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MY HUSBAND LIKES LONG HAIR TOO, BUT FINE.
BUT IT'S NOT AN OPTION FOR ME.
HE, HE, IT IS NOT AN OPTION FOR HIM EITHER BECAUSE HE'S BEEN THERE 20 YEARS, 23 YEARS OR WHATEVER IT IS.
SO, UH, MY WIFE TELLING ME THAT MO NEEDS A HAIR BECAUSE HIS HAIR, HIS HAIR'S GETTING LIKE COLUMBIA AND LIKE SOCCER PLAYER LONG.
AND I SAID, WE'RE GONNA DO THE PATRICK HAMMS JUST FOR THIS SUMMER.
I LET EVAN AND ERIC STAY WITH CURLS UNTIL I COULDN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE.
BECAUSE ONCE YOU CUT 'EM, THEY'RE NEVER COMING BACK.
SO THEY'LL JUST LET ME KNOW WHEN.
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I THINK THEY'RE GOOD.I WAS GOING TO SAY, EVERY TIME THERE'S A SPECIAL MEETING, I DO THE INDICATION.
AND THEN YOU MESSED THINGS UP OVER THERE.
ARE THESE DIFFERENT COLORS? I'VE BEEN, WELL, HOW ARE YOU? WHAT HAVE YOU, HAVE YOU TAKEN ANY, UH, POORLY PUT TOGETHER? I REMEMBER THEY LOOKED.
I HAVE, I'VE BEEN THERE A COUPLE TIMES.
ACTUALLY HAD, I THINK PACK ON.
COVERED WHAT'S UP? PACK WE COVERED.
E GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE, AND WELCOME TO THE HARLINGEN CITY COMMISSION SPECIAL MEETING.
THE TIME IS NOW 5:36 PM WE'LL CALL THIS MEETING TO ORDER.
IT HAS BEEN DULY POSTED AS REQUIRED BY STATE LAW.
WE HAVE A FULL QUORUM OF THE COMMISSION.
I'LL ASK FOR EVERYONE TO PLEASE RISE AND JOIN ME AS COMMISSIONER KINSLEY LEADS US IN THE INVOCATION AS WE GATHER HERE TODAY TO DISCUSS MATTERS OF IMPORTANCE TO OUR COMMUNITY.
WE ASK FOR YOUR GUIDANCE AND WISDOM.
GRANT US THE STRENGTH TO MAKE DECISIONS THAT BENEFIT ALL RESIDENTS AND UPHOLD THE VALUES THAT BIND US TOGETHER.
MAYOR, DISCUSSIONS BE THOUGHTFUL.
OUR ACTIONS BE JUST, AND OUR COMMITMENT TO THE WELLBEING OF THIS CITY BE UNWAVERING.
NOW, THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE PLEDGE THE PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO CONSIDER REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER INDIVISIBLE, LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR HONOR.
AND MARK, IF YOU READ THE CONFLICT OF INTEREST, PLEASE.
UNDER STATE LAW, A CONFLICT OF INTEREST EXISTS IF A COUNCIL MEMBER OR A CERTAIN MEMBER OF THAT PERSON'S FAMILY HAS A QUALIFYING FINANCIAL INTEREST AND AN AGENDA ITEM.
MEMBERS WITH A CONFLICT OF INTEREST CANNOT PARTICIPATE IN THE DISCUSSION NOR VOTE ON THE AGENDA ITEM.
ARE THERE ANY KNOWN CONFLICTS OF INTEREST TO DISCLOSE AT THIS TIME? I HAVE NONE.
CITIZEN COMMUNICATION, AMANDA? YES.
AT THIS TIME, THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO ADDRESS THE CITY COMMISSION AND SPEAK ON ANY MATTER NOT SPECIFICALLY LISTED FOR PUBLIC HEARING ELSEWHERE IN THIS AGENDA.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE CITY COMMISSION MEMBERS MAY NOT RESPOND TO COMMENTS OR DELIBERATE ON TOPICS ADDRESSED.
AGENDA ITEM NUMBER ONE, PRESENTATION BY THE PARKS AND RECREATION.
NO, AMANDA, LET'S, WE HAVE CITIZEN COMMUNICATIONS.
AND THE FIRST ONE IS TONY RODRIGUEZ.
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WELCOME.MR. RODRIGUEZ, IF YOU CAN JUST STATE YOUR NAME AND YOU WILL HAVE THREE MINUTES.
I LIVE IN PARKWOOD, UH, MADAM MAYOR.
MR. GONZALEZ COMMISSIONERS, I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THIS TIME.
UH, IN 1960, WHEN I WAS 10 YEARS OLD, MY DAD SAID, LET'S GO MOVE TO A NEW SUBDIVISION CALLED PARKWOOD, WHICH WE DID.
WE BUILT THE HOUSE, ONE OF THE FIRST HOUSES ON 25TH STREET, WHICH I STILL OWN.
UH, EVERYTHING WAS GOING FINE AND, AND I LIKED IT SO MUCH THAT I BOUGHT ANOTHER HOUSE THAT GOES DOWN TO THE WATER'S EDGE AT, UH, AT PARKWOOD.
AND, UH, I'VE ENJOYED IT THERE.
AND OF COURSE, NOW THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT THE HIKING BIKE GOING THROUGH THE BACK OF MY HOUSE.
I DO OWN, LIKE I SAY, MY SURVEY SHOWS THAT I OWN TO THE WATER'S EDGE.
UH, THE LAST TIME I HAD THE FORUM HERE, I BELIEVE IT WAS, UH, MR. COOK LAUGHED AT THE FACT THAT I SAID THERE MIGHT BE DRUGS BEING BOUGHT AND SOLD ON THE HIKE AND BIKE.
WELL, SINCE THEN, IN FEBRUARY, THERE WAS NOT ONLY DRUGS BEING SOLD, BUT THERE WAS A MURDER.
AND THIS IS MY CONCERN, ALONG WITH 22 OTHER HOMEOWNERS THAT OWNED TO THE WATER'S EDGE.
AND THIS IS WHAT I'M OBJECTING TO THAT I WOULD REALLY, REALLY APPRECIATE.
I, I'M ASKING, I'M BEGGING YOU TO PLEASE LEAVE IT AS IS THE HIKING BIKES.
WE HAVE ENOUGH, UH, THERE'S NO NEED TO GO BETWEEN THE TWO PARKS.
UH, I'VE BEEN THERE FOR OVER 60 YEARS, ALMOST IN PARKWOOD.
IT'S SAFE, IT'S QUIET, IT'S PEACEFUL.
AND, UH, ALL I'M ASKING IS FOR THE COMMISSION TO SHOW THE FACT THAT, UH, THEIR FUNDS ARE NOT NEEDED TO GO THROUGH THAT HIKING BIKE.
THERE'S PLENTY, PLENTY OF HIKING BIKES ALREADY.
SOMEBODY SAID, WELL, WHAT ABOUT ON THE OTHER SIDE, MR. RODRIGUEZ? WELL, RIGHT NOW IT'S SO DRY THAT YOU CAN WALK ACROSS YOUR ROYAL IN SOME PARTS, UH, TO GO, TO GO TO THE OTHER SIDE.
UH, THERE'S ALL KINDS OF ANIMALS.
UH, I SAW AN OCELOT A COUPLE YEARS.
IN FACT, I DOCUMENTED IT WITH MY ATTORNEY.
AND ALL I'M ASKING AGAIN, IS TO KEEP IT THAT WAY.
UH, I RESPECTFULLY, UH, WILL ACCEPT ANY DECISION YOU MAKE, BUT I MUST SAY, I'LL TRY TO DO EVERYTHING I CAN TO STOP IT.
UH, IT IS JUST TOO NICE AN AREA.
IT'S, IT IS ONE OF THE LAST PRISTINE AREAS IN HARLINGEN.
UH, AND I WANT TO KEEP IT THAT WAY FOR, AND US AND, AND A COUPLE OTHER HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE.
