Mar 18, 2025 Board of Directors Meeting

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AND YOU CAN BE HEARD. WELL, GOOD MORNING AND WELCOME TO THIS CLOSED SESSION OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE EAST BAY REGIONAL PARK DISTRICT FOR MARCH 18TH, 2025, BEGINNING AT 1107. MADAM CLERK, PLEASE CALL THE ROLL.

[ROLL CALL]

DESCHAMBAULT. PRESENT. ECHOLS HERE. DIRECTOR SANWONG HERE.

DIRECTOR WAESPI HERE. DIRECTOR ESPAÑA HERE. PRESIDENT MERCURIO HERE.

GENERAL MANAGER LANDRETH HERE. AND GENERAL COUNSEL BOURGAULT HERE.

AND, MADAM CLERK, DO WE HAVE ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO WISH TO MAKE ANY COMMENTS ON THE CLOSED SESSION ITEMS TODAY?

[PUBLIC COMMENT ON CLOSED SESSION AGENDA ITEMS]

HE MAY BE. SURPRISE, SURPRISE. YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU, PRESIDENT MERCURIO, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.

WE'RE MOVING IN FANTASTIC DIRECTIONS RIGHT NOW.

THINGS HAVE BEEN VERY, VERY LUCKY FOR US IN THE LAST FEW YEARS.

LOOKS LIKE WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO CLOSE IN POINT.

MELODY. AND NOW IN THE DEAD CENTER OF THE EAST SHORE PARK.

LOOKS LIKE WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO HAVE A GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO ACQUIRE GOLDEN GATE FIELDS FOR THE PARK.

WE'RE NOT THERE YET, AND IT WILL LARGELY DEPEND ON YOUR LEADERSHIP TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN.

AND WE ALL COUNT ON YOU AND RELY ON YOU FOR THAT LEADERSHIP.

I KNOW THAT THERE'S A GAP BETWEEN THE PRICES THAT PEOPLE THINK THEIR PROPERTY HAPPENS TO BE WORTH AND WHAT PEOPLE SHOULD PAY THEM FOR IT, AND WHAT THE PUBLIC MIGHT BE WILLING TO DO IT. BUT WHAT'S I THINK SHIFTED IS THE THE DEDICATION AND THE COMMITMENT OF THE SELLER TO ACTUALLY GET RID OF THE PROPERTY TO SELL THE PROPERTY. AND I THINK THAT THAT GIVES US A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY HERE TO PUT TOGETHER THE FUNDING TO BRING EVERYBODY TOGETHER FOR A NUMBER THAT WE CAN ALL LIVE WITH.

SO I'M HERE ON BEHALF OF CITIZENS FOR EAST SHORE PARKS, THE SIERRA CLUB, THE AUDUBON FOR THE CALIFORNIA NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY, ALL SPEAKING IN FAVOR OF THIS MOVE THAT WILL WE WILL BE ABLE TO DO THIS.

THERE ARE SOME CREATIVE IDEAS AND POSITIVE THINGS THAT MAY HAPPEN.

I KNOW THAT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT'S HELD THIS UP A LITTLE BIT HAS BEEN, WELL, HOW DOES THE FUNDING FOR THE LOCALITY OF ALBANY BERKELEY AND THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS GET MET? WELL, FORTUNATELY, ALBANY IS THE ONE THAT GETS THE MOST MONEY FROM THIS, AND IT'S THE THE MONEY FROM THE TRACK HAS DIMINISHED SEVERELY SINCE I SERVED A LONG TIME AGO.

WHEN PRESIDENT LINCOLN WAS IN OFFICE, I WAS ON THE BOARD.

I SERVED ON THE CITY COUNCIL AND AS MAYOR OF ALBANY.

AND I CAN TELL YOU THAT IT USED TO BE A BIG DEAL, AND NOW IT'S ONLY A TINY PORTION OF THE GENERAL FUND.

SO WHAT'S LEFT IS JUST THE ACTUAL REAL ESTATE COST, THE PROPERTY TAXES.

AND FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT, THEY GET A LITTLE BIT AS WELL.

BUT IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT RIGHT NOW, A DECENT USE IN INTERIM USE BEFORE SEA RISE BECOMES AS BIG A PROBLEM AS WE EXPECT.

THERE'S A WHOLE INFIELD THERE WITH THE TRACK IN PLACE AND ALL OF THIS PLAYING FIELD.

AND EVEN WITH REGARD TO THE ISSUE OF WHAT TO DO WITH THE INFRASTRUCTURE, WHICH WOULD BE THE GRANDSTANDS AND ALL OF THAT, THAT MAY BE CAN BE DELAYED AND DELAYED SOMEWHAT BECAUSE THAT INFRASTRUCTURE WOULD PROVIDE THE SCHOOLS WITH THE NATURAL PLACE FOR THEM TO WATCH THESE EVENTS THAT COULD HAPPEN IN THE INFIELD. SO THERE MIGHT BE A WAY TO SEE OUR WAY FORWARD WITHOUT SPENDING EVERYTHING WE MIGHT NEED TO DO IN THE VERY FIRST FEW YEARS.

I'M NOT HERE TO TELL YOU YOUR BUSINESS. I'M HERE TO JUST ENCOURAGE YOU TO DO THE THING THAT CAN HAPPEN FOR ALL OF US.

AND IF WE GET GOLDEN GATE FIELDS AND WE GET POINT MALATTIE ALL PUT TO BED, THEN WE CAN FOCUS ON THE LONGER RANGE, THE BIGGER VIEW OF LINKING ALL THESE SHORELINE PARKS ALONG THE EAST BAY.

SO I'M HERE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ALLOWING ME TO SPEAK AND GO.

TEAM. THANKS. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

ANY ARE THERE ANY OTHER SPEAKERS LINED UP FOR TODAY? ALL RIGHT. AND HEARING NONE, THEN WE WILL ADJOURN TO CLOSED SESSION AT THIS TIME.

[CLOSED SESSION ITEMS Revised 3/13/24]

I THINK I HAD IT UP TO THE LAST PHASE. I MEAN, THE LAST LOT.

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SO YEAH.

WILL THE CLERK PLEASE CALL THE ROLL? YES. PRESIDENT.

[ROLL CALL]

DIRECTOR SANWONG HERE. DIRECTOR DESCHAMBAULT HERE.

DIRECTOR ESPAÑA HERE. DIRECTOR. WAESPI HERE. PRESIDENT MERCURIO HERE.

GENERAL MANAGER LANDRETH HERE. GENERAL COUNSEL BOURGAULT HERE.

THANK YOU. WELL, DIRECTOR COFFEY, PLEASE LEAD US IN THE PLEDGE.

OKAY. I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS.

ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.

AND WE'LL. DIRECTOR WAESPI, PLEASE READ THE LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

[LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT]

WE MAKE THIS RECOGNITION AS A WAY TO RESPECT AND HONOR THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES WHO FIRST CULTIVATED AND INHABITED THIS LAND.

THE PARK DISTRICT IS COMMITTED TO IDENTIFYING WAYS TO WORK AND CONSULT WITH EAST BAY TRIBES, AS WE RECOGNIZE THAT THESE TRIBAL CITIZENS REMAIN CONNECTED TO THEIR LAND AND CULTURE.

THANK YOU FOR THAT. NEXT ITEM IS MODIFICATION OF THE AGENDA.

[MODIFICATION OF AGENDA]

OKAY. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. AYE. OPPOSED? CARRIES.

UNANIMOUSLY. I DON'T BELIEVE WE HAVE ANY SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS TODAY, SO WE CAN MOVE ON TO PUBLIC COMMENT.

[PUBLIC COMMENT ON ITEMS NOT ON THE AGENDA]

OKAY. THANK YOU. YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES, MA'AM.

THANK YOU. GOOD AFTERNOON, BOARD OF DIRECTORS.

MY NAME IS RENEE PATTERSON AND I'M AN ADMIN ANALYST AND BUSINESS SERVICES AND THE OPERATIONS DIVISION.

I WORK HERE AT PROUD OAKS ON THE THIRD FLOOR, AND I'M HERE TO STATE YET AGAIN THAT THERE WAS A PERPS FILING PERPS IS THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA PUBLIC EMPLOYEE BOARD.

AFSCME FILED AN UNFAIR PRACTICE CHARGE ON AUGUST 26TH, 2022, AND IT WAS CHARGED FOR BAD FAITH BARGAINING, INTERFERENCE, DIRECT DEALING, UNILATERAL IMPLEMENTATION IN REGARDS TO THE TELECOMMUTE PROGRAM OR LACK OF TELECOMMUTE PROGRAM.

AND I KNOW THAT THERE'S BEEN WHISPERINGS ABOUT THIS FILING, BUT I HAVEN'T HEARD ANYTHING DEFINITIVE FROM ANYBODY AFSCME DISTRICT. NOBODY. SO I'M GOING TO STILL COME TO THE BOARD MEETINGS WHEN I CAN TO REMIND YOU OF THIS FILING UNTIL I HEAR SOMETHING DEFINITIVE.

THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. PRESIDENT.

MERCURY. YOU ALSO HAVE ONE MEMBER ONLINE. ALL RIGHT.

MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC. I'M GOING TO LET HIM IN.

ALL RIGHT. JUST A SECOND, MR. LUNN. DAVID LUNN, ARE YOU COMING IN TO SPEAK ON AN ITEM THAT IS NOT ON THE AGENDA? OKAY, JUST GIVE ME ONE SECOND, SIR. OKAY. IF YOU CAN ACCEPT THAT.

MR. LUNN, ARE YOU HERE TO SPEAK ON AN ITEM THAT IS NOT ON THE AGENDA? YES, I AM. OKAY, YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES, SIR.

I'M GOING TO TURN MY VIDEO OFF. WHEN YOU SEE ME AGAIN, YOU'LL HAVE 30S.

OKAY. OKAY. OKAY. THANK YOU. WELL, MY NAME IS DAVID LUNN.

I'M A MEMBER OF THE ALAMEDA COUNTY AG ADVISORY COMMITTEE, THE TRAIL SUBCOMMITTEE, AND WE'RE WORKING ON TRYING TO GET ENCOURAGE AGRITOURISM IN IN THE AGRICULTURAL AREA SURROUNDING LIVERMORE.

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TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE. THE 250TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ANZA EXPEDITION IS ONLY 13 MONTHS AWAY.

THIS ANZA EXPEDITION, YOU KNOW, HAD LEFT MEXICO IN 1775 WITH 240 SETTLERS.

I DON'T KNOW HOW YOUR PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPARTMENT IS GOING TO TRY TO DEAL WITH THIS KIND OF THIS FIRST INVASION OF OF IMMIGRANTS FROM MEXICO. BUT I BUT WE ALL CELEBRATE THAT.

BUT IT JUST SPECIFICALLY PART OF THAT TRAIL CONNECTS THROUGH ON THAT 300 FOOT GAP BETWEEN LOS VAQUEROS AND BRUSHY PEAK. AND WHAT WE'VE HEARD IS THAT YOU NEED TO CONDUCT A TRAIL ROUTING STUDY IN ORDER TO DECIDE WHAT THE NEXT STEP IS.

SO I'M JUST CALLING TO ASK THAT YOU START THIS TRAIL ROUTING STUDY NOW SO THAT IT MAY BE POSSIBLE FOR THE ANZA TRAIL TO CONNECT TO PARKS IN LIVERMORE BEFORE THE 250TH ANNIVERSARY.

ANYWAY, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. ALL RIGHT. ALL RIGHT.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH. ANY OTHERS? WE DO. WE DO NOT HAVE ANOTHER SPEAKER.

BUT WE DID RECEIVE A PUBLIC COMMENT FROM MR. DYSON EARLIER TODAY.

I PUT IT ON YOUR RIGHT. YEAH. OKAY, GREAT. ALL RIGHT.

NEXT IS ANNOUNCEMENTS. DO WE HAVE ANY ANNOUNCEMENTS? NO. ALL RIGHT, SO MOVING ON TO BUSINESS BEFORE THE BOARD CONSENT CALENDAR.

[CONSENT CALENDAR]

IT SUGGESTS THAT OUR BOARD MOVED AND SECONDED SOMETHING ABOUT THIS.

WE VOTED, AND I KNOW THAT COLIN COFFEY AND I DO NOT WANT TO BE IN.

WE LIKE THAT. WE DIDN'T WANT TO BE IN THIS DEAL.

THAT SAID, WE VOTED AGAINST THIS. THERE WASN'T A VOTE.

I THINK THE VOTING SECTION ON PAGE 12 SHOULD BE MOVED DOWN TO THE PROPOSAL TO HIRE ANOTHER CHIEF FEDERAL ADVOCATE. JUST A LITTLE HOUSEKEEPING.

JUST DROP DOWN. GO AHEAD. I HAD ONE MORE HOUSE KEEPING ITEM WHERE IT SAYS PHIL WILDER.

WILDER SPELLED W I'D E R. AND ANOTHER COMMENT.

YEAH. WHILE WE'RE ON THE MINUTES ON PAGE 12, IT EXPRESSES THAT I HAD A CONCERN OR EXPRESSED CAUTION. THE ONLY IT DOESN'T FILL OUT HERE. MY CAUTION WAS, IS THAT WE WERE MEETING SORRY THAT WE WERE ENGAGING ALL REPRESENTATIVES OF ALL OF THE INDIGENOUS TRIBES, NOT THE WAY THE SENTENCE IS READ.

SO I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAY EXPRESS CAUTION TO ENSURE WE ARE CONTACTING AND ENGAGING ALL TRIBES.

BASED ON MY EXPERIENCE WORKING WITH FEDERAL AGENCY TRIBES.

THANK YOU. OKAY. DO YOU HAVE ANOTHER ONE? JUST JUST A QUESTION, I APOLOGIZE.

SURE. THAT'S OKAY. IT'S A SHORT MEETING. YOU KNOW, WE WE'RE APPROVING AGENDA ITEM EIGHT, A SIX ON PAGE 31, THE AUTHORIZATION TO AMEND THE BUDGET TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR COST RELATED TO THE NOVEMBER 5TH FIFTH ELECTION.

SO AM I READING THIS CORRECT THAT WE HAD AN ELECTION? I KNOW WE PAY FOR THE ELECTION, BUT BOY DID TWO ELECTIONS FOR ONLY TWO PEOPLE BECAUSE ELIZABETH RAN UNOPPOSED FOR TWO PEOPLE.

COST UPWARDS OF 2.5 MILLION. AND ISN'T THERE A I UNDERSTAND THE THE POPULATION DISCREPANCY, BUT EVEN WHEN IT'S A CONTRA COSTA VERSUS ALAMEDA, HOW COME OR ALAMEDA COSTS SO MUCH MORE MONEY?

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IT'S A GOOD QUESTION. 2 MILLION TO RUN FOR. IT COST A MILLION AND A HALF OR A QUARTER TO RUN FOR OFFICE.

YEAH. ALL GREAT QUESTIONS. WE HAD THE SAME REACTION.

DEV CAN PROVIDE MAYBE A QUICK RESPONSE THERE.

YEAH. DEV SPAULDING AGM FINANCE AND MANAGEMENT SERVICES.

WE DON'T YET HAVE THE FINAL INVOICE FROM ALAMEDA COUNTY.

WE GOT FROM THEM AN ESTIMATE OF WHAT IT WILL BE BETWEEN A CERTAIN RANGE.

AND SO WE PUT IN THERE THE HIGHEST THAT IT COULD POSSIBLY BE.

WE'RE HOPING THAT IT'S NOT THAT HIGH, BUT IT IS. IT'S STILL A VERY LARGE AMOUNT, EVEN IF IT COMES IN AT THE LOW END.

SO BUT BASED ON PAST EXPERIENCE, WE JUST ACCEPT THESE COSTS AND WE DON'T REALLY HAVE A WAY TO DISPUTE IT.

SO UNFORTUNATELY AND THESE ARE COSTS THAT HAVE WE CAN PULL SOME HISTORICALS.

BUT THIS HAS JUST BEEN TRUE OF OF REALLY EVERY JURISDICTION OVER THE LAST TEN ISH YEARS AS THE BALLOT.

THE, THE NUMBER OF LANGUAGES, I THINK THAT WE HAVE TO PRINT THEM IN.

AND ALL OF THESE, THERE'S JUST BEEN INCREASING LIKE, YOU KNOW, PER MEASURE, PER CANDIDATE COSTS.

BUT I THINK THERE'S SOME BIG PICTURE QUESTIONS THAT SHOULD PROBABLY BE ADDRESSED.

BECAUSE THIS IS A HUMONGOUS BILL, TO YOUR POINT, FOR TWO CANDIDATES.

YEAH. IT'S JUST I THINK, I MEAN, I, I RAN IN 2022, AND IT WAS $771,000 FROM ALAMEDA COUNTY.

I KNOW COSTS GO UP, BUT AT THAT RATE. BUT WE'LL GET YOU THE COST WHEN WE WHEN WE WHEN WE GET THEM.

YEAH. OKAY. THANK YOU. SO WE HAVE SOME SUGGESTED ADJUSTMENTS TO THE MINUTES ON THE CONSENT CALENDAR. DO WE HAVE A MOTION FOR APPROVAL OF THE CONSENT CALENDAR TO INCLUDE THOSE CHANGES? SO MOVED. OKAY. MOVED BY COFFEY. SECOND. SECOND.

SECOND BY ECHOLS. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. OPPOSED? OKAY. CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY. ALL RIGHT. NEXT IS

[ACQUISITION, STEWARDSHIP AND DEVELOPMENT DIVISION]

OKAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. DIRECTOR MERCURIO.

MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. BRIAN HOLT DIVISION LEAD FOR PLANNING TRAILS, CULTURAL RESOURCES, GIS.

LET ME OPEN UP MY PRESENTATION HERE. AND WE'LL GO AHEAD AND GET STARTED.

ALL RIGHT. SO, YES THANKS FOR HAVING ME HERE TODAY.

HERE TO TALK ABOUT THE DISTRICT PLAN. AND AND AGAIN REQUEST AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONTRACT TO AUTHORIZE THE PHASE TWO WORK FOR THE DISTRICT PLAN. TO A TOTAL AMOUNT OF 2941.

THIS IS. THE BOARD AUTHORIZED AN INITIAL CONTRACT IN THEIR BUDGET IN 2024.

WE HAVE BEEN WORKING ON THAT. I'LL GIVE A LITTLE BIT OF AN OVERVIEW OF WHAT THAT WORK IS AS WE MOVE INTO PHASE TWO.

THE BOARD AUTHORIZED FUNDING FOR PHASE TWO IN THE 2025 BUDGET.

SO WE ARE SIMPLY LOOKING TO AMEND THAT CONTRACT AND APPROPRIATE THOSE FUNDS.

SO AGAIN, BACK IN 2023, THE BOARD HAD DIRECTED STAFF TO BEGIN EVALUATING A LOOKING AT THE DISTRICT, THE DISTRICT PLAN, THE 2013, WHAT'S CALLED THE MASTER PLAN.

AND THE PROCESS FOR UPDATING THAT WE DID A FAIR AMOUNT OF WORK ON THE FRONT END AND THEN WENT OUT FOR AN RFP.

AND JULY 2024, THE BOARD AUTHORIZED THE PHASE ONE CONTRACT WITH PLACEWORKS.

AND THAT WAS IN THE AMOUNT JUST JUST UNDER $600,000.

DOLLARS. AND AGAIN, THAT FUNDING WAS AUTHORIZED IN THE 2024 BUDGET.

SO BETWEEN JULY 2024 TODAY WE'VE BEEN ENGAGED IN DOING A LOT OF BACKGROUND DATA ANALYSIS.

HAVE DEVELOPED A SERIES OF ENGAGEMENT PLANS BOTH FOR INTERNALLY, STAFF ENGAGEMENT AS WELL AS EXTERNAL ENGAGEMENT.

AND I'LL DISCUSS THAT A LITTLE BIT MORE. AND THEN WE'VE BEEN REALLY DIVING INTO SOME OF THE BASELINE MAPPING ON RESOURCE MAPPING AND YOU KNOW, OTHER OTHER SORTS OF DATA THAT'S NEEDED THERE.

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SO THAT'S SOME OF THE WORK THAT'S BEEN GOING ON IN THE BACKGROUND.

I'VE DISCUSSED THIS BEFORE WITH THE BOARD DURING YOUR RETREAT AND OUR SORT OF FOCUS ON INTERNAL ENGAGEMENT AND WHERE WE'RE AT.

SO JUST REAL QUICK, YOU KNOW, WHAT IS THE DISTRICT PLAN? THIS IS THIS IS SORT OF SEEN AS THE THE OVERARCHING PLAN FOR THE DISTRICT TO TO PROVIDE A STRATEGIC ROADMAP TO, TO KIND OF GUIDE US IN OUR KEY PRIORITIES TO SORT OF MOVE US INTO THIS NEXT CENTURY, OUR SECOND CENTURY AS WE'VE BEEN CALLING IT, THE SECOND CENTURY PLAN. SO THIS WILL LOOK AT THE SORT OF EXISTING CONDITIONS OF THE PARK DISTRICT ANALYZE SOME OF OUR FUTURE TRENDS, LOOK AT THINGS LIKE HOUSING DEMOGRAPHICS CONSERVATION RESOURCES, STEWARDSHIP AND JUST A NUMBER OF OTHER ITEMS. AND THEN REALLY TAKING THAT INPUT FROM STAFF AND THE COMMUNITY AND, AND HELP US DEVELOP AND GUIDE THOSE, THOSE, THOSE PRIORITIES. TO BE CLEAR, YOU KNOW, WORK IS CONTINUING TO GO ON, AT THE DISTRICT.

WE'RE NOT NECESSARILY HOLDING OFF ON OPENING UP PARKLANDS OR MOVING PROJECTS FORWARD UNTIL THIS IS DONE.

WE'RE SORT OF WALKING AND CHEWING GUM AT THE SAME TIME HERE.

SO THE PROCESS IS THAT, OOPS, LET ME GO BACK.

WE HAVE BEEN WE'VE KICKED OFF A SERIES OF INTERNAL ENGAGEMENT EXERCISES.

YOU MIGHT SEE SOME FLIERS AROUND HERE IN THE BUILDING. WE'VE HAD A SERIES OF EVENTS IN THIS ROOM BACK ON THE PATIO.

WE'RE ALSO GETTING OUT TO VARIOUS PARK SITES TO MEET WITH STAFF WHO ARE IN THE FIELD.

I THINK WE'VE GOT SOME 32 MEETINGS IN TOTAL PLANNED AS WELL AS A SERIES OF VIRTUAL MEETINGS AND A SERIES OF QUESTIONS THAT I'LL KIND OF POP UP THAT, THAT YOU'LL SEE THAT WE'RE ASKING STAFF TO ENGAGE IN.

AND THEN WE'LL TAKE THAT INFORMATION IN THAT INTERNAL ENGAGEMENT IS RUNNING THROUGH THE END OF MAY.

AND THEN ABOUT EARTH DAY, WE'RE LOOKING TO REALLY KICK OFF OUR EXTERNAL ENGAGEMENT, AND I WILL GIVE A LITTLE BIT OF A PREVIEW OF WHAT THAT IS.

I WILL MENTION I'M COMING BACK TO THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, WHERE I'LL DO A DEEPER DIVE IN IN TERMS OF WHAT THAT EXTERNAL ENGAGEMENT IS.

BUT WE DO HAVE A ROLE FOR THE BOARD IN THAT HAVE A ROLE FOR OUR PAC MEMBERS.

AND WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO KICKING THAT OFF. AND THAT'LL RUN THROUGH THE YEAR.

AND THEN IN THE EARLY PART OF NEXT YEAR IS WHEN WE'LL REALLY BE DEVELOPING THAT PLAN.

AND IT'S MY HOPE THAT COME JULY OF NEXT YEAR, YOU KNOW, WE WILL HAVE SOME DRAFT DOCUMENTS THAT WE'LL BE ABLE TO START BRINGING BEFORE THE BOARD AND THE PUBLIC, AND WE CAN START WORKING IT THROUGH ULTIMATELY, WITH THE HOPES THAT WE'LL BE ABLE TO WRAP THIS UP BY THE END OF NEXT YEAR.

SO IN TERMS OF OUTCOMES, YOU KNOW WHAT WE'RE LOOKING TO GET HERE? YOU KNOW, WE'RE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE NOT NECESSARILY LOOKING TO TO REVISE THAT PARK MAP THAT FOLKS MAY BE FAMILIAR WITH IN TERMS OF WHERE LINES ARE ON THE MAP AND WHERE PARKS ARE ON THE MAP.

WE'RE REALLY LOOKING TO KIND OF ESTABLISH THE CLEAR VISION AND DIRECTION FOR THE PARK DISTRICT AS WE LOOK TOWARDS THE NEXT CENTURY AND FOR, FOR FOR US, THAT'S REALLY IDENTIFYING A LOT OF THE KEY PRIORITIES.

YOU KNOW, NOT JUST IN TERMS OF CAPITAL PROJECTS, BUT ALSO WHETHER IT'S PROGRAMS OR JUST REALLY ANY OF THE PARK DISTRICT FUNCTIONS, IDENTIFY THOSE PRIORITIES. PARK DISTRICT STAFF, CONSTITUENTS AND VISITORS.

SO AGAIN, WE'RE DOING OUTREACH. WE'RE ALSO TAKING IN INFORMATION THAT GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS AND OTHERS HAVE DONE THROUGH THEIR COMMUNITY SURVEYS AND OTHER EFFORTS AND, AND INCORPORATING THAT WE'RE ALSO LOOKING FORWARD TO HAVING A LOT OF OUR MAPS AND DATA COMPILED.

WE'VE HEARD REQUESTS FOR MAPS AND MAKING DATA MORE ACCESSIBLE.

WE HAVE WE HAVE A LOT OF DATA. AND, AND WE'RE REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO PUTTING THAT IN MORE OF AN ACCESSIBLE, SORT OF TANGIBLE FORMAT THAT THE BOARD, THE PUBLIC AND OTHERS CAN CAN EXPLORE ON THEIR OWN.

AND AGAIN, ALL OF THIS IS REALLY ENGAGING WITH STAFF, WITH THE COMMUNITY TO IDENTIFY WHAT THOSE PRIORITIES ARE, WHAT THOSE INTERESTS ARE, SO WE CAN BE SURE WE'RE SORT OF WORKING TOWARDS TOWARDS MEETING THOSE GOALS AS WE GO FORWARD.

THIS IS JUST A QUICK SNAPSHOT OF SORT OF WHAT WE'VE BEEN INCORPORATING TO DATE.

SO I THINK YOU'RE FAMILIAR. THE OFFICE OF EQUITY HAS BEEN DOING A LOT OF OUTREACH WITH REGARDS TO THEIR EQUITY PLAN, AND WE'VE BEEN INCORPORATING INFORMATION FROM THE GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS COMMUNITY SURVEYS.

WE'VE ALSO BEEN GETTING A LOT OF GOOD INFORMATION FROM FROM YOU ALL AND FROM GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS THROUGH THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY.

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AND JUST SOME OTHER EXERCISES AND PLANS THAT HAVE BEEN GOING GOING ON HERE AT THE DISTRICT THAT WE'VE BEEN COLLECTING AND COMPILING ALL OF THAT INFORMATION.

AGAIN, WE'RE INVOLVED IN STAFF ENGAGEMENT, AND THEN WE'RE LOOKING TOWARDS PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT.

SO WHAT PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT IS GOING TO START TO LOOK LIKE? WE'LL THEY'LL BE ESSENTIALLY THREE ROUNDS. THE FIRST ROUND WILL BE REALLY KIND OF FOCUSED A BIT MORE ON INDIRECT ENGAGEMENT.

SO WE WILL BE PROVIDING A TOOLKIT TO THE BOARD THAT YOU WILL HAVE INFORMATION WITH A LITTLE QR CODE.

AS YOU'RE OUT IN THE PUBLIC, YOU CAN SHARE INFORMATION AND THAT QR CODE WITH THE PUBLIC THAT THEY CAN LOG ON AND GO AND TAKE A SURVEY.

THERE'LL BE A MAP THERE. AND SO YOU CAN HELP FACILITATE GETTING INPUT THERE.

WE'LL ALSO BE PUTTING INFORMATION OUT IN SOME PUBLIC FACILITIES, WHETHER IT'S LIBRARIES PARK DISTRICT FACILITIES.

SAME THING WITH THAT QR CODE SO FOLKS CAN GET INFORMATION, AND THEY ALSO WANT TO GET THIS INFORMATION OUT TO ALL OF OUR VARIOUS PARTNERS, ORGANIZATIONS IN THE COMMUNITY SO THAT THEY CAN SHARE WITH THEIR MEMBERSHIP. SO WHETHER THAT'S THE VARIOUS CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE, THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY, THE ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNITY AND OTHERS GETTING THAT INFORMATION IN THEIR HANDS SO THEY CAN KIND OF DISSEMINATE IT REALLY KIND OF CROWDSOURCING INPUT THAT WILL BE KIND OF THE FIRST ROUND. AND THAT'S GOING TO BE FAIRLY HIGH LEVEL.

QUESTIONS. SECOND ROUND WILL BE WHERE WE START GETTING MORE DETAILED QUESTIONS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT DO WE ACTUALLY WANT TO SEE. WHAT SPECIFIC ACTIONS CAN WE TAKE.

SO WE'LL GO AROUND AND DO THAT SIMILAR SORT OF EXERCISE IN THERE.

AND THEN ALSO EXPECT SOME MORE DIRECT ENGAGEMENT WITH SOME OF OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS AND THEN ANTICIPATE THAT WE WILL HAVE SOME PUBLIC WORKSHOPS AND THOSE TYPES OF THINGS. AND THEN, OF COURSE, AS WE HAVE THE DRAFT PLAN DEVELOPED, WE'LL BE COMING BACK TO THE BOARD, TO THE PARK ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND AND OTHER OTHER FORUMS HERE AS WE WORK THROUGH THAT APPROVAL PROCESS.

AND WHAT YOU SEE UP HERE IS THE SCHEDULE FOR STAFF ENGAGEMENT.

SO YOU CAN SEE IT'S BEEN A PRETTY ROBUST SCHEDULE THAT WE'VE BEEN WORKING THROUGH. AND THE QUESTIONS ON THE SIDE THERE.

SO WE HAVE FOUR QUESTIONS THERE. AGAIN, INTENTIONALLY VERY BROAD, HIGH LEVEL AND TRYING TO GAUGE WHAT WHAT THE THE INTEREST IN THE VISION, WHAT TOOLS ARE NEEDED WHAT FOLKS THINK VISITORS WANT IN THEIR PARK AS WE DO GO OUT TO THE PUBLIC? WE WILL BE INCORPORATING A QUESTION IN HERE SPECIFIC TOWARDS STEWARDSHIP AND CONSERVATION OF RESOURCES AND PROTECTION OF HISTORIC AND CULTURAL RESOURCES, REALLY ASKING SORT OF WHAT FOLKS VISION ARE FOR PROTECTION OF OUR NATURAL AND CULTURAL RESOURCES.

BUT BUT THE QUESTIONS ARE REALLY INTENDED TO ALIGN SORT OF BETWEEN THE INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL.

SO AGAIN, WE'RE HOPING TO GET THIS INFORMATION OUT BROADLY AND WE'LL KIND OF COLLECT THERE.

SO THAT'S WHERE WE'RE AT. AND THEN THE SECOND PHASE IS REALLY START TO STARTING TO DEVELOP THE PLAN AND DEVELOPING THE MAPPING AND SOME OF THAT STUFF.

SO WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON THE BASELINE MAPS. THAT'S REALLY BASED ON SOME OF THIS NEEDS ASSESSMENT.

SO LOOKING AT TAKING VARIOUS ESTABLISHED DATA SETS.

SO INFORMATION LIKE THE REGIONAL HOUSING NEEDS, ALLOCATION NUMBERS, POPULATION DENSITIES VARIOUS DEMOGRAPHICS INFORMATION AND REALLY LOOKING AT THAT IN RELATION TO WHERE OUR PARKS ARE SO WE CAN START TO GAIN WHAT THE NEEDS ARE.

WE'RE KIND OF GETTING THAT INFORMATION AND THEN WE'RE KIND OF, WE'RE AS STAFF GOING A LITTLE BIT DEEPER AND STARTING TO TAKE A LOOK AT, OKAY, WHY YOU KNOW, WHAT SPECIFIC CHARACTERISTICS MAY LEAD TO SOME OF THESE OUTCOMES.

SO OUTCOMES. SO WE'RE, WE'RE DOING A BIT A BIT OF ANALYSIS OF, OF THE DATA.

AND THAT'S KIND OF WHERE WE'RE AT NOW. SO WE'RE YOU KNOW COMPILING IT ALL.

AND WE'VE GOT A REALLY NICE SORT OF DATA VIEWER THAT THAT WE'VE BEEN WORKING THROUGH.

AND I'LL LOOK FORWARD TO SHARING THIS WITH YOU ALL WHEN IT'S HERE.

BUT THOSE ARE REALLY KIND OF THE NEXT STEPS. YOU CAN KIND OF SEE HERE.

AND THIS IS A FIRST FLUSH SORT OF DRAFT IDEA OF SORT OF, YOU KNOW, THE, THE NEEDS BASED ON PARK ACCESS AND POPULATION. THE NEXT STEPS WILL BE TO SORT OF ANALYZE VISITORSHIP.

SO ANALYZE WHERE, WHERE OUR VISITORS ARE COMING, INCORPORATING SOME OF THE DATA FROM PLACER.AI AND, AND SOME OF OUR OTHER INFORMATION AND THEN COUPLING THAT WITH A LOT OF OUR RESOURCE DATA, OUR NATURAL RESOURCE DATA, OUR CULTURAL RESOURCE DATA, AND HELPING US GET TO A PLACE OF WHERE ONCE WE IDENTIFY NEED WHERE ARE THOSE PLACES THAT WE CAN

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AND THEN AND THEN, OF COURSE, LOOKING AT THAT THROUGH THE LENS OF POPULATION GROWTH ARENA NUMBERS AND THOSE SORTS OF THINGS THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT. SO THAT'S WHERE WE'RE AT NOW. AND WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO CONTINUING ON INTO PHASE TWO.

FOR ME, WHAT COMES NEXT IS, LIKE I SAY, I WILL BE DOING A BIT OF A DEEPER DIVE ON THE ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY WITH THE PARKS ADVISORY COMMITTEE.

