[00:00:11] THANK YOU. I'LL NOW TAKE ROLL. DIRECTOR COFFEY. [Roll Call] HERE. DIRECTOR WAESPI. HERE. CHAIR ESPAÑA. HERE. ALL MEMBERS ARE PRESENT. ALL RIGHT. ITEM NUMBER TWO, APPROVAL OF MINUTES. APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES FOR THE BOARD LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE MEETING. [Approval of Minutes] MARCH 18TH, 2026. MOVE APPROVAL. SECOND. ALL RIGHT. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. NO? ABSTAIN. I WAS ABSENT THAT DAY. OKAY. THREE, ARE THERE ANY PUBLIC COMMENTS ON ITEMS? NOT ON THE AGENDA. SO WE'LL NOW OPEN THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD. AND THIS IS A TIME WHEN MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC MAY ADDRESS THE COMMITTEE ON MATTERS THAT ARE NOT LISTED ON TODAY'S AGENDA. MADAME CLERK, PLEASE READ THE PUBLIC COMMENT ANNOUNCEMENT. THERE IS NO PUBLIC COMMENT TODAY. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. WE WILL NOW MOVE TO FOUR, ACTION ITEMS. A, RECOMMENDATIONS TO SUPPORT STATE LEGISLATION. [Action Items] AND HERE TO INTRODUCE THE ITEM IS ERICH PFUEHLER, DIVISION LEAD OF GOVERNMENT AND LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS. THANK YOU. AND THANK YOU FOR THE INTRODUCTION. AND I PROMISE THIS MEETING I'M NOT THE ONLY PERSON TALKING. SO THERE WILL BE SOME OTHER INPUT. SO WE HAVE A VERY SHORT LIST. IT GOT EVEN SHORTER SINCE THE PACKET WAS PRESENTED TO THE BOARD. THE FIRST BILL IS STILL ACTIVE AND IT ESSENTIALLY, IT'S. FIRST OF ALL, I SHOULD MENTION IT'S CO-SPONSORED BY SENATOR ARAGON IN OUR AREA IN THE SENATE, BUT IT MANDATES THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION ESTABLISHED BEST PRACTICES FOR OUTDOOR LEARNING. AND IT ALSO AUTHORIZES THEM TO SUPPORT COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS IN OUTDOOR LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND WORKING WITH PROGRAMMERS LIKE THE PARK DISTRICT. SO IT WOULD POTENTIALLY PROVIDE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE DISTRICT TO EXPAND SOME OF ITS OUTDOOR LEARNING, AND THE LEGISLATION ALSO DOES ESTABLISH SIX PILOT PROGRAMS THROUGHOUT THE STATE. SO POTENTIALLY, IF THIS WERE ENACTED, WE COULD WE COULD COMPETE FOR ONE OF THOSE PILOT PROGRAMS. AND I, JUST TO SAY A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT OUR APPROACH TO OUTDOOR LEARNING AS PROMISED, ANOTHER VOICE CAN ENTER THE ROOM. JESS, IF YOU WOULD SPEAK JUST A LITTLE BIT TO THAT. SURE. JESSICA CAUSER, ACTING LEGISLATIVE ASSISTANT WITH GOVERNMENT AND LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS. AND SO THE PARK DISTRICT DOES A LOT OF PROGRAMING WITH SCHOOL GROUPS. WE SERVE THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF SCHOOL KIDS EVERY YEAR AND TEACHERS, SO ENCOURAGING OUTDOOR LEARNING THROUGH THIS LEGISLATION, THE PARK DISTRICT IS REALLY, REALLY WELL POSITIONED TO BE ABLE TO SUPPORT THAT. ALL OF THE SCHOOL PROGRAMS ACROSS OUR DIFFERENT PARKS AND OUR VISITOR CENTERS ARE, YOU KNOW, EACH VISITOR CENTER HAS SEVERAL DIFFERENT SCHOOL PROGRAMS THAT WE OFFER. OUR RECREATION DEPARTMENT RUNS DIFFERENT PARTNERSHIP PROGRAMS FOCUSED ON COMMUNITIES FACING BARRIERS TO OUTDOOR RECREATION. AND WE OFFER WEEK LONG DAY CAMPS FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AGE KIDS. SO ALL OF THE WAYS THAT THE INTERPRETATION AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT ARE ALREADY CONTRIBUTING TO THE OUTDOOR LEARNING FOR ALL OF THESE SCHOOL GROUPS WOULD BE A REALLY KIND OF REALLY GREAT NEXUS WITH WHAT THE WORK THAT THIS LEGISLATION IS TRYING TO DO. THANK YOU. AND I SHOULD HAVE MENTIONED BEFORE THAT THAT ACTUALLY, THIS LEGISLATION WAS BROUGHT TO OUR TEAM'S ATTENTION BY THE I&R DEPARTMENT AND SANDI FUNKE. SO, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE WE HAVE THIS REALLY WONDERFUL PROGRAM OUT AT BIG BREAK, WHERE THE NATURALISTS PROVIDE A FACILITY AND PROGRAMING FOR HOMESCHOOL KIDS. AND I THOUGHT THAT WAS VERY INNOVATIVE ON, ON WYATT'S PART, BASICALLY TO COME UP WITH THAT IDEA. AND I'M JUST REALLY PROUD OF IT BECAUSE IT'S VERY POPULAR. GREAT. SECOND BILL IS, DEALS WITH ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION AND IT ESSENTIALLY BROADENS WHAT IS CONSIDERED TO BE THE SAFE ROUTE TO TRANSIT IN MORE FORMALLY RECOGNIZES THAT AS A GOAL OF THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION OR CALIFORNIA TRANSPORTATION [00:05:05] COMMISSION, AND IT INCLUDES ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION. SO OBVIOUSLY, THE IDEA IS TO USE BIKING AND OTHER MOBILITY DEVICES TO GET BACK AND FORTH TO TRANSIT. AND IT ALSO, THIS LEGISLATION ALSO SUPPORTS INFRASTRUCTURE FOR CITIES AND COUNTIES TO EXPAND THEIR SAFETY GREEN LANES AND OTHER OTHER INFRASTRUCTURE THAT WILL PROTECT OR REDUCE FATALITIES FROM E-BIKES AND OTHER MOBILITY DEVICES ON THE STREET. THE BILL WAS BROUGHT TO OUR ATTENTION BY BIKE EAST BAY. THEY SUPPORT IT. AND SO WE'RE BRINGING IT TO YOU. IT'S CONTINUING TO ADVANCE US IN THE SENATE NOW. AND THEN THE LAST BILL THAT'S IN YOUR PACKET HAS ACTUALLY BEEN GUTTED AND AMENDED. IT NOW DEALS WITH SPATIAL PLANNING AND CLIMATE CHANGE. I WOULD RECOMMEND WE REMOVE THIS FROM THE BILLS AND RECOMMENDATION. WE'LL TAKE A DEEPER LOOK AT WHAT THE BILL'S BEEN CHANGED TO, BUT IT REALLY ISN'T GERMANE TO ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION ANYMORE. AND THAT IS THE LIST OF OUR STATE BILLS FOR THIS MEETING. ALL RIGHT. ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS OR CLARIFICATIONS FROM OUR BOARD MEMBERS? YEAH. ERICH, YOU HAD MENTIONED ON THE AB 2158 ABOUT THE SCHOOLS AND OUTDOOR LEARNING THAT THEY HAD IDENTIFIED SIX PILOT PROGRAMS. WAS IT IDENTIFIED GEOGRAPHICALLY OR WERE WE, DID THEY POINT US OUT AND SAY? IT WOULD NOT SURPRISE ME IF THAT IS THE WAY IT LANDS CURRENTLY IN THE LEGISLATION ITSELF. IT DOESN'T SPECIFY. IT JUST SAYS SIX. AND NOT BY GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. NO. OKAY. SO I'M WONDERING IF WE WOULD SHOULD WE PITCH IT AT SOME LEVEL? POTENTIALLY. I MEAN, I THINK DEPENDING UPON WHAT OUR I&R TEAM HAS CAPACITY FOR, I DO THINK IT'S A POTENTIAL. GREAT. I DID HAVE ONE QUESTION ABOUT AB 2168. AND COULD YOU EXPLAIN A LITTLE BIT WHAT THEY MEAN BY INFILL OPPORTUNITY AREAS? WOULD THAT BE WOULD THAT APPLY TO SOME OF OUR COASTAL AREAS LIKE OYSTER BAY? I'M NOT SURE ABOUT THAT. I THINK WHAT IT'S MORE GETTING AT IS PROMOTING INFILL DEVELOPMENT AND MAKING SURE THAT THOSE DEVELOPMENTS HAVE AN ABILITY TO BIKE OR HIKE OR WALK TO TRANSIT CLOSE BY. I DON'T REMEMBER THE EXACT DEFINITION IN THE BILL, BUT I THINK HER APPROACH IS REALLY TRYING TO ENCOURAGE MORE INFILL HOUSING DEVELOPMENT AND ALSO MAKING SURE THAT THERE IS ACCESS TO TRANSIT AS THOSE DEVELOPMENTS ARE CONSTRUCTED. OKAY. SO THE INFILL WOULD MEAN, JUST LIKE IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE, LIKE AREAS WHERE THEY'RE ADDING NEW HOUSING AND MAKING SURE THAT HOUSING IS CONNECTED RATHER THAN DIFFERENT AREAS THAT LIKE WE'RE. YEAH, IT'S EXISTING URBANIZED AREAS. OKAY. YEAH. THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR THE CLARIFICATION. OKAY. WE WILL NOW OPEN PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS ITEM. MADAM CLERK, PLEASE REPORT THE NUMBER OF SPEAKERS. THERE IS NO PUBLIC COMMENT. OKAY. THANK YOU. BOARD MEMBER COMMENTS. ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS? THANK YOU. OKAY, GREAT. DO WE HAVE A MOTION? SO MOVED. WITH THE EXCEPTION OF 1423. RIGHT. OKAY. SECOND. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. SO WE HAVE AS FAR AS FIRST DENNIS AND SECOND. I'M SORRY, DIRECTOR WAESPI AND THEN DIRECTOR COFFEY, SECOND BY DIRECTOR COFFEY. OKAY. SO. WE GOT TO VOTE YES. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE AYE AYE. IT'S UNANIMOUS. OKAY. IT'S UNANIMOUS. ALL RIGHT. SO NEXT WE'RE MOVING ON TO 4.B, RECOMMENDATIONS TO SUPPORT FEDERAL LEGISLATION. AND HERE TO INTRODUCE THE ITEM IS DIVISION LEAD OF GOVERNMENT AND LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS. ERICH PFUEHLER. [00:10:04] THANK YOU. THIS IS ALSO A RELATIVELY SHORT LIST. FIRST BILL WOULD ESTABLISH THE NATIONAL WILDLIFE CORRIDOR SYSTEM AND THIS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PARK DISTRICT, INCLUDES MAPPING AND DATA COLLECTION TO BETTER DETERMINE WHERE SOME OF THESE CORRIDORS EXIST AND WHERE THEY INTERSECT WITH TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE. AND THAT WOULD ALSO BE SOMETHING OF UTILITY TO THE DISTRICT. TO UNDERSTAND WHEN LOOKING AT EITHER THE EAST BAY HILLS CONSERVATION PROGRAM IN THE CORRIDOR THERE, AND ALSO THE DIABLO RANGE CORRIDOR, PARTICULARLY WITH CONNECTIONS OVER INTERSTATE 580. THE BILL ALSO ESTABLISHES A $75 MILLION ANNUAL GRANT PROGRAM IN LOCAL AGENCIES. LOCAL GOVERNMENTS ARE ELIGIBLE TO APPLY, SO SHOULD WE IDENTIFY A PROJECT IN THE MAPPING AND THE DATA COLLECTION IN THIS LEGISLATION COULD ACTUALLY HELP INFORM PRIORITIZATION OF PROJECTS, WE WOULD BE IN A GOOD POSITION TO APPLY FOR THE GRANT PROGRAM. THIS BILL IS A DIRECT SET ASIDE OF 5% OF THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION'S BUDGET FOR ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION. THAT IS NOT A CURRENTLY CODIFIED PERCENTAGE OR EVEN A GUARANTEE NECESSARILY, THAT ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION WILL BE FUNDED BY THE FEDERAL SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BILL. IT HAS BEEN IN THE LAST PROBABLY 30 YEARS, BUT IT IS AT THE DISCRETION OF THE AUTHORIZERS FOR THAT BILL. THIS WOULD MAKE IT PERMANENTLY CODIFIED. AND THEN IT ALSO JUST WANTED TO SUGGEST THAT IN TERMS OF THE SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BILL, IT IS MOVING FORWARD AND IT DOES INCLUDE THE SAFE STREETS FOR ALL ISSUE THAT THE PARK DISTRICT SUPPORTED, WHICH IS MORE FUNDING FOR SAFE STREET CROSSINGS. SO LIKE GAPS WHERE THE IRON HORSE TRAIL CROSS OVER SOME MAJOR ROADS, OTHER, OTHER OF OUR TRAILS. THIS WOULD PROVIDE A GRANT PROGRAM THAT WAS ORIGINALLY ESTABLISHED IN THE INFLATION REDUCTION ACT AND HAS NOW ADVANCED AT LEAST THROUGH THE HOUSE IN THE CURRENT UPDATE OF THE SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BILL. THIS