SO AGAIN, I APPRECIATE YOUR TIME, MADAM MAYOR.
OKAY, MAYOR, WE HAVE ONE MORE.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS TIME.
I JUST WANT TO SHOUT, UH, SHOUT OUT EXACTLY WHAT TONY HAS SAID.
WE HAVE BEEN LIVING IN PARKWAY.
I'VE LIVED THERE FOR 33 YEARS NOW.
AND, UM, IT IS A VERY, VERY, UM, NATURAL, UM, HABITAT FOR A LOT OF DIFFERENT ANIMALS AND THINGS.
AND WE JUST LOVE THAT, THAT, THAT FEELING OF, THAT KEEPING IT SAFE AND KEEPING IT PEACEFUL, AND HAVING THOSE ANIMALS BE ABLE TO GO BACK THERE WITHOUT ANY KIND OF INTERRUPTION.
SO IF WE CAN JUST PLEASE, UM, HEAR US, THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE THERE, WHO WILL BE AFFECTED THE MOST BY ANY KIND OF HIKE AND BIKE BEHIND OUR HOUSES, WE REALLY DO NOT WANT IT.
SO JUST WANNA REITERATE THAT WITH YOU GUYS, SO, YOU KNOW.
OKAY, THAT'S IT FOR CITIZEN COMMUNICATION.
UH, AGENDA ITEMS, ONE PRESENTATION BY THE PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT STAFF ON PARK PROJECTS, XAVIER.
UM, JAVIER, IF I COULD REAL QUICK, IF WE GET STARTED.
UM, A FEW MEETINGS AGO WE HAD A PRESENTATION ON THE, UH, PARK IMPROVEMENTS THAT ARE GOING ON RIGHT NOW AT EACH OF OUR PARKS.
HAVE YOU EVER MADE THAT PRESENTATION? AND THEN WE WERE ASKED TO FOLLOW UP WITH THE NEEDS FOR THE PARKS THROUGHOUT THE CITY.
UM, THIS IS THAT PRESENTATION WE'VE ADDRESSED EVERY SINGLE PARK IN TOWN.
UM, AND AFTER THIS PRESENTATION, WE'RE GONNA ASK THAT YOU PRIORITIZE THE PROJECT SO THAT WE KNOW GOING FORWARD WHAT PROJECTS WE CAN APPLY FOR FUNDING WITHOUT HAVING TO COME BACK TO THE COMMISSION BECAUSE THEY'RE RANKED IN ORDER OF PRIORITY.
AND SO WE'D LIKE TO DO THAT AND AT LEAST GET THE FIRST, UH, THE FIRST ONE THROUGH, PERHAPS 10 IDENTIFIED THAT WE CAN MOVE FORWARD WITH THE GRANT APPLICATION FOR FUNDING.
THAT WAY WE DON'T HAVE TO COME BACK TO THE
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COMMISSION.THERE'VE BEEN A COUPLE OF INSTANCES WHERE THERE WERE GRANTED OPENED UP WITHIN A MOMENT'S NOTICE, AND WE ONLY HAD A COUPLE OF WEEKS TO APPLY.
SO WE HAVE TO MAKE DECISIONS OURSELVES TO APPLY FOR THEM.
UH, WE DO THIS NOW AND GET THAT LIST IDENTIFIED.
SO, UH, WE CAN JUST TAKE FROM THERE.
UH, MR. GONZALEZ, UH, MAYOR CITY COMMISSION.
UM, I HAVE A SHORT PRESENTATION.
UM, I'LL START OFF WITH THE, THE, UM, THE COUPLE OF SLIDES THAT I'M GONNA GO THROUGH, UH, AT THE VERY BEGINNING ARE EXCERPTS FROM OUR, UH, PARK MASTER PLAN, OUR CURRENT PARK MASTER PLAN.
AND SO I JUST WANTED TO KIND OF IDENTIFY, UH, THE PARKS THAT WE HAVE AND WHAT AMENITIES WE HAVE WITHIN THE PARKS.
UM, AGAIN, THIS IS FROM THE 2015, UM, PARK MASTER PLAN.
AND IT SHOWS THE, THE COURSE, THE INVENTORY, AND IT COVERS, I'M SORRY, UH, FROM BACKSTOPS, UH, BASEBALL FIELDS, UH, BASKETBALL COURTS, UH, DRINKING FOUNTAINS, PICNIC SHELTERS, UH, PARKING, NUMBER OF PARKING SPACES, UH, THE AMOUNT OF TRAILS, THE MILES OF TRAILS, UH, EXERCISE EQUIPMENT AND PLAYGROUNDS.
AND SO, UM, AGAIN, THIS IS JUST FOR INFORMATION.
I JUST WANTED TO SHARE THIS WITH YOU, UM, OF THE NUMBER OF PARKS AND THE, UM, THE AMOUNT OF AMENITIES THAT WE HAVE IN THE PARKS.
UM, AGAIN, THIS IS ANOTHER, UM, EXCERPT FROM OUR PARK MASTER PLAN.
AND THIS SHOWS THE, THE DEFICIT BACK IN 2015, UM, OF THE, UH, IMPROVEMENTS THAT WE HAVE IN THE PARKS.
UM, FOR EXAMPLE, UM, THE SECOND, UH, ROW, WHICH SOFTBALL FIELDS SHOWS, WE HAD 11, UM, CURRENT FIELDS.
UM, AND IN 2025, WE SHOULD HAVE 17 SHOWS, SHOWS A DEFICIT OF SIX.
AND AGAIN, YOU CAN GO THROUGH, UH, THROUGH ALL THOSE, AND IT SHOWS WHERE THE DEFICITS ARE.
UM, A LOT OF THE AMENITIES IN THE PARKS.
AND ONE THING THAT I WANTED TO, TO ALSO, I SHARED THIS WITH, WITH MR. GONZALEZ WAS, UH, GOING THROUGH THE PARK MASTER PLAN.
AND WHEN WE WERE PREPARING THIS, THIS PRESENTATION, WE DID NOTICE, UH, AND REALIZE THAT A LOT OF THE IMPROVEMENTS THAT WERE IN THE PLAN, UH, WE'VE ALREADY COMPLETED AND, AND, UH, CONSTRUCTED.
UH, SO MOVING FORWARD, UH, WHEN WE WORK ON THE, ON THE UPDATED MASTER PLAN, OF COURSE THERE'S GONNA BE MORE NEEDS.
THERE'S GONNA BE MORE, UH, WANTS, UH, AND, UM, AND OF COURSE, THE IMPROVEMENTS THAT WE'RE GONNA NEED.
SO, UM, THIS IS JUST A CONTINUATION OF THAT SAME, UM, REPORT OR THAT SAME, UM, TABLE.
AND LET ME POINT OUT ON THE TOP ONE, IT SAYS, UH, TRAILS.
UM, WE HAD, BACK THEN WE HAD 10.3 MILES, UM, AND IT SHOWS THAT WE SHOULD HAVE 16 MILES.
UH, THERE WAS A DEFICIT OF SIX.
UM, AND I BELIEVE WE HAVE 17, UM, 17 MILES RIGHT NOW.
UM, SO ANYWAY, WE KIND OF MET THAT DEFICIT.
UM, THE NEXT TABLE, WELL, THIS HERE IS JUST A SUMMARY OF, OF HOW, UM, THINGS ARE RANKED AND HOW THEY, THEY RANK 'EM, RIGHT? THE VERY HIGH AND THE HIGH.
UM, AND THERE WAS SOME IN THE PARK MASTER PLAN, THERE'S SOME, UM, AMENITIES THAT WERE IDENTIFIED AS VERY HIGH, WHICH IS SAND VOLLEYBALL COURT, UH, BASKETBALL COURTS, UH, ALL INCLUSIVE DESTINATION PLAY AREA, UH, TRAILS.
UM, AND THEN ADDITIONAL PARKLAND, UH, QUICK SOCCER, WHICH, WHICH I'LL ADDRESS IN A FEW MINUTES.
