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YES, SIR.ARE WE READY? ARE WE READY? YEAH, WE'RE READY.
[Parks and Recreation Advisory Board on February 7, 2024. ]
HERE.WE TECHNICALLY STILL HAVE A QUORUM.
NOBODY ELSE CAN LEAVE TONIGHT.
UH, WELCOME TO THE FEBRUARY 7TH, 2024 PARKS RECREATION ADVISORY COMMITTEE, BOARD MEETING.
UH, WANT TO STATE THAT WE DO HAVE A QUORUM, UH, FOR THE MEETING AND WE WILL START WITH THE ITEMS ON OUR AGENDA.
UH, FIRST IS CONSIDER THE, UH, MINUTES, UH, APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES OF THE DECEMBER 6TH, 2023 MEETING THAT I HAVE A MOTION FOR APPROVAL.
I MAKE A MOTION THAT WE APPROVE.
AND DO WE HAVE A SECOND? A SECOND.
DO WE HAVE ANY DISCUSSION? OKAY.
UH, OF COURSE WE HAD, UH, YOU READY? UH, WE HAD EIGHT PEOPLE PRESENT AT, AT THAT MEETING.
AND, AND YOU GOT ON THE APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES AND THE CONSIDERATION OF CANCELING THE SCHEDULE MEETING, YOU HAD A VOTE OF SEVEN ZERO.
UH, SHOULDN'T WE HAD A VOTE OF EIGHT ZERO.
WHAT HAPPENED THERE? YOUR VOTE DOES NOT COUNT UNLESS YOU MEAN I'VE BEEN COMING HERE ALL THIS TIME AND I DON'T HAVE A COUNT ON THE VOTE.
YOU'RE NOT ACTUALLY IN GARLAND HERE.
I'D NEVER NOTICED THAT BEFORE.
I READ THROUGH THERE TODAY AND THAT JUST JUMPED OUT AT ME.
WE HAVE A, WE HAVE A MOTION, UH, ON THE FLOOR.
MOTION TO SECOND TO APPROVE THE MINUTES.
UM, NO OTHER FURTHER DISCUSSION.
YOU OKAY? AND, AND I DIDN'T GET TO VOTE.
I'M, I'M, I'M ONLY HERE FOR TIEBREAKERS.
ALRIGHT, LET'S GET, LET'S GET STARTED HERE.
FIRST OFF, WE'D HAVE PUBLIC COMMENTS IF WE HAD ANYONE IN HERE WHO WANTED TO SPEAK.
AND WE HAVE, UH, NO ONE IN THE AUDIENCE SECTION.
SO WE WILL BEGIN THE ITEMS FOR INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION INTRODUCE YOU MEMBER.
WE'RE GOING TO, WE'RE GONNA CONSIDER THE ITEMS FOR INDIVIDUAL, UH, INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION.
BUT THE FIRST THING WE'RE GONNA DO, UH, INTRODUCE, UH, UH, A NEW BOARD MEMBER, UH, RICHARD VALIER.
UH, RICHARD, WOULD YOU TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT YOURSELF? YOU'VE GOT 17 MINUTES AND 32 SECONDS,
AND REALLY, YOU ONLY GET 32 SECONDS.
WELL, I'M, I'M RESIDENT OF GARLAND SINCE 1974, WHERE I WENT TO MIDDLE SCHOOL,
UM, I DID GET MARRIED SOMEWHERE AFTER THAT, ALMOST 40 YEARS THIS YEAR.
BUT IT'S 39 YEARS TO MY WIFE DENISE.
UM, YOU AND I ACTUALLY MET, UM, I WORKED AT THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS AND THE GARLAND DAILY NEWS IN THE BUILDER SECTION.
SO I WAS AT THE, THE HOME BUILDER MEETINGS A LOT.
THE HBA OR WHATEVER THEY CALL THEMSELVES NOW.
WE BOTH
SO YOU, YOU KNOW A LOT ABOUT TOWN BY DOING THAT.
I ACTUALLY, I BEEN DOWN A LOT OF THE STREETS TAKING PICTURES FOR REAL ESTATE HOMES AND LIKE REALTORS NEEDED PICTURES IN THE PAPER BACK THEN,
I STILL HAVE SOME OF THOSE NEWSPAPERS FROM YEAH.
SO I'VE SEEN YOUR WORK AND DIDN'T AND DIDN'T RECOGNIZE IT, BUT THANK YOU, SIR.
AND, AND WHILE YOU'RE HERE, YOU'VE BEEN A MEMBER OF THIS, UH, BOARD LONG ENOUGH.
WE'D LIKE TO, WE'D LIKE TO GET YOU ON A COMMITTEE.
'CAUSE WE HAVE THREE DIFFERENT COMMITTEES THAT, UH, THAT WORK HERE AND WE DON'T HAVE A LOT TO WORK TO DO IN THESE SUBCOMMITTEES.
BUT, UH, WE DO HAVE SOME THINGS AND WE DO HAVE ONE OPENING IN THE FACILITIES AND FINANCE COMMITTEE.
AND WE'D LOVE TO HAVE YOU SIT IN ON, ON THEIR MEETINGS WHEN, WHEN WE HAVE THOSE.
GENERALLY THEY'LL OCCUR BEFORE.
IF THEY ARE, YOU'LL, YOU'LL GET NOTICE OF THOSE THINGS.
SO, UH, DO WE NEED, DO WE NEED ANY OFFICIAL ACTION? ACCEPT HIM EXCEPT HIM NODDING HIS HEAD.
THANK YOU RICHARD, FOR NODDING YOUR HEAD.
THAT'S THE POWER MAKE MOTION SECOND.
THAT'S THE, THAT'S THE ONE POWER I HAVE SINCE I CAN'T VOTE.
I CAN POINT P PEOPLE TO COMMITTEES.
SO
UH, NOW THEN, UH, DID WE HANDLE ALL THAT? OKAY.
OH, AND THE, UM, THE UPDATED COMMITTEE, UH, ROSTER WILL BE PROVIDED AT THE MARCH MEETING FOR US NOW THAT WE HAVE AN UPDATE FOR IT.
DID WE HANDLE ALL YOUR PRE-BUSINESS? YES, SIR.
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RECREATION SUPERVISOR REPORT.THAT'S THE ONE WE'RE GONNA PULL.
THAT'S THE, WE'RE GONNA, WE'RE GONNA PULL THAT ONE BECAUSE THAT ONE WAS GONNA BE, UH, BEYOND MILLING HOUSE.
SHE HAD SOMETHING COME UP AND SO WE'RE GONNA PUSH HER TO MARCH.
AND, UH, WHEN JOYCE PARK UPDATE MARK.
UM, WHEN YOU READ INTO THE RECORD ITEM C AND D, READ 'EM BOTH IN, BECAUSE I'M GONNA DO THAT REPORT.
ALRIGHT, SO, UM, HERE TO TALK ABOUT OUR PREVIOUS TWO PUBLIC MEETINGS OR TWO FINDINGS OF THOSE MEETINGS.
AND WE HAD A MEETING, UM, KIND OF RECAP ALL THAT WITH THE PUBLIC BACK IN, WAS IT JANUARY 18TH? SO, UM, JUST A REALLY QUICK RECAP OF THE, OF THE PARK.
IT'S A 23 ACRE MUNICIPAL PARK ALONG LAKE RAY HUBBARD.
UM, UH, PART OF THE TRAILS MASTER MASTER PLAN IDENTIFIED THIS AREA AS, UH, A LAKEFRONT ACCESS AND COMMUNITY PARK.
UM, AND THEN, UM, TO BE UTILIZED AS A CORRIDOR OR FOR THE FUTURE SHORELINE TRAIL ALONG LAKE RATE HUBBARD.
UM, GARLAND WAS FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO RECEIVE, UH, $53 MILLION IN ARPA FUNDING.
OF THAT, WE, UH, RECEIVED 4.85 MILLION FOR IMPROVEMENTS AT WIN JOYCE PARK.
UM, SO WE'RE GONNA REALLY, UH, YOU KNOW, SHARPEN OUR PENCILS AND GET A REALLY GOOD DESIGN FOR ALL THE, THE NEIGHBORS.
AND, UH, I'M GONNA TELL YOU THE AMOUNT OF SURVEYS THAT WE HAVE RECEIVED ON THIS PROJECT.
IT'S, IT'S, IT'S LIKE FIVE TIMES MORE THAN WHAT WE HAD AT LU H SO IT'S, THE NUMBER IS KINDA STAGGERING.
SO IT'S REALLY GREAT INPUT THAT WE'VE RECEIVED ON THIS PROJECT.
WHY DO YOU THINK WE GOT SO MANY? YOU KNOW, WHEN WE DID THE FIRST PUBLIC MEETING, THERE WERE ABOUT 75 PEOPLE IN ATTENDANCE, AND THEN THE, THE SECOND PUBLIC MEETING WAS JUST ABOUT THE SAME.
I MEAN, IT WAS FROM WHAT I LIKE THE SKATE PARK.
IT WAS JUST, I MEAN, WE HAD 840 SURVEY RESPONSES.
SO, SO THOSE NEIGHBORS HAVE BEEN LOOKING AT THAT PARK WITH YEAH.
AND A LOT OF 'EM ARE SAYING LIKE, WE'VE LIVED HERE FOR DECADES AND TRYING TO GET SOMETHING.
SO I THINK THEY WERE REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THAT.
MARK, COULD I GET YOU TO GET A LITTLE CLOSER TO THE MICROPHONE, JUST SO THAT IT COMES IN ON YOU? SURE.
SO ANYWAY, WE FEEL REALLY GOOD ABOUT WHERE WE ARE TODAY, LOWER THAT IN.
AND, UH, SO I'M GONNA SHARE WITH YOU ALL OF THE, THE PUBLIC SENTIMENTS AND, UH, ALL THEIR INPUT AND THE FOLLOWING SLIDES AND TOWARD THE END OF THE SLIDE.
UM, AND I DID SNEAK IN A FEW RENDERINGS.
UH, WE DIDN'T SHOW THAT LAST TIME, BUT I THINK IT REALLY WOULD REALLY KIND OF INDICATE OUR CONCEPT A LITTLE BIT FURTHER.
SO, SO JUST TO RECAP, UM, THE WHOLE INTENT FOR THE ENGAGEMENT PROCESS IS REALLY JUST TO LISTEN.
YOU KNOW, WE WANT TO, WE WANNA GET THE FEEDBACK.
WE WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE NEIGHBORS AND ALL THE, THE JASON, UM, UH, NEIGHBORHOODS, UH, WHAT THEY THINK, YOU KNOW, UM, AND WE REALLY WANT TO GET THAT UNDERSTANDING OF HOW THEY FEEL THIS PARK IS.
UM, THE ATTENDANCE TO DEVELOP AN INSPIRING VISION FOR THIS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE COMMUNITY.
UH, CREATING A, A SCHEMATIC SITE PLAN, WHICH I'LL SHOW YOU ALL, UM, A LITTLE BIT LATER.
UM, ALL BASED ON COMMUNITY INPUT AND RECOMMENDATIONS.
UH, THEN ULTIMATELY AS WE GET THROUGH ALL THE, UH, DRAFTS AND, UH, YOU KNOW, REVISIONS, UH, COMPLETE A SITE PLAN DESIGN THAT INCORPORATES ALL OF THAT FEEDBACK.
SO, I KIND OF TALKED ABOUT THIS ALREADY, BUT, UH, YOU KNOW, RECEIVE $4.8 MILLION FOR THIS RENOVATION.
UM, WE'RE GONNA REALLY PROBABLY USE ALL, ALL BIT OF THAT.
SO, UM, A LOT OF TIMES, UH, DURING THAT PUBLIC, UH, MEETING, THEY WERE ALWAYS ASKING, SO THIS IS $4.8 MILLION AND THIS IS WHAT YOU'RE SHOWING US, BUT IT'S ALWAYS THE UNDERGROUND UTILITIES.
IT'S THE STUFF THAT YOU DON'T REALLY SEE THAT REALLY CHEWS AWAY AT YOUR BUDGET.
SO WE HAVE TO BE REALLY STRATEGIC ON WHAT WE DO ON SITE.
SO REALLY LISTENING AND TRYING TO FIGURE OUT THE BEST APPROACH FOR PLACEMENT,
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UM, WHILE MAINTAINING THAT BUDGET AND TRYING TO GET THAT, IT'S, IT'S ALWAYS A BIT OF A CHALLENGE.BUT THAT, SO, UH, I'M SURE IF YOU KNOW, BUT LATE, UH, WIND JOYCE HAS A, A REALLY DIVERSE ECOSYSTEM, HAS WETLANDS, TEXAS BLACKLAND PRAIRIE, AND GREAT PLAINS FOREST.
UH, THERE'S A LOT OF NATURAL THEMES FOR THIS AREA.
THERE'S BIRDS, THERE'S WILDLIFE, UH, FROM WHAT I'M TOLD, THERE'S USED TO BE FISHING AND, UM, WHICH THERE STILL IS, BUT, UH, THE ACCESS WAS A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT.
SO, UM, LIKE I SAID EARLIER, THE WIND JOY PARK WOULD BE UTILIZED AS A CORRIDOR FOR EVENTUALLY A FUTURE TRAIL SHORELINE, UH, SORRY, A FU A FUTURE SHORELINE TRAIL, UH, ALONG LAKE RAY HUBBARD.
SO THEY WHOLE INTENDED THE CITY.
WE'RE TRYING TO GET A LOT OF TRAIL CONNECTIONS WHERE YOU CAN GO FROM ONE POINT, HIT A PARK, GO ALONG YOUR WAY.
IT'S REALLY JUST THAT CONNECTIVITY.
I'M NOT CERTAIN IF Y'ALL CAN SEE THIS ON YOUR SCREEN, BUT YEAH.
SO, UH, WE HAVE A LOT OF, UH, OPPORTUNITIES AND CONSTRAINTS, UM, GIVEN THE EXISTING CONDITIONS.
UH, WHAT YOU SEE HERE IS A WATERLINE EASEMENT, UH, WASTEWATER EASEMENT.
THERE'S, UH, NATURAL GAS PIPELINE ALL ALONG WITHIN THIS CORRIDOR.
SO THAT REALLY KIND OF STIPULATES WHERE WE CAN ENACT ANY, UH, IMPROVEMENTS.
UM, BUT, YOU KNOW, FORTUNATELY I SUPPOSE IT'S, IT'S KIND OF TO THE ONE SIDE OF THE SIDE, SO IT STILL HAS, UM, AND NOT THAT YOU'RE LIMITED, BUT THAT, YOU KNOW, JUST DEPTH WISE, YOU'RE KINDA LIMITED ON WHAT YOU ACTUALLY EXECUTE PLACE WITHIN THE AREA.
BUT FORTUNATELY, WE DO HAVE A REALLY LARGE OPEN AREA, WHICH IS JUST, UH, IT'S REALLY RIPE FOR THE PICKING.
AND THEN IT'S THE, THE, IT REALLY KIND OF EMPHASIZES THAT NATURE THEME.
UM, UH, GIVEN WE HAVE, UH, STRONG ACCESS VIEWS FROM THE NEIGHBORHOODS AND VIEWS TO THE LAKE, AND THAT WAS A REALLY BIG, UH, CONCERN FOR THE NEIGHBORS DURING THE, UH, SURVEY STAGE.
THEY WANNA MAKE SURE THEY HAVE LAKEFRONT ACCESS VIEWS.
UM, AND IF YOU GO OUT THERE NOW, IT'S TREE LINED, BUT IT'S OVERGROWN.
SO, UH, THE INTENT IS TO REALLY GET A GOOD SURVEY IN, STUDY THE TREE OF THE ECOSYSTEMS, UH, AND REALLY CLEAR OUT THAT UNDERBRUSH OPENING UP THOSE VIEWS.
AND THAT WAS A REALLY KEY, UH, PART THAT THE, UH, THE NEIGHBORS REALLY WANTED TO ENSURE THAT WE HAVE, LET'S SEE, WHAT'S A LAY DOWN YARD? A LAY DOWN YARD.
SO THERE USED TO BE AN OLD PARKING LOT HERE.
AND, UM, SOME OF THE, UH, OTHER DEPARTMENTS, UH, WASTEWATER DEPARTMENT WOULD ACTUALLY USE THAT AS A KINDA A STORAGE, UH, LOCATION.
SO, UH, THE AREA IN BROWN IS, USED TO BE DECADES AGO, IT WAS A PARKING LOT, AND IT WAS KIND OF JUST A LAYER PIPE AND MATERIALS DOWN.
SO THERE'S THE PARKING LOT FOR THE BOAT DOCK, THAT, THAT BIG SECTION WAS THE BOAT DOCK THERE, RIGHT? MANY, MANY YEARS AGO WHEN YOU COULD, YOU COULD BRING A BOAT UP THERE.
IF YOU GO OUT THERE NOW, YOU CAN STILL SEE A, LIKE, HITS LITTLE PIECES OF IT.
BUT, UM, SO THAT, THAT THE, THIS LOCATION OF THAT IS WHERE WE ACTUALLY KIND OF, UM, YOU'LL SEE IT FURTHER INTO THE CONCEPT PLAN THAT OUR CIRCULATION OCCURS WITHIN HERE AS FAR AS VEHICULAR ACCESS.
SO WE'RE TRYING TO REALLY, IF IN THE PAST THERE'S A PARKING LOT THERE, WE'RE TRYING TO PUT SOMETHING THERE AS WELL TO WHERE IT'S NOT, THE DISTURBANCE LEVEL IS VERY SIMILAR TO IT.
IT COULD THAT BE USED AS, I MEAN, MAYBE WITH A NEW ACCESS CENTER, COULD THAT BE AN, UH, PARKING LOT? I DON'T SEE ANY OFFSITE PARKING THERE.
UH, RIGHT, RIGHT NOW THERE'S PEOPLE GO OUT THERE, YOU ESSENTIALLY, THEY PARK ON THE ROAD OR THEY PARK IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS.
UM, THE CONDITION OF THAT EXISTING AREA, IT'S, UH, IT, SOMETIMES YOU CAN SEE REMNANTS OF THE EXISTING PARKING LOT, BUT, UH, A LOT OF TIMES IT'S, IT'S NOT REALLY COMPLIANT.
BUT, UM, WE DID TRY TO CONSIDER THAT.
BUT, UH, THE INTENT IS REALLY JUST TO REMOVE IT COMPLETELY.
UM, AND FORTUNATELY I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF, IT'S ALREADY BEEN REMOVED FOR THE MOST PART.
SO, YOU KNOW, I REALLY SHOULD HAVE BROUGHT MY GLASSES TODAY.
SO
SO, UH, GIVEN, SO WE HAVE A LOT OF SITE CONSTRAINTS HERE.
UM, I ALREADY TALKED ABOUT THE UTILITIES THAT RUN ALONG EAST OAKS ROAD, BUT IN ADDITION TO THAT, WE HAVE WHAT YOU SEE IN THESE RED VERTICAL LINES OR OVERHEAD POWER POLES.
SO THAT REALLY KINDA LIMITS OUR, UH, OUR IMPROVEMENTS WITHIN AS FAR AS LIKE LANDSCAPE.
UM, WE'D HAVE TO KEEP A LOW, LOW HEIGHT CLEARANCE FOR THAT.
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UM, CONSTRAINTS JUST FOR A, A VISITOR WOULD BE LIKE THE LACK OF SHADE TREES.IT'S JUST ESSENTIALLY JUST AN OPEN FIELD.
UM, IT'S GREAT FOR AN OPEN FIELD IF YOU JUST WANTED TO, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, HAVE A FRISBEE OR WHATNOT.
BUT, UM, JUST THE, THIS TEXAS HEAT DOESN'T REALLY MAKE IT CONDUCIVE TO VISITING OR STAYING VERY LONG.
UH, IN ADDITION, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A LOT OF MANHOLES ABOVE GRADE STRUCTURES, AND AS YOU GO FURTHER DOWN, THERE'S, UH, PONDING IS JUST REALLY KIND OF A MOSQUITO PIT IN ITS OWN, ITS OWN RIGHT.
SO WITH THAT, WE HAVE A LOT OF SITE OPPORTUNITIES.
