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[Parks and Recreation Advisory Board on April 5, 2023]
EVERYONE.IT'S UH, 7:00 PM HERE ON APRIL THE FIFTH, 2023.
AND WELCOME TO THE PARKS AND RECREATION BOARD MEETING.
UH, FIRST THING I WANNA DO IS WELCOME OUR GUESTS.
WE HAVE, WE HAVE, UH, QUITE A FEW GUESTS OVER THERE IN OUR SPEAKER AREA FROM LOOKING AT THE CARDS I HAVE HERE.
AND WE HAVE SOME GUESTS FROM THE OTHER END.
WE HAVE, WE HAVE TWO OF OUR COUNCIL FOLKS ARE THERE, OVER THERE.
WHERE'D THEY GO? THERE THEY ARE.
THERE, THERE'S ONE AND THERE'S TWO.
WE HAVE TWO OF OUR CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS HERE TONIGHT, AND WE APPRECIATE THEM ATTENDING THE MEETING.
UM, FIRST THING WE HAVE IS, UH, ON THE AGENDA FOR THE MEETING.
TONIGHT IS THE APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES, UH, OF THE MARCH MEETING.
CAN I HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE? MOTION TO APPROVE MOTION.
AND A SECOND MOTION BY MS. AQUINO AND SECOND BY
I SAID, I SAID SECOND, BUT YOU CAN GIVE IT TO HER.
UH, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR APPROVING THE MINUTES, SAY AYE.
THE ITEMS FOR INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION, THE FIRST ITEM ON THE AGENDA WILL BE, UH, CONSIDERED A RECOMMENDATION TO THE CITY COUNCIL TO RENAME THE SKATE PARK AND RICK ODEN PARK, FOLLOWING CITY POLICY AS STATED ON PAGE 60, DIVISION FIVE, SECTION ONE OF GARLANDS PARKS AND RECREATION POLI POLICY.
THE PARKS BOARD SHALL RESEARCH STUDY AND RECOMMEND TO CITY COUNCIL PROPOSED NAMES FOR, UH, THE, FOR PARKS AND, AND PARKS FACILITIES.
UH, TONIGHT WE WILL COMPLETE THAT ASSIGNMENT.
THE REASON WE WERE DOING THAT IS THAT GOT KIND OF OVERLOOKED, UH, WHEN THE, WHEN THE NAMING HAPPENED THE FIRST TIME.
SO THIS IS JUST A RE-LOOK ON, ON BEHALF OF THE COUNCIL, AND HOPEFULLY WE'RE GOING TO, UH, WE WILL COME TO A CONCLUSION TONIGHT.
UM, I WANT TO TAKE JUST A SECOND, UH, FROM OUR, FROM OUR PRIOR MEETINGS TO KIND OF GIVE YOU MY TAKE OF SOME OF THE THINGS THAT I'VE LEARNED SINCE WE STARTED THIS.
FIRST THING I LEARNED THAT THERE WAS A JOHN COMER, AND THAT WE DIDN'T KNOW THAT THAT WAS THE, THE CASE, UH, WHEN WE STARTED, BECAUSE, UH, WE WEREN'T IN, IN THE FIELD, UH, THAT, THAT YOU GUYS ARE.
AND WE FOUND OUT A LOT, AND WE FOUND IT'S BEEN VERY INTERESTING.
UH, IT'S BROUGHT TO OUR ATTENTION THAT WE HAVE AN INDIVIDUAL WHO, AT THE AGE OF EIGHT, HAD A FOOT AND PARTIAL LEG AMPUTATED, DOING IT DUE TO AN ACCIDENT WHERE HIS LEG WAS RUN OVER TWO TO THREE TIMES WHEN HE WAS ONLY FOUR YEARS OLD.
HIS, UH, FOUR, FOUR YEARS OLD.
HIS DOCTORS WORKED DURING, UH, WITH HIM DURING THE TIME TO TRY TO SAVE THE LEG, BUT IN THE END HAD TO AMPUTATE IT THROUGH SHEER WILLPOWER AND REFUSAL TO GIVE INTO HIS SITUATION.
HE BECAME AN ADVOCATE FOR SPORTS, THE SPORT OF SKATEBOARDING, GOING ALL THE WAY TO NATIONAL RECOGNITION.
DURING THIS TIME, THE DALLAS SCOTTISH R HOSPITAL STAFF WORKED WITH HIM TO CONTINUALLY REPAIR AND REPLACE HIS DAMAGE AND WORN PROSTHESIS.
WE HAD A FULL HOUSE TO SPEAK ON WHO HE WAS AND WHAT HE ACCOMPLISHED WITH HIS LIFE, TO COUNSEL OTHER MINORS WHO SUFFER THE LOSS OF A LIMB AND TO GIVE THEM HOPE WHILE BECOMING AN OUTSTANDING BORDER ON HIS OWN, AND MOVING ALL THE WAY INTO THE NATIONAL, THEN EVEN WORLDWIDE COMPETITIONS.
AND BECOMING A LEADER IN THE SPORT, UNFORTUNATELY, APPEARS THAT THIS INFORMATION WAS NOT AVAILABLE TO THE CITY COUNCIL WHEN THE NAMING WAS CONSIDERED.
SO THEY ARE ASKING US TO TAKE A LOOK AT THE POTENTIAL OPTIONS FOR EITHER LEAVING THE NAME AS IT IS CHANGING THE NAMES, OR INCLUDING HIS NAME IN THE RECOGNITION OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
THE ACTION THAT WE WILL TAKE TONIGHT.
WE, WE'VE BEEN GIVEN SOME SAMPLES OF WHAT COULD HAPPEN.
AND, AND SO I'LL GIVE YOU SOME OF THE, THESE, SOME THE POTENTIAL OPTIONS THAT WE, THAT WE'VE BEEN GOING OVER.
AND NUMBER ONE WAS RENAMING THE SKATE PARK FROM THE BONEYARD IN GARLAND.
NUMBER TWO WAS AN ANNUAL SKATEBOARDING COMPETITION IN THE NAME OF JOHN COMER.
NUMBER THREE WAS A SKATE PARK DEDICATION WITH PLAQUE IN THE NAME OF JOHN COMER NUMBER.
ANOTHER ONE WAS THE HISTORICAL PERSON MARKER FOR JOHN COMER.
ANOTHER ONE WAS A PUBLIC ART INSTALLATION IN HONOR OF JOHN COMER.
OTHERS IS IDENTIFIED AND OTHERS IS IDENTIFIED BY THE PARKS AND RECREATION BOARD.
NOW, UM, I'D LIKE TO CALL ON THE SPEAKERS THAT WE HAVE, UH, ON THIS IN THE, UH, IN OUR AUDIENCE THIS EVENING.
I HAVE YOUR SPEAKER CARDS, AND AS I CALLED ON YOU, I'D ASK YOU TO COME UP AND SIT AT THE CENTER CHAIR THERE, OR THE RIGHT ONE.
IT'S EASIER FOR YOU TO GET TO, UH, AND GIVE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS AND SPEAK CLEARLY, UH, INTO THE MICROPHONE.
BECAUSE THIS MEETING IS BEING RECORDED.
DO WE NEED TO DO THIS BEFORE WE HAVE A MOTION? DO WE HAVE THE DISCUSSION BEFORE WE HAVE A MOTION? WE'RE NOT GOING TO DISCUSS THE MOTION UNTIL WE HAVE A MOTION.
WE'RE NOT GONNA DISCUSS THE ISSUE UNTIL WE HAVE A MOTION THAT'S AMONGST OURSELVES.
COMMITTEE, COMMITTEE WAS WHERE THE DISCUSSIONS WENT UP, BUT WE DON'T HAVE FULL DISCUSSION AFTER WE HAD THE MOTION.
THERE WON'T BE ANY CUTOFF OF THAT FROM US.
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CHAIRMAN? YES, SIR.I'D BE INTERESTED FOR EACH, UH, YOU KNOW, THE PEOPLE THAT SPEAK, YOU KNOW, IF THEY'RE INTERESTED, WOULD SUPPORT, YOU KNOW, WHICH OF THE OPTIONS THEY WOULD SUPPORT.
I GAVE 'EM TO 'EM PRETTY QUICKLY, BUT THEY UNDERSTAND THERE'S, THERE'S OPTIONS.
RIGHT NOW YOU'LL HAVE THREE MINUTES TO SPEAK AND, UH, WHO'S GONNA BE OUR TIMEKEEPER TONIGHT? OVER THERE.
UH, AT, UH, TWO MINUTES AND, UH, 45 SECONDS, I WILL GIVE YOU A, GIVE YOU A CALL, OKAY.
AND, AND WE, YOU, AS WE DID IN THE LAST TWO MEETINGS, YOU'VE BEEN VERY RE RESPECTFUL OF THAT.
AND, UH, AND YOU'VE, UH, YOU'VE HELD OFF YOUR, UH, IN YOUR TIME.
AND I'M GONNA STOP RIGHT HERE IN JUST A SECOND BEFORE MR. COKER COMES UP HERE.
UM, THE FIRST MEETING WE HAD, WE HAD A, WE HAD A, I THOUGHT IT WAS A VERY GOOD MEETING.
THE SECOND MEETING, UH, WE HAD, UNFORTUNATELY WE HAD AN EVENT OCCUR THAT, UM, THAT NONE OF US IN THIS ROOM LIKED.
NONE OF US IN THIS ROOM CARED FOR.
AND AS CHAIRMAN, UH, I WAS TRYING TO, TRYING TO SETTLE IT DOWN.
BUT I FAILED WHEN I, WHEN I GAVE THAT PERSON AN EXTRA TIME, BECAUSE DURING THAT EXTRA TIME, I GAVE HIM AS WHEN THINGS REALLY WENT OFF THE RAIL.
AND ON BEHALF OF THE CITIZENS OF GARLAND, I WANNA APOLOGIZE TO ALL OF YOU.
WHAT YOU HEARD THAT NIGHT DOES NOT REFLECT ANYTHING ABOUT ANYBODY THAT'S HAVING ANYTHING TO DO WITH THIS OTHER THAN THAT ONE PERSON INDIVIDUALLY.
SO I DO APOLOGIZE, AND I HOPE YOU ACCEPT THAT APOLOGY.
UH, MR. COKER, OH, LOOK AT HERE.
NAME AND, UH, I GET MY VISUAL AIDS
AND WE DON'T WANT ALL YOUR TITLES.
JUST GIVE US THE NAME AND WHERE YOU LIVE, SIR.
AND YOU'VE GOT, UH, THREE MINUTES.
I WASN'T SURE I COULD SIT YET.
THREE MINUTES, CHAIRMAN AND PARK BOARD MEMBERS.
THANKS FOR, UH, LETTING ME SPEAK FOR A COUPLE OF MINUTES.
UH, JOHN WAS A VERY INSPIRATIONAL PERSON, NOT JUST ON, UH, THE SKATEBOARDING LEVEL, BUT ON MANY LEVELS.
UH, HIS ACCOMPLISHMENTS ARE CERTAINLY LOCAL, BUT NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL.
UH, AND FROM THAT STANDPOINT, I HAVE TO SAY HE INSPIRED MY WIFE AND I, WE, UH, HAD, FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS, WE HAD A FOUNDATION AND A CHARITY THAT WE CREATED FOR SCOTTISH WRIGHT.
AND I'M VERY PROUD THAT, AND IT WAS ALL BECAUSE OF JOHN.
I MEAN, BEING AROUND HIM, SEEING THE THINGS HE'S DONE, THE THINGS HE DID FOR CHILDREN.
HE WAS VERY, HE WAS, AND, AND JUST ON A PERSONAL LEVEL, IF THERE ANYTHING EVER NEEDED TO BE DONE, I BUILT TWO, UH, NON-PROFIT SKATEBOARD PARKS IN THE CITY OF DALLAS, WHICH I HAVE TO SALUTE GARLAND BECAUSE THE CITY OF DALLAS, THE EIGHTH LARGEST CITY IN THE UNITED STATES, STILL DOESN'T HAVE A SKATE PARK.
SO I HAVE TO GIVE YOU GUYS BIG KUDOS.
UM, AND SO FROM THAT STANDPOINT, I HAVE TO SAY, JOHN WAS TIRELESS IN HIS EFFORTS, UH, AROUND THE PARK.
THEY WANTED TO LEARN SOMETHING.
HE WAS ALWAYS THERE WITH A SMILE.
AND, UH, WE EVEN HAD, UH, THE SHRINERS HAD A SPECIAL EVENT FOR HIM AT, AT THE PARK, UH, WHERE HE WAS GIVEN AN HONORARY MEMBERSHIP IN THE SHRINERS.
AND IT WAS, IT WAS A VERY SPECIAL, VERY SPECIAL MOMENT, VERY SOLEMN ON THEIR SIDE.
UM, BUT AGAIN, WHAT I HAVE TO SAY IS THAT HE HAD AN INDEFATIGABLE ATTITUDE, HIS PERSONALITY, UH, THE CHALLENGES THAT HE HAD TO OVERCOME.
HE WAS AN AMAZING PERSON AND AN AMAZING SKATEBOARDER AND NOT, NOT A GREAT SKATER FOR SOMEONE WHO HAD A CHALLENGE.
HE WAS A GREAT SKATER, REGARDLESS.
WE USED TO GIVE HIM A HARD TIME SAYING HE ONLY, HE DIDN'T HURT AS MUCH WHEN HE FELL.
CAUSE HE ONLY HAD ONE LEG TO, TO HURT
BUT AGAIN, I, I FEEL THAT COMMEMORATING HIS, HIS NAME FOR THIS SKATE PARK, IT, IT, I THINK IT DOES NOTHING BUT ELEVATE THE CITY OF GARLAND IN THAT IT, IT HA DOES HAVE AN INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION.
AND I THINK THE OTHER ITEMS, WHICH I CERTAINLY COULDN'T, UH, READ THEM OFF TO YOU FROM MEMORY, BUT I THINK THOSE ITEMS, UH, ARE TERRIFIC.
IT WOULD BE WONDERFUL TO HAVE A COUPLE OF THOSE IN ADDITION TO THE RENAMING.
UM, AND I CERTAINLY HOPE THAT YOU'LL CONSIDER THE RENAMING BECAUSE I THINK IT WOULD BE, UH, I THINK IT WOULD BE GOOD FOR THE CITY.
I THINK IT WOULD BE GOOD FOR SKATEBOARDING, AND I THINK IT WOULD TIE THE CITY INTO SCOTTISH.
RIGHT? AND, YOU KNOW, POSSIBLY IN, IN THIS RENAMING AND IN THIS COMMEMORATING PROCESS, UH, IT COULD BE VERY INSPIRATIONAL FOR CHILDREN WHO ARE CHALLENGED WITH AMPUTATIONS AND, UH, THE CHALLENGES THAT SOMEONE, UH, HAS TO, HAS TO DEAL WITH.
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THAT WAS A, A GREAT PERSON AND A GREAT DAD, AND A GREAT HUSBAND, AND HE WAS A GOOD FRIEND.AND SO, UH, THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND I HOPE THAT YOU'LL CONSIDER THIS STRONGLY.
I THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS, SIR.
DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OF THE SPEAKER? THANK YOU.
PLEASE DO YOU HAVE TO GIVE IT TO US HERE.
UM, I'M GONNA JUST TELL ONE ANTIDOTE, I COULD TELL A MILLION BECAUSE I WAS MARRIED TO 'EM.
BUT, UM, IN JANUARY, 2018, WE WENT AND BOUGHT NEW CELL PHONES.
AND WE WERE AT THE VERIZON STORE, AND THE GUY HELPING US REALIZED WHO JOHN WAS, AND ASKED FOR HUGS FROM BOTH OF US BECAUSE HE KNEW WHO JOHN WAS.
AND SAID THAT A FRIEND OF HIS ASKED TO VISIT ANOTHER FRIEND OF HIS THAT HAD BEEN A, IN A BAD MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT AND HAD TO HA HAVE AN AMPUTATION.
AND WITHOUT HESITATION, JOHN WENT AND VISITED THAT MAN IN THE HOSPITAL JUST TO SAY, IT'S GONNA BE OKAY.
IT'S JUST A LEG, IT'S JUST A LIMB.
AND THIS MAN WAS LIKE, YOU DID WONDERS FOR MY FRIEND WITHOUT EVEN KNOWING HIM.
HE WENT, HE DIDN'T, EVERYBODY, HE WANTED TO HELP ANYBODY AND EVERYONE.
HE VISITED THIS MAN HE DIDN'T KNOW, TALKED TO HIM.
AND NOW THIS MAN'S LIVING A GREAT LIFE BECAUSE SOMEONE WAS LIKE, I'M JUST LIKE YOU.
AND THAT'S THE INSPIRATION I HAVE FROM MY HUSBAND.
VERY HUMBLE, VERY POSITIVE, AND JUST A LOVING PERSON ALL AROUND.
ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE SPEAKER? WHICH, UH, OF THE OPTIONS DO, DO YOU SUPPORT? UM, IF THEY'RE ALL GOOD, ALL OF THEM
WE, WE GET THE RECOGNITION AND, AND I HAVE A QUESTION TOO.
AND YOU, YOU GAVE ONE EXAMPLE, WAS THAT EXAMPLE INDICATIVE OF WHAT JOHN DID THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE AND DID, HOW, HOW CLOSE DID HE WORK WITH THE SCOTTISH WRIGHT HOSPITAL IN WORKING WITH THE KIDS THAT HAVE HAD AMPUTATIONS THERE? KIND KIND OF GIVE US THAT JUST A LITTLE BIT.
YOU GOT A LITTLE BIT TIME HERE.
IF YOU GO TO THE SCOTT SCOTTISH WRIGHT HOSPITAL, THERE'S, UM, A GLASS CASE WITH JOHN'S PICTURE AND SKATEBOARDS AND HIS DOCTORS ARE, WILL TALK TO YOU ALL THE TIME.
AND AL EVEN DID, YOU KNOW, TWO YEARS IN A ROW OF BENEFITS FOR SCOTTISH RICE HOSPITAL AND RAISED MONEY FOR THEM IN HONOR OF JOHN, AND JUST TO SUPPORT CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES.
AND IT'S JUST A GREAT, IT'S JUST, HE WAS SUCH AN INSPIRATION TO EVERYONE.
CAN YOU, CAN YOU SAY HOW FAR YOU LIVE FROM THE PARK? UH, ABOUT TWO A MILE AND A HALF.
STILL AT THIS TIME? YES, MA'AM.
AUDI, UH, VICTOR NELSON, EIGHT 10 BANDA, UH, GARLAND, TEXAS.
UM, I SPOKE AT THE FIRST MEETING.
JOHN, JOHN HADS HAD A TREMENDOUS IMPACT IN MY LIFE.
UM, I MET HIM AT A YOUNG AGE, UH, AT MY LOCAL SKATE PARK.
HE'S ONE OF THE JUDGES AND, UH, HELPING SUPPORT A CONTEST THAT WAS TAKING PLACE.
UM, AND OVER THE YEARS HAD ADDITIONAL INTERACTIONS WITH HIM.
HE WAS, UH, ONE OF THE MANAGERS AT THE GRAPEVINE MILLS SKATE PARK, UM, THAT I FREQUENTED BACK IN THE DAY.
SO A LOT OF GREAT INTERACTIONS WITH JOHN.
UM, FAST FORWARD A FEW YEARS, I GOT INTRODUCED TO A COUPLE DIFFERENT NONPROFITS THAT WERE PRODUCING, UM, WHEELCHAIR SKATING AND ADAPTIVE SKATEBOARDING EVENTS.
AND FROM THAT 0.4, LIKE THE TABLES HAD REALLY TURNED BECAUSE I WAS ONCE A PARTICIPANT AND NOW A PRODUCER OF AN EVENT.
AND, YOU KNOW, THE EPIPHANY HAPPENED WHEN JOHN WAS THERE PARTICIPATING, RIGHT? LIKE, THIS IS SOMEONE THAT I LOOKED UP TO AS A CHILD.
AND THEN TO BE IN THAT POSITION YEARS LATER WAS JUST LIKE, REALLY AWE-INSPIRING FROM THAT POINT FORWARD.
UM, YOU KNOW, IT REALLY BECAME SOMETHING THAT WAS IMPORTANT TO ME TO CONTINUE TO SEE, UM, YOU KNOW, THE, THE AWARENESS FOR ADAPTIVE AND WHEELCHAIR SPORTS TO, UH, CONTINUE BEING, UH, SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE ARE AWARE ABOUT, RIGHT? BECAUSE HOW MANY KIDS THAT ARE DISABLED TO KNOW THAT THIS IS SOMETHING THEY CAN DO.
AND OTHER THAN JOHN, THEY DIDN'T REALLY HAVE A LOT TO, TO STEER
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THEM IN THAT DIRECTION.SO THROUGH OTHER PROGRAMS AND OTHER EFFORTS, THE, THE EFFORTS CONTINUE TO, TO GROW.
AND THEN, UM, A FEW YEARS LATER, WE STARTED DOING THE JOHN COMER, UH, MEMORIAL SKATE JAM AT MY SKATE PARK IN GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS.
AND, UM, THE GOAL HAS ALWAYS BEEN LIKE, HOW CAN WE CONTINUE TO SUPPORT, UM, ADAPTIVE ATHLETES AND WHEELCHAIR ATHLETES TO CONTINUE THAT, UM, MOVEMENT THAT JOHN STARTED.
UM, SO, YOU KNOW, WITH THAT, IT'S, IT'S LIKE OBVIOUSLY A HUGE OPPORTUNITY TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT HERE IN GARLAND.
IT WOULD GIVE AN INCREDIBLE AMOUNT OF VISIBILITY, WHAT FOR THE CITY AND THE SKATEBOARDING INDUSTRY.
UM, I WORK WITH TEAM USA SKATEBOARDING'S PARALYMPIC SUBCOMMITTEE TO KIND OF COORDINATE AND EXECUTE EVENTS OF THIS NATURE.
IT'S REALLY THEIR MISSION RIGHT NOW TO SEE, YOU KNOW, WHAT, JOHN STARTED RIGHT WITH ADAPTIVE SKATEBOARDING TO BECOME A PARALYMPIC SPORT NOW THAT, UM, SKATEBOARDING'S OFFICIALLY AN OLYMPIC SPORT.
AND, YOU KNOW, FOR GARLAND TO REALLY PUT THAT VOTE OF CONFIDENCE IN RENAMING THE SKATE PARK, ESPECIALLY HEARING SO MUCH OF THE COM COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOR IT, UM, I THINK WOULD JUST BE, YOU KNOW, A HUGE MESSAGE TO NOT JUST, UM, THE THE SKATEBOARDING INDUSTRY, BUT ALL KINDS OF CITIES, RIGHT? REALLY LISTEN TO WHAT YOUR COMMUNITY FEELS OR, YOU KNOW, SEES SOMETHING THAT WOULD REPRESENT THEM OR RESPECT, UH, WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO THEM.
SO, UM, OTHER THAN THAT,
I THINK, YOU KNOW, EVENT'S GREAT, BUT THE NAME'S GONNA LAST FOREVER.
AND ONCE IT'S THERE, YOU CAN'T TAKE IT AWAY.
APOLOGIES IF I'M TALKING FAST.
ABOUT HOW MANY PEOPLE, UH, ARE IN THE EVENTS THAT YOU HOST? UM, IT RANGES RIGHT WHEN WE DID THE FIRST ONE IN GRAND PRAIRIE, WE HAD A COUPLE HUNDRED PEOPLE THAT CAME OUT LAST YEAR, WAS MOVED TO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TO ANOTHER FACILITY, JUST SO IT'S MORE ACCESSIBLE FOR THE ATHLETES.
UM, BUT THE GOAL IS TO BRING IT BACK TO TEXAS THIS YEAR.
AND I THINK WITH THE AMOUNT OF, UH, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE THAT ARE FOLLOWING THIS, UH, RENAMING AND HOW, HOW THE EVENTS ALREADY BUILT SOME SUPPORT, IT WOULD BE, YOU KNOW, DEFINITELY A LARGER SKILL EVENT.
THREE, 400, MAYBE, MAYBE MORE.
IS IT SPECIFICALLY JUST FOR, UM, PEOPLE THAT ARE ADAPTIVE TO SKATING OR DO YOU HAVE BOTH? IT, IT WAS ABLED BODIED AND DISABLED PARTICIPANTS.
UM, AND THEN A WHEELCHAIR DIVISION AS WELL.
SO KIND OF ALL INCLUSIVE, UH, EXPERIENCE.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? I HAVE A QUESTION.
UM, JUST WANNA HEAR YOUR THOUGHTS ON IT.
SO I'M, I'M THINKING ABOUT KINDA MARKETING PERSPECTIVE OR, SO PEOPLE KNOW WHO JOHN COMER IS, CUZ HE, IT SOUNDS LIKE HE HAS SUCH A WONDERFUL STORY AND HAS DONE GREAT THINGS.
WHEN I, IF I'M A NONS SKATER AND I LOOK AT THE NAME JOHN COMER SKATE PARK, UH, AND BY THE WAY, I AM NOT, THIS IS NOT, UH, SINGAPORE, GUESS IT AT ALL.
THIS IS JUST LITERALLY JUST TO GET YOUR THOUGHTS ON IT.
UM, IF IT SAYS, JOHN, COME SKATEBOARD, I'M JUST A NONS SKATER, I WOULD HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THAT PERSON IS.
UM, BUT LET'S SAY A PUBLIC ART INSTALLATION, LET'S SAY, I THINK Y'ALL TALKED ABOUT HE LOVES ART AND OBVIOUSLY IN SKATEBOARDING, AND THERE WAS SOMETHING WHERE PUBLIC ART INSTALLATION, HOW, LIKE A SKATEBOARD AND SOMETHING WITH THE STORY ON IT, YOU KNOW, THAT WHOLE THING.
UM, THEN I, NOW I KNOW WHAT HE DID BECAUSE TO NAME WITHOUT, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING THAT DISPLAYS WHAT HE DID THAT I WOULDN'T REALLY KNOW OTHER THAN A SKATEBOARD, BUT SKATE IF I WAS A SKATEBOARDER.
BUT I THINK TO REACH SO MUCH MORE PEOPLE TO, SO, SO MANY MORE PEOPLE OUTSIDE OF SKATE THE SKATING COMMUNITY KNOW WHO JOHN COMER IS.
UM, IT WOULD JUST BE, I, I FEEL LIKE A MUCH BIGGER REACH MM-HMM.
WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS? UM, I MEAN, LIKE A MURAL'S GREAT, A STATUE'S GREAT.
UM, ANYTHING TO MEMORIALIZE THEM WOULD BE AMAZING.
UM, I THINK THE RENAMING IN ITSELF IS VERY IMPACTFUL THOUGH, BECAUSE IT'S GONNA HAVE SUCH A LONG TERM AND, YOU KNOW, JUST THE FACT THAT WE'RE AT THIS POINT, IT'S GONNA HAVE SUCH A BIG, UM, IMPACT THAT IT'S GONNA GET A LOT OF PEOPLE'S ATTENTION.
AND FOR ME PERSONALLY, LIKE JUST ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN, LIKE I HAD NO IDEA WHO RICK ODIN WAS AND I GOOGLED IT AND THAT'S HOW I FOUND OUT.
SO, YOU KNOW, IN THIS DAY AND AGE FOR PEOPLE TO FIND THINGS OUT REALLY QUICKLY IS NOT THAT HARD TO DO.
UM, IT WOULD BE AMAZING TO SEE A STATUE THAT COINCIDES WITH THE RENAMING, BUT I FEEL LIKE EVEN WITH THE STATUE, PEOPLE ARE JUST GOING TO SEE IT AS WHAT IT IS.
THERE'S A STATUE AND THEY MAY NEVER LIKE REGISTER, OH, THIS GUY'S GOT A PROSTHETIC LEG IN THE STATUE.
LIKE, PUT HIS NAME THERE, MEMORIALIZE SOME AND LET PEOPLE LIKE, YOU KNOW, SHARE.
LIKE, LET PEOPLE ASK, LET PEOPLE FIND OUT HOW, YOU
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KNOW, JUST LIKE WE'RE SHARING HOW HE'S IMPACTED OUR LIVES, HOW HE'S IMPACTED THEIR LIVES.AND I FEEL LIKE THAT KIND OF MARKETING IS SOMETHING YOU COULDN'T PAY FOR, PUT A STAMP ON, YOU KNOW.
YOU'VE DONE WONDERFUL AND WE APPRECIATE YOU.
NOT SPEAKING, BUT YOU ARE, YOU ARE NOT, AGAIN, YOU'RE NOT TESTIFYING, BUT YOU ARE FOR THIS.
UH, K JEFFERS NOT SPEAKING FOR NOT SPEAKING.
DID WHAT DID YOU SAY? YOU WERE NOT, NOT SPEAKING.
I THOUGHT THAT'S WHAT I HEARD.
UM, CHRIS JEFFERS, I'LL PUT HIM AT THE BANK.
WHAT'S THE NUMBER? 13, 14, 15, 16.
UH, CHRIS, JEFF IS 8 29 EAST DOHERTY, UH, DRIVE GARLAND, TEXAS ON 5,041.
UM, SPEAKING IN FAVOR OF CHANGING THE NAME OF THE PARK TO MEMORIALIZE JOHN COMER.
UM, YEAH, I'M LIKE VICTOR HOT SEAT.
UH, UH, FIRST OFF, UH, ROB COMER WISHES HE COULD BE HERE.
THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR BEING HERE.
UM, AND UM, REALLY YOU NEED ONLY TO LOOK AT THE WIDE FRIDAY AND INCREASING AMOUNTS OF, UH, PEOPLE WHO HAVE SHOWN THROUGHOUT THESE MEETINGS TO KNOW THE INFLUENCE OF JOHN.
UM, I'LL TELL A PERSONAL STORY.
JOHN WAS ALL ABOUT INCLUSIVENESS.
HE DIDN'T WANNA BE SPECIAL, HE JUST WANTED TO BE INCLUDED.
I GOT TO KNOW A SKATER NAMED JOHN OR JART BERRY THROUGH JOHN.
UH, JARRET BERRY IS KNOWN AS D GAY SKATEBOARDER.
HE WAS EVEN PUBLICIZED AS SUCH ON THE COVER OF SKATEBOARDING'S BIG BROTHER MAGAZINE WENT THROUGH A SKATEBOARDING FACE GROUP, UH, FACEBOOK GROUP.
JARED FOUND OUT I KNEW JOHN, HE WAS IMMEDIATELY COMPLIMENTARY OF JOHN'S SKILLS AND PERSEVERANCE.
I THEN BROUGHT UP TO JARED, UP TO JOHN, AND JOHN HAD TOLD ME ABOUT JARED SAYING HOW AWESOME IT WAS THAT DURING A WORLDWIDE AMATEUR FINALS CONTEST THAT THEY HAD BOTH COMPETED IN, JARED CAME OUT WEARING HIS SHIRT.
JOHN WAS ALWAYS SUPER SUPPORTIVE OF THOSE WHO ROSE AGAINST CHALLENGES IN DIVISIVENESS, UH, DIVISIVENESS, SORRY.
UH, AND THOSE VALUES RISING UP TO FACE CHALLENGES AND OVERCOMING DIVERSITIES THAT DRIVES PEOPLE APART IS SKATEBOARDING.
JOHN EMBODIED THE VALUES OF SKATEBOARDING.
JOHN IS SKATEBOARDING AND HIS NAME ABSOLUTELY DESERVES TO BE MEMORIALIZED AND AT LET THAT PARK.
UH, ANY QUESTIONS? MR. JEFFERS? MR. PARISH, UH, JUST WANTED SAY WHAT, WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE OTHER OPTIONS? TO BE HONEST, I THINK THEY'RE NOT OPTIONS.
I THINK THEY'RE GREAT, UH, SUGGESTIONS FOR ADD-ONS.
UH, I'M FULLY IN FAVOR OF CHANGING THE NAME OF THE PARK.
UH, I THINK, UM, YOU KNOW, AND ONE OTHER THING PLEASE, UH, I JUST ADDRESS ONE THING TONY HAWK DID.
HE DID GIVE US A VIDEO AND THAT DID DRIVE A LOT OF ATTENTION.
BUT THAT HAS, THERE HAS BEEN A MIS UH, INTERPRETATION OF THAT VIDEO TO BE TONY, SAY GARLAND DEW.
I CAN TELL YOU FIRSTHAND HOW HARD TONY IS TO GET A HEART OF HE IS EXTREMELY HARD, EVEN FOR HIS CLOSEST FRIENDS.
JOHN ONCE EVEN TOLD ME AFTER JOHN FIRST GOT PHONE OUT TO CALIFORNIA BY TONY, WE WERE ALL EXCITED.
EVEN JOHN SAID, DUDE, IT'S STILL TONY HAWK.
IT'S NOT LIKE I CAN JUST CALL THE GUY UP
SO, UM, IT, SO TONY, THAT THAT VIDEO ACTUALLY TOOK TWO MONTHS TO GET, CUZ TONY WAS GOING INTO SURGERY AND IT STILL, HE STILL THROUGH THE INFLUENCE OF JOHN, BECAUSE HE INFLUENCED JOHN HAD ON TONY, TONY TOOK TIME OUT OF HIS DAY TO DO THAT.
I'LL TELL YOU WHAT, I HAVE A LETTER FROM TONY FROM 1990 THAT I GOT.
I STILL HAVE IT TO THIS DAY, AND I'M AMAZED BY THAT.
SO FOR GARLAND TO GET A VIDEO FROM TONY, FOR TONY TO TAKE HIS TIMEOUT FOR NO OTHER REASON, BUT TO SHOW THE INFLUENCE JOHN HAD ON HIM.
