[00:00:01] OH, LIKE HIT SOMEBODY WITH IT. NO, THEY'VE NEVER HAD A GAVEL. [Roll Call] ARE WE READY? OKAY, GOOD AFTERNOON. WELCOME, EVERYONE. THIS IS A REGULAR PARK ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING OF THE EAST BAY REGIONAL PARK DISTRICT ON MARCH 23, 2026, BEGINNING AT 4 P.M. MADAM CLERK, IF YOU COULD PLEASE DO A ROLL CALL. YES, I CAN. MEMBER BARTLEBAUGH. HERE. THANK YOU. MEMBER CHANG? HERE. THANK YOU. MEMBER CLAXTON? HERE. THANK YOU. MEMBER DEPOSCHELIS? HERE. THANK YOU. MEMBER DUTCHINS? HERE. THANKS. MEMBER DIETER? NOT HERE. MEMBER HENRY? HERE. THANK YOU. MEMBER LOPEZ? HERE. THANK YOU. MEMBER MAHADEVAN? HERE. THANK YOU. MEMBER MARSH? PRESENT, AND CAN YOU TURN THE CAMERA ON FOR THE BOARDROOM? YES. THERE WE GO. THANK YOU. MEMBER MENDOZA. HERE. THANK YOU SO MUCH. MEMBER OBRINGER. I AM HERE. THANK YOU. MEMBER OMOLO? HERE. MEMBER PEOPLES? PRESENT. MEMBER SIMMONS? PRESENT. MEMBER SMITH? HE'S NOT HERE. MEMBER VALENZUELA? HERE. THANK YOU. MEMBER VASUDEV? HERE. THANK YOU. AND MEMBER WILLIAMS IS NOT HERE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, VICE CHAIRMAN DOSA. IF YOU'D PLEASE READ THE LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. AS WE GATHER HERE TODAY AND ON BEHALF OF THE PARK ADVISORY COMMITTEE, I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT ALL OF THE LANDS WITHIN THE EAST BAY REGIONAL PARK DISTRICT ARE THE ANCESTRAL LANDS OF EAST BAY OHLONE, BAY MIWOK, AND THE NORTHERN VALLEY YOKUT, WHO ARE POLITICALLY ORGANIZED AND REPRESENTED BY A NUMBER OF TRIBES TODAY. 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 I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO RECOGNIZE THAT WE ARE CURRENTLY IN THE VILLAGE OF UCHUN ON CHICHEN ILONI LAND THANK YOU APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES DO WE HAVE A MOTION [Approval of Minutes] TO APPROVE THE MINUTES FROM FEBRUARY 23RD 2026. MOVED BY PEOPLE SECONDED BY VALENZUELA MADAM CLERK IF YOU COULD PLEASE DO A ROLL CALL VOTE YES, MEMBER BARLBAUGH. AYE. MEMBER CHANG? YES. MEMBER CLAXTON? YES. MEMBER DEPAUL-SHALISE? YES. MEMBER DUTGENS? YES. MEMBER HENRY? YES. MEMBER LOPEZ? YES. MEMBER MAHADEVAN? AYE. THANK YOU. MEMBER MARSH? AYE THANK YOU MEMBER MENDOZA AYE MEMBER OBERINGER YES MEMBER OMOLO YES MEMBER PEOPLES YES MEMBER SIMMONS YES AND I SEE JUDY IS HERE MEMBER SMITH WE ARE APPROVING THE FEBRUARY MINUTES YES I I APPROVE. THANK YOU SO MUCH. MEMBER VALENZUELA? YES. THANK YOU. MEMBER VAZUDEV? YES. THANK YOU. [Public Comments on Items Not on the Agenda] THE MOTION PASSES. THANK YOU. PUBLIC COMMENTS FOR ITEMS NOT ON THE AGENDA. THE CLERK WILL EXPLAIN HOW TO SUBMIT PUBLIC COMMENTS. MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WISHING TO MAKE PUBLIC COMMENT CAN DO SO IN PERSON OR VIA ZOOM. IF ATTENDING IN PERSON, THEY MAY SUBMIT A SPEAKER CARD TO THE CLERK'S STAFF OR OTHERWISE INDICATE THEY WISH TO MAKE A PUBLIC COMMENT ON A NON-AGENDA ITEM. IF ATTENDING BY ZOOM, THEY MAY RAISE THEIR HAND AND THEIR NAME WILL BE CALLED WHEN IT IS THEIR TURN TO SPEAK. DURING THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD, SPEAKERS WILL BE INVITED TO SPEAK AND WILL HAVE THREE MINUTES TO SHARE THEIR COMMENTS. THANK YOU. IF YOU'RE HERE TO PROVIDE A COMMENT REGARDING AN ITEM ON THE AGENDA, WE WILL CALL ON INDIVIDUALS DURING PUBLIC COMMENT. FOR THAT SPECIFIC ITEM. HAS THE CLERK RECEIVED ANY EMAILS OR SPEAKERS CARDS FROM THE PUBLIC FOR ANY ITEMS NOT ON THE AGENDA? WE HAVE RECEIVED ONE EMAIL WHICH WILL BE TRANSCRIBED TO THE PAC FOLLOWING THE MEETING. THANK YOU. AGAIN WE WILL PROVIDE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THE OPPORTUNITY TO COMMENT ABOUT ITEMS ON THE AGENDA AT THE END OF EACH ITEM AND WE HAVE NO ACTION ITEMS TONIGHT OTHER THAN APPROVAL IN THE MINUTES. [Informational Items] WE HAVE TWO INFORMATIONAL ITEMS. FIRST WE ARE PLEASED TO HAVE [00:05:01] BOARD MEMBER MERCURIO FROM WARD 6 JOINING US AND MEMBER MERCURIO, PLEASE GO AHEAD. YES, IT IS. IT IS. ALL RIGHT. CAN YOU PUT THE SLIDES UP ON THE SCREEN, PLEASE? WHILE THEY'RE DOING THAT, I JUST WANT TO SAY HOW HAPPY I AM TO BE HERE AGAIN. IT'S BEEN A WHILE. I ALWAYS LOOK FORWARD TO COMING BACK TO THIS GROUP, AND I SAY COMING BACK BECAUSE I USED TO BE ON IT. MOST OF THE BOARD, THE ELECTED BOARD, USED TO BE ON THIS GROUP. SO THAT TELLS YOU SOMETHING ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS HERE AND HOW IT APPLIES TO THE GREATER... THE GREATER PARK, EAST BAY REGIONAL PARK DISTRICT, AND I ALSO WANT TO ADD, IF YOU HAVEN'T GATHERED FROM WHAT I JUST SAID, THAT I REALLY APPRECIATE AND THE REST OF THE BOARD APPRECIATES ALL THE WORK THAT YOU DO HERE. AND IT ALSO, IT'S, YOU KNOW, THE BOARD IS REALLY INTERESTED IN AND HAS DEMONSTRATED THIS, IN HAVING THIS BODY BE EVEN MORE, PLAY EVEN MORE OF AN ACTIVE PART IN KIND OF HELPING US WITH POLICY. SO, AGAIN, THANK YOU ALL FOR THE TIME THAT YOU PUT IN, AND WE SHOULD GO AHEAD AND GET STARTED ON. WE'RE CALLING IT THE WARD 6 UPDATE, BUT I HOPE IT DOESN'T JUST FOCUS TOO MUCH ON WARD WARD 6 IS WHERE I GREW UP, ACTUALLY, IN CONCORD. THAT'S WHERE I LIVE, AND IT'S CLAYTON, CONCORD, PLEASANT HILL. WALNUT CREEK EAST OF 680, DANVILLE, SAN RAMON, AND THEN WE SLIDE ALL THE WAY OVER TO BYRON AND DISCOVERY BAY. SO IT HAS ABOUT THE SAME POPULATION AS ALL THE OTHER WARDS DO, WHICH IS ABOUT 410,000 PEOPLE, BUT IT COVERS A LOT OF AREA. THE ONLY WARD BIGGER IS WARD 5 TO THE SOUTH. SO THIS IS A... THIS IS BASICALLY A FEW OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT TOO MUCH. I UNDERSTAND THE ONE ON THE TOP THERE YOU'RE GOING TO BE COVERING, SO I WON'T REALLY SPEND ANY TIME ON THAT BECAUSE I WOULD BE REPEATING WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN HERE, I THINK. SO WHY DON'T WE MOVE ON HERE TO SOME MOVE AHEAD. I ACTUALLY HAVE GONE OUT ONE TIME ALREADY MYSELF. I WENT TO THE DANVILLE. BASICALLY A DANVILLE PARKS COMMISSION AND GAVE THEM A PRESENTATION ON THIS BACK IN EARLY DECEMBER, AND THEY WERE VERY RECEPTIVE AND, YOU KNOW, PROVIDED, YOU KNOW, ENCOURAGED THEM TO WEIGH IN AND BE PART OF THE PROCESS. NEXT. SO THE TRAILS CHALLENGE, I'M GOING TO COME CLEAN, FOLKS. I NEVER DID THIS UNTIL LAST YEAR, AND I WAS ON THE PAC FOR 17 YEARS. SO I WAS. DANCING OR WALKING OR WHATEVER, RUNNING TO MY OWN DRUMMER BACK THEN. BUT THEN I REALIZED THAT, YOU KNOW, I CRACKED OPEN THAT BOOK AND I LOOKED IN THERE AND I'M GOING, LOOK WHAT I'VE BEEN MISSING. YOU KNOW, SO I DID THEM ALL ACTUALLY LAST YEAR. I KIND OF LIKE PAID MY PENANCE AND I DID THEM ALL. AND I FINISHED THEM ALL BEFORE JUNE 30TH. SO THERE'S MY CHALLENGE TO YOU. DO THEM ALL. AND IT WAS GREAT TO BE. OUT THERE AMONG ALL THOSE PARKS AND ALL THOSE TRAILS AND AS YOU PROBABLY KNOW, THERE'S A TOTAL RANGE OF DIFFICULTY. I THINK THE SHORTEST ONE IS LIKE .9 MILES AND THE LONGEST ONE IS PROBABLY 10 MILES OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN. SO THEY GIVE US A LOT OF THOSE BOOKS. I GUESS YOU CAN GET THEM TOO. AND I LIKE TO HAND THEM OUT AND PEOPLE SEE THEM AND THEY GO FOR IT AND THAT'S KIND OF THE, I DON'T THINK I'M THE AMBASSADOR FOR THAT GROUP. IT'S THE BOOK THAT IS THE AMBASSADOR. YOU KNOW, IT'S, YOU LOOK AT IT AND THE MAPS ARE SO NICE. AND WHO LIKES MAPS? I MEAN, YOU KNOW, MAPS ARE GREAT, RIGHT? SO THEY'RE ALL THERE. ANY QUESTIONS? YOU KNOW, STOP ME ANY TIME HERE. ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE TRAILS CHALLENGE? AND I'M STILL LEARNING ABOUT HOW WE GET THOSE TRAILS IN THAT BOOK. THEY COME, I THINK THEY COME FROM ALL THE DIFFERENT PARKS. THEY SUGGEST WHAT SHOULD BE IN THERE AND STUFF. SO I GUESS I WOULD TELL YOU, I MEAN, IF YOU DO ONE OF THOSE HIKES AND YOU FIND SOMETHING IN THERE THAT DISTURBS YOU OR YOU QUESTION ABOUT OR WHATEVER, I CERTAINLY HAD THAT EXPERIENCE A COUPLE OF TIMES. LET ME KNOW. YOU KNOW HOW TO FIND ME. ALL RIGHT, NEXT. I HOPE THAT THIS IS PREACHING TO THE CHOIR. YOU KNOW. WE HAVE A LOT OF TRAILS. [00:10:01] OUR TRAILS ARE VERY DIVERSE, AS ARE THE USERS. IN FACT, I BELIEVE THAT ON THAT LOWER RIGHT HAND, THAT LOWER PICTURE, THAT'S DIRECTOR ESPANA IN THE BLUE SHIRT, I BELIEVE. SHE'S A TRAIL RUNNER, LIKE I USED TO BE. SHE GETS TO STILL DO IT, BECAUSE SHE'S GOT BETTER KNEES THAN I DO, SO THAT'S REALLY GOOD. YEAH, YOU KNOW, IT'S COMMON. I THINK IT'S COMMON SENSE TO EVERYBODY IN THIS GROUP WHAT IT SAYS RIGHT THERE. YOU CAN SEE. SO, NEXT. I GUESS, YOU KNOW, THESE ARE ALL WHAT WE NEED TO BE, HOW WE NEED TO BE CONDUCTING OURSELVES. AND, YOU KNOW, ANY KIND OF AMBASSADOR ROLE THAT YOU CAN PLAY IN A. IN A DIPLOMATIC WAY, TO HELP PEOPLE UNDERSTAND HOW TO BEHAVE ON THE TRAILS IS ALWAYS WELCOME. I GUESS, YOU KNOW, WE'RE HERE IN THE PARK DISTRICT. AS A BOARD MEMBER, I'VE BEEN ADVOCATING FOR THIS WHOLE KIND OF CONCEPT, THIS PROGRAM CALLED SLOW AND SAY HELLO. HELLO AND SAY HELLO IS. WHEN YOU'RE PASSING SOMEONE ON THE TRAIL, WHOEVER THAT MIGHT BE, THAT YOU SLOW DOWN ENOUGH THAT YOU CAN SAY HELLO, THAT YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY GONE BY THEM, AND DEVELOP A LITTLE BIT OF CONNECTION BETWEEN, AND THAT MIGHT BE DIFFERENT USER GROUPS PASSING EACH OTHER. THAT IS, I KNOW THERE'S CERTAIN JURISDICTIONS AROUND THAT PROMOTE THIS MORE THAN WE HAVE, BUT IT'S A GREAT IDEA, IT'S A GREAT CONCEPT, AND WE NEED TO ALL GET ALONG OUT THERE ON THE TRAILS. AND ANYTHING WE CAN DO TO DO THAT, I THINK, IS REALLY IMPORTANT. BECAUSE WHEN WE START HAVING CONFLICTS, THEN THE WHOLE EXPERIENCE GETS DEGRADED. ONE OF THE WAYS THAT I CAN JUST TELL YOU, ONE OF THE WAYS THAT I WANT TO ADDRESS CONFLICT ON THE TRAIL IS JUST BY HAVING MORE TRAILS. HAVING MORE PARKS, OPENING MORE PARKS, AND SO, IN OTHER WORDS, SPREADING OUT THE USAGE. YOU KNOW, WE HAVE CERTAIN USAGES THAT ARE CONCENTRATED IN CERTAIN AREAS BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE THE NEEDS ARE MET. I WOULD LIKE THE NEEDS TO BE MET IN MORE PARKS, NEW PARKS, AND HOPEFULLY IN THE FUTURE IF WE CAN GET ADDITIONAL FUNDING FROM THE VOTERS. WE'LL BE ABLE TO OPEN MORE PARKS AND STAFF MORE PARKS, AND WE CAN SPREAD OUT THE USAGE, BECAUSE I BELIEVE WE CAN GET OUT AHEAD OF THE POPULATION. OUR POPULATION REALLY ISN'T GROWING THAT FAST ANYMORE. WE CAN IMPROVE THE EXPERIENCE JUST BY OPENING UP. WE CAN MAKE A REAL DIFFERENCE BY OPENING UP, YOU KNOW, ONE OR TWO PARKS A YEAR KIND OF THING, OR FIVE OR TEN MILES OF TRAIL A YEAR. ALL RIGHT. NEXT. SO BRIONES IS AN INTERESTING PARK. IT'S SPLIT AMONG THREE DIFFERENT DIRECTORS. EVERYBODY WANTED A PIECE OF BRIONES, SO THEY GOT IT. SO, YOU KNOW, WE HAD THE PILOT PROJECT THERE, AND I'VE GOTTEN A LOT OF GOOD FEEDBACK ABOUT THAT. I'VE ALSO GOTTEN FEEDBACK THAT SAYS PEOPLE AREN'T FOLLOWING THE DAYS OFF AND ON RULES THAT ARE. THAT ARE ESTABLISHED FOR THAT. AND SO I THINK WE NEED TO WORK ON THAT A LITTLE BIT MORE. THERE'S DIFFERENT WAYS WE CAN DO THAT. BUT BRIONES HAS SO MANY TRAILS. I THINK THAT'S WHY PEOPLE WANT TO GO THERE, AND IT'S IN A GOOD LOCATION. IT'S ACCESSIBLE TO A BIG POPULATION AROUND THERE. AND, AGAIN, THE SPECIAL MANAGEMENT AREA, I THINK, IS GIVING NEW OPPORTUNITIES THAT WE DIDN'T HAVE BEFORE, PARTICULARLY FOR THE MOUNTAIN BIKE COMMUNITY. NEXT. BISHOP RANCH IS WEST OF SAN RAMON, UP IN THAT LINE OF HILLS. AND THERE IS ACCESS THERE. YOU CAN GO THERE. HOWEVER, WE ALSO HAVE QUITE A BIT OF LAND BANK PROPERTY THERE RIGHT NOW THAT WE'RE HAVING A HARD TIME FIGURING OUT HOW TO GET. WAYS TO GET FOLKS IN THERE. SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I'VE BEEN ADVOCATING FOR, IS TO CLEAR UP SOME OF THE PROBLEMS WITH EASEMENTS THAT WE NEED TO GET IN THERE, AND SO I'M CONTINUING TO WORK ON THAT. [00:15:03] IT'S NOT LIKE SAN RAMON HAS NO PLACE ELSE TO GO, BUT STILL, YOU KNOW, WE ACQUIRED THIS LAND YEARS AGO, AND I WOULD LOVE TO SEE IT OPENED UP FOR USAGE. NEXT. SO THIS IS, IF DIABLO FOOTHILLS, USUALLY PEOPLE REFER TO THAT AS CASTLE ROCK BECAUSE IF YOU SEE ON THE UPPER LEFT HAND CORNER PICTURE THAT'S, YOU KNOW, CASTLE ROCKS AND BUT CASTLE ROCK IS THE RECREATION AREA WHERE THE THE POOL AND THE PICNIC AREA AND THE BALL FIELDS ARE AND YOU KNOW YOU CAN HAVE GROUP EVENTS THERE LIKE I GUESS YOU COULD HAVE A COMPANY PICNIC. THE DISTRICT HAS GONE THERE FOR DISTRICT EMPLOYEE EVENTS. IT'S A GREAT PLACE. BUT THERE'S ALSO LOTS OF GREAT HIKING. YOU CAN HIKE PINE CANYON, WHICH IS REALLY FLAT. YOU GET TO JUMP OVER THE CREEK ABOUT TEN TIMES, EIGHT TIMES, WHATEVER. REALLY INTERESTING. OR YOU CAN GO UP INTO THE HILLS AND HAVE A REALLY CHALLENGING HIKE ON THE RIDGELINE OVERLOOKING. AND THEN THE OTHER INTERESTING THING ABOUT DIABLO FOOTHILLS PARK IS THAT IT FILLS A GAP. IT COMPLETES A GAP BETWEEN WALNUT CREEK OPEN SPACE, NAMELY SHELL RIDGE, AND MOUNT DIABLO STATE PARK. SO THAT, AND I'LL JUST DO A LITTLE SCENARIO FOR YOU HERE. YOU COULD COME IN FROM ANYWHERE