UM, WE HAVE REALLY GOOD, UH, STRONG ACTUAL VIEWS FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
UM, AND ONE OF THE WANTS AND NEEDS AND CONCERNS OF THE NEIGHBORS THAT WE WANT US, WE WANNA BE ABLE TO SEE THE LAKE, WE WANNA MAINTAIN THAT.
UM, SO THERE'S ALWAYS THAT REALLY GOOD POTENTIAL TO REALLY OPEN UP THOSE VIEWS.
UM, WE HAVE A LOT OF WILDLIFE, LIKE I TALKED ABOUT EARLIER, UH, WETLAND ALONG THE SHORELINE.
UM, YOU KNOW, IT GOES FOR LIKE A VARIETY OF SPECIES AND RACCOONS AND STUFF.
SO AS WE GET FURTHER INTO THE CONCEPT PLAN, YOU'LL, I'LL KIND OF HONE BACK, HONE BACK IN ON THAT, UH, THE OPPORTUNITY FOR THAT.
SO AGAIN, IT'S KIND OF A CONSTRAINT AND ALSO AN OPPORTUNITY WITH THE, THE LARGE OPEN SPACE.
SO FORTUNATELY WE HAVE THE REAL ESTATE FOR A LOT OF IMPROVEMENTS.
UM, AND THEN EVENTUALLY, LIKE I TALKED ABOUT EARLIER, UH, WE, UH, SHO OUR SHORELINE TRAIL, WHICH IS SHOWN IN THIS YELLOW DASHED LINE TO CONTINUE ON.
SO WHATEVER WE DO, WE KIND OF PLAN FOR THAT.
UM, SO REALLY THIS COULD BE A REALLY GREAT STOPPING POINT FOR SOMEONE WHO'S COMING INTO THE AREA AND STAY AND CARRY ON THEIR WAY.
NOT GONNA GO THROUGH ALL OF THESE, BUT, SO WE HAD A, UH, WE HAD TWO PUBLIC MEETINGS, UM, TOWN HALLS, UH, SEPTEMBER 7TH, AND THEN WE HAD ONE AT, UH, SEPTEMBER 28TH.
UM, LIKE I SAID, IT WAS 75 80 PEOPLE, UH, AVERAGED.
UM, AND LIKE I SAID, THE SURVEY WAS 840, SO IT WAS REALLY GREAT.
SO WE HAD OUR CONSULTANT, TBG PARTNERS AND, UH, OTHER PARK STAFF DURING THESE MEETINGS AND PRESENTED THE, UH, THE FINDINGS AND, UM, SEE, SO DURING THE, DURING THE, UH, ONLINE SURVEY PORTION, UH, WE USED A UTILIZE A QR CODE.
WE HAD THESE POSTED DURING THE PUBLIC MEETINGS.
UH, WE ALSO HAD THEM, LET'S SAY, WEBSITE PRESS, SOCIAL SOCIAL MEDIA, AND, UH, PRINT FLYERS AT THE REC RECREATION CENTERS AND, UH, LIBRARIES.
I THINK GIVEN THE, THE CONVENIENCE OF THE QR CODE, THAT'S PROBABLY HOW WE WERE ABLE TO GET SO MANY RESPONSES.
UM, WE ALSO HAD LIKE PHYSICAL PRINTOUT COPIES, BUT I THINK FOR THE MOST PART IT WAS ALL QR CODE.
SO REALLY THE SURVEY JUST TO GET A REALLY GOOD UNDERSTANDING OF THE COMMUNITY'S LIKES, DISLIKES, WANTS AND CONCERNS.
UM, THIS IS A REALLY QUICK GROUPING.
I'M GONNA EXPLAIN THIS AS WE GO FURTHER INTO THE SLIDES OVER QUICK.
UM, BUT THROUGHOUT THE SURVEY, ONCE IT WAS ALL COMPLETED, UM, WE ALSO HAD CATEGORIES WHERE THEY COULD WRITE IN THEIR PERSONAL THOUGHTS, MAYBE SOMETHING THAT THE SURVEY DIDN'T REALLY TOUCH ON.
SO WE UTILIZED THEIR, THEIR PERSONAL, THEIR PERSONAL NOTES AND RESPONSES TO ALSO KIND OF FRAME THEIR, OUR, OUR FINDINGS.
SO THE SURVEY, THIS IS KIND OF A DIGESTED, KIND OF COMPACT VIEW OF THE SURVEY.
UH, THE SURVEY IN TOTAL WAS, UH, I THINK SHEET WISE IT WAS AROUND 200, BUT IT REALLY, IT REALLY KIND OF, UH, BROKE DOWN EVERY ELEMENT.
SO THIS IS KIND OF A REALLY, UH, SYNOPSIS OF EVERYTHING THAT WAS ADDRESSED.
UH, YOU'LL SEE IN THE, UH, RESPONDENT PROFILE THAT THE, UH, AVERAGE AGE GROUP WAS, UH, ABOUT 26 TO 49.
UM, ABOUT 77% LIVES WITHIN FIVE MILES OF ONE JO.
UM, AND A LOT OF PEOPLE LIKE TO SPEND A LOT OF TIME OUTDOORS, WHICH IS REALLY GREAT.
'CAUSE UH, THIS IS WHAT THIS PARK, UH, BEING A NATURE BASED KIND OF A PASSIVE, NOT VERY MUCH PROGRAMMED AS FAR AS SPORTS OR ANYTHING PARK.
THIS REALLY HITS ON WHAT THE, WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT.
UM, WE ASKED THE PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, WHAT OFTEN, WHAT PARK DO YOU VISIT THE MOST? UH, IT WAS DUCK CREEK GREENBELT, UH, JOHN PAUL JONES PARK, WHICH WE'RE ALSO WORKING ON RIGHT NOW TOO.
SO, UM, BUT YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT OF GREAT FEEDBACK THAT WE RECEIVED.
BUT THERE WERE ALSO A LOT OF CONCERNS, UM, FROM THE, THE, THE NEIGHBORS.
UM, ONE OF THE BIGGER CONCERNS WAS LIKE
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STREET PARKING, IF YOU GO OUT THERE NOW, THERE WAS, THERE'S NO PARKING LOT.SO PEOPLE PARK ON THE STREET, THEY'RE CONCERNABLE WITH THIS PROJECT, ARE WE GONNA BE PARKING IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD? SO WE KIND OF TOOK THAT INTO ACCOUNT AS WE DEVELOP A CONCEPT PLAN.
SO BY HEARING THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT REALLY HONES IN THAT WE NEED ON SITE PARKING VERSUS OFF STREET.
SO, AND IF I RECALL RIGHT, I DON'T REALLY KNOW THAT THERE'S A GOOD SHOULDER OUT ON EAST OATS, SO IT'S NOT REALLY SAFE TO DO THAT.
SO THAT'S ALL THE REASON TO HAVE IT ON SITE.
UH, THERE ARE OTHER CONCERNS WERE SECURITY, UM, LIGHT POLLUTION, FAST TRAFFIC THAT KIND OF COINCIDES WITH THE STREET PARKING AND REALLY JUST MAINTAINING, UH, IMPINGING THE, THE LAKEVIEW.
SO I REALLY WANNA, UH, THEY SAY, I'VE LIVED HERE FOR YEARS.
I BOUGHT THIS HOUSE, I WANNA SEE THE LAKE.
SO, UM, THAT'S, THAT'S KIND OF, IT KINDA LEADS UP TO OUR PROGRAMMING FOR THAT.
UM, SO WE ALSO, UM, ASKED PEOPLE, WHY, WHY DO YOU GO OUTDOORS? AND 39%, UH, SAID THAT WE GO OUTDOORS FOR WELLNESS, 34 FOR RELAXATION.
UM, SO THOSE WERE THE TOP TWO CATEGORIES THAT DURING THE SURVEY THAT WE FOUND THAT, UH, PEOPLE REALLY WANT TO DO.
SO, UH, THAT KIND OF COINCIDES WITH LIKE, NEIGHBORS WALKING TO THIS AREA, REALLY ENJOYING THE PARK.
SO IT BECOMES THAT KIND OF A, THAT FAMILY BASED NEIGHBORHOOD ATMOSPHERE FOR THAT.
SO ANOTHER PART OF THE SURVEY, UM, WE KIND, WE HAD HIGH COST PROGRAMS, UH, ELEMENTS FOR IMPROVEMENTS ON SITE.
WE HAD MID-RANGE, UH, ELEMENTS AND LOW COST, SO HIGH, MID, AND LOW.
SO OF THESE, UH, WE, WE ASKED THE PEOPLE BASICALLY IT'S LIKE, WHAT DO YOU WANT TO SEE OUT THERE? UM, IT'S YOUR LIKES AND DISLIKES.
SO THIS REALLY GIVES US, IT GAVE US A GOOD DIRECTION ON WHAT ARE THE TOP THREE.
SO OF THOSE TOP THREE, LIKE WHAT DO YOU WANNA SEE THE MOST? SO OF THAT 26%, UH, ONE AT LAKE FRONT ANNUITY, UH, 23% ONSITE PARKING, WHICH GO COINCIDES WITH THE, THE SECURITY AND THEN THE TRAFFIC AND, YOU KNOW, PARKING CONCERN.
AND THEY WANTED A DEDICATED RESTROOM BUILDING.
SO, UM, AND I THINK I HAD TO EXPLAIN TO 'EM THAT THE RESTROOM BUILDING, IT'S, THAT'S WHERE A GOOD CHUNK OF YOUR, YOUR MONEY GOES.
SO IT'S, YOU KNOW, WOULDN'T BE HARD TO SAY.
SO, UM, THAT'S, IT'S, IT'S A FEATURE THAT WOULD REALLY BE GREAT TO HAVE OUT HERE.
UM, I THINK IT COULD BE A LOT OF USE FOR THAT.
UM, THE MID-RANGE, UH, COST ELEMENT, THEY WANT ENHANCE PARKING LIGHTING.
'CAUSE YOU OUT THERE NOW THERE'S, THERE'S, THERE'S NOTHING.
SO, UM, WITH WITH THAT COMES, IT KIND OF HELPS WITH THE SECURITY CONCERN.
UM, WE WOULD REALLY HAVE LIGHTING AND STRATEGIC STRATEGIC PLACES, UM, BUT NOT TO INTERFERE WITH ANY OF THE WILDLIFE.
SO, UH, THE DARK SKIES COMPLIANT FIXTURES, UH, BUT ALSO WOULDN'T HAVE THE GLARE FOR THE ADJACENT NEIGHBORHOODS.
SO IT WAS KIND OF A WANT TO HAVE, IT'S A NEED, BUT IT WAS ALSO A CONCERN.
SO, UH, WE EXPRESSED TO THEM THAT OUR LIGHTING WOULD BE STRATEGIC AND IT WOULDN'T HAVE THAT OVER GLARE.
UM, NOTHING THAT YOU WOULD SAY AS FAR AS LIKE OVERHEAD SPORTS LIGHT.
UM, 21%, LIKE THE EXTENDED, UH, TRAIL NETWORK, UH, PAVED.
UM, 'CAUSE SOME OF THE OTHER CONCERNS THAT, UH, THE WANTS AND NEEDS WERE TO HAVE IT ACCESSIBLE.
SO, UH, AADA A COMPLIANT, UH, COMPLIANT SLOPES AND CROSS SLOPES.
UM, UH, THAT KINDA COMES WITH THE, THE PAVING, UH, KAYAK LAUNCH WAS 20 AS, UH, 20%.
UH, THEY REALLY WANT TO GET TO THE WATER AND IT'S KIND OF A DELICATE BALANCE BECAUSE AS YOU KNOW, THE LAKE FLUCTUATES, UM, DRASTICALLY.
SO HOWEVER WE END UP PUTTING IN THE LAUNCH OR A DOCK, WE JUST NEED TO ACCOUNT FOR WHAT'S GONNA LOOK LIKE WHEN THE WATER'S FOUR FEET LOW OR, OR WHATNOT.
SO, OR 20 FEET HIGH, RIGHT? YEAH.
IT, IT'S, YOU'LL GET FLOODED, YOU'LL GET A DROUGHT.
SO IT'S ONE OF THE THINGS WE HAVE TO CONTEND WITH.
UH, SO THERE'S NOT MUCH, YOU KNOW, TOPOGRAPHY IN THEM IN THE PARK.
SO REALLY A DA ANGLES AND THAT KIND OF THING AREN'T TOO BIG AN ISSUE.
'CAUSE IF WE DID THAT, COULD REALLY CHEW UP A BUDGET, YOU KNOW.
UH, WALLS AND GRADINGS PARTICULARLY.
SO ESSENTIALLY IT ALL, SHE FLOWS, UM, THERE'S SOME LOW SPOTS, BUT, UM, IT'S ALWAYS SOMETHING WE CAN POINT OUT A LOT OF THOSE.
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UH, THE LOW COST ELEMENTS WERE, UH, 23% AT PICNIC.THEY REALLY WANTED A AREA, AN AREA FOR PICNICS, GATHERING FOR THEIR FAMILIES.
UM, AND THEN ALSO KIND OF A, AN INFORMAL PAVED UNPAVED AREA.
SO THAT ESSENTIALLY IS LIKE A DECOMPOSED GRANITE PATHS, I'LL, I'LL SHOW YOU THIS.
IN THE SITE PLAN, IT REALLY KINDA GIVES YOU A HIERARCHY OF, OF PATHS AND WHATNOT.
UH, THEY WANT SITE FURNISHINGS AND WHAT WE, WHAT WE HEARD FROM, UH, AS WE PRESENTED THIS DURING THE, THE PUBLIC MEETING, WE ALSO HAD SOME ADDITIONAL FEEDBACK.
THEY WANT TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE A FITNESS STATION.
UM, AND, UH, AN ARRAY OF BENCH SEATS, UH, AND, UH, DRINKING FOUNTAINS FOR, UH, PEOPLE AND THEIR DOGS.
TYPICALLY WE'D LOSE THE, UH, THE DOG BOWL ATTACHMENT FOR THE DRINKING FOUNTAINS.
SO, UM, THAT WAS NOT A PROBLEM AT ALL.
UM, AND REALLY TO COINCIDE WITH KINDA GET THEIR, THEIR WANTS FOR THE NATURE BASED, UH, 10% LIKED THE PRAIRIE RESTORATION APPROACH.
UM, SO IT'S, IT'S, IT'S MAINTAINING AN OPEN LAWN AREA, UM, BUT ALSO JUST LETTING, LETTING SOME AREAS JUST BE, BE NATURE.
AND, UM, HAVING THAT, UH, PRAIRIE RESTORED, UH, ATTRACTS BIRDS.
IT'S, IT'S REALLY GREAT FOR, UM, BIRD WATCHERS AND, YOU KNOW, JUST HAVING THAT WILDLIFE FEEL AND EDUCATION PURPOSE TOO.
SO GIVEN THIS IS KIND OF A NATURE BASED PARK, WE DON'T HAVE ANY, UH, IT'S KIND OF A, IT'S A PASSIVE PARK.
THERE'S NO ACTUAL ACTIVELY PROGRAMMED SPORTS, BUT WE DO HAVE OPEN SPACES.
SO WE COULD, THAT COULD BE AN INFORMAL GAME OF LIKE SOCCER.
YOU BRING IN A GOAL, SMALL GOAL AND PLAY.
SO, BUT WHAT WE DID WITHIN OUR CONCEPT PLAN IS REALLY TO, UM, ENSURE ANY OPEN SPACE WE, WE HAVE COULD ACCOMMODATE SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
MARK, COULD YOU MOVE TOWARDS WRAPPING UP? YES, SIR.
I WAS JUST ABOUT TO, I'M NOT TRYING TO CUT YOU OFF.
SO, UM, THIS IS THE SITE USE DIAGRAM.
UM, ACTUALLY I'M GONNA GO AHEAD AND JUMP AHEAD TO THE CONCEPT PLAN.
SO THIS IS, UH, I'LL EXPLAIN IT.
SO THIS IS OUR, UH, WHAT DO WE CALL THIS? OUR AVIAN INSPIRED PATHWAY APPROACH.
UH, JUST TO REALLY EMPHASIZE THE, THE NATURE THEME OF THE THEME OF THE PARK.
UM, WHAT YOU SEE HERE IS, UM, BIRD HEAD, RIGHT, HAVE THE WING AND THE TAIL FEATHER.
UM, AND THIS SITE IS REALLY, UH, JUST WITH THE COUPLED WITH THE PRAIRIE RESTORATION AND THE WETLANDS, IT BECO CAN BECOME A REALLY GREAT SITE FOR, UM, JUST THE NATURE ENTHUSIAST, JUST TO ENJOY.
UM, WE PROGRAMMED IT THIS WAY TO KIND OF, UH, HAVE VARIOUS LEVEL IN, UH, VARYING DEGREES OF, UH, INTEREST IN HIKING, BIKING, AND BIRD WATCHING.
UM, JUST TO REALLY GIVE A NICE IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE.
UM, SO THERE WEREN'T ANY, WASN'T ANY INTEREST IN THE PLAYGROUND? WE DID.
SO A ONCE WE PRESENTED THIS, UM, UH, ANDY, ANDY AND HESSER AND I MET WITH COUNCILMAN MOORE, JUST TO KIND OF GIVE A SUMMARY.
AND, UM, THROUGHOUT THE, UH, SURVEY, UH, STAGE OF THE PROJECT, WE HAD A REGIONAL PLAYGROUND AS AN ITEM FOR POSSIBLE SELECTION, BUT WE DIDN'T REALLY FEEL A REGIONAL PRO UH, PLAYGROUND WOULD WORK.
BUT WE DID DISCUSS ABOUT, UH, PUTTING IN A, A MORE NEIGHBORHOOD BASED PLAYGROUND.
'CAUSE SOME OF THE FEEDBACK WE RECEIVED, UH, DURING OUR LAST, UH, JANUARY 18TH MEETING IS THEY REALLY LIKED THE PARK, BUT THE, A PLAYGROUND COULD SORT OF BE WELL SUITED FOR THIS AREA.
UM, IT'S NOT INCLUDED WITHIN THIS, UH, UH, CONCEPT PLAN.
'CAUSE WE JUST HAD OUR MEETING LAST WEEK.
BUT I DID WANNA SHARE THAT WITH YOU, THAT WE, UH, THIS IS KIND OF OUR, UH, WE GET FAMILIES GOING SOONER OR LATER THEY'RE GONNA WANT THE PLAYGROUND, RIGHT? RIGHT.
BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, YOU COULD ALWAYS DIRECT PEOPLE, WELL, THIS PLAYGROUND IS DOWN THE ROAD, BUT THERE WAS SUCH, SO MUCH EXCITEMENT FOR THIS PARK PLAYGROUND COULD BE A REALLY GREAT, GREAT FEATURE.
SO, UH, WE TALKED ABOUT WITH, UH, COUNCILMAN MOORE ABOUT, UH, A NATURE BASED, UH, NEIGHBORHOOD PLAYGROUND, AND WE COULD STILL INCORPORATE THAT WITHIN HERE, UM, TO GET THAT.
SO THOSE COMMENTS ARE KIND OF JUST A FOLLOW UP INPUT FROM, UH, COUNCILMAN MOORE AND THEN PARK STAFF.
SO, UM, I'M GONNA RUN THROUGH THIS REAL QUICK AND THEN I'LL,
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I COULD ALLUDE TO A LITTLE BIT OTHER ADDITIONAL COMMENTS THAT WE HAD AFTER THIS CONCEPT WAS, UH, PRESENTED.UM, SO LIKE I SAID, WE HAVE OUR 12 FOOT TRAIL, UH, 12 FOOT CONCRETE SHORELINE TRAIL, WHICH YOU SEE HERE, GOES AROUND THE SITE.
UM, AND IT'S REALLY JUST A CONTINUATION.
SO EVENTUALLY WE, WE MAY HAVE CONNECTIONS HERE ON EAST AND EXIT THE NORTH AND SOUTH SIDES.
UM, SO IT KIND OF REALLY SETS A HIERARCHY.
WE HAVE OUR SECONDARY, UH, EIGHT FOOT TRAIL WE SEE HERE, AGAIN, JUST CONNECTING TO THE, UH, NEIGHBORHOOD.
AND WITH THAT, WE'LL HAVE IT, UH, ACCESSIBLE.