LEGISLATION REALLY AIMS AT MAKING SURE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE HISTORY AND DOCUMENTATION IS ACCURATE. AND IT SEEKS TO PROVIDE LIMITS ON WHAT CAN BE REMOVED OR AMENDED UNLESS THERE'S A REASONABLE, CREDIBLE REASON TO DO SO. IT'S ALSO RETROACTIVE TO JANUARY 2025. SO ANY OF THE ACTIONS THAT HAVE TAKEN PLACE SINCE THEN WOULD BE EVERYTHING WOULD BE RESTORED BACK TO TO WHERE IT WAS. PARTICULARLY OF SIGNIFICANCE FOR THE PARK DISTRICT IS THE PORT CHICAGO NAVAL MAGAZINE MEMORIAL AND REALLY HONORING THE HISTORY OF THAT, THAT SITE. AND ALSO WHEN WE ULTIMATELY HAVE OUR OWN SITE FOR SHARING THE HISTORY THAT WE'D BE ABLE TO DO THAT IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE. AND THEN THE LAST BILL BASICALLY CHARGES THE VA DIRECTOR OR SECRETARY TO ESTABLISH A GRANT PROGRAM AIMED AT VETERANS AND OUTDOOR REHABILITATION. THERE'S BEEN SOME SIGNIFICANT FINDING THAT THAT TYPE OF PROGRAMING CAN REALLY HELP VETERANS RECOVER FROM SOME OF THEIR SOME OF THE CHALLENGES THAT THEY'VE INCURRED BY BEING IN WAR. AND THE FUNDING WOULD GO FROM THE FEDERAL VA TO THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS ADMINISTRATION, AND THEN CALVET CAN PARTNER WITH COMMUNITY BENEFIT ORGANIZATIONS THAT, AGAIN, COULD PARTNER WITH THE PARK DISTRICT TO PROVIDE MORE OF THIS PROGRAMING. AND MY UNDERSTANDING IS WE DO PROVIDE SOME PROGRAMING. I CAN'T REMEMBER WHICH PARK IT WAS. AT DEL VALLE. THAT'S GEARED TOWARD VETERAN REHABILITATION. SO THIS WOULD JUST STRENGTHEN THAT. AND I DID WANT TO MENTION BECAUSE THE AUTHOR IS A REPUBLICAN FROM NORTH DAKOTA. THIS IS A VERY BIPARTISAN BILL SPONSORED BY A SENATOR FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE. SENATOR HANSON AND SENATOR SLOTKIN FROM MICHIGAN, BOTH VETERANS AND BOTH BOTH DEMOCRATS. SO RECOMMENDING WE SUPPORT ALL FOUR OF THESE BILLS AND HAPPY TO TAKE ANY QUESTIONS. ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS OR REQUESTS FOR CLARIFICATIONS FROM THE BOARD? ALL RIGHT. WE WOULD WE WILL NOW OPEN PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS ITEM. MADAM CLERK, PLEASE REPORT THE NUMBER OF SPEAKERS. THERE IS NO PUBLIC COMMENT. OKAY. ARE THERE ANY COMMENTS OR ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS FROM BOARD MEMBERS OR A MOTION TO APPROVE THE RECOMMENDATION? [00:15:04] I'LL MOVE APPROVAL. SECOND. ALL RIGHT. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. ALL OPPOSED? OKAY. IT HAS, IT'S UNANIMOUS IN APPROVAL. OKAY. SO WE'RE GOING TO MOVE TO 4.B. SORRY. WE'RE GOING TO MOVE TO [Informational Items] 05, INFORMATIONAL ITEMS. A, SO INFORMATIONAL UPDATE ON WINTER 2026 SCIENTIFIC VOTER SURVEY. ERICH PFUEHLER DIVISION LEAD FOR GOVERNMENT AND LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS. JUST SIMPLY HERE TO INTRODUCE THE ITEM. I DID WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE BOARD'S INPUT AND THE EXECUTIVE TEAM, EXECUTIVE TEAM'S INPUT AND PROVIDING A ROADMAP FOR OUR TEAM TO WORK WITH FM3 ON SOME OF THE THINGS TO REALLY BE LOOKING AT IN TERMS OF A VOTER SURVEY. IT WAS IT'S BEEN A PRETTY DELIBERATIVE PROCESS. AND ALSO FOR THIS PARTICULAR SURVEY, WE OVERSAMPLED IN SOME KEY DEMOGRAPHIC AREAS AND KEY POPULATIONS. THIS IS WAS THE LARGEST NUMBER OF SURVEY RESPONDENTS FOR A PARK DISTRICT VOTER SURVEY THAT I HAVE SEEN SINCE I HAVE WORKED HERE. SO WE'RE VERY HAPPY TO HAVE PRETTY COMPREHENSIVE RESULTS. AND I JUST WANTED TO THANK FM3 FOR THEIR COLLABORATION AND INTRODUCE WE'LL GO WITH CURT BELOW TO PRESENT THE FINDINGS AND HOPEFULLY ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH ERICH, CURT BELOW HERE WITH FM3 RESEARCH. VERY HAPPY TO BE PRESENTING OUR SURVEY RESULTS, WHICH I'M GOING TO RUN THROUGH HERE. AND IF I I'M IN A SPOT, HOPEFULLY I CAN SEE THE DETAILS UP THERE AND DON'T NEED MY GLASSES. ALL RIGHT. SO A COUPLE NOTES ABOUT THE METHODOLOGY. WE, THIS IS WHAT WE CALL, NOT A RESIDENTIAL SURVEY, WHICH WE'VE DONE IN THE PAST, BUT A VOTER SURVEY. SO THIS WAS JUST REGISTERED VOTERS. SO NOT ANYONE WHO'S, YOU KNOW, UNDER 18. WE CONDUCTED THE INTERVIEWS BOTH ON THE PHONE AND ONLINE. DUAL MODE APPROACH, WHICH IS PRETTY MUCH STANDARD THESE DAYS FOR THE PHONE INTERVIEWS WE CALL THEM UP FOR THE ONLINE COMPLETES, WE EITHER SEND THEM A TEXT OR AN EMAIL AND ASK THEM TO TAKE THE SURVEY ONLINE. WE'RE TYING ALL THIS BACK TO THE VOTER FILE SO WE KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT THE DEMOGRAPHICS AND THOSE INDIVIDUALS. WE OFFER THE LANGUAGE A COUPLE DIFFERENT LANGUAGES FOR THE PHONE INTERVIEWS. BUT THE MAIN THINGS HERE, WHEN WE DID THE SURVEY AND HOW MANY INTERVIEWS WE CONDUCTED AND WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR THE MARGIN OF ERROR? SO WE FINISHED THE INTERVIEWS, THIS SORT OF LATE WINTER, EARLY SPRING, YOU KNOW, THE END OF FEBRUARY, BEGINNING OF MARCH. WE DID A BIG SAMPLE HERE. SO WE HAVE THAT OVER 1700 INTERVIEWS, INCLUDING VARIOUS DIFFERENT OVERSAMPLES WE DID, TAKING THOSE INTO CONSIDERATION, WE'VE GOT, YOU KNOW, TWO AND A HALF, MAYBE ALL AROUND, UP TO 3% MARGIN OF ERROR FOR QUESTIONS ASKED FOR THE FULL SAMPLE. AND WE DID SOME SPLIT SAMPLING WHERE SOMETIMES, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE GOT ONE VERSION OF A QUESTION AND SOME GOT ANOTHER. THAT WAS A WAY TO KIND OF SQUEEZE A FEW MORE QUESTIONS INTO THE SURVEY. AND FOR THE HALF SAMPLE WE'LL ROUND THAT UP TO FOUR. SO WE'LL CALL IT THREE AND 4% MARGINS OF ERROR FOR THOSE QUESTIONS. PARDON ME. CAN WE WILL WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO INTERRUPT YOU OR ASK QUESTIONS ALONG THE WAY? BECAUSE THIS IS PRETTY DETAILED AND LONG. YEAH. WHATEVER THE PREFERENCES OF THE OF THE THE COMMITTEE HERE. INTERRUPT. OKAY. OKAY. WELL THEN MAY I. SO YOU HAD MENTIONED THE THE TYPE OF SURVEY OR. NO, THE THE RESEARCH POPULATION IS VOTERS IN THE EAST BAY. NOW, IS THAT ELIGIBLE VOTERS, REGISTERED VOTERS OR FROM A FREQUENT VOTER LIST, AS THEY CALL? JUST REGISTERED VOTERS. THE REGISTERED. OKAY. OKAY, GREAT. LET ME MOVE AHEAD. SO ABOUT THE, THE, THE GROUPS HERE. SO THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT WAYS WE CAN SLICE AND DICE THE DATA. HERE ARE SOME OF THE WAYS THAT WE WORK AND WORK WITH STAFF ON THIS. AND SO ERICH AND LISA MAY HAVE OTHER, YOU KNOW, THINGS TO CHIME IN HERE IF I'M MISTAKING ANY OF THESE THINGS, BUT WE HAVE SOME OF THESE KEY GROUPS THAT MAYBE WOULD BE UNDERREPRESENTED IN THE SAMPLE ON THE NATURAL, WE DID SOME OVERSAMPLING IN. AND SO JUST KEY GROUPS HERE, VOTERS UNDER 30, WE GOT, YOU KNOW, THAT TOO CLOSE TO 300 INTERVIEWS GOING DOWN THE LIST HERE. YOU CAN SEE THIS. AND WE BROKE THIS OUT BY INCOME AND ETHNICITY. [00:20:03] AND THEN DIFFERENT GEOGRAPHIC COMPONENTS HERE. AND SO THESE WERE SOME OF THE PRIORITY GROUPS THAT YOU MIGHT SEE US REFERENCE LATER ON IN THIS PRESENTATION HERE. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. SO GET TO THE DATA, THE FUN STUFF. WE ALWAYS ASK, NOT ALWAYS, BUT IN A LOT OF OUR SURVEYS, WE ASK A WARM UP QUESTION, HEY, DO YOU THINK THINGS ARE IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION? WRONG TRACK. IT'S THAT OLD GALLUP QUESTION. IT'S MORE OF A VIBE CHECK. HEY, OR IS THIS POPULATION OPTIMISTIC OR PESSIMISTIC? AND WE ASKED ABOUT HOW THINGS IN THE EAST BAY ARE GOING. THAT 42% TO 27% IS ACTUALLY RELATIVELY POSITIVE. WE'RE SEEING A WIDE RANGE OF RESPONSES TO THIS TYPE OF QUESTION IN DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES RIGHT NOW. JUST GIVEN SORT OF THE UNCERTAINTY IN THE WORLD, I'LL JUST SAY. BUT THEN WE STARTED GETTING OBVIOUSLY MORE FOCUSED ON QUESTIONS ABOUT THE DISTRICT. SO THROUGHOUT THIS PRESENTATION, YOU'LL EITHER SEE AS A SUBTITLE THE ITALICIZED LANGUAGE, WHICH IS ACTUALLY WHAT WAS THE QUESTION ON THE SURVEY. SOME OF THESE SLIDES THAT'S IN REALLY SMALL TEXT AT THE BOTTOM AND THE FOOTER, JUST TO SQUEEZE IT INTO A NOT SO BUSY SLIDE. BUT HERE THIS IS REGISTERED VOTERS. HOW OFTEN WOULD YOU SAY SOMEONE IN YOUR HOUSEHOLD VISITS A PARK OR TRAIL? IT WAS A VERY HIGH NUMBER. ALMOST TWO THIRDS SAID SOMEONE IN THEIR HOUSEHOLD DOING IT USING A PARK OR TRAIL AT LEAST MONTHLY. SO IT'S AN INTERESTING SUBSET THERE, MAYBE EVEN BROADER THAN I, THAN I WAS ANTICIPATING. SO AS A OTHER GENERAL THING WE DO OFTENTIMES IS, WELL, DO YOU HAVE A FAVORABLE OR UNFAVORABLE OPINION OF THE DIFFERENT, YOU KNOW, RELEVANT AGENCIES HERE? AND WE THREW IN THE, YOU KNOW, YOUR DISTRICT HERE. AND THEN SOME COMPS, STATE PARKS, NATIONAL PARKS, AND THEN COUNTY GOVERNMENT, JUST AS A LITTLE BIT OF A, AN ADDITIONAL DATA POINT. AND GUESS WHAT? VOTERS LIKE PARKS, THEY LIKE FAVORABLE VIEWS OF THE NATIONAL PARKS, STATE PARKS AND THEIR EAST BAY PARKS. YOU KNOW, THESE ARE FAVORABILITY NUMBERS THAT OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES WOULD SALIVATE FOR IN COUNTY GOVERNMENT AS A, YOU KNOW, A COUNTERPOINT THERE. WE DIDN'T SAY WHICH ONE. WE CAN FIGURE THAT OUT. THE CROSSTABS. BUT YOU CAN SEE THAT YOUR DISTRICT IS VIEWED MUCH MORE FAVORABLY THAN OTHER OTHER LOCAL AGENCIES. WE DID ASK THIS QUESTION FOR THE, FOR YOUR DISTRICT BACK IN OUR 2023 SURVEY. NOW, THAT WAS JUST FOR RESIDENTS. SO CAVEAT THIS THAT WE'RE NOT COMPARING APPLES TO APPLES HERE. BUT THE VOTING POPULATION SEEMS TO HAVE EVEN A MORE FAVORABLE IMPRESSION OF YOUR DISTRICT THAN RESIDENTS AT LARGE. AND THE DISTINCTION THERE IS MORE OF THE RESIDENTS AT LARGE WERE SORT OF UNDECIDED OR DIDN'T HAVE AN INFORMED OPINION. SO IT STANDS TO REASON THAT THE VOTING POPULATION MAY BE A LITTLE MORE ACTIVELY ENGAGED WITH YOUR PARKS AND HAS A MORE INFORMED OPINION. SO THIS IS LOOKING AT THE FAVORABLE NUMBERS HERE. AND GUESS WHAT? THEY CUT ACROSS VIRTUALLY EVERYTHING HERE, RIGHT? SO MAJORITIES OF PRETTY MUCH THESE MAIN GROUPS HOLD FAVORABLE OPINIONS OF YOUR DISTRICT BY AGE. IT'S ALMOST UNIFORMLY SIMILAR ACROSS THE ENTIRE SPECTRUM RACE AND ETHNICITY. AGAIN, WE'RE YOU KNOW, FACTORING IN MARGINS OF SAMPLING ERROR, YOU KNOW, 4, 4 OUT OF FIVE OR MORE IN EACH OF THOSE MAJOR GROUPS. I THINK WHAT'S INTERESTING HERE IS EVEN IF YOU'RE, YOU KNOW, THE LOWER RIGHT HAND CORNER HERE, THE PARK TRAIL, VISITING FREQUENCY WEEKLY TRAIL USERS MONTHLY, JUST A FEW TIMES A YEAR. WE'RE