UM, AND THEN AUTOMATED IRRIGATION SYSTEMS THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE PARK SYSTEM.
UM, HIGH, UH, THEY HAVE MULTIPURPOSE FIELDS, UH, PICNIC AREAS, PAVILIONS, SPLASH PAD, UH, PRACTICE, BACKSTOPS, UM, AND THEN THE RESTROOMS. THIS NEXT TABLE HERE, UH, DOES, IT'S MORE DETAILED, UH, FOR EACH PARK.
IT, IT WILL IDENTIFY WHAT, UM, WHAT WAS IDENTIFIED IN THE PARK MASTER PLAN IN 2015, UH, PER PARK.
AND IT'LL ADDRESS WHAT THE NEEDS WERE, WHAT THE COMMUNITY, UM, WAS ASKING FOR BACK THEN.
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LIST THAT I WAS REFERRING TO, THAT A LOT OF THESE ITEMS WE'VE ALREADY, UH, COMPLETED.I THINK, UH, Y'ALL HAVE A COPY OF THE, THE CURRENT, NOT THE CURRENT, BUT THE, THE 2015 PARK MASTER PLAN.
UH, WE PRINTED THOSE OUT FOR YOU.
AND SO, AGAIN, THESE ARE SOME OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS.
UM, AND THEY, THEY ESTABLISHED THEM AS VERY HIGH AND HIGH, UM, DOWN TO MEDIUM.
UM, THIS, THIS, UM, MAP HERE SHOWS THE, UM, UH, THE AREAS WHERE, UM, THE, UH, ENGINEER OR THE CONSULTANT BACK THEN, UM, WAS RECOMMENDING THAT WE SHOULD BUILD OR LOOK FOR PROPERTY FOR, UH, FUTURE PARKLAND.
UM, AND IN THE, IN THE PLAN, IT DOES IDENTIFY AREAS TO THE WEST.
UM, AND IT'LL BE, OF COURSE, DISTRICT, UH, ONE, THE, UM, SO THERE IS A NEED, UM, IN THE, ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE OF TOWN.
SO NOW WE'LL GET INTO THE, TO EACH PARK.
UM, AND SO THESE, THESE IMPROVEMENTS OR THESE, UM, IDEAS THAT WE HAD WERE, YOU KNOW, THEY JUST CAME FROM US, UH, FROM STAFF AND, AND MYSELF.
AND SO, UM, WE'D LIKE TO WELCOME, UH, Y'ALL'S INPUT AS FAR AS, UH, IF Y'ALL WANNA SEE SOMETHING DIFFERENT OR SOME, SOME, UH, ANYTHING DIFFERENT THAT'S, THAT WE, THAT WE HAVEN'T IDENTIFIED, UH, THAT WE CAN INCLUDE IN THE, UM, IN THE PLAN.
UM, REAL QUICK, I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAY THAT THE, UM, THE PARKS IN THEIR PRESENTATION ARE NOT LISTED IN ANY ORDER OR PRIORITY.
THEY START WITH, MANY PARKS GO UP TO NEIGHBORHOOD PARKS C AND COMMUNITY PARKS.
SO THAT'S THE WAY THAT WE'RE LISTED IN THE MASTER PLAN.
SO THAT'S THE, THE ORDER OF PRESENTATION.
BUT AGAIN, THERE IS NOT IN ANY ORDER OF PRIORITY.
JAVIER, UM, ON YOUR, ON THE ACTION PLAN, ONE OF THE SLIDES HERE, THERE WAS A, UH, PRIORITY TO CONDUCT AN INDOOR RECREATIONAL CENTER FEASIBILITY.
UM, AND I KNOW WE TALKED ABOUT THAT RECENTLY, BUT IT LOOKS LIKE THIS WAS ESTABLISHED BACK THEN IN 2015 AND SHOULD HAVE BEEN COMPLETED BY 2020.
I DON'T KNOW IF THAT WAS, IF THAT WAS EVER DONE.
UM, WE HAVE NOT, AND MATTER OF FACT, WE WERE TRYING TO GET, UM, UH, GRANT FUNDING FROM VALLEY BAPTIST RIGHT, TO BE ABLE TO, TO CONDUCT THE FEASIBILITY STUDY.
UM, AND SO, UH, BUT IT HAS BEEN IN OUR COMPREHENSIVE MASTER PLAN, UH, AS WELL.
AND SO, UH, WE DO WANNA LOOK FOR EITHER, WHETHER IT'S FUNDING FROM CITY OR WE, WE SEEK, UH, FUNDING FROM A GRANT, UH, IS TO CONDUCT THAT FEASIBILITY STUDY.
BECAUSE I KNOW WHAT WE WERE DOING WAS TRYING TO DO IT THROUGH HEALTHY HARLINGEN, BUT YES, MA'AM, DID WE TRY TO OBTAIN, UM, ANY GRANT FUNDING THROUGH THE CITY? NOT THROUGH THE CITY, NO.
WHEN THIS, UH, PLAN WAS CREATED, WAS THERE PUBLIC FEEDBACK BECAUSE THE CITIZENS AROUND BONHAM PARK ARE GONNA KNOW MORE ABOUT WHAT THEY WANT AT BONHAM PARK THAN THE REST OF US, CORRECT? UM, I DON'T KNOW.
I WASN'T AROUND WHEN THEY DID THE, THE MASTER PLAN IN 2015, BUT, UM, I CAME IN AT THE TAIL END OF IT WHEN IT WAS ADOPTED.
UM, BUT, UM, IN THE PLAN ITSELF, IT DOES REFERENCE THAT THEY HAD PUBLIC, UH, HEARINGS OR PUBLIC MEETINGS.
UM, AND THEN THEY SHOW GRAPHS AS FAR AS WHAT THE, THE, UH, REQUESTS WERE.
RIGHT? THE ONCE, UM, JAVI IS RIGHT, THEY DID HAVE PUBLIC HEARINGS, BUT I DON'T THINK WE HAD OUTREACH INTO THE COMMUNITIES TO TRY TO GET THE RESIDENTS MORE INVOLVED IN WHAT THEY WANTED.
I KNOW WE DID THAT FOR THE CONFERENCE TO PLAN.
UH, WE HAD SEVERAL EVENTS WHERE WE TRIED TO REACH OUT TO THE PUBLIC, BUT I DON'T THINK WE DID THAT FOR THIS PARTICULAR STUDY.
SO I, UM, AND I WENT THROUGH THE INDIVIDUAL ONES.
AND I THINK, I MEAN, THAT'S GONNA BE DIFFICULT 'CAUSE THEY'RE ALL REALLY IMPORTANT.
AND I THINK, UH, SERVE A PURPOSE, WHETHER IT'S A SMALL PARK OR, UM, MORE OF A REGIONAL PARK.
BUT IS, IS THERE A WAY FOR US TO, IN ADDITION TO HAVING FUNDS FOR THE INDIVIDUAL, WHATEVER THE, THAT PRIORITY IS, IS TO DO, UM, SOMETHING THAT COVERS ALL OF THE PARKS, FOR EXAMPLE, THE BLEACHERS, THAT ALL OF THE PARKS NEED TO BE REPLACED.
THEY NEED TO BE REPAIRED, THERE NEEDS TO BE, UH, SHADE, THERE NEEDS TO BE, ALL THE RESTROOMS NEED HELP.
AND SO IS THERE A PLAN FOR THAT AS WELL? ONCE THEY'RE IDENTIFIED BY THE COMMISSION, THAT WE WILL ALSO, WHAT WE HAVE, WE NEED TO KIND OF SPRUCE SPRUCE THAT UP A A BIT.
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AND I THINK I'VE SENT TO YOU ALREADY THAT NEED LIKE IMMEDIATE ATTENTION, BUT THEY ALL REALLY NEED SOME ATTENTION, RIGHT? AND SO THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE WORKING ON RIGHT NOW IS WE STARTED OFF WITH HUGH RAMSEY, BECAUSE THAT WAS THE EASIEST ONE.BUT, UM, WE DID GO OUT AND DO AN ASSESSMENT.