UM, UH, I GUESS WE'LL HAVE A CROSSING, UH, FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
SO WHERE IT'S SAFE, ESPECIALLY ALONG THIS BLIND, THIS CURVE HERE.
SO, UM, WHERE WE ENACT OUR, WHERE WE PUT IN OUR, UH, MID-BLOCK CROSSING, WE'LL BE REALLY STRATEGIC WITH THAT.
SO THE EXISTING SIDEWALK, UH, WHICH YOU SAY AT NUMBER THREE IS GONNA REMAIN, IT'S IN DECENT CONDITION.
THEY'RE REALLY GONNA TIE INTO IT, UM, AND ENSURE IT'S ACCESSIBLE.
UM, OUR DECOMPOSE GRANITE TRAILS, WHICH YOU SEE HERE, KIND OF, UH, AGAIN, TALKS TO THE, THE, THE COMMUNITIES, UH, WANTS TO HAVE A KIND OF A MORE SLOW DOWN STROLL TYPE APPROACH FOR THIS, UH, THIS, UH, THIS PARK.
BUT IT DOES GIVE THAT HIERARCHY.
YOU HAVE THE LARGE 12 FOOT, EIGHT FOOT, AND IT'S A NICE BLEND OF, UH, SIZING.
SO, UM, SO LEMME JUMP AHEAD TO NUMBER EIGHT.
SO THIS IS OUR FLEX LINE, LIKE I TALKED ABOUT EARLIER.
WHAT YOU SEE HERE IS A, A SOCCER FIELD JUST SHOWING FOR SCALE.
JUST TO KINDA GIVE YOU THE IDEA OF HOW LARGEST COULD BE.
UM, THIS, RIGHT NOW WE'RE ASSUMING IT COULD BE JUST QUICK PICKUP GAMES AND WHATNOT.
UM, UH, NUMBER NINE IS OUR KAYAK AND OVERLOOK.
SO THAT WAS A LOT OF THE FEEDBACK THEY RECEIVED IS THEY WANT TO HAVE, UH, WATERFRONT WATER BASED ACTIVITIES.
SO WE PLACED IT HERE, UM, BUT WE ALSO PLACED, UH, NUMBER 10 A FISHING PIER.
'CAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF AVID FISHERS, FISHER FISHERMEN IN THE, UH, IN THE AREA THAT, UH, REALLY COULD MAKE USE OF THAT.
PLUS IT'S ANOTHER WAY TO, TO ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO, UM, GET NEAR THE WATER AND EXPLORE THE WILDLIFE.
UM, NUMBER 12, WE HAVE A DEDICATED RESTROOM BUILDING THAT'LL LIKELY JUST BE KIND OF SIMILAR TO WHAT WE HAVE IN OTHER AREAS IN GARLAND, UH, PREFAB RESTROOM BUILDINGS, BUT THEY'RE STURDY, SOLID.
LIKE, UH, ONE POD COULD BE 40,000 POUNDS.
SO THIS IS A SUBSTANTIAL BUILDING.
UM, IT'S GONNA PROVIDE A GREAT, UH, BENEFIT FOR EVERYONE VISITING.
UM, AND AGAIN, WE HAVE OUR PARKING, I SHOULD HAVE HONED IN ON THIS EARLIER, BUT THIS IS OUR, UM, OFF OR ONSITE PARKING.
SO, UM, THAT REALLY HELPS HELP TO CALM SOME OF THE CONCERNS ABOUT, UH, PARKING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND PARKING ON THE STREET, UM, INTENDED IS JUST UTILIZE IT HERE ONE WAY IN LOOP AROUND YOU, LOOP OUT.
I HAVE SOME, UM, SOME PERSPECTIVES THAT I DIDN'T SHOW IN THE OTHER MEETING, BUT I FEEL LIKE COULD REALLY DRIVE THE POINT ACROSS.
I'M GONNA JUMP OFF TO THAT REAL QUICK.
SO, AS YOU KNOW, THE PERSPECTIVES ARE CONCEPTS AND THE, UH, SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
SO THIS IS THE, UH, DOCK PERSPECTIVE NEAR THE KAYAK LAUNCH.
SO IT'S KIND OF ENVISIONED AS A, UH, MAYBE BUILT IN, UH, BENCHES SOMEWHERE WHERE YOU COULD SIT, HAVE A LOOK AT THE, UH, THE LAKE AND REALLY, UM, YOU KNOW, YOU COULD WALK ALONG THIS TRAIL FOR TRAIL GOING THROUGH THE, THE SITE.
UM, THIS IS, YOU KNOW, THIS IS ALWAYS UP FOR DISCUSSION.
IT'S, YOU GOTTA REALLY ACCOUNT FOR THE LAKE FLUCTUATION LEVELS.
AND, UH, SO, UH, GATHERED SEATING, WHICH WAS ANOTHER, UH, WANT FOR THE NEIGHBORS.
UH, THIS IS KIND OF THE INTENT OF, UH, INDIVIDUAL PODS WHERE SOMEWHAT PRIVATE, BUT UM, ALSO KINDA GIVES YOU THAT COVERAGE FROM THE TEXAS HEAT.
UM, SO THE, THIS IS NEAR THE OPEN FLEX LAWN.
SO THE INTENT IS JUST TO HAVE CASUAL, UH, TABLE TENNIS CORNHOLE JUST TO REALLY CREATE LIKE A SEMI-ACTIVE,
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BUT MAINLY PASSIVE ATMOSPHERE FOR THE FAMILIES.UM, BOARDWALK PERSPECTIVE, UM, AGAIN, IT'S KIND OF NESTLED ALONG AMONG THE TREES.
UH, THE INTENT IS REALLY GO IN, SEE WHAT TREES WITH A GOOD HEALTH, UM, CLEAR OUT THE UNDERSTORY, UH, ANY INVASIVES AND WHATNOT.
BUT JUST TO KEEP THOSE AND CREATE A NICE INTERACTION ALONG THAT BOARDWALK.
WE GET A LOT OF PERSPECTIVES, BUT I DID WANNA SHARE SOME OF THESE 'CAUSE UM, I THINK IT KIND OF HELPS A LITTLE BIT.
SO, SO REALLY, I KIND OF RAN THROUGH IT PRETTY QUICK, BUT, UM, AS WE PRESENTED THIS, WE, ANDY AND I MET WITH COUNCILMAN MOORE TO KINDA TALK ABOUT IT.
AND, UM, SO IN ADDITION TO THAT DISCUSSION, WE DO THIS REAL QUICK.
SO SOME OF THE, THE, THE CONCERNS WERE, UH, AT LEAST QUESTIONS WERE, WELL, HOW WOULD WE UTILIZE A KAYAK LAUNCH? UM, WHAT ARE THE LOGISTICS OF ALL OF THAT? SO IF YOU PULL INTO THE PARKING LOT, YOUR PARKING LOT'S REALLY NOT SET UP FOR TRAILER PARKING.
SO WHAT WE'RE EXPLORING IS THE POTENTIAL FOR HAVING A, A RENTABLE KIOSK BASED, UH, KAYAK SYSTEM.
I THINK OTHER CITIES NEARBY HAVE USED THAT.
UM, ESSENTIALLY YOU, THERE'S NO NEED TO, YOU COULD CARRY YOUR OWN OR YOU COULD HAVE SOME TYPE OF CART, BUT HAVE THAT CONVENIENCE FOR, UM, RENTING IT.
YOU, YOU WATCH A QUICK VIDEO FOR SAFETY AND THEN YOU CAN RENT IT AND RETURN IT WHEN YOU'RE FINISHED.
SO WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE LOOKING INTO THAT, UH, THE POSSIBILITY OF UTILIZING THAT.
AND THEN SOME OF THE TEXAS PARKS, TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE FUNDS WE COULD PERHAPS UTILIZE, UH, TOWARD THAT.
UH, THERE'S ALSO THE CONCERN ABOUT, UH, SOME OF THE LAKE LEVELS.
SO, UM, AS WE GET INTO IT, WE'LL NEED TO BE STRATEGIC ON, UH, IF IT'S A FLUCTUATING DOCK FLOATING TO ACCOUNT FOR THAT WATER LEVEL.
BUT, UM, IT'S ALWAYS A CHALLENGE WITH THAT.
UM, SOME OF THE OTHER CONCERNS, AGAIN, I KIND OF TOUCHED ON IT EARLIER, I WANNA MAKE SURE WE HAVE PLENTY OF SEATS, FITNESS STATIONS AND LIGHTING.
UM, AND
BUT WE, WE KIND OF TALK THROUGH A LOT OF THIS.
AND THEN I THINK HAVING A, A NEIGHBORHOOD PLAYGROUND WHILE NOT SHOWN HERE COULD BE A REALLY, A REALLY GREAT MEETING TO HAVE.
SO, UH, TO THIS FRIDAY, WE HAVE A MEETING SCHEDULED WITH THE, UH, THE CONSULTANT TO REVIEW AND FINAL, UH, REVIEW ALL THESE COMMENTS.
AND I THINK COUNCILMAN MOORE, UH, WE MAY HAVE ANOTHER ONE MORE ADDITIONAL PUBLIC MEETING JUST TO LIKE A SAY, HEY, WE HEARD YOUR FEEDBACK, UH, IT WAS WELL RECEIVED, BUT I, THIS COULD TALK.
UM, SO, UH, ANOTHER, MAYBE A SECOND PUBLIC MEETING JUST TO, UH, TO TALK ABOUT THE SUMMARY OF ALL THIS WILL LIKELY BE SCHEDULED.
SO, UM, WHAT YOU SEE HERE MAY BE CHANGED A LITTLE BIT.
UM, BUT THAT CAN INVOLVE LIKE, YOU KNOW, I THINK THE PLAYGROUND COULD LIKELY BE NUMBER FIVE OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, BUT IT'S GONNA BE NATURE BASED STILL FITS IN WITH A THEME.
AND THAT WILL ALSO HELP ANSWER AND PROVIDE SOME OF THE CONCERNS THAT THE CITY HAD.
SO I DID GO PRETTY QUICK, BUT IF ANYONE HAS ANY QUESTIONS, I'D BE HAPPY TO ANSWER.
ALRIGHT, LET'S, DO WE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? ANY QUESTIONS? WELL, I, I HAVE SOME FOR YOU REMARKING.
FIRST OFF, I ATTEND THAT SEPTEMBER 28TH, UH, PRESENTATION.
IT WAS REALLY OUTSTANDING AND IT WAS VERY WELL, VERY WELL RECEIVED BY THE FOLKS THAT WERE THERE.
IN FACT, I ATTENDED TWO OR THREE OF THOSE THINGS THAT YOU GUYS PUT ON IT AND IT DID AN OUTSTANDING JOB.
SO NOW, THEN, NOW THEN LEMME TALK ABOUT SOME THINGS.
'CAUSE I'VE BEEN FAMILIAR WITH THAT SINCE THERE WAS BEFORE THERE WAS A LAKE.
UM, FIRST OFF, UH, UH, WHAT IS YOUR, UH, WE'RE LOOKING AT SPENDING ALMOST $5 MILLION, RIGHT? WHAT IS YOUR EXPECTED USE LEVEL OF THIS LAKE, THIS, UH, THIS PARK? ARE WE THINKING IT WOULD
UH, IT, I THINK THIS COULD BE REALLY GREAT FOR LIKE, UH, SOCIAL EVENTS AND KIND MM-HMM.
BUT I COULD, I COULD FORESEE THAT, UM, EASY SEE A HUNDRED AND I, I WOULD THINK THAT YOU COULD BE POSSIBLY MORE THAN THAT.
HOW MANY OFF, UH, STREET PARKING PLACES DID YOU PROVIDE THERE? DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT THAT NUMBER IS? I THINK IT WAS 30.
I THINK I COUNT, NO ONE LOOKED AT IT WHILE I'M
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SAYING THE NUMBER, BUT I THINK IT WAS AROUND 30, 35.AGAIN, THIS IS KINDA SCHEMATIC AND WE DID, UM, AT ONE TIME WE DID HAVE JUST ONE SIDE, BUT TRYING TO GET THAT DIAGONAL PARKING ON BOTH SIDES REALLY TRY TO GET AS MUCH AS WE CAN.
BUT I, I AGREE WITH YOU THERE, BUT I DON'T THINK YOU HEAR ENOUGH.
YEAH, I MEAN, WHEN YOU, WHEN YOU'RE GONNA SPEND RIGHT.
$5 MILLION TO CREATE SOMETHING THAT'S REALLY, REALLY SPECIAL.
UH, YOU WOULD HOPE THAT YOU WOULD NEED, UH, 60, 70, 80 MM-HMM.
I KNOW WHEN WE HAVE 120 OVER THERE AND HAVE, SOMETIMES WE HAVE HAD 200 CARS OR BETTER.
RIGHT, RIGHT OVER THERE IN THAT AREA AND THAT HAD NOTHING RIGHT.
SO ANYWAY, THAT, THAT'S SOMETHING I JUST WANTED TO PUT THAT OUT FOR CONSIDERATION.
SECONDLY, I WANT YOU TO CONSIDER THAT BECAUSE, UH, PARKING ON THE STREET THERE IS GONNA HAVE TWO DISADVANTAGES.
AND NUMBER ONE, THAT'S GONNA, THAT'S GONNA BE A BLOCKER BETWEEN THE VIEWS OF ALL THE PEOPLE OUT THERE.
BUT I CAN SEE THE PERSON SAY, WELL, THEY USED TO HAVE A NON INTERRUPTED VIEW AND NOW WHEN YOU PARK 15 CARS OUT THERE BACK TO BACK, ALL I SEE IS CARS.
SO THAT'S ANOTHER REASON FOR HAVING EITHER THAT LARGER OR POSSIBLY HAVING ANOTHER PIECE OF IT.
UM, AND, AND THEN THE OTHER PIECE OF THAT IS BECAUSE THAT IS BETWEEN WIND JOYCE AND UH, ROWAN ROAD, THAT'S A PRETTY, PRETTY LENGTHY STRIP THERE WHERE THERE'S NO, UH, CONTROLS OTHER THAN HOW FAST CAN YOU GO AROUND THAT CURVE THERE RIGHT.
WITHOUT LANDING UP IN THE, IN THE GRASS.
AND SO THERE'S THE TRAFFIC, THERE'S A LITTLE FASTER THAN YOU WOULD NORMALLY NORMALLY GET.
SO THAT WOULD BE ANOTHER ADVANTAGE OF HAVING AS MUCH OFF, UH, STREET PARKING AS YOU POSSIBLY COULD HAVE.
THE NEXT THING IS THAT, UH, 'CAUSE I BUILT HOMES ALONG DOWN THIS FAR DOWN THE WAY FROM THERE, THE TREES THAT, UH, THAT ARE OUT THERE IN, IN THE LAKE, UM, WITH A NEED, THE SIGNIFICANT PRUNING AND THE UNDERBRUSH CUT OUT OF 'EM BECAUSE THEY PRETTY WELL TOTALLY BLOCK, UM, WHAT SOME PEOPLE WOULD CALL WATER.
UH, YOUR RESTROOMS, THAT'S STRONG.
I MEAN THAT THAT WE HEARD THAT ONE MM-HMM.
UH, ANOTHER THING THAT WE'RE BEGINNING TO HEAR, UH, AT THE, ESPECIALLY AT THE CIP WHEN ANDY WAS PRESENTING THAT IS THAT TO SEVERAL OF THE COUNCIL PEOPLE THAT BEGIN TO TALK ABOUT, UH, THE LIGHTING LEVEL THAT WE'RE HAVING, UH, AT, AT OUR PARKS AND OUR AREAS AROUND.
AND, UH, MADDEN AND I HAVE ALREADY HAD SOME DISCUSSIONS ABOUT THAT.
UM, I AM NOT GETTING ANY POSITIVE COMMENTS.
I MEAN, OF COURSE THE LADIES, THEY'RE ONLY GONNA COME TO YOU AND THEY CAN COMPLAIN.
UH, BUT THEY, BUT IT, WE'RE NOT GETTING ENOUGH LUMENS OF LIGHT.
WELL, I, I LOOKED AT THAT AND THEN I WENT OVER TO A PARK OVER OFF OF CAMPBELL ROAD IN THEIR CENTRAL EXPRESSWAY.
EVERYWHERE THEY HAD A LIGHT POLE.
WHEREVER WE HAVE ONE, WE HAVE ONE.
THEY HAD TWO OR FOUR LIGHTS ON THERE.
YOU ONLY HAD TO PUT UP ONE POLE AND THEY'RE ALL LED LIGHTS.
AND SO YOU CAN, YOU CAN BURN A LOT OF THOSE LED LIGHTS FOR VIRTUALLY NO MONEY.
AND OF COURSE YOU NEED THE LIGHTING WHEN YOU LIKE THIS, YOU NEED THE DOWN LIGHTING AND NOT, AND NOT, AND NOT SO MUCH AERIAL LIGHTING.
BUT I WOULD HOPE THAT WE WOULD CONSIDER, UM, INS SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASING THAT.
AND I'VE NOW HEARD FROM FOUR COUNCILMEN THAT HAVE HAD BASICALLY THAT SECOND COMMENT, UH, ALONG THERE.
UH, NOW THEN THE, THE NEXT PART OF THIS IS YOUR KAYAKING.
UM, THERE'S, DURING THE TIMES OF THE YEAR WHEN YOU WOULD BE KAYAKING, MOST OF THE TIME THERE'S NOT ENOUGH WATER OUT THERE TO FLOW TO KAYAK.
AND, AND THIS IS THE DANGEROUS, THIS IS THE DANGEROUS PART OF THIS ONE.
THAT IS A HIGH THAT, THAT'S BEEN BUILT UP BY SILT OVER THE YEARS BECAUSE AS THE WATER COMES DOWN THROUGH THERE, WHEN IT GETS TO RALLY THAT ROAD, IT IS A SOLID, IT'S A SOLID DAM ALL THE WAY ACROSS THERE EXCEPT ONE SPOT RIGHT THERE ALONG OUR SIDE.
AND SO WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE WATER HITS THERE, IF YOU CAN GO OUT THERE AND LOOK AND SEE IF THE GROWTHS OUT IN, OUT IN THERE, IF YOU'RE A LONG, UH, RALLY ROAD, YOU CAN SEE WHERE IT CIRCLES, DROPS, ITS SILT AND THEN GOES ON OUT INTO THE REST OF THE LAKE.
BUT, AND, AND I HAVE GOTTEN STUCK OUT THERE ON A JET SKI WHEN, WHEN THERE WAS SUPPOSEDLY ENOUGH WATER THAT I COULDN'T EVEN RIDE A JET SKI IN THERE.
SO, UM, AND THE SAD PART ABOUT THAT MUDDY BOTTOM, IT, IT'S LIKE NOT HAVING A BOTTOM MM-HMM.
AND THAT WAS ALSO PART OF OUR DISCUSSION WITH COUNCILMAN MOORE.
UM, SO WE HAVE IT SHOWN THERE, BUT IT, THERE COULD BE A SCENARIO WHERE WE EITHER PROCEED WITH A KAYAK RENTAL, BUT IF WE DID, WE'D HAVE TO CHANGE THE LAYOUT OF THAT TO REALLY GET YOU OUT INTO LAKE.
BUT THERE COULD BE A SCENARIO WHERE IT'S NOT A KAYAK LAUNCH.
UM, SO THAT'S, THAT WAS HIGHLY QUESTIONABLE.
PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO THAT ONE RIGHT.
AND THEN THE LAST PART ABOUT HERE IS YOUR, IS YOUR POD ASPECT FOR THE COVERED, UH, SEATING AREAS.
FOR THERE, THAT'S, YOU KNOW, AND, AND NOT HAVING, YOU KNOW, HAVE A COUPLE HERE AND MAYBE MM-HMM.
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SEPARATE FAMILIES COULD HAVE THE, HAVE THEIR PICNICS.UNFORTUNATELY THEY'RE GONNA HAVE TO BE MOSTLY IT SEEMS LIKE, AROUND WHERE YOU HAVE THE PARKING BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT GONNA WANNA PARK THERE AND GO ALL THE WAY TO THE OTHER END.
AND AGAIN, YOU KNOW, THAT COULD CHANGE AS FAR AS, UH, LOCATION WISE, BUT, UH, I THINK IT'S BETTER THAN HAVING ONE CENTRALIZED AND HAVING IT SEMI-PRIVATE.
