOTER ID CARD, IT TELLS YOU WHAT DISTRICT YOU'RE IN. MM-HMM. . SO I'M LIKE, I'M IN 1 0 2, SO I KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT'S OR IS THE WEBSITE REPRESENTING YOU? IT'S CALLED WHO REPRESENTS ME OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT COM THAT'S CORRECT. YEP. YEAH, I GOT IT. YEAH, I KNOW, I KNOW, UH, MS. BUTTON HAS A BIG JURISDICTION OF THIS AREA AND, UM, USED TO YEAH, SO I, I GOTTA, YEAH. BUT WE, AND WHEN WE GO TO WALK THE HALLS, THEY, THEY KIND OF TRY TO MAKE SURE YOU'RE TALKING TO REPRESENTATIVES OR SENATE MEMBERS GENERALLY IN YOUR AREA. BUT LIKE I SAID, IT'S USUALLY PEOPLE WHO WORK FOR THEM, BUT THEY, THEY, YOU KNOW, THEY, THEY'RE WHO THEY RELY ON. YEP. THEY DO. ANOTHER THING ABOUT WALK THE HALLS IS THERE'S THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE THERE ON ANY GIVEN DAY DOING THE SAME THING FOR EVEN FROM THE CITY. YEAH, YEAH, YEAH. WE EVEN RAN IT UP THE, WE RAN HALF THE CITY AT IN AND JIM BUTTON'S OFFICE. YEAH. AND, UH, SO YEAH. AND, AND EVERYBODY'S GIVEN THEIR TALKING POINTS AND THESE, THESE GUYS GET IT AN EARFUL EVERY DAY DAY ON EVERY TOPIC. AND, AND SO WITH THAT, JUST TWO THINGS. WE DIDN'T DO THIS IN 2021 DUE TO COVID. UM, WE DID THIS KIND OF VIRTUALLY JUST, IT'S CALLED WALK THE HALLS IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD. WE DID SPEAK WITH, UH, I KNOW ME, UH, ERIC FROM BRADFIELD AND HEATHER, UM, WE, UH, HEATHER LAMBERT, WE, WE MET WITH, UM, SOMEONE VIRTUALLY, UM, AND THEY, AND THEY ARE DOING ONE IN THE, THEY'RE DOING A PARK STATE ON THE OFF YEARS, UM, JUST TO KIND OF BUILD RAPPORT WITH WHOEVER'S AT THE CAPITOL THAT DAY. SO IT'S KIND OF BEEN THE BUILDING STAGES, BUT WE DID THAT THIS PAST SUMMER. UM, AND IT WAS, IT WAS KIND OF COOL, JUST SO IT'S NOT LIKE WHENEVER WE SEE THEM WE'RE ASKING FOR SOMETHING WE'RE, YOU KNOW, HEY, THIS IS WHAT WE DO, THIS IS WHAT WE'RE ABOUT IN THE PARKS AND REC PROFESSIONAL. WE'RE NOT JUST SAYING, HEY, YOU KNOW, WE NEED MONEY FOR THE SPORT AND GET SALES TAX. AND, YOU KNOW, WE, WE, SO WE ARE, WE DO HAVE AN EVENT, UM, IT WAS THIS PAST SUMMER, SO HOPEFULLY 2020, UH, FOUR SUMMER WE WILL BE DOING THAT AS MORE. THAT'S A GREAT IDEA. YEAH. AND SOMETIMES YOU'RE JUST PLANTING THE SEED. THAT'S RIGHT. BECAUSE THE [01:10:01] YEAR WE WERE THERE, THEY DIDN'T ACTUALLY PASS THE SPORTING GOOD TAX, BUT THE NEXT YEAR THEY WERE, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, THEY, AND THEN WE, WE, WE ACTUALLY WAS THE NEXT SESSION WE REPRESENTATIVE SIRI A AND ONE OTHER WHOLE COURT, I BELIEVE THAT WOULD KIND OF PUSH THAT THROUGH. SO WE, WE, UM, WENO WE, UH, WE RECOGNIZE THEM. THEM, YEAH. WE RECOGNIZE THEM AT THE, UH, AT THE PLAY DAY. UH, AND, AND SO, AND, AND AT ONE OTHER EVENT IT WAS, IT WAS PRETTY COOL. CAUSE OBVIOUSLY WE, WE WERE KIND OF STUCK DUE TO COVID AND, AND, BUT THEY KIND OF PUSHED THAT THROUGH AND IT WENT THROUGH, BUT, ALL RIGHT. UM, THANK YOU. THANK YOU EVERYONE. AND, UH, IF YOU NEED TO GET IN TOUCH WITH ANGIE, HER CELL PHONE NUMBER IS TWO ONE FOUR EIGHT AND I'LL STOP THERE. , ANGIE, UH, ANGIE, I WORKED WITH HER ON COMMITTEES HERE IN GARLAND BEFORE SHE STARTED HER POLITICAL CAREER. SO SHE'S VERY, VERY, UH, UP TO DATE ON WHAT THE NEEDS ARE IN GARLAND. AND, AND SO, UH, SHE'S, SHE'S BEEN PHENOMENAL FOR US. WE LOST HER FOR A WHILE WITH THE REDISTRICTING AND THEN, AND THEN CAME BACK AND CAME BACK TO HER. SHE, I DON'T KNOW WHETHER SHE'S GOT ALL THE GARLAND, BUT MOST OF IT, UH, AND THEN SECONDLY, WITH, UH, HAVING PEOPLE TRAVEL THERE, FIRST OFF, UH, ARE, ARE THE MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE THAT GO, UH, BOARD MEMBERS, UH, CITIZENS, ARE THEY MOSTLY, UM, CITY EMPLOYEES? THEY, IT, IT, IT RUNS A GAMUT. IT'S MAINLY AS PART OF TEXAS REC. WELL, YEAH, CUZ TRAPS RUNS IT. SO OUR GROUP, WE ALL MEET THERE AND IT'S MAJORITY, UH, PROFESSIONALS AND PARK BOARD MEMBERS, I WILL SAY IT IS MAJORITY, UH, PROFESSIONALS. UH, BUT WE WANT TO, UM, WE, WE AS A CITY WERE REALLY GOOD IN 2020, IN 2019 AS BRINGING PARK. SOUNDS ABOUT RIGHT. MM-HMM. AS FAR AS OUR RATIO GOES. UM, I KNOW THE CITY OF LANCASTER ACTUALLY BROUGHT THEIR YOUTH COUNCIL, SO THEY WERE ABLE TO GET THE KIDS OUT AT SCHOOL FOR THAT DAY. UM, AND THEN COOL, AS FAR AS, WE DO ACTUALLY HAVE STUDENTS, UM, FROM SAN MARCUS THAT, THAT WERE A GOOD, GOOD AMOUNT. AND, YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S JUST KIND OF, UM, IT'S GOOD SEEING DIVERSITY AND WHATNOT, BUT I THINK THE LAST TIME THAT WE WENT IT WAS MAJORITY OF PROFESSIONALS. MAJORITY PROFESSIONALS. OKAY. AND THEN JUST BRIEFLY, UM, DO THEY PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION? DO Y'ALL GOING BUSES? DOES EVERYBODY HAVE TO GO ON THEIR OWN, OR IT WAS, YEAH, SO THE CITY AT THE TIME WHEN WE LAST WENT, WE PROVIDED TRANSPORTATION. WE TOOK A ROAD TRIP AND A YEAH, WE CITY VAN. YEAH, WE, UH, WE WENT DOWN, UM, AS, UH, I THINK WE TOOK ABOUT 10 PEOPLE DOWN THERE. OKAY. SO YOU WENT IN ONE OF THE, ONE OF THE CITY, THE LARGER BUS, UH, LARGER VANS. YEAH, I THINK ACTUALLY ERIC TROVE. YEAH, IT WAS, YEAH, THAT WAS 2017. YEAH, 2019. I THINK IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN A SMALLER GROUP. AND THAT WAS THAT PICTURE THERE. SO, AND THEN THE, AND THE LAST PIECE OF THIS, THE STATEMENTS YOU MADE THAT SOME MANY TIMES YOU MEET WITH THE, WITH STAFF, IF YOU, IF YOU MEET WITH YOUR LEGISLATOR, UH, MOST OF THE TIME, IF YOU GET INTO ANY KIND OF A QUESTION, UH, THING WITH THEM, THEY'LL, THEY'LL LOOK OVER TO THEIR CHIEF OF STAFF THAT'S SITTING OVER THERE AND SAY, HOW, HOW ARE WE POSITIONED ON THAT? UH, YOU KNOW, OR WHERE ARE WE ON THAT? AND, UH, AND SO WE FOUND THAT MANY TIMES VISITING WITH THE, THE, THE CHIEF OF STAFF IS BETTER THAN MEETING WITH THE LEGISLATOR CAUSE THEY CAN'T KEEP UP WITH EVERYTHING. IT'S NICE TO HAVE THAT PERSON THAT'S THE NUTS AND BOLTS PERSON THAT YOU'RE TALKING TO. AND, AND IT'S USUALLY YOU'RE NOT GONNA MEET WITH THE REP UNLESS, OR SENATE LEADER UNLESS YOU SCHEDULE AN APPOINTMENT WITH THEM. OH, ABSOLUTELY. YEAH. IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE APPOINTMENT, YOU DON'T MEET HIM. YEAH. OKAY. THANK YOU BRIAN. WE APPRECIATE THAT. AND DELEE, YEAH. WOULD YOU GET EVERYTHING OUT YOU NEEDED? WE'RE RUNNING, WE'RE RUNNING A LITTLE LONG HERE TONIGHT, BUT WE HAVE, WE HAVE A LOT OF THINGS TO TRY TO GET MOVING AND