WE HAVE GONE OUT AND WE'VE ADDED THE, OF COURSE, THE, UH, SOAP DISPENSERS TO ALL OF 'EM.
UM, AND THEN MAKE SURE THE, UM, AND THEN WE ALSO PAINTED, UH, ALL THE RESTROOMS AS WELL TO KIND OF SPRUCE THOSE UP.
UM, BUT A LOT OF IT IS JUST OUTDATED, OR NOT OUTDATED, BUT DATED, UH, INFRASTRUCTURE, RIGHT? AND SO, UM, THE, UM, THE URINALS AND THE COMMODES AND, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE ALL STAINLESS STEEL.
UM, AND SO EVEN THOUGH THEY'RE STAINLESS STEEL, THEY STILL STAINED.
UM, BUT THEY JUST, THEY, WE JUST NEED TO, TO UPDATE THOSE.
UM, AND RENEW, REPLACE, REPLACE, REPLACE.
RIGHT? AND SO I KNOW IN SOME OF THESE, UM, UH, PROJECTS, I DID, UM, ADD RESTROOMS. UH, I DID ADD WHERE WE WANTED TO EITHER, UM, ADD A RESTROOM OR REPLACE IT.
UM, AND SO, UH, 'CAUSE JUST AGAIN, SOME OF 'EM ARE JUST SO OLD THAT WE WON'T BE ABLE TO MEET A DA.
UM, AND SO IN CASE WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, WE WANNA RENOVATE 'EM, UH, SO THEY MAY HAVE TO BE COMPLETELY REPLACED.
WHAT WOULD BE THE COST TO REPLACE THE BLEACHERS IN ALL OF THE EXISTING BLEACHERS THAT WE HAVE IN ALL OF THE PARKS? DO YOU KNOW? I DON'T HAVE AN IDEA ON ALL OF THEM.
UH, BUT I DO HAVE A, UM, A STANDARD, UM, FEE THAT WE WERE COMING UP WITH.
AND IF YOU DON'T HAVE IT NOW, I MEAN, GET, I JUST, IT'S, I JUST THINK THAT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO, WE NEED TO DO, BECAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF RECREATION GOING ON AT ALL OF THE PARKS THAT ARE ALREADY KIND OF IN THE MIDDLE OF DIFFERENT SPORTS.
AND I'VE SEEN SOME OF THEM ARE CONCERNING WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE PARENTS, ESPECIALLY ELDERLY KIND OF SITTING, SITTING THERE WATCHING THE GAMES, AND THEN THEY'RE, SOME NEED IMMEDIATE ATTENTION, LIKE I SAID, AND THEN OTHERS JUST NEED SOME SPRUCING UP.
DO, DO YOU REMEMBER THE COST FOR THE ROOF? THE BLEACHERS WERE GONNA BUY FOR THE SOCCER COMPLEX? THOSE WERE, HOW MANY ROW BLEACHERS WERE THOSE? THOSE WERE FIVE ROW.
AND THE COST WAS, WAS WHAT? I DON'T REMEMBER.
I HAVE IT, I HAVE IT HERE IN THE, I DON'T REMEMBER IT BEING LIKE, TOO EXPENSIVE.
BUT I DON'T KNOW IF THOSE WERE CURRENT NUMBERS.
DO YOU REMEMBER? WELL, WE, WE LOOKED AT IT RECENTLY.
UH, BUT THEY WERE ALL ALUMINUM.
SO I HAVE HERE, UM, FOR, AND I PULLED THIS OUT OF RANGER ROAD.
SO WHAT WE GOT IS WE HAVE, UM, FOR THE BASEBALL FIELD, WE HAVE 32,000.
UM, AND SO THOSE ARE FOR TWO BLEACHERS.
SO IT'S ABOUT 16,000, THE BLEACHER AND THE SHADE.
HOW MUCH WAS THAT, PLEASE? UH, 32,000.
FIVE ROW, TWO, FIVE ROW BLEACHERS AND SHADE.
AND WHAT DOES SHADE MEAN? SO IT'S JUST THE, UM, THE CAN, IT'S SORT OF LIKE CANTILEVER, RIGHT? SO IT HAS THE POLES ON THE SIDE, AND THEN IT, I'LL, I'LL SHOW A VIDEO.
I MEAN, A PICTURE AT THE END, UH, OF AN, OF A SAMPLE.
IF WE COULD JUST, JUST SEE, I MEAN, I'D LIKE TO SEE THAT WE, WE, WE REALLY FOCUS ON THAT, ON ALL OF THE PARKS THAT WE HAVE.
AND THEN OBVIOUSLY THE PARKS THAT NEED BLEACHERS, THOSE, WE NEED TO FOCUS ON THAT TOO, IN ADDITION TO PRIORITIZING.
YOU KNOW, AVI, YOUR, YOUR PRESENTATION.
I, I JUST DID IT AND ROUNDED UP THE NUMBERS, BUT 37 MILLION.
SO WE'RE GONNA TAKE THIS PART BY PART
AND THEN TO QUOTE THE MAYOR
THIS IS A LONG TERM TERM PLAN, AND THAT'S NOT COUNTING FOR INFLATION.
AND AGAIN, THERE'S, THERE'S STILL OPEN SPACE OR GREEN SPACE.
RIGHT? AND SO, UM, WE COULD, UH, ADD SOMETHING ELSE HERE.
SO THIS LAND HERE, BONHAM PARK, UM, WE'VE, WE'VE HAD, UH, AGREEMENT, AN AGREEMENT WITH THIS H-C-I-S-D FOR YEARS.
UM, AND THE LAST, UH, COUPLE OF YEARS WE'VE, WE'VE USED CDBG FUNDS, UM, TO BE ABLE TO MAKE IMPROVEMENTS.
SO WE'VE BUILT A, THE BE THE PARKING LOT, THE, UH, PLAYGROUND.
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WE PUT, UH, EXERCISE EQUIPMENT, UH, WITH A SHADE.UM, WHAT ELSE? I THINK THAT WAS IT.
ONE OF THE IDEAS THAT WE HAD WAS THIS BUILDING HERE, UH, WHEN IT WAS ABANDONED, UH, WHEN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT WASN'T USING IT, WE WERE TRYING TO NEGOTIATE WITH THEM TO SEE IF THEY WOULD TURN IT OVER TO US.
UM, SORT OF LIKE, IT'S A SMALL REC CENTER.
THIS BUILDING HERE HAS RESTROOMS. AND SO WHAT WE WANNA DO IS TO, UH, THE RESTROOMS ARE FACING THE, UM, ALLEYWAY.
AND SO WE WANNA TRY TO CONVERT IT AND, AND, UH, BREAK A HOLE THROUGH THE, THROUGH THE OTHER SIDE, SO THE NORTH SIDE, UM, AND MAKE ACCESS TO FOR THE PUBLIC.
UM, BUT AGAIN, THIS, THIS BUILDING WASN'T BEING USED, SO WE'RE TRYING TO, UH, WORK SOMETHING OUT WITH THE, WITH THE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
BUT, UM, THEN THEY MOVED IN AND SO NOW IT'S OCCUPIED.
SO HERE, UM, ON THIS ONE HERE, WE, WE ADDED, UH, UH, TWO BASKETBALL COURTS.
WE DO HAVE AN OPTION OF, UM, PUTTING A CANOPY OVER 'EM.
SO EACH CANOPY WOULD BE ABOUT 45,000.
UM, AND THEN OF COURSE, WE WOULD HAVE LIGHTS, UH, ON THOSE COURTS.
UH, WE'D HAVE A, A, UH, MEDIUM SIZED PAVILION, AND THEN RESTROOMS. UH, AND THEN WE WANNA PUT A MONUMENT SIGN HERE ON THE CORNER.
AND AGAIN, THERE'S, THERE'S MORE LAND HERE.