AND THIS IS A TECHNICAL QUESTION THAT I HAVEN'T ASKED ALL ALONG WHEN WE'VE BEEN DOING, DOING THIS, UH, WORK, IS THAT THAT LAND BELONGS TO THE CITY OF DALLAS.
IT'S KIND OF A SHARED TYPE THING.
SO THE CITY OF DALLAS WITH THE, THEY OWNED THE ROAD.
AND I MEAN, AND, AND THAT'S JUST WITHIN THE TAKE CARE.
I'M SURE SOMEONE HAS HANDLED ALL OF THAT, BUT IT'S JUST SOMETHING I JUST NOW HAPPEN TO HAPPEN TO THINK OF.
WELL I'VE GOT, I'VE GOT SEVERAL CONCERNS, BUT I REALLY LIKE A LOT OF WHAT YOU'RE DOING THERE.
THOSE ARE, THOSE ARE ALL GREAT COMMENTS, JERRY AND STUFF THAT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT INTERNALLY.
THIS IS, UH, IT'S A GOOD SITE TO, TO DAVID'S POINT 'CAUSE IT IS FLAT AND, BUT 5 MILLION DOESN'T GO AS FAR AS IT USED TO.
AND SO THE TRADE-OFFS IN THIS, I MEAN, YOU KNOW HOW BIG THAT SPACE IS DOWN THERE.
YOU TALK A 12 FOOT TRAIL THAT FAR, THAT'S A BIG CHUNK OF MONEY.
AND AS YOU ALREADY HEARD MARK SAY YOU PUT IN A BATHROOM, THAT'S A BIG CHUNK OF MONEY, YOU INCREASE PARKING, THAT'S A BIG CHUNK OF MONEY.
AND SO IT'S, IT'S GONNA BE DIFFICULT FOR US TO, TO TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ANSWER A LOT OF THESE, THESE VERY GOOD POINTS THAT YOU'VE MADE AND MEET THE COMMUNITY'S NEEDS BUT STILL PROVIDE SOMETHING FOR, FOR THAT DOLLAR VALUE.
I HAVE A FEELING THIS WILL PROBABLY END UP BEING A PHASE TWO AT SOME POINT DOWN THE LINE AND MAYBE A FUTURE CIP, MAYBE A FUTURE CIP.
SO I'LL SEE IF THIS WAS EASY, THEY'D HAVE PEOPLE LIKE ME UP THERE DOING INSTEAD OF, YOU GUYS ARE SMART
I CAN JUST TELL YOU ABOUT WHAT'S THERE.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? I GOT ONE.
I'M JUST, YOU KNOW, WE KIND CHARACTERIZE THIS AS A NATURE PART, BUT IF WE START ADDING LIGHTING AND WE START TAKING OUT UNDERSTORY, WE DETRACT FROM, YOU KNOW, THE PLACES THAT NATURE LIKES TO HANG OUT.
I THINK IT'S WHERE WE HAVE TO BE STRATEGIC ON OUR ACTIVITY AND OUR ACTIONS AND THEN PLACEMENT OF CERTAIN FEATURES.
UM, YOU KNOW, YOU MENTIONED LIGHTING.
UM, IF THE, AS THE, AS WE GET INTO IT AND SEE HOW THE BUDGET SHAKES OUT, THERE COULD BE OPPORTUNITIES FOR BOLLARD BASE SLIDING, WHICH GIVES YOU THAT, UH, ILLUMINATION BUT NOT OVERLY DONE.
NOT THE HEIGHT, BUT, UM, KINDA A GROUND LEVEL, GROUND PLAYING TYPE ELEMENT.
SO, UM, WE'LL JUST HAVE TO SEE HOW WE GO WITH THAT.
BUT, UM, YEAH, AS FAR AS OUR, AS BEING REALLY STRATEGIC ON OUR DISTURBANCE FOR THE SITE.
IT WAS EXCELLENT PRESENTATION SIR, FOR TAKING IN OUR COMMENTS.
ALRIGHT, WE'RE READY TO MOVE ON TO THREE, UH, C AND D.
UM, OUR 2223 URBAN FORESTRY ACTIVITY REPORT AND 2324 URBAN, UH, FORESTRY PLAN FROM MR. GRUIT.
ALL RIGHT, GIMME A SECOND WHILE I GET THIS LOADED IN.
I'M DOING DOUBLE DUTY TONIGHT, SO Y'ALL HAVE TO BEAR WITH ME.
UH, MARK, THAT WAS AN EXCELLENT FIRST REPORT FOR US AND YOU
WE WAS READY TO TALK SOME TREES.
YOU STILL GOT BARKED BETWEEN HIS TEETH, DON'T YOU, DAVE? RIGHT,
SO WE'RE GONNA DO KIND OF TWO ITEMS HERE AT ONCE.
WE'RE GONNA DO KIND OF A RECAP OF, UH, WHAT WE DID WITHIN, UH, URBAN FORESTRY.
UH, AS YOU ALL KNOW THAT THIS, THIS BOARD IS ALSO THE SEEDING TREE BOARD.
UH, SO YOU ALL ARE, UH, RESPONSIBLE IF, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, IF THERE'S EVER A TREE, YOU KNOW, ISSUE IN THE CITY, IT DOES COME BEFORE THIS BOARD, BUT THAT VERY RARELY HAPPENS
WE MIGHT MOVE THAT WAY MORE IN THE FUTURE AS WE KIND OF GET MORE OF A ROBUST URBAN FORESTRY PLAN, UH, SPELLED OUT FOR THE CITY.
UM, BUT CURRENTLY WE DON'T HAVE THAT.
SO I'M GONNA RUN THROUGH KIND OF SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE DID THIS PAST YEAR, UH, SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS AND THEN KIND OF SHARE SOME EXCITING NEWS WITH YOU GUYS.
UM, FIRST OF ALL, I'M GONNA TALK ABOUT TWO ARBOR DAYS BECAUSE IT JUST, USUALLY, I THINK THIS REPORT WAS DONE MORE IN TERMS OF OCTOBER, NOVEMBER.
I'VE KIND OF PUSHED IT TO FEBRUARY TIMEFRAME.
I THINK I'M GONNA KEEP IT THAT WAY.
SO I'M GONNA GIVE YOU KIND OF THE LAST TWO ARBOR DAYS.
UH, IT DIDN'T MAKE SENSE TO GIVE YOU A YEAR.
AGO'S ARBOR DAY AFTER WE'VE ALREADY HAD ONE.
AND THEN, SO THIS IS GONNA BE KIND OF A CATCH UP YEAR.
UM, SO WE DID ARBOR DAY ON NOVEMBER 5TH, 2022.
AND AGAIN, WE HAD ONE ON NOVEMBER 4TH, 2023 THAT COINCIDES WITH THE STATE ARBOR
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DAY OF TEXAS.THAT'S ONE OF THE REQUIREMENTS THAT WE NEED TO DO TO MEET OUR TREE CITY, OSA, WHICH WE ARE NOW ON OUR 16TH CONSECUTIVE YEAR, WHICH PUTS US IN, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, LIKE THE TOP 10 IN TEXAS IN TERMS OF LONGEST RUNNING TRU CITY OSA.
SO THAT'S PRETTY IMPRESSIVE AS I RECALL, NOVEMBER 4TH.
'CAUSE I WAS THINKING ABOUT THE FACT THAT THERE WAS GONNA BE ARBOR DAY.
YEAH, IT WAS PRETTY WET RIGHT AROUND THAT TIME.
ONE 11 RANCH HAS A TENDENCY TO BE.
WE WERE, WE WERE WATCHING IT CLOSELY.
WE WERE KEEPING OUR FINGERS CROSSED.
UM, SO TWO YEARS AGO WE WERE AT AUDUBON PARK.
AND IF YOU WERE OUT THERE AT THAT ONE, THAT WAS A VERY COLD AND RAINY DAY.
THERE WAS ACTUALLY ICE OUT THERE.
AND THEN THE UH, UH, THIS PAST YEAR WAS AT ONE 11 RANCH.
UM, AND AS DAVID MENTIONED, YEAH, WE WERE WATCHING THE RAIN PRETTY CLOSELY ON THAT ONE AS WELL.
UH, WE CONTINUED AGAIN TO PARTNER WITH GP AND L ON THEIR TREE POWER TREE GIVEAWAY.
AND WE GAVE AWAY 300 TREES AT EACH ONE OF THOSE EVENTS.
IT CONTINUES TO BE A REALLY POPULAR, UM, EVENT IN TOWN.
AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO DO THAT.
UH, THROUGH BOTH OF THOSE EVENTS, WE HAD OVER 250 VOLUNTEERS, WHICH AMOUNTED TO OVER A THOUSAND HOURS IN VOLUNTEER TIME.
SO A LOT OF GREAT, GREAT VOLUNTEERS CAME OUT TO HELP US PUT TREES IN THE GROUND.
UM, I'M GONNA HIGHLIGHT, UH, SOME ADDITIONAL SLIDES HERE ABOUT OUR, WE DID COMPLETED OUR FIRST URBAN TREE CANOPY STUDY FOR THE CITY OF GARLAND.
SO I'M GONNA GIVE YOU SOME HIGHLIGHTS ON THAT.
AND THEN WE ALSO COMPLETED THIS PAST SUMMER, A HUNDRED PERCENT INVENTORY OF ALL, UH, WHAT I WOULD CALL PLANTED TREES OR TREES THAT ARE IN OUR DEVELOPED PARKS.
NOT FORESTED AREAS, BUT IN OUR DEVELOPED PARKS.
SO THIS WAS TWO YEARS AGO, TWO AND A HALF YEARS, YEAH, TWO YEARS AGO FROM, UH, THE COLD DAY OUT ON THE BACKSIDE OF, OF AUDUBON RIGHT BEHIND, UH, THE BALL FIELDS THERE.
AND WE PLANTED 30 TREES BACK IN THAT AREA.
ALONG THAT WALKING TRAIL, WE ONLY LOST ONE, WHICH IS PRETTY AWESOME CONSIDERING HOW HOT IT WAS.
THE, THE SUMMER, THAT SUMMER, GREAT TURNOUT.
YOU CAN SEE ALL THOSE EAGER VOLUNTEERS THAT WERE OUT THERE.
THEY STRIPPED DOWN ON THOSE CLOTHES PRETTY QUICK ONCE THEY GOT TO PLANTING TREES.
UH, HERE'S JUST SOME MORE PICTURES OF THEM.
UM, AND THEN THERE'S SOME OF THE TREES GOING AWAY TO THEIR NEW HOME, STICKING OUT THE WINDSHIELD OF THE CAR.
THIS WAS 2023, SO THIS WAS ARBOR DAY 2023.
UM, YOU SEE THE TREES AGAIN LINED UP THERE, UH, READY TO BE GIVEN AWAY.
UH, IT ACTUALLY WORKED OUT REALLY WELL AT ALL AT AT ONE 11.
SO IF YOU'VE BEEN TO ONE 11, YOU KNOW, IT'S A CIRCULAR DRIVE AND IT WAS, IT WORKED OUT REALLY WELL TO HAVE 'EM COME IN.
AND THEN WE HAD SPOTTERS AT THE BRIDGE.
'CAUSE THE BRIDGE IS ONLY, CAN ONLY HAVE ONE CAR ON THERE AT A TIME.
SO WE HAD CONTROLS THERE AND EVERYTHING, BUT IT WAS REALLY GOOD.
UM, TURNED OUT TO BE A REALLY GREAT EVENT.
AND YOU CAN SEE THERE AGAIN, PLANTING, PLANTING.
THERE'S OUR SHOVELS ALL LINED OUT AND THEY'RE IN THERE PLANTING TREES.
AND, UH, ONE 11 FLOODS A LOT MORE THAN IT EVER USED TO, WHICH HAS LED TO A LOT OF ROOT ROT DOWN THERE.
SO WE'VE LOST SOME REALLY, REALLY, REALLY BIG BEAUTIFUL TREES DOWN THERE.
AND SO, UH, WHAT WE'RE DOING IS HOPEFULLY PLANTING THAT NEXT GENERATION AND, AND HELPING SO THAT THAT PARK STAYS LOOKING THE WAY IT DOES FOR GENERATIONS TO COME.
I WANNA SHOW YOU A COUPLE PICTURES IN CASE YOU DIDN'T SEE THE BIG BOYS THAT WENT IN ON THE SQUARE.
I JUST WANTED TO SHOW YOU A COUPLE PICTURES OF THOSE GOING IN.
SO, UH, AS YOU KNOW, THREE TREES WERE PLANTED.
ONE DIED, UH, ITS REPLACEMENT SHOULD BE COMING IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS.
EACH TREE, UH, CAME ON ITS OWN 18 WHEELER, UH, WAS HOISTED UP BY A CRANE, UH, AS YOU CAN SEE HERE, AND THEN, UM, PLANTED.
SO THAT WAS A PRETTY, THOSE ARE FUN DAYS WHEN YOU PLANT TREES WITH CRANES.
SO I'VE DONE 'EM WITH HELICOPTERS THAT'S WAY COOLER, BUT CRANES ARE COOL TOO.
ALL RIGHT, SO ANOTHER BIG THING THAT WE DID THIS YEAR WAS WE COMPLETED OUR FIRST URBAN TREE CANOPY STUDY.
AND SO WHAT THAT IS, WHAT AN URBAN TREE CANOPY STUDY IS, IS YOU TAKE AN AERIAL PHOTO AND YOU USE REMOTE SENSING TO DETERMINE WHICH TREE COVER WHICH GRASS, WHAT CEMENT.
AND YOU COME UP WITH A PERCENTAGE SO THAT YOU KNOW WHAT PERCENTAGE OF YOUR LAND AREA IS ACTUALLY COVERED BY TREES.
AND THAT HAS A LOT OF BENEFITS, RIGHT? BECAUSE TREES PROVIDE SHADE, WHICH HELP WITH THE URBAN HEAT ISLAND EFFECT.
IF IT COVERS IMPERVIOUS SURFACE, IT HELPS WITH STORM WATER, UM, HAS A LOT OF BENEFITS.
AND SO YOU WANNA MAXIMIZE THE AMOUNT OF, OF ESPECIALLY IMPERVIOUS SURFACE THAT YOU HAVE COVERED WITH TREE CANOPY COVER, UH, FOR THE MANY BENEFITS THAT IT PROVIDES.
AND, BUT THE FIRST THING I'M GONNA SHOW YOU IS OUR TREE INVENTORY.
AND SO WE MAPPED, UM, WE HAD AN INTERN THIS PAST SUMMER AND SHE INVENTORIED ALL OF OUR PARKS.
SO IN ALL OF JUST OUR PARKS, WE HAD ALMOST 5,000 TREES.
AGAIN, THAT DOESN'T COUNT ANY OF THE FORESTED AREAS.
SO THOSE ARE JUST KINDA ONE-OFF TREES HERE AND THERE.
UM, AND THEN THIS SUMMER WE'RE GONNA INVENTORY ALL OF THE MEDIANS AND RIGHT OF WAYS.
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THERE TO THE RIGHT, YOU CAN SEE IT'S ONLY SHOWING 2000 OF THE 486 TREES, BUT YOU CAN SEE KIND OF A BREAKDOWN OF THE DIFFERENT SPECIES, UM, THAT ARE IN THERE.UM, BUT YOU CAN JUST SEE KIND OF A SNAPSHOT OF, OF THE NUMBER OF TREES.
THERE'S, THERE'S OVER 50 VARIETIES OF TREES, WHICH IS ACTUALLY PRETTY GOOD.
UM, CONSIDERING WE DON'T HAVE A HUGE PALLET SPECIES THAT THAT DOES WELL IN THIS AREA.
SO THIS IS ZOOMED IN ON COLUM PARK.
AND YOU CAN SEE EACH ONE OF THE LITTLE TREES THERE IS MARKED.
EACH ONE OF THOSE DOTS REFERS TO A DIFFERENT SPECIES.
IF YOU CLICK ON ONE OF THOSE, IT'LL TELL YOU WHAT ITS PHYSICAL ADDRESS IS, WHAT THE DBH IS, THAT'S HOW BIG ROUND IT IS, WHAT ITS SPECIES IS.
SO THAT'S A SCHU MART OAK AND WHAT CONDITION IT'S IN.
AND THEN, UM, IF YOU CLICK, I DON'T THINK I INCLUDED.
UM, THEN IF THESE OTHER TABS, YOU CAN START TO CLICK ON THOSE AND IT'LL SHOW YOU WHAT THE ECOSYSTEM SERVICE BENEFITS ARE.
IT CAN, WE CAN UPLOAD THIS INTO OUR WORK ORDER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM.
SO EVERY TIME WE DO WORK ON THIS TREE, WE CAN TRACK THAT.
UM, IT HELPS US TO KNOW HOW MANY DEAD TREES WE NEED TO GET OUT AND PRUNE.
UH, AND THIS WILL REALLY HELP US IMPROVE OUR OVERALL MANAGEMENT OF THE TREES IN OUR PARK SYSTEM.
SO FOR INSTANCE, IF YOU CLICKED ON THAT ECOSYSTEM SERVICE BENEFITS TAB, IT WILL BRING UP AND SHOW YOU THAT THE OVERALL ANNUAL BENEFITS THAT THAT TREE PROVIDES IS $30.
AND YOU CAN BREAK THAT DOWN AND SEE WHAT YOUR STORM WATER BENEFITS ARE, WHAT YOUR AIR QUALITY BENEFITS ARE, HOW MUCH CARBON IT'S SEQUESTERED, ALL OF THAT KIND OF GOOD STUFF.
UM, THEN YOU CAN SEE THE IMAGE OFF TO THE RIGHT AGAIN CAN SHOW YOU, UH, ALL OF THE THINGS THAT ARE GATHERED WHEN THAT TREE IS INVENTORIED.
UH, AND THERE'S ADDITIONAL IN INFORMATION THAT WE COULD GO BACK AND GATHER.
LIKE IF THERE'S GONNA BE CONSTRUCTION AND WE WANNA KNOW WHAT THE TREE PROTECTION ZONE WAS GONNA BE, WE COULD GO IN THERE AND INVENTORY THAT AND PUT THAT IN THERE.
EVENTUALLY THESE, ALL THIS INFORMATION WILL BE UPLOADED INTO OUR GS SYSTEM, AND SO IT'LL BE READILY AVAILABLE TO DEVELOPERS OR TO, IF WE'RE DOING A PARK PROJECT, WE CAN PULL THIS UP AND HAVE ALL OF THAT TRUE INFORMATION.
VERY, VERY HANDY, UH, AS WE DEVELOP THESE PARKS.
AND THEN AGAIN, YOU CAN SEE THE WORK HISTORY.
THERE'S PLACES IN THERE FOR US TO RECORD WORK HISTORY.
UH, AND ESSENTIALLY YOU CAN DO A COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS ON THESE THINGS.
YOU CAN SEE HOW MANY TIMES WE'VE PRUNED IT, HOW OFTEN WE'VE HAD TO VISIT IT, HOW MANY TIMES WE'VE HAD TO DO FERTILIZERS ON IT.
AND YOU CAN TRACK WHAT THAT COST IS AND WHEN IT MAYBE EVENTUALLY NEEDS TO COME OUT.
LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS OF INFORMATION, WHICH IS GOOD 'CAUSE YOU CAN ONLY MANAGE WHAT YOU KNOW YOU HAVE.
SO THE CANOPY COVER STUFF IS REALLY COOL.
UH, SO THE CANOPY COVER, AGAIN, WE, WE LOOKED AT A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT STRATAS.
WE LOOKED AT CENSUS BLOCK GROUP, WE LOOKED AT COUNCIL DISTRICT.
WE LOOKED AS A CITY AS A WHOLE.
WE LOOKED ALL THE WAY DOWN TO THE PARCEL LEVEL.
AND WHAT YOU'RE, YOU'RE SEEING HERE, WHAT WE CAN DO WITH OUR TOOL, AND THIS IS DONE THROUGH A SOFTWARE, UM, THAT WE WORKED WITH A COMPANY CALLED PLANET GEO WHO'VE WORKED WITH FOR A VERY, VERY LONG TIME.
THE DARKER THIS IS, SO WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT HERE IS BY CENSUS BLOCK GROUP.