TONY DIDN'T GET ANYTHING OUTTA THE VIDEO.
HE HAS SPONSORS, COMPANIES BEGGING FOR HIS ATTENTION, BUT HE GIVE HIS ATTENTION TO THIS ISSUE.
AND I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING THAT SHOULD BE PROUD OF.
I THINK GARLAND SHOULD BE STOKED ON THAT.
GARLAND SHOULD ACTUALLY BE PUBLICIZING THAT ON THE WEBSITE FOR THE SKATE PARK.
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ALL RIGHT.AND YOU MADE IT UNDER YOUR THREE MINUTES.
UM, IS THIS THE JOHN HAUSER THAT WE SEE ON THE COMMERCIALS ON TV RIGHT NOW? I'M SORRY? IS THIS THE PERSON THAT WE SEE ON COMMERCIALS ON TV NOW THAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT? TONY, JOHN, JOHNNY HA.
I WAS WORKING ON OTHER THINGS.
SO, SO TONY, THERE'S, THERE'S NO TELLING WHEN AND WHERE YOU MIGHT SEE TONY CUZ HE'S EVERYWHERE.
HE'S BEEN, UH, YOU KNOW, HE'S BEEN A DOMINANT FIGURE IN SKATEBOARDING AND AN AMBASSADOR OF SKATEBOARDING SINCE THE EARLY EIGHTIES.
UH, HE'S HAD, I MEAN, HE CONTINUES TO GET SPONSORS SUCH AS MINI COOPER, I THINK AT ONE TIME, BIG BITES, CLUB MED.
UM, UH, SO I, YOU KNOW, HE'S, IT'S EVER GROWING.
UM, HE'S, UM, HE'S STILL DOING THE TONY HAWK FOUNDATION.
HE RECENTLY HAD AN HBO DOCUMENTARY COME OUT IN THE PAST COUPLE OF YEARS.
UH, THAT WAS, UM, YOU KNOW, A REALLY GOOD LOOK AT HIS, HIS LIFE OVER SKATEBOARDING.
SO, I MEAN, HE'S STILL VERY ACTIVE IN SKATEBOARDING AND BEING AN AMBASSADOR OF SKATEBOARDING AND, UM, UH, BUT, AND STILL TRAVELING FOR IT AS WELL.
HE'S, UH, OFTEN ON THE ROAD STILL FOR THAT.
SO HE'S VERY, VERY MUCH ACTING LIKE HE'S STILL A KID
IT GIVES ALL OF US ENCOURAGEMENT.
AND I APOLOGIZE FOR GETTING THE NAMES WRONG.
I WAS LOOKING THROUGH THE CARDS HERE, SEEING WHAT ALL I HAVE TO DO.
UH, WE HAVE, WE HAVE A, WE HAVE, UH, UM, A LOT OF CARDS HERE, WHICH WE'RE PROBABLY NOT GONNA BE ABLE TO GET THROUGH.
UH, I'D LIKE TO SAY THAT, UH, WE HAVE A CHOICE.
IF YOU, IF YOU HAVE SOMETHING THAT'S DIFFERENT THAN WHAT WE'VE HEARD ALREADY, UH, SOMETHING THAT, SOMETHING ELSE THAT WE CAN USE TO MAKE THIS, I WOULD, UM, ASK YOU TO MAKE THOSE POINTS.
AND, UH, YOU DON'T HAVE TO SPEAK THE FULL THREE MINUTES.
UM, SO IF WE COULD GET, THIS IS THIS MARLIN BOBBI PRESENT, BUT NOT SPEEDING PRESENT, BUT NOT SPEAKING.
UH, MELISSA GFI, PRESIDENT SPEAKING, AND YOU ARE FOR THIS POSITION.
WE WILL TAKE THAT AS A DEFINITE YES.
FOR IT? YOU ARE FOR THIS, SIR.
WE APPRECIATE ALL OF YOU COMING.
DE NOAH, STAND UP SO WE CAN SEE YOU THERE.
ARE YOU FOR THIS? ARE YOU SURE YOU'RE FOR THIS? I LIKE THAT.
HOPEFULLY YOU'LL DO THIS FOR MANY YEARS TO COME.
UH, SAM FINNEY PRESENT, SIR FOR IT.
JESSICA LLOYD, PRESENT AND FOR IT.
YOU WENT OVER IT TWO OR THREE TIMES.
JOSH, WHAT'D YOU COME UP WITH HERE? JOSH.
UH, AND YOU'RE HERE AND YOU'RE FOR THIS.
CHRISTINE, YOU'RE HERE AND YOU'RE FOR IT.
THAT JUST COMPLETED OUR SPEAKER CARDS.
THANK YOU ALL FOR, FOR THAT, THAT, UH, THAT WILL HELP ALL OF US QUITE A BIT.
ALRIGHT, GENTLEMEN, WHAT YOU, WE'VE HEARD WE, WE'VE HEARD TESTIMONY AND, UM, WE HAVE A COMMITTEE THAT'S BEEN BEEN STUDYING THIS AND THEY'VE USED THE INFORMATION THAT I HAD THERE AND OTHER INFORMATION, UH, TO COME TO, TO COME TO A RECOMMENDATION TO THIS BOARD AND OUR CHAIRMAN, UH, MR. PERISH, YOU WANT, I'M GETTING A LITTLE FEEDBACK HERE.
WHAT? YOU WANNA GO WITH OUR THING? YOU WANT? MM-HMM.
AND I WROTE THIS DOWN YOUR MIND.
SO WE, WHAT, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE AND HOW HAVE YOU COME TO THIS CONCLUSION? UH, WE MET, WE CONSIDERED, UH, ALL, ALL
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THE INPUT WE HAD.WE LOOKED AT THE, UM, UH, B BOTH THE PARK NAMING, UH, ORDINANCE AND THE, UH, CITY, UH, FACILITIES, UH, NAMING GUIDANCE AND, UH, YOU KNOW, TRIED TO SEE HOW THIS MIGHT FIT INTO THAT.
AND, UH, THE, WE CAME UP WITH THIS.
WE, THE FACILITIES AND FINANCE, UM, UH, COMMITTEE MAKES A MOTION TO, UH, RECOGNIZE THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE, UH, SKATEBOARDING COMMUNITY AND THE ADAPTIVE SKATEBOARDING COMMUNITY BY INSTALLING A PLAQUE AT THE BONEYARD IN GARLAND TO TELL THE STORY OF JOHN COMER, A GARLAND RESIDENT.
WE ALSO RECOMMEND THAT THE CITY CONSIDER AN ADAPTIVE SKATEBOARD EVENT, UH, IN HONOR OF MR. COMER.
DO WE HAVE A SECOND, UH, DISCUSSION? SECOND ITEM.
WE HAVE TO HAVE A SECOND FIRST.
WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND.
AND, UH, OKAY, MR. OP, OPEN UP YOUR DISCUSSION.
YEAH, I JUST HAVE A QUICK QUESTION.
WE'RE MAKING A SUGGESTION TO CITY COUNCIL.
THIS IS THE RECOMMENDATION TO CITY COUNCIL.
THEY COULD CHANGE ANYTHING THAT WE SAY AND MAKE THEIR OWN DECISION.
ANY OTHER, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? UH, I HAVE, I, I HAVE ONE.
DOES ANYBODY ELSE HAVE A QUESTION? CAN I MAKE A STATEMENT AFTER YOU ASK YOUR QUESTION? YOU, YOU MADE THE FLOOR, MS. BISHOP.
UM, SO A HUNDRED YEARS AGO, IN 2003, THE CITY WAS NEEDING TO DO A BOND PROGRAM.
AND THE PARK EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AT THAT TIME SAW THE BENCHES AND CHAIRS AND WHATNOT AROUND THE PARK OFFICE BEING USED FOR RAMPS AND OTHER THINGS FOR SKATEBOARDING.
AND HE SAID, WE, WE WANT TO ENCOURAGE KIDS TO BE IN THE PARK, BUT WE NEED TO HAVE OUR FURNITURE.
WILL YOU PLEASE PUT A SKATEBOARD PARK ON THE BOND PACKAGE? SO WITH THAT INFORMATION, AND OUT OF THE PARK BOARD, WE RECOMMENDED TO THE BOND COMMITTEE THAT THEY PUT MONEY IN TO THE BOND PROGRAM, AND THEY DID, AND THEY PRESENTED THE BOND PROGRAM TO THE VOTERS AND THE VOTE.
AND AS, AS ONE PACKAGE, AS ONE ITEM OF THAT PACKAGE, TUCKER WILL WAS IN THAT AND OTHER THINGS WERE IN THERE.
UH, STREETS ALWAYS SEEMS TO TOP THAT, AND IT PASSED, AND THEN NOTHING HAPPENED BECAUSE WE HAD AN ECONOMIC DOWNTURN.
SO EVERY YEAR, THE ONLY OTHER PERSON THAT CAN REALLY IDENTIFY THIS TO ME IS SITTING OVER THERE.
WE GET A C I P SCHEDULE OF THINGS THAT ARE GOING TO HAPPEN 10 YEARS.
SO IN 2004, THE SKATE PARK IS ONE OF THE CATEGORIES THAT'S ON THERE BECAUSE IT HAS TO BE HONORED BECAUSE IT CAME THROUGH FROM THE VOTERS.
AND IN 2004, THE SKATE PARK MONEY WAS PUT TO BE SPENT IN 2014.
AND EVERY YEAR AFTER THAT, WHATEVER WAS THE, THE MOST, THE FURTHEST DATE OUT THERE, THAT'S WHERE THE SKATE PARK MONEY WAS PUT.
WE CAME ACROSS A BOMB PROGRAM FOR 2019 AND, UM, THE MONEY, MONEY WAS ALLOCATED IN DIFFERENT AREAS.
THE BOND PROGRAM WENT TO THE VOTERS PARKS DEPARTMENT, ASKED FOR A RECORD AMOUNT OF MONEY AND WAS AWARDED, I THINK ULTIMATELY OVER 117 MILLION.
AND SOME OTHER FUNDS WERE ADDED TO IT, BUT IT WAS SPECIFICALLY FOR PARKS AND OTHER, YOU KNOW, THEY DID THE POLICE AND FIRE.
THEY, AND THEY, THEY DID THE STREETS, WHICH WASN'T THE MOTHER LOAD OF WHERE THE MONEY WAS GOING.
AND THAT PASSED WHEN THE RUBBER HITS THE ROAD AND IT'S TIME TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE SKATE PARK AND IT'S IN YOUR AREA AND YOUR THE RECOMMENDATION WAS TO PUT IT WHERE THERE WAS MORE ROOM TO DO IT.
THAT PARTICULAR COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVE DIDN'T WANT IT IN THAT AREA.
AND ANOTHER AREA WAS SELECTED, WHICH WAS THE RICK ODEN PARK, WHICH WAS NAMED AFTER, UH, THE PARK IS STILL GOING TO BE CALLED RICK ODEN PARK WHEN WE HAVE RENAMED PARKS.
IN THE PAST IT HAS BEEN, WHEN WE DID THE ANITA HILL, IT'S STILL CALLED INDIAN LAKE, BUT THERE'S THE ANITA HILL POOL.
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IT IS NOT UNUSUAL THAT THIS WOULD BE THE JOHN COMER SECTION, UM, OF THE SKATE PARK.BUT WE HAD, I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY STAKEHOLDER MEETINGS BEFORE THERE WERE PLANNED MEETINGS BEFORE THERE WAS MORE MEETINGS WITH PUBLIC TESTIMONY COMING, UH, IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER, WHICH WILL BE ON RECORD WHERE THEY ASKED FOR US TO INCREASE IT OVER, UM, TENFOLD FROM THE HALF A MILLION THAT WAS THERE TO THE, THE GREATER SUM THAT WAS SPENT.
AND WE DEDICATED THE PARK WITHOUT THE INFORMATION GOING TO JOHN COMER.
MY ADVOCACY FOR THE PARK WAS FOR THE SKATERS, BECAUSE TO ME IT'S A GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT, UM, HAVE AN IDENTITY AMONG THEMSELVES AS FOOTBALL PLAYERS DO, AS BASEBALL PLAYERS DO, AS CHEERLEADERS DO THAT THIS IS THEIR IDENTITY.
AND THIS IS SOMETHING THAT, THAT I THOUGHT WOULD BE A GOOD THING FOR GARLAND TO DO, THAT IT WAS RECOMMENDED AND IT PASSED AS A RECOMMENDATION OUT OF THE PART BOARD TO SPEND THIS MONEY AND TO MAKE THIS A STATEMENT PARK.
I, I REALLY, REALLY LIKE THE IDEA OF CIRCULATING HIS NAME WITH THE PARK OF, OF ART OF, UM, A MURAL OF, OF ANYTHING.
BUT IT WAS ALREADY DEDICATED WITH A NAME.
AND I WAS JUST HOPING THAT WE COULD DO SOMETHING.
SO I'M SPEAKING IN SUPPORT OF THE MOTION AND TRYING TO GIVE YOU, UM, SOME OF THE BACKGROUND THAT I HAVE BEEN HERE AND WITNESSED FOR FAR TOO LONG.
UM, YOU KNOW, COMPARED TO EVERYONE HERE, UM, OUT OF, OUT OF RESPECT FOR HIM AND FOR THE PEOPLE THAT WERE HERE.
UM, YOU KNOW, I, I DON'T SEE THAT ANYONE IS OPPOSED TO GIVING PROPER RECOGNITION.
I JUST, IT USUALLY WHEN YOU RENAME SOMETHING, YOU'VE DONE SOMETHING DIFFERENTLY AND WAS SPENT SO MUCH TIME IN PLANNING AND DESIGN AND REVIEW OF PLANS AND HAS GONE THROUGH COUNCIL AND THEN HAS COME BACK TO US THAT I THINK WE OUGHT TO DO, UM, THE RIGHT, THE RIGHT THING IN THAT I AM NOT AGAINST ANOTHER BOND PROGRAM, ADDING ANOTHER FEATURE AT SOME POINT, UM, AND DEDICATING THAT SECTION TO HIM.
WE DID THAT AT SURF AND SWIM, WHICH WAS OUR REGIONAL HIGHLIGHT SWIM PARK.
UM, AND WE HAD AN INDIVIDUAL THAT HAD MADE A SIGNIFICANT, UM, CONTRIBUTION TO GARLAND HAD PASSED AWAY, AND THERE WAS A WALLY'S COVE THERE IN DEDICATION TO HIM.
SO THAT AGAIN, IS ANOTHER, UH, SIMILAR THING THAT'S HAPPENED, UM, WHERE, WHERE, WHERE SOMEBODY HAS BEEN RECOGNIZED, I'VE TALKED WITH SKATERS THAT I DON'T, I, I DON'T THINK YOU'D FIND A SKATER THAT'S OPPOSED TO THIS, BUT I, MY COMMON THING THAT I KEEP HEARING IS THEY REALLY JUST WANNA SKATE.
SO, UM, I WANT THEM TO, I WANT THEM TO SKATE.
I WANT THAT TO BE SOMEPLACE THAT IS A DRAW FOR SKATERS AND THAT MR. COMER'S NAME IS BROUGHT UP IN AN ANNUAL EVENT AND PERHAPS IN COMMUNICATION OR IN COORDINATION WITH, UM, WITH GRAPEVINE OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, WHERE WE CAN, WE CAN MAKE, MAKE AN IMPACT.
SO, UH, OUT OF, OUT OF WHAT I, I GOT HERE THAT, UM, UH, THAT WAS THE RECOMMENDATION THAT WE DIDN'T, DIDN'T PUT THE NAME.
UH, WE DIDN'T, WE DIDN'T ADD HIS NAME TO THE NAME OF THE PARK.
WHAT WE, WHAT WE'RE SUGGESTING, AND TELL ME IF I'M WRONG, UM, IS THAT WE, THE NAME OF THE PARK REMAINED THE BONEYARD, BUT WE, WE DEDICATE, WE DO A DEFINITE DEDICATION THAT PEOPLE WILL SEE, UH, RESPECT AND ENVY BY HAVING, UM, A, A TELLING OF THE STORY OF JOHN COMER, UH, AT THE PARK.
AND THAT MORE THAN THE NAME, THAT'S WHAT I THINK I'VE HEARD THAT THEY WANT TO TRY AND ACCOMPLISH.
AND I CAN CERTAINLY UNDERSTAND WHY, BUT AS AN OUTSTANDING PERSON TO DO THAT.
THE INTERESTING PART ABOUT THAT, THAT IS SOMETHING THAT, UH, SOME OF US HAVE BEEN PUSHING FOR, FOR SEVERAL YEARS TO GO AROUND ALL OF OUR PARKS BECAUSE ALL OF OUR PARKS ARE NAMED FOR PEOPLE THAT HAVE DONE SOMETHING SPECIAL.