SO, UH, WE'LL KEEP MOVING ALONG AS QUICKLY AS WE CAN. OKAY. UH, PARKS AND RECREATION CHAIR TO APPOINT MEMBERS OF STANDING TO STANDING COMMITTEES. AND BEFORE I DO THAT, I WANTED ANDY TO, UM, TO KIND OF SAY, WHAT ARE THESE COMMITTEES? WHAT ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO DO? UH, AND ARE THEY IMPORTANT AT ALL OR SHOULD WE JUST NOT EVEN DO THAT? WELL, YOU MAY NOT GET THAT ONE. SURE. SO, AND I APPRECIATE THAT, AND I'VE HAD SOME OPPORTUNITY TO, TO TALK WITH, WITH JERRY AND MOLLY A COUPLE OCCASIONS, UM, HERE RECENTLY. AND SO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO, UH, TAKE INTO SOME CONSIDERATION SOME IDEAS THAT WERE PUT OUT THERE. I'LL SAY FIRST, SO ONE THAT WE TALKED ABOUT BRIEFLY WAS IN, IN ORDER TO REALLY GET THE MOST VALUE OUT OF THE SUBCOMMITTEES, AND WE RECOGNIZE IT MIGHT BE WISE TO, UM, HAVE THE SUBCOMMITTEE MEETINGS ONE MONTH IN ADVANCE OF THE ACTUAL FULL BOARD, GIVE THEM TIME TO RESEARCH, STUDY, ASK QUESTIONS, THOSE KIND OF THINGS. AND THAT'S, AND THAT'S NOT EVEN A MAGIC TIMELINE. UM, AND SO I THINK THE OTHER THING THAT'S IMPORTANT TO EMPHASIZE IS, IS THAT TO, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE IT'S NOT A QUORUM OF THE SUBCOMMITTEE, YOU GUYS CAN CALL THOSE MEETINGS. THE CHAIR CAN CALL [01:15:01] THOSE MEETINGS TO DISCUSS AND, AND INITIATE AND BRING TOPICS TO THE STAFF. DEPENDING ON THE LEVEL OF THAT RECOMMENDATION, IT MAY BE SOMETHING THAT I CAN MAKE A DECISION ON. IT MAY NOT, IT MAY END UP A BUDGET REQUEST OR IT MAY END UP IN THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE OR THOSE KIND OF THINGS. SO THOSE, THOSE COMMITTEES ARE, ARE IMPORTANT. UM, YOU KNOW, THEY DON'T MEET A LOT, BUT WHEN THEY DO, I THINK IT'S, THE INTENT IS TO PROVIDE A LITTLE BIT MORE DEEPER DIVE AND FOCUS ON THAT TOPIC TO ALLOW, YOU KNOW, SOME ADDITIONAL TIME FOR RESEARCH AND STUDY AND, AND QUESTIONS. SO, UM, FEEL FREE TO, UM, UH, BE A LITTLE MORE AGGRESSIVE OR ASSERTIVE ON ASSEMBLING THOSE SUBCOMMITTEES WITHOUT NECESSARILY US SAYING THAT THEY NEED TO BE CALLED. VERY GOOD. AND, AND I SEE OUT OF THAT, IF YOU COULD GO TO THE MONTH BEFORE, UH, HAVING, HAVING THE DISCUSSION, THEN THAT ALSO GIVES YOU A CHANCE FOR EVERYBODY TO, TO, UM, THINK A LITTLE FURTHER ABOUT IT THAN WHAT THEY THOUGHT AT THAT PARTICULAR MEETING. AND HAVE ONE THE NIGHT YOU'RE GONNA PRESENT, YOU HAVE JUST A KIND OF AN UPDATE. ARE YOU READY? WE GOT THIS DONE. UH, TO ME, THIS IS THE, THIS IS THE WAY YOU START TO INVOLVE THE CITIZENRY IN THE, IN THE, IN THE DECISIONS OF THE, OF THE, UH, OF THIS BOARD. SO, UM, THAT'S, THAT'S ONE PIECE OF THIS. AND AS, AS ANOTHER PIECE, UM, I WANTED TO TAKE SOME JUST A LITTLE BIT OF TIME TONIGHT AND LESS TIME THAN ORIGINALLY PLANNED, BUT JUST TO, JUST RIGHT QUICKLY TO, UM, SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE THAT ALL OF US DON'T REALLY APPRECIATE THE, THE RESPONSIBILITY THAT WE'VE BEEN GIVEN BY THE, BY THE, THE CITIZENS. I MEAN, WE'RE SITTING HERE WITH A, LOOKING AT, UM, THE RESULTS OF A BOND ELECTION, UNLIKE ANYTHING THAT'S EVER HAPPENED IN THE HISTORY OF GARLAND. AND I MEAN, WAY UNLIKE ANYTHING'S EVER HAPPENED, PROBABLY MORE, PROBABLY MORE MONEY, UH, AVAILABLE FOR PARKS THAN WE'VE HAD IN THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF THE CITY. AND THEN ON TOP OF THAT, WITH THE AGGRESSIVE WORK THAT, UH, ANDY AND STAFF ARE DOING, UM, WITH, UH, WITH ADDITIONAL FUNDING, UH, SOME OF US CALL IT OPM, YOU KNOW, WE'RE LOOKING FOR OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY. WE, WE, WE LIKE THAT. AND, AND THAT'S, AND, AND WE, WE HAVEN'T REALLY BEEN ABLE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT IN THE PARK SYSTEM TO ANY GREAT DEGREE BECAUSE WE REALLY NEVER HAD THE MASTER PLAN THAT GAVE US THE OPPORTUNITY FOR THAT BEFORE. BUT THE BOND ELECTION, UH, DESIGNATED A LOT OF THINGS THAT WE WANTED TO TRY AND ACCOMPLISH. IT DID THAT BECAUSE THE PRIOR, PRIOR, UH, GROUP HERE IN, IN, UH, IN A CITY WHERE WE'RE SITTING, AND THE PRIOR, UM, UH, DIRECTOR FOR THE, UH, PARKS DEPARTMENT WAS, UH, THEY PUT TOGETHER A PROGRAM WHICH GAVE US THINGS TO WORK FROM TO REALLY TRY AND, AND, UM, AND DO SOMETHING FANTASTIC FOR THE CITY. AND, UH, AND, UH, UH, DAVID MOOREHEAD AND MYSELF AND MOLLY, ALL THREE WOUND UP, UH, BEING IN THE 19 THAT SPENT ABOUT A YEAR OR SO IN GOING OVER THAT THING. AND IT WAS, AND IT WAS PHENOMENAL. BUT TO COME UP WITH THE $117 MILLION THAT WE WERE FINALLY GIVEN TO GO ON TOP OF THAT, UM, FUNDING FROM DALLAS COUNTY TRAILS ON TOP OF THAT MONEY. AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT MILLIONS, UH, FROM, UM, UH, THE, UH, THE, THE TEXAS PARKS, UH, FUNDING FOUNDATION, I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU CALL THAT ONE. ANDY TEXAS PARKS WILDLIFE GRANT PROGRAM YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT. YES, SIR. UH, ADDITIONAL MILLIONS. AND THEN ON TOP OF THAT, UM, BECAUSE, BECAUSE THE PARKS PROGRAM HAD MOVED SO FAR, UH, IN THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS WHEN THE, UH, ARPA FUNDS BECAME AVAILABLE TO THE CITY OF GARLAND, UM, THE CITY, THE CITY, UM, COULD NOT PUT TOGETHER ENOUGH PROGRAMS TO HANDLE THE USAGE OF THE OVER 50 MILLION THAT THE CITY OF GARLAND WAS GIVEN BECAUSE IT WAS JUST, THERE'S TOO MANY STRINGS TIED EXCEPT FOR PARKS AND PARKS. PARKS HAD DONE SO MUCH OF THE, OF THE WORK, UH, EARLY WORK THAT THEY WERE, THEY WERE ABLE TO ABLE TO TAKE MORE THAN HALF OF THE MONEY THAT WAS, UH, GRANTED TO THE CITY OF GARLAND FOR USE IN OUR PROGRAM. SO NOW YOU CAN START, YOU CAN START ADDING NUMBERS TOGETHER, AND YOU CAN SEE THIS IS, THIS IS JUST A, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT, THAT THIS IS NOT EVEN A ONCE IN A LIFETIME THING. I MEAN, IT'S JUST SO RARE THAT YOU WOULD EVER GET AN OPPORTUNITY, UH, TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS. AND SO WHAT WHAT I WOULD HOPE IS THAT EVERYONE WOULD STOP AND THINK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HOW MUCH, HOW MUCH HAS BEEN INVESTED IN EACH OF THEM TO REPRESENT THE CITIZENS OF GARLAND AND, AND TO, AND TO COMMIT TO BEING READY WHEN, WHEN WE HAVE A, WHEN WE HAVE A MEETING. YOU'VE STUDIED THE INFORMATION THAT'S BEEN GIVEN TO YOU. UH, WHAT KIND OF HOURS DO YOU THINK STAFF WOULD HAVE HAS TO DO TO PRODUCE THIS EACH [01:20:01] TIME? IT'S GOTTA BE SIGNIFICANT. THE