THAT WILL BE NEXT WEEK. I WILL BE PROVIDING THE SAME TO THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

SO I'LL BE PRESENTING SOME MATERIALS THAT, LIKE I SAY, WE WILL BE GIVING TO THE BOARD THE TOOLKIT FOR YOU ALL.

SORT OF. WE'VE KIND OF TARGETED EARTH DAY AS YOU PREPARE FOR YOUR VARIOUS EARTH DAY EVENTS THAT YOU WILL HAVE THAT INFORMATION TO BE ABLE TO SHARE WITH THE PUBLIC. SO THAT'S A SERIES OF FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS.

A LINK TO THE SURVEY, YOU KNOW, DISTRICT PLAN MATERIALS.

AND THEN WE WILL HAVE A WEBSITE UP FOR THE PUBLIC TO COME AND GET INFORMATION THERE.

SO I WENT THROUGH A BIT OF THE IDEA AROUND THE PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT.

AND THAT'S, THAT'S REALLY KIND OF WHERE WE'RE AT.

SO AGAIN, WE ARE HERE SORT OF JUST ASKING THE APPROPRIATION OF THOSE FUNDS THAT THE BOARD APPROVED IN THE 2025 BUDGET FOR THIS SECOND PHASE OF THE PLAN. THERE THE QUESTION DID COME UP ABOUT IF THERE'S OTHER ANTICIPATED COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS.

YOU KNOW, THIS IS A THIS IS A BIG EFFORT. SO AS WE GO OUT TO THE PUBLIC, WHO KNOWS? THERE MAY BE AN ADDITIONAL NEEDS AROUND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, OR WE MIGHT IDENTIFY SOME, SOME ADDITIONAL NEEDS AS WE GO THROUGH THIS.

THAT SAID, WE'VE SCOPED THIS FOR FULL COMPLETION OF THE PROJECT.

SO THIS IS CURRENTLY WHAT WE ANTICIPATE THE THE PROJECT NEEDS ARE.

I DO EXPECT THERE MIGHT BE SOME ADDITIONAL FUNDS REQUESTED TO ACTUALLY PARTNER WITH COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS TO KIND OF HELP FACILITATE SOME OF THE PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT.

THAT'S STILL STILL BEING DISCUSSED. I DON'T EXPECT THAT THAT WILL BE A SIGNIFICANT ADJUSTMENT.

BUT BUT OTHERWISE, THIS IS THIS IS THE REMAINING FUNDS THAT ARE IN THE PROJECT BUDGET AT THIS POINT.

AND, AND WHAT WE EXPECT THE PROJECT TO TAKE. SO BARRING ANY ANYTHING OUT OF LEFT FIELD, THIS IS THIS SHOULD BE THIS SHOULD BE GET US TO THE END.

SO THAT IS MY PRESENTATION. I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS, AND I'M SURE YOU HAVE THEM AGAIN.

WE WILL BE BACK. AND COMING BACK TO YOU NEXT WEEK TO THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

AND THEN I ALWAYS REMAIN AVAILABLE TO COME BACK TO THE BOARD OR TO TO THE VARIOUS COMMITTEES ANYTIME WE'RE NEEDED. WITH THAT, HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. ALL RIGHT. WELL, THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR THAT. SO QUESTIONS FROM THE BOARD.

WE'LL HAVE COMMENTS LATER, BUT QUESTIONS NOW WHILE WE HAVE BRIAN UP HERE.

SURE. WHERE IS THE REPORT FROM? THE PHASE ONE PART OF THE PROJECT? NORMALLY WHEN I'VE WORKED ON THESE TYPE OF ENGAGEMENTS AFTER YOU HAVE EVERY SINGLE MEETING, YOU HAVE LITTLE REPORTS ON ALL THESE DIFFERENT SECTIONS.

SO THERE'S, THERE'S POSSIBILITIES FOR US TO SEE SOMETHING ABOUT THE ANALYSIS OF EXISTING DATA KIND OF RESULTS OF YOUR WORKING WITH DEVELOPMENT AND INTERNAL ENGAGEMENT INFORMATION ABOUT WHO WE ARE OUTREACHING WITH AND THEN RESULTS OF SURVEYS.

SO EVEN THOUGH YOU KIND OF GAVE US A NICE PRESENTATION.

I DON'T SEE ANY KIND OF REPORT TO BACK UP THAT PRESENTATION AND TO DO KIND OF A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE WORK THEY'RE DOING.

AND THEN TWO, YOU MENTIONED EQUITY PLAN. I HAVEN'T SEEN AN EQUITY PLAN FROM THE CHIEF EQUITY OFFICER EITHER ON THE PAC OR CURRENTLY NOW. SO I WAS WONDERING KIND OF WHAT INFORMATION YOU WERE WORKING FROM FOR THE EQUITY PLAN.

SO THOSE WERE KIND OF MY QUESTIONS. I'LL TAKE THE SECOND.

THANK YOU. THOSE ARE GOOD QUESTIONS. I'LL TAKE THE SECOND QUESTION FIRST.

THE EQUITY PLAN IS BEING LED BY THE CHIEF EQUITY OFFICER.

THAT'S A SEPARATE EFFORT. SO I DON'T NECESSARILY WANT TO SPEAK TO EXACTLY WHERE THAT'S AT OR WHAT THE STRATEGY IS THERE.

BUT THAT'S THAT'S AN EFFORT BEING LED OUT OF THE, THE OFFICE OF EQUITY, AND WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH JOSE GONZALEZ ON THIS.

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WE'VE BEEN USING SOME OF THE INFORMATION IN TERMS OF THAT. SO THERE'S SOMETHING THAT EXISTS THAT WE STILL HAVEN'T SEEN BECAUSE YOU'RE STILL USING IT TO GUIDE WORK EVEN THOUGH YOU CAN'T SPEAK TO IT RIGHT THERE. AND IN TERMS OF THE REPORT, I'LL SAY WE'RE STILL IN PHASE ONE.

SO WE HAVE WE ARE STILL WORKING TOWARDS DEVELOPING THOSE THOSE REPORTS I FULLY HOPE TO AND EXPECT TO BRING THOSE BACK TO YOU WHEN THEY'RE, WHEN THEY'RE DEVELOPED. WE HAVE KIND OF RECOGNIZED THE NEED TO RAMP UP AND GET PHASE TWO OUT THERE.

WE FELT THAT THERE WAS A LOT OF SORT OF PENT UP DEMAND FOR SORT OF, YOU KNOW, WHERE IS WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THE DISTRICT PLAN.

SO THAT'S WHY WE'RE HERE BEFORE YOU TODAY IS TO IS TO GET THIS GOING AND MOVING QUICKER.

SO SO IT'S MY HOPE THAT YOU KNOW I THINK WE'RE SCHEDULED THROUGH MAY TO HAVE THOSE PHASE ONE REPORTS THAT I COULD COME BACK AND PRESENT THOSE TO YOU.

OKAY. SO THEY THEY HAVEN'T PRESENTED ANY TYPE OF FEEDBACK OR ANALYSIS.

WE'RE STILL VERY MUCH IN THERE DOING THAT. LIKE I SAY, WE'RE SORT OF FIVE MEETINGS INTO, LIKE OUR OUR INTERNAL ENGAGEMENT.

I'VE GOT A SERIES OF DRAFT MAPPING PRODUCTS THAT ARE DEVELOPED, BUT I DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE A REPORT.

OKAY. THEN I'M. BECAUSE WITH WHAT? I'M JUST FINDING A LITTLE DIFFICULT IN THIS PROCESS RIGHT NOW.

AND THIS IS FOR ME AS FAR AS WITHIN MY SPECIALTY.

YOU KNOW, WE LOOK WE WORK WITH THE CONSULTANTS AND THERE'S DIFFERENT REPORTS THAT ARE PROVIDED FOR US TO MEASURE THE PROGRESS.

IT'S JUST A LOT OF MONEY TO CONTINUE WITH WHEN I WHEN WE DON'T HAVE ANY KIND OF POINTS TO MEASURE THE PROGRESS ON SO THAT'S MY CONCERN. AND WHAT I'M SEEING TODAY IS THAT IT'S KIND OF LOOSE ON INFORMATION.

ALL RIGHT. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? SURE. GO AHEAD.

I HAD A SIMILAR. AND MAYBE I CAN EXPAND ON THAT TOO.

IS WHERE WHERE IS THE REPORT ON PHASE ONE? WHERE IS THE CONSULTANT? I'M USED TO SEEING PLACE WORKS AT THE TABLE HERE AT THE DAIS.

I'VE WORKED WITH THEM ON GENERAL PLAN UPDATES THROUGHOUT CONTRA COSTA COUNTY FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS.

WHERE IS THEIR WORK PLAN AND THEIR TIMELINE AND THEIR DELIVERABLES? SO I HAVE AN IDEA OF IF PHASE ONE HAS ACTUALLY BEEN MET, AND TWO, IS THERE SOME SORT OF TABLE OF CONTENTS, CHAPTER REVISIONS, BIG PICTURE STUFF FOR THE BOARD OF WHERE THIS MASTER PLAN IS GOING.

BIG PICTURE. SO IT'S KIND OF PART WHERE'S THE WORK PLAN? WHERE'S THE PROCESS? JUST JUST TO ADD MY OTHER EXPERIENCE IS THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE WITH I KNOW WE'RE NOT A LOCAL CITY, BUT MY EXPERIENCE IS THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE. AS CITIES ARE UPDATING THEIR MASTER PLAN OR GENERAL PLAN, THEY'VE BEEN ASKED TO ADD TWO NEW CHAPTERS, ONE ON EQUITY AND ONE ON CLIMATE CHANGE.

SO THROUGH THIS PROCESS, THROUGH PHASE ONE, STEPPING BACK EVEN BEFORE THE ENGAGEMENT OF THE PUBLIC OR THE COMMUNITY AND THE PLANS AND THE DATA ANALYSIS, CAN YOU TELL ME A LITTLE BIT MORE, WHAT IS THE PLAN FOR PLACEWORKS? CAN WE WILL THEY BE PRESENTING TO US AND WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE? ARE WE ADDING CHAPTERS? WHAT'S OUR TIMELINE AND WHAT'S OUR DELIVERABLES? YEAH I MEAN OUR, OUR OUR TIMELINE AGAIN IS THE INTENT IS TO WRAP THIS UP BY THE END OF NEXT YEAR.

THE DELIVERABLES ARE WILL BE A SORT OF MULTI FACETED, WEB BASED, WEB BASED MAP VIEWER TO OF, OF VARIOUS YOU KNOW, THE RESOURCE DATA THAT'S THERE.

AND AND THEN A COMPANY REPORT THAT REALLY SORT OF LAYS OUT THE COMMUNITY FEEDBACK THAT WE'VE HEARD IN TERMS OF PRIORITIES AROUND CLIMATE CHANGE, RESOURCE CONSERVATION, TRAIL ACCESS THOSE SORTS OF THINGS.

AND AND IN TERMS OF, YOU KNOW, TABLE OF CONTENTS, I DON'T HAVE THAT.

AND FRANKLY, I DON'T NECESSARILY KNOW WHAT EXACTLY THE TABLE OF CONTENTS WILL BE BECAUSE WE'RE STILL VERY MUCH IN THIS SORT OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT SORT OF PIECE OF IT.

AND WE'VE HAD A NUMBER OF DISCUSSIONS ABOUT SORT OF CHICKEN AND THE EGG KIND OF WHERE HOW WE KIND OF PULL THAT TOGETHER.

SO WE'RE STILL, LIKE I SAY, IN PHASE ONE AND COLLECTING THAT INFORMATION.

PLACEWORKS ISN'T HERE TODAY, FRANKLY, BECAUSE BECAUSE PART OF THEIR SCOPE HAS BEEN SORT OF LIMITED IN TERMS OF COMING IN AND DOING PUBLIC MEETINGS. THAT'S BEEN KIND OF MY ROLE.

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SO LIKE I SAY, I CAN COMMIT NOW BE BACK YOU KNOW, END OF APRIL OR IN MAY WITH WITH THAT FINAL SORT OF PHASE ONE REPORT WHICH IS WHAT THE WHAT THE CURRENT SCOPE HAS LAID OUT.

PHASE ONE IS PHASE ONE IS GOING TO GO THROUGH MAY.

YEAH. CORRECT. ANYTHING ELSE FROM DIRECTOR DESCHAMBAULT? I'M GOOD. YOU'RE GOOD.

OKAY. WHO ELSE HAS A WHO ELSE HAS QUESTIONS? WANT TO GO AGAIN? SO WITH PHASE ONE GOING THROUGH MAY. DO WE HAVE LIKE A CONCRETE DELIVERABLE THAT WE'RE HOPING TO GET IN MAY? BECAUSE IT DOES SEEM LIKE WE'RE BEING ASKED TO APPROPRIATE QUITE A LARGE AMOUNT TODAY WITHOUT SEEING THE PHASE ONE.

AND I DID BRING THE SLIDES I KNOW YOU PRESENTED TO US AT THE BOARD RETREAT IN JANUARY OF THIS YEAR.

AND IT DOES. THERE WAS ONE SLIDE THAT SAID ONGOING AND COMPLETED OUTREACH. SO I THINK THERE HAS BEEN SOME.

AND I THINK WE'VE BEEN A PART OF IT WITH THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY PROGRAM.

BUT I ALSO SEE SWOT ANALYSIS. IT DOES MENTION THE OFFICE OF EQUITY AND THE EQUITY PLAN, THE COMMUNITY SURVEY RESULTS.

AND I THINK WE HAVE REVIEWED SOME OF THOSE. THOSE ARE SOME OF THE SURVEYS THAT LEGISLATIVE AND GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS HAVE LED, I BELIEVE, AND THEN I KNOW ALSO ON OPERATIONS COMMITTEE, WE ALSO TALKED ABOUT SOME OF THE OPERATIONS COMMITTEE LAST YEAR IN 2024, WE TALKED ABOUT ALL THE DIFFERENT VARIOUS SURVEYS AND COMMUNITY FEEDBACK ENGAGEMENT PROGRAMS THAT WE HAD DONE TO DATE HERE AT THE PARK DISTRICT, AND IT COULD BE HELPFUL. AND THEN I SEE THERE'S ALSO THE OPERATIONS RESOURCE ALLOCATION STUDY AND 30 BY 30 CONSERVATION AND INITIATIVE WAS LISTED ON THIS SLIDE FROM THE RETREAT EARLIER THIS YEAR. AND IT COULD BE HELPFUL TO MAYBE HAVE THAT MOMENT WHERE WE CAN REVIEW WHAT WE'VE DONE.

BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WE DID APPROPRIATE ALMOST $600,000 IN JULY OF 2020 FOR YOU KNOW, BEFORE MAKING THIS DECISION FOR THIS NEXT LARGE AMOUNT TO HAVE THAT CLEAR MARK AND ALSO TO TO REVIEW THE RESULTS, BECAUSE THERE'S SO MUCH IN HERE.

AND I'M JUST CURIOUS YOU KNOW, WHAT IS KIND OF THAT TRANSITION DELIVERABLE IF THERE IS ONE AND WOULD IT BE APPROPRIATE FOR US TO REVIEW THAT BEFORE MAKING ANOTHER SUCH A SIGNIFICANT DOLLAR COMMITMENT TO PHASE TWO.

THAT'S THAT'S A DECISION FOR THE BOARD. ABSOLUTELY.

I THINK IN TERMS OF, YOU KNOW, BRINGING SOMETHING BACK, A REPORT IN THERE IN TERMS OF WORK THAT COULD BE DONE TO DATE.

I MEAN, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT ABSOLUTELY WE CAN PULL TOGETHER AND BRING BACK TO THE BOARD. I GUESS I'LL WAIT TO RESERVE MY COMMENTS ON THAT.

SO THANK YOU FOR THAT. AND THEN, YOU KNOW, I APPRECIATE THIS PRESENTATION.

YOU KNOW, IT KIND OF LISTENING TO THE PRESENTATION, I THINK OF SOME NEW THINGS AS I'M LISTENING AND I'M JUST LOOKING AT YOUR SLIDES.

I GUESS THE SLIDES AREN'T NUMBERED HERE, BUT THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT METRICS AND THEN THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT DRAFT SLIDES HERE.

AND ONE OF THE ONES THAT I THINK AND I THINK IT'S FAIRLY NEW THAT WE GOT THIS INFORMATION OUT, BUT I KNOW CAL FIRE RECENTLY RELEASED THESE WILDFIRE RISK MAPS THAT ALSO SHOW WHERE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES SUCH AS EAST BAY REGIONAL PARK DISTRICT OR CITIES, AS WELL AS PRIVATE PROPERTY OWNERS.

YOU KNOW, ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR MANAGING THEIR LAND AND PROPERTY IN REGARDS TO WILDFIRE RISK.

AND I ALMOST WONDER IF THAT MIGHT BE ANOTHER COMPONENT THAT WE MAY WANT TO CONSIDER IN THIS YOU KNOW, MULTI-DIMENSIONAL MAP THAT WE'RE CREATING HERE.

YEAH. A WILDFIRE YOU DISCUSSED THIS, I GUESS IS MY WILDFIRE DATA HAS BEEN INCORPORATED IN THERE.

AND YEAH, AND THAT ONE SPECIFICALLY, I WILL TELL YOU WE HAVE MADE IT MAY NOT HAVE GOTTEN TO BRIAN YET, BUT IT ABSOLUTELY HAS BEEN DISCUSSED ALREADY.

AND IT'S GOING TO BE INCORPORATED INTO THE. OKAY, GREAT. WHEN I SAW THE SLIDE, THAT'S THE FIRST THING I THOUGHT OF, BECAUSE I KNOW THAT THAT'S BEING DISCUSSED A LOT AMONGST, YOU KNOW, OUR COMMUNITY THAT WE SERVE.

SO THAT'S THAT'S GREAT TO HEAR. AND THEN ALSO, AS YOU WERE PRESENTING THESE SLIDES, I ALSO THOUGHT ABOUT I SEE YOU DO HAVE TRANSPORTATION HERE IN REGARDS TO AUTOMOBILE ACCESS AND ACTIVE COMMUTING.

WITH ACTIVE COMMUTING, ARE WE MOSTLY TALKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, BIKES AND WALKING OR DOES THAT ALSO INCLUDE TRANSIT? SO BART BUS TRANSIT. ABSOLUTELY. YEAH. OKAY. AND THEN WITH THAT, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS WHEN I LOOK AT THE MAP ON THE NEXT PAGE, YOU KNOW, IN REGARDS TO AUTOMOBILES, ARE WE ALSO THINKING ABOUT TRAFFIC ON OUR HIGHWAYS?

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AND I THINK THIS IS THIS THIS ALSO DOES OVERLAP WITH THE REGIONAL HOUSING NEEDS ASSESSMENT.

RINA. I KNOW THAT A LOT OF THE RINA TARGET IS BASED ON JOBS AND TRANSPORTATION, BUT I GUESS TO JUST NOT LOSE THAT WHEN WE'RE THINKING ABOUT TRANSPORTATION BECAUSE IT MAY, IT MAY OR MAY NOT CHANGE THE DYNAMICS OF WHAT WE'RE, WE'RE LOOKING AT HERE.

SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT'S SOMETHING WE'VE CONSIDERED. I BELIEVE IT IS, BUT I JUST WANT TO BE ABLE TO ASK THAT QUESTION AND THAT IT WILL BE CONTINUE TO BE, YOU KNOW, BOOKMARKED AS PART OF THIS ANALYSIS.

OKAY, GREAT. AND THEN I HAD A FEW OTHER QUESTIONS THAT I HAD PREPARED.

SO, YOU KNOW, WE DO HAVE LET ME SEE HOW I CAN BEST WORD THIS.

YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A LOT OF CONVERSATION HAPPENING IN THE EAST BAY AND INCLUDING, YOU KNOW, SOME PORTIONS OF THE EAST BAY THAT MAYBE DON'T WANT TO CONTINUE TO BE A PART OF OUR DISTRICT.

AND, YOU KNOW, WITH THAT RISK, WHETHER WE WANT TO ASSIGN IT AS 10% RISK OR A HIGHER PERCENTAGE YOU KNOW, THAT ALSO HAS TO BE CONSIDERED. AND WHILE THAT'S HAPPENING IN PARALLEL TO THIS SECOND CENTURY DISTRICT PLAN, YOU KNOW, HOW HOW MIGHT THAT HOW MIGHT LIKE THE REAL TIME CURRENT EVENTS FACTOR IN TO OUR, YOU KNOW, LONG TERM PLANNING? WELL, I GUESS I WOULD ANSWER THAT INITIALLY BY SAYING, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T NECESSARILY WANT OUR LONG TERM PLANNING TO BE DEFINED BY SORT OF CURRENT YOU KNOW, CURRENT REACTIONS OR THOSE TYPES OF THINGS. SO WE REALLY WANT TO HAVE A DATA DRIVEN PROCESS THAT TAKES IN A LOT OF INFORMATION AND KIND OF YOU KNOW, SETS OUT PRIORITIES. THAT'S SORT OF BASED ON COMMUNITY INPUT, ACTUALLY BRINGING THAT IN RATHER THAN MAYBE JUST, YOU KNOW, EITHER WHAT WE HEAR FROM THE HEADLINES OR, OR SOME OTHER THINGS.

SO NOT NECESSARILY SPECIFIC TO ANY CURRENT SITUATIONS, BUT JUST IN GENERAL, I THINK THAT'S KIND OF HOW WE'RE WE GET WE GET A LOT OF I'VE GOTTEN A LOT OF INPUT ALREADY FROM, YOU KNOW, VARIOUS COMMUNITIES WHO HAVE EITHER BEEN WHETHER IT'S ADVOCATING FOR TRAILS OR ADVOCATING FOR.

MORE ACQUISITION OR MORE PARK ACCESS OR WHATEVER IT POTENTIALLY IS.

AND, AND I THINK OUR GOAL IS TO JUST KIND OF TAKE ALL OF THAT IN.

AND, AND TO TRY TO, YOU KNOW, GET THE DATA IN THERE.

SO WE'RE KIND OF MAKING SOME FACT BASED DECISIONS.

SO THAT'S, THAT'S SORT OF THAT'S, YOU KNOW, KIND OF BROADLY MY, MY GENERAL ANSWER.

AND I THINK I'VE FORGOT THE FIRST PART OF YOUR QUESTION THERE, BUT THAT'S FINE.

IT'S JUST, YOU KNOW, IT DOES CHANGE OUR MAPS POTENTIALLY IF, IF DIFFERENT THINGS HAPPEN OVER THE COURSE OF TIME.

SO I'LL JUST THE QUESTION IS IF THINGS CHANGE, HOW DO WE INCORPORATE THOSE CHANGES INTO THE SECOND CENTURY DISTRICT PLAN.

AND YEAH, AND I THINK I THINK I THINK THAT'S SO THAT'S A GREAT POINT.

THINGS DO CHANGE. AND WE THIS IS A VERY DYNAMIC PLACE, THE PARK DISTRICT.

AND I THINK THE IDEA IS TO REALLY GET YOU KNOW, A SET OF PRIORITIES AND VALUES THAT CAN HELP GUIDE OUR VARIOUS WORK PLANS THAT ARE REALLY, YOU KNOW, DURABLE, REGARDLESS OF WHAT THOSE CHANGES ARE.

SO WE KIND OF KNOW WHAT OUR PRIORITIES ARE, AND THOSE WILL HELP GUIDE US, SORT OF NAVIGATE US THROUGH THOSE CHANGES. SO I THINK THAT'S THAT'S REALLY PART OF AT LEAST SPEAKING FROM STAFF WHERE WE WANT TO GET TO A PLACE WHERE WE KIND OF HAVE A SET OF OBJECTIVE, OBJECTIVE CRITERIA OF, YOU KNOW, THIS IS, YOU KNOW, WHAT WHAT ARE OUR PRIORITIES ARE WHETHER IT'S, YOU KNOW, THE CAPITAL PROJECT PRIORITIZATION OR WHATEVER IT IS, SO THAT WE HAVE SOME SOME DIRECTION AND GUIDANCE AND NOT NECESSARILY BLOWING INTO, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER THE CURRENT WHAT'S GOING ON.

AND THEN I KNOW THAT WE'VE ASKED THIS QUESTION BEFORE BECAUSE I ACTUALLY WROTE IT DOWN WHEN COLIN ASKED IT.

I DON'T REMEMBER WHAT IT IS, BUT I HAVE THE NOTE IN FRONT OF ME WHEN WE WERE TALKING ABOUT, I THINK IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN AT THE TRAILS WORKSHOP. YOU KNOW, WHEN WE THINK ABOUT MASTER PLANNING TRAILS AND WHETHER OR NOT IT'S GOING TO BE PART OF THIS SECOND CENTURY DISTRICT PLAN PROCESS OR SOMETHING SEPARATE, AND I WILL POINT OUT THAT THE PREVIOUS TIME THAT WE DID THE MASTER PLAN IN 2013, THERE WAS THIS MAP.

I THINK WE'RE ALL FAMILIAR WITH. THAT WAS PRODUCED AND IT DOES SHOW, YOU KNOW, POTENTIAL REGIONAL TRAILS.

AND I KNOW THERE ARE MANY MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY THAT LIKE TO REFER TO THIS MAP AND LIKE TO POINT TO THIS MAP.

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AND FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND, WITH THIS UPDATED SECOND CENTURY DISTRICT PLAN PROCESS, WE'RE NOT GOING TO BE LOOKING AT UPDATING THIS MAP.

BUT THEN IN TERMS OF, YOU KNOW, GENERATING THAT SUPPORT FOR OUR SECOND CENTURY DISTRICT PLAN PROCESS, A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE POINTING TO WHAT WE DID IN 2013 AND THE FACT THAT SOME OF THESE ARE STILL IN THAT SAME STATUS OF NOT BEING COMPLETED.

I'M JUST CURIOUS HOW WE PLAN TO ADDRESS THAT TO, YOU KNOW, ENGAGE THE COMMUNITY IN SUCH AN EXPENSIVE PROJECT, PROJECT AND PROCESS THAT WE'RE DOING HERE WITH THE SECOND CENTURY DISTRICT PLAN? YEAH. WELL, I'LL JUST SHARE. AND SPEAKING A LITTLE BIT FROM MY OWN EXPERIENCE, HAVING BEEN AROUND DURING THE 2013 MASTER PLAN IS THAT THAT THAT MAP WAS AND I THINK I'M SAFE TO SAY WAS WAS GENERATED NOT WITH A LOT OF CONSIDERATION FOR REALITY.

SO A LOT OF THE LINES AND A LOT OF THE, THE, THE PROJECTS THAT ARE KIND OF LAID OUT THERE AS STAFF AS WE'VE KIND OF GONE THROUGH AND SORT OF LOOKED AT, YOU KNOW, WE'VE IDENTIFIED THAT SOME OF THESE THINGS, SOME OF THOSE THINGS ARE JUST NOT DOABLE.

AND THEY'RE THEY'RE GREAT GOALS. AND THE MAP, AND THAT'S WHAT IT WAS INTENDED FOR AT THE TIME, WAS TO SORT OF SET OUT GOALS. AND IT KIND OF HELPED US IDENTIFY ALLOCATIONS THROUGH MEASURE.

WW. BUT THAT MAP HAS SET EXPECTATIONS IN THE COMMUNITY THAT, FRANKLY, THE PARK DISTRICT, SOME OF THOSE WE JUST CANNOT DELIVER BECAUSE SOME OF THOSE LINES EITHER JUST FROM A REAL ESTATE PERSPECTIVE, ARE NOT FEASIBLE.

SOME OF THEM, I KNOW, GO AND TRAVERSE FOUR LANE ROADS AT MID-BLOCK CROSSWAYS THAT WE JUST DON'T HAVE THE ABILITY TO MOVE PEOPLE SAFELY THROUGH. AND WE'VE LOOKED AT EACH OF THOSE AND SO SOME OF THEM ARE LIKE, GREAT.

SOME OF THEM WE'RE ABLE TO LIKE ADJUST AND LOOK, OKAY, THE GOAL HERE IS TO HAVE A CONNECTION FROM PARK A TO PARK B.

AND SO WE AS STAFF ARE CONSTANTLY ADJUSTING LIKE, OKAY, HOW DO WE WORK WITH THE CITIES IN THEIR BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN MASTER PLANS? SO MAYBE THE TRAILS AS SORT OF ENVISIONED ON THEIR AREN'T WHAT WE'RE TOTALLY ENVISIONED, BUT WE'RE ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH THE GOAL OF CONNECTING POINT A TO POINT B. BE? SO I THINK PART OF WHAT OUR GOAL IS, IS TO HELP US SORT OF, AGAIN, DEVELOP THOSE, THOSE PRIORITIES, WORKING WITH THE COMMUNITY. ABOUT WHICH OF THOSE PROJECTS DO WE REALLY WANT TO, YOU KNOW, FULLY MOVE FORWARD AND AND IMPLEMENT IN THE FACE OF AND WHICH ONES ARE WE CONFIDENT THAT WE CAN'T MOVE FORWARD? BECAUSE I WILL SHARE. I HAVE A LOT OF CONVERSATIONS WITH, SAY, OUR STEWARDSHIP DEPARTMENT OR OR FOLKS IN OUR, IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNITY WHO HAVE CONCERNS ABOUT SOME OF THOSE LINES ON THE MAP AND WHERE THEY'RE PROPOSED THROUGH VARIOUS SENSITIVE HABITATS.

THAT MAP WASN'T DEVELOPED WITH THAT BASIC INFORMATION.

SO THAT'S REALLY WHERE WE WANT TO GO, IS TO GET THAT BASELINE INFORMATION TO TO GIVE A BIT MORE REALITY TO WHAT'S THERE.

YEAH. AND JUST TO CHIME IN ON THAT, AND THAT'S REALLY GREAT.

AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR FRANKNESS ON THIS. BUT, YOU KNOW, THESE ARE, YOU KNOW, THE ONE CONSTANT IN THE WORLD AND THAT'S THAT THINGS ARE GOING TO KEEP CHANGING, RIGHT? AND SO, YOU KNOW, FROM OUR PERSPECTIVE, REALLY TAKING A DIFFERENT APPROACH WITH THIS PROCESS, AS BRIAN SAID, YOU KNOW, OUR 2013 PLAN VERSUS OUR 1997 PLAN.

AND YOU ALL HAVE BEEN PLAYING A REALLY IMPORTANT ROLE IN THAT, WHICH IS TALKING TO ALL OF OUR LOCAL GOVERNMENT PARTNERS.

I THINK, ERIC, WE HAVE 90 MEETINGS. HE WAS HERE EARLIER.

MAYBE HE LEFT SCHEDULED. AND THAT'S TO TRY TO REALLY UNDERSTAND.

THERE ARE SO MANY THINGS OUTSIDE OF THE PARK DISTRICT'S CONTROL WITH THESE PROJECTS, AS YOU GUYS ARE ALL ALL REALLY FAMILIAR WITH WITH ALL OF OUR DIFFERENT PUBLIC AGENCIES, THE REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT, AS BRIAN ALLUDES TO, HAS CHANGED SIGNIFICANTLY IN THE LAST 12 YEARS SINCE WE WE HAD THAT PLAN.

AND A LOT OF THOSE LINES ON THAT MAP WERE AGAIN FROM 1997.

SO WE CAN IMAGINE THAT A LOT HAS CHANGED ON THAT, OBVIOUSLY, IN TERMS OF CLIMATE EXTREMES AND THE ON THE FIRE ISSUES, THE POLITICS HAVE CHANGED. THE FISCAL SITUATION HAS CHANGED, RIGHT? SO I MEAN, I THINK WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO, AND IT'S REALLY HARD TO TO SAY EXACTLY WHAT THE WHAT THE, THE TABLE OF CONTENTS IS GOING TO BE KIND OF TO DIRECTOR DECHAMBEAU'S POINT HERE, BECAUSE WE'RE DOING A LITTLE BIT OF MAKING THIS UP AS WE GO ALONG HERE, BECAUSE WE'RE TRYING TO MAKE THIS THING NOT BE SO RIGID THAT IT WON'T BE RELEVANT IN TWO YEARS.

AT THE SAME TIME, YOU KNOW, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE IT'S NOT JUST A, YOU KNOW, TODAY PLAN.

YOU KNOW, WE WANT TO HAVE SOME VISION IN THERE AS WELL. SO TRYING TO THREAD THIS, WE'RE BEING,

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WE'RE TALKING TO OUR EMPLOYEES FOR THE FIRST TIME, WHICH IS A BIG DEAL.

BECAUSE AS WE KNOW, THEY'RE OUR GREATEST ASSET AND THEY'RE THE EXPERTS ON THE GROUND.

AND THEN ALSO REALLY TALKING TO POCKETS OF OUR COMMUNITY THAT WE NEVER HAVE REALLY REACHED OUT TO BEFORE.

AND SO THAT'S PART OF WHAT THIS PHASE TWO IS GOING TO DO, IS TO REALLY ALLOW US TO DO THAT DEEPER DIVE.

BUT WE'D BE KIDDING YOU IF WE SAID WE KNOW EXACTLY HOW THOSE LINES SHOULD BE DRAWN AND HOW THEY'RE GOING TO LOOK, YOU KNOW, 15 YEARS FROM NOW AND WHAT THE WORLD IS GOING TO LOOK LIKE.

I MEAN, AGAIN, WE'RE TRYING TO GET THIS THING TO SO IT'S NOT JUST SO HIGH LEVEL AND VISIONARY THAT IT'S NOT RELEVANT.

IT JUST SITS IN A WHITE BINDER ON EVERYBODY'S SHELF THAT IT CAN BE SOMETHING THAT WE USE, BUT AT THE SAME TIME THAT IT'S THAT'S, YOU KNOW, REALLY GROUNDED IN, IN SOME, SOME VISION, NOT JUST IN THE WEEDS.

SO I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S HELPFUL OR NOT, BUT JUST REALLY AND THEN, SORRY, THE LAST THING I WANT TO SAY IS REALLY ONE OF THE CORE THINGS WHEN WE APPROACH THIS. AND I THINK BRIAN'S GIVEN THIS PRESENTATION ABOUT KIND OF SOME OF THE CORE TENETS OF THE, OF THE WORK WE'RE DOING HERE. AND ONE OF THEM IS REALLY ADAPTABILITY, RIGHT? SO REALLY WANTING TO MAKE SURE AS A, AS A, AS A VERY LARGE PUBLIC AGENCY, VERY LARGE PROPERTY OWNER THAT WE ARE MUCH MORE NIMBLE. FRANKLY. I MEAN, THIS IS, YOU KNOW, WE'RE WORKING VERY, VERY HARD, AS YOU ALL KNOW, BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE STAFF LEVEL EVERY DAY TO PUT SOME OF THOSE SYSTEMS IN PLACE SO THAT WE CAN BE RESILIENT, THAT WE CAN DEAL WITH THE SHOCKS AND WAVES THAT ARE COMING AT US AS A PUBLIC AGENCY.