AND, UH, I JUST HAPPENED TO BE, HAPPENED TO BE IN THE LITTLE TOWN OF EDGEWOOD,
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TEXAS, AND I WAS JUST SHOWING WHAT THEY'D DONE WHEN THEY MOVED A CHURCH THAT WAS BUILT IN THE 18 HUNDREDS INTO TOWN INTO A HISTORICAL DISTRICT.AND, AND THEY, THEY MADE A PERMANENT MARKER.
THEY DIDN'T MAKE SOMETHING THAT WAS WOOD OR SOMETHING WOULD REQUIRE MAINTENANCE, BUT SOMETHING LIKE WHAT YOU SEE FROM THE STATE AND, AND FROM OTHER AREAS.
AND THIS TELLS THE WHOLE STORY RIGHT THERE.
AND, UH, AND I JUST, I JUST HAPPENED TO PICK THIS ONE OUT OF MY PICTURES THE OTHER DAY AS I WAS LOOKING FOR HOW COULD WE DO THIS? AND OF COURSE WE HAVE MARKERS, UH, STATE MARKERS, THAT HISTORICAL MARKERS IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA THAT I PRESUME WILL BE GOING BACK UP, TALKING ABOUT BANKHEAD HIGHWAY AND HOW IT CAME ABOUT, AND GARLAND, HOW GARLAND BEGAN TO GROW AFTER THAT.
WE HAVEN'T INCLUDED HIS NAME IN THE NAMING AND I'M WONDERING IF THE, UH, CHAIRMAN WOULD ACCEPT, UM, UH, AN AMENDMENT TO SAY, UH, I'M, I'M GONNA THROW THIS OUT THERE AND WE'LL SEE HOW, SEE WHERE IT GOES.
THE JOHN COMER SKATE PARK AT THE BONEYARD IN GARLAND, THE BONEYARD IN GARLAND IS STILL THERE.
THE JOHN COMER NOW IS LISTED UP FRONT ON THAT.
DOESN'T REQUIRE THE CHANGING, I DON'T THINK OF ANY, ANY NAMING, BUT IT BRINGS TO THE FRONT.
AND THEN THE OTHER PART IS TO, IS TO, IS TO GET THE HISTORY OF WHAT JOHN COMER DID.
AND I WOULD LIKE TO OFFER THAT AS A, AS A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT.
AND, UH, IF YOU WOULD ACCEPT IT, SIR, I WILL SECOND THAT AMENDMENT.
BUT DO WE NEED TO VOTE ON THE FIRST AMENDMENT? NOPE.
DOES HE NEED TO MAKE, MAKE A MOTION FOR THE AMENDMENT? WE, YEAH, YOU HAVE JUST DID THE CHAIR.
WELL, THE CHAIR, WELL, HE MAKES A FRIENDLY EMOTION, BUT THE FRIENDLY EMOTION ALSO HAS TO BE SECOND IN IT.
YOU HAS TO ACCEPT THE FRIENDLY EMO I ACCEPT AMENDMENT.
WE HAVE A MOTION TO SECOND NOW.
DO WE HAVE ANY OTHER MODIFICATIONS? ANY, ANYBODY ELSE HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY? ANY, ANY OTHER MEMBERS? ANY OTHER MEMBERS? I WANNA MAKE SURE EVERYBODY'S HAD THEIR SAY, HAD THEIR OPPORTUNITY.
UM, THANK YOU MS. BISHOP FOR WHAT YOU SAID.
YOU GAVE US A, A GOOD BACKGROUND ON WHAT MANY OF US DIDN'T KNOW.
AND SO, UM, I LIKE THE PARTS ABOUT THE, THE RECOGNIZING THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS, TELL THE STORY, TELL THE ADAPTIVE SKATING.
WE HAVE A REAL STORY HERE, BUT NONE OF THIS WAS KNOWN.
IT APPEARS WHEN, WHEN THE NAMING HAPPENED.
I'M SORRY THAT Y'ALL WEREN'T THERE, BUT I'M PROUD THAT YOU'RE HERE NOW AND AGAIN, THIS WILL BE A RECOMMENDATION TO COUNCIL.
UH, AND WE WILL SEE HOW THE COUNCIL REACTS TO THAT.
YOU WILL GET YOUR CHANCE TO TELL THAT STORY AGAIN THERE.
MAY I MAKE JUST A STATEMENT? UM, WE DIDN'T, WE AS THE PARK BOARD DIDN'T RECOMMEND ANY SORT OF NAME THAT CAME FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE.
SO THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THAT THE NAMING HAS KIND OF COME THROUGH HERE.
IT'S KIND OF COME BACK THROUGH HERE BECAUSE IT DIDN'T GO THROUGH THE PROPER CHANNELS THE FIRST TIME.
AND SO COUNCIL, CURRENT COUNSEL HAS ASKED US TO BRING IT THROUGH THE PROPER CHANNELS AND BRING A RECOMMENDATION TO THEM.
WELL, I, WE HAVEN'T WANNA THANK COUNSEL FOR DOING THAT.
AND WE THANK THAT COUNCIL AND I, I WANNA THANK EVERY SINGLE PERSON THAT FILLED OUT ONE OF THOSE CARDS AND CAME HERE TONIGHT.
CUZ I KNOW WHAT AN EFFORT IT IS TO GET UP HERE.
AND PARTICULARLY IF YOU TOOK THE TIME TO SP TO SPEAK, I HOPE THAT YOU FEEL LIKE THAT WE HAVE GIVEN, UM, YOUR REQUEST A SIGNIFICANT, UM, ATTENTION AND, UM, THAT YOU'RE HONORED BY WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO.
WE, WE WANT TO THANK YOU COLLECTIVELY FOR THE, THE KINDNESS AND THE CONSIDERATION THAT YOU'RE GIVING.
AND I THINK ARTICULATING THESE THOUGHTS AND STRONGLY EXPRESSING THEM TO THE CITY COUNCIL WILL BE A KEY.
BUT I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW MUCH IT MEANS TO ALL OF US.
ANYTHING, ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? I JUST HAVE A QUICK QUESTION TO THE GROUP THAT'S HERE.
THE CITIZENS AND I SUPER APPRECIATE THEM BEING HERE.
AND THE, HOW MANY OF YOU WERE IN ATTENDANCE WHEN WE HAD PUBLIC HEARINGS ON THE SKATE PARK DOWN AT AUDUBON? CUZ IT WAS A HUGE CROWD, I CAN SAY.
AND THEN WE HAD ANOTHER ONE AT THE, UH, UH, ANNEX GRAINGER ANNEX.
IT'S A LITTLE SMALLER ONE WHERE WE, YOU KNOW, LOOKED AT SPECIFIC FEATURES, YOU KNOW, BASED ON WHAT WE LEARNED IN, UH, AUDUBON.
AND THEN WE HAD A PUBLIC HEARING HERE IN CITY COUNCIL AND THEN CITY COUNCIL HAD ONE.
ALRIGHT, LET'S, UM, MOTION A SECOND ON THE FLOOR.
WE END, WE GONNA END DISCUSSION.
OH, WHAT MINUTE? WHAT ARE YOU DOING? KEITH? CAN YOU SPECIFY THE MOTION AGAIN WITH THE AMENDMENT? AYE BRO AMENDMENT.
SO WE CAN PUT THAT ON THE RECORD AND THEN VOTE PLEASE.
THE JOHN ER SKATE PARK AT THE BONEYARD IN GARLAND AND THE OTHER ISSUES THAT, THAT, THAT THE COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN HAD PUT IN THERE.
ALL OF THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
THEY'RE ALSO, UH, AN EVENT IN HIS YES,
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SIR.SO, SO WE RECOMMEND THAT THE CITY CONSIDER AN EVENT.
ALL WE DO IS A RECOMMENDATION, RIGHT? THAT'S OUR JOB.
OKAY, WE, WE MAKE A MOTION TO RECOGNIZE THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND THE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SKATEBOARDING COMMUNITY AND ADAPTIVE SKATEBOARD COMMUNITY BY INSTALLING A PLAQUE AT THE BONE
WE ALSO RECOMMEND THE CITY CONSIDER AN ADAPTIVE SKATEBOARD EVENT WITH, IN HONOR OF MR. COMER.
UM, WITH AN AMENDMENT TO, TO RENAME THE SKATE PARK, THE JOHN COMER SKATE PARK AT THE BONEYARD IN GARLAND.
WE'VE HEARD THE, WE'VE HEARD THE MOTION.
EVERYBODY HOLD YOUR HANDS UP SO WE CAN GET 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6 OUT OF SEVEN.
ANY OPPOSED? WE'RE GOOD? ANY OPPOSED? WE OKAY.
WE HAD SIX, FOUR, AND ONE, NOT VOTING.
AND, UH, WE ARE, WE ARE, FIRST THING I WANNA DO WHEN WE'RE RIGHT HERE NOW IS THANK EVERYONE FOR COMING.
BUT I WANT TO TELL YOU THAT THIS, THIS IS GOING TO BE YOUR FIRST STEPS TOWARDS WHAT CAN ACTUALLY HAPPEN, WHAT CAN ACTUALLY HAPPEN AT THAT SKATE PARK.
GARLAND, CITIZENS OF GARLAND HAVE MADE A UNBELIEVABLE COMMITMENT, AND THANK YOU, MOLLY, FOR TELLING US THE PATH THAT IT TOOK TO GET THERE WITH THE NUMBER OF DOLLARS THAT THEY SPENT TO BUILD THE SECOND LARGEST SKATE PARK IN THE STATE OF TEXAS AND THE SEVENTH LARGEST IN THE NATION.
IS THAT CORRECT? AM I CORRECT ON THAT? CURRENT? CLOSE TO THAT.
CLOSE CLO CLOSE, CORRECT? MM-HMM.
THAT IS, THAT IS A PHENOMENAL THING.
AND EVERY TIME I'VE GONE BY THERE, THERE'S BEEN SO MANY PEOPLE AND I WANT TO THANK YOU ALL FOR COMING.
NOW WHILE YOU'RE HERE, WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT SOMETHING THAT'S MORE, MORE IN, IN OUR, UH, AREA HERE.
THE GARLAND SENIOR ACTIVITY CENTER, PUBLIC INPUT SUMMARY.
UH, CALLED THE MEETING BACK TO ORDER.
WE TOOK A BRIEF INTERLUDE THERE FOR THE, UH, FOLKS THAT WERE HERE,
AND THERE'S SOME PEOPLE NOT IN HERE YET, BUT THERE'S GOING BEHIND, GETTING IN THE DOOR HERE, AND HE'S GOING ALONG THE WAY.
WE'RE AT THE VERBAL BRIEFINGS, GARLAND SENIOR ACTIVITY CENTER, PUBLIC INPUT SUMMARY.
AND MY GOODNESS, DID THEY HAVE A BUNCH OF MEETINGS TO MEET WITH THE PUBLIC AND ZIO AND DEL LEE? YOU, YOU GUYS WERE WONDERFUL.
I, I HIT WHAT, TWO OR THREE OF THOSE? AND, AND YOU, AND YOU HANDLED THE CROWDS REALLY WELL AND YOU HAD A VERY ORGANIZED PRESENTATION.
CAN YOU SEE THIS GO? ALL RIGHT, WELL, GOOD EVENING.
THANK YOU MR. CHAIRMAN AND HELLO PARK BOARD MEMBERS.
WE ARE SUPER EXCITED TO SHARE OUR PUBLIC INPUT SUMMARY FOR THE GARLAND SENIOR ACTIVITY CENTER PROJECT.
SO LET'S KICK IT OFF BY, UM, OUR WONDERFUL, UM, PUBLIC MEDIA OFFICE MADE A LITTLE VIDEO OF JUST TO KIND OF SHOW YOU OF OUR EFFORTS AND A LITTLE OVERVIEW.
BUT, UM, TO REMIND YOU ALL, WE DID, UM, SOME FACILITY TOURS.
WE HAD A STAKEHOLDER GROUP THAT WE DID FACILITY TOURS.
WE TOURED A LOCATION IN MCKINNEY, PLANO, AND RICHARDSON.
AND THEN WE ALSO, UM, HAD MET WITH THE USERS, THE SENIORS OVER AT GALE FIELDS, CUZ THAT'S THEIR HOME RIGHT NOW.
AND THEN WE DID THREE PUBLIC MEETINGS.
WE HAD TWO EVENING MEETINGS, AND WE HAD ONE DAYTIME MEETING AND WE MADE THAT A ZOOM OPTION AS WELL.
SO WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, I'LL SHOW YOU THE LITTLE, UM, RECAP.
TODAY WAS A FANTASTIC OPPORTUNITY FOR OUR SENIORS, OUR RESIDENTS, TO SEE OUR NEIGHBORING COMMUNITIES FACILITIES SO THEY CAN VISUALIZE AND ARTICULATE WHAT THEY WANT TO SEE IN THEIR FUTURE SENIOR ACTIVITY CENTER FOR GARLAND.
THERE'S NOT INFINITE AMOUNT OF MONEY, OBVIOUSLY, IN RESOURCES.
SO THE CARD GAME HELPS US SEE WHERE THE PRIORITIES LIE, SO THAT WHEN TOUGH DECISIONS HAVE TO GET MADE, WE KNOW THAT WE'RE DOING THE MOST GOOD FOR THE MOST.
FOLKS, I THINK IT'S FUN TO WATCH POTENTIAL AND CURRENT USERS HAVE SOME AHA MOMENTS, UM, AND GET EXCITED ABOUT SOMETHING AND GET EXCITED ABOUT, UH, SEEING IT POSSIBLY INTEGRATED INTO THEIR BUILDING AND THEIR COMMUNITY.
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DESIGNED FOR A CERTAIN GROUP.IF YOU DON'T HAVE INPUT FROM THAT GROUP, THEN I DON'T THINK YOU'RE GONNA BE SUCCESSFUL.
UH, AND THIS WAS MORE THAN I EXPECTED TODAY.
AND IF THERE'S SOMETHING ON HERE THAT HASN'T BEEN CAPTURED YET THAT YOU THINK IS REALLY IMPORTANT, PLEASE PUT THAT ON A STICKY NOTE AND TIE AND STICK IT ON THE WHAT ELSE BOARD NOW OF THIS INFORMATION IS GOING TO BE COLLATED, UH, BY EXPERTS TO SEE WHAT WE'VE, WHAT WE'VE DISCOVERED AND WHAT ARE GONNA BE THE THINGS THAT WE CAN DO THAT WILL GIVE US THE MOST IMPACT WITH THE DOLLARS THAT WE HAVE TO SPEND ON IT.
AND IT'S REALLY GOING TO BE AN INTERESTING JOURNEY THAT WE'RE GOING.
SO THAT GIVES YOU A LITTLE RECAP OF JUST KIND OF ALL THE DIFFERENT EFFORTS, PEOPLE THAT WERE THERE.
SO CURRENTLY WE ARE IN THE PRE-DESIGN PHASE, AND OUR HOPE IS THAT WE WILL GET TO CONTINUE TO MOVE FORWARD INTO THE ACTUAL FACILITY DESIGN IN THIS MONTH, INTO MAY, STARTING THAT PROCESS.
BUT, UH, YOU GUYS ARE OUR FIRST STOP ON, UM, GIVING A, UH, BACKGROUND OF, OR A INFORMATION ON THE PR, UH, OH MY GOSH.
YOU GUYS ARE OUR FIRST STOP ON PROVIDING THE SUMMARY OF THE INPUT, AND TOMORROW MORNING WE WILL MEET WITH THE SENIOR ADVISORY COMMISSION, AND ON FRIDAY WE'LL ACTUALLY GO BACK OVER TO THE USERS OVER AT GALE FIELDS.
AND THEN WE WILL, UM, SHOW THIS PRESENTATION IN PROBABLY A LITTLE BIT MORE DETAIL ON THAT PRESENTATION TO CITY COUNCIL ON THE 17TH OF APRIL.
SO THE HOPE IS THAT WE WILL GET THEIR BLESSINGS, GUIDANCE DIRECTION AND BE ABLE TO CONTINUE TO MOVE THIS PROJECT FORWARD.
AND SO IF IT STAYS ON THE CURRENT SCHEDULE, UH, LOOKING AT, UH, GRAND OPENING OF THAT FACILITY IN LATE 2025, SO THE CONSULTANTS AND STAFF, WE DEVELOPED A PROJECT MISSION STATEMENT, AND THIS WAS TO JUST HELP, YOU KNOW, FORMULATE OUR WHY, WHY ARE WE DOING THIS? AND SO TO CREATE A NEW GARLAND SENIOR ACTIVITY CENTER WITH TRANSFORMATIVE SPACES AND EXPERIENCES THAT CAUSE A MARCH CHANGE IN OUR PATRON'S WAY OF LIFE AND VITALITY, A PLACE WITH THOUGHTFUL CREATIVE DESIGN THAT LEADS TO A SENSE OF PRIDE FOR GARLAND.
SO I WANNA SHARE OVER THE NEXT FEW SLIDES THE DESIGN THREADS THAT WE CAME UP WITH FOR THIS PROJECT.