WE COULD ALWAYS, UM, COME UP WITH MORE IDEAS, UH, WHAT TO DO HERE AT BONUM.
WHAT'S A MONUMENT SIGN? MONUMENT SIGN IS JUST A, UH, A SIGN THAT, YOU KNOW, IDENTIFIES IT AS PARK.
UM, I DON'T KNOW IF WE HAVE ANYTHING AT BOTTOM RIGHT NOW, BUT THEY'RE THE OLD ONES THAT ARE LIKE A WOOD, UH, ENGRAVED, ENGRAVED WOOD.
WE, WE HAD SOME THAT WERE INSTALLED AT VICTOR PARK.
SPORTS COMPLEX THAT ARE, THAT ARE BRICK, THE ONE, UM, AND ALSO FOR BOGUS, UH, TRAIL.
THAT'S A MONUMENT SIGN, RIGHT? SO, YES.
UH, JAVIER, JUST TO POINT OUT ALSO, THESE NUMBERS THAT YOU HAVE HERE, THESE ARE 20, 24 NUMBERS, NOT 2015 NUMBERS.
AND SO THESE ARE NUMBERS, THESE ARE ESTIMATES THAT WE CAME UP WITH, UM, EITHER CALLING AROUND, CALLING CONTRACTORS, UM, OR CALLING OF COURSE OUR, OUR STAFF.
UH, 'CAUSE SOME OF THE NUMBERS, OF COURSE, LIKE, UM, PUBLIC WORKS HELPED US WITH NUMBERS FOR THE TRAILS AND FOR THE PARKING LOTS AND, AND SO ON.
AND OF COURSE, SOME OF IT, HAS IT BEEN WHAT WE'VE, UH, SPENT IN THE PAST ON PROJECTS? THE MONUMENT SIGN SEEMS KIND OF HIGH.
I WAS JUST SAY, I DON'T THINK WE NEED A SIGN THAT BAD
I, I WOULD JUST WONDER IF THERE'S, UM, WAY TO IMPROVE ON THE, ON THE COST.
WELL, THE, NOW THAT COST IS NOT LIKE WHAT WE'VE DONE AT THE DIXIELAND OR VICTOR OR ANY OF THOSE, UM, OR EVEN THE MEG JORDAN.
THE ONE THAT WE BUILT AT, UM, UH, FOR BOGUS, THAT ONE COST US $8,000.
WELL, THAT SOUNDS, THAT WAS THE LETTERS, THE, THE BRICK EVERYTHING FOUNDATION.
WE HAVE SOME GREAT GUYS AT PUBLIC WORKS.
I THINK WE CAN, WE CAN, WE CAN FIGURE SOMETHING OUT.
UM, SO JUST A, A QUESTION FOR ALL OF THE, ALL OF THE PRESENTATIONS.
DO WE KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE SERVED PER PARK? LIKE HOW MANY RESIDENTS ARE IN THE VICINITY FOR THE, THIS PARK BOTTOM? YEAH, I DO NOT HAVE THAT NUMBER.
UM, AND I'LL POINT OUT SOMETHING I JUST REALIZED THAT NUMBER IS NOT, IS NOT RIGHT.
I DIDN'T WANNA TELL YOU THAT, BUT NO, NO.
AND I DON'T KNOW HOW THAT NUMBER GOT IN THERE, BUT OH, WE WERE GONNA HAVE THAT CONVERSATION LATER.
UH, YOU KNOW, THE PRICE OF THAT SIGNS GONE UP WITH THE PRICE OF GOLD AND SILVER GOING UP, RIGHT?
200 MAYOR, IT WAS HALF A MILLION FOR LONA.
I KNOW, BUT, BUT I'M SAYING 250, THAT'S JUST, BUT, BUT WE CAN, WE'LL, WE'LL, WE, WE ALL KNOW THAT, RIGHT? WE'LL WORK ON THAT NUMBER.
UM, BUT WHAT ABOUT, UM, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW HOW MANY, HOW MANY KIDS ARE IN THE SURROUNDING AREA BECAUSE THE INPUT THAT, WHATEVER INPUT YOU GOT BACK IN 2015, I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S RELEVANT TO, TO, TO TODAY.
UM, AND SO I'M ALMOST WONDERING IF WE NEED TO HAVE SOME KIND OF OUTREACH.
AND I KNOW THAT THIS IS A PRIORITY FOR EVERYBODY, BUT, AND IN MY MIND, I THINK THIS STUDY JUST NEEDS TO BE REDONE.
IT, LIKE UPDATED TO BE FOR 2025.
IT'S ALREADY GONNA BE 10 YEARS OLD.
IF YOU COULD JUST GIVE US THAT THE, THE FIRST SHEETS, THE ONE THAT YOU SAY WERE FROM 2015 THAT HAD BEEN UPDATED, IF YOU COULD GIVE THIS COMMISSION, LIKE WHAT HAS BEEN UPDATED OR WHAT IS PENDING FROM THAT LIST.
AND THEN WE LET THE CITIZENS DECIDE WHAT THEY WANT.
RIGHT? BECAUSE BACK THEN THEY MAY HAVE WANTED POOLS, BUT NOW THEY WANT SPLASH BREAD.
THAT'S WHAT I'VE BEEN SEEING, RIGHT? MM-HMM.
NOW THEY WANT SPLASH BREADS BEFORE THEY WANT THIS SPORT.
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I HAD TO GOOGLE WHAT THAT SPORT WAS.RIGHT? BUT NOW IT'S PICKLE BALLS, THE, THE NEW THING, RIGHT? A COUPLE YEARS BACK I WAS READING THAT HALA HOLLA.
IT WAS SOME TYPE OF GAME WAS BIG IN MIAMI AND BECOMING BIG, RIGHT? HUH? HAAH.
IT'S LIKE A, REMEMBER WHEN WE WERE IN ELEMENTARY AT THE BANANA? YEAH.
AND THERE WAS THE BALL, AND YOU THROW IT WITH THE BANANA.
BUT ANYWAYS, WE HAD SLINGSHOT, SO, OKAY.
SO THOSE, THOSE ARE MY THOUGHTS IN REVIEWING THIS, THAT IT'S OUTDATED INFORMATION.
AND WE DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT'S BEEN CROSSED OFF THE LIST.
RIGHT? AND SO ARE WE SAYING BEFORE, BECAUSE IT'S GONNA TAKE A WHILE FOR, FOR, HAVE YOU HAD TO GO THROUGH ALL OF THESE? DO WE WANT THAT AND THEN WE COME BACK? OR WHAT IS THE CONSENSUS OF THE, OF THE COMMISSION? BECAUSE I THINK IT'S, WELL, I THINK WE HELP HIM READ THIS, SO, RIGHT.
SO INSTEAD OF SITTING HERE FOR, YOU KNOW, AND, AND JAVI, YOU DID A GREAT JOB PUTTING IT TOGETHER, BUT YOU, YOU WEREN'T HERE IN 2015, RIGHT? AND I WASN'T HERE IN 2015.
SO, SO I JUST FEEL LIKE IT'S, IT'S, THE INFORMATION IS OUTDATED AND I REALLY THINK THAT, UM, TODAY, 2024, ALMOST 2025 IS REALLY, REALLY HOT OUTSIDE.
AND, UM, FOCUSING ON POTENTIAL SMALL REC CENTERS WITHIN THE COMMUNITY PARKS IS GONNA BE IMPORTANT.
BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WHEN, LIKE FOR EXAMPLE, I'LL GO OUT TO ROYAL PARK 'CAUSE OF ALL THE STUFF THAT'S HAPPENING OVER THERE, AND IT'LL BE LIKE, THE INDEX IS 110 AND THERE'S KIDS OUT THERE PLAYING BASKETBALL AND THEY'RE STILL OUT THERE, BUT ARE THEY HYDRATED? IS IT SAFE? AND I'M SURE THAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO HAVE ANOTHER OPTION, RIGHT? AND SO MAYBE THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO LOOK AT AND SEE, YOU KNOW, IT, IT MIGHT NOT BE, UH, SOMETHING THAT WE CAN DO IN A BIG SCALE, BUT MAYBE WE CAN DO SMALLER ONES IN WHATEVER IS MOST IMPORTANT TO THE COMMUNITIES IN THAT AREA.