AGENDA? YES. OH, I, I, I'M, DO, YOU MAY NOT WANNA KNOW, I'M NOT THE RIGHT PERSON TO ASK, BUT IT IS, IT IS A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF TIME. UH, YES. UH, HALF PUTS IN NOT ME. YES. , WAIT A MINUTE. IS KEITH, KEITH INVOLVED IN THAT? IS ETHAN, YVONNE. AND, AND DEPARTMENT HEADS ALL ALIKE AND DEPARTMENT HEADS ALL ALIKE. SO, BUT I MEAN, IT, IT IS VERY SIGNIFICANT. AND IF WE DON'T TAKE THE TIME TO EVEN, UH, TAKE A LOOK AT THAT AND UNDERSTAND AND BE PREPARED TO DISCUSS THESE ISSUES, UH, IT'S REALLY, UM, IT'S REALLY A DOWNGRADING OF THEIR EFFORTS OF THOSE FOLKS. AND I CAN ASSURE YOU, AND HAVING BEEN ONE THAT'S PRODUCED THINGS FOR OTHER, OTHER PEOPLE, IF OTHER PEOPLE DON'T REALLY TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT THAT MUCH, WELL, YOU JUST DON'T START, YOU, YOU START DOWN, DOWN, DOWN WHAT YOU'RE GETTING. AND WE ARE, WE ARE NOT ONLY BECAUSE OF THE FUNDING, BUT WE HAVE, I'M GONNA SAY, AND I'VE ONLY BEEN DEALING WITH PARKS PEOPLE SINCE BACK IN THE 1960S AS A KID, AND MY DAD AND CECIL WINNERS, UM, WE HAVE, WE HAVE AS TOP NOTCH AN ENTIRE STAFF UP AND DOWN THE LEADERSHIP, UH, THAT WE, THAT WE'VE EVER HAD IN THIS CITY. AND THAT, THAT RE THAT REFLECTS, I THINK THEIR RECOGNITION THAT WHAT WE'RE GOING TO BE CREATING OVER THE NEXT FEW YEARS, UM, IT'S REALLY GONNA BE THE LEGACY, UH, FOR THEM. AND NOT ONLY THEY'RE GONNA BE THE LEGACY FOR THEM, BUT IT'S GONNA BE PART OF OUR LEGACY ALSO, WHAT DID WE DO TO HELP THEM? THERE'S GONNA BE TIMES WHEN ANDY'S GONNA NEED TO HELP, UH, SOMEWHERE THAT'S NOT, UH, NOT, UM, THAT SOMETHING HE CAN DO, BUT, UH, BECAUSE OF HIS POSITION, BUT SOMETIMES HE NEEDS HELP FROM THE CITIZENRY. AND THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT WE'RE HERE FOR, IS TO, TO DO EVERYTHING WE CAN TO MAKE HIM AND HIS STAFF WORK, WORK AS BEST WE CAN. SO WITH THAT, UH, WE HAVE, UH, AND WE TURN BACK TO THE PAGE FOR THE, WITH, UM, ASSIGNMENTS, UH, THIS AND BYLAWS REQUEST, UM, THE MANDATE THAT, UM, THAT I'M THE ONE THAT HAS TO DO THIS. AND SO, UH, BUT WHAT WE DID IS WE SENT OUT A QUESTIONNAIRE TO EVERYONE AND WE TRIED TO REACT, UH, TO THAT, TO THAT QUESTIONNAIRE AND HOPEFULLY WE'RE, WE'RE FAIRLY ACCURATE ON THAT. AND SO, UM, WITH THAT AND THAT PAGE, WE HAVE, UH, WE HAVE A, A PARTIALLY FILLED OUT ON BOTH SIDES, BUT I WANT TO, I WANNA GO THROUGH THIS. THE, THE PER, THE THING I DO IS I, I'M GONNA GIVE YOU THE FOUR PEOPLE THAT ARE ON EACH OF THE COMMITTEES, AND I'M ALSO GONNA GIVE YOU THE CHAIR. NOW IN DOING THIS, IF THE, IF THE GROUP DECIDES THAT, THAT MY SELECTION OF CHAIR IS, UM, IS NOT THE PROPER, IF SOMEONE WANTS TO DO IT, WHO'S MORE QUALIFIED, YOU KNOW, JUST CONSIDERING WHATEVER, YOU KNOW, MORE ABLE TO DO IT AT ANY PARTICULAR POINT IN TIME, UH, YOU WOULD JUST NEED TO COME BACK TO ME AND, AND I WOULD NEED TO, UH, REAPPOINT WHO WOULD BE THE NEW CHAIR. AND I THINK THAT MEETS WITH THE BYLAWS. WOULD I BE RIGHT MR. HESSER? OKAY. SO ANYWAY, IT'S GOT GOTTA COME THROUGH ME, BUT IT CAN COME THROUGH YOU TO GET TO ME. OKAY. LET'S START OFF WITH, UH, FACILITIES AND FINANCE, UH, MR. PARRISH, UH, WOULD LIKE FOR YOU TO, TO CHAIR THAT COMMITTEE FOR US. OKAY. UH, JASON, UH, YOU'RE REQUESTED TO BE ON THAT COMMITTEE, SO YOU'RE THERE, UH, DAVID, UH, MOOREHEAD, UH, YOU, YOU ON THAT COMMITTEE. OKAY. AND, UH, BOBBY BRADLEY. AND WE NEED TO FIND WHERE BOBBY IS. THIS IS TWO OR THREE TIMES. WE HAVEN'T SEEN HIM, SO WE NEED, WE NEED TO FIND, Y'ALL NEED TO FIND MR. BRADLEY FOR US. UM, GET HIM TO GET HIM IN HERE. UH, IF HE, IF HE WISHES TO BE I MY LIST SHOW. YEAH, I WAS GONNA SAY, I GOT KENYA HERE. I GOT KENYA MINE TOO. I, I'VE RE I'VE GONE ON THE REQUESTED SIDE AND MOVED, MOVED PEOPLE AROUND. OKAY. GOTCHA. OKAY. UH, ON THE, UH, POLICIES AND PROGRAMS, UH, DON KERNER, I'D ASK IF HE WOULD, IT WOULD BE CHAIR ON, ON THIS GROUP, AND HE AGREED TO DO THAT, AND WE APPRECIATE THAT. DON. UH, WE ALSO HAVE ON THERE MOLLY BISHOP AND, UM, AND DAVID MOOREHEAD. OKAY. AND DAVID MOOREHEAD. SO HE'S ON BOTH. SO YOU NEED KENYA ON ONE OF THOSE. I'VE GOT KENYA ON THE NEXT ONE. OKAY. UH, AND ALSO ON URBAN FORESTRY, UH, WE HAVE, UH, DAVID MOOREHEAD IS CHAIR ON THIS. OKAY. AND DAVID'S WINDING UP ON THREE OF THESE. I UNDERSTAND, BUT JERRY, I, I FEAR, I MUST DISAGREE WITH YOU. I BELIEVE IT IS DAVID PARRISH AND NOT DAVID MOOREHEAD, UM, THAT IS ON THE FACILITY. THAT'S RIGHT. UM, DAVID PARISH AND [01:25:01] DAVID DAVID PARISH ON FACILITIES, HE'S CHAIR AND I AM NOT ON THE, SO, SO WE'RE JUST LOOKING AT THE REQUESTED COLUMN. YEAH, I'M LOOKING AT THE REQUESTED SIDE NOW AS OPPOSED TO THIS, THE LEFT SIDE'S CURRENTLY, THE RIGHT SIDE'S REQUESTED. AND THEN I'VE, UH, TRIED TO REACT TO THAT AND HOPEFULLY TO CLARIFY THE NAMES YOU'RE READING OFF, ARE YOUR SELECTIONS FOR THE, FOR THE SUBCOMMITTEE, WHICH MAY OR MAY NOT REFLECT EXACTLY WHAT'S ON THE REQUESTED VERSUS THE EXISTING. IS THAT ACCURATE? EXACTLY. I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE I'M FIXING SOME OF THE CONFUSION. SO LIKE, FOR EXAMPLE, FACILITY AND FINANCE, YOU HAVE SELECTED DAVID PARRISH'S, CHAIR, DAVID MOOREHEAD, BOBBY AND JASON REMAINS, CORRECT? MM-HMM. , MM-HMM. . AND IF, UM, AND POLICIES AND PROGRAM, YOU'VE GOT DON AS CHAIR, AD MOLLY, DAVID MOOREHEAD, RETAINS, AND THEN A FOURTH ONE I DID A NAME I DID NOT GET. AND THAT'S, THAT'S PROBABLY WHERE I, I MEANT TO PUT KEN. OKAY. OKAY. I WAS, NOW, I HAD TO REACT TO THE INFORMATION I GOT JUST THIS EVENING, AND I WAS TRYING TO DO THIS JUST BEFORE THE MEETING STARTED, SO BEAR WITH ME, EVERYBODY. OKAY. OKAY. AND THEN AS I WAS DOWN HERE TO URBAN FORESTRY, WHERE WAS I ON THIS ONE? I HAD DAVID MOOREHEAD, HIS CHAIR. YES, SIR. UH, DAVID PARRISH IS A MEMBER, AND, UM, UH, JASON AS A MEMBER AND MOLLY AS A MEMBER ON THIS ONE. OKAY. IF Y'ALL, ANYONE DECIDES, IF Y'ALL DECIDE YOU HAVE YOUR MEETING, THAT SOMEONE ELSE WOULD, UH, WOULD LIKE TO CHAIR THAT WOULD Y'ALL, IF Y'ALL RECOMMENDED THEM TO ME, I WOULD, I WOULD ACCEPT THAT. UH, MAYBE I MIGHT NOT ON YOU. DAVID MOORHEAD, YOU MAY STILL BE CHAIR. NO, NO. ANYWAY. ALRIGHT. AND, AND WHAT WE'RE, WHAT WE'RE DOING HERE IS WE'RE JUST, WE'RE REALLY, I REALLY WANTED EVERYONE TO UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF EACH OF THESE COMMITTEES BECAUSE WE REALLY, WE REALLY HAVEN'T DONE A LOT WITH THIS YET. AND WE'VE GOT, YOU KNOW, AS