ON BART. YOU COULD GET OFF AT WALNUT CREEK BART STATION, GO ON A SHORT WALK, MAYBE A MILE, TO HOWE HOMESTEAD PARK, WHICH IS RIGHT IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD. PRACTICALLY OVERLOOKS DOWNTOWN WALNUT CREEK AND WALK TO THE TOP OF MOUNT DIABLO ON TRAILS AND ONLY CROSS ONE OR TWO ROADS WHILE YOU'RE DOING THAT. SO THAT'S THE CORRIDOR THAT DIABLO FOOTHILLS IS PART OF THAT CORRIDOR GOING UP TO MOUNT DIABLO STATE PARK. AND I DON'T WANT TO OVERLOOK THE WILDLIFE ASPECT OF IT, TOO. IT'S A WILDLIFE CORRIDOR AS WELL. NEXT. UM, LAS TRAMPAS, UM, LAS TRAMPAS ALSO INCLUDES LITTLE HILLS RECREATION AREA, I THINK IT'S CALLED, UM, WHERE THEY, AND AGAIN, ONE OF THOSE VENUES WHERE YOU CAN HAVE EVENTS AND, AND THE PARK DISTRICT, YOU GUYS HAVE BEEN THERE, MOST OF YOU HAVE PROBABLY BEEN THERE, THE VOLUNTEER APPRECIATION PARTY HAS BEEN THERE THE LAST FEW YEARS. THAT'S IN, RIGHT IN LAS TRAMPAS. WE, WE HAVE, UM, A STAFF CENTER THERE, UM, LOTS OF TRAILS. THE THE CALAVERAS RIDGE TRAIL RUNS ALONG THE RIDGE LINE THERE, AND, YOU KNOW, I'LL KIND OF DEVIATE A LITTLE BIT HERE. CALAVERAS RIDGE TRAIL, WE ARE ACTIVELY WORKING TO COMPLETE THAT TRAIL FROM LAFAYETTE ALL THE WAY DOWN. I'M NOT EVEN SURE HOW FAR IT GOES. SINAL? IS THAT THE ULTIMATE TERMINUS OF CALAVERAS RIDGE TRAIL OR JUST SOMEWHERE IN THAT AREA? YEAH. AND SO WE ARE, NEXT YEAR, I THINK WE'RE GOING TO BE BUILDING TWO AND A HALF MILES OF TRAIL THAT WILL LEAD RIGHT INTO LOS TROMPAS. PARK AND I THINK THAT'S REALLY AN ATTRACTIVE THING, AN ABILITY TO DO A REALLY LONG DISTANCE HIKE. NEXT. ROUND VALLEY, THAT HAPPENS TO BE A PARK THAT I USE QUITE A LOT. AND IT'S VERY CONVENIENT FOR CLAYTON AND BRENTWOOD AND OAKLEY RESIDENTS TO VISIT. IT'S A GREAT PARK BECAUSE ONCE YOU GO OVER A FEW LITTLE HILLS IN THE BEGINNING, IT'S THIS BIG FLAT VALLEY, AND YOU CAN DO LIKE A FIVE-MILE, AT LEAST A FIVE-MILE HIKE ON VERY LEVEL TRAILS. AND TO BE OUT IN THE, I CALL IT THE BACKCOUNTRY, I ALWAYS CALL IT THE BACKCOUNTRY, WHEN YOU'RE MORE THAN A HALF A MILE OUT OF THE PARKING LOT, YOU'RE IN THE BACKCOUNTRY. LET'S REWARD OURSELVES WITH THAT TERMINOLOGY. AND IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL. BUT RIGHT NOW, IT'S SO... WELL, IT LOOKS LIKE THAT PICTURE ON THE BOTTOM THERE. IT'S ALL GREEN. IT'S BEAUTIFUL. THERE'S ALSO A GROUP CAMP THERE IN A VERY REMOTE PART OF THE PARK. SO IF YOU RENT THAT AREA, YOU'RE PROBABLY NOT GOING TO SEE ANYBODY ELSE. IT'S REALLY, REALLY A GREAT AREA TO VISIT. THERE'S A RESTROOM AND SOME TABLES AND SOME NON-POTABLE WATER. IT'S A GREAT PLACE. SO YOU CAN RENT THAT AND HAVE YOUR OWN LITTLE CAMPGROUND. ONE OF THE THINGS I'VE BEEN WORKING ON WITH THAT PARK IS HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN THERE. SO WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU GET OUT OF YOUR CAR, YOU GO THROUGH THE GATE, AND YOU WALK LIKE 200 YARDS, AND WHAT HAPPENS? YOU'RE FACED WITH A HILL. THE MAIN TRAIL, [00:20:02] THE ACTUAL REAL TRAIL, GOES UP AND AROUND AND THEN DOWN, AND IT'S LIKE YOU HAVE TO REALLY WORK TO GET TO THAT FLAT PART. OR YOU CAN USE THE TRAIL THAT YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO USE, WHICH IS FLAT AND EASY. THAT'S NOT EASY. SO I'VE BEEN WORKING ON US IMPROVING THE APPROACH TO THAT PARK TO MAYBE ACQUIRE SOME PROPERTY, PROBABLY HAVE TO DO THAT, IN ORDER TO MORE FORMALIZE THE TRAIL AND MAKE IT MORE ACCESSIBLE TO MORE TRAIL USERS THAT CAN'T HANDLE THE ROUGHNESS AND THE STEEPNESS TO GET TO THE HOLY GRAIL OF A BEAUTIFUL BACKCOUNTRY FLAT HIKE. YEAH. THE TRAIL GOING TO THE LEFT. IT'S STILL, I WAS JUST THERE A FEW DAYS AGO. IT'S STILL CLOSED. THERE'S SOME DAMAGE THERE. SO, YOU KNOW. I'M NOT SURE HOW LONG IT'LL TAKE BEFORE THAT'S FIXED, BUT, YEAH, IT'S STILL CLOSED. YEAH, THAT'S THE HARDY CANYON TRAIL. YEAH. YOU CAN MAKE THE LOOP AROUND ROUND VALLEY EVEN LONGER AND HARDER IF YOU TAKE THAT TRAIL OFF, THE FIRST TRAIL OFF TO THE LEFT, AND IT GOES AROUND. IT'S A BEAUTIFUL, IT'S A DIFFERENT KIND OF EXPERIENCE THAN BEING IN ROUND VALLEY, BUT IT'S A GREAT HIKE. NEXT. SYCAMORE VALLEY IS EAST OF DANVILLE, KIND OF NEAR BLACKHAWK. IT'S SYCAMORE VALLEY OPEN SPACE REGIONAL PRESERVE, BUT IT REALLY ISN'T THAT MUCH VALLEY. IT'S MOSTLY RIDGES. SO WHEN YOU GET UP THERE, THE VIEWS ARE TREMENDOUS. THERE'S 360-DEGREE VIEWS OF EVERYTHING. I MEAN, MOUNT DIABLO, DOWNTOWN WALNUT CREEK. THE LOS TROMPAS RIDGE, LIVERMORE VALLEY. IT'S HIGH ENOUGH WHERE YOU CAN REALLY SEE A LOT OF IT, AND IT'S REALLY GREAT. AND WE JUST ADDED SOME PROPERTY TO THAT IN THE UPPER RIGHT-HAND CORNER. THAT WAS THE DEDICATION LAST YEAR OF THE MCGEE PRESERVE PROPERTY, WHICH CAME ABOUT AS A DEDICATION FROM A 69-UNIT, I THINK, 67-UNIT SUBDIVISION THAT WAS BUILT ON A FEW ACRES OF THIS. PROPERTY AND THEN THE REST OF IT GOT DEDICATED AS OPEN SPACE. DID YOU HAVE A QUESTION, BOB? OKAY. DID I SAY WHAT YOU WANTED ME TO SAY? YEAH. OKAY. ANYWAY, THERE'S A LOT OF GOOD HIKING UP THERE AND IT DOESN'T REALLY GET USED THAT MUCH. IT'S MORE OF A LOCAL, KIND OF A LOCAL OPEN SPACE THING, BUT YOU CAN GO THERE AND REALLY HAVE A GREAT HIKE. IT'S NOT CONTINUOUS, BUT IF YOU FOLLOW THE TRAIL ALL THE WAY THROUGH YOU CAN REALLY HAVE A NICE HIKE OR RIDE. NEXT. SO THIS HAS BEEN A LONG STORY HERE. IT GOES BACK, HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE FAMILIAR, IS EVERYBODY FAMILIAR WITH THE PORT CHICAGO 50 AND THAT WHOLE ISSUE THERE? IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT, THIS PARK IS REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE HAVE IT AND THAT WE'RE ABLE TO TELL THAT STORY AND THAT WE HAVE THE MATERIALS IN THE PARK. TO TELL THAT STORY BECAUSE WE ALL KNOW IT, BUT THERE'S A WHOLE BUNCH OF PEOPLE THAT DON'T, AND WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO THAT. I'M GOING TO SAY THAT FIRST. THEN I'M GOING TO SAY IT'S ALSO A PARK THAT'S GOING TO HAVE ALL KINDS OF OTHER OPPORTUNITIES FOR WILDLIFE AND US BOTH, AND THE FIRST ONE OF THOSE OPPORTUNITIES IS GOING TO BE ABOUT ALMOST 900 ACRES, WHAT WE CALL THE SOUTH OF BAILEY PROPERTY, THAT IS GOING TO OPEN IN A FEW YEARS. AND IT WILL HAVE TRAILS, YOU KNOW, EASY ACCESS, KIND OF LIKE ADA TRAILS WITH A NICE SURFACE, PICNIC TABLES, SHADE STRUCTURES, PARKING, WATER, INTERPRETIVE ELEMENTS COMING UP. AND WE'RE IN THE PROCESS OF DESIGNING THOSE IMPROVEMENTS RIGHT NOW. WE'RE ALSO IN THE PROCESS OF DIGGING DOWN INTO THE COUCH TO FIND SOME CHANGE IN THE SEAT CUSHIONS. TO BUILD IT AND WE'RE DOING THAT STARTING TOMORROW THE BOARD'S GOING BACK TO DC TO TALK ABOUT GETTING SOME FUNDING FOR THAT AND SO UM THAT'S ONE THIS IS WE ONLY WE'RE ONLY ABLE TO TALK ABOUT A FEW THINGS WHEN WE GO AND TALK TO OUR FEDERAL LEGISLATORS BUT THIS IS ONE OF THE ONES THAT WE ALWAYS TALK ABOUT BECAUSE I THINK WE'RE 14 MILLION DOLLARS SHORT AND WE NEED TO GET THAT MONEY PRETTY SOON IN ORDER TO BUILD IT SO BUT WHEN WE DO IT'S GOING TO IT'S ONE OF THOSE PARKS THAT IT'S NOT LIKE AROUND VALLEY WHERE YOU'VE GOT TO... EVERYBODY'S GOT TO GO A LONG WAY TO GET THERE. THERE'S HOUSES THAT BORDER RIGHT ON THE EDGE OF THIS PARK. SO WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A PARK THAT'S NEAR WHERE PEOPLE LIVE. THERE'S ALSO AN ISSUE THAT WE'RE WORKING ON TO GET BETTER PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLE ACCESS INTO IT. [00:25:03] AND SO WE'RE WORKING WITH THE CITY OF CONCORD TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN TOO. JOHN, I'VE GOT A QUESTION. WHAT'S THE STRATEGY FOR GOING TO D.C. ASKING FOR THAT MONEY AS WE KNOW THE FEDERAL ADMINISTRATION CURRENTLY IS LOOKING AT THINGS LIKE THIS, THIS TRUE HISTORY OF CIVIL RIGHTS, AS A DEI ISSUE THAT IS DENIGRATING IT. AND SO IS THERE A STRATEGY THAT YOU ALL HAVE? WELL, I MEAN, THE GOOD NEWS IS WE DON'T JUST GO TO A BUNCH OF DIFFERENT MEMBERS OF CONGRESS. WE GO TO OUR FOLKS, THE ONES THAT REPRESENT THE PARK DISTRICT. AND THEY DON'T FEEL ANY... ANIMOSITY TOWARD THOSE ISSUES, THOSE DEI ISSUES. AND SO THERE'S WAYS. TO KIND OF CIRCUMVENT. YOU COULD PROBABLY SAY THIS BETTER THAN I CAN, BUT I'M NOT TOO WORRIED ABOUT THAT. I THINK WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO GET THE MESSAGE OUT THERE AND CONVEY TO THEM THAT THIS IS A WORTHWHILE PROJECT AND WE REALLY NEED SOME HELP WITH IT. WE NEED PARTNERS, AND SO IN ORDER TO GET IT BUILT, THAT'S HOW WE'RE GOING TO DO IT. YEAH. AND PARK HAS A LOT OF SUPPORT FROM OTHER MEMBERS IN OTHER PARTS OF THE COUNTRY TOO BECAUSE OF THE... IT DOES. IT ENABLES US TO TELL A PART OF THE STRUGGLE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS IN CALIFORNIA. I MEAN, IT'S MORE ASSOCIATED WITH THE SOUTH. BUT IN THE WESTERN UNITED STATES, HERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US. AND IT'LL BECOME A MAGNET FOR FOLKS THAT WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THAT. NOW, I TALKED ABOUT THE... THIS PORTION OF IT WE'RE GOING TO OPEN UP IN A COUPLE OF YEARS. THERE'S ALSO ANOTHER 2,000 ACRES THAT ISN'T OPEN, AND WE NEED TO BUILD A VISITOR CENTER THERE, WHICH REALLY WILL TELL THE STORY THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE ABOUT THE PORT CHICAGO 50. THAT'S A LONGER-TERM PROJECT, BUT WE'RE KIND OF WORKING ON THAT ONE TOO. WE HAVE A BUILDING. THERE'S A BUILDING THERE, AN EXISTING BUILDING LEFT OVER FROM THE MILITARY THAT WE PLAN TO. REHAB AND TURN IT INTO A VISITOR CENTER. OKAY, NEXT. AND THEN WE HAVE THE REGIONAL TRAILS, SEVERAL HUNDRED MILES OF PAVED REGIONAL TRAILS ALL AROUND THE DISTRICT. CONTRA COSTA CANAL TRAIL IS A GREAT SUCCESS STORY BECAUSE IT'S A COOPERATIVE EFFORT BETWEEN THE CONTRA COSTA WATER DISTRICT AND US TO ALLOW... TRAIL NEXT TO A WATER CONDUIT, WHICH IS A CANAL, AND IT HAS BECOME SO POPULAR. I ACTUALLY GREW UP REALLY CLOSE TO THIS, AND I DISTINCTLY REMEMBER ONE DAY GOING OUT RUNNING, AND I CAME TO THIS SPOT, AND THERE WAS A GATE, AND YOU COULD JUST GO THROUGH THE GATE ONTO THIS TRAIL AND I'M GOING, WOW, THEY JUST OPENED THIS UP FOR ME. IT WAS JUST SUCH A REVELATION, AND THEN OVER THE YEARS IT HAS BECOME SO POPULAR THERE, ALONG WITH THE IRON HORSE TRAIL, THAT IT'S A GREAT TRANSPORTATION CORRIDOR AND IT'S ALSO A GREAT RECREATION ELEMENT AS WELL. AND SO MANY FOLKS USE IT TO GO FOR A WALK, WALK THE DOG, WALK THE STROLLER, RUN, RIDE, ROLLERBLADE, ALL THAT STUFF ALL OUT THERE ON THE CONTRA COSTA CANAL TRAIL. ALL THROUGHOUT THE DIABLO VALLEY AND KIND OF LIKE A BIG HORSESHOE. NEXT. AND I BELIEVE WE HAD A COMMENT FROM MEMBER OBRINGER. GOOD. THANK YOU. I DIDN'T MEAN TO INTERRUPT, BUT JUST GOING BACK TO THE PREVIOUS PARK, THE THURGOOD MARSHALL REGIONAL PARK, HOME OF THE PORT CHICAGO 50. I DID JUST WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU, I KNOW THAT YOU JUST MENTIONED, DIRECTOR MERCURIO, THAT YOU ARE HEADED TO D.C. TOMORROW. AND LISA BALDINGER WAS EMAILING ME AND MAYOR NAKAMURA AS THIS PRESENTATION WAS GOING ON. AND IT SEEMS THAT CONGRESSMAN DESTONIA HAS INDICATED AT LEAST SUPPORT FOR $2 MILLION FOR THE PARK. AND SO WE'RE GOING TO BE SUBMITTING OUR LETTER OF SUPPORT TO THE CONGRESSMAN. SO CITY OF CONCORD IS STILL WORKING. AND AS YOU KNOW, WE HAVE WORKED TOGETHER, THE PARK DISTRICT, THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH, THE CITY OF CONCORD, AND OUR TWO COUNTY SUPERVISORS, CARLSON AND PRESTON SCALES, TO ALSO REQUEST THAT SENATOR GRAYSON PULL DOWN SOME PROP 4 MONEY. SO JUST WANTED TO LET PEOPLE KNOW WHAT KIND OF WORK IS UNDERWAY TO GET SOUTH OF BAILEY ROAD OPEN. AND THAT ILLUSTRATES, AGAIN, THE PARTNERSHIPS THAT WE DON'T DO ANYTHING BY OURSELVES. THERE'S ALWAYS A PARTNERSHIP. AND CARLIN HAS JUST TOLD US [00:30:03] ABOUT ALL THE HELP THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE GETTING HERE, AND THAT'S REALLY GREAT NEWS TO HEAR ABOUT THE $2 MILLION. ALL RIGHT. THE IRON HORSE TRAIL IS A TREMENDOUS THIS IS THE BACKBONE TRAIL FOR ALL OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY. IT'S THE BUSIEST. THERE'S SO MUCH USAGE THERE. IT'S VERY DIVERSE USAGE OF DIFFERENT MOBILITIES, AND WHEN YOU HAVE THAT MUCH USAGE ON A 10- OR 12-FOOT-WIDE TRAIL, IT'S HARD TO KIND OF SORT IT ALL OUT. SO I'M STARTING TO HEAR A LOT ABOUT CONFLICTS ON THAT TRAIL. AND WITH THE RISE OF THE POPULARITY OF E-BIKES, THERE'S EVEN MORE PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO... EXCEED THE SPEED LIMIT OF 15 MILES PER HOUR, AND THAT CAUSES SOME GRIEF OUT THERE. THERE'S ALSO ILLEGAL USE. HOW MANY PEOPLE KNOW WHAT AN E-MOTO IS? YEAH, E-MOTOS, THOSE LITTLE, THEY LOOK LIKE AN E-BIKE, BUT IT'S NOT AN E-BIKE, IT'S A MOTORCYCLE, AND IT'S NOT LEGAL REALLY ANYWHERE. AND PARENTS ARE BUYING THEIR KIDS THESE THINGS, AND THEY DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THEY'RE BUYING. THERE'S A LOT OF CRAZINESS GOING ON. IT'S GOING TO BE A LONG-TERM ISSUE, KIND OF