AND THE DARKER THE AREA IS, THAT'S WHERE YOU HAVE A HIGHER TREE CANOPY COVER PERCENTAGE.
AND THE LIGHTER THE AREA IS WHERE YOU HAVE A LOWER TREE CANOPY PERCENTAGE, WHICH MAKES SENSE.
IF YOU LOOK AROUND OUR NEIGHBORHOODS, IF YOU LOOK AROUND WHERE FIRE WHEEL GOLF COURSE IS, YOU LOOK AROUND WHERE OUR DEVELOPED, WHERE OUR OLDER NEIGHBORHOODS ARE, HAS A REALLY BIG TREE CANOPY COVER, RIGHT? YOU GET INTO AREAS WHERE, UH, WE HAVE MORE DOWNTOWN AND OBVIOUSLY ON THE WEST SIDE OF TOWN, WHICH IS WHERE THE INDUSTRIAL AREA IS, IT'S VERY, VERY LOW TREE CANOPY COVER.
AND WE CAN THEN TRACK THAT, UM, WITH THE SLIDER TOOLS.
I WAS GONNA PULL IT UP HERE, BUT I WASN'T SURE HOW THE INTERNET WAS GONNA WORK.
BUT YOU CAN THEN SLIDE THOSE, THOSE TOOLBAR OVER TO THE SIDE.
UM, AND IT CAN SHOW YOU WHAT OUR POTENTIAL PLANTING AREA IS PER EACH SIDE.
IT CAN SHOW YOU, UH, HOW THE URBAN TREE CANOPY COVER HAS CHANGED OVER THE LAST 10 YEARS, WHERE WE'VE GAINED, WHERE WE'VE LOST, UM, AND HELPS US TO BE ABLE TO THEN START TO SET TARGETS.
AND SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I'M GONNA TALK ABOUT IN THE FUTURE IS WE'RE GONNA SET TARGET DATE TARGETS FOR WHAT WE WANT OUR TREE CANOPY COVER TO BE.
AND THEN THIS TOOL WILL BE ABLE TO ALLOW US TO THEN START TO LOOK AT HOW MANY TREES DO WE NEED TO PLANT TO HIT, TO HIT THOSE TARGETS, TO HIT THOSE TREE CANOPY COVERED TARGETS.
AND WE CAN USE THIS TOOL TO LOOK AT DIFFERENT SCENARIOS TO SAY, WHERE CAN WE GET THE BIGGEST BANG FOR OUR BUCK? SO IF WE KNOW WE NEED TO PLANT 10,000 TREES IN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS, WHERE DO WE WANNA DO THAT? THAT'S GONNA GIVE US THE BIGGEST CLIMATE INVESTMENT.
WHAT'S GOING TO HELP US GROW OUR TREE CANOPY COVER THE MOST, UH, AND WHERE IS IT GONNA HAVE THE BIGGEST IMPACT? THIS IS, UH, HOW YOU DO THAT.
SO HERE YOU CAN SEE, IF WE WANTED TO DO A SEARCH, UH, WE WANTED TO LOOK AT AREAS WITH LOW EXISTING CANOPY.
UM, WITH MEDIUM HOUSEHOLD INCOME IS A HIGH DEAL BELOW POVERTY, VULNERABLE POPULATIONS, WE COULD SET ALL OF THOSE DIFFERENT PARAMETERS TO HIGH OR LOW.
AND BASED ON THOSE DIFFERENT PARAMETERS, IT WOULD CHANGE THE COLOR ON THE MAP TO SHOW YOU WHERE YOUR SITE SUITABILITY IS.
SO IF WE KNOW WE WANT, WE WANNA PLANT IN VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES, UH, WITH LOW, UH, CURRENT
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TREE CANOPY COVER, UM, AND LOW UNEMPLOYMENT, IT WOULD GIVE US ONE SET OF DEALS.AND THEN IF WE CHANGE THOSE VALUES TO SOMETHING DIFFERENT, IT WILL, UH, RECALCULATE AND SHOW YOU A NEW SET OF VALUES.
SO THIS WILL ALLOW US TO BE ABLE TO HELP, YOU KNOW, VERY TARGETED, UH, TREE PLANTING OPPORTUNITIES TO BE ABLE TO AND EXPLAIN WHY AND, AND WHAT THOSE BENEFITS WOULD BE.
SO HOW WOULD YOU ACCOMPLISH THAT? HOW WOULD WE ACCOMPLISH THAT PLANTING THAT MANY TREES? WELL, I MEAN, SO IF YOU DO A FREE TREE GIVEAWAY, YOU SAY, WELL, YOU'RE IN A RED NEIGHBORHOOD, SO YOU GET FIRST CHOICE.
OR WELL, IF WE'RE DOING A FREE TREE GIVEAWAY, I'M NOT GONNA, YOU KNOW, IT, IT MIGHT BE THAT WE WORK WITH A, AN INDIVIDUAL NEIGHBORHOOD AND SAY, HEY, WE'RE GONNA DO A, A TREE GIVEAWAY IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD AND WE'RE GONNA COME IN WILLIAM A COUPLE YEARS AGO.
UM, BUT WE'LL STILL DO THE CITYWIDE UH, THINGS AND WHERE PEOPLE CAN, CAN COME AND GET, GET A FREE TREE.
BUT IT MIGHT BE THAT WE'RE NOT GONNA DO SOMETHING CITYWIDE.
WE MIGHT DO A SECONDARY THING WHERE WE TARGET A NEIGHBORHOOD.
AND I'LL GET INTO THAT IN A LITTLE BIT BECAUSE THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION.
SO THIS JUST KIND OF BREAKS IT DOWN A LITTLE BIT.
THIS IS THE URBAN TREE CANOPY ASSESSMENT, REAL PORT.
THIS WILL BE ONLINE HERE IN THE COMING MONTHS.
UM, YOU CAN SEE OUR OVERALL, UH, TREE CANOPY COVER, UH, IS ACTUALLY, IS ACTUALLY PRETTY GOOD.
UM, UH, IT'S LIKE 25%, WHICH FOR, FOR OUR COMMUNITY IS, IS REALLY NOT, IS NOT THAT BAD.
THAT'S KIND OF ABOUT WHERE I ACTUALLY EXPECTED IT TO BE A LITTLE BIT LOWER.
UM, 29% OF OUR TREE CANOPY COVER, OR 22%, EXCUSE ME, IS OVER, UM, PERVIOUS SURFACE.
UH, I GUESS IT'S HARD TO READ THOSE COLORS.
NON CANOPY VEGETATION IS 29%, SO THAT'S GONNA BE GRASS, THAT'S GONNA BE THINGS LIKE THAT.
YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU HAVE THAT MUCH IMPERVIOUS SURFACE, THAT'S WHAT LEADS TO FLASH FLOODING AND, AND, AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
SO HOW DO YOU KIND OF USE SOME OF THESE NUMBERS TO, UH, DO LAND PLANNING? UM, HERE IT'S BROKEN DOWN BY, UH, ZIP CODES.
AGAIN SHOWING THIS IS CANOPY CHANGE.
WE LOOKED AT CANOPY CHANGE FROM 2010 TO 2020.
UH, AND YOU CAN SEE THAT WE HAD CANOPY GROWTH IN JUST ABOUT EVERY SEGMENT OF THE CITY.
UH, AND THAT REALLY DIDN'T SURPRISE ME TOO MUCH.
UH, WE HAVE PRETTY LARGE MATURE TREES IN A LOT OF OUR NEIGHBORHOODS, IN A LOT OF OUR AREAS.
UH, AND WHEN THEY GROW, THAT ADDS TO YOUR CANOPY OVER TIME.
SO HERE YOU'RE GETTING A REALLY, YOU KNOW, DETAILED VIEW AND THIS, YOU CAN REALLY START TO PROBABLY PICK OUT THE NEIGHBORHOODS IN THERE.
YOU CAN PICK OUT THE PARKS, YOU CAN PICK OUT THE GREEN BELTS, AND YOU CAN THEN ALSO SEE WHERE, YOU KNOW, AREAS THAT USED TO BE OLD AG LAND, UH, OUR INDUSTRIAL AREAS, OUR MAJOR THOROUGHFARES AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
SO IT KIND OF REALLY QUICKLY GIVES YOU AN IDEA OF WHERE OUR CANOPY COVER IS.
UM, AND THEN ALSO WHAT YOU'RE SEEING ON THE FAR LEFT, THAT'S WHAT OUR OVERALL BENEFIT IS.
SO THEN WHAT WE DO IS WE TAKE, OKAY, WE HAVE THIS, THIS MASSIVE TREE CANOPY COVER.
WHAT'S IT, WHAT'S ITS VALUE? AND THE ANNUAL VALUE OF OUR TREE CANOPY IN TERMS OF WHAT IT PROVIDES IN AIR QUALITY, STORM WATER, CARBON SEQUESTRATION, UM, HOME VALUES.
ALL OF THAT IS OVER $5 MILLION ON AN ANNUAL BASIS.
SO WITH A, WITH A, UM, TOTAL BENEFIT WITH OF JUST CARBON SEQUESTRATION OF BEING, UM, ALMOST 29 MILLION.
SO THOSE ARE, YOU KNOW, THE TREES HAVE VALUE AND, AND THE POINT OF DOING A STUDY LIKE THIS IS, IS TREES HAVE VALUE.
THEY HAVE A VALUE TO THE CITIZENS, THEY HAVE A VALUE TO THE CITY.
UM, AND THEY SHOULDN'T JUST, WE NEED TO PROTECT THAT INVESTMENT AND GROW THAT INVESTMENT AND MANAGE THAT INVESTMENT JUST LIKE WE WOULD ANY OTHER ASSET THAT WE HAVE THAT'S VALUED AT THAT AMOUNT.
WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CARBON SEQUESTRATION AND CARBON STORAGE? SO, CARBON SEQUESTRATION IS ACTIVELY STORING CARBON.
CARBON S STORAGE IS WHAT'S CURRENTLY STORED THERE.
SO YOUNGER TREES ARE GONNA BE MORE VALUABLE IN CARBON SEQUESTRATION 'CAUSE THEY'RE GROWING REALLY, REALLY FAST.
THEY'RE ADDING A BUNCH OF WOOD, THEY'RE EATING A BUNCH OF CARBON OUT OF THE AIR, RIGHT? ONCE A TREE GETS REALLY, REALLY BIG, IT'S NOT GROWING AS MUCH, BUT IT HAS ALL OF THAT CARBON, CARBON STORED UP IN THE TRUNK, RIGHT? AND IN THE TREES AND IN THE BRANCHES AND IN THE LEAVES.
AND HOW THEY CALCULATE THAT IS IF YOU WERE TO CUT THAT TREE DOWN AND THEN YOU WERE TO RELEASE ALL OF THAT STORED CARBON BACK INTO THE ATMOSPHERE, WHAT WOULD IT COST TO BE ABLE TO SEQUESTER IT BACK OUT? AND THAT'S WHAT THAT VALUE IS.
UM, AGAIN, UH, SHOWING WHAT THEN WHAT WE DID IS WE LOOKED AT A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT SCENARIOS.
WHAT WE WANTED TO SAY WAS, OKAY, WHAT DOES THE FUTURE LOOK LIKE? AND WE, WE MET WITH, UM, OUR PLANNING DEPARTMENT AND WE LOOKED AT, YOU KNOW, HOW MANY ACRES ARE WE DEVELOPING ANNUALLY WITHIN THE CITY? AND WE, WE DEVELOPED ROUGHLY 45 ACRES A YEAR CURRENTLY, UM, IN THE CITY.
AND A LOT OF THAT IS REDEVELOPMENT.
SOME OF THAT'S IN THE LITTLE BIT OF LAND THAT WE HAVE LEFT FOR NEW DEVELOPMENT.
SO WE KIND OF RAN A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT SCENARIOS AND SAID, YOU KNOW, IF WE DO MODERATE DEVELOPMENT
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SAYING WE STILL ARE IN THAT 45 ACRE RANGE, IF WE, WE GO HEAVY DEVELOPMENT, WHERE NOW WE'RE UP TO 80 ACRES.UM, AND WE WANTED TO KEEP OUR CANOPY THE SAME OR IF WE WANTED TO GROW OUR CANOPY.
NOW AGAIN, THIS IS WORST CASE SCENARIO THAT'S WE'RE SAYING WE'RE LOSING 45 ACRES OF TREES.
THAT'S PROBABLY NOT GONNA BE THE CASE IF WE DEVELOP 45 ACRES OF TREES.
IT MIGHT BE, YOU MIGHT BE LOSING 20 50% OF THAT IN ACTUAL TREE CANOPY COVER.
BUT I ALWAYS LIKE TO ERR ON THE HIGH SIDE OF NUMBERS.
SO WHAT WE SHOW THEN IS WE WANTED TO, TO PLAN OUT TO 2050 TO SAY, OKAY, WHAT, WHAT, WHAT WOULD, HOW MANY TREES WOULD WE NEED TO PLANT ANNUALLY TO, TO MAINTAIN OUR TREE CANOPY COVER? AND THEN IF WE HAD GOT MORE AGGRESSIVE WITH DEVELOPMENT AND WE LOST MORE TREES, HOW MANY TREES WOULD WE NEED TO PLANT? SO WE WOULD NEED TO PLAN ON AVERAGE 401 TREES, UH, ANNUALLY.
IF WE WERE GOING TO MAINTAIN OUR CANOPY AT MODERATE DEVELOPMENT IN ALMOST 2000 TREES, UM, AT A HEAVY DEVELOPMENT.
AND IF WE WANTED TO GROW OUR CANOPY FIVE, 5%, UH, WE'D HAVE TO PLANT NEARLY 3,300 TREES A YEAR OR 5,000 TREES TO AT A HIGHER DEVELOPMENT.
NOW, THAT'S NOT US AS THE CITY WOULD HAVE TO PLANT THAT MANY TREES.
THAT'S A COMBINATION OF ALL TREES THAT ARE BEING PLANTED.
SO IF IT'S A NEW DEVELOPMENT, IT'S THE NEW TREES THAT ARE BEING PLANTED AS PART OF THAT NEW DEVELOPMENT.
IT'S HOMEOWNERS THAT ARE PLANTING TREES EVERY DAY IN THEIR BACKYARD THAT THOSE NUMBERS ACCOUNT FOR, FOR ALL OF THOSE, THOSE TYPES OF PLANTINGS, OBVIOUSLY THE CITY WOULD HAVE ITS PART.
UM, BUT THAT WOULD NOT MEAN THAT WE WOULD NEED TO DO ALL OF THAT.
SO IT JUST KIND OF, AGAIN, STRESSES TO THE IMPORTANCE OF ONE YOU HAVE TO PLANT A LOT WHEN YOU LOSE A BUNCH OF BIG, LARGE TREES.
YOU HAVE TO PLANT A LOT OF SMALL ONES TO BE ABLE TO CATCH UP.
SO ONE, WE DON'T WANT TO, UM, WE WANT TO BE AS, AS CAREFUL AS WE CAN IN NEW DEVELOPMENT WHERE THERE IS EXISTING TREES AND PRESERVING AS MANY AS WE HAVE.
AND, AND ALSO THIS WILL BE, YOU KNOW, A MESSAGE TO CITY COUNCIL IS THESE TREES HAVE VALUE AND WE DON'T WANNA WAIVE MITIGATION, UH, FOR DEVELOPMENTS BECAUSE WE CAN THEN USE THAT MITIGATION MONEY TO PLANT MORE TREES.
'CAUSE WE GOTTA PLANT MORE TREES TO KEEP UP WITH THE STUFF THAT WE'RE LOSING.
SO IT ALLOWS US TO BE ABLE TO TELL THAT STORY.
IT ALLOWS US TO BE ABLE TO TRACK THAT.
IT ALLOWS US TO BE ABLE TO SHOW SURVIVABILITY AND IT ALLOWS US TO BE ABLE TO SHOW YOU WHAT THOSE VALUES ARE.
SO LOTS OF REALLY COOL TOOLS AND INFORMATION THAT WE'LL BE ABLE TO HAVE TO BUILD OUR URBAN FORESTRY PROGRAM.
SO THAT'S KIND OF WHAT WE DID LAST YEAR.
GEARING UP FOR A REALLY BIG, UM, PROGRAM THAT WE'RE GONNA BE KICKING OFF NEXT YEAR THAT I'LL TALK TO YOU ABOUT.
BUT FIRST OF ALL, ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU GUYS MIGHT HAVE ABOUT THIS, UH, OR WHAT WE'VE DONE OVER THE PAST YEAR.
PARISH FROM THE PARK INVENTORY.
SO, YOU KNOW, THINGS LIKE THAT, THAT ARE, YOU KNOW, INVASIVE AND, YOU KNOW, MAYBE NOT WHEN THEY WERE PLANTED, BUT NOW CONSIDERED TO BE RIGHT.
WE HAVE ANY KIND OF A, ARE WE GONNA HAVE A NEW PLAN TO ADDRESS SOME OF THOSE, PARTICULARLY THE FEMALE THAT WOULD, ONCE WE CAN ESTABLISH A TRUE URBAN FORESTRY PROGRAM THAT YES, THIS WOULD WE'LL AT LEAST HAVE THE, THE DATA AND THE INFORMATION AND THE TOOLS TO MAKE A PLAN AND IMPLEMENT A PLAN.
AM I GONNA SAY THAT'S GONNA BE THE FIRST THING ON OUR LIST?
UM, BUT, BUT YES, IT, IF, IF WE'RE ABLE, AND WHEN WE BUILD THIS PROGRAM, THOSE WOULD BE THINGS WE WOULD LOOK AT AS WELL AS WE HAVE A LOT OF ASH, A LOT OF ASH AND, AND DUTCH ELM OR, UH, EXCUSE ME, EMERALD ASH BOERS IN DALLAS COUNTY.
SO IT'S, IT'S ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE WE GET EMERALD ASH HERE.
SO KNOWING WHERE ALL OF OUR ASH TREES ARE, IF WE START TO, TO SEE THAT INFESTATION, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO QUICKLY REACT AND, AND, AND HANDLE THAT.
UH, I'M AWARE THAT, UM, WITH THE, UM, GARLAND POLICE DEPARTMENT, IN PARTICULARLY IN REGARDS TO HOMELESS ENCAMPMENTS, UH, THAT THEY OFTEN HAVE TO CLEAR OUT A LOT OF THE TREES BECAUSE THAT'S PROVIDING COVER FOR THE HOMELESS.
HAS THIS BEEN A FACTOR IN YOUR FORESTRY PLANS? OH YEAH, A HUNDRED PERCENT.
AND, AND WHAT WE FIND IS IT'S, WE'RE NOT HAVING TO CLEAR OUT THE GOOD BIG TREES.
IT'S THE UNDERSTORY, IT'S THE GREEN BRIAR, IT'S THE UNDERSTORY, IT'S THE UNDESIRABLE TREES THAT ARE IN THERE THAT END UP GETTING REMOVED.
UM, AND WE'VE ACTUALLY SPENT A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF RESOURCES AND TIME.
UH, EVERY YEAR WE HAVE A COMPANY CALLED BUSH WHACKERS COME IN AND THEY COME IN AND THEY CLEAR OUT THOSE, UH, AREAS WHERE WE HAVE CHRONIC HOMELESS ENCAMPMENTS AND THEY CLEAN OUT ALL THE UNDER UNDERSTORY.
SO WE LEAVE ALL THE GOOD QUALITY TREES AND WE CLEAN OUT ALL OF THAT OVERGROWTH, UNDERSTORY, UM, CENTRAL PARK IS THE BEST EXAMPLE.
IF YOU'VE BEEN BY, IF YOU KNOW, ON THAT SOUTH PART OF CENTRAL PARK USED TO BE COMPLETELY OVERGROWN.
AND WE USED TO HAVE HOMELESS ENCAMPMENTS ALL OVER IN THERE.
WE CAME IN THERE, WE CLEANED IT ALL UP.
WE DIDN'T TAKE OUT ONE GOOD TREE IN THERE.
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INVASIVES, GREEN BRIAR AND THINGS LIKE THAT.AND NOW WE NEVER HAVE HOMELESS IN THERE.
SO IF YOU MAKE IT SO THAT THEY CAN'T HIDE BY GETTING THE TREES LIMBED UP AND GETTING THAT UNDERSTORY CLEARED OUT, UM, THEY HAVE A TENDENCY NOT TO CONGREGATE THERE.