ANDY AND THE GANG ARE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT, UM, WHERE WE SHOULD FIT IN THIS OPERATION. AND AS MOLLY AND I HAD A NICE LONG VISIT WITH ANDY, AND I'D HAD ONE EARLIER BEFORE THE FIRST MEETING. UH, HE'S SHARED A LOT OF INFORMATION THAT'S HELPED US, BUT HE'S GOT A LOT MORE TO GO TO, TO HELP THE CHAIRMAN, UH, ON THIS THING. SO ANYWAY, THERE'S, THERE'S OUR, UM, UH, APPOINTMENTS TO THE STANDING COMMITTEES. EVERYBODY PLEASE NOTE WHERE YOU, WHERE YOU, WHERE YOU FIND LAYOUT IN THIS. UH, YVONNE, DO YOU HAVE SOMETHING YOU, YES. IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU HAD SOMETHING YOU WANTED TO SAY. YES, SIR. WE DO HAVE A VACANCY, UM, ON THE BOARD. SO IF THAT IS FILLED, THERE WILL BE NO SPOTS FOR THAT PERSON. UH, I'M, I'M SORRY. AND, AND I, AND I MEANT TO TALK ABOUT, UM, UM, JONATHAN. JONATHAN HAS, UH, UH, RESIGNED FROM THE BOARD. UH, THERE'S, UM, SOME ISSUES IN HIS LIFE THAT HAVE, UH, CREATED UNDUE BURDENS ON HIM. AND SO HE IS NOT GONNA BE ABLE TO 10. THANK YOU FOR THAT, YVONNE. AND, UH, AND WE'RE SORRY. SORRY TO SEE HIM GO. I ENJOYED, ALWAYS ENJOYED SITTING BESIDE HIM DOWN THERE. UH, BUT, UM, IT WAS HIS CHOICE TO, THAT HE NEEDED, NEEDED TO MOVE ON WITH OTHER THINGS. SO, UH, ANYWAY. AND DID THAT GET YOU WHAT YOU NEEDED, YVONNE? NO, I THINK WHAT SHE'S TRYING TO PUT IS THAT WE EXPECT THAT DISTRICT ONE WILL APPOINT SOMEBODY AND THAT THERE NEEDS TO BE A PLACE FOR HIM, ONE OF THE TWO COMMITTEES FOR HIM TO BE ON, WHETHER IT'S, UM, IT SOUNDS LIKE IT WOULD BE POLICIES AND PROGRAM. WELL, AT THIS STAGE OF THE GAME, WE, WE FILL 'EM, FILL 'EM OUT WITH WHO WE HAVE. AND IF, UH, WE GET SOMEONE IN THERE AND THEY HAVE A, A CHOICE TO GO SOMEWHERE THAT CAN ASK THE COMMITTEES, THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS, IF ONE OF THEM WOULD STEP ASIDE. OKAY. I'D RATHER DO THAT THAN TO PUNISH, TO PENALIZE AN EXISTING BOARD MEMBER AT THIS STAGE. WAS IT FAIR TO HAVE DAVID MOOREHEAD ON ALL THREE COMMITTEES? I MEAN, JUST , I'M THINKING ABOUT YEAH, HE'S, HE'S MY NEW FAVORITE PICK ON SUPER HERE, SUPERMAN THING UNDER THERE. WELL SEE THAT, THAT, THAT MAKES IT REAL EASY. THAT MAKES IT REAL EASY IF WE DO GET, UM, ANOTHER PERSON. AND, UH, AND SO SEE, MOLLY, WE MAY HAVE ANSWERED YOUR PROBLEM THERE. WELL, IT'S, YEAH, IT'S WHAT I TRIED TO BRING UP, BUT I THINK THAT'S WHAT YOU WERE TRYING TO SAY, WASN'T IT YVONNE? YES, SIR. THAT IT WASN'T FAIR TO HAVE DAVID ON ALL THREE? NO. WELL, PART OF YEAH. TELL ME, TELL ME WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO SAY. SPEAK ENGLISH. PART OF SERVING ON THE PARKS AND RECREATION BOARD IS SERVING ON A COMMITTEE, AND EACH OF THE REPRESENTATIVES HERE ARE EACH ON A COMMITTEE OTHER THAN THE CHAIR. [01:30:01] THE CHAIR I GUESS IS AD HOC FOR EACH COMMITTEE. NO, CHAIR IS NOT AVAILABLE FOR EACH COMMITTEE OR ANY OF 'EM, BECAUSE DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? THAT'S WHY WE HAVE FOUR, WE HAVE FOUR, UH, FOUR PEOPLE ASSIGNED. FIVE GETS A, GETS US A, UH, QUORUM. A QUORUM, AND WE, AND WE, YOU CAN'T MEET WITH THE QUORUM WITHOUT HAVING ANNOUNCED MEETINGS. OKAY. SO THAT THERE'S ALWAYS JUST FOUR. IF I COULD SUMMARIZE, MAYBE WHAT I'M HEARING IS THAT'D BE GOOD. ONE OPTION IS TO RESERVE A VACANCY FOR THE INCOMING, WHENEVER THAT MIGHT BE, UH, FOR DISTRICT TWO, OR AS YOU'VE DONE, GO AHEAD AND APPOINT FOR WHO'S AVAILABLE, NOT KNOWING WHEN THAT MAY OCCUR. AND DEPENDING ON THAT PER AND I'M, THIS IS NOW I'M ADDING TO WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS PERHAPS THAT PERSON MAY COME WITH A PARTICULAR INTEREST OR SKILLSET THAT MIGHT AT THAT TIME BE DETERMINED WHAT COMMITTEE THEY'RE BEST SUITED ON. AND AT SUCH TIME YOU'RE SAYING PUT IT BACK OUT IN EITHER AT YOUR PLEASURE OR CONSENT, SOMEBODY MAY STEP ASIDE FROM ONE OF THE COMMITTEES TO MAKE ROOM FOR THE NEW BOARD MEMBER. IS THAT, THAT'S ALMOST WHAT I ACCOMPLISHED, . THAT SOUND ACCURATE? AM I REFLECTING WHAT EVERYBODY'S SAYING? YEAH. ON YOUR TWO OPTIONS? YEAH, THAT'S, THAT'S GOOD. AND THAT I UNDER, WE UNDERSTOOD THAT THE BYLAWS, I HAD TO APPOINT FOUR PEOPLE TO EACH ONE OF THEM. UH, BUT, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE THAT HAVE, UH, YOU THINK I'M PICKING ON DAVID, BUT DAVID AND I SERVED ON THE, THE BOND COMMITTEE TOGETHER. I RESPECT, UH, HIS OPINIONS. AND WE'VE HAD, I'VE HAD GOOD COMMUNICATIONS WITH HIM DURING THE, DURING THE TIME OF THIS. AND I KNOW I FEEL COMFORTABLE THAT, UM, IF IF THE PERSON THAT CAME ALONG, UH, HE AND HE AND DAVID OR MAYBE SOMEONE ELSE COULD, WOULD STEP ASIDE, BUT RIGHT NOW, EACH, NOW EACH ONE OF THE COMMITTEES ARE FILLED WITH THE PEOPLE THAT WE HAVE. OKAY. OKAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU EVERYONE. THANK YOU FOR THE DISCUSSION. AND, AND SORRY, I GOT, JUST GOT THIS AS I WALKED IN THE DOOR HERE TONIGHT WITH SOME, SOME UPDATES FROM WHAT I HAD BEFORE. SO I WAS, UH, RUNNING AROUND WITH THINGS. OKAY. UM, PARKS FOUNDATION UPDATE. OKAY. UM, WITH, WE DON'T REALLY HAVE MUCH TO SAY. WE WE'RE, HAVEN'T HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO MEET. SO WE'LL HAVE SOMETHING FOR YOU ON THE NEXT MEETING. I'M SORRY ABOUT THAT. OKAY. WELL, WE KNOW YOU HAD VERY, UH, SPECIAL SITUATION THAT YOU'VE BEEN DEALING WITH AND WE, WE, WE APPRECIATE YOU COMING TOGETHER VERY SOON. AND ON THE 17TH, SOMETHING IMPORTANT COMES UP. I I, I PROBABLY, WE CAN SEND SOMETHING TO ANDY AND YOU CAN DECIDE IF WE CAN SHARE WITH EVERYBODY YEP. ON THE BOARD, IF, IF IT'S IMPORTANT ENOUGH. IF NOT, IT WILL WAIT UNTIL THE NEXT MEETING IF IT'S OKAY. I, I THINK THAT'S FINE. I THINK, YOU KNOW, MAYBE THE BEST THING TO DO IS IT, IT DOESN'T NECESSARILY NEED TO BE A STANDING ITEM ON THE AGENDA FOR THAT REASON. SO IF YOU'VE GOT SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, AS IT IS A SEPARATE PRIVATE ENTITY, NOT RELATED, UH, OFFICIALLY TO PARK BOARD, THAT IT, IT CAN, IF, IF THERE IS AN UPDATE THAT SOMEBODY WANTS TO BRING, UM, FORWARD AND, AND WE JUST ADD IT TO THE AGENDA WITH A LITTLE HEADS UP, NO BIG DEAL. MM-HMM. , WE'LL DO THAT. THANK YEAH. AND OUR NEXT MEETING'S NOT TILL FEBRUARY, SO. OKAY. YEP. KEN, IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU BACK AGAIN. ABSOLUTELY. WE HAVE MISSED YOU. ABSOLUTELY. OKAY. HAPPY TO. WE HAVE MISSED YOU. ALL RIGHT. FOR ALL RIGHT. CHAPS, UPDATE THAT MUST BE THE LEE. IT