SO THAT'S PART OF WHAT WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO WITH THIS DOCUMENT IS MAKE IT SO IT CAN BE ADAPTABLE SO THAT WE DON'T JUST SEE A LINE ON THERE, BECAUSE I'M SUPER SYMPATHETIC TO THAT. AS YOU KNOW, ELECTED OFFICIALS, WHEN YOU HAD CONSTITUENTS THAT INVESTED TIME IN HAVING THAT MAP DRAWN THAT'S SITTING THERE, YOU KNOW. BUT WAIT A MINUTE.

YOU ALL COMMITTED. YOU PROMISED YOU WOULD. YOU WOULD DO THAT. WHY NOW? WHY ARE YOU CHANGING IT NOW? AND THERE ARE REASONS WHY SOME OF THESE THINGS JUST WERE NEVER, NEVER FEASIBLE. AND THEY CERTAINLY AREN'T FEASIBLE TODAY.

SO IT'S ALSO BEING REALLY HONEST ABOUT IT TOO.

SO THAT'S THAT WAS A LOT OF EDITORIAL THERE. BUT BUT THAT'S HOW WE'RE TRYING TO APPROACH THE WORK.

YEAH. NO, I THINK THAT'S GREAT. AND I THINK THESE ARE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FOR US TO BE DISCUSSING, BECAUSE THIS IS A REALLY BIG PROJECT THAT WE'RE INVESTING A LOT OF TIME, ENERGY AND MONEY INTO.

I GUESS I'LL BE A LITTLE BIT TO THE POINT, YOU KNOW, I COME TO ALL THESE MEETINGS AND I ALWAYS BRING IT UP, AND NOW I'M JUST BRINGING THE ITEMS WITH ME TO BOARD MEETINGS, YOU KNOW, AGAIN WITH OUR YOU KNOW, VOLUME TWO OF THE BUDGET WITH THE PROJECTS.

AND THEN, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE HAD OUR TRAILS WORKSHOP AND THEN EVEN ALSO LOOKING AT THE MAP THAT'S PRESENTED HERE IN TERMS OF NEEDS ASSESSMENT, IT DOES YOU KNOW, MAKE THINGS LOOK A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT FOR THAT EAST OF 680 CORRIDOR.

AND YOU KNOW, I JUST WORRY AND I GUESS WE JUST GOT THE AGENDA POSTED FOR NEXT WEEK'S EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING WHERE WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT LAND BANK PROPERTIES AND LAND BANK PROPERTIES THAT ARE GOING TO BE OPENING. AND AGAIN, I DON'T SEE DOOLAN CANYON ANYWHERE ON HERE.

AND I JUST WORRY THAT WE'RE GOING TO HOLD UP, YOU KNOW, THE OPENING OF DOOLAN CANYON TO WAIT FOR THIS, THIS, THIS REPORT TO BE COMPLETED AND HAVE THIS REPORT SHOW THAT WE DON'T NEED TO OPEN UP DUELING CANYON BECAUSE OF ALL THIS ANALYSIS THAT WE DID.

AND SO MY QUESTION IS, YOU KNOW, IS THAT SOMETHING THAT COULD POTENTIALLY COME OUT OF THIS REPORT THAT WE LEARNED THAT WE DON'T NEED TO OPEN UP A PARK THAT I THINK IS REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE SHOULD PROBABLY BE TALKING ABOUT NOW. BUT WHEN WE DO THIS, THIS SECOND CENTURY DISTRICT PLAN, IT SHOWS US IN THE ANALYSIS THAT, OH, MAYBE THE PARK DISTRICT DOESN'T NEED TO PRIORITIZE OPENING UP CERTAIN PARKS LIKE DOOLAN CANYON.

WELL, I MEAN, THERE'S NO CONNECTION BETWEEN BETWEEN THE DISTRICT PLAN AND OUR OPENING UP PARKLANDS.

SO WE WILL BE BACK TO THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AND SORT OF LAY OUT WHAT MY STAFF HAS KIND OF DEVELOPED, AS, YOU KNOW, READINESS CRITERIA FOR OPENING UP PARKLANDS.

AND A LOT OF THAT IS RESOURCE ASSESSMENT. SO UNDERSTANDING WHAT THE NATURAL CULTURAL RESOURCES ARE THE, YOU KNOW, WHETHER OR NOT THERE IS, YOU KNOW, ACTUAL LEGAL ACCESS TO THE PROPERTY THAT'S IMPORTANT.

THE ABILITY TO, YOU KNOW, THE INFRASTRUCTURE TO ACCOMMODATE THE PUBLIC OUT THERE.

SO, YOU KNOW, THOSE ARE SOME OF THE READINESS CRITERIA THAT WE'VE ESTABLISHED OUT THERE.

AND THEN THERE'S, YOU KNOW, THE OTHER COMPONENT OF DO WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO STAFF IT? DO WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO OPERATE IT. AND THAT'S THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'RE ALWAYS LOOKING AT AS WELL.

SO SO THOSE THOSE ARE QUESTIONS THAT ARE IN THERE AND THOSE THAT PROCESS IS FULLY SEPARATE FROM THE DISTRICT PLAN.

THAT SAID, AS WE MOVE FORWARD IN THE DISTRICT PLAN, IT WILL BE, YOU KNOW, LOOKING AND GIVING US INFORMATION ON, YOU KNOW, WHERE ARE THOSE CORE CONSERVATION AREAS THAT WE REALLY WANT TO SEE.

AND YOU MENTIONED DUELING CANYON, AND DUELING CANYON IS IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF WHERE, YOU KNOW, WE ACQUIRED THAT PROPERTY. AND IT WAS REALLY WITH THE INTENT OF ACQUIRING ADDITIONAL LAND AROUND THAT PROPERTY THAT WOULD MAKE A MUCH LARGER REGIONAL PARK THAN WHAT IS

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THAT'S NOT THE DOING OF THE PARK DISTRICT. THAT IS, YOU KNOW, LEGAL RESTRICTIONS THAT HAVE BEEN PLACED ON THE LANDS AROUND DUBLIN CANYON.

SO THAT'S A CONSIDERATION FOR US AS WE GO INTO PLANNING.

AND IT'S A CONSIDERATION FOR US AS WE KIND OF LOOK AT WHAT THESE CORE CONSERVATION AREAS ARE.

THAT'S NOT TO SAY THAT THERE'S NOT PUBLIC ACCESS OPPORTUNITIES AT DOOLAN CANYON OR IN THE HCP AREA.

YOU KNOW, WE'VE HAD THESE CONVERSATIONS FREQUENTLY WITH DIRECTOR COFFEY AND DIRECTOR MERCURIO ABOUT VASCO HILLS, CLAYTON RANCH, SOME OF THESE OTHER AREAS THAT ALSO HAVE CONSERVATION RESTRICTIONS ON THEM.

AND REALLY WHAT IT TAKES IS THIS SORT OF, YOU KNOW, FINER LEVEL OF PLANNING IN TERMS OF YOU KNOW, WHERE ARE THE PUBLIC GOING TO GO, ARE GOING TO GO HOW DO WE MAKE SURE THAT THEY STAY WHERE THEY'RE GOING TO GO? HOW CAN WE ADDRESS QUESTIONS LIKE DOGS AND BIKES AND BOOTLEG TRAILS? AND ALL OF THAT REQUIRES STAFFING AND RESOURCE ASSESSMENT AND EVERYTHING ELSE.

SO I THINK WHAT WHAT YOU'LL SEE COMING OUT OF THE DISTRICT PLAN IS SORT OF A RECOGNITION OF, YOU KNOW, WHERE ARE THOSE CORE CONSERVATION AREAS THAT WE REALLY SHOULD PRIORITIZE RESOURCE PROTECTION.

IT'S NOT TO MEAN THAT PUBLIC ACCESS ISN'T ALLOWED THERE.

IT JUST MIGHT NOT NECESSARILY BE THE DRIVING PARK PLANNING SORT OF FEATURE.

AND THEN ALSO IDENTIFYING WHERE ARE THOSE PRIORITY RECREATION AREAS WHETHER BECAUSE THEY'RE CLOSER TO POPULATION, THEY SERVE A TARGET DEMOGRAPHIC OR OR, OR JUST A PLACE THAT WE ACTIVELY SEE A LOT OF USE.

WHERE ARE THOSE PLACES THAT WE CAN ACTUALLY DEVELOP THE THE RECREATION FACILITIES THAT PEOPLE NEED? SO WHERE DO WE WANT TO PUT PICNIC AREAS OR HAVE MORE DOG ACCESS.

BECAUSE. BECAUSE WE'RE PRIORITIZING PUBLIC ACCESS.

PERHAPS THOSE ARE THE TYPES OF THINGS THAT YOU'RE GOING TO SEE. I DON'T THINK IT'S GOING TO SAY, YOU KNOW, DOOLAN CANYON. NO.

DOOLAN CANYON. YES. OR IN THE HCP AREAS OR OTHERS.

BUT I THINK, YOU KNOW, LOOKING AT OUR WILDLIFE CORRIDORS AND HOW THEY'RE CONNECTED AND OUR REGIONAL TRAIL CORRIDORS AND HOW THOSE ARE CONNECTED THAT'S GOING TO BE SOME OF THE OUTCOMES THAT WE'RE GOING TO SEE OUT OF THERE AS WELL AS, YOU KNOW, SOME INFORMATION AROUND, OKAY, HOW DO WE PRIORITIZE, YOU KNOW, WILDFIRE AND FUEL ABATEMENT OR CLIMATE CHANGE OR SEA LEVEL RISE OR, YOU KNOW, VARIOUS CAPITAL PROJECTS, BATHROOMS OR, YOU KNOW, WE HEARD, YOU KNOW, ADDRESSING DUMPING IS IS A BIG CONCERN.

A LOT OF THESE OTHER THINGS THAT ALSO TAKE STAFF RESOURCES AND TIME AND, AND MAY INFLUENCE WHICH AREAS THAT WE OPEN UP TO THE PUBLIC.

SO I THINK THOSE ARE THE TYPE OF CRITERIA THAT YOU'LL SEE OUT THERE.

MAYBE NOT A MAP THAT SHOWS RED AND GREEN ALL OVER THAT SORT OF THING.

HELPFUL. THANK YOU. AND I GUESS MY FINAL QUESTION IS, YOU KNOW, IN THE AREA WHERE I LIVE IN THE WARD THAT I REPRESENT YOU KNOW, OUR LOCAL CHAMBER OF CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE TEND TO BE A REALLY GREAT PLACE FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS DISTRICT PLAN TO, TO TO BE AVAILABLE FOR, FOR COMMENT. AND AND IT'S MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, HAVING BEEN ON THIS BOARD NOW FOR A LITTLE OVER TWO YEARS, THAT WE DON'T REALLY SUPPORT CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE AND THE ACTIVITIES, AT LEAST IN THE DISTRICT THAT I REPRESENT.

I DID HAPPEN TO GO TO OAKLAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE LAST NIGHT. IT LOOKS LIKE THAT EAST BAY REGIONAL PARK DISTRICT IS INVOLVED WITH THE OAKLAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. BUT BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WE HAVEN'T BEEN AS SUPPORTIVE OF WORKING WITH, YOU KNOW, THIS ORGANIZATION OR WITH THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY IN ACROSS THE DISTRICT.

I'M CURIOUS HOW WE MIGHT ADDRESS THAT, BECAUSE I THINK THAT THAT'S A REALLY GOOD OPPORTUNITY FOR US WITH THIS DISTRICT PLAN IN TERMS OF GETTING FEEDBACK FROM ALL SECTORS OF THE COMMUNITY THAT WE SERVE. AND SO I'M JUST CURIOUS IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT YOU'VE DISCUSSED AND HOW WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO ALSO, YOU KNOW, THINK ABOUT AT LEAST MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS IN TERMS OF US NOT REALLY BEING SUPPORTIVE OF CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ACTIVITIES.

YEAH, I'LL JUMP IN ON THIS ONE. SO, ABSOLUTELY.

WELCOME. SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS OF BODIES THAT YOU'D LIKE US TO COME TO IN WHATEVER FORMAT.

I PERSONALLY HAVE SPOKEN AT THE LIVERMORE COUNCIL CHAMBER.

I'M PROBABLY RIGHT BEFORE YOU STARTED. SO. ABSOLUTELY.

STAFF IS THIS IS, YOU KNOW, A SECTOR THAT IS ABSOLUTELY A PART OF THE COMMUNITY THAT WE WANT TO HEAR FROM AS PART OF THE SECOND PHASE HERE.

I ALSO SIT ON THE BOARD AT THE EAST BAY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE.

SO ON THE AGENDA THERE WITH YOU KNOW, THE COMBINATION OF ELECTEDS AND APPOINTMENTS, BUT A TREMENDOUS NUMBER OF BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVES ON THAT. SO WE REALLY ARE HAVE A SEAT AT THE TABLE IN THAT WAY.

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SO REALLY, AS PART OF THE WHOLE ROAD SHOW THAT WE'RE PLANNING ON, ON DOING AS PART OF PHASE TWO, REALLY, WE WELCOME EVERYBODY. WE WANT TO HEAR FROM EVERYBODY, AND WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE WE'RE REACHING THE AUDIENCES THAT YOU WANT US TO REACH. SO YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. THANK YOU. THOSE ARE ALL MY QUESTIONS.

ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. WHO'S NEXT? DIRECTOR COFFEY, GO FOR IT.

GO FOR IT. I'M GOING TO BOUNCE OFF A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT LYNDA AND OLIVIA SAID.

FIRST OF ALL, I JUST WANT TO START OFF BY SAYING YOUR THE WORK YOU'VE DONE ON THIS PROCESS AND THE BACKGROUND IS JUST ALL EXCELLENT WORK AND IT'S VERY MUCH APPRECIATED. PLACEWORKS IS A GREAT FIRM, VERY FAMILIAR WITH THEIR WORK AND DO APPRECIATE IT ESPECIALLY GETTING ALL THE EMPLOYEE FEEDBACK AND EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT THAT I'M VERY SUPPORTIVE OF THOSE EFFORTS.

I'M REALLY INTO MAPS, AS YOU KNOW, I JUST HAD YOU MAKE ONE FOR ME FOR A PRESENTATION THIS WEEKEND.

I WAS INVOLVED AT THE PAC LEVEL ON THE 2013 PLAN.

AND THAT MAP AND THE MAP IN 2008, I WAS INVOLVED IN THAT MAP.

SO, YEAH, THERE ARE SOME EXPECTATIONS OUT THERE THAT WE ARE DEALING WITH.

MY WHAT I'M WONDERING IS, AS THIS PROCESS IS PURSUED AND YOU'RE GETTING MORE AND MORE OF THIS PLAN TO TAKE SHAPE AT WHAT STAGE DO WE GET TO INFLUENCE IT? I'M A LITTLE CONCERNED WITH THINGS. THAT MAY BE I WANT TO START ENGAGING IN.

I WANT TO START IN INFLUENCING THIS. RIGHT. AND IF IT'S TOO FAR DOWN THE LINE WHEN THINGS ARE ALREADY DEVELOPED, THEN THAT MIGHT BE A BARRIER TO SOME OF THIS STUFF.

SO AS YOU KNOW, I HAVE LOTS OF IDEAS ABOUT NEW PARKLANDS, AND I HAVE NO DOUBT WHATSOEVER THAT I'M GOING TO CONFRONT REALITY CONFLICTS. SABRINA IS NODDING.

YEAH. AND, YOU KNOW, BUT THAT'S PART OF WHAT WE DO IS, IS WE PIE IN THE SKY TO SOME VISION TO TO OTHERS.

MAKE NO SMALL PLANS. RIGHT? RIGHT. AND AND SO I WITH THE UNDERSTANDING I'M GOING TO RUN INTO REALITY CHECKS.

I WANT TO START INFLUENCING POTENTIAL NEW PARKLANDS.

EAST CONTRA COSTA AND EVEN NORTHERN CONTRA COSTA.

SO THIS IS THE OPPORTUNITY WE HAVE FOR THIS PIE IN THE SKY STUFF.

AND, YOU KNOW, AND CONFRONTING THE REALITIES OF SAYING, I JUST I GUESS WHAT I'M SAYING IS I'M REALLY EAGER TO INFLUENCE MAPS IN PARTICULAR.

AND THOSE LINES AND THOSE TRAILS, I KNOW SOME OF US WANT TO MAKE SURE THERE'S SOME TRAILS THAT ARE ENVISIONED AND HAVE BEEN ENVISIONED FOR DECADES THAT REMAIN IN, IN THESE MAPS. YOU KNOW, I'VE TAKEN SOME WALKS WITH SOME OF MY COLLEAGUES WHO ARE ENVISIONING NEW TRAILS THAT AREN'T ON ANY MAPS. SO THAT THAT'S MY ONE CONCERN.

I GUESS I WOULD CHARACTERIZE IT AS AN OTHERWISE A REALLY WELL THOUGHT OUT AND WELL PRESENTED PROGRAM AND AND PROCESS.

WELL, I APPRECIATE THAT. I DO WANT TO ASSURE YOU.

I'M SURE THE BOARD. YOU'RE ALREADY INFLUENCING THE PROCESS.

I MEAN, THE INPUT THAT WE'VE BEEN GETTING THROUGH THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT ENGAGEMENTS AND AND ALL OF YOUR INPUT AT THE BOARD MEETING.

AND EVERY TIME I'VE COME HERE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE TAKING THAT IN. WE'RE REPORTING IT BACK.

SO SO YOUR YOUR INPUT IS VERY MUCH BEING RECEIVED AND INCORPORATED.

BUT THAT SAID, I HEAR YOU, YOU WANT TO SEE SOME MAPS AND WANT TO START, YOU KNOW, LOOKING AT STUFF.

AND LIKE I SAID, WE'RE WE'RE AT THE POINT WHERE WE'RE JUST SORT OF WRAPPING UP THAT SORT OF FIRST SET OF BASELINE MAPS SO WE CAN BRING THOSE BACK.

YOU KNOW, LIKE I SAY, TOWARDS THE END OF APRIL OR MAY AND WE CAN START TO PLAN OUT ABOUT, YOU KNOW, HOW DO WE LOOK AT, YOU KNOW, WHAT THE EXISTING CONDITIONS ARE, WHAT'S THE SORT OF STATE OF THE PARK DISTRICT AS WE SEE? AND THAT'S WHAT THAT FIRST PHASE REPORT REALLY IS.

THAT'D BE EXCELLENT. THANK YOU. I APPRECIATE DIRECTOR COFFEE'S OUTLOOK THERE IN SORT OF LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR SO THAT NO SO NO ONE'S SURPRISED WHEN THERE'S SOME MAJOR THINGS THAT ARE BEING THAT ARE GOING TO COME OUT OF HERE, YOU KNOW, AND WE MAKE NO ASSUMPTIONS THAT WE'RE GOING TO GET A BAKED THING THAT'S READY TO EAT.

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SO WE'RE LOOKING FOR QUESTIONS OKAY CAN I. SURE.

GO AHEAD OKAY. YEAH I, I AGREE THIS IS GOING TO BE A GREAT PLAN.

I LOOK FORWARD TO IT. I AM CONCERNED ABOUT THE DELIVERABLES AND THE TIMELINES FROM.

PLACEWORKS. YOU KNOW, YOU HAD MENTIONED CHICKEN AND EGG.

I DON'T KNOW WHICH WHICH ONE COMES FIRST, BUT I THINK I'D LIKE THE BOARD TO BE WHATEVER.

IF IT'S A CHICKEN THAT COMES FIRST, I'D LIKE TO BE. HAVE THE BOARD BE THE CHICKEN. YOU KNOW, AND YOU KNOW JUST INCLUDING US BECAUSE IT SEEMS LIKE YOU KNOW, WHAT DOES COME FIRST? I'VE BEEN TOLD THAT PHASE ONE IS DONE, BUT WE HAVE NO REPORT ON PHASE ONE.

NOW WE'RE GOING TO VOTE ON PHASE TWO. QUARTER OR THREE QUARTERS OF $1 MILLION.

IS THAT THAT'S KIND OF A CHICKEN AND EGG DEAL IN MY OPINION. PHASE ONE IS NOT DONE, IS WHAT I'M SAYING.

SO WE'RE VERY MUCH STILL STILL IN A PART OF THAT.

AND WE WANT WE WANT TO GET THIS GOING SO WE CAN START GETTING THAT ENGAGEMENT OUT THERE BECAUSE LIKE I SAY, WE'RE STARTING WE'RE HEARING PRESSURE. SO, SO THAT'S, THAT'S WHY WE'RE HERE BEFORE YOU TODAY.

SORRY. OKAY. AND YOU HAD MENTIONED THE QUESTION WAS, WILL THERE BE A PHASE THREE OR HOW MUCH MORE IS THIS GOING TO COST? AND YOUR QUOTE WAS WELL, THE ONLY THING THAT WOULD TRIGGER MORE MONEY WOULD BE TO PARTNER WITH COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS TO, TO FACILITATE COMMUNITY MEETINGS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

CAN YOU, CAN YOU GIVE ME AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE? YEAH. SO WE'RE RIGHT NOW, LIKE I SAY, DOING A LOT OF WE'RE PLANNING COME EARTH DAY TO START DOING A LOT OF THIS INDIRECT ENGAGEMENT, AND THAT'S WHERE WE'LL BE ASKING PEOPLE WHERE THEY'RE LIKE I SAID, WE'RE GOING TO BE GETTING THIS OUT TO VARIOUS PARTNER GROUPS ASKING YOU ALL TO GET INFORMATION OUT THERE, SENDING IT TO GROUPS LIKE THE CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE TO SEND OUT TO THEIR MEMBERSHIP.

AND ALSO REPORTING BACK ON THE ZIP CODES THAT, THAT THEY'RE GETTING FROM FROM THAT, WE'LL KIND OF BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY, LIKE WHERE ARE SOME OF THE NEIGHBORHOODS AND SOME OF THE COMMUNITIES THAT WE AREN'T HEARING FROM? AND WE'LL BE ABLE TO KIND OF COUPLE THAT WITH SOME OF THE DATA THAT WE HAVE THAT WE'VE BEEN DEVELOPING, DEVELOPING IN TERMS OF THE MAPPING, AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE IN TERMS OF PARK USE FROM PLACER, I JUST RECOGNIZING WHERE ARE THE POCKETS IN THE EAST BAY THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE JUST NOT REACHING PEOPLE FOR WHATEVER REASON.

SO THE IDEA WAS, AS WE IDENTIFY THOSE AREAS, PERHAPS THERE'S OTHER ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE ACTIVE IN THOSE COMMUNITIES WHO MIGHT BE ABLE TO REACH AND DO SOME OF THAT ENGAGEMENT FOR US.

SO RATHER THAN GOING TO THEM AND SORT OF ASKING THEM TO TO DO OUR WORK FOR US, YOU KNOW, THE IDEA WAS THAT WE WOULD BE ABLE TO SORT OF HIRE THEM ON TO DO SOME OF THAT.

SO JUST AS AN EXAMPLE, YOU KNOW IN EAST OAKLAND HERE THERE'S THE EAST OAKLAND COLLECTIVE THAT IS AN ACTIVE, ACTIVE GROUP IN EAST OAKLAND. I'M NOT SUGGESTING THAT THAT IS A GROUP THAT WE WOULD NEED TO OR NOT.

BUT IF WE WERE TO SAY, IDENTIFY IN THE EASTMONT AREA OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, A NEIGHBORHOOD THAT THAT WE'RE NOT REACHING, WE KNOW THAT'S AN ORGANIZATION THAT HAS A LOT OF CONNECTIONS THERE. SO THAT'S SOMEBODY THAT WE COULD PROVIDE SOME LEVEL OF STIPENDS THAT THEY COULD BE ABLE TO ENGAGE AND DO SOME OF THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT THERE. THAT'S WHAT I WAS REFERRING TO ON THAT. SORRY.

YEAH. AND AND SO THE MENTION WAS YOU DID YOU DID REFERENCE PHASE THREE AGAIN, THE TOTAL BUDGET, 1.3 MILLION. THAT WAS APPROVED BY THE BOARD. THAT'S IN THE PROJECT ACCOUNT.

RIGHT NOW WE'RE JUST LOOKING TO SORT OF APPROPRIATE THOSE FUNDS.

THERE'S NO THERE'S NOT AN ANTICIPATION OF A PHASE THREE OR BEYOND.

ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. AND THEN FINALLY THE TIMELINE.

SO WE'RE GOING TO BE COMPLETED IN JULY OF 2026.

I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'RE WILLING TO MAKE THIS STATEMENT, BUT I WAS UNDER THE IMPRESSION, POSSIBLY WRONGLY, THAT THIS WOULD BE A GREAT DOCUMENT ONCE WE COMPILE IT, GET IT TOGETHER, HEAR FROM EVERYBODY WHAT PEOPLE WANT TO COME TO THE ELECTORATE AND SAY, WE CAN DO ALL THIS STUFF IF YOU CAN DO A PARCEL TAX.

BUT IF WE'RE GOING. JULY 26TH, WE MISSED. WE MISSED THE DEADLINE TO FILE ALMOST.

ARE WE. WELL, I DON'T KNOW. I. THAT'S TROUBLING TO ME.

YEAH, I THINK THAT'S ALL. ALL FOR FUTURE CONVERSATION.

AS WE THINK ABOUT A POTENTIAL BALLOT MEASURE, WE HAVE A LOT OF OTHER THINGS HAPPENING AT THE SAME TIME TO TRY TO HELP INFORM THAT, AS I THINK LISA HAS DONE A PRESENTATION AROUND THE RESOURCE ALLOCATION STUDY WITHIN OPERATIONS ABOUT AND THAT'S UNDERWAY AND NOT READY TO KIND OF SPEAK TO THAT RIGHT NOW. BUT THAT WILL ALSO HELP INFORM JUST BASED OFF OF WHAT WE HAVE TODAY, NOT JUST THE DREAMING AND WHERE WE WANT TO GO,

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SO THAT WILL HELP. WE'LL HAVE THAT WELL IN ADVANCE OF, OF NEXT SUMMER.

TO SO KIND OF, YOU KNOW, AS WE, WE CONTINUE TO TALK ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT YOU WANT TO GO TO THE VOTERS IN 26 OR 28 OR WHATEVER THAT MIGHT BE, THAT IS, THAT'S A BIG ONE. AND THEN ALSO ALL OF THE WORK THAT WE'VE BEEN DOING AROUND THE CAPITAL PROJECT PRIORITIZATION AND REALLY TRYING TO FIGURE OUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT THOSE BIG GAPS ARE SO THAT WE KNOW YOU KNOW, WHEN WE SHOULD GO TO THE VOTERS AND FOR WHAT? WHAT ARE WE ASKING FOR? SO THE LAST THING I'LL SAY ON THAT IS YES, THE YES.

THE PLAN WILL BE COMPLETE AND PUBLISHED. YOU KNOW, THE GOAL IS SUMMER OF 26 OR END OF 26.

BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN WE WON'T HAVE DATA THAT WOULD HELP INFORM US IF YOU ALL DECIDED YOU WANTED TO GO TO THE VOTERS BEFORE THEN.

IF THAT IS HELPFUL. THANK YOU. OKAY. YEAH. YEAH.

WE WOULD WE WOULD EXPECT TO HAVE THAT SORT OF INITIAL ROUND OF EXTERNAL ENGAGEMENT DONE BY THE END OF THIS YEAR.

SO IT WOULD BE ABLE TO HELP INFORM THAT DECISION.

ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. DIRECTOR ECHOLS. YEAH. I HAD A QUESTION ABOUT THE PUBLIC OUTREACH, AS YOU DESCRIBED, THE PUBLIC OUTREACH AND HAVING US DO OUTREACH AND, YOU KNOW, THE PARK DISTRICT REACHING OUT TO ORGANIZATIONS WE KNOW OR PARTNER WITH OR YOU KNOW, I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE REACHING THE PEOPLE WE DON'T KNOW.

AND, YOU KNOW, I HEARD WHAT YOU SAID JUST NOW ABOUT, OKAY, WELL, WE CAN LOOK AT WHO WE REACHED AND THEN WE CAN GO FIND THOSE OTHER GROUPS.

BUT BUT, YOU KNOW, IT DID STRIKE ME LIKE, OKAY, HOW DO WE KNOW WE'RE REALLY GETTING A REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE? I'M CONCERNED ABOUT HAVING THE PEOPLE WHO ARE ALREADY WHO ALREADY KNOW US AND WHO ALREADY USING THE PARKS AND AND AND NOT FULLY REACHING THOSE WHO WHO WOULD LIKE TO USE THE PARKS. BUT MAYBE, MAYBE WE'RE NOT PRESENTING THEM OR MAKING THEM ACCESSIBLE IN A WAY THAT THEY WANT TO USE THEM.

SO, I MEAN, I'M GUESSING THAT POSSIBLY OUR EQUITY OFFICER IS DOING SOME WORK AROUND THAT, BUT BUT I'M JUST WONDERING IF THERE'S SOME I MEAN, HAVE WE THOUGHT ABOUT DOING LIKE MORE GENERIC POLLING, FOR EXAMPLE, OR.

I'M JUST WONDERING, HOW DO WE REALLY KNOW THAT WE'RE REACHING EVERYBODY IN THIS? YEAH, IT'S A GREAT QUESTION. AND THAT'S BEEN KIND OF THE, THE SORT OF DRIVING QUESTION AS WE'VE BEEN PUTTING TOGETHER THIS ENGAGEMENT PLAN.

AND SO THAT'S, THAT'S WHY SO I GUESS I WOULD SAY THE FLIP SIDE OF THAT IS THAT WE ABSOLUTELY NEED TO HEAR FROM THE PEOPLE THAT WE ALWAYS HEAR FROM, TOO, RIGHT? SO, SO WE, WE KNOW THAT THERE'S CERTAIN VERY INVESTED STAKEHOLDERS THAT, YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO GET THERE. WE NEED TO GET THEIR INPUT, SO WE FULLY INTEND TO DO THAT.

AND THEN THERE'S FOLKS WHO ARE MAYBE THE MORE CASUAL USERS THAT WE CAN REACH THROUGH OUR VISITOR CENTERS OR THROUGH SOME OF OUR, YOU KNOW, THROUGH THE RING OR SOME OF OUR SOCIAL MEDIA.

SO WE'RE WE'RE LOOKING TO GET THOSE AND THEN SO AS WE DO THIS SORT OF FIRST ROUND, WE'LL START TO SEE, LIKE, WHERE ARE THOSE POCKETS THAT WE'RE REALLY JUST NOT HEARING FROM.

AND SO WE'RE GOING THROUGH A PROCESS. RIGHT NOW I'M WORKING WITH JOSE AND OTHERS TO SORT OF IDENTIFY AND BREAK IT DOWN KIND OF BY SECTOR THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT, YOU KNOW, WHO ARE THE ORGANIZATIONS, WHAT ARE THE ORGANIZATIONS THAT YOU KNOW, ARE SORT OF COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS THAT MIGHT BE GROUPS THAT WE SHOULD REACH OUT TO. AND AND, YOU KNOW, GET THEIR INPUT ABOUT, OKAY, HOW DO WE HOW DO WE REACH YOUR COMMUNITY? AND WE WELCOME ANY INPUT WE'VE TAKEN, THE INPUT THAT WE'VE GOTTEN FROM THE BOARD THUS FAR FROM THE VARIOUS RETREATS ON THAT.

I THINK I'VE ALSO TALKED TO GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, STARTING TO ASK THAT QUESTION IN THEIR LOCAL GOVERNMENT ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WHO ARE THE ORGANIZATIONS, YOU KNOW, ASKING THE MAYOR IN THE COMMUNITIES THAT THEY'RE MEETING, WHO ARE THE ORGANIZATIONS THAT YOU RECOMMEND THAT WE REACH OUT TO? SO WE'RE COMPILING THAT LIST.

AND AS WE GET INTO THE, YOU KNOW, THE THE SORT OF SECOND PHASE OF SURVEYING AND THAT SORT OF THING WE'LL BE WE'LL BE TAILORING IT DOWN TO RECOGNIZING, OKAY, WHO AREN'T WE HEARING FROM? AND THEN WE WANT TO HAVE SOME FLEXIBILITY AND LATITUDE TO BE ABLE TO SORT OF GO AND, AND ADDRESS THOSE.

SO AND WE'RE KIND OF WE'RE, WE'RE LIKE I SAID, TAKING THIS SORT OF MULTI-PRONGED APPROACH OF, YOU KNOW, INDIRECT USING SOCIAL MEDIA, USING YOU KNOW, THE QR CODES AND THE SURVEYS AND FLIERS AT EVENTS AND ARMING OUR INTERPRETIVE STAFF AND PUTTING IT INTO VISITOR CENTERS AND THAT SORT OF THING.

BUT WE RECOGNIZE THERE'LL BE A POINT WHERE, YOU KNOW, WHETHER IT'S MY STAFF AND WORKING WITH THE CONSULTANTS OR OTHERS, YOU KNOW, WE'LL BE WE'LL BE HAVING TO GO OUT AND DO SOME MORE DIRECT CONTACT IN THE COMMUNITIES AS WELL.

OKAY. DIRECTOR ESPAÑA. OKAY. I HAVE TWO QUESTIONS, BUT AS YOU SAY, THE COMMUNITY LISTS.

SO. WHEN DO I GET TO SEE THE LIST THAT YOU HAVE FOR THE PARK DISTRICT AND FOR MY WARD TO COMMENT

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AND THEN THE SECOND PART IS JUST YOU SAID THAT YOU COULD PRODUCE A REPORT LATER IN APRIL OR MAY.

SO I'M SURE IN WHATEVER REPORT THAT YOU COULD, THAT THEY COULD PRODUCE PLAYWORKS ABOUT PHASE ONE THAT IT'S ALREADY SCOPED OUT, WHICH SHOULD BE IN THAT PHASE ONE REPORT. SO WHAT AM I GOING TO LEARN WHEN THAT REPORT COMES? AND THEN WHERE ARE THE POINTS WHERE AS A BOARD WE CAN MAKE DECISIONS, NOT DECISIONS ABOUT AS FAR AS WHAT ARE OUR PRIORITIES, BUT LOOKING AT THE ACTUAL STRUCTURE OF THE ANALYSIS THAT'S HAPPENING.