AGAIN, TRYING TO BE VERY INTENTIONAL OF, YOU KNOW, RECOGNIZING HOW IMPORTANT THIS PROJECT IS TO THE COMMUNITY AND TO THE SENIORS.
SO THE DESIGN THREADS ARE NOT MEANT TO BE PART OF WHAT THE BUILDING IS GONNA LOOK LIKE, BUT THE EXPERIENCES AND THE FEELINGS THAT PEOPLE HAVE WHEN THEY COME INTO THOSE SPACES.
SO OUR FIRST DESIGN THREAD IS WE WANT THE NEW FACILITY TO BE A WARM, SAFE, PLACE, FILL, WARM, SAFE PLACE FILLED WITH INDEPENDENT, GENUINE, AND PRETENTIOUS PEOPLE.
FROM GARLAND, PROUD, LONGTIME RESIDENTS WHO PLANTED ROOTS IN GARLAND, WORKED HARD, RAISED FAMILIES, AND STAYED HERE.
THEY ARE PROUD TO BE HERE IN GARLAND.
THEY TAKE PRIDE IN THEIR COMMUNITY AND IN THEIR HAPPINESS.
THE FIRST DESIGN THREAD FOR OUR PROJECT IS PRIDE.
WE WANT TO BUILD A FACILITY THAT GARLAND RESIDENTS WILL BE PROUD OF.
OUR SECOND DESIGN THREAD FOR THIS PROJECT IS THAT WE WANT THE NEW FACILITY TO BE MODERN AND UP TO DATE, BUT BE PROUD TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH VINTAGE GARLAND.
IT WILL BE CONTEMPORARY, A COMFORTABLE PLACE WITH US.
IT'S A STYLE THAT'S FULL OF LIGHT AND ENERGY, BUT A PLACE THAT HAS SPARKLE.
IT WILL BE TRANSFORMATIVE FOR PEOPLE'S LIVES BECAUSE IN THIS PLACE WILL BE, IS WHERE PEOPLE WILL GATHER, RELATIONSHIPS WILL FORM, AND LIVES WILL BE ENHANCED.
IT'S A PLACE WHERE CREATIVITY IS OPTIMIZED AND WHERE ART, ARCHITECTURE AND PEOPLE TRANSFORM THROUGHOUT THE DAY, LIKE THE RISING AND SETTING SUNLIGHT, TRANSFORMING A LAKE VIEW.
THE SECOND DESIGN THREAD FOR THIS PROJECT IS TRANSFORMATIVE.
AND OUR LAST DESIGN THREAD FOR THIS PROJECT IS THAT THE NEW FACILITY WILL BE A SECOND HOME WHERE ALL BELONG A LIFE FULL OF POWERFUL FRIENDSHIPS, A PLACE CONTRIBUTING TO EXTENDED FAMILY, WHERE FRIENDS GATHER AS A COMMUNITY, A PLACE THAT IS MEANINGFUL FOR PEOPLE TO DO SOMETHING VITAL TO THEIR LIFESTYLE.
THE THIRD DESIGN THREAD IS VITALITY.
AND IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT WE DIDN'T JUST COME UP WITH THESE PRETTY WORDS AND THROW 'EM IN THERE.
THESE WERE A RESULT OF THE INPUT THAT WE GOT FROM THE PUBLIC MEETINGS, WHETHER IT WAS ON THE COMMENT CARD OR WE WOULD SAY, YOU KNOW, WHAT DOES GARLAND MEAN TO YOU? WHAT DO YOU WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW ABOUT GARLAND? WHY DO YOU LIVE HERE IN GARLAND? AND SO THAT'S WHERE ALL OF THESE WORDS, THERE WERE CERTAIN WORDS THAT POPPED UP OVER AND OVER.
AND SO THAT'S HOW WE DEVELOPED THESE DESIGN THREADS FOR THE PROJECT.
SO JUST TO RECAP, THOSE DESIGN THREADS ARE PRIDE, TRANSFORMATIVE, AND VITALITY.
SO LET'S GET TO THE NETS AND BOLTS OF IT ALL.
SO WE, LIKE I SAID, YOU SEE UP HERE THAT WE HAD FOUR MEETINGS.
ONE WAS WITH THE USER GROUP, THAT WAS ON JANUARY 20TH, AND THEN THE 24TH, 26TH
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AND FEBRUARY 8TH, WE MET WITH, UM, IN DIFFERENT LOCATIONS.SO WE HAD TWO MEETINGS OVER AT GRANGER AND ONE MEETING OVER AT AUDUBON.
AND I KNOW SOME OF YOU VISITED SOME OF THOSE MEETINGS AND WE APPRECIATE YOU ALL BEING THERE.
AND THEN WE ALSO HAD, UM, AN ONLINE SURVEY THAT PEOPLE COULD ANSWER QUESTIONS AND COMMENT CARDS IF THEY WEREN'T AVAILABLE.
AND I'LL ALSO TELL YOU THAT AT ONE OF, AT THE AUDUBON MEETING, EVEN THOUGH IT WAS NOT ADVERTISED, THERE WAS A LADY WHO REALLY WANTED TO BE A PART OF THAT.
AND WE WERE ABLE TO SET UP THE ZOOM.
IT WAS KIND OF A TEST TRIAL OF, OH, WE CAN DO THIS.
AND SO WE MADE THAT AN OFFER FOR THE NEXT MEETING.
UH, WE DID GET, YOU KNOW, EMAILS FROM PEOPLE AND WE WOULD COLLECT THAT INFORMATION THAT WAY.
AND SO ALL OF THAT INFORMATION WAS SHARED WITH THE CONSULTANTS.
SO YOU CAN SEE THAT OF PEOPLE THAT VOTED.
SO WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? SO WE DO AN ACTIVITY CALLED DOT OCRACY.
AND SO WHAT ZT AND I DID IS WE WENT THROUGH A POWERPOINT AND WE SHOWED DIFFERENT IMAGES OF IDEAS BRAINSTORMING, AND SOME WERE REALLY FARFETCHED FOR SOME OF THE PEOPLE WATCHING.
FOR EXAMPLE, THERE'D BE A ROCK CLIMBING WALL OUT ON A BALCONY OF A BUILDING.
AND OF COURSE PEOPLE WERE LIKE, WHY WOULD SENIORS DO THAT? BUT IT WAS JUST TO GET THEIR, YOU KNOW, THOUGHTS GOING ON THE PROJECT, WHAT DO YOU WANT? AND THEN THOSE IMAGES WERE THEN PUT OUT ALL AROUND THE ROOM PAINFULLY WITH THE BLUE TAPE
AND, UM, PEOPLE HAD, UM, 10, 10 STICKIES THAT THEY WERE GIVEN AND THEY WERE ALLOWED TO MAKE THEIR VOTE, UM, ON THE AMENITIES THAT, THAT THEY WANTED TO SEE, OR THE PROGRAM SPACES THAT THEY WANTED TO SEE IN THEIR NEW AMENITY.
AND SO WHEN YOU SEE, UM, WHERE IT SAYS TOTAL VOTES, UM, THE TOTAL VOTES THAT WERE COLLECTED THROUGH THIS PROCESS WERE 929 VOTES.
SO AS WE WENT THROUGH, UH, THE CONSULTANTS THEN TOOK ALL THOSE VOTES.
AND SO EACH OF THOSE, UM, IMAGES WERE TIED EITHER TO COMMUNITY PROGRAMMING, AQUATICS PROGRAMMING, RECREATIONAL PROGRAMMING, OR OUTDOOR ACTIVITY.
SO THOSE WERE THE FOUR BIG CHUNKS THAT EACH OF THE PROGRAMMING SPACES OR IMAGES WERE ASSOCIATED WITH.
SO YOU CAN SEE IT'S COLOR CODED HERE ON THE PROGRAM LIST.
THE HIGHEST, UM, VOTE WAS FOR AN EVENT HALL.
AND THEN YOU CAN JUST GO DOWN, YOU KNOW, WITH THE LOWEST BEING CHILD WATCH, UH, AMENITY ONLY GETTING FIVE VOTES.
AND THEN THOSE, UH, SPACES ARE JUST DIVIDED UP INTO THE PIE CHART THAT YOU SEE HERE WITH 53.9% OF THE VOTES GOING TO COMMUNITY GATHERING SPACES, 28.32 RECREATIONAL SPACES, SPACES 8.8% TO AQUATICS, AND 8.9 TO OUTDOOR ACTIVITY.
SO THEN WHAT WE DID IS WE HA OBVIOUSLY WE HAVE A BUDGET THAT WE HAVE TO WORK WITHIN AND UH, WE WILL SHOW YOU THAT ON ANOTHER SLIDE, BUT WE TOOK THAT BUDGET THAT WE HAVE AND WE TOOK THE TALLIES FROM, FROM, UM, THESE VOTES AND, AND WHAT, YOU KNOW, SCORED THE HIGHEST.
AND WE STARTED PUTTING THOSE INTO A FINAL LIST OF SPACES, UM, FOR, UH, THE FACILITY.
AND WHAT WE WANTED TO DO IS, OF COURSE, A ROOM DOESN'T HAVE TO BE JUST DEDICATED TO ONE PURPOSE.
AND SO WHAT THIS LIST GIVES YOU IS POSSIBLE PROGRAMMED ACTIVITIES THAT CAN HAPPEN IN THOSE SPACES.
SO WITHOUT GOING THROUGH THE WHOLE THING, FOR EXAMPLE, IN AN EVENT HALL, WELL THAT CAN BE USED AS A COMMUNITY GATHERING SPACE FOR DANCES, SPECIAL EVENTS.
IT COULD BE USED FOR RESERVATIONS, PERFORMANCES.
IT'S A BIG GINORMOUS SPACE, WHEREAS, YOU KNOW, GROUP FITNESS ROOM THAT MAY BE USED FOR AEROBICS, YOGA, TAI CHI.
UM, SO THERE'S DIFFERENT THINGS THAT YOU CAN DO IN THOSE SPACES.
SO IT'S NOT JUST ONE TYPE OF PROGRAM THAT CAN BE OFFERED.
SO WE'RE TRYING TO OBVIOUSLY GET THE MOST, UM, USE, UM, AND PROVIDE THE MOST AMENITIES THAT WE CAN FOR THE BUDGET THAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE.
SO WHAT YOU'RE SEEING ON THIS SLIDE IS THE ACTUAL SITE WHERE THE, UM, AND IT'S WHERE THE EXISTING, WELL WAS THE EXISTING CENTER, UM, SET.
AND SO IF YOU LOOK AT THIS SPACE, UM, WE HAVE 1.76 ACRES THAT IS USABLE SPACE.
UM, WE HAVE TWO EASEMENTS THAT RUN ALONG THERE.
AND SO OBVIOUSLY WE DON'T WANNA BUILD, UH, A BUILDING ON TOP OF THAT IN CASE FOR SOME REASON WE EVER HAVE TO GO AND DIG UP PIPES OR WHATEVER ZIA DOES IN HIS WORK EVERY DAY.
AND SO, UH, THAT'S WHY YOU SEE, SEE THAT ON THIS SITE LAYOUT, UM, WHERE WE HAVE PARKING IDENTIFIED ON THAT, UH, SITE.
SO THE USABLE SPACE FOR THE ACTUAL FACILITY IS, I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S READING WELL UP HERE, BUT THE KIND OF LIGHT PINK 1.76 ACRES.
SO WHAT WE'RE GOING TO SHOW YOU NEXT ARE TEST SITE LAYOUTS.
SO THIS, THIS IS NOT HOW A BUILDING WOULD LOOK.
THESE ARE JUST BIG BUBBLES WITH SQUARE FOOTAGE WITH THOSE PROGRAMMING SPACES SO THAT WE CAN SEE HOW IT FITS ON THE SPACE.
SO WHEN I WENT OVER, UH, WHAT THE FINAL LIST WAS, THIS IS THE BASE PROGRAM.
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IT'S OVER 26,000 SQUARE FEET.OUR PROJECT BUDGET IS OVER 17 MILLION FOR THIS.
AND SO YOU'LL SEE THE BIG BUBBLES, UM, AND HOW THEY WOULD KIND OF MAYBE FIT ONTO THAT SITE.
UM, AGAIN, DOESN'T MEAN THAT THIS IS WHERE THEY WOULD BE.
THIS IS JUST FOR CONCEPT AND SEEING HOW EVERYTHING FITS AND DOES IT FIT.
UM, SO IN THESE, YOU CAN SEE THAT WE HAVE, UH, THE GROUP FITNESS AND THE FITNESS.
WE'VE GOT THE EVENT HALL AND WE'VE TIED SQUARE FOOTAGES WITH THOSE SPACES.
OBVIOUSLY YOU'RE GONNA HAVE ADMINISTRATION, RESTROOMS, STORAGE, ALL OF THAT IS BUILT IN, UM, TO THESE FUNCTIONS.
UM, THIS ALSO, UH, LET'S SEE RIGHT HERE, UH, GOING AROUND THAT FITNESS, THAT IS A WALKING TRACK THAT IS ACCOUNTED FOR IN THIS SPACE PROGRAM.
UH, THE GROUP FITNESS CLASS, AGAIN, CLASSROOMS. UH, SO IF YOU LOOK ON THE BUBBLE, THIS BUBBLE THAT IS, UH, CLASSROOM CRAFT ROOM, AGAIN, THAT COULD BE SOMETHING THAT'S A, A, A ROOM THAT CAN BE BROKEN DOWN INTO TWO SMALLER ROOMS. BUT THEN YOU HAVE A BIG, AN EVENT OF THE EVENT HALL THAT'S ALSO A ROOM THAT COULD ALSO BE BROKEN DOWN INTO SMALLER ROOMS. SO AGAIN, DEPENDING UPON THE NEEDS OF THE RECREATION CENTER AND THE TIME AND WHATEVER'S HAPPENING, YOU HAVE MULTIPLE SPACES THAT YOU CAN PROGRAM WITHIN.
NOW, WE HEARD A LOT ABOUT POOLS AND AQUATICS DURING THIS PROCESS.
OUR CURRENT, UH, CURRENT PROJECT BUDGET OBVIOUSLY DOESN'T ALLOW FOR THAT UNLESS WE JUST WANNA HAVE A POOL AND THAT'S IT,
AND OBVIOUSLY WE DON'T WANNA DO THAT FOR OUR SENIORS.
BUT WHAT WE ARE DOING IS WE'RE GOING THROUGH THE EXERCISES WITH THE CONSULTANTS ON HOW DOES AQUATICS FIT, DOES IT FIT ON OUR SPACE THAT WE HAVE SENIOR YEP.
SO WHAT I'M GONNA SHOW YOU IS THIS IS THE BASE PROGRAM THAT YOU JUST SAW, AND THEN WITH THE ADDITION OF A THERAPY POOL.
AND A THERAPY POOL IS NOT LAP LANES.
YOU'RE NOT GOING IN THERE TO SWIM LAPS.
IT'S A WARMER BODY OF WATER MEANT TO BE FOR THERAPEUTIC PURPOSES.
UM, COULD BE FOR WALKING, COULD BE FOR SOME CLASSES, BUT IT'S A WARMER BODY OF WATER.
BY ANY CHANCE DOES THIS INCLUDE ONE OF THOSE JETS THAT YOU, YOU SWIM AGAINST THE JET LIKE A SWIMMING TREADMILL? SO IT, IT COULD, SO THIS IS AGAIN, JUST VERY, UH, CONCEPTUAL, VERY HIGH OVERVIEW OF A THERAPY POOL.
UM, AND, AND I'LL SHOW YOU SOME PICTURES.
I DO HAVE SOME IMAGES FOR YOU.
NOW, THIS, THIS, UM, MEANS THAT WE WOULD HAVE TO, CUZ YOU'RE PROBABLY LOOKING ON HERE AND GOING, WELL, SOME THINGS ARE NOT ON HERE THAT WERE ON THE OTHER.
AND THEN WHAT THAT MEANS IS WE WOULD HAVE TO HAVE A SECOND LEVEL.
SO, UM, IF YOU LOOK AT THIS SITE, UH, YOU SEE THE GROUP FITNESS, THE IMMERSIVE CLASSROOM THERAPY POOL.
AND THEN ABOVE THAT WOULD BE THE FITNESS WEIGHT.
AND THEN AGAIN, THIS SHOWS AN ELEVATED WALKING TRACK.
YOU SEE THE BUBBLE THAT SAYS VERTICAL CIRCULATION.
OBVIOUSLY THAT MEANS WE'VE GOTTA HAVE AN ELEVATOR FOR, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE TO BE ABLE TO, TO BE ABLE TO GET UP.
UM, LET ME SHOW YOU SOME IMAGES OF A THERAPY POOL.
SO FOR THE ROCK CLIMBING WALK AND GO IN BETWEEN, THAT'S WHAT I VOTED FOR.
SO THE THERAPY POOL, AGAIN, NOT LAP LANESS.