IS. AND SON OF A GUN WANTED TO SHARE. UM, OBVIOUSLY I KNOW MOST OF YOU WERE THERE AND WE WON THREE AWARDS, WHICH WE WERE EXCITED ABOUT AT THE NORTH REGION REGION. UM, AND I THINK THE FIRST ONE TO REALLY TALK ABOUT IS OUR ADVOCATE OF THE YEAR, OUR VERY OWN DAVID PARISH . AND SO, SO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR YOU ALL TO KNOW THAT WE ALL ARE REALLY, REALLY BUSY STAFF. AND SO WHEN IT COMES TIME FOR TRAPS AWARDS, UM, WE REALLY HAVE TO HAVE, YOU KNOW, STAY ON, BE LIKE, I NEED THAT, NEED IT, AND BY THE WAY, WE NEED THIS TURNED IN. AND SO, BECAUSE WE HAVE LOTS OF THINGS THAT WE CAN NOMINATE OURSELVES FOR AND BE CONSIDERED FOR, SOMETIMES WE'RE JUST TOO BUSY GETTING THE WORK DONE TO THINK ABOUT GETTING THAT RECOGNITION. BUT IT IS IMPORTANT. AND DAVID, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE A PERFECT EXAMPLE. WHEN WE WERE GOING THROUGH WHAT COULD WE NOMINATE THIS YEAR? I MEAN, YOU CAME TO THE FOREFRONT AND EVERYBODY WAS LIKE, OH, YEAH, THAT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING, I APPRECIATE EVEN BEING IN CONSIDERED OUR BOND. UM, I, I FEEL LIKE THE FRUITS OF ALL OF THE LABOR OF THE BOND, EVERYTHING ARE STARTING TO PAY OFF. SO WE WON THE RECREATION FACILITY DESIGN EXCELLENCE AWARD FOR, UH, THE DESIGN OF AUDUBON RECREATION CENTER. AND SO THAT WAS A LOT OF FUN, UM, TO RECEIVE. UM, AND OF COURSE IT'S ALSO GOOD FOR THE ARCHITECTS AND THEY GET TO, YOU [01:35:01] KNOW, TALK ABOUT HOW THEY'RE ALSO AN AWARD WINNER AS WELL. UH, WE DID SUBMIT THAT FOR THE STATE AWARD, SO WE'LL SEE HOW THAT GOES. AND THEN WE ALSO WON IN THE CATEGORY FOR EXCELLENCE IN PROGRAMMING AWARD, UM, FOR THE HOLFORD STAY IN AND PLAY, WHICH IS THE THERAPEUTIC RECREATION PROGRAM. AND IT WAS JUST A WAY THAT STAFF BECAME CREATIVE, UM, AND CONTINUED THAT PROGRAM DURING COVID, UM, WITH THAT SPECIAL POPULATION. UM, AND I WAS GONNA SAY SOMETHING ELSE, I THINK THIS YEAR HEARD OF FRISCO. FRISCO, OKAY. THAT MAY LAST YEAR IT WAS GRAPEVINE. GRAPEVINE. GREAT MAN. I'M JUST SAYING WE ARE ALWAYS NICE AND STEADY. SO AND HOW MANY ALWAYS CONSISTENTLY A WINNER. HOW MANY AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS DID WE GET THIS YEAR? THREE. THREE, SIX. THREE. 3, 3, 3. I'M SORRY. OKAY. THREE. UH, IT SEEMED LIKE MORE THAN IT SEEMED LIKE THEY WERE CALLING, CALLING YOU MORE THAN THAT, BUT THAT'S, THAT'S FANTASTIC. AND WHAT IS, WHAT IS THIS TRAPS CONFERENCE THING? WHAT IS THE SALES ABOUT? WHAT, WHAT DO WE KNOW? Y'ALL WENT TO THAT, WHAT IS IT? TRAPS NORTH REGIONS, TEXAS RECREATION AND PARKS SOCIETY. IT'S OUR PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY. UM, AND OF COURSE, AS BOARD MEMBERS, YOU ALL GET TO ATTEND. SO WE HAVE THE NORTH REGION, WHICH IS THE MOST PROBABLY, I GUESS THE LARGEST AND THE MOST ACTIVE OF ALL OF THE STATE OF TEXAS, OF THE DIFFERENT REGIONS. AND WE HAVE A STATE CONFERENCE COMING UP IN FRISCO. MM-HMM. , BRISCOE, FRISCO, END OF FEBRUARY, . AND, AND, UM, THIS YEAR, HOW, WHO ALL, WHO ALL WAS THERE? DAVID AND DAVID AND ME AND, AND MOLLY OR DON? DID YOU, DID YOU GUYS COME? SORRY, I BACK OUT. I I GAVE MY APPOINTMENT. YOU GAVE YOUR SPOT UP. OKAY. WELL ANYWAY, WE HAD, WE HAD THREE OF THE, OF THE, UH, OF THE NINE OF US THAT, THAT WENT TO THAT. AND, AND THIS IS ANOTHER THING THAT I, I WANT TO TRY AND ENCOURAGE, UH, THE BOARD MEMBERS. THIS IS A TRAINING, THIS IS THE TRAINING THE STAFF GETS, AND WE CAN GET THE SAME TRAINING THAT THEY GET AND IT CAN REALLY HELP US TO UNDERSTAND THEIR WARPED WAYS. I MEAN, THEIR WAYS OF DOING THINGS SOMETIME IN OUR, IN OUR WARPED INTERPRETATION OF THEIR GOOD WAYS OF DOING THINGS. AND, UM, AND, UH, JUST TO, THIS WILL GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF, OF THE DIFFERENT THINGS. I MEAN, THIS IS, THIS IS A NUMBER OF SEMINARS THAT THEY, THAT THEY HAD DURING THE DAY. EACH ONE OF 'EM LASTS ABOUT AN ABOUT AN HOUR AND A HALF. AND EACH ONE OF US HAD GENERALLY ATTENDED ABOUT THREE OF THOSE. AND I HAPPENED TO MARK UP, UH, MARK UP MINE, ONE THAT I REALLY LIKED. UH, IF YOU DON'T FEED THE SUPERVISORS, THEY EAT THE STAFF. OKAY. . AND, I MEAN, BUT WHAT THEY'RE, WHAT WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT IS LEARNING, TEACHING, SHARING, UH, ENCOURAGING IS, IS WHAT IT WAS ALL ABOUT. JUST AN INTERESTING NAME TO GET YOU INTO THAT. UH, ANOTHER ONE I TOOK ON TRENDS IN PLACE BASED DESIGN, ACTIVITY, ENGAGEMENT AND INVOLVEMENT. UM, AND THEN, UH, ANOTHER ONE, UM, OH WAIT A MINUTE. THE ART OF COOPERATION. HOW REC CENTER AND PRIVATE FITNESS CENTERS HELP ONE ANOTHER. AND SO WHAT IT DOES IS IT GIVES, IT GIVES US, IT GIVES US, UH, A BROADER THOUGHT ABOUT WHERE WE, UM, UM, ABOUT WHERE WE MIGHT HAVE INPUT TO WHEN THINGS ARE, THINGS ARE SAID HERE. SO ANYWAY, FOR THOSE THAT DIDN'T GET TO ATTEND, I BROUGHT SOME OF THESE, UH, LITTLE BOOKLETS BACK IN HERE WITH ME SO THAT WE COULD, SO THAT WE COULD SEE THOSE AND ENCOURAGE YOU NEXT YEAR AS EARLY AS YOU CAN POSSIBLY GIVE US INFORMATION ON WHEN THAT'S GONNA OCCUR. UH, THE TRAPS MEETING NEXT YEAR, UH, FOR THE NORTH REGION. YES. FIRST ONE IS STATE COMING UP IN, I KNOW THE NORTH IS ALWAYS IN NOVEMBER, USUALLY MM-HMM. . OKAY. THAT FIRST OCTOBER. YEAH. IT'S TYPICALLY LIKE THE FIRST NOVEMBER. YEAH. THURSDAY OR FRIDAY. SAY. AND IS THE STATE MUCH BIGGER THAN THE, THAN THE NORTH TEXAS REGION? ONE, OF COURSE. CAUSE IT'S THE ENTIRE STATE IN TEXAS. I MEAN, ARE YOU GONNA HAVE THEY CAN'T HAVE MORE PROGRAMS THOUGH. I MEAN, MORE THINGS CAUSE IT, IT ALL, UH, WELL, THEY DO PROBABLY MORE, MORE THAN ONE DAY FREE SEMINARS AND SOME WORKSHOPS AND DIFFERENT THINGS. THERE'S OTHER THINGS THAT THAT STAFF GOES TO. TWO AND A HALF DAYS, RIGHT? TWO AND A HALF DAYS. WE, WE DON'T NEED TO GO TWO AND A HALF DAYS. WE ABOUT ABOUT ONE DAY AND YOU FILLED US UP WITH ALL THIS STUFF, BUT IT IS REALLY EXCITING TO GET TO GO. N RPA WILL BE N RPAS IN DALLAS TOO. DALLAS, BUT THAT OPP, YOU'LL HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY. REMIND ME. STATES WHERE NOW? FRISCO. BRISCOE. THANK YOU. I DON'T 10 NEARBY. I KNOW. I'M SO SORRY. . IT'S A GOOD THING IT'S NOT WORKING. I'M GONNA WRITE THAT DOWN. OKAY. 20 21, 22. URBAN FORESTRY PROGRAM REPORT. IS THERE ANY THAT WE ALREADY GOTTEN THAT MM-HMM. , WE ALREADY DID THAT THEN. OKAY. JUMPED AHEAD A LITTLE BIT. UH, JUMPED AHEAD A LITTLE BIT. OKAY. WRITTEN