BECAUSE PART OF WHAT WE'RE HERE TO IS NOT IS TO HELP GUIDE OR INFLUENCE A PROCESS.

AND I KNOW THAT AS A PARK DISTRICT, WE HAVE SO MANY SMART EMPLOYEES AND EVERYTHING ELSE.

SO I DON'T DOUBT THE WORK AND THE ANALYSIS THAT YOU GUYS ARE DOING, BUT IT'S JUST DIFFICULT TO JUST BE LEFT IN THE DARK. AND THEN I HAVE A DUTY ON THIS BOARD AS FAR AS TO LOOK OVER THE DOLLARS WE'RE SPENDING.

AND SO WHAT I WANT TO BE ABLE TO DO IS NOT JUST TRUST THAT EVERYONE IS SMART, NOT TRUST THAT WE HAVE PLAYWORKS A GREAT ORGANIZATION WITH A REPUTATION, BECAUSE THERE'S SOME THINGS IN YOUR SLIDES THAT I THINK IT'S AWESOME, I THINK YOU'RE AWESOME THAT YOU'RE GOING BACK, BUT I JUST NEED SOME DATA POINTS, AND I NEED TO FIND OUT AS FAR AS WHAT WE'RE GOING TO SEE. AND THEN JUST AS FAR AS WHEN WE'RE GOING TO HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO GIVE SOME TYPE OF INPUT.

SO I'LL RESPOND TO YOUR QUESTION AROUND THE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS.

FIRST, AND I'LL JUST SAY IT'S A LONG LIST. WE'RE GETTING LESS, YOU KNOW, FROM OUR INTERPRETIVE DEPARTMENT, YOU KNOW, LISTS THAT WE ENGAGE WITH IN PLANNING LISTS THAT WE'VE RECEIVED FROM FROM THE BOARD.

I MEAN, THERE'S LOTS OF DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS THERE THAT SAID YOU KNOW, I LIKE IF YOU HAVE SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS, I'D BE HAPPY TO SIT DOWN WITH YOU AND SORT OF GO THROUGH, GO THROUGH THE LIST AND, AND WE CAN BRING THOSE BACK TO THE BOARD.

BUT BUT, YOU KNOW, WE WOULD WELCOME INPUT ON SORT OF, YOU KNOW, WHO WHO IS THE WHO ARE THE GROUPS THAT WE SHOULD BE MEETING WITH? YEAH. AND WHAT I'M ALSO HEARING, THANK YOU, BRIAN, FOR THAT, FOR DIRECTOR ESPAÑA ALSO SAY, YOU KNOW, WANTING TO BE ABLE TO REACT TO TO THE LIST AS WELL.

TOTALLY TOTALLY GET THAT. YEAH. THERE'S NO THERE'S NO CONFIDENTIALITY TO THE LIST BY ANY MEANS.

SO AND THIS IS GOING TO BE SUPER ITERATIVE AS WE LEARN MORE THROUGHOUT THE PROCESS.

SO WE CAN SEND THAT WHEN IT'S I DON'T WANT TO GIVE A DATE BECAUSE I, I HAVEN'T SEEN THE LIST YET.

SO WE'RE DOING A LOT A LOT OF THINGS ARE MOVING AT THE SAME TIME.

SO I DON'T EVEN KNOW EXACTLY IF IT'S IN A DIGESTIBLE FORMAT YET, BUT CERTAINLY WHEN IT IS, WHICH I THINK WE CAN GET YOU, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER PRELIMINARY LIST WE HAVE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

AND YOU GUYS CAN REACT TO THAT AND WE CAN DO IT.

YOU KNOW, I THINK THROUGH KIND OF GETTING TO THE CRUX OF THE OTHER, OTHER QUESTIONS AROUND TOUCH POINTS WITH THE BOARD.

IT'S REALLY UP TO THIS BODY. HOW OFTEN AND IN WHAT FORMAT YOU WOULD LIKE US TO BE REPORTING BACK AND TO BE GETTING FEEDBACK FROM YOU.

WE'RE HAPPY TO COME TO THE FULL BOARD. HAPPY TO KEEP THIS AS AN ITEM AT THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

HAVE ANOTHER, YOU KNOW, KIND OF STANDALONE STUDY SESSION.

I THINK WE WERE PLANNING ON DOING ONE OF THOSE SOMETIME IN 2025 ANYWAYS, WHICH I DON'T WANT TO JUMP IN FRONT OF YOU ON A MONTH.

I KNOW HE'S WORKING ON THAT. AND, YOU KNOW, MAX IS REALLY HELPING TO LEAD THE EFFORT.

IN TERMS OF MANAGING THE CONSULTANT I SHARE WITH YOU THIS IS A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF MONEY.

I'VE BEEN THROUGH THOSE GENERAL PLAN PROCESSES THAT DIRECTOR DESCHAMBAULT MENTIONED.

THEY ALWAYS TAKE LONGER AND THEY ALWAYS COST AN EXTRA 0 OR 2.

THROUGHOUT THAT PROCESS, AS THE SCOPE CREEP HAPPENS AND YOU KNOW, CONSULTANTS ARE ONLY AS GOOD AS, LIKE, YOUR ABILITY TO MANAGE THEM. AND SO WITH MAX'S LEADERSHIP AND WORKING WITH WITH A MUCH SMALLER KIND OF EXECUTIVE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE, I GUESS I WOULD, I WOULD SAY ON THIS, THEY'RE REALLY HOLDING THE CONSULTANT TO TO THE WHAT THEY'VE SAID THAT THEY'RE GOING TO

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AND LET'S MAKE SURE THAT WE WANT TO STAY WITH THIS. THIS CONSULTANT FOR PHASE TWO.

SO, YOU KNOW, THEY GAVE ME ASSURANCES. THEY FEEL LIKE THEY'VE THEY HAVE AT LEAST LIVED UP TO WHAT THEY WERE THEY WERE ASKED TO DO OR LIVING UP TO WHAT THEY WERE ASKED TO DO, ENOUGH THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY FEEL COMFORTABLE COMING FORWARD WITH PHASE TWO, BUT TOTALLY UNDERSTANDING, YOU KNOW, KIND OF THE TRUST. TRUST US THAT THAT, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE CONFIDENCE IN THEM.

IT IS OUR RECOMMENDATION. AND WE CAN WE CAN COME BACK AS OFTEN TO THE BOARD.

WE CAN ALSO JUST HAVE THIS THROUGH KIND OF MEMO UPDATES THAT WE GIVE YOU ONCE A MONTH.

SO WHATEVER FORMAT IS MOST USEFUL. THANK YOU.

LET'S SEE, I THINK WE'VE GONE ALL THE WAY AROUND. ANY ANY ANY ANYONE WANT TO TAKE A SECOND BITE AT THE APPLE OR.

OKAY. I ASKED MY QUESTIONS EARLIER. I CAN ADMIT THEY WERE NOWHERE NEAR AS AS PROBING AS WHAT I'VE JUST HEARD TODAY FROM MY OTHER SIX COLLEAGUES. I REALLY APPRECIATE THE OBVIOUS THOUGHT YOU'VE GIVEN THIS AND YOUR CONCERN.

AND I DON'T WANT TO MAKE ANY MORE COMMENTS. I'LL DO MORE COMMENTS LATER, BUT I THINK AT THIS POINT WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING FOR MADAM CLERK.

IF THERE ARE ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THAT WOULD CARE TO COMMENT ON THIS ITEM.

YES. PRESIDENT MERCURIO, WE HAVE ONE PERSON TWO, TWO HANDS JUST RAISED AND THEY ARE IN THE ROOM.

IT'S KELLY ABREU AND NORMAN LAFORCE. KELLY, I'M GOING TO LET YOU INTO THE MEETING, PROMOTE YOU AS PANELISTS, ACCEPT THAT. AND THEN YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES TO TALK.

OH, AND THEN SO NORM THEN FOLLOWED BY DAVID LUNN.

OKAY. CAN YOU SEE MY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. CAN YOU SEE ME? ARE YOU TALKING ON THE PHONE OR ON THE. OH, YEAH.

BECAUSE YOU'RE GOING TO GET SOME FEEDBACK. YEAH, YEAH, I SHOULD BE HERE.

OKAY. ALL RIGHT. THERE IT GOES. ALL RIGHT. GOOD AFTERNOON.

PARK DISTRICT BOARD MEMBERS, AS YOU REVISE YOUR LONG DISTRICT STRATEGIC PLAN, CONSISTENT COMMUNICATION WITH LOCAL OFFICIALS IS ESSENTIAL FOR ADDRESSING OUR COMMUNITY'S EVOLVING NEEDS. WITHOUT THESE REGULAR TOUCH POINTS, WE RISK CREATING PLANS THAT WORK AT CROSS PURPOSES RATHER THAN COMPLEMENTING EACH OTHER.

TO NOT GET LOST, DREAMING ABOUT THE DISTANT STARS.

AND STRATEGICALLY, THE DISTRICT SHOULD START SMALL AND BE CONSISTENT.

YOUR STAFF CAN INITIATE REGULAR LIAISON MEETINGS WITH CITY REPRESENTATIVES.

I'M POINTING AT THE HUGE GAP OF MORE THAN 16 MONTHS SINCE THE LAST LIAISON MEETING WITH THE CITY OF FREMONT.

THESE MEETINGS HAVE HISTORICALLY BEEN HELD ONCE OR TWICE A YEAR TO ALIGN OUR COMMUNITY'S CONCERNS WITH PARK DISTRICT PLANNING.

THE CITY OF FREMONT IS NOW SEEKING PUBLIC COMMENTS ON ITS OWN ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN AND INPUT FROM THE PUBLIC AND THE PARK DISTRICT IS NEEDED IN THE NEXT TWO WEEKS. IT'S DISAPPOINTING THAT THE CITY'S DRAFT PLAN IGNORES OR OVERLOOKS THE EXISTING MORRISON CANYON TRAIL, WHICH CONNECTS DOWNTOWN FREMONT TO A TO VARGAS PLATEAU REGIONAL PARK.

THIS IS AN EXISTING TRAIL AND THAT NEEDS TO BE RECOGNIZED AS AN IMPORTANT MULTI-MODAL RECREATIONAL ASSET.

IT GOES RIGHT TO THE MAIN ENTRANCE OF OUR PLATEAU BY THE.

SO THE FOCUS SHOULD BE ON BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS OVER TIME THAT FOSTER TRUST AND OPEN COMMUNICATION BETWEEN LOCAL GOVERNMENTS.

I RESPECTFULLY REQUEST THAT YOUR STAFF AND THE PLACEWORKS CONSULTING FIRM FORMALLY RENEW FORMALLY RENEW THESE LIAISON MEETINGS WITH THE CITY OF FREMONT. THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION.

OKAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS GOING TO BE NORM NORMAL FOR US.

OKAY, NORM, I'M GOING TO ELEVATE YOU TO PANELIST.

READY? RIGHT. YEAH. NORMAL FORCE. I'M SPEAKING ON PRESIDENT OF DEV FIRST.

I REALLY APPRECIATE THE COMMENTS OF THE BOARD AND ACTUALLY ESPECIALLY COMMENTS OF DIRECTOR ESPAÑA AND DESCHAMBAULT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE MEETING.

I HOPE THOSE POINTS AREN'T LOST IN THE LONG DISCUSSION, WHICH WAS VERY GOOD.

SECOND, I WOULD JUST REITERATE THAT SINCE WE'RE DEALING WITH THE WHAT'S GOING TO BE ASKED OF THE STAFF OF THE PARK DISTRICT,

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THE ONES THAT WERE POSED IN THIS IN THE SLIDE WERE EXCELLENT, BUT THERE REALLY NEEDS TO BE SOME FURTHER QUESTIONS I WOULD HOPE WOULD BE ASKED.

ONE IS, I HUMOROUSLY PUT IN THERE, WHAT DOES THE WHAT DO THE PARK DISTRICT WORKERS THINK OF WILDFIRE? WILDLIFE AND HABITAT. WHAT THEY WANT AND NEED FOR THE FUTURE OF THE PARK DISTRICT.

THERE REALLY NEEDS TO BE SOME FOCUS ON THAT ASPECT OF WHAT THE PARK DISTRICT DOES.

AND THEN ALSO, I THINK IT WOULD BE GOOD TO HAVE QUESTIONS TO THE STAFF ABOUT WHAT THEY SEE AS THE PRIORITIES BETWEEN MAINTAINING AND RETAINING, REPAIRING EXISTING TRAILS, STEWARDSHIP FUNDING, FUNDING FOR CAPITAL PROJECTS.

THOSE ARE ALL GOOD QUESTIONS. THAT WOULD BE GREAT TO HAVE THE STAFF'S PERSPECTIVE.

AND OF COURSE, THESE SAME KINDS OF QUESTIONS ARE ONES THAT COULD BE ASKED OF THE COMMUNITIES AND ALL THE OTHER USER GROUPS AND, AND INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS THAT YOU WANT TO TALK TO AND GET INPUT FROM.

BECAUSE THE REALITY IS THAT THE ANSWERS ARE ONLY AS ONLY GOOD AS THE QUESTIONS THAT ARE ASKED TO GET THOSE ANSWERS AND TO FIND OUT WHAT'S REALLY GOING ON.

SO I WOULD HOPE THAT THIS WOULD BE DONE, AND WE COULD GET SOME REALLY GOOD INFORMATION FROM THE STAFF ON QUESTIONS LIKE THIS.

AND LASTLY, I WOULD JUST SAY THAT I'M STILL PERPLEXED AS TO WHERE THE 2013 MASTER PLAN IS IN ALL OF THIS.

I DON'T REALLY GET AN IDEA OF WHAT'S SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN WITH IT, WHETHER IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE INFORMING THIS PROCESS, WHETHER IT'S GOING TO BE ESSENTIALLY JETTISONED AT THE END OF THIS PROCESS.

IT'S NOTHING HAS REALLY BEEN EXPLAINED ABOUT WHERE THE 2013 PLAN FITS IN.

THAT'S MY COMMENTS FOR TODAY. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT.

THANK YOU. ANYONE ELSE? MR. LUN LUN, I'M GOING TO PROMOTE YOU TO PANELIST.

PLEASE ACCEPT. AND THEN YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES.

OKAY. SIR, CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

YES. YOU'VE ALREADY HEARD MY EARLIER COMMENTS.

YOU KNOW, I FEEL LIKE YOU'RE KEEPING. YOU'RE KEEPING MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC KIND OF IN THE DARK ABOUT WHAT ARE THE OBSTACLES FOR COMPLETING SOME OF THESE TRAILS? AND WE'VE WITH THE AG ADVISORY COMMITTEE, WE'VE WE'VE ONLY PICKED A COUPLE DIFFERENT MAJOR TRAIL ROUTES, AND WE'VE LOOKED AT WHY CAN'T THEY BE COMPLETED.

AND WE'VE TALKED TO EAST BAY MANY TIMES ABOUT WHY THEY CAN'T CONNECT SOMETHING LIKE BRUSHY PEAK WITH LOS VAQUEROS.

AND. WE'VE NEVER GOTTEN ANY ANSWERS OR. AND I HAVE A FEELING THAT IF YOU COME OUT TO LIVERMORE AND YOU HAVE A BIG PUBLIC MEETING AND YOU GET A QUESTION, WHY CAN'T YOU DO IT? YOU'LL SAY, WELL, IT TAKES A LOT OF STAFF TIME.

WE'RE GOING TO LOOK INTO IT. WE'RE GOING TO HAVE CONSULTATIONS WITH OTHER GROUPS.

AND SO WE'RE JUST ASKING, COULD YOU DO GIVE US ONE EXAMPLE OF WHAT A TRAIL ROUTING STUDY WOULD BE LIKE? AND COULD YOU DO ONE IN THE NEAR TERM TO CONNECT THESE REGIONAL TRAILS SO THAT SO WE COULD HAVE SOMETHING SOLID TO TALK ABOUT WHEN YOU HAVE A PUBLIC MEETING AND I HIKE WITH TWO DIFFERENT LARGE GROUPS AND IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU WANT TO REACH OUT SO ALL THE OTHER PEOPLE IN THE GROUP WILL COME AND TALK TO YOU. BUT MOST OF THEM DON'T REALLY WANT TO COME AND LISTEN TO THIS MEETING, SO I'M WILLING TO DO IT FOR THEM. SO I'M TRYING TO CONVEY WHAT THEY, WHAT THEY'RE CONCERNED ABOUT BECAUSE WE DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHY AN AGENCY WITH A $330 MILLION BUDGET AND A THOUSAND REALLY COMPETENT PEOPLE WHO PRODUCE ALL THESE GREAT PARKS, CAN'T CONNECT BRUSHY PEAK WITH LOS VAQUEROS. AND IF YOU COULD KIND OF PUBLICLY ANSWER THAT QUESTION, WE'D ALL REALLY APPRECIATE IT. ANYWAY, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. DO WE HAVE ANY MORE PUBLIC COMMENTS? OKAY. THERE ARE NO MORE PUBLIC COMMENTS. I'LL BRING IT BACK TO THE BOARD FOR ANOTHER ROUND.

THIS TIME WE'RE CALLING IT. MAKE A COMMENT IF YOU HAVE ANY COMMENTS.

OKAY. BUT DIRECTOR DESCHAMBAULT. SURE. IF WE GO BACK

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I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I'M FEELING AND I'M HEARING FROM MY COLLEAGUES IS THAT THERE'S CERTAINLY OR I FEEL EITHER ABOVE, BELOW OR AS ITS OWN CIRCLE, A CIRCLE WITH THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS IN THERE.

I ALSO, AS A SCIENTIST AND HEARING STAKEHOLDERS I LOVE THAT WE HAVE THE OFFICE OF EQUITY AND A CIRCLE THERE, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE SCIENCE OR STEWARDSHIP BE ADDED.

AS A AS I MENTIONED, I THINK THE BIGGEST THINGS THAT EVERYBODY'S ADDING, WHATEVER KIND OF GOVERNMENT AGENCY YOU ARE ARE A LOOK AT CLIMATE RESILIENCE AND EQUITY. SO I'M GLAD TO SEE EQUITY ON THERE.

AND IT SEEMS LIKE THAT SHOULD BE ADDED. I LIKE ALL THE COMMENTS ABOUT NEEDING TOUCH POINTS, AND I DO THINK TODAY IS A GOOD DAY. AND I DO THINK THAT TO HAVE THAT TOUCH POINT.

AND YET I FEEL THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF A DEARTH OF DELIVERABLES.

SO WE HAVE TO BE FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE, AND WE'RE ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE TO OVERSEE A PROCESS AND THEIR MONIES.

AND WE ARE AT WHAT APPEARS END OF $600,000 OF PHASE ONE AND BEING ASKED FOR ANOTHER $800,000 FOR PHASE TWO.

BUT I FEEL LIKE WE DON'T HAVE IN OUR TOOLKIT IN FRONT OF US SOMETHING TO LOOK AT.

I MEAN, I TRUST STAFF, I TRUST YOU, I TRUST THE POWERPOINT HERE.

AND WHEN I SAY I WANT A TABLE OF CONTENTS, IT'S NOT BECAUSE I'M DYING FOR A TABLE OF CONTENTS.

I'M LOOKING FOR A I'M LOOKING FOR A STRUCTURE.

I'M LOOKING FOR A DELIVERABLE. AND IN ALL THE DOCUMENTS I'VE SEEN, WHETHER IT WAS ON NEPA, AT EPA OR WHETHER IT WAS THERE'S USUALLY A THE COMMENT WAS MADE BY THE PUBLIC THAT KIND OF TRIGGERED, LIKE WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THE 2013 WORK PLAN.

SO FOR ME, A DELIVERABLE WOULD BE THIS IS GOING TO LOOK VERY DIFFERENT THAN THAT PLAN, OR IT'S GOING TO LOOK VERY THE SAME.

WE'RE JUST GOING TO ADD THESE SIX LINES. I DON'T HAVE A FEEL FOR THAT RIGHT NOW.

I DON'T HAVE THE PRESENTATIONS. NICE. BUT I DON'T HAVE A FEEL FOR THAT.

I WENT BACK AND I LOOKED TO AT BOTH THE 1973 PLAN AND THE 2013 PLAN, AND I FOUND THE 1973 ONE REALLY ROBUST. THERE'S A SECTION IN THERE THAT SAYS A 60 MEMBER PUBLIC AGENCY ADVISORY COMMITTEE WAS COMPOSED OF REPRESENTATIVES FROM 27 SPECIAL AGENCIES AND 25 CITIES WITHIN THE DISTRICT, AND THIS WAS CREATED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS TO ENSURE ADEQUATE COORDINATION OF THE MASTER PLAN.

SO TO ME, I THINK AT THIS POINT IT'D BE NICE TO HAVE A LIST OF THESE ORGANIZATIONS.

IT ALSO SAID IN THE 1973 PLAN THAT AT AN 83 MEMBER CITIZENS TASK FORCE WAS CREATED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS AS AN INDEPENDENT BODY TO REVIEW AND MAKE OBJECTIVE MASTER PLAN RECOMMENDATIONS AND PLANNING, AND THAT THEY DEVOTED MORE THAN 8000 HOURS TO THIS MASTER PLAN ACTIVITY WITH THIS 83 MEMBER CITIZEN'S TASK FORCE.

SO I THINK WHAT I'M HEARING IS WE'D LIKE TO SEE THIS LIST, NOT WE HAVE INPUT INTO IT OR IT'LL BE COMING TO YOU.

BUT I THINK THE BOARD, AT LEAST I WOULD LIKE TO SAY, WHO ARE THE 83 CITIZENS? WHO ARE THE 63? DO WE HAVE A PLAN? AND HOW DID OUR $600,000 WORTH OF MONEY GO TO SO FAR? SO THAT WE CAN BE FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE GOING FORWARD WITH THE NEXT, THE NEXT PHASE? AND I DON'T THINK IT'S ABOUT WHAT THAT DELIVERABLE LOOKS LIKE, BUT THAT IT'S A DELIVERABLE, THAT WE HAVE SOMETHING SORT OF IN FRONT OF US HERE.

A COUPLE OTHER COMMENTS. JUST IN GENERAL IS I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM PLACEWORKS AT SOME POINT.

I THEY WERE FABULOUS. AND THEY YOU KNOW, IF OUR MONEY IS GOING TO THEM, IT'S NOT JUST ME.

AND BECAUSE I'D LIKE TO SEE THEM AND BECAUSE THEY'RE NICE AND PROFESSIONAL.

BUT AGAIN, WE'RE REPRESENTING THE COMMUNITY AND A MAJOR UNDERTAKING, A PLAN THAT'S GOING TO BE IN PLACE FOR ANOTHER 20 YEARS.

SO I JUST THINK THAT BEING RESPONSIBLE TO THE PROCESS, BEING MEASURABLE TO THE PEOPLE I ALSO REALLY UNDERSTAND THAT THE LAST PLAN MAYBE WAS A LITTLE TOO PIE IN THE SKY AND DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH STAFF REALITY INPUT.

SO GETTING THE STAFF INPUT THAT QUESTIONNAIRE IS IS FABULOUS TO SORT OF START WITH THAT.

BUT I THINK AT SOME POINT THERE'S 26 MEETINGS IN THERE.

AND EVEN AFTER THIS 83 SUBCOMMITTEE, IT SAYS IN THE 1973 ONE THAT AN ADDITIONAL NINE COMMUNITY MEETINGS WERE HELD,

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IN ADDITION TO THAT, THEY HAD NINE MEETINGS. AND I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE LOOKING FOR THAT, LOOKING FOR THAT. WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE, THAT COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PLAN, WHICH I GUESS WE MIGHT BE SEEING AT THE END OF PHASE ONE.

BUT I THINK HAVING THIS IN FRONT OF US NOW, WITHOUT THAT KIND OF IS YOU'RE HEARING SOME OF THE QUESTIONS THAT ALL OF US HAVE, LIKE, WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE? AND THE QUESTIONS THAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE.

AND I HAVE ONE I'M EXCITED TO HEAR ABOUT THE ON OUR PHONES APPS PUBLIC SURVEY, BECAUSE IN 20 I LOOKED UP THE THE MASTER PLAN FROM 2013 AND WE HAD 6900 RESPONDENTS, 69, 72 PEOPLE RESPONDED TO THE PLAN.

AND WHEN WE DID THE MASTER PLAN IN 2013 AND I THOUGHT, THAT'S NOT REALLY A LOT CONSIDERING WE HAVE TWO, 2.6 MILLION PEOPLE. AND THE REPORT TALKS ABOUT HOW WHAT A GREAT OUTREACH OPPORTUNITY THAT WAS.

SO IT SEEMED LIKE FROM 1973 WITH THIS 83 CITIZEN COMMITTEE AND 60 COMMITTEE AND 8000 WE WE WENT IN 2013 TO JUST A SURVEY, WHICH IS GOOD. BUT WHAT I DID LIKE IN 2013 THAT I'D LIKE TO KNOW IS THE DELIVERABLE, THAT THERE WAS A 63 PAGE RESPONSE THAT WAS ATTACHED TO ALL OF THE PUBLIC COMMENTS. SO THAT WAS VERY.

SO THE PUBLIC KNEW WE HEARD THEM. SO ATTACHED TO THE 2013, THERE'S A 63 PAGE RESPONSE TO PUBLIC COMMENT.

SO EVEN THOUGH I WAS LIKE THAT'S NOT SO GREAT, WE ONLY GOT 6900 PEOPLE RESPONDED TO THE SURVEY.

BUT THEN I FELT LIKE WE DID DO A REAL QUALITY JOB OF RESPONDING TO THEM.

SO I GUESS I'D LIKE TO SEE IN THIS PROCESS WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN WITH THOSE DELIVERABLES AND HOW ARE THEY GOING TO BE ACTUALLY INCORPORATED INTO THIS, THIS PROCESS. AND THEN JUST THE COMMENT THAT IF WE'RE ROLLING OUT ON THE TIME FRAME FOR APRIL 22ND IS EARTH DAY.

SO I LIKE THIS. MAYBE WE CAN GET MORE THAN SIX.

WE CAN HAVE A CONTEST WITH THE 2013. MAYBE WE CAN GET MORE THAN 6900 RESPONDENTS, BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO HAVE THIS APP WE CAN SHARE WITH OUR FRIENDS OR WHATEVER.

BUT IF IT'S ACTUALLY GOING TO ROLL OUT ON APRIL 22ND, I DON'T KNOW WHEN WE'RE GOING TO SEE THAT OR TEST IT.

SO THAT WOULD BE REALLY HELPFUL TO UNDERSTAND WHEN THAT'S GOING TO ACTUALLY COME TO US.

SO ANYWAY, I DO THINK THAT A LOT OF TIME AND MONEY HAS BEEN INVESTED FOR PHASE ONE.

I'M REALLY EXCITED FOR PHASE TWO, AND I'M REALLY EXCITED TO WRAP IT UP FOR THE PUBLIC.

I JUST THINK WE REALLY NEED TO GET MOVING. TODAY WAS, I THINK, A GREAT DAY TO HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE IN OUR STAFF REPORT, BUT MAYBE SOMEHOW WE CAN GET THAT THAT PHASE ONE REPORT TO US.

THAT'S, I THINK, WHAT WE'RE LOOKING A LOT OF US ANYWAY, ARE LOOKING FOR.

ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. ANY OTHER COMMENTS AT THIS? YEAH. GO AHEAD. YES. I DID HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH AMELIA MARSHALL, WHO I KNOW LIKES TO PARTICIPATE AND SHARE PERSPECTIVE OF THE EQUESTRIAN COMMUNITY.

AND I BELIEVE, YOU KNOW, RIGHT NOW, AT THE SAME TIME AS OUR MEETING IS ALAMEDA COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS MEETING, AND THEY ARE RIGHT NOW TALKING ABOUT THE RACETRACK AT ALAMEDA COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS.

AND I KNOW I BELIEVE SHE'S AT THAT MEETING RIGHT NOW.

AND SO I TOLD HER I WOULD SHARE THIS PARADOX THAT SHE BELIEVES YOU KNOW, WITH THE BOARD IN REGARDS TO SPECIFICALLY PAGE 63, IN THE 2013 PLAN ON AND THAT'S THE SECTION ON TRAILS.

AND SHE MENTIONED HOW, YOU KNOW, ON THIS PAGE 63 ON TRAILS, YOU KNOW, REASONABLE.

WILL YOU LOOK AT EACH OF THE INDIVIDUAL? YOU KNOW, I GUESS WE CALL THEM RFAS HERE, TWO, THREE AND FOUR.

AND IT'S REASONABLE INDIVIDUALLY, BUT WHEN PUT TOGETHER IT DOES LEAD TO SOME CONCERNS.

AND SO SHE MENTIONS HOW, YOU KNOW, THE EXAMPLES SHE HAD SHARED WITH ME WAS, YOU KNOW, THE DISTRICT SUPPORTS MOUNTAIN BIKING, THE DISTRICT SUPPORTS NARROW TRAILS, THE DISTRICT SUPPORTS MULTI-USE TRAILS.

AND, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU PUT ALL THREE OF THOSE THINGS TOGETHER, THERE ARE CONCERNS FROM, FROM HER PERSPECTIVE IN REGARDS TO EQUESTRIAN USAGE.

AND SO, YOU KNOW, I THINK THIS GOES BACK TO THAT COMMENT THAT WE HEARD FROM A MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC ABOUT WHAT DOES WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH THIS, YOU KNOW, MASTER PLAN FROM 2013 AS WE EMBARK ON THIS SECOND CENTURY DISTRICT PLAN, I THINK THAT'S A REALLY IMPORTANT QUESTION FOR US TO ANSWER.

AND, YOU KNOW, LISTENING TO ALL THIS, IT'S MAKING ME THINK ABOUT YOU KNOW, I WENT THROUGH A REVISION OF WHAT WAS CALLED THE STREAM MANAGEMENT MASTER PLAN THAT WAS DRAFTED IN 2006 FOR ZONE SEVEN WATER AGENCY, AND WE DID THE FLOOD MANAGEMENT PLAN AS A REVISION AND AS A REPLACEMENT OF THAT STREAM

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AND IF WE DON'T DO PROJECT X, IT'S GOING TO JUST CAUSE THE REST OF THE SYSTEM TO FAIL.

AND SO THE WAY THAT THAT WAS POSITIONED TO US WAS THAT, YOU KNOW, WE REALLY HAD TO THINK ABOUT COMING UP WITH A, AN UPDATED PLAN THAT WASN'T THIS CHRISTMAS TREE APPROACH.

EVERYONE GOT TO HANG AN ORNAMENT ON THE TREE THAT THERE HAD TO BE SOME SENSE.

AND GRANTED, THESE ARE TWO DIFFERENT PLANS, SO IT'S NOT THE EXACT COMPARISON BETWEEN WHAT WE'RE DOING HERE AT EAST BAY REGIONAL PARK DISTRICT AND WHAT HAPPENED THERE, BUT I THINK IT'S A HELPFUL METAPHOR FOR US TO CONSIDER THAT MAYBE THE 2013 PLAN MIGHT HAVE HAD THAT A LITTLE BIT OF THAT WHERE EVERYONE GOT TO HANG AN ORNAMENT ON THE TREE APPROACH.

AND I THINK WE'RE GOING TO NEED SOME STRUCTURE TO THINK ABOUT THAT.

HOW WE ADDRESS THE 2013 PLAN IN COMPARISON TO THE SECOND CENTURY DISTRICT PLAN.

AND I THINK IT IS UP TO US AS A BOARD, BECAUSE I DON'T THINK WE WANT TO INVEST OVER $1 MILLION IN THIS PLAN AND NOT HAVE, YOU KNOW, SOME SOME TEETH TO IT WHERE THERE IS SOME STRUCTURE, BECAUSE OTHERWISE WE'RE GOING TO JUST END UP WITH SOMETHING SIMILAR WHERE EVERYBODY GOT TO HANG THEIR ORNAMENT AND WE'RE NOT REALLY SHOWING YOU KNOW, WHAT THE NEED IS.

AND THERE COULD BE DIFFERENT REASONS FOR THAT NEED. AND SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE I MENTIONED THAT BECAUSE I THINK IT RELATES TO SOME OF THE COMMENTS THAT AMELIA HAD SHARED WITH ME IN REGARDS TO THIS, WHICH SHE WHICH SHE CALLS THIS PARADOX IN REGARDS TO OUR TRAILS AND SPECIFICALLY THAT SECTION OF THE 2013 PLAN. THE OTHER POINT THAT I WANT TO MENTION, YOU KNOW, AND I THINK THIS WAS THIS IS IN A DIFFERENT WAY FROM THE QUESTION I HAD ASKED EARLIER, YOU KNOW, HOW DOES THIS SECOND CENTURY DISTRICT PLAN IMPACT, YOU KNOW, OUR EXISTING WORK AND OUR CURRENT WORK AND OUR EXISTING PROCESSES? AND, YOU KNOW, I'VE BEEN VOCAL ABOUT THIS, AND I'M GOING TO CONTINUE TO BE VOCAL ABOUT THIS.

I'M VERY DISAPPOINTED IN OUR LACK OF LIAISON COMMITTEES.

YOU KNOW, IT'S IN OUR OPERATING GUIDELINES. I KNOW THERE HAD BEEN AN EFFORT TO REVISE IT, TO REMOVE THE LIAISON COMMITTEES FROM THESE GUIDELINES, AND PART OF IT WAS TO IDENTIFY THESE LOCAL GOVERNMENT MEETINGS AS A REPLACEMENT, WHICH IS NOT A REPLACEMENT, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO HAVE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC TO PARTICIPATE.

I'VE BEEN VERY VOCAL THAT I'M NOT HAPPY THAT WE HAVEN'T HAD A LIAISON MEETING WITH CITY OF FREMONT SINCE 2023, AND I'M GLAD THAT WE DID HAVE A MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC COMMENT ON THAT.

I THINK IT DOES NEED TO BE SCHEDULED. I THINK THAT THERE'S A VERY GOOD EXAMPLE HERE.

YOU KNOW, OTHER AGENCIES ARE ALSO DOING THEIR OWN PLANS.