ALL BASICALLY THE SAME. EVEN THOSE WHO SAY WE DON'T REALLY HAVE ANYONE IN OUR HOUSEHOLD THAT USES A TRAIL OR PARK, THERE'S STILL A 64%. SO BROAD BASED POSITIVE VIBES THERE. LOOKING AT THIS BY THE DIFFERENT WARDS, YOU SEE, AGAIN, A LOT OF CONSISTENCY THERE IN SORT OF THE ROUGHLY, WE'LL JUST ROUND IT TO LIKE 75 TO 85% KIND OF RANGE THERE. AND WE DID SOME GROUPINGS ON THESE SUBREGIONS HERE. AND IT'S AGAIN FLATS, HILLS, EAST BAY, TRI VALLEY THROUGH THE TUNNEL ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE HILLS OVER HERE. ALL VERY, VERY POSITIVE. CAN I, TWO QUESTIONS I HAVE FOR THIS SLIDE. KIND OF WHAT CONTRIBUTED TO WARD FOUR HAVING A LOWER TOTAL FAVORABILITY OF 76%? BECAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S LOWEST IN THE DISTRICT. AND ALSO KIND OF WHAT CONTRIBUTED TO LIKE BLACK VOTERS HAVING A LESS FAVORABLE VIEW? IT'S A LITTLE TRICKIER TO WE DIDN'T ASK FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS ABOUT WHY THEY MAYBE HAD A WEREN'T FAVORABLE. SO WE DON'T HAVE A PERFECT WAY OF DETERMINING THAT. THOSE ARE STILL SOMEWHAT SUBTLE DIFFERENCES. THEY'RE ALL STILL BROADLY THREE QUARTERS OF WARD FOUR, [00:25:01] FOR EXAMPLE, HAS A FAVORABLE OPINION. I'D HAVE TO GO BACK AND PULL THAT UP TO SEE WHETHER IT WAS THAT THEY HAD AN UNFAVORABLE OPINION AT A HIGHER RATE, OR MAYBE MORE PEOPLE THAN THAT DO NOT, DON'T KNOW CATEGORIES. THAT WOULD BE MY SUPPOSITION. BUT WE CAN PROBABLY CIRCLE BACK WITH STAFF ON THAT. I REPRESENT WARD FOUR, SO. I FIGURED THAT MIGHT BE THE CASE [LAUGHS]. YEAH, YEAH. SO I'D LOVE TO KIND OF SEE MORE OF THE BREAKDOWN TO UNDERSTAND WHAT AREAS ARE UNFAVORABLE. AND THEN WITHIN MY AREA TO WE HAVE MORE BOTH A LATINO AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, SOME OF THE HIGHEST PERCENTAGES WITHIN THE PARK DISTRICT. SO WOULD DEFINITELY LOVE TO UNDERSTAND THOSE FAVORABILITY SCORES THAT. I KNOW. YEAH, IT MUST BE ATTRIBUTABLE TO THEIR EXCELLENT REPRESENTATION. ALL RIGHT. SO THIS WAS NOT A TRADITIONAL LIKE BALLOT MEASURE SURVEY OR SOMETHING LIKE THIS. WE'RE JUST SORT OF ASKING SOME HIGH LEVEL QUESTIONS ABOUT IMPRESSIONS OF THE PARKS, YOUR DISTRICT WILLINGNESS TO BE SUPPORTIVE OF A MEASURE IN THE FUTURE THAT COULD GENERATE REVENUE FOR THE DISTRICT. I'M JUST CURIOUS. DO YOU. HAVE YOU EVER SEEN ANY OTHER PUBLIC AGENCY WITH THIS HIGH LEVEL OF APPROVAL? IF YOU'RE FISHING FOR COMPLIMENTS, IT'S RARE, BUT FIRE DISTRICTS SOMETIMES DO. FIRE DISTRICTS? YEAH. THAT'S ABOUT IT? THAT'S KIND OF THE OTHER AGENCY THAT WOULD HAVE REALLY, REALLY HIGH NUMBERS LIKE THIS. YEAH. I WAS JUST CURIOUS. YEAH. SO THAT BLUE BOX IS, IS THIS QUESTION WE ASKED. AND THIS WAS A CONCEPT BASICALLY WITHOUT ANY DOLLARS, WE'LL GET TO THE DOLLARS IN A SECOND HERE ATTACHED TO IT. JUST A WAY TO MAINTAIN BASICALLY YOUR PARKS AND DISTRICTS HERE. AND YOU KNOW, OTHER, SOME OF THE ANCILLARY BENEFITS OF THAT HERE, WOULD YOU BE SUPPORT OR OPPOSE A MODEST TAX INCREASE? AND WE KIND OF USE SOMEWHAT SIMILAR LANGUAGE ABOUT ACCOUNTABILITY, OVERSIGHT, DISCLOSURE AUDITS, THINGS THAT WOULD BE THERE. BUT WE DIDN'T. THIS WAS JUST CONCEPTUALLY. AND THE REASON WE DID THIS IS THAT IF WE SAW A LOW NUMBER HERE WITHOUT EVEN TALKING DOLLAR AMOUNTS, BOY, THAT WOULD TELL US SOMETHING. AND IN THIS ENVIRONMENT, FRANKLY, IT WOULDN'T BE ENTIRELY SHOCKING. HOWEVER, ALMOST THREE QUARTERS SAID, YEAH, I SUPPORT THAT. AND ABOUT HALF SAID THEY WOULD STRONGLY SUPPORT THAT. SO THAT SAYS, ALL RIGHT, THE THE CONCEPT OF GENERATING ADDITIONAL REVENUE THROUGH A TAX INCREASE FOR PARKS IS BROADLY SUPPORTED. NOW LET'S START DIGGING INTO THAT A LITTLE MORE DEEPLY. SO FIRST WE'RE GOING TO GO THROUGH SOME OF THE KEY DEMOGRAPHIC GROUPS ON JUST THIS SUPPORT OPPOSED QUESTION HERE. THE CONCEPT IS, YOU KNOW, WHEN I LOOK AT THIS FROM A POLITICAL POINT OF VIEW, I WOULD SAY, LOOK, YOU'VE GOT MAJORITY SUPPORT ACROSS INCOME GROUPS, ACROSS ETHNIC GROUPS. THERE IS A DISTINCTION THERE BETWEEN BLACK VOTERS AND ASIAN VOTERS THAT ARE, THAT'S WHERE THE BIGGEST DISTINCTION IS THERE. BUT, YOU KNOW, THE TOTAL OPPOSED NUMBERS ARE ALL IN THE TEENS, ROUGHLY. AND THE THE BIG DISTINCTIONS ARE JUST IN THE GRAY BARS, WHICH IS IN THE UNDECIDED CATEGORY. SO THIS IS NOT THESE ARE NOT, THESE ARE NUMBERS THAT ARE MODESTLY DIFFERENT BUT BROADLY SUPPORTIVE. THE ONE THING THAT'S A MORE OF AN OUTLIER IS IN THE UNINCORPORATED PARTS OF THE COUNTY. NOW UNINCORPORATED PARTS OF THE OF ALAMEDA COUNTY ARE GEOGRAPHICALLY NOT CONTIGUOUS, YOU KNOW, ALL OVER THE SPOT. BUT IT WAS INTERESTING THAT WHEN WE DID THESE OTHER SORT OF GROUPINGS THAT THERE WAS SOMETHING ABOUT THE VOTERS IN THOSE AREAS THAT WAS A LITTLE LESS SUPPORTIVE. AND THAT WAS WHERE YOU SAW THE OPPOSITION GET THE 28%. STILL AT 54, THOUGH. AND IS IT POSSIBLE TO BREAK DOWN THE UNINCORPORATED ALAMEDA COUNTY BECAUSE IT IS VERY DIVERSE? I MEAN, SOME OF THOSE SECTIONS ARE WITHIN DIFFERENT WARDS. YEAH. WE COULD DIFFERENT POPULATIONS. YEAH WE CAN, WE CAN. AND THEN THAT'S WHY WE HAVE SOME OF THESE OTHER GROUPINGS HERE WE CAN WORK WITH. LOOK AT STAFF AT THAT, I MIGHT CAUTION THAT WE MAY NOT BE ABLE TO, BECAUSE YOU'RE ALREADY LOOKING AT A SMALL SUBSET IF YOU TRY TO PULL IT INTO SEVEN DIFFERENT LITTLE SUBSETS. IT MAY GET TOO SMALL FOR US TO FEEL COMFORTABLE ISOLATING, BUT WE CAN LOOK INTO THAT. BY WARD. SO YOU LOOK ACROSS THE BOARD HERE, SUPPORT AGAIN. YOU KNOW, BASICALLY TWO THIRDS OR HIGHER EVERYWHERE WITH SOME DISTINCTIONS. WARD FIVE IS THE ONLY ONE WHERE YOU GET TO LIKE ABOVE 20% OPPOSED. WARD FOUR IS THE BIGGEST DON'T KNOW WHICH IS AT 17%. SO THERE ARE THINGS THAT CAN BE LEARNED FROM JUST THE CONCEPT. SUPPORT LEVELS ARE HIGHER IN SOME PARTS OF DISTRICT THAN OTHERS, BUT IT IS STILL BROADLY HELD ACROSS THE THE ENTIRE DISTRICT. [00:30:14] OH. WARDS OR REGIONS THAT HAVE VERY HIGH FAVORABILITY RATES, NONETHELESS, IN SOME OF THESE CIRCUMSTANCES, THEY'RE NOT SUPPORTIVE OF A MODEST TAX INCREASE. IT'S WARD FIVE, WARD SEVEN. YEAH. AND I MIGHT SUGGEST A DIFFERENT WAY OF FRAMING THAT. NOT SAY THEY'RE NOT SUPPORTIVE. THEY'RE NOT SUPPORTIVE AT THE SAME RATES AS THEIR FAVORABILITY IS. RIGHT. THERE'S A DELTA THERE. IT'S THERE'S STILL A 66 AND 68% SUPPORTIVE. SURE. BUT THERE IS A SOMETHING THERE IS A DISTINCTION THERE BETWEEN MAYBE THE HIGH REGARD WITH WHICH THEY HOLD YOUR DISTRICT. I MEAN, A LITTLE LESS LEVEL OF SUPPORT CONCEPTUALLY. AND WE'VE KNOWN OF THAT ISSUE WITH EASTERN CONTRA COSTA FOR, YOU KNOW, SURVEYING IN THE PAST AND EASTERN ALAMEDA. AND IT HAS TO DO WITH THE DEGREE TO WHICH WE TOUCH THOSE COMMUNITIES, AND WE DON'T AS MUCH AS WE DO IN THE IN THE HILLS, FOR INSTANCE, WHERE WE HAVE LOTS OF CONTACT WITH THOSE COMMUNITIES AND WE GET MORE SUPPORT. SO, YOU KNOW, TO ME, IT'S IT'S ALWAYS INFORMED ME THAT WE HAVE WORK TO DO IN EASTERN PARTS OF BOTH COUNTIES IN BRINGING MORE PARKLAND TO THEM. THAT THAT'S HOW IT TOUCHES ME. GOING THROUGH A FEW MORE THINGS BY, BY GENDER, WOMEN ARE A LITTLE MORE SUPPORTIVE THAN MEN. AS A CRUDE RULE OF THUMB, WOMEN ARE MORE SUPPORTIVE OF REVENUE MEASURES AND THAN, THAN MEN. SO THAT'S NOT A THAT'S NOT UNSURPRISING. PRETTY SOLID SUPPORT ACROSS THE BOARD IN TERMS OF AGE. YOU KNOW, THERE'S SOME A LITTLE BIT OF A DIP IN THE 50 TO 64 RANGE, BUT THOSE ARE NOT HUGE DISTINCTIONS. AND AGAIN, THE DISTINCTIONS A LITTLE BIT MORE IN THE DON'T KNOW CATEGORY THAN THE, THE, THE OPPOSED CATEGORY. AND THAT WAS JUST FOR THE CONCEPT. SO LET'S TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THE, THE FREQUENCY WITH WHICH PEOPLE VISIT. SO THIS WAS IF YOU ARE A WEEKLY OR SOMEONE IN YOUR HOUSEHOLD, WEEKLY IS IN A, YOU KNOW, TRAIL OR PARK OR SOMETHING. AND WE DIDN'T TRY TO GET TOO FINELY TUNED ABOUT WHETHER IT'S A EAST BAY REGIONAL PARK, DISTRICT PARK OR NOT, BECAUSE PEOPLE HAVE A HARD TIME SORT OF BLENDING THAT TOGETHER. BUT IF YOU'RE A REGULAR PARK VISITOR, ESSENTIALLY, OR A TRAIL VISITOR, YOUR SUPPORT LEVELS WERE AT, YOU KNOW, 77, 81%. NO, NO RULE, THAT'S ALL SORT OF MARGIN OF ERROR FOR A DIFFERENCE THERE. I THINK WHAT'S INTERESTING HERE IS THAT EVEN THE FEW TIMES OF YEAR FOLKS ARE STILL AT TWO THIRDS EVEN AMONGST THOSE WHO ARE IN HOUSEHOLDS WHERE NO ONE'S REALLY USING PARKS AND TRAILS IN OUR HOUSEHOLD, THEY'RE STILL AT 57%. NOW THAT WOULD BE BELOW A POTENTIAL TWO THIRDS REVENUE MEASURE. JUST AS AN FYI, BUT IT'S A PRETTY GOOD NUMBER THERE. YOU'RE EVEN AMONGST, YOU KNOW, IF YOU REMEMBER, THAT GROUP STILL HELD YOUR DISTRICT IN A, IN A, IN A FAVORABLE LIGHT. AND SO THAT'S, THAT'S REALLY NICE TO SEE. ALL RIGHT. SO WE DID ASK I KNOW I SAID WE DIDN'T ASK AN OPEN ENDED QUESTION ABOUT THE FAVORABLE, BUT WE DID ASK A COUPLE OF THEM IN HERE, BUT ONE OF THEM IS IF YOU SAID I SUPPORT THIS IDEA, HEY, I SUPPORT A MODEST TAX INCREASE TO HELP PAY FOR PARKS. AND IN THEIR OWN WORDS, SOMEONE EITHER TYPE IT IN OR TELL THE PERSON ON THE PHONE WHY, THEY BASICALLY ASK, WHY DID YOU SAY YOU WOULD SUPPORT IT? AND THEN WE TRY TO CATEGORIZE THEM. AND IT'S AN ART AND SCIENCE BECAUSE PEOPLE SOMETIMES HAVE MULTIPLE THINGS THEY MENTION THESE PERCENTAGES ADD UP TO MORE THAN 100% BECAUSE PEOPLE COULD MENTION MULTIPLE RATIONALES. BUT YOU GET A LITTLE BIT OF A SENSE. FIRST THING IS THERE ISN'T LIKE ONE THING THAT LIKE 50% OF THOSE WHO SUPPORTED IT SAID, YES, THIS IS WHY THERE'S A RANGE OF RATIONALES HERE. SOME OF THEM ARE JUST ABOUT, HEY, I WANT TO PRESERVE OPEN SPACE. SOME OF THEM ARE MORE ABOUT PARKS NEED MAINTENANCE. AND THE THIRD CATEGORY THERE IS LIKE PARKS ARE GOOD, KIND OF. SO IF YOU SORT OF THINK ABOUT IT, THERE'S SOME THAT ARE RATIONALES THAT ARE A LITTLE MORE TANGIBLE, HEY, THINGS NEED TO BE REPAIRED. MAYBE THEY EVEN MENTION SOMETHING ABOUT A BATHROOM OR A TRAILHEAD, WHATEVER IT MIGHT BE. AND IN SOME CASES, IT WAS MORE JUST THE PHILOSOPHICAL VALUE OF PARKS. HEY, PARKS ARE IMPORTANT. I WOULD SUPPORT THIS. IF YOU KIND OF GO DOWN THE LIST HERE, YOU KNOW, THE STUFF ABOUT THE WILDLIFE HABITAT WORTH THE INVESTMENT, CLIMATE BENEFITS. PEOPLE MENTION THEM, BUT NOT NOT AS SIMILARLY HIGHER RATES. SO HERE'S A SMATTERING OF EXAMPLES OF WHAT THOSE KIND OF COMMENTS WERE. I KNOW IT'S A LOT OF TEXT, SO I'LL CONVENIENTLY PAUSE AND GRAB A DRINK HERE WHILE YOU'RE READING THEM. [00:35:07] YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THESE THINGS ARE REALLY SPECIFIC. MY FAMILY ENJOYS USING THE PARKS. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. YOU'VE GOT A REAL PERSONAL CONNECTION. SOME ARE LIKE YOU KNOW, PRESERVING GREEN SPACE IS IMPERATIVE. SORT OF A BROADER VALUE STATEMENT. ALL RIGHT, SO NOW WE START. THAT WAS THE CONCEPT. SO NOW LET'S START INTRODUCING DOLLARS. SO IN THIS CASE WE'RE NOT ASKING A YES OR NO VOTE. WE'RE JUST SAYING, HEY, WELL, WOULD YOU BE WILLING TO PAY $2 PER WEEK IN ADDITIONAL TAXES? AND INSTEAD OF REPEATING THAT LONGER PHRASE WE JUST TALKED ABOUT TO MAINTAIN AND OPERATE PARKS, TRAILS, NATURAL AREAS AND OPEN SPACE AND 62%. SO BASICALLY THREE OUT OF FIVE SAID THEY'D BE WILLING TO PAY $2 A WEEK MORE. AND ABOUT A THIRD SAID THEY'D BE UNWILLING. WE DID A LITTLE INTENSITY THERE. SO YOU CAN SEE THE VERY WILLING VERSUS VERY UNWILLING. SO YOU NOTICE THAT OF THOSE WHO ARE UNWILLING, WHILE IT IS A ONLY A THIRD OF THE VOTERS WHO TOOK THE SURVEY, THEY TEND TO BE A LITTLE MORE ENTRENCHED IN THEIR OPPOSITION. THOSE WHO SAID, YEAH, I'M WILLING TO PAY TWO BUCKS A WEEK MORE. MORE EVENLY DIVIDED BETWEEN THAT VERY AND SOMEWHAT WILLING CATEGORIES. NOT THAT MANY PEOPLE WERE FENCE SITTERS, ONLY 6%. WE DID ASK, THAT WAS OF A, HALF THE SAMPLE WAS ASKED ABOUT THAT. SO IF YOU NOTICE THE VERY BOTTOM HERE, THE LITTLE LOW LEFT HAND CORNER, A LITTLE TEXT, A SPLIT SAMPLE. SO HALF THE RESPONDENTS WERE ASKED ABOUT IT AS A DOLLAR PER WEEK NUMBER. AND THE OTHER HALF WE DID A LITTLE MORE. HOW MUCH WOULD YOU BE WILLING TO PAY PER YEAR? AND THEN WE WALKED THEM DOWN DIFFERENT AMOUNTS. AND THAT WAS TO KIND OF KEEP THINGS NOT GET TOO CONFUSING TO SOMEBODY, PARTICULARLY ON THE PHONE. AND IN THIS CASE, WE WERE BASICALLY LIKE, WHAT IF IT WAS A LITTLE LESS THAN $100 A YEAR, A LITTLE LESS THAN 75, A LITTLE LESS THAN 50? KIND OF LOOKING AT THOSE THRESHOLDS, IT DOESN'T COMPLETELY MAP TO THAT $2 A WEEK, BUT PRETTY CLOSE. BUT WE'RE JUST TRYING TO GET A COUPLE DIFFERENT DATA POINTS OF WHERE THE SWEET SPOTS WOULD BE FOR SUPPORT HERE. AND YOU'LL SEE THAT THE TOTAL WILLINGNESS NUMBER, EVEN UP TO A LITTLE BIT LESS THAN $100, IS AROUND TWO THIRDS. NOW THE INTENSITY GOES UP A LOT MORE WITH THE, THE HIGHER SORT OF THE LOWER DOLLAR AMOUNTS. BUT THE RANGE IS NOT THAT DIFFERENT. RIGHT. 66 TO 74. OBVIOUSLY, IF YOU'RE LOOKING AT, YOU KNOW, SOME SORT OF THING DOWN THE ROAD THAT REQUIRES A TWO THIRDS VOTE, IT'S REALLY MATERIAL. BUT FROM A POLLSTER POINT OF VIEW, IT'S HALF THE SAMPLE 4% MARGIN OF ERROR. THOSE AREN'T LIKE A HUGE DIFFERENCES THERE. IT'S SORT OF HOVERING IN THAT TWO THIRDS, A LITTLE BIT HIGHER RANGE THAT'S WILLING TO PAY. WE'LL SAY $5,200 A YEAR. AND THIS IS A CONCEPTUAL QUESTION THAT WE INCLUDE IN ALMOST ALL OF OUR SURVEYS THAT EXPLORE GENERATING REVENUE FOR PUBLIC AGENCIES, WHICH IS DO YOU ESSENTIALLY THINK THERE'S A GREAT NEED, SOME NEED, A LITTLE NEED OR NO REAL NEED FOR ADDITIONAL FUNDING FOR WHATEVER THE SET OF SERVICES OR THE AGENCY IS THAT WE'RE ASKING ABOUT. AND WE'VE SEEN A PRETTY TIGHT CORRELATION OVER THE YEARS BETWEEN THOSE WHO FEEL LIKE THERE IS A GREATER SOME NEED AND WILLINGNESS TO SUPPORT A MEASURE IN THE FUTURE. AND YOU'LL SEE HERE THAT GREATER SOME NEED IS RIGHT AROUND THAT TWO THIRDS THRESHOLD. MAYBE NOT THAT INTENSE, THOUGH, YOU KNOW, ONLY A QUARTER. I THINK THE NEED IS GREAT. AND WHAT'S INTERESTING HERE IS THAT YOU GOT A PRETTY GOOD CHUNK OF PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW. 16% IS NOT A BIG NUMBER, BUT IT'S A LOT MORE THAN THAT CONCEPTUAL SUPPORT, DON'T KNOW. AND SO THERE'S SOME VOTERS LIKE I'M NOT, I DON'T REALLY KNOW. THOSE WHO ARE MOST LIKELY TO FALL INTO THAT GREAT SOME NEED CATEGORY WERE YOUNGER, LOWER LEVELS OF EDUCATION AND INCOME AND LATINO VOTERS, THEY'RE THE ONES WHO FEEL MOST STRONGLY THAT YOU KNOW, YOUR DISTRICT NEEDS ADDITIONAL FUNDING. SO WE GO THROUGH A COUPLE DIFFERENT SORT OF WAYS THE MONEY COULD BE SPENT FROM THIS PROPOSAL OR THE BENEFITS OF THOSE EXPENDITURES. AND WE ASKED, WELL, HOW IMPORTANT ARE THEY TO YOU AS AN INDIVIDUAL PERSONALLY? AND THE SCALE WAS, IS EXTREMELY, VERY SOMEWHAT OR NOT TOO IMPORTANT. THAT'S THE ORANGE BARS. NOT TOO IMPORTANT. SO LOOKING AT A FEW SLIDES HERE, EVERYTHING ON THIS SLIDE IS SEEN AS AT LEAST VERY IMPORTANT BY 80% OR MORE AND ALL AROUND A LITTLE BIT AND SAY 50% OR MORE THOUGHT THAT THEY'RE BASICALLY ALL EXTREMELY IMPORTANT. AND WE SEE A RANGE OF THINGS HERE, BUT IT'S LIKE WILDFIRES. APOLOGIES. THAT MAY BE ONE OF MY, MY CHILDREN CALLING ME. THEY SEEM TO GET PAST THE DO NOT DISTURB. I'M JUST GOING TO PUT MY PHONE OFF REAL QUICK. [00:40:08] PEOPLE WERE GIVEN THIS LIST? YES, THEY WERE PRESENTED IT IN RANDOM ORDER. YEAH. YOU'LL SEE. THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS HERE AROUND LIKE PROTECTING, CONSERVING, MAINTAINING, KIND OF KEEPING WHAT WE HAVE AND ENSURING THAT IT'S PROTECTED GOING FORWARD. AND SO THESE WERE THE TOP PRIORITIES THAT WE LOOKED AT HERE. AND AGAIN, AS I GO THROUGH THESE SLIDES HERE, THIS IS NOT FM3 TELLING YOU AS A DISTRICT HOW YOU SHOULD BE FOCUSING YOUR BUDGET OR DOLLARS. THIS IS US JUST SAYING, WELL, WE PRESENTED SOME THINGS TO VOTERS AND HERE'S HOW THEY REACT TO THEM. SO SECOND ON THIS COUPLE, THIS SERIES OF SLIDES HERE THESE ARE ALL SOME OF THESE ARE THE TOP LIST ARE PRETTY SIMILAR TO THE ONES ON THE BEGINNING. BUT AGAIN, IT'S STILL THAT LIKE, YOU KNOW, STUFF RELATED TO FIRE OR CONSERVING, PROTECTING, MAINTAINING, AS WE GET DOWN TO MAYBE THE BOTTOM THREE IS THE FIRST TIME WE START MAYBE GETTING INTO LIKE IMPROVING RESILIENCE TO CLIMATE CHANGE, IMPROVING SAFETY AT TRAILHEADS AND PARKING LOTS. STILL 61% SAID YES, THAT'S AN EXTREMELY, VERY IMPORTANT THING, BUT YOU'RE STARTING TO GET MORE OF THAT. YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT IN THE 80S AND YOU'RE GETTING THAT LIGHT BLUE BAR, THE SOMEWHAT IMPORTANT BAR GET A LITTLE BIGGER. SO VOTERS ARE SAYING, YES, I THINK THESE ARE IMPORTANT. I'M NOT DISMISSING THEM. THEY JUST DON'T HAVE TO GENERATE THE SAME INTENSITY FOR ME AS THE ITEMS WE SAW IN THE FIRST SLIDE. AND THEN THE REAL DIFFERENCE HERE IS WE GET INTO THE NOW THIS IS SOME OF THESE ARE PROGRAMMATIC ITEMS. BUT IT'S A LOT OF NEW, THAT NEW PARKS, NEW VISITOR CENTER, NEW PARKING LOTS. AND IT'S A LITTLE DIFFERENT FROM TWO SLIDES AGO WHERE IT WAS LIKE, MAINTAIN, PROTECT, CONSERVE. AND THEN NOW WE'RE INTO ADDITIONAL THINGS AND NOBODY AGAIN, EVEN FOR SOMETHING AT THE BOTTOM. LOOK AT PROVIDING NEW PARKING LOTS. IT IS THE LEAST IMPORTANT OF THIS LIST, BUT IT'S STILL A SOLID MAJORITY. THERE WAS IT 50, 56% 57% WHO THINK IT'S AT LEAST SOMEWHAT IMPORTANT. IT'S JUST A THIRD OR LIKE, I DON'T DON'T REALLY CARE THAT MUCH ABOUT THAT. AND THE INTENSITY IS OBVIOUSLY DRAMATICALLY DIFFERENT AT THAT 8%. EXTREMELY IMPORTANT VERSUS, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING IN THE 50S ON THE FIRST SLIDE. AND THAT'S A LONG LIST THAT WE'RE PRESENTING PEOPLE, BUT WE WANT TO KIND OF DO A LITTLE MORE OF A HEAD TO HEAD, BUT SORT OF TRY TO BETTER UNDERSTAND SOME OF THESE ITEMS HERE. SO IN THE CHART ON THE LEFT IS WHAT WE CALL A FORCED CHOICE QUESTION. WE PRESENTED THOSE TWO STATEMENTS IN RANDOM ORDER. AND WHICH ONE WOULD YOU PREFER. THAT INVESTMENT SHOULD GO TO PARKS WITH THE GREATEST NEED, EVEN IF NOT EVERY PARK GETS SOMETHING OR INVESTMENTS SHOULD GO TO EVERY PARK SO EVERYBODY GETS A BENEFIT THAT'S CLOSE TO THEIR HOME. AND THERE WAS A BY 20 POINTS OF PREFERENCE FOR LET'S FOCUS ON THE GREATEST NEED WE'RE SEEING. I MEAN, EVEN AT A MUCH MORE SORT OF SMALL SCALE OF THIS, WE'RE LOOKING AT CITIES, LOOKING AT REVENUE MEASURES. IT'S LIKE, I WANT TO FIX THE ROADS IN THE WORST CONDITION FIRST RATHER THAN FIXING ROADS ACROSS MY WHOLE CITY. WE'RE SEEING THAT SORT OF PRIORITIZATION FOR THE WORST THINGS SHOULD MOVE AT THE TOP OF THE LIST. MORE HEIGHTENED RIGHT NOW THAN MAYBE IN THE PAST. AND YOU'LL SEE THAT THOSE PREFERENCES ARE GENERALLY CONSISTENT BY BOTH MORE IDEOLOGICAL THINGS USING PARTY AS A PROXY FOR THAT. AND ALSO WHETHER OR NOT THEY SUPPORT OR OPPOSE THE [INAUDIBLE] CONCEPT AS PROPOSAL. ANOTHER FORCE CHOICE QUESTION HERE. HEY, SHOULD THE DISTRICT PROVIDE A DETAILED PLAN FOR HOW IT SHOULD BE SPENT SO THAT THE PUBLIC CAN HOLD THEM ACCOUNT PEOPLE ACCOUNTABLE OR TO THE DISTRICT TO PROVIDE SOME SORT OF GUIDELINES AND SOME FLEXIBILITY. AND RIGHT NOW THE I WANT TO SEE A LIST AND I WANT TO SEE THAT IT'S STUCK TO ONE OUT THERE, 57 TO 32. WE'RE SEEING GENERALLY THE ACCOUNTABILITY FUNCTION, YOU KNOW, CONCERNS ARE HEIGHTENED RIGHT NOW IN THIS CURRENT ECONOMY. AND YOU'LL NOTICE LITTLE, THE ONLY DIFFERENCE, YOU KNOW, DEMOCRATS ARE A LITTLE MORE AMENABLE TO THE FLEXIBILITY SIDE. THE INDEPENDENTS OR REPUBLICANS WHO REALLY WERE LIKE BASICALLY THREE OUT OF FIVE SAID, I JUST WANT THE LIST AND STICK TO IT. SO WHEN WE WERE LOOKING AT THIS PARTICULAR PROPOSAL WE ASKED ABOUT IT AT A DIFFERENT POINT IN THE SURVEY AND WE WERE LOOKING AT WHO WAS CONSISTENTLY BASICALLY IT WAS, IT WAS SUPPORTED CONSISTENTLY THROUGHOUT THE SURVEY. SO WHAT WE DO IS WE KIND OF START LIKE, WELL, LET'S CHANGE OUR DEFINITION HERE JUST TO KIND OF LOOK AT WHERE THE REAL STRENGTHS ARE, WHERE THE REAL SORT OF AREAS FOR MAYBE A LITTLE MORE WORK COULD BE. [00:45:02] AND SO THESE TITLES UP HERE, SO THE COLUMN ON THE LEFT IS CONSISTENT, STRONGLY SUPPORT. THAT MEANS THAT WHENEVER WE ASK THEM ABOUT THIS PROPOSAL, THOSE GROUPS ARE MORE LIKELY THAN THE REGULAR ELECTORATE TO HAVE SAID THEY STRONGLY SUPPORT EACH TIME WE ASK THEM. SO AMONGST LIBERAL DEMOCRATS, IT DOESN'T MEAN 100% OF THEM CONSISTENTLY STRONGLY SUPPORTED IT. IT MEANS THAT THEY'RE MORE LIKELY THAN THE TYPICAL VOTER WHO TOOK THE SURVEY TO FALL IN THAT CATEGORY. THE EVER OPPOSED, SINCE THIS WAS A BROADLY SUPPORTED, THE CONSISTENT OPPOSED WAS A PRETTY SMALL NUMBER. SO WE'RE LIKE, WELL, LET'S JUST BE A LITTLE MORE CONSERVATIVE HERE WHO AT ANY POINT IN TIME SAID, I OPPOSE THIS. AND SO THESE ARE GROUPS THAT ARE A LITTLE MORE LIKELY TO BE IN THAT CATEGORY. AGAIN, IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT OLDER REPUBLICANS ARE ALL, YOU KNOW, OPPOSING ALL THE TIME. IT JUST MEANS THAT THEY'RE A LITTLE MORE LIKELY TO AT LEAST AT ONE POINT IN THE SURVEY SAID I OPPOSE THIS. AND THEN THE SWING CATEGORY ARE PEOPLE WHO DON'T FALL INTO THAT CATEGORY, ANY OF THOSE TWO CATEGORIES. SO THEY MAYBE THEY WERE CONSISTENT, SOMEWHAT SUPPORT, MAYBE THEY CHANGED THEIR OPINIONS WHEN WE ASKED ABOUT IT. AND IT'S, IT'S REALLY, YOU KNOW, GEOGRAPHY ASIDE, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN SEE A REALLY STRONG PARTISAN YOU KNOW, DISTRIBUTION HERE. A LOT OF THE DEMOCRATIC GROUPS, IDEOLOGICAL FOLKS WHO IDENTIFY THEMSELVES AS LIBERALS WERE FALLING INTO THAT MORE LIKELY TO CONSISTENTLY, STRONGLY SUPPORT MORE REPUBLICANS, A LITTLE MORE LIKELY TO BE IN THE EVER OPPOSE AND INDEPENDENTS IN THAT, IN THAT MIDDLE CATEGORY THERE. AND YOU SEE, YOU KNOW, SOME GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTIONS HERE AS WELL. AND AGAIN, THIS DOESN'T MEAN THAT THESE GROUPS ARE 100% IN THESE CATEGORIES. WE'RE JUST TRYING TO GET A LITTLE SENSE OF WHO HAS MAYBE GOT A LITTLE MORE CIRCUMSPECT VIEW ON THE PROPOSAL. AND HE WAS A LITTLE MORE LIKE, I'M GOING TO SUPPORT THIS THING NO MATTER WHAT. SO WE USE THESE AS A LITTLE BIT OF A DESCRIPTION ABOUT THE PARK. AND WE SAID, WELL, DOES THIS MAKE YOU FEEL, YOU KNOW, MORE POSITIVE OR MORE NEGATIVE ABOUT THE DISTRICT ITSELF, KIND OF PROVIDING SOME BACKGROUND INFORMATION ABOUT. AND SO THEY COULD USE A SCALE OF 1 TO 100 HERE. AND THESE NUMBERS WERE VERY, VERY POSITIVE. SO WHAT WE SORT OF LOOKING AT HERE IS THE MEAN SCORE IS WHAT SORT OF, IF YOU AVERAGED OUT ALL THE RESPONDENTS FOR EACH OF THESE, LIKE WHERE DO THEY GIVE THE NUMBER? SO FOR EXAMPLE, THAT FIRST ONE THERE, THE EAST BAY PARKS HELP PRESERVE OPEN SPACES. ON AVERAGE, PEOPLE WERE GIVING IT ROUGHLY 89. THOSE COLUMNS ARE JUST SORT OF ISOLATING THE INTENSITY. THOSE WHO ARE LIKE THE 90 PLUS OR HIGHER CATEGORY THERE, AND YOU'LL SEE THAT THERE'S A BUNCH OF THEM THAT ARE, YOU KNOW, 50% OR MORE WERE GIVEN A REALLY INTENSE POSITIVE REACTION TO, THAT LITTLE BOLD LANGUAGE. THAT'S ALL CAPPED. NONE OF THE SURVEY RESPONDENTS SAW THAT. THAT'S JUST INTERNAL SHORTHAND TO KEEP TRACK OF THESE LITTLE CHUNKS OF TEXT HERE. PRESERVE. WE SAW THAT AS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THE RESPONDENTS REALLY PRIORITIZED. SO MAYBE THAT'S NOT SURPRISING TO SEE HERE. QUALITY OF LIFE. THE BIG CATEGORICAL PHILOSOPHICAL BENEFITS UP THERE AS WELL. YOU KNOW, MAYBE TALKING ABOUT LIKE THE REGIONAL PARKS, INCREASED PROPERTY VALUES, THE ECONOMIC DRIVER, MAYBE A LITTLE BIT LESS COMPELLING. STILL STILL POSITIVE, BUT, YOU KNOW, MAKES MORE MADE VOTERS FEEL MORE POSITIVE ABOUT THE DISTRICT THAN NOT, BUT NOT AT THE SAME LEVEL OF INTENSITY. AND SO WE DID BREAK THIS OUT BY, BY REGIONS HERE, THE SUBREGIONS THAT STAFF HELPED US COME UP WITH. AND YOU'LL SEE THERE'S A LITTLE MORE OF A RANGE HERE. SO IF YOU LOOK AT SOMETHING LIKE YOU KNOW, THE TRI-CITY AREA. YOU KNOW, THE ECONOMIC ENGINE ARGUMENT. WELL, THAT WAS ONLY 26% WERE GIVEN THAT AND 90% OR HIGHER. THAT INTENSE REACTION, THEY'RE STILL BROADLY COMPELLING EVERYWHERE. VERSUS OUT IN THAT PART OF YOUR DISTRICT, THE PRESERVE WAS AT 57% GAVE IT A 90 OR HIGHER ON THAT SCALE. SO THERE'S A REALLY BIG DIFFERENCE THERE. OTHER PLACES HERE, LET'S JUST SAY, YOU KNOW, LIKE THE OAKLAND FLATLANDS, THERE'S A THERE'S A RANGE THERE, BUT A BUNCH OF THEM ARE A LITTLE MORE TIGHTLY GROUPED. SO IN TERMS OF THAT BASE PROPOSAL, WOULD YOU BE WILLING TO SUPPORT A MODEST TAX INCREASE? WE SAID, WELL, HERE ARE SOME RATIONALES FOR THAT. YOU TELL US HOW CONVINCING A REASON IS THIS TO SUPPORT THIS PROPOSAL. AND THIS IS ISOLATING THE LANGUAGE. AND THEN THE COLUMN ON THE LEFT IS, WELL, WHAT PERCENTAGE OF RESPONDENTS SAID THAT'S A VERY CONVINCING REASON TO SUPPORT THIS PROPOSAL. AND FIRE IS RIGHT UP THERE AT THE TOP OF THE LIST. WE SAW THAT FROM WHEN WE WERE DOING THOSE LITTLE DISCRETE THINGS. YOU KNOW, EITHER I THINK IT WAS PROTECTING AGAINST WILDFIRES WAS AT THE TOP OF THE LIST. SO THAT WAS CLEARLY SEEN AS A THAT'S A GOOD REASON TO SUPPORT THE MODEST TAX INCREASE PROPOSAL THAT WAS BEING DISCUSSED HERE. [00:50:05] AND THE BENEFITS FOR YOUTH. AS A CRUDE RULE OF THUMB, WHEN YOU GET TO 40% OR HIGHER. VERY CONVINCING. WE TEND TO THINK OF THAT AS SOMETHING THAT PACKS A LITTLE BIT OF A PUNCH LIKE THAT MAY BE PERSUASIVE TO SOMEBODY. ALL THE OTHERS WERE A PRETTY SIMILARLY RANKED, BUT THOSE TOP TWO ABOUT FIRE PREVENTION AND PROVIDING EXPOSURE AND ALTERNATIVES FOR FOR YOUTH GENERATE A LOT MORE INTENSITY. WE WENT THROUGH A VARIETY OF THESE DIFFERENT RATIONALES. AND AS WE GET DOWN THE LIST, THE DISTINCTIONS ARE, YOU KNOW, I'M GOING TO GO BACK ONE SLIDE HERE. OKAY, 38, 30, 35 TO 32. VERY CONVINCING. THOSE ARE NOT THAT BIG OF A DIFFERENCE. THE ONLY ONE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE LIST HERE IS THE, IS TALKING ABOUT THE FACT THAT AS THE PARK HAS GROWN IN SIZE, YOUR MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION COSTS HAVE ALSO INCREASED. SO WE HAVE TO, YOU KNOW, A, THIS PROPOSAL WOULD HELP EXPAND THE THOSE RECREATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES TO SORT OF MEET THE THE, THE EXPANDED PARK FOOTPRINT. THAT WAS LESS, LESS COMPELLING. AND THIS IS WHERE WE PUT THOSE ALL TOGETHER, WHICH IS THE PERCENTAGE WHO THOUGHT ONE OF THESE STATEMENTS WAS EITHER VERY OR SOMEWHAT CONVINCING. THEY COULD HAVE SAID, IT'S NOT CONVINCING. THEY DON'T BELIEVE IT. WE DIDN'T PUT THEM ON THE SLIDE. BECAUSE YOU'LL NOTICE HERE, 70% OF RESPONDENTS SAID THAT ALL THESE THINGS WERE WERE CONVINCING REASONS TO SUPPORT THIS PROPOSAL. BUT WE WANT TO LOOK AT THOSE INTENSITY THINGS WHERE WE SEE THAT FIRE AND YOUTH ONES, IT'S KIND OF VISUALLY HELPS US SEE THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN THOSE TWO AND MAYBE SOME AT THE BOTTOM OF THE LIST. AND LOOKING AT THIS BY THOSE SUBREGIONS, AGAIN, KEEPING IN MIND THAT LITTLE THING I SAID, IF IT GETS TO 40%, VERY CONVINCING. THAT'S USUALLY SOMEWHAT COMPELLING. WE JUST HIGHLIGHTED WITHIN THESE DIFFERENT GEOGRAPHIC SUBREGIONS, WHICH OF THESE STATEMENTS GOT TO 40%. VERY CONVINCING. AND YOU'LL SEE THAT FIRE GETS TO 40%. VERY CONVINCING EVERYWHERE. THE MOST COMPELLING RATIONALE FOR THIS PROPOSAL ACROSS THE BOARD. AND YOU'LL SEE THAT THERE'S THEN IT GETS TO BE A LITTLE MORE DISTINCTIONS, YOU KNOW, IN THE OAKLAND FLATLANDS, A LOT OF THESE THINGS ARE VERY COMPELLING. FRANKLY, EVEN IN SOME OF THE PARTS OF EASTERN EASTERN CONTRA COSTA. BUT YOU'LL SEE THAT SOMETHING LIKE ACCESSIBILITY IN WESTERN COSTRA COSTA. MOUTHFUL RIGHT NOW. YOU KNOW, THAT REALLY POPPED THERE VERSUS OTHER PARTS OF THE, YOUR DISTRICT. ALL RIGHT. SECOND. SO WE DID ASK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE DISTRICT PLAN HERE. IT'S AN AWARENESS QUESTION. HAVE YOU SEEN, HEARD OR READ ANYTHING ABOUT THE DISTRICT'S, DISTRICT PLAN, WHICH IS THE YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS HERE? 1 IN 5 SAID, YES, I'VE HEARD SOMETHING ABOUT IT. 80%. FOUR OUT OF FIVE SAID I DON'T KNOW OR ACTIVELY SAID THEY HAD NOT HEARD. OR MAYBE THEY SAID THEY DON'T KNOW, WHICH IS KIND OF THE SAME IN THIS CIRCUMSTANCE. THOSE WHO ARE MORE LIKELY TO HAVE HEARD SOMETHING YOU KNOW, A LITTLE BIT OLDER DISTRICT FIVE SNEAKS IN THERE TOO. BUT THAT'S A LITTLE BIT OF THE PROFILE. AND AGAIN, NONE OF THESE WERE GROUPS WHERE 60% OF ANYBODY HAS HEARD ANYTHING ABOUT THE PLAN, UNFORTUNATELY, BUT IT'S THOSE WHO ARE A LITTLE MORE LIKELY TO. I WILL SAY THAT WHEN WE ASK AN AWARENESS QUESTION LIKE THIS, THERE'S A LITTLE SOCIAL DESIRABILITY BIAS BUILT IN WHERE PEOPLE DON'T WANT TO SAY, I HAVEN'T HEARD ANYTHING. SO THAT'S WHY WE ASK A FOLLOW UP QUESTION. IF THEY SAID YES, I'VE HEARD SOMETHING WE SAY WE'VE HEARD A GREAT DEAL, OR JUST SOME, AND THAT SOME IS A LITTLE BIT OF THE OFF RAMP OF LIKE, YEAH, MAYBE I'VE HEARD SOMETHING, BUT NOT REALLY. I TEND TO FOCUS ON THE REALIST NUMBER HERE IS PROBABLY THAT 3%. SO 3% I'VE HEARD A GREAT DEAL. I ROCK SOLID BELIEVE THAT SOME OF THAT 17% MIGHT BE A LITTLE SQUISHY. WE DID ASK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, INTEREST IN PARTICIPATING IN THE PLANNING, THE PLAN DEVELOPMENT PROCESS HERE KIND OF SPLIT INTO THIRDS PRETTY, PRETTY NICELY IN TERMS OF LIKE, FROM AN ANALYSIS POINT OF VIEW. ABOUT A THIRD SAID YES, ABOUT THIRD SAID NO. AND THEN, YOU KNOW, A COUPLE, SOME PEOPLE SAID THEY ALREADY HAVE PARTICIPATED AND WE DIDN'T DIG INTO WHAT THAT PARTICIPATION MIGHT BE. BUT AND ROUGHLY A THIRD ARE LIKE, I'M NOT SURE. SO WE'RE REALLY LOOKING AT ABOUT A THIRD WHO ARE INTERESTED. AND ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE, AGAIN, THIS IS NOT SAYING THAT EVERYONE WHO LIVES IN OAKLAND FLATLANDS IS INTERESTED. IT MEANS THEY'RE MORE LIKELY THAN THEIR TYPICAL VOTER HERE TO BE. YOU'LL NOTICE THAT A LOT OF YOUNGER FOLKS IN THERE, RIGHT? A LOT OF YOUNGER VOTERS WERE MORE INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING, IN PARTICIPATING. AND AGAIN, NOW WE'RE SORT OF TYING THE PLAN TO THIS PROPOSAL, RIGHT. [00:55:02] SO IF YOU KNEW THAT THE DISTRICT HAD A PLAN IN PLACE, YOU KNOW, TO HELP PROVIDE GUIDANCE FOR THESE SPENDING PRIORITIES, WOULD YOU BE MORE LIKELY OR LESS LIKELY TO SUPPORT A MEASURE? AND SEVEN OUT OF TEN BASICALLY SAID THEY'D BE MORE LIKELY ABOUT YOU KNOW, I'M GOING TO ROUND HERE A LITTLE BIT, YOU KNOW, A THIRD ISH ALMOST SAID IT DOESN'T MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO THEM. YOU KNOW, NOT THAT MANY SAID IT WOULD MAKE THEM LESS LIKELY. ALL RIGHT. SO IT GETS US TO JUST A FEW TOP LEVEL CONCLUSIONS HERE. A PROPOSAL TO GENERATE ADDITIONAL REVENUE FOR THE DISTRICT IS VIEWED FAVORABLY BY A WHOLE LOT OF VOTERS HERE. AND YOU'RE HOVERING IN THAT PRETTY HIGH LEVEL EVEN WHEN WE STARTED INTRODUCING ACTUAL DOLLAR AMOUNTS. SO YOU'RE GETTING TO THAT TWO THIRDS FOR SOMEWHERE BETWEEN $50, 50, WE'LL CALL IT 75. I'M JUST GOING TO ROUND HERE 50, 75, EVEN UP TO 100. IT WASN'T TOO, TOO FAR OFF THERE. WHAT ARE THE BIG PRIORITIES THAT WE LEARNED ABOUT. WELL WILDFIRE. WE SAW MULTIPLE DATA POINTS THERE WHERE WILDFIRE PREVENTION WAS A REAL KEY, YOU KNOW, KEY PRIORITY. AND THEN AS WE GET INTO YOUTH EXPERIENCES A LOT OF CONSERVATION, PROTECTING, MAINTAINING THOSE ARE ELEMENTS THAT WE ASKED ABOUT A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT WAYS THAT RESONATED PARTICULARLY STRONGLY HERE. YOU KNOW, WE DIDN'T HAVE SLIDES IN HERE ABOUT THIS, BUT, YOU KNOW, CONCERNS ABOUT THE COST OF LIVING AND STUFF LIKE THAT ARE REASONS TO OPPOSE THIS PROPOSAL. THERE'S EVERYWHERE RIGHT NOW, COST OF LIVING IS JUST IT IS A STRONG HEADWIND FOR ANY, ANY TYPE OF, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, OPPORTUNITY OR TO, TO RAISE ADDITIONAL REVENUES FOR GOVERNMENT AGENCIES RIGHT NOW. YOU KNOW, IN TERMS OF THE DISTRICT PLAN, AWARENESS IS PRETTY MODEST, BUT THERE IS, YOU KNOW, A REASONABLE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO SAID THEY'D BE INTERESTED IN, IN PARTICIPATING IN IT. AND IT DID ELEVATE MANY VOTERS COMFORT LEVEL WITH SUPPORTING A PROPOSAL TO KNOW THAT A PLAN DID EXIST. SO I THINK THAT GETS ME TO THE END. TA-DA! YES. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS OR REQUESTS FOR CLARIFICATION FROM BOARD MEMBERS? OKAY. OKAY. OKAY. WE WILL NOW OPEN PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS ITEM. MADAME CLERK, PLEASE REPORT THE NUMBER OF SPEAKERS. THERE IS NO PUBLIC COMMENT. ARE THERE ANY ADDITIONAL COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS FROM BOARD MEMBERS? CURT, I MIGHT. MY IMPRESSION IS THAT THE TWO REVENUE PRODUCING BALLOT MEASURES IN MY COUNTY, CONTRA COSTA, THE AGENCIES HAD FAIRLY FAVORABLE SURVEYS THAT CAUSED THEM TO GO OUT AND PUT THEM ON THE BALLOT. AND IN EACH CASE, I DON'T THINK EITHER OF THEM, ERICH, GOT EVEN 50%. SO THEY THIS IS THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOR GO BONDS AND CONTRA COSTA COUNTY FOR SALES TAX, I BELIEVE. AND THE YES VOTE WAS BELOW 50% ON BOTH. SO IS IT CONCEIVABLE THAT YOUR SURVEYS WILL BE MORE ENCOURAGING THAN AN ACTUAL ELECTION AT THIS STAGE OF PEOPLE SUFFERING FROM INFLATION? YEAH, I MEAN, IT IS THE COUNTER COULD BE TRUE AS WELL TOO. I DON'T THINK WE WORKED ON AS MANY OF THOSE. CONTRA COSTA COUNTY HAD A MORE CHALLENGING TIME AT THE BALLOT IN THIS PRIMARY. WE DIDN'T WORK ON AS MANY OF THOSE, SO I CAN'T SPEAK TO THEM DIRECTLY. PART OF IT DOES MATTER ABOUT WHEN THOSE SURVEYS WERE CONDUCTED, IF THEY WERE CONDUCTED, FRANKLY, PRE AND A LOT OF THEM WERE WHAT'S GOING ON IN IRAN AND EVERYTHING. ECONOMICS JUST CHANGED. AND PEOPLE ARE NOW STARING AT SIX, $7. EVEN IN SOME PLACES IN THE BAY AREA, GAS PRICES, THOSE ARE EXTERNAL VARIABLES THAT ARE CHALLENGING. SO I WOULD SAY MAYBE MORE SO CURRENTLY THAN IN PRIOR ELECTION CYCLES. THERE'S JUST A LOT MORE VOLATILITY IN THE ELECTORATE. AND I THINK YOU'RE SEEING IT THERE. THERE ARE SOME PLACES WHERE, YOU KNOW, SOME STUFF THAT WE WORKED ON OUTPERFORMED WHAT THE POLLING SUGGESTED. NOW, WHEN WE POLL SOMETHING FOR A MEASURE, SOMETIMES REFINEMENTS ARE MADE TO WHAT IS ACTUALLY PLACED ON THE BALLOT OR ADJUSTMENTS. SO IT'S NOT ALWAYS AN APPLES TO APPLES SITUATION THERE. BUT I WILL SAY THAT THINGS ARE IN 2026 A LITTLE MORE VOLATILE, AS YOU'RE NOTING. ONE OTHER QUESTION ON YOUR READ ON THIS ONE. OPEN SPACE THE CONCEPT OF PRESERVING OPEN SPACE AND PRESERVING HABITAT [01:00:05] POLE VERY HIGH. CORRECT. BUT THE CONCEPT OF MORE PARKS NOT SO HIGH. IS THERE SOME DISCONNECT IN THAT? THERE MIGHT BE. AND I'LL JUST SAY THAT OUTSIDE OF THIS SURVEY THAT WE'RE, WHEN WE DO, WE DO LOTS OF SURVEYS FOR CITIES, COUNTIES, SCHOOL DISTRICTS, AND THE COST OF LIVING CONCERNS ARE AS HIGH AS I'VE EVER SEEN IN ALMOST 20 YEARS I'VE BEEN DOING THIS, AND THE PREFERENCE THAT WE'RE SEEING IS FOR MAINTAINING AND REPAIRING ALL THOSE THINGS IN WHATEVER CONTEXT IT MIGHT BE. IT MIGHT BE A SCHOOL BOND, AND WE NEED TO BUILD A NEW SCHOOL, OR WE NEED TO BUILD A NEW GYM. AND VOTERS, LIKE, I JUST WANT YOU TO FIX THE HVAC AND MAKE SURE THAT THE PLACE IS SAFE. YOU KNOW, THOSE SORT OF THINGS WE'RE SEEING. I DO PLENTY OF RESEARCH FOR OTHER COMMUNITIES LOOKING TO COMMUNITIES, TRYING TO BUILD PARKS OR EVEN NOT PARK DISTRICTS. BUT JUST LIKE, I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE THINGS ARE WORKING WELL NOW BECAUSE I'M FEELING PRESSED, THE POCKETBOOK, THAT DYNAMIC COULD CHANGE IN A COUPLE OF YEARS. BUT RIGHT NOW, I THINK THAT VOTERS ARE LIKE, WELL, I VALUE PRESERVING THE OPEN SPACE. BUT RIGHT NOW IT JUST FEELS LIKE DOING MORE PRESERVING MORE OPEN SPACE IS CHALLENGING BECAUSE I'M ALREADY SEEING THESE CHALLENGES IN MY OWN PERSONAL FINANCES. SO THAT'S KIND OF I UNDERSTAND WHY IT SEEMS CONTRADICTORY, BUT GIVEN WHAT WE'RE SEEING ELSEWHERE, IT SEEMS PRETTY CONSISTENT WITH VOTERS MOODS RIGHT NOW. JUST NOT A TIME FOR EXPANSION IN GENERAL. YEAH. IS IS A VOTER VIBE. YEAH. YEAH. THAT'S A GOOD WAY OF PUTTING IT. YEAH. IN THE PAST, WE'VE TESTED PRETTY HEAVILY SAFETY IN THE PARKS. AND I SAW, I JUST SAW SAFETY COME UP ONCE OR TWICE IN THIS SURVEY. AND TO ME, ANECDOTALLY, IT'S A HUGE PART OF THE FAVORABILITY THAT WE HAVE IS PEOPLE SEE PARK RANGERS IN THE PARKS CONSISTENTLY WHEN THEY'RE VISITING, THEY SEE POLICE IN THE PARKING LOT. THEY SEE OUR HELICOPTER. AND THAT SEEMS TO BE AN IMPORTANT PART OF OUR MESSAGING THAT WE GO OUT OF OUR WAY TO MAKE OUR PARK SAFE. AND IS IT STILL OR IS THAT SOMETHING THAT MAYBE YOU SHOULD DROP OUT OF THAT MESSAGING THAT WE USED TO DO? YEAH. AND I MIGHT HAVE TO ASK ERICH OR OTHERS ON STAFF TO HELP ME REFRESH MY MEMORY, BUT I THINK WE DIDN'T LEAN HEAVILY INTO AND I CAN'T REMEMBER EXACTLY WHY, BUT WE WERE FOCUSING MORE ON THE MAINTENANCE ASPECTS IN THIS PARTICULAR SURVEY AND THE PRESERVATION ASPECTS. YEAH, I DON'T REMEMBER WHY WE DIDN'T HAVE A MORE ON THE SAFETY. I MEAN, PERSONALLY, IT'S SOMETHING I GO OUT AND MESSAGE A LOT IS, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, HAVING, HOVERING AROUND 100% STAFFING IN OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT IS HUGE TO ME. AND PEOPLE. COULD BE SOMETHING TO EXPLORE MORE IN FUTURE RESEARCH TOO. YEAH. I MEAN, I THINK THAT'S PART OF THE DISTRICT PLANNING PROCESS. COME BACK WITH A MORE REFINED LIST OF THINGS AND THEN BE ABLE TO LOOK AT THAT IN MORE DETAIL. YEAH, I'M JUST IT DOESN'T POP OUT OF THIS ONE. YEP. THANK YOU. DIRECTOR WAESPI. YEAH. THANK YOU. JEEZ. I DON'T KNOW WHERE TO BEGIN. FIRST OFF, I'M KIND OF TROUBLED. SO THE QUESTION WAS ASKED HOW OFTEN DO YOU USE A PARK? SO THAT COULD BE CITY PARKS, RIGHT. IF YOU, AN UNINFORMED VOTER OR AN UNINFORMED VOTER, LET'S SAY IN THIS CASE I MEAN, I PEOPLE USE CITY PARKS MUCH MORE THAN THEY USE REGIONAL PARKS. I THINK JUST BY DEFINITION, BY TRANSPORTATION ISSUES, THINGS LIKE THAT. MY KID PLAYS IN THE PARK EVERY AFTERNOON AFTER SCHOOL. I WALK AROUND THE PARK FOR EXERCISE IN THE MORNING. I THINK THAT. WOW, THAT'S I WISH WE COULD ZERO DOWN ON THAT AND SAY PEOPLE WHO USE OUR PARKS AND GOSH, I THINK THAT REALLY SKEWS IT BECAUSE IF YOU SUGGEST THAT WHAT NEEDS TO BE IMPROVED IN A PARK SOME OF THESE ANSWERS THAT I'M NOT FINDING RIGHT NOW, BUT SOME OF THE ANSWERS THAT ARE SUGGESTING MORE PROGRAMS FOR YOUTH AND THINGS LIKE THAT. YEAH. I THINK THAT'S WHAT CITY PARKS GENERALLY DO DURING THE SUMMER, OCCUPY KIDS AND GIVE THEM FUN THINGS TO DO. AND IF THEY'RE THINKING OF A CITY PARK DISTRICT, LIKE IN MY AREA, HARD, THEY DO GREAT THINGS. THEY DO SWIM LESSONS, THEY DO ALL KINDS OF SUMMER PROGRAMS. I DON'T KNOW IF THAT THREW PEOPLE OFF. WHAT ELSE? I YEAH, I, I I AGREE WITH WELL, YOU KNOW, COLIN [01:05:06] MADE THE POINT. AND I AGREE PARKS ARE EVERYBODY LOVES PARKS. AND FROM MY EXPERIENCE AND WHEN YOU HAVE THESE THINGS THAT SAY SOMEWHAT SUPPORT, I THINK IF YOU'RE, I DON'T KNOW WHAT INFORMATION YOU GIVE TO PEOPLE WHEN YOU SAY YOU'RE GOING TO TAKE A SURVEY, BUT WE'RE DOING A SURVEY ON THE EAST BAY REGIONAL PARK DISTRICT, WHICH WOULD LIGHT UP IN PEOPLE'S MIND AND SAY, OOH, THAT'S GOOD. I'M TAUGHT THAT'S GOOD. EVERYBODY SAYS, THAT'S GOOD. AND THEN DO YOU SUPPORT A BOND MEASURE? WELL SOMEWHAT SUPPORT. THAT WOULD BE MY ANSWER. YOU'RE NOT GOING TO SAY NO TO. THESE ARE THE GOOD PEOPLE. THE PARKS ARE THE GOOD PEOPLE. I'LL USE THE EXAMPLE. IN CASTRO VALLEY. WE HAD A SCHOOL BOND MEASURE. EVERYBODY LOVES SCHOOLS. IN FACT, EVERYBODY SUPPORTED THE SCHOOL BOND. EVERYBODY, EVERYBODY. THERE WAS NO OPPOSITION. LITERALLY NONE. NONE IN THE IN THE VOTERS GUIDE THAT PEOPLE GOT. THERE WAS NO OPPOSITION. TONS OF PRO STUFF. NOBODY MAYBE AN EMAIL OR TWO FROM SOME, YOU KNOW, TAXPAYERS ASSOCIATION PERSON SAYING NO NEW TAXES, BUT NO OPPOSITION. AND IT LOST. AND I THINK WE'RE IN OUR SAME SITUATION. SO I'M WONDERING, I DON'T KNOW HOW WE DO IT, BUT SOMEWHAT SUPPORT. I WOULD WANT TO DRILL DOWN ON THAT BECAUSE I WOULD THINK THAT'S WHY I'M SITTING HERE. YOU'RE ASKING ME QUESTIONS AND IT'S THE PARK DISTRICT AND I KNOW IT'S GOOD, BUT DAMN IT, I DON'T WANT TO PAY TAXES. OH. SOMEONE. YEAH, MAYBE. AND THEN. AND I DON'T KNOW HOW WE DO THAT. I DON'T KNOW IF WE CAN DO THAT. IT'S IT'S EXPENSIVE. WE'D HAVE TO ASK EVERYBODY IN THE WORLD, I GUESS, AND WELL, I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU DEAL WITH THAT. I I'M. AND MOVING TO THE DISTRICT PLAN. GOD, I CAN'T BELIEVE IT. I MEAN, I, I AGREE WITH YOU 100%. THERE'S YOU AGREED TO TAKE A SURVEY ABOUT A PARK. EVERYBODY KNOWS PARKS ARE GREAT. HEY, YOU KNOW ABOUT THE DISTRICT MASTER PLAN? YEAH. SOMEWHAT. I SAY THAT ALL THE TIME WHEN I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING OR HAVE NO, NO OPINION ABOUT ANYTHING OR DON'T KNOW ANYTHING. OH, YEAH. I THINK I KNOW A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT. SO I'M REALLY TROUBLED BY THAT. WE SPENT SO MUCH MONEY AND DID SO MUCH EFFORT. AND IN MY OPINION WE GOT 3% THAT AGREE THAT SAID THEY, THEY KNOW ALL ABOUT IT AND THEY WANT TO PARTICIPATE. AND THEN 17% GOING YEAH, SURE. I KNOW ABOUT THAT. THAT'S MY INTERPRETATION. BUT IT'S TROUBLING IN MY OPINION. BUT WE'VE GOT TO GO FROM HERE. AND BOY, WE'VE GOT OUR WORK CUT OUT FOR US, I THINK. I THINK A FOLLOW UP QUESTION I WOULD HAVE LIKED TO SEEN OR I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S A WAY MAYBE WITH SOME OF THE INFORMATION TO CAPTURE IT IS KNOWING WHAT WOULD HAVE MOVED