BRIEFINGS, CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS AND STUDIES. DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT DIVISION. UM, I'M GONNA, IF I COULD, AND YOU GUYS ABSOLUTELY, IF YOU'VE GOT SOME THAT I DON'T HIT, BUT THERE ARE SOME THAT ARE KIND OF GOT SOME VERY RECENT UPDATES THAT MAY NOT EVEN BE IN HERE THAT I THOUGHT I'D GIVE YOU. AND THEN IF THERE'S SOME THINGS THAT YOU WANT TO ASK ABOUT AFTER THAT, BY ALL MEANS, I'LL TELL YOU WHAT I KNOW OR DO NOT KNOW. UM, SO, UH, MONDAY NIGHT AT THE COUNCIL WORK SESSION, UH, COUNCIL DID [01:40:01] VOTE UNANIMOUS. THUMBS UP TO GO AHEAD AND PURSUE DESIGN FOR THE GARLAND SENIOR ACTIVITY CENTER AT ITS CURRENT LOCATION. UH, SO WE WILL BEGIN, ACTUALLY, MATTER OF FACT, I BELIEVE WE'VE GOT A MEETING THIS WEEK WITH THE CONSULTANT TO PUT OUR GAME PLAN TOGETHER FOR PUBLIC INPUT, FOCUS GROUPS AND THINGS LIKE THAT, LIKE WE'VE DONE WITH OTHER FACILITIES, REALLY GET THE SENIORS ENGAGED ON WHAT THEY, WHAT THEY WANT AND EXPECT. UM, HOLLAH WE'RE WAITING ON, WE'RE GETTING VERY CLOSE TO BREAKING GROUND AND, AND, AND MOBILIZING THE CONTRACTOR, BUT WE ARE STILL WAITING ON A ENGINEERING SITE PERMIT. THERE ARE SOME CHALLENGING DRAINAGE ISSUES, PARTICULARLY BECAUSE YOU'VE GOT ONE DESIGN FOR THE LIBRARY RIGHT NEXT TO IT AND ONE DESIGN. SO THEY'RE HAVING TO RECONCILE, UH, THOSE TWO DESIGNS ON ONE SITE. SO THAT'S KIND OF THE HOLD UP THERE. UH, LOU HUFF. SO WE, ALL OF THE ARPA PROJECTS THAT WERE FUNDED, WHICH ARE THE FEDERAL MONEY OUTSIDE OF OF THE BOND, WE'VE HAD THE GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO FUND SEVERAL REALLY WORTHY PROJECTS, ONE OF WHICH IS LOU HUFF. UM, SO WE'VE LET THE ADVERTISEMENT FOR THE CONSULTANTS OUT KIND OF IN PHASES SO WE DON'T HAVE TO DO 'EM ALL AT ONCE. UM, AND SO WE'VE NOW, UH, REVIEWED THE PROPOSALS FOR LOU HUFF. WE'VE SELECTED TEGAL PERKINS AS THE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT PRIME CONSULTANT. UM, SO WE'VE HAD A, A PROPO PRE-PROPOSAL MEETING WITH THEM. THEY'LL SUBMIT A PROPOSAL, WE'LL GET THAT CONTRACT EXECUTED IF WE CAN COME TO AN AGREEMENT. UM, SO THAT'S THE FIRST ONE OUT THE DOOR. UM, A HANDFUL OF OTHERS LIKE WIN JOYCE, UM, UH, KINGSLEY, SO FORTH ARE, ARE STAGGERED. UM, ALSO JUST THIS WEEK FINALLY, PARKS AND WILDLIFE IS RELEASED AND ISSUED THE CONTRACTS FOR WATSON PARK AND JOHN PAUL JONES. WE GOT 'EM PRETTY MUCH WITHIN SEVEN DAYS OF EACH OTHER. SO, UM, SO COUPLE OF ITEMS WE'VE BEEN WAITING ON FOR WATSON, WE CAN GET PURCHASED THIS MONTH BEFORE PRICES GO UP AGAIN. AND JOHN PAUL JONES. THE FIRST STEP OF THAT IS A DESIGN CONTRACT. YOU DESIGN IT, THEN YOU GO TO PART B OF THE GRANT, UM, WHICH WE HAVE A QUITE A BIT OF MATCHING FUNDS TO CAPTURE THAT, UH, HOLFORD. UM, THEY ARE CURRENTLY WORKING THROUGH SOME OF THE FINAL DETAILS IN THE PLANS AND, AND SOME CONTRACTUAL ITEMS WITH OUR CONSTRUCTION MANAGER AT RISK. SO I DON'T KNOW THE EXACT DATE THAT WE WILL, UH, BE SEEING ANY ACTIVITY OUT THERE, BUT ONCE THE, SOME OF THOSE LITTLE DETAILS ARE WORKED OUT, UM, THEN THEY WILL BID THAT OUT PUBLICLY TO THEIR SUBCONTRACTOR TO OPEN TO SUBCONTRACTORS, NEGOTIATE THAT PRICE, TAKE A GUARANTEED MAXIMUM PRICE, HOPEFULLY TO COUNCIL AT THE EARLY PART OF NEXT YEAR, AND THEN BEGIN WORKING EARNEST AFTER THAT. UH, SAME THING WITH SURF AND SWIM. WE'VE, UH, ALSO WE'VE SECURED A CONTRACT WITH, UH, KIMLEY HORN AND WE'VE ALREADY HAD A COUPLE OF MEETINGS WITH THEM TO TALK ABOUT PROGRAMMING AND, AND KIND OF INCORPORATING THE MASTER PLAN AND ALL THE ELEMENTS THAT EVERYBODY ALREADY KNOWS ABOUT AND REMEMBERS FROM THE MASTER PLAN. UH, NOW WE'RE JUST TRYING TO SHOEHORN IT INTO THE BUDGET. UM, SO THOSE, THOSE ALL PROJECTS ARE, ARE KIND OF HAPPENING. SOME RECENT UPDATES, UM, THAT I THOUGHT I'D BRING TO YOUR ATTENTION. UM, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? I WILL DO MY BEST TO, UH, ANSWER A QUICK QUESTION ON, ON, ON THE ARPA FUNDS. UH, HOW ARE WE COMING ALONG IN IDENTIFYING AND MOVING PROJECTS THROUGH TO BE ABLE TO USE THE, THE MONEY THAT, THAT WE'VE GOTTEN OUTTA THAT? SO ALL THE PROJECTS HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED ALREADY, UM, TO TAKE THAT FULL AMOUNT? YES. AND SO, SO OF THE 50 MILLION PARKS IS RECEIVING ROUGHLY 30, 32 MILLION NOW. THERE WAS SOME SHUFFLING OF PROJECTS AND WHICH ONES GO UNDER WHICH BUCKET BECAUSE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT LIKES TO ISSUE NEW GUIDANCE REGULARLY THAT THAT TENDS TO GIVE FINANCE SOME, SOME CHALLENGES. SO WE EVENTUALLY HAD TO DO SOME DIFFERENT THINGS. WE WENT, WE JUST MOVED FROM ONE BUCKET TO ANOTHER, WHICH REQUIRED OUR JUSTIFICATIONS TO BE A LITTLE DIFFERENT, BUT ALL'S, ALL'S GOOD THERE. SO ALL THOSE PROJECTS ARE IDENTIFIED AND MOVING FORWARD. AND HOW MANY, HOW MANY PROJECTS APPROXIMATELY YOU ARE WE GAINING OUT OF THAT THAT WE DIDN'T HAVE IN THE BOND? FIVE OR SIX BIG ONES. OH, DUST, SIR. UH, TUCK TUCKER, BILL, UH, KINGSLEY WIND, JOYCE, RICK OEN, SPLASH PAD, AND LOU HUFF. AND I THINK, I FEEL LIKE I'M FORGETTING ONE, BUT MM, I DON'T KNOW. LAWN WIND. DID YOU MENTION THAT? UH, LAWN WIND IS BOND WIN WIN, JOYCE, I'M TRYING TO HELP. I KNOW , I KNOW THERE'S SO MANY, RIGHT? IT'S YEAH, WIND. IT'S SUCH A WONDERFUL PROBLEM TO HAVE TO, YEAH. OH, FORGET WHICH ONE, I'M SORRY. THE FIRST PARK DIRECTOR, I BELIEVE THAT'S EVER GOTTEN TO SAY THAT IN THE HISTORY OF THIS SCENE. THAT'S CORRECT. WHAT A WONDERFUL PROMISE. SO MANY PROJECTS. I CAN'T REMEMBER 'EM ALL AND I HAVE A GOOD MEMORY, . WOW. UH, THAT'S DID I HEAR, DID I HEAR THAT? UH, THE FUNDING FOR LOTTIE WATSON MIGHT ACTUALLY HAVE BROKEN OPEN. IT IS. WE, THEY'RE WRITING CHECKS AND WE ARE WRITING POS. SO IT'S, IT'S HAPPENING. WE FINALLY ARE ABLE TO, SO WE, BECAUSE OF THE WAY THE FUNDING IS, WE'VE, WE'VE GOT, [01:45:01] WATSON IS A BIG BAG OF TRICKS. IT, IT OF, OF FUNDING AND, AND THANKFULLY SO BECAUSE IT ONLY STARTED OUT AS SPLASH PAD MONEY AND PLAYGROUND MONEY, BUT NO MONEY TO TIE 'EM TOGETHER. AND SO THAT'S WHY WE FELT LIKE THE GRANT WAS AN OPPORTUNITY. WE ALSO HAD USED CDBG FUNDS. THAT'S WHAT'S FUNDING THE FOOTS ALL COURT. UM, IT HAS TO BE TREATED AS A COMPLETELY SEPARATE PROJECT BECAUSE IT, BECAUSE IT IS, IT WAS NOT PART OF THE ORIGINAL SCOPE. SO IT'S A SEPARATE FUNDED, SEPARATE SCOPE, SEPARATE SET OF DESIGNS, SEPARATE SET OF BIDS HAPPENS ALL, ALL TOGETHER, UM, AT THE END OF THE