AND WHAT, UH, IS CALLED OUT IN REGARDS TO THE BUBBLES THAT YOU SAW FOR THE SQUARE FOOTAGE IS FOR A 25 PERSON POOL.
UM, OBVIOUSLY, YOU KNOW, WE, WE WENT THROUGH SOME DIFFERENT, HOW DOES THAT LIKE CONTRIBUTE TO LIKE A LANE SIZE OR THIS IS NOT A LANE? OH, LET ME SHOW YOU A BETTER IMAGE.
THIS WOULD BE AN IMAGE OF A THERAPY POOL.
SO AGAIN, IT'S NOT DIVIDED INTO LANES, BUT, UM, TOLEY WAS GONNA SAY SOMETHING, IT WAS GONNA BE AMAZING.
UM, SO, YOU KNOW, AS WE WERE HAVING THESE CONVERSATIONS, WE WERE TRY TRYING TO FIGURE OUT OCCUPANCY LOAD.
WELL, WE DON'T WANNA BUILD SOMETHING AND IT'S 10 PEOPLE BECAUSE ALREADY OPERATIONALLY MY, THE STAFF WITHIN WOULD HAVE JUST NIGHTMARES.
IF I CAN'T EVER GET IN TO UTILIZE IT, THERE'S NOT ENOUGH SPACE FOR THE CLASS.
AND SO WE TRIED TO PLAN FOR SOMETHING THAT WOULD ACCOMMODATE, YOU KNOW, A GOOD AMOUNT OF PEOPLE.
SO THIS IS THE BASE PROGRAM WITH THE THERAPY POOL.
AND THEN WE TOOK IT ONE STEP FURTHER AND SAID, OKAY, LET'S DO THE BASE PROGRAM PLUS, UM, A LAP IN LEISURE POOL.
AND SO IF YOU WERE ON THE TOURS, UM, SIMILAR TO WHAT WE SAW IN MCKINNEY WOULD BE A GOOD EXAMPLE FOR YOU ALL.
SO THIS BUILDING IS UH, 33, 30 3000 SQUARE FOOT, SQUARE FEET.
WHAT? AND UM, OKAY, SO AGAIN, GONNA HAVE TO GO TO THE SECOND LEVEL SO YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING THAT IS ON THE FIRST LEVEL.
UH, YOU'VE GOT THE, THE POOL, THE LOCKER ROOMS AND ALL OF THAT ASSOCIATED WITH IT.
AND THEN, UM, ON THE SECOND LEVEL NOW THAT'S WHERE YOUR FITNESS, YOUR GROUP FITNESS, YOUR IMMERSIVE CLASSROOM, AGAIN
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THE ELEVATED WALKING TRACK.UM, DOES THIS MEAN THAT AS WE GET THROUGH THE DESIGN PRO, ONCE WE GET DIRECTION AND START GOING THROUGH THE DESIGN PROCESS, EXACTLY HOW IT WOULD SHAPE OUT? NO, NOT NECESSARILY.
AGAIN, THESE ARE JUST VERY TRYING TO TEST FITS.
HOW DOES EVERYTHING SIT ON THE SITE? SO, UM, IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT THE CITY COUNCIL PROVIDED US DIRECTION THIS WEEK, UM, AT MONDAY NIGHT'S WORK SESSION TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THE FACILITY DESIGN AND, UM, NOT WORRY ABOUT HAVING THE TRIBUTE GARDEN ON THAT SITE, UH, BECAUSE THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT ALSO, UM, WAS OUT THERE BEING TALKED ABOUT.
AND SO COUNCIL IS LOOKING AT A BIGGER, LARGER MEMORIAL GARDEN TYPE, UH, PLAZA, WHATEVER THAT WOULD BE PROJECT IN THE FUTURE.
SO, UM, THEN SOME EXAMPLES OF A LAP LANE POOL.
SO THIS IS A TWO-LANE LAP LANE POOL.
UM, YOU SEE THAT IT'S GOT A LITTLE AREA WHERE PEOPLE COULD WALK, UM, AND DO MAYBE AGAINST A CURRENT AND, BUT ALSO BE ABLE TO DOUSE THAT FOR LAP LANE SWIMMING.
THAT'S ALSO A BIG SPACE THAT YOU COULD UTILIZE FOR GROUP EXERCISE CLASSES FOR WATER AEROBICS AND DIFFERENT THINGS.
IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT THE WATER IS NOT GONNA BE AS WARM AS A THERAPY POOL, BUT IT STILL COULD, IT WOULD BE HEATED.
AND THEN THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF, UH, THE SHALOM CENTER, WHICH IS IN AURORA, COLORADO.
AND IT GIVES, GIVES YOU A BETTER VISUAL OF THAT IMAGE THAT YOU WERE JUST LOOKING AT.
AND SO THOSE, UH, WE ARE STILL WORKING THROUGH, UH, THE, A AMOUNT OF FUNDING WE WOULD NEED ADDITIONALLY FOR THESE PROJECTS.
WE'RE STILL WORKING THROUGH THAT WITH THE CONSULTANTS WITH AECOM AND OUR OWN CITY'S PROJECT MANAGEMENT OFFICE SO THAT WHEN WE, UM, PRESENT TO CITY COUNCIL ON THE 17TH, WE HOPE TO HAVE BETTER NUMBERS BECAUSE THAT'S GONNA BE ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS THEY ASK US.
THESE ARE ALL GREAT, HOW MUCH IS IT? AND SO, UM, THAT IS WHERE WE ARE AND I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS AND ZK CAN ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
UH, JUST WANT TO SORRY, JUST WANNA REITERATE JUST A COUPLE OF POINTS.
UM, JUST AS WE WENT THROUGH THE PUBLIC INPUT PROCESS, LIKE LEE WAS SAYING, WE GATHERED A LOT OF INPUT AND THE CONSULTANT WAS ABLE TO KIND OF CATEGORIZE ALL THE FEEDBACK INTO THESE BROAD CATEGORIES.
AND SO THAT PIE CHART REALLY REPRESENTS, YOU KNOW, HOW THE PRIORITIES OF THE, OF THE, THE INPUT CAME IN, YOU KNOW, WITH COMMUNITY BEING SUCH A A, A LARGE PORTION OF TYPES OF AMENITIES THAT THEY WANT TO SEE.
AND SO, UH, I JUST WANT TO TAKE A MINUTE TO PAUSE AND AND APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT, YOU KNOW, ALL THAT INPUT REALLY REFLECTS IN THIS PIE CHART IN TERMS OF COMMUNITY BEING, COMMUNITY SPACE BEING A MAIN PRIORITY FOR THE MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE WHO PROVIDED THEIR INPUT.
AND SO RECREATION IS A, IS A SHORT, IS A, UH, NEAR SECOND AQUATICS AND OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES ARE KIND OF, YOU KNOW, THE LAST PIECES.
BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, TAKING THAT INPUT TO THE NEXT LEVEL, YOU KNOW, IN TERMS OF THE, THE NEXT SCREEN HERE, LIKE DELEE WAS SHOWING ALL THESE ARE, YOU KNOW, REFLECTIVE OF THOSE CATEGORIES.
AND SO LIKE, LIKE SHE WAS SAYING, YOU KNOW, WE'RE TRYING TO GET MULTIPURPOSE, WE'RE TRYING TO GET MULTIPLE TYPES OF USES IN EACH SPACE.
AND YOU KNOW, I IT, THIS IS A KIND OF AN ITERATIVE PROCESS THAT TAKES YOU THROUGH THAT, THIS LEVEL THEN TO THE BUBBLE DIAGRAMMING.
CUZ ONCE YOU GET THIS LEVEL OF IDEAS KIND OF FORMULATED IN EACH CATEGORY, YOU CAN START ASSIGNING, YOU KNOW, SPACE TO WHAT THOSE AREAS MIGHT LOOK LIKE BASED ON THE TYPES OF USE.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, THESE BUBBLE DIAGRAMS MAY, WE WE'RE USED TO SEEING THEM, BUT FOR, FOR THOSE WHO MAY NOT BE USED TO SEEING THEM, IT'S, IT'S REFLECTIVE OF HOW MUCH SPACE THOSE TYPES OF USES MIGHT TAKE UP WITHIN THE BUILDING FOOTPRINT.
AND SO WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO AT THIS POINT IS JUST FIGURE OUT WHAT SPACES WORK WELL NEXT TO OTHER SPACES, HOW MUCH SPACE THEY MIGHT TAKE UP, AND THEN WHAT WE MIGHT END UP WITH AS AN OVERALL FOOTPRINT FOR THAT.
AND SO I THINK IT'S JUST IMPORTANT TO KENNA KEEP THAT IN MIND HOW THAT PROGRESSION HAPPENED.
UM, THIS IS LIKE DEVA SAYING, THIS IS BY NO MEANS A FINAL DESIGN IN TERMS OF WHERE THINGS ARE GOING.
IT'S JUST WE'RE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW MUCH SPACE IS GONNA TAKE UP.
UM, AND SO YEAH, THEN YOU, YOU TAKE THAT IDEA AS OUR BASE PROGRAM AND THEN YOU START HAVING A DISCUSSION ABOUT A POOL AND WHAT TYPE OF POOL AND HOW MUCH POOL AND HOW BIG IT'S GONNA BE.
THEN WE START GETTING INTO A DIFFERENT DISCUSSION ABOUT THE COST AND THE SPACE AND ALL THOSE THINGS THAT KIND OF GO ALONG WITH IT.
AND SO RIGHT NOW OUR BASE PROGRAM IS WITH OUR CURRENT BUDGET, UM, AND WE'RE LOOKING AT AROUND, YOU KNOW, THAT SQUARE FOOTAGE WITH THOSE TYPES OF AMENITIES NEXT TO EACH OTHER.
SO AS THE DISCUSSION PROGRESSES WITH THE POOL, THAT'S WHEN YOU START TALKING ABOUT SECOND LEVEL, LARGER FOOTPRINT, ALL THOSE KIND OF THINGS, HIGHER COSTS THAT KIND OF COME ALONG WITH IT.
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I JUST WANTED TO JUST ADD TO WHAT, WHAT SHE WAS SAYING.WELL I'D LIKE TO GET THE SENIOR COMMUNITY TOGETHER TO SPEND MORE MONEY, BUT UM, THE DANCING PART THAT YOU HAVE, IS THAT GONNA BE A SUITABLE FLOOR AND SPACE SIZE FOR WHAT THEY'RE WANTING, WHICH IS SOMETHING THAT THEY'VE BEEN USING IT FOR.
THAT ISN'T SOMETHING THAT THEY HAD THERE BEFORE, BUT THE DANCING WAS SOMETHING THAT I THINK THAT I'VE HEARD COMMENT ON.
AND ACTUALLY AT THE MEETING OUT AT AUDUBON, WE HAD A GROUP OF THE COUNTRY WESTERN DANCERS THERE AND YOU KNOW, THEY WERE ASKING ABOUT THE FLOOR AND THEY ACTUALLY SQUARE DANCE OR COUNTRY WESTERN DANCE IN RICHARDSON AND LOVE THE FLOOR THERE.
AND WE KNOW THAT FROM OUR TOUR IN RICHARDSON THAT THAT THE DISCUSSION ABOUT THE FLOOR MADE IT TO CITY COUNCIL CONVERSATIONS.
AND SO, UM, AND IT WAS ANNEX RICHARDSON
SO, SO WE KNOW THE FLOORING, IT'S THE TYPICAL FLOORING THAT WE WOULD PROBABLY USE, UM, FOR OUR PROJECTS.
SO I THINK THAT EVERYBODY WOULD BE HAPPY.
UH, LOOKS AWESOME AND GONNA BE READY IN 20 20 25.
CURRENTLY, OR WHEN THERE WAS THE, THE SENIOR CENTER WAS THERE, WHERE WERE THEY SWIMMING OR WERE THEY NOT SWIMMING AT ALL? YOU KNOW, LIKE THERE WERE NO, THERE ARE NO CITY OWNED FACILITIES THAT ARE YEAR ROUND.
AND THEN OF COURSE IF THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION HAS A POOL OR THEIR GYM, GYM, YOU KNOW, IF THEY WERE GOING TO A LIFE FITNESS OR SOMETHING.
SO NOT AUDITORIUM, THERE'S NOT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC ON THE AQUATIC POLICY A PUBLIC DAY.
DID NOT, UM, WELL I GUESS I ASKED BECAUSE I GUESS THE THOUGHT PRO PROCESS, I DON'T KNOW Y'ALL, Y'ALL ARE THE CONSULTANTS OF WHY CONSIDER ADDING, UM, A THERAPY POLL WHEN IT JUST, CUZ LOOKING AT THE PIE CHART, IT'S LIKE VERY, VERY LOW ON THE TOTEM POLE.
UM, THE 8.8% AND I THINK, WELL, I THINK IT'S KIND OF, BUT IT'S NUMBER FOUR IN THE LIST.
SO I MEAN, YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THAT THERE WERE A NUMBER OF IMAGES AND SO THERE MAY HAVE BEEN MORE COMMUNITY IMAGES THAN THERE WERE AQUATIC IMAGES TO CHOOSE FROM.
SO YOU ALSO HAVE TO TAKE THAT INTO ACCOUNT WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT THIS.
BUT IT WAS JUST SOMETHING THAT WAS EITHER ON THE COMMENT CARDS A LOT OR IT WAS VOTED ON A LOT WE'RE ASKED ABOUT A LOT OR, UM, SO IT JUST CONTINUES TO COME UP, UM, IN DIFFERENT DISCUSSIONS.
SO WE FELT THAT IT, WE HAD NEEDED TO DO OUR DUE DILIGENCE TO EVEN STUDY DOES IT FIT ON THE SITE? AND IF IT DOES, HOW DOES IT FIT? IT'S COOL TO GET THE DOLLARS.
JIM JUST WANTED, THANK YOU, UH, MR. GEAR, YOU HAD A QUESTION? I DID.
UH, CAN YOU GO BACK TO THE CIRCLE CHARTS? THE OTHER ONE? UH, THIS ONES THE BUBBLES? YEAH, THE BUBBLES.
OH, ON THE BASE PROGRAM? YEAH.
UH, IS, DOES THAT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT LIKE STORAGE AS WELL? YES.
SO SOMEWHERE IN THERE LEAVING IN LIKE A NO, BUT AS SOMEBODY WHO LIKE WORKS AT A CENTER, LIKE I UNDERSTAND LIKE STORAGE IS A HUGE THING, ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVE AN EVENT HALL AND THAT'S, YOU, THAT'S WHAT WE HEARD IN THAT'S 25, THAT'S 25 ROUND TABLES THERE.
SO STORAGE SPACE, YOU GOTTA NEED OFFICE SPACE.
AND THAT WAS TALKED ABOUT A LOT ON THE, OUR TOURS, UM, FROM A STAFF PERSPECTIVE.
AND THEN EVEN WE, WE HAD REALLY GREAT PEOPLE ON, UM, OUR TOURS, YOU KNOW, ASKING ABOUT THAT.
LIKE, WELL WE ALWAYS HEAR THAT STAFF NEED MORE STORAGE AND THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT.
AND CREATIVE STORAGE AND USEFUL STORAGE.
THAT DOESN'T TURN INTO AN OFFICE LATER BECAUSE YOU KNOW, YOUR STAFF IS EXPANDING.
AND THEN, FOR EXAMPLE, UM, WITH AUDUBON PROJECT, WE ACTUALLY DESIGNED THE STORAGE CLOSETS WHERE ALL WE HAVE TO DO IS WHEEL THE CHAIR CARTS IN AND OUT.
SO YOU KNOW, THERE'S NOT, WELL NOW I GOTTA TURN IT AROUND THIS CORNER AND THIS IS LIKE A HUNDRED POUNDS I'M TRYING TO SHIFT OVER AND EVERYTHING JUST FELL OVER.
SO YES, THAT IS ACCOUNTED FOR.
ANY OTHER, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? OH, MR. THANK YOU SIR.
I HAD THREE THINGS WITH, OKAY.
ONE, I, I KNOW THE BILLIARDS WAS LISTED HERE, BUT I JUST GOTTA SAY THAT EVERY SINGLE PLACE WE WENT, THE BILLIARDS TABLES WERE BEING USED FOR, YOU KNOW, FOR POOL.
I, I, SO WHAT, WHAT, WHAT I OBSERVED THAT'S DIFFERENT.
THE, UM, YOU KNOW, THAT THE LADIES WERE PLAYING CARDS AND YOU KNOW, WHATEVER THEY PLAY AND THE MEN
THE BILLIARD STAPLES WHEN WE WERE IN THERE SAY THEY'RE ALL BUSY.
SO, SO BILLIARDS IS REALLY IMPORTANT I THINK FOR THAT LITTLE NICHE OF TURN THE CONSERVATORY.
AND JUST A SECOND BEFORE YOU GOING FURTHER, ABOUT HOW MANY BEDROOM STABLES DID THEY HAVE IN THESE? THEY, THEY ALL HAD TWO TO THREE.