IN THIS PARTICULAR EXAMPLE, CITY OF FREMONT IS DOING THEIR ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN, AND IT WOULD BE GOOD FOR US TO HAVE THIS MEETING WITH CITY OF FREMONT, WITH THE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC INVITED, SO THAT WE CAN TALK ABOUT ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT PLANS SO THAT WE CAN MAKE SURE THAT THEY START TO WORK TOGETHER.

AND I THINK THAT THAT'S REALLY THE BEAUTY OF THESE LIAISON COMMITTEES THAT YOU KNOW, WE NEVER DID CHANGE IT.

SO IT ACTUALLY IS IN OUR BOARD OPERATING GUIDELINES RIGHT NOW.

YOU KNOW, JUST LAST WEEK, WE HAD, YOU KNOW, OUR THIRD ALAMEDA COUNTY LAFCO LOCAL AREA FORMATION COMMITTEE MEETING WHERE A REALLY CORE PIECE OF THE COMMENTS THAT WE RECEIVED IN REGARDS TO THE AGENDA ITEM INVOLVING EAST BAY REGIONAL PARK DISTRICT AND LIVERMORE AREA PARK AND RECREATION DISTRICT, LARPD IS THE LACK OF LIAISON MEETINGS THAT HAVE HAPPENED BETWEEN THE TWO AGENCIES.

I'M REALLY HAPPY TO REPORT THAT RIGHT NOW WE DO HAVE ONE SCHEDULED APRIL 4TH.

AND IT WILL BE AT THE LARPD OFFICES. BUT, YOU KNOW, I JUST THINK THAT WE NEED TO MAYBE THINK ABOUT THESE LIAISON MEETINGS. AND ALSO I KNOW THAT THIS IS ALSO A BIG TOPIC IN THE CITY OF PLEASANTON IN REGARDS TO THE PROJECT, AND THE CITY OF PLEASANTON WOULD VERY MUCH LIKE TO HAVE A LIAISON MEETING SCHEDULED WITH US.

AND I THINK THAT YOU KNOW, WITH THAT, I THINK THERE'S A REALLY IMPORTANT POINT THAT ALSO MR. LUND CAME MENTIONED, YOU KNOW, WHEN WHEN WE TAKE OUR SECOND CENTURY DISTRICT PLAN TO LIVERMORE AS AN EXAMPLE, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE TO BE READY TO BE ASKED. WE'RE GOING TO BE ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT SOME OF THE CURRENT ISSUES AND THE CURRENT TOPICS.

AND WHILE WE AT EAST BAY REGIONAL PARK DISTRICT THINK THAT THE SECOND CENTURY DISTRICT PLAN IS SO IMPORTANT, YOU KNOW, IT MAY NOT COMPLETELY MATCH, MATCH OR MEET WHAT THE COMMUNITY THINKS IS IMPORTANT.

AND SO HOW DO WE ADDRESS SOME OF THOSE, YOU KNOW, CURRENT COMMENTS, CURRENT QUESTIONS, AND KIND OF FIGURE OUT WHERE THAT MEETING POINT IS? I THINK FOR TODAY, YOU KNOW, I WORRY THAT WE'RE MAYBE A LITTLE BIT.

WHAT'S THAT PHRASE? THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE. I THINK THAT WE DO NEED TO HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE STRUCTURE IN PLACE IN TERMS OF DELIVERABLES.

AND EVEN IF IT'S JUST COMPILING, YOU KNOW, I SPENT A LOT OF TIME GOING THROUGH ALL MY FILES TO MAKE SURE I COULD GET, YOU KNOW, THE NOTES FROM OUR, YOU KNOW, PAST TWO BOARD RETREATS WHERE WE TALKED ABOUT THIS SECOND CENTURY DISTRICT PLAN.

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I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S A COMPREHENSIVE LIST, AND NOW I CAN'T EVEN FIND IT, BUT IT MIGHT BE HELPFUL IF WE COULD COMPILE IT ALL TOGETHER FOR FOR THE BOARD AT LEAST, SO THAT WE CAN SEE WHAT WORK WE'VE DONE SO FAR, SO THAT WHEN WE'RE MAKING SUCH A HUGE DECISION TO APPROPRIATE ALMOST $800,000, WE KNOW WHAT WE'VE DONE SO FAR AND KIND OF WHERE WE'VE BEEN AND WHAT WE WANT TO SEE AT THIS DECISION POINT.

MR. PRESIDENT MERCURIO, CAN I. YES, YES. GO AHEAD.

ONE THING THAT WAS SAID THERE BECAUSE I THINK THIS KEEPS COMING UP THIS ISN'T JUST RELATED TO THE SECOND CENTURY OR THE.

SORRY, THE DISTRICT PLAN. THIS IS AROUND THE LIAISON COMMITTEE MEETINGS.

JUST AS I JUST WANT TO GIVE THE BOARD A REFRESHER.

WE ACTUALLY HAVE COME TO THIS BODY ON MORE THAN ONE OCCASION AS PART OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT PILOT PROGRAM, WHERE WE WERE TOTALLY TRANSPARENT AND ON RECORD THAT WE WERE ASKING US, THE BODY TO PRESS PAUSE ON THE LIAISON COMMITTEES FOR THE TIME PERIOD FOR US TO DO THE 90 LOCAL GOVERNMENT MEETINGS AS SO THAT WE COULD ACTUALLY GET THOSE GOING FOR THE NEXT 18 MONTHS OR SO.

AT THE TIME, IT'S PROBABLY 24 MONTHS, BUT I THINK WE'RE AT LIKE 18 MONTHS.

SO THERE ARE SOME THAT ARE LEGALLY REQUIRED, SUCH AS THE LARPD MEETING, WHICH I'VE BEEN TRYING TO GET SCHEDULED SINCE SINCE THE FALL.

IT IS NOW ON CALENDAR, SO THAT IS NOT ONE THAT IS ON PAUSE, BUT I JUST WANT TO ASSURE THE BOARD AND THE PUBLIC.

YOU ARE CORRECT, WE HAVE NOT REMOVED THOSE, BUT IN FACT WE LISA AND BOLLINGER AND ERIC CAME TO THE BOARD AND HAD DONE THIS WHOLE ANALYSIS OF WHY DO WE HAVE THESE LIAISON COMMITTEES AND NOT THESE WHICH ONES ARE BROWN AND NOT BROWN, AND WHICH ONES ARE AN OLD JPA? NOT. SO JUST KIND OF THERE WAS SOME HOUSEKEEPING THAT NEEDED TO BE DONE WITH THOSE.

AND THEN WE ASKED THIS BODY TO JUST PRESS PAUSE SO THAT WE COULD DO THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT LIAISON COMMITTEE OR THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT MEETINGS IN THIS SHORT TIME PERIOD, WITH THE IDEA THAT WE WOULD COME BACK WITH KIND OF MORE OF A KIND OF ROBUST RECOMMENDATION ON WHAT THESE MEETINGS COULD LOOK LIKE IN THE FUTURE.

SO I JUST WANT TO GO ON RECORD ABOUT THAT. IT IS NOT THAT WE HAVE ELIMINATED THEM.

IN FACT, WE REALLY WANT TO BEEF UP WHAT WE'RE DOING WITH OUR LOCAL PARTNERS, BUT DO IT IN A MORE COMPREHENSIVE WAY, BECAUSE I THINK A LOT OF YOU ACKNOWLEDGED THAT SOME OF THOSE EXIST BECAUSE THERE WAS SOME ACUTE ISSUE IN THE PAST.

AND SO WE CREATED A LIAISON COMMITTEE MEETING.

BUT WHY DO WE NOT HAVE IT WITH, YOU KNOW, ALL THESE OTHER PARTNERS.

SO THAT IS SOMETHING THAT'S GOING TO COME BACK TO YOU.

THEY'RE NOT GONE. WE'RE JUST PRESS PAUSE SO WE COULD DO THIS PILOT.

SO I DID WANT TO ADDRESS THAT. AND LOTS OF OTHER GREAT POINTS YOU MADE.

THANKS. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR THAT.

ANY OTHER COMMENTS? I I THINK WHAT I'M HEARING HERE IS AND I SHARE IT WITH EVERYONE, IS THAT THERE'S A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF FRUSTRATION BECAUSE THIS IS A REALLY, REALLY BIG DEAL WHICH IS ILLUSTRATED PARTIALLY BY THE COST OF IT.

IT'S NOT OBVIOUSLY NOT LOST ON US BUT ALSO THE POTENTIAL IMPACT THAT IT COULD HAVE ON ALL THOSE 2.8 MILLION AND BEYOND POTENTIAL USERS AND INTERACTORS WITH US. AND WE'RE ANXIOUS TO SEE IT HAPPEN SO WE CAN BEGIN SORT OF THE NEW YOU KNOW, MAYBE A LITTLE DIFFERENT WAY OF LOOKING AT THINGS. SO I'M, I'M IN THERE TOO, WITH THE FRUSTRATION.

AND I, YOU KNOW, I AND I, AND I FEEL LIKE IT'S JUST WE'RE REALLY CLOSE TO GETTING THESE THINGS THAT THAT THE BOARD IS INTERESTED IN.

SO YOU KNOW, I AM FRUSTRATED, BUT I KNOW WE'RE GOING TO GET THERE.

AND I ALSO WANTED TO JUST JUST MENTION THE PART OF THE PROCESS THAT WAS ILLUSTRATED HERE TODAY WITH INVOLVING THE STAFF AND IT'S SABRINA IT KIND OF SURPRISES ME THAT THIS HAS NEVER BEEN DONE THIS WAY BEFORE.

YOU KNOW YOU KNOW, I, I, I'M NOT TRYING TO BRAG OR ANYTHING, BUT I HAVE A DEGREE IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, AND THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS YOU LEARN IS, IS ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR.

AND ALWAYS ASK THE, THE FOLKS WHO ARE INVOLVED IN THE CHANGE THAT YOU WANT TO MAKE.

YOU KNOW, AND TO BE HONEST WITH YOU, I'VE BEEN WANTING TO USE THAT FOR 40 YEARS.

AND NOW I'M IN IT, YOU KNOW, AND I'M REALLY, REALLY HAPPY ABOUT THAT.

AND EVER SINCE I HEARD THAT, I'VE ALWAYS BEEN ABLE TO JUST SIT BACK SMUGLY AND CRITICIZE OTHER ORGANIZATIONS FOR NOT DOING THAT.

IT'S LIKE, WHAT? THEY BUILT THAT COURTYARD AND THEY DIDN'T ASK THE GUYS THAT WORK THERE WHAT THEY NEEDED.

YOU KNOW, IT'S LIKE, THAT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE.

BUT, YOU KNOW, I THINK WE'RE DOING THAT NOW. AND I THINK THAT PART OF THE PART OF THE IMPACT, THE THE PART OF THE. RESPONSES THAT WE'RE GETTING FROM OUR STAFF ARE FROM PEOPLE WHO REPRESENT

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AND I TRUST THAT THEY'RE MAKING THEIR COMMENTS AND THEIR SUGGESTIONS OR WHATEVER THAT FORMAT MIGHT BE.

AND YOU'RE RECORDING THEM, RIGHT? OKAY. SO I HAVE GREAT FAITH IN THAT PROCESS.

I LOOKED AT THE LIST WHERE ABOUT A THIRD OF THE WAY THROUGH.

AND I'M REALLY HAPPY TO SEE THAT. SO THAT'S PROGRESS. BUT SINCE IT'S SUCH A, IT'S SUCH A, SUCH A VOLUMINOUS LIST OF, OF CONTACTS THAT ARE BEING MADE, IT TAKES A WHILE TO GET THROUGH THERE.

YOU CAN'T DO FIVE IN A DAY. YOU HAVE TO, YOU KNOW, SORT OF SEQUENTIALLY TAKE THEM.

SO I'M HAPPY ABOUT ALL THAT. BUT AGAIN YOU KNOW, WE ARE WE ARE ANXIOUS BECAUSE WE'RE PASSIONATE ABOUT THIS. WE HAVE SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT FOCUSES, BUT WE ARE ALL UNITED IN SUPPORT OF THIS AGENCY IN HELPING IT TO BE AS GOOD AS IT CAN BE. SO HAVING SAID ALL THAT, I THINK THAT BRINGS US DOWN TO THE PART OF THIS ITEM WHERE WE NEED TO APPROVE THE AMENDMENT AND AUTHORIZE THE APPROPRIATION FOR PHASE ONE OF THE SECOND CENTURY DISTRICT PLAN.

SO DO I HAVE THAT MOTION. MOVED BY ECHOLS. SECOND.

SECOND BY COFFEY. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. OPPOSED? IS IT. IS IT POSSIBLE TO AMEND THE MOTION TO REQUIRE THAT WE GET A REPORT BEFORE OR CONDITION ON THE APPROVAL THAT WE GET A PHASE ONE REPORT BEFORE MAY 30TH TO GIVE OURSELVES SOME? IS THAT ANYTHING ANYONE IS WILLING TO CONSIDER AS A MOTION TO ADD TO THE MOTION TO AMEND THE MOTION? OR DO YOU HAVE TO VOTE FOR ECHOLS. YEAH, I WOULD, YEAH I WOULD.

I HAVE A QUESTION FOR STAFF THOUGH. SO BECAUSE I, I FEEL THE FRUSTRATION OF EVERYBODY, I'M NOT GOING TO REPEAT ANY OF IT.

BUT I ALSO KNOW THAT WE'RE ALL IN INTERESTED IN MOVING THIS FORWARD AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.

SO I DON'T WANT TO DELAY, YOU KNOW. YES. WE WANT TO SEE THE LIBERALS.

YES, WE WANT TO SEE WHAT THEY'RE WORKING ON. YES, WE WANT TO SEE THE REPORT.

BUT NO, I DON'T WANT TO SLOW THEM UP. RIGHT. SO, SO SO IF WE IF WE IF I ACCEPT THIS FRIENDLY AMENDMENT IS THAT GOING TO SLOW THEM DOWN OR WHEN ARE THEY GOING TO START ON PHASE TWO? I'M COMFORTABLE COMMITTING TO THAT. OKAY. ALL RIGHT.

YOU'RE COMFORTABLE WITH WITH WITH WITH BRINGING BACK A REPORT BY MAY 30TH.

ABSOLUTELY. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. COULD I ASK. SO.

SO, NO, IT WOULD BE SO I THINK THE THE AMENDMENT.

RIGHT. SO THERE'D STILL BE THE MOTION TO PASS TO APPROVE.

RIGHT. IT'S ALL THERE EXACTLY AS IT WAS PRESENTED WITH THE ONE ADDITIONAL STIPULATION THAT WE WANT TO SEE SOMETHING AT A CERTAIN DATE BY MAY 1ST.

PHASE ONE REPORT AND AN OUTLINE MAY 1ST OR MAY 3RD.

MAY 30TH. MAY 30TH. END OF MAY. OKAY. I THINK THAT'S A I JUST WANT TO SAY THERE WAS I DIDN'T VOTE AND IT WAS SECONDED.

THERE WAS A, THERE WAS AN I, BUT IT WASN'T. THERE WASN'T A ROLL CALL VOTE.

THAT'S BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT I ASKED. WAS THERE A ROLL CALL VOTE? THERE WAS NOT A ROLL CALL VOTE. THERE WAS NO ROLL CALL VOTE REQUIRED UNLESS THERE'S SOMEBODY WHO'S ATTENDING REMOTELY. RIGHT. AND I HAD TROUBLE UNDERSTANDING IF WHEN YOU CALL PRESIDENT MERCURIO CALLED FOR EVERYBODY, ANYONE OPPOSED? AND THERE WERE. NO. I DIDN'T HEAR ANYONE.

I IT WAS NOT UNANIMOUS BECAUSE I, I DID NOT VOTE BECAUSE I ASKED IF THERE WAS A ROLL CALL VOTE.

NO, NO, I WAS I WAS TRYING TO CLARIFY WAS THERE A ROLL CALL VOTE BECAUSE OUR OTHER VOTES HAD BEEN ROLL CALL.

SO WE HAVE A MISUNDERSTANDING ON THE PROCESS.

WHEN WE HAD NOT A MISUNDERSTANDING OF A PROCESS AS WE WERE.

SO AS THAT WAS HAPPENING THEN LYNDA WAS ALSO ASKING A QUESTION, CAN WE AMEND IT? SO WE HAD A LOT OF STUFF MOVING AT ONE TIME. SO THAT THAT'S THAT'S WHERE YEAH, I THINK I WHEN SHE MADE THAT, WHEN SHE WAS ASKING ABOUT THAT. SO YOU'RE RIGHT.

DID WE CLOSE OUT THE FIRST MOTION? RIGHT. SO SO THAT'S I, I DID NOT UNDERSTAND THAT AS SO SO I THINK DIRECTOR DESCHAMBAULT I THINK IT'S MORE IT WORKS A LITTLE BIT BETTER IF THE, THE SUGGESTION IS MADE BEFORE THE VOTE JUST ALL HAPPENED FAST.

BUT WE I DON'T THINK WE ACTUALLY VOTE. I LUANA DIDN'T VOTE.

I DID NOT VOTE. NO I UNDERSTAND. SO WE'RE GOING TO WE'RE GOING TO DO IT AGAIN.

AND DO I COUNCIL DO I, CAN I, CAN WE ASK FOR A ROLL CALL VOTE OR.

NO. SHE SAID WE DIDN'T NEED A ROLL CALL VOTE.

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IT DOESN'T NECESSARILY HAVE TO BE PART OF THE RESOLUTION.

IF YOU WANT TO ADOPT THE RESOLUTION AND COMPLETE THE VOTE THAT I GUESS YOU WERE IN THE PROCESS OF TAKING, YOU CAN DO THAT. AND THE GENERAL MANAGER CAN ENSURE THAT PHASE ONE IS BROUGHT BACK TO YOU BY A CERTAIN DATE.

THAT'S WHAT I RECOMMEND THAT YOU DO, GIVEN THAT YOU'RE TYPICALLY YOU WANT TO ADD A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT BEFORE THE VOTES ARE DO YOU STILL DO YOU FEEL COMFORTABLE WITH THAT OR DO YOU STILL WANT TO HAVE IT BAKED INTO THE THE MOTION? I FEEL THAT WE HAVE A FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY TO DELIVER BOTH TO THE PUBLIC, AND I WOULD FEEL COMFORTABLE VOTING IF THE AMENDMENT INCLUDED AN APPROVAL OF THE $800,000 WITH A CONDITION THAT WE RECEIVE A PRESENTATION OF PHASE ONE ON OR BEFORE MAY 30TH.

OKAY. SO THEN WE NEED A NEW MOTION. THEN I GUESS WITH THAT, THAT STIPULATION MADE THE MOTION.

OKAY. I THINK THE QUESTION IS WHERE ARE WE IN THE MIDDLE OF A VOTE OR NOT? BECAUSE IT SOUNDS LIKE WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE VOTE. WE JUST HAVE TO FINISH IT. BUT IF WE'RE IF I MEAN, IN MY MIND, WE WE WEREN'T REALLY IN THE MIDDLE OF A VOTE BECAUSE THERE WAS CONFUSION ABOUT LIKE, IF WE WERE EVEN.

OKAY. WELL, IT WASN'T IT WASN'T COMPLETED. I THINK I THINK I'D LIKE TO JUST KIND OF BACK OFF AND TRY TRY IT AGAIN WITH THIS.

YES, I SUPPORT THAT. YEAH. THANK YOU. OKAY. SO I'M LOOKING FOR A MOTION.

OKAY, WELL, I MOVE I MOVE THE MOTION, AS ORIGINALLY STATED WITH THE AMENDMENT THAT DIRECTOR DESCHAMBAULT HAS SUGGESTED. RIGHT. AND DO I HEAR A SECOND? I WOULD SECOND THAT.

AND YOU? OKAY. SECOND BY DESCHAMBAULT. ROLL CALL.

VOTE, PLEASE. PRESIDENT. MERCURIO. DIRECTOR COFFEY.

AYE. DIRECTOR. ECHOLS. AYE. DIRECTOR WAESPI. AYE.

DIRECTOR SANWONG. YES. DIRECTOR ESPAÑA. AYE. DIRECTOR DESCHAMBAULT.

AYE. AND PRESIDENT MERCURIO. AYE. UNANIMOUS CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU. TO YOU.

GO SIT DOWN AND TAKE TAKE A LOAD OFF YOUR FEET THERE.

YOU WERE THERE A LONG TIME. SPEAKING OF TAKING A LOAD OFF, I WOULD LIKE TO TAKE A LITTLE BREAK HERE AND COME BACK AT 315, PLEASE. OH, I GOTTA GO HOME AT 330. MAN.

THANK YOU. WE'RE BACK. AND WE ARE, CONSIDERING ITEM C AUTHORIZATION TO APPROVE AND ADOPT AN AMENDMENT TO THE EAST BAY REGIONAL PARK DISTRICT SALARY

[HUMAN RESOURCES DIVISION]

THANK YOU FOR DOING MY WORK. GOOD AFTERNOON, PRESIDENT MERCURIO.

MEMBERS OF THE BOARD ALISON COOK, DEPUTY GENERAL MANAGER AND ASSISTANT GENERAL MANAGER OF AIR.

AS PARDON FOR FOR NOW. FOR A SHORT WHILE. FOR A SHORT WHILE AS PRESIDENT MERCURIO MENTIONED, THIS IS A VERY ROUTINE ITEM THAT IS NORMALLY ON CONSENT.

I THINK DUE TO HR OVERSIGHT, IT WAS ADDED TO NONCONSENT.

SO I HAVE NO PRESENTATION. THIS IS A CALPERS REQUIREMENT THAT WE POST OUR SALARY SCHEDULE.

THE BOARD ALREADY AUTHORIZED THESE WAGE INCREASES WHEN WE WHEN YOU AUTHORIZED THE AFSCME MOU AND EXTENDED THAT TO UNREPRESENTED.

SO THAT'S IT FOR THIS ITEM. THAT'S IT'S PRETTY STRAIGHTFORWARD.

DO WE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FROM THE BOARD. WE DO NOT HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.

DO WE MOVE THE RESOLUTION. WELL WE HAVE TO CHECK FOR PUBLIC COMMENT.

NO DOUBT THERE'S 12 PEOPLE WAITING. NO THAT'S TRUE.

I TAKE NO OFFENSE THAT YOU WANT ME OUT OF HERE.

NO. THERE ARE NO PUBLIC'S WAITING TO COMMENT ON THIS.

OKAY. ALL RIGHT. ARE THERE ANY COMMENTS TO BE MADE ABOUT THIS? THERE ARE NONE. OKAY, THEN I WOULD LOOK FOR A MOTION.

SO MOVED. SECOND MOVED AND SECONDED. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. OPPOSED. ABSTAIN. CARRIES. UNANIMOUSLY. THANK YOU SO MUCH.

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THIS IS A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CONTINUATION OF THE APPOINTMENT OF KAREN MCNAMARA AS INTERIM DIVISION LEAD OF MAINTENANCE AND SKILLED TRADES IN THE OPERATIONS DIVISION PURSUANT TO GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 21221H.

AGAIN, ALISON COOK, DEPUTY GENERAL MANAGER AND AGM OF AIR.

FOR NOW. THIS IS ANOTHER ROUTINE ITEM. WE I DO NEED TO MAKE AN AMENDMENT TO THE STAFF REPORT AS WELL AS THE RESOLUTION, BUT I'LL GIVE BACKGROUND ON THAT FIRST. SO LAST YEAR AFTER A WELL-DESERVED PROMOTION TO DIVISION LEAD OF OPERATIONS FOR ROBERT KENNEDY, THE DIVISION LEAD, WHICH WE USED TO REFER TO AS CHIEF OF MAST POSITION, BECAME VACANT, AND THE BOARD AUTHORIZED THE APPOINTMENT OF A RETIRED ANNUITANT, KAREN MCNAMARA, AS INTERIM DIVISION LEAD OF MAST.

WHILE WE UNDERWENT A NATIONWIDE RECRUITMENT FOR ROBERT'S REPLACEMENT.

WE HAVE UNDERGONE THE NATIONWIDE RECRUITMENT.

WE HAVE SELECTED A CANDIDATE, BUT THE CANDIDATE CANNOT START TILL THE END OF APRIL.

THE PREVIOUS RESOLUTION AUTHORIZED BY THE BOARD HAD THE APPOINTMENT THROUGH FEBRUARY 15TH OF 2025, OR UNTIL A PERMANENT CANDIDATE IS SELECTED AND APPOINTED TO THE POSITION, WHICHEVER IS EARLIER.

SO THAT MEANS AS OF FEBRUARY 15TH, WE HAD NO ONE OVERSEEING THE MAST DEPARTMENT.

SO WE'RE SEEKING A SHORT CONTINUATION OF KAREN'S APPOINTMENT TO THE DIVISION LEAD OF MAST UNTIL MAY 25TH OF 2025. MAY 23RD OF 2025. FIVE. SO THIS IS ANOTHER ROUTINE ITEM THAT CALPERS REQUIRES TO CONTINUE TO ALLOW US TO EMPLOY HER AS A RETIRED ANNUITANT.

AND THERE'S TWO CHANGES, AMENDMENTS THAT I'D LIKE TO MAKE.

THE FIRST ONE IS THERE ARE THERE IS A TYPO IN THE BACKGROUND.

SHE WAS APPOINTED IN SEPTEMBER OF 2023. I MEAN, SORRY, SHE WAS APPOINTED IN SEPTEMBER OF 2024, NOT 2025, AS THE STAFF REPORT SAYS. AND THEN ON THE RESOLUTION IN THE WHEREAS IT'S THE ONE, TWO, THREE, SEVEN, WHEREAS AGAIN, IT SHOULD BE EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER 23RD, 2024 UNTIL THE PERMANENT HIRING OF A DIVISION LEAD OF MAST OR FEBRUARY 15TH, 2025, WHICHEVER CAME FIRST.

AND THAT WAS REFERRING TO THE OLD RESOLUTION.

SO JUST THOSE TWO AMENDMENTS TO MAKE SURE THAT IT'S ACCURATE.

OKAY. THANK YOU. ANY QUESTIONS? I HAVE A QUESTION.

SURE. WOULD IT MAKE SENSE TO HAVE IT ALSO SAY UNTIL THE HIRING OF A DIVISION LEAD, WHICHEVER CAME FIRST IN THIS RESOLUTION, AGAIN, RATHER THAN MAKE IT A DATE. CERTAIN CALPERS REQUEST.

THIS IS SOMETHING THAT CALPERS ASKED US TO DO, WHICH IS INCLUDE A DATE CERTAIN.

AND SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE DOING. USUALLY YOU CANNOT EXTEND THEM ONCE YOU APPOINT A RETIRED ANNUITANT AS AN INTERIM, BUT THEY ARE ALLOWING US TO AMEND THE RESOLUTION.

BUT THEY WANTED A DATE. CERTAIN. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU FOR THAT CLARIFICATION.

ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. YES. MY ONLY ADDITION WOULD BE I WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE IT IF WE COULD REQUIRE KAREN AS PART OF OUR JOB DESCRIPTION TO COME, AT LEAST WITH VISIT WITH HER.

VISIT WITH US. PARDON ME. I'VE KNOWN KAREN FOR YEARS. SHE'S GREAT AND HAS SUCH EXPERIENCE.

I'D LOVE TO HEAR HER COME AND SAY HELLO AND POSSIBLY, MAYBE ON AN INFORMAL BASIS AND JUST MAYBE SAY WHAT? HER OBSERVATIONS ABOUT OUR PARK DISTRICT GREAT.

I'M LETTING THE AGM OF OPERATIONS KNOW. KAREN, WE HAVE REALLY AND GREATLY APPRECIATED KAREN'S LEADERSHIP DURING THIS TIME.

IT WAS A VACANCY THAT WE COULD FEEL, SO WE APPRECIATE THE BOARD'S SUPPORT IN ALLOWING HER TO COME ON.

YES, AND I DO WANT TO STEAL LISA'S THUNDER A LITTLE BIT, BUT WE HAVE ANNOUNCED THIS TO THE STAFF.

WE THROUGH THE NATIONAL RECRUITMENT PROCESS. LISA DID SELECT THE THE NEW CHIEF.

I'M JUST GOING TO TELL YOU WHO IT IS NOW. SO.

OR THE NEW DIVISION LEAD. SO HIS NAME IS CHRIS WYCOFF, AND HE'S GOING TO BE JOINING US FROM THE TOWN OF MOORESVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA. HE'S CURRENTLY THE DIRECTOR OF FACILITIES AND ASSET MANAGEMENT THERE.

AND HE REALLY JUST DID AN AMAZING JOB IN AN EXTREMELY COMPETITIVE POOL OF, OF CANDIDATES.

SO WE'LL SEND YOU ALL MORE INFORMATION. BUT HE DOES START ON APRIL 28TH.

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BUT I THINK THAT WE WILL RELAY THAT TO KAREN BECAUSE SHE HAS BEEN PHENOMENAL TO HOLD THIS DOWN.

GREAT. ALL RIGHT. GOOD IDEA AND GREAT NEWS. SO THANK YOU FOR THAT.

ALL RIGHT. DO WE HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS ITEM? WE DO NOT. OKAY. SO ARE THERE ANY COMMENTS THAT ANYBODY WANTS TO MAKE? WE DON'T HAVE ANY OF THOSE EITHER. SO NOW I'M LOOKING FOR A MOTION TO APPROVE THIS.

SO MOVED. MOVED BY WAESPI. SECOND. SECOND. SECOND.

BY ESPAÑA. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE, AYE. OPPOSED? ABSTAIN.

CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THOSE TWO ITEMS. AND NEXT WE COME TO OUR PUBLIC SAFETY DIVISION WHICH IS THE PRESENTATION OF THE

[PUBLIC SAFETY DIVISION]

GOOD AFTERNOON, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. GOOD AFTERNOON, ROBERTO FELICE, YOUR CHIEF OF POLICE.

I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU A BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF OUR ANNUAL REPORT, WHICH I PROVIDED YOU WITH A HARD COPY FOR YOU TO PERUSE AT YOUR LEISURE.

THIS IS FOR THE 2024 AND VERY PLEASED OF THE RESULTS THAT WE ACHIEVED IN 2024.

BEFORE I WALK YOU THROUGH WHAT WHAT'S ON THE SCREEN, I JUST REALLY WANTED TO TAKE A MOMENT TO THANK MY OFFICERS AND MY PROFESSIONAL STAFF FOR THE HARD WORK, BECAUSE EVERYTHING THAT YOU'RE GOING TO SEE UP THERE AS A RESULT WAS ACHIEVED BY THEM.

AND I TRULY WANT TO THANK MY BOSS, SABRINA LANDRETH, FOR THE SUPPORT THAT SHE HAS GIVEN US FOR THE WHOLE YEAR, AND HOPEFULLY SHE'LL CONTINUE TO GIVE US. SO IN 2024, AS YOU CAN SEE UP THERE, WE HANDLED 50 CLOSE TO 56,000 TELEPHONE CALLS, WHICH IS A COMBINATION OF 911 CALLS AND NON-EMERGENCY LINES, AND IT'S A SLIGHT DECREASE FROM 2023.

EXCUSE ME, SLIGHT INCREASE FROM 2023. WHICH SHOWS HOW BUSY WE STAY IN OUR DISPATCH CENTER OF THOSE CALLS FOR SERVICE. THEY GENERATED 21,500 INCIDENTS.

THE INTERESTING NUMBER WISE IS TO IS TO SEE IS THAT HALF OF THEM, 50, ALMOST 50% OF THEM WERE ACTUALLY OFFICER INITIATED ACTIVITIES.

THAT SHOWS HOW HARD YOUR OFFICERS ARE WORKING OUT THERE.

AND THE GOAL IS NOT TO DO ANYTHING ELSE BUT KEEP OUR PARKS SAFE.

THAT'S THE ULTIMATE GOAL THAT WE HAVE FOR THE PUBLIC OUT THERE.

HELP US KEEP THE PARKS SAFE. WE'LL DO OUR PART IF YOU DO YOURS.

AND THEN THE REMAINING 12,000 ARE JUST CALLS FOR SERVICE THAT WE HANDLED IN 2023, WHICH PRETTY SIMILAR TO EXCUSE ME, EXCUSE ME. 2024, WHICH IS PRETTY SIMILAR TO WHAT WE HANDLED IN 2023, EXCEPT THE OFFICER INITIATED ACTIVITY WENT UP BY ALMOST 1500 CALLS FOR.

EXCUSE ME, 1500 OFFICER INITIATED ACTIVITIES.

THE TOP LOCATIONS ARE WHERE WE SPENT OUR TIME.

LAKE DEL VALLE, MARTIN LUTHER KING TILDEN, ANTHONY CHABOT.

THOSE ARE THE WHERE THE MAJORITY OF THE CALLS FOR SERVICE CAME FROM.

AND IT'S IT'S IMPORTANT FOR ME TO SHARE ALL THAT WITH YOU, BECAUSE WE CHANGE OUR PATROL STRATEGIES TO INCLUDE DATA AND REVIEW DATA SO THAT WE DON'T RANDOMLY JUST SEND OFFICERS THROUGHOUT THE PARKS, BUT WE TRY TO ALLOCATE THE RESOURCES THAT WE HAVE IN THE MOMENTS THAT THEY ARE NEEDED IN THE VARIOUS PARKS TO TRY TO PREVENT ANY CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES FROM HAPPENING.

IF WE CAN PREVENT THAT, IT'S MUCH BETTER THAN RESPONDING AFTER A CRIMINAL EVENT TOOK PLACE OR A CALL FOR SERVICE TOOK PLACE AND KIND OF STAND OUT, BUT ALSO GET THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE THE ADDRESS THAT WE USE, WHICH IS THE ADDRESS FOR THE POLICE HEADQUARTER.

SO ALL THOSE CALLS FOR SERVICE ARE NOW MADE PART OF THE 6% THAT YOU SEE UP THERE.

SO AS I JUST SHARED WITH YOU THE ALL THE DATA THAT WE USE, WE ANALYZE AND WE TRY TO DO CRIME PREVENTION BASED ON THAT.

THAT'S WHY YOU SEE OFFICER INITIATED ACTIVITIES IN VARIOUS PARKS NOW BECAUSE WE PICK AND CHOOSE WHERE WE WANT TO BE AT.

BUT THAT'S WHAT THE DATA DICTATES THAT WE GO.

AND THAT'S WHY YOU MIGHT SEE SOME MORE OFFICER ACTIVITIES.