DAY. BUT, UM, YEAH, WE'RE FINALLY, FINALLY ABLE TO GET THE GREEN LIGHT ON THAT ONE. AND, UH, DOES THE CITY HAVE THE STAFF TO BE ABLE TO, TO BE ABLE TO PUT THIS FUNDING WITH THE, WITH THE NEEDS WITHOUT ADDITIONAL PEOPLE TO BE ABLE TO PULL ANOTHER 32 MILLION WORTH OF PROJECTS? WE'RE WORKING ON THAT, THAT'S A YEARLY PROCESS TO, TO, AND, AND WE ARE CHIPPING AWAY AT IT EVEN IN, EVEN IN ANTICIPATION OF ALL THESE PROJECTS. UM, CITY MANAGER AND COUNCIL HAVE BEEN VERY, VERY, VERY GENEROUS ABOUT, UH, APPROVING OUR REQUEST. AND WE'VE ASKED FOR A LOT OF EQUIPMENT IN ADVANCE. WE'VE ASKED FOR SOME ST UH, STAFFING AND CONTRACT LABOR IN ADVANCE, UH, KNOWING. AND WE'VE TRIED VERY CAREFULLY TO TIME THAT TO WHEN THINGS ARE COMING ONLINE DOWNTOWN IN PARTICULAR, WE KNOW THAT THAT ONE'S GONNA REQUIRE SOME ATTENTION. SO IT'LL BE AN ONGOING PROCESS TO, TO, IT'S VERY, VERY DIFFICULT IN THE GENERAL, UH, OPERATING BUDGET TO ADD A LOT OF FTES ALL AT ONE TIME. SO IT UN UNFORTUNATELY IN OUR BUSINESS, YOU, YOU BUILD IT FIRST AND THEN THEN MAINTAIN IT, GET THE RESOURCES TO MAINTAIN IT AFTERWARDS. IT'S JUST, IT'S THE WAY IT WORKS, THE BEAST. AND SO THEY, THE, YOU'VE GOTTA BE OUT IN FRONT GIVING THE, UH, EXPECTATIONS OF YOUR NEEDS TO THE COUNCIL, UM, TO FUND MAINTENANCE AND OF ALL, AND STAFFING OF ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT PROJECTS. THANK YOU, SIR. YES, SIR. OKAY. ANY OTHER, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? I ACTUALLY HAVE A QUESTION ON THE CAPITAL PROJECTS AND STUDIES AND I CAN EITHER MENTION IT HERE OR I CAN MENTION IT IN SUGGESTED AGENDA ITEMS, BUT I REALLY THINK IT'S APPROPRIATE HERE. UM, I KNOW IT TAKES TIME TO PRESENT THESE AND I APPRECIATE THEM BEING HERE. I APPRECIATE THAT YOU'RE UPDATING FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND, THE WATSON PARKS, UH, AREA AND THE GARLAND SENIOR ACTIVITY CENTER, WHICH WAS TAKEN OUT OF THE PARK BOARD PURVIEW AND, UH, KIND OF TAKEN OVER BY COUNSEL, I THINK, UM, AND JOHN PAUL JONES PARK, THAT THOSE HAVE BEEN UPDATED, BUT, UM, WOULD IT BE POSSIBLE IT, WHERE IT SAYS PLAYGROUND OR PLACEMENT PROGRAM? I THINK IT'S CLEAR WHERE IT'S UNCLEAR TO ME WHAT THEY'RE DOING IS LU HUFF PARK, UH, IS THERE, CAN WE ADD A COUPLE WORDS JUST WITH THE MAIN GOAL? IT SAYS SCOPE OF WORK, BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS. WELL, AT THE TIME WE DIDN'T EITHER, SO THAT'S WHY IT WAS A KIND OF A HOLDING PATTERN UNTIL WE, UH, OKAY. SO IF IT'S NOT MENTIONED, IT'S BECAUSE IT HASN'T BEEN DEFINED. OKAY. CORRECT. AND, AND THERE IS A LITTLE BIT OF LAG TIME, HONESTLY BE BETWEEN THE TIME WE CAN PREPARE THESE AND GET 'EM OUT AHEAD. SO LIKE I SAID, THE THE, THE UPDATES I JUST GAVE YOU VERBALLY, LITERALLY HAPPENED WITHIN THE LAST SEVEN DAYS AND WOULD NOT HAVE MADE, MADE THIS PARTICULAR AGENDA OR SOME WITHIN THE LAST TWO DAYS. MM-HMM. . UM, SO AS WE KNOW THINGS DEVELOP AND ARE ABLE TO RELEASE, SOMETIMES THERE'S CERTAIN INFORMATION THAT'S NOT READY FOR THE PUBLIC. THERE'S ALSO A LITTLE BIT OF A DELAY. THERE ARE PROJECTS THAT WE MANAGE DIRECTLY, BUT MOST OF THEM ARE MANAGED THROUGH THE PMO, THE PROJECT MANAGEMENT OFFICE. SO IN ORDER TO ACCURATELY GET AN UPDATE, I GET THOSE FROM THEM, NOT FROM OUR OWN STAFF. SO SOMETIMES THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF, A LITTLE BIT OF A LAG THERE. WELL, DID YOU SAY THAT THE RE SO LIKE UNDER JOHN PAUL JONES PARK AND WATSON PARK, IT SAID THAT THEY'RE WAITING FOR THE T P W D AND THAT'S WHAT YOU SAID, THAT FUNDING HAS BEEN RELEASED? CORRECT. OKAY. AND SO WE'LL UPDATE THOSE ACCORDINGLY NOW THAT, THAT, THAT LITERALLY HAPPENED MONDAY. SO IS TUCKER BILL SOME, IS IT SEPARATED FROM THE TENNIS CENTER? SAME THING. IT, WE JUST CALL, ARE USED TO CALLING IT TUCKER BEFORE IT WAS TE TECHNICALLY BOB DAY TENNIS. WE COULD CHANGE THAT TO, COULD YOU JUST ADD IT? SURE. UH, FOR ALL RIGHT. JUST IN CASE, I FORGET THAT TUCKER AND THE TENNIS CENTER ARE ONE THING. IT USED TO BE SOMETHING ELSE THAT'S ON THERE. AND TO BE AN IT BEING IN THE DESTRUCTION INDUSTRY, THE, THE THING I FIND ABOUT IS ALWAYS ABOUT, UH, THE SOURCE OF FUNDING. UH, WOULD IT BE, I'M JUST ASKING, THIS MAY BE A TOTALLY WRONG THING TO ASK, BUT AT LEAST I'LL GET IT OUT THERE. IS THERE ANY WAY THAT YOU COULD PUT ON, ON THESE PROGRAMS WHERE THE FUNDING'S COMING FROM? JUST, AND, AND YOU CAN JUST USE [01:50:01] THE ARPA OR WHATEVER? BECAUSE, BECAUSE THAT WAY WE COULD LOOK AT IT AND SEE, OKAY, THIS, THIS IS PART OF THE, THE 2019 BOND. ARE WE, ARE WE PRETTY WELL OUT OF 2004 BOND NOW, OR DO WE HAVE ANY, I THINK WE JUST CLEARED THE LAST ONE RECENTLY. I CAN'T REMEMBER WHICH ONE IT IS, BUT YES, WE DID, KEITH WAS VERY CELEBRATORY THAT WE CLEARED THE BOOKS. OR AT LEAST . YEAH, YEAH, YEAH. I'M, I'M, I'M GLAD YOU CLEARED. WE NAILED THAT ONE. IT'S JUST NOT TOTALLY ACROSS THE FINISH LINE, BUT IT GRANGER, SHE'S SAYING IT, BUT IT GRANGER IT'S THE GRANGER ANNEX. THE ANNEX. YEP. IT'S THE NX. IT'S WORKING TOWARDS COMPLETION. SO IT'S A, IT'S FUNDED, IT'S A ACTIVE PROJECT. WE HAD SOME THAT HAD NOT EVEN BEEN INITIATED FROM OH FOUR AND EVEN SOME IN 99, SO WERE OH, BACK TO 99. OH YEAH. THERE WAS A HANDFUL THAT OF FUNDS THAT GET KIND OF, YEAH. AND SO ARE YOU, ARE YOU, YOU'RE, YOU'RE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THOSE FUNDS BEING OUT THERE AT THIS TIME? THEY'RE, THEY'RE DONE. WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE THOSE HAVE COMMITTED AND GRANGER, WE HAD ONE CHANGE ORDER WHEN WE DISCOVERED SOME, A CHALLENGE WITH ONE OF THE WALLS, AND SO TOOK SOME TIME FOR THE ARCHITECT TO COME UP WITH A SOLUTION. THEY CAME UP WITH ONE CONTRACTOR PRICED THAT GOT APPROVAL FOR A CHANGE ORDER BACK ON TRACK. WOW. THIS IS, THIS IS FANTASTIC. OKAY. UH, MISCELLANEOUS, UH, CAN I STILL ASK ANOTHER QUESTION? OH, I'M SORRY. YEAH. UH, THE MEADOW CREEK BRANCH GREENBELT DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENT'S UNDER THE SAME NUMBER. I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE 1 8 3 54 MEANS. SO THAT ONE'S A, A BLEND OF PROJECTS. UM, IT LOOKS LIKE WE'VE GOT 'EM SPLIT. IT SPLIT OUT. SO REALLY THE ONE THAT'S MENTIONED AT THE BOTTOM, THE ME THAT'S REALLY AN ENGINEERING PROJECT IS, IT SAYS IN HERE, PROJECT'S BEEN REASSIGNED ENGINEERING. OH, OKAY. THAT'S WHY WE DON'T FOLLOW THAT ONE VERY CLOSELY. IT'S ESSENTIALLY THAT, THAT'S WHY I COULDN'T