MAYBE THEY WANT AN INDOOR BASKETBALL COURT OR PICKLEBALL OR, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER THE, WHATEVER THE, THE INTEREST IS IN THAT AREA.
I DON'T KNOW THAT ANY, I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S A A A A DEAL ANYMORE.
I, THE, THE PUMP TRACK PEOPLE ARE ALREADY OUT THERE AND HAVING A GOOD TIME.
AND MAYBE THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO LOOK AT.
MAYBE A SECOND ONE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF TOWN.
I JUST, UH, FEEL LIKE WE NEED A LITTLE MORE INPUT FROM, FROM THE COMMUNITY.
WAIT, I MEAN, PICKLEBALL WASN'T EVEN, IT DIDN'T EVEN EXIST PAID WHEN THIS HAPPENED, CORRECT? RIGHT.
AND I THINK NOW PEOPLE, I MEAN, THAT WAS YOUR DEAL, RIGHT? I HEAR IT ALL THE TIME.
MM-HMM,
I THINK OUR NUMBER ONE PRIORITY IS GETTING MORE PARKS IN DISTRICT FIVE BECAUSE THEY HAVE A PARK.
UH, UH, WHAT I CALL PARK DESERT, RIGHT? ONE, TWO, UH, UM, ANA NEEDS TO FOCUS ON THE TOP 10 MOST EXPENSIVE PROJECTS THAT WE HAVE.
I KNOW WHAT THEY, 1.5 MILLION.
I KNOW WE GOT $75,000 FROM PARKS, UH, TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE.
BUT WE STILL NEED TO COME UP WITH FUNDING FOR THAT FROM VICTOR PARK.
SO THE TOP 10 MOST EXPENSIVE PROJECTS WE HAVE, WE SHOULD TACKLE THAT.
THAT SHOULD BE THE PRIORITY FOR HONOR, FOR RIGHT NOW, THE CHEAPEST PROJECTS WE HAVE.
STAFF CAN FIGURE OUT HOW WE CAN DO THAT.
AND THEN WE UPDATE THIS PROJECT, THIS, THIS, UH, PLAN.
IN THE MEANWHILE, WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO DO THOUGH IS WE NEED SOME SORT OF PRIORITY TO FOCUS ON THE 10 TOP 10 MOST EXPENSIVE.
THOSE ARE THE, THOSE ARE THE ONES WE GO FOR GRANTED.
SO WHICHEVER PARK IS THE MOST EXPENSIVE, THAT'S NUMBER ONE.
NUMBER TWO, THE NUMBER THREE, WE GO BACKWARDS.
AND, AND THEN THE CHEAPEST PARK.
LIKE FOR EXAMPLE, WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING LIKE, I THINK YOU NEED A GAZEBO DONE AT HUNTER PARK.
THAT'S SOMETHING WE CAN JUST DO IN HOUSE.
HUNTER, YOU WE'RE COMING IN FROM BOTH SIDES, RIGHT? AND, AND IF I CAN MAKE A RECOMMENDATION, SCRUB MCKELVY PARKED TO MCCULL, TO, UH, HUGH RAMSEY, A SCRUB THAT, BECAUSE THAT, THAT'S EMINENT DOMAIN AND PEOPLE LIVE THERE.
YOU COULD DO IT FROM HUGH RAMSEY EASTWARD AS YOU HAVE ON THIS OTHER PAGE.
AND THERE ARE NO HOUSES TO BE AFFECTED IF YOU PUT IT ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE ARROYO.
THAT WOULD ALSO SAY IT WAS A GOOD CHUNK OF CHANGE.
AND SPEAKING OF SAVING CHANGE, JAVIER, HELLO.
UM, I NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT IF, IF AT ALL POSSIBLE, CHECK WITH THE ISD ORANGE AND ISD AND SEE WHAT THOSE STUDENTS CAN DO FOR US.
OKAY? BECAUSE IF, IF THEY, IF THEY CAN DO PROJECTS FOR THE, UH, CDBG, THEY CAN SURE AS HECK DO CONCESSION STANDS.
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RESTROOMS ANOTHER LIKE A GOLF CART SHED AND PLENTY OF OTHERS THAT WILL REDUCE HOW MUCH WE HAVE TO SPEND.WE, WE NEED TO AVOID JUST OVERSPENDING BECAUSE THIS, THIS, WE NEED TO SPREAD OUR FUNDS AROUND.
AND THAT WOULD BE A GOOD ONE THERE.
THEY CAN, WHO KNOWS WHAT ELSE THEY CAN DO FOR US.
YOU CAN COME UP OR THEY CAN COME UP WITH THE SAME DESIGN FOR CONCESSION STANDS AND RESTROOMS AND EVERYBODY WILL, EXCUSE ME, ALL THE PARTS WILL HAVE THE SAME TYPE OF RESTROOM, SAME TYPE OF, UH, CONCESSION STANDS.
OKAY, WELL LET'S, LET'S, UM, LET'S BE RESPECTFUL OF STAFF AND WE APPRECIATE EVERYTHING THAT YOU DID TO, YOU KNOW, PUT THIS TOGETHER.
I WILL SAY THAT WE HAD, UM, AT THE STATE OF THE CITY, WE TALKED ABOUT ALL OF THE WONDERFUL WORK THAT WAS BEING DONE BY PUBLIC WORKS AND PARKS.
AND I HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK WITH THE SCHOOL BOARD AND SOME OF ADMINISTRATION AT, AT THE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
AND THOSE ARE CONVERSATIONS THAT WE'RE HAVING TO BE ABLE TO COLLABORATE AND, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE THE SAME TAX BASE TO WORK TOGETHER TO IMPROVE THE AMENITIES THAT WE HAVE FOR THE COMMUNITY.
SO DEFINITELY THINK THAT YOU'RE ON, YOU'RE ON THE RIGHT TRACK.
AND, AND WE ARE DEFINITELY GOING TO TRY TO COLLABORATE AS MUCH AS WE CAN.
AND THAT'S WHY ANNA'S HERE AND SHE'S GONNA DO AN AMAZING JOB.
I KNOW SHE IS, UM, IN, IN CONTINUING TO GET GRANT FUNDED, GRANT FUNDING FOR, FOR THESE PROJECTS.
BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, THINGS ARE, THINGS ARE EXPENSIVE.
AND I THINK WHAT GABE WANTS IS SOME KIND OF PRIORITY.
SO THAT WAY WE CAN, UM, SO WE CAN TACKLE THAT.
AND SO WHAT COMMISSIONER LOPEZ HAS PROPOSED IS TO, IN ALL FAIRNESS, WE ALL WANT, I MEAN, I'M SURE EVERY COMMISSIONER WANTS TO ADVOCATE FOR THEIR DISTRICT, BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE ALSO HAVE TO BE GOOD STEWARDS OF TAXPAYER MONEY.
AND SO, UM, THE SUGGESTION WAS TO TACKLE THE MOST EXPENSIVE PROJECT FIRST BECAUSE OF INFLATION AND POTENTIAL, UH, COSTS THAT ARE GOING TO BE GOING UP.
IS THAT A, IS THERE A CONSENSUS ON THAT SO THAT WAY STAFF HAS GUIDANCE? YES OR NO? I THINK THAT WE SHOULD LOOK AT THE, THE MOST EXPENSIVE PARKS, BUT AT THE SAME TIME LOOK AT THE DIFFERENT PARKS AND SEE, YOU KNOW, IF THERE'S STUFF THAT THAT'S REALLY NECESSARY ON SPECIFIC PARKS OR LOOK AT THE, THE COST.
'CAUSE I KNOW LIKE LOOK AT THE ONE FOR BOTTOM WAS 250,000.