AND WHEREVER THEY GET PUT, THEY STAY.
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THANK YOU FIRST.UM, I GUESS THE, MY, MY OTHER QUESTION WAS, UM, THE, UM, FUTURE SENIORS, YOU KNOW, HOW, HOW DOES THIS ACCOMMODATE WHAT WE ANTICIPATE THE NEEDS OF, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER THE NEXT GENERATION IS? THE GEN XS AND MILLENNIALS AND YOU KNOW, PARTICULARLY THE GEN XES, I GUESS PUSH BUTTON SWIMMING AND SUCH THINGS AS THAT.
YEAH, ARTIFICIAL ART, VIRTUAL LIFE.
BUT NO, BUT I DO THINK THE, IT WAS KIND OF AT THE BOTTOM, THE CHILDCARE.
I MEAN, I KNOW SOMEBODY WHO MY MOM WATCHES MY KID ALL THE TIME.
LIKE THAT WOULD DEFINITELY BE SOMETHING TO KIND OF CONSIDER A LITTLE MORE.
ESPECIALLY AS I KIND OF THINK THAT'S THE LITTLE BIT OF THE TREND.
AND WE WENT TO THE PRESENTATION FOR ALAN, I THINK THEY WERE BUILDING A NEW RECREATION CENTER ON THE WEST SIDE OF TOWN.
AND UH, YOU KNOW, THAT WAS A KEY THING.
I MEAN, IT WAS A, A MULTI-USE RECREATION TYPE CENTER, MULTI-GENERATIONAL CENTER.
THAT WAS A KEY THING WAS HAVING A DAYCARE CENTER IN THERE.
SO TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION, MR. PARRISH, UM, WE'VE GOT THE WALKING TRACK, YOU'VE GOT MUCH LARGER FITNESS SPACE THAN, YOU KNOW, EVEN WITH THE CHANGES RIGHT BEFORE THE CURRENT SENIOR SENIOR CENTER HAD CLOSED.
IT WAS A VERY SMALL, JUST KIND OF MAKESHIFT, TOOK A ROOM AND DECIDED FITNESS IS VERY IMPORTANT.
YOU'VE GOT, UH, DIFFERENT SPACES IN HERE WITH, UM, THERE'S THE IMMERSIVE CLASSROOM.
SO THAT COULD BE ANYTHING WHERE MAYBE IT'S A YOGA CLASS BEING OFFERED IN THERE AND THEY DIM THE LIGHTS AND THEY'RE PUTTING IMAGES OF THE BEACH.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, IT SORT OF TAKES YOU TO THAT PLACE.
IT COULD BE SOMETHING WHERE YOU COULD ALSO EVEN HAVE THE IMAGES OF, YOU KNOW, PRACTICING YOUR GOLF SWING AND DIFFERENT THINGS IN THOSE SPACES.
UM, AND THEN THE GATHERING SPACES.
SO THAT IS ALWAYS BEING TALKED ABOUT THUS FAR IN ALL OF OUR MEETINGS OF, OKAY, WE'RE, WE NEED TO, YOU KNOW, MEET THE NEEDS OF POOL DOMINOES, THINGS THAT ARE IMPORTANT NOW, BUT IS THAT GONNA BE IMPORTANT FOR THE NEXT, NEXT GENERATION? AND MAKING SURE THAT WE, UM, THINK THAT THROUGH.
AND I CAN TELL YOU THAT THE STAFF CURRENTLY AT THE SENIOR CENTER WANT TO ATTRACT YOUNGER SENIORS AS WELL.
YOU MEAN YOU'RE LOOKING AT 55 TO UP TO 90 AND SO YOU'VE GOTTA MEET A LOT OF DIFFERENT NEEDS.
SO IS THERE THING OUT AT 50? SO
DID YOU PRESENT TWO? SO WHAT WAS THREE? SO BASE PROGRAM AND THEN THE BASE PROGRAM WITH THE THERAPY POOL.
AND THEN THE, I LIKE THE ONE WITH THE SECOND STORY OF COURSE CUZ IT'S MORE MONEY AND IT'S THE WAY OF SHOP.
AND THEN THE BASE PROGRAM WITH THE LAP AND LEISURE POOL IS THAT THIS ONE, THE, THE ONE WITH THE LAP AND LEISURE POOL IS, UH, APPROXIMATELY 33,000 SQUARE FEET.
AND WE DON'T HAVE A DOLLAR AMOUNT ASSOCIATED WITH THIS.
AND THE 17 MILLION THAT'S IN THE BASE, THAT WAS A AMOUNT THAT'S ALLOCATED NOW.
AND IT'S NOT, IT WASN'T IN THE, UM, IT WASN'T IN THE BOND PROGRAM.
SO COUNCIL PROVIDED, SO IF YOU REMEMBER, I GUESS SOME BACK HISTORY IS SENIOR CITIZEN SENIOR CENTER SHOULD HAVE ALREADY BEEN OPEN.
AND SO IT WAS, YOU KNOW, SUPPOSED TO JUST BE A RENOVATION PROJECT AND BACK OPEN LAST FALL.
CHANGED THE WINDOWS, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH.
AND, UM, THROUGH THAT CONSTRUCTION PROCESS AND THE DEMO, IT JUST, THERE WERE SOME CONSTRUCTION, UM, PRACTICES THAT WOULD NOT BE, I GUESS SANCTIONED, APPROVED FOR TODAY'S INFRASTRUCTURE ISSUES THAT WE RAN INTO.
AND SO THE DECISION THEN WAS MADE TO DEMO THE ENTIRE BUILDING AND START OVER.
AND SO COUNCIL PROVIDED EXTRA FUNDING FOR THAT EFFORT.
IT JUST DOESN'T SEEM LIKE IT'S THAT MUCH DIFFERENCE IN SQUARE FOOTAGE TO HAVE THE SECOND STORY.
IT SOUNDS LIKE IT'S SO MUCH MORE USEFUL ON THE FOOTPRINT THAT'S THERE.
WELL, I MEAN, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, SO, UH, FIVE OR 6,000 SQUARE FEET LOOKS LIKE, YEAH, JERRY, BETWEEN THE TWO MAKE A BID ON THAT MM-HMM.
AND WE ARE WORKING THROUGH THOSE NUMBERS, BUT WE ARE NOT AT A PLACE THAT WE ARE READY TO PRESENT THOSE.
WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WHAT WE PRESENT TO CITY COUNCILS ON THE 17TH THAT HAVE REALLY BEEN VETTED AND, AND RESEARCHED IN THE, WE CAN'T GET ANY SORT OF OUTSIDE FUNDING OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT FOR THIS SPONSORS ARP, DID YOU USE A, DID YOU USE A BAD WORD? YOU CAN'T USE THE ARPA MONEY.
YOU CAN'T NO, NEVER SAY CAN'T.
YOU CAN'T USE ARPA FUNDS WITH THIS PROJECT? NO.
OH, AND YOU HAVE AN OUTSIDE SPONSOR LIKE, UM, A A R P.
I MEAN, I THINK THOSE ARE ALWAYS POSSIBILITIES, BUT A MATTER OF TRYING TO REACH OUT AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT WE WOULD NEED.
I MEAN, WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT A FEW HUNDRED THOUSAND, WE'RE PROBABLY TALKING ABOUT A FEW MILLION THAT WE'RE GONNA, CAN NAME IT.
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ALL RIGHT, MUSK, EVERYBODY, EVERYBODY GOT THEIR QUESTIONS ANSWERED? EVERYBODY GOT THEIR QUESTIONS? WELL, I HAVE ONE.
NO, THIS IS GONNA BE A MINOR THING AND I KNOW YOU'RE NOT THERE IN THE DESIGN STAGE YET MM-HMM.
WELL, I WILL TELL YOU AS SOMEONE WHO, UM, IS, UH, VISUALLY COMPROMISED, THAT HAVING A MAGNIFIER IN THE ROOM, UH, WILL BE A TREMENDOUS BENEFIT TO ELDERLY EYES.
AND I WILL KEEP REVISITING THIS AS WE GO ALONG.
HOW OLD ARE YOU? I NEED ONE FOR THE MONITOR.
I, NO, I, I THINK THAT'S JUST THE MONITOR CUZ ME TOO.
I KNOW EVEN THE YOUNG WANT THE ABILITY TO PINCH OUT AND SEE
UM, THANK YOU GUYS FOR THE, FOR THE BRIEFING AND I JUST WANT TO, UH, THERE'S A COUPLE OF THINGS I WANNA SAY.
UH, FIRST I WANNA ASK THE, THE DARK GRAY STRAIGHT LINES.
IS THAT A, IS THAT A DRIVE AREA THAT THEY'RE SHOWING THERE? YES.
IS THAT WHAT THEY'RE SHOWING? IN AND OUT DRIVE.
AND THAT OPENS UP TO WHAT UP THE TOP OF THE SCREEN.
WHAT STREET DOES THAT OPEN UP TO? A EIGHTH.
UM, SO YES, SO ON THE, ON THE EASEMENT AREAS IS, IS THAT JUST GONNA BE GRASSY? THAT'S GONNA BE PAVING? YEAH, WE CAN DO PAVING ON TOP OF THE EASEMENTS, BUT WE CAN'T BUILD STRUCTURES ON TOP OF IT CUZ THE STRUCTURES WILL NEED FOUNDATION AT ALL.
SO YOU'RE GONNA DO, SO NOT LIKE PAVING STONES OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT? PARKING LOT.
PARKING LOT AND THEN DRIVE AISLES AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
SO THAT 85 SPACES IS TALKING ABOUT A PARKING LOT.
BUT THE LITTLE, YEAH, IT'LL BE THINGS THAT YOU HAD TALKED ABOUT FOR ACCESS FOR THINGS LIKE PLUMBING THAT ZIA DOES.
I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT, YEAH, SO WE'RE ABLE TO BUILD PARKING LOTS AND DRY AISLES ON TOP OF EASEMENTS LIKE THAT, BUT WE JUST CAN'T BUILD BUILDINGS ON TOP OF IT.
ANYTHING THAT REQUIRES A A DEEP FOUNDATION, WE CAN'T, SO CONCRETE ON TOP IS NOT A BIG DEAL.
UM, BUT I ALSO WOULD ADD THAT WE'RE NOT FULLY RESOLVED ON OUR DRIVEWAY POSITIONING ON THE SITE.
SO THAT MAY, YOU KNOW, FLUSH OUT AS AS WE GO THROUGH.
YEAH, I MEAN REALLY THOSE LINES WERE JUST KIND OF REPRESENTATIVE OF, YOU KNOW, THESE ARE WHERE WE'RE PEOPLE MIGHT BE DRIVING BECAUSE WE'RE NOT GONNA BE DRIVING WHERE THE BUILDING IS.
BUT TELL ME AGAIN WHEN THE DESIGN PHASE WILL BE OVER.
WELL, WE'RE ABOUT TO START IT
THAT'S SECOND, SECOND QUARTER 2023.
IS THAT? YES, THAT WOULD BE THE HOPE.
SO APRIL 17TH WE PRESENT TO CITY COUNCIL.
WE'LL GET ANY DIRECTION FROM THEM, WHICH DEPEND UPON THAT DIRECTION COULD KEEP US MOVING FORWARD.
IT JUST DEPENDS ON THEIR DIRECTION.
ANY, SO AT THE MOMENT OUR CURRENT SCHEDULE IS THIS APRIL 17TH.
UM, INTERESTING THING ABOUT GOING TO TRAPS, UH, WHERE I, WHERE I SAW THE, THE, THE SWIMMING, UH, AREAS OF THE FUTURE, AND I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE SEEN THIS WITH THE ADAPTABLE POOL THAT HAS A FLOOR THAT RAISES UP, THAT HAS DIFFERENT THINGS WHERE THEY CAN MOVE, WHERE THEY CAN BRING, UH, WALLS UP OUT SO THAT YOU CAN HAVE SOME OF IT AS SWIMMING.
SOME OF IT IS THIS AND, AND IT WAS TOTALLY MOBILE.
AND I WOULD, I WOULD SUGGEST THAT YOU SEE IF YOU COULD GET ME TO FIND THAT, UH, VIDEO ON MY, UH, UH, ON MY CELL PHONE WHERE I COULD SEND THAT TO YOU.
WE CAN'T DO THAT HERE BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH MONEY.
BUT THE, THE, THE SITUATION IS THAT, UH, THE SWIMMING OF THE FUTURE AIN'T GONNA LOOK AFTER ANYTHING.
AND SO NOW, NOW THAT I HAVEN'T BEEN TALKING FOR 10 MINUTES AND SOMEONE ELSE HAS, SO I WANNA GET MINE IN AND YOU CAN GET YOURS IN AGAIN.
NOW THEN THE, THE THING I WANNA SAY FOR THE BENEFIT OF, UH, ANY OF THOSE LISTENING HERE AND THEN ALSO, UH, FOR THE, FOR THE PARK BOARD IS THAT YOU GUYS DID A PHENOMENAL JOB.
YOU WERE SO VERY WELL PREPARED AND SO ORGANIZED AND ABLE TO EXPLAIN THINGS WHERE EVEN AS SENIORS COULD UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT, YOU MADE A GREAT TEAM, YOU KNOW, THE, THE, THE OPERATIONS MANAGER AND THE, AND THE BUILDING BUILDING MANAGER.
UH, I MEAN, YOU REALLY DID MAKE A GREAT TEAM IN HOW YOU PRESENTED WHAT YOU DID.
UH, THE 10 DOTS WAS A VERY INTERESTING CONCEPT.
UH, MOST PEOPLE COULD PROBABLY USE 20, YOU KNOW, BUT THEN THAT WOULDN'T HAVE GIVEN US TRUE NUMBERS TO DO THAT.
SO I DON'T HAVE ANY CRITICISM ABOUT WHAT YOU DID THERE AT ALL.
UM, NOT ONLY DID YOU DO A GOOD JOB IN MAKING THE PRESENTATION, BUT
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YOU WENT OUT AMONGST THE PEOPLE AFTER, AFTER THEY BROKE UP AND STARTED DOING THEIR, DOING THEIR DOTS SESSION.AND SO IT WAS, IT WAS REALLY A, A VERY INTERESTING THING HERE TO BE COMMENDED FOR AS GOOD A PRESENTATION AS I'VE EVER SEEN ON ANYTHING.
SO ANYWAY, NOW THEN THAT I WANT TO TALK WITH SOME MORE AND THEN I'LL GET TO THIS.
THANK YOU GUYS, UH, FOR WHAT YOU DID.
I MEAN, TRULY IT WAS, IT WAS AMAZING.
MR. CHAIRMAN, IS THERE ANYONE ELSE THAT WANTS TO SPEAK? MOLLY, FORMER CHAIR IS RECOGNIZING, I RECOGNIZE THE CHAIR TO RECOGNIZE MOLLY
MAKE SURE THAT YOU PUT THE NAMING OPTION IN THERE,
WELL, AND MOLLY, THAT'S ACTUALLY, YOU WANT ME TO MAKE A RECORD IN DISCUSSIONS? UM, JUST IN REGARDS TO, A LOT OF FACILITIES ARE MOVING AWAY FROM SENIOR CENTER AND YOU KNOW, THERE'S ACTIVE ADULT CENTERS OR DIFFERENT THINGS, SO MM-HMM.
WHERE YOU'RE SEEING ONE, SEEING OTHER, THAT SEEMED LIKE SOMETHING THAT WAS THROUGH TRAPS AND THINGS I WAS LOOKING AT.
THAT'S FEELING OF OPENNESS A LOT, A LOT OF GLASS AND A LOT OF MOVABLE.
ONE OF THE GREAT THINGS WAY TO MAKE IT MORE CONNECTED.
AND, UM, DEFINITELY THE MULTIPURPOSE ROOM WITH THE MOVING WALLS OR THE PARTITION WALLS WERE A A HUGE, THAT'S, THAT WAS A RUNNING THEME THAT WE SAW, UH, AMONG ALL OF THEM THAT WE, THEY ALL KIND OF ADAPTED TO THAT MULTI-USE IDEA WITH, WITH MOVABLE WALLS OR KIND OF, YOU KNOW, THOSE, THOSE KIND OF FUNCTIONING.
ALRIGHT, YOU GUYS, YOU GUYS DID WONDERFUL AGAIN TONIGHT.
ARE WE, ARE WE READY TO WRAP THIS ONE UP AND IS THERE A FUTURE AGENDA ITEM WHERE WE ARE, ARE WE GONNA HAVE LIKE ANOTHER TWO PART TOUR OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT WHERE WE COULD MAYBE VISIT A NEW DEVELOPMENT LIKE WE DID WHEN IT WAS THE BONEYARD AND THE WALKING TRAIL OUT THERE? OR EVEN GO BACK AND REVISIT THAT AND THEN MAYBE HIT RICHARDSON OR SOMETHING THAT'S CLOSE BY LIKE WE'VE DONE BEFORE? WELL THAT'LL, THAT'LL BE AN AGENDA ITEM HERE IN A MINUTE.