PROJECT FOR US TO EDUCATE THE SCHOOLS, THE STUDENTS, AND THE PARENTS, AND THE YOUTH OF WHAT'S OKAY AND WHAT'S NOT. AND I THINK WE'LL GET THERE, BUT IT'S GOING TO TAKE A LOT OF PATIENCE. IT'S CERTAINLY IMPORTANT TO ME. SOMEBODY... IN WALNUT CREEK, SOMEBODY PUT A QR CODE ON A POST NEXT TO THE TRAIL LAST YEAR. AND THE QR CODE GENERATED AN EMAIL THAT WENT TO ME AND THE WALNUT CREEK CITY COUNCIL AND SUPERVISOR CARLSON AND SOME OTHER ELECTED PEOPLE. AND I GOT, I HAVEN'T REALLY COUNTED, BUT SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 70 AND 100 EMAILS ABOUT THAT. BUT, YOU KNOW, I THOUGHT THAT WAS GOOD BECAUSE IT MADE THEM CONNECT, AND I WAS ABLE TO RESPOND TO THEM AND TELL THEM, YOU KNOW, IT WASN'T JUST A BLACK HOLE THAT THAT EMAIL WENT INTO. THEY WERE ABLE TO EXPRESS THEMSELVES, BUT I ALSO SENT STUFF BACK TO MOST OF THEM. I'M A LITTLE BEHIND, BUT SAYING, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE WE ARE WORKING ON IT, AND WE HAVE DONE SOME ENFORCEMENT OUT THERE ALONG WITH CITY OF WALNUT CREEK AND THE TOWN OF DANVILLE TO GET AT THIS. AND SO, LIKE I SAID, IT'S GOING TO BE A LONG-TERM THING WITH A LOT OF PARTNERS. BUT WE'RE TRYING TO INCREASE THE SAFETY OUT THERE. AND THEN THE OTHER THING IS YOU SEE THE BRIDGE UP THERE ON TOP. THAT'S THE BRIDGE OVER TREAT BOULEVARD NEXT TO THE PLEASANT HILL BART STATION. THERE'S BEEN SEVERAL OTHER BRIDGES THAT HAVE BEEN BUILT OVER THE BUSIEST STREETS, AND SO THAT MAKES IT INTO A BETTER OF A TRANSPORTATION CORRIDOR. AND SO RECENTLY THE CITY OF DUBLIN BUILT A GIGANTIC BRIDGE OVER DUBLIN BOULEVARD, AND EVEN MORE RECENTLY THAN THAT, THE CITY OF SAN RAMON BUILT AN EVEN BIGGER BRIDGE, BEAUTIFUL BRIDGE, OVER BOLLINGER CANYON ROAD, AN EIGHT-LANE STREET. AND THEY SPENT, I'VE BEEN TOLD, $29 MILLION ON THAT BRIDGE. BUT IT'S LIKE A DESTINATION UNTO ITSELF, ESPECIALLY AT NIGHT. IT'S ALL LIT UP. IT'S BEAUTIFUL. AT LEAST IN THE SOUTH END OF THE IRON HORSE TRAIL, ENOUGH ORDER PEOPLE USE THAT TO COMMUTE TO WORK. RIGHT. TO GO TO WORK. THAT CAN BE PART OF YOUR THAT BRIDGE IS PART OF YOUR ROUTE TO BART. THE OTHER THING THAT'S GOING ON IN THAT AREA IS BETWEEN THAT BRIDGE AND TO THE NORTH AT CROW CANYON ROAD, THERE'S GOING TO BE ANOTHER BRIDGE BUILT AT CROW CANYON ROAD, BUT THAT AREA IN BETWEEN THERE, CONTRA COSTA COUNTY IS DOING A STUDY TO DOUBLE TRACK THE IRON HORSE TRAIL IN THAT AREA AS A PILOT TO SEE IF WE SEPARATE THE USAGES, BIKES ON THE NEW ONE AND YOU EVERYBODY ELSE ON THE EXISTING TRAIL, HOW IS THAT GOING TO WORK OUT? IS IT GOING TO HELP? IS IT GOING TO INCREASE SAFETY? IS IT GOING TO IMPROVE CIRCULATION? IS IT GOING TO MAKE PEOPLE FEEL BETTER? I THINK IT'S GOING TO DO ALL THOSE THINGS, BUT WE'RE DOING THAT. IT'S LIKE 1.3 MILES, I THINK, OF TRAIL IS GOING TO BE BUILT, SO STAY TUNED FOR THAT. IT'S GOING TO DESIGN, AND THEN, YOU KNOW, THEN ALL WE NEED TO DO IS FIND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO BUILD IT. AND THEN MEMBER LOPEZ ALSO HAD A QUESTION. THANK YOU SO MUCH. I'M CURIOUS ABOUT THE ISSUE WITH THE E-BIKES GOING OVER 15 MILES PER HOUR. YOU KNOW, I OWN ONE, AND MINE CAME, YOU KNOW, FROM THE FACTORY. [00:35:03] ACTUALLY, IT WAS LOCALLY BUILT IN FREMONT WITH A GOVERNOR OF 15 MILES AN HOUR, SO I CANNOT GO, YOU KNOW, OVER THAT SPEED LIMIT. AND GOING THAT HIGH ACTUALLY FOR ME IS QUITE SCARY. IT'S TOO FAST. WHEN YOU GOT THE 70 TO 100 EMAILS, WERE THOSE FOLKS PRIMARILY PEOPLE WHO WERE CONCERNED ABOUT THE SPEED, OR WERE THEY PEOPLE WHO WERE ADVOCATING FOR THE E-BIKES THEMSELVES AND BEING ABLE TO EXCEED THE POSTED SPEED LIMIT? SO THE EMAIL THAT WAS GENERATED BY THEM SCANNING THAT QR CODE HAD ITS BUILT-IN SUBJECT LINE. THE SUBJECT LINE WAS ENFORCE THE SPEED LIMIT ON THE... ON THE IRON HORSE AND CONTRA COSTA CANAL TRAILS. SO I THINK THAT ANSWERS YOUR QUESTION. YEAH, THANK YOU. THEY'RE CONCERNED ABOUT THAT. AND I'VE MET WITH PEOPLE THAT USE THAT TRAIL, AND THEY'RE AFRAID. I MEAN, THEY WANT TO GO WITH THEIR KIDS, AND THERE'S A LOT OF USERS OUT THERE THAT AREN'T SO CONCERNED FOR SAFETY. YEAH, IT'S UNFORTUNATE, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE I WAS THINKING ABOUT THE TRAILS CHALLENGE, AND, YOU KNOW, FOR SOME FOLKS THAT HAVE... ISSUES WITH MOBILITY OR LIMITED MOBILITY OR ACCESSIBILITY. YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU SAY, YOU KNOW, ONLY A MILE, A MILE COULD BE A LOT FOR A LOT OF US FOLKS, INCLUDING MYSELF. AND SO, YOU KNOW, IN THE PAST, I'VE BEEN ABLE TO ACCESS TRAILS WITHIN THE PARK SYSTEM, PRIMARILY ON THE SHORELINE, ONLY BECAUSE I HAD AN E-BIKE THAT ALLOWED ME TO GO A LITTLE FURTHER THAN I COULD GO. ON MY OWN. AND, YOU KNOW, IT'S JUST UNFORTUNATE TO HEAR THAT THERE'S BAD ACTORS, BECAUSE I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, IF WE COULD ALL ABIDE BY EVEN, I THINK, ACTUALLY LESS THAN 15 MILES WOULD PROBABLY BE BETTER. YOU KNOW, WE'D GIVE PEOPLE A LOT MORE ABILITY TO HAVE ACCESS TO THE TRAILS IN A WAY THAT I THINK ON FOOT MANY OF US MAY NOT BE ABLE TO DO. YEAH, YOU KNOW, AND WHAT CONCERNS ME IS THAT IF WE DON'T GET BEHIND, IF WE DON'T GET THIS KIND OF UNDER CONTROL, THAT WE'RE GOING TO DISCOURAGE PEOPLE FROM USING THE TRAIL THAT HAVE AN ISSUE WITH THAT. AND THERE IS SOME MOVEMENT NOW AT THE STATE LEGISLATURE TO REGULATE THOSE DEVICES MORE THAN IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW. THERE'S SEVERAL. I'M NOT GOING TO GO INTO ALL THAT, BUT IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THAT, CONTACT ME. OR BETTER YET, THESE GUYS. THEY FOLLOW ALL THAT STUFF IN TREMENDOUS DETAIL. BUT THERE'S STUFF GOING ON AT THE STATE LEVEL. I'M EXCITED TO JUMP IN BECAUSE YOU'RE ABOUT TO BE IN A ROOM OF EXPERTS. SO THIS IS GOING TO BE THE PAC'S FOCUS TOPIC FROM MAY TO LATER IN THIS YEAR IN THE FALL. AND SO WE'LL BE DIVING IN DEEP INTO THIS AND BRINGING FORWARD STAFF EXPERTS TALKING ABOUT PUBLIC SAFETY SOLUTIONS, COMMUNICATION SOLUTIONS, ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS, LEGISLATIVE SOLUTIONS, AND THEN WORKING WITH YOU ALL TO KIND OF UNDERSTAND HOW DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES AROUND THE STATE AND NATIONALLY ARE WORKING TO ADDRESS THIS CHALLENGE. SO WE'RE GOING TO HAVE SOME GOOD EXPERTS HERE. YEAH, GOOD. SO, YEAH, SO WE'RE DEPENDENT ON YOU. THANK YOU. YES. JOHN, ARE THESE E-MOTOS FOR THE 16TH? YOU HAVE TO HAVE A DRIVER'S LICENSE FOR IT. NO, AND YOU DON'T PEDAL THEM. JUST HOOKED THEM UP. IT'S A MOTORCYCLE. IT IS. IT ABSOLUTELY IS. SO PARENTS ARE BUYING THEIR 10-YEAR-OLD, 12-YEAR-OLD. OH, MY GOSH. IT'S GOING TO BE AN EDUCATION EFFORT TO MAKE IT CLEAR AS TO WHAT THEY'RE DOING, WHAT THEY'RE GIVING. AND I THINK THE SCHOOLS ARE GOING TO BE HELPING US A LOT WITH THIS, TOO. AND IT'S REALLY GOING TO TAKE REGULATION, BECAUSE IT'S NOT JUST ON THE TRAILS, IT'S IN CITY STREET. YES, IT IS. EVERY PLACE ELSE THAT THEY'RE SHOWING UP, NOT ONLY THE BIKES, BUT THE SCOOTERS AND WHATNOT. YEAH. SO THERE'S GOING TO NEED TO BE SOME KIND OF REGULATION ON THAT, BUT WE NEED TO FIT INTO IT. IT'S A NEW TECHNOLOGY, AND THIS HAPPENS WITH A LOT OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES. IF YOU GO BACK TO, I'M A STUDENT OF HISTORY, IF YOU GO BACK TO 1900 TO LIKE 1910, CARS WERE BRAND NEW, AND IT WAS CRAZY. IT WAS THE WILD WEST. THERE WAS NO CONTROL. THERE WERE NO LAWS, AND BAD THINGS WERE HAPPENING OUT THERE ON THE ROADS AND THE STREETS. AND SO WE'RE IN THAT RIGHT NOW WITH THESE DEVICES. I THINK WE'RE GOING TO GET IT UNDER CONTROL, BUT IT'S GOING TO BE REALLY HARD TO GET THERE. BUT WE NEED TO GET THERE. AND LIKE I SAID, WE HAVE PARTNERS OUT THERE WITH THE LOCAL MUNICIPALITIES. THEY'RE HELPING US TOO. [00:40:01] GO AHEAD. CLAYTON RANCH IS NOT TOO FAR FROM THURGOOD MARSHALL, HOME OF THE PORT CHICAGO 50, AND IT'S DIRECTLY CONNECTED WITH BLACK DIAMOND MINES. YOU'VE GOT THE MAP ON THE RIGHT THERE. YOU CAN SEE THAT IT BORDERS ON THAT GREEN AREA. TO THE NORTH OF IT IS BLACK DIAMOND MINES. AND SO ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE PARKS THAT DIRECTLY BORDERS, THAT LITERALLY THE HOUSE... BACKYARDS OF HOUSES BORDER ON THIS PARK. SO THE PEOPLE IN THE CITY OF CLAYTON HAVE BEEN WONDERING, YOU KNOW, WHEN IS THIS GOING TO OPEN, AND I'VE GOT THIS DOWN REALLY GOOD. SOON. I TRY NOT TO GIVE ANYTHING BETTER THAN THAT, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE IT'S HARD. WE HAVE REGULATORY AGENCIES THAT WE HAVE TO WORK WITH, AND, YOU KNOW, WE'RE ON THEIR SCHEDULE. BUT WITHIN A COUPLE OF YEARS, I THINK WE'RE GOING TO HAVE THAT OPEN, AND THAT'S... YEAH, 4,000 ACRES. I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S ALL GOING TO OPEN AT ONCE ON THAT FIRST WAVE, BUT IT'S A BEAUTIFUL PARK. IT'S A GREAT WILDLIFE HABITAT. I CAN SAY WE HAVE SOMEBODY FROM SAVE MOUNT DIABLO HERE NOW ON OUR GROUP. THAT WAS PURCHASED BY SAVE MOUNT DIABLO ORIGINALLY. IT WAS CALLED IRISH CANYON. AND THERE'S OTHER PARTS OF IT TOO, BUT THE PARK CLOSE TO CLAYTON WAS PURCHASED BY THEM, AND NOW WE HAVE IT. IT'S OURS, AND WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON FIXING UP THE TRAILS AND MAKING IT ACCESSIBLE. BUT IT'S GOING TO BE A FEW MORE YEARS. BUT IT'S A BEAUTIFUL PARK WITH REALLY, REALLY GOOD ACCESS TO LOTS OF FOLKS. CONCORD AND CLAYTON, NEXT. THIS IS A DIFFERENT, THIS ISN'T THE TYPICAL PARK THAT WE HAVE. THE CLOSEST THING I CAN SAY TO THIS ONE IS, IF YOU'VE BEEN TO ARDENWOOD, IT'S GOING TO BE KIND OF LIKE THAT. SO THIS IS A PROPERTY THAT WAS WILLED TO US BY ARMAND BORRELL, AND HE WAS THE OWNER WHO GREW WALNUTS. YOU CAN SEE IN THE BOTTOM PICTURE THERE, IT WAS A WALNUT ORCHARD. HIS FAMILY RAN THAT WALNUT ORCHARD FOR MANY, MANY YEARS. IS THE LAST... WALNUT ORCHARD IN THE SAN RAMON VALLEY AND HE HAD A WISH TO PRESERVE THE ORCHARD AND THE WHOLE HISTORY OF PROCESSING WALNUTS BECAUSE YOU JUST DON'T PICK THEM OFF THE TREE AND THROW THEM INTO SAFEWAY. THERE'S ALL THIS OTHER STUFF THAT HAS TO HAPPEN AND SO WE'RE GOING TO HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO INTERPRET THAT HISTORY AT THIS PARK AND SO WE'RE GOING TO HAVE THE ORCHARD, BUT THERE'S ALSO SOME BARNS THERE, AND THERE'S SOME AMAZING RUBE GOLDBERG MACHINERY IN THERE THAT USED TO SORT THE WALNUTS AND PROCESS THEM. WE'LL HAVE THAT PROBABLY OPEN TO LOOK AT AT LEAST. RIGHT NOW WE HAVE CONSULTANTS WORKING ON, I THINK THEY'RE TRYING TO COME UP WITH ONE PREFERRED ALTERNATIVE OUT OF THREE THAT WERE PRESENTED TO THE BOARD. SO WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO KIND OF HONE IN ON HOW DO WE WANT THIS. PARK TO OPERATE AND WHAT DO WE WANT TO PROVIDE FOR THE PUBLIC. BUT THIS, TALK ABOUT ACCESSIBLE, THIS PARK IS LITERALLY ACROSS THE STREET FROM COSTCO. SO, YOU KNOW, IT'S GOING TO BE, IT'S ONE OF THOSE PARKS THAT'S KIND OF LIKE A HYBRID. IT'S A REGIONAL PARK. IT'S ALSO GOING TO BE A NEIGHBORHOOD PARK, TOO. AND SO WE'LL HAVE OPPORTUNITIES TO GO FOR A WALK IN THE ORCHARD, LOOK AT INTERPRETIVE PANELS THAT TALK ABOUT THE GROWING OF WALNUTS. THIS IS NEAR AND DEAR TO MY HEART BECAUSE WHERE I GREW UP IN CONCORD IN THE 60S, WE STILL HAD WALNUT ORCHARDS THERE AND I SAW THEM ALL MOWED DOWN AS I GREW UP. BUT NOW I'M IN A PLACE WHERE WE'RE PRESERVING ONE OF THEM AND I ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT WAS IMPORTANT. SO DID A LOT OF OTHER PEOPLE. SO WE'RE DOING THAT. AND MEMBER MARSH HAS A QUESTION FOR YOU. SURE. SO BECAUSE WE'RE PRESERVING THIS WALNUT FARM, ARE WE GOING TO BECOME FARMERS? HOW ARE WE PRESERVING IT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE WALNUTS DON'T GO TO WASTE AND THAT IT IS STILL A WORKING ORCHARD AS YOU EXPRESSED? SO HOW DO WE, HOW DO WE ACHIEVE THAT AND BE A PARK AND BE A HISTORIAN ALL IN ONE? THAT'S, THAT'S KIND OF WHAT WE'RE DEVELOPING RIGHT NOW WITH OUR CONSULTANTS. SO YOU KNOW, HOW DO WE UTILIZE THE PRODUCT IN THE BEST WAY? BUT, YEAH, WE WILL BE GROWING. WE HAVE TO REPLACE A LOT OF THOSE TREES BECAUSE THEY'VE REACHED THE END OF THEIR USEFUL LIFE. BUT WE'LL ROTATE NEW TREES IN THERE, AND WE'LL EXPLAIN. THERE'S A WHOLE GRAFTING [00:45:02] PROCESS THAT HAS TO HAPPEN TO GROW WALNUTS. IT'S REALLY INTERESTING. SO, YEAH, THESE ARE THINGS THAT WE WILL BE DEVELOPING. FROM AN INTERPRETIVE POINT OF VIEW, THE FACT THAT THOSE EXISTING WALNUT TREES HAVE DECLINED IN VIGOR. THE NATIVE BLACK WALNUTS ARE GROWING UP AS SPROUTS FROM THE ROOTS, AND IT'S A GOOD EXAMPLE OF THE KIND OF CULTURE YOU HAVE TO DO. YOU HAVE TO MANAGE THESE AREAS. YOU JUST DON'T PLANT THE TREE AND THEN PICK THE WALNUTS OFF OF IT. YOU HAVE TO CONTINUALLY MANAGE IT. SO THERE'S A GOOD OPPORTUNITY THERE TO INTERPRET THAT FROM PEOPLE COMING TO THE AREA. YEAH, THE ROOT STOCK IS DIFFERENT THAN THE UPPER PART OF THE TREE WHERE THE WALNUTS ACTUALLY COME FROM. YEAH, AND THAT'S ALL I'M GOING TO SAY ABOUT THAT, BECAUSE