Aug 18, 2026 Board of Directors Meeting

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ALL RIGHT. WE'RE GOING TO GO AHEAD AND GET STARTED. OH.

[CALL TO ORDER]

SO I CALL THIS MEETING TO ORDER FOR AUGUST 18TH, 2026 HERE AT CAMP ARROYO IN LIVERMORE.

AND WE'RE GOING TO CALL THIS ORDER AT 1:05 P.M..

I JUST WANT TO REALLY QUICK BEFORE WE DO ROLL CALL. THANK EVERYONE FOR JOINING US HERE.

I KNOW WE'VE BEEN TALKING FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS ABOUT YOU KNOW, HAVING SOME MEETINGS THROUGHOUT OUR SERVICE AREA, WHICH IS ALL OF ALAMEDA AND CONTRA COSTA COUNTIES.

WE DO HAVE OUR ANNUAL MEETING AT BIG BREAK HERE AT ANTIOCH.

AND THEN HOPEFULLY SO THIS IS THE FIRST TIME, AS FAR AS I'M AWARE THAT WE'RE HAVING A MEETING HERE AT CAMP ARROYO.

SO IT'S REALLY LOVELY TO SEE YOU. I ALSO JUST WANT TO PERSONALLY REAL QUICK WELCOME SOME OF OUR GUESTS WHO ARE HERE.

WE HAVE SEVERAL ELECTED OFFICIALS WITH US INCLUDING TWO MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL, KRISTI AND EVAN, THANKS SO MUCH FOR JOINING US. WE ALSO HAVE DAVID FURST FROM THE LARPD BOARD.

AND THEN MY COLLEAGUE WHO SERVED ON THE WATER TOGETHER A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO TYPICALLY HERE.

SO THANK YOU SO MUCH. SO WE'RE GOING TO START WITH ROLL CALL AND THEN WE'LL DO OUR PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE WITH OUR LOVELY AMERICAN FLAG ON THE SCREEN.

SO THANK YOU. DIRECTOR ECHOLS. [INAUDIBLE] DIRECTOR DESCHAMBAULT.

HERE. DIRECTOR ESPAÑA HERE. DIRECTOR MERCURIO.

HERE. DIRECTOR WAESPI. HERE. VICE PRESIDENT COFFEY.

HERE. PRESIDENT SANWONG. HERE. THANK YOU. GO AHEAD AND DO THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.

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

ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND THANK YOU.

DIRECTOR WAESPI WILL LEAD US. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

MY COLLEAGUE AND FRIEND, PETER ROSEN AND [INAUDIBLE] RECREATION DIRECTOR.

PETER AS WE GATHER HERE TODAY, WE BOARD OF DIRECTORS WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT ALL OF THE LANDS OF THE EAST BAY REGIONAL PARK DISTRICT ARE IN THE ANCESTRAL LANDS OF EAST BAY.

OHLONE BAY MIWOK AND THE NORTHERN VALLEY WERE 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.

PURCHASE IS COMMITTED TO IDENTIFYING WAYS TO WORK AND CONSULT WITH TRIBES AS WE RECOGNIZE THESE TRIBAL CITIZENS REMAIN CONNECTED TO THE LAND.

THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. SO WE'RE NOW MOVING ON TO ITEM B MODIFICATIONS TO THE AGENDA.

[MODIFICATION OF AGENDA]

DOES ANYONE ELSE HAVE ANY MODIFICATIONS TO THE AGENDA FOR TODAY.

SO WE WILL THEN MOVE ON TO OUR NEXT ITEM WHICH WILL BE OUR SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS, WHICH WE DO NOT HAVE ANY TODAY.

SO WE MOVE ON TO PUBLIC COMMENT ON ITEMS NOT ON THE AGENDA.

[PUBLIC COMMENT ON ITEMS NOT ON THE AGENDA]

AND I'M GOING TO SHARE MY SCREEN. AND THERE WILL BE A TIMER UP THERE. SO YOU CAN SEE HOW MUCH TIME YOU HAVE.

AND THEN I WILL ALSO CHECK THE HANDS THAT WE HAVE UP ON.

OKAY, SO WE WILL START IN PERSON WITH JOHN TAYLOR.

MY COMMENTS TODAY ARE ON THE MOUNTAIN BIKE RECREATIONAL FEATURE PROPOSAL FOR WILDCAT CANYON REGIONAL PARK.

ON PAGE TWO IS A MAP. YOU CAN SEE THE TILDEN RECREATIONAL FEATURES INCLUDE STEAM TRAINS AND GOLF COURSES AND OTHERS, WHEREAS WILDCAT IS FREE FROM INTENSIVE RECREATION FACILITIES.

ACCORDING TO THE LAND USE PLAN 1985. PAGE THREE SHOWS WHAT'S COOL ABOUT THE.

ABOUT THE PARKS. THEY HAVE WATER. THEY HAVE WILDCAT CREEK AND TRIBUTARIES.

STARTS IN TILDEN RUNS THROUGH TILDEN AND WILDCAT OUT TO SAN PABLO BAY.

ON PAGE FOUR. YOU CAN SEE THAT THERE'S A LOT OF LIFE.

THERE'S A LOT OF BIODIVERSITY. IN WILDCAT CANYON REGIONAL PARK.

THERE ARE SEVERAL HUNDRED PLANTS. THERE ARE 50 RARE PLANTS AND ONE FEDERALLY THREATENED CALIFORNIA ENDANGERED PLANT.

AND THERE ARE ABOUT 100 VERTEBRATE ANIMALS. AND THE MOST IMPORTANT ONE OF THOSE PROBABLY IS THE THE RAINBOW TROUT, AN ICONIC EAST BAY FISH THAT WAS REINTRODUCED TO THE PARK IN 1983.

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THE HEALTH OF WILDCAT CREEK TO ENCOURAGE REPRODUCTION OF THE TROUT.

IF YOU GO TO PAGE FIVE, YOU'LL SEE WHERE THE PROPOSED TRAIL IS GOING TO BE PUT INTO THE MIDDLE OF WILDCAT CANYON.

AND BECAUSE YOU CAN'T HELICOPTER IN AND YOU CAN'T BE CAN'T PARACHUTE IN AND BE HELICOPTERED OUT TO USE THAT TRAIL, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO USE EXISTING TRAILS. ON PAGE SIX, AND YOU CAN SEE TWO OF THOSE TRAILS, THE WILDCAT CREEK TRAIL AND THE CANYON CREEK TRAIL ARE RIPARIAN TRAILS THAT IMPACT WATER AND BIKE USE WILL LOOSEN SOIL, AND THAT SOIL WASHES INTO THE CREEKS AND FORM SILT THAT WILL COVER UP THE GRAVEL BED OF THE CREEKS THAT'S NECESSARY FOR TROUT REPRODUCTION. AND SO IF YOU LOOK DOWN TO PAGE EIGHT, PAGE SEVEN, YOU'LL SEE THAT IN ADDITION TO THAT, BECAUSE NO TRASH PICKUP AND NO TOILETS ARE PLANS, THERE'S GOING TO BE TRASH AND HUMAN WASTE INTO WILDCAT CREEK.

NOW, YOU MAY WONDER, HOW CAN THAT HAPPEN WHEN THE PARKS DISTRICT IS PROMOTING THE FISH? ON THE ONE HAND, BUT NOW THREATENING THEM ON THE OTHER.

AND HOW THIS IS GOING BENEATH THE RADAR IS THAT THE PARK DISTRICT STAFF COULD HAVE HAD THE BIOLOGICAL RESOURCE ASSESSMENT.

LOOK AT THE ENTIRE LOOP, WHICH WOULD INCLUDE THE CREEKS.

BUT INSTEAD THEY FOCUSED JUST ON THE PART THAT'S GOING TO BE CONSTRUCTED, WHICH DOESN'T HAVE TO INCLUDE THE CREEKS.

SO IF YOU LOOK AT THE 32 PAGES OF THE BIOLOGICAL RESOURCE ASSESSMENT, YOU WON'T SEE THE WORD TROUT.

THIS IS WHAT DEVELOPERS DO. THEY IGNORE IMPACTS THAT MAY STOP THE DEVELOPMENT, AND THEY IMPEDE THE EFFORTS OF PEOPLE TO BRING THOSE TO THE FORE.

BUT ONCE FELT THOSE. IMPACTS ARE THERE. THEY CAN'T BE IGNORED.

AND SO TROUT WILL SUFFER. FROGS WILL SUFFER. NEWTS WILL SUFFER.

HIKERS WANTING TO WALK FROM THE CREEK TO THE HILLTOP WILL SUFFER.

AND WHAT CONCERNS ME THE MOST AS A. AS A FAN OF THE EAST BAY REGIONAL PARKS, IS THE REPUTATION OF.

PARKS WILL SUFFER AND THE DIRECTOR SHOULD BE WORRIED ABOUT THEM.

PAT MICHELI. GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS PAT MICHELI.

I'M A LIFELONG CITIZEN OF THE CITY OF FREMONT. [INAUDIBLE] AFTER A WHILE I DIDN'T TOUCH THAT AND A 20 YEAR RESIDENT OF THE MISSION LAKES NEIGHBORHOOD IN FREMONT AS WELL. I MEAN, IT'S IMMEDIATELY ACROSS THE STREET FROM QUARY LAKES.

OUR HOUSE ACTUALLY FACES ALAMEDA CREEK TRAIL, SO WE USE THE TRAIL EVERY SINGLE DAY AND FREQUENTLY GO INTO QUARRY LAKES AS WELL.

WHETHER IT'S JUST FOR A STROLL OR WALKING OUR DOG, AND WE REALLY APPRECIATE THE AMENITIES THAT THE TRAIL AND QUARRY LAKES AND WHAT EAST BAY REGIONAL PARK HAS DONE FOR THE, FOR THE VALUE OF QUALITY OF LIFE.

I REMEMBER WHEN COREY LAKES WAS FIRST BUILT IT WAS PRETTY SPARSE.

VEGETATION WAS PRETTY YOUNG. BUT NOW IT'S VERY WELL ESTABLISHED AND THE PARK IS A REALLY NICE PLACE TO VISIT.

ISHERWOOD WAY IS A STREET THAT ACTUALLY DIVIDES QUARRY LAKES FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD THAT, THAT WE LIVE IN.

AND BOTH SIDES OF THAT STREET HAVE LANDSCAPE EASEMENTS.

THE CITY OF FREMONT MAINTAINS A SITE ON OUR NEIGHBORHOOD, AND EAST BAY REGIONAL PARK IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SIDE AGAINST QUARRY LAKES.

THE FRONTAGE OF THAT LANDSCAPE EASEMENT ALONG THE QUARRY LAKESIDE IS AT BEST A MESS.

THE PUBLIC SIDEWALK IS A SIX FOOT WIDE SIDEWALK.

IT IS ROUTINELY COVERED WITH LEAF LITTER DEBRIS, BRANCHES THAT ARE OVERGROWN.

THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF SUCKERS THAT ARE POPPING UP IN THAT AREA AND IT IS AT BEST MAYBE BLOWN OFF ONCE A YEAR.

AND SO WHAT I'M ASKING THE BOARD IS PLEASE ENCOURAGE DIRECT STAFF THAT THIS IS NOT JUST A ONE OFF THING.

THIS IS A PUBLIC ACCESS FOR US ALL. AND IT'S A, IT'S VERY DIFFICULT TO NAVIGATE ON A ROUTINE BASIS, WHETHER IT'S WALNUTS THAT HAVE FALLEN ON THE SIDEWALK, OLIVES, ACORNS GROUND SQUIRREL BURROWS THAT HAVE PUSHED DIRT AND GRAVEL ONTO THE SIDEWALK. PLEASE ASK STAFF TO, TO GO OUT THERE AND CLEAN IT UP AND THEN MAINTAIN IT ON A ROUTINE BASIS.

I'VE DIRECTLY TRIED TO WORK WITH STAFF FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS.

AND THE CITY OF FREMONT, IT TENDS TO ALWAYS FALL ON DEAF EARS, BUT WE APPRECIATE WHAT THE DISTRICT BRINGS.

WE JUST WANT THEM TO REALIZE THAT THAT'S PART OF THEIR RESPONSIBILITY THERE ALONG QUARRY LAKES AS WELL.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU. DICK QUIGLEY.

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I'M A. FIFTH GENERATION CALIFORNIAN. EIGHT DECADE.

RESIDENT OF ALAMEDA COUNTY. SIX DECADES IN THE TRI-VALLEY.

I'D LIKE TO SHARE SOME MASTER PLAN SUGGESTIONS FOR YOUR PRIORITY AND FUNDING SUGGESTIONS.

I'VE BEEN AN ACTIVE PARKS VOLUNTEER AND TRAIL ADVOCATE FOR YEARS, AND TODAY I'M SPEAKING FOR MYSELF AS A SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT OF THE WATERSHED. I'M CURRENTLY INVOLVED WITH A COUNTY AG ADVISORY COMMITTEE THAT IS LOOKING AT WAYS TO ENHANCE AND IMPROVE AG IN ALAMEDA COUNTY.

I WAS A LONG TERM MEMBER OF THE [INAUDIBLE] EAST BAY AREA TRAIL COUNCIL, WHICH DISSOLVED SOME YEARS AGO.

AND I URGE YOU TO REESTABLISH THAT GROUP. AND AND I'VE ALSO BEEN A 16 YEAR BOARD MEMBER OF ZONE SEVEN WATER AND A COLLEAGUE OF OF OLIVIA'S. MY WISHES FOR YOU TO CONSIDER ARE THE FOLLOWING.

ONE IS FOR LAKE DEL VALLE, WEST BANK TRAIL FROM THE DAM HEAD JUST ABOVE WHERE WE ARE NOW WALKING DISTANCE.

AND IT. WEST BANK TRAIL TO THE DEER TRAIL AT DEL VALLE.

IT REQUIRES COLLABORATION WITH ZONE SEVEN AND LARPD AS LARPDA YEAR OR SO AGO BUILT A TRAIL FROM SYCAMORE GROVE RIGHT DOWN THE HILL. YOU PASS IT.

WHEN YOU DROVE HERE UP TO THE DAM HEAD AND INTO THE PATTERSON RANCH PROPERTY THAT'S ON SEVEN BUTTON 13, AND IT'S GOT ALLEGEDLY 25 MILES OF TRAILS WAITING TO BE OPENED THAT AREN'T.

I WAS ON THE BOARD THEN BOUGHT THAT PROPERTY FOR $20 MILLION.

SECOND, AS IS A REQUEST FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION ON THE SOUTH BAY AQUEDUCT, A PUBLICLY OWNED CROSS VALLEY TRAIL WAITING TO HAPPEN. IT'S PUBLICLY OWNED LANDSCAPE FROM BETHANY RESERVOIR TO LAKE DEL VALLE KEEPS LAKE DEL VALLE FULL. MY GROUPS HAVE HAD THREE PUBLIC TOURS LAST YEAR.

THE CALIFORNIA AQUEDUCT IN THE VALLEY HAS OVER IN THE CENTRAL VALLEY THE CALIFORNIA AQUEDUCT, NOT THE SBA IN THE CENTRAL VALLEY HAS OVER 400 MILES OF OPEN TO THE PUBLIC REACHING BETHANY RESERVOIR.

PLEASE HELP. PISCES SEVERAL FUNDING STREAMS AVAILABLE.

THE LAST ONE AS I URGE YOU TO EXPLORE SUNOL AND ARROYO DEL VALLE LAGUNA LANDSCAPE BELOW THE BRUNEL BRIDGE AND ADJACENT TO PLEASANTON RIDGE, AND IT SHOULD BE PRIORITIZED. THANKS SO MUCH.

THANK YOU, JUDITH OTNER. GOOD AFTERNOON. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR HAVING US ALL HERE. I AM A 46 YEAR RESIDENT OF OAKLAND AND I'M, I'M A HIKER.

MY HUSBAND AND I LIKE TO PUT OUT IN THE WOODS, BUT WE CAME HERE BASICALLY FROM THE EAST COAST, AND WE WERE JUST AMAZED AND THRILLED WITH THE AMOUNT OF OPEN SPACE THAT'S BEEN SAVED IN CALIFORNIA AND HOW NICELY IT'S ALL KEPT IN HOW MANY DIFFERENT TYPES. OKAY, SO I WAS, AND I JUST WANTED TO MENTION THAT I WAS OUT OF COMMISSION FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS.

AND WHEN I CAME BACK UP TO THE TRAILS AND WALKING THE PARK THEY HAD LEFT THE BIKES IN, AND I WAS SHOCKED AT HOW BAD THE TRAILS SOME OF THE TRAILS LOOKED. THERE WERE PLACES WHERE TWO TRAILS CROSSED THAT THE DESTROYED LANDSCAPE WOULD NOT.

WOULD BE ABOUT THE SIZE OF THIS ROOM FROM BIKES JUST GOING EVERY DIRECTION.

SO THIS IS IN RELATION TO THE PROPOSED BIKE TRAIL, THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF WHAT IS SUPPOSED TO BE WIDE OPEN SPACE

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THEY'RE NOT FIRST PLACES. AS JOHN SAID, THEY HAVE TO.

WHEN THEY GET TO THE BOTTOM, THEY HAVE TO GO SOME OTHER TRAIL GOING UP BECAUSE THE FLOW TRAIL WILL BE FULL OF SPECIAL THINGS.

THEY CAN'T RIDE THEIR BIKES BACK UP AND THERE'S, THERE'S NO NEW PARKING PLAN AND, BUT THEY WON'T STAY IN THAT THOSE AREAS, THEY WILL BE ALL OVER THE PARK AND THEY ARE COMING FROM, THEY'RE ALL EXCITED.

THIS IS GOING TO BE THE FANCIEST FLOW TRAIL FULL OF GADGETS THAT YOU CAN IMAGINE.

AND THEY'RE ALREADY PLANNING TO COME FROM EVERYWHERE ACROSS THE BAY.

HAYWARD. SO IT'S GOING TO BE IT'S GOING TO REALLY WRECK THIS WONDERFUL NEARBY.

I MEAN, MY HUSBAND AND I CAN GET THERE IN 15 MINUTES AND BE OUT IN THE WOODS AND AND MILLIONS OF PEOPLE LIVE ALL AROUND THE WAKINI MILLER WILDCAT CANYON AND TILDEN PARK COMPLEX. AND THEY, A LOT OF BIKERS WILL BE COMING FROM ALL OVER, SO I URGE YOU NOT TO APPROVE THAT.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU. DAVID LUND.

PRESIDENT SANWONG. MEMBERS OF THE BOARD AND STAFF.

CONGRATULATIONS ON BEING ON THE NEW GENERAL MANAGER.

EVEN THOUGH I'M GOING TO COMPLAIN ABOUT THINGS, I THINK THERE WILL BE A LOT OF NICE IMPROVEMENTS.

SO THANK YOU FOR THE BOARD FOR PICKING A GREAT GENERAL MANAGER.

THESE REGIONAL PARK MASTER PLAN, WHICH IS STILL HAS A GIGANTIC ORANGE TRAIL THAT CIRCULATES AROUND THE WHOLE PARK AREA CALLED THE DE ANZA TRAIL.

AND WHEN THAT CAME OUT, I THOUGHT YOU WERE GOING TO CELEBRATE SOMETHING. AND THIS IS THE 250TH ANNIVERSARY OF THAT.

SO I THOUGHT THERE'D BE AN EVENT. SO ANYWAY, I THOUGHT IT'D BE AN EVENT.

AND ABOUT FOUR YEARS AGO A NUMBER OF CITIZENS JOINED THE ALAMEDA COUNTY AG ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND HAD A TRAIL SUBCOMMITTEE.

AND I SAID, WELL, LET'S PLAN FOR YEARS TO START MAKING SOME PROGRESS ON THAT.

AND SO BUT IN FOUR YEARS, NOTHING'S BEEN DONE, NO PROGRESS AT ALL.

AND SO I KNOW YOU'RE GOING TO CHANGE ALL THAT, BUT I, WELL, SO WHAT, WHAT, WHAT WOULD IT TAKE TO GET EAST BAY TO MAKE PROGRESS ON MURRAY TOWNSHIP TRAILS? AND SO ONE IS ACQUIRE THE RIGHTS TO THE PIECE OF PROPERTY SEPARATING LOS VAQUEROS WITH BRUSHY PEAK. THE MINIMUM IS 300FT OF SPACE, AND OTHERWISE IT'S 100 ACRES.

YOU SAY. SO THAT THAT WILL GIVE YOU PROPERTY AND WITHOUT THE PROPERTY OWNERS DON'T LIKE IT.

I'VE GONE OUT THERE WITH PEOPLE FOR A LONG TIME.

THAT'S WHAT'S NEEDED. THEN OPEN ONE SECTION OF THE SOUTH BAY AQUEDUCT TRAIL.

THERE'S HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE AT THE LAB WHO WOULD LOVE TO RUN ON THAT TRAIL AND USE SEGMENTS.

OPEN ONE SECTION OF THAT. THEN ONCE YOU'VE BEEN SUCCESSFUL, THEN SHOW THOSE SECTIONS ON YOUR MAPS.

SEEMS PRETTY SIMPLE. IF YOU WANT THE PUBLIC TO SUPPORT IT, SHOW IT.

SO THE THIS DE ANZA TRAIL COMES RIGHT THROUGH THIS PARK.

SO YOU HAVE THE DEL VALLE MAP THAT SHOWS PARTS OF IT THROUGH DEL VALLE, BUT IT DOES NOT SHOW THE SEGMENT FROM THE PARKING LOT DOWN TO SYCAMORE GROVE PARK.

IT DOESN'T SHOW IT. SO I'VE ASKED OVER THE LAST FOUR YEARS TO PLEASE SHOW IT.

AND EVERY TIME IT'LL BE DONE ON THE NEXT PART, DONE ON THE NEXT MAP.

IT WAS UPDATED APRIL THIS YEAR. IT'S STILL NOT SHOWING.

IT SEEMS LIKE IT'S AN INEXPENSIVE THINGS TO FIX, BUT FIX IT AND THEN AND THEN PUT SIGNS ON THESE, PUT A SIGN THERE WITH A MAP SHOWING PEOPLE HERE'S THIS GIGANTIC, WONDERFUL TRAIL FOR LIVERMORE.

AND IF YOU DID THAT, MAYBE YOU'D GET PEOPLE TO SAY HOW EXCITING.

ALSO, JUST THINK ABOUT IT. 250 YEARS AGO, THIS EXPEDITION OF 250 PEOPLE CAME ALL THE WAY FROM MEXICO.

IT WAS THE FIRST INVASION OF PEOPLE FROM MEXICO.

AND IT TOTALLY CHANGED THE NATIVE AMERICAN HABIT.

THAT'S A GOOD STORY. THANK YOU, PETER ROSEN.

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CONGRATULATE THE BOARD. I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH ALL OF YOU IN THE FUTURE.

WE'VE WORKED A LITTLE BIT IN THE PAST AND I'M JUST, I'M VERY, VERY PROUD OF THE WORK THAT YOU GUYS HAVE DONE AFFECTIONATELY.

EAST BAY REGIONAL IS SEEN AS THE BIG BROTHER TO HEART IS HOW WE LOOK AT IT.

I MEAN, IT'S GREAT TO HAVE THIS COLLABORATIVE RELATIONSHIP THAT WE HAVE A GREAT HISTORY WITH.

I WANT TO ALSO SAY THANK YOU FOR HAVING A MEETING OUT HERE BECAUSE IT GETS PEOPLE LIKE ME TO COME OUT HERE AND GO TO A PLACE I'VE NEVER BEEN TO BEFORE.

AND YOU'RE GOING TO IT'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO SHOW OFF SOME OF THE FACILITIES.

SO MAYBE THOSE WILL BE HAPPENING AT SOME OTHER REMOTE LOCATIONS.

I KNOW IT'S A LITTLE BIT OF A LOGISTICAL NIGHTMARE AT TIMES, BUT IT'S A IT'S A GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO GET THE LOCALS THERE AND TO SHOW IT OFF.

I THINK IT'S GREAT. AND I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING SOME OF YOU AT THE CONFERENCE NEXT WEEK, BUT I JUST WANT TO SAY THANKS AND CONGRATULATIONS.

THANK YOU. AUDREY TURNBULL. ANDREW. ANDREW. MAYBE.

YEAH. AND. THANK YOU. MY NAME IS ANDREW TURNBULL AND I'M AN EQUINE ADVOCATE. THUS THE COWBOY HAT AND A JOURNALIST FROM SONOMA, CALIFORNIA.

I WANT TO WELCOME YOU TO MY HOMETOWN OF LIVERMORE, WHERE I WAS RAISED DURING THE 60S AND 70S AND ENJOYED THIS SPECTACULAR PART OF ALAMEDA COUNTY. TODAY MY WIFE AND I AND MANY OF MY MOUNTED HORSE FRIENDS ENJOY RIDING OUR HORSES ON TRAILS. AND SO I WANT TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO REFLECT ON WHAT JEREMY WALSH, WHO IS THE EDITOR OF THE PLEASANTON WEEKLY, DID AN ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC JOB OF EXPLAINING WHAT A SPECTACULAR DECISION YOU HAVE MADE HAVING MAX KORTEN BE YOUR PERMANENT GENERAL MANAGER.

I MEAN. AT ANY RATE, I WANT TO RELATE, MAX. MY WIFE GOT PROMOTED TO THE DEAN OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND MATH AT CONTRA COSTA COLLEGE WITH 80 NOW, AT THE TIME, 100 PROFESSORS WORKING FOR HER. BUT HER JOB INITIALLY WAS INTERIM, AND SHE HAD TO WALK VERY CAREFULLY BECAUSE SHE DIDN'T KNOW IF SHE WAS GOING TO BE SELECTED TO BE THAT DEAN.

WELL, FORTUNATELY, FIVE YEARS LATER, MY WIFE RETIRED AS THE DEAN, AND SHE'S GOT A WHOLE LOT DONE.

AND THE PEOPLE LOVED MY WIFE. AND EVEN THOUGH SHE IS MY WIFE.

I HAVE HUGE RESPECT, BUT I KNOW THE DIFFERENCE PERSONALLY BETWEEN THE INTERIM AND THE INCUMBENT.

SO TO THAT END, AND ONCE AGAIN, I WELCOME ALL OF YOU TO READ WHAT THIS IS GREAT ABOUT MAX.

AND HE BEAT A HUNDRED PEOPLE WHO WANTED THE JOB.

BUT THE HORSE TRAIL RIDING COMMUNITY IS HERE TO WORK WITH YOU, TO SUPPORT YOU AND OF COURSE, TO INFLUENCE YOU WORKING WITH YOUR BOARD AND YOUR LARGE STAFF.

CONGRATULATIONS AGAIN. AND MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU.

THANK YOU. OKAY, MONROE. THANK YOU.

BONITO. [INAUDIBLE]. OKAY. THANK YOU. WELL, GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE. MY NAME IS BENITO DELGADO.

OLSON. I HAVE A LOT OF HATS. I'M THE GOVERNOR'S APPOINTEE AND CHAIR OF THE LOW INCOME OVERSIGHT BOARD AT THE CALIFORNIA PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION.

I'M A LIFETIME RESIDENT OF OAKLAND, NOT TOO FAR FROM THE MARTIN LUTHER KING JUNIOR SHORELINE.

AND I'M ALSO THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF SUPPLY BANK.ORG, WHICH IS THE NONPROFIT DEVELOPER OF OAK PARK PROJECT, WHICH IS WHAT I'M HERE TO TALK TO YOU ALL ABOUT. TODAY I HAVE LIMITED TIME, BUT I JUST WANT TO SAY I'M REALLY UNCOMFORTABLE.

I DON'T LIKE TALKING ABOUT THINGS WHERE I DON'T AGREE PUBLICLY.

IT'S NOT MY STYLE. BUT TIME IS ALSO KIND OF LIMITED, SO I DON'T REALLY HAVE MUCH OF A CHOICE.

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THEY ARE JUST AN EXEMPLARY TEAM OF PROFESSIONALS ON THE SHORELINE THAT GO WELL ABOVE AND BEYOND.

YOU KNOW, I THINK THE CALL OF DUTY KEEPING THAT AS A SAFE AND WELCOMING PLACE FOR THE COMMUNITY.

SO I REALLY UPLIFT EVERYTHING YOU ALL HAVE DONE FOR THEM OVER THE YEARS AS WE APPRECIATE IT.

I'M HERE TO TALK ABOUT THE OLD PORT PROJECT, WHICH IN SHORT, IS A RESTORATION AND REVITALIZATION OF A ONE MILE STRETCH OF THE MARTIN LUTHER KING JUNIOR REGIONAL SHORELINE BETWEEN THE EAST CREEK SLEW, THE DAMON SLEW THE 880 FREEWAY AND A ONE MILE STRETCH OF THAT SHORELINE.

IT INCLUDES NEW FACILITIES FOR OUR DIAPER BANK AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE PROGRAMS, NEW JOB TRAINING FACILITIES FOR FARMERS, AND EVENING BEFORE WE HAVE GROUND RELEASE. AND MOST RELEVANT HERE, THE LARGEST VOLUNTARY RESTORATION IN OAKLAND SHORELINE HISTORY.

I GREW UP DOWN THERE TOO. AS A SIDE NOTE, WE'RE WORKING WITH A LOT OF COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE CO-LEADING THIS PROJECT AND OPEN UNITED, WHICH IS REBUILDING THE FIELDS DOWN THERE. AND WE'RE ALSO WORKING WITH OUR ASSEMBLY MEMBER MIA BONTA ON A $10 MILLION BUDGET PROPOSAL TO GET THE NEXUS OF THE MONEY.

WE DON'T HAVE IDENTIFIED OR CAN'T FINANCE TO MOVE THE FIRST PHASE OF CONSTRUCTION FOR EVERYTHING I JUST SAID.

WE HAVE BEEN TOLD DIRECTLY BY MEMBERS OF THE SENATE AND THE ASSEMBLY THAT THE $125 MILLION THAT THE DISTRICT IS ASKING FOR, FOR GOLDEN GATE FIELDS IS MAKING THAT REALLY FAR ON A PARALLEL TIMELINE.

WE'VE BEEN PRE-APPROVED FOR TRANSFORMATIONAL GRANTS FOR THAT AREA, WHICH WERE THEN SUDDENLY CONTRACTED AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN.

AND THEN WE WERE TOLD THEY WERE TOO EXPENSIVE.

AND OUR COLLEAGUES WE WORK WITH, 700 ORGANIZATIONS IN CALIFORNIA HAVE SIMILAR CONCERNS AND SIMILAR EXPERIENCES, BUT THEY'RE SCARED TO SAY ANYTHING BECAUSE ALL OF THEIR BEST FUNDERS ARE PART OF THIS TRANSACTION.

SO IN CLOSING, WE REALLY SUPPORT THIS. AS I TOLD MAX, I GO TO POINT ISABEL EVERY WEEKEND WITH MY DOG AND MY WIFE BECAUSE WE LOVE IT.

IT'S LIKE DISNEYLAND. WE WANT TO SEE THIS HAPPEN.

WE JUST WANT YOU TO WORK WITH THE PEOPLE YOU HAVE ACCESS TO, TO ASK THEM TO LOOK AT OTHER WAYS TO FINANCE IT.

SO THAT DOLLARS THAT ARE DESIGNED FOR COMMUNITIES LIKE THAT, SHORELINE COMMUNITIES LIKE THE BOX TRACK DISTRICT AND STOCKTON COMMUNITIES THAT ARE HAVE NO OTHER RESOURCES, HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO COMPETE FOR THEM.

BECAUSE RIGHT NOW, IT'S MAKING IT DIFFICULT. SO THANKS FOR THE OPPORTUNITY.

OKAY, MONROE. WELL GOOD AFTERNOON. PRESIDENT SANWONG AND DIRECTORS AND STAFF.

IT'S MY PRIVILEGE TO BE HERE TO SPEAK IN FRONT OF YOU TODAY.

I WANTED MR. DELGADO OLSON TO PRECEDE ME BECAUSE HE SETS THE CONTEXT FOR THE PROJECT.

I AM THE PROJECT COMMITTEE CHAIR. AND I'VE BEEN ON THE BOARD OF SUPPLY BANK FOR OVER SIX YEARS, AND I JOINED THE BOARD WHEN I WAS ALAMEDA COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS.

SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I WILL SAY IS THE EAST BAY REGIONAL PARKS HAS BEEN A CRUCIAL ELEMENT, A MAINSTAY IN MY LIFE, MY LIFE AS A TEACHER AND MY LIFE AS A RESIDENT IN THE EAST BAY.

I'M A FOURTH GENERATION OAKLANDER. MY FATHER GREW UP LESS THAN A MILE FROM WHERE WE'RE LOOKING AT DEVELOPING THIS PROPERTY RIGHT NOW.

SO IT MEANS A LOT TO ME. WHAT I DIDN'T KNOW. I AM PRIVILEGED AND HONORED TO BE THE CHAIR TO BE ON THIS BOARD.

IT HAS BEEN QUITE THE UNDERTAKING TO BE THE CHAIR, BECAUSE WE HAVE BEEN TO SACRAMENTO MULTIPLE TIMES.

WE'VE HAD SO MANY CONVERSATIONS AND MEETINGS TO TRY TO SECURE THE FUNDING THAT WE NEED TO GET TO THE NEXT PHASE OF THIS PROJECT.

AND MIA BONTA, WHOM I'VE WORKED WITH CLOSELY OVER THE YEARS WAS A WILLING AND POWERFUL CHAMPION FOR THE $10 MILLION THAT WE ARE SEEKING. WE DID NOT ANTICIPATE. LET ME SPEAK FOR MYSELF.

I DID NOT ANTICIPATE THAT IT WOULD BE THIS DIFFICULT, GIVEN THAT THIS IS A PROJECT THAT SO MANY PEOPLE SEE THE VALUE OF AND THAT IT CLEARLY BENEFITS A COMMUNITY THAT HAS LACKED THIS KIND OF RESOURCE FOR A VERY LONG TIME.

AND SO I'VE BEEN OUT THERE WITH THE HOOD PLANNING GROUP AND PEOPLE FROM THE COMMUNITY TO ACTUALLY LOOK AT THE SITE TO HEAR THEM SAY, WELL, WHAT IF? AND WOULD IT BE POSSIBLE IF WE HAD.

AND IN WAYS THAT YOU DON'T OFTEN DISCUSSIONS, YOU DON'T OFTEN HEAR THE NEIGHBORS AND THE RESIDENTS FROM THAT COMMUNITY BEING ABLE TO HAVE. SO IT'S BEEN REALLY GENERATIVE HOPEFULLY FOR THEM AND CERTAINLY FOR US TO HEAR THE ASPIRATION FOR THIS PROJECT, THIS THE PROJECT, ONCE COMPLETED, WILL BE THE BIGGEST NEW CONSTRUCTION PROJECT FOR NONPROFITS IN THE NATION.

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AND I'M REALLY ASKING THAT FOR SUPPORT FOR THIS WITH SUPPORT FROM SUPPORT FOR THIS. AND THEN ALSO THAT THESE REGIONAL PARKS BOARD THINK EXPANSIVELY ABOUT WHAT COMMUNITIES ARE BENEFITING FROM WHAT INVESTMENTS AND PRIORITIZING PARTICULARLY UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES IN FUTURE DECISIONS ONGOING.

I KNOW YOU DO THAT ALREADY. I'M ENCOURAGING FOR THAT TO REMAIN AN INTENTION AND A GOAL.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU. EVAN. EVAN. BRANNAN.

HELLO. GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS BRANDON LIVERMORE, CITY COUNCIL AND TRUSTEE WONG ON CITY COUNCIL AS WELL.

YEAH, AND I JUST WANTED TO TAKE A MINUTE TO REALLY THANK YOU ALL FOR COMING OUT HERE TO LIVERMORE AND TO THE MURRAY TOWNSHIP.

I KNOW MANY OF YOU HAVE COME OUT AND ENJOYED OUR TRAILS.

IF YOU HAVEN'T, THERE'S PLENTY OF GREAT OPPORTUNITIES JUST RIGHT DOWN THE HILL.

GO LEFT. IF YOU WANT AN EASY TRAIL, GO RIGHT IF YOU WANT A MORE DIFFICULT TRAIL.

BUT PLEASE, YOU KNOW, CONTINUE TO SUPPORT AND ENJOY THE MURRAY TOWNSHIP IN LIVERMORE.

WE APPRECIATE YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. KELLY O'BRIEN.

SOMETHING TO SAY. SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE WE GET LOST IN OUR OWN LITTLE YOU KNOW, OUR LOCAL WAYS OF DOING THINGS.

BUT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT STARTED ABOUT THE TIME OF LADY BIRD JOHNSON 50 OR 60 YEARS AGO WAS THE BEAUTIFICATION OF AMERICA.

AND SHE CAME UP WITH THIS IDEA OF SCREENING OFF THE GARBAGE DUMPSTERS.

SO YOU GET BETTER SCREENING FOR GARBAGE DUMPSTERS ACROSS AMERICA, IN THE SUBURBS, EVERYWHERE WHERE YOU YOU'VE GOT THE GARBAGE CANS WELL HIDDEN. BETTER SCREENING FOR THAT THAN FOR THE PORTA POTTIES AT REGIONAL PARKS.

SO HERE'S IN MARIN COUNTY. HOWEVER, SOME OF YOU MAY KNOW MARIN COUNTY.

THEY DO HAVE BEAUTIFUL TRAILS, PAVED MULTI-USE TRAILS, AND THEY BUILD BEAUTIFUL SCREENINGS AROUND THEIR PORTA POTTIES.

SO JUST AN IDEA WHEN YOU HAVE PORTA POTTIES EVERYWHERE, IF IT'S IN A HEAVILY TRAFFICKED AREA, MAYBE YOU CAN'T DO THIS EVERYWHERE, BUT DO THE LABOR.

JOHNSON IDEA AND SCREEN OFF YOUR PORTA POTTIES.

LIKEWISE. WE TALK ABOUT TRAIL CONSTRUCTION. I JUST HEARD ABOUT INTERESTING IDEA, WHICH IS PROBABLY A MUCH MORE COMMON.

BACK IN THE OLD DAYS WHEN PEOPLE DID BARN RAISINGS.

AND THE BARN LABOR WAS ALL THE NEIGHBORS. THEY ARE IN NORTH BERKELEY UNDERNEATH THE LAWRENCE HALL OF SCIENCE.

THEY, THEY HAVE A NEIGHBORHOOD GROUP OF VOLUNTEERS ARE BUILDING A TRAIL NOT THROUGH THE WILDERNESS, BUT IN BETWEEN SOME HOUSES UP A STEEP HILL. AND THAT WAS, THAT IS AN INCREDIBLE IDEA.

YOU CAN ACTUALLY BUILD TRAILS THROUGH POPULATED RESIDENTIAL AREAS THAT ARE VERY HIGH VALUE AND YOU CAN DO IT WITH VOLUNTEERS AND SHOVELS. AND IT'S AN INCREDIBLE IDEA THAT THEY'RE DOING IN BERKELEY.

BUT OF COURSE, THEY'RE, FAR MORE ADVANCED THAN THE, THAN EVERYBODY, THAN THE, EVERYBODY ELSE.

AND THEN THIS, WHAT WE JUST HEARD ABOUT DIRTY SIDEWALKS.

WELL, THERE WERE COMPLAINTS FOR YEARS FROM JUST OUTSIDE OF VARGAS PLATEAU REGIONAL PARK ON MORRISON CANYON ROAD.

WHICH IS [INAUDIBLE], BUT NEAR FREMONT. AND THEY WERE COMPLAINING ABOUT THE POTHOLES, THE, THE CLIFFS ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD, THE ERODED SHOULDERS AND ALL THESE HORRIBLE THINGS.

AND THE, AND THE GOVERNMENT WASN'T MAINTAINING THE ROAD.

AND THEY, THE COUNTY SUPERVISOR WENT TO THE EAST BAY TIMES, WENT TO THE SAN JOSE MERCURY AND POINTED THE FINGER OF BLAME DIRECTLY AT THE CITY OF FREMONT SAID, YOU'RE NOT MAINTAINING THE ROAD AND YOU HAVEN'T.

YOU DON'T GIVE ONE IOTA. YOU HAVE NOT GIVEN ONE IOTA OF CARE FOR THIS ROAD.

WELL, IT TURNED OUT YOU HAVE TO BE CAREFUL IF YOU DO THAT.

TURNED OUT THAT THAT WAS NOT THE CITY'S ROAD TO MAINTAIN.

IT WAS THE COUNTY'S ROAD. SO IT WAS HIS OWN PUBLIC WORKS AGENCY THAT WAS NOT MAINTAINING THE ROAD.

AND AS I 3 OR 4 WEEKS LATER, AFTER HE WAS NOTIFIED, HE HAD AN ARMY OF DUMP TRUCKS OUT THERE FIXING THE ROAD.

THANK YOU. THERE IS NO MORE PUBLIC COMMENT IN PERSON, SO WE WILL GO ONLINE.

JANE KELLY. YOU MAY UNMUTE YOURSELF.

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I LIVE IN BERKELEY AND HAVE BEEN A PARK DISTRICT VOLUNTEER FOR NEARLY 25 YEARS.

I'M RAISING CONCERNS TODAY ABOUT THE SAFETY OF THE PROPOSED FLOW TRAIL IN WILDCAT CANYON, A DISTRICT LIABILITY FOR ACCIDENTS THAT ARE SURE TO OCCUR THERE SHOULD IT BE BUILT. I DON'T BELIEVE THIS HAS BEEN ADDRESSED ADEQUATELY IN THE PARK DISTRICT'S PLANS.

I'VE BEEN LOOKING INTO FLOW TRAILS AND THE INJURIES ASSOCIATED WITH THEM.

CRASHES ON THOSE TRAILS ARE NOT JUST SKINNED ELBOWS AND KNEES.

DOCUMENTED INJURIES INCLUDE BROKEN BONES OF ALL TYPES, FROM COLLARBONES TO WRISTS, HIPS AND BACKS.

MANY WRITERS ON FLOW TRAILS WEAR SPECIALIZED PROTECTIVE GEAR, INCLUDING BODY ARMOR, CHEST AND BACK PROTECTORS, KNEE AND ELBOW PADS AND FULL FACE HELMETS. THIS IS STANDARD PRACTICE IN THE SPORT BECAUSE THE TERRAIN AND FEATURES ARE BUILT FOR SPEED AND TECHNICAL DIFFICULTY.

THE RISK OF SERIOUS INJURY IS HIGH EVEN AMONG EXPERIENCED RIDERS.

THIS RISK IS NOT COMPARABLE TO LOW RISK RECREATIONAL FEATURES SUCH AS THE MERRY GO ROUND OR STEAM TRAIN AT TILDEN PARK.

A FLOW TRAIL IS MORE LIKE WHAT THE LEGAL PROFESSION CALLS AN ATTRACTIVE NUISANCE.

A DANGEROUS FEATURE ON PUBLIC OR PRIVATE PROPERTY THAT IS PARTICULARLY ENTICING TO CHILDREN.

THE DISTRICT HAS LIMITED ABILITY TO CONTROL WHO USES A TRAIL ONCE IT'S BUILT.

YOUTH MEMBERS OF BICYCLE CLUBS MAY AIM TO ABIDE BY WHATEVER RULES ARE ESTABLISHED, BUT OTHER RIDERS WILL BE INEXPERIENCED, UNSUPERVISED MINORS AND CASUAL THRILL SEEKERS.

THE DISTRICT IS NOT LIKELY TO MONITOR ITS EXTENSIVE TRAIL SYSTEM CLOSELY ENOUGH TO WATCH FOR INEXPERIENCED MINORS ON SUCH A TRAIL, WHICH EXPOSES BOTH RIDERS AND THE DISTRICT TO REAL RISK AND POTENTIAL LITIGATION.

THE QUESTION IS NOT IF SOMEONE WILL BE INJURED, BUT WHEN.

AND THAT IS A RISK THE BOARD SHOULD NOT ACCEPT.

WE, THE TAXPAYING PUBLIC, ARE THE OWNERS OF OUR PARKS.

SO LET'S BE SURE TO HAVE AN OPEN AND FRANK DISCUSSION WITH THE DISTRICT AND WITH ALL SEGMENTS OF PARK USERS, NOT ONLY ABOUT WHETHER IT'S APPROPRIATE TO CREATE SUCH TRAIL IN A NATURAL AREA, BUT ALSO ABOUT THE SAFETY RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH SUCH FLOW TRAIL. BASED ON WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT OTHER MOUNTAIN BIKE TRAILS, HOW THE DISTRICT WOULD MAINTAIN THE TRAIL, WHO THE DISTRICT THINKS WOULD ASSUME ALL LIABILITY FOR INJURIES OR DEATHS, AND THE ADDITIONAL COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH PROVIDING LIABILITY COVERAGE FOR THIS TYPE OF HIGH IMPACT ACTIVITY. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU. NORMAN LA FORCE MAY UNMUTE YOURSELF.

NORMAN.

OKAY. NORMAN, YOU CAN SPEAK LATER AT THE END OF THE MEETING IF YOU CANNOT.

RIGHT NOW. THERE IS NO MORE PUBLIC COMMENTS. WONDERFUL.

THANK YOU EVERYONE WHO PROVIDED PUBLIC COMMENTS.

WE WILL NOW MOVE ON TO THE NEXT ITEM ON OUR AGENDA, WHICH I BELIEVE IS OUR GENERAL MANAGER'S COMMENTS.

[GENERAL MANAGER'S COMMENTS]

IT PROVIDES FLOOD PROTECTION, WATER SUPPLY AND RECREATION.

THANK YOU. DIRECTOR SANWONG. SO THE ONE BEFORE THAT.

OKAY. IN THAT. YEAH. YEAH, THERE IS THIS ONE.

I JUST THINK THAT THERE'S SORT OF THIS SLIDE BEFORE.

YEAH. YEAH. HERE WE GO. THANK YOU. OKAY. SO I JUST WANTED TO START BY HIGHLIGHTING A REALLY COOL PROJECT THAT'S ADJACENT TO THIS LOCATION HERE AT DEL VALLE.

AND ASK LISA AND RICK FROM OUR OPERATIONS TEAM IF YOU WANT TO SAY A FEW WORDS ABOUT THIS.

THANK YOU. HI. GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS [INAUDIBLE].

I'M JUST. I'M THE ASSISTANT GENERAL MANAGER OF OPERATIONS.

I JUST WANTED TO INTRODUCE THIS. I WANT JUST TO POINT OUT, THIS IS A BRIDGE FROM OUR LAST BOARD MEETING.

SO AT THE AUGUST 4TH BOARD MEETING, THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS AUTHORIZED THE DISTRICT TO ENTER INTO A CONTRACT TO PURCHASE TEN,

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AND SO WE DIDN'T HAVE A CHANCE TO, TO KIND OF GO OVER THAT LAST TIME.

SO I JUST WANTED TO HAVE THE GREAT HONOR OF INTRODUCING RICK BRANT, WHO IS THE FORMER PARK SUPERVISOR OF DEL VALLE NOW MANAGER OF UNIT SEVEN, TO KIND OF WALK THROUGH WHY WE'RE SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS PROJECT.

THANK YOU. GOOD AFTERNOON. AS LISA SAID, MY NAME IS RICK PARENTE.

I'M THE UNIT SEVEN UNIT MANAGER. I WAS PREVIOUSLY THE SUPERVISOR OF LAKE DEL DELVE OUT.

AS A RESULT OF DIRECTOR SANWONG IDENTIFYING EGRESS INTO DEL VALLE AS AN ISSUE WE IMPLEMENTED 2024 DEL VALLE ENTRY KIOSK PILOT PROGRAM. A FEE STRUCTURE WAS IMPLEMENTED TO CONSOLIDATE FEE, CONSOLIDATE FEES.

CONTRACTOR FOR TRAFFIC CONTROL SERVICES HAS BEEN UTILIZED TO ASSIST TRAFFIC CONGESTION ON DEL VALLE ROAD, ENTERING THE PARK DURING PEAK SUMMER MONTHS AND HOLIDAYS FROM EASTER WEEKEND THROUGH LABOR DAY WEEKEND.

THE USE OF THESE PROCESSES. WAIT TIMES HAVE BEEN GREATLY REDUCED AT THE ENTRY KIOSK.

ADDITION OF THE SELF-SERVICE PAY MACHINES WILL BE WILL BE THE NEXT STEP TO REDUCE TRAFFIC CONGESTION ON DEL VALLE ROAD AND THE ENTRY KIOSK STEPS HAVE ALREADY BEEN TAKEN TO UPDATE THE UTILITIES AND BEGIN THE INSTALLATION PROCESS.

WE WOULD LIKE TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO THANK YOU FOR THE FUNDS, THE BOARD FOR THE FUNDS TO PURCHASE THE SELF-SERVICE PAY MACHINES, THE TRAFFIC IMPLICATIONS ON DEVOL ROAD AND TO REDUCE CUSTOMER WAIT TIMES AT THE ENTRY KIOSKS.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT A FEW OTHER AREAS OF OUR WORK.

SO THIS IS SORT OF SOME REALLY IMPORTANT BEHIND THE SCENES WORK THAT WE DON'T OFTEN GET TO CAPTURE, WHICH IS OUR OUR MAINTENANCE AND SKILLED TRADES.

OUR ROAD TRAILS CREW HAVE BEEN WORKING REALLY CLOSELY WITH OUR STEWARDSHIP TEAM.

AND I JUST WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT THIS WORK. ONE OF THE REALLY COOL THINGS ABOUT THIS IS THAT AS THOSE TEAMS WORK TOGETHER, WE CAN BRING IN THE PERMITTING AGENCIES AT CALIFORNIA FISH AND WILDLIFE AND OTHER REGULATORY AGENCIES.

AND AS WE BUILD TRUST WITH THOSE AGENCIES, IT ALLOWS US TO DO MORE REGULAR MAINTENANCE WORK AND BE ABLE TO STREAMLINE THE PERMITTING PROCESS. AND I JUST WANT TO REALLY APPRECIATE IT, BECAUSE THAT MEANS WE GET TO PROVIDE MORE BENEFIT TO THE COMMUNITY.

AND PROJECTS HAPPEN FASTER AND WE GET BETTER RELATIONSHIP WITH OUR PARTNERS AT THE STATE.

WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT ALSO THIS IS A PROJECT ORIGINALLY CONSTRUCTED IN 1987 AND JUST IN THE LAST TWO WEEKS COMPLETED THIS THIS PROJECT TO RESTORE THE SITE.

THIS IS THE NEW DECK AND OUTDOOR AREA THAT'S AT THE MLK SHORELINE CENTER.

YOUR BOARD WAS OUT THERE FOR A SITE TOUR. MAYBE A YEAR AGO OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

SO REALLY EXCITING TO SEE THIS PROJECT IS ALMOST COMPLETE.

AND THEN I ALSO WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT OUR COMMUNITY GRANTS PROGRAM.

THIS WAS APPROVED BY YOUR BOARD LAST YEAR AND THIS YEAR IS WE'RE JUST STARTING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THIS PROGRAM AND PROVIDING FUNDING TO COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS TO HELP YOU KNOW, UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES ACCESS OUR PARKS.

THIS WAS A SENIORS GROUP AT MILLER KNOX. AND WITH OUR WONDERFUL INTERPRETIVE STAFF HELPING TO SUPPORT AND LEAD THEM AND ACCESS THE PARK. AND THEN THIS WAS AT BIG BREAK.

ANOTHER REALLY COOL PROGRAM WITH STUDENTS. AND THEN THIS IS A PROGRAM AT BLACK DIAMOND MINES WITH THE SAME ORGANIZATION. BUT YEAH, THAT'S THE LAST SLIDE. JUST WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT ALSO THAT SOME OTHER EXCITING WORK WE'VE BEEN DOING THE LAST FEW DAYS.

DIRECTOR DESCHAMBAULT JOINED US WITH SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE OUT AT REDWOOD REGIONAL PARK.

START THAT PARTNERSHIP OUT THERE TO THE SUPPORT THE HEALTH OF OUR REDWOOD GROVES.

AND WE ALSO YESTERDAY MET WITH SONOMA COUNTY PARKS AND THE TRIBE AND SONOMA COUNTY TO LEARN ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENCE WITH USING PRESCRIBED FIRE AND CULTURAL BURNS. AND SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'RE ALSO EXCITED TO DO.

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SO THE NEXT ITEM ON OUR AGENDA IS ANNOUNCEMENTS. AND REAL QUICKLY, WE'LL BE BACK AT OUR CALL TO OAKS HEADQUARTERS TOMORROW FOR OUR COMMITTEE MEETINGS. WE

[ANNOUNCEMENTS]

AND THEN FRIDAY WE HAVE A BOARD SITE TOUR, AND WE'RE GOING TO BE STARTING AT 10 A.M.

AT ANTHONY CHABOT 9999 REDWOOD ROAD. SO PLEASE JOIN US.

ALL RIGHT. SO THEN WE WILL NOW MOVE TO THE CONSENT CALENDAR.

[CONSENT CALENDAR]

THAT'S GOING TO BE CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM 88 WILL BE REMOVED FROM THE CONSENT CALENDAR AGENDA.

OTHERWISE, WE ARE NOW LOOKING AT ITEMS ONE THROUGH SEVEN AND NINE AND TEN.

AND IF ANY MEMBERS OF THE BOARD WOULD LIKE TO PULL ANY ITEMS WITH YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO PULL AN ITEM FROM THE CONSENT CALENDAR.

AND I DON'T SEE ANY BOARD MEMBERS LOOKING TO PULL ANY ITEMS FROM THE CONSENT CALENDAR.

THEN WE'LL MOVE INTO IS QUESTIONS FROM MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.

WE WILL ALSO HAVE PUBLIC COMMENT FOLLOWING BOARD MEMBER QUESTIONS FOR CONSENT CALENDAR AGENDAS.

DO YOU HAVE ANY BOARD MEMBER? YES. GO AHEAD. DIRECTOR DESCHAMBAULT. I JUST HAD A QUESTION.

I THINK MAX, MAYBE I DON'T KNOW IF YOU HAD ANY ADDITIONAL INFO.

I WAS CURIOUS ABOUT ITEM NINE, THE TRANSMISSION EASEMENT FOR THE EAST ASIA.

EAST RICH EDGE OF SCALE REGIONAL PARK OR FIBER OPTICS LINE.

THE REASON I RAISE THIS IS THE PUBLIC. WE RECEIVED A NUMBER OF COMMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC A WHILE BACK ABOUT BILLBOARDS BEING BUILT THERE IN THAT AREA, AND IT DOES SAY IT'S EXEMPT, BUT I WAS JUST CURIOUS IF THIS WAS RELATED IN ANY WAY TO PREPARE THAT LAND FOR FIBER OPTICS FOR THOSE NEON BILLBOARDS AND SOME OF THE FOLKS AT LAKE FRIENDS OF LAKE [INAUDIBLE] AND OTHERS BROUGHT THAT TO MY ATTENTION.

I ASKED MAX IF HE HAD ANY OTHER ADDITIONAL INFO.

I DON'T KNOW IF YOU DO TODAY OR NOT. YEAH. I CAN ANSWER THAT QUESTION. THANKS. I'M BECKY, I'M DIVISION LEAD FOR LAND ACQUISITION.

THE GOOD QUESTION IS UNRELATED. SO YEAH, THIS IS A FIBER OPTIC LINE THAT'S GOING TO BE UNDERGROUND AS WELL.

SO YEAH, NOT RELATED, NOT RELATED TO GET POWER THERE TO INSTALL THOSE.

CORRECT. THANK YOU. SURE. ANY OTHER. YES. SO THIS IS JUST A LITTLE BIT OF INFORMATION ABOUT THE DISCREPANCY.

THERE WAS OUR INITIAL KIND OF ENGINEER'S ESTIMATED ESTIMATE FOR THE PROJECT.

AND THEN JUST AS FAR AS THE BIDS THAT CAME IN WERE SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER.

DO WE KNOW WHAT FACTORS LED TO THE DISCUSSIONS.

AND THAT'S ONE OF THE TWO, CHRIS IS HERE TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION OR BOTH OF THEM.

GOOD AFTERNOON. PRESIDENT SANWONG BOARD MEMBERS.

REGARDING ITEM TWO. THAT'S THE HAYWARD MARSH RESTORATION PROJECT.

STAFF PUT THE PROJECT OUT TO BID. THE BIDS DID COME BACK HIGHER THAN THE ENGINEER'S ESTIMATE, AND IT COULD BE DEFINITELY ATTRIBUTED TO THE THE MARKET CONDITIONS AND ALSO THE COMPLEXITY OF WORK IN THE BAY.

WORKING IN BAY MUD CAN BE VERY DIFFICULT. SO IT'S A VERY CHALLENGING ENVIRONMENT TO WORK IN.

I'M ASSUMING IN THE FUTURE THIS WILL GO BACK OUT.

SO AND I KNOW RIGHT NOW, AS FAR AS THERE'S NOT A SIGNIFICANT BUDGET FOR THIS CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT, WHICH IS HOW WILL KIND OF BE DIFFERENT IN THE FUTURE.

SO WE GET MORE MAYBE ACCURATE FITTINGS. THAT'S A, THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION.

THE, THE ENGINEER'S ESTIMATE WAS LOW, SO WE WILL MAKE SOME ADJUSTMENTS TO THE NEXT ESTIMATE.

THERE HAS BEEN AN UPDATE ON THE BUDGET FOR THE PROJECT.

WE WERE AWARDED A $5 MILLION EPA GRANT AROUND THE SAME TIME THAT WE OPENED BIDS.

UNFORTUNATELY, WORKING ALONG THE SHORELINE, WE HAVE VERY TIGHT WORK WINDOWS.

SO IF WE CANNOT BEGIN CONSTRUCTION STARTING THE END OF SUMMER, THEN WE MISS A WHOLE YEAR.

SO GOING INTO THE NEXT, NEXT YEAR FOR THE NEXT CONSTRUCTION SEASON, WE WILL HAVE MORE BUDGET.

SO WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO BUILD THE FIRST PHASE OF THE PROJECT SO MUCH.

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I THINK IT'S AN INCREDIBLE PROJECT. I THINK THAT YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES IT'S JUST NOT THE TIME TO DO IT.

BUT I KNOW THAT THE HOUSE AND SHORELINE PLANNING AGENCY IS TOTALLY DIALED INTO THIS PROJECT.

IT'S, IT'S A TOOL THAT WE, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE DO OUR MASTER PLAN AND WE GO AROUND THE COMMUNITY TALKING ABOUT IT, HUGE RESTORATION PROJECT IS, IS OUR CROWN JEWEL.

SO THERE'S LOTS OF SUPPORT FOR THIS. I THINK THERE WILL BE MORE MONEY COMING IN THE FUTURE.

AND I LOOK FORWARD TO THIS PROJECT TAKING A PAUSE.

BUT YOU KNOW, CREATING A BEAUTIFUL MARSH SYSTEM, A GREAT RESTORATION IN THE SOUTH BAY IN THE FUTURE.

AND THANKS FOR ALL YOUR GOOD WORK WITH YOUR STAFF. AND OUR BOARD MEMBER QUESTIONS AT THIS TIME, JUST GO AHEAD. AND THIS IS JUST FOR, FOR FOR THE AUTHORIZATION TO SUBMIT A CONTRACT WITH PRINCIPAL CONSULTING.

YEAH. YES. SO JUST A QUESTION AS FAR AS IF IT TALKED ABOUT THAT THE NEED FOR, TO INCREASE MORE COMPLEX OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS SPACES THAT REQUIRED A GREATER LEVEL OF EFFORT.

ORIGINALLY ANTICIPATED. SO KIND OF MAYBE NOT GOING INTO DETAILS OF THE CASE JUST AS FAR AS WHAT DID WE UNDER ESTIMATE IN THAT KIND OF COMPLEX NATURE? SURE.

GOOD AFTERNOON. JORGE CHAVEZ, CAPTAIN WITH YOUR POLICE DEPARTMENT.

BASICALLY WHEN WE HAVE A RETAINER FOR OUTSIDE ATTORNEYS TO INVESTIGATE ANY INTERNAL INVESTIGATIONS, WE, WE HAVE A CERTAIN AMOUNT SET, AND WE CAN'T REALLY TELL IF WE'RE GOING TO GO OVER OR NOT, BECAUSE WE CAN'T PLAN FOR ANY CASES THAT COME UP DURING THE YEAR.

SO, AT THIS POINT WE HAVE A CASE THAT WE NEED TO PAY FOR, AND WE NEED TO GET THE AUTHORIZATION IN ORDER TO PAY FOR THAT.

OKAY. SO AS FAR AS IT'S DIFFERENT THINGS THAT WE DON'T, THAT AS FAR AS WE HAVE SET ASIDE FOR THE YEAR, AND IF IT EXCEEDS BECAUSE OF UNPLANNED STUFF.

SO AS FAR AS. YES. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. YOU'RE WELCOME.

ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS. WE'LL HAVE ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY TO PROVIDE COMMENT AND OR ASK QUESTIONS AFTER PUBLIC COMMENTS.

SO WHAT I'LL DO IS I'LL OPEN PUBLIC COMMENTS AND SEE IF YOU HAVE ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO WISH TO COMMENT.

THERE IS NO PUBLIC COMMENT, SO WE WILL CLOSE PUBLIC COMMENT. NOW IS THE FINAL OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE ANY COMMENTS OR ASK QUESTIONS.

OTHERWISE I'LL BE LOOKING FOR A MOTION FOR APPROVAL. MOVE APPROVAL.

ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. DIRECTOR COFFEY HAS MADE THE MOTION FOR APPROVAL. DO I HAVE A SECOND TO APPROVE? SECOND. ALL RIGHT. DIRECTOR ESPAÑA HAS SECONDED.

ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY AYE. AYE. ANY OPPOSED? ANY ABSTENTIONS THAT PASSES UNANIMOUSLY? SIX ZERO.

OKAY, GREAT. THANK YOU EVERYONE. LET'S LET'S DO ONE MORE ITEM AND THEN WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO MOVE ABOUT A BREAK AFTER THAT.

[PRESENTATIONS]

THANKS. YEAH. OKAY. WE'RE GOING TO REDO THE VOTE.

SO WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO VOTE. OKAY. SO WE'RE GOING TO NOT DO THE VOTE.

I'M ANNOUNCING THAT WHEN WE APPROVE THE CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM, AS I MENTIONED AT THE BEGINNING, IT WAS FOR CONSENT CALENDAR ITEMS G ONE THROUGH SEVEN AND NINE AND TEN.

SO IT DID NOT INCLUDE ITEM EIGHT. ITEM EIGHT.

BUT WE'RE NOT GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT ITEM EIGHT TODAY.

THANK YOU. I JUST QUICKLY INTRODUCE THIS NEXT ITEM.

I'M REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THE WORK THAT THE REGIONAL PARKS FOUNDATION IS DOING ON THEIR STRATEGIC PLAN AND THE LEADERSHIP LAWRENCE LEADERSHIP WITH THE FOUNDATION AND BRUCE AND HOLLY ON THE FOUNDATION BOARD. YOU KNOW, I REALLY, I, WHEN I FIRST STARTED WORKING WITH THE DISTRICT, I GOT TO JOIN, I THINK ONE OF THE WORKSHOPS FOR THE, FOR THE PLAN.

AND I THINK THE FOUNDATION BRINGS SO MUCH IN ITS PARTNERSHIP WITH THE DISTRICT.

AND THIS REALLY HELPS SET IT ON A COURSE FOR REALLY POSITIVE GROWTH AND SUPPORT FOR THE, FOR THE DISTRICT'S MISSION AND THE COMMUNITIES THAT WE

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IN THE, IN YOUR BOARD DOCUMENTS, THERE'S A COPY OF THE STRATEGIC PLAN.

THERE'S ALSO A COPY OF THE DRAFT MOU. WE'RE NOT PRESENTING ABOUT THAT TODAY.

WE JUST WANTED THAT THERE FOR TRANSPARENCY. AND WE'LL COME BACK TO THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE WITH THE DRAFT RECOMMENDATION TO THE BOARD IN SEPTEMBER AND THEN TO THE FULL BOARD IN OCTOBER. CHAIRMAN.

GOOD AFTERNOON. PRESIDENT, SANWONG AND ALL MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.

WE'RE DELIGHTED TO BE HERE TODAY. AND ON BEHALF OF THE REGIONAL PARKS FOUNDATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS, I WANT TO EXTEND MY CONGRATULATIONS TO MAX. THEY'VE BEEN A FANTASTIC PARTNER AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO A LONG RELATIONSHIP CONTINUING TO WORK WITH YOU.

I'M HOLLY POTTER, I'M PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD FOR THE REGIONAL PARKS FOUNDATION, AND WE ARE HAPPY TO BE HERE TODAY TO TALK ABOUT OUR STRATEGIC PLAN.

ALL OF YOU HAVE BEEN ON THIS JOURNEY WITH US, AND THE STRATEGIC PLAN WE'RE GOING TO TALK WITH YOU ABOUT TODAY HAS BENEFITED FROM YOUR INPUT AND YOUR PARTNERSHIP, AND WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR THAT.

TWO YEARS AGO, OUR BOARD ASKED THE QUESTION OF WHETHER OR NOT THE FOUNDATION WAS POSITIONED TO BE THE BEST POSSIBLE PARTNER FOR THE DISTRICT.

THAT PROCESS, WHICH INCLUDED YOUR INPUT, LED US TO CONCLUDE THAT THE FOUNDATION HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO EVOLVE AND GROW.

WE PRIORITIZED GREATER FUNDRAISING CAPACITY AND INCREASED NIMBLENESS TO ENSURE THAT WE ARE THE PARTNER THAT THIS DISTRICT DESERVES.

OUR FINAL PLAN IS GROUNDED IN EXTENSIVE DATA, STAKEHOLDER REVIEWS INTERVIEWS, PEER BENCHMARKING, AND FINANCIAL MODELING ALL HELP TO SHAPE THE RECOMMENDATIONS.

WITHIN THIS PLAN, THE STRATEGY WILL ENABLE THE FOUNDATION TO BUILD AN ORGANIZATIONAL CAPACITY REQUIRED FOR MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGNS, AND TO ENABLE THE INVESTMENT IN THE PARKS AT A SCALE THAT WE HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO DO BEFORE.

BY 2030, WE EXPECT MORE THAN DOUBLE OUR CONTRIBUTION TO THE EAST BAY REGIONAL PARKS DISTRICTS.

AND BEFORE I PASS THINGS OFF TO LAUREN, I WANT TO TURN IT OVER TO BRUCE KERN, OUR TREASURER, WHO WAS ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN THE FINANCIAL MODELING THAT WAS REQUIRED TO CREATE THIS PLAN.

THANKS. PRESIDENT SANWONG. MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.

WELL, IT'S A PLEASURE TO BE WITH YOU, AND THANK YOU FOR HOLDING THIS ITEM.

THE AS TREASURER, I HAVE RESPONSIBILITY FOR FINANCE COMMITTEE AS WELL AS OUR INVESTMENT COMMITTEE, WHICH MANAGES A PORTFOLIO OF 28 MILLION OF BOTH COMMITTED AND UNCOMMITTED REVENUES.

WE DID A DEEP DIVE WHEN THE STRATEGIC PLAN WAS DEVELOPED LOOKING AT THE FEASIBILITY.

SO WE DID A MULTI YEAR BUDGET OF LOOKING FORWARD AND HOW DO WE REACH THAT GOAL OF IN 2030? BEING A SUSTAINABLE ORGANIZATION IS GENERATING A MINIMUM OF $10 MILLION IN TERMS OF CONTRIBUTIONS AND THE ABILITY TO PARTICIPATE IN MAJOR CAPITAL PROJECTS THAT THE BOARD, YOUR BOARD JUST SEEMS AS A CRITICAL.

WE WENT THROUGH, WE DEVELOPED THIS STRATEGIC PLAN LOOKING AT A SET OF BENCHMARKS AND GUARDRAILS OF THINGS THAT WE HAVE TO WATCH DURING THIS RAMP UP PERIOD OF TIME SO THAT WE REMAIN FISCALLY SOLVENT DURING, DURING THE DEVELOPMENT OF IT.

AND SO JUST WANTED TO CALL THAT TO YOUR ATTENTION.

PART OF THE BUSINESS PLAN DOES HAVE A FINANCIAL ANALYSIS AND GUIDANCE.

AND AS YOU MOVE FORWARD IN THE MANAGEMENT OF THIS ON A PERSONAL NOTE, SINCE I'VE WORKED WITH MANY OF YOU OVER THE YEARS OF 16 YEARS OF VOLUNTEER WORK HERE FOR THE DISTRICT.

THE, THE PLAN REALLY IS A EXTREMELY CONSEQUENTIAL PROJECT IN MY EIGHT YEARS ON THE DISTRICT AS I GO ALONG IS PROBABLY THE MOST SIGNIFICANT PROJECT THAT I'VE BEEN ENGAGED WITH DURING THAT PERIOD OF TIME.

I SUPPORTED I THINK THE DISTRICT WILL BENEFIT GREATLY FROM IT.

IT'S KIND OF A NEW WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY TO CAPITALIZE ON THE PHILANTHROPIC OPPORTUNITIES THAT REPRESENTED IN OUR COMMUNITY.

AND AS A RESULT, I HOPE YOU WILL CONTINUE TO SHARE THE EXCITEMENT THAT I HAD IN SUPPORTING THE PLAN.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU. I'M LAUREN BERNSTEIN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE FOUNDATION.

FIRST, I JUST WANTED TO THANK YOU AND SO MUCH FOR ALL THEIR WORK ON THIS PLAN AND HAD A STRATEGIC PLANNING WORK GROUP.

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SO IF YOU CAN'T SEE HIM. BUT JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW TERRENCE IS HERE.

I WANT TO INTRODUCE TWO MEMBERS OF OUR STAFF, ARI LIPSKY, OUR DIRECTOR OF ADVANCEMENT OVER HERE, AND LIZ RODDY IS HERE, OUR EXECUTIVE SUPPORT COORDINATOR.

SO WE JUST WANT TO WELCOME THEM TO THEIR FIRST BOARD MEETING.

I THINK UNLESS YOU'VE BEEN BEFORE THIS. SO WE'RE REALLY EXCITED TO HAVE EVERYONE AND ALSO JUST ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD AND THE REGIONAL PARKS FOUNDATION, CONGRATULATIONS TO MAX KORTEN, OUR NEW GENERAL MANAGER.

WE'RE SO EXCITED TO WORK WITH YOU AND CONTINUE WORKING WITH YOU.

SO OKAY, SO WE HAVE A POP QUIZ TO START. WHAT PARK IS THIS? THAT WAS MY FIRST QUESTION, I DON'T KNOW. ANYONE FROM THE AUDIENCE? YEAH. OH, DID YOU KNOW THAT ABOUT IT? YES. LET'S TRY.

FOR THE WIN. OKAY. GREAT. OKAY. SO I'M GOING TO JUMP INTO IT AND WE'RE HERE FOR QUESTIONS.

SO THE WHY I THINK HOLLY AND BRUCE EXPLAIN THE WHY REALLY? WELL, THE REASON THAT WE EMBARKED ON THIS WHOLE PROCESS IS BECAUSE WE BELIEVE THAT THE EAST BAY DESERVES AN EFFECTIVE AND CAPABLE PARTNER.

AND WE'VE BEEN HEARING FROM YOUR BOARD ABOUT SO MANY PROJECTS THAT YOU'RE WANTING TO PARTICIPATE IN.

AND THE REGIONAL PARK FOUNDATION WANTS TO MEET YOU WHERE YOU'RE AT, AND WE WANT TO BE PART OF THOSE PROJECTS AND SUPPORT YOU IN THOSE LARGER PROJECTS.

SO WE KIND OF EMBARKED ON THIS JOURNEY FOR THAT REASON.

AND AS HOLLY ALSO, I'LL JUST REITERATE THAT THIS WAS A TWO YEAR PLANNING PROCESS.

AND WE DID INTERVIEW SURVEYS, WE BENCHMARKED AGAINST OTHER PARK PARTNERS AROUND THE NATION LIKE IN ATLANTA, LA, SAN DIEGO, NEW YORK. AND SO WE REALLY LOOKED AT A LOT OF DIFFERENT MODELS.

WE DID A LOT OF WORKING GROUP SESSIONS WITH EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP AT THE DISTRICT AND WITH YOUR BOARD.

AND AS BRUCE MENTIONED, THE FINANCIAL PLANNING AS WELL.

AND SO OUR PLAN IS AMBITIOUS, BUT IT'S ALSO ACHIEVABLE AND GROUNDED IN ASSESSMENTS OF WHAT'S POSSIBLE IN OUR ORGANIZATIONAL CAPACITY, BUT IT ALSO MAINTAINS THE BOLD VISION NECESSARY TO TRANSFORM OUR IMPACT AND WHAT WE CAN DO TO STAND ALONGSIDE THE PARK DISTRICT AND SUPPORT YOU.

AND SO THIS IS A MORE DETAILED TIMELINE. IT HAS BEEN A LONG PROCESS AND WE'VE BEEN KIND OF PRESENTING TO YOUR BOARD ALONG THE WAY.

BUT JUST AS A REMINDER, WE STARTED WITH VISION SETTING WITH THE PARK DISTRICT AND WITH OUR, WITH, INTERNALLY WITH THE REGIONAL PARKS FOUNDATION BOARD.

AND WE DID A MEMBERSHIP STUDY TO, TO HEAR FROM ALL OF OUR CONSTITUENTS.

AND THEN WE LAUNCHED THE PROJECTS AND DID A BUNCH OF STAKEHOLDER GROUP INTERVIEW SURVEYS, RESEARCH.

WE DID WORKING GROUP MEETINGS WITH THE DISTRICT.

WE DID OUR BUSINESS MODELING. WE PRESENTED TO YOU IN NOVEMBER OF 2025.

AND THE FIRST PART, JUST TO REMEMBER TOO, THAT WE SHARED WITH YOU WAS ACTUALLY WE WORKED WITH POTRERO GROUP TO DO A PARTNERSHIP MODEL AND MOU RECOMMENDATION.

SO WE KIND OF STARTED WITH THIS BIG VISION OF LIKE, HOW DO WE WANT TO WORK TOGETHER AND HOW CAN WE BEST SUPPORT EACH OTHER? AND THEN OUR FOUNDATION BOARD WENT ON TO DO PART TWO, WHICH IS THIS STRATEGIC PLAN THAT YOU SEE HERE.

AND SO THERE WERE TWO PARTS TO THIS. WE CAME BACK IN FEBRUARY AND PRESENTED TO YOU.

AND THEN HERE WE ARE PRESENTING THE PLAN. AND AS GENERAL MANAGER, MAX KORTEN STATED THAT WE ARE COMING BACK TO YOU TWO MORE TIMES TO GO OVER THE MOU.

SO REALLY TODAY THE PURPOSE IS JUST TO TALK ABOUT WHAT'S IN THE PLAN.

AND THEN WE'LL COME BACK ABOUT THE DOCUMENTS LATER.

AND SO OUR MISSION REMAINS THE SAME. MAYBE NEWLY ARTICULATED AND MORE INSPIRATIONAL.

THE REGIONAL PARKS FOUNDATION BUILDS STRONG COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOR EAST BAY REGIONAL PARKS FOR THE ENJOYMENT OF ALL.

FOREVER. WE ALSO HAVE NEWLY ARTICULATED VALUES THAT OUR BOARD.

CAME UP WITH. AND SO WE CHAMPION ACCESS FOR ALL.

WE BUILD TRUSTED RELATIONSHIPS. WE PUT NATURE FIRST INTERNALLY AND EXTERNALLY, AND WE STAY FLEXIBLE AND CREATIVE.

AND THAT LAST VALUE IS REALLY IMPORTANT FOR THE WAY THAT A NONPROFIT PARTNER WORKS WITH A GOVERNMENT AGENCY.

AND SO IT IS PRETTY STRAIGHTFORWARD WHAT WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO DO AND HOPEFULLY ON A LARGER SCALE.

WHEN WE BUILD ROBUST PHILANTHROPIC CAPACITY, WHEN WE ACTIVATE A BROAD BASE OF OUR SUPPORTERS AND WHEN WE STRATEGICALLY INVEST IN VISIBLE HIGH PRIORITY PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS TOGETHER.

WE ACT AS YOUR HIGHLY EFFECTIVE AND STRATEGIC PARTNER AND WE CAN ENSURE THAT OUR PARKS ARE ACCESSIBLE AND VIBRANT AND WELL STEWARDED.

AND SO WE'RE OPERATING OUR STRATEGIC PLAN CONTAINS THREE STRATEGIC PILLARS.

THE FIRST ONE IS TO BUILD FUNDRAISING CAPACITY.

SO THAT INCLUDES HIRING DEDICATED FUNDRAISING STAFF, WHICH WE'VE STARTED TO DO ALREADY AS YOU CAN SEE.

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AND WE ALSO ARE REDESIGNING OUR MEMBERSHIP PROGRAM AND THEN LOOKING MORE ABOUT READINESS FOR CAPITAL CAMPAIGNS.

AND THEN ACTIVATING OUR COMMUNITY IS ALSO REALLY IMPORTANT.

WE HAVE, WE'VE TALKED A LOT ABOUT THIS IN THIS, IN THIS BOARD SETTING, BUT WE DO HAVE 12,500 MEMBERS.

AND A LOT OF OUR MEMBERS ARE REALLY FOCUSED THAT THAT'S ONLY, THERE'S SO MUCH MORE POTENTIAL TO THAT BECAUSE THOSE ARE ONLY THE PEOPLE THAT, YOU KNOW, MAYBE NEED A PARKING PASS OR USE OUR PARKS IN A CERTAIN WAY RELATED TO FEES.

AND WHAT'S REALLY EXCITING IS THIS IDEA OF ACTIVATING OUR COMMUNITY IS GOING TO INCLUDE ALL OF THE 3 MILLION PEOPLE IN THE TWO COUNTIES WHO WE CAN NOW TALK TO, AND WE WANT TO GET THEM INVOLVED AND HAVE OPPORTUNITIES FOR EVERYONE IN THE EAST BAY TO BE INVOLVED WITH THE FOUNDATION AND THEN DEEPENING OUR IMPACT.

YOU'RE GOING TO SEE US INVESTING IN PROGRAM STAFF.

WE REALLY WANT TO BE HEARD FROM, FROM I'VE EVEN HEARD FROM YOUR BOARD AND THEN STAFF.

PEOPLE REALLY WANT TO SUPPORT THE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS USING OUR PARK.

AND A NONPROFIT PARTNER IS AN EXCELLENT WAY TO DO THAT.

AND SO WE WANT TO EXPAND OUR OFFERINGS TO COMMUNITY PARTNERS.

AND SO HOPEFULLY I KNOW SOME OF YOU HAVE ALREADY BROUGHT ME LIKE AMAZING COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS THAT WE WANT TO PARTNER WITH AND WORK WITH, AND HOPEFULLY WE'LL HAVE MORE OFFERINGS FOR THEM.

AND THEN INCREASING OUR SUPPORT FOR PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS THAT ADVANCE SHARED PRIORITIES.

AND THEN THERE'S THIS REGIONAL CONSERVATION EFFORT ROLE THAT A NONPROFIT PARTNER LIKE US CAN PLAY IN COORDINATION AND COLLABORATION.

SO OUR NEW MODEL WILL ALLOW US TO MAKE INVESTMENTS IN EAST BAY REGIONAL PARKS THAT ARE TRULY TRANSFORMATIONAL.

BY 2030, THE REGIONAL PARKS FOUNDATION WILL BE A SOPHISTICATED NONPROFIT PARTNER THAT'S FINANCIALLY SELF-SUFFICIENT, CAPABLE OF MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGNS AND A POWERFUL CONVENER AND CONSTITUENCY BUILDER FOR EAST BAY REGIONAL PARK.

OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS, AS BRUCE EXPLAINED, WE'LL EXPECT THAT OUR INVESTMENTS IN THE FOUNDATION'S CAPACITY AND INFRASTRUCTURE WILL ALLOW US TO EXPONENTIALLY INCREASE OUR IMPACT.

SO IF YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE BLUE SHADED AREA HERE ON THE BOTTOM YOU'LL SEE THAT JUST A VERY SMALL INVESTMENT IN OUR OPERATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE IS GOING TO HELP US HAVE AN OUTSIZED EFFECT ON OUR PROGRAMMATIC IMPACT.

SO WE'RE REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THAT. AND THE TRANSITION WILL BE THOUGHTFUL AND DELIBERATE.

IT'S NOT WILLY NILLY. WE TAKE OUR 57 YEAR LEGACY VERY SERIOUSLY, AND WE ARE STANDING ON THE SUCCESS OF THE FOUNDATION AND ALL THE YEARS THAT IT'S BEEN BUILT UP TO, AND WE WOULDN'T BE IN THIS POSITION TO GROW LIKE THIS IF ALL THE INPUTS HADN'T COME THROUGH TO GET US TO THIS PLACE. SO PHASE ONE, WE'RE KIND OF RIGHT IN THERE RIGHT NOW.

WE'RE FOCUSING ON OUR OPERATIONAL INDEPENDENCE, BECAUSE THAT'S GOING TO GIVE US THE INTERNAL CAPACITY TO BUILD OUR FUNDRAISING SYSTEMS. AND THEN PHASE TWO IS ACTUALLY MAKING THAT COME TO LIFE.

SO ACTUALLY INCREASING OUR FUNDRAISING REVENUE AND PHASE THREE IS CONTINUING TO PARTNER WITH THE DISTRICT ON EVEN MORE PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS, CAPITAL THAT YOU ALL WANT TO DO AND BEYOND. AND THEN I THINK IN FIVE YEARS WE'LL DO ANOTHER STRATEGIC PLAN.

SO WE'LL SEE WHAT HAPPENS. AND THERE'S SO MANY INPUTS THAT HAVE TO COME TOGETHER TO MAKE THIS PLAN A SUCCESS.

AND SO, OF COURSE, THE REGIONAL PARKS FOUNDATION BOARD COMMITMENT AND LEADERSHIP, OUR STAFF EXCELLENCE, DONORS OUR STRATEGIC DISCIPLINES. SO YOU'LL SEE US REALLY FOCUSING IN ON PROJECTS WHERE IN THE PAST YOU'VE SEEN US SUPPORTING A WIDE VARIETY OF PROGRAMS. WE'RE REALLY GOING TO HAVE DISCIPLINE AROUND THAT AND THEN FLEXIBILITY AND LEARNING.

BUT MOST IMPORTANT I THINK, IS OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH THE PARK DISTRICT.

THAT'S THE MOST IMPORTANT CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTOR FOR ME AND WHERE I THINK WE'RE IN A REALLY GOOD PLACE FOR THAT.

AND SO I'M REALLY EXCITED. SO TWO, PARK DISTRICT LEADERSHIP AND STAFF, WE ASK FOR YOUR CONTINUED PARTNERSHIP, CLEAR COMMUNICATION ABOUT PRIORITIES AND OPPORTUNITIES.

PATIENCE AS WE BUILD CAPACITY AND TRUST IN OUR COMMITMENT TO YOUR SUCCESS.

THESE PARKS CANNOT DEPEND ON PUBLIC FUNDING ALONE.

THEY NEED PHILANTHROPIC PARTNERS WILLING TO INVEST IN THEIR FUTURE TO FUND IMPROVEMENTS AND INNOVATIONS THAT GO BEYOND WHAT TAX REVENUES CAN PROVIDE, TO BUILD BROAD PUBLIC CONSTITUENCIES THAT CHAMPION THEM, AND TO ENSURE THEY REMAIN ACCESSIBLE TO ALL.

AND THE REGIONAL PARK FOUNDATION EXISTS TO BE THAT PARTNER FOR THE PARK DISTRICT.

AND THIS STRATEGIC PLAN PROVIDES THE ROADMAP.

AND WHEN THIS WAS OVER, I WAS REALLY EXCITED.

I WAS LIKE, WE'RE DONE TWO YEARS AND WANTING TO CELEBRATE AND THEN, YOU KNOW, KIND OF READING THE PLAN AND SAYING, OH, NO, THIS IS WE'RE JUST GETTING STARTED HERE.

THIS IS WHERE THE WORK STARTS. SO WE'LL BRING IT TO LIFE.

AND THE JOURNEY AHEAD WILL BE CHALLENGING, BUT THE DESTINATION IS WORTH EVERY EFFORT.

BY 2030, WE WILL HAVE BUILT AN INSTITUTION CAPABLE OF ENTERING THE EAST BAY.

REGIONAL PARKS THRIVE FOR ALL FOREVER. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING PART OF THIS PLAN.

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ANY BOARD MEMBER QUESTIONS BEFORE WE OPEN UP PUBLIC COMMENT ON THE STRATEGIC PLAN? YEAH. PLEASE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.

I LOOK FORWARD TO GREAT, GREAT THINGS WITH YOU GUYS. I WAS WONDERING WHAT YOU GUYS, ALL THREE OF YOU, WHAT DO YOU PERCEIVE THE FOUNDATION'S ROLE IS GOING TO BE IN ELECTIONS, SPECIFICALLY A PARSED ATTACK OR WHATEVER WE ENVISION AND WE HAVE BEEN ENVISIONING FOR YEARS. I KNOW THAT I WORK FOR HARD FOUNDATION WITH THE HEART FOUNDATION, AND THEY'RE TOTALLY DIALED IN.

AND THE GOAL OF THE FOUNDATION CAN DO LOTS OF THINGS THAT A PUBLIC AGENCY CANNOT DO.

DO YOU HAVE ANY VISION IN THAT AREA? SO AS YOU KNOW, THE FOUNDATION HAS ALWAYS BEEN INVOLVED IN CAMPAIGNS FOR PARCEL TAX AND BONDS. AND EVEN MOST RECENTLY OUR BOARD SUPPORTED POLLING AND POLLING EFFORTS FOR PROPOSITION FOR THE STATEWIDE LEVEL AT THE DISTRICT LEVEL.

WE'RE VERY INTERESTED IN BEING INVOLVED. AND NOT ONLY CAN WE EXPEND FUNDS TO SUPPORT EARLY ORGANIZING, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE MOST EXCITED ABOUT IN TERMS OF THE TRANSITION OF OUR MEMBERSHIP PROGRAM IS REALLY RETHINKING WHAT OUR MEMBERSHIP PROGRAM IS, WHICH IS REALLY ABOUT DEVELOPING CHAMPIONS ACROSS THE REGION.

SO AS LAUREN TALKED ABOUT, WE CURRENTLY HAVE OVER 12,000 MEMBERS, BUT WE'RE IN A REGION THAT HAS MORE THAN 3 MILLION PEOPLE.

AND SO DEVELOPING CHAMPIONS WITHIN AN ENGAGEMENT AMONGST THAT POPULATION, I THINK, IS SEPARATE TO OUR ROLE AND THAT ACTIVATION.

NO, NO. NO NO. OKAY. MY SECOND QUESTION WAS GOING TO BE, SO YOU'RE GOING TO CHANGE THE MEMBERSHIP.

I UNDERSTAND THAT COMPLETELY. I'M WONDERING IF IT'S GOING TO IS THE ATTEMPT BEING INTERNALIZED WITH EAST BAY REGIONAL PARK DISTRICT BE MORE INTENSE BECAUSE LIKE YOU SAY 11,000, WE'VE GOT 3 MILLION PEOPLE THAT WE'RE GOING TO TRY.

I PERSONALLY LOVE THE IDEA OF PEOPLE. EVERY TIME I GO SOMEPLACE OR GO TO A PARK, I SEE THE NICE LITTLE LICENSE PLATE HOLDER THAT SAYS MEMBER EAST BAY REGIONAL PARK FOUNDATION. I LOVE THAT, I'D LIKE TO SEE THAT.

AND WE'RE ALL TRIBAL. WE'D LOVE TO SEE THOSE PEOPLE.

IT IS I ASSUME WE'RE GOING TO TRY TO ENHANCE THAT, BUT ARE THERE SPECIFIC WAYS OR DO YOU THINK IT'S GOING TO BE DIFFICULT TO BREAK AWAY FROM YOU GUYS? YOU HAD SUCH A GREAT CREW TO WORK THAT DEAL.

I THINK AND WE CAN I THINK LAUREN AND MAX CAN ALSO SPEAK ABOUT IT, BUT I THINK THE KEY THING IS KIND OF SEPARATING THAT CHAMPION BUILDING AND ENGAGEMENT BUILDING AND FUNDRAISING OPPORTUNITY FROM THE TRANSACTIONAL NATURE OF SOME COMPONENTS OF OUR MEMBERSHIP PROGRAM NOW.

AND I THINK WE'VE BEEN HAVING GREAT CONVERSATIONS WITH MAX IN TERMS OF WHICH PART OF THAT THE FOUNDATION SHOULD OWN IN TERMS OF THAT COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND PHILANTHROPIC CAPACITY VERSUS THE TRANSACTIONAL NATURE OF, SAY, A PARKING PASS.

RIGHT. YEAH. EXCELLENT I'LL SHARE. I MEAN, WE REALLY WANT THIS TO FEEL SEAMLESS AND EASY FOR THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO ARE MEMBERS.

RIGHT. AND SO WE'RE WORKING WITH OUR TEAM TO FIGURE OUT HOW CAN WE BUILD.

THERE'S BEEN FOLKS WHO ARE PROCESSING THE MEMBERSHIPS, THE SORT OF ANNUAL PASSES, AND MAKE THAT WHOLE PROCESS SIMPLER.

SO THAT THE DISTRICT IS TAKING ON SOME OF THAT TRANSACTIONAL PIECE, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, WE'RE DOING IT IN A WAY THAT IS LESS INTENSIVE FOR THOSE TEAM MEMBERS.

AND SO THEY CAN ALSO PROVIDE OTHER SUPPORT IN THE DISTRICT WHERE WE NEED.

SO I THINK IT'S LIKE, IT REALLY FEELS LIKE A WIN WIN SITUATION TO ME, WHERE THE FOUNDATION IS GOING TO END UP WITH A STRONGER MEMBERSHIP PROGRAM AND THE DISTRICT IS GOING TO END UP WITH THE STAFF THAT WERE EMBEDDED WITH THE FOUNDATION BEING ABLE TO SUPPORT EVEN MORE THAN JUST THE ANNUAL FESTIVAL. YEAH. AND WE ALSO DID A STUDY BECAUSE WE WHAT THOSE THAT JUST ARE INTERESTED IN THE PARKING PASS AND MAYBE NOT IN A PHILANTHROPIC RELATIONSHIP.

SO WE WANTED TO KNOW HOW MANY ARE WE GOING TO LOSE IN THAT TRANSACTION PROCESS.

SO THAT'S BUILT INTO OUR FINANCIAL ESTIMATES AS WELL.

BUT WE THINK IT'S A BETTER PITCH THAT WE CAN REACH MORE AND HAVE A DEEPER RELATIONSHIP WITH OUR MEMBERS IN THE PATH THAT WE'VE CHOSEN.

YEAH. I WOULD JUST ADD ONE THING THAT THE MEMBERSHIP PROGRAM WAS ALSO BECAUSE WE WERE RUNNING LIKE A FEED PROGRAM,

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SO IT HAS BEEN AN AMAZING OPPORTUNITY FOR THE FOUNDATION.

IT WAS BLURRING THE ROLES AND SOMETHING WE'RE TRYING TO DO RIGHT NOW WITH THIS PLAN IS PROVIDE ROLE CLARITY, LIKE WHAT IS THE DISTRICT DO? WHAT DOES THE FOUNDATION DO? SO WE CAN DO WHAT WE DO BEST? AND I THINK IT WAS BLURRING THOSE TWO THINGS BECAUSE A LOT OF WE ARE GETTING A LOT OF QUESTIONS AND SPENDING A LOT OF TIME WITH CUSTOMER SERVICE, ANSWERING QUESTIONS THAT THE FOUNDATION REALLY SHOULDN'T BE ANSWERING ON BEHALF OF THE DISTRICT. AND SO WE'RE WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT THAT ROLE.

CLARITY TOO. THANK YOU. BOARD MEMBER QUESTIONS.

GO AHEAD. I JUST SPEAK A LITTLE BIT MORE ON ESTATE PLANNING.

I KNOW AS I GET OLDER AND I DON'T HAVE CHILDREN AND OTHER AGING OUT AND THERE'S ALWAYS THIS BIG PUSH AT THE END OF THE YEAR, RIGHT? BUT I HAVEN'T REALLY SEEN FROM, FROM US.

AND I KNOW BE A BIG PART OF MY PLANNING, BUT HOW TO BEGIN THAT? AND THERE'S AN EDUCATION, IS THAT GOING TO BE A PART OR WE DO HAVE A ESTATE PLANNING WORKSHOP AND WE MAY BE GETTING GET ABOUT 4 MILLION, 5 MILLION, YOU KNOW, A YEAR THAT THAT MAY COME IN THROUGH THROUGH BEQUESTS.

WE WILL CONTINUE THAT, BUT WE THINK WE CAN DO BETTER.

AND UNDER THE NEW LEADERSHIP AND SUPPORT, BECAUSE THERE'S REALLY BEEN A VOLUNTARY.

WE HAVE ATTORNEYS AND FINANCIAL PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY THAT HAVE COME FORWARD, THAT HAVE HELPED AND STEWARD THAT.

IT'S BEEN UNDER THE FINANCE COMMITTEE. I'M GOING TO MOVE IT OVER TO THE DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE, AND WE THINK WE CAN DO A BETTER JOB AT THE REQUESTS AND THE FINANCIAL AND ESTATE PLANNING. SO I'LL JUST SAY ANYONE WHO WANTS TO RAISE THEIR HAND TO INCLUDE LEAVE THEIR LEGACY TO THE PARK DISTRICT.

WE COMMEND THAT AND WE WELCOME THAT. AND WE'RE HERE TO SUPPORT EVERYONE IN THAT BECAUSE A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO LEAVE QUITE A LEGACY AND CONTRIBUTE TO REALLY IMPORTANT PARK DISTRICTS AND PROGRAMS. AND WE'RE EXCITED TO TALK ABOUT SOME WAS THE IVAN DIXON PROGRAM AS AN EXAMPLE.

AND SO THERE ARE OTHER REQUESTS THAT HAVE COME IN AND WE'LL BE TALKING ABOUT THAT MORE AS TIME GOES ON.

SO IT'S A GREAT OPPORTUNITY. SO THANK YOU FOR BRINGING IT UP. I THINK ARI IS JUMPING OUT TO ME RIGHT NOW.

AND IT'S ALREADY BEEN HERE TWO MONTHS, BUT HAS ALREADY CREATED A PLAN FOR 2027 AND PLAN ON GIVING US IN TERMS OF DIVERSIFYING REVENUE AND, AND JUST INCREASING THAT PROGRAM. THAT'S YES, THAT IS 100% IN THE PLANS BECAUSE AND PART OF WHAT WE LIKE WHEN I KEEP TALKING ABOUT CAPACITY, THAT'S EXACTLY. AND I'VE SAID THAT WORD 100 TIMES PROBABLY TODAY.

AND THAT IS PART OF THE CAPACITY WE NEED IS STAFF CAPACITY TO RUN PROGRAMS EXACTLY LIKE IT WAS A VOLUNTEER EFFORT.

AND THE BOARD WILL RECEIVE A STRATEGIC PLAN THAT WE'VE ASKED THAT THIS BE PART OF WHAT HE REPRESENTS.

SO WE THINK IT'S A GREAT OPPORTUNITY GIVEN THE DEMOGRAPHICS OF THE TWO COUNTY AREA.

THANK YOU. THAT WAS A GREAT THING TO BRING UP.

YEAH. GO AHEAD. YEAH, I JUST HAD A QUESTION ABOUT THIS IS ACTUALLY THE DRAFT MOU. BECAUSE LIKE THE ORGANIZATION IS BECOMING SEPARATE ARE REALLY EXCITING.

REALLY EXCITED ABOUT STRAIGHTFORWARD STRATEGIC PLAN.

AND THEN WHEN YOU'RE PLANNING TO DO IN THE NEXT TWO YEARS BUT IN HERE, IT SAYS LIKE THE MOU COULD BE TERMINATED FOR CONVENIENCE OF EITHER PARTY 90 DAYS WRITTEN NOTICE. AND THEN THERE'S ALSO SPEAKING ABOUT BREACH OF CONTRACT AND DIFFERENT TIME TRY TO REMEDY THAT BREACH.

SO EVERYTHING IS COOL. THERE'S A LOT OF SUPPORT RIGHT NOW, BUT IF THERE EVER GOT TO A TIME PERIOD THAT THERE WAS A SERIAL. SO THEN AS FAR AS WHAT HAPPENS AT 90 DAYS NOTICE WITH THE ORGANIZATION THAT IS PART OF THE PARK, LIKE I FELT LESS, I THINK.

YEAH. WELL, I THINK THE, YOU KNOW, THEY WERE REALLY THERE WHEN WE WANTED TO PROVIDE THAT.

IT'S JUST THAT WE'RE WORKING ON. I THINK WE IT IS HELPFUL AND WE CAN WORK THIS INTO SORT OF WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE PRESENT TO THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE BOARD ABOUT THE MOU.

BUT I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAY TODAY, LIKE GETTING INTO THAT LEVEL OF DETAIL OF WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IN THAT CASE, WE MUST BE PREPARED TO SPEAK. SURE. I WANTED TO BRING IT UP BECAUSE I'M NOT PART OF THE EXECUTIVE.

YEAH. SO IT'S COME TO YOUR FULL BOARD FOR APPROVAL AND WE.

YEAH. OKAY. SO I THINK IT'S A GOOD I THINK IT'S A GOOD NOTE.

BUT TO NOTE YOUR BOARD'S CONCERN ABOUT THAT, AND I DID WANT TO SAY THAT WE, IT'S HARD TO CHARACTERIZE IN A PHRASE LIKE WHAT'S HAPPENING

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SO WHAT? WE'RE SEPARATING OUR STAFFING STRUCTURE.

IT'S HARD. IT'S HARD TO SAY IT QUICKLY. SO I KNOW WHAT YOU MEANT, BUT ONE OF THE CROCKETT [INAUDIBLE] COMMENT IT'S A REAL LIFE ISSUE. I WORK FOR HOSPITALS PUBLIC HOSPITALS THAT HAVE INDEPENDENT PRIVATE 1C THREE FOUNDATIONS.

AND AT TIMES THEY BECAME ADVERSARIAL. IT MIGHT BE THEY DON'T LIKE THE POLITICS OF THE ELECTED BOARD AND IT, IT, IT'S SOMETHING WE NEED TO BE COGNIZANT OF AND [INAUDIBLE] BRUCE.

YEAH, I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE LIKE WE'RE SUCCESSFUL FOREVER AND EVER.

AND I'M SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS IS SO CLEAR. I'M SORRY.

THIS QUESTIONS COMMENTS. SORRY. BUT IT'S JUST SO CLEAR.

LIKE, I FEEL LIKE I CAN TAKE THIS OUT IN THE MESSAGE.

SO THANK YOU FOR THIS. SUCH A PARTNERSHIP TAKES WORK, RIGHT? IT'S I THINK WE KNOW THAT WE'RE SETTING THIS PLAN.

AND WITH THE MOU IN THE FUTURE, WE'RE TRYING TO CREATE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR PARTNERSHIP.

BUT THAT TAKES REAL PEOPLE DOING REAL WORK TOGETHER EVERY DAY.

SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT LIKE, I KNOW FOR ME AND OUR LEADERSHIP TEAM, WE'RE COMMITTED TO THAT PARTNERSHIP WITH THE FOUNDATION.

AND I KNOW FROM THE FOUNDATION BOARD TO LAUREN AND [INAUDIBLE] AND THE WHOLE TEAM THAT THERE TOO.

BUT WE BOTH HAVE THE LEGAL STRUCTURE THAT SUPPORTS THAT.

ANY OTHER BOARD MEMBER QUESTIONS ON THIS ITEM? I HAVE A QUESTION. IN TERMS OF USING THE STRATEGIC PLAN TO HELP PRIORITIZE FUNDRAISING EFFORTS I KNOW THAT WE AS A BOARD, WE WORK REALLY HARD IN THE PAST THREE YEARS ON THE CHILDREN'S ENVIRONMENTAL PUBLICATION CENTER.

AND I KNOW ORIGINALLY WHEN THAT WAS, THAT IDEA WAS CONCEIVED.

IT WAS THAT WAS GOING TO BE A PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN THE PARKS FOUNDATION AND THE EAST BAY REGIONAL PARK DISTRICT BOARD OF DIRECTORS IN TERMS OF FUNDRAISING FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER. I KNOW YOU KNOW, WE'RE HERE AT CAMP ARROYO, WHICH WE ALSO CONSIDER AN ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER, AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION IS EAST BAY REGIONAL PARK DISTRICT MISSION. AND I AM CURIOUS HOW PRIORITIZATION, WE NOW HAVE A LOT OF OTHER LARGE PROJECTS THAT HAVE ENTERED THE PICTURE.

SO HOW WILL WE PRIORITIZE ALL OF THESE LARGE AND SIGNIFICANT PROJECTS? HOW WILL WE WORK ON THAT PARTNERSHIP TO IDENTIFY WHERE TO PRIORITIZE SOME OF THE FUNDRAISING EFFORTS? YEAH, I MEAN, I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'VE REALLY DONE IN THIS PARTNERSHIP IS BROUGHT LAUREN INTO OUR LEADERSHIP TEAM AND CONNECTED HER MORE DEEPLY. I THINK ONE THING THAT WAS HAPPENING WITH THE FOUNDATION WAS ESSENTIALLY, WE WOULD GO THROUGH OUR BUDGET PROCESS WITH THE BOARD, AND THEN AFTERWARDS THE FOUNDATION WOULD ASK OUR TEAM IF THERE WERE ANY THINGS TO FUND, AND WE ENDED UP FUNDING SOME COOL THINGS, BUT THEY WEREN'T ALWAYS THE HIGHEST PRIORITIES THAT WE HOLD.

AND WE WANT TO MOVE TO A PLACE WHERE BEFORE WE EVEN.

WERE WORKING TOGETHER FOR THE FOUNDATION TO ADD VALUE ON TOP OF THE MOST CRITICAL, MOST IMPORTANT PIECES OF WORK THAT THE BOARD IS INTERESTED IN. SO I THINK BETWEEN STAFF AND YOUR BOARD, WE'RE TRYING TO START THE PLANNING PROCESS FOR EARLIER SO THAT YOU'RE MORE INVOLVED.

AND WITH THE FOUNDATION, WE'RE TRYING TO START THAT WORK EARLIER AS WELL, SO THAT ON THE FRONT END, LAUREN AND HER TEAM ARE ARE ENGAGING WITH US.

AND THEN IT TAKES THAT PARTNERSHIP WITH OUR TEAM WHERE WE ARE SITTING.

AND THIS IS WORK. WHEN I WAS IN [INAUDIBLE], I DID WITH THE GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY.

WHEN THERE WAS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR PARTNERSHIP, WE WOULD SIT DOWN BETWEEN THE PARK STAFF AND THE DISTRICT STAFF, AND WE TALKED ABOUT WHERE THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO ADD VALUE.

AND SOMETIMES THAT'S A LITTLE BIT OF A PROJECT.

SOMETIMES IT'S A BIG PART OF A PROJECT. SO I THINK THAT'S WHY I'M REALLY EXCITED.

WE ALREADY KIND OF STARTED THAT WITH THIS YEAR'S FUNDING STRATEGY AND WORK PLANNING.

SO YEAH, AND IF I COULD JUST ADD ONE, ONE OF THE, I THINK THE STRENGTHS OF THE MOU IS THE PROJECT AGREEMENTS THAT WE WILL ENTER INTO, WHICH IS THE WAY THAT WE MAKE SURE WE COMMUNICATE, MAKE SURE THE PRIORITIES, MAKE SURE THERE'S SIGN OFF. EQUALLY IMPORTANT IS WE WORK WITH DONORS IS THAT WE ARE MANAGING A PROCESS,

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I WAS ALSO GOING TO REFERENCE THE PLAN FOR PROJECT AGREEMENTS BECAUSE NOT ONLY DOES IT PRIORITIZE WHAT'S IMPORTANT.

IT CLARIFIES ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES. SO IT'S NOT JUST A CONCEPT OF A PROJECT, BUT IT'S REALLY CLEAR TIMELINES AND ROLES.

AND THEN WITH THAT, YOU KNOW, I WAS MENTIONING COLIN ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER.

BIG, BIG PROJECT WE WOULD ANTICIPATE IN TERMS OF FUNDRAISING GOAL.

SO THEN I WANT TO BRING UP ONE MAYBE SLIGHTLY SMALLER PROJECT, WHICH WAS BUDGET, BUT ONE THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO THE FREMONT COMMUNITY AND HOW BEST WE CAN COMMUNICATE SOME OF THIS WITH EACH OTHER.

SO, YOU KNOW, WE, WE'VE, WE'VE HAD A CITY OF FREMONT LIAISON MEETING A FEW MONTHS AGO.

AND ONE OF THE IS THE PATTERSON HOUSE, WHICH IS OWNED BY THE FREMONT AND THEIR DESIRE TO REPLACE THE ROOF AND TO BE REPLACED.

AND THE QUESTION DID COME UP ABOUT OUR FOUNDATION, ABOUT REGIONAL PARKS FOUNDATION, ABOUT, OH, YOU KNOW, IS EAST BAY REGIONAL PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION AVAILABLE FOR PARTIAL CONTRIBUTIONS FOR THE PATTERSON HOUSE RANCH? PATTERSON HOUSE ON PATTERSON. PATTERSON HOUSE AND ARDENWOOD.

AND I'M JUST THINKING, HOW DOES THAT TYPE OF COMMUNICATION WORK IN TERMS OF US WORKING TOGETHER? AND ALSO, I KNOW WE'RE GOING THROUGH THIS WHOLE PROCESS RIGHT NOW WITH THE STRATEGIC PLAN AND MOU, BUT THIS IS A CONVERSATION HAPPENING RIGHT NOW. SO HOW DO THINGS HAPPEN ALSO IN THE PRESENT MOMENT AS WE'RE, YOU KNOW, KIND OF WORKING ON THIS BIGGER PICTURE WORK? WELL, I MEAN, I'D SAY A LOT OF THAT STUFF HAPPENS ALL THE TIME.

AND IT'S OUR, YOU KNOW, LEADERSHIP TEAMS. CHRIS WYCKOFF WITH OUR PROJECTS TEAM, OUR GRANTS TEAM, WE'RE ALL WE'RE LOOKING FOR. HOW ARE WE GOING TO BUILD THE FUNDING FOR POTENTIAL PROJECTS? WHAT PROJECTS ARE THE PRIORITIES THAT YOUR BOARD APPROVES AS PART OF OUR CFP? HOW TO BUILD THE FUNDING STRATEGY FOR THAT? WHETHER THE FOUNDATION CAN BE A PART OF THAT.

SO YOU KNOW, TYPICALLY WE'RE TRYING TO BUILD SOMETHING WAY AHEAD OF WHEN IT ACTUALLY HAPPENS.

IT'S OFTEN THAT FUNDRAISING ISN'T LIKE SOMETHING TO DO FOR IMMEDIATE MAINTENANCE NEEDS.

BUT THERE ARE SOME TIMES WHERE SOMETHING COMES UP AND IT HAPPENS TO BE THAT IT'S A REALLY COOL FUNDRAISING OPPORTUNITY AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT'S AN EMERGENT NEED.

SO I THINK THAT CONSTANT COMMUNICATION IS ONE THING THAT MIGHT FEEL LIKE IT'S MISSING RIGHT NOW BECAUSE IT IS, IS AFTER THIS, WE NEEDED TO WAIT FOR THE STRATEGIC PLAN TO CONCLUDE.

AND THEN THE NEXT EFFORT BY OUR PROGRAM COMMITTEE OF OUR BOARD IS TO ACTUALLY DEFINE FUNDRAISING AND PROGRAMMATIC AREAS.

AND SO THAT WOULD MAKE IT MORE CLEAR BECAUSE THERE'S GOING TO BE SOME SORT OF VENN DIAGRAM BETWEEN WHAT WE DON'T DO, EVERYTHING THE PARK DISTRICT DOES AT THE WHOLE POINT, WE WOULD HAVE FUNDING AREAS LIKE WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE WITH OUR YOUTH DEVELOPMENT AND ACCESS FOR. ALL RIGHT. SO WE'LL HAVE FUNDING GROUPS LIKE THAT IN OUR BOARD WILL LET US KNOW.

THE REGIONAL PARKS FOUNDATION BOARD WILL LET US KNOW HOW MUCH LIKE EACH YEAR TO ALLOCATE TO EACH OF THOSE AREAS.

AND THEN SO THAT'S THE STRICT PROGRAM STRATEGIC PIECE THAT PROBABLY FEELS A LITTLE BIT MISSING TOO, BECAUSE THAT'LL MAKE IT MORE CLEAR WHAT WE WOULD PARTICIPATE IN AND, AND ACTUALLY RULE OUT SOME OF THE THINGS WE WOULD HAVE PARTICIPATED IN.

AND THAT WOULD REALLY HELP WITH OUR THAT'S GOING TO HELP WITH OUR STRATEGIC FOCUS AND DISCIPLINE TO HELP US MAKE MORE OF AN IMPACT.

SO THE DOLLARS AREN'T SPREAD SO THIN, BUT IN AREAS WHERE WE CAN MOVE THE NEEDLE.

AND I RECOMMEND, AS YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT MAYBE HAVING SOME TYPE OF SCORECARD TO DETERMINE WHICH PROJECTS MAKE SENSE FOR THE FOUNDATION TO ALSO CONSIDER GEOGRAPHY.

BECAUSE I KNOW A LOT OF OUR BIGGEST, HIGHEST PROFILE PROJECTS DO TEND TO BE CENTERED BETWEEN TILDEN AND GOLDEN GATE FIELDS RIGHT NOW.

BUT JUST REMEMBER, YOU KNOW, MAYBE, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, A SMALLER THE IDEA, THE PROPOSAL, THE SMALLER CONTRIBUTION, THE PATTERSON HOUSE AT ARDENWOOD COULD BE SOMETHING THAT'S SEEN AS A GESTURE OF GOODWILL TO THOSE WHO ARE LIVING IN SOUTHERN ALAMEDA COUNTY, YOU KNOW, IN FREMONT OR IN THE NEW CITY OR NEWARK.

AND SO THAT THAT COULD ALSO GIVE POTENTIALLY GIVE SOME WEIGHT IN THAT SCORECARD, YOU KNOW, ANALYSIS OF WHAT PROJECTS TO FOCUS ON. YEAH. AND I HOPE ALSO THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL IN OUR BOARD TO, TO HAVE A A RECRUITMENT FOCUS. IT'S IN SOME WAY ON GEOGRAPHY OR AT LEAST INCLUDING THAT AS PART OF THE CRITERIA.

YEAH. GREAT. DO WE HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS.

OTHERWISE WE'LL GO AHEAD AND MOVE IT TO PUBLIC COMMENT. AND WE'LL COME BACK TO BOARD.

COMMENTS AND ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON PUBLIC COMMENTS.

WHAT I'LL DO IS I'LL OPEN PUBLIC COMMENT AND SEE IF WE HAVE ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC.

SURE WE DO. WE HAVE ONE PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS ITEM ANDREW TURNBULL.

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I'M THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE INTERNATIONAL HORSEMANSHIP FOUNDATION.

WE GIVE GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS WORLDWIDE. WE MERGED TWO NON-PROFITS ONE OUT OF DELAWARE AND ONE OUT OF WYOMING TO FORM THE INTERNATIONAL HORSEMANSHIP FOUNDATION IN 2023.

AND BECAUSE OF MY HARD WORK AS A BOARD MEMBER, NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED.

I'M NOW THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR IN CHARGE OF ALL THAT.

AND I'VE HAD A LOT OF LEARNING TO DO AS THOUGH I HAVE AN MBA FROM POWELL A 503C IS A DIFFERENT DEAL.

AND AND SHE, SHE DID MENTION SOME THINGS THAT YOU HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY WITH THEM BEING A 501 C THREE THAT THEY COULD EVEN DO SOME THINGS THAT ARE HARDER FOR YOU TO DO. BUT ONE OF THE THINGS I WANTED TO MENTION IS VOLUNTEERS RUN OUT OF GAS AND IT'S BETTER TO PUT PEOPLE TO WORK PAID LIKE THEY HAVE PLANNED.

PEOPLE TEND TO TAKE PAY CUTS WHEN THEY'RE CONNECTED TO YOUR MISSION, SO YOU'LL PROBABLY GET A LOT OF VALUE OUT OF THOSE PAID PEOPLE. THE OTHER ONE IS PARTNERSHIPS. I CAN'T SEE YOU.

SO I'M GOING TO BACK UP THREE VALLEYS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION IS A RESOURCE FOR YOU.

I'VE KNOWN KELLY BOWERS FOR 30 YEARS. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THAT YOU TAP INTO THAT RESOURCE.

THE OTHER ONE IS I USE THRIVING CHARITABLE FOR OUR WORK BECAUSE THEY OPERATE IN 49 STATES, AND THEY PROMISED ME, WHEN THE 50TH STATE WANTS TO DO SOMETHING, THEY'LL BE THERE.

BUT ONE OF THE THINGS THEY DO FOR US IS THEY TAKE CARE OF GIFTS OF STOCK, GIFTS OF REAL ESTATE, GIFTS OF REAL PROPERTY LEGACIES. WE ARE THANKFUL WE GOT A BIG OLD LEGACY.

AND THAT'S WHY I'M ABLE TO INVEST RIGHT NOW IN GROWING WORLDWIDE.

BUT THE OTHER ONE IS SOMEBODY CAN TAKE OUT A LIFE INSURANCE POLICY IN THEIR TIME AND NAME THAT FOUNDATION AS A BENEFICIARY.

THAT'S A WAY TO REALLY POWER UP YOUR CONGREGATIONS IN YOUR LIFETIME, TO BE EVEN BIGGER WHEN YOU PASS.

ONE OF THE THINGS I PROMISED TO OUR PARTNERS IS THAT WE MEET WHERE OUR MISSIONS INTERSECT.

MAKE SURE YOUR MISSION IS CLEAR AND YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS.

YOU SEEM VERY CLEAR. AS LONG AS THAT'S. THAT'S CLEAR.

AND AS LONG AS THEY ARE AUTHENTIC AND CLEAR WITH THEIR MISSIONS.

THAT WILL BE YOUR GUIDE FOR HOW THE TWO OF YOU WILL WORK TOGETHER.

AND I PLEASED TO WORK WITH YOU TWO. MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU.

THERE IS NO MORE CUP OF COFFEE. OKAY, WE WILL CLOSE PUBLIC COMMENT.

BRING IT BACK TO THE BOARD FOR ANY FINAL COMMENTS.

THIS IS A PRESENTATION SO WE DON'T HAVE TO LOOK FOR A MOTION OR A VOTE.

PLEASE CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG ON THAT. GO AHEAD DENNIS.

ALL RIGHT. WELL, I CAME TO DISCOVER TODAY A SAD DISCOVERY THAT BRUCE TURN IS BEING TURNED OUT.

I DON'T KNOW IF ANY OF YOU KNOW BRUCE. I HOPE EVERYBODY KNOWS BRUCE. BECAUSE YOU SHOULD. I MET BRUCE KERN A LONG, LONG TIME AGO WHEN HE WAS THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF AN ORGANIZATION CALLED EDAP.

AT THAT TIME, THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE FOR BUSINESS WAS A REAL INTERESTING NEW GREAT NEW THING OF THE BLENDING CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY, BIG, BIG INDUSTRY, INDUSTRIAL PEOPLE AND BUSINESS PEOPLE IN OAKLAND WITH PUBLIC AGENCIES LIKE OURS.

SO WITH BRUCE AND WITH PEOPLE LIKE KEITH CARSON AND OUR OWN VERY, VERY GOOD SIDE TO BEING PRESIDENT OF THE ORGANIZATION, IT WAS JUST GREAT. THE COLLABORATIONS THAT OCCURRED AND THE FRIENDSHIPS WE MADE.

JUST A WONDERFUL THING. IT BECAME EDA THE EAST BAY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE.

BRUCE RETIRED AND HE CAME TO WORK FOR THE PARK DISTRICT.

WHEN I GOT ELECTED MY FIRST TIME, IT WAS JANUARY OF 2015.

ERICH GREETED ME ON THE BOARD AND SAID, HEY, YOU'VE GOT THESE TWO APPOINTEES HERE.

PARK ADVISORY COMMITTEE. AND I SAID, OH, GREAT.

I SAID, WHO ARE THEY? AND HE SAID DR. RICHARD GODFREY.

I HOPE YOU ALL KNOW HIM TOO. AND BRUCE KERN. AND HE SAID, DO YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO REPLACE THEM IF YOU WANT.

AND I SAID, ARE YOU CRAZY? AND SO OF COURSE, I NEVER HAD AND I HAD THE ABILITY TO REAPPOINT BOTH OF THEM.

IT WAS AN AMAZING RUN. ANYTIME ANYTHING HAPPENED, I THINK, BRUCE YOU WERE THE CHAIR FOR A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TIME,

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IF EVERYBODY BROUGHT THEIR DOG TO THE BEACH AND LET THEM DO ANYTHING THEY WANTED, AND THEN WE SPENT MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO DO A RESTORATION PROJECT.

WE, WE HAD THAT WE GOT TOGETHER WITH THE COMMUNITY, HAD A COMMUNITY INPUT.

WE SLID THE WHOLE THING, GUIDED IT THROUGH VERY HOT, HOT, CONTROVERSIAL STUFF.

I THINK YOU DEALT WITH SOME BICYCLE ISSUES WITH PARK DISTRICT TWO TOWARDS THE END OF THE YEAR, TOWARDS THE END AND TOWARDS THE END. AND THEN UNFORTUNATELY, WE TURN PEOPLE ON AND I UNDERSTAND IT'S SORT OF A CASE, AND THEN YOU MOVE RIGHT TO THE FOUNDATION AND NOW YOU'RE DOING ALL THE GREAT WORK YOU'RE DOING. YOU'VE DONE 16 YEARS IN THE PARK DISTRICT.

I WISH YOU COULD DO 16 MORE, BUT THANK YOU VERY, VERY MUCH FOR YOUR GREAT WORK AND YOUR FRIENDSHIP. THANK YOU.

I JUST YOU KNOW, I, MY, MY SHORTEST TIME SHORT ISH TIME ON THE BOARD.

I JUST THINK THE ARTS FOUNDATION, I REALLY FEEL LIKE AT TIMES THEY'RE LIKE A RUDDER OR A TRIM TAB TO THE CONSERVATION PIECE OF, OF ART. WE GET SO INVOLVED IN OPERATIONS AND TRAILS AND MAINTENANCE AND LIKE THE REALLY IMPORTANT STUFF.

AND I REALLY ALWAYS APPRECIATE THE VISION, THE STUFF THAT, THAT YOU'VE DONE WITH THE EAST BAY CONSERVATION STEWARDSHIP TEAM.

AND I DON'T KNOW, I JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU.

I, THE STRATEGIC PLAN WAS WONDERFUL. BEAUTIFUL.

I'M GLAD WE'RE GOING TO DOUBLE AND KEEP ON GROWING THE ORGANIZATION.

I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION AND ALL THAT YOU DO FOR OUR HEARTS.

THANK YOU. YEAH. I'M SO ENCOURAGED AFTER HAVING SEEN ALL THIS, AND IT BASICALLY JUST REAFFIRMS THE STUFF THAT I KIND OF SENT FROM MY GUT THAT THIS DOESN'T HAPPEN IN AN ORGANIZATION, YOUR ORGANIZATION MOVING FORWARD.

AND WHEN I THINK ABOUT IT, I FEEL LIKE, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE, OUR BUDDY THAT WALKS WITH US, YOU KNOW, AND WE'RE NOT ALONE IN SMALL, MEDIUM AND LARGE, YOU KNOW EFFORTS.

SO WE APPRECIATE WORKING WITH YOU, AND I KNOW WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE DOING IT.

AS FAR AS BRUCE GOES WE WE SERVED ON THE PARK ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOREVER.

I'M NOT SURE IF I KNEW YOU BEFORE THAT. PROBABLY NOT. BUT HE DID A GREAT JOB AND I ENJOYED SERVING WITH HIM AND BRUCE, I'M GOING TO TALK TO YOU. I, I KNOW WHAT YOUR NEXT THING IS GOING TO BE. SO YEAH.

OTHER THINGS THAT YOU CAN DO THERE. SO ANYWAY, THANKS AGAIN.

THANK YOU. ANY OTHER COMMENTS? OKAY, LET'S GO AHEAD AND THANK YOU.

THANK YOU. THAT WAS WONDERFUL. I WAS GOING TO TAKE A TEN MINUTE BREAK BEFORE WE PROCEED ON TO OUR NEXT. OH.

YEAH.

ALRIGHT. ARE WE READY? READY. OKAY. WE READY? I THINK WE'RE READY. YEAH. ALRIGHT.

COLIN. SO IT'S GOING TO NOW BE OKAY? YEAH. OKAY.

SO NOW WE HAVE THREE OF US, SO WE HAVE TO WAIT FOR US TO START.

SO WE HAVE OUR ATTORNEY. OKAY. ALRIGHT. WE'LL GO AHEAD AND GET STARTED.

WE NEED MORE. WELL, I JUST WANT TO BE RIGHT BACK.

ALRIGHT. ALL RIGHT. I THINK WE ARE READY TO GET STARTED WITH OUR NEXT ITEM.

SO I CALL OUR MEETING BACK TO ORDER AND IT IS 255.

GOOD JOB EVERYONE WITH A TEN MINUTE BREAK. 12 MINUTES. THAT'S PRETTY GOOD FOR US.

ALRIGHT, SO WE'RE GOING TO NOW GO ON TO AGENDA ITEM I PRESENTATIONS OUR INFORMATIONAL ITEMS INFORMATIONAL UPDATE ON WINTER 2026 VOTER SURVEY.

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JUST INTRODUCING THE ITEM REAL BRIEFLY. I WANT TO REALLY THANK THE BOARD AND EXECUTIVE TEAM FOR THEIR INPUT IN HELPING BUILD THIS SURVEY.

AND IT WAS ONE OF THE MOST, IS THE MOST ROBUST SURVEY THAT WE'VE DONE SINCE I'VE BEEN WITH THE PARK DISTRICT IN TERMS OF SAMPLE SIZE AND DISTRIBUTION OF RESPONSES.

SO I REALLY WANT TO APPRECIATE FM THREE AND PARTICULARLY KURT BARLOW, WHO'S HERE TODAY, AND THEN HIS COLLEAGUE MIRANDA EVERETT, WHO ALSO ASSISTED ON THIS, AS WELL AS OUR OWN LISA BALDINGER WHO WAS PROBABLY WATCHING ON THE SCREEN.

SO WITH THAT, I'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE KURT AND LET HIM GO THROUGH THE RESULTS WITH YOU ALL.

OH. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. I'M HERE FROM PARTNER RESEARCH.

I'M HAPPY TO PRESENT THESE RESULTS OF THE SURVEY, AND I REALIZE THAT THIS IS A LONG MEETING, AND IT'S A LONG PRESENTATION IN THE MIDDLE OF IT, SO I MIGHT TRY TO MOVE MY WAY THROUGH SOME OF THE ITEMS. JUST A QUICK NOTE. THE RESEARCH WE CONDUCTED WAS THE END OF FEBRUARY, BEGINNING OF MARCH.

SO THIS IS NOT THE MOST UP TO DATE DATA PER SE, ALTHOUGH I THINK VAST MAJORITY OF THESE SENTIMENTS HOLD STILL.

YOU KNOW, MAYBE THE ELECTORATE'S A LITTLE MORE CRANKY GIVEN SOME OF THE RESEARCH WAS CONDUCTED SUBSEQUENTLY ELSEWHERE IN THE BAY AREA.

BUT TO SORT OF KEEP THAT IN MIND, THIS IS DATA THAT'S A LITTLE BIT OLDER. A FEW THINGS ABOUT THE NOTES HERE.

WE DID A LOT OF INTERVIEWS. WHAT WE DID IS A BROAD SAMPLE OF VOTERS OF REGISTERED VOTERS IN, IN THE PARK DISTRICT COUNTIES. AND THEN WE DID SOME OVERSAMPLING IN SPECIFIC AREAS AND DEMOGRAPHIC GROUPS, WHICH I'LL GET TO IN A SUBSEQUENT SLIDE HERE.

WHAT IT MEANS IS WE'VE GOT FOR CRUDE, YOU KNOW, MARGINS OF ERROR HERE FOR QUESTIONS ASKED TO THE FULL SAMPLE, LET'S CALL THAT 3% MARGIN OF SAMPLING ERROR. ANYTHING ELSE OF A HALF SAMPLE 4%.

AND WE DID THESE INTERVIEWS ON THE PHONES AND ONLINE AND THE ENGLISH SPANISH AND AND THEN CAN'T SEE THIS.

SO HERE'S THE OTHER POPULATIONS. WE HAD SOME TARGETS THE STAFF PUT TOGETHER FOR SOME SPECIFIC GROUPS IN GEOGRAPHICAL AREAS.

HEY, WE WANT TO GET TO A, A REASONABLY LARGE SAMPLE SIZE IN EACH OF THESE AREAS.

SO WE DID A REGULAR INTERVIEWS WITH THEM. AND THEN SOME OF THESE CASES WE CONDUCTED CONDUCTED ADDITIONAL INTERVIEWS WITHIN THEM TO TRY TO GET THOSE SAMPLE SIZES INTO THE 250 ISH RANGE. SO YOU'LL SEE THAT SOME OF THESE GROUPS THAT ARE MAYBE UNDERREPRESENTED AMONGST THE ELECTORATE, WE CONDUCTED MORE INTERVIEWS AMONG TO TRY TO BOOST UP, YOU KNOW, LIKE YOUNGER VOTERS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

AND WE DID SOME GROUPINGS OF THE TRI-CITIES BY VALLEY AREA AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE.

SO FOR THESE AREAS, MAYBE WE JUST CALL THAT A 6% MARGIN OF ERROR.

WE JUST KIND OF LOOKING AT IT BROADLY. I IMMEDIATELY SAID, I'M GOING TO TRY TO NOT SPEND A LOT OF TIME IN THE DETAILS.

I SPENT LIKE TWO MINUTES ON LIKE REALLY DETAILED SLIDES.

MY APOLOGIES. I'LL GET TO THE BIGGER NUMBERS HERE.

RIGHT DIRECTION, WRONG TRACK. THIS WAS, YOU KNOW, GENERALLY.

SO THROUGHOUT THE PRESENTATION, THE ITALICIZED SUBTITLES OR SOMETIMES IN REALLY SMALL FONTS AND THE FOOTERS IS THE ACTUAL QUESTION LANGUAGE THAT WAS EITHER READ ON THE PHONE OR PRESENTED ONLINE. HEY, PROJECTS ARE ON TRACK.

IT'S KIND OF A WARM UP QUESTION. WHAT'S THE VIBES? ARE PEOPLE VOTERS CRANKY? OPTIMISTIC AT THE TIME? THEY'RE A LITTLE MORE OPTIMISTIC. THINGS HAVE HAPPENED SINCE THEN, SO I HAVE I SEE THESE NUMBERS GET WORSE PRETTY MUCH EVERYWHERE IN CALIFORNIA AND ELSEWHERE, FRANKLY. BUT AT THE TIME, MORE OPTIMISTS AND PESSIMISTS.

NOW THIS IS WHERE IT GETS TRICKY WITH, WITH PARKS.

IS THAT WE ASKED HOW OFTEN DOES SOMEONE IN YOU OR YOUR HOUSEHOLD VISIT A PARK OR A TRAIL? WE DON'T TRY TO DISTINGUISH IS IT AN EAST BAY REGIONAL PARK? IS IT A CITY PARK? IS IT STATE WHATEVER IT IS? OR IS IT A TRAIL THAT'S RUN BY THE CITY? BECAUSE VOTERS HAVE A HARD TIME MAKING THOSE DISTINCTIONS, AS YOU KNOW. THIS WAS JUST TO GET US A SENSE OF THE BROAD ELECTORATE HERE.

HOW FREQUENTLY ARE THEY AVAILING THEMSELVES OF PARK AND TRAIL RESOURCES? AND IT'S ACTUALLY PRETTY HIGH. NOW, THERE MAY BE A LITTLE RESPONSE BIAS HERE.

MAYBE I DO THIS MORE OFTEN THAN I THINK. BUT ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, TWO THIRDS OF THE PEOPLE WHO TOOK THE SURVEY HAVE AT LEAST SOMEONE IN THEIR HOUSEHOLD WAS AT LEAST MONTHLY GOING TO A PARK OR TAKING A HIKE OR TAKING A WALK.

WE DID HAVE SOME FAVORABILITY QUESTIONS UP FRONT IN THE SURVEY, WHICH IS DO YOU HOLD A FAVORABLE OR UNFAVORABLE OPINION OF THIS ENTITY HERE? AND WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, YOUR DISTRICT THROUGH INTO SOME OTHER KIND OF PARK AND COUNTY COMPS JUST TO GET A SENSE OF WHERE YOU STAND.

EAST BAY REGIONAL PARKS IS 80% FAVORABLE, BASICALLY THE SAME AS STATE AND NATIONAL PARKS.

COUNTY GOVERNMENT IS A IS A LARGE GOVERNMENT ENTITY.

COMPARISON POINT WAS AT LOWER AT 5030, WHICH IS PRETTY CONSISTENT FOR WHAT I'VE SEEN FOR A LOT OF COUNTIES.

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ADMITTEDLY, THE POPULATION WAS A LITTLE DIFFERENT. THAT WAS A RESIDENT SURVEY. ADULT RESIDENTS. THE SURVEY IS OF VOTERS.

SO THEY'RE NOT YOU KNOW MAYBE IT'S TANGERINES TO ORANGES OR WHATEVER THE THE RIGHT SORT OF COMPARISON IS.

BUT BUT BROADLY SPEAKING, OR THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT RESIDENTIAL SURVEY OF VOTER SURVEY.

EVERYBODY VIEWED PARK DISTRICT FAVORABLY. THIS IS WHAT I'M GOING TO GET THIS KIND OF QUICKLY, A BUNCH OF DEMOGRAPHICS IN HERE. AND THE BIG TAKEAWAY IS EVERYBODY VIEWS PARK DISTRICT FAVORABLY.

SO THIS IS THE PERCENTAGE OF VERY OR SOMEWHAT FAVORABLE BY ETHNICITY.

IT'S ALL WELL, THE MAJORITIES BY AGE, ACROSS THE BOARD, ALMOST ACROSS THE 80S, MEN AND WOMEN, SIMILAR EDUCATION LEVELS, SIMILAR KIDS AT HOME.

YOU KNOW, THE LOWEST NUMBER ON THIS SLIDE IS THOSE WHO ONLY RARELY OR NEVER HAVE SOMEONE IN THE HOUSEHOLD VISIT A PARK OR A TRAIL THAT'S STILL 64%.

SO THERE'S STILL A LOT OF LIKE GOOD POSITIVE ASSOCIATIONS.

EVEN IF THEY'RE NOT TAKING PARKS, WE START BREAKING THIS OUT BY WARDS.

THE NUMBERS ARE ALL KIND OF AROUND 80% THERE AS WELL.

SOME OF THE DIFFERENT GEOGRAPHIC SUBGROUPS THAT WE, YOU KNOW, STAFF COMPILED FOR US HERE.

AGAIN, SIMILAR THIS IS A SORT OF PRECURSOR TO KIND OF ONE OF THE MAIN THRUST OF THE SURVEY, WHICH IS TO EXPLORE POTENTIAL WILLINGNESS TO SUPPORT FUTURE MEASURE.

AND THAT LANGUAGE IS WHAT WE PRESENTED. SO THIS IS NOT OFFICIAL BALLOT LANGUAGE.

WE'RE WAY TOO EARLY IN THE PROCESS FOR THIS. IT'S MORE OF A CONCEPT.

WOULD YOU BE WILLING TO DO THE, YOU KNOW, RAISE MONEY FOR THESE THINGS THROUGH A MODEST TAX INCREASE? AND WE KIND OF USE SOME OF THE LANGUAGE THAT'S KIND OF SIMILAR TO LANGUAGE. WE DIDN'T REALLY GET INTO IT. WE DIDN'T SAY WHETHER BE BASICALLY IF THIS NUMBER WAS GOING TO BE LOW, THEN THAT WOULD TELL US SOMETHING EARLY IN THE PROCESS. OH, LIKE, HEY, IT'S AT 73%.

SO CONCEPTUALLY, WE CAN TALK ABOUT WHAT THE TAX WOULD BE.

ALMOST THREE QUARTERS OF RESPONDENTS TO THE SURVEY, THESE VOTERS SAID, YES, I SUPPORT THIS IN CONCEPT.

AND ABOUT HALF SAID THEY WOULD STRONGLY DO SO.

SO THERE'S NOT A LOT OF FACTORS IN CONCEPT FOR A MODEST TAX INCREASE FOR FOR PARKS AGAIN, I'LL KIND OF GO THROUGH THESE PRETTY QUICKLY TOO.

SO THE SUPPORT BARS ARE BLUE. IT IS ACTUALLY MORE AND IT MAY LOOK A LITTLE DIFFERENT HERE, BUT IT'S OPPOSED. IT'S ORANGE UP THERE BY ETHNICITY.

BLACK VOTERS ARE THE ONLY GROUP THAT WAS BELOW 70%, BUT STILL STRONG MAJORITY SUPPORT, A LITTLE HIGHER SUPPORT AMONGST LOWER INCOME RESIDENTS OF VOTERS. I'M GOING TO SAY WE THIS IS THE SAME PRESENTATION WE DID TO THE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE.

WE DIDN'T DISAGGREGATE MY APOLOGIES THAT UNINCORPORATED NUMBER.

SO THAT INCLUDES POCKETS OF UNINCORPORATED COUNTIES IN ACROSS THE TWO COUNTIES.

SO I WOULD KIND OF IGNORE THAT NUMBER HERE. BUT ANY BROADER GEOGRAPHIC REGIONS ACROSS YOUR DISTRICT SUPPORT WAS HIGH.

ACROSS THE BOARD. IT'S ALL ABOUT TWO THIRDS, BASICALLY TWO THIRDS OR HIGHER.

WE'LL GET TO SLIDES WHERE WE'LL HAVE TO BE AS REPETITIVE AS THIS BY GENDER, A LITTLE MORE SUPPORT AMONGST WOMEN, BUT THAT'S PRETTY CONSISTENTLY HIGH BY AGE. MAYBE A LITTLE MIDDLE CLASS DIP, BUT THAT'S STILL ABOVE TWO THIRDS.

CONCEPTUALLY HERE AND EVEN AMONGST THOSE WHO, YOU KNOW, THOSE WHO ARE WEEKLY MONTHLY VISITORS WERE HOVERING AROUND 80%, YOU KNOW, THE MARGIN OF ERROR THERE. EVEN THOSE WHO SAY, I NEVER GO TO THE PARK NOR DO MY HOUSEHOLD DOES, THAT'S STILL A MAJORITY. SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT SOUNDS REASONABLE IN CONCEPT.

WE DID ASK THOSE WHO SAID, HEY, I WOULD SUPPORT THIS PRODUCT EITHER STRONGLY OR SOMEWHAT.

IN HER OWN WORDS, TELL US WHY YOU MIGHT SUPPORT THIS.

AND THIS IS AS MUCH ART AS SCIENCE AS YOU MIGHT IMAGINE.

WE SAY, HEY, GIVE IT FOR ONE IDEA AND THEY MIGHT GIVE US THREE.

AND WE HAVE TO TRY TO SHOEHORN THEM INTO CATEGORIES.

SO THESE NUMBERS WILL ADD UP TO MORE THAN 100%.

BUT THERE ARE I'VE HEARD SOME OF THESE SENTIMENTS ECHOED A LITTLE BIT AGO, BUT PRESERVATION OF OPEN SPACE, BROADLY SPEAKING, ABOUT A QUARTER MENTIONED THAT SOMETHING ABOUT SORT OF MAINTENANCE IMPROVEMENT AND THE OVERALL QUALITY OF LIFE ALSO.

SO THOSE ARE THE BIGGER, MOST COMMONLY MENTIONED BENEFITS.

YOU GET DOWN TO THE BOTTOM OF THE LIST. BUT CLIMATE BENEFITS, FUTURE GENERATIONS, THINGS LIKE THAT WERE LESSER RATIONALES.

AND HERE'S A SMATTERING OF SOME OF THOSE COMMENTS WORDS, SOME OF THE LESSER ONES.

HEY, PRESERVING GREEN SPACES IS IMPERATIVE. A LOT OF THESE, SOME OF THESE WERE SPECIFIC ABOUT MY FAMILY ENJOYS HIKING AND CAMPING.

WE CAN DO THIS. OTHERS WERE MORE OUTDOORS, NEED TO BE PROTECTED AND ENJOYED KIND OF A VALUE SPACE.

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IT WAS NOT THAT MANY RESPONDENTS IN THE NO SIDE.

HERE'S WHERE WE STARTED TO GET A LITTLE MORE SPECIFIC. SO RATHER THAN SAY, HERE'S BALLOT LANGUAGE FOR A SPECIFIC TYPE OF TAX MECHANISM, WE WERE JUST ASKING, WELL, WHAT IF WE'RE WILLING TO PAY $2 PER WEEK IN ADDITIONAL TAXES FOR PARKS AND OPEN SPACES.

SO NOW WE'RE JUST KIND OF ISOLATE THE DOLLAR AMOUNT, WHICH IS TRICKY BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT PUTTING THEM TOGETHER.

JUST SAYING, HEY, PUT THE DOLLAR AMOUNT FRONT AND CENTER, BUT IT HELPS US GET A SENSE OF WHERE THAT MIGHT BE.

AND IT WAS STILL 62 TO 32. SO ABOUT A 2 TO 1 RATIO OF WILLING TO UNWILLING TO PAY AT LEAST $2 PER WEEK.

AND WE DID ASK ABOUT A COUPLE DIFFERENT DOLLAR AMOUNTS THERE.

YOU KNOW, IN THE, YOU KNOW, THE WEEK WE ATTENDED THE MATH FOR THEM, HOW ABOUT THIS ON A, ON A, YOU KNOW, ANNUAL BASIS HERE. AND YOU'LL SEE THAT WE, WE'RE SORT OF TRIANGULATING THIS, WE'RE KIND OF HOVERING AROUND TWO THIRDS.

WHEN WE GOT TO THE, A LITTLE LESS THAN $50, IT'S NOT SURPRISING, YOU KNOW, THAT'S WHY THINGS ARE PRICED JUST BELOW OFFICIALS.

THAT WAS WHERE SUPPORT WAS THE GREATEST. BUT I WILL JUST CAUTION THAT IN SOME SENSE THAT YOU'RE KIND OF NEGOTIATING WITH SOMEONE A LITTLE BIT.

YOU TEND TO SEE HIGHER LEVELS OF SUPPORT FOR LOWER AMOUNTS, BUT IN THIS RANGE OF AROUND TWO THIRDS WILLING TO PAY, YOU KNOW, A SPECIFIC CONCRETE DOLLAR AMOUNT OF A LITTLE LESS THAN $100 TO A LITTLE LESS THAN 50.

THIS KIND OF A PROXY QUESTION THAT WE USE IN A LOT OF PUBLIC FINANCE SURVEYS, WHICH IS KIND OF INDEPENDENT OF HOW THE MONEY IS RAISED AND INDEPENDENT OF HOW THE MONEY IS SPENT. DO YOU THINK THERE'S A NEED FOR FUNDING? SO THIS WAS FRAMED AS THE NEED TO MAINTAIN PARKS, TRAILS AND OPEN SPACE. DOES THE DISTRICT HAVE GREAT SOME, A LITTLE OR NO REAL NEED FOR FUNDING.

AND WE'VE ALWAYS SEEN THE TIGHTEST CORRELATION AROUND THAT CREATE SOME NEED.

AND IF THAT NUMBER IS LOW, THAT TELLS YOU THAT THERE ISN'T MUCH URGENCY OUT THERE.

AND THOSE VOTERS, THAT MAY BE THE FIRST HURDLE THEY NEED TO CROSS, WHICH IS TO UNDERSTAND THE NEED FOR FUNDING.

IN THIS CASE, TWO THIRDS, 65% ARE RIGHT AROUND THERE.

I THINK THERE'S AN APPRECIABLE NEED FOR FUNDING. SO THAT'S NOT YOU MIGHT WANT TO SEE THAT GREAT NEED NEVER BE HIGHER AND THEN DON'T KNOW, MAYBE YOU CAN PUSH THAT DOWN A LITTLE BIT. BUT VOTERS, BY AND LARGE, WITHOUT HAVING DONE A TON OF COMMUNICATIONS OR ANYTHING, HAVE A SENSE THAT THE PARK DISTRICT NEEDS ADDITIONAL FUNDING.

AND WE'RE STARTING TO GET UNPACKED THIS STUFF A LITTLE BIT MORE. EVERYTHING NOW IS IN VERY HIGH LEVELS. THIS TIME WE SAID HERE ARE SOME POTENTIAL ELEMENTS OF THIS MEASURE, WHICH IS LARGELY OUT OF THE WAY. THE DOLLARS COULD BE SPENT OR THE BENEFITS OF THEIR EXPENDITURE.

AND WE PRESENTED THESE IN RANDOM ORDER. AND A LOT OF THESE, WE, WE LEARNED FROM THE RESIDENTIAL SURVEY WE CONDUCTED FOR YOU A WHILE BACK AND DEPLOYED THAT A LITTLE BIT HERE TOO. AND WE ASKED IN RANDOM ORDER AND I GOT A BUNCH OF SLIDES HERE. COULD WE TEST A LOT OF CONCEPTS? IS THIS EXTREMELY, VERY, OR SOMEWHAT IMPORTANT OR NOT TOO IMPORTANT TO BE PART OF THIS MEASURE, THIS HYPOTHETICAL MEASURE. AND WE SORTED THIS BY EXTREMELY, VERY IMPORTANT IN OUR BUSINESS.

WE ALL LOOK AT THE MORE INTENSE REACTIONS. AND WE SPLIT SAMPLED EVERYTHING HERE BECAUSE WE DID A LOT OF TESTING OF SIMILAR CONCEPTS, BUT PHRASED DIFFERENTLY. AND YOU'LL SEE HERE THAT PREVENTING WILDFIRES IS AT THE TOP OF THE LIST WITH THE MOST INTENSITY THERE.

TWO THIRDS IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT. AND THEN WE HAVE A LOT OF PROTECTING WATER QUALITY WILDLIFE, NATURAL AREA, OPEN SPACE PARKS OR PROTECTING, CONSERVING, MAINTAINING, SEE A LOT OF THAT TYPE OF LANGUAGE HERE.

ALL THESE ITEMS ON THE SLIDE WERE SEEN AS EXTREMELY, VERY IMPORTANT BY FOUR OUT OF FIVE OR MORE VOTERS TOOK THE SURVEY.

AS WE SORT OF MOVE DOWN THIS LIST HERE SO FAR, EVEN AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS SLIDE, THE ORANGE BARS, THOSE WHO SAY SOMETHING IS NOT TOO IMPORTANT ARE NOT BIG.

MAJORITY THINK EVERYTHING HERE IS AT LEAST SOMEWHAT IMPORTANT, BUT THE INTENSITY HAS DROPPED.

AND SO NOW WE'RE INTO LIKE, YOU KNOW, 30, 40% EXTREMELY IMPORTANT CATEGORY HERE.

AND IT'S WHERE WE'RE GETTING A LITTLE MORE GRANULAR, RIGHT? BATHROOMS, TRAILS, CREEKS VERSUS THE FIRST SLIDE IS A LITTLE BIGGER ENTITIES HERE AND TOWARDS THE BOTTOM OF THE SLIDE HERE, YOU'LL SEE THAT WE GET, YOU KNOW, LEVEES AND SOME MORE SPECIFIC THINGS IMPROVING AND IMPROVING PARK RESILIENCE, CLIMATE CHANGE, IMPROVING SAFETY. VOTERS HERE, WE'RE NOT SAYING THOSE ARE UNIMPORTANT, BUT THE THINGS ABOUT SERVING, PROTECTING ON THE OTHER SIDE, MAINTAINING, WE'RE SEEN AS MORE INTENSELY IMPORTANT.

AND THEN WE GET DOWN TO THE BOTTOM OF THE LIST.

SO NOW WE START TO SEE SOME OF THE ORANGE BARS GET BIGGER AGAIN.

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THIS IS A VOTER. THIS IS WHO YOU'LL BE TALKING TO AT SOME POINT IN TIME FOR SOME MEASURE ON THE BALLOT.

AND WHEN YOU GET DOWN TO THE BOTTOM HERE, SO MAYBE YOU START LOOKING AT, YOU KNOW, RIGHT AROUND THE DEVELOPING ONES THERE WHERE YOU'RE BELOW 20% EXTREMELY IMPORTANT AND SOME NEW REGIONAL PARKS, NEW REGIONAL TRAILS, MORE PARKING, NEW VISITOR CENTERS.

AND SO THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN I'LL JUST GO BACK TWO SLIDES.

THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT WERE SEEN AS MOST IMPORTANT PROTECTING, MAINTAINING, CONSERVING AND BIG PICTURE NATURAL AREAS, PARKS, HABITAT PREVENTING WILDFIRES, MAYBE A LITTLE BIT OF A DISTINCTION AT THE BOTTOM OF THE LIST.

WAS A LOT OF THINGS ABOUT NEW EXPANSION AND THOSE ITEMS. NOW THIS IS NOT FM THREE SAYING THIS IS HOW YOU SHOULD PRIORITIZE YOUR SPENDING.

THIS IS US TRYING TO HELP INFORM YOU ABOUT HOW VOTERS LOOK AT THESE THINGS.

AND THAT WOULD BE DIFFERENT FROM POLICY REASONS WHY YOU PURSUE DIFFERENT ACTIVITIES.

SO THIS IS A FORCED CHOICE QUESTION THAT WE ASKED. SO THE LEFT HAND SIDE, WE PRESENT TWO STATEMENTS IN RANDOM ORDER.

SHOULD INVESTMENTS BE DIRECTED TO PARTS OF GREATEST NEED.

EVEN IF THAT MEANS THAT SOME PARTS MIGHT NOT GET A LOT OF FUNDS VERSUS WE SHOULD HAVE INVESTMENTS SORT OF EVENLY DISTRIBUTED TO EVERYBODY GETS SOME SORT OF BENEFIT.

AND IT WAS A 55 TO 35, NOT OVERWHELMING, BUT A 20 POINT SPREAD THERE.

SO MAJORITY WERE LIKE, LET'S PRIORITIZE THE HIGHEST NEEDS.

I'M SEEING THIS A LOT IN OTHER TYPES OF SURVEYS.

IN CITIES WHERE WE'RE LOOKING AT ROAD REPAIRS IN THE PAST AND MAYBE LIKE, LET'S MAKE SURE EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD NOW IS LIKE, JUST FIX THE THINGS THAT ARE IN WORSE SHAPE. SO THIS SENTIMENT HERE IS NOT SURPRISING TO ME.

AND INTERESTINGLY, IT HELD PRETTY CONSISTENTLY HERE IS IF YOU'RE PARTY PRETTY SIMILAR, IT'S NOT A PARTIZAN THING.

AND WHETHER OR NOT YOU SUPPORT OR OPPOSE OR THE BROAD CONCEPT HERE DIDN'T REALLY MATTER EITHER.

THIS WAS LIKE PRETTY CONSISTENTLY HELD POINT OF VIEW.

WE HAD ANOTHER POOR CHOICE QUESTION IN HERE. AND AGAIN, YOU KNOW, WE RANDOMIZED THE WAY THESE WERE PRESENTED HERE.

I HEARD SOME COMMENTS ABOUT THIS A LITTLE BIT MINUTES AGO TOO ON THIS TOPIC.

SO THAT JUST A DETAILED PLAN TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR PROGRESS FORWARD FOR THE DISTRICT TO BE ABLE TO BE FLEXIBLE.

AND, YOU KNOW, AND ADJUST THINGS OVER TIME AS NEEDED, DEVELOP AND CHANGE.

KIND OF A SIMILAR RATIO WAS 55 TO 35 ON THE PRIOR SLIDE HERE.

5732 AND A LITTLE MORE, THERE'S A LITTLE DISTINCTION THERE WITH THE DEMOCRATS GOT, YOU KNOW, A LITTLE MORE IN THE SORT OF MORE EVENLY DIVIDED, BUT INDEPENDENTS, REPUBLICANS WERE MUCH MORE MUCH MORE PRIORITIZING EACH HEALTH PLAN THAT IS STUCK TO. SO OF COURSE, THE SURVEY, WE DID SOME, HEY, DO YOU SUPPORT THIS CONCEPT? HERE'S SOME REASONS TO SUPPORT IT MORE.

HERE'S ARE SOME REASONS WHY MAYBE YOU DON'T WANT TO THINK ABOUT IT, AND THEN PEOPLE CHANGE THEIR MINDS.

AND WE HAD ABOUT A THIRD WHO ARE LIKE STRONGLY SUPPORTIVE THE WHOLE WAY THROUGH.

AND THEN WE HAD ABOUT A QUARTER WHO AT SOME POINT IN THE SURVEY SAID THEY VOTE, THEY WERE OPPOSED.

SORRY. AND THEN MAYBE THEY CHANGED THEIR MIND, BUT AT SOME POINT, OFTENTIMES THESE SURVEYS, WE DO CONSISTENT. YES. CONSISTENT, NO SWING SETS.

SUPPORT LEVELS WERE SO HIGH. WE KIND OF TEASED IT OUT HERE TO LOOK A LITTLE BIT AS TO THE STRONG SUPPORT VERSUS, EVER OPPOSE. AND THAT SWING CATEGORY IS PRETTY BIG.

THESE ARE NOT THESE ARE GROUPS THAT ARE DISPROPORTIONATELY LIKELY TO FALL INTO THESE SLIDES IN THESE CATEGORIES.

SORRY TO GET A LITTLE WONKY HERE. IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT ALL REPUBLICAN MEN OPPOSE THE CONCEPT.

IT JUST MEANS THAT THEY WERE MORE LIKELY THAN THE TYPICAL VOTER IN THE SURVEY TO HAVE VOTED NO AT LEAST ONCE.

AND SO THERE'S A LOT OF PARTISANSHIP IN HERE.

INDEPENDENTS OR, YOU KNOW, LESS PARTISAN, IDEALISTIC, MORE IN THE MIDDLE.

PERHAPS NOT NOT SURPRISING, BUT DOES GIVE YOU A SENSE OF WHERE YOUR STRONGEST SUPPORTERS ARE AND THOSE WHO ARE MORE CIRCUMSPECT.

WE'RE WE'RE ALSO LOOKING AT A FEW DIFFERENT WAYS TO DESCRIBE THE PARK DISTRICT SINCE THIS IS WELL IN ADVANCE OF ANYTHING POTENTIALLY BEING ON THE VALUE OF A CHANCE TO KIND OF TALK ABOUT FRAMING CONVERSATIONS WITH THE COMMUNITY.

AND WE PRESENTED THESE IN RANDOM ORDER AND THOSE LITTLE BOLDED LANGUAGE THERE PRESERVE QUALITY OF LIFE UNIQUE.

THOSE WERE NOT SHARED RESPONDENTS THAT JUST INTERNAL SHORTHAND.

AND WE ASKED RESPONDENTS TO SAY, HEY, DO YOU HAVE POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE OPINION OR REACTION TO THIS DESCRIPTION OF THE PARKS? AND YOU'LL SEE HERE THAT THERE'S NOT HUGE DIFFERENCES.

YOU KNOW, MAYBE THERE'S THREE THAT HAD A MEAN SCORE OF AROUND, YOU KNOW, CLOSE TO, YOU KNOW,

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PRESERVING QUALITY OF LIFE, UNIQUE BENEFIT. THERE'S SOME OVERLAP IN THESE.

THE SECOND AND THIRD FROM THE BOTTOM HERE GET INTO MORE CONCRETE.

THE PARKS ARE A, YOU KNOW, HUGE BIG AREA, LOTS OF MILES OF TRAILS AND SHORELINE MODEST, BUT WE TRY TO CONNECT TO HOW THE PARKS ARE HAVING ECONOMIC BENEFITS TO THE OVERALL ECONOMY, THE PROPERTY VALUES THAT DIDN'T RESONATE AS STRONGLY.

THAT WAS CLEARLY LIKE AN OUTLIER COMPARED TO THESE OTHER ITEMS. AND WE'RE JUST SORT OF, YEAH, LET'S LOOK AT THIS BY GEOGRAPHY BECAUSE SOME OF THESE, YOU KNOW, DIFFERENCE HERE, YOU'LL SEE THAT OF THESE DESCRIPTIONS THAT WE WENT THROUGH, THOSE ARE MOST LIKELY TO HAVE A VERY POSITIVE REACTION TO THESE A LITTLE MORE IN THE OAKLAND FLATLANDS, A LITTLE MORE WESTERN ON THE WESTERN PART OF YOUR DISTRICT.

THERE YOU HAVE MORE IN THE 60S AND THEN IN THE TRI VALLEY TRI CITY, THE OTHER FOUR SUBREGIONS WILL NEED A LITTLE MORE.

IN THE 50S HERE WERE STATEMENTS THAT WERE PRESENTED THAT WERE, HEY, THIS IS A SORT OF A RATIONALE FOR THIS SUPPORTING THIS POLICY PROPOSAL WHICH IS, YOU KNOW, A SMALL TAX INCREASE FOR, FOR YOUR PARK DISTRICT REPRESENTATIVES RANDOM ORDER.

AND WE HAVE RESPONDENTS TO SAY, HEY, HOW CONVINCING.

AND THE REASON IS THIS FOR SOMEONE TO, TO SUPPORT THIS PROPOSAL.

AND AGAIN, THAT BOLDED LANGUAGE, WE DIDN'T PRESENT ANYBODY.

THAT'S THE SHORTHAND. WE TALKED ABOUT FIRE. WE TALKED ABOUT YOUTH BENEFITS.

WE TALKED ABOUT ADDITIONAL FUNDS THAT HELP KEEP THE PARKS SAFE, CLEAN, TALK ABOUT THE MAINTENANCE NEEDS, TALK ABOUT THE WATER IMPLICATIONS FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS AND COUNCIL CLIMATE.

YOU KNOW, THESE ARE NOT ALL ENTIRELY MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE, BUT THERE ARE DISTINCT CONCEPTS.

WE DID A PRETTY LONG LIST HERE. WE TALKED ABOUT, WELL, SOME SORT OF MEASURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY PROVISIONS IN IT.

WE TALKED ABOUT ACCESSIBILITY HEALTH BENEFITS OF PARKS, HOW THIS IS A PARKS FROM AN AFFORDABLE OPTION FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE.

AND THIS COULD HELP YOU KNOW, ADDRESS PARKS GROWTH ADDRESSING GROWTH AS RECENTLY HAD, AND ALSO POTENTIALLY FUND EXPANSION IN THE FUTURE.

AND HOW CONVINCING OF THIS IS A REASON TO SUPPORT THIS PROPOSAL.

IT'S VERY CONVINCING SOMEONE CONVINCING THAT'S NOT TOO CONVINCING OR THEY DON'T BELIEVE IT.

WE'VE LEFT THOSE OFF THE SLIDE HERE, BUT MY FIRST TWO TAKEAWAYS ARE VIRTUALLY EVERYTHING HERE WAS, WAS BROADLY COMPELLING. EVERYTHING HERE WAS SEEN AS CONVINCING AS A REASON TO SUPPORT THIS PROPOSAL BY ESSENTIALLY 70% OR MORE.

SO WE TEND TO LOOK AT THE, THE VERY CONTENTS AND THE INTENSITY HERE.

AND THERE'S NOT A HUGE SPREAD 40% OR HIGHER, VERY CONVINCING AS OUR KIND OF INTERNAL THRESHOLD FOR SOMETHING THAT MIGHT MAKE SOMEONE CHANGE THEIR MIND. AND TWO OF THEM GOT THERE, WHICH WAS ABOUT FIRE PREVENTION AND BENEFITS FOR, FOR YOUTH. SO THOSE TWO GENERATE THE MOST INTENSITY AND THE ONLY ONE THAT DIPPED BELOW 30%, YOU KNOW, ONLY MARGIN OF ERROR DIFFERENCE FROM THE OTHER ONES THERE. BUT WITH THE, THE MORE PARKS MENTIONED ARGUMENT, ALTHOUGH THAT WAS STILL BROADLY COMPELLING, JUST DIDN'T HAVE A LOT OF ATTENTION BEHIND IT. LOOKING AT THESE BY GEOGRAPHY, SO WE'VE HIGHLIGHTED ONES THAT GOT TO 40% VERY CONVINCING.

AND YOU'LL SEE SOMETHING LIKE IN THE OAKLAND FLATLANDS AREA, A LOT OF THESE THINGS WERE SEEN AS PROBABLY MISSED A COUPLE 40S AT THE BOTTOM.

YEAH. IT DIDN'T MEAN TO SAY IT THAT WAY. AND THEN YOU'RE LOOKING ACROSS HERE, BUT THE FIRE ONE.

WOW, THAT WAS PRETTY STRONGLY CONVINCING EVERYWHERE ACROSS YOUR DISTRICT.

SO THERE'S SOME LEARNINGS THERE. THE YOUTH ARE ALSO RELATIVELY HIGH PRETTY CONSISTENTLY AS WELL.

YOU KNOW, THIS AGAIN, THIS SURVEY WAS DONE IN FEBRUARY AND MARCH.

SO IT'S A LOT OF TIME HAS TRANSPIRED SINCE THEN.

BUT WE DID ASK, HAVE YOU HEARD ANYTHING ABOUT THE DISTRICT'S STRATEGIC PLAN? AND TIME. THIS IS KIND OF A BENCHMARK HERE. 80% SAID I HAVEN'T HEARD ANYTHING.

1 IN 5 SAID I'VE HEARD SOMETHING, BUT ONLY 3% SAID THEY HEARD A GREAT DEAL.

NOW I THINK THIS IS A PRETTY NEW AT THE TIME.

GOT A LITTLE SENSE OF WHO HAS HEARD MORE ABOUT IT TENDS TO BE THE OLDER VOTERS.

FOR SOME EXTENT THERE HAD HEARD A LITTLE BIT MORE.

BUT THIS GIVES YOU A BENCHMARK FROM WHICH YOU CAN MEASURE IN THE FUTURE.

AND WE ALSO ASKED, WELL, WHAT ABOUT, YOU KNOW, PARTICIPATING IN THE PLAN PLANNING PROCESS IN THE FUTURE? SO ABOUT A THIRD SAID THEY WOULD BE INTERESTED.

AND THOSE MOST LIKELY TO PARTICIPATE OR SHOW EXPRESS INTEREST OR ACTUALLY WE'RE KIND OF ON THE YOUNGER SIDE A LITTLE MORE ON THE,

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NOW AGAIN, WE SAW THIS THEME WE TOUCHED ON A FEW TIMES IN HERE ABOUT THE PLAN AND, YOU KNOW, ACCOUNTABILITY, THINGS OF THAT NATURE. SO THIS QUESTION WAS PRESENTED AS DO MORE OR LESS LIKELY TO SUPPORT A MINISTRY.

IF YOU KNEW THERE WAS A PLAN IN PLACE OR A MAKE NO DIFFERENCE TO YOU.

SO, YOU KNOW, ONLY A SMATTERING OF PEOPLE SAID THAT MAKE THEM LESS LIKELY, BUT TWO THIRDS SAID IT MAKE THEM MORE LIKELY.

AND A LITTLE MORE THAN A QUARTER OF 28% SAID IT WOULD MAKE THEM MUCH MORE LIKELY TO SUPPORT A MEASURE IF THEY KNEW THERE WAS A MORE DETAILED PLAN.

SO JUST BIG PICTURE TAKEAWAYS. AND AGAIN, WITH THE CAVEAT OF THIS, THIS, YOU KNOW, THE DATA IS A LITTLE BIT OLDER AT THIS POINT, BUT HEY, PEOPLE LIKE THE PARKS, THEY VALUE THEM.

THERE IS BROAD, STRONG MAJORITY SUPPORT, SUPERMAJORITY SUPPORT FOR THE CONCEPT OF A MEASURE THAT WOULD GENERATE SOME SORT OF TAX MECHANISM THAT WOULD GENERATE FUNDS FOR THE, FOR THE DISTRICT HERE.

THERE SEEMS TO BE SOME PRETTY STRONG WILLINGNESS TO PAY MAJORITY OF, YOU KNOW, EVEN AS MUCH AS $100.

BUT IN THAT 75 TO 50 RANGE, YOU START TO SEE AROUND THAT TWO THIRDS LEVEL A LITTLE BIT STRONGER THERE.

A LOT OF EMPHASIS ON, YOU KNOW, FIRE PREVENTION, BUT ALSO CONSERVING AND PROTECTING, MAINTAINING A LITTLE MORE CIRCUMSPECT WHEN IT COMES TO SOME ABOUT EXPANSION AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE THERE AND THE CONCEPT OF ACCOUNTABILITY THE CONCEPT OF HAVING A PLAN SO PEOPLE COULD LOOK AT GOING FORWARD SEEM TO BE RESONATE A FEW TIMES. WE ASKED ABOUT IT HERE.

IN GENERAL AND I WILL SAY TRANSPARENCY HAS BEEN A BIG THING FOR VOTERS THIS CYCLE AS THE YEARS GO ON AS WELL.

ALL RIGHT. THAT GETS ME TO THE END OF MY PRESENTATION.

GREAT. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THAT WAS VERY INFORMATIVE.

LET'S GO AHEAD AND ASK QUESTIONS. IF ANY BOARD MEMBERS HAVE QUESTIONS TO ASK ABOUT THIS SURVEY, AND THEN WE'LL OPEN IT UP FOR PUBLIC COMMENTS.

DO ANY BOARD MEMBERS HAVE QUESTIONS. OKAY. GO AHEAD.

SO I JUST HAVE A SEVERAL CONCERNS. BECAUSE EVEN THOUGH IT WAS STATED ON DIFFERENT SLIDES THAT RESULTS WERE CONSISTENT THROUGHOUT THE DIFFERENT BOARDS.

BOARD FOUR WAS JUST AS FAR AS IF WE LOOK AT POSITIVITY ACROSS THE GEOGRAPHY.

IT WAS LOWER 76. AND THEN ALSO JUST AS FAR AS BLACK VOTERS WERE LESS SUPPORTIVE. YEAH. STILL SMALL MAJORITY, BUT A LITTLE LESS, LESS INTENSITY ON THE POSITIVITY.

I AGREE. YEAH. WELL, STILL LIKE BELOW ARE THE DIFFERENT GROUPS AS FAR AS ASIAN OR LATINO.

AND JUST AS FAR AS HAVING THAT REPRESENTATION WITHIN MY WARD.

AND REALLY JUST KIND OF LOOKING AT AND THEN JUST ALSO I SAW THAT YOU SAID SUPPORT IN THE FLATLANDS. AND SO A LOT OF, SO I WAS WONDERING, LIKE HOW YOU DETERMINE WHICH AREAS OF OAKLAND WERE THE FLATLANDS? BECAUSE MY, I HAVE A DIFFERENT INTERPRETATION.

I THINK OF WHAT THE FLATLANDS ARE. THEY USED TO SAY THERE WAS FOUR WITHIN THE FLATLANDS, BUT A LOT OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY AND OTHER STUFF IS CONSIDERED FLATLANDS. SO YEAH, I MIGHT, I MIGHT DEFER TO STAFF ERICH ABOUT THE DEFINITIONS OF THE REGIONS, BUT WE SORT OF TOOK, I CAN'T REMEMBER, WE INITIALLY, I THINK EXPLORED THE IDEA OF EAST OAKLAND AND WEST OAKLAND, AND I THINK THE SAMPLE SIZES WEREN'T GOING TO BE LARGE ENOUGH.

AND SO I THINK WE WORKED WITH THEM TO DEVELOP SORT OF WHERE THE, WHERE THE BOUNDARY LINE WAS.

AND I THINK IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE [INAUDIBLE]. OKAY.

BECAUSE DEPENDING ON THE POPULATION OF AFRICAN AMERICANS, I WAS JUST WONDERING, HOW ARE THEY ALL SHOWING THE LOWEST SUPPORT? JUST AS FAR AS, AND THEN ALSO SAYING THE FLAT LINE THAT HAS A HIGH LEVEL OF SUPPORT BECAUSE WITHOUT SEEING THEM, I WOULD THINK THOSE TWO POPULATIONS OVER CLERK.

SO I HAVE SOME CONCERN ABOUT STATEMENTS. OKAY.

I MEAN, I THINK WE CAN ALSO LOOK AT THE, THE, THE, THE ETHNIC DISTRIBUTION AMONGST THOSE DIFFERENT GEOGRAPHIC SUBREGIONS.

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SO IT COULD BE THAT IN THAT LOCATION, THERE'S PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT RACES AND ETHNICITIES, BUT REGARDLESS, THERE'S STRONGER SUPPORT AND THAT THE DISTRIBUTED OVER THE WHOLE DISTRICT.

SO THAT'S KIND OF WHERE THERE'S SOME CONFUSION TO ME BECAUSE IT'S LIKE, DO WE HAVE HIGHER SUPPORT AMONG AFRICAN AMERICANS? [INAUDIBLE] BECAUSE I'M JUST SEEING LIKE FRIENDS WITH OVER MY OVERALL WARD THAT AS FAR AS WARD 4 FOR HAVING LOW RISK FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS HAVING GOALS OR AND THEN JUST SEEING HIGHER SUPPORT THERE.

I WAS JUST KIND OF IT JUST DIDN'T ALL KIND OF MAKE SENSE TO ME WITHOUT SEEING A FURTHER DIVE.

AND THEN I GUESS JUST AS FAR AS WHEN I SEE THESE RESULTS, I JUST.

QUESTION OF WHAT DO WE NEED DIFFERENT MEETINGS TO WORK FOR? AND WHAT DO WE NEED TO DO DIFFERENTLY SO THAT THERE'S A HIGHER LEVEL OF SUPPORT FROM AFRICAN AMERICANS WITHIN OUR PARK? AND THEN ALSO UNDERSTANDING WHERE THOSE DIFFERENT POCKETS OF AFRICAN AMERICANS ARE? BECAUSE AS FAR AS IF I HAVE ONE DEMOGRAPHIC FOR.

SO THAT'S KIND OF LIKE MY TAKEAWAYS. EVEN THOUGH I KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF POSITIVITY IN HERE, I'M JUST SEEING MORE CONCERN IN AREAS. AND THEN RIGHT NOW WE'RE DOING SOME GREAT WORK WITHIN THOSE AREAS.

SO HOW ARE THOSE MESSAGES NOT HOW ARE WE ALSO GOING ABOUT MESSAGING WHAT'S HAPPENING? BECAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF GREAT WORK THAT'S HAPPENING IN TIDEWATER, A LOT OF GREAT WORK AS FAR AS THE GRANTS ELSA WAS AMAZING.

WE WERE AS FAR AS AT ARLINGTON BAPTIST AND TALKING ABOUT THE PLAN.

SO THOSE ARE KIND OF JUST TAKEAWAYS HERE. AND THEN THE OTHER THING WHERE YOU WERE MAKING THE COMPARISON BETWEEN RESIDENTS AND VOTERS, LIKE HOW ARE YOU DEFINING THOSE TWO DEMOGRAPHICS? THIS WAS LATER WAS THE VOTERS A SUBSET OF THE RESIDENTS THAT VOTED? WELL, THERE WERE TWO DIFFERENT SURVEYS. YES. SO THE 2023 SURVEY WAS AN ADULT SURVEY.

SO WE BASICALLY TAKE A RANDOM SAMPLE OF RESIDENTIAL ADDRESSES.

AND WE REACH OUT TO THEM. AND WE USE CENSUS DATA TO ESTABLISH THE QUOTAS THERE BY AGE IS NOT.

AND SO THEY CAN BE VOTERS OR NONVOTERS. AND THAT'S WHAT WE USE THAT SURVEY.

SO THAT WAS ALL PEOPLE WHO WERE OVER 18 WERE ELIGIBLE TO TAKE THAT SURVEY.

AND BASED UPON OUR RANDOMIZATION OF SELECTING ADDRESSES, THE SURVEY WAS CONDUCTED.

NOW, AS PEOPLE WHO ARE REGISTERED TO VOTE. SO THAT IS A SUBSET THAT IS OLDER, FRANKLY WHITER THAN THE OVERALL RESIDENTIAL POPULATION OF THE TWO OF THE TWO COUNTIES PUT TOGETHER SKEWS TO HAVE HIGHER LEVELS OF EDUCATION.

SO THERE ARE DEMOGRAPHIC DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THOSE TWO.

OKAY. AND WHICH MAKES A DIFFERENCE WHEN YOU ACTUALLY DECIDE.

YEAH. I MEAN, I WOULD EMPHASIZE NOT FOCUSING SO MUCH ON THIS.

THIS WOULD JUST BE HAD A COMPARISON POINT. WE WANTED TO LIKE SAY, HEY, HOW HAS IT CHANGED? IT'S NOT APPLES TO APPLES. AND I THINK PART OF THE I WOULDN'T WORRY ABOUT IT TOO MUCH ABOUT THAT.

AND THEN I THINK THE KIND OF THE OTHER CONCERN FOR ME IS KIND OF FOUR PRIORITIES VERSUS THE PRIORITIES ARE KIND OF THE DIFFERENCE AMONG THE TOP ISSUES.

SO THOSE ARE KIND OF JUST, I WAS JUST LOOKING AT TAKEAWAYS AND SOME QUESTIONS.

THANK YOU. GO AHEAD. SO I HOPE I'M NOT JUMPING AHEAD.

I, I ALWAYS THINK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THE REASON WE'RE DEALING WITH THIS AND, AND HOW WE USE IT AND WHAT WE USE IT LIKE, NOT THIS ONE, BUT THE NEXT, THE NEXT SURVEY OR A TEMPLATE FOR DESIGNING A PROGRAM TO PUT IN FRONT OF THE VOTERS.

YOU KNOW, WE CAN DO IT IN DIFFERENT WAYS ACCORDING TO WHAT VOTERS ARE MOST LIKELY TO SUPPORT.

SO AND I REALIZE THAT THIS IS BEFORE A CAMPAIGN.

SO THERE'S, THERE'S THERE'S A LOT OF OPPORTUNITY FOR EDUCATION OF VOTERS TO UNDERSTAND THE PARK DISTRICT BETTER

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ALL THAT STUFF STILL NEEDS TO BE EXPLAINED. AND OF COURSE, WE HEARD TODAY THAT OUR FRIENDS AT THE NATION ARE WILLING TO HELP US WITH ALL THAT. AND SO THAT'S, THAT'S REALLY ENCOURAGING AS WELL, AS WELL AS OTHER PEOPLE BEYOND THE FOUNDATION WOULD HELP US GET, GET THE WORD OUT. BUT I'M JUST THINKING ABOUT WHEN, WHEN YOU WHEN YOU ARE RUNNING A COMPANY, DO YOU, DO YOU FOCUS IT MAINLY ON THE PLACES WHERE YOU'RE SCORING LOW OR IF YOU TAKE THEM.

YEAH. AND DE-EMPHASIZE WHERE YOU'VE ALREADY GOT 90% OR HOW WOULD THAT WORK? IF I MAY REDIRECT THIS A LITTLE BIT, IS THAT A YOUR AGENCY CAN'T BE INVOLVED IN A CAMPAIGN.

SO THIS WOULD JUST BE. YEAH. FOUNDATION. YEAH.

BUT THIS HELPS YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT IS VIABLE OR NOT.

AND THEN IF IT IS VIABLE, HOW YOU CAN CONSTRUCT IT BEST MEET WHERE VOTERS PRIORITIES ARE.

RIGHT? AND I THINK THAT TYPICALLY IF SOMEBODY IS A CONSISTENTLY SUPPORTIVE OF SOMETHING, THEN THEY PROBABLY NEED LESS CONVINCING OF IT. AND THEN SO YOU WOULD YOU MIGHT THINK ABOUT THAT IN SOME OF YOUR COMMUNICATIONS AND OUTREACH BETWEEN NOW AND AT SOME POINT IN TIME, IF YOU EVER DECIDE TO PUT SOMETHING ON THE BALLOT OF WHO IS IN THE CATEGORY THAT MIGHT NEED A LITTLE MORE, YOU KNOW, THEY MAY BE ON THE FENCE ABOUT WHETHER SOMETHING IS IS IN THEIR INTEREST OR NOT.

SO THAT WOULD BE I'M AND THAT GIVES SOME SOLACE WHEN I THINK ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY.

SENATE. IT HAS A TENDENCY TO BOOST UP. AND I WILL SAY TWO THIRDS OF THEM.

NOW IN A COUPLE OF YEARS, MAYBE THINGS ARE DIFFERENT THIS YEAR.

TWO THIRDS IS HARD. I'VE GIVEN IT'S BEEN ONE OF MY MORE CHALLENGING YEARS OF PRESENTING THE PUBLIC AGENCIES BECAUSE I'VE GIVEN MORE.

SORRY IT AIN'T HAPPENING THIS YEAR PRESENTATIONS THAN I HAVE AT ANY POINT IN THE LAST 20 YEARS I'VE BEEN DOING THIS, SO. ANY OTHER BOARD MEMBER QUESTIONS? GO AHEAD.

THIS THIS SLIDE I LIKE 2023. FAVORABLE JUMP FROM 68 TO 82%.

BUT, YOU KNOW, I'M JUST CURIOUS. YES. FIRST OF ALL, BIG PICTURE.

I GUESS THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS IS REALLY TO TEASE OUT, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE WILLING TO SUPPORT THE PARKS.

BUT I WAS, IT WAS INTERESTING THAT ONE OF THE SLIDES ON THE PIE CHART THOUGHT THAT 27% THINK WE'RE GOING IN THE WRONG DIRECTION.

THAT WAS JUST THE EAST BAY, NOT YOUR DISTRICT.

TOTAL WEIGHT, TOTAL DISTRICT. THIS IS JUST LIKE A THIS IS JUST A HEY, WE START OFF OUR SURVEYS OFTEN WITH LIKE, DO YOU FEEL LIKE THINGS ARE HEADED IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION? WE'RE ON TRACK JUST TO GET A VIBE CHECK. AND IT'S NOT ABOUT THE DISTRICT, IT'S THAT ITALICIZED LANGUAGE IS THE EXACT LANGUAGE THAT COULD BE ABOUT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.

THANK YOU. BUT THE REASON THAT I'M SURPRISED IT'S NOT HIGHER, I FORGET MY BUT I WILL SAY IT'S IT'S INFORMATIVE IN THAT LIKE, THAT'S NOT A THAT'S JUST REASONABLY POSITIVE.

BUT IF THAT STARTS TO FLIP AND I'M SEEING THIS FLIP IN MANY OTHER PLACES, THEN IT SUGGESTS THAT MAYBE A HEADWIND THAT'S COMPLETELY SEPARATE FROM YOUR AGENCY.

SO ANYWAY, I WOULD SAY, I MEAN, TO ME, ONE OF THE TAKEAWAYS THOUGH IS THAT LIKE THAT 82, 83, WHATEVER THAT PERCENT SUPPORT FOR THE DISTRICT, BUT THEN THE MORE VARIETY AND SUPPORT FOR A FUNDING MEASURE MEANS LIKE PEOPLE LOVE THE DISTRICT IN PARTS, BUT THERE'S DIFFERENCES IN PEOPLE'S SUPPORT FOR TAXES, RIGHT? SO THAT'S YEAH. THE OTHER QUESTION WAS SORT OF IN LINE WITH DIRECTOR ESPAÑA.

I'VE ASKED SOME OF THE SAME QUESTIONS WITH THE ASIA PACIFIC AND THE OAKLAND FLATLANDS, BUT THAT'S DIVIDED.

DEFINED AS, AND WE HAVE A PLURALITY OF THE AAPI COMMUNITY IN OAKLAND AND JUST HOW THAT GOES DOWN FURTHER GOING FORWARD.

AND I WAS JUST CURIOUS. I MEAN, AT SOME POINT, DO YOU LOOK AT USER TYPES? I MEAN, WHAT'S NEXT? LIKE, ARE THESE DOG WALKERS OR HORSE RIDERS? ARE THEY BICYCLISTS OR MOUNTAIN BICYCLISTS? ARE THEY, YOU KNOW, YOGA WALKERS OR LONG DISTANCE RUNNERS? LIKE, I DON'T KNOW IF WE GET INTO THAT LEVEL OF DETAIL EVER.

I KNOW WE CERTAINLY DIDN'T IN THIS SURVEY AND WE TYPICALLY DON'T IN A BALLOT MEASURE OR PRE BALLOT MEASURE TYPE SURVEYS.

JUST BECAUSE IT'S PRETTY GRANULAR AND IT NEEDS A LOT OF TIME IN THE SURVEY, BUT YOU HAVE OTHER RESEARCH TOOLS THAT DO.

WE'VE MET SOME AND YOU'VE HAD OTHERS THAT GET INTO SOME OF THAT AS WELL.

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SO THAT'S PROBABLY LESS THE TYPE OF FOLKS THAT YOU'RE HOPING TO REACH.

AND THAT'S TYPICALLY A VISITOR SURVEY. AND SO THIS TRULY OBJECTIVE IS MORE OF A FREE BALLAD.

THIS IS REALLY TESTING THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE OF VOTERS.

WHAT ARE THEIR AREAS OF INTEREST AND WHAT'S THEIR INTEREST IN A POTENTIAL TAX MEASURE? THE IF WE WERE INTERESTED IN ASKING VISITORS ABOUT THEIR VISITATION OF PARKS AND LIKE WHAT KIND OF THINGS THEY LIKE TO DO. TYPICALLY WE DO THAT AS LIKE AN INTERCEPT SURVEY IN THE PARKS THEMSELVES.

AND SO, BUT THERE'S OTHER METHODS THAT WE DON'T FOCUS ON ONE.

IT'S SUCH A DIVERSE COMMUNITY. WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW PEOPLE OF COLOR, PEOPLE OF ETHNICITY WILL VOTE.

ANYWAY. THE ONLY OTHER QUESTION I HAD, I GUESS IT'S NOT A QUESTION IS WHAT I WAS SURPRISED OF THE 80% HAVEN'T HEARD ABOUT OUR SECOND CENTURY PLAN. SO IF WE'RE OUT THERE SORT OF TRYING TO DRIVE, AND PEOPLE DON'T REALLY REALIZE WHAT WE HAVE GOING ON FOR THE NEXT DIRECTION.

I DON'T KNOW. IT JUST KIND OF RAISES SOME QUESTIONS AND I'D ASK, WHAT DO YOU THINK IS NEXT? WHAT WOULD YOU READ? WHAT'S YOUR NEXT STEP? SO YOU THINK WE NEED TO DO TO DRILL DOWN ON THAT PARTICULAR NUMBER.

I'VE NOT WORKED ON IT, SO I'M PROBABLY NOT THE BEST PERSON. NOT IN THE DISTRICT. OH, OKAY.

SORRY. I DID KIND OF RAMBLE FROM ONE THING TO DO THAT.

THAT'S A GENERAL COMMENT ABOUT THE DISTRICT PLAN. AND THEN MY QUESTION TO YOU IS WHAT'S NEXT? I CAN GIVE YOU MY MY $0.02 ON JUST HOW I WOULD LOOK AT THIS, THIS TOOL, WHICH IS IF YOU'RE CONSIDERING TRYING TO GENERATE REVENUE FOR THE DISTRICT IN THE FUTURE, THIS IS A DO WE HAVE A CHANCE? IF THE RESULTS CAME BACK AND IT WAS STUCK AT 5050 CONCEPTUALLY AND WE COULDN'T MOVE PEOPLE ANYWHERE NEAR TWO THIRDS, THEN THAT WOULD SAY, YOU NEED TO PLAN AHEAD AS IF YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO PASS A TWO THIRDS MEASURE IN THE NEXT SEVERAL YEARS.

AND IT'S DIFFERENT. THIS IS A GOOD SUPPORT, AROUND TWO THIRDS, BUT IT'S NOT LIKE YOU'RE AT 80% SUPPORT FOR THIS CONCEPT, BUT IT IS IN THE BALLPARK. YOU HAVE A OPPORTUNITY AS A AS A BOARD TO DECIDE, THIS IS SOMETHING WE WANT TO CONTINUE EXPLORING.

AND IF THAT'S THE CASE, YOU'VE LEARNED FROM HERE, WELL, WHAT DO VOTERS PRIORITIZE? HOW CAN THAT SORT OF DOVETAIL WITH SOME OF YOUR OTHER POLICY PRIORITIES AND PLANNING GOING FORWARD? BECAUSE BETTER, MORE SYNERGY YOU HAVE THERE, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE YOU'RE GOING TO DO BETTER DOWN THE ROAD IF YOU COME BACK AND REEVALUATE A MORE CONCRETE POTENTIAL BALLOT MEASURE. AND THAT'S KIND OF HOW I MIGHT THINK ABOUT THIS.

AND THERE'S SOME STUFF THAT STAFF CAN THINK ABOUT IN TERMS OF DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES, WHETHER IT BE DEMOGRAPHIC OR GEOGRAPHIC.

AND IN TERMS OF OUTREACH, THEY COULD HAVE, BUT, YOU KNOW, JUST GENERALLY AROUND, FOR EXAMPLE, THE AWARENESS OF THE PLAN, THE DISTRICT PLAN, THERE'S INFORMATION IN HERE WHICH THE STAFF HAS ACCESS TO AND SAY, WELL, THESE ARE WORDS OR WHATEVER IT IS THAT NO MORE OR LESS ABOUT US.

MAYBE WE CAN SPEND SOME MORE TIME DOING THAT WORK. THAT'S MY $0.02.

YEAH. I MEAN, I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING THE STAFF WE WORK ON OUR NEXT STEPS IS FIGURING OUT IS WHAT IS THE POTENTIAL OF PUTTING SOMETHING ON THE BALLOT.

AND THEN WE COME BACK TO YOUR BOARD TO GET DIRECTION.

DENNIS. YEAH. PLEASE. I DON'T KNOW IF THESE QUESTIONS OR OBSERVATIONS, BUT I'LL I'LL GO.

SO WE SAMPLED 1729 FOLKS AND THEY WERE CONSIDERED VOTERS, BUT NOW WE'RE SUGGESTING THAT THEY WERE REGISTERED VOTERS.

AND WE DON'T KNOW IF THEY VOTED IN ANY OF THEM. THEY REGISTERED VOTERS.

SO WE KEPT THIS UNIVERSE PRETTY BROAD AT THIS POINT.

IF WHEN WE DO A MORE OF A VIABILITY TEST AND WE USUALLY CREATE A LIKELY VOTER MODEL AND FURTHER NARROW IT THIS FAR OUT.

AND BECAUSE THIS COULD BE USED FOR OTHER NON-REVENUE GENERATION PURPOSES.

WE KEPT THE SAMPLE JUST ANYONE WHO'S REGISTERED TO VOTE.

WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO LOOK AT THEIR VOTING HISTORY WITHIN A SUBSETS OF THIS THOUGH.

GREAT. YEAH. I WOULD RECOMMEND YOU DO THAT BECAUSE OF THE 1729.

AND THEN I'M GOING DOWN THE LIST. AND FIRST QUESTION, WOULD YOU SAY THINGS THAT YOU SAY ARE HEADED IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION OR THE WRONG DIRECTION? AND 31% OF PEOPLE DON'T KNOW. THAT'S 536 PEOPLE DON'T HAVE AN OPINION.

IF WE HAVE SAID, GIVE ME BACK THE PENCIL AND GIVE ME THE PAPER.

THANK YOU. PROBABLY MEANS SOMEWHERE IN THE MIDDLE.

WE WE TEND TO ASK THAT QUESTION IS MORE BINARY TO TRY TO.

IF YOU. FOR A HIGH LEVEL QUESTION LIKE THAT, IF YOU GIVE PEOPLE A NEUTRAL OPTION, THEY'RE GOING TO FUNNEL INTO THAT.

SO WE KIND OF DON'T PRESENT THAT. BUT THAT'S WHAT THAT MEANS, RIGHT?

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AND THEN IT TROUBLES ME FURTHER WHEN I GO DOWN THE LIST AND, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT DISTRICT PLAN.

ONLY 20% OF PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT IT AFTER ALL WE SPENT AND SAME DARN QUESTION WOULD YOU BE INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING IN THE DISTRICT PROCESS PLAN? 31% OF THE PEOPLE DON'T KNOW. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU WANT TO HELP OUT OR I HOPE WE CAN SCROLL THIS DOWN.

AND AT SOME POINT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO SAY WE'RE TRYING OUR BEST.

BUT IF YOU TAKE THAT VOTER ROLLS THAT YOU CAN GET THAT FREQUENT VOTER LIST AND HOLD IT DOWN, YOU'VE GOT 3 MILLION FEWER VOTERS. [INAUDIBLE] COUNTY, BUT I WANT TO DOWNLOAD PEOPLE TO VOTE.

I THINK THAT'S GOING TO BE REALLY IMPORTANT BECAUSE GETTING PEOPLE TO SUGGEST, I DON'T KNOW, BUT I LIKE THE WAY THINGS ARE GOING OR I DON'T, OR I DON'T KNOW IF I WANT TO PARTICIPATE IN IT SCARES THE HECK OUT OF ME TO THINK THAT WE'D BE GOING IN THIS DIRECTION.

YOU KNOW I ALSO THINK WE SHOULD DISTINGUISH BETWEEN YOU SHOULD SCROLL DOWN AND GET TO IT. THE WOMAN THAT WAS HERE THIS MORNING, SHE'S NOT HERE.

THAT'S A PUBLIC COMMENT. SHE SPOKE ELOQUENTLY ABOUT HOW DISTURBED SHE WAS ABOUT YOU KNOW, OUR PARKS.

I THINK SHE I DON'T KNOW IF SHE REFERRED TO AS OURS, BUT SHE WAS REFERRING TO WALKING MILLER AND THE BIKES.

AND WHAT A TRAVESTY FOR THAT PLACE TO HAVE. WELL, OF COURSE THEY HAVE.

BUT RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET IN IN REDWOOD PARK, OUR PARK, WE'VE TAKEN A REALLY GOOD CARE OF.

SO A PERSON'S OPINION, IF THEY GO TO WALKING MILLER PARK IS GOING TO BE A HECK OF A LOT DIFFERENT IF THEY COME TO OUR PARKS, IN MY OPINION. I THINK WE REALLY NEED TO HONE THIS DOWN.

AND SO, YOU KNOW, TO SUGGEST I, I LIKE THE WAY WE, YOU KNOW, SAY YOU WHAT DO YOU LIKE, YOU KNOW, WHAT DO YOU WANT? THE PARK? WELL, WE WANT TO PRESERVE OPEN SPACE.

I UNDERSTAND THAT, BUT I, I HOPE WE CAN GET IT TO WHERE WE GO MORE SPECIFIC BECAUSE IT'S IT'S VERY IT DOESN'T TAKE A GENIUS TO KNOW.

WHEN WE HAD PROP 68, IT WAS A PARKS BOND, BUT IT WAS PARKS, ENVIRONMENT, WATER PARKS, ENVIRONMENT AND WATER.

WE USE THOSE KEY WORDS IN WATER. YOU'RE GOING TO GET A CERTAIN SEGMENT OF PEOPLE VOTE FOR PROP.

FOR THE RECENT ONE PARKS ENVIRONMENT, WE HAD AN ENERGY AND WATER.

SO I THINK WE KNOW WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR HERE.

I THINK WE JUST HAVE TO GET IT DOWN AND SIGNIFY ANYTHING.

WHEN WE TALK, ABOUT 57% OF THE FOLKS THOUGHT IT WAS A GREAT IDEA AND IMPERATIVE THAT WE DESIGNATE WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO.

HERE'S WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO. NOT IT'S UP TO THE BOARD'S DISCRETION.

YOU GUYS DO WHAT YOU THINK IS RIGHT. I, THINK THAT'S WOULD BE A CATASTROPHE AND REALLY, REALLY DISAPPOINTED THAT WE WILL IN THE WE GAVE $125 MILLION FOR SPECIFIC PROGRAMS FOR CITIES AND PARKS SERVICE AND SAID, YOU CAN DO WHAT YOU WANT WITH IT.

BEEN DESIGNATED AND THEY USE THAT AND THAT SELLS THE DATA.

NOT PROMISING WHAT'S RIGHT FOR YOU. AND SO THANK YOU FOR DOING THIS.

I WISH WE COULD HONE IT DOWN A LITTLE MORE. I WISH, IF, YOU KNOW, I'VE BEEN ON THE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE FOR A LONG TIME I REALLY THINK WE NEED SOME TYPE OF FUNDING MECHANISM, AND IT'S GOING TO BE YOU HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE PROCESS IN MY MIND, YOU REALLY. AND STARTING YESTERDAY, IT WOULD HAVE HELPED BECAUSE IT'S GOING TO TAKE A LONG TIME.

AND SO I THINK WE GOT TO START GETTING SPECIFICS.

NOW. I KNOW EVERYTHING CHANGES, BUT EVERYTHING CHANGES ALL THE TIME. YOU JUST REALLY NEED TO KEY IN ON WHAT WHAT OUR STRENGTHS ARE AND WHAT OUR WEAKNESSES ARE AND WHERE WE NEED TO WORK. THAT'S JUST MY THING IS THIS COMMENT QUESTION.

OKAY. SO MY QUESTION IS REAL QUICK. SO EVEN THOUGH, YES, WE RECOGNIZE THE STATE PARKS CAN'T BE INVOLVED IN A CAMPAIGN.

I BELIEVE EAST BAY REGIONAL PARK DISTRICT WILL TAKE PLACE ON THE BALLOT.

CORRECT. ONLY FOUR VOTES ON THE BALLOT. CORRECT.

AND THE COST TO HAVE IT ON THE BALLOT ACROSS THE TWO COUNTIES.

RIGHT NOW WE'RE CONSIDERING ACROSS THE ENTIRE DISTRICT. SO ALL COMMUNITIES IN BOTH ALAMEDA AND EAST BAY REGIONAL PARK DISTRICT, WE WOULD APPROVE FROM OUR GENERAL FUND AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS THAT ELECTION COSTS ON BALLOT.

WELL, THERE'S NO PROPOSAL FOR YOU, RIGHT? RIGHT. BUT THAT'S JUST TO PREPARE.

IF IF YOUR BOARD WAS TO APPROVE THAT FUNDING MEASURE ACROSS THE TWO COUNTIES, THAT'S WHAT IT WOULD DO.

AND WHAT WOULD BE THE ESTIMATED BALLOT COSTS? I'VE HEARD MANY DIFFERENT NUMBERS. I KNOW WE WON'T KNOW THE EXACT NUMBER BECAUSE WE DON'T EVEN HAVE AN ELECTION YEAR SET UP, BUT IT MIGHT JUST BE GOOD TO GET A BALLPARK ESTIMATE OF THAT COST.

I WOULD, I WOULD SAY PROBABLY [INAUDIBLE]. YEAH.

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AND THAT WOULD BE WHAT WE AS A DISTRICT WOULD BE MAKING A DECISION ON. AND THEN ONCE THAT DECISION TO GO ON THE BALLOT, IF THERE'S ANY CAMPAIGNING, THAT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT WE CAN DO AS PART OF PARK DISTRICT.

CORRECT. AND THEN MY NEXT QUESTION, AND I BELIEVE I ASKED THIS PREVIOUSLY MAYBE A YEAR OR TWO AGO ABOUT A WELL-FUNDED OPPOSITION AND MAYBE THINKING ABOUT THE NEXT ITERATION OF POLLING AND SURVEYING.

WILL WE GET TO MORE OF A DETAILED LEVEL? AND I BELIEVE WHEN WE GET MORE OF THAT DETAILED LEVEL, WE WOULD ALSO EXPLORE IF THERE WAS A WELL-FUNDED OPPOSITION OR OPPOSITION MESSAGE OUT THERE.

HOW WOULD THAT AFFECT THE POTENTIAL VOTERS? I WAS WONDERING IF YOU COULD TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT, BECAUSE I KNOW THAT THERE'S SOME MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY WHO LIVE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF LAKE DEL VALLE, THE DEL VALLE KIOSK, WHICH WE TALKED ABOUT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE MEETING. WE HAVE SHARED WITH ME THAT THEY WOULD LIKELY FIND A OPPOSITION CAMPAIGN AGAINST US IF WE WERE TO GO TO THE BALLOT FOR FIRST TIME. SO I JUST WANT TO UNDERSTAND THAT ASPECT OF POLLING.

I MEAN, WE WOULD BE WHEN IT COMES TO REAL VIABILITY SURVEY, WE ALWAYS DO THAT AS PART OF OUR DUE DILIGENCE.

NOW, A SURVEY REPRESENTS AN IDEALISTIC VIEW OF HOW A CAMPAIGN WOULD EMERGE, WHERE EVERY SINGLE VOTER GETS INFORMATION IN FAVOR AND EVERY SINGLE VOTER GIVES INFORMATION. IN REALITY, THEY AREN'T GOING TO CONSUME THAT.

BUT IT GIVES THE CEILING FOR SENSE WHEN WE DO THAT.

IN TERMS OF, YOU KNOW, FOR TWO THIRDS, OPPOSITION CAN BE VERY HARD TO OVERCOME.

NOW IN A DISTRICT OF YOUR SIZE, FUNDED OPPOSITION HAS TO BE REASONABLY WELL FUNDED BECAUSE IT'S SUCH A BIG, LARGE COUNTY. BUT MY RECOMMENDATION IS TO DO AS MUCH AS YOU CAN TO INCLUDE PEOPLE WHO ARE MORE CIRCUMSPECT ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF THIS EARLY IN THE PROCESS, SO THAT THERE WILL BE INVOLVED AND THEIR VOICES ARE HEARD BEFORE SOMETHING COMES OUT, BECAUSE THAT CAN BE REALLY, I WOULD SAY, PART OF A PROCESS FOR DEVELOPING THE MEASURE IS UNDERSTANDING WHAT PEOPLE ARE INTERESTED IN, AND THEN SPECIFICALLY TALKING TO PEOPLE WHO ARE INTERESTED IN SPECIFIC COMMUNITIES OR LEADERS TO GET THEIR INPUT SO THAT THEY'RE PART OF THE PROCESS OF CRAFTING WHAT WOULD EVENTUALLY COME TO THE BOARD. FROM MY EXPERIENCE, THE POLLING OR SURVEY ABOUT ARGUMENTS IN FAVOR OR AGAINST MIGHT BE FUNDED BY AN OUTSIDE ENTITY AS PART OF A POTENTIAL CAMPAIGN OR LEAD UP TO A CAMPAIGN, AND NOT NECESSARILY BY THE PUBLIC ENTITY.

BUT THAT'S A GREAT WE COULD CROSS DOWN. TECHNICALLY HE'S STILL GOING TO JUMP IN, BUT LIKE YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT A 3 TO $5 MILLION INVESTMENT JUST TO PLACE IT ON THE BALLOT AND INCLUDING STAFF TIME. TYPICALLY IT NEEDS TO DO SOME RESEARCH PRIOR TO THEN BECAUSE YOU WANT TO SEE IF IT'S WORTHWHILE THE INVESTMENT.

AND THEN IF A ONCE YOU DO THAT, THEN ANY SUBSEQUENT RESEARCH THAT HAS TO BE FUNDED BY WHATEVER SORT OF COMMUNITY CAMPAIGN EMERGES. SO THAT WOULD BE MY, YOU KNOW, A BEFORE THE PROCESS.

YEAH. AS PART OF THAT, I KNOW THAT THIS CONVERSATION MIGHT HAVE BEEN MOVED BACK AND FORTH.

I ALSO MENTIONED, YOU KNOW, BE HELPFUL AS WE'RE GETTING CLOSER TO MAKING THIS DECISION AND THIS BALLPARK FOR THE $5 MILLION INVESTMENT TO JUST PLACE IT ON THE BALLOT, IT WOULD ALSO BE GOOD. GET SOME OF THAT BENCHMARKING RESEARCH ABOUT VOTER TURNOUT ACROSS THE DISTRICT AND WHERE, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU BUILD THAT VOTER MODEL YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT, IT WOULD PROBABLY BE GOOD TO SEE THAT THAT DATA AND SEE WHICH POCKETS THE DISTRICT TEND TO HAVE HIGHER VOTER TURNOUT AND ARE LIKELY TO VOTE, BECAUSE I DO BELIEVE THAT THERE'S PROBABLY GOING TO BE SOME VARIATION AS WELL IN REGARDS TO THAT DATA. YEAH, I MEAN, I THINK YOUR TIMELINE RIGHT NOW IS YOU'RE LOOKING AT 2028 PRESIDENTIAL YEAR.

5TH OF NOVEMBER. AND THAT'S THE HIGHEST TURNOUT YOU'RE GOING TO GET. SO THOSE MODELS ARE ACTUALLY THE EASIEST TO MAKE BECAUSE THEY'RE PRETTY HIGH TURNOUT. BUT YES, WE WOULD DEFINITELY RECOMMEND REEVALUATING AFTER THIS NOVEMBER'S ELECTION AT SOME POINT NEXT YEAR.

THAT'D BE GREAT. WE'LL HAVE ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY IF THERE'S SOME ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS AFTER PUBLIC COMMENT.

LET'S JUST SEE IF WE HAVE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO'D LIKE TO MAKE COMMENT AT THIS TIME. WE DO HAVE PUBLIC COMMENT.

THREE PEOPLE IN PERSON.

OKAY. WE WILL START WITH ANDREW TURNBULL. GREETINGS.

ANDREW TURNBULL HERE AGAIN. YOU KNOW THE FOLKS FROM FMC THE STATISTICIANS HAVE GOT A TOUGH JOB.

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AND IT WAS INTERESTING HOW YOUR STATISTICS WERE PRESENTED.

I DREW SOME CONCLUSIONS MYSELF. YOU MENTIONED THE UNINCORPORATED AREA AND WE MENTIONED TRI-VALLEY.

THOSE ARE TWO PLACES THAT I'VE LIVED MOST OF MY LIFE.

MY GRANDKIDS LIVE IN LIVERMORE. I LIVE IN SONOMA.

WELCOME TO LIVERMORE DURING THE 60S AND 70S, WE HAD THE HIGHEST EDUCATION PER CAPITA IN THE WORLD.

YOU STILL CAN'T WALK THROUGH LIVERMORE WITHOUT BUMPING INTO A PHD.

TRI-VALLEY WARD. THE OTHER THING IS THE UNINCORPORATED SUNOL.

WE ARE THE SECOND HIGHEST INCOME PER CAPITA BEHIND PIEDMONT.

AND YEAH, IT'S KIND OF EXPENSIVE TO BE OVER THERE, BUT OBVIOUSLY WE'RE CONCERNED ABOUT HOW WE'RE SERVED.

AND I'M GLAD THAT HE AT LEAST MENTIONED UNINCORPORATED AND SORT OF DISMISSED US A LITTLE BIT.

HOWEVER, SINCE WE ARE IN TRI-VALLEY. WARD FIVE, ONE OF THE THINGS I NOTICED IS THAT IF YOU WANT TO TURN THAT 25%, 25% OF PEOPLE INTO SUPPORTERS, THERE'S A WAY TO START BUILDING THE TRAILS IN THE MURRAY TOWNSHIP AND AND WORK WITH THE ALAMEDA COUNTY ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND LISTEN TO THE RECOMMENDATIONS.

YOU HEARD FROM DAVE LUND TODAY, AND YOU HEARD FROM DICK QUIGLEY.

AND THEY HAVE THEIR HEADS, THEIR HEAD, AND THEIR FEET ON THE PULSE OF THE TRI-VALLEY, AND SO DOES OLIVIA.

THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. BUT IF YOU PUT MORE INVESTMENT AND YOU PUT MORE PLAN IN PLACE, THAT DEMONSTRATES HOW YOU'RE GOING TO DELIVER IN THE MURRAY TOWNSHIP, YOU CAN MITIGATE THAT 25%. THANK YOU FOR YOUR RESPECT AND ATTENTION.

THANK YOU. KELLY. SO LOOKING AT THAT SLIDE WITH, WITH DIFFERENT DEGREES OF SUPPORT FOR DIFFERENT CONCEPTS AND DIFFERENT THINGS.

AND THE THINGS THAT HAVE THE MOST SUPPORT WERE THESE CONCEPTS, ABSTRACTS.

ABSTRACT IDEALS, AND THEN OTHER THINGS AT THE BOTTOM THAT WE'RE NOT GETTING SUPPORT WERE THE CONCRETE IDENTIFIABLE ART PROPOSALS OF MORE WHATEVER MEASURABLE THINGS.

SO THAT TELLS YOU RIGHT THERE WHAT HOW POLITICS WORKS.

PEOPLE, PEOPLE ALWAYS LIKE I GUESS PEOPLE LIKE AIRY FAIRY CONCEPTS.

AND THIS, THIS DISTRICT, THIS SURVEY, WE'VE SEEN SEVERAL SURVEYS FROM THE SAME SURVEY COMPANY AND THE AND THE, THIS YOU'RE LIVING IN A BUBBLE. YOU'RE LIVING IN IN THIS ECHO CHAMBER HERE.

AND EVERYBODY IS HAPPY AND EVERYTHING IS GREAT BECAUSE THESE NUMBERS ARE WONDERFUL.

NOW IN THE CITY OF FREMONT, THEY RAN TWO SURVEYS.

ONE WAS DO WE WANT A CHARTER CITY? THEY GOT 25% SUPPORT.

SO THAT WAS A, THAT WAS A VERY, VERY BAD OUTCOME FOR THEM.

THEY WANTED TO PASS THAT. THEY, ARE. ANOTHER ONE WAS THEY WANTED TO RAISE THE SALES TAXES.

AND AT FIRST, A YEAR AGO OR SIX MONTHS AGO, THEY THOUGHT IT COULD PASS SLIGHTLY WITH HALF THE VOTE.

AND NOW THEY LOST TEN PERCENTAGE POINTS. AND NOW THEY'RE, THEY'RE IT'S NOT GOING TO FLY.

SO THESE SURVEYS ARE VERY IMPORTANT BECAUSE THEY'RE SHOOTING DOWN CONCEPTS LEFT AND RIGHT TO SHUT DOWN THE CITY.

THEY SHUT DOWN THE SALES TAX. PLEASANTON WENT TO THE BALLOT WITH THE SALES TAX.

I THINK IT GOT SHOT DOWN TO THE PLEASANTON. AND THEN ALAMEDA COUNTY, THEY HAD THEIR BY VALLEY CONSERVANCY RUN A SURVEY ABOUT MEASURE D, WHICH IS. AND THIS, THIS DISTRICT USES MEASURE D A LOT TO PROTECT THE OPEN SPACES.

AND SO THEY RAN THIS SURVEY AND THEY FOUND THAT MEASURE D HAD A STRONG SUPPORT IN A STATISTICAL SURVEY OF SPONSORS BY THAT AGENT THAT, THAT GROUP. WELL THE COUNTY SUPERVISOR SAID, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, WE DON'T CARE ABOUT THE TRI-VALLEY.

LET'S LOOK AT THE WHOLE COUNTY. LET'S LOOK AT THE REGISTERED VOTERS OF ALAMEDA COUNTY.

LET'S ASK THEM HOW THEY IF WE IF WE IF THEY WANT TO GIVE MORE POWER TO THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS TO.

WE CAN MEASURE DEE. AND THE THE SURVEY CAME, SOMEBODY CAME BACK AND SAID THAT THEY SAID NO

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IT WAS AGAIN, THEY DECIDED NOT TO PUT IT ON THE BALLOT.

AND IT'S FUNNY, THEY ASKED ABOUT INTRA INSTITUTIONAL TRUST.

THEY HAD BOARD OF SUPERVISORS. THEY HAD YOUR LOCAL CITY COUNCIL HAD THE WORST TRUST, AND THEN THEY HAD ALL THESE ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS AND MAYBE A PARK DISTRICT OR SOMETHING. AND THEY HAD SIGNIFICANTLY BETTER INSTITUTIONAL TRUST.

SO THAT'S WHERE YOUR BUBBLE IS. AND YOU ARE LIVING IN A HAPPY LAND.

THANK YOU. DAVID LUND.

HELLO. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR LETTING ME SPEAK HERE.

YOUR GOVERNMENT AND I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT WHEN YOU LOOK AT GOVERNMENT, TO TRY TO FOCUS ON NOT ABUSING YOUR POWER, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU START USING WORDS. BEING HONEST, MY IMPRESSION IS, IS I THINK THE BOARD SUPPORTS THAT.

BUT WHEN I START LOOKING AT THE WORDS HERE, WHEN YOU START USING WORDS LIKE PROTECTION AND WATER QUALITY AND THINGS, YOU WERE GOING TO BE UP AGAINST OTHER AGENCIES LIKE WATER AGENCIES, AND THEY LOVE THE WORD WATER QUALITY AND SAFEGUARDING.

AND YOU JUST NEED WHEN YOU TALK TO THEM, YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND HERE ARE YOUR WORDS AND HERE ARE THEIR WORDS.

AND YOU KNOW, WE SHOULD JUST TRY TO BE STRAIGHTFORWARD AND HONEST FOR YOU.

COMMUNICATE WITH HIM, BUT ALSO UNDERSTAND WHAT THE ZONES HAVE IN PROPERTY ON 5000 ACRES AROUND LAKE DEL VALLE.

THEY'RE GOING TO SAY THEY'RE PROTECTING WATER QUALITY AND THEY'RE SAFEGUARDING.

OF COURSE, THEIR WATER QUALITY FLOWS THROUGH YOUR PROPERTY INTO THE LAKE.

THEY'LL SWIM IN THE LAKE. AND SO, I MEAN, YOU PROTECT THE WATER QUALITY THE LAKE MORE THAN THEY DO, BUT THEY'RE GOING TO TELL YOU THAT'S WHY THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO USE THEIR LAND.

AND THE SAME THING WITH THE SOUTH DAKOTA. SOUTH DAKOTA FILLS THEM.

SO JUST BE CAREFUL. JUST BE AWARE THAT OF YOUR OWN LANGUAGE AND THEIR LANGUAGE AND TRY TO BE HONEST ABOUT YOUR LANGUAGE.

SO THEY'RE GOING TO USE THOSE TERMS. AND THEN ALSO THIS CONCEPT OF YOUTH IN NATURE IS REALLY CRITICAL.

AND THE IDEA OF PROTECTING THE LAND, EVERYONE WANTS TO PROTECT IT.

BUT YOU GO UP DOOLAN CANYON, I WOULD ALMOST USE THAT AS AN EXAMPLE.

YOU'VE GOT 500 ACRES, BUT YOU'VE GOT 5000 ACRES THAT'S PROTECTED.

NO ONE'S ALLOWED ON THAT 5000 ACRES. IT'S ALL BEING PROTECTED.

SO YOU SHOULD START TO DIFFERENTIATE. WE ALL PROTECT.

BUT YOU PROTECT IT. SO YOU CAN BRING YOUTH IN NATURE AND THEY KEEP EVERYBODY OUT.

AND THAT MIGHT BE A GOOD THING TO HIGHLIGHT THE FACT THAT YOU'RE PROVIDING YOU'RE PROTECTING THE LAND, BUT PROVIDING ACCESS FOR YOUTH. THANKS FOR LISTENING TO ME.

THANK YOU. THERE'S NO MORE PUBLIC COMMENT. GREAT.

THANK YOU, EVERYONE FOR PROVIDING PUBLIC COMMENT.

WE'LL BRING IT BACK TO THE BOARD FOR ANY FINAL COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS.

YEAH. I'D ACTUALLY LIKE TO UNINCORPORATED FUTURE CHANGE.

ASHLAND. SAN LORENZO. CASTRO VALLEY. I KNOW CASTRO VALLEY NOT SO SORRY. OH. WE WANT TO BASE IT ON INCOME DEMOGRAPHICS BECAUSE WITHIN MY WARD ARE SOME OF THE POOREST UNINCORPORATED CITY, I MEAN UNINCORPORATED AREAS WITHIN EAST BAY.

AND I DON'T FEEL AS FAR AS, AS IF WE LOOK AT RESOURCES ASHLAND IS MORE SIMILAR EAST OAKLAND THAN IT IS. SO COMBINING THOSE CITIES WITH VERY DIFFERENT EDUCATION, ATTAINMENTS, INCOME AND THE GRAPHICS ETHNIC DEMOGRAPHICS LANGUAGE DEMOGRAPHICS, LIKE THOSE COMMUNITIES ARE NOT SIMILAR. AND THEN EVEN THE ACCESS TO PARKS LAND OR ACCESS TO STATE PARKS, TRANSPORTATION. THERE'S SO MANY DIFFERENT ISSUES.

SO I THINK TO BETTER UNDERSTAND WHAT'S HAPPENING UNINCORPORATED COMMUNITIES.

SO. YEAH. ONE THING I'D LIKE TO SEE THE NEXT TIME WE TALK ABOUT THIS IS HOW MUCH, WHAT'S THE YIELD?

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JUST SO WE GET AN IDEA OF HOW OF WHAT'S AT STAKE HERE, THAT THE BENEFITS MIGHT BE ON THE NUMBERS THAT WE OFFERED IN THE SURVEY. $2 A WEEK IS $80 MILLION ANNUALLY.

AND THEN WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE I THINK IT WAS $96 COMES IN AROUND 78 ANNUALLY.

AND THEN THE MID-RANGE WAS ABOUT 50 AND THE BOTTOM RANGE WAS AROUND 38, 36 ANNUALLY.

OKAY. THANK YOU. ANY OTHER COMMENTS? QUESTIONS? I THINK OTHERWISE THIS IS ALSO A PRESENTATION.

SO WE WILL NOW BE COMPLETE WITH THIS ITEM. AND I PROPOSE A QUICK SEVEN MINUTE BREAK BEFORE WE MOVE ON TO OUR NEXT PRESENTATION ON THE BUDGET.

SO PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO GET SOME MORE WATER AND.

YEAH. ALL RIGHT. SO LET'S GO AHEAD AND CALL THESE BACK TO ORDER.

WE ARE NOW AT AGENDA ITEM I. OUR I THREE HOUR PRESENTATION ON THE INTRODUCTION TO THE PROPOSED 2027 OPERATING BUDGET SUMMARY.

ALL RIGHT. I AM GOING TO START THIS AND HAND OVER TO JONAH.

LET'S SEE. MAYBE I'LL JUST STAND UP HERE WITH JONAH.

WE'RE PRESENTING TOGETHER. SO, HEY, I JUST WANT TO APPRECIATE OUR AGM JONAH NICHOLAS, WHO IS STILL.

HOW LONG HAS IT BEEN? SIX WEEKS. SIX WEEKS. AND HE JUMPED RIGHT INTO OUR BUDGET PROCESS.

SO I'M JUST SO GRATEFUL. AND HE'S BEEN REALLY GREAT WORKING THROUGH THIS.

I'M GOING TO START AND JUST SORT OF DESCRIBE SORT OF HOW WE BUILT TO WHERE WE ARE GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE WORK THAT HE'S BEEN DOING WITH EACH OF OUR GREAT DEPARTMENT LEADS.

AND AND THEN WE'LL TALK ABOUT NEXT STEPS TOGETHER.

SO GOING BACK, WE DID A FEW WORKSHOPS WITH YOUR BOARD AND WE TALKED ALL ABOUT, WE TALKED ABOUT CAPITAL PROJECTS. WE TALKED ABOUT SOME OF THE STRUCTURAL CHALLENGES IN OUR BUDGET THAT THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF EXPANSION OF STAFF, SOME OF THESE THINGS THAT WE CAPTURED HERE, POSITION SHIFTS, ONE TIME PAYMENTS, COST INCREASES.

AND THAT OUR REVENUE GROWTH HAD DECREASED FROM WHAT WAS 6 OR 7% DOWN TO THREE AND 4% IN THE LAST YEAR OR TWO.

AND AND WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT WAS A FEW DIFFERENT OPTIONS THE OPPORTUNITY TO EXPAND REVENUE, WHICH WE WERE NOT REALLY BUILDING AS MUCH INTO THIS PROPOSAL, BUT THEN ALSO SOME WAYS TO SHRINK SOME OF OUR EXPENDITURES POTENTIAL REDUCTIONS IN SERVICES AND SUPPLIES SOME OPPORTUNITIES FOR DEBT REFUNDING AND THEN SOME OPTIONS FOR PERSONNEL.

AND LET'S SEE. SO SO WHAT DO WE LOOK FOR? WE ALSO GOT DIRECTION FROM YOUR BOARD TO LOOK FOR GRANT OPPORTUNITIES. THAT'S BEEN A REALLY BIG PART OF WHAT WE DO CONTINUING TO DO THAT.

LOOKING AT FEE BASED REVENUE, I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE DOING IS WITH THE VENTECH MACHINES, AS YOU HEARD TODAY, WE'RE LOOKING AT OPPORTUNITIES TO DEPLOY THOSE, BUT WE'RE NOT PROPOSING TO ADD ANY NEW FEE AREAS THROUGH THIS BUDGET.

WE ARE LOOKING WE'RE NOT WHILE WE ARE LOOKING AT INTEGRATING CUTS TO SERVICE SUPPLIES, WE'RE NOT LOOKING TO DO THAT IN ANY PLACES WHERE IT WOULD

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AND WE WANT TO PRIORITIZE MAINTENANCE AND, AND, AND SERVICE OF OUR FACILITIES.

SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT JONAH WILL TALK ABOUT IN HIS PRESENTATION, WHICH AGAIN IS RESPONSIVE TO THE DIRECTION FROM YOUR BOARD, IS CUTTING SOME EXECUTIVE POSITIONS TO FUND OPERATIONAL POSITIONS.

SO WITH THAT, I'LL TURN IT OVER TO JONAH AND THEN I'LL COME BACK.

GOOD AFTERNOON. EXCITED TO BE HERE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE INTRO.

SO THE BOARD STUDY SESSION IN MAY I WAS NOT THERE, BUT I HAVE WATCHED IT.

SO I FEEL LIKE I WAS VERY ENGAGED WITH THAT PROCESS AND KIND OF PIGGYBACKING ON WHAT MAX TALKED ABOUT, WE KIND OF LOOKED AT THE THE DIRECTION FROM THE BOARD AND WHAT TO EXPLORE AND HAVE DILUTED IT DOWN TO REALLY POOR PRIORITIES THAT YOU'LL SEE THERE, THE STRENGTHENING LONG TERM FINANCIAL STABILITY OF THE DISTRICT.

MAX TALKED ABOUT PRIORITIZING FRONT LINE SERVICES AND MAINTAINING OUR SERVICES.

OUR ASSET AND OUR ASSETS. AND THEN JUST, YOU KNOW, EXERCISING PRUDENT FINANCIAL STEWARDSHIP, WHICH HAS BEEN A HALLMARK OF THE, OF THE PARK DISTRICT FOR YEARS.

ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS THAT WE DID WAS WE ASKED EVERY DIVISION TO GO THROUGH ITS BUDGET IN DETAIL.

THIS WAS A TARGET INTO SUPPLIES AND SERVICES WITH A EACH DIVISION TASKED WITH TRYING TO IDENTIFY ABOUT A 5% REDUCTION. YOU GO BACK TO THE ONE OF THE EARLIER SLIDES THAT SHOWED THE SUPPLIES AND SERVICES IN THE DISTRICT, ABOUT $40 MILLION IN TOTAL. SO WE WERE LOOKING TO GET ABOUT $2 MILLION IN ONGOING SAVINGS WITH THE, WITH THAT EXERCISE WE WERE ABLE TO GET THERE WITH THE $2 MILLION IN ONGOING BUDGET SAVINGS ALL THE DISTRICTS OR ALL THE DIVISIONS PARTICIPATED IN THAT.

AND AS MATT, ALLUDED TO MINIMIZING IMPACTS WITHIN, WITHIN THE ORGANIZATION.

AND I THINK IF THERE'S ONE TAKEAWAY ONE WORD TO FOCUS IN ON IN THE MIDDLE BULLET POINT IS THE ONGOING BUDGET SAVINGS IN THIS THESE AREN'T ONE TIME SAVINGS THAT, YOU KNOW, MAKE THE 2011 BUDGET LOOK BETTER.

THESE WILL BE INCORPORATED IN FUTURE BUDGETS THOSE ONGOING SAVINGS.

SO ON THE PRIORITIZING FRONT LINE SERVICES, THIS IS THE SECOND PRIORITY THAT WE IDENTIFIED FROM THE STUDY SESSION.

THE EXPENSE NEUTRAL POSITION BUDGETING. SO WE'RE LOOKING AT REDUCING EXPENDITURES DOESN'T MEAN WE STOP ADDING POSITIONS WHERE THERE'S A LEGITIMATE NEED.

WE'RE JUST TRYING TO RE REPURPOSE THE EXISTING POSITIONS, LOOK AT VACANT POSITIONS, EVEN GOING THROUGH THE EXERCISE OF ARE THERE CONSULTANTS THAT WE'RE USING THAT WE COULD BRING THAT WORK INTO THE HOUSE.

SO SPECIFICALLY TO, TO THIS SLIDE, YOU'LL SEE THE TWO EXECUTIVE POSITIONS WERE IDENTIFIED ABOUT $800,000.

THOSE DOLLARS WERE THEN REDIRECTED TO FRONTLINE POSITIONS THAT YOU'LL SEE AT THOSE FOUR DIFFERENT LOCATIONS, POINT MOLATE, TIDEWATER PLAY AREA, DEER VALLEY AND SHADOW CLIFFS DEL VALLE.

THE THIRD PRIORITY WAS MAINTAIN EXISTING ASSETS AND SERVICE LEVELS.

SO IT'S JUST RECOGNIZING PARTICULARLY WITH THE ICON BUILDING THAT, YOU KNOW, OPENING UP A NEW FACILITY IS COMES WITH THE ONGOING COSTS.