SO YOU CAN PROBABLY BRING THAT UP AS A FUTURE AGENDA ITEM.
THAT'S WHY I WAS BUTTONING IN AND WE DIDN'T GOT 'EM THERE YET.
OH, SUGGESTED, WELL YOU SAID CAN WE WRAP IT UP? OH NO, JUST FOR THIS.
I THOUGHT THAT MEANT US GO HOME.
LET'S GO OVER TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS PROJECTS AND STUDIES.
UH, JUST A COUPLE SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT A FEW THINGS WHERE WE ARE THE HOLLAH RECREATION CENTER.
IT, IT'S, IT'S HISTORY NOW AND IS UNDERWAY.
OH, YOU'RE THINKING OF HOLFORD.
HOLFORD IS HOLFORD POOL AND HOLFORD RECREATION CENTER.
AND NOW THAT WE'VE GOT BIG PILES OF RUBBLE THAT ARE BEING HAULED OFF, HOW LONG, TELL ME HOW MUCH IS IT ALLOCATED FOR THAT AGAIN? 30 40 MILLION.
BUT, AND THEN, UM, THE SURF AND SWIM THAT'S NOT GONNA HAVE THE SURF
JUST CURIOUS FOR THIS, I THINK THE, I'LL FIND SOME LOBSTER ON.
LOOK AT THE, UH, OLFORD AND SURF AND SWIM REGIONAL AQUATICS FACILITY.
AND THAT'S THE REC CENTER IN THE POOL? POOL? YES, THEY AQUATIC CENTER, THEY'RE LISTED TOGETHER ALL.
AND GARLAND'S CENTER WE JUST SAID WAS 17,490.
THAT SEEMS LIKE SUCH A SMALL AMOUNT.
AND THE LARGEST PORTION OF OUR POPULATION IS GETTING 17,000,004 90.
UH, THEN THE GRANGER GRAINGER ANNEX STAGE OF, OF COMPLETION.
SO WE SHOULD BE AT SUBSTANTIAL COMPLETION IN MAY PUNCH LIST IN JUNE.
SO WE'RE HOPING JUNE, JULY WE HAVE THAT OPEN UP HOPING FOR BUSINESS 4TH OF JULY.
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IS WHAT WE'RE HOPING FOR SUMMER.MOVED SPRING 2023 TO SUMMER 2023.
IT DEPENDS HOW YOU DEFINE COMPLETELY.
I WAS AMAZED THAT THAT WEEK AFTERWARDS IT WAS LIKE IT'D BEEN THERE FOR, IT WAS LIKE, YOU KNOW, THE LANDSCAPING AND STUFF LIKE THAT WHEN IT MEANT HUGE AND LIGHTING ALL WHEN IT AT THE LAST WEEK IS LIKE WOW.
UM, WE'RE IN THE DESIGN PHASES UNDERWAY.
WHEN IS THIS BE EXPECTED TO BE AVAILABLE FOR VIEWING THE DESIGN DESIGN PHASE? WELL, WE'RE, WE'RE LOOKING AT 30% DESIGN PRETTY SOON.
GETTING THAT BACK PRETTY SOON.
UM, WE CAN GET THE LAY OF WHERE THINGS ARE GONNA BE AND YEAH, WE CAN, WE CAN BRING THAT BACK TO, TO THE PARK BOARD, UH, AT A CONCEPTUAL LEVEL.
UM, PROBABLY FOR THE NEXT MONTH'S MEETING BAND BACK TOGETHER.
I GUESS IT DEPENDS ON WHEN THEY GET OUR NEXT MEETING SCHEDULED.
THAT GETS US THROUGH WRITTEN BRIEFINGS AND, UM, MISCELLANEOUS, UH, COMMUNICATIONS DISCLOSURE, SILVER SCOOP SUGGESTED AGENDA ITEMS FOR FUTURE CONSIDERATION.
UH, MS. BISHOP, DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING YOU WANT TO ADD TO THAT? WHAT DID I SAY EARLIER?
WHAT DID I SAY EARLIER? CAN WE RE WRITING THE TAPE? I THINK YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT YOU ON A TOUR.
SO NOT EVERY YEAR EVIDENTLY, BUT LIKE EVERY OTHER YEAR WE DO SOME SORT OF TRAINING AND TOUR AND IT'S HELPFUL FOR THOSE THAT ARE COMING ON BOARD AND FOR THOSE THAT HAVE BEEN THERE, UM, TO MEET THOSE THAT ARE COMING ON BOARD AND SEE WHAT'S OUT THERE.
SO COULD WE CONSIDER DOING SOMETHING CLOSE LIKE RICHARDSON STILL LIKE THE IDEA OF ANNEXING THEM? UM, BUT YOU KNOW, THEY, THEY SPEND THEIR MONEY ON STATE-OF-THE-ART FACILITIES IN ONE LOCATION CUZ THEIR COMMUNITY IS MORE CONSOLIDATED THAN OUR SPREAD OUT COMMUNITY LIKE
UM, SO I'D JUST LIKE TO CONSIDER DOING THAT.
YOU SEE THE PICTURES? I, I THINK AURORA COLORADO'S KIND OF OUT OF OUR, UM, SCOPE, SO I THAT WAS PRETTY COOL.
IF, IF YOU WANNA SEE SOMETHING IN RICHARDSON, IT WOULD HELP US IF YOU HAD UM, SOMETHING SPECIFIC THAT YOU WOULD WANNA TO LOOK AT OR IN CONNECTION WITH SOMETHING ELSE.
BECAUSE SENIOR, WHAT WE DID ON THE LAST, OH, YOU WANNA RE TOUR THE SENIOR CENTER? IS IT THE WELL WE JUST, ANYTHING ELSE? JUST DAVID AND I, DAVID AND DAVID WENT TO THE SENIOR CENTER IF THAT IS SOMETHING THAT, I THINK IT'S WORSE THAN THE GROUP WOULD WANT TO.
I WALKED INTO THEIR OTHER FACILITY, THEIR MULTI-LEVEL FACILITY AND I THINK WE ALL DID, OUR LITTLE JAWS JUST DROPPED BECAUSE THE HUFFINE THAT HINES, I THINK I DON'T WAS IT MULTI-LEVEL? YES.
I MEAN HERE IT SAYS HOW ABOUT HEIGHTS? WHAT'S ON THE OUTSIDE THERE? THEY WERE WHOLE COMPETITION ON THE INSIDE, WHICH BRINGS IN CORPORATE PEOPLE IN THIS.
OH, WAS THAT THE CORNHOLE COMPETITION SENIOR CENTER AT THE COM OR WAS THAT THE REC CENTER? WHAT CENTER? SO I'M NOT FAMILIAR WITH THE OTHER FACILITY THAT Y'ALL WERE MENTIONING.
UH, I JUST, I WANT, SO THE SENIOR CENTER IN HEIGHTS ARE LIKE RIGHT DOWN THE STREET FROM EACH OTHER, SO THEY'RE REALLY CLOSE TOGETHER AND I, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT IT, WHAT THE PURPOSE WOULD BE FOR VISITING THERE.
I MEAN WHAT WE DO WITH THE TOURS USUALLY IS TO SHOWCASE, YOU KNOW WHAT YOU HAVEN'T SEEN WHAT WE'RE DOING.
BUT IF YOU SEE A PURPOSE TO BE ABLE TO GO AND SEE THAT, WE WILL DEFINITELY EXPLORE IT.
I'M JUST, I'M JUST TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHERE, WHAT WE'RE HAPPY TO DO WHATEVER Y'ALL WANTED TO TRY TO DO.
GIVE, YOU'RE GIVING US PIC PICTURES, BUT SEEING IT IN, YOU KNOW, ALL THE DIMENSIONS THAT ARE THERE AND IN USE HELPS A LOT HELPFUL TO OUR ELDER BRAINS.
SO YOU WANNA LOOK AT, YOU WANNA LOOK AT, YOU WANT TAMAR TAMMAR AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT.
AND, AND IS IT, WE'RE GONNA STAY INTO THAT JUST A SECOND ABOUT THE TOURS.
UM, AND YEAH, IT'S NOT AN AGENDA ITEM.
AND AS PART OF THE FUTURE, WE HAVE TWO MEMBERS WHO WE HAVEN'T SEEN IN VIRTUALLY AT ALL.
AND I THINK IT'S TIME WE TAKE THIS TO THE COUNCIL.
WE'VE GOT, WE, WE, WE ARE DOING WHAT I WOULD HOPED WE WERE DOING GOING TO DO.
HAVE YOU SEEN HOW EVERYBODY HAD A CHANCE TO SPEAK TONIGHT? BUT THERE WAS A TIME THERE WHERE WE WERE ONLY TWO PEOPLE SPEAKING AND NOBODY ELSE YOU'RE DOING WHAT I WAS HOPING THAT WE WOULD DO IS GET TO THE POINT WHERE WE'RE ENGAGING EVERYBODY CLOSE ENOUGH THAT WE'RE ALL, THAT WE'RE ALL HAVING TO, TO HAVE OUR SAY.
IN OTHER WORDS, WE FEEL WOUNDED, WE FEEL NEEDED BECAUSE WE ARE.
AND SO YOU'RE DOING GREAT AT THAT.
AND THAT'S NOT, THAT'S NOT FAIR TO THE CITIZENS THAT
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THEY'RE REPRESENTING.THIS ONE RIGHT HERE, HER HUSBAND'S GONNA BE ON COUNCIL SO SHE WILL HAVE TO STEP OFF ANYWAY.
HE HAS TO BE ELECTED FOR WELL WE'RE WE'RE, WE'RE WE'RE A LITTLE OFF TOPIC HERE.
IF, IF THIS IS SOMETHING THAT Y'ALL WANT TO ADD AS A FUTURE AGENDA ITEM TO SPEAK ABOUT WHAT TO DO WITH, UH, UM, VACANCIES WITHIN THE PARK BOARD, WE CAN DEFINITELY DO THAT OR WE CAN TALK OFFLINE.
UH, I I THINK WE SHOULD PUT THAT ON THE NO, I THINK IT'S AN OFFLINE DISCUSSION.
AND THEN THE NEXT MAY NEXT THING IS, UM, DO WE HAVE ANY THOUGHTS ABOUT, UH, NOT HAVING A MAY MEETING? WE HAVEN'T, HAVEN'T HEARD ANYTHING ABOUT HAVING THAT WE'RE GONNA HAVE A MAY MEETING.
NO, I I WE WOULD MEETING YEAH.
WOULDN'T WE WOULD HAVE A, A MAY MEETING.
AND WHAT WE CAN DO IS IF, IF YOU WOULD LIKE US TO ADD AS AN AGENDA ITEM TO COME BACK WITH A RECOMMENDATION FOR A POTENTIAL TOUR MAY BE IN PLACE OF A JUNE MEETING, UH, WE COULD DO THAT.
THAT SOUNDS LIKE AN INTERESTING THOUGHT.
TOUR COULD JUNE MEETING WHEN THERE AND IF THERE'S ANYTHING WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT WE'LL, AND, AND SIT DOWN AT A GIVES ME A CHANCE TO, TO FOLLOW UP WITH THE REST OF OUR TEAM JUST TO MAKE SURE THERE'S NOT ANYTHING THAT NEEDS TO BE, YOU KNOW, FOR US TO DO BUSINESS ON TO BE ABLE TO MOVE FORWARD OR HAVE PUBLIC COMMENT.
I'M, I I WON'T MAKE IT HERE FOR THE MAY MEETING.
UH, AND SO THAT'S, THAT'S JUST FINE.
EVERYTHING'S HANDLED IN THE JUNE WORK ON THE JUNE MEETING AND UH, OTHER THINGS THAT WE HAVE GOING HERE.
WE'VE HAD, WE'VE HAD A GREAT MEETING NIGHT.
I HOPE MOST OF THE DAMAGE THAT WAS DONE IN THE LAST MEETING UH, WORKED REALLY HARD TO WORK THAT.
AND I APPRECIATE SEVERAL OF YOU ALSO VISITING WITH THE FOLKS THAT CAME AND SET IN TONIGHT AND THAT'S GREATLY APPRECIATED.
SO IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE TO BRING BEFORE THE BOARD? ANYTHING ELSE TO BRING AT ALL BESIDES MS. AINO OVER THERE? I HAVE NOTHING.
I DON'T, I'M SELF-LEARNING ON WHAT I CAN REQUEST.
UM, I WOULD LIKE TO GET A, LIKE A SOCIAL MEDIA BRIEF OF LIKE HOW DOES PARK AND REC ADVERTISE MARKET? UM, CUZ ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I'VE NOTICED IN, IN AN YVONNE KNOWS, UM, CAUSE I CAUGHT IT, UM, I THINK IT'S GARLAND TEXT INSTAGRAM PAGE.
THEY WILL DO A STORY, LIKE PUT A POST A STORY ON THEIR REEL OF LIKE WHAT UH, MEETINGS, UH, GOVERNMENT MEETINGS WE'RE HAVING.
AND I WAS LIKE, OH, THAT'S SO WEIRD.
SO THEN I LIKE CLICK ON THE LINK TO LOOK AT THE CALENDAR AND I NOTICED JUST ON THE REGULAR WEBSITE CALENDAR OF ALL THE, YOU KNOW, ENTITY MEETINGS THAT THERE ARE, OURS WASN'T ON THERE AT ALL.
LIKE IT'S NOT EVEN ON THE ACTUAL WEBSITE.
SO I EMAILED YVONNE AND UM, SHE GOT CONNECTED WITH THE PERSON, THEY MANAGED THE WEBSITE AND THEN THEY FINALLY GOT BACK ON.
AND SO I GUESS MY OTHER THING IS THAT I'VE ALSO NOTICED IS THAT THE GARLAND PARK SOCIAL MEDIA ON INSTAGRAM, UM, I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THAT'S FACEBOOK, BUT I SAY INSTAGRAM IS A LOT POPULAR NOW TO USE, UM, THAT IT'S VERY RARELY UPDATED ON NOT JUST STORIES, BUT EVEN JUST LIKE POSTED, UM, THE POSTS.
I THINK MOST OF THE POSTS ARE JUST MAINLY SPECIAL EVENTS AND I DEFINITELY THINK WE SHOULD UTILIZE MORE, ESPECIALLY IF WE'RE INVESTING SO MANY, SO MUCH MONEY IN THESE PARK PROJECTS AND TRAILS.
LIKE WE HAVE SO MUCH TO SHOW OFF AND IT NEEDS TO BE SHOWN OFF
THERE, THERE WAS DISCUSSION BROUGHT UP WITH THE LIMITATIONS OF STAFF IS NOT SITTING AROUND TWIDDLING THEIR THUMBS RIGHT NOW.
AND THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT JERRY AND I BROUGHT UP TOGETHER WITH A MEETING WITH STAFF WAS SPECIFICALLY THAT HOW WE CAN PERHAPS HELP WITH THAT AS VOICES FROM THE COMMUNITY.
AND, AND THAT'S KINDA WHAT I WAS GONNA SAY AND I THINK WE CAN ADD THAT ON THERE BECAUSE THERE'S GONNA BE SOME ADDITIONAL UPDATES IN TERMS OF, UH, WEBSITE REFRESH.
THE CITY'S ACTUALLY IN THE PROCESS OF HIRING A NEW CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER THAT WILL OVERSEE, UH, COMMUNICATIONS FOR THE ENTIRE CITY.
UM, AND WE'RE REVAMPING SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE DOING AS WELL.
SO I THINK THAT THAT'S REALLY GOOD TIMING.
UM, AND LET US JUST HAVE A CONVERSATION.
IT MIGHT NOT MAKE SENSE NEXT MONTH JUST BECAUSE WE MIGHT NOT BE READY FOR SOME OF THOSE BRIEFINGS, BUT WE'LL MAKE SURE THAT WE KEEP IT AT THE TOP OF THE LIST AND COME BACK AND GIVE A BRIEFING ON THAT.
AND AND THANK YOU MOLLY FOR BRINGING UP, UH, I HADN'T FAILED TO MENTION THAT, THAT, THAT MOLLY AND I HAD A MEETING WITH, UH, MATT AND ZIYAD AND DELEE AND WE WANT TO THANK THEM FOR TAKING A LITTLE OVER AN HOUR OF THEIR TIME, UM, IN A, IN A HECTIC SCHEDULE TO, FOR US TO JUST KIND OF TALK ABOUT OUR INTERACTIONS WITH BETWEEN THE VOLUNTEERS AND THE STAFF AND WHAT THEIR EXPECTATIONS ARE OF US AND WHAT OUR EXPECTATIONS ARE OF THEM.
THEY HAD VERY HIGH EXPECTATIONS FOR US.
THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING HERE TONIGHT.
THANK YOU ALL FOR PARTICIPATING HERE TONIGHT.
DO WE HAVE ANY FURTHER BUSINESS TO BRING BEFORE THE, BEFORE THE BOARD THIS EVENING? IF NOT OUT HEAR NOTHING.