WE COULD... BOB AND I COULD GO ON FOR A HALF HOUR AND YOU DON'T WANT US TO DO THAT. WELL, MEMBER SMITH ALSO HAS A QUESTION FOR YOU. WELL, MAX, THIS HAS BEEN A REALLY, REALLY FUN PRESENTATION. DO YOU KNOW IF ORGANIC FARMING WILL BE IMPLEMENTED WITH THIS ORCHARD? WELL, I CERTAINLY WOULD BE IN FAVOR OF THAT. I DON'T THINK WE'VE GOT INTO THE DETAIL YET, BUT I DON'T KNOW WHY WE WOULDN'T DO IT THAT WAY. THAT'S JUST KIND OF THE WAY WE DO THINGS HERE. I THINK THAT'S WHAT THEY DO AT ARDENWOOD, AND WE WOULD DO IT HERE TOO. OKAY? ALL RIGHT, GO AHEAD. ASIDE FROM THOSE QUESTIONS, HOW ABOUT THE OTHER QUESTIONS? YES? THE BIGGEST THING YOU SEE ON THE HORIZON THAT WE DON'T KNOW. WELL, POINT MALATE IS OUT THERE. THAT'S GOING TO BE A VERY, VERY BIG THING. IT'S ALSO A VERY DON'T EXPECT TO GO THERE NEXT YEAR AND DO ANYTHING SIGNIFICANT EXCEPT LOOK AT IT. AND THEN I THINK IT'S SAFE TO SAY, I CAN SAY THIS, THAT THERE IS AN EFFORT BEING MADE TO ACQUIRE GOLDEN GATE FIELDS. THAT'S ALL I CAN SAY ABOUT THAT. YEAH. SO THAT'S, THAT'S, THOSE ARE, THOSE ARE PRETTY BIG THINGS. I COULD THINK OF OTHER BIG, WELL, HERE'S ANOTHER ONE IN A DIFFERENT AREA. THERE SEEMS TO BE AN EFFORT, HOW MANY PEOPLE KNOW WHAT THE SOUTH BAY AQUEDUCT IS? IT'S A CANAL THAT RUNS FROM CONTRA COSTA COUNTY DOWN INTO LIVERMORE VALLEY THAT CARRIES WATER TO LAKE DEL VALLE AND DOWN INTO ALAMEDA COUNTY, I THINK. IT'S A UM IT'S A LOT LIKE THE CONTRA COSTA CANAL TRAIL. WHAT WAS IT THAT'S NEXT TO THE CONTRA COSTA CANAL TRAIL? A TRAIL. IS IT NEXT TO A CANAL? YES. SO WE'RE LOOKING AT MAKING SOME KIND OF A DEAL WITH, THERE'S DIFFERENT AGENCIES THAT OPERATE THAT CANAL, OF DOING LIKE WHAT WE DID WITH THE CONTRA COSTA CANAL TRAIL AND DEVELOPING, HAVING A WAY TO DEVELOP AGRITOURISM BY HAVING FOLKS BE ABLE TO WALK AND RIDE THEIR BIKES. DOWN INTO THE LIVERMORE VALLEY AND GO TO VINEYARDS AND STUFF AND ALL THAT. SO I'M A TRAIL GUY, SO THAT'S THE WAY I LOOK AT BIG PROJECTS COMING DOWN THE ROAD FOR THE TRAIL. ANY OTHERS? JOHN, I HAD A QUESTION FOR YOU. GREAT PRESENTATION. AT BRIONI'S YOU SAID THERE'S ARCHERY. I DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT THAT. TELL ME. WE HAVE AN AGREEMENT OR SOME KIND OF A USE AGREEMENT, I GUESS, WITH A GROUP THAT DOES ARCHERY. THERE'S ANOTHER GROUP AT ROBERTS, TOO, THAT DOES IT. BUT, YEAH, THEY HAVE A DEDICATED AREA TO DO THAT. THEY DON'T JUST GO SHOOTING ARROWS INTO THE AIR. I DON'T THINK WE WOULD LIKE THAT. BUT, YEAH, THERE'S AN AREA THAT THEY'RE ALLOWED TO USE, AND IT'S CONFINED, AND THEY'RE RESPONSIBLE FOR OPERATING IT FOR THEIR MEMBERS. IT'S NOT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? I MEAN, THE PUBLIC CAN'T SIGN UP TO TAKE CLASSES OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT? YOU KNOW, I'D HAVE TO GET BACK TO YOU ON THAT. ARE YOU INTERESTED IN THAT? I'M CERTAINLY CURIOUS. YEAH. OKAY. MEMBER WILLIAMS, WE HAD A BOARD SITE TOUR MAYBE TWO YEARS AGO AT THE REDWOOD BOWPERSONS PLACE, AND THEY SHOWED US ALL ABOUT THE HISTORY OF THE ARCHERY OVER THERE AT REDWOOD BOWL. SO, YEAH. SOME OF US CAN TALK TO YOU ABOUT THAT AS WELL AS, YOU KNOW, IN THE FUTURE. IT'S BASICALLY THEY HAVE A GROUP THAT GOES THERE AND THEY USE REDWOOD BOWL AND YOU CAN SIGN UP FOR PROGRAMS WITH THEM. YEAH. AND THE BRIONES RANCH IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. [00:50:01] OKAY, GOOD, GOOD. YEAH. YEAH. SO JUST IN REGARDS TO CLAYTON RANCH, I DO HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT THAT. IS THERE ANY TALK OF WHERE THE STAGING AREA IS GOING TO BE LOCATED OR WHERE THE MAIN TRAIL ENTRANCE IS GOING TO BE? UPON OPENING? I WAS REMISS. THERE WAS SO MUCH TO TALK ABOUT WITH THAT, BUT I FORGOT TO MENTION ONE OF THE GREATEST THINGS ABOUT THAT PARK IS ANOTHER ONE OF THESE PARTNERSHIPS THAT WE'VE DEVELOPED WITH THE COMMUNITY. WE HAVE NEGOTIATED AN AGREEMENT WITH THE CITY OF CLAYTON TO UTILIZE CLAYTON COMMUNITY PARK, THE PARKING FOR CLAYTON COMMUNITY PARK. LINCOLN COMMUNITY PARK IS A... THERE'S A LOT OF SOFTBALL FIELDS THERE, MAYBE SOCCER. I'M NOT SURE WHAT THOSE FIELDS ARE FOR, BUT I KNOW IT'S A POPULAR PARK RIGHT UP AGAINST CLAYTON RANCH, AND WE THOUGHT WE WERE GOING TO HAVE TO BUILD OUR OWN STAGING AREA. THAT WOULD HAVE PUT THIS OFF FOR WHO KNOWS HOW MANY MORE YEARS, BUT WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO UTILIZE THEIR PARKING TO GAIN ACCESS TO THERE. PLUS, YOU CAN ALSO ACCESS IT BY BLACK DIAMOND TRAIL, RIGHT, YOU KNOW BECAUSE A LOT OF THE USERS WON'T NEED TO PARK. THEY'LL BE ABLE TO RIDE OR WALK IN THERE. THE LONG-TERM... THE STAGING AREA THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT IS DOWN MARSH CREEK ROAD TOWARD BRENTWOOD. IT'S GOING TO BE A LITTLE BIT DIFFICULT TO PROVIDE THAT BECAUSE THE ROAD HAS TO BE ALTERED IN A WAY TO MAKE IT SAFE TO GET IN AND OUT OF THERE. AND THERE'S A TENANT THAT LIVES IN THAT AREA RIGHT NOW WITH A BARN AND SOME STUFF. SO THE LONGER TERM WILL BE TO HAVE A BETTER STAGING AREA THAT WON'T BE SHARED WITH ANOTHER AGENCY. BUT FOR NOW, WE FIGURED LET'S NOT LET THE PERFECT BE THE ENEMY OF THE GOOD. DO IT SOONER RATHER THAN LATER YEAH GREAT THANK YOU YEAH THANKS FOR ASKING THAT QUESTION UH THANK YOU UH DIRECTOR MAROQUIO UM I APPRECIATED UM I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE IMPORTANT AS UM A PAC COMMITTEE MEMBER THAT'S PART OF WARD ONE THAT I THANK YOU FOR POINTING OUT POINT MALADE JUST REALLY WANT TO ACTUALLY HIGHLIGHT MY DIRECTOR WHICH IS DIRECTOR ELIZABETH ECCLES WITHOUT HER HER LEADERSHIP WORKING WITH OUR GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS TEAM AND ALSO IN IN CONJUNCTION WITH OUR OTHER STATE GOVERNING BODIES LIKE THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, I THINK THAT'S WHAT REALLY IS MAKING POINT MALADY POSSIBLE. AND OF COURSE, IT'S ALSO WITH LEADERSHIP LIKE YOURS, WORKING WITH OTHER AGENCIES, INCLUDING IN D.C. AND I THINK THAT'S WHY I'M PERSONALLY REALLY HOPEFUL ABOUT OUR PARKS. AND I JUST REALLY WANT TO THANK YOU FOR HIGHLIGHTING THAT AND HIGHLIGHTING THE LEADERSHIP OF WARD 1. SO THANK YOU. GOOD. ALL RIGHT. ANYBODY ELSE? DO WE HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENTS ON THIS? WE DO HAVE ONE PUBLIC COMMENT. I WILL MOVE THEM OVER. HI, MUSHTA, IF YOU CAN HEAR ME. HI. SO YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES FOR PUBLIC COMMENT, AND I'LL COME BACK AND INTERRUPT YOU WHEN YOUR TIME IS UP. OKAY, FOR SURE. FIRST OF ALL, THIS IS A GREAT PRESENTATION, AND I'M SO GLAD THAT I WAS ABLE TO JOIN THROUGH ZOOM. IT SEEMS LIKE THE COMMITTEE IS VERY INTENTIONAL ABOUT THEIR WORK WITH OUR EAST BAY PARKS AND EVERYTHING. I ACTUALLY HAVE A COMMENT ABOUT WARD 6, WHICH IS... LOCATED HERE IN OAKLAND. I KNOW YOU GUYS DIDN'T REALLY GET INTO THAT, BUT I'M SURE YOU GUYS ARE ALL WELL AWARE ABOUT THE BRIDGE AND INDUSTRIAL PROJECT. SORRY, I'M OUTSIDE. IT'S A LITTLE EMPTY. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU GUYS CAN HEAR IT. BUT FOR ME, I WAS INTERESTED IN TALKING MORE ABOUT USING THE LAND, THE 164 ACRES OF LAND THAT THEY'RE TRYING TO TAKE AND BUILD INFRASTRUCTURE ON AND TO ACTUALLY CREATE A. WHAT IT'S CALLED A COMMUNITY COMPOST AND GARDENING SYSTEM THAT HIGHLIGHTS INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE AND EVENTS THAT'S GOING TO MAKE INTERACTIVE EVENTS FOR NOT ONLY CHILDREN AND YOUTH, BUT ALSO ADULTS. AND I WAS JUST WONDERING, AND I KNOW EAST BAY PARKS ACTUALLY HAS A CLIMATE ADAPTATION WITH BIG BREAK AND YOU GUYS HAVE THAT MEETING ON APRIL 7TH, BUT I JUST WANTED TO SEE IF I CAN GET IN TOUCH WITH ANYONE. ABOUT PLANNING THIS AND TALKING MORE INTRICATELY ABOUT THIS. AND MAYBE IF EAST BAY PARKS IS INTERESTED OR ABLE TO DO SOMETHING AND COLLABORATE. I'M ALSO WANTING TO BRING A WORLD FOOD FORUM COMMITTEE AND HAVE THEM COLLABORATE ON AGRICULTURAL LANDS AND UTILIZING THAT AGRICULTURAL LAND FOR EXACTLY THAT. SO, YEAH, THAT'S ALL. SO SOMEBODY HELP ME. WHAT WOULD BE A GOOD WAY FOR HER? TO ENGAGE THE DISTRICT [00:55:01] IN WHAT SHE'S INTERESTED IN. CAN I ALSO COMMENT ON THIS AS WELL? I'M SO SORRY. SO I'M ACTUALLY ALSO IN TALKS. SO I HAVE BEEN TALKING WITH THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPER HERE IN OAKLEY ABOUT THIS. SHE HAD REFERRED ME TO THE MOUNT DIABLO RECOVERY RESOURCES, WHICH ALLOCATES OUR WASTE AND ORGANIC WASTE. TIME. SURE THAT YOU GUYS KNOW, BUT THERE'S A SENATE BILL THAT SAYS THAT CITIES, COUNTIES, AND THE WHOLE STATE NEEDS TO REDUCE OUR ORGANIC WASTE BY 75%. AND I FEEL LIKE INCORPORATING A COMMUNITY COMPOST THAT ACQUIRES ALL CITIZENS HERE IN OAKLEY TO COMPOST WITHIN THEIR OWN LAND CAN REALLY BECOME A REGENERATIVE STRUCTURE THAT MAKES EVERYBODY VOLUNTEER AND BECOME... MORE SUSTAINABLE IN A NATURAL WAY WHERE OUR NERVOUS SYSTEM ISN'T SCARED TO TALK ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE. I ACTUALLY STUDY HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY AND FOCUS ON ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES AT UC MERCED. AND I RESEARCH THIS AND HOW OUR HABITS ARE AFFECTING OUR ENVIRONMENT AND HOW THAT IN TURN AFFECTS OUR NERVOUS SYSTEM. AND HOW WE CAN REALLY USE THAT PROCESS AS COMMUNITY ORGANIZING. SO THIS IS JUST KIND OF SOMETHING THAT I WANT TO IMPLEMENT HERE IN MY HOMETOWN. I'M FROM OAKLEY. I'VE LIVED HERE FOR OVER 20 YEARS. AND IT'S JUST SOMETHING THAT I'M REALLY PASSIONATE ABOUT. IT'S SAD THAT, YOU KNOW, SINCE 2024, I'VE SEEN THE DECLINE OF DRAGONFLIES. I'M REALLY SORRY TO INTERRUPT YOU. THESE ARE GREAT IDEAS. AND YOU CAN ACTUALLY GO TO THE PARK ADVISORY COMMITTEE WEBSITE AT EBPARKS.ORG. AND YOU'LL FIND OUR INFORMATION THERE IF YOU WANT TO SEND ME AN EMAIL. AND WE CAN COORDINATE. OKAY, GREAT. THANK YOU, RYAN. I DEFINITELY WANT TO CAPTURE YOUR COMMENTS IN A MORE PERMANENT WAY. SO IF YOU COULD DO THAT, CONTACT US BECAUSE WE WANT TO HEAR MAYBE IN A LITTLE MORE DETAIL WHAT YOU'RE INTERESTED IN. BUT THANK YOU FOR COMING INTO OUR MEETING AND TELLING US ABOUT ALL THAT. THANK YOU. CAN I GET YOUR NAME AS WELL? SORRY, SO I CAN WRITE IT DOWN. JOHN MERCURIO. JOHN MERCURIO. OKAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH. YEAH. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, GUYS, FOR LISTENING. ALL RIGHT. ANYBODY ELSE? DO WE HAVE ANY OTHER PUBLIC COMMENTS ON DIRECTOR MERCURIO'S PRESENTATION? NO MORE PUBLIC COMMENTS. THANK YOU. OKAY. THIS ACTUALLY SO NEXT IS PAC MEMBER DISCUSSION, COMMENTS, FOLLOW-UP QUESTIONS. ARE THERE ANY MORE THAN WHAT WE'VE HAD? OKAY. WELL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, DIRECTOR MERCURIO, FOR THAT GREAT PRESENTATION. AND PERSONALLY, I ALSO WANT TO I KNOW YOU SAID A LOT OF STUFF IN THERE, SO NOT TO THIS ISN'T, LIKE, PRIORITY ABOVE ANYTHING ELSE, BUT I REALLY WANT TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS AROUND MORE TRAILS. MORE PARKS AND SPREAD OUT THE USAGE. I REALLY APPRECIATE EVERYTHING YOU'RE DOING ON THAT. ALL RIGHT. WISH US LUCK. IT'S MORE THAN LUCK. ALL RIGHT. NEXT UP, WE HAVE AN INFORMATIONAL PRESENTATION ON THE DISTRICT PLAN, STARTING WITH BRIAN HOLT. GOOD EVENING. BRIAN HOLT, DIVISION LEAD FOR PLANNING TRAILS, CULTURAL RESOURCES, GIS. WE'VE GOT AN INTERACTIVE EXERCISE. I'M GOING TO HAVE TO BE PRETTY QUICK WITH YOU ALL HERE. SO I'M GOING TO JAM THROUGH THE FIRST COUPLE SLIDES HERE. I KNOW A NUMBER OF FOLKS HAVE SEEN SOME OF THE PRESENTATIONS ON THE DISTRICT PLAN AND SOME OF YOU HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN SOME OF THE RECENT OUTREACH THAT WE'VE DONE. I'LL GIVE A LITTLE BIT OF AN OVERVIEW ON SOME OF THAT BUT I'LL JUST EMPHASIZE IF ANYBODY WANTS ANY INFORMATION OR WANTS TO GO A LITTLE BIT DEEPER YOU'RE FREE TO REACH OUT TO ME AND WE'VE BEEN SENDING UP A NUMBER OF MEETINGS WITH FOLKS. I THINK I'VE GOT SO HAPPY TO MEET WITH ANYBODY ON THIS. SO REAL QUICK, WHAT I'M GOING TO DO IS JUST GIVE A BIT OF AN OVERVIEW OF SORT OF WHAT THE DISTRICT PLAN IS. I'M NOT GOING TO GO INTO TOO MUCH DETAIL INTO THE ROUND ONE ENGAGEMENT SUMMARY. I DO HAVE COPIES HERE OF THE ROUND ONE ENGAGEMENT REPORT. I LEFT SOME OF THEM UP HERE SO YOU CAN GRAB THOSE ON YOUR WAY OUT. THEY'RE ALSO AVAILABLE ON OUR WEBSITE AND I'VE BEEN TO THE PAC PREVIOUSLY AND PRESENTED ON THE SORT OF SUMMARY THAT WE HEARD IN ROUND TWO. I'M REALLY BUT WHAT WE'RE HERE TODAY IS WE HAVE SORT OF AN INTERACTIVE EXERCISE HERE AROUND OUR DRAFT GOALS AND DRAFT PRIORITIES. SO WE'RE LOOKING TO GET THE PAC'S INPUT ON SOME OF THAT AND I'LL JUST MENTION I'M JOINED HERE BY SOME OF MY STAFF HERE. I GOT RAY INGRAM WHO'S GOING TO ASSIST WITH US, SEAN CONNOLLY, SEAN DUGAN, AND NAOMI LAVAL WHO WILL HELP WALK US THROUGH SOME OF THESE EXERCISES. SO I'LL GIVE A LITTLE BIT OF AN ORIENTATION AROUND THE DISTRICT PLAN, AROUND TWO ENGAGEMENT EXERCISES, AND THEN AN OVERVIEW OF OUR ONLINE ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIES. AND SO THAT'S REALLY WHERE WE'RE INTERESTED IN GETTING FOLKS INPUT. FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE JOINING VIA ZOOM, I'LL BE ABLE TO PUT A QR CODE UP AND YOU CAN LINK TO IT [01:00:04] FROM THE DISTRICT PLAN WEBSITE. AS WELL, SO YOU'LL BE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE. AND THEN REALLY WHAT WE'RE ASKING, SO THIS IS, THE INTENT HERE IS TO KIND OF GIVE YOU AN OVERVIEW OF THIS ROUND TWO ENGAGEMENT, BUT REALLY WHAT THE INTENT HERE IS TO ASK YOU ALL TO SORT OF SHARE THIS WITH YOUR NETWORKS, AND HOPEFULLY I CAN GIVE YOU ENOUGH INFORMATION TO HAVE YOU WALK THIS, WALK OTHER FOLKS THROUGH THIS SAME SORT OF THING. SO JUST REAL QUICK, KIND OF WHERE WE'RE AT. WHEN I GET THE QUESTION ON SORT OF WHY WE'RE DOING THE DISTRICT PLAN AND REALLY WHAT THIS IS. SO IF FOLKS SHOULD BE FAMILIAR, IF YOU'RE NOT FAMILIAR, THIS IS OUR MASTER PLAN FROM 2013. THIS PLAN REALLY KIND OF DEVELOPED A REALLY SORT OF ROBUST VISION FOR PARKS. PARKS AND OPEN SPACE IN THE EAST BAY. A LOT OF THE PROJECTS THAT DIRECTOR MERCURIO SPOKE ABOUT, PROJECTS THAT ARE SORT OF IDENTIFIED IN THIS MASTER PLAN, THAT REALLY GUIDES A LOT OF OUR WORK AROUND LAND ACQUISITION AND PARK OPENINGS. WE'RE NOT NECESSARILY LOOKING TO CHANGE THAT VISION. THAT VISION IS REALLY SORT OF SET IN THAT 2013 MASTER PLAN, BUT IT REALLY LAYS OUT A SERIES OF PROJECTS THAT COULD REALLY KEEP US BUSY HERE AT THE PARK DISTRICT FOR THE NEXT HUNDRED YEARS OR SO. SO THIS IS REALLY AN EXERCISE ABOUT PRIORITIZATION. SO REALLY HOW DO WE PRIORITIZE OUR INVESTMENTS TO IMPLEMENT THAT 2013 ASTRA PLAN? AND A COUPLE OF THE ISSUES, THERE'S A NUMBER OF THEM, BUT A COUPLE OF THE ISSUES THAT HAVE SORT OF EMERGED SINCE 2013 AND SORT OF HIGHLIGHTED MUCH MORE IS REALLY ABOUT HOW WE'RE ADDRESSING CLIMATE RESILIENCY, HOW WE'RE ADDRESSING WILDFIRE PROTECTION, PARK EQUITY AND ACCESS IS REALLY A GROWING CONCERN. SO THERE'S A NUMBER OF EMERGING ISSUES AROUND. THAT WEREN'T AS ADDRESSED IN THE 2013 MASTER PLAN, OR PERHAPS THEY WERE AND THEY WERE EMBEDDED THERE, BUT WE REALLY NEED TO GO THROUGH THIS EXERCISE IN TERMS OF HOW WE PRIORITIZE IN OUR INVESTMENTS. SO THESE ARE REALLY QUESTIONS AROUND, WE HEARD ABOUT THE INTEREST IN OPENING NEW PARKS. THE OTHER SIDE OF THAT WOULD BE, HOW MUCH DO WE INVEST IN OUR EXISTING PARKS AND IMPROVE WHAT WE GOT? SO QUESTIONS AROUND THAT, QUESTIONS AROUND WHAT TYPES OF FACILITIES WE'LL PROVIDE, REALLY SORT OF WHAT THE NATURE OF SOME OF OUR PARKS ARE. HOW DO WE CONTINUE TO PROTECT BIODIVERSITY? QUESTIONS AROUND HISTORIC RESOURCES, REALLY ALL OF THIS SORT OF WHOLE BASKET OF ISSUES THAT THE PARK DISTRICT DEALS WITH, QUESTIONS AROUND HOW WE SORT OF PRIORITIZE THAT. AND WE'LL GET INTO SOME OF THE THEMES AND THE GOALS AND SOME OF THE QUESTIONS THAT WE'RE FACING AROUND THAT. SO THAT'S REALLY KIND OF THE, YOU KNOW, THE DESIRED OUTCOMES IS SORT OF THE STRATEGIC ROADMAP TO SORT OF INFORM OUR PRIORITIES. THIS CAN HELP INFORM US AS WE LOOK TOWARDS FUTURE FUNDING AND REALLY HOW WE'RE, LIKE I SAID, HOW WE'RE IMPLEMENTING THAT 2013 MASTER PLAN. CONTINUING TO MOVE TOWARDS THIS SORT OF WELL-MANAGED SYSTEM OF OPEN SPACE PARK LANDS, LOOKING AT A LOT OF OUR EXISTING CONDITIONS, WE'VE DONE A LOT OF MAPPING WORK. ALL OF THIS MAPPING IS AVAILABLE ON THE DISTRICT PLAN WEBSITE AROUND, YOU KNOW, WHERE OUR HABITATS ARE, WHERE WILDLIFE CORRIDORS ARE, WHERE OUR EXISTING PARKS ARE. HOW WE WORK WITH OUR ADJACENT CITIES, CLIMATE CHANGE AND ALL THAT SORT OF STUFF. BUT WHERE WE'RE AT RIGHT NOW IS WE'RE REALLY SPENDING A LOT OF TIME IN ENGAGING ON THIS COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT. LIKE I SAID, I CAME TO THE PAC AS WE WENT THROUGH THE ROUND ONE ENGAGEMENT, AND I CAME BACK AND SORT OF PRESENTED THE ROUND ONE SUMMARY ON THAT. WE GOT A LOT OF GOOD FEEDBACK FROM THE PAC. A LOT OF THAT WAS AROUND SORT OF WHO WE WERE REACHING OUT TO, WHO WE WERE HEARING FROM. AND WE REALLY HAVE WORKED TO SORT OF BROADEN OUR OUTREACH IN ROUND TWO. WE JUST KICKED OFF A SERIES OF PARTNERSHIPS WITH LOCAL COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS TO DO SORT OF A DEEP DIVE IN A NUMBER OF COMMUNITIES THAT WE HAD PRETTY LOW RESPONSE RATES. SO WE'RE REALLY TRYING TO WORK WITH THE COMMUNITY TO FACILITATE SOME OF THAT OUTREACH DIRECTLY. SO THIS IS WHERE WE'RE AT. WE'RE IN ROUND TWO, SORT OF JUST THE FIRST DAY OF SPRING, JUST THE OTHER DAY, AS WE'RE KICKING OFF THIS. ROUND TWO, GOALS, ACTIONS, AND PRIORITIES. SO ROUND ONE WAS REALLY ABOUT HEARING WHAT THE BIG VISION FOR THE PARK DISTRICT WAS. AND WE WENT OUT AND WE HEARD THAT. WE HEARD THE WHOLE GAMUT OF INTEREST AROUND PEOPLE'S VISION FOR THE PARK DISTRICT. THIS IS GETTING US DOWN TO DEVELOPING THE GOALS, ACTIONS, AND PRIORITIES THAT CAN SORT OF HELP US IMPLEMENT THAT VISION. THIS WILL RUN THROUGH AUGUST, MAYBE A LITTLE BIT BEYOND. THIS OUTREACH PERIOD WHICH WILL THEN SORT OF GO BACK INTO A WORK PERIOD AND THAT'S WHEN WE'LL ACTUALLY DRAFT THE PLAN AND HAVE SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY TO SORT OF RESPOND TO AND HOPING TO WRAP THIS ALL UP [01:05:01] IN THE EARLY PART OF NEXT YEAR SO THAT'S SORT OF BIG BROAD OVERVIEW OF OUR SCHEDULE ON THIS DISTRICT PLAN EFFORT SO LIKE I SAY I'M GOING TO PAUSE HERE A LITTLE BIT SO FOLKS ON THE ON THE ZOOM CAN GO TO THE WEBSITE IF THEY WANT. ANYBODY ELSE CAN. BUT THIS ROUND ONE REPORT IS AVAILABLE ON THE DISTRICT PLAN WEBSITE. THE MAPPING IS AVAILABLE ON THE DISTRICT PLAN WEBSITE. AND ACCESS TO THE ENGAGEMENT EXERCISES THAT WE'LL BE DISCUSSING IS ALL AVAILABLE HERE THROUGH THE CQR CODE. SO AS WE GO INTO THIS ROUND TWO, I SORT OF MENTIONED WE GOT A LOT OF GREAT FEEDBACK FROM THE BOARD, FROM THE PAC, FROM OTHERS AROUND THAT ONE ROUND ONE ENGAGEMENT. WHAT I LIKE TO SAY ON THE ROUND ONE ENGAGEMENT IS WE REALLY USE KIND OF EVERY TOOL THAT WE HAD IN OUR TOOLBOX AS STAFF AT THE PARK DISTRICT TO KIND OF GET THE WORD OUT AND ENGAGE ON THIS SURVEY. THAT WAS WORKING WITH OUR PARTNERS. THAT WAS ADVERTISING ON ALL THE TRADITIONAL MEDIA THAT THE PARK DISTRICT DOES, SOCIAL MEDIA AS WELL. AND USING A LOT OF PARK DISTRICT PUBLICATIONS. WE HAD INFORMATION IN OUR VISITOR CENTERS. WE WERE PRESENT AT VARIOUS PARK DISTRICT EVENTS. WE KIND OF USED ALL THE SORT OF TRADITIONAL MEANS THAT WE HAVE AT THE PARK DISTRICT TO GET INPUT. AND WE GOT A LOT OF GREAT INPUT BACK, BUT IT WAS IT WAS CLEAR THAT THERE WERE CERTAIN SEGMENTS OF THE COMMUNITY THAT WE WEREN'T HEARING FROM TO THE EXTENT THAT WE WANT TO. SO WE'RE, AS WE'RE GOING INTO THIS ROUND TWO, WE'RE DOING REALLY FOCUSED ENGAGEMENT WITH SOME OF OUR INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERS, WORKING WITH OUR GOVERNMENT AND LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS TEAM IN TERMS OF OUTREACH TO VARIOUS LOCAL AGENCIES AND CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE AND OTHER SORT OF REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS. WE'RE DOING A SERIES OF OUTREACH TO OUR ESTABLISHED PARTNERS, WHICH I KNOW SOME OF YOU HAVE PARTICIPATED IN. THIS IS SENDING OUT, DOING OUTREACH TO SOME OF THOSE ORGANIZATIONS THAT THE PARK DISTRICT HAS ESTABLISHED RELATIONSHIPS WITH. SO THAT IS ORGANIZATIONS LIKE SAVE MOUNT DIABLO, SIERRA CLUB, OTHER ORGANIZATIONS LIKE LIKE BORP AND AND SOME OF THE OTHER GROUPS THAT WE WORK WITH IN THE COMMUNITY. LIKE I SAY WE'VE ALSO ARE TRYING TO REACH OUT TO OUR EMERGING PARTNERS. THESE ARE ORGANIZATIONS THAT HAVE NOT TRADITIONALLY HAD A BIG RELATIONSHIP WITH THE PARK DISTRICT. SO PART OF THAT IS OUR CBO, OUR COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATION ENGAGEMENT AND BRINGING THEM INTO THE INTO THE PROCESS TO HELP EXPAND THAT OUTREACH. WE'LL BE DOING OUTREACH TO PARK VISITORS WE HAVE SEPARATE TRIBAL ENGAGEMENT THAT'S BEEN ONGOING THROUGHOUT THIS PROCESS THAT'S BEEN LED BY OUR CULTURAL RESOURCES TEAM AND THEN CONTINUE TO DO ENGAGEMENT WITH OUR PARK DISTRICT STAFF HERE AS WELL SO WE'RE REALLY KIND OF DOING A YOU KNOW A PRETTY ROBUST ENGAGEMENT UH EFFORT RIGHT NOW SO UM SO WE'RE WORKING TO GET ALL THAT INPUT IN AND THEN WE WILL UM WE'LL BE PULLING TOGETHER SO BRIAN CAN I ASK A CLARIFYING QUESTION ABSOLUTELY YOU MENTIONED UH WAR MAYBE SOME OF US DON'T KNOW THE ACRONYM FOR BORP. I'M GOING TO SPACE ON IT. BAY AREA OUTDOOR RECREATION PROGRAMS. IT'S AN ACCESSIBILITY GROUP THAT WE'VE WORKED IN THE PAST. THANK YOU. OKAY, SO NOW I'M GOING TO KIND OF JUMP INTO THE MEAT OF WHY WE'RE HERE. SO THROUGH ALL OF THE INPUT THAT WE RECEIVED IN ROUND ONE, WE'VE KIND OF DEVELOPED THESE THEMES. AND THESE THEMES WERE KIND OF PRESSURE TESTED ACROSS VARIOUS VARIOUS PARK DISTRICT ACTIVITIES AND PROJECTS TO SORT OF GUIDE OUR WORK. SO ALL OF OUR WORK SHOULD BE DRIVEN BY EQUITY, ALL OF OUR WORK SHOULD BE DRIVEN BY RESILIENCY, FISCAL SUSTAINABILITY, AND COLLABORATION. AND I'VE GOTTEN QUESTIONS AS WE'VE GONE THROUGH THIS ABOUT SORT OF WHERE WHERE'S BIODIVERSITY REPRESENTED HERE OR WHERE WAS PERHAPS SOME OTHER ISSUES THERE AND THAT'S THE IDEA IS THAT THESE ARE TOPICS THAT REALLY SHOULD BE, THAT SHOULD, THESE ARE THEMES THAT SHOULD RUN THROUGH ALL OF THOSE ACTIVITIES OF THE PARK DISTRICT. BUT THAT LEADS US TO OUR GOALS. WE DO HAVE A BOARD OVER HERE IN THE CORNER, SO I'M GOING TO PRESENT AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO BREAK UP INTO AN EXERCISE TO WHERE WE'RE GOING TO ASK YOU TO KIND OF GO THROUGH AND JUST SORT OF GIVE US YOUR FEEDBACK ON IF YOU THINK THESE GOALS ARE APPROPRIATE. OR IF THERE'S ANY ADDITIONAL WORDING OR ANYTHING THAT NEEDS TO BE CHANGED THERE. SO SINCE WE'LL SPEND SOME TIME HERE ON THESE, I'LL READ THROUGH THEM REAL QUICK. SO OUR ACCESS GOAL. OUR PARKS, PROGRAMS, AND FACILITIES SHOULD BE WELCOMING AND ACCESSIBLE TO ALL. EXPERIENCES. OUR LANDS, PROGRAMS, AND FACILITIES SHOULD PROVIDE ENGAGING OUTDOOR RECREATION AND ENRICHMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE DIVERSE EAST BAY COMMUNITY. RESOURCE PROTECTION. [01:10:01] OUR PARKS SHOULD PROTECT VALUABLE NATURAL AND CULTURAL RESOURCES AND SHOULD BE PART OF A HEALTHY ECOSYSTEM THAT IS RESILIENT TO THE IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE. ENGAGEMENT. OUR PRIORITIES AND POLICIES SHOULD REFLECT AND RESPOND TO THE NEEDS OF THE EAST BAY COMMUNITY. PUBLIC LANDS MANAGEMENT. OUR LANDS AND FACILITIES SHOULD BE WELL MAINTAINED AND SUPPORT HEALTHY AND INCLUSIVE RECREATION. AND ORGANIZATIONAL MANAGEMENT. EAST BAY REGIONAL PARK DISTRICT SHOULD BE AN EFFECTIVE AND EFFICIENT ORGANIZATION AND EXCELLENT WORKPLACE. SO THESE ARE THE GOALS THAT WE'RE LOOKING TO GET COMMENTS ON. I'M NOT LOOKING TO GET ALL OF YOUR COMMENTS TONIGHT. WE ARE DOING THE ENGAGEMENT ON THIS, LIKE I SAY, THROUGHOUT THE SUMMER. SO WE'RE REALLY LOOKING TO GET SOME FEEDBACK ON, YOU KNOW, ARE THESE APPROPRIATE? THERE IS AN ONLINE TOOL THAT I'LL GET TO THAT FOLKS CAN GO IN AND SORT OF CLICK ON AND GIVE THEIR THUMBS UP OR NOT. BUT REALLY, THE INTENTION HERE IS TO REALLY INITIATE A CONVERSATION. OR CONTINUE A CONVERSATION WITH YOU ALL AROUND THESE GOALS AND KNOWING THE WORK THAT YOU'RE ALL DOING AND DOING A DEEP DIVE ON A NUMBER OF TOPIC AREAS, DO THESE CAPTURE THE THINGS THAT THE PARK DISTRICT NEEDS TO DO? SO LIKE I SAY, TONIGHT'S NOT INTENDED TO BE AN END-ALL, BE-ALL CONVERSATION ON THESE. WE'RE REALLY LOOKING TO SORT OF HAVE THE CONVERSATION RUN FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF MONTHS OR SO. SO THAT'S THE ROUND TWO GOALS. SO WE'RE GOING TO BREAK UP HERE. SO HERE'S KIND OF THE SCHEDULE JUST GENERALLY. LIKE I SAY, WE HAVE THESE ONLINE ACTIVITIES. THEY'LL BE GOING THROUGH JUNE. WE'RE HAVING A SERIES OF VIRTUAL STAKEHOLDER FORUMS OVER THE NEXT COUPLE MONTHS HERE. WE'LL BE DOING, WITH LISA AND ELSA'S LEADERSHIP, BE LEADING A NUMBER OF WARD SESSIONS THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT. I MENTIONED WE'RE HAVING... IN-PERSON MEETINGS LED BY OUR COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS. AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO BE, YEAH, WE'RE GOING TO BE HAVING THESE LISTENING SESSIONS I MENTIONED. SO THERE'S GOING TO BE A NUMBER OF OPPORTUNITIES TO SORT OF CONTINUE TO CONTRIBUTE AND HAVE CONVERSATION AROUND THESE. AND MEMBER LOPEZ HAS A QUESTION. YES, THANK YOU. JUST TWO QUESTIONS. ONE IS ON YOUR OUTREACH. I THINK THERE WAS SOME DISCUSSION WE HAD, I THINK I RAISED THE ISSUE ON MULTIPLICITY OF LANGUAGES IN THE OUTREACH TO BE INCLUSIVE? AND I WAS JUST WONDERING IF YOU WERE ABLE TO MAKE HEADWAY OR ARE ENGAGING IN THAT? YES, AND I'LL DISCUSS THAT A LITTLE BIT AS I CONTINUE ON HERE. OKAY, THANK YOU. AND THE SECOND ONE IS, IF YOU COULD GO BACK TO THIS SLIDE, YOU JUST HAVE THAT. SORRY, THERE. THANK YOU. I THINK SOMEWHERE IN HERE. MAYBE UNDER