AND SO THAT'S OUR STRATEGY FOR THAT.
UM, MAY BE A, NOT BE A REALLY GOOD QUESTION, BUT I'M GONNA ASK IT.
UM, FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS, THIS BOARD AND OTHER PEOPLE MAY BE LISTENING.
UH, SO THE CITY OF GARLAND IS SPENDING QUITE A BIT OF MONEY ON TREE, UH, PLANTING REPLANTING AND, AND, AND YOUR UNDERGROWTH UH, UH, REMOVAL.
UM, DO WE HAVE SOME SOURCE OF FUNDING FOR THAT OTHER THAN, OTHER THAN THE TAXPAYER DOLLARS? UM, SO WE TAKE THAT OUT.
WE HAVE A, A, A TREE PRUNING, YOU KNOW, BUDGET.
AND, AND WE DO PAY FOR THAT OUT OF THAT.
AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE USED MONEY OUT OF OUR TREE MITIGATION FUND, UH, TO HELP PAY FOR SOME OF THAT AS WELL.
AND SO THAT TREE MITIGATION FUND IS PAID BY DEVELOPERS WHO, YOU KNOW, CUT DOWN TREES, UH, HAVE TO PAY INTO A MITIGATION, UM, UM, PIECE TO DO THAT.
AND SO WE HAVE UTILIZED SOME OF THOSE SELLERS TO HELP WITH THAT AS WELL.
BUT MOST, MOST OF THAT COMES OUT OF OUR OPERATING DOLLARS.
AND, UH, IN THE PAST WE'VE GOTTEN, UH, SOME NUMBERS ON WHAT, WHAT AMOUNT OF MONEY WAS IN THAT, UM, IN THAT FUND.
AND, UM, WOULD IT BE TOO MUCH TO ASK IF YOU COULD GIVE US MAYBE JUST NOT A DETAILED, BUT JUST A, A KIND OF A, OKAY, HOW MUCH MONEY HAVE WE HAD IN THERE? HOW MUCH HAVE WE SPENT, UH, OUT OF THAT? UH, AND SO IF YOU CAN HOLD THAT QUESTION, I MIGHT ANSWER IT IN THE NEXT PART OF MY PRESENTATION.
OH, WELL YOU NEED TO GET TO THAT THEN.
IS THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ON THE TREE CANOPY STUDY OR ANYTHING? AND THEN GO FOR IT.
SO WHAT'S NEXT? SO WE ARE GONNA BE LAUNCHING A PROGRAM, UM, THIS SUMMER, UH, WHICH WILL REALLY, REALLY KICK OFF IN THE FALL CALLED TREE GARLAND.
AND IT'S GONNA BE A PLAN TO PLANT 10,000 TREES OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS THAT'S GONNA RESULT IN A GREENER, CLEANER, COOLER GARLAND.
UM, THE THROUGH THE INFLATION REDUCTION ACT THAT, THAT PRESIDENT BIDEN, UM, WORKED WITH CONGRESS TO GET PASSED.
UM, PART OF THAT INCLUDED $105 BILLION FOR URBAN AND COMMUNITY FORESTRY.
IT'S THE LARGEST AMOUNT OF FUNDING, UH, TO EVER BE DEDICATED TO URBAN AND COMMUNITY FORESTRY DE DEDICATED SPECIFICALLY FOR TREE PLANTING AND RELATED ACTIVITIES FOR THE PRIORITY IN UNDERSERVED POPULATION, TO MAKE THEM MORE CLIMATE RESILIENT.
THAT MEANS THAT REDUCE, UH, THE URBAN HEAT ISLAND EFFECT IN UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES TO MAKE THEM GREENER.
IT'S, UM, THEIR STUDY AND STUDY AFTER STUDY THAT THAT UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES HAVE TENDENCIES TO HAVE, UM, BE LESS TREE COVERED THAN MORE AFFLUENT COMMUNITIES.
UM, WHICH LEADS TO WORSE AIR QUALITY, WHICH LEADS TO LOTS OF OTHER ISSUES THAT CAN GO IN THERE.
I CAN GO ON AND ON ABOUT THAT.
BUT THIS WAS A HUGE UNDERTAKING.
UM, AND THIS WAS DONE THROUGH THE US FOREST SERVICE.
THEY HAD NEVER BEEN FUNDING LIKE THIS FOR URBAN AND COMMUNITY FORESTRY, UM, IN A VERY, VERY, VERY LONG TIME.
THIS FUNDING WAS ANNOUNCED, UH, APRIL 12TH, 2023.
UM, AND OF COURSE I APPLIED, UH, AGAIN, THIS IS BEING FUNDED THROUGH THE URBAN AND COMMUNITY FORESTRY OF THE US FOREST SERVICE TO MAKE CITIES MORE RESILIENT, TO PROVIDE MORE COOLING EFFECTS AND INCREASED URBAN TREE CANOPY TO, UM, IMPROVE FOREST HEALTH WITHIN, UH, UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES AND TO AT OBTAIN BROADER EXPOSURE AND ACCESS TO ENVIRONMENTAL CAREER AND PATHWAYS.
WE DON'T HAVE A JOBS PROGRAM, BUT THIS WAS ALSO, THERE WAS FUNDING AVAILABLE FOR COMMUNITIES THAT HAD JOB PROGRAMS. SO THERE WERE, UM, UH, WE APPLIED FOR 1.1 MILLION TO IMPLEMENT THIS PROGRAM, UM, AND CAN SAY THAT IT WAS A TOTAL FIVE YEAR PROJECT COST OF TWO AND A HALF MILLION.
UH, 'CAUSE THIS WOULD BECOME THROUGH A MATCH APPLIED FOR A US FOREST GRANT IN THE AMOUNT OF 1.25 TO FUND A URBAN FORESTRY POSITION TO PAY, TO HELP PAY FOR TREES TO GO INTO THESE, TO GO INTO COMMUNITIES AND REMOVE DEAD TREES AND UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES WHERE POPULATIONS MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO AFFORD THE REMOVAL COSTS FOR TREES TO REMOVE THOSE TREES AND TO PLANT NEW TREES.
UM, AND WE WERE LUCKY ENOUGH, THERE WERE ONLY, UM, SEVEN GRANTS AWARDED IN THE ENTIRE STATE OF TEXAS.
SO THERE WERE TWO LARGE NONPROFITS THAT WERE AWARDED LARGE SUMS OF MONEY.
UM, AND THEN THERE WAS FOUR MUNICIPALITIES, FIVE MUNICIPALITIES THAT RECEIVED FUNDING.
UM, AND WE WERE ONE OF 'EM, AND WE WERE THE LARGEST.
THE NEXT HIGHEST AMOUNT THAT A MUNICIPALITY
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RECEIVED WAS A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS.SO WE LITERALLY JUST GOT THE CONTRACT YESTERDAY.
WE ARE GONNA BE A, WE, OUR GRANT WAS SUBGRANT OUT TO THE, UM, ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION, OBVIOUSLY, UM, YOU CAN SEE HERE THE, THEY GAVE AWAY TWO, UH, IT WAS ALMOST 350 GRANTS NATIONWIDE, UH, ACROSS ALL 50 STATES.
PUERTO RICO, UM, HAWAII, THE PACIFIC ISLANDS, AND EVEN ALASKA, US VIRGIN ISLANDS.
UM, ALL RECEIVED MONEY IN VARYING AMOUNTS, UH, AND VARYING PROJECTS.
YOU WOULD THINK A BILLION DOLLARS WOULD GO A LONG WAYS.
BUT THERE'S A HUGE NEED, UM, THAT'S OUT THERE.
SO THE FACT THAT WE AS A, A MEAN, THE LARGEST IN, IN TEXAS AS A MUNICIPALITY GOT THE LARGEST, UH, GRANT IS I THINK A A BIG HUGE WIN.
SO HOW THIS GRANT IS GONNA LAY OUT IS IT'S A FIVE YEAR MATCHING GRANT.
UM, WE CAN MATCH IT THROUGH CASH AND IN KIND SERVICES.
SO WE'RE GONNA MATCH, UM, HALF OF IT THROUGH IN KIND SERVICES.
THAT'S STAFF TIME, EQUIPMENT TIME, SOFTWARE, SUPPLIES, MATERIALS.
WE'RE ALREADY DOING A LOT OF THIS WORK.
I JUST GET TO USE, YOU KNOW, ANY, ANY, ANY OF OUR STAFF TIME, MY TIME EQUIPMENT, ALL OF THAT GETS TO USE FOR IT.
AND THEN WE'RE GONNA USE A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS PER YEAR OUT OF THE MITIGATION.
SO TO YOUR, TO YOUR QUESTION, UH, MR. CARTER, THERE'S ROUGHLY A MILLION DOLLARS IN THE GIVE OR TAKE.
I DON'T HAVE THE EXACT NUMBER TODAY, BUT THERE'S ROUGHLY RIGHT AROUND LAST I HEARD ABOUT A MILLION DOLLARS IN THE TREE MITIGATION FUND.
SO IF NOT ONE MORE PENNY WENT INTO THAT OVER THIS FIVE YEARS, WE WOULD USE HALF OF IT.
BUT OBVIOUSLY IT GETS ADDED TO EVERY YEAR.
UM, BUT WHAT WE WILL BE USING IS, IS A HUNDRED THOUSAND OF IT, UM, PER YEAR OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS IS THAT ADDITIONAL MATCH, UM, TO THIS PROGRAM.
UM, OBVIOUSLY THERE'LL BE MORE MONEY.
AND THEN OUT OF THIS WE'LL HAVE A VERY, VERY ROBUST TREE PLANTING PROGRAM.
AND WE'RE GONNA HAVE A VERY, VERY ROBUST IDEA OF WHERE THESE TREES ARE GONNA COME, WHICH IS WHY WE DID THE CANOPY COVER STUDY, WHICH IS WHY WE DID THE, THE TREE INVENTORY.
SO WE WILL HAVE A TREE PLANTING MACHINE AT THE END OF THE FIVE YEARS AND A PLAN TO GO AHEAD AND, AND UTILIZE THOSE MITIGATION FUNDS MOVING FORWARD.
SO HOW THAT'S GONNA LOOK IS WE'RE GONNA PLANT 500 TREES.
OBVIOUSLY THAT'S A LOT OF TREES PER YEAR.
SO WE'RE GONNA DO 500 NEW TREES AND PARKS AND MEDIAS.
UM, WE'LL DO THIS UTILIZING CONTRACTORS USE, UTILIZING CITY STAFF VOLUNTEERS.
UH, THERE'LL BE SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES.
WE'RE GONNA HAVE A WHOLE P WE'RE GONNA HAVE A WHOLE WHOLE MARKETING AND AND PROMOTION AROUND THIS.
WE'VE ALREADY MET WITH OUR PMR OFFICE TO START TO DO THIS.
AND THEN WE'RE GONNA PLANT 600 TREES IN UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES IN THE IN NEIGHBORHOODS.
SO THE US FOREST SERVICE IS ALREADY IDENTIFIED, UH, WHAT UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES, UM, UH, ARE A, A ABLE TO, FOR US TO BE ABLE TO PLANT IN.
AND IT'S ABOUT THREE QUARTERS OF, OF GARLAND.
SO WE HAVE A HUGE PLANTING OPPORTUNITY.
UH, WE'RE GONNA PARTNER WITH NEIGHBORHOOD VITALITY IN THEIR, WHERE THE HEART PROGRAM IS.
AND WE'RE GONNA GO UNDER THESE COMMUNITIES.
WE'RE GONNA HELP REMOVE DEAD TREES WHERE THEY NEED TO BE REMOVED.
SO IF THEY HAVE A DEAD TREE IN THEIR FRONT YARD OR IN THE RIGHT OF WAY THAT THEY CAN'T REMOVE IT, WE'LL GET THOSE TREES OUT OF THERE.
WE'LL STUMP GRIND IT, AND THEN WE'LL COME BACK AND REPLANT.
THERE'LL BE A VERY, VERY, VERY ROBUST EDUCATION PROGRAM THAT GOES WITH THIS.
A WATERING PROGRAM THAT GOES WITH THIS, AN EDUCATION PROGRAM THAT GOES WITH THIS, A VOLUNTEER PROGRAM THAT GOES WITH THIS.
UM, IT'S GONNA BE A HUGE PROGRAM AND I'M GONNA HAVE ONE PERSON THAT'S GONNA DO IT PLUS THE REST OF OUR STAFF SO I CAN, IT, IT'LL GROW, IT'LL GROW OVER TIME.
I'VE ALREADY TOLD THEM I'M GONNA BE REQUESTING MORE POSITIONS, BUT WE'LL MAKE IT GROW.
AND, UH, WE'RE ALSO GONNA BE LAUNCHING, YOU KNOW, AS YOU ALL KNOW, NANCY IS NOW OUR VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR.
AND SO WE'RE GONNA HAVE A REALLY ROBUST VOLUNTEER PROGRAM, WHICH WE'RE GONNA NEED TO PULL THIS OFF.
UH, AND THEN WE'RE GONNA UP OUR TREE GIVEAWAY PROGRAM.
SO WE'RE GONNA EXPAND THAT PROGRAM.
UH, PROBABLY SOME WITH GP AND L.
SOME WILL JUST BE THROUGH OUR PROGRAM.
INSTEAD OF DOING ONE TREE WE AWAY A YEAR, WE'LL PROBABLY END UP DOING TWO, MAYBE POSSIBLY THREE.
WE'RE STILL KIND OF PLANNING THAT OUT.
TO BE HONEST WITH YOU, WE HAVEN'T DONE A LOT OF PLANNING YET BECAUSE I COULDN'T, UNTIL THAT CONTRACT IS SIGNED, I CAN'T COUNT THAT AS AS MATCHABLE REIMBURSEMENT.
SO I REALLY DIDN'T WANNA HIT THE GROUND RUNNING TOO MUCH UNTIL I HAD THAT CONTRACT SIGNED SO THAT WE CAN TAKE ALL OF THAT PLANNING MONEY, ALL THAT PLANNING TIME AND COUNT THAT TOWARDS OUR COSTS.
SO NOW THAT WE FINALLY HAVE OUR CONTRACT, WE'LL HAVE THAT SIGNED HERE, UH, HOPEFULLY IN THE NEXT WEEK OR TWO ONCE THE LAWYERS GET DONE GOING THROUGH IT.
UM, AND THEN WE'LL BE OFF TO THE RACES.
WE'LL BE ABLE TO HIRE OUR FORESTER AND WE'LL BE ABLE TO HEAVY, HEAVY START PLANTING.
SO YOU'LL HAVE A LOT MORE INFORMATION ON THIS, UM, IN THE COMING MONTHS.
SO WE WILL UTILIZE OUR TREE CAN, WE WILL CONTINUE TO GPS AND UTILIZE OUR
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INVENTORY TO COUNT AND TRACK ALL OF THESE TREES WHERE THEY GO.WE'LL BE ABLE TO TRACK 'EM OVER TIME.
WE'LL BE ABLE, ABLE TO ATTRACT THEIR ECOSYSTEM SERVICE BENEFITS.
WE'LL BE ABLE ATTRACT THE VOLUNTEER HOURS THAT WE PUT TO IT, THE MARKETING MATERIAL THAT WE'LL PUT TO IT.
UM, ALL OF THAT IS YET TO BE DESIGNED BUT WILL BE COMING.
SO 10,000 TREES OVER 40 YEARS, WHICH IS THE AVERAGE LIFESPAN FOR UH, 40, UH, FOR UM, AN URBAN TREE COMES OUT TO ABOUT $40 MILLION.
SO ON A TWO $2 MILLION INVESTMENT, THAT'S ABOUT A 1500% ROI.
SO I THINK THAT'S A PRETTY GOOD RETURN ON OUR INVESTMENT FOR THIS MONEY GOING IN THERE.
AND SO WE'RE GONNA BE GETTING STARTED VERY, VERY ROBUSTLY IN THE COMING MONTHS AND NEXT YEAR, HOPEFULLY MY FORESTER WILL BE DOING THIS PRESENTATION TO YOU AND IT WON'T BE ME
ANY QUESTIONS? QUESTIONS? ANY? ALWAYS.
FIRST WHATCHA GONNA DO WITH THE CHINESE PASH, WELL, ONCE WE GET THAT PLAN GOING, WE CAN START REMOVING CHINESE PIST AND PLANTING THEM WITH A MORE SUITABLE TREE.
THERE MIGHT BE SOME OTHERS I DIDN'T COOK.
WE NEED TO GET RID OF 'EM BOTH.
CAN YOU USE VOLUNTEER HOURS TO COUNT TOWARDS YOUR MATCH? YES.
WE CAN COUNT VOLUNTEER HOURS TOWARDS OUR MATCH.
YOU NEED BOY SCOUTS A HUNDRED PERCENT.
WE'RE GONNA NEED A LOT OF THEM.
I GET A COUPLE EAGLE PROJECTS OUT OF THIS.
I THINK WE CAN, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? I JUST, UH, I THINK YOU DID ANSWER MY QUESTION.
ONE PART OF IT IN THAT, AS I BEST RECALL, WE USED TO HAVE ABOUT, IT'S BEEN ABOUT 18 MONTHS OR SO SINCE WE HEARD WE HAD ABOUT 800,000 IN THAT, UH, IN THAT POT.
NOW YOU'RE SAYING THAT WE HAVE, UH, AROUND A MILLION IN THAT POT AND, AND, AND Y'ALL BEEN USING SOME OF THAT POT AS WE GO? YES SIR.
SO WE, WE USE SOME OF THAT, SOME OF THAT POT HELP FUND THESE STUDIES.
UM, AND THEN SOME OF THAT POT, WE ALSO, UH, WERE ABLE TO, AT THE NEW TENNIS CENTER, UH, WHERE WE, UH, UNFORTUNATELY IT WAS KIND OF A COLD BLUSTERY DAY, BUT WHEN WE, IF ANYBODY WANTS TO GO OUT AND LOOK, UM, WE WERE ABLE TO SAVE, UH, ALMOST A HUNDRED TREES.
AND SO WE TRANSPLANTED OUT, UH, ALMOST A HUNDRED REALLY HIGH QUALITY TREES.
UH, AND WE'VE PUT 'EM OFF TO THE SIDE AND THAT WOULD'VE BEEN JUST BULLDOZED OVER, UH, WHEN WE BUILT THE NEW TENNIS CENTER.
SO WE PUT THOSE UNDER IRRIGATION.
UH, AND THEN WHEN THE TENNIS CENTER IS DONE, UH, WE'RE GONNA GO AND PLANT THOSE STRATEGICALLY.
UM, WHERE THE NEW WALKING TRAIL WE'LL GO, UH, AT TUCKER, WE'RE GONNA PLANT THOSE TREES STRATEGICALLY AROUND THAT WALKING TRAIL SO THAT THOSE WILL GROW UP AND EVENTUALLY SHADE THAT WALKING TRAIL, UH, IN THE FUTURE.
YOU KNOW, WE USED, WE WERE FORTUNATE TO BE ABLE TO USE SOME TREE WITH THAT TREE MITIGATION FUND TO DO THAT, WHICH WILL SAVE US A BUNCH OF MONEY, UH, DOWN THE ROAD.
SO ACROSS THE COUNTRY, $1.5 BILLION OVER FIVE YEARS, IF THEY'RE, ALL THE GRANTS ARE KINDA LIKE OURS.
IS THERE GONNA BE AN ISSUE ON THE SUPPLY SIDE AS FAR AS FINDING TREES AND SUPPLIERS? NO.
THEY, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, THEY'VE, ARE THEY STARTING TO GEAR UP ALREADY? YEAH.
IF YOU WOULD'VE ASKED ME THAT SIX, SEVEN YEARS AGO, I WOULD'VE SAID YES.
UM, 'CAUSE AFTER THE HOUSING CRASH, UM, NURSERIES GOT HIT PRETTY HARD.
'CAUSE YOU CAN IMAGINE MOST OF THEIR STOCK IS IN, IS IN DEVELOPMENT.
UM, RIGHT NOW, STOCK IS HEALTHY, IS EXTREMELY HEALTHY RIGHT NOW IN THE NURSERY INDUSTRY.
SO I'M NOT WORRIED ABOUT, UM, TREE SUPPLY AT ALL.