FIGURE OUT WHY IT WAS HERE. YEAH. BUT, BUT THE ONES THAT ARE OUR, OUT OF THAT SAME PROJECT BUDGET AND PROJECT NUMBERS, THE AVALON PARK, POND PIER IMPROVEMENTS, IT'S A COUPLE DRAINAGE STRUCTURES THAT HAD TO GET REBUILT. IT'S NOT A, IT'S NOT ONE OF THOSE SUPER FUN PROJECTS, BUT IT'S AN EXTREMELY NECESSARY ONE. I GOTCHA. I APPRECIATE YOU CLARIFYING THAT. THANK YOU. IS THAT, IS THAT ALL MOLLY? YES. THANK YOU. ARE YOU SURE, MOLLY? I WAS TRYING TO MAKE SURE. OKAY. WE GOT YOU. OH, YES. KENYA. HAVE A QUESTION, MR. CHAIRMAN? UM, I'VE BEEN GONE FOR A WHILE, SO I'M JUST, I JUST WANT TO ASK ABOUT THE NEW TENNIS CENTER. ARE WE, DO WE HAVE ANY NEWS ON THAT? SO WE ARE, UH, THEY HAVE SUBMITTED WHAT WE CALL THE 90% SET, WHICH IS, IT'S 90, 90% COMPLETE DRAWING SET HAS BEEN SUBMITTED FOR CITY REVIEW. SO IT'LL GET REVIEWED BY ENGINEERING, BUILDING, INSPECTIONS, PARKS, VARIOUS OTHER DEPARTMENTS WILL HAVE A PIECE OF IT. AND THEN THEY'LL TAKE THOSE COMMENTS, PUT 'EM BACK INTO THEN WHAT WE CALL A BID SET. THE BID SET GOES OUT, I'M HOPING WE'RE BIDDING AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR. IT'S ABOUT AN 18 MONTH CONSTRUCTION TIMEFRAME. SO WE'RE VERY, VERY, VERY CLOSE THAT THAT DESIGN WENT QUICKER THAN MOST. THAT IS AWESOME. THANK YOU. ANYTHING ELSE? GOTCHA. CAN, CAN YOU PUT, AND YOU'RE GONNA PUT THAT IN THE REVIEW NEXT TIME, MAYBE IF I HAVE SOMETHING SIGNIFICANT TO UPDATE? YES. RIGHT. RIGHT NOW IT'S SAYING PREPARING FOR THE 90% SUBMITTAL. THERE'S REALLY TENNIS CENTER IN THERE AT ALL. YEAH. WE'LL CHANGE IT, THE TENNIS CENTER, BUT REALLY THE NEXT STEP THAT WON'T HAVE ANY REAL SIGNIFICANCE WILL BE UNTIL WE ISSUE THE BID SET. AND THEN WE'LL UPDATE IT AS, OKAY, BID SETS ISSUED. THANK YOU. AND THEN, THEN WE CAN, THEN WE'LL HAVE A BETTER HANDLE ON, USUALLY THAT'S A TWO MONTH PROCESS. BID, EVALUATE, SELECT, NEGOTIATE COUNCIL AGENDA. YEAH. OKAY. IS THAT ALL, IS THAT ALL IT HAS TO DO FOR THAT DAY? FOR THAT DAY? ? WELL, THAT, THAT DAY IT'LL BE BUSY. WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO THE REST OF THE WEEK? THAT'S RIGHT. OKAY. WOW, GUYS. OKAY. UH, SUGGESTED AGENDA ITEMS FOR FUTURE CONSIDERATION. OH, OKAY. MOLLY. MOLLY? YEAH. I HAD AN ITEM ON THAT. UH, I KNEW YOU WOULD SOMEHOW, COULD WE , UM, COULD WE, SORRY. KIDS, KIDS , UM, TREE MITIGATION. CAN WE JUST, I I I THOUGHT WE HAD $800,000 IN THERE SO I COULD BE VETTING THAT IF NO, THAT WAS, IF YOU GET A CHANCE, HUH. THAT WAS THE NUMBER. CAN I DUNNO. IT STILL IS, WOULD IT BE APPROPRIATE TO HAVE THAT AS A FUTURE AGENDA ITEM WHEN YOU UM, CAN SQUEEZE IN THE TIME TO JUST SAY WHAT IT IS? CAUSE IT SEEMS TO BE, UH, VERY IMPORTANT FOR THE URBAN FORESTRY. YOU MISSED WONDERFUL DISCUSSIONS. IT, IT IS, AND I DON'T KNOW THAT I CAN GET AN UPDATED NUMBER THAT WILL HAVE A LOT OF MEANING CUZ THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF PROJECTS THAT HAVE BEEN TALKED ABOUT TO UTILIZE THOSE, THOSE FUNDS THAT WE MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE A LOT OF CONTROL OVER. BUT I'LL, I'LL CERTAINLY SEE WHAT I CAN [01:55:01] DO SINCE WE, WE, WE ARE NOT IN CONTROL OF IT. WE DO UTILIZE IT AND, UM, THANKFULLY, BUT YEAH, I WILL, I'LL SEE IF I CAN GET A MEANINGFUL, MEANINGFUL UPDATE BECAUSE I JUST WANNA SEE IT TIED TO THE URBAN FORESTRY IF IT'S GOING TO BE GOING THAT WAY, IF THAT'S POSSIBLE. YEAH. AND THAT MAY, IT'S, IT MAY BE AGAIN, OUTTA MY CONTROL TO, TO, TO SAY THAT IT'S GONNA BE EITHER A CITY MANAGER OR A COUNCIL APPROVAL DEPENDING ON THE TYPE OF EXPENDITURE. UM, AND LAST I CHECKED IT WAS ACTUALLY CLOSER TO A MILLION, BUT IT, AGAIN, THERE'S BEEN OTHER HANDS IN THE POT FROM OTHER PROJECTS THAT, THAT OTHER, OTHER DEPARTMENTS OR CITY MANAGER SEES FIT TO UTILIZE. SO I REALLY DON'T KNOW WHAT THE LATEST IS, BUT IT, DAVID, DO YOU, YOU DON'T KNOW, DO YOU? I MEAN, I THOUGHT IT WAS A FIXED NUMBER THAT NOTHING WAS HAPPENING TO IT, AND SO I EXPECTED IT TO GO DOWN. IF THERE'S OTHER HANDS IN THE POT, IT, IT CHANGES EVERY MONTH. IT DEPENDS ON HOW MANY DEVELOPERS ARE REQUIRED TO, I THOUGHT WE HEARD IT WAS 800,000, BUT YEP. THAT'S BEEN NEARLY TWO YEARS AGO MAYBE. I THINK SOMETHING LIKE THAT. YEAH. AND SEE HE WAS OUT OF THE ROOM WHEN THAT CAME UP WITH THAT NUMBER. SO THAT GOT, YEAH. YEAH. AND TALKING ABOUT THE PROBLEM IS THERE'S NO PROCESS TO SPEND IT. SO THAT'S WHAT THEY'VE BEEN TRYING TO FIGURE OUT IS, WELL, AS GOOD AS ANDY IS, HE COULD REALLY HELP HIM WITH THAT PROCESS. I THINK I, AND WE ALL, UNFORTUNATELY WE'RE NOT, THE LOT OF US HAD IDEAS THERE. THERE'S A LOT OF BEAUTIFICATION PROJECTS OUT THERE THAT AREN'T NECESSARILY PARK PROJECTS. THERE'S A LOT OF THOROUGHFARES SURE. THAT NEED SOME TREES SPRINKLED ON 'EM, BUT WE DON'T ALWAYS, WE DON'T ALWAYS CONTROL THAT. UM, SO YEAH. LET ME SEE IF I CAN GET AN UPDATE. UH, DON YEAH. I, I ASKED ABOUT THIS, UH, MEETING OR TWO AGO ABOUT CHANGING THE MEETING TO AN EARLIER TIME. WHAT, WHAT TIME DOES THE CITY COUNCIL MEET? SEVEN. WELL, THE SEVEN OR SIX, THE REGULAR SEVEN. THE WORK SESSION IS SIX. SIX. UH, I JUST BROUGHT THAT UP ONE OTHER TIME AND IT NEVER WENT ANYWHERE. AND JUST SEE IF YOU CAN, IF YOU LOOK, IF YOU LOOK AT THE WAY WE DO THAT, AND I'D LIKE TO REMIND EVERYBODY THAT THE, THE DINNER IS SERVED BEFORE THE MEETING. OKAY. DINNER IS SERVED BEFORE THE MEETING AND, UM, UM, THAT'S A, THAT'S A GOOD PLACE FOR PEOPLE TO VISIT. WE CAN'T REALLY DO ANYTHING BUT FIND OUT, JUST FIND OUT WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THE, WITH THE COMMITTEE MEMBER IN LIFE. AND THAT WOULD, THAT GENERALLY STARTS WHAT TIME? THE DINNER GENERALLY GET 6, 6 15, SOMETHING LIKE THAT. AND, UH, YEAH, WE CAN, DINNER CAN BE HERE WHENEVER WE NEED IT TO BE. SO . ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU DON. ANY ANYTHING ELSE, ANYTHING ELSE TO BRING UP? UH, WE WENT LONG. WE WENT LONG TONIGHT. UH, JUST BEAR WITH ME AS I'M GETTING, AS I'M GETTING MY LEGS AND LIKE I SAID, GETTING MY ARMS AROUND THIS THING. I THINK I'M DOING PRETTY GOOD. AND I MEET WITH ANDY AND HE TELLS ME ALL THESE OTHER OBLIGATIONS THAT WE HAVE AND SO IT'S ALL HIS FAULT. UH, BUT IT'S WON. IT'S WONDERFUL TO HAVE YOU. DEFAULT, SIR. OKAY. WITHOUT ANY OTHER BUSINESS HEARING, NO OTHER THINGS. THE MEETING IS ADJOURNED. THANK YOU ALL. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. 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