OFFICER INITIATED ACTIVITIES AT A CERTAIN PARKS OTHER THAN DIFFERENT THAN OTHER PARKS.

JUST AS I SHARED WITH YOU THE TOP FIVE LOCATIONS.

AND ALSO WE CAN ALLOCATE THOSE RESOURCES EFFICIENTLY.

AND GIVEN THAT WE HAVE LIMITED RESOURCES, WE TRY TO GET THE MOST OF WHAT WE HAVE AVAILABLE TO US AND TRY TO LOOK AT THE NEW TRENDS TAKING PLACE IN OUR GEOGRAPHICAL AREAS THAT WE COVER. OUR OFFICERS STAY PRETTY BUSY IN 2024.

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AND THEN WE ALSO WE ALSO DO PATROL THE CONTINGENT AREAS TO OUR PARK, AND WE DO ENFORCE TRAFFIC LAWS WHEREVER NECESSARY.

NOW, IT'S NOT 100% THE TIMES, BUT BECAUSE OFFICERS HAVE DISCRETION.

BUT WHERE WE'RE NEEDED, WE DO HELP OUR ADJACENT MUNICIPALITIES WITH THE ISSUES THAT THEY'RE ALSO FACING AS WE ARE GOING FROM ONE PARK TO THE TO THE OTHER. I HAVE ASKED MY OFFICERS TO KEEP A VIGILANT EYE BECAUSE THERE'S NOTHING MORE FRUSTRATING AS YOU'RE DRIVING DOWN THE FREEWAY AND YOU SEE A POLICE OFFICER THAT SAYS IT'S A REGIONAL PARK, AND THEY DON'T THINK THAT WE HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO DO ANYTHING.

SO PEOPLE DO ILLEGAL STUFF. AND THEN THE PUBLIC IS LOOKING AT MY OFFICER ARE GOING, ARE YOU GOING TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT? IT'S ACTUALLY QUITE EMBARRASSING, BUT THAT WAS THE DIRECTION THAT THEY WERE GIVEN TO FOLLOW PRIOR TO ME COMING ON BOARD.

SO WE CHANGED THAT AROUND. AND NOW WE DO ENFORCE TRAFFIC LAWS AS APPROPRIATE.

IT LOOKS LIKE JUNE IS A BAD PLACE. IT'S A BAD TIME FOR YOU TO PARK IN OUR PARKS BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE YOU GET MOST OF THE CITATIONS.

BUT THAT'S PRETTY MUCH THE BREAD AND BUTTER OF WHAT WE DO.

NUMBERS OF ARRESTS DEFINITELY WENT UP FROM THE YEAR PRIOR.

AS YOU CAN SEE, WE HAD THE 320 ARRESTS, OF WHICH 202 WERE MISDEMEANORS, 126 WERE FELONIES.

AND JUST TO GIVE YOU A COMPARISON IN 2023, WE HAD 209 ARRESTS, WHEREAS INTO 2024.

IN 2024, WE HAD 328. SO THEY WENT UP ALMOST 50%.

NOW IT'S IT'S IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND THAT NOTHING CHANGED IN OUR PARKS IN THE FORM OF WE HAVEN'T HAD AN INCREASE OF CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES THAT WARRANTS ALL OF A SUDDEN, OH MY GOD, THE PARKS ARE UNSAFE NOW.

THE PARKS ARE VERY SAFE. IT'S JUST THAT OUR OFFICERS HAVE TAKEN AN APPROACH OF ACCOUNTABILITY TOWARDS THE PEOPLE COMMITTING CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES IN OUR PARK.

THROUGH THE DIRECTIVES I RECEIVED FROM MY BOSS WHEN I GOT HIRED.

IT'S LIKE, HEY, WE'RE GOING TO KEEP OUR PARKS SAFE, AND WE'RE GOING TO SEND A MESSAGE THAT YOU WILL STAY OUT OF OUR PARK IF YOU COME TO COMMIT CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES. AND THESE ARE THE RESULTS.

WE HAVE INCREASED OUR FELONY ARRESTS AND MISDEMEANOR ARRESTS FOR CRIMES THAT HAVE BEEN COMMITTED IN OUR PARKS.

BUT YET THE TRENDS, IT SAYS BEEN PRETTY MUCH STEADY THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.

SO I WANT THE PUBLIC TO TRULY UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS NOW AN INDICATION THAT WE HAVE A WAVE OF CRIMES TAKING PLACE IN OUR PARKS, ANY MORE SO THAN WE HAD BEFORE. IT'S ACTUALLY PROUD TO SAY OUR PARKS ARE VERY SAFE TO ATTEND.

INVESTIGATIONS HAS ALSO BEEN VERY BUSY. WE HAD 678 CASES THAT WERE HANDLED BY OUR INVESTIGATION DIVISION OF 74. THOSE WERE CLOSED AND 320 WERE SUSPENDED.

A SUSPENDED CASE IT'S NORMALLY HAPPENS WHEN WE DON'T HAVE ANY LEADS TO FOLLOW UP ON.

WE HAVE EXHAUSTED ALL THE LEADS AND UNLESS WE HAVE SOMETHING ELSE THAT WE CAN WORK ON, WE SUSPEND THE CASE.

WE DON'T CLOSE IT, WE JUST SUSPEND IT AND GET BACK TO IT AS TIME ALLOWS.

ALSO, ONE THING THAT I WANTED TO FOCUS ON AS I CAME ON AS A POLICE CHIEF WAS TO LOOK AT THE COLD CASES AND REVAMP THE COLD CASES BECAUSE WE WE WILL NEVER FORGET OUR VICTIMS. AND I THINK AS YOU SAW A FEW WEEKS AGO, WE ACTUALLY HAD A PRESS CONFERENCE REGARDING ONE OF THE CASES THAT WE SOLVED FROM 99. VERY PROUD OF OUR INVESTIGATORS, INVESTIGATORS FOR DEVELOPING THE LEADS AND REACHING OUT TO OUR FBI PARTNERS, AND TOGETHER WE WERE ABLE TO SOLVE THE CASE.

ALSO IN AN AS YOU CAN SEE, 2024, WE SENT 215 CASES TO THE DA'S OFFICE, OF WHICH 73 OF THEM WERE CHARGED.

WE HAVE NO CONTROL OVER WHAT THE DA CHARGES OR DOESN'T CHARGE, OR WHICH CASES THEY DECIDE TO PROSECUTE.

SO THE ONLY THING WE CAN DO IS PUT TOGETHER A VERY COMPREHENSIVE CASE AND PRESENT IT TO THE DA'S OFFICE, AND HOPE THAT THEY CHARGE THE CRIMINALS WITH THE CHARGES THAT WE ARE REQUESTING.

SOME ADDITIONAL STATISTICS OF THE DIFFERENT THINGS THAT OUR OFFICERS DO IN OUR PARKS AND OUR PROFESSIONAL STAFFS.

140 OF OUR CASES THAT YOU SAW EARLIER IN THE NUMBERS WERE RELATED TO CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES.

SEVEN OF THOSE CASES ACTUALLY ARRESTED. THEY WERE TURNING TO AN ARREST FOR BURGLARY.

AND THEN WE ALSO MADE 30 ARRESTS FOR VEHICLE THEFT.

SOMETHING I'M VERY PROUD OF BECAUSE OF OUR OFFICERS DO SPEND THE TIME TO INVESTIGATE VEHICLE VEHICLE BURGLARIES AND VEHICLE THEFT, WHICH JURISDICTIONS AROUND US DON'T HAVE THE TIME TO DO IT.

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WE DO. WE ACTUALLY TAKE THEM FROM BEGINNING TO END THAT WE HAVE MADE SEVERAL ARRESTS BASED ON THOSE INVESTIGATIONS.

WE ALSO RESPONDED TO AQUATIC INCIDENTS, AND A LOT OF OUR TIME IS ALSO SPENT SEARCHING FOR LOST OR OVERDUE OR MISSING PERSONS THAT REPORTED TO US. OF THOSE CASES THAT WE INVESTIGATED, 263 WERE PEOPLE THAT NEEDED MEDICAL ATTENTION. AND WE ACTUALLY 46 WE BOOKED 46 FIREARMS IN INTO PROPERTY.

ANOTHER SOMETHING THAT WE'RE VERY PROUD OF. THERE WAS AN ARTICLE THAT CAME OUT OF WAS POSTED BY GOOGLE.

TALKING ABOUT NIBIN, WHICH IS THE NATIONAL DATABASE FOR WEAPONS AND SUBMISSIONS ARE MADE TO NIBIN, WHICH IS REALLY IMPORTANT BECAUSE IT ALLOWS YOU TO COMPARE GUNS THAT ARE RECOVERED TO CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES THAT HAPPEN BASED ON BASED ON THE BULLETS OF THE CASING, RECOVERED DIFFERENT SCENES. AND ACTUALLY, I SPOKE TO THE ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO FIREARMS AGENT, AND SHE SAID THAT WHATEVER GOOGLE PUT OUT WAS NOT GIVEN TO GOOGLE BY ATF.

SHE SAID THAT THE EAST BAY REGIONAL PARK DISTRICT IS THE ONLY AGENCY THAT SUBMITS 100% OF THEIR WEAPONS TO ATF FOR COMPARISON. SO VERY PROUD OF THAT. WE KNOW DEFINITELY WE'RE DOING OUR PART.

WE ALSO, AS YOU CAN SEE IN THE PICTURES, WE FIND LOST DOGS AND WE REUNITE THEM WITH THEIR OWNERS.

AND NOW THAT'S THE HARD PART BECAUSE OUR OFFICERS DON'T WANT TO GIVE THEM UP TO THE OWNERS.

BUT WE HAVE TO. WE ALSO HAVE A MARINE PATROL UNIT THAT DOES A COMBINATION OF BOTH ENFORCE THE LAW AND ALSO CONDUCT RESCUES. AND AS YOU CAN SEE, WE ACTUALLY CONDUCTED 23 RESCUES, WHICH IS CERTAINLY A LOT THAT WE WANT THE PEOPLE TO BE SAFE, CALM AND CONTINUE USING OUR LAKES AND OUR WATERWAYS BECAUSE WE WILL KEEP YOU SAFE.

OUR AIR SUPPORT UNIT IS A VERY IMPORTANT PART OF OUR AGENCY, AND DEFINITELY WITH THE MOVE TO LIVERMORE, WE'VE BEEN EVEN MORE ACTIVE. WE'RE HAPPY TO REPORT THAT WE HAVE HAD ZERO ACCIDENTS AND WE WANT TO CONTINUE GOING THAT WAY.

WE UTILIZE TWO HELICOPTERS, SO EAGLE SEVEN AND EAGLE EIGHT, AND AS A MATTER AS A MATTER OF FACT, IN 2025, ONE OF THE CONVERSATION IS A REPLACEMENT FOR ONE OF THE HELICOPTERS THAT I'M GOING TO START THE CONVERSATION WITH MY BOSS TO ADDRESS THAT, WE ALSO BECOME THE I ALMOST WANT TO SAY THE AIR SUPPORT UNIT FOR THE REGION, FOR THE SIMPLE FACT THAT WE ARE FLYING A LOT MORE NOW THAT WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO MOVE AWAY FROM HAYWARD AND BEING FOGGED IN. AND AS YOU CAN SEE UP THERE, WE HAVE RESPONDED TO RADIO CALLS FOR SERVICE, BUT WE ALSO RESPOND TO OTHER CALLS FOR SERVICE, MEANING OTHER JURISDICTIONS.

THEY CALL FOR AIR SUPPORT. AND WE'RE AVAILABLE.

WE GLADLY WE GLADLY STEP IN AND HELP OUT, WHICH GAVE US A TOTAL OF 563 HOURS OF FLIGHT TIME.

AS WE TALKED ABOUT A LOT OF THEM THAT WE DO IS ALSO SEARCH AND RESCUE.

AND ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS, WE ACTUALLY WERE THE FIRST ONE ON SCENES ON FIRES THAT WERE NOT EVEN REPORTED YET.

BUT BECAUSE WE'RE FLYING UP ABOVE, WE'RE ABLE TO SEE IT INTERVENE AND PUT IT OUT BEFORE ANY ANY ADDITIONAL HELP WAS NEEDED.

WHEN IT COMES TO STAFFING, WE ARE ALLOCATED 77 POSITIONS.

WE HAVE 62 POSITIONS FILLED. SO WE HAVE 15 15 OFFICERS POSITIONS TO, TO FILL.

AND ONE THING I'M VERY PROUD OF, AND AS YOU CAN SEE IN THE DIFFERENT THE MAKE UP OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, WE TRY TO MIRROR THE COMMUNITIES THAT WE SERVE.

WE'VE BEEN FOCUSING A LOT ON FEMALE OFFICERS AND REALLY PROUD TO SAY THAT WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO HIRE MORE FEMALE OFFICERS.

AS A MATTER OF FACT, WE JUST HIRED TWO ADDITIONAL FEMALE OFFICERS AND ONE.

AND THEN A THIRD ONE JUST COMPLETED THE ACADEMY.

SHE'S JUST STARTING HER FIELD TRAINING PROGRAM, AND SHE'S ACTUALLY A PILOT.

SO VERY PLEASED WITH WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH AND WHAT WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH IN 2024.

WE ALSO BEEN FOCUSING OUR DISPATCHERS. WE HAVE FOUR OPENINGS IN DISPATCHERS AND ALSO AUGMENTING OUR CIVILIAN AND PROFESSIONAL STAFF OF THESE ARE JUST THE NUMBERS THAT I JUST SHARED WITH YOU.

SO WE DO HAVE FIVE CIVILIAN POSITIONS TO FILL, AND THEN WE HAVE ABOUT 15 OFFICERS TO HIRE.

THE VERY POSITIVE THING FOR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT IS THAT EVEN THOUGH NATIONWIDE IS A CHALLENGE TO HIRE POLICE OFFICERS, OUR NAME IS DEFINITELY RECOGNIZED OUT THERE, AT LEAST IN THE TWO COUNTIES.

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AND THE INTERESTING THING, WE HAVE RECEIVED AN INFLUX OF LATERAL APPLICATIONS, PEOPLE THAT WANT TO COME TO WORK FOR THE EAST BAY REGIONAL PARK DISTRICT POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR A 2024. I FOCUSED A LOT ON TECHNOLOGY. I DO BELIEVE IN AUGMENTING, YOU KNOW, AUGMENTING OUR PATROL FORCE FORCE WITH TECHNOLOGY. AND WE HAVE INTRODUCED SEVERAL PIECES OF TECHNOLOGY THAT BOLSTER OUR PUBLIC SAFETY AND ALSO FACILITATE THE JOBS THAT OUR OFFICERS ARE DOING. BUT ALSO, ALL OF THAT COMBINED ENABLES US TO BE MORE TRANSPARENT ABOUT WHAT WE DO.

SO FROM LICENSE PLATE READERS TO EVEN THE BODY WORN CAMERAS AND THE AUGMENTS ON THE BODY WORN CAMERA SERVICES THAT MAKE US VERY TRANSPARENT. THE ONE THING I'VE SAID FROM DAY ONE IS THAT THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY, WE WILL BE ABLE TO SUPPORT EVERYTHING THAT WE DO AND EXPLAIN EVERYTHING WE DO.

DO WE MAKE MISTAKES? YES, WE DO, BUT WE'RE GOING TO OWN THEM AND WE MOVE FORWARD AND LEARN FROM THEM.

IN ONE OF THE AUGMENTATIONS THAT WE'VE DONE IS THE TASER TEN.

LIKE ANYTHING ELSE, TECHNOLOGY IMPROVES AND WE KNOW THAT TODAY'S TECHNOLOGY IS ALREADY OBSOLETE.

SO TOMORROW THERE'S SOMETHING NEW. TASER TEN.

IT'S ACTUALLY A STEP UP FROM THE TASER THAT WE USED BEFORE, TO THE POINT THAT IT ACTUALLY HAS A LASER.

AND IT'S VERY IT'S BEEN VERY SUCCESSFUL FOR US BECAUSE PEOPLE REALLY DON'T WANT TO BE TASED.

SO THEY GIVE UP. AND THAT ALLOWS US TO RESOLVE THE ISSUE WITHOUT ANY USE OF FORCE, WHICH IS WHAT WE'RE TRYING, STRIVING TO DO ALL THE TIME. DE-ESCALATION IS AT THE FOREFRONT OF WHAT WE TRY TO DO AS POLICE OFFICERS.

WE TAKE ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD TO DE-ESCALATE THE SITUATION, AND SO FAR OUR OFFICE HAS BEEN VERY SUCCESSFUL.

THE OTHER PART OF TECHNOLOGY THAT WE HAVE INCLUDED IS IN-VEHICLE AUDIO AND VIDEO RECORDING.

AGAIN, THERE ARE COUPLED WITH LICENSE PLATE READERS AND ALSO THE AXON FLEET CAMERA, EXCUSE ME, CAMERA SYSTEM. WHAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO US IS THE FACT THAT IF YOU'RE NEARBY THE VEHICLE AND IN-CAR VIDEO GETS ACTIVATED AUTOMATICALLY, IT ACTIVATES THE VIDEO. THE BODY WORN CAMERAS FOR EVERY OFFICER THAT'S NEARBY THE VEHICLE.

SO WE DON'T HAVE ANY INSTANCES IN WHICH, HEY, I FORGOT TO TURN MY CAMERA ON BECAUSE SOMETHING HAPPENED.

THE SYSTEM WOULD DO IT FOR ITSELF. THE SYSTEM WOULD DO IT ITSELF.

AGAIN, TRANSPARENCY, RIGHT? THEN WE HAVE THE VIDEOS ALSO HELP US SOLVE CASE AND PROVIDE EVIDENCE, EVIDENCE AND SO FORTH AND SO ON. THE ALSO WE HAVE INTRODUCED OUR UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEM, WHICH IS IS PROVEN TO BE VERY FRUITFUL FOR SEARCH AND RESCUES. BUT ALSO HELP US, YOU KNOW, OF COURSE, OBVIOUSLY LOCATING MISSING PERSONS ALSO GIVES US REAL TIME INFORMATION FOR OFFICERS SO THEY CAN ACTUALLY DEVISE A PLAN, A PLAN TO SOLVE THE SITUATION WITH THE LEAST AMOUNT OF FORCE POSSIBLE.

WHERE BEFORE I WOULD HAVE TO SEND AN OFFICER CLOSE TO THE LOCATION.

NOW WE CAN ACTUALLY SEND A MANNED AERIAL SYSTEM UNIT THAT CAN GIVE US THE SAME INFORMATION WITHOUT EXPOSING MY OFFICER TO UNNEEDED DANGER.

WE DON'T ONLY FOCUS ON ENFORCEMENT, BUT WE ALSO FOCUS A LOT ON COMMUNITY POLICING BECAUSE IT IS OUR JOB TO BE GOOD STEWARDS OF THE PARK SYSTEM AND SHOW WHAT WE DO AS POLICE OFFICERS.

SO WE DO GET INVOLVED IN COMMUNITY EVENTS, EDUCATIONAL EVENTS, SAFETY WORKSHOPS.

WE HAVE HELPED WITH CPR TEACHING KIDS TO DO CPR WITH OUR AQUATIC UNIT.

WE GO TO STREET FAIRS. WE'RE PRESENT WITH OUR HORSES.

PEOPLE LOVE OUR HORSES AND OUR OFFICERS LOVE BEING OUT THERE WITH THE PUBLIC, EXPLAINING WHAT WE DO, WHAT THEY ALSO DO. A LITTLE BIT OF RECRUITMENT, WHICH IS GOOD.

AND WE HAVE A VERY STRONG VOLUNTEER PROGRAM, WHICH I'M SURE YOU'VE SEEN OUR VOLUNTEERS IN THE PARK.

WE ALSO GET INVOLVED WITH THE YOUTH, ESPECIALLY THE YOUTH.

IF WE CAN GET TO THE YOUTH EARLY IN THEIR, IN THEIR LIFE, MAYBE WE CAN HELP THEM MAKE THE RIGHT DECISIONS, AS OPPOSED TO TAKE A DIFFERENT PATH THAT WILL LEAD THEM TO MAYBE SOMETHING NOT SO PLEASANT.

AND WE ACHIEVE ALL OF THAT BY UTILIZING SOCIAL MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION.

AGAIN, IT'S ALL ABOUT TRANSPARENCY. WE ARE PROUD OF WHAT WE'RE DOING, AND WE HAVE NO PROBLEM SHARING WITH THE PUBLIC WHAT WE DO, BOTH IN THE ENFORCEMENT PART, BUT ALSO ON THE ON THE COMMUNITY POLICING ASPECT.

LAST YEAR, WE HAD OUR FIRST, VERY FIRST ALL HANDS MEETING FOR PUBLIC SAFETY.

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AND IT REALLY WAS TO DISCUSS THE VISION, MY VISION, THE VISION OF MY BOSS, AND TO SHARE WHERE WE'RE GOING AS A POLICE DEPARTMENT AND AS PUBLIC SAFETY. ADDITIONALLY, WE CAN REVIEW PROTOCOLS SO EVERYBODY'S ON THE SAME PAGE AS TO HOW WE FUNCTION AS A PUBLIC SAFETY ENTITY.

IT WAS VERY WELL RECEIVED. WE TALKED ABOUT ALSO EMPLOYEE WELLNESS.

THEY INTRODUCED INITIATIVES FOR OFFICERS WELLNESS AND EMPLOYEE WELLNESS.

AND WE WILL HAVE A SIMILAR EVENT THIS YEAR WHICH WE WILL FORWARD THE INVITATION.

SOME OF THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS THAT WE HAVE HAD IN 2024.

I ALSO CREATE A TEAM IT'S CALLED A HIGH ENFORCEMENT APPREHENSION TEAM, WHICH IS DESIGNED TO HELP WITH THOSE CASES WHERE EITHER THE DETECTIVES DON'T HAVE THE TIME TO FOLLOW UP ON, OR WHERE AN APPREHENSION NEEDS TO BE MADE OF A SUSPECT.

BUT IN ADDITION TO THAT, ALSO PROBLEMS WE HAVE IN THE PARK, THINGS THAT GET REPORTED TO US BY BY THE PUBLIC OR BY THE BOARD MEMBERS, YOU KNOW, BICYCLISTS BEING UNRULY AND STUFF. WE USE THEM FOR ALL THE SPECIAL EVENTS.

AND IN WE ALSO REINTRODUCED THE CHAPLAINCY PROGRAM, AND WE HAVE A PEER SUPPORT PROGRAM THAT IS VERY STRONG.

OUR DETECTIVES THAT HAVE TAKEN THE LEAD TO ORGANIZE A BAY AREA WIDE PROPERTY AND CRIME MEETINGS, IN WHICH APPROXIMATELY 70 TO 75 DETECTIVES FROM BOTH CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, ALAMEDA COUNTY AND SANTA CLARA COUNTY CAME AND PARTICIPATED.

WAS VERY GOOD TO TO SHARE INFORMATION AND NETWORK BECAUSE WE KNOW THEY ARE CRIMINALS.

THEY AFFECT ALAMEDA COUNTY. ALSO AFFECT CONTRA COSTA COUNTY AND SO FORTH AND SO ON.

SO WHEREVER WE CAN SHARE INFORMATION, WE GLADLY DO IT.

IT ALSO THE HEAT UNIT OR I ENFORCEMENT APPREHENSION TEAM IS ALSO ASSISTED THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE IN A LARGE DRUG OPERATIONS. SO WE'RE VERY HAPPY TO BE ABLE TO PUT OUR NAME OUT THERE AND BE GOOD GOOD HELPERS TO JURISDICTIONS WITHIN THE TWO COUNTIES THAT WE SERVE. WE ALSO SPENT A LOT OF TIME TRAINING OUR PERSONNEL.

WE HAVE INCREASED THEIR TRAINING AND THEIR DEVELOPMENT, AND WE HAVE FOCUSED A LOT ON OUR COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND EDUCATION.

SOME OF THE PICTURES OF THE CONTINUOUS CONNECTIONS THAT WE DO THROUGH EDUCATION, THROUGH OUR DISPATCHERS, THROUGH OUR POLICE OFFICERS REACHING OUT TO THE KIDS, THE BOTTOM RIGHT PICTURE IS ACTUALLY OUR OFFICERS BEING PRESENT WHILE WE TEACH WHAT WE TEACH CPR. SO WHAT IS 2025 GOING TO LOOK LIKE? OUR MY VISION FOR 2025 IS TO CONTINUE OUR EFFORTS IN BOTH RETAINING THE QUALITY OFFICERS THAT WE HAVE, AND ALSO BEING ABLE TO HIRE THE OFFICERS THAT WE'RE LACKING.

WE WANT TO CONTINUE TO PROMOTE OUR DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION.

WE'RE WORKING VERY CLOSELY, VERY CLOSELY WITH THE OFFICE OF EQUITY AND WORKING WITH THOSE WHO PARTICIPATES IN OUR EXECUTIVE STAFF MEETINGS SO THAT WE CAN SHARE INFORMATION TO CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THE VISION.

WE WILL CONTINUE TO INVEST IN OUR PROFESSIONAL STAFF FOR THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, BOTH AT THE OFFICER LEVEL AND ALSO THE PROFESSIONAL STAFF.

WE WILL CONTINUE TO EXPAND. OUR HIGH ENFORCEMENT APPREHENSION TEAM IS BEING VERY BENEFICIAL TO THE CRIMINALS THEMSELVES.

ACTUALLY SURPRISED WHEN OUR OFFICERS SHOW UP SOMEWHERE THAT THEY ARE NOT EXPECTED BECAUSE IT'S NOT IN A PARK AND THEY PUT THE HANDCUFFS ON THEM AND TAKE THEM AWAY AND THEY'RE VERY, VERY SURPRISED. SO THE WORD IS GETTING OUT THERE THAT YES, WE DON'T FORGET WE WILL COME AFTER YOU.

WE DO WANT TO INCREASE THE POSSIBILITY OF SPECIALTY ASSIGNMENTS SUCH AS THE MARITIME AND MOTOR POSITIONS.

AND WE WILL FOCUS ON 2025 ON THE PROFESSIONAL GROWTH AND THE OFFICER WELLNESS, AND CONTINUE TO EXPAND ON OUR TECHNOLOGY BLUEPRINT.

THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION TO YOU. SO IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS THAT I CAN ANSWER, I'LL HEAR YOUR DISPOSAL.

ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. MERCURIO, I HAVE ONE QUICK THING I WANTED TO ADD TO THIS, WHICH IS LEADERSHIP REALLY MATTERS.

AND I ALSO ON THE NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN 2024, WANT TO JUST SHOUT OUT OUR NEW AGM OF PUBLIC SAFETY POLICE CHIEF HERE, WHO COMPLETED HIS FIRST YEAR LAST YEAR. AND IN ANSWERED OUR PHONE CALL AND I COULDN'T BE HAPPIER TO HAVE HIM HERE.

IT REALLY DOES MATTER. AND YOU KNOW, THE STAFF JUST ADORES YOU.

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JUST SO THRILLED TO HAVE YOU AS PART OF THE TEAM. THANK YOU. IT'S AN HONOR TO BE HERE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. DO WE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE CHIEF TODAY? OKAY. OKAY. SHE'S YIELDED TO. THANK YOU. CHIEF.

I REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR WORK, YOUR EFFORTS. I THINK YOU BROUGHT A SOURCE OF PRIDE AND PURPOSE BACK TO THIS DEPARTMENT.

THANK YOU. I REALLY APPRECIATE ALL THE STUFF YOU DO.

I LOVE THE WAY YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA GETS OUT THERE.

I JUST NOTICED A LITTLE WHILE AGO THAT THIS THIS REPORT YOU GAVE IS NOW ON THE INTERNET.

AND FOR EVERYBODY TO SEE TRANSPARENCY. I APPRECIATE YOUR MONTHLY REPORTS.

ALSO, SOME OF THE GREAT HUMAN INTEREST STORIES YOU PUT ON AS YOUR STAFF IS DOING AND HELPING OUR PUBLIC TO HAVE A SAFE EXPERIENCE IN THE PARK DISTRICT.

JUST I AS THROUGH YOUR REPORT, I NOTICED THE TOP SIX AREAS FOR ACTIVITY OR FOR SERVICE SEEM TO ALSO ALIGN WITH SOME OF MY IDEAS ABOUT SUBSTATIONS.

THEY SEEM IF WE COULD PUT SUBSTATIONS RIGHT IN THOSE AREAS, I THINK WE WOULD BE MUCH MORE EFFICIENT.

I KNOW YOU'RE LOOKING AT THAT, BUT IT SEEMED LIKE IT FIT PERFECTLY WHERE WE USED TO HAVE SUBSTATIONS IN THE PAST.

THAT'S WHERE ALL THE ACTIVITY OCCURS ANYWAY. AND ALSO I THINK YOU GUYS EXCEL IMMENSELY AT NATIONAL NIGHT OUT.

I HOPE YOU CONTINUE THAT. WE WILL, SIR. I THINK THAT'S AN EXCELLENT PUBLIC RELATIONS THANK YOU EVENT FOR EVERYONE.

AND IN PASSING. THANKS. IT'S A GREAT REPORT, I LOVE IT.

I HOPE IF I CAN EDITORIALIZE, I HOPE YOU CAN INCLUDE IN YOUR AGM HAT.

I'D LOVE TO SEE THE REPORT JUST LIKE THIS FROM THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AND LIFEGUARD SERVICES.

WE'RE WORKING ON IT. ABSOLUTELY, SIR. GREAT. THANK YOU.

ALL RIGHT. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS TODAY? YES. YEAH.

I APPRECIATE THESE REPORTS. AND I ACTUALLY BROUGHT MINE FROM LAST YEAR TOO, THAT YOU SHARED WITH US IN NOVEMBER.

AND I THINK WHEN WE RECEIVED THESE REPORTS IN NOVEMBER, I MENTIONED HOW IT'D BE WOULD BE INTERESTING TO SEE IT ACROSS THE ENTIRE DISTRICT.

AND THEN I'VE ALSO NOTICED MAYBE, YOU KNOW, SOME OF US SHARE PARKS WITHIN OUR WARDS AND SOMETIMES, YOU KNOW, I ALWAYS MENTION THIS. I KNOW THAT SOMETIMES IT'S GOOD TO HAVE THINGS BE MORE SPECIFIC, BUT THEN, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE THE BOUNDARIES AREN'T ALWAYS BY HOW WE DEFINE THE WARDS.

YOU KNOW, FOR EXAMPLE, I ALWAYS USE ARDENWOOD AS MY EXAMPLE BECAUSE IT'S RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET FROM NEWARK, AND I LIKE TO BE IN THE LOOP ON WHAT HAPPENS AT ARDENWOOD, EVEN THOUGH IT'S TECHNICALLY IN WARD THREE AND NOT WARD FIVE.

AND THEN I ALSO NOTICED, YOU KNOW, WHEN I SAW MY REPORT, I SAW, OH, THERE'S NOTHING THAT'S HAPPENING, YOU KNOW, ON PLEASANTON RIDGE IN DUBLIN HILLS. AND THEN I ASKED DENNIS DIRECTOR WAESPI IF I COULD LOOK AT HIS, AND I SEE THAT IT GOT ATTACHED TO HIS REPORT AND THEN WASN'T INCLUDED IN MINE.

AND SO IT MIGHT JUST BE HELPFUL TO HAVE ALL OF THEM ACROSS THE ENTIRE DISTRICT FOR EACH DIRECTOR, BECAUSE IT'S JUST HELPFUL TO KNOW AND THE REASON I ASK THAT, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE WHEN WE START TO LOOK AT THE INCIDENTS AND I REMEMBER THE LAST TIME THIS WAS PRESENTED, I ASKED THIS QUESTION, BUT IT'S ALWAYS GOOD TO REVIEW BECAUSE I KNOW THAT WE GET A LOT OF CAMPGROUND CHECKS AS PART OF OUR INCIDENTS.

I WAS JUST WONDERING IF YOU COULD GIVE US A QUICK, YOU KNOW, 1 OR 2 BULLET POINTS OF WHAT THE CAMPGROUND CHECK IS AND WHY IT'S HELPFUL THAT WE WE DO THIS. SO CERTAINLY I DON'T HAVE STATISTICS FOR IT, TO BE HONEST, BECAUSE OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD, I WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO GIVE YOU NUMBERS. BUT THE REASON WHY IT'S IMPORTANT, OBVIOUSLY IT'S FOR ACCOUNTABILITY.

WE WANT TO HOLD PEOPLE ACCOUNTABLE FOR, HEY, COME AND USE OUR PARKS, BUT YOU HAVE TO FOLLOW OUR LAWS, ESPECIALLY WITH WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THE FIRES.

WE ALL KNOW THAT. SO WE CHECK SPECIFICALLY FOR ILLEGAL FIRES, MAKING SURE THAT PEOPLE DON'T TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE PARKING IN A WAY THEY SHOULDN'T, AND THEY ACTUALLY HAVE A SAFE ENVIRONMENT THAT THEY STAY IN.

SO IT'S GOOD FOR THEM TO SEE OUR OFFICERS AND INTERACT WITH OUR OFFICERS.

OUR OUR JOB IS, LIKE I SAID, TO BE GOOD STEWARDS OF OUR PARKS.

AND IT'S NOT ALL ABOUT ENFORCEMENT, BUT IT'S TRULY ABOUT COMMUNITY POLICING.

AND THAT'S WHAT ALLOWS US TO DO. IT'S LIKE SEE THE OFFICERS IN A DIFFERENT LIGHT THAN ALWAYS BEING THE OFFICER.

THEY EITHER ARREST YOU OR GIVE YOU A CITATION.

YEAH. AND I BELIEVE, YOU KNOW, AT DELVAL WITH THE NUMBER OF CAMPSITES THAT WE HAVE THERE, YOU KNOW, SOME NIGHTS IN THE SUMMER, IT'S A SMALL CITY AT OUR CAMPGROUNDS.

SO IT'S JUST ALWAYS GOOD TO HAVE A FRIENDLY YOU KNOW, CHECK IN TO, YOU KNOW, MAKE SURE THAT.

PARDON ME, IT'S THE THUNDERDOME. OCCASIONALLY.

OKAY. BUT THEN ALSO DURING THE SUMMER, WE DO HAVE, YOU KNOW, AS YOU MENTIONED WILDFIRE RISK.

WE HAVE RED FLAG WARNING DAYS. AND ON THOSE DAYS, WE DON'T ALLOW FIRES AT OUR CAMPGROUNDS.