I GOT TO, THIS IS KIND OF RELATED.
SO I GOT THE EMAIL FROM NANCY ABOUT, OH, VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES.
AND, AND ONE OF THOSE WAS BUNKER HILL, WHICH AT ONE POINT WE WERE GONNA TRY TO SELL.
IT'S IN THE PROCESS, I BELIEVE.
AND ANYWAY, SO IT, EARLY ON WHEN I JOINED THIS BOARD, YOU KNOW, BUNKER HILL WAS OUR TREE FARM.
SO BARRY HAD PLANTED A BUNCH OF TREES DOWN THERE AND WAS GOING IN WITH HIS MACHINE AND DIGGING THEM OUT AND USING THAT.
ARE THERE ANY OTHER SALVAGEABLE TREES IN THERE THAT WE COULD USE? NOT A LOT, BELIEVE IT OR NOT THAT THIS BEEN LEFT FOR SO LONG AND THEY'VE KIND OF BEEN SO OVERGROWN.
AND WHAT'S HAPPENED IS IS THEY'VE GOTTEN SO BIG THAT NOW YOU CAN'T EVEN GET A TREE SPRAYED IN BETWEEN 'EM TO GET 'EM OUT.
AND SO I REMEMBER THAT WAS KIND OF THE ISSUE.
IT'S UNFORTUNATELY THEY'RE KIND OF GET 'EM OUT.
THEIR DIDN'T GET 'EM OUT OF THERE FAST ENOUGH.
WE NEEDED TO, THAT NEEDED TO BE DONE, YOU KNOW, QUITE A WHILE AGO.
SO HOPEFULLY I, AND I THINK THAT THEY ARE IN THE PROCESS OF, I NEED TO CHECK WITH, WITH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
'CAUSE I KNOW THEY'VE BEEN MARKETING IT, BUT I'M NOT SURE IF IT'S BEEN SOLD YET.
AND THE PROGRAM, I HAVE A PRETTY GOOD MIX OF DIFFERENT KINDS OF TREES.
WE, THAT'S AGAIN, ANOTHER REASON WHY I LIKE TO HAVE THE INVENTORY.
'CAUSE YOU WANNA MAKE SURE THAT YOU
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HAVE A, A GOOD DISTRIBUTION OF SPECIES.SO THAT YOU'RE NOT PLANTING MONOCULTURES.
I THOUGHT YOU HAD A LOT OF QUESTIONS.
WE HAVE, WE HAVE A WAYS TO GO YET.
YOU'D LIKE TO TAKE A FIVE MINUTE BREAK.
WE'LL TAKE A FIVE MINUTE BREAK AND BE RIGHT BACK.
WE'LL BE DISSEMINATING ALL THAT YOU JUST GAVE US
MR. GRU SAID YOU
WE ALL WENT BEFORE THE STARTED
MORE COOL STUFF TO COME RIGHT HERE.
YEAH, IF YOU EVER HAVE ANY QUESTIONS YOU KNOW ABOUT ANYTHING PREDICTORY RELATED, YOU GO OUT AND SEE ANYTHING, FEEL FREE TO GIVE A HOLLER.
I'LL BE HAPPY TO GET YOU CAUGHT UP.
SPEED ON WHATEVER YOU WANNA GET CAUGHT UP TO SPEED ON.
I DIDN'T KNOW WHERE TO ASK QUESTIONS OR NOT 'CAUSE I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON
REACH OUT TO ME AT ANY TIME IF I DID.
UM, LIKE WE'RE, I GUESS I'M ASSUMING THAT THE CITY BOND MONEY'S LIKE ALL FOR THE MOST PART.
IT'S EVERYWHERE AND IT'S, IT'S SPOKEN FOR IT.
NO BOND MONEY IS, IS PRETTY MUCH ALLOCATED.
AND THEN LIKE WHEN YOU TALKED ABOUT UNDERSERVED AREAS FOR THE TREES, IS THAT LIKE WHO IS THAT ALREADY ALLOCATED TO OR IS OR YOU'VE GOT LIKE WHERE YOU NO, WHERE YOU'RE CALLING.
WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO DO, WE HAVEN'T IDENTIFIED ALL THE AREAS WHERE WE'RE GONNA DO IT YET.
WE JUST KNOW THAT A PERCENTAGE OF THEM ARE GONNA HAVE TO GO INTO THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS IDENTIFIED LIKE THAT.
BUT IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT WE'RE GONNA PUT THEM ALL THERE.
OBVIOUSLY WE HAVE A BIG THROUGHOUT OUR PARK SYSTEM PART, WE'RE GONNA PLANT MEDIANS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
BUT THE MAJORITY OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD PLANTING WILL BE SOME OF THE MY NEIGHBORHOOD'S, UM, KUER PARK AREA.
SO, UM, I'M ACTUALLY BACK UP TO THE PARK, BUT YEAH, THAT'S THE ONLY, UM, CENTER FOR THAT WHOLE NEIGHBORHOOD.
THERE'S NO SCHOOL, THERE'S NO, AND ONLY HALF THE PARKS USED MO MOSTLY 'CAUSE THE OTHER HALF'S JUST LIKE TREES.
SO, BUT, SO, AND YOU KNOW, AND WE DON'T NEED TREES ON THAT SIDE.
THERE ARE PLENTY OF TREES OUT THERE.
AND WHEN YOU SAID THERE WAS A TREE ISSUED, I REMEMBER I THINK YEARS BACK, UM, WHEN THEY TRIMMED OUT THE PECAN TREES ON THE OTHER SIDE, I THINK THERE WAS A BIG UPPER ONE.
THERE USUALLY IS WHEN YOU START, YOU KNOW, TAKING THESE PECAN TREES, YOU HAVE TO START SLOUGHING OFF BRANCHES.
YOU GETTING TECHNICAL HERE ON THIS? YEAH, MY MIC WOULD NEVER, STILL.
OH REALLY? I HAD TO BE LIKE PUTTING THE QUEUE IN.
YOU WOULD HAVE TO, WHERE IS THIS? MIGHT HAVE TO UNMUTE EVERYBODY BY OFFICE.
YOU GOTTA WHERE EVERYBODY'S GOT A MIC NOW.
YOU GOT ME BACK THERE WHERE THE HOUSE BURNED DOWN.
OH, I'M JUST ONE HOUSE OVER FROM THAT ONE.
NOW THEY'RE MOVING TO WHEREVER THEY WERE GONNA MOVE.
ALRIGHT, WE'LL CALL THE MEETING BACK TO ORDER.
30 DAYS AGO, I BELIEVE IT WAS, UM, AT THE CITY MANAGER.
UM, A LOT OF THIS IS GONNA LOOK REALLY FAMILIAR TO YOU.
THIS JUST COVERS, THERE WAS A FEW MINOR CHANGES.
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THAT'S REALLY ABOUT EVERYTHING THAT WE'RE, WE'RE GONNA COVER ON HERE.IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, UM, THROUGHOUT HERE, I'D BE HAPPY TO ANSWER 'EM.
IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE SPECIFIC PROJECT, UM, WE CAN COVER THOSE IN THE NEXT AGENDA ITEM AND WE'LL PULL MARK UP HERE.
'CAUSE HE'LL PROBABLY BE ALL ANSWERING BETTER THAN I WOULD.
UM, BUT THIS IS FUNDING AND AS YOU KNOW, COUNCIL LAST NIGHT APPROVED CIP.
SO THIS IS SHOWING YOU WHAT IS GONNA BE FUNDED AND WHAT WE'LL BE WORKING ON THROUGH THE NEXT YEAR AS PART OF OUR CIP PROJECT.
UM, SO I'M GONNA, IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION ABOUT SECURITY? UH, FROM CIP COUNCIL? YEAH.
NOT ON CIP EXCEPT FOR, YOU KNOW, THERE'S BEEN SOME BACK TALKING ABOUT, UM, LIGHTING AND, YOU KNOW, SOME QUESTIONS LIKE THAT THAT WE'RE, WE'RE FOLLOWING UP ON AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.
AND SO, AND WE STILL HAVE THE, MY COUNCILMAN.
HE THAT'S, THAT WAS THE CONCEPT.
SO THERE'S MORE TO COME ON THAT THIS IS MOSTLY CURRENT PROJECTS AND WHAT'S COMING UP.
I'M GONNA KIND OF DIVE INTO THE BIG ONES HERE.
SO SURF AND SWIM, THESE ARE MAYBE SOME CON CONCEPTS THAT YOU GUYS HAVEN'T SEEN.
SO THESE ARE THE LATEST CONCEPTS FOR THE NEW SURF AND SWIM.
UM, NO, UH, INCREASE IN THIS YEAR'S, UH, BUDGET.
WHEN YOU SAY MARK, WHERE ARE WE ON FINAL COMPLETION? ON DESIGN? UH, WE RECEIVED FINAL, UH, COMMENTS, UH, LAST WEEK.
SO WE'RE GETTING CLOSE FINAL DESIGN.
SO ONCE WE HAVE THAT, THEN WE'LL HAVE A, A BETTER IDEA OF WHAT THE BUDGET IS.
UM, SO THERE MAY BE, WE'LL SEE WHERE THAT FALLS IN.
IS IT A DESIGN AND BUILD OR IS IT NO, WE HAVE TO GO OUT FOR YEP.
UH, TUCKER PARK, UH, HAD AN INCREASE OF RIGHT AT ONE AND A HALF MILLION.
THERE WAS SOME MAJOR STORM WATER MANAGEMENT, UM, FIXES THAT NEEDED TO BE MADE ON SITE THAT, UH, REQUIRED THE MOVING OF A LOT OF DIRT AND, UH, ADDITIONAL DRAINAGE ON SITE.
AND THAT'S ALL VERY EXPENSIVE.
AND THEN OBVIOUSLY THERE WAS SOME, A LOT OF WHAT YOU'RE GONNA SEE INCREASE COMES FROM COST ESCALATION FROM THE BASE SCOPE BID.
UM, SO THAT'S THE CHANGE ON THE TENNIS GARLAND SENIOR ACTIVITY CENTER.
AGAIN, NO CHANGE NOW, UH, FINALLY WE'RE ABLE, WE GOT A, YOU GOT A REPORT ON THIS LAST, UH, AT THE LAST, I THINK IT WAS TWO PARKS BOARD MEETINGS AGO FROM DELEE.
SO THEY'RE IN THE PROCESS OF STARTING DESIGN.
SO THERE'S NO CHANGES ON SENIOR CENTER.
UH, MATT ON, ON THE SENIOR CENTER.
UH, I HAD, UH, SUGGESTED LOOKING AT, UH, SOMETHING ON HERE.
AND I SEE THAT WE HAVEN'T MADE ANY CHANGES TO IT, AND I'M JUST PRESUMING IT WASN'T, UH, TAKEN.
BUT, UH, ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE WHERE WE HAVE ALL THE GREEN AREA OVER THERE, THAT'S, THERE'S NO ACCESS TO THAT.
SO THAT'S JUST GONNA BE A, UH, A YARD AREA KIND OF THING.
WELL, REMEMBER THIS IS STILL JUST SCHEMATIC AND CONCEPT.
WE HAVEN'T GOTTEN INTO DESIGN.
DESIGN IS JUST STARTING AND YOUR COMMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE.
AND WE WILL DEFINITELY, UH, THEY WILL BE BROUGHT UP DURING THE DESIGN PROCESS.
I JUST, I THINK BECAUSE OF THE ORIENTATION THAT CATCHES YOU SUMMERTIME USE OVER THERE AND WHEN, UH, AND THEN THE WINTER USE, IT ALSO GETS YOU WINTER USE BECAUSE THE, THE AREA THAT WE HAVE UP THE TOP IS FACING NORTH.
THAT'S A GREAT PLACE WHERE IT IS.
IT'S JUST THAT WINTER USE IS GONNA BE VERY LIMITED OVER THERE.
AND AS, SO AS WE MOVE THROUGH DESIGN, WE'LL, WE'LL BE BRINGING YOU FORWARD, YOU KNOW, UPDATES.
AND SO WE'LL JUST MAKE SURE THAT THOSE ARE INCORPORATED AS WE GO THROUGH THE DESIGN PROCESS.
SOME OF THIS WAS UTILITY, UH, EASEMENT.
UH, HOLFORD REC AND AQUATIC CENTER, IF YOU HAVEN'T DRIVEN BY HOLFORD, UH, THAT PROJECT IS UP, IS GOING ON REALLY, REALLY QUICKLY.
UH, SO THERE WAS A INCREASE OF 2.6 MILLION IN THAT PROJECT, UH, THAT COMES FROM INFLATION.
UH, AND THAT'S BEING COVERED OUT OF THE RESERVES THAT THEY SET ASIDE TO BE ABLE TO COVER INFLATION COSTS.
SO THAT PROJECT IS MOVING RIGHT ALONG AND THEY'RE STARTING TO GO VERTICAL.
SO IT'S REALLY QUICKLY, THIS WAS A NEW ITEM.
UM, YOU PROBABLY ALL REMEMBER THAT THE GREENHOUSE GOT HIT BY THAT, THAT WINDSTORM COMING UP ON ALMOST A YEAR AGO.
UM, SO THE, THE COST, THEY DECIDED, UH, CITY MANAGEMENT DECIDED TO FUND THE FIX OF THAT OUT OF, OF CIP INSTEAD OF THE GENERAL BUDGET.
AND SO THIS WAS ADDED AND APPROVED, UM, LAST NIGHT.
AND SO WE'LL BE MOVING FORWARD WITH THAT REPAIR.
UM, IMMEDIATELY ONE JOYCE, WHICH YOU JUST HEARD A LOT ABOUT, UM, AGAIN, THIS WAS, WE'RE STILL IN THE DESIGN PHASE.
UH, ONCE WE GO OUT TO FROM DESIGN, THEN THAT'LL GO TO BID.
UM, AND WE'LL MOVE THAT ONE FORWARD.
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THERE.UM, THE DUCK CREEK SOUTH, UH, GREENBELT TRAIL EXTENSION, THAT'S ANOTHER ONE THAT'S MOVING RIGHT ALONG.
THEY'RE MOVING VERY, VERY QUICKLY.
THIS ONE ACTUALLY HAD A, A COST REDUCTION, UM, DUE TO THE, UM, ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DID NOT WANT THE TRAIL TO GO BEHIND THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
SO IT TERMINATES, UM, IN FRONT OF THE RIGHT THERE TO THE EAST OF THE, UH, ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
SO THAT TOOK A LITTLE BIT OF TRAIL OFF.
AND THERE'S WHERE THAT COST REDUCTION LESS, THEY'RE GRADING ON THIS ALREADY, AREN'T THEY?
THEY, YEAH, THEY'RE MOVING RIGHT ALONG.
AND, UM, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT TREE MITIGATION.
UM, THERE'S, THERE'S FACILITIES DOWN THERE, UM, INCLUDING A BANK THAT HAS TO KEEP THEIR DOORS LOCKED.
BECAUSE OF THE HOMELESS COMING IN AND OUT AND THEY'RE LIVING AND THEY'RE IN THAT, UH, PIECE OF AREA THAT THE CITY OF GARLAND BOUGHT THAT THAT ENTIRE GREENBELT SECTION DOWN THERE IS YEAH.
COULD, COULD USE TAKING SOME OF THAT UNDER UNDERGROWTH OUT.
YEAH, THERE'S, THERE'S SOME, I MEAN, IT'S, IT'S GOTTEN PRETTY PRETTY, THE BANK HAS TO LOCK ITS DOORS AND YOU KNOCK ON THE DOOR TO GET IN.
THAT'S, WE, WE'VE, WE'VE PRETTY WELL DETERIORATED.
SO IF WE TAKE, IF WE DON'T GO BEHIND THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, IS IT GONNA AFFECT TRAIL, YOU KNOW, FUTURE TRAIL CONNECTIONS? MARK, YOU WANNA COME UP HERE? YEAH.
IF WE CUT OUT A PIECE OF THIS TRAIL BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T WANT IT BEHIND THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, IS IT GONNA AFFECT TRAIL CONNECTIONS? YOU, THE TRAIL STRATEGIC PLAN? WE TALKED A LOT ABOUT CONNECTING TO ALL.
WE'RE STILL ABLE TO MAINTAIN THAT.
WE JUST HAVE TO REROUTE CERTAIN AREAS TO, UM, JUST, YEAH, THEY JUST DIDN'T WANT, SO IN THE LONG RUN IT'LL COST US MORE MONEY.
IT JUST, SOME OF IT MIGHT BE ON STREET VERSUS RIGHT.
AND YOU'LL JUST GO DOWN AND POP BACK INTO ALON PARK DOWN, DOWN THE WAY DOWN THERE.
SO IT JUST IS A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT.
MY COMMENT I JUST MADE MAY HAVE SOMETHING TO DO WITH WHY THEY DIDN'T WANT IT BEHIND THE SCHOOL.
AND THEN, YOU KNOW, IT'S DURING CONSTRUCTION THAT COULD BE PRETTY DISRUPTIVE FOR THE KIDS.
SO I KINDA SEE THEIR POINT AS, YOU KNOW, MACHINES AND WHAT, I DON'T THINK THAT, AND THEN THEY, AND, AND THEN THAT'S ONE OF THE, PROBABLY THE FACTORS.
NO ONE OF THE ISSUES, ONE OF THE FACTORS THEY PROBABLY CONSIDERED.
MORE DISRUPTIVE, MOVING THE WHOLE SCHOOL.
UM, OTHER TRAILS, UH, THAT'LL BE WORKING THROUGH ON, IN 2024 DUCK CREEK CENTRAL TRAIL, UH, SEGMENT THREE, LAKE RAY, HUBBARD, GREENBELT TRAIL, GARLAND AVENUE, UNDERPASS NAME AND FOREST CONNECTION, DUCK CREEK AUDUBON.
UH, AN ADDITIONAL ON STREET BICYCLE FACILITIES AND CENTRAL PARK LOOP TRAIL.
UM, THIS HAD AN INCREASE OF ABOUT 2.8 MILLION.
AGAIN, SCOPE CORRECTION FOR A COUPLE OF TRAILS.
AND THEN, UM, ESCALATION AND SOME FUNDING.
THIS IS JUST SHOWING THE, AGAIN, THE, THE TRAILS AND, AND THE FUNDING.
'CAUSE SOME OF THIS HAD ARPA FUNDING.
SOME OF THESE TRAILS HAVE DALLAS COUNTY FUNDING AND MARK CAN GIVE YOU MORE INFORMATION ON ANY ONE OF THOSE IF YOU GUYS HAVE QUESTIONS ON 'EM.
IS THE GARLAND AVENUE UNDERPASS GONNA BE DONE IN 2024? THAT'S THE, UH, THAT'S THE APPROACH.
RIGHT NOW WE'RE IN DESIGN, UM, REVIEW.
SO WE HAVE A REALLY GOOD AT TRACTION WITH THAT.
SO WE REALLY LIKE THE SOURCES OF FUNDING OF ALL OF THIS.
YOU KNOW, ONE, THE ONE THING THAT MARK AND AND ZIAD, YOU KNOW, DID A REALLY GOOD JOB OF AND WILL CONTINUE TO DO A GOOD JOB OF IS, IS LOOKING FOR EVERY POT THAT WE CAN POSSIBLY GET SOME MONEY OUT OF.
GOTTA SHAKE THE, UH, COUCH CUSHIONS, YOU KNOW, AS MUCH BEST YOU CAN.
SO, SO THIS IS JUST AN OVERVIEW OF, UM, FUNDING, UH, FOR THIS, THIS YEAR.
UH, OBVIOUSLY THERE WERE SOME ON HERE THAT WEREN'T, AGAIN, THE ONES THAT WE SAW IN THERE WERE ONES THAT JUST HAD EITHER MINOR CHANGES IN TIMELINE OR MINOR CHANGES IN FUNDING.
UM, OBVIOUSLY TUCKER V IS STILL UNDER DEVELOPMENT.
UM, GATEWOOD IS ALMOST FINISHED.
GATEWOOD SHOULD BE DONE IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS.
UM, HOLLOW BALL IS MOVING RIGHT ALONG.
UM, LOU HUFF, WE'RE IN DES WE'RE, WE WILL BE MOVING INTO DESIGN.
WE'RE STILL IN, UH, VERY, VERY QUICKLY.