SOME OF THOSE POPULATIONS TO SUPPORT OR SEEING LIKE, ARE THEY FIRMLY WHERE THEY'RE AT? OR IS THERE A FACTOR VARIABLE THAT CAN CHANGE THEM TO GREATER SUPPORT? I'M ALSO DEPENDING HOW THE UNINCORPORATED ARE CUT UP. LIKE IF I AM, I AM KIND OF CONCERNED ABOUT SOME OF THE RESULTS, BUT UNINCORPORATED WITHIN ALAMEDA COUNTY, IT'S VERY DIFFERENT DEPENDING WHAT WARD YOU'RE IN. AND TO PUT THEM ALL TOGETHER COULD BE VERY DIFFERENT POPULATIONS. SO YEAH, SO I GUESS IT'S KIND OF LIKE MOVING FROM THESE RESULTS. AND WHAT IS IT THAT WE NOW NEED TO DO WITHIN THIS OPPORTUNITY WHERE WE HAVE SOME UPCOMING OUTREACH THAT'S IN SOME OF THESE COMMUNITIES? TO JUST TO TRY TO MOVE SOME OF THESE NUMBERS. SO SO I THINK IT WAS DEFINITELY LIKE INSIGHTFUL. AND IT'S JUST KIND OF ME NOW FOR ME, IT'S LIKE, HOW DO, HOW DO WE MOVE? HOW DO WE MOVE PEOPLE? IN MY, MY HOMETOWN, HERCULES IS DOING THEIR OWN MASTER PLAN. AND THEY DIRECT MAILED A POSTCARD TO EVERY RESIDENT OR HOUSEHOLD IN THE CITY. OF COURSE, THERE ARE 3000 PEOPLE THERE. WE HAVE HOW MANY HOUSEHOLDS IN THESE TWO COUNTIES, BUT TO ME, THAT'S THE MOST EFFECTIVE WAY OF REACHING PEOPLE. SO THEY AT LEAST KNOW YOU'RE ASKING THEM A QUESTION AND GIVING THEM A LINK OR A QR CODE TO GO TO THE SURVEY. BUT I THINK THAT WOULD BE REAL EXPENSIVE, BUT IT MIGHT, I DON'T KNOW. IT DEPENDS ON WHAT IT COSTS. WELL, I WOULD JUST, YOU KNOW, EARLIER TODAY AND DIRECTOR COFFEY WAS HERE, BUT WE DID HAVE A PRESENTATION ON SOME OF OUR COMMUNICATION STRATEGY UNDERWAY. AND YOU KNOW, AS WE'RE DEVELOPING OUR KEY MESSAGES AND OUR OUTREACH STRATEGY AND HOW WE'RE GOING TO TARGET KEY AUDIENCES AND WITH WHAT [01:10:09] MESSAGE, THAT'S THE KIND OF THIS INFORMATION REALLY HELPS US TAILOR AND UNDERSTAND WHAT'S COMPELLING FOR PEOPLE. AND SO I THINK THIS COMBINATION OF THIS KIND OF DATA WITH AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE, YOU KNOW, THE GEOGRAPHIC AND DEMOGRAPHIC ENVIRONMENT THAT WE'RE OPERATING IN IS ALL PART OF THAT, RIGHT? OH, YEAH. YOU WERE GOING TO JUMP. WELL, THIS MORNING, BECAUSE I WAS TRIGGERED THIS MORNING BY THEIR DATA. AND MIXING THAT DATA WITH THIS DATA, I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THAT AS A WORKSHOP THAT UPON WHICH WE START TALKING ABOUT THE MASTER PLAN. RIGHT. AS A BOARD. YEAH. AND WE AND I THINK THAT'S, THAT MAKES A TON OF SENSE. AND IT IS SOMETHING THAT WE'RE WORKING ON AT THE STAFF LEVEL AND WOULD LOVE TO KIND OF BRING FORWARD WITH THE, WITH THE BOARD ON, ON THAT FOR SURE. YEAH. I DID SEE ONE POSITIVE PEOPLE WANT TO MAINTAIN WHAT THEY HAVE, REPAIR IT AND FIX IT. AND WE DEFINITELY THAT'S LIKE ONE OF THE CHALLENGES THAT WE HAVE WITH A LOT OF OUR CURRENT FUNDING, IT'S ALWAYS FOR THE EXPANSION. SO THERE IS SUPPORT AROUND WHAT WE ACTUALLY NEED TO DO AT THE PARK DISTRICT. IF I COULD MAKE ONE OTHER POINT, BECAUSE IT WAS REALLY EVIDENT TO ME TOO EARLIER WHEN WE WERE WE POINTED OUT, IF YOU REMEMBER, AND YOU DIDN'T HAVE THE BENEFIT OF SEEING THOSE PRESENTATIONS, BUT WE'RE NOT REACHING OUT TO YOUTH LIKE WE'RE NOT. WE THERE'S A LOT OF CHANNELS THAT WE'RE NOT, YOU KNOW, THAT WE NEED TO, TO INCREASE IN TERMS OF REACH YOUTH. AND IF YOU LOOK AT WHO SOME OF THE MOST LIKELY SUPPORTERS OF MEASURE ARE, IT'S YOUNG PEOPLE. SO I, YOU KNOW, THAT CAME OUT IN THE DATA. AND I THINK THAT'S JUST ONE THING WE COULD KIND OF FOCUS IN ON AND UP OUR GAME IN TERMS OF REACHING OUT TO YOUNG PEOPLE. I THINK YOU MENTIONED THIS MORNING THAT WE NOW HAVE A DEDICATED SOCIAL MEDIA. YES WE DO. YES. HER NAME IS MARISSA. AND YOU KNOW, WE'RE GOING TO REALLY KIND OF INCREASE OUR, OUR EFFORTS ON THAT FRONT. YEAH. IF I CAN ADD ONE THING, I'M JUST GOING TO GONNA REACT TO THE. YOU SAID THERE WAS ONE THING THAT WAS POSITIVE IN HERE. I THINK THERE'S LOTS OF STUFF THAT WAS POSITIVE IN HERE. SO NO, I THINK MORE THAN ONE. OKAY. YEAH. THERE'S A DISTRICT THAT IS VERY WELL VIEWED BY BY VOTERS ACROSS THE ACROSS THE AREA. THERE'S DIFFERENT DEGREES OF FAMILIARITY, BUT THERE'S SUPPORT LEVELS FOR YOUR DISTRICT AS WHAT YOU DELIVER. AND THE PARKS WAS REALLY, REALLY HIGH. CONCEPTUAL SUPPORT FOR AN ADDITIONAL REVENUE THROUGH A TAX MEASURE, VERY HIGH. EVEN WHEN WE START TALKING ABOUT DOLLARS AND CENTS. I AM GIVING MANY AND WE DIDN'T TEST FULL BALLOT LANGUAGE BECAUSE WE'RE NOT LOOKING AT SOME FOR THIS YEAR. SO IT'S A LITTLE DIFFERENT. THIS IS JUST LIKE KIND OF EXPLORING. I HAVE GIVEN MORE SORT OF NEGATIVE POLLING RESULT PRESENTATIONS THIS CYCLE, PARTICULARLY THIS YEAR, THAN I HAVE AT ANY POINT IN MY CAREER. IT'S JUST LIKE A REALLY TOUGH SLEDDING OUT THERE. AND THE FACT THAT YOU'RE SORT OF, OH, WE'VE GOT KIND OF AROUND TWO THIRDS OF VOTERS AT THE HYPOTHETICAL LEVEL FOR SOMETHING THAT'S NOT FULLY FLESHED OUT AND 80% VIEW US REALLY, REALLY WELL. I THINK THESE ARE. I JUST DON'T WANT YOU TO TO LEAVE HERE LIKE THE, THE, YOU KNOW, THESE ARE REALLY POSITIVE FINDINGS. SO. I JUST THIS IS MORE FOR ERICH. HAVE YOU THOUGHT ABOUT THE CITIZENS INITIATIVE ROUTE WHEREBY YOU'RE GOING FOR 50% OR IS THAT GOING TO BE UNLAWFUL SOON? WHAT'S THE STATUS OF THAT? YEAH. DIRECTOR COFFEY JUST TO THAT QUESTION, WE'RE LEARNING LESSONS FROM SANTA CLARA VALLEY OPEN SPACE AUTHORITY'S PROCESS. HAD A MEETING WITH THEM EARLIER TODAY, ACTUALLY, AND LEARNED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HOW THEY APPROACH THAT. SO I THINK IT IS SOMETHING TO EXAMINE. THERE IS A POSSIBILITY OF A BALLOT MEASURE GOING ON THE STATE STATEWIDE BALLOT MEASURE SPONSORED BY HOWARD JARVIS THAT WOULD ELIMINATE THAT POSSIBILITY. AND IT WOULD ALSO RETROACTIVELY TAKE BACK THE FUNDING THAT ANY CITIZENS INITIATIVE HAS PASSED SINCE 2016. SO I THINK IT'S A, TO BE DETERMINED, BUT IT IS SOMETHING WE WOULD DEFINITELY WOULD WE DO SOME RESEARCH ON. AREN'T THE ONES THAT PURSUE IT, BUT IT'S A ROUTE THAT SOME AGENCIES HAVE LET HAPPEN INSTEAD OF PUTTING THEIR OWN BALLOT MEASURES ON. OKAY. WELL, THANK YOU FOR THAT INFORMATIVE PRESENTATION. AND SO ARE THERE ANY ADDITIONAL SO WE WILL NOW HAVE A PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS [01:15:06] ITEM. MADAM CLERK, PLEASE REPORT THE NUMBER OF SPEAKERS. THERE IS NO PUBLIC COMMENT. OKAY. ARE THERE ANY ADDITIONAL COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS FROM BOARD MEMBERS? THANK YOU CURT, AND THANK GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS. THIS WAS VERY INFORMATIVE AND IT'S ACTUALLY PRETTY GOOD NEWS. YES. SIX SO ANNOUNCEMENTS. DO WE HAVE ANY ANNOUNCEMENTS? WE HAVE ONE MORE ITEM. OH SORRY. YES. CAN WE MOVE ON TO BE INFORMATIONAL UPDATE ON EVENTS AND SITE VISITS. AND HERE TO INTRODUCE THE ITEM IS LEGISLATIVE ASSISTANT ELSA GRANDVOINET-PELLEGRINI. THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME. OKAY, SO JESS AND I HAVE THE FUN JOB OF RECOUNTING ALL OF OUR EVENTS THAT WE'VE ORGANIZED THIS YEAR SO FAR SINCE JANUARY. MY NAME IS ELSA GRANDVOINET-PELLEGRINI, LEGISLATIVE ASSISTANT WITH THE GOVERNMENT AND LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS DIVISION. JESS, DO YOU WANT TO INTRODUCE YOURSELF REAL QUICK? SURE. JESSICA COWSER, ACTING LEGISLATIVE ASSISTANT WITH GOVERNMENT AND LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS. ELSA AND I ARE GOING TO KIND OF BOUNCE BACK AND FORTH A LITTLE BIT BASED ON SOME OF THE EVENTS THAT WE EACH ORGANIZED. YEAH. OKAY, GREAT. SO OUR VERY FIRST EVENT OF THE YEAR WAS AT BLACK DIAMOND MINES. WE GOT A VERY SPECIAL TOUR WITHIN THE MINES, JUST FRESHLY OPENED SPECIAL FOR THIS EVENT ACTUALLY. SO WE WERE HOSTED BY ANTIOCH MAYOR RON BERAL. HE WAS WONDERFUL TO WORK WITH. WE LOVE THE CITY OF ANTIOCH, WORKING WITH THEM MULTIPLE TIMES LAST YEAR. AND THIS YEAR WE HAD A GROUP OF ABOUT 40 PARTICIPANTS AND WE WERE JOINED BY MAYOR KIM TRUPIANO OF THE CITY OF CLAYTON, MAYOR CARLYN OBRINGER OF CONCORD AND CITY MANAGER BESSIE SCOTT OF ANTIOCH. AND THANK YOU SO MUCH TO THE NATURALIST STAFF. ALL OF I&R. THEY WORKED REALLY HARD TO MAKE IT POSSIBLE FOR US TO ACTUALLY ENTER THE MINES. THERE WERE SPECIFIC TRAININGS THAT NEEDED TO HAPPEN AND A QUICK TIMELINE FOR THIS TO BE POSSIBLE. SO WE REALLY THANK THEM. AND SPECIFICALLY KATIE GARCHAR, WHO ACTUALLY GAVE US THE TOUR WITHIN THE MINE. OKAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT EFFORT. YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. GREAT. SO NEXT UP IN MARCH. MARCH 13TH, WE HAD A SITE VISIT WITH REPRESENTATIVE LATEEFAH SIMON OUT AT TIDEWATER DAVE'S AREA AT MARTIN LUTHER KING JUNIOR REGIONAL SHORELINE. AND THIS WAS A REALLY WONDERFUL EVENT WHERE THE CONGRESSWOMAN CAME OUT WITH HER STAFF AND WE HAD PRESENTATIONS BY DIFFERENT EAST BAY REGIONAL PARK DISTRICT STAFF FOR THE PLANNING OF THIS SITE, WHICH SHE PRESENTED AN AWARD OF THE $1.1 MILLION IN DIRECT FEDERAL FUNDING THAT SHE HAD GOTTEN FOR THE OAKLAND SHORELINE WATER QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT. SO PART OF THE, THE LARGER DOSE AREA PROJECT. AND SO WE WERE ABLE TO GO OUT WITH HER AND SHOW HER EXACTLY, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S GOING TO BE HAPPENING OUT THERE. AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT STAFF WERE ABLE TO EXPLAIN KIND OF WHAT THE PLAN IS, THE EXCITING PLAN FOR THE DAY USE AREA AND WHAT THE WATER QUALITY, YOU KNOW, IMPROVEMENT PLANS ARE, AND THEN HAD A NATURALIST STAFF BE ABLE TO KIND OF GO OVER WHAT IS GOING TO BE HAPPENING ON THE INTERPRETIVE SIDE AND WHAT THE PLAYGROUND IS GOING TO LOOK LIKE, AND HOW THEY'RE GOING TO INCORPORATE INTERPRETIVE ELEMENTS AND SIGNAGE AND ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT REALLY COOL OPPORTUNITIES FOR A WIDE RANGE OF PARK VISITORS, SO THAT WILL BRING A MORE PUBLIC ACCESS AND RECREATIONAL USE TO THIS SHORELINE PARK. AND SO THANK YOU TO ALL OF THE PARK DISTRICT STAFF WHO PRESENTED THERE, DIRECTOR ESPAÑA JOINED US AND MADE REMARKS AT THIS EVENT AS WELL. AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT STAFF, LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS IN I&R, PUBLIC SAFETY PARK OPS, EVERYBODY WHO, WHO MADE THIS HAPPEN. THE PRESS WERE INVITED TO THIS EVENT AS WELL. SO THERE WERE THERE WAS A PRESS THAT CAME OUT OF THIS EVENT AS WELL. GREAT RELATIONSHIP BUILDING AND STRENGTHENING WITH