CORRECT. AND SO THAT THAT'S PART OF THAT ENFORCEMENT.

PART OF THE CHECK? YES. OKAY. ALSO, OUR FIRE DEPARTMENT DOES AN EXCELLENT JOB OF DOING ALSO THAT.

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AND I GUESS JUST IN YOUR BEST ESTIMATE, IT'S JUST HELPFUL FOR US TO HEAR, YOU KNOW, DO YOU FIND THAT NOW? OUR VISITORS AND PEOPLE THAT ARE USING OUR CAMPGROUNDS ARE MUCH MORE AWARE AND MUCH MORE YOU KNOW, WANTING TO FOLLOW THOSE RULES, ESPECIALLY ON THOSE RED FLAG WARNING DAYS WHERE THERE'S WILDFIRE RISK.

OR DO YOU DO YOU FIND, JUST AS FAR AS YOU KNOW, THAT THERE DOES NEED TO BE SOME EDUCATION TO SHARE WHY IT'S SO RISKY TO HAVE A FIRE ON THOSE DAYS? BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WHEN PEOPLE GO CAMPING, THEY USUALLY ASSOCIATE CAMPING WITH A CAMPFIRE.

AND SO IT DOES KIND OF CHANGE THAT NOSTALGIC ASPECT OF BEING ABLE TO GO CAMPING.

SO I TRULY WANT TO PRAISE THE VISITORS THAT COME TO OUR PARKS BECAUSE THEY'RE WELL EDUCATED.

THEY DO ARE THEY DO GET INFORMED BEFORE THEY COME AND FIGURE OUT WHAT THEY CAN AND CANNOT DO, WHAT'S SAFE AND WHAT'S UNSAFE. AND SO HAVING THAT COUPLED WITH THE NOT EVEN THE ENFORCEMENT, BUT JUST THE FIGURE OF THE OFFICER, WHICH THEY CAN CHIT CHAT WITH, OR IF THEY HAVE QUESTIONS, THEY CAN SAY, HEY, I'M NOT SURE IF I CAN DO THIS OR NOT.

ABSOLUTELY, I DEFINITELY GOT TO SAY KUDOS TO THE PEOPLE THAT COME AND VISIT OUR PARKS FOR TAKING THE TIME TO LEARN WHAT THEY CAN AND CANNOT DO.

THANK YOU. YOU'RE WELCOME. OKAY. ANY ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? YES. THIS IS ACTUALLY A COMMENT. I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SETTING UP THE TEN HOUR RIDE ALONG WITH OFFICER GUZMAN.

WE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO AS FAR AS GO TO THE MLK SHORELINE AND CROWN BEACH AREA AND EVEN UP IN THE HILLS, AND THAT WAS JUST FOR PART OF THE MORNING.

SO AS FAR AS, LIKE, SEEING HOW OFFICER BROWN ON HIS MOTORCYCLE WAS SOMEHOW EVERYWHERE AND BEAT US TO EVERY LOCATION.

AND JUST AS FAR AS HOW WE ALSO PROTECT THE EAST BAY MUD LANDS AND USE RESOURCES LIKE CAMERAS, BUT A REAL APPRECIATION FOR THE AMOUNT OF AREA THAT THIS GROUP IS PATROLLING.

ONLY. IT'S VERY. I FELT IT WAS VERY IMMENSE. IT WASN'T A CITY SIDE, IT WAS ACROSS DISTRICT.

AND THEN JUST SEEING HOW THAT TEAM WORKS. AS FAR AS WHAT? THE HELICOPTER TEAM. SO I KNOW I BARELY SCRATCHED THE SURFACE THAT DAY.

I DIDN'T WE RAN OUT OF TIME TO GO ON ONE OF THE WATERCRAFT.

BUT JUST AS FAR AS FROM THE MORNING UNTIL THE END, I LEARNED A LOT.

AND THEN I ALSO KIND OF SAW HOW THE TEAM IS LEARNING ABOUT NEW LAWS, LIKE IN THE MORNING WHEN THEY'RE HAVING THEIR TAILGATE MEETING. WE WERE LOOKING AT DIFFERENT VIDEOS ABOUT HOW, YOU KNOW, YOU USE A TASER AND FORCE AND HOW IT'S VERY GRAY AND HOW WE OPERATE IN THIS EVER CHANGING WORLD AND HOW WE CAN HOW WE CAN, LIKE, BE A POLICE FORCE THAT PEOPLE CAN TRUST. SO JUST SEEING THE DIFFERENT OFFICERS LIKE TACKLE THOSE QUESTIONS AND THEN BEING PART OF THAT, I JUST REALLY APPRECIATED THAT OPPORTUNITY.

AND IF YOU HAVEN'T TAKEN THEM UP ON THE RIDE ALONG, I SUGGEST THE WHOLE DAY YOU GET TO SEE A LOT MORE OF THE POLICE FORCE AND REALLY GET AN UNDERSTANDING. YEAH. THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO GO OUT WITH US AND LEARN WHAT WE DO.

AND ONE THING THAT WASN'T REPORTED, IT IS IN THE REPORT THAT I PRESENTED TO YOU, AND IT'S IN THE REPORT THAT'S ALSO PUBLIC ONLINE, WHICH IS SOMETHING THAT I'M VERY PROUD OF. ALSO IS THAT FOR THE 23,000 INCIDENTS THAT OUR OFFICERS WERE INVOLVED IN, WE ONLY RECEIVED THREE COMPLAINTS AGAINST OUR OFFICERS, WHICH THAT'S ABSOLUTELY UNBELIEVABLE.

IT SHOWS THE PROFESSIONALISM OF OUR OFFICERS AND ALL THREE COMPLAINTS THAT WE RECEIVED.

THEY WERE FULLY INVESTIGATED AND THE OFFICERS WERE EXONERATED.

THEY WERE ACTIVE WITHIN POLICY. SO IT'S SOMETHING I'M DEFINITELY VERY PROUD OF, THE PROFESSIONALISM OF OUR OFFICERS.

LET'S, LET'S LET'S DO THE PUBLIC COMMENT FIRST.

YEAH. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? I HAVE I HAVE ONE QUESTION.

WE HAD A WORKSHOP RECENTLY, AND IN THERE WE SAW WE WERE SHOWN A PICTURE OF A OF A SPEED SIGN BOARD.

YOU KNOW, THAT YOU TRADITIONALLY SEE THEM ALONG THE SIDE OF THE ROAD, BUT WE WERE TOLD THAT THAT WAS HAD THE POTENTIAL FOR BEING USED ALONG ONE OF THE REGIONAL TRAILS. IS THAT IS THAT A PIECE OF EQUIPMENT THAT YOU'RE, LIKE, WORKING ON DISPATCHING OUT IN SOME OF THOSE PLACES WHERE WE SEE A LOT OF.

BECAUSE THEY TOLD US IT WOULD HAVE THE ABILITY TO NOT ONLY SHOW YOU THE SPEED, BUT ALSO RECORD WHAT'S GOING ON CONTINUOUSLY AND GIVE US SOME DATA AS TO WHAT'S GOING ON AT THAT LOCATION AT THAT TIME. I'M NOT FAMILIAR WITH IT, TO BE HONEST, SO I WOULD HAVE TO LOOK INTO IT.

I WOULDN'T BE, I'M SURE, IF IF IT WAS OUT THERE, WE CAN DEFINITELY DEFINITELY LOOK AT UTILIZING IT AGAIN.

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SO MY COUNTERPART, LISA IS A GREAT PARTNER AND WE CAN DEFINITELY COME UP WITH.

IT SOUNDED LIKE IT WAS SOMETHING BRAND NEW. MAYBE WE DON'T EVEN HAVE IT YET. I DON'T KNOW, BUT IT WAS IT WAS I THINK THAT'S THE KIND OF TOOL, YOU KNOW, YOU TALK ABOUT TECHNOLOGY TOOLS, IT'S GOTTEN TO THE POINT WHERE WE NEED TO GO TO THAT LEVEL TO TO EDUCATE FOLKS, YOU KNOW, IN THAT WAY. AND THEY WON'T BE SURPRISED WHEN THEY SEE IT, I'M SURE.

ALL RIGHT, SO DO WE HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENTS? WE DON'T. ALL RIGHT, LET'S FINISH IT UP HERE WITH OUR COMMENTS.

IF WE HAVE ANY COMMENTS THAT WE WANT TO MAKE. DIRECTOR ECHOLS.

YEAH, YEAH. WELL, FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE REPORT.

AND THANK YOU FOR DOING THIS ANNUAL REPORT. I THINK IT'S GREAT THAT YOU DO IT AND YOU PUT IT ON THE THE WEBSITE SO THAT EVERYBODY CAN SEE IT.

APPRECIATE THE TRANSPARENCY. I REALLY WANT TO THANK YOU FOR DOING SUCH A GREAT JOB ON KEEPING OUR PARKS SAFE, AND ALSO YOUR PRESENCE IN THE PARKS. BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, AS, AS DIRECTOR ESPAÑA SAID IS IT'S AN IMMENSE, INCREDIBLY IMMENSE AREA. BUT I, I REALLY LOVE THAT YOU'RE USING DATA TO FIGURE OUT, YOU KNOW, WHERE CAN YOU HAVE THE GREATEST IMPACT AND MAKE SURE THAT YOUR OFFICERS CAN HIT AS MANY OF THOSE SPOTS AS POSSIBLE? AND ALSO AS, AS OTHERS HAD SAID, IN TERMS OF, YOU KNOW, BEING, YOU KNOW, GETTING TO KNOW PEOPLE AND BEING INFORMATIONAL AS OPPOSED TO, YOU KNOW, JUST JUST GIVING THE TICKETS AND, AND SO ON, I THINK THAT'S I THINK THAT'S HELPFUL.

AND I ALSO JUST WANTED TO, YOU KNOW, REALLY THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU SAID ABOUT YOUR, IN YOUR RECRUITMENT, THAT YOU'RE WORKING TO MAKE YOUR FORCE LOOK LIKE THE COMMUNITY YOU SERVE.

AND THAT'S THAT'S INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT. SO THANK YOU FOR THAT.

AND YOU KNOW, I LOVE THE OTHER THINGS YOU'RE DOING IN THE COMMUNITY, LIKE THE NATIONAL NIGHT OUT AND THE YOUTH ENGAGEMENT AND OTHER THINGS.

SO, SO GREAT REPORT AND GREAT JOB. THANKS. ALL RIGHT.

ANY OTHER COMMENTS? YEAH, I HAVE COMMENTS AND I STILL HAD A COUPLE QUESTIONS I DIDN'T.

OKAY. GO AHEAD. SURE. I FIRST OF ALL, I MEAN, I FEEL SUPER SAFE.

THE FIRST WHEN I FIRST MOVED UP HERE FROM I GREW UP IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, RURAL GAL LIVED IN LA AND THEN CAME HERE.

AND REDWOOD IS JUST LIKE MY ZEN PLACE. AND HERE I AM 36 YEARS LATER, AND I STILL GO OUT ON MY SOLOS AND WALKS.

AND WHETHER IT'S AT DUSK, I ALWAYS FEEL COMFORTABLE.

NOTHING'S CHANGED OUT THERE, AND THAT'S A REAL INDICATION OF I'VE HEARD ABOUT PEOPLE WITH ISSUES IN THE PARKING LOTS AND THINGS LIKE THAT, BUT I PERSONALLY YOU KNOW, I JUST REALLY APPRECIATE THAT WORK, AND I'M JUST REALLY PROUD TO BE PART OF THIS AGENCY.

AND SO OFTEN PEOPLE DON'T KNOW WE HAVE OUR OWN POLICE FORCE.

I HEAR THAT IT'S PROBABLY ONE OF THE BIGGEST, BIGGEST THINGS, LIKE REALLY.

BUT I KNOW THAT BECAUSE WE HAD A YOUR YOUR CHIEF IN MORAGA FOR A WHILE, SO I WAS VERY FAMILIAR WITH THAT.

AND YEAH, THE RESPONSE I JUST SIGNED UP FOR YOUR FACEBOOK PAGE, SO IT'D BE NICE FOR PEOPLE TO KNOW.

AND I ALREADY SHARED THE REPORT WE HAVE IN FRONT OF US AND DID THAT IN 30S, WHILE NOT LOSING MY ATTENTION ON YOU.

NATIONAL NIGHT OUT, I WAS A BIG PROPONENT OF THAT, AND I'D LOVE TO SEE THAT CONTINUE.

IN ALL OUR PARKS, I THINK WE JUST HAD IT IN CHABOT, BUT IT'D BE GREAT TO HAVE SOME FORM IN AT LEAST MORE OF THE PARKS.

I DO HAVE SOME A COUPLE QUESTIONS ON THIS BREAKDOWN ON THE TEN TOP TEN CITATION TYPES THAT YOU HAD ON YOUR POWERPOINT VERSUS THIS VERY HANDY WARD TWO. ONE OF THEM IS CALLED IN VIOLATION OF POSTED RESTRICTIONS.

AND ON HERE IT'S CALLED 38 ORDINANCE VIOLATIONS.

ARE THOSE THINGS THAT ARE GOING WRONG ON THE TRAILS LIKE DOGS OFF LEASH OR UNFORTUNATELY IF WE JUST PUT 38.

PEOPLE DON'T KNOW WHAT ORDINANCE 38 IS. SO IF THEY LOOK AT THE THE GENERAL, THERE COULD BE SOMEWHERE ELSE IN THE UNITED STATES.

AND THEY LOOK AT OUR ANNUAL REPORT, IT'S EASIER TO SAY, YOU KNOW, VIOLATION OF THE RESTRICTIONS AS OPPOSED TO JUST VIOLATION OF ORDINANCE 38.

THAT REALLY MEANS NOTHING TO THEM. SO I'M GLAD TO SEE THAT'S LIKE WHATEVER.

ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, SIX TOP ONE OF YOUR TOP SIX CALL OUTS.

BECAUSE I'M JUST A LOT OF PEOPLE. I'M A HUGE DOG LOVER, A DOGS OFF LEASH.

BUT THERE ARE BAD ACTORS OUT THERE THAT ARE NOT IN COMPLIANCE.

I GET A FEW CALLS EVEN THIS WEEK, EVEN THIS MORNING, ABOUT TRASH DUMPING.

I'M HEARING ABOUT BICYCLISTS GOING TOO FAST. I'M HEARING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, CAN'T YOU PUT UP CAMERA TRAPS? THE ILLEGAL TRAILS ADMITTED THEY COME OUT WITH CHAINSAWS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT AND BIG BUILD TRAILS.

CAN YOU JUST TELL ME A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR COMPLIANCE ASSISTANCE IN SOME OF THESE THINGS GOING ON IN THE TRAILS THAT THE USERS LIKE ME, WHO ARE OUT THERE HAVING OUR ZEN SOLO WALKS ONE DAY SHOW UP AND THERE'S A CHAIN SAW, NEW ENTRANCE,

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SO I'M NOT GOING TO LIE TO YOU. I'M GOING TO TELL YOU IT'S A CHALLENGE BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY WE SERVE, YOU KNOW, 73 PARKS AND 126,000 ACRES OF LAND.

SO IT'S DEFINITELY A CHALLENGE. WE DO WORK CLOSELY WITH OUR PARK RANGERS.

WE DO WORK CLOSELY WITH OUR VOLUNTEERS, AND WE TRY TO DETERMINE AT LEAST A TIME FRAME IN WHICH THIS STUFF IS HAPPENING.

IT'S HAPPENING. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT'S BEEN WE'RE FOCUSING ON RIGHT NOW IS OUR HEAT TEAM, ALONG WITH THE SPECIAL ENFORCEMENT UNIT. AS WE CAN AUGMENT THOSE TWO TEAMS, WE CAN ACTUALLY START FOCUSING A LOT MORE ON THOSE SITUATIONS TO THE POINT OF NOT JUST BEING THERE IN UNIFORM, BUT ACTUALLY I HAVE OFFICERS IN PLAIN CLOTHES, RIDING A BICYCLE AND BEING, YOU KNOW, SEEING WHAT'S GOING ON. AND THEY CAN ACTUALLY RADIO TO THE OFFICERS IN UNIFORMS. AND WE'RE GOING TO START HAVING A ZERO TOLERANCE WITH PEOPLE, AND WE'RE JUST GOING TO START CITING PEOPLE FOR IT, BECAUSE AT SOME POINT IT'S LIKE ANYBODY ELSE.

YOU TELL THEM ONCE, YOU TELL THEM TWICE, BUT IF YOU'RE NOT GETTING IT, THEN WE'RE GOING TO GIVE YOU A COUPON THAT REMINDS YOU THAT YOU NEED TO DO IT.

SO THAT'S THE GOAL. YEAH. AND IT'S GOING TO TAKE SOME TIME TO DO IT, DON'T GET ME WRONG BECAUSE IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN OVERNIGHT.

BUT YES, WE HAVE SOME IDEAS THAT WE'RE WORKING ON BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT WE HEAR ABOUT.

RIGHT. AND THAT'S WHAT AFFECTS US FIRSTHAND. AND THE THE DUMPING FIRE 100, 100 EFFORTS TO JUMP DUMP WATER TO PUT OUT FIRES IS IMPRESSIVE. AND PEOPLE DON'T KNOW THAT THAT'S BEING DONE.

SO THAT'S VERY HELPFUL AS WELL. AND I JUST CAN'T HELP BUT ASK IF YOU CAN GIVE ME AN EXAMPLE OF I DON'T THINK OF OUR PARKS ARRESTING FELONIES. 126 FELONIES. CAN YOU JUST OH, ABSOLUTELY.

GIVE ME A COUPLE EXAMPLES. SO FROM SEXUAL ASSAULT SUSPECTS TO VEHICLE BURGLARIES TO POSSESSION OF STOLEN PROPERTIES, AS WE IDENTIFY THESE PEOPLE, WE GO AFTER THEM WHEREVER THEY ARE.

SO WE ACTUALLY ARRESTED A COUPLE THAT COMMITTED SEVERAL SEVERAL BURGLARIES, AND THEY LIVED IN SAN BRUNO.

SO THEY WERE VERY SHOCKED TO SEE EAST BAY REGIONAL PARK DISTRICT POLICE OFFICERS SHOW UP IN SAN BRUNO AND PUT THE HANDCUFFS ON THEM.

AND THAT'S A MESSAGE WE WANT TO SEND. IF YOU COMMIT FELONIES, EVEN MISDEMEANORS IN OUR PARK, WE DON'T JUST SET THEM ON THE DESK AND MOVE ON OR NO, WE COME AND FIND YOU.

SO THOSE ARE SOME OF THE EXAMPLES FOR PEOPLE TO KNOW.

AND I WANT TO JUST DITTO. THIS IS A NICE SUMMARY, BUT I'M WONDERING IF IT'S NORMALIZED TO NUMBER OF VISITORS.

I JUST GOT DONE TELLING YOU REDWOODS MY FAVORITE.

AND I FEEL SAFE OUT THERE. BUT IT'S NUMBER ONE ON MY WARD WITH, IN QUARTER ONE, IT HAD TWICE AS MANY INCIDENTS THAN ANY OTHER QUARTER.

AND YOU KNOW, SOME SOME COMPARISON TO OTHER WARDS, SOME NORMALIZATION TO VISITORS.

LIKE IF THERE WAS SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED THAT QUARTER. BUT JUST VERY INTERESTING TO SEE IT ALL SUMMARIZED IN ONE SHEET LIKE THAT.

BUT IT'D BE NICE TO SEE THE WARDS AND THE DEFINITELY A SAFE PARK AND WHAT HAPPENED THAT QUARTER.

SO IT'S DEFINITELY A SAFE PARK. BUT WHAT HAPPENED IS WE HAVE HAD AN INCREASE OF STOLEN VEHICLES THAT WERE DUMPED IN THE GENERAL AREA, AND SOME OF THOSE WERE ACTUALLY LIT ON FIRE. AND THAT INCREASED OUR VISIBILITY THERE AND OUR PRESENCE.

SO INCREASE OUR ACTUALLY OUR ACTIONS IN THAT PARK.

SO YOU SEE KIND OF THE NUMBER BEING SKEWED BECAUSE OF SITUATIONS THAT HAPPENED.

I SAW THE YOUTUBE VIDEO OF THAT CAR AND RIGHT DURING FIRE SEASON TWO RIGHT THERE ON REDWOOD ROAD, DUMPED AND TORCHED. YES. WE ACTUALLY ARRESTED THE PERSON THAT DID IT.

GOOD. THANK YOU. YOU'RE WELCOME. THANK YOU FOR ALL OF THIS, I APPRECIATE IT.

MY PLEASURE. ANY ANY OTHER COMMENTS? I JUST WANT TO COMMENT ON YOU KNOW, THE PARKING TICKETS THAT CITATIONS THAT YOU, THAT YOU ISSUE. I IT'S KIND OF A COMBINATION COMMENT AND QUESTION.

I, I SUSPECT THAT A LOT OF THOSE TICKETS ARE FOR, FOR PARKING IN A SAFETY ZONE OR SOMETHING THAT THAT IS SUPPOSED TO BE ACCESSED FOR AN EMERGENCY VEHICLE OR NEXT TO A FIRE HYDRANT OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

AND I IMAGINE THAT THEY HAPPEN ON THE BUSIEST DAYS, BECAUSE THOSE ARE THE ONLY SPOTS THAT PEOPLE THINK ARE LEFT WHEN THOSE AREN'T LEFT.

CORRECT. THEY SHOULDN'T BE USED. YEAH. THAT'S THAT THAT'S THAT'S WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE.

I MEAN, YOU KNOW, YOU YOU CAN'T HAVE A FREE FOR ALL OUT THERE IN THE, EVEN IN THE PARKING LOT.

SO THE THE OTHER THING I WANTED TO MENTION IS THE I REALLY APPRECIATE THE.

I THINK IT'S CALLED CRIME GRAPHICS. THE THING ON MY PHONE THAT TELLS ME EVERY DAY WHAT'S GOING ON ALL AROUND THE DISTRICT, AND I LOOK AT THAT EVERY DAY. AND I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT YOU HAVE IT SLICED AND DICED IN A LOT OF DIFFERENT WAYS,

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THAT I MIGHT HAVE AND I APPRECIATE THAT. SO I WOULD APPRECIATE THE I WOULD SUGGEST ALL THE I DON'T KNOW WHO ELSE HAS THIS, BUT ALL THE DIRECTORS SHOULD GET THAT ON THEIR PHONE.

CRIME GRAPHICS. YOU CAN HELP US WITH THAT, RIGHT? ABSOLUTELY. BE GLAD TO. YEAH. SO THIS IS THIS IS AN INFORMATIONAL, I GUESS.

RIGHT. BUT WE HAD NO SEE. WE HAD NO PUBLIC COMMENTS ON THIS.

SO I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THAT AND ALL THAT YOU'VE DONE.

AND I REALLY ALSO APPRECIATE YOU'VE MADE. I DON'T THINK THIS IS ANY ACCIDENT THAT WE'VE DONE REALLY WELL ON RECRUITMENT SINCE YOU'VE BEEN HERE.

WELL, I DON'T KNOW ABOUT. I BELIEVE THAT THAT.

NO, I MEAN, I BELIEVE THAT THERE'S A CERTAIN ATMOSPHERE HERE, THERE'S A CERTAIN VIBE, THERE'S A CERTAIN REPUTATION THAT'S OUT THERE.

AND SO ALL THOSE LATERALS THAT YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT ARE LIKE, WHY SHOULD I WORK FOR CITY XYZ WHEN I CAN GO TO THE PARK DISTRICT? SO YOU'RE MAKING GREAT PROGRESS, AND I KIND OF FEEL LIKE YOU'RE GOING TO BE MAYBE GETTING REALLY, REALLY CLOSE. IF NOT MEET FILL ALL YOUR SPOTS.

THAT'S WHAT I'M HOPING TO ACHIEVE HERE. I KNOW YOU'RE HEADING FOR THAT. YEAH. SO THANK YOU FOR THAT.

AND YOU'RE DISMISSED. THANK YOU. I ALSO WOULD ENCOURAGE THE DIRECTORS HERE THAT CAN MAKE IT TO GO TO THAT ALL HANDS MEETING I WENT LAST YEAR. AND IT'S IT'S.

YOU CAN GET A LITTLE EMOTIONAL, ACTUALLY, AT THAT EVENT.

THAT'S IT'S ALL OF OUR GUYS IN UNIFORM, IN THEIR BLUE UNIFORMS, AND THEY'RE ALL THERE.

AND THERE'S A LOT OF THEM, YOU KNOW, AND I KNOW THERE'S SOMEBODY OUT WATCHING THE STORE DURING THAT, YOU ASSURED ME OF THAT. BUT BASICALLY EVERYBODY'S THERE.

AND ANYWAY, WHEN YOU GET THE THE INVITATION TO THAT I WOULD TAKE SERIOUSLY ABOUT GOING TO THAT.

OKAY. SO I THINK WE DON'T HAVE TO APPROVE THIS ITEM.

THIS IS JUST INFORMATIONAL, RIGHT? YEAH. SO WE CAN MOVE ON TO GENERAL MANAGER'S COMMENTS.

[GENERAL MANAGER'S COMMENTS]

BUT WE ARE GOING TO MAKE AN ANNOUNCEMENT TOMORROW.

WE HAVE SOMEONE WHO'S ACCEPTED OUR OFFER FOR THE AGM OF HUMAN RESOURCES.

AND WE'LL BE MAKING A PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT ON THAT APPOINTMENT TOMORROW.

SO GETTING VERY, VERY CLOSE TO HAVING THE FULL EXECUTIVE TEAM FILLED.

AND AND JUST THANK YOU TO ALLISON FOR DOING DOUBLE DUTY FOR JUST A LITTLE BIT LONGER.

ALL RIGHT. YES, THAT'S GOOD NEWS. THANK YOU. AND DO WE HAVE ANY ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM CLOSED SESSION? NO WE DON'T. THANK YOU. WE DO NOT. ARE THERE ANY PROPOSED FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS HERE?

[PROPOSED FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS]

SO LAST WEEK ALAMEDA COUNTY LAFCO COMMISSION DID REVIEW THE EAST BAY REGIONAL PARK DISTRICT AND LAPD ITEM ON THE AGENDA.

AND THAT WAS THE SECOND MEETING OF THE YEAR. WE ACTUALLY HAD A PREVIOUS MEETING ON JANUARY 9TH RELATED TO THIS TOPIC.

AND THE LAST TIME WE AS A FULL BOARD HAVE REVIEWED IT WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF DECEMBER AT THE BOARD MEETING IN DECEMBER 2024.

AND I RECOGNIZE WE HAVE TWO NEW BOARD MEMBERS, AND THIS IS VERY HIGH PROFILE FOR ME.

I UNDERSTAND THAT THERE IS A LITTLE BIT OF A DISAGREEMENT ON WHETHER OR NOT THIS IS A HIGH PROFILE TOPIC FOR THE PARK DISTRICT, BUT I THINK IT WOULD BE HELPFUL. AT THE APRIL 1ST MEETING, BECAUSE APRIL 4TH, WE DO HAVE THE LIAISON MEETING WITH LARPD.

AND I REALLY DO THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US AS A BOARD TO REVIEW THIS AND THEN ALSO TO HELP ME PREPARE FOR THE MEETING ON APRIL 4TH.

ANY OTHERS FOR THAT? ANYBODY ELSE WANT TO BACK THAT? I SAW ELIZABETH FIRST, SO YEAH. JUST A QUICK QUESTION.

IS THIS IS IT YOUR PLAN TO. SORRY. ARE YOU ASKING FOR A CLOSED SESSION BECAUSE THERE'S POTENTIAL LITIGATION OR WHAT? I UNDERSTAND WE DON'T BELIEVE THERE'S POTENTIAL LITIGATION. SO WE COULD DO OPEN SESSION. I GUESS I LEAVE IT UP TO SO I'M JUST.

I DON'T THINK THEY THINK THAT WE SHOULD BE REVIEWING THIS AS A BOARD, BY THE WAY. SO THERE MIGHT ALSO BE A DISAGREEMENT ON THAT. JUST I'M INTERESTED IN WHETHER YOU WERE ENVISIONING A CLOSED SESSION LIKE WE HAD BEFORE ON THE LIVERMORE ISSUE, OR IS THIS GOING TO BE A TO BE A PUBLIC DISCUSSION? I'M OPEN TO OPTIONS. I DON'T ACTUALLY HAVE THAT REQUIREMENT.

OKAY. YES. YEAH. HAPPY TO. THERE'S NO DISAGREEMENT.

I'M HAPPY TO TO SHARE EVERYTHING. MY ONLY ISSUE IS WE HAVE IN TERMS OF OUR DEADLINES FOR PUTTING ANYTHING INTO THE BOARD PACKET FOR THE FIRST, I'M LOOKING AT OUR CLERK. OKAY. AS YOU ALL KNOW, WE'VE BEEN DOING OUR BEST TO TRY TO GET THE PACKET OUT EARLY,

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SO I ACTUALLY HAVE AN INFORMATIONAL MEMO THAT INCLUDES EVERYTHING WE SUBMITTED FOR THE LAFCO MEETING LAST WEEK WITH A LITTLE SUMMARY THAT I WAS GOING TO SEND OUT TO THE BOARD ANYWAYS.

SO IF I GOING TO DEFER TO THE CLERK ABOUT THE DEADLINES FOR THE FIRST.

SO THEY ARE WELL PAST THAT DEADLINE. SO I'M LOOKING AT MARCH THE 7TH.

MARCH THE 11TH. RIGHT. YEAH. RIGHT.

MARCH 7TH. I DIDN'T HEAR WHAT YOU SAID. ARE YOU LOOKING AT THE NEXT MEETING FOR APRIL 1ST? THAT'S WHAT SHE'S SAYING. SO APRIL 1ST TITLES WERE DUE FEBRUARY 24TH.

YEAH. WHAT I'M SAYING IS THE LAST TIME. YEAH.

OKAY. AND THERE'S NO PROCEDURE FOR JUST. THIS IS A TOPIC.

IT WAS A TOPIC OF DISCUSSION. IT'S TIMELY. AND WE CAN'T DO SOME TYPE OF GET A REPORT, FOR CRYING OUT LOUD.

I MEAN, I KNOW THERE'S DEADLINES AND I UNDERSTAND HOW HARD THEY ARE TO GET, BUT IF IT WOULD PROBABLY BE A ONE SENTENCE DEAL IN THE.

YEAH. SO IF I, IF I MAY HAPPY TO I CAN GO AHEAD AND SEND OUT THE MEMO, THAT INFORMATIONAL MEMO THAT WE HAVE, JUST SO THE BOARD HAS EVERYTHING THAT WE WOULD HAVE INCLUDED INTO A PACKET ANYWAYS REGARDLESS.

IT REALLY I WILL JUST MANAGE THE EXPECTATIONS.

IF WE WERE TO GO AHEAD AND AMEND, WE WOULD SEND OUT A REVISED AGENDA.

WE'D HAVE TO REVISE THE AGENDA. I'M LOOKING AT MY DEAR FRIENDS OVER THERE.

I DON'T REALLY WANT TO SPEAK FOR THEM. OKAY. TO YOUR POINT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE TRYING TO DO BOTH THINGS, BE BOTH NIMBLE, AND THEN ALSO BE REALLY RESPONSIVE TO THE BOARD WANTING TO HAVE THE BOARD PACKET AHEAD OF TIME.

SO WE COULD JUST NOT INCLUDE THE MATERIAL BECAUSE I KNOW YOU'VE ALREADY FINALIZED THE ACTUAL PACKET AND THEN JUST PUT.

BUT IF WE COULD IF IT WOULD SATISFY THE BOARD, IF I COULD SEND OUT THAT INFORMATIONAL MEMO JUST VIA EMAIL AND INSTEAD OF PUTTING IT INTO THE PACKET AND THEN JUST IF WE COULD JUST REVISE THE FACE, HAVE A REVISED AGENDA WHERE YOU COULD ADD THE ITEM INTO THE PACKET INSTEAD OF ACTUALLY HAVING TO PUT MATERIALS IN. THAT'S THE DIRECTION THAT WE'RE BEGINNING.

WOULD THAT WORK? BECAUSE WE'D BE MAILING IT ON THE 21ST, WHICH IS FRIDAY? YEAH. YEAH. SO YOU WOULDN'T HAVE TO HAVE. YEAH. WOULD THAT WORK? I'M OPEN TO IDEAS. I MEAN, SO THAT WOULD BE OPEN SESSION CONVERSATION OR CLOSED SESSION.

YOU CAN HAVE AN OPEN, OPEN SESSION CONVERSATION. AND LIKE I SAID, I WOULD JUST GIVE THE MATERIALS VIA EMAIL INSTEAD OF HAVING IT IN THE PRINTED PACKET.

DOES THAT WORK? IT'D BE THE SAME MATERIALS YOU WOULD BE GETTING ANYWAYS.

OKAY. YEAH. AND THEY CAN BE THEY CAN BE DISTRIBUTED PUBLICLY.

YEAH. ALL RIGHT. WELL THANK YOU FOR THAT. THEY ALREADY HAVE IT.

THANK YOU FOR THAT. LYNNE JUST DISTRIBUTED JUST A FOLLOW UP.

MARCH 21ST, WHICH IS THIS FRIDAY, IS OUR SESSION, WHICH MEANS WE NEED THIS YESTERDAY.

YEAH. WE'LL GET YOU THE TITLE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. YOLANDA.

ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU FOR THAT. CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING ON THE FLY THERE.

APPRECIATE BEING ACCOMMODATED. YES. OH. YOU HAVE ANOTHER ITEM THAT YOU'D LIKE TO SUGGEST? YEAH. I GUESS IT'S A REQUEST IF I DON'T KNOW IF I HAVE A SECOND, BUT RIGHT NOW, WE ARE SCHEDULED FOR PARTS ONE AND TWO FOR OUR WARD PRIORITIES ON APRIL 11TH AND MAY 2ND, AND I APOLOGIZE. I HAVE PLANS THAT I MADE BEFORE I EVEN KNEW I WAS RUNNING FOR ELECTION TWO YEARS AGO, AND RIGHT NOW I WOULD MISS BOTH OF THEM AND I AM INTERESTED IF WE CAN MOVE MAY 2ND SO THAT I CAN PARTICIPATE IN PART TWO OF TWO OF THE PRIORITY SIX SESSIONS, AS IT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO ME TO REPRESENT MY WARD.