UH, WIND JOICE WE TALKED ABOUT.
SO RICO, RICO AND SPLASH PAD IS UNDER, IS IN DESIGN.
THE NEW, THE NEW SHADE IS, HAS BEEN COMPLETED AT THE DOG PARK.
SO IF YOU HAVEN'T BEEN OVER THE DOG PARK AND SEEN THE NEW SHADING IN THE NEW CITY SEATING, THAT'S BEEN DONE.
UH, WE'RE MOVING FORWARD WITH THE SCOREBOARD AND, UH, SIGNAGE PROGRAM.
IF YOU'VE BEEN BY AUDUBON AND SEEN THE NEW SIGN, THE NEW DIGITAL SIGN IS UP.
AND THE NEW SIGNAGE IS AT DUCK CREEK, UH, AT AUDUBON.
I HAVEN'T SEEN IT ON YET, BUT I'VE SEEN IT UP FOR QUITE A WHILE.
UH, WE GOT, WE CAN PLUG A BULB IN THERE SOON.
THE INSPECTOR WAS OUT THERE TODAY, UH, BUILDING INSPECTIONS.
DID HE, DID HE GIVE US A GREEN TAG? YOU KNOW,
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HONESTLY, I WAITED FOR LIKE 30 MINUTES AND HE WAS LIKE, I THINK IT WAS LIKE A FOUR O'CLOCK THING.BUT HE, I'LL FOLLOW UP WITH HIM AND WE, WE'VE BEEN WATCHING IT, YOU KNOW, IT'S THERE.
IT'S THERE, IT'S THERE, BUT IT'S GONNA BLANK
JUST SAY YES AND WE'LL TURN IT ON.
SO HOPEFULLY, SO HOPEFULLY WE COULD BE VERY QUICKLY NOW.
SO WE'RE, YOU KNOW, JUST OVER 58 POINT, YOU KNOW, UH, 58 POINT 58,000,696 TO BE EXACT, UH, OF FUNDING WITHIN PROJECTS THROUGH THIS YEAR.
SO ANOTHER BUSY YEAR, UM, AHEAD OF US.
YOU KNOW, WE JUST KEEP, UH, ONE THING I WILL SAY GOING INTO CIP IN THIS COMING YEAR IS THE, THE NUMBER OF PROJECTS IS DECREASING.
SOME, UM, WE HAD A LOT OF, WE KIND OF KNOCKED OUT A LOT OF THE SMALLER PROJECTS, I'D SAY EARLY ON, A LOT OF THE PLAYGROUND PROJECTS AND SPLASH PAD AND SHADE PROJECTS.
BUT NOW WE'RE GETTING DOWN TO BIGGER METEOR PROJECTS, UH, LIKE THE TENNIS CENTER AND, UM, STILL HAVE THE R COATING SPLASH PAD AND THE SENIOR CENTER AND LAWN WIND AND JBJ AND SO, OR LOU HUFF, EXCUSE ME.
UM, BUT FEWER A LOT OF MOVING PIECES IN THOSE THOUGH.
DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHEN HOLAH MIGHT BE OPEN? HOLAH, THAT IS A DELETE QUESTION.
WHILE YOU'RE WAITING ON THAT, ON THE, ON THE NEW REC CENTERS THAT ARE COMING IN.
WILL WE BE ABLE TO GET THE SIGNAGE UP AND APPROXIMATELY THE TIME OF OPENING? IT'S BEEN ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF, TWO YEARS NOW.
AND AUDUBON, I KNOW WE DIDN'T FUNDING HAD TO COME ALONG ON THAT ONE, BUT HAVE WE GOT THE FUNDING UP ON THE OTHERS NOW WHERE WE'D BE ABLE TO DO THAT FINANCIAL COMPLETION? YES AND NO.
WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE PUSHING THAT AS MUCH AS WE CAN IN EVERY PROJECT THAT WE CAN.
UM, BUT I'M NOT GONNA LIE, SOMETIMES THERE'S, THERE'S PROJECTS THAT, WITH THESE COST ESCALATIONS AND THINGS LIKE THAT, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES WE HAVE TO FIND OTHER BUCKETS OF FUNDING THAT COME LATER.
BUT WE TRY REALLY REAL HARD TO MAKE SURE THE SIGNAGE COMES AT THE SAME TIME.
THANK YOU, UH, TO YOUR QUEST ABOUT HOBA.
SO IT, RIGHT NOW WE'RE AT MARCH, 2024, BUT, UM, I THINK WE'RE STILL ON TRACK FOR THAT.
THEY, THEY HAD A LOT OF PROGRESS WITH THE BUILDING PICK.
IS THAT ON THE PUNCH LIST NOW? OR IS NOT JUST YET? YEAH, SO, BUT YOU KNOW, THIS IS FOR ACTUALLY OPENING THE DOORS AND LETTING US GO IN THERE AND USE IT.
I MEAN, THAT, THAT'S USUALLY WHAT AROUND THE PUNCH LIST KIND OF PHASE.
SO THINK, UH, DEPENDING ON THE AMOUNT OF ITEMS THEY HAVE TO ADDRESS, IT COULD BE LIKE APRIL-ISH.
I HAVEN'T BEEN OUT THERE IN A WHILE.
HOW'S THE, BEFORE OCTOBER? I'M SORRY.
'CAUSE I WAS LOOKING AT THAT LITTLE CHART YOU HAD IN THERE, LITTLE TACK INS TACK ON AT THE END OF, I WAS MAKING ME A LITTLE NERVOUS, ANN, UNLESS SOMETHING YOU KNOW BIG COMES UP, I, I WOULD SAY APRIL, MAY AT THE LATEST.
AND I HAVEN'T BEEN OUT THERE IN A WHILE.
AND I KNOW THIS DOESN'T CONCERN YOU GUYS, BUT HOW'S THE LIBRARY COMING ALONG? HAVE WE, HAVE WE GOT SLAB AND GROUND OR WHERE THE UTILITIES, AREN'T THEY OH, ADJACENT TO HU BALL? UHHUH.
OH YEAH, THEY'RE STILL WORKING THROUGH, UH, UTILITIES AND ALL THAT GETTING, SO WE WE'RE STILL BELOW GRADE.
WELL, I REMEMBER WHEN THE CIP USED TO BE FIVE TIMES LESS THAN
AND I REMEMBER HEARING, UH, MANY, MANY YEARS AGO AND FOR MANY, MANY YEARS, UH, AND FROM THE, UH, PARKS DIRECTORS AT THE PARKS DEPARTMENT GOT THE LAST DOLLAR IN THE BARREL.
WE'RE ACTUALLY AT THE HEAD OF THE LIST.
IF IT NEEDED TO BE DONE, THE CARTER FAMILY JUST WENT AND DID IT.
IMAGINE, IMAGINE HOW YOU CAN ACCOMPLISH THOSE THINGS AND JUST TALK PEOPLE.
UH, THAT'S CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS.
THAT'S, UH, NUMBER, THAT'S L THAT'S THREE F UH, 3G.
UM, ARE YOU, ARE YOU DOING THIS ONE OR WE MOVING ON TO SOMETHING ELSE FOR YOU? MARK? THESE ARE REPORTS, SO WE JUST ASK QUESTIONS.
ARE WE, ARE WE ON JUST ON F IS THAT WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT? YEP.
ON THESE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS THAT YOU JUST GAVE US.
ANYBODY'S OPPORTUNITY TO ASK ANY QUESTION ON ANY PROJECT THAT'S OUT THERE RIGHT NOW ON THE TRAILS AND GREEN BELT.
CAN WE ADD THE, I HAVE A QUESTION.
SO I SEE NAMAN FOREST, BUT I DON'T SEE THE GAR, THE GARLAND AVENUE UNDERPASS OR WHATEVER YOU CALL IT.
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THAT PROJECT IS, UH, MANAGED THROUGH AECOM, UH, PMO OFFICE, UH, PARKS OF COURSE.HELPS WITH DESIGN AND COORDINATION, BUT, UM,
WHERE WILL THE TREE, UH, PROGRAM FIT WHEN WE START LOOKING AT UPDATES ON THAT? WHERE WE, WHERE WE SEE IT HERE OR UNDER PARK OPERATIONS OR? NO, IT WON'T BE UNDER THE, IT WON'T BE UNDER THE CIP.
WELL, YOU KNOW, IF IT'S SMALL UPDATES, IT'LL BE ON THE PARKS OPERATION UPDATE.
UM, BUT AS WE DIVE INTO THAT PROGRAM, I'LL DO MORE FORMAL UPDATES TO YOU THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.
WHAT IS THE NAME AND FOREST CONNECTION ACTION? WHAT IS IT? SO YOU CAN, I CAN ANSWER IT.
SO THE TRAIL IN WINTER PARK COMES OUT AT THREE OAKS DRIVE.
AND SO IT'S GONNA GO FROM THAT TRAIL IN BY THREE OAKS, DRIVE THROUGH THE SECTION OF HOUSE PARK THAT'S ON THE SOUTH SIDE AND ACROSS THE CREEK.
THERE'LL BE A BRIDGE ACROSS THE CREEK AND IT'LL CONNECT TO THE, UH, CONCRETE PATH.
IT GOES FROM HATH PARK DOWN TO NORTH CARLAND AVENUE, AND THEN IT'LL CONTINUE ON UP TOWARDS BRAND.
IT'S A REALLY COOL, UM, LOCATION.
I PASS BY IT EVERY, EVERY MORNING ON BRAND.
SO IT'S A REALLY INTERESTING, UH, PROJECT.
SO NOW WE'RE DOING A LOT OF INTERESTING GETTING UNDER THESE BRIDGES AND THINGS.
THIS WORK THAT Y'ALL HAVE ACCOMPLISHED IN THAT.
YEAH, THERE'VE BEEN A WHOLE LOT OF PEOPLE FOR A WHOLE LOT OF YEARS.
IT'S SAFER FOR PEDESTRIANS PARTICULARLY, I MEAN, SO CAN'T DO THAT UNLESS SOMEBODY SAYS, I BELIEVE WE CAN.
UH, ANY, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR MARK ON THE, UH, CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS AND STUDIES DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT DIVISION UPDATE? ANYBODY ELSE? ANYBODY ELSE? GOING ONCE, GOING TWICE.
SPECIAL EVENTS IN DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT, UPSTATE UPDATE.
UH, DANA LODGE WAS GONNA HANDLE THAT.
WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE? THAT'S JUST QUESTIONS.
UH, AGAIN, THESE ARE WRITTEN REPORTS, UH, THAT YOU ALL CAN REVIEW.
THIS IS AGAIN, HOW THEY CHANGED OUR, THE AGENDA.
UM, THERE'S A LIST OF UPCOMING MEAN SPECIAL EVENTS, UM, IN THERE.
IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON ANY OF THOSE, I WILL, I CAN DO MY BEST TO ANSWER THEM, BUT THERE'S NOT A, A FORMAL REPORT.
DOES ANYBODY HAVE AN UN FORMAL QUESTION FOR THAT UN FORMAL REPORT? I KNOW, I KNOW IN MARCH, THIS DOESN'T GO QUITE UNTIL MARCH, BUT THERE'LL BE A, AN ART WALK IN DOWNTOWN GARLAND AND ANN WEARY WHO PAINTED, GREW UP IN SPRING CREEK FOREST AND PAINTED, YOU KNOW, LEARNED OUR CHOPS WILL BE ONE OF THE ARTISTS THAT'S GONNA BE REPRESENTED IN THERE.
AND WHEN WILL THIS BE? MARCH 8TH, I THINK WAS THE DAY.
AND WHERE'S IT GONNA BE HELD? UH, DOWNTOWN GARLAND.
UH, RECREATION DIVISION UPDATE THAT WOULD'VE BEEN DE LEE.
UH, AND SO, UM, DO WE HAVE ANYTHING TO REPORT ON THAT? THAT, OKAY.
THAT'S, THAT'S ALL OF THE ITEMS THAT WE HAVE.
UH, SUMMER CAMP AQUATICS, UH, SUMMER NUTRITION, UH, SUMMER 2024.
RECREATIONS CURRENT REVIEWING APPLICATIONS.
ALRIGHT, LET'S MARK THAT ONE OFF.
THAT'D BEEN CHRISTOPHER LEWIS AND PARK DIVISION UPDATE.
UH, ENHANCED AESTHETICS AND SEVERAL DOWNTOWN FLOWER BEDS EXECUTE COMPREHENSIVE CLEANING OF THE LOU HUFF STORAGE FACILITIES TO FACILITATE THE STORAGE OF NEW CHRISTMAS RESTORATIONS.
UH, SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED THE LANDSCAPING WORK AT THE GRANGER ANNEX.
WE WE'RE NOT GONNA GO SEE THAT.
IS THAT, IS THAT OPEN FOR BUSINESS NOW? YES, IT IS.
IS IT REALLY? TAKING UH, RESERVATIONS.
WE GET THE ABILITY TO SERVE ALCOHOL IN THERE.
UH, SKILLFULLY DESIGNED AND CONSTRUCTED A FLOAT FOR THE MARTIN LUTHER KING JUNIOR DAY PROGRAM PARADE AND CONDUCTED THOROUGH AND METICULOUS TREE TRIMMING ALONG DUCK CREEK CORRIDOR, HOF TRAILHEAD, WINNERS AMPHITHEATER, AND ROSE HILL.
THANK YOU FOR TAKING CARE OF HOW FAR YOU'RE WELCOME.
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IT WAS THIS UNDERSTORY BETWEEN THE PARKING LOT AND THE, UH, BASEBALL FIELD.AND WE WERE GETTING A LOT OF MISCHIEF IN THERE FROM, AND DID WE HAVE MULCHER AT WORK? RIGHT? PROBABLY PROBABLY FROM SAXE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS.
UH, AND ALONG, UH, DUCK CREEK.
WHAT, HOW MUCH, HOW MUCH UNDERGROWTH DID YOU HAVE TO, WHAT'D YOU HAVE TO REMOVE IN TRIMMING UP THROUGH THAT? I MEAN, THAT, IT'S AMAZING THAT YOU GOT THIS THING IN THERE, BUT, SO, UM, DUCK CREEK, THE BIG THING THAT WE DID AT DUCK CREEK, WE DID SOME, EVERY WINTER WE CLEAN OFF OFF THE TRAIL.
SO WE GO THROUGH AND WE IDENTIFY ANYTHING THAT COULD POTENTIALLY FALL ON THE TRAIL AND WE TAKE CARE OF THOSE.
BUT THE BIG THING WE DID THIS YEAR, IF YOU NOTICE THAT IF YOU DRIVE DOWN DUCK CREEK DRIVE, IT WAS STARTING TO GROW INTO THE ROAD.
THERE WAS INVASIVE ATLAN, THIS AND OTHER THINGS THAT WERE REALLY COMING UP AND WE PUSHED EVERYTHING BACK.
IT LOOKS, IT LOOKS REALLY GOOD.
UM, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ON THAT? COMMUNICATIONS ENCLOSURES.
AND WE GOT THE SILVER SCOOP AND ALWAYS INTERESTING TRIPS YOU COULD TAKE WITH THE SENIORS, SENIORS OF GARLAND.
THAT'S, UH, THAT'S SOME INTERESTING TRIPS PLANNED IN THERE.
UH, FOR THE SENIORS ON THE LEFT SIDE AND IN THE CENTER OF THIS DICE.
AND, UH, BEFORE WE GET TO FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS, LET'S GET FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS. UH, DO WE HAVE ANY OF THOSE? SECURITY ALWAYS A CONCERN.
SECURITY WHERE, WHAT, WHEN, HOW, WHO, BUT PARTICULARLY, NO, JUST IN GENERAL.
ARE WE HAVING SOME ISSUES THAT WE NEED? OH YES.
YOU WANNA COME OUT ON A SATURDAY MORNING AFTER A PARTY? IS THIS SPRING PARK AREA IS WHERE YOU'RE CONCERNED ABOUT? MM-HMM,
UH, AND ALSO, UH, NEXT MONTH, UM, KIM HAS AGREED TO COME AND SPEAK ON, ON A LOT OF THE WORK THAT SHE'S DOING.
SO WE'LL HAVE KIM MIE HERE NEXT MONTH.
AND, AND WE JUST STARTED TALKING TO HER ON OUR SIDE, SO THEN THAT'LL BE PERFECT TIMING.
AND THIS DOESN'T, THIS DOESN'T HAVE TO DEAL WITH PARKS, BUT, UH, UH, KIM, UH, THE TWO KIMS KIM MIE AND KIM EVERETT ARE WORKING THROUGH THE, UH, GARLAND LANDMARK SOCIETY AND INTERVIEWING, UH, SOME OF THE FOLKS THAT HAVE BEEN AROUND GARLAND FOR A, FOR A GOOD WHILE.
AND I'VE GOTTEN TO SIT IN ON THREE OF THOSE NOW 'CAUSE I BROUGHT 'EM AND, UH, SHOULD TALK ABOUT THAT TOO.
IT, IT IS VERY INTERESTING TO SIT THERE AND LISTEN TO PEOPLE TALK ABOUT GARLAND IN THE 1930S AND THE FORTIES AND THE FIFTIES AND THE SIXTIES AND, AND HOW WE GREW UP FROM A, AN AGRARIAN SOCIETY AND CAME INTO THE MANUFACTURING DURING WORLD WAR II AND THEY MOVED OFF THE FARM AND, AND, AND ACTUALLY HAD, UH, OTHER JOBS AVAILABLE THERE.
THEY'RE DOING AN OUTSTANDING JOB ON THAT.
AND THAT IF ANYBODY KNOWS SOMEBODY THAT'S BEEN IN GARLAND FOR MORE THAN 80 YEARS, UH, YOU KNOW, THAT
IT'S NOT, BUT THAT'S WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH US.
AND, UH, AND ONE, ONE LAST THING.
UH, WE ALL KNOW THAT, UH, WE'VE LOST, UH, ZID OT, UH, TO THE DUR CITY OF DENTON.
UH, AND JUST FROM THE, FROM THE CHAIRMAN'S POINT OF VIEW, UH, ZID WAS THE FIRST ONE I STARTED WORKING WITH.
WHEN, WHEN, WHEN I CAME IN ON THE BOARD.
UH, AND HE WAS ALWAYS HAD AN OPEN DOOR.
I, I DON'T KNOW HOW HE WAS SO POSITIVE.
'CAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS HE SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN POSITIVE ABOUT, BUT HE MANAGED TO BE POSITIVE AND, AND WE'RE, AND WE'RE ALL GONNA MISS HIM.
AND IF YOU GET A CHANCE, YOU TELL ZI THAT THE, THAT THE PARKS BOARD IS ALREADY MISSING HIM.
AND, UM, WE WISH HIM ALL THE LUCK UP THERE IN, IN DENTON, IN HIS, IN HIS NEW, UH, TASKS TO ACCOMPLISH.
WE HAD A LITTLE LONGER THAN USUAL MEETING, UH, THIS TIME, BUT BOY, WE HAD A, WHEN I, I POPPED THIS THING UP WHEN IT WAS SENT TO ME AND I, AND I LOOKED AT THE AGENDA AND I SAID, OH LORD, I HOPE WE CAN GET OUTTA HERE ON THE SAME DAY.
AND WE'RE, WE'RE GONNA MAKE IT BECAUSE WE'RE GONNA MAKE IT BY.
WE DIDN'T MAKE IT BY THE EIGHT O'CLOCK HOUR, BUT WE'RE GONNA MAKE IT BY THE NINE O'CLOCK.
IS THERE ANY OTHER BUSINESS TO BRING BEFORE THE BOARD? WELL, AGAIN, I WANNA WEAR WELCOME OUR, OUR NEWEST MEMBER.
AND I THOUGHT I SHOULD KNOW YOU FROM SOME PLACE THEN YOU, AND YOU TOLD ME WHERE THAT, WHERE THAT WAS, THAT'S A LONG TIME AGO.
UH, WHEN YOU WERE THE GARLAND DAILY NEWS AND, UH, YEAH.
AND THEN THE GARLAND NEWS AND, UH, DEALING WITH, DEALING WITH THE BUILDERS AROUND TOWN.
SO ANYWAY, THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING HERE TONIGHT AND AT THIS TIME IT IS 8 55 AND WE WILL ADJOURN THIS MEETING.