THIS OFFICE. OH, THIS IS ME TOO. SO NEXT UP AT THE END OF MARCH, AS YOU ARE ALL AWARE, AS MANY OF YOU ATTENDED THE FEDERAL [01:20:01] ADVOCACY MEETINGS IN WASHINGTON, D.C. JUST HIGHLIGHTING THE, THE EFFORTS THAT ALL WENT INTO THESE MEETINGS AND THE TIME THAT YOU ALL SPENT AS A BOARD MEETING WITH LEGISLATORS THERE AS PART OF THE FEDERAL DELEGATION. SO SOME OF THE ITEMS THAT WERE COVERED WERE TO FULLY FUND THE LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION FUND AND AN UPDATE THAT WE HAVE THERE IS THAT THE OUTDOOR RESOURCES LEGACY PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM IS PART OF THE FUNDED THROUGH THE LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION FUND. HAS BEEN RELEASED AND OPEN FOR, FOR APPLICATIONS. THAT'S GOOD NEWS. AND ALSO ADDRESSED INVESTMENTS IN THURGOOD MARSHALL REGIONAL PARK, HOME OF THE PORT CHICAGO 50 AND DISCUSSIONS AROUND RAIL RAIL BANKING AS A VALUABLE TOOL FOR TRAIL DEVELOPMENT. SO SUCCESSFUL MEETINGS WITH THE FEDERAL DELEGATION IN WASHINGTON, D.C.. OKAY. WE ALSO VISITED SUNOL IN THE END OF MARCH WITH SENATOR MCNERNEY AND A LARGE GROUP OF HIS STAFF. YOU CAN SEE ASSISTANT FIRE CHIEF KHARI HELAE SHARING SOME INFORMATION ABOUT VEGETATION MANAGEMENT AND WILDFIRE MITIGATION. WE WERE ALSO WE WERE ALSO JOINED BY KEVIN DAMSTRA, WHO ACTUALLY USED TO BE A NATURALIST OVER AT SUNOL. SO HE WAS VERY HELPFUL AND INFORMATIVE. WE ALSO GOT A BONUS. WE SAW A BABY RATTLESNAKE ON THE TRAIL AND THAT WAS REALLY EXCITING. AND MEMORABLE. PLANTED FRESH IN THE MORNING. OKAY. WE ALSO THEN IN APRIL JUST ABOUT A WEEK LATER, WE HAD A WALK AND TALK WITH CONTRA COSTA COUNTY SUPERVISOR SHANELLE SCALES-PRESTON. WE WERE ALSO JOINED BY THE BAY POINT MAC. SO IT WAS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO KIND OF COMBINE FORCES, AND WE HAD A REALLY GREAT TURNOUT OF ABOUT 30 PEOPLE. THIS WAS ANOTHER KATIE GARCHAR SPECIAL. WE WERE VERY THANKFUL FOR HER TOUR. AND IT WAS REALLY SPECIAL MORNING OUT AT WATER BIRD, WE SAW THE SWANS THAT HAVE THEIR HABITAT AND NESTING SITES THERE. AND YEAH, IT WAS A WONDERFUL WALK. AND WE WERE ALSO, I ALSO WANT TO GIVE SPECIAL THANKS TO PARK SUPERVISOR TRAVIS VINCENT. OKAY. LATER IN APRIL, WE WENT TO SACRAMENTO WITH THE TOGETHER BAY AREA COALITION. WE HAD MANY MEETINGS THIS DAY LARGELY FOCUSED ON SUPPORT FOR PROPOSITION FOR THE CLIMATE ACTION BOND AND ENCOURAGING LEGISLATOR LEGISLATORS TO PASS AB 35. THIS THIS JUST HELPS ADVANCE FUNDING WITHOUT HAVING TO GO THROUGH ALL THE REGULATORY REGULATORY PROCESSES THAT ARE USUALLY REQUIRED FOR STATE AGENCIES. SO WE, WE KNOW NOW THAT AB 35 IS STILL IN THE SENATE, BUT IT IS MOVING FORWARD AS OF RIGHT NOW. WHO REPRESENTED US? MYSELF AND LISA BALDINGER. GREAT. THANK YOU. YEAH. OKAY. GREAT. MORE TIME IN SACRAMENTO. THIS TIME WITH ALL OF YOU AS MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. SO PARK DISTRICT HAD MEETINGS WITH THE STATE DELEGATION TO DISCUSS SOME OF THE PARK PRIORITIES AND THE PROJECTS THAT WERE HIGHLIGHTED. THERE WERE, YOU KNOW, PROJECTS IN EACH ELECTED OFFICIALS DISTRICT THAT WE MET WITH THAT WERE HIGHLIGHTED. AND THEN INCREASED ALLOCATION FOR PROP FOUR MONIES TO THE STATE COASTAL CONSERVANCY, BAY AREA CONSERVANCY PROGRAM AND CAL FIRE. AND THEN THE THIRD ITEM THAT WAS DISCUSSED IN THESE MEETINGS WAS AROUND E-BIKES AND TRAIL SAFETY. AND WITH THE COMPLEXITY OF THE THE E-BIKE ISSUE, IT'S MULTIJURISDICTIONAL REALLY NEEDS KIND OF A COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH, SO TALKING TO, TO FOLKS AT THE STATE LEVEL THERE'S MANY BILLS MOVING THROUGH RIGHT NOW AND THIS WILL BE A TOPIC BROUGHT TO THE PARK ADVISORY COMMITTEE AS WELL LATER THIS YEAR. AND THEN IN MAY. SO WE HAD A VERY BUSY SPRING. IN MAY, WE HAD A VISIT WITH CONGRESSMAN DESAULNIER OUT AT BRIONES REGIONAL PARK. THIS WAS REQUESTED BY STAFF. SO HIS STAFF REACHED OUT TO US AND SAID, HEY, WE'RE GOING TO BE IN THE AREA. WE WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE MEETING, YOU KNOW, YOU ALL OUT THERE AT BRIONES. AND THIS WAS SOMETHING THAT DIRECTOR COFFEY AND AGM ALISON BROOKS AND I JOINED THEM OUT THERE FOR A REALLY LOVELY DAY IN BRIONES. [01:25:04] WE GOT TO CHAT WITH THE CONGRESSMAN AND HIS STAFF OVER LUNCH. GO ON A SMALL HIKE. IT WAS A REALLY BEAUTIFUL DAY OUT THERE. AND IT IS ONE OF THE PARKS THAT I FREQUENT. SO I ALWAYS TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO, TO GO OUT TO BRIONES. SO IT WAS A REALLY FUN TIME. AND THEN THE RELATIONSHIP BUILDING THAT THESE EVENTS PROVIDE IS REALLY WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITIES FOR WHEN WE SEE THEM NEXT TIME. WHICH YOU'LL HEAR ABOUT IN A MOMENT. WE PROMISED WE WOULD FLIP FLOP A LOT. OKAY, SO WE HAD OUR VERY FIRST PARKS AND COMMUNITY RESOURCE FAIR OF THE YEAR. VERY EXCITING. WE HOSTED THIS AT CIVICORPS HEADQUARTERS IN WEST OAKLAND. WE HAD ABOUT 30, MAYBE 40 PARTICIPANTS COME BY AND WE HAD TABLING DONE BY OUR PLANNING DEPARTMENT FOR THE DISTRICT PLAN, SPECIFICALLY TRYING TO GET THE WORD OUT ABOUT THE DISTRICT PLAN AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. WE ALSO HAD OUR NATURALISTS THERE I&R. WE HAD HR TALKING ABOUT TRAINING AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES. WE HAD OUR LIFEGUARD SERVICES, FIRE DEPARTMENT A WHOLE BUNCH. WE ALSO HAD A COUPLE OF ORGANIZATIONS, INCLUDING THE PORT OF OAKLAND JOIN US AND THE WEST OAKLAND. LET ME REMEMBER THEIR NAME. THE WEST OAKLAND ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATORS PROJECT ALSO REPRESENTED AND SHARED MATERIALS WITH ATTENDEES. AND THEN OUR NEXT RESOURCE FAIR IS ACTUALLY ON JUNE 27TH HOSTED BY JESS. SO THAT SHOULD BE ON ALL OF YOUR CALENDARS. AND WE'RE EXPECTING A GREAT TURNOUT FOR THAT ONE AS WELL. OKAY. NEXT. JESS AND I HAD A WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY TO VISIT WASHINGTON, D.C. IT WAS BOTH OF OUR FIRST TIMES, SO IT WAS VERY EXCITING. WE PARTNERED WITH THE NATIONAL RECREATION AND PARKS ASSOCIATION FOR THEIR HILL DAY 2026. THEY SET UP LOTS OF MEETINGS FOR US. AND WE TALKED ABOUT THE LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION FUND AND NEW AND EMERGING LEGISLATION TO SUPPORT YOUTH SPORTS. AND I JUST WANTED TO ADD HERE THAT THE PRESIDENT AND CEO OF THE NATIONAL RECREATION AND PARKS ASSOCIATION WAS VERY GRATEFUL FOR EAST BAY REGIONAL PARK DISTRICT PARTICIPATION IN THIS HILL DAY. AS THE MEETINGS WERE SET UP THEY SET THEM UP BASED ON, YOU KNOW, WHERE FOLKS WHO WERE ATTENDING WERE COMING FROM. SO THE NRPA WOULD NOT HAVE MET WITH ANY CALIFORNIA CONGRESSIONAL MEMBERS OR MEMBERS OF THE SENATE IF WE HAD NOT BEEN AT THIS MEETING. AND SO IT WAS REALLY HELPFUL FOR US TO BE ABLE TO REPRESENT NOT ONLY THE PARK DISTRICT, BUT PARKS IN GENERAL IN CALIFORNIA AT THIS HILL DAY. AND THE RELATIONSHIPS THAT I MENTIONED THAT, YOU KNOW, WE ARE STRENGTHENING IN VISITS LIKE THE VISIT WITH CONGRESSMAN DESAULNIER STAFF WERE DIRECTLY APPLICABLE HERE AS WE VISITED THEIR STAFF IN DC AND WERE ABLE TO HAVE REALLY PRODUCTIVE CONVERSATIONS IN THEIR OFFICES AFTER THEY HAD BEEN OUT IN OUR PARKS. AND JESS AND I UNFORTUNATELY MISSED THIS BEAUTIFUL CENTRAL PHOTO RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE CAPITOL WITH THE WHOLE GROUP BECAUSE WE WERE MEETING WITH REPRESENTATIVE SIMON'S OFFICE, WHICH WAS ANOTHER VISIT WE HAD DONE EARLIER IN THE YEAR. OKAY, SO IN PROGRESS, WE KNOW YOU ALL ARE EXCITED TO LEARN WHEN OUR NEXT COMMUNITY RESOURCE FAIRS ARE COMING UP IN CONCORD. AS I MENTIONED, WE'RE HAVING THE NEXT FAIR IS JUNE 27TH IN ABOUT A WEEK. WE HOPE THAT YOU ALL WILL COME OUT TO PARTICIPATE IN UNINCORPORATED ALAMEDA COUNTY. WE HAVE ONE SCHEDULED FOR AUGUST 1ST, AND ALL OF THESE ARE SATURDAYS. JUST TO NOTE THAT FOR THE SAN LORENZO COMMUNITY CENTER. THEN IN AUGUST 8TH WE'LL BE IN EAST OAKLAND AT THE ALLEN TEMPLE BAPTIST CHURCH. IT SAYS 44TH, BUT IT'S ACTUALLY THEIR 46TH ANNUAL HOLISTIC HEALTH FAIR. SO 80 ORGANIZATIONS WILL BE PARTICIPATING, WHICH IS REALLY EXCITING. THEY HAVE A WONDERFUL TURNOUT. SO WE'RE EXCITED TO BRING THE DISTRICT PLAN TO ALL OF THOSE ATTENDEES. AND WE'LL ALSO HAVE OUR AMBASSADORS REPRESENT THE PARK DISTRICT IN GENERAL. SHARE MORE INFORMATION WITH EVERYONE THERE. THEN IN NEW WORK, WE'RE ACTUALLY JOINING THE NEWARK CITY COUNCILWOMAN IN FOR AUGUST 29TH AT THE NEWARK LIBRARY. THIS IS A RECREATION, SPORTS AND WELLNESS FAIR. SO WE'LL HAVE MORE OF A FULL RESOURCE FAIR SET UP FOR OURSELVES. BUT THERE WILL ALSO BE LOTS OF OTHER NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS REPRESENTED WHO WILL BE TABLING AND SHARING RESOURCES AND STILL TO BE SCHEDULED. [01:30:06] THERE ARE MORE TRI-VALLEY EAST, CONTRA COSTA COUNTY AND THEN RICHMOND. OKAY. OH, AND THEN LAST, WE HAVE A SITE VISIT THAT IS COMING UP WITH SENATOR MCNERNEY. THIS WILL ALSO BE CO-HOSTED WITH CIVICORP. WE'RE PARTNERING PARTNERING WITH THEM A LOT. AND WE REALLY LOVE COORDINATING WITH THEIR STAFF. THIS WILL BE AT PLEASANTON RIDGE. IT SAYS JULY 13TH, BUT IT HAS BEEN MOVED TO THE 15TH. WE'LL BE SHOWCASING CIVICORP WORK AT THE FOOTHILL STAGING AREA AT PLEASANTON RIDGE. AND THEN WE'LL ALSO BE TALKING ABOUT POND RESTORATION EFFORTS. AND THEN FINALLY WE HAVE ONE MORE WALK AND TALK. THAT IS IN PROGRESS WITH SUPERVISOR NIKKI FORTUNATO BASS OFFICE, AND THAT WILL BE CO-HOSTED BY DIRECTOR DESCHAMBAULT. AND THAT IS ALL FOR THIS HALF OF THE YEAR. THANK YOU. THAT WAS A BUSY FIRST HALF OF THE YEAR. YES. ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS OR REQUESTS FROM CLARIFICATION FROM BOARD MEMBERS? THIS IS WONDERFUL STUFF. YEAH. GREAT STUFF. OKAY. WE WILL NOW OPEN PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS ITEM. MADAM CLERK, PLEASE REPORT THE NUMBER OF SPEAKERS. THERE IS NO OKAY. THERE IS NO PUBLIC COMMENT. ARE THERE ANY COMMENTS OR ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS FROM BOARD MEMBERS? OKAY. THANK YOU. GREAT WORK. YEAH. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. GREAT WORK. THANK YOU SO MUCH. OKAY. SIX ANNOUNCEMENTS. DO WE HAVE ANY ANNOUNCEMENTS? OKAY. SEVEN. ADJOURNMENT. THE TIME IS 2:40 P.M.. THE MEETING IS NOW ADJOURNED. * This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.