AND ALSO I WOULD SUPPORT THAT. I MEAN, I KNOW IT'S A BIG CHANGE IN STAFF, BUT IT'S ALSO KIND OF A BIG DEAL.

I KNOW STAFF HAS SAID THEY WOULD BE WILLING TO REPRESENT ME, BUT IT'S THAT'S MY REQUEST IS THAT WE COULD MOVE THE SECOND PORTION OUT SO I CAN BE THERE.

I JUST WANT TO OFFER. AND THIS MAY NOT BE PRACTICAL, BUT IF YOU ARE THERE IN A CARETAKING ROLE, FOR INSTANCE, THEN YOU COULD HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO ATTEND REMOTELY.

THAT MAY NOT. OKAY. THAT'S NOT AN OPTION. IF YOU SEE RELUCTANCE TO DO THAT, IT'S BECAUSE IT'S BECAUSE WE BEFORE YOU CAME ON, WE HAD WE WENT THROUGH SOME STUFF ABOUT MOVING MEETINGS AROUND AND IT AND IT WAS LIKE THIS LOOP THAT KEPT GOING, YOU KNOW, AND IT WAS REALLY HARD TO, TO, TO, TO NAIL PEOPLE DOWN, YOU KNOW.

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I'M JUST NOT I JUST HOPE THAT YOU KNOW, THAT WE DON'T EXPECT THAT TO TO BE HAPPENING BECAUSE IT'S REALLY, REALLY HARD ON ON. I'M THINKING OF THE STAFF, REALLY.

I MEAN, IT'S IT'S KIND OF TOUGH, BUT YEAH, IT'S A VERY UNUSUAL CIRCUMSTANCE AND IT MAKES ME FEEL A LITTLE UNCOMFORTABLE ASKING FOR IT BECAUSE I KNOW HOW MUCH TIME STAFF PUTS AND HOW MANY PEOPLE WILL HAVE TO BE AT THAT MEETING.

BUT AT THE SAME TIME THIS IS NOT A USUAL OCCURRENCE FOR ME.

LIKE I SAID SOMETHING I PLANNED TWO AND A HALF YEARS AGO, AND I JUST THINK AS A NEW MEMBER AND WITH THE PRIORITIES AND GOING WITH THE MASTER PLANNING, I JUST CAN'T HELP BUT ASK FOR AN EXCEPTION.

AND I UNDERSTAND JOHN IT'S NOT SOMETHING I WILL BE JUMPING UP AND DOWN AND ASKING ALL THE TIME FOR CHANGES.

IT'S A PRETTY UNUSUAL CIRCUMSTANCE FOR ME AS WELL, AND I APOLOGIZE FOR THAT.

YEAH, I JUST SAY IT IS AN UNUSUAL CIRCUMSTANCE.

AND ALSO IT IS IMPORTANT FOR BOARD MEMBERS TO BE AT THE PRIORITY SETTING SESSION.

THAT'S ONE OF THE KEY MEETINGS WHERE I THINK WE ALL NEED TO BE THERE.

SO I WOULD JUST ASK THAT MAYBE WE COULD PULL POLL JUST LIKE PUT OUT, YOU KNOW, JUST PUT IT OUT THERE AND SEE IF THERE IS ANOTHER DATE.

YOU KNOW, IF WE REALLY, REALLY, REALLY CAN'T DO IT THEN.

OKAY. BUT BUT YOU KNOW, I KNOW THAT'S A THAT'S HARD ON STAFF.

IT'S BUT AND IT'S CERTAINLY NOT SOMETHING WE WANT TO DO FREQUENTLY.

BUT I THINK THIS IS AN UNUSUAL SITUATION AND WE SHOULD WE SHOULD TRY.

NO. AND YOU JUST GAVE TWO EXCELLENT REASONS FOR DOING THIS.

NUMBER ONE, IT'S REALLY, REALLY IMPORTANT, RIGHT, FOR WHAT WE DO.

AND NUMBER TWO IS YOU'RE NEW AND I KNOW YOU REALLY WANT TO BE BE IN IT, AND IT'S GOING TO BE REALLY USEFUL TO YOU SO.

WELL AND THREE, NEITHER NEITHER LINDA NOR LUANA WERE POLLED WHEN WE WERE MAKING THE CALENDAR EITHER, SO THEY DIDN'T, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT LIKE THEY PUT SOMETHING IN AND NOW WANT TO CHANGE.

SO THAT'S. YEAH. I, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A CALENDAR THAT'S SET, AND HAVING A SET CALENDAR IS GOOD BECAUSE THEN WE CAN BASE OUR SCHEDULES OFF OF IT. I UNDERSTAND THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF LYNDA, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, IT'S NOT JUST THE STAFF, IT'S OTHER BOARD MEMBERS. BECAUSE SOME OF US ALSO WORK AND WE'RE MAKING TRADE OFFS AT WORK.

SO YOU KNOW, TOMORROW I WON'T BE ABLE TO ATTEND A MEETING.

SO AS FAR AS I'M JUST NOT IN SUPPORT FOR MOVING THE CALENDAR.

I MEAN, I UNDERSTAND YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES, BUT THE CALENDAR IS SET, AND I JUST FEEL LIKE WE SHOULD KEEP TO SET DATES.

I DON'T KNOW, I DON'T I DON'T KNOW WHERE THIS GOES, BUT, I MEAN, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE SOME THAT SUPPORT IT AND SOME DON'T.

SO, I MEAN YOU KNOW. SEARCH AROUND. I WOULD, I WOULD SAY WHAT'S BEEN I THINK WHAT ELIZABETH SUGGESTED WAS SEARCH AROUND FOR A POSSIBLE A POSSIBLE ALTERNATE DATE.

BUT BUT THERE MAY NOT BE ANOTHER. THERE MAY NOT BE ANOTHER.

ANOTHER USABLE DATE. SABRINA. THAT'S THAT'S YOU KNOW, THERE MAY NOT BE IT MAY.

IT MAY NOT BE A REASONABLE TO EXPECT THAT WE CAN RESCHEDULE THIS.

YEAH. I MEAN, WE CERTAINLY CAN CAN DO A POLLING OF THE BOARD IF THAT'S THE DESIRE OF THE THE MAJORITY HERE.

WE CAN WE CAN DO A POLL AND REPORT BACK TO YOU.

I WOULD ALSO THAT'S MY WAY OF SAYING WE CAN TRY IF THAT'S WHAT YOU WANT US TO DO.

ALSO TO SAY PRESIDENT MERCURIO, THAT IF WE'RE KEEPING THESE DATES ON FRIDAYS, OUR FRIDAYS ARE VERY HEAVILY IMPACTED.

SO THE STUDY SESSIONS ARE ON FRIDAYS. WE HAVE BOARD SPECIAL MEETINGS THAT ARE ON FRIDAYS.

WE HAVE ALL OF OUR OTHER MEETINGS ON WEDNESDAYS AND THURSDAYS.

RIGHT, RIGHT. SO IT. OKAY. WELL, I MEAN, WE'LL LOOK AT IT.

YEAH, WE'LL LOOK AT IT. BUT YOU. OKAY. MANAGE.

MANAGE EXPECTATIONS. ALL RIGHT. SO I DO HAVE SOME I HAVE FOUR POTENTIAL AGENDA ITEMS. YES, YES. THE FIRST ONE GOES BACK TO THE AD HOC COMMITTEE TO REVIEW PROPOSED REVISIONS OF THE BOARD OPERATING GUIDELINES.

THIS IS ONE THAT OLIVIA HAD PROPOSED IN. YOU COULD SEE IN THE NOTES I'M SORRY.

DIRECTOR SANWONG, SO I APOLOGIZE DIRECTOR SANWONG HAD PROPOSED AND I DIDN'T KNOW AS FAR AS I HAD HEARD, WE HAD A DATE WHEN THE OPERATING BOARD SORRY, BOARD OPERATING GUIDELINES.

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BUT AS FAR AS I FEEL THAT THERE NEEDS TO BE WORK ON THEM AND THEN THERE'S SOME, I THINK, SOME LARGER ISSUES IN THERE THAT NEED TO BE DISCUSSED. SO FINDING OUT A WAY WHERE WE CAN GIVE OUR COMMENTS AND THEN DISCUSS SOME OF THOSE LARGER ITEMS SO THAT WHEN BOARD OPERATING GUIDELINES DO COME TO THE BOARD, THAT WE'RE NOT AT THAT SAME KIND OF PLACE.

WE WERE IN JANUARY. WHAT AD HOC COMMITTEE ARE YOU? I DON'T THAT'S WHAT OLIVIA ASKED ABOUT, BUT IT'S JUST AS FAR AS HAVING A COMMITTEE TO REVIEW.

I BELIEVE I'LL JUST MENTION BEFORE BEFORE FOUR OF US WERE ON THIS BOARD, I BELIEVE SO, 2022, I BELIEVE DIRECTORS CORBETT AND ROSARIO WERE AN AD HOC COMMITTEE TO REVIEW THE BOARD OPERATING GUIDELINES.

SO THERE HAS NOT BEEN AN AD HOC COMMITTEE MEETING NOW SINCE FOUR OF US HAVE JOINED THE BOARD. SO THAT'S WHAT I WAS REFERENCING. WE JUST DID A WHOLE BUNCH OF WORK ON THE OPERATING GUIDELINES WITH SABRINA AND THE MANAGEMENT.

I MEAN, THOSE HAVE TO COME BACK TO US AT SOME POINT.

OKAY. SO WHAT I'M NOT UNDERSTANDING IS THE ROLE OF A COMMITTEE.

I'M BRINGING THAT UP TODAY IS BECAUSE AS FAR AS WHAT I HEARD FOR THE OPERATING GUIDELINES, THAT WOULDN'T COME BACK TO US ON THE AGENDA UNTIL SEPTEMBER.

BUT THERE NEEDS TO BE SOME TYPE OF REVIEW BEFORE THEN, BECAUSE AS FAR AS NOTHING HAS CAME BACK TO US, AND THEN AS FAR AS WE WERE READING OVER THE NOTES FROM THE JANUARY 15TH MEETING, YOU OLIVIA HAD ASKED AS FAR AS FOR THAT TO BE SO, THIS WOULD BE A COMMITTEE THAT AUGMENTS WHAT HAS BEEN OCCURRING, I GUESS, BEFORE YOU WERE ALL ON THE BOARD? SURE. YEAH. JUST. I THINK AMANDA COMMUNICATED THIS TO YOU.

YEAH. SORRY. JUST PLAYING. I'M TRYING TO FIND THE EMAIL QUICKLY HERE.

YES. OUR PLAN WAS TO BRING THEM BACK TO THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR.

SO I THINK IN THE FALL WAS WAS OUR TARGET TO GO THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, AND THEN IT WOULD COME BACK TO THE FULL BOARD.

WE YOU ALL JUST TO REFRESH YOUR MEMORY, YOU TOOK ACTION ON THE THINGS THAT WERE, I THINK KIND OF THE MOST WHAT WE WERE SAYING WERE THE MOST FORMATIVE AND RIGHT, WITH THE IDEA THAT, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS MORE DISCUSSION, YOU KNOW, THAT YOU ALL WANTED TO HAVE ABOUT SOME OF THE OTHER RECOMMENDATIONS. AND I'M SURE THERE'S SOME OTHER CHANGES THAT YOU ALL MAYBE WOULD WANT TO MAKE.

SO REALLY, IT'S UP TO YOU ALL IF YOU WANT TO USE THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AS, AS THAT VESSEL OR IF YOU WANTED TO HAVE, YOU KNOW, YOUR OWN KIND OF AD HOC COMMITTEE. SO THERE SO THERE WILL BE THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE WILL BE REVIEWING ALL THE DIFFERENT COMMENTS, AND THEN THEY'LL GIVE US A NEW RED LINE VERSION TO REVIEW.

THAT WAS OUR PLAN. OKAY. BUT IF THE BOARD WANTS TO GO IN A DIFFERENT DIRECTION, WE'RE COMPLETELY OPEN TO IT.

AND WE WERE DOING. AND I JUST. I'M SORRY. I'M JUST HAVING A LITTLE BIT OF A TIMELINE FREEZE IN MY BRAIN RIGHT NOW, BUT WE ALSO DID ONE ON ONES OR WHATEVER. FIVE ON ONES WITH WITH, I THINK MOST OF YOU.

SO WE'VE WE HAVE A LOT OF FEEDBACK THAT DIDN'T MAKE IT EVEN INTO THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WENT FORWARD WHEN WE BROUGHT THEM TO YOU THAT ARE STILL ON OUR LIST. SO, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GOING TO DO IT.

WE HAVEN'T WE JUST HAVEN'T PICKED IT BACK UP AGAIN. WE'RE GOING TO DO A WHOLE NOTHER ROUND OF THAT BEFORE THE FALL TO BRING IT TO THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. SO WE WOULD WE WOULD HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY AGAIN TO SIT DOWN WITH EACH OF YOU AND GO OVER THOSE.

THEN THAT THAT'S THAT'S MORE WHAT I HAD JUST HEARD IS IT WAS GOING TO COME BACK WITHOUT SOME TYPE OF PROCESS.

SO NOW HEARING THAT THERE'S SOME TYPE OF PROCESS.

SO NOW I'M KIND OF CLEAR ON THAT. SO I'M NOT GOING TO ASK TO PUT THAT.

WELL I'LL JUST ADD ONE. YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES WITH THE ONE ON ONES, IT IS HELPFUL TO HAVE AN AD HOC COMMITTEE OR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING, BECAUSE I FIND THAT I LEARNED A LOT WHEN I HEAR FROM MY COLLEAGUES, AND WHEN WE DO 1 TO 1, WE DON'T GET TO HEAR, YOU KNOW, ANOTHER PERSON'S PERSPECTIVE.

AND SO I THINK THAT SO I THINK WHEN WE HAVE REVIEWED THIS AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS YEAR, THAT'S PART OF WHY THAT WAS SUCH A LONG CONVERSATION, IS BECAUSE WE HADN'T REALLY HEARD THE THE VOICEOVER AND THE DIALOG FROM EACH OTHER.

AND THAT'S WHY, IF YOU RECALL, WHEN WE REVIEWED THIS, IT REALLY WAS A PRETTY DRAWN OUT CONVERSATION.

AND IT WAS IT TOOK US SOME TIME TO EVEN MAKE A DECISION AT THAT MEETING.

AND I BELIEVE SOME TYPE OF, YOU KNOW, SUBSET OF US TO BE ABLE TO HAVE THAT DISCUSSION COULD MAYBE HELP, YOU KNOW, WHEN, WHEN THIS COMES TO THE FULL BOARD, HELP IN THAT PROCESS SO THAT IT'S NOT ANOTHER LONG DRAWN OUT CONVERSATION.

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AND THEN THEY'LL THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE WILL BE ABLE TO KIND OF BE THOSE EYES AND THE EARS AND REVIEW IT AND HAVE SOME DISCUSSIONS BEFORE IT COMES BACK TO THE FULL BOARD.

SO I FEEL GOOD WITH THAT. I DIDN'T FEEL GOOD WITH IT JUST COMING BACK IN SEPTEMBER WITHOUT ADDITIONAL DISCUSSION OR THAT. SO AND AS I ASK FOR SOME OF THESE THINGS, I MIGHT NEED SOME CLARIFICATION.

THIS IS MY I MIGHT NOT BE USING, YOU KNOW, THE CORRECT TASK FORCE COMMITTEE, OTHER STUFF.

SO PLEASE BEAR WITH ME. THESE MIGHT TAKE A LITTLE BIT MORE DISCUSSION AND I'LL TRY TO BE QUICKER.

I WOULD THE SECOND. OKAY. SO I'M NOT ASKING FOR THAT TO BE PUT ON THE AGENDA BECAUSE THERE IS A PROCESS.

THE SECOND IS A REPORT FROM THE CHIEF EQUITY OFFICER.

I THINK WE NEED TO. AS FAR AS HERE, WHAT IS EQUITY PLAN IS AND JUST AS FAR AS HOW HE'S WORKING WITH THE DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS AND THEN WHAT HIS REPORT HAS HAS FOUND, BECAUSE I KNOW THAT HE WAS GOING, DOING LISTENINGS BEFORE AND THAT WE WERE SUPPOSED TO BE PRESENTED WITH THE EAST BAY REGIONAL PARK EQUITY POLICY. AND THEN THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO GUIDE US, BUT IT SEEMS LIKE THERE'S SOMETHING THAT'S GUIDING PEOPLE.

EVEN IN BRIAN HOLT'S COMMENTS, HE REFERENCED AN EQUITY PLAN.

AND THEN JUST FAR AS A REPORT ON OUR DIFFERENT DEI PROGRAMS, ON OUR ERGS.

AND THEN JUST AS FAR AS WHAT IS HE AND HOW IS HE ACTING WITH COMMUNITY OUTREACH? BECAUSE I CAN'T ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS. AND I KNOW WE HAVE HAD RESOLUTIONS TO REINFORCE DIVERSITY AND EQUITY, BUT I THINK IN TODAY'S CLIMATE, LIKE WE NEED TO, YOU KNOW, BE FIRM WHAT OUR POLICY IS AND HOW IT IS WE'RE ALL WORKING TO CONTINUE THOSE DIFFERENT VALUES.

AND I JUST HAVEN'T SEEN A REPORT ON THAT AS THE PAC OR A BOARD MEMBER.

SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE ON A FUTURE AGENDA.

OKAY. WE'LL NEED SOMEONE ELSE TO AGREE WITH THAT.

ASKING FOR THAT. OKAY. SO WE HAVE WE HAVE MORE THAN ONE OTHER PERSON.

SO THAT'S INFORMATIONAL. IT WOULD BE INFORMATIONAL.

INFORMATIONAL. YEAH. WE'RE NOT LOOKING TO. OKAY, OKAY.

ALL RIGHT. OKAY. THIRD I WANT TO AS FAR AS IN MY DUTIES AS A BOARD MEMBER I WANT TO ASSURE THAT EVALUATIONS ARE STANDARDIZED, STANDARDIZED AND FAIR AND BASED STRICTLY ON THE JOB DESCRIPTIONS AND WHAT THE GOALS ARE SET IN THE YEAR.

SO AS FAR AS I HAVEN'T SEEN A STANDARDIZED PROCESS FOR US PERFORMING OUR DUTIES SO THAT THEY'RE FAIR AND EQUITABLE FOR BOTH GENERAL MANAGER AND GENERAL COUNSEL.

SO AS FAR AS LOOKING AS FAR AS, YOU KNOW, COULD WE CONTRACT SOMEONE TO DO THAT, OR JUST AS FAR AS LOOK AT DIFFERENT EVALUATION? SO I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S LIKE A TASK FORCE OR KIND OF WHERE THAT WOULD BE HOUSED.

OLIVIA AND I DID A DENNIS APPOINTED US AS AN AD HOC COMMITTEE.

THAT'S WHEN I'M AWARE OF AND WE PREPARED A PROCESS THAT OLIVIA DRAFTED BASED ON HER EXPERIENCES.

I WENT OVER AND DID SOME WORK ON IT LAST FEBRUARY.

ELIZABETH ASKED THAT ALLISON REVIEW IT WITH AN EYE TOWARD GETTING SOME COMPARISONS.

THAT WAS LAST FEBRUARY, AS FAR AS I KNOW, NOTHING EVER HAPPENED, BUT IT'S STILL THERE.

PRESIDENT MERCURIO, I JUST WANT TO REMIND EVERYONE THAT THE AGENDA TOPIC IS A DIFFICULT ONE BECAUSE WE HAVE TO STAY WITHIN THE

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THIS IS COMING ACROSS THE DISCUSSION. AND THEN AND THEN THE LAST KIND OF ONE WAS JUST AS FAR AS WE'RE SEEING IN TO DO SOME TYPE OF STUDY. ON RAISING THE GENERAL MANAGERS AUTHORIZATION LEVEL FOR CONTRACTS BETWEEN 50,000 TO 200,000 AND SEEING WHAT THE PROS AND CONS ARE AT DIFFERENT LEVELS.

FOR WE CAN HAVE SOME TYPE OF ANALYSIS. THIS WOULD JUST AS FAR AS THIS QUESTION COMES UP IN BOTH THE BOARD OPERATING GUIDELINES AND THEN LEGISLATION AS FAR AS THAT, WE'RE LOOKING ON AT THE STATE LEVEL.

SO HAVING THE ANALYSIS SO THAT, YOU KNOW, WHEN THAT COMES BACK TO US, WE'D BE ABLE TO SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, WE THINK IT SHOULD BE RAISED THIS LEVEL, MAYBE WITH THESE CAVEATS AND HAVING A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT THAT MEANS.

SO THAT WAS LIKE THE LAST. SO LOOKING LOOK STUDYING THAT ISSUE.

BECAUSE I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO HOW WE DO BUSINESS ON THE CONSENT CALENDAR AND MAKE DECISIONS IN THE FUTURE.

SO THOSE WERE SOME ITEMS I HAD. YEAH. SO I MEAN JUST SPEAK TO TWO, TWO OF THE ONES THAT WERE RAISED.

SO AND I APPRECIATE MAX JUST RANDOM. HE JUST REMINDED ME.

SO THE WE ACTUALLY DO HAVE CURRENTLY ON THE JUNE AGENDA FOR THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, JOSE IS GOING TO COME AND GIVE A PRESENTATION AROUND KIND OF THE WORK THAT HE'S BEEN DOING.

SO THAT ACTUALLY IS ALREADY ON THE AGENDA. SO THAT'S GREAT.

AND THEN ON THE PROCUREMENT THRESHOLDS BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO BRING AN INFORMATIONAL ITEM TO I THINK IT WOULD PROBABLY BE THE FINANCE COMMITTEE IF THAT MAKES SENSE, OR THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

WE'VE DONE THAT ANALYSIS. AS THIS BOARD IS AWARE, WE ARE IN ADVANCE.

WE ARE WORKING ON ADVANCING LEGISLATION, AND WE'VE BEEN WORKING VERY CLOSELY WITH OUR LABOR PARTNERS.

I DON'T WE CAN SHARE OFFLINE KIND OF WHERE THAT IS.

I THINK WE HAVE SOME GOOD NEWS. BUT THEN, YOU KNOW, IT DOES.

IT WOULD GIVE THIS BOARD THE ABILITY TO, TO DECIDE KIND OF WHAT LEVEL YOU WANT TO SET IT AT.

SO WE DO HAVE SOME HARD DATA. WE'RE HAPPY TO HAPPY TO SHARE THAT IF MAYBE A GOOD FIRST STEP, I COULD SHARE IT WITH THE FULL BOARD. AND THEN YOU ALL CAN DECIDE WHERE YOU WOULD WANT THAT TO GO, FINANCE COMMITTEE OR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. AND WE CAN TALK A LITTLE BIT OFFLINE. YEAH, YEAH WE HAVE THAT HANDY. OKAY.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. SO THE NEXT ITEM IS BOARD REPORTS ON MEETINGS ATTENDED.

[BOARD REPORTS ON MEETINGS ATTENDED]

MARCH 5TH. I ATTENDED THE LODGE COMMITTEE ON MARCH 6TH.

PRESIDENT MERCURIO AND I ATTENDED THE MARTINEZ SWEARING IN OF OUR NEW ASSEMBLY MEMBER, ANNE MARIE FERRIS.

ON THE SEVENTH. I ATTENDED THE TRAILS WORKSHOP, THE 12TH, THE FINANCE COMMITTEE.

ON THE 14TH, I ATTENDED AN ANNUAL EVENT FOR CONTRA COSTA SUPERVISOR KEN CARLSON IN CONCORD.

ON THE 15TH. THAT WAS JUST THIS WEEKEND. I ATTENDED A TOUR OF THE 600 ACRE HOOVER RANCH ON BETHEL ISLAND THAT WAS GIVEN BY JOHN MUIR LAND TRUST, WHO RECENTLY COMPLETED THE ACQUISITION OF THIS PROPERTY ON BETHEL. IT'S A LOVELY PROPERTY, AND THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE A MULTIYEAR PROJECT IN RESTORING HABITAT THERE. ON THE 16TH, I WAS THE FEATURED SPEAKER THIS MONTH FOR THE MARSH CREEK DEMOCRATIC CLUB.

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WAS VERY PLEASED TO BE ABLE TO PRESENT THERE.

AND YESTERDAY, SAINT PATTY'S DAY I GOT A NEW GRANDSON WHO WAS BORN TO MY DAUGHTER IN KOREA.

SO I NOW HAVE TWO GRANDKIDS, A TWO YEAR OLD GIRL AND A NEWBORN.

AND I'M GOING TO GO VISIT THEM AT THE END OF APRIL IN KOREA.

YEAH. THAT'S IT. OKAY. ON THREE, SEVEN OPERATION SITE VISIT AT MLK AND CROWN BEACH. 37. BOARD STUDY SESSION ON TRAILS.

38. STATE SENATOR SWEARING IN. JESSE ARREGUIN.

312. ALAMEDA COUNTY MAYORS CONFERENCE IN PIEDMONT AND 313.

THE 34TH ANNUAL DINNER.

THANK YOU. ON MARCH 5TH, I ATTENDED THE BOARD LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE MEETING.

ON THE SIXTH, I ATTENDED THE CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF RECREATION PARK DISTRICT LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE MEETING, WHICH IS A STATEWIDE ORGANIZATION AND HAVE LOTS OF SIMILAR ISSUES THAT WE DEAL WITH.

ON THE SEVENTH, I ATTENDED THE TRAILS WORKSHOP AND COMPLIMENTS OF STAFF.

THAT WAS AN EXCELLENT WORKSHOP AND GOT A LOT OUT OF THAT ONE.

ON THE 12TH I ATTENDED THE FINANCE COMMITTEE MEETING.

ON THE 13TH, I ATTENDED THE CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF RECREATION PARK DISTRICT BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING ON THE 13TH, I ATTENDED THE ALAMEDA COUNTY SPECIAL DISTRICTS ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING.

IT WAS A GREAT PRESENTATION. WE HAD A GOOD REPRESENTATION FROM THE PARK DISTRICT THERE. AND OUR GUEST SPEAKER WAS BRIAN COPELAND, WHO REALLY HAS AN INTERESTING TAKE ON LIFE. AND ON THE 14TH, I ATTENDED THE GOVERNMENT LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS GOVERNMENT MEETINGS WERE DOING WITH ALAMEDA COUNTY WATER DISTRICT. IT WAS ANOTHER GREAT PRODUCTIVE MEETING.

AND THAT'S IT. YEAH. I'LL JUST TAKE THIS TIME TO SHARE IF YOU HAVE TIME.

THIS SATURDAY, IT IS WORLD WATER DAY, AS RECOGNIZED BY THE UNITED NATIONS.

AND OUR DEL VALLE VISITOR CENTER IS GOING TO HAVE A PROGRAM FROM 10 TO 3 P.M..

OKAY. MARCH 4TH, I ATTENDED A TOWN HALL TYPE MEETING WITH BERKELEY'S ASSISTANT FIRE CHIEF, COLIN ARNOLD AND CITY COUNCIL MEMBER BRANT BLACKABY.

AND THIS WAS ON BERKELEY'S NEW PROPOSAL CALLED EMBER, WHICH IS TO ADDRESS ZONE ZERO WHICH IS A SPACE PROBABLY NO, WITHIN FIVE FEET OF A STRUCTURE. THEY'RE LOOKING AT INTRODUCING SOME QUITE STRICT RULES, BUT IN VERY IMPORTANT RULES FOR THAT. AND I JUST SHOUT OUT TO OUR ASSISTANT OR ACTUALLY ACTING FIRE CHIEF CARRIE HALEY FOR PULLING TOGETHER SOME, SOME MATERIAL QUICKLY ON THAT. AND ALSO OUR PUBLIC AFFAIRS FOLKS AND THEN LET'S SEE, ON THE MARCH 7TH ATTENDED THE BOARD STUDY SESSION ON TRAILS. MARCH 10TH HAD A MEETING WITH ASSISTANT GENERAL MANAGER LISA GOORJIAN REGARDING OUR UPCOMING OPERATIONS COMMITTEE. AND ON THE. ALSO ON THE 10TH HAD MY ONE ON ONE MEETING WITH GENERAL MANAGER SABRINA LANDRETH, AND ON THE 11TH HAD A CHECK IN WITH ALLISON COOK ON SEVERAL ISSUES, AND THAT HAD SOME OTHER STAFF CONVERSATIONS ALONG THE WAY.

BUT THAT PRETTY MUCH BRINGS ME UP TO DATE. OKAY.

OKAY. ON MARCH 2ND, I WAS AT THE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE.

I HAVE TO SAY, I'M ENJOYING AND SOMETIMES HATING THE LEGISLATIVE BRIEFS THIS TIME THAT WE'RE GETTING, BUT I WOULD ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO IF YOU'D LIKE TO SEE THEM, ASK STAFF TO SHARE WITH YOU AS WELL, BECAUSE I THINK THEY'RE PRETTY INFORMATIVE IN THESE TIMES.

ON THE SIXTH, I ATTENDED THE CONTRA COSTA MAYORS CONFERENCE.

ON THE SEVENTH, THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS TRAIL STUDY SESSION.

ON THE SEVENTH, I MET WITH A GROUP THAT'S CALLED WALL, THE WATER EDUCATION LATINO LEADERS GROUP, AND THEY'RE DOING A LOT OF WORK BECAUSE OF THE THE WATER WORLD WATER DAY.

AND IT'S A VERY INTERESTING ORGANIZATION. THAT TALKS WITH WATERSHEDS.

ON THE EIGHTH, I MET WITH THE GOLDEN GATE ALLIANCE BIRDING GROUP AND LET YOU KNOW THAT AFTER REVIEWING 14 APPLICATIONS FOR MY TWO OF TWO PAC APPOINTEES, I PICKED THE WOMAN WHO WAS LEADING THAT BIRD GROUP ON THAT DAY, AND SHE HAS OFFERED TO ACCEPT IT.

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AND THEN I FOLLOWED THAT UP WITH ANOTHER BIRDING EVENT WITH A GENTLEMAN WHO'S VOLUNTEERING ON REDWOOD ROAD AND PICKING UP TRASH ON EVERY OTHER DAY BASIS.

HE'S ALSO A BIRDER AND HAD A GROUP THAT WAS BIRDING WHILE BLACK THAT I WENT OUT AND HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO SOME BIRDING WITH HIM.

SO THE 12TH WAS THE WARD TWO BRIEFING THAT I HAD WITH STAFF.

THAT WAS PRETTY INFORMATIVE. ALL I COULD SAY IS I SHOULD HAVE THOSE EVERY WEEK.

I WAS IT WAS A LOT. IT WAS INFORMATIVE AND WE GOT A LOT ON OUR HANDS.

AND ON THE 13TH I ATTENDED THE ALAMEDA MAYORS CONFERENCE, AND I JUST WANT TO ALSO SAY ON VARIOUS DAYS, SHOUT OUT TO STAFF MEMBER DAVE MASON, WHO HELPED ME PUT TOGETHER A POWERPOINT I'VE BEEN ASKED TO PRESENT AT THE AAUW, AND HE PUT TOGETHER A REALLY NICE POWERPOINT FOR ME WITH SOME UPDATED SLIDES THAT I WOULD ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO EITHER GET A COPY OF WHAT THEY DID FOR ME OR OR USE.

IT'S VERY IMPRESSIVE AND MAKE ME LOOK GOOD WHEN I'M OUT THERE IN THE PUBLIC.

AND THAT WAS THE WHOLE GOAL. SO IT'S BEEN A BUSY, BUSY WEEK.

ALL RIGHT. WELL, ON MARCH 4TH, I WAS AT THE BOARD MEETING HERE ON THE MARCH 6TH, I WAS, AS DIRECTOR COFFEY MENTIONED, ASSEMBLY MEMBER FARIAS IS SWEARING IN IN MARTINEZ, RAPIDLY FOLLOWED BY A TRIP DOWN TO LAFAYETTE TO THE CONTRA COSTA MAYORS CONFERENCE.

IT'S ALWAYS INTERESTING. GOOD NETWORKING THERE.

ON THE SEVENTH, I HAD A DISCUSSION WITH OUR LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS AFFAIRS FOLKS ABOUT THE THE ADVOCACY CONFERENCE.

AND ON THE SEVENTH, I WAS AT THE BOARD STUDY SESSION ON TRAILS ON THE 10TH.

I SPOKE TO AND I ALSO HAD A PRESENTATION, A NICE POWERPOINT FOR THIS ONE.

I SPOKE TO THE BRANCH EIGHT OF THE SIRS, WHICH IS SONS IN RETIREMENT.

IT'S A RETIREMENT MEN'S RETIREMENT GROUP. GREAT GROUP, EXCEPT THAT THEIR AV EQUIPMENT IS NOT THAT GREAT BECAUSE IT DIED HALFWAY THROUGH MY POWERPOINT. NO, IT WAS A GOOD THING BECAUSE WE SWITCHED TO SWITCHED MODES INSTANTLY TO Q&A, AND I USED UP THE REST OF MY TIME. THOSE THOSE GUYS WERE REALLY ENGAGED, AND THEY TESTED ME ON MY KNOWLEDGE.

PRETTY, PRETTY WELL. BUT I MADE A LOT OF GOOD CONTACTS AND IN FACT RAN INTO A GUY WHO USED TO RUN WITH IN CROSS COUNTRY IN HIGH SCHOOL.

I HADN'T SEEN HIM SINCE THEN, AND WE WENT TO COFFEY.

HE'S ONE OF MY CONSTITUENTS, AND HE WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT MOUNTAIN BIKING AND OTHER STUFF IN THE PARKS.

SO THAT WAS REALLY GREAT. I MET ON THE 11TH WITH DISTRICT COUNCIL AND ON THE 14TH I MET WITH THE MR CONSULTANTS ON, ON THE I GUESS WHAT WE'RE CALLING THE POST BOARD RETREAT.

YEAH, POST BOARD RETREAT MEETING. AND THEN ON THE 14TH, ALSO ON THE 14TH, I WAS WHEN I ATTENDED THE BOARD MEETING FOR THIS MEETING.

SO THAT IS IT. AND THAT IS REALLY IT BECAUSE ANOTHER PICTURE.

OH, YEAH. STICK AROUND BECAUSE WE HAVE TO RETAKE THE PICTURE.

SOMEBODY WASN'T SMILING. NO, NO, NO, JUST A TECHNICAL DIFFICULTY.

SO STICK AROUND FOR THAT. BUT OTHERWISE, WE'RE ADJOURNED AT 447.

* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.