PUBLIC LANDS MANAGEMENT, I'M NOT SURE. BUT I THINK, YOU KNOW, IF I LOOK AT ALL OF THESE HIGHLIGHTS, THEY'RE ALL REALLY GREAT. I THINK I WOULD POSSIBLY INCLUDE THE WORD SAFETY OR SAFE. AND THAT COULD BE INTERPRETED BY USERS IN MULTIPLE WAYS. IT COULD BE, YOU KNOW, PERSONAL SAFETY. IT COULD BE, YOU KNOW, THERE'S JUST A LOT OF LAYERS TO THAT. BUT I THINK THAT SHOULD BE A GOAL. I KNOW THERE IS, YOU KNOW. THERE ARE OFFICERS THAT ARE EMPLOYED, BUT THERE'S ALSO THESE ISSUES, OTHER ISSUES AROUND SAFETY THAT ARE KIND OF ALONG A DIFFERENT SHADE OF THAT GRAY, WHICH WOULD BE LIKE BEING ABLE TO SWIM IN THE WATERS AND THINGS LIKE THAT. SO SOMEWHERE IN HERE, I WOULD INCLUDE THAT CONCEPT. THANK YOU. THAT'S GREAT. THANKS. AND AGAIN, I'M NOT LOOKING TO GET INPUT ON THE GOALS RIGHT NOW. WHAT I'M HOPING TO DO IS SORT OF WALK YOU THROUGH IN TERMS OF WHERE WE'RE HOPING TO GET YOUR INPUT AT. SO THERE'S QR CODE UP HERE. AND THERE'S A WEBSITE LINK HERE. AND I'M GOING TO WALK YOU THROUGH THE QUESTIONNAIRE. THERE'S AN OPEN-ENDED SORT OF COMMENT. EXCUSE ME, BRIAN. WE HAD A COUPLE QUESTIONS FROM MEMBER DETCHINS AND THEN MEMBER CHANG. IF I COULD GET THROUGH THE PRESENTATION SO WE COULD GET TO THE ACTIVITY, AND THEN I'LL BE HAPPY TO TAKE COMMENTS AT THE END THERE. THANK YOU. SO YOU'LL SEE THERE'S A AS WE GO THROUGH HERE, WE DO HAVE A SERIES OF THE ABILITY TO TRANSLATE IN A WHOLE SERIES OF DIFFERENT LANGUAGES. WHAT WE'VE ALSO BEEN SHARING WITH FOLKS IS THAT IF ANYBODY HAS OR KNOWS OF FOLKS WHO HAVE OTHER LANGUAGE TRANSLATION NEEDS OR IF THEY NEED SOMETHING TO JUST REACH OUT TO US, AND WE'LL PUT THEM IN TOUCH WITH THE APPROPRIATE FOLKS SO WE CAN MAKE SURE IT'S TRANSLATED AND PUT IN. WE'RE ALSO MAKING ALL THE PRINT MATERIALS AVAILABLE IN MULTIPLE LANGUAGES. SO WE'VE BEEN WORKING TO ADDRESS THAT IN MULTIPLE FRONTS. WE ALSO HAVE SOME OF THE... COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE GOING TO BE DOING SOME TARGETED OUTREACH IN SPANISH AND OTHER LANGUAGES. THE FIRST PART OF THE QUESTIONNAIRE IS REALLY TO JUST KIND OF IDENTIFY HOW YOU INTERACT WITH THE PARK DISTRICT, IF [01:15:01] YOU'RE A USER, A PARTNER, STAFF. BUT THEN THIS IS THAT SORT OF NEXT SECTION THERE. WE'RE ASKING FOLKS TO JUST KIND OF GIVE THEIR THUMBS UP, YES, THIS GOAL IS GREAT, OR LOW THUMBS, JUST A ONE THUMB, IF IT DOESN'T RESONATE AND IF IT'S NOT GOOD. SO WE'RE ASKING THE PUBLIC TO GO THROUGH AND DO THAT. AND THEN THE SECOND PART, AND YOU CAN SEE THE BOARD HERE ON THE PRIORITIES, WHERE WE'RE ASKING FOLKS TO BASICALLY DRAG AND DROP PRIORITIES. SO WHERE DO YOU... RANK SOME OF THESE DIFFERENT PRIORITIES IN TERMS OF ACQUIRING LAND, OPENING NEW PARKS, AND SOME OF THOSE THINGS ON THERE. SO WE'RE GOING TO, LIKE I SAID, THE INTENT HERE WAS TO BREAK OUT INTO A WORK SESSION, WHICH WE'RE ACTUALLY ASKING THE PAC TO RANK THOSE PRIORITIES. SO THAT'S THE GOAL HERE. AGAIN, WE'LL ALSO, YOU CAN DO IT ON YOUR PHONE, YOU CAN DO IT ON YOUR COMPUTER, AND THAT'S THE INTENT THERE. AT THE END OF THAT QUESTIONNAIRE, THOUGH, THERE IS THIS OPEN COMMENT BOX. SO THIS IS WHERE WE'RE HOPING TO GET COMMENTS LIKE COMMITTEE MEMBER LOPEZ'S COMMENTS AROUND SAFETY, WHICH IS GREAT COMMENTS. THOSE ARE EXACTLY THE TYPE OF COMMENTS THAT WE WANT. YOU CAN KIND OF PUT IN THE WORDING THERE. WE'RE CAPTURING ALL OF THIS, AND WE'RE CAPTURING THIS FROM THE PUBLIC AS WELL SO WE CAN GET IT IN THERE. AND SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE ASKING FOR THE PUBLIC. ENGAGE ON. AND THEN JUST REAL QUICK, I'LL JUST MENTION, WE DON'T HAVE IT HERE ON THE BOARDS. WE'VE DONE IN SOME OTHER FORUMS, BUT WE HAVE A BUDGETING EXERCISE. SO FOR THOSE FOLKS WHO REALLY LIKE TO GET IN DEEP ON THE PARK DISTRICT ISSUES, WE HAVE THIS SORT OF PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING EXERCISE WHERE EVERYBODY'S ALLOCATED $2,000 AND SORT OF YOU CAN GO THROUGH AND YOU CAN SPEND YOUR MONEY. DO YOU WANT TO SPEND YOUR MONEY ON BUILDING A NEW PARK OR CREATING A NEW REGIONAL TRAIL CONNECTION? ONE THING THAT WE'VE REALLY FOCUSED ON HERE IS THAT THERE IS A CONSTRUCTION COST, A CAPITAL COST TO EVERYTHING THAT WE DO. THERE'S ALSO A CORRESPONDING OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE COST TO EVERYTHING THAT WE DO. SO FOR A NUMBER OF THESE THINGS, YOU'LL SEE THAT YOUR MONEY MIGHT NOT GO AS FAR IF THERE'S REAL HIGH O&M COSTS OR IT MAY GO FARTHER. THERE MIGHT BE SOME SORTS OF PARKS. YOU KNOW JUST A NATURAL OPEN SPACE PARK THAT YOU KNOW MAYBE THERE'S LOWER O M COSTS VERSUS SAY A VISITOR CENTER SO THAT'S SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE KIND OF AGAIN TRYING TO ENGAGE A CONVERSATION WITH THE COMMUNITY ABOUT IS IT'S ONE IT'S GREAT TO HAVE A WISH LIST OF EVERYTHING THAT WE NEED BUT YOU KNOW ALL OF THESE THINGS NEED TO BE SORT OF OPERATED AND MAINTAINED IN PERPETUITY AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT THE PARK DISTRICT IS STRUGGLING WITH SO SO THAT'S THERE I'M GOING TO I'M GOING TO GO JUST RIGHT HERE. FOLKS IN THE ROOM, IF YOU WANTED TO GO ON TO THE QR CODE ON YOUR PHONE, YOU COULD ACCESS THESE EXERCISES FROM THE PHONE. BUT THEN, AGAIN, THE HOPE WAS TONIGHT THAT WE WOULD BE ABLE TO BREAK OUT AND DO THESE SESSIONS. I'M SORRY I'M FEELING A LITTLE RUSHED BECAUSE WE'RE HOPING TO HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE TIME TO BE ABLE TO DO THIS. BUT WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO BREAK OUT. I WAS GOING TO HAVE STAFF AVAILABLE TO ACTUALLY SORT OF WALK THROUGH. AND HAVE YOU ALL SORT OF ENGAGE IN KIND OF RANKING THESE PRIORITIES IN TERMS OF WHERE YOU WANT THEM. AND, AGAIN, ON THE DRAFT GOALS, SORT OF SHARING SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT, YES, THIS IS A GOOD GOAL, OR NO, IT'S NOT. SO THAT'S REALLY KIND OF THE GOAL OF WHAT WE'RE HERE FOR. I THINK WE'RE HOPING TO WHAT DO YOU THINK, LISA, AT THIS POINT, WHAT, 10 MINUTES? I THINK SO JUST TO RECAP, SO FOLKS CAN ENGAGE WITH ALL THESE ACTIVITIES ONLINE AND ALSO IN THE ROOM. IT'LL BE DOT STICKERS TO KIND OF HAVE A SENSE OF THE PAC. AND THEN ALSO ONLINE AS PAC MEMBERS ARE FILLING OUT THE FORM, YOU CAN IDENTIFY YOURSELF AS A PAC MEMBER. SO WE'LL ALSO BE ABLE TO SEE SORT OF THIS GROUP COMBINED. AND SO I'D SAY I THINK WE HAVE 15 MINUTES THAT WE COULD DO FOR THE EXERCISE AND THEN COME BACK TOGETHER FOR DISCUSSION. THAT'D BE GREAT. AND THEN, YEAH, I THINK WE'RE HOPING TO GET SOME QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS AS WE KIND OF COME BACK AS PART OF THE DISCUSSION. AND WHY DON'T WE DO CLARIFYING QUESTIONS BEFORE WE BREAK OUT AS WELL? OKAY, THAT'S FINE. THAT'S GREAT. THANK YOU. SO, MEMBER DUTCHINS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION. THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION. I HAVE ONE CLARIFYING QUESTION. I'M NOT PROVIDING COMMENTS. IT'S NOT THE APPROPRIATE TIME FOR THAT YET. ONE OF THE THEMES YOU HAD WAS RESILIENCY WITH THE RAISED FIST. COULD YOU EXPLAIN TO ME A LITTLE MORE WHAT THE MEANING BEHIND THAT IS AND WHAT THE RESILIENCY PART IS? THE RESILIENCY IS REALLY INTENDED TO BE, YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO BE RESILIENT TO A CHANGING CLIMATE. WE NEED TO BE RESILIENT TO STAFF CHANGES HERE AT THE PARK DISTRICT. WE NEED TO BE RESILIENT TO FUNDING CHALLENGES OR, YOU KNOW, CHALLENGES AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL. RESILIENT TO CHANGES [01:20:02] IN FEDERAL POLICY, THAT SORT OF THING. SO REALLY WE WANT TO BE AN ORGANIZATION THAT'S SORT OF ABLE TO CONTINUE TO ENDURE, REGARDLESS OF WHATEVER SORT OF EXTERNAL CHALLENGES OR, FRANKLY, INTERNAL CHALLENGES ARE POTENTIALLY COMING. SO WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO BE RESILIENT TO LEADERSHIP CHANGES. RESILIENT TO LIKE I SAY ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMIC CHANGES THOSE TYPES OF THINGS. OKAY I WAS I WAS THROWN OFF BY THE FIST. WE CAN WE CAN TAKE A LOOK AT THE FIST. THAT DOESN'T WORK FOR YOU. I WAS WONDERING IF THAT WAS LIKE HEY I'M SINKING AND I AM BECAUSE I'M NOT RESILIENT AGAINST SEA LEVEL RISE OR WHETHER THERE'S A DIFFERENT MEANING SO I APPRECIATE YOU FILLING ME IN ON THAT. YEAH RESILIENCY IN A VERY BROAD TERM. MEMBER CHANG DO YOU HAVE A CLARIFYING QUESTION? LET'S MOVE ON. THANK YOU. GREAT. SO WITH THAT, DO YOU ALL WANT TO? YEAH. PLEASE FEEL FREE. IF WE COULD GET HALF THE GROUP, WE CAN SPEND OVER A LITTLE BIT OF TIME ON THE DRAFT THEMES AND GOALS. HALF THE GROUP CAN COME OVER ON PRIORITIES. FOR THOSE OF YOU ON ZOOM, LIKE I SAID, I'M GOING TO KEEP THIS SLIDE UP. YOU CAN JUST GO ONTO THE WEBSITE AND PARTICIPATE ON THERE, AND THEN WE'LL COME BACK IN ABOUT TEN MINUTES. I'LL MENTION MAYBE IN ABOUT FIVE MINUTES OR SO, AND WE CAN DO A SWAP. AND PEACE COME. GO OVER THERE AND HAVE A DISCUSSION AROUND THE THEMES AND GOALS. DO YOU LIKE THEM? YOU CAN MARK ON THERE IF YOU LIKE THEM. IF YOU DON'T, THEN YOU MARK THEM. THERE'S A BOARD RIGHT OVER THERE IN THE CORNER. YOU CAN GO OVER THERE. YEP. I DID WANT TO EMPHASIZE PART OF THE GOAL HERE IS TO STIMULATE CONVERSATION. SO PLEASE HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH YOUR FELLOW COMMITTEE MEMBERS. HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH STAFF ABOUT,YOU KNOW, WHAT THESE GOALS MEAN OR WHAT THESE PRIORITIES ARE. AND, YEAH, CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION GOING. [01:28:04] AS YOU WRAP UP ON THE GOALS, FEEL FREE TO COME OVER AND RANK YOUR PRIORITIES, AND THEN WE'LL GET EVERYBODY BACK TOGETHER. ALL RIGHT, WE'RE GOING TO GET FOLKS BACK TOGETHER IN ABOUT FIVE MINUTES OR SO. SO IF YOU HAVEN'T GONE OVER HERE. [01:31:24] ALL RIGHT, LET'S GO AHEAD AND WIND IT UP AND START TO GET BACK SO WE HAVE SOME OPPORTUNITY FOR DISCUSSION BECAUSE I'M SURE PEOPLE HAVE COMMENTS, QUESTIONS. JUST TRYING TO GET PEOPLE BACK IN THEIR SEATS SO WE CAN CONTINUE ON. HEY, ELSA, SO WE'RE READY FOR PUBLIC COMMENTS ON THIS BEFORE WE GET TO PAC MEMBER? THERE ARE NO PUBLIC COMMENTS. NO PUBLIC COMMENTS. THANK YOU. HEY, FOLKS, IF WE COULD CIRCLE BACK SO WE HAVE TIME FOR QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS. WE ALSO HAVE SOME FOLKS FROM STAFF THAT HAVE REALLY EARLY FLIGHTS TOMORROW, SO PLEASE BE RESPECTFUL OF THAT. LINES AT THE AIRPORT NOW, RIGHT? EVERYONE'S IN. SEE? PEOPLE COMING AROUND. ALL RIGHT. SORRY, PAUL. DIDN'T MEAN TO SHOCK YOU THERE. MADAM CLERK, DO WE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FROM ONLINE MEMBERS BECAUSE THEY CANNOT SEE THE SCREEN? NO, WE DO NOT. DO WE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FROM THERE ARE NO QUESTIONS FROM ANYBODY IN HERE? QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS ON THE PROCESS? WE HAVE A QUESTION FROM MEMBER OPEN. THANK YOU. MEMBER. THANK YOU. SO I JUST WANTED TO CHECK BECAUSE I, UM, I BELIEVE THAT THE PARK DISTRICT IS TRYING TO SET UP LISTENING SESSIONS IN THE DIFFERENT WORDS AND, UM, AND I HAVE BEEN IN CONTACT WITH ERIC ABOUT TRYING TO SET SOMETHING UP AND CONQUER. SO I JUST WANT TO UNDERSTAND WHERE WE ARE IN THAT PROCESS AND IF HELP IS STILL NEEDED, BECAUSE I KNOW THAT THE PARK DISTRICT, I REALLY APPRECIATE HOW THEIR EFFORTS TO REALLY CONNECT WITH COMMUNITIES THAT AREN'T OFTEN PART OF THE CONVERSATION, LIKE OUR MONUMENT COMMUNITY IN CONCORD. SO JUST WANTED TO CHECK IN ON THE STATUS OF THAT. MEMBER OBRINGER, WE REALLY APPRECIATE THE QUESTION. SO OUR TEAM IS IN THE EARLY DAYS OF STILL GETTING THOSE EVENTS ON THE CALENDAR, IDENTIFYING LOCATIONS AND WORKING WITH OUR BOARD MEMBERS FOR THEIR. BEST STATES. SO FOR THE REST OF THE PARK ADVISORY COMMITTEE, OUR TEAM MEMBERS, ELSA AND THEN JESS, OUR LEGISLATIVE ASSISTANT WHO'S ACTING WITH FLOORS ON MATERNITY LEAVE, ARE STANDING UP EIGHT EVENTS ACROSS THE REGION FROM LOW SURVEY RESPONSE AREAS TO DO DEEP ENGAGEMENT IN COMMUNITY. THESE ARE GOING TO BE HAPPENING IN COMMUNITY CENTERS, AT LIBRARIES, IN CITY PARKS. [01:35:01] THEY'RE ACCESSIBLE BY TRANSIT. WE CAN CAPTURE SOME PASSERBYERS, ETC. THEY'LL BE TAKING PLACE ON SATURDAYS, EITHER EITHER FROM 10 TO NOON OR FROM ONE TO THREE. WITH LIGHT REFRESHMENTS AND THE PROGRAM WILL BE PRETTY SIMPLE WE'LL START WITH A WELCOME FROM OUR BOARD MEMBER A HIGH LEVEL OVERVIEW OF WHAT THE PARK DISTRICT DOES AND THEN IT WILL BECOME MORE OF A RESOURCE FAIR EVENT WHERE WE'LL HAVE TABLES ABOUT HOW TO GET A JOB AT THE PARK JUST WHAT OUR FIRE DEPARTMENT DOES WHAT THE DISTRICT PLAN DOES AND OTHER FUN INFORMATION FOR FOLKS AND WE'RE ALSO GOING TO HAVE SOME OF OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS TABLING UP THIS EVENT AS WELL SO WE'RE STILL IN THE EARLY DAYS OF PLANNING BUT AS THEY GET SCHEDULED AND ON THE CALENDAR WE'LL BE LETTING THE PAC MEMBERS KNOW BECAUSE WE'D LOVE TO HAVE YOU IN ATTENDANCE. AND I'LL JUST ADD, COMMITTEE MEMBER OBRINGER, THAT MONUMENT IMPACT IS ONE OF THE COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS THAT WE'VE CONTRACTED WITH TO ASSIST IN OUTREACH ON THIS. SO JUST SINCE YOU MENTIONED THE MONUMENT CORRIDOR THERE. MEMBER VASTO, THEN MEMBER SMITH. YEAH, THANK YOU. AS I WAS LOOKING AT THE DRAFT GOALS, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I WAS CURIOUS ABOUT IS PARTICULARLY WITH THE GOAL ABOUT OUR LANDS AND FACILITIES SHOULD BE WELL MAINTAINED AND SUPPORT HEALTHY AND INCLUSIVE COMMUNITIES. HOW, IT'S LIKE WHEN WE DO THESE LISTENING SESSIONS, LIKE THE TERM HEALTHY MEANS SO MANY DIFFERENT THINGS TO DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES. AND SO WHEN WE GET INTO ISSUES LIKE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE OR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH, LIKE WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN AS YOU GET MORE SPECIFICITY OUT OF THESE LISTENING SESSIONS THAT WOULD INFLUENCE HOW THE GOALS ARE REDRAW. LIKE, WHAT DOES THAT PROCESS LOOK LIKE? THAT'S A REALLY GOOD QUESTION, AND I DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE AN ANSWER FOR YOU ON THE FLY. I THINK, YEAH, YOU RAISE A GOOD POINT THAT THERE'S GOING TO BE THE DEFINITIONS AROUND TOPICS LIKE HEALTH WILL BE MORE DEFINED. WE'LL START TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THE COMMUNITY OF PARK DISTRICT USERS AND FOLKS WHO WISH TO INTERACT WITH THE PARK DISTRICT, HOW THEY DEFINE THAT. SO WE'LL BE ABLE TO TAILOR OUR GOALS MORE ON THAT, AND THEN REALLY THE NEXT STEP AS WE START TO DEVELOP THE PLAN, WE'LL BE ABLE TO HAVE SPECIFIC ACTION ITEMS AROUND THERE. IF WE ARE HEARING FROM CERTAIN COMMUNITIES THAT PART OF THEIR HEALTH RESPONSE IS THAT THEY LIKE TO SEE MORE PROGRAMMING IN THE PARKS, THAT CAN INFLUENCE OUR BUDGETING DECISIONS AROUND, WELL, WE NEED MORE. MONEY FOR PROGRAMS FOR HEALTH-RELATED TYPE OF PROGRAMMING. THAT'S HOW IT WILL SORT OF REFLECT INTO THE PLAN, OR THERE MIGHT BE FOLKS IN OTHER COMMUNITIES, YOU KNOW, HEALTH IS REALLY ABOUT, YOU KNOW, ACCESS TO TRAILS AND OPEN PARKS AND NOT NECESSARILY MORE ON PROGRAMMING TYPE OF THINGS. SO I'M HOPING WE'LL START TO GET TO THAT LEVEL OF SPECIFICITY, THAT WE'LL START TO UNDERSTAND SORT OF THE LEVEL OF AND HOW THOSE SORTS OF THINGS ARE DEFINED IN DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES, BECAUSE I THINK YOU'RE RIGHT, IT'S GOING TO BE VERY DIFFERENT DEPENDING ON WHERE YOU ARE IN THE DISTRICT. CERTAINLY. ON THE URBAN SHORELINE VERSUS SOME OF THESE COUNTY AREAS AND THAT'LL BE INTERESTING DATA TO REALLY KIND OF SEE MEMBER SMITH YEAH I'M JUST CURIOUS UM HOW THE DISABILITY COMMUNITY IS GOING TO BE REACHED YEAH THANK YOU FOR THAT COMMUNITY MEMBER SMITH UM I DID MENTION BORP EARLIER UM THEY ARE ONE OF OUR CONTRACTED UH COMMUNITY BENEFIT COMMUNITY UH COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS THAT SO UM AND WE WE HAD BONNIE. JOINED FROM BORP TO OUR KICKOFF MEETING LAST WEEK. SO THEY WILL BE LEADING SOME OF THE OUTREACH WITHIN THE DISABILITY COMMUNITY SPECIFICALLY. SO THERE'LL BE SOME, I DON'T EXACTLY KNOW WHICH EVENTS THEY'RE PLANNING BECAUSE THAT'S STILL IN THE PLANNING PHASE, BUT THEY WILL BE LEADING A LOT OF THAT FOR US. OKAY. YOU KNOW, BECAUSE THE DISABILITY COMMUNITY IS REALLY DIVERSE AND I LOVE BORP AND I ACTUALLY WORK FOR THEM. BUT THEY DON'T REALLY SERVE PEOPLE WHO ARE DEAF, PEOPLE WHO HAVE ARE ON THE SPECTRUM OR HAVE ANY KIND OF NEURODIVERSITY SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE REALLY DO A THOROUGH JOB OF REACHING ALL THE ASPECTS OF THE DISABILITY COMMUNITY. THAT'S A REALLY GREAT COMMENT THANK YOU. MEMBER PEEPLES. I HAD A QUESTION ABOUT THE DEALING WITH INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERS, I SAW ONLINE THAT THERE'S A WHOLE SERIES OF VIRTUAL DISCUSSIONS WITH VARIOUS GROUPS. ARE WE GOING TO BE ABLE TO SIT IN AND LISTEN TO THOSE? YEAH, SO THOSE MEETINGS THAT YOU SAW ONLINE, AND THANK YOU FOR MENTIONING IT. I'M GLAD SOMEBODY'S CHECKING OUR WEBSITE. THERE IS A WHOLE LIST, A LONG SERIES OF MEETINGS THERE. WE'RE KIND OF MAKING THOSE OPEN TO VARIOUS GROUPS, BUT THEN... THEN WE'RE MAKING THEM OPEN UP TO TO THE FULL PUBLIC UM SO SO ANYBODY CAN JOIN ANY OF THOSE MEETINGS SO YOU'RE ALL WELCOME TO JOIN ANY OF THOSE MEETINGS WHETHER THEY'RE IN YOUR WARD OR IN ANOTHER WARD UM AND UH AND [01:40:02] LIKE I SAID WE'VE BEEN ENCOURAGING UH FOLKS TO TO JOIN THOSE SO SO YES YOU CAN JOIN UM AND AS LISA MENTIONED THERE'S GOING TO BE OTHER A SERIES OF OTHER LISTENING SESSIONS AND THEN WE'VE ALSO JUST BEEN TRYING TO MAKE OURSELVES AVAILABLE IF THERE'S A GROUP HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO MAKE ANY OF THOSE MEETINGS OR, YOU KNOW, HAS WANT TO DO A DEEPER DIVE ON ANYTHING. WE'VE BEEN MAKING OURSELVES AVAILABLE TO DO THAT AS WELL. HOPEFULLY THERE'LL BE SOME KIND OF INFORMATION ABOUT HOW WE CAN JOIN THOSE VIRTUAL MEETINGS. YEAH, I MEAN, THERE IS INFORMATION ON THE WEBSITE THAT'S AVAILABLE, SO ANYBODY CAN GO THERE. IT LISTS THEM, BUT IT DOESN'T SAY HOW YOU WILL. WE'LL HAVE TO GO BACK AND CHECK, BUT I THINK THERE'S SORT OF A LINK THERE THAT YOU CAN CLICK. THE OTHER THING, THOUGH, AND I'LL JUST SAY, AND I'VE BEEN PUTTING THIS OUT ALL OVER THE PLACE, AND PEOPLE HAVE STARTED TAKING ME UP ON IT, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CONTACT ME. MY EMAIL IS B-H-O-L-T AT EBPARKS.ORG. AND IF YOU WANT TO ATTEND ANY OF THOSE, OR YOU CAN CONTACT ELSA OR LISA, WE'LL MAKE SURE THAT YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO ATTEND THOSE. MEMBER CLAXTON. ADDING TO DISABILITY VISION IMPAIRED YOU HADN'T HAD THE BOARD OR WHATEVER THEY ARE THOUGHT ABOUT CORRECT MEMBER MARCIA THANK YOU. I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT THE SENIOR COMMUNITY. DID YOU REACH OUT TO ANY SENIOR CENTERS OR 50 PLUS CLUBS TO GET THEM INVOLVED? I KNOW WE HAVE GROUPS HERE WHO DO TRAIL HIKES, GO KAYAKING. THEY DO A BUNCH OF DIFFERENT THINGS IN THE PARK. SO WONDERING HOW YOU'RE REACHING OUT TO OUR SENIORS. WELL, THE SENIORS WERE THE ONE GROUP THAT WE DID NOT HAVE DIFFICULTY IN HEARING FROM IN OUR ROUND ONE ENGAGEMENT. SO OVER 70% OF OUR RESPONSES, I THINK, I'M KIND OF LOOKING, WERE FROM PEOPLE 50 YEARS AND OLDER. NOT THAT THAT'S SENIOR. I DON'T WANT TO AGE MYSELF. BUT WE DID PUT MATERIALS IN SENIOR CENTERS. WE'VE MADE THAT STUFF AVAILABLE. AND THEN WE'VE ALSO BEEN REACHING OUT TO. OTHER SENIOR SERVICE SORT OF ORGANIZATIONS, THEY'VE BEEN INCLUDED IN OUR LIST. AND THERE IS AN ENGAGEMENT PLAN THAT'S ON THE WEBSITE. IT HAS A LIST OF CLOSE TO 200 OR SO ORGANIZATIONS ACROSS THE EAST BAY THAT WE'VE REACHED OUT AND INVITED TO THESE. SO WE HAVE ATTEMPTED TO REACH SORT OF THAT DEMOGRAPHIC AS WELL. WE HAVE HEARD FROM MANY OF THOSE FOLKS. WE'RE REALLY INTERESTED. I THINK WE'RE, WHERE WE NEED TO EXPAND OUTREACH IS YOUTH. WE HAVE NOT HEARD FROM A LOT OF YOUTH. AND THAT'S DEFINITELY AN AREA THAT WE NEED TO INCREASE OUR SORT OF RESPONSE RATE FROM. MEMBER IMOLA. THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION. KIND OF LOOKING THROUGH THE PRIORITIES REAL QUICK, YOU KNOW, I FELT LIKE I DIDN'T SEE MYSELF OR PEOPLE IN ANY OF THE LISTINGS. YOU KNOW, I THINK WE USE WORDS LIKE A GROUP. EQUITY, ACCESSIBILITY, PROGRAMMING, VISITOR FACILITIES, BUT THERE AREN'T PEOPLE ANYWHERE IN THE VERBIAGE OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT OF GETTING MORE VISITORS UP HERE. AND I THINK IT WOULD BE STRONG TO GET PEOPLE TO WANT TO INVEST IN THIS WHEN THEY CAN SEE THEMSELVES WITHIN KIND OF THE PRIORITIES. BECAUSE RIGHT NOW IT FEELS VERY LAND-BASED PRIORITY LEVEL. AND FOR ME, I THINK EAST BAY REGIONAL PARK DISTRICT HAS AN INCREDIBLE BANK OF LAND AND PARKS. AND SO I THINK THE A PRIORITY DEFINITELY SHOULD BE PEOPLE TO THOSE PARKS WHO MIGHT NOT BE THERE AND JUST KIND OF THINKING ABOUT HOW WE USE VERBAGE IN TERMS OF BASING THOSE. THANK YOU. THAT'S A REALLY GREAT COMMENT. THANK YOU. I WANT TO SECOND WHAT MEMBER OMOLO JUST SAID. I KNOW I JUST BRAGGED ABOUT OUR DISTRICT DIRECTOR FROM WARD ONE ABOUT GETTING FUNDS TO EXPAND OUR PARK. BUT THE REALITY IS I CARE. I, AS A PAC MEMBER, CARE WAY MORE ABOUT. EXPANDING ACCESS TO PEOPLE THAN ACTUAL LIKE EXPANDING OUR PARKS I MEAN I STILL CARE ABOUT THAT BUT THAT'S JUST LIKE WAY DOWN THERE VERSUS LIKE ACCESS TO LIKE PEOPLE WHO OTHERWISE WOULD NOT USE THE PARK LIKE THAT'S WAY UP THERE LIKE YOU JUST DESCRIBED LIKE THE CORE TENSION OF A LOT OF THE QUESTIONS THAT WE'RE TRYING TO DEAL WITH SO AGAIN THIS WAS A LOT OF THIS WAS TO SORT OF STIMULATE THIS TYPE OF CONVERSATION SO ABSOLUTELY APPRECIATE THAT AND APOLOGIZE FOR THE COMMENTARY BUT TO MY POINT, I JUST DIDN'T FELT LIKE IT WAS VERY CLEAR WHEN I WAS SPELLING THAT PART OUT. YEAH, THAT'S GREAT. I APPRECIATE THAT. ANY OTHER PAC MEMBER COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS? OKAY, WELL, THANK YOU SO MUCH. [01:45:02] OH, GOD, I MISSED THAT. THANK YOU, MEMBER CHANG. MEMBER VASTO. HI, I'M SORRY. I WAS JUST GOING TO MAKE A COMMENT ABOUT THE YOUTH ENGAGEMENT THAT SOME OF US DO HAVE, LIKE SCHOOL DISTRICT CONTACTS. I'D BE HAPPY TO GET THAT OUT. AND ALSO WANTED TO KNOW IF THE GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS TEAM WOULD BE SENDING OUT INFORMATION. LIKE IF THERE'S A... LIKE SOME KIND OF PRE PRE LIKE PREPPED MESSAGE THAT COULD GO OUT TO THE DIFFERENT YOUTH COMMISSIONS IN THE DISTRICT THAT EXISTS FOR THE DIFFERENT CITIES. I THINK THAT COULD BE A GOOD WAY TO ENGAGE YOUTH AS WELL. YEAH, THANK YOU. WHEN WE'VE BEEN MEETING WITH DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS, WE HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF A MEDIA PACK AND SORT OF TALKING POINTS AND THAT SORT OF STUFF THAT WE CAN SHARE. SO I CAN FOLLOW UP WITH LISA AND MAYBE WE CAN GET SOME INFORMATION OUT TO Y'ALL. LIKE I SAY, PART OF PART OF WHAT OUR STRATEGY IS RIGHT NOW IS SORT OF, YOU KNOW, TRAIN THE TRAINERS TYPE OF THING, YOU KNOW. LOOKING TO ALL Y'ALL TO, YOU KNOW, ANY SUGGESTIONS LIKE THAT, AND IF YOU COULD JUST HELP GET THE WORD OUT, WOULD BE GREAT. SO WE'RE KIND OF, YOU KNOW, MANY HANDS SORT OF STRATEGY HERE. VICE CHAIR MENDOZA. I JUST THOUGHT OF SOMETHING WHEN YOU SAID THAT THE YOUTH ARE THE ONES THAT ARE NOT AS ENGAGED IN THE PROCESS. AND BACK IN 2014, DR. NINA ROBERTS, THE LATE DR. NINA ROBERTS, HAD GIVEN 46 RECOMMENDATIONS FOR ENGAGING YOUTH. SO IF YOU LOOK INTO THE ARCHIVES FOR THAT, I THINK MANY OF THOSE THINGS WOULD STILL BE RELEVANT TODAY. I DIDN'T SEE TOO MUCH ADHERENCE TO THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS OVER MY SPAN AS A NATURALIST. AND SUPERVISING NATURALISTS, BUT I'M SEEING MORE OF THAT. INSTEAD OF DROPPING THINGS OFF BECAUSE THEY MIGHT BE DIFFICULT OR PROBLEMATIC, A PIVOT. I JUST WANT TO COMMEND YOU ALL, GOVERNMENT LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS AS WELL AS MANAGEMENT, ON PIVOTING FROM THE FIRST PHASE OF THE DISTRICT PLAN TO THE SECOND PHASE WITH THE METHODOLOGY OF THE SURVEY IN MIND AND HOW MUCH MORE EASIER IT IS TO USE AS WELL AS ENGAGING. SO MAYBE GOING ALONG THOSE LINES WITH THE YOUTH, MAYBE GIVING INCENTIVES AND LOOKING FOR THE COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS TO GIVE INCENTIVES TO THE YOUTH THAT PARTICIPATE IN THE PROGRAMS AND THEIR FAMILIES WOULD BE A WAY TO DO THAT. THANKS. AND I DO WANT TO MENTION THAT WE ARE PART OF WHAT WE'RE DOING IN TERMS OF TRYING TO ENGAGE WITH YOUTH IS ACTUALLY PARTNERING WITH OUR NR TEAM AND TRYING TO DO SOME FOCUSED SORT OF OUTREACH TO SOME OF THE YOUTH PROGRAMS THIS SUMMER. SO THAT WILL BE. THAT'LL BE PART OF THE STRATEGY AS WELL. SO INCORPORATE THAT. REALLY THANK EVERYBODY'S INPUT. LIKE I SAY, WE'RE HERE TO KIND OF STIMULATE THIS CONVERSATION. I KNOW IT'S A LITTLE CLUNKY TO TRY TO DO THIS IN SORT OF LIKE A BRIEFATED TIME AND IN THIS FORUM, BUT I APPRECIATE EVERYBODY'S FORBEARANCE AND SORT OF WORKING WITH US ON THIS. AND LIKE I SAY, EVERYBODY'S WELCOME TO REACH OUT TO ME OR ANY OF THE REST OF US, AND WE'RE KIND OF HERE FOR THE NEXT COUPLE MONTHS TO JUST, LIKE I SAY, HELP FACILITATE AND CONTINUE THIS CONVERSATION. I KNOW YOU ALL ARE HAVING YOUR SAME RELATED CONVERSATIONS ON MANY OF THESE SIMILAR ISSUES, SO WE'RE WATCHING AND WE'RE BRINGING IN ALL THE INPUT THAT YOU ALL HAVE, WHETHER IT'S A DISTRICT PLAN-FOCUSED CONVERSATION OR NOT. WE'RE INCORPORATING ALL OF THAT HERE, SO I APPRECIATE IT VERY MUCH. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR TAKING TIME TO JOIN US TONIGHT. OKAY, REPORT FROM CHAIR. A COUPLE THINGS. IF YOU ARE HERE IN PERSON, SITTING AT YOUR PLACE SETTING WAS A MEMO. IT CAME OUT IF YOU'RE ATTENDING REMOTELY, YOU GOT AN EMAIL FROM ELSA ON MARCH 10TH. EVERYBODY ON PARK ADVISOR COMMITTEE GOT IT. IF FOR SOME REASON YOU DIDN'T, IT MEANS YOU'RE NOT ON THE CLERK'S MAILING LIST. SO PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU SEE HER AFTER THIS MEETING. SO JUST TAKE A LOOK AT THAT REAL QUICK. WE TALKED ABOUT THIS AT THE LAST MEETING. IT'S A REMINDER THAT FOR THE NEXT MEETING ON APRIL 13TH THAT WE ARE, I SHOULD SAY, PARK DISTRICT IS REQUESTING FEEDBACK FROM THE PARK ADVISOR COMMITTEE. AND WE ARE CHARGED WITH GOING OUT AND GETTING FEEDBACK FROM OUR COMMUNITIES, CONSTITUENTS. SO JUST A REMINDER, THIS IS NOT A FORMAL PRESENTATION. THIS IS NOT SITTING AT A TABLE AND, YOU KNOW, ASKING PEOPLE TO COME UP. IT COULD BE AS INFORMAL AS JUST TALKING TO YOUR GROUP OF FRIENDS, FAMILY MEMBERS. IT COULD BE SENDING E-MAILS TO PEOPLE YOU KNOW. IT COULD BE A CONVERSATION WHEN YOU'RE OUT ON A TRAIL WOULD PROBABLY BE A REALLY GOOD THING AS YOU'RE TALKING TO PEOPLE OR JUST A CASUAL CONVERSATION AS YOU'RE AT A GROCERY STORE OR WHEREVER. THERE'S ALSO SPECIFIC EXAMPLES OF THE TYPE OF FEEDBACK THAT'S GOING TO BE REALLY HELPFUL AND USEFUL. SO AS MUCH AS YOU CAN, PLEASE TRY TO STICK WITH THAT WHERE YOU SEE SPECIFIC PLACE-BASED OBSERVATIONS. AND SO, AGAIN, TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS. YOU KNOW, THIS IS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY. WE'RE GETTING ASKED, I THINK, MORE OFTEN THAN WE HAVE BEEN IN THE PAST TO ACTUALLY PROVIDE OUR FEEDBACK. SO THIS IS A GREAT EXERCISE. LET'S MAKE SURE WE ALL TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT. AND GET FEEDBACK FROM THE COMMUNITIES THAT WE'RE ALL PART OF. ALL RIGHT? ANY QUESTIONS, CONCERNS, OR COMMENTS ON THAT? AND, AGAIN, IF FOR SOME REASON YOU DIDN'T GET THE EMAIL, THEN PLEASE CONTACT ELSA. [01:50:01] ELSA OR LISA, ANY OTHER COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS ON THIS? NO? OKAY. YES, MEMBER CLAXTON. SO TO BE CLEAR, WE'RE TO USE THOSE QUESTIONS THAT WERE PUT OUT TO US ABOUT VEGETATION MANAGEMENT? YES. TO GUIDE OUR CONVERSATION? THERE'S THREE QUESTIONS, YEP. YEAH. OKAY, GOOD. PERFECT. THANK YOU. ANYTHING ELSE? VICE CHAIR MENDOZA. I WANT TO APPRECIATE THIS FORMAT, AND OFTENTIMES WE'LL GET A PRESENTATION AND WE WON'T HEAR ABOUT A TOPIC FOR ANOTHER TWO OR THREE YEARS, BUT HAVING THIS FOLLOW-UP IS REALLY GOOD, SO I APPRECIATE THAT. AND THANKS AGAIN FOR THE MEETING. YOU GUYS MAY RECALL INITIALLY WE WERE NOT EVEN GOING TO MEET IN MARCH, AND BASED ON FEEDBACK WE PROVIDED TO GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS, TO ERIC, TO LISA, TO ELSA, WE GOT THIS MEETING TONIGHT, AND IT'S BEEN A PRETTY IMPACTFUL MEETING. SO, AGAIN, THANK YOU, GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS, FOR LISTENING TO US. WE REALLY APPRECIATE IT. NEXT UP, I'M GOING TO ASK MEMBER VALENZUELA, WHO CHAIRS THE FINANCE COMMITTEE, TO GIVE A REPORT ON THAT. BEFORE I START THAT, WITH BRUCE'S TALKING ABOUT US GOING OUT IN FRONT OF THE PUBLIC, I TABLED AN EVENT AT THE BRENTWOOD FARMERS MARKET, AND I ASKED THOSE THREE QUESTIONS AND WAS JUST OPEN TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT THE PUBLIC HAD. WE WERE IN FRONT OF OVER 400 PEOPLE. SO THAT'S THE TYPE OF THING THAT, YOU KNOW, I HAD MY BADGE ON. I ACTUALLY MET SOME FORMER PAC MEMBERS THERE THAT WERE SHOPPING. SO THAT WAS A PRETTY NEAT THING TO DO. BUT, YEAH, A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE A LOT OF THINGS TO SAY, AND 99% OF IT WAS POSITIVE. SO IT'S PRETTY NEAT. EVENT, WHEREVER YOU ARE, JUST BE OPEN TO TALK ABOUT THE PARK DISTRICT. AND ONCE YOU GET THEM STARTED, THEY WILL GO WHERE THEY WANT TO GO WITH THE CONVERSATION. OH, AND SORRY, MEMBER VALENZUELA, TO INTERRUPT. I FORGOT TO MENTION ONE THING, TOO. IT WAS BROUGHT UP AT THE LAST MEETING. AS MUCH AS YOU CAN, I KNOW PEOPLE CAN'T ALWAYS ATTEND IN PERSON, BUT IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT IF YOU CAN TO ATTEND THE APRIL MEETING IN PERSON AND PROVIDE THE FEEDBACK, BECAUSE DUE TO THE BROWN ACT, WE CAN'T HAVE THE SAME TYPE OF BREAKOUTS. AND THE REMOTE ATTENDEES, BECAUSE PEOPLE WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO SEE YOUR CAMERA ON YOU AT THE WHOLE TIME. SO, AGAIN, I KNOW PEOPLE CAN'T ALWAYS MAKE IT HERE, BUT IF YOU CAN, PLEASE BE HERE, BECAUSE THAT WILL ENHANCE YOUR EXPERIENCE IN THE BREAKOUTS. AND WITH THAT, BACK TO YOU, MEMBER VALENZUELA. OKAY, SO ON MARCH 20TH, WE HAD A PAC FINANCE COMMITTEE MEETING. SO WE HELD A ZOOM MEETING AT 12 P.M. AND OUR TOPICS INCLUDED WHAT THE PAC... FINANCE COMMITTEE WAS GOING TO THE OVERSIGHT AND TO REVIEW THE TAX MEASURES THAT WE WERE GOING TO OVERSIGHT. SO THE AND WE ALSO WERE GOING TO REVIEW WHAT THE PLAN FOR THE REST OF THE YEAR IS FOR THE PEC FINANCE COMMITTEE AND SO IT WAS A VERY WELL ATTENDED MEETING. I THINK WE HAVE EIGHT MEMBERS OF OUR BOARD HERE THAT ARE ON THAT COMMITTEE AND SO WE HAD A PRESENTATION FROM STAFF ABOUT THE FOUR TAX MEASURES, BOTH THE BOND AND THE PARCEL TAX MEASURES, AND WE TALKED ABOUT WHAT EACH MEASURE WAS FOR AND THE BRIEF HISTORY OF THAT MEASURE AND THE PROMISE OF OTHER INFORMATIONAL FORMS AND PROJECTS DOWN THE ROAD THAT WILL GIVE US MORE INFORMATION TO OVERSIGHT. AND THAT'S WHAT THE ORIGINAL GOAL OF THAT COMMITTEE WAS, WAS TO OVERSIGHT THE BOND MEASURES, THE TAX MEASURES. TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE SPENDING THE MONEY IN ACCORDANCE TO WHAT THE BOND MEASURES AND THE TAX MEASURES WERE. SO IT WAS A LOT OF GOOD INFORMATION CAME OUT OF THIS, MOSTLY INFORMATIONAL MEASURES ABOUT THE ONGOING FINANCE COMMITTEE MEETINGS AND HOW WE WERE GOING TO BE ABLE TO OVERSIGHT ALL THESE MEASURES. WE HAD ALSO THE, WE HAD. A DISCUSSION ON WHAT THAT ACTUAL OVERSIGHT WAS. SO WE HAD A LIST OF MEASURES THAT WE WERE, THAT ONE OF THE SAP MEMBERS WERE TALKING ABOUT HOW WE'RE TO ENSURE FUNDS THAT ARE SPENT IN CONSISTENT WITH THE BALLOT MEASURE AND HOW ANNUAL ALLOCATIONS AND EXPENDITURE REPORTS, AND SO WE CAN ACTUALLY SEE HOW ALL THOSE REPORTS ARE, TO MONITOR COMPLIANCE WITH THE BALLOT MEASURE LANGUAGE, SUPPORT TRANSPARENCY AND THE PUBLIC. ACCOUNTABILITY FOR REVIEWING THE FUNDS THROUGH DIFFERENT AUDITS AND REPORTS AND ONE OF THAT IS JUST SO THAT WE CAN SEE THESE FIGURES EARLIER IN THE YEAR LIKE LAST YEAR WE SAW A LOT OF THESE REPORTS AT THE END OF THE YEAR A LOT OF THOSE BECAUSE OF DIFFERENT FOR DIFFERENT REASONS BUT IT'S IN THE PROCESS FOR US TO SEE ALL THESE REPORTS MUCH EARLIER IN THE YEAR AND TO TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE IN AN OVERSIGHT ROLE AND WE'RE NOT WE'RE NOT IN A A POLICYMAKING ROLE [01:55:01] OF HOW THE MONEY IS SPENT. WE'RE IN AN OVERSIGHT ROLE TO SEE HOW THE MONEY IS SPENT TO MAKE SURE THAT IT'S IN THE VISION OF WHAT WE TOLD THE PUBLIC, HOW WE WERE GOING TO SPEND THAT MONEY. SOME OF THE QUESTIONS WE HAD WERE ABOUT HOW DETAILED THE FUTURE REPORTS WERE GOING TO BE, AND WE GOT FROM STAFF THAT THE WW FUNDS, WHICH WE HAD LOTS OF HEATED DISCUSSION ABOUT OVER DIFFERENT MEETINGS, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE. VERY DETAILED REPORT OF HOW THE MONEY WAS SPENT, WHERE THE MONEY WAS SPENT, WHERE FUTURE MONIES ARE GOING TO BE SPENT WITH THAT MEASURE, AND ALSO ABOUT HOW THE OVERSIGHT ROLES FOR OUR BOARD, FOR OUR FINANCE COMMITTEE WILL GO FORWARD. BUT IT WAS A VERY POSITIVE MEETING, FIRST MEETING UNDER THE NEW FORMAT. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE MEETING, SUPPLY THE QUESTIONS BEFORE THE NEXT. FINANCE MEETING AND I IF I'M RIGHT IF I HEARD RIGHT THAT YOU'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO ZOOM IN IN THE MEETING, BUT NOT PARTICIPATE IN THE MEETING. IS THAT RIGHT, LISA? THAT'S CORRECT. SO THESE MEETINGS WILL BE SET UP AS WEBINARS, SO ALL PAC MEMBERS WILL RECEIVE THE WEBINAR LINK, BUT ONLY THOSE WHO ARE MEMBERS OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE WILL BE LET INTO THE ROOM FOR THE CONVERSATION, JUST SO FOR MANAGING FOR BROWN ACT PURPOSES. BUT IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, GET THE QUESTIONS TO US, AND WE'LL SEE IF WE CAN GET THOSE QUESTIONS INTO THE MEETING. SO, YEAH, VERY POSITIVE. SO THAT WE CAN SEE WHERE... WHERE OUR OVERSIGHT NEEDS TO BE FOR THE FUTURE AND VERY GOOD PARTICIPATION IN THIS LAST MEETING. ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT? YES. IT WOULD BENEFIT ALL OF US TO KNOW WHO ARE ON THE FINANCE COMMITTEE, JUST TO COMMEND YOU. IF YOU ARE ON THE FINANCE COMMITTEE, WOULD YOU RAISE YOUR HAND? THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH. OKAY, THANK YOU. THANK YOU. YES, I CAN. [Announcements] ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU, MEMBER VALENZUELA. THANK YOU. SO MOVING ON, ANY ANNOUNCEMENTS? VICE CHAIR MENDOZA. I WANT TO MAKE YOU ALL AWARE OF SOMETHING YOU ALREADY MIGHT HAVE GOTTEN FROM EAST BAY PARKS. IT'S WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH PROGRAM HAPPENING ON FRIDAY IN MY NECK OF THE WOODS IN GUERIN PARK. AND, YOU KNOW, IT'S WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH, OBVIOUSLY, BUT MANY PEOPLE DON'T KNOW THE HISTORY OF GUERIN AND DRY CREEK PIONEER PARK AND HOW THEIR THREE SISTERS, THE MEYER SISTERS, ALONG WITH THEIR FATHER, HELPED TO KEEP... THE 580 FREEWAY FROM BEING BUILT ON GARIN, AND THEY DONATED THEIR LAND TO THE EAST BAY REGIONAL PARKS, MAKING GARIN DRY CREEK PIONEER PARK. SO THEY HAVE MYERS COTTAGE OVER THERE AND ALL THAT. THAT'S THE REASON WHY IT'S THERE. IT'S ON FRIDAY, THIS COMING FRIDAY, I BELIEVE FROM 2 TO AND ULI, OUR FORMER CLERK, IS THE ONE WHO'S ORGANIZING IT. ULI PADMORE, IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS. THANK YOU. MEMBER VALENZUELA. YEAH, I WOULD JUST LIKE TO MENTION ALL THE ABILITIES TODAY THAT WE HAD OVER A BIG BREAK. IT WENT EXTREMELY WELL. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ALWAYS REACHING PART OF THE PUBLIC THAT WE DON'T NORMALLY OR HAVEN'T REACHED. BUT WE HAD DIFFERENT REPORTS OF HOW MANY THAT WE HAD, BUT THAT THE LOWEST REPORT IS LIKE 1,200 TO 1,300, AND THE HIGHEST REPORTED IS 1,800 PEOPLE FOR A THREE-HOUR PROGRAM. ON A TUESDAY. SO THE NEED IS DEFINITELY THERE FOR PROGRAMS LIKE THIS OR PROGRAMS THAT REACH PEOPLE THAT WE HAVEN'T REACHED YET. ARDWOOD'S GOING TO HAVE THEIRS ON MAY 13TH. SO IF YOU HAVE ANYBODY THAT WOULD LIKE TO ATTEND PROGRAMS LIKE THESE, LET THEM KNOW ABOUT THAT. OUR NEXT ONE AT BIG BREAK IS IN OCTOBER. BUT YEAH, I MEAN, FOR US TO SEE THAT MANY PEOPLE ENJOYING BIG BREAK. AND LIKE I SAID, ALL ABILITIES WERE THERE. IT WAS NEAT TO SEE EVERYBODY ENJOYING THE DAY. SO THANK YOU TO EVERYBODY IN THE PARK DISTRICT THAT HELPED WITH THAT PROGRAM, AND IT WAS A VERY NICE PROGRAM. THANK YOU. MAY 13TH ON A WEDNESDAY. MEMBER MARSH, OR I'M SORRY, MEMBER MAHANAMAN, WAS THAT A QUESTION ON THIS OR DO YOU HAVE AN ANNOUNCEMENT? RIGHT AFTER MEMBER MARSH. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. JUST A COUPLE OF THINGS. I WENT TO A SIERRA CLUB MEETING AND SOME OF THE MEMBERS THERE, THEY WERE ASKING ABOUT THE LIGHTS AT BIG [02:00:01] BREAK. THEY WANTED TO KNOW HOW DO WE TURN THE LIGHTS OFF IN THE EVENING BECAUSE THE NIGHT OWLS OR BATS WON'T COME OUT BECAUSE THE LIGHTS ARE THERE. AND THE PARK IS CLOSED SO THEY DON'T SEE THE USE OF THE LIGHTS BEING ON. SO IT WAS REQUESTED THAT I FIND OUT HOW THE LIGHTS CAN BE TURNED OFF SO THAT THE NIGHT HABITATS CAN ACTUALLY BE OUT AND DO WHAT THEY DO AT NIGHT IN BIG BREAK. ALSO, THIS. SCHOOLS HAVE ASKED ME, THERE IS A TRAIL BETWEEN LOVERIDGE AND HARBOR AND PITTSBURGH THAT WE CUT THE GRASSES EARLIER THIS YEAR BEFORE THEY GROW TALLER THAN THE STUDENTS. AND HOW DO THEY GET ON A REGULAR, YOU KNOW, MAINTENANCE LIST TO MAKE SURE IT'S MAINTAINED WITHOUT A CALL IN OR A REQUEST? UM SO I'M NOT SURE HOW WE GO ABOUT DOING EITHER OF THOSE TWO THINGS OKAY THANK YOU UM I ASSUME FROM THE CLERK IT'S GOING TO BE CAPTURED IN THE MINUTES AND WE'LL GET FORWARDED TO THE APPROPRIATE PERSON IN THE PARK DISTRICT REMEMBER MAHARAVAN THANK YOU UH I JUST WANT TO MAKE EVERYBODY AWARE THAT I SERVE ON THE A WOOD AREA RECREATION PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION BOARD AND WE ARE CONSIDERING, THE PARK DISTRICT IS CONSIDERING EXTENDING THE PARTIAL TAX MEASURE, WHICH IS CURRENTLY FUNDING VARIETY PROGRAMS. WE'VE ALREADY DONE A LOT OF THEM. SO THAT WILL BE ON THE BALLOT THIS NOVEMBER IF IT GETS APPROVED BY THE DISTRICT. SO JUST TO MAKE PEOPLE. AND JUST A POINT OF CLARITY, THAT'S THE HAYWARD AREA RECREATION AND PARK DISTRICT HARD BALLOT MEASURE? YES. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. ANY OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS? OKAY, SEEING NONE, THE MEETING OF MARCH 23, 2026 IS NOW ADJOURNED AT 6.02 P.M. THE NEXT REGULAR PARK ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING WILL TAKE PLACE ON APRIL 13, 2026 AT 4 P.M. THANK YOU AND GOOD NIGHT. * This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.