SO YOU'VE GOT YOUR UTILITIES, JANITORIAL, ALL OF THOSE THINGS THAT ARE LISTED UP THERE.

WE'RE BUDGETING THOSE WITHIN THE THE 27 BUDGET.

SO THOSE ARE NEW ONGOING COSTS THAT WE'RE ABSOLUTELY CONTEMPLATING WHEN WE COME TO THE BOARD WITH THE CONCEPT BUDGET.

AND THEN DEFERRED MAINTENANCE AND FLEET WORKING ALONG IN FACILITIES AND INFRASTRUCTURE TO DEVELOP REALLY A NEW FUNDING METHODOLOGY FOR OUR INTERNAL SERVICE FUNDS YOU KNOW, FOR THE MAJOR INFRASTRUCTURE AND REPLACEMENT OF MAJOR EQUIPMENT.

LOOKING AT IT MORE AS WHAT DOES IT COST TO REPLACE THE ASSETS THAT WE HAVE? WHAT'S AN APPROPRIATE FUNDING LEVEL FOR THAT AND HOW DO WE GET THERE? THAT'S REALLY THE FOCUS. AND YOU'LL SEE THAT CERTAINLY AS WE HONE IN ON THE 27 BUDGET.

AND THEN THE LAST PRIORITY ON THE PRUDENT FINANCIAL STEWARDSHIP, IT'S REALLY ABOUT MAKING REASONABLE ASSUMPTIONS ON BOTH THE REVENUE AND THE EXPENDITURE SIDE OF THE OF THE LEDGER. SO YOU'LL SEE UP THERE THE THIS EVERYONE KNOWS THE VAST MAJORITY OF OUR REVENUE COMES FROM PROPERTY TAXES

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SO AFTER PRINT LITERALLY ON FRIDAY, THEY SENT THE NEW NUMBERS BASED UPON THE ASSESSED VALUATIONS THAT HAVE COME OUT OF BOTH CONTRA COSTA AND ALAMEDA COUNTIES. AND I WAS JUST FOREWARNED BEFORE THAT 3.9% IS LOOKING LIKE IT'S ACTUALLY GOING TO BE A LITTLE BIT LESS.

THEY'RE PROJECTING MAYBE IN THE 3.5%. SO NOT A, NOT A HUGE CHANGE, BUT EVEN NOMINAL CHANGES, THERE CAN BE HIGH SIX FIGURES OR EVEN LOW MILLION DOLLARS DISTRICTS BEEN PRUDENT IN THE WAY THAT IT BUDGETS ITS INTEREST INCOME. WE JUST DON'T EVEN BUDGET IT 0%. SO HISTORICALLY THAT HAS MEANT THAT THERE'S A CUSHION.

DISTRICT HAS ACHIEVED ABOUT $10 MILLION ANNUALLY IN THAT IN RECENT YEARS.

NO REASON TO SUSPECT THAT, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING SIMILAR WOULDN'T OCCUR.

BUT AGAIN, IT'S PRUDENT, I THINK, BECAUSE WHAT WE REALLY WANT TO DO WITH AN ORGANIZATION'S BUDGET IS ALIGN RECURRING EXPENDITURES WITH RECURRING REVENUES, AND THAT INTEREST INCOME IS A VOLATILE SOURCE OF REVENUE.

AND THEN FOR THE EXPENDITURE OUTLOOK, ALL KNOWN CONTRACTUAL AND REGULATORY EXPENSES ARE GOING TO BE BUDGETED.

YOU KNOW, WITH THE NEW ONGOING COST WILL BE FOR IPON AND THOSE OTHER LOCATIONS.

AND THEN WE, AGAIN, THE $2 MILLION IN EXISTING BASE ALLOCATIONS FOR SUPPLIES WILL BE REDUCED.

THIS WILL HELP. SO WHERE WE'RE GOING FROM HERE WE'RE STILL RELATIVELY EARLY IN THE BUDGET PROCESS. YOU'LL SEE THE ALL STAFF BUDGET PRESENTATION ON THE TOP LEFT.

THERE IS GOING TO BE IN A COUPLE DAYS. THE DIVISION BUDGETS WILL CONTINUE THEIR REVIEW IN THE COMING MONTHS FOR PROPOSALS EVENTUALLY TO COME TO THE EXECUTIVE TEAM AND THEN THE BUDGET ALWAYS WILL MAKE IT THROUGH THE COMMITTEE PROCESS.

THE PARK ADVISORY COMMITTEE, THE FINANCE COMMITTEE, AND THEN ULTIMATELY TO THE BOARD FOR ADOPTION.

AND. I JUST ADD, YOU KNOW, THIS WAS A REQUEST FROM YOUR BOARD WAS WANTING TO HAVE THIS BUDGET COME TO YOU EARLIER IN THIS REALLY EARLY DRAFT FORM. AND SO I THINK WE CREATED THIS OPPORTUNITY BASED ON THAT FEEDBACK.

AND SO THIS IS LIKE VERY, VERY EARLY IN THE BUDGET PROCESS, BUT WE WANTED TO KIND OF JUST SHARE WHAT THIS EARLY THINKING WAS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE ON THE RIGHT TRACK AND GET YOUR GUIDANCE AND FEEDBACK.

THE OTHER THING THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT HERE IS CAPITAL PROJECTS AND CAPITAL PROJECT FUNDING.

THAT'S BECAUSE THERE WAS ENOUGH ALLOCATED LAST YEAR TO KEEP OUR TEAM BUSY THROUGH ALL OF THIS YEAR, WHERE WE HAVE A TON OF WORK CUT OUT FOR US. AND AT THE SAME TIME, CHRIS AND JONAH ARE GOING TO BE WORKING ON THE FEEDBACK FROM YOUR BOARD OR CAPITAL PROJECT PRIORITIZATION AND ENGAGING YOUR BOARD IN REVISITING HOW WE PRIORITIZE PROJECTS.

I THINK OUR HOPE IS THAT WITH SOME OF THIS YOU KNOW, FISCAL CAUTION AROUND OUR BUDGET AND CAREFUL PRACTICE THAT WE WILL BE IN A PLACE IN THE FUTURE TO COME BACK TO BUDGETING FOR ONE TIME EXPENSES AND PROJECTS AND THAT WE WANT TO HAVE A PRIORITIZATION PROCESS THAT YOUR BOARD FEELS CONFIDENT IN SO THAT WE CAN UTILIZE THAT TO PLAN FOR.

SO THAT'S WHERE WE'RE AT TODAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH.

I REALLY APPRECIATE IT. I KNOW THIS HAS BEEN SOMETHING THAT I'VE WORKED CLOSELY WITH MATT ON AS WE WERE PREPARING FOR THE MAY WORKSHOPS AND I KNOW WE'RE A LITTLE BIT OF A SPLIT BOARD IN TERMS OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THOSE WORKSHOPS, BUT I REALLY HOPE TODAY'S PRESENTATION, HAVING THIS IN AUGUST MIGHT HELP CONVINCE SOME OF MY COLLEAGUES TO RECOGNIZE THAT IT'S GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT THIS BUDGET THROUGHOUT THE YEAR AND NOT WAIT FOR THE BUDGET BOOKS TO COME OUT AND HAVE POTENTIAL SURPRISES.

WE WON'T HAVE THIS YEAR BECAUSE WE'RE TRYING TO HAVE REALLY GOOD, EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION OR WHAT I BELIEVE TO BE A COMMUNICATION ABOUT IT. EVEN IF SOME MEMBERS OF THE BOARD DISAGREED WITH THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THIS PROCESS.

SO THIS IS A GOOD OPPORTUNITY FOR MEMBERS OF THE BOARD TO ASK QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS ITEM. YES. GO AHEAD. SO YOU MENTIONED SOMETHING ABOUT CHANGING THE WAY WE LOOK AT COLLABORATING THAT I KNOW WE'RE EARLY, BUT I CAN'T HELP BUT ASK THIS QUESTION, WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF IT TO.

WELL, YEAH, I THINK IT'S ARTICULATING A STRATEGY.

IN A NUTSHELL. SO THERE'S TO MY KNOWLEDGE, NO SET MECHANISM IN TERMS OF HOW DO WE DO THE INTRA

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OVER THE YEARS. IT'S IT'S BEEN PRETTY CONSISTENT, THE CHARGES OVER THE YEARS AND WE'VE SEEN THE FUND BALANCE EITHER MAINTAIN OR COME DOWN A LITTLE BIT. SO WHAT PROMPTED IT TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION DIRECTLY DIRECTOR MERCURIO WAS CHRIS WYCKOFF AND I, WE LOOKED AT THE ASSET LIST AND IT WAS SUBSTANTIALLY MORE THAN WHAT I WOULD HAVE ANTICIPATED.

IT WAS ABOUT 1200 PARTICULAR ITEMS, YOU KNOW, AND THAT COULD BE FROM LAWN MOWERS ALL THE WAY UP TO VERY, VERY HEAVY EQUIPMENT. BUT IT WAS I THINK ILLUMINATING IN THE FACT THAT WE DIDN'T HAVE ANY WAY TO EITHER ARTICULATE OR COME UP WITH METRICS TO SAY, THIS IS WHAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE, WHAT IS REASONABLE TO MAINTAIN IT, AND WHAT LEVEL OF FUNDING SHOULD THAT SHOULD THAT BE, AND HOW DO WE GET THERE? IT'S OFTEN OVER A MULTIYEAR PERIOD. HOW YOU FUND THOSE THINGS.

SO THAT'S SORT OF THE METHODOLOGY THAT WE'RE, WE'RE TINKERING AROUND WITH RIGHT NOW.

DOES THAT INVOLVE POTENTIALLY HAVING A WAY TO MAYBE HAVE EQUIPMENT LAST A LITTLE LONGER? SO THE, THE THAT'S A GOOD POINT. SO ONE OF THE ONE OF THE ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY FIELDS TO ACCOMPLISH A MODEL LIKE THAT WOULD BE WHAT IS THE ESTIMATED REPLACEMENT. BUT WAS THE ESTIMATED USEFUL LIFE OF IT.

WHEN ARE WE GOING TO HAVE TO REPLACE IT. AND TO YOUR POINT, EVEN GOING OUT ANOTHER YEAR ON THOSE CAN DRASTICALLY INCREASE.

YOU KNOW. ANY OTHER QUESTION? OKAY. WELL, JUST FOLLOWING THE LINE OF QUESTIONING. SO I'M STILL PUZZLED THAT I ASKED FOR.

EVERYBODY ELSE IN THE WORLD SAYS THAT VEHICLES LAST 300,000 MILES.

WE HAVE A POLICY OF LIKE 100,000. AND I KNOW THE ANSWER WAS, OH, WE DRIVE IN MUCH ROUGHER CONDITIONS.

COME ON. MAYBE. MAYBE ROADS AND TRAILS, MAYBE A FEW OTHER PEOPLE.

BUT MOST OF THE TIME, I MEAN, AT LEAST A TRY.

THAT WOULD BE A SIMPLE TRY. WHICH IS DEFINABLE, DEFINITELY DEFINABLE.

SO I THINK JUST THAT'S SIMPLE. AND TO SUGGEST, YOU KNOW, I'M GOING TO DEFEND PARKS PEOPLE TO SUGGEST THAT IT'S EASY.

LET'S JUST CATCH YOUR SUPPLIES AND SERVICES BY 5%.

THAT'S I DON'T THINK ANYBODY'S WASTING MONEY ON PARKING.

I THINK PEOPLE IN THE FIELD NEED THEIR SUPPLIES, NEED THE SERVICES THEY GET, AND SUGGEST THAT'S THE WAY TO DO IT.

I THINK IF I DRIVE A CAR THAT MIGHT HAVE A LITTLE DENT IN IT FOR 200,000 MILES, IF I COULD HAVE THE THINGS I NEED TO OPERATE A IT WORK.

I THINK THAT'S AN EASY WAY TO DO IT. THANK YOU SIR.

CHRIS CAN SPEAK TO THE FLEET, THE VEHICLES THE DIRECTOR WAESPI TO THE QUESTION ABOUT THE 5% CUT FOR SERVICE AND SUPPLIES. WE WERE LOOKING AT ALL PLACES WHERE WE WEREN'T SPENDING OUT, BUT MOST, ALMOST ALL WHERE WE WEREN'T ALREADY SPENDING.

SO THERE'S, THERE ARE A LOT OF PLACES WHERE, YOU KNOW, EACH YEAR THEIR REQUESTS WOULD COME IN FOR BUDGET INCREASES.

AND WE HAD INCREASED SERVICE BUDGET IN DIFFERENT CATEGORIES.

AND WE WERE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW COULD WE REDUCE PLACES, ESPECIALLY WHERE WE HAD OVER BASICALLY OVER BUDGETED WITHOUT AFFECTING SERVICES. THERE WERE CERTAINLY PLACES LIKE IN OPERATIONS, FOR EXAMPLE, WHERE IT'S NOT 5% FOR SOME OF THE SERVICES THAT PEOPLE [INAUDIBLE].

SO ANOTHER EXAMPLE WAS LIKE IN STEWARDSHIP, THEY WERE LIKE, WELL, WE COULD CUT OUR FISH BUYING BY 5%.

WE'RE LIKE, WE'RE NOT GOING TO BUY A 5% LESS FISH.

WE WANT ALL THE FISH THAT PEOPLE WANT TO FISH FOR.

SO THE, YOU KNOW, WE WERE REALLY MORE LOOKING FOR PLACES THAT WE COULD MAKE CUTS WITH LITTLE, LITTLE TO NO IMPACT ON SERVICE. YEAH. IF I COULD SPEAK ON THAT A LITTLE BIT, IT'S REALLY LOOKING AT THE VARIANCE BETWEEN THE BUDGET AND THE ACTUALS. A LOT OF A LOT OF THE DEPARTMENTS OR DIVISIONS LOOKED AT THAT AND SAID, YOU KNOW WHAT, HISTORICALLY WE'VE GOT X AMOUNT IN THIS LINE ITEM.

WE'VE SPENT MUCH LESS THAN THAT AND IT'S JUST A RECALIBRATION.

MAYBE I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN SHOULD I KNOW YOU GUYS ARE ON TOP OF THAT. BUT LIKE A REAL HARD QUESTION.

IF IT DOES GET WEIRD, IT DOES GET DOWN TO 3.5% AS OPPOSED TO FOUR AND 3.9.

HAS ANYBODY LOOKED AT THE LEASING VEHICLES? I KNOW HARD DID IT TEN YEARS AGO, AND FOR SOME REASON A TINY AGENCY LIKE THAT FIGURED IT WOULD WORK.

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SO I WOULD LOVE TO ANSWER A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS ON FLEET.

I SPECIFICALLY HAVE LOOKED AT LEASING VEHICLES BEFORE.

I THINK IT WOULD BE A CHALLENGE FOR OUR ORGANIZATION BASED ON THE USE OF OUR VEHICLES.

SO IF THERE'S A, THERE IS A MODEL WHERE THAT DOES WORK AND A LOT OF IT HAS TO, I, A LOT OF IT HAS TO DO WITH TYPE OF VEHICLE.

WE HAVE A LOT OF WORK TRUCKS AND PUBLIC SAFETY VEHICLES.

THOSE MODELS TYPICALLY DON'T WORK WELL FOR THOSE THOSE LEASE AGREEMENTS.

AND YOU CAN DO THEM WITH ALL THE YOU KNOW, THE, THE RENTAL COMPANIES.

THEY ALL KIND OF PROVIDE A FLEET OPTION. AND IT DOES WORK BETTER FOR SMALLER AGENCIES.

ONE OF THE THINGS THAT YOU TALKED ABOUT AND IT A SECOND AGO WAS THE 1000 MILE THING, RIGHT? SO WE ARE ACTUALLY IN THE PROCESS OF CREATING VERY CLEAR BENCHMARKS FOR USE.

AND THE TRUTH IS YOU KIND OF HIT ON IT AS WELL IS IT'S DIFFERENT PER AREA OF SERVICE, RIGHT? SO I KNOW I GOT SOME PUBLIC SAFETY FOLKS OVER HERE.

THEIR VEHICLES GO MUCH, MUCH QUICKER THAN ANYBODY ELSE'S BECAUSE THAT'S THEIR OFFICE.

THEY'RE IN THERE ALL DAY, SOMETIMES 24 HOURS A DAY.

IF WE WENT ON MILES, IT WOULD BE A PROBLEM FOR THEM IF THEIR ENGINE HOURS ARE RUNNING SIGNIFICANTLY MORE, THEIR WEAR AND TEAR ON THEIR VEHICLES IS SIGNIFICANTLY MORE PROBABLY TALKING IN THE 5 TO 7 YEAR RANGE REALLY IN THE SERVICE LIFE FOR THOSE FOLKS.

YOU MENTIONED ROADS AND TRAILS. WE DO HAVE, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE DUMP TRUCKS THAT GET USED VERY SPARINGLY IN SOME PARKS, BUT THEY COME UP FOR REPLACEMENT IN TEN YEARS, BUT THEY'VE ONLY GOT LIKE 30,000 MILES ON IT.

SO WE'RE NOT GOING TO REPLACE THOSE. WE HAVE VEHICLES THAT AREN'T IN THEIR ENTIRE SCENARIO.

THEY'RE JUST GETTING, YOU KNOW, REGULAR, LIKE COMMUTING TYPE WORK BACK AND FORTH ACROSS THE DISTRICT, PROBABLY LOOKING MORE LIKE A 15 YEAR LIFESPAN FOR THOSE.

AND THEN WHAT JONAH WAS TALKING ABOUT IS MATCHING UP THE LONG TERM FUNDING AND REPLACEMENT OF EACH DIFFERENT CATEGORY IN EACH VEHICLE, AND THEN ASSIGNING REALLY WHAT ENDS UP BEING AN AMORTIZATION TO EACH GROUP BASED ON THAT.

SO YOU ARE SPOT ON. THE WORK IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW.

ACTUALLY, THE PLAN IS TO COME TO YOU ALL DO THE FLEET UPDATE AT THE END OF THE YEAR.

THERE'S BOTH THE MIR, THE MIR, THE 553 THAT WILL COME TO THE FINANCE COMMITTEE.

I THINK IT'S SCHEDULED FOR THE FIRST WEEK IN DECEMBER. AND THEN THE FLEET UPDATE WITH THIS INFORMATION WILL COME TO YOU WILL BE IN DECEMBER OF THE BOARD OPS.

SO I HOPE THAT ANSWERS. THAT THE CONSULTANTS AND CONSULTANTS.

IS THERE A WAY WE CAN GET AHOLD OF THAT ONE? YEAH, I CAN SHARE.

I MEAN, I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS WE CONTRACT OUT SERVICES ACROSS DIFFERENT THINGS, WE ARE WORKING ON WAYS TO BRING SOME OF THOSE SERVICES IN HOUSE.

SO ONE EXAMPLE OF IT THAT WE'RE ACTIVE, OUR TEAM IS ACTIVELY WORKING ON IS BRINGING BIOLOGICAL MONITORING IN HOUSE.

SO WE'RE WE'RE OUR STEWARDSHIP TEAM AND HR IS WORKING ON A JOB DESCRIPTION THAT WILL BE WORKING ON WITH OUR LABOR PARTNERS OR BIOLOGICAL MONITOR. AND THEN OUR HOPE IS THAT WE CAN UTILIZE THAT FOR SOME OF THE PROJECT COSTS, THE SEASONAL BIOLOGICAL MONITORING TAKE ON SOME OF THE BIOLOGICAL MONITORING.

SO THAT'S JUST ONE EXAMPLE. BUT I THINK WE ARE ACTIVELY LOOKING FOR OPPORTUNITIES.

I APPRECIATE THE WORK YOU'RE DOING FOR THESE THINGS.

LET'S SEE. AND THIS IS A NICE BIG PICTURE SUMMARY.

SEE, NO DOUBT SACHSE ON TOP AND THINKING ABOUT THIS.

ONE OF THE THINGS I GUESS, I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S A QUESTION OR IF AT SOME POINT WE'RE GETTING AN INTEREST IN IS, YOU KNOW, THESE MORE LIKE A 3 TO 5 YEAR COMPARISON, THE 5% CUTS AND THINGS.

WHAT WE SEE A LOT UP HERE IS WE GET THESE CONSENT AGENDAS AND WE'RE GETTING, AND YOU AND I TALKED EVEN OUR EMAILS WHERE THERE'S A SPENDING CAPACITY THAT SORT OF OPEN, IT'S KIND OF A LITTLE DIFFERENT THAN THE 5% CUT OR I DON'T KNOW, I, I WORRY ABOUT THE CREEP, YOU KNOW, I DON'T HAVE A GOOD SENSE AS A POLICYMAKER AND TRYING TO BE RESPONSIBLE UP HERE.

THAT YOU KNOW, THE CREEP OVER TIME PER SE, AND A LOT OF TIMES WE DON'T GET TO SEE WHAT HAS HAPPENED OVER TWO YEARS, THREE YEARS, FIVE YEAR TIME PERIOD. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU ENVISION IT'S A QUESTION, DOES THIS COMES TO US? SO WE MIGHT GET A LITTLE BIT MORE OF THAT INFORMATION TO HAVE A FEEL, MORE OF A FEEL.

WE'RE ON THE RIGHT PATH. I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT STAFF IS DOING THEIR JOB AND FINDING THEIR CUTS AND ALL THESE GETTING INTO,

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OR IS IT INSIGNIFICANT? OR MAYBE ONE THING MAYBE WE COULD DO IS BETWEEN NOW AND THE NEXT TIME WE BRING THE BUDGET, WE COULD SIT DOWN WITH YOU AND ANY OTHER DIRECTOR THAT'S INTERESTED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT WE COULD ILLUSTRATE THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL.

I WILL SAY THAT THE THERE'S A VERY SMALL NUMBER OF PLACES THAT WE KNOW.

WE HAVE INCREASED OPERATING COSTS THAT ARE HIGHLIGHTED.

IT'S AT THOSE FOUR OPERATIONAL FACILITIES WHERE WE WANT TO ADD SERVICE WORKERS AND THAT THE NEW BUILDING, THOSE THAT'S THOSE ARE THE PLACES THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT ADDING COSTS IN THIS BUDGET.

BUT WE CAN SIT DOWN AND LIKE FINE TUNE SORT OF WHAT THINGS MIGHT BE COMING UP THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL TO HAVE.

THE OTHER QUESTION I HAVE. THANK YOU. I HAVE A QUESTION I HAVE IS AS WE'RE LOOKING AT ADDING NEW POSITIONS, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT CAME UP DURING THE BUDGET TIME, AND I THINK EVEN MYSELF.

WE DIDN'T ADD THERE WAS A DISCUSSION ABOUT ADDING A NEW SUSTAINABILITY DIRECTOR, CLIMATE DIRECTOR OF SOME SORT.

THE ONLY THING THAT INTERESTED ME ABOUT THAT WAS THAT IT COULD ACTUALLY OVERSEE WHERE WE COULD ALSO INCREASE OUR ENERGY SAVINGS.

SO NOT ONLY LOOK AT HOW CAN WE GET THESE OUTSIDE CONSULTANTS? OF COURSE YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT FULL FTE AND SOMETIMES IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE TO BRING THEM IN ONCE YOU FULLY LOAD THEM.

BUT THE OPPORTUNITY FOR A DEDICATED PERSON TO HELP US FIGURE OUT WHERE WE CAN SAVE MONEY YOU KNOW, AND CLEAN UP OUR OPERATIONS AND ADD SOLAR OR CHANGE OUT.

I MEAN, EVEN THOSE SMALL TOWNS WHERE I LIVE, I MEAN, MILLIONS OF DOLLARS HAVE BEEN SAVED JUST ON WATER EFFICIENCY AND CHANGING OUT WINDOWS IN SOME OF OUR FACILITIES. IS THAT AN OPTION TO, IN THE BUDGET, YOU EITHER MAKE MORE SPEND LESS OR OTHER WAYS TO SPEND LESS.

SO FOR THIS YEAR I THINK PROBABLY NOT. BUT IT IS LIKE AS WE ARE BUILDING OUT THE BUDGET, LIKE THIS YEAR, WE WERE REALLY FOCUSED ON BEING ABLE TO OPEN THE PARKS THAT WE SAID WE WERE GOING TO OPEN AND THE STAFF TO DO THAT.

BUT MOVING FORWARD, I THINK IT'S CERTAINLY SOMETHING THAT WE CAN LOOK AT AS WE LOOK AT KIND OF OTHER POSITIONS AND HOW THEY CAN BE REPURPOSED AND REUSED.

I THINK THAT I THINK THERE'S ONE OF THE THINGS DIRECTOR DESCHAMBAULT I SEE AS AN OPPORTUNITY IS WITH THE DISTRICT PLAN.

ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE GOING TO COME AT OUR NEXT MEETING TO TALK ABOUT IS POTENTIALLY TO MAKE THAT MORE OF LIKE A TEN YEAR STRATEGIC PLAN.

AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT MIGHT BE IDENTIFIED IS AN APPROACH TO CLIMATE RELATED WORK MITIGATION OR REDUCTION. SOME OF THOSE THINGS THAT YOU'RE MENTIONING AND, AND THE WORK AROUND THAT, AND THE WAY THAT WE FOCUS ON IT COULD BE DIRECTED BY THE STRATEGIC PLAN.

SO I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I THINK OUR TEAM SEES AN OPPORTUNITY FOR AND, AND WE'D BE EXCITED ABOUT SORT OF THINKING ABOUT THAT.

I THINK LIKE THIS BUDGET, LIKE. I'VE JUST MENTIONED IS REALLY WE'RE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW CAN WE.

STAY WITHIN THE BOUNDS OF HAVING COST NEUTRALITY ON POSITIONS AND.

THE LAST QUESTION I HAVE ARE WHAT'S YOUR THOUGHTS ON LEAVING THE LAST TIME WE STRUGGLED WITH LEAVING IN CIP PROJECTS, LEAVING IN TRANSFERS OF FUNDS, WE CAN LEAVE THAT OUT OF THE BUDGET PROCESS THIS TIME.

THIS TIME? YEAH. SO THERE'S NO PROPOSED FUNDING AND THERE'S NO PROPOSED BUDGET FOR THAT.

THANK YOU. YEAH, I KNOW INCOME IS BUDGETED AT ZERO.

SO YOU COULD SPEND OVER A MILLION. WE HAVE AN IDEA OF HOW THAT IS SHRINKING RIGHT NOW.

FUNNY ENOUGH, I THINK THE INVESTMENT REPORT WAS ON THE CONSENT CALENDAR.

SO IT IS PRINTING FOR THE 2026 YEAR AT AROUND THE 10 MILLION.

SO WE HAVE A CAUTION ON THAT. AND I THINK IT PROBABLY IS PART OF THE RATIONALE FOR THE PARK DISTRICT BUDGETING.

ZERO IS THERE IS AN END OF YEAR GASB ENTRY THAT HAS TO TAKE PLACE WHERE YOU HAVE TO DO AN ACCOUNTING ENTRY TO GET YOUR INVESTMENTS TO WHATEVER THE MARKET WAS ON DECEMBER 31ST. IT'S A, IT'S AN ACCOUNTING ENTRY THAT IN THE PAST,

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THEY'VE BEEN NEGATIVE INTEREST INCOME IN THE HISTORY OF THE DISTRICT.

SO THAT COULD HAVE BEEN PART OF THE REASON FOR THE THAT IN THE IN THE PAST.

SO WHAT IT'S A FLUID NUMBER THAT OFTENTIMES SWINGS WILDLY BASED UPON THE INDUSTRY.

OKAY. SO AS WE'VE GONE THROUGH THIS PROCESS OR, I MEAN, I KNOW WE'RE STILL GOING THROUGH THIS PROCESS.

DO WE SEE VISIT LESS THAN 45 MILLION FOR THAT KIND OF OPERATING DEFICIT.

KIND OF WHAT? ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT A DEFICIT? YEAH. YOU HAD MENTIONED EARLIER, I THINK I THINK MAYBE IT WAS JUST THAT AS WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS BUDGET AND THE AND THE WORKSHOPS, WE NOTED THAT EXPENDITURES HAD BEEN GOING BEYOND THE AMOUNT OF REVENUE WE WERE GETTING. AND THAT IF WE CONTINUE TO GROW AT THAT RATE, WE WOULD HAVE A DEFICIT WITH THIS.

THE BUDGET THAT WE'RE PROPOSING AT THIS POINT, IT'S WE'RE NOT WE'RE NOT, DOESN'T REFLECT ANY DEFICITS.

OKAY. SO IT'S NOT REFLECTIVE OF WHERE WE'VE MADE THE CORRECTIONS TO SO THAT, THAT A LOT OF THAT IS THE TRANSFERS.

IT WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT TO. SO THAT'S CERTAINLY HELPFUL.

BUT YEAH, WE THE GOAL WILL BE TO BRING A BALANCED BUDGET TO THE BOARD.

OKAY. THAT'S GREAT. GREAT. YEAH, I REALLY THANK YOU FOR WORKING WITH US ON THIS PROCESS.

I PERSONALLY REALLY PROUD OF THE WORK THAT WE DID IN THE MAY WORKSHOPS.

AND AND I VIEW THIS WORK WITH THE WORKSHOPS AND BUDGET AS AN ITERATIVE PROCESS.

SO I'D LIKE TO URGE MY COLLEAGUES WHO MAYBE DON'T AGREE WITH THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE PROCESS THIS YEAR, BUT, YOU KNOW, WE CAN IMPROVE UPON IT FOR NEXT YEAR. SO PLEASE STAY INVOLVED AND, AND OFFER SOME IDEAS SO THAT WE CAN HAVE AN EFFECTIVE PROCESS FOR NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET.

BUT I REALLY APPRECIATE THIS AND BEING HERE TODAY AND BEING ABLE TO ASK SOME OF THESE QUESTIONS AS WE PREPARE THE 2020 BUDGET.

AND, YOU KNOW, BEING HERE TODAY MAKES ME THINK OF SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, WHERE WE'RE ASKING STAFF TO THINK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, A TARGET REDUCTION OF 5% POTENTIALLY.

DO WE OFFER ANY SORT OF INCENTIVE? YOU KNOW, WHAT I THINK ABOUT ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE? YOU KNOW, I'VE DONE A LOT OF WORK WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. YOU KNOW, IT'S VERY I SPEND YOUR MONEY BY SEPTEMBER 30TH, USE IT OR LOSE IT IN TERMS OF YOUR BUDGET. AND SO YOU'LL SEE A LOT OF LAST MINUTE PURCHASES BEING MADE BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, BECAUSE THOSE GROUPS DON'T WANT TO LOSE THEIR FUNDING.

I IMAGINE WE DON'T HAVE THAT SAME KIND OF MENTALITY HERE.

EAST BAY REGIONAL PARK DISTRICT BUT THERE ARE WAYS TO PROVIDE SOME INCENTIVES TO OUR MANAGERS AND LEADERS THAT, YOU KNOW, HEY, IF YOU'RE ABLE TO FIND AREAS TO SAVE THE BUDGET, WE'LL PROVIDE SOME SORT OF INCENTIVE.

AND I MEAN, WE DON'T HAVE THE ANSWER TODAY, BUT THAT COULD BE AN INTERESTING THING TO TRY TO DO MORE THINKING ABOUT 247.

OKAY. THAT WAS MY QUESTION. LET'S GO AHEAD AND SEE IF THERE'S PUBLIC COMMENT AND WE CAN BRING IT BACK TO THE BOARD AFTER PUBLIC COMMENTS.

WE DO HAVE TWO PUBLIC COMMENTS ON THIS ITEM. DAVID LUND.

DAVID LUND, THANKS FOR LETTING ME SPEAK. THE ONE THING THAT MAYBE THE BOARD COULD LOOK AT IS THE COMMUNICATION OF THE BUDGET TO THE PUBLIC.

IF YOU COULD START TO DO THAT EARLY, YOU COULD TAKE LAST YEAR'S BUDGET.

IT'S THIS CONFUSING, DOES IT? YOU KNOW, MAYBE WORK ON THAT BECAUSE MOST OF THE PEOPLE, MOST OF THE PUBLIC DOESN'T UNDERSTAND.

THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS THE BUDGET WORK. BUT COMMUNICATION IS ALSO IMPORTANT.

SO I THINK YOU SHOULD TRY TO WORK ON THAT THEN.

LARPD BOARD MEMBERS THOSE SEVEN BOARD MEMBER [INAUDIBLE].

PEOPLE, THEY THINK THAT YOU ARE BEING PAID BY STATE PARKS TO FUND LAKE DEL VALLE.

THEY BELIEVE THAT. SO IF YOU CAN PUT A LINE ITEM IN THERE, MONEY FROM STATE PARKS WILL PUT A ZERO.

THAT WOULD BE REALLY USEFUL. I MEAN, BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT MY UNDERSTANDING, YOU'RE NOT GETTING ANY MONEY FROM THE STATE TO RUN IT.

BUT THOSE PEOPLE ARE HARASSING YOU THINKING YOU GET ALL THIS MONEY.

SO I KNOW ACCOUNTANTS DON'T LIKE TO PUT IN LINE ITEMS WITH ZEROS IN IT, BUT IT WOULD BE REALLY HELPFUL.

AND MAYBE SEPARATE YOUR DWR GRANTS, WHICH YOU DO GET MONEY FROM VERSUS STATE PARK FUNDS, WHICH IS A ZERO.

AND THEN THEY SEE IT WOULD HELP COMMUNICATE IT.

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BUT IF YOU COULD JUST KIND OF LIVERMORE DOESN'T PAY INTO PROP W W YOU'RE TRYING TO COMMUNICATE THAT.

IF YOU COULD PUT IT INTO YOUR REPORT AND PEOPLE COULD CLEARLY SEE THAT LIVERMORE DOESN'T GET THAT.

OTHERWISE IT'S CONFUSING. AND THEN I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE THAT YOU GET ABOUT 7% OF THE 1% TAX GOES FOR PARKS FOR LIVERMORE. IT'S SEPARATED, YOU KNOW, FOR L, A R, D AND EAST BAY.

IF YOU COULD KIND OF BE CLEAR ON THAT BECAUSE IT'S NOT ON OUR PROPERTY TAX BILL AND IT'S PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND WHERE THE TAX MONEY COMES FROM.

AND THAT WOULD HELP ON THE COMMUNICATION. LAST LINE ITEM IS THANK YOU FOR PUTTING THE MURRAY TOWNSHIP AS A LINE ITEM.

AND WITHOUT THAT AS A LINE ITEM, THERE'S NO MONEY FOR THE TRAIL ROUTING STUDY, YOU KNOW, BETWEEN LOS VAQUEROS.

SO ONCE YOU PUT THAT IN, BE NICE TO SEE IF THERE'S MONEY BUDGETED.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU. ANDREW TURNBULL. YEAH. GREETINGS.

FIRST OF ALL, IT'S AN HONOR TO FOLLOW. DAVID LUND, WHO IS ONE OF THE HARDEST WORKING PEOPLE AND PEOPLE ON THE GROUND, HE TAKES ME OUT AND TEACHES ME A LOT ABOUT IT.

NOW JUST TO QUALIFY MYSELF, I'VE SPOKEN A LOT ABOUT HOME COURT ADVANTAGE BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE WE ARE LIVERMORE AND SUNOL AND THE TRI-VALLEY. BUT MY WIFE AND I ARE VERY INVOLVED IN THE EQUESTRIAN CENTER, WALNUT CREEK, AND I SPEAK BEFORE THE WALNUT CREEK CITY COUNCIL AND THE AMBASSADOR TO THE CHAMBER UP THERE. SO I'M REALLY BY AUDI, IF YOU WILL.

SO TO THAT END, I KNOW THAT THE WAY THIS IS REPRESENTED, YOU KNOW, YOU SPLIT IT UP AND ONE OF THE THINGS I WANT TO SAY IS SHOW ME YOUR BUDGET AND YOU'LL TELL ME WHAT YOUR VALUES ARE.

AND THE OTHER ONE IS YOU HAVE A NEW CFO. WELCOME.

AND I LIKE THE WAY THAT HE SPOKE. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WOULD HELP HIM IS IF HIS ACCOUNTING LINE ITEMS COULD BREAK OUT BY EACH ONE OF YOUR DISTRICTS WHERE THINGS ARE BEING SPENT, WHERE OPPORTUNITIES ARE, AND THAT YOU FULLY GRANULARLY THINK OF THE THE WARDS. AND ALSO WE GOT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE TRAIL SYSTEM UNDERSTANDS WHERE THE TRAILS ARE AND WHERE THE OPPORTUNITIES ARE.

SO THAT'S AN INFORMATION SYSTEMS OPPORTUNITY.

AND I ALSO WANT TO TOSS IN MOBILE CITIZEN, YOU KNOW WHAT MOBILE CITIZEN IS.

IF IT'S NOT, I'LL TALK TO YOU LATER. IT'S A WAY TO MANAGE YOUR TO DO LIST WHERE PEOPLE GIVE YOU THEIR INPUT.

THAT'S AN OPPORTUNITY THAT YOU COULD INVEST IN IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS THAT WILL PUT YOU BETTER OFF AND MAYBE ALLOW YOU TO CUT PRICE ON CONSULTANTS COMING IN AND TRYING TO FIGURE IT OUT.

BUT IF YOU'RE ACCOUNTING AND YOUR FINANCE AND YOUR COST ACCOUNTING ARE DONE CORRECTLY, BY THE WAY, THAT WAS ONE OF MY MOST DIFFICULT CLASSES IN MY BUSINESS.

SCHOOL WAS COST ACCOUNTING BECAUSE THERE'S SO MANY WAYS TO DO IT.

BUT IF YOU CAN GET TO WHERE YOUR GRANULAR ENOUGH TO UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU REALLY HAVE, YOU'LL BE BETTER OFF.

PLEASE COMPLETE THE ANSWER TRAIL. CLOSE DOWN THE TRAILS AND AND IN YOUR BUDGET.

REMEMBER, THERE ARE 1.7 MILLION PEOPLE IN ALAMEDA COUNTY.

THERE ARE 1.3 MILLION PEOPLE IN CONTRA COSTA COUNTY.

KEEP IN MIND THAT ALAMEDA COUNTY IS GOING TO NEED MORE TRAILS, AND YOU NEED OUR SUPPORT FOR YOUR FUTURE.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU. KELLY FOR YOU.

SO ONE OF THE THINGS WE DIDN'T HEAR TODAY WAS ABOUT POPULATION GROWTH.

AND BECAUSE THERE ISN'T ANY IT TURNS OUT THAT POPULATION GROWTH IN EITHER OF THESE TWO COUNTIES HAS BEEN LIKE CLOSE TO AROUND 0% SINCE THE PANDEMIC. AND THERE'S THIS, THIS MYTH THAT ALL OF THE, YOU KNOW, I GUESS IT'S SPREAD BY THE CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE OR BY SOMEBODY MAYBE THAT THERE'S GROWTH, GROWTH. WE GOTTA PLAN FOR GROWTH.

WELL, IT'S A, IT'S A, A CULT OF GROWTH. AND IT'S, IT'S A, IT'S A MYTH.

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MAYBE IT WAS SOME OF THE GROWTH AND THAT'S NOT HAPPENING.

AND, AND THERE WAS WHAT IS IT ORGANIC OR POPULAR POPULATION GROWTH.

AND IF PEOPLE WOULD HAVE MORE BABIES, THEN WE COULD, THAT WOULD BE A GOOD, GOOD SOURCE OF GROWTH.

BUT THEY'RE NOT, THEY'RE NOT DOING THAT EITHER. THE THERE'S ALSO THE, SOME OF THE THINGS THAT YOU SEE HERE WITH WHERE YOU HAVE KIOSKS AND THEN YOU KNOW, AND NOW WE'RE KIND OF REPLACE THE KIOSKS WITH THESE WITH, WELL, WHATEVER THE TOLL GATES AT THE ENTRANCE TO DEL VALLE.

THAT LOOKS GOOD. EXCEPT THERE'S A, A HIDDEN COST.

THESE THINGS LOOK LIKE THEY'RE, YOU KNOW, ALL AUTOMATED, YOU KNOW, YOU JUST DRIVE IN, YOU HAVE TO PAY AND YOU PUT A TICKET ON YOUR, WITH THE TICKET ON THE FARE, THE RECEIPT ON YOUR DASHBOARD, ALL EXCEPT THE GUY WHO WAS STANDING IN THAT TOLL GATE COLLECTING THE, THE TOLLS LIKE A TOLL BOOTH, LIKE IN THE OLD DAYS WHEN THEY HAD TOLL BOOTHS ON BRIDGES.

THAT GUY WAS GETTING PAID, NOT VERY MUCH. AND THE PEOPLE WHO ARE GOING TO BE GOING OUT TO CHECK THOSE DASHBOARDS ON ALL THOSE CARS ARE SWORN LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS THAT [INAUDIBLE]. AND, AND THOSE GUYS, THEIR THEIR PAY SCALE IS IN ANOTHER UNIVERSE COMPARED TO THE, THE GUY AT THE, AT THE TOLL BOOTH COLLECTOR. SO THIS IS NOT THE THE, THIS IS REALLY A GIFT TO PARK DISTRICT IS GIVING YOU GIVING A GIFT OF, OF OF, OF NOT JUST A INVESTMENT IN EQUIPMENT, BUT AN ONGOING INVESTMENT IN EXPENSIVE LABOR TO TO FACILITATE THIS GREAT UPGRADE IN IN AUTOMATION.

YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES AUTOMATION IS NOT, NOT REALLY SAVING ANY MONEY, BUT THAT'S I'M NOT, I'M JUST SPECULATING HERE, BUT I HAVE A FEELING LIKE THIS IS WHAT, WHAT COULD BE HAPPENING? AND LET'S SEE WHAT ELSE ABOUT, ABOUT THE. OH, YOU DID SAY STRUCTURAL DEFICIT.

THAT'S VERY BRAVE. I HAVE TO MY HATS OFF TO THE FINANCE PEOPLE HERE BECAUSE IF, FOR EXAMPLE, CITY OF FREMONT, THEY ARE THEY'RE ALLERGIC TO THAT STRUCTURAL DEFICIT AND THEY, IT THAT'S STRICTLY A A PERSONAL DECISION.

AND IT'S VERY BRAVE OF YOU TO ADMIT TO A STRUCTURAL DEFICIT.

THANK YOU KELLY. THANK YOU. THERE IS NO MORE PUBLIC COMMENT.

OKAY, GREAT. WE'LL BRING IT BACK TO THE BOARD FOR ANY FINAL COMMENTS.

I DID HAVE ONE MORE QUESTION. I KNOW LAST YEAR WHEN WE RECEIVED THE 2020 BUDGET, WE HAD THE LIVERMORE AREA RECREATION PARK DISTRICT PAGE AND OUR FROM OUR SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION. AND WE DID ADD IT BACK. SO THE 2026 BOOK, I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE NOT PLANNING ON ANY SURPRISES LIKE THAT.

THAT WILL INCLUDE SPECIFICALLY THE LIVERMORE AREA RECREATION PARK DISTRICT PAGE, BUT THEN ALSO ITEMS THAT HAVE TYPICALLY BEEN IN PREVIOUS BUDGET BOOKS.

SO WE CAN TALK THROUGH ANY SPECIFIC ITEMS. I THINK LIKE THIS IS JUST A REALLY HIGH LEVEL OVERVIEW OF THE BUDGET.

AND IF THERE'S SPECIFIC THINGS LIKE THE FOR EACH OF YOU, WE CAN TALK MORE.

SO I GUESS I'D BE HAPPY WITH MORE OF THE BUDGET FOR THIS RELEASE.

MAYBE IF WE COULD CREATE A LIST OF CHANGES FROM 26 TO 27, BECAUSE I KNOW IT WAS SURPRISED WHEN I GOT MY 2026 DRAFT AND THE AREA PARK DISTRICT BEEN IN THERE FOR DECADES, WHICH IS NOT.

WE WILL AND WE WILL COME BACK TO YOUR BOARD BEFORE WE BRING A FORMAL FINAL PROPOSAL.

SO THERE ARE MULTIPLE STEPS. THERE'S 480 PAGES.

THE PARTICULAR ONE THAT. ANY OTHER BOARD MEMBER COMMENTS BEFORE WE MOVE ON TO OUR ACTION ITEM? ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. WE WILL NOW MOVE ON TO THE NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA.

[ACTION ITEMS]

SO I DON'T THINK THERE'S A PRESENTATION FOR THIS ITEM.

SO THAT'S PERFECT FOR US TO START. BUT IF WE HAVE TO DO A PRESENTATION, IT STILL WORKS ON ZOOM.

SO WE CAN DO THAT AND THEN JUST REFER TO THE PRESENTATION.

OKAY. PERFECT. RIGHT. I CAN I CAN GO WITH THAT.

THANK YOU KATIE. ALL RIGHT. HI. GOOD AFTERNOON.

PRESIDENT SANWONG. MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. JESSICA ROMEO ASSISTANT GENERAL MANAGER, HUMAN RESOURCES.

SORRY, I FORGOT TO INTRODUCE MYSELF EARLIER. THIS ITEM BEFORE YOU TODAY IS THE ADOPTION OF A 3% SALARY INCREASE FOR UNREPRESENTED PUBLIC SAFETY

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AND THIS FOLLOWS THE ADOPTION OF THE POLICE ASSOCIATION MOU, WHICH YOU ALL APPROVED THE LAST TIME WE WERE OUTSIDE PERALTA OAKS AT BIG BREAK.

SO VERY EXCITING THAT THESE HAPPEN ON THE INCREASE IS BEING ADOPTED FOR 2026.

ONLY GENERALLY IN THE PAST WE HAVE BROUGHT KIND OF THE SAME SALARY INCREASES FOR THE SAME TERM AS THE MOU.

BUT THIS YEAR WE ARE KIND OF LOOKING AT ANY FUTURE SALARY ADJUSTMENTS FOR THE UNREPRESENTED PUBLIC SAFETY MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES IN COORDINATION WITH OUR BUDGET AND IN COORDINATION WITH OTHER MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES TO ENSURE THAT THERE IS SUFFICIENT FUNDING MOVING FORWARD FOR THOSE INCREASES.

AND SO WE'LL BE EVALUATING THOSE ANNUALLY. SO ANY FUTURE INCREASES WOULD BE BROUGHT BACK TO YOU SEPARATELY.

AND THEN FINALLY, IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE BROWN ACT, I'M PROVIDING AN ORAL REPORT REGARDING THE COMPENSATION FOR THE ASSISTANT GENERAL MANAGER OF PUBLIC SAFETY, THE CHIEF OF POLICE CLASSIFICATION, WITH A 3% INCREASE, THE INCUMBENT AGM PUBLIC SAFETY, WHO IS CURRENTLY AT STEP F, WILL RECEIVE A BASE SALARY OF $313,539.20 ANNUALLY.

AND THAT IS EQUIVALENT TO $150.74 PER HOUR. IN ADDITION TO THE BASE SALARY, THE AGM OF PUBLIC SAFETY RECEIPTS AND EDUCATION PREMIUM PAY AT 9.5% OF THEIR BASE, WHICH IS A TOTAL OF $29,786.22 ANNUALLY, AND THE AGM IS A PUBLIC SAFETY IS ELIGIBLE FOR.

TO ARE ELIGIBLE FOR BILINGUAL PAY OF $50 PER PAY PERIOD, EQUIVALENT TO $1,300 ANNUALLY, FOR A TOTAL COMPENSATION OF $344,625.42 ANNUALLY. THE AGM OF PUBLIC SAFETY WILL ALSO CONTINUE TO RECEIVE THE SAME RETIREMENT, MEDICAL, DENTAL, LIFE INSURANCE, DISABILITY LEAVE AND OTHER BENEFITS PROVIDED TO DISTRICT MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES IN FOUR CLASSIFICATIONS.

I AM HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS ON THIS ITEM.

GREAT. THANK YOU. ANY QUESTIONS FROM MEMBERS OF THE BOARD ON THIS ITEM? J ONE. FOR SEVEN POSITIONS. RIGHT. SEVEN POSITIONS A FOLD, TEN FOLD. ALL RIGHT. LET'S GO TO AND OPEN UP PUBLIC COMMENT.

THERE IS NO PUBLIC COMMENT. ALL RIGHT. SO CLOSE PUBLIC COMMENT. BRING IT BACK TO THE BOARD FOR ANY FINAL COMMENTS. OTHERWISE WE'RE LOOKING FOR A MOTION TO APPROVE THE RESOLUTION ON PAGE 215 IN OUR PACKAGE. SO WE HAVE A MOTION BY DIRECTOR COFFEY A SECOND BY DIRECTOR MERCURIO.

ALL IN FAVOR PLEASE SAY AYE. AYE. PASSES FIVE ZERO OR ANY OPPOSED? ANY ABSTENTIONS? NO. OKAY. FIVE ZERO. ALL RIGHT.

THANK YOU SO MUCH. WE'LL MOVE ON TO OUR NEXT ITEM, J TWO.

THE AUTHORIZATION TO TRANSFER PREVIOUSLY APPROPRIATED GENERAL FUNDS TO THE 2017 2023 WINTER STORM DAMAGE.

OKAY. KATY HORNBECK, MANAGER. I WORK IN THE FINANCE AND MANAGEMENT SERVICES DIVISION.

THIS ITEM WAS PRESENTED TO THE FINANCE COMMITTEE LAST WEEK.

SO DIRECTOR WAESPI, DIRECTOR DESCHAMBAULT ARE FAMILIAR WITH THIS, SO I'M GOING TO MAKE IT EVEN SPEEDIER.

SO THIS ITEM BEFORE YOU IS FOR AUTHORIZATION TO TRANSFER PREVIOUSLY APPROPRIATED GENERAL FUNDS TO 2017 AND 2023 WINTER STORM PROJECTS.

SO JUST TO REITERATE, THIS IS WE'RE NOT ASKING FOR ANY NEW MONEY.

THIS IS EXISTING GENERAL FUND MONEY THAT'S INDIFFERENT FEMA PROJECTS THAT WE'RE JUST TRYING TO SHUFFLE AROUND TO COVER EITHER INELIGIBLE COSTS OR THE REQUIRED MATCH BY FEMA AS A BRIEF BACKGROUND. SO THERE WERE DECLARED DISASTERS IN 2017 AND AT THE END OF 2022 AND GOING INTO 2023.

AND IN BOTH OF THOSE DISASTERS, ONCE IT'S FEDERALLY DECLARED, THE PARK DISTRICT AND OTHER ELIGIBLE ENTITIES ARE ALLOWED TO APPLY FOR PUBLIC ASSISTANCE FUNDS. THE PROCESS FOR THAT IS SUBMITTING BASICALLY A VERY LONG LIST OF SITES THAT NEED PERMANENT REPAIR.

AND THEN WE WORK WITH FEMA TO GET THOSE APPROVED AS FEMA APPROVES THOSE PROJECTS, THE APPROPRIATE THOSE PROJECTS.

EXCUSE ME, WE APPROPRIATE FUNDS INTO NEW PROJECTS.

AND PART OF THAT PROCESS ALSO INCLUDES REQUESTING GENERAL FUNDS TO BE THE, WHAT WE ANTICIPATE BEING THE MATCH FOR FEMA, FEMA WILL REIMBURSE UP TO 75% OF ELIGIBLE COSTS.

THE CALIFORNIA OFFICE OF EMERGENCY SERVICES COMES IN WITH ABOUT 18.75%, SO THE PARK DISTRICT IS THEN ON THE HOOK TO

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SO IN 2017, WE FOR 2017 PROJECTS, THERE ARE NINE THAT ARE REMAINING.

SEVERAL ARE ON SCHEDULE TO GO TO GET DONE THIS YEAR UNDER THE TCP PROGRAM.

AND THEN WORKING WITH MAST AND DECO TO GET THE REST OF THEM DONE NEXT YEAR.

THERE WERE SEVERAL PROJECTS THAT GOT COMPLETED OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS AND AS MY STAFF HAVE BEEN TRYING TO DO A LOT OF PROJECT CLEANUP AND RECONCILIATION, WE SAW THAT THERE WERE SEVERAL PROJECTS THAT HAD BEEN COMPLETED THAT WERE EITHER OVERMATCHED OR UNDERMATCHED.

AND WHAT I MEAN BY THAT IS THAT THERE WAS TOO MUCH GENERAL FUND MONEY OR TOO LITTLE GENERAL FUND MONEY TO MEET.

THAT REQUIRED 6.25%. AND THEN FOR 2023 WE FINALLY RECEIVED EVERYTHING ALL THE REIMBURSEMENTS THAT WE WERE ANTICIPATING FROM FEMA FOR CATEGORY A AND CATEGORY B WORK, WHICH IS BASICALLY THE DEBRIS REMOVAL AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE WORK THAT HAPPENED WITHIN THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF THE 2023 STORMS. WE RECEIVED ABOUT 3.1 MILLION. WE, THE BOARD HAD AT THE TIME APPROPRIATED SOME GENERAL FUND MONEY TO GET THOSE CONTRACTS PAID AND GET, GET WORK PAID FOR. AND SO NOW THAT WE'VE RECEIVED WHAT, ALL OF THAT REIMBURSEMENT, WE CAN NOW SHIFT SOME OF THAT EXTRA GENERAL FUND MONEY INTO FEMA PROJECTS THAT WE NEED TO. THE POWERPOINT HAD A FEW SLIDES COVERING ALL THE PROJECTS THAT WERE, YOU KNOW, THAT MONEY WAS GOING TO BE TRANSFERRED IN AND OUT OF THAT'S ALSO LISTED IN, I THINK AN ATTACHMENT IN YOUR REPORT.

IT CAN BE IT MIGHT BE A LITTLE CONFUSING IN THAT THE, THE NAMES OF THE PROJECTS THAT I LIST IN THAT TABLE, THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE NAMED IN FINANCE ENTERPRISE.

BUT IT DOESN'T NECESSARILY TELL YOU WHAT THAT PROJECT, THE ACTUAL FEMA PROJECT WAS.

SO FOR EXAMPLE, THERE'S A PROJECT THAT WAS COMPLETED AND IT'S CALLED RESTORE THREE PONDS.

DIRECTOR WAESPI IN LAST WEEK'S MEETING WAS LIKE, WELL, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? WHERE WAS THAT? AND SO WHAT THOSE WERE THREE PONDS IN BLACK DIAMOND. SO JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY THAT THE FINANCE ENTERPRISE NAME CAN BE A LITTLE VAGUE.

AND PART OF THAT IS BECAUSE THERE WERE OFTEN MANY SITES OVER ACROSS MULTIPLE PARKS IN THESE PROJECTS.

AND THEN LET'S SEE, THE LAST THING I JUST WANTED TO ADD WAS SO THE TOTAL AMOUNT BEING REQUESTED TO BE TRANSFERRED TO VARIOUS PROJECTS IS JUST A LITTLE OVER 1.7 MILLION. AND AGAIN, THIS IS PREVIOUSLY APPROPRIATED FUNDS.

THESE ARE GOING IN AND OUT OF FEMA PROJECTS THAT ARE EITHER CLOSED.

OR WE WANT TO GET THEM DONE THIS YEAR. IN ORDER TO DO THAT, WE NEED TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO AWARD THE CONTRACTS.

AND THAT WE'LL BE RETURNING TO THE BOARD IF WE NEED TO, AS WE COMPLETE FUTURE PROJECTS AND WE DO OR DO NOT GET REIMBURSED FROM FEMA TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS AS NEEDED. SO AS I'VE SAID IN MANY OTHER GRANT PRESENTATIONS, GRANTS ARE RISKY.

NONE SO MORE THAN FEMA. WE DON'T KNOW WHEN WE'LL GET THE MONEY, HOW MUCH WE'LL GET.

SO WHEN I'M COMING TO YOU FOR THIS KIND OF APPROPRIATION, IT'S BECAUSE WE'RE JUST TRYING TO CLOSE OUT AND MAKE SURE WE HAVE THEIR REQUIREMENTS THAT WE MAKE BASED OFF OF THE FUNDS THAT WE'VE GOT. SO HAPPY TO TAKE ANY QUESTIONS.

I DON'T HAVE THE FULL RECOMMENDATION IN FRONT OF ME. OTHERWISE I'D READ IT OFF, BUT IT'S BASICALLY TRANSFERRING THOSE FUNDS INTO FEMA PROJECTS.

THE BOARD RESOLUTION ITSELF SPECIFICALLY STATES THE PROJECT NUMBERS AND THE DOLLAR AMOUNTS THAT WOULD BE GOING IN AND OUT.

SORRY. THANK YOU. AND THAT'S ON PAGE TWO. 23 IN OUR POCKETS.

AND IF ANY BOARD MEMBERS HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, IT'S A GREAT TIME TO ASK QUESTIONS.

SEEING NO QUESTIONS. WE'LL STILL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY IN CASE OTHER QUESTIONS ARISE AND GO AHEAD AND OPEN PUBLIC COMMENT.

THERE ARE SOME PUBLIC COMMENTS. CLOSE PUBLIC COMMENT. BRING IT BACK TO THE BOARD FOR ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS. OTHERWISE, WE'RE LOOKING FOR A MOTION OF THE RESOLUTION ON PAGE 223. OKAY. DIRECTOR LUANA ESPAÑA MADE A MOTION TO APPROVE.

DO WE HAVE A SECOND? SECONDED BY DIRECTOR WAESPI.

ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY AYE. AYE. ANY OPPOSED? THAT PASSES FIVE ZERO. THANK YOU SO MUCH. ALRIGHT, WE JUST HAVE A FEW OTHER REMAINING ITEMS. WE HAVE AGENDA ITEM K ANNOUNCEMENTS IN CLOSED SESSION.

THERE ARE NO ANNOUNCEMENTS. GREAT ITEM FOR AGENDA ITEMS. I DON'T THINK YOU HAVE ANY. SO ITEM M ANY BOARD REPORTS AND STUDIES IN ON OUR OWN BORDERS.

[BOARD REPORTS ON MEETINGS ATTENDED]

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ANY OTHER BOARD MEMBERS? SO IN THE LAST MONTH AND A HALF, I HAD A MEETING WITH ERICH AND LISA AND THE GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS TALKING ABOUT URBAN AFFAIRS.

ON JULY 15TH, I ATTENDED A, GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS SPONSORED EVENT AND JERRY MCNERNEY AND CIVICORP AT PLEASANTON RIDGE.

EXCELLENT JOB BY THE LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS FOLKS.

BECKY RIMSER AND BILL COFFMAN, WE LOOKED AT A PROPERTY AT SOUTH HAYWARD, OLD RANCH FARM IN UNION CITY.

HAD A MEETING WITH DAVE MASON WHO TRIED TO TEACH ME HOW TO WELL, LET ME SEE SOMETHING.

THE 27TH, I ATTENDED A WONDERFUL VIEWING OF A DRY CREEK PIONEER REGIONAL PARK AN MADISON, LISA TALKED ABOUT A FEW ISSUES DOWN THERE. OH, THE BEST TIME I'VE HAD IN THE LAST MONTH WAS NATIONAL NIGHT OUT FOR YOU AND YOUR STAFF. THEY ALWAYS PUT ON A GREAT SHOW.

THE COMMUNITY LOVES IT. IT'S JUST ONE OF THE BEST EVENTS THAT I GO TO.

I HAVE TO ADD THAT I DON'T KNOW WHAT HOLLY'S ROLE IN THAT IS.

I DON'T KNOW IF SHE RUNS THE WHOLE THING, BUT I'VE NEVER SEEN HER HAPPIER ANYTIME IN HER CAREER. I'VE KNOWN HER FOR YEARS. SHE'S SO HAPPY AND JUST HAVING A GREAT TIME ORGANIZING EVERYTHING. SO MY COMPLIMENTS TO HOLLY. THANKS, JAY.

YEAH. THANKS FOR THE GREAT WORK YOU DO. THAT'S IT.

YEAH. OKAY, SO MINE WAS THAT TOO MUCH? BECAUSE THAT'S JUST THE WAY IT'S WORKED OUT.

SO JUNE 6TH. AND I'LL JUST GIVE. THESE ARE ALL IN JUNE.

BOARD MEETING EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING AND CHECK IN.

I DID A PRESENTATION TO THE ALAMO IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION.

THEY WANT TO UPDATE ON IRON HORSE TRAIL. SO I TOLD THEM ABOUT WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING OUT THERE IN TERMS OF ENFORCEMENT AND EDUCATION. AND THEN I TOLD THEM THINK ABOUT THE FUTURE.

A LOT OF US TODAY AS WE SPEAK I WENT TO THE JUNETEENTH EVENT AND THURGOOD MARSHALL REGIONAL PARK HOME AND I HAD MY ERICH JAMES THE OUTSIDE COUNCIL.

I HAD ANOTHER MEETING IN THE CENTRAL VALLEY IN DANVILLE WITH HELEN NOLAN, WHO'S OUR BICYCLE SAFETY ADVOCATE THERE WITH LIEUTENANT GUZMAN. AGAIN, TALKING ABOUT TRAIL SAFETY ON THE CONCORD I WENT TO THE CONCORD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE EVENT AND CONCORD I WENT TO A BOARD SITE VISIT AND THEN ON AT THE END OF THE MONTH, WE HAD A COMMUNITY RESOURCE FAIR IN CONCORD, WHICH WAS OUR VERY, VERY WELL ATTENDED. ON JULY 8TH I RAN PART OF THE DISCOVERY AMERICAN DISCOVERY TRAILS. WE DID A BICYCLE LEG ON THAT FROM ANTIOCH TO THE ANTIOCH BRIDGE.

ON JULY 9TH I MET WITH ERICH AND LISA ABOUT THE THE ADVOCATE CONSULTANTS PROCESS THAT WE'RE GOING THROUGH TO COME ACROSS THE MAYOR'S CONFERENCE ON JULY 9TH.

ON THE 10TH AT CASTLE ROCK, THERE WAS A NICE PRESENTATION FROM FOLKS THAT WERE OUR KIDS, STUDENTS THAT WERE PARTICIPATING IN YOUTH DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM THERE.

AND THEY HAVE A PROGRAM WHERE THEY SPEND FOUR DAYS IN THE PARKS LEARNING FROM OUR INTERPRETER FOLKS ABOUT PARKS AND WILDLIFE AND ENVIRONMENT.

AND THEN THEY EACH GIVE A LITTLE PRESENTATION ON THE TOPIC THAT THEY CHOSE.

AND. I WENT TO THE I DID THE WELCOME MESSAGE AT THE VOLUNTEER APPRECIATION EVENT AND I WROTE ON THE SLIDE 15, THERE WAS A JOINT CONCORD AND ALAMEDA MEETING THAT I WENT TO A COUPLE OF DAYS LATER, I HAD THE MEETING

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THAT, THAT COMMITTEE, WHICH IS CREATED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, IS REQUIRED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN ORDER TO RELEASE CURRENTLY $6 MILLION OF SPENDING A YEAR. SO WE HAVE THIS MEETING WE HAVE TO GO TO, I CALL IT THE $6 MILLION MEETING, BUT WE DON'T HAVE IT. WE DON'T GET THE MONEY.

SO WE HAVE THAT MEETING EVERY YEAR. BUT IT'S INTERESTING BECAUSE I, I GET TO LEARN ABOUT ALL THE PROJECTS THAT ARE.

ALL ACROSS THE STATE. SEE WHAT OTHER FOLKS ARE DOING.

JULY 29TH, I ATTENDED THE REGION FIVE BOARD MEETING OF THE CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION IN WALNUT CREEK.

AND THAT WAS VERY DEFINITELY SOME GREAT FOLKS IN THE EQUESTRIAN COMMUNITY.

ON THE NEXT DAY FROM THERE I WENT TO ALONG WITH DIRECTOR WAESPI HARD HAD A RIBBON CUTTING AT AN AGRICULTURAL PARK THAT THEY DEVELOPED THEIR IN THEIR, IN THEIR DISTRICT ON AUGUST 4TH BOARD MEETING ON AUGUST 10TH PARTICIPATED IN A ZOOM MEETING WITH BRIAN HOLT AND SOME CONCORD RESIDENTS TO KIND OF TALK ABOUT AND KIND OF HOW WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO PROVIDE SAFE BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN ACCESS FOR THE FUTURE.

THURGOOD MARSHALL [INAUDIBLE] 1450. AND. HISTORY.

I GUESS IT WAS. I HAD A MEETING WITH OUR DISTRICT COUNCIL TO TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE.

RESTRICTIONS AND REGULATIONS THAT THOSE OF US THAT ARE IN A ELECTION YEAR HAVE TO COMPLY WITH BECAUSE.

IT'S AWESOME. OKAY. WELL, THAT'S AN IMPRESSIVE LIST TO FOLLOW.

YES. WELL, I SPENT TWO MONTHS VISITING NATURE IN THE PACIFIC ISLANDS AND WETLANDS OF MEXICO, SO MINE JUST FOCUSES ON AUGUST. SO PROBABLY IN AUGUST, WE HAD THE BOARD OPEN AND CLOSED SESSIONS.

ON AUGUST 4TH, I ACTUALLY DONNED SOME WADERS AND I GOT IN THE CREEK WITH A FISH SURVEY TEAM AND DID A FISH TOUR ON AUGUST 10TH. AND I'M HAPPY TO REPORT THAT DAYLIGHTING OF CREEK SEEMS TO BE WORKING.

WE FOUND SOME HAPPY FISH, WHICH I CAN'T TELL YOU WHERE YOU'LL ALL RUSH OUT THERE, FISH OR NOT.

SO WE FIND OUT. WE GOTTA KEEP THAT KIND OF QUIET.

SAME WITH OUR ENDANGERED SPECIES. IF YOU TELL PEOPLE WHERE THEY ARE, THEY GO LOVE THEM TO DEATH AND TRY TO FIND OUT WHERE THEIR NESTING.

I GOT ANOTHER SITE TOUR I'LL SAVE THE REDWOODS.

AND THERE'S MORE TO COME ON THAT. QUITE INTERESTING.

ON THE OPPORTUNITY TO IMPROVE FOREST HEALTH. THAT'S GOING TO NEED SOME GOOD PUBLIC OUTREACH FOR OPPORTUNITIES TO THIN THE REDWOODS, SO THAT WE ACTUALLY HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THEM TO GROW.

AND WE HAVE BIG BASIN AS A CASE STUDY TO SHOW US THAT THAT IS WHAT IS NEEDED.

AFTER THAT, WE HEADED TO TILDEN. AND I DID SEE WHERE THAT FEMA MONEY THAT GOT TAKEN CARE OF AT THE GOLF COURSE WENT TO THE ABUSE AND CLEARING UP THERE AND TALKING WITH FOLKS THAT SAY THE RIGHT WAY, THERE'S ALWAYS OPPORTUNITIES MAYBE FOR SEEDING BECAUSE IT HAD ONLY BEEN TWO WEEKS AND ALREADY THE BLACKBERRIES AND POISON OAK WERE QUITE HAPPY THERE. HOPEFULLY OTHER NATIVES WILL FIGHT THEIR WAY UP AND THROUGH.

AND THE, ON THE 12TH I WAS ON THE FINANCE COMMITTEE, GO BACK TO JOHN AND AS AN ALTERNATE ON THE 12TH I DID THE OPS COMMITTEE ALSO WENT OUT TO OUR NATIONAL NIGHT OUT IN MY COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP, HAD A CHANCE TO SEE OUR OLD.

OUR OLD POLICE CHIEF, JOHN KING IS THE POLICE CHIEF OF MY HOME COMMUNITY OF MORAGA.

SO THAT WAS FUN TO GET OUT TO NATIONAL NIGHT OUT AND HANG OUT WITH JOHN, WHO SAID HE'S NEVER RETIRING.

HE LOVES HIS JOB TOO MUCH. ON THE 13TH, THAT'S THE RESOURCES COMMITTEE.

SUPER INTERESTING PROGRESS ON ENDANGERED SPECIES.

I REALLY HOPE THAT EVERY STAFF REPORT WILL LET US KNOW WHAT ENDANGERED SPECIES ARE PRESENT WHEN WE MAKE OUR DECISIONS.

A LOT OF GOOD INFO, A LOT OF DATA, A LOT OF SO MUCH INFO OUT THERE AND THE TECHNOLOGY.

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YOU SEE A SINGLE BICYCLIST. WELL, THAT'S NOT TRUE.

WE SAW A FEW AND THEY WERE, OF COURSE BEHAVED AND USING THEIR BELLS, BUT I THINK THE WORD WAS OUT THAT DIRECTOR COFFEY AND I WOULD BE AT TRIAL.

SO NOBODY. WE HAD THE PLACE TO OURSELVES. I HEAR SEVERAL HUNDRED PEOPLE WILL COME ON THE WEEKENDS, SO I HOPE TO GET BACK OUT THERE. ON THE 16TH.

BUT IT WAS EVERY CONGRESSWOMAN AND STATE SENATORS, EVERYBODY WAS OUT AT THE THE PRIDE OAKLAND PRIDE, WHICH IS IN MY REGION. AND I THINK BAY STATE PARK SHOULD HAVE A CARD THERE NEXT YEAR BECAUSE ALL THE OTHER AGENCIES, UTILITIES WERE IN THE CARPOOL FOR THE PRIDE PARADE.

AND THESE THINGS WOULD BE FUN FOR THE PARK DISTRICT TO SHOW UP FOR THAT.

AND MY ONE ON ONE ON THE 17TH. AND THE ONLY THING I HAVE BESIDES THAT I WANT TO ANNOUNCE AND I SHARED WITH COPY MAX AND STAFF.

REALLY EXCITING. I REPORTED OUT THAT I'VE DONE SOME WORK AS IN THE LEASE TERM, THE BIRD, THE SHORELINE BIRD.

SEPTEMBER 17TH IS A KICK OFF MEETING. THERE'S HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE ON THE LIST TO LOOK AT HOW WE CAN DO A CROSS COUNTRY OPPORTUNITY BETWEEN BIRDS DON'T KNOW THE BORDERS OF MIGRATION BETWEEN MEXICO AND.

WE HAVE TWO VERY ESTABLISHED COMMUNITIES HERE IN HAYWARD AND ALAMEDA, AND SO THEY'RE DOING A BIG KICK OFF ON THE HEAD BY THE US FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE, AS WELL AS THE CALIFORNIA FISH AND WILDLIFE COMMISSION.

WILDLIFE, YES. YEAH. IT GETS SO CONFUSED ON THE NEW NAME.

FISH AND WILDLIFE, FISH AND GAME, FISH AND WILDLIFE.

SO SO EXCITING STUFF. ANYWAY I'LL HOPE, I HOPE TO HEAR MORE ABOUT THAT.

THAT'S IT. THANKS. THANKS. I KNOW IT'S GETTING LATE AND IT'S IT'S WARM OUT.

I DO WANT TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT OUR COMMITTEE MEETINGS. SO I DID GET TO ATTEND LAST WEEK ON AUGUST 12TH, THE OPERATIONS COMMITTEE AS A SECOND ALTERNATE FOR JOHN.

AND I WANT TO JUST TALK AND THANK MY COLLEAGUES FOR PASSING THE CHANGE TO OUR BOARD OPERATING MEETING GUIDELINES TO ADD THE SECOND ALTERNATE, I KNOW ONE OF MY PERSONAL GOALS AS BOARD PRESIDENT THIS YEAR IS TO MINIMIZE CANCELLATION OF OUR COMMITTEE MEETINGS, AND I THINK IT'S BEEN REALLY EFFECTIVE TO HAVE THE SECOND ALTERNATE. I KNOW BACK IN JUNE, WE ALSO HAD TO USE THE SECOND ALTERNATE FOR THE NATURAL AND CULTURAL RESOURCES COMMITTEE WHEN DENNIS STEPPED IN, AND THAT WAS A REALLY GREAT MEETING BECAUSE WE TALKED ABOUT OUR VEGETATION MANAGEMENT STRATEGY, CULTURAL BURNS, AND THE RESTORATION PROJECT. SPEAKING OF THE NATURAL AND CULTURAL RESOURCES COMMITTEE MEETING, I THINK LYNDA DID A JOB TALKING ABOUT SOME OF THE TOPICS, THE OTHER TOPICS.

IF YOU WANT TO WATCH, YOU CAN WATCH ONLINE. WE TALKED ABOUT PONDS AND POND RESTORATION AS WELL AS OUR DOMESTIC [INAUDIBLE] POLICY.

AND SO I THINK THAT THOSE ARE SOME REALLY IMPORTANT TOPICS REALLY CORE TO OUR MISSION.

AND SO WITH THAT, WHAT I'M GOING TO DO NOW IS MOVE ON TO AGENDA ITEM N PUBLIC COMMENT.

DO WE HAVE I KNOW EARLIER WE HAD A PUBLIC COMMENTARY.

WE DID WE SENT AN EMAIL? OKAY, SO THERE'S NO BOARD READING EMAIL.

SO THEN WE'LL OPEN AND CLOSE PUBLIC COMMENT. AND NOW WE ARE ADJOURNED. THANK YOU EVERYONE. YEAH.

* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.