I THINK WE SHOULD LOOK AT 'EM.
'CAUSE I KNOW THERE'S SOME OF THESE PARKS.
LIKE I KNOW FOR SURE I WAS LOOKING AT PENDLETON PARK, I KNOW PENDLETON PARK.
I'VE BEEN, I'VE BEEN GETTING CALLS.
I KNOW WE WENT, DID A TOUR AT PENDLETON WHERE AT THE SWIMMING POOL THEY NEED A, A ROOF 'CAUSE THEIR ROOF HAS REST FALLING INTO THE POOL AND EVERYTHING.
BUT I THINK WE SHOULD SEE LIKE THE NEED FOR THE, THE SPECIFIC PARKS BECAUSE, AND ALSO WE, AND HONESTLY WE SHOULD ALSO LOOK AT THE PARKS TO SEE KIND OF WHAT YOU MENTIONED EARLIER, LIKE HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY SERVICED BY THOSE PARKS.
'CAUSE I KNOW SOME OF THESE PARKS ARE NEIGHBORHOOD PARKS AND OTHER PARKS ARE MORE LIKE COMMUNITY REGIONAL PARKS.
AND I THINK THAT WE SHOULD THOSE.
UM, AND I KNOW YOU GUYS WANT TO, AND I SEE YOU RAISING YOUR HANDS, BUT, AND WE REALLY APPRECIATE YOU HERE.
IT'S JUST, BUT UM, THE WAY THAT IT WORKS IS PUBLIC COMMENT.
AND AS SOON AS THIS IS OVER, YOU KNOW THAT ALL THE COMMISSIONERS ARE AVAILABLE TO YOU AND AS AM I, AND, AND WE CAN CHAT ABOUT IT.
UM, BUT WE JUST CAN'T, WE CAN'T ENGAGE IN A BACK AND, AND BACK AND FORTH.
BUT I APPRECIATE YOU HERE AND WE ALL KNOW, I KNOW ESPECIALLY THIS AREA AND ABEL AND UH, ALL OF Y'ALL HERE, I KNOW EXACTLY WHY YOU'RE HERE AND THE NEEDS.
AND SO, AND, AND I KNOW THAT COMMISSIONER, UH, LOPEZ IS ALWAYS GOING TO ADVOCATE FOR YOU.
AND I UNDERSTAND, UM, WHY, WHY THE DISTRICT THREE IS HERE.
SO EVERYBODY THAT HERE IS FOR A PURPOSE.
UM, BUT IT LOOKS LIKE WE DON'T HAVE A CONSENSUS THEN.
OR ANOTHER WAY WE CAN DO IS LIKE LOOK FROM THE HIGH NEEDS.
'CAUSE I KNOW ONE THING THAT BENEFITS MOST OF THE COMMUNITY OR LIKE BASKETBALL COURTS.
AND I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I KNOW BASKETBALL COULD USE.
I KNOW, UM, DIXIE LANKY USED SOME BASKETBALL COURTS.
I'M NOT SURE ABOUT THE OTHER PARKS, BUT LIKE THOSE THINGS THAT ARE NECESSITIES, LIKE BASKETBALL COURTS AND PICNIC TABLES AND THOSE KIND OF THINGS.
I THINK THOSE ARE THINGS THAT WE SHOULD CONCENTRATE ON MORE THAN LIKE, SAY FOR OTHER THINGS.
SO THEN MAYBE, UM, AND THAT'S KIND OF, I MEAN THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT I WAS TRYING TO, AND THAT SOMETHING YOU AND I HAVE TALKED ABOUT, UM, REGULARLY ANYHOW, IS THAT THE NEEDS THAT THAT WE HAVE AND THE CONCERNS THAT WE GET FROM THE COMMUNITY IN TERMS OF WHAT THE ISSUES ARE ON THE EXISTING PARKS, RIGHT? AND, AND, AND MAKING SURE BEFORE WE START CONSTRUCTING NEW THINGS THAT WE HAVE REPAIRED, THE THINGS THAT WE HAVE.
UM, AND SO THAT'S, THAT'S UNDERSTANDABLE TOO, BUT I DON'T KNOW HOW THAT FITS INTO YOUR TIMELINE, GABE.
WELL, UM, WE HAVE GRANT OPPORTUNITIES COMING UP THROUGHOUT THE YEAR FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.
AND SO WE JUST WANNA BE PREPARED SO THAT WHENEVER SOMETHING DOES COME UP, UM, WE CAN AUTOMATICALLY GO TO OUR LIST AND PICK THE NEXT PROJECT THAT WE'RE GONNA APPLY FOR FUNDING.
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MAKES IT SO MUCH EASIER FOR STAFF TO ACTUALLY START WORKING ON.UM, AND SO THAT'S WHAT I'M TRYING TO GET TO SOME SORT OF PRIORITY SCALE SO THAT WE CAN DETERMINE WHAT PROJECTS IT IS ARE GONNA HAVE THE, UH, THE HIGHEST PRIORITY FOR US TO APPLY FOR.
UM, SO THEN WE CAN, CAN WE LOOK AT THE DIFFERENT PARKS LIKE SAY HUNTER PARK AND THEN LOOK AND THEN LIKE A, LIKE SCRATCH OUT THE MONUMENT SIGN.
WE DON'T NEED THAT ONE FROM THAT PARK.
AND DO WE REALLY NEED, UH, SHE'S HIDDEN HIDING IN THE BACK OVER THERE.
SO, UM, I HAVE A QUESTION IN TERMS OF, UH, GRANTS AND WHAT, WHAT WOULD BE, HOW SOON WOULD YOU NEED TO HAVE A PRIORITY LIST? WHAT, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S COMING IN, WHAT'S COMING, UH, THE, THE DEADLINES THAT ARE APPROACHING? HOW SOON WOULD YOU NEED TO HAVE A PRIORITY LIST? SO THE NEXT UPCOMING DEADLINES, CAN YOU, CAN YOU TALK INTO THE MIC PLEASE? THANK YOU.
THE NEXT UPCOMING DEADLINE IS JULY, THE END OF JULY.
SO JULY, I WANNA SAY 31ST AND THEN AUGUST 1ST, JULY 31ST.
AUGUST 31ST, AND THEN AUGUST 1ST.
AND SO WE ALSO HAVE, UM, AN AIP GRANT APPLICATION THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO SUBMIT.
THE DEADLINE GOT MOVED, SO THAT ONE IS ACTUALLY BEFORE THE END OF JULY.
SO WE HAVE THREE POTENTIAL GRANT APPLICATIONS THAT WE COULD SUBMIT, YOU KNOW, BASICALLY IN A MATTER OF A, A MONTH OR SO.
AND SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I, I'M PARTICULARLY CONCERNED IS, UM, WE DO HAVE TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE, THE PUBLIC, UH, FOR THESE APPLICATIONS.
SO ONE OF THE THINGS, WE HAD A WONDERFUL CONVERSATION WITH TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE, UM, I WANNA SAY A COUPLE MONTHS AGO.
AND SO THAT WAS REALLY HELPFUL.
AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT REALLY HELPED US FOR VICTOR PARK WAS THE FACT THAT WE DID, UM, YOU KNOW, THE, THE PUBLIC MEETING HERE AT THE CITY COMMISSION.
AND THEN WE ALSO DID THE ONLINE SURVEY, WHICH WE GOT OVER 300, UH, RESPONSES.
AND SO THAT WAS VERY, UM, IT WAS VERY TELLING HOW PEOPLE REALLY WANTED CERTAIN AMENITIES OVER OTHERS.
AND SO THAT'S KIND OF WHAT WE NEED TO DO.
UM, I WOULD LIKE TO DO A, UH, A PUBLIC MEETING LIKE IN PERSON AS OPPOSED, UH, IN ADDITION TO THE SURVEYS.
UM, SO WE CAN GET THOSE POINTS, UH, BECAUSE THOSE ARE BIG CONSIDERATIONS FOR THE GRANT.
SO I WAS ON THAT CALL, I THINK, AND THERE WAS GONNA BE MONEY ROLLED OUT THIS NEXT, UM, CYCLE FOR FEASIBILITY STUDIES FOR REC CENTERS, RIGHT? MM-HMM.
SO THAT NEEDS TO BE PRIORITY, I THINK THAT EVERYBODY AGREES, RIGHT? AND SO, YES.
AND SO, UM, IN ADDITION TO THAT, IT WAS HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE SERVED, RIGHT? SO I THINK WE REALLY NEED TO HAVE THAT.
IS THAT SOMETHING YOU HELP WITH ANA TO PREPARE TO, TO LET US, YEAH.
SO THE, SO THE COMP, THE BOTH THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AND THE PARKS RECREATION MASTER PLAN AS WELL AS THE TRAILS MASTER PLAN, THEY KIND OF GIVE YOU SOME SERVICE AREA.
UH, WE, I TYPICALLY USE, YOU KNOW, CERTAIN TOOL THAT CAN HELP ME GET YOU THAT INFORMATION, LIKE THE SPECIFIC AMOUNT WITHIN A CERTAIN RADIUS FROM THE PARK.
AND IT WILL GIVE YOU A BREAKDOWN AS TO LIKE THE DEMOGRAPHICS, SO HOW MANY KIDS VERSUS ELDERLY.
AND WE TYPICALLY USE THAT INFORMATION TO KIND OF SUPPORT THE APPLICATION, UH, WHATEVER ARGUMENT WE'RE TRYING TO MAKE IN TERMS OF, UM, CHOOSING ONE AMENITY OVER ANOTHER.
SO, AND ARE THERE ANY GRANT FUNDS THAT ARE POSSIBLE THAT ARE NOT FOR A SPECIFIC PROJECT? LIKE WE HAVE A, AN ISSUE WITH, UM, THE LACK OF JUST BASKETBALL COURTS.
SO CAN WE GET A GRANT FOR BASKETBALL COURTS WITHIN THE CITY OR, AND THIS IS FOR PEOPLE THAT ARE WATCHING AT HOME, THE PEOPLE THAT ARE SITTING HERE AND FOR THE, THE COMMISSION.
AND ANYTHING ELSE? WHAT ABOUT WRITING TO THE NBA? HANG ON
AND THIS IS SO THAT WAY WE CAN GET THROUGH THIS QUICKLY.
YOU CAN GO HOME AND WATCH JEOPARDY
UM, I THINK IF ANYTHING EACH GRANT, UM, YOU KNOW, ADDRESSES A CERTAIN NEED.
AND FOR INSTANCE, WE TECHNICALLY FOR PARKS AND, AND TRAILS, UM, MOST OF THE FUNDING IS EITHER RECREATION KIND OF FOCUS OR IS TRANSPORTATION FOCUSED.
AND SO, UM, I THINK FOR TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE, OBVIOUSLY IT'S MORE RECREATION.
THEY, THEIR GOAL IS TO GET PEOPLE OUTDOORS.
AND SO U-S-D-O-T GRANTS, WHICH IS THE ATA THAT WE INCLUDED IT, AND I THINK IN YOUR PRESENTATION IT WAS INCLUDED.
UM, THAT ONE'S MORE TRANSPORTATION.
WE'RE BASICALLY CREATING A CORRIDOR ACROSS THE CITY THAT COULD POTENTIALLY SERVE AS A, YOU KNOW, ALTERNATIVE FORM OF TRANSPORTATION.
SO, UM, NO, I THINK IT WOULD BE MORE PROJECT SPECIFIC, BUT AGAIN, UM, FOCUSING ON CERTAIN AMENITIES TO MAKE IT MORE ENTICING AND I UNDERSTAND THAT.
AND THEN, UM, THIS ONE THAT IS COMING UP AT THE END OF JULY, WOULD THERE BE A POSSIBILITY TO REQUEST FOR, UM, MATCHING FUNDS
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FOR THE, THE GRANT THAT WE ALREADY GOT, THE 750,000 SO WE COULD POTENTIALLY DO ANOTHER PHASE AND, BUT IT WILL BE THE SAME CONCEPT.YEAH, WE STILL HAVE TO DO THE 50% MATCH AND IT WILL BE THE SAME SITE, BUT IT WILL, IT WILL BE PHASE TWO.
AND THAT'S GOOD BECAUSE THEN WHAT THIS TELLS ME IS THAT FOR THE THINGS THAT WE WANNA DO, LIKE THE GAZEBO AND THE BLEACHERS AND THE, ALL THOSE OTHER THINGS THAT WE NEED TO LOOK AT CREATIVE WAYS OF DOING THINGS IN HOUSE AND SAVING, SAVING MONEY TO BE ABLE TO DO THOSE THINGS.
BUT WE NEED TO FOCUS ON PROJECTS WITHIN THE PARKS THEMSELVES.
IS IT POSSIBLE FOR US TO HAVE ANOTHER MEETING IN A WEEK WITH THE INFORMATION THAT WE DON'T HAVE IN OUR PACKETS IN TERMS OF THE SERVICE, UM, THE AREA THAT IS BEING SERVICED AND WHAT HAS ALREADY BEEN DONE AND WHAT'S LEFT OVER FROM THE PUNCH LIST OF WHAT YOU HAD? YEAH, WE CAN DO THAT.
YOU CAN GET THAT INFORMATION IN A WEEK.
I'M JUST SAYING BECAUSE WE KIND OF NEED TO MOVE ON IT.
I'M, I'M SAYING NO THE DEMOGRAPHIC.
NO
WELL, WE HAVE TO MEET AFTER FIVE 30, SO MM-HMM.
WELL, I'M JUST SAYING BECAUSE RIGHT NOW IT'S KIND OF HARD WITH THE INFORMATION THAT WE HAVE HERE.
BUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT IS IT THAT THAT, UM, HOW HARD IS IT TO RENAME THE PARKS TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER? OKAY, I ALREADY TOLD YOU.
SO, UM, WHAT YOU THINK THAT YOU CAN GET THAT BY THE END OF FRIDAY OR YOU COULD BE READY FOR A MEETING ON FRIDAY? AND IS EVERYBODY AVAILABLE ON FRIDAY OF NEXT WEEK? THE 28TH? THAT'S A WEEK FROM THIS FRIDAY, RIGHT? MM-HMM,
I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF I'M AVAILABLE, BUT
IT'S, IT'S TYPICALLY BETTER TO ACTUALLY GO SOMEWHERE NEAR THE PROJECT LOCATION SO WE CAN ACTUALLY GET RESIDENTS TO COME IN.
SO LIKE MAYBE LIKE A LITTLE MINI TOWN HALLS LIKE IN THE DISTRICTS.
AND OUR, OUR, WE DON'T HAVE TO DO THAT THROUGH A CITY COMMISSION MEETING.
WE CAN HAVE STAFF OUT THERE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD COLLECTING INFORMATION.
COMMISSIONERS CAN GO TO THEIR INDIVIDUAL PARKS AND JUST DO AN INFORMAL KIND OF, UM, MEETING.
WE'VE ALREADY DONE THE SOCIAL MEDIA ONE FOR VESTAL.
SO, AND YOU GOT A LOT OF, WE HAD A LOT OF FEEDBACK ON THAT ONE.
I'D HAVE TO DO CY HILL AND YOU DID ONE AND A COUPLE OTHERS, BUT YEAH, I CAN DO THEM.
I'M JUST SAYING IF, IF, IF IT BREAKS, IF WE BREAK IT DOWN TO THE, TO THE FIVE DISTRICTS AND HAVE A FEW, I THINK THEN ON ANNA'S ARMED WITH MORE WHAT WE'VE ALREADY DONE MORE, UH, POINT, I WILL SAY THIS, THAT I THINK FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE GRANT, UM, WE DO NEED TO EITHER GET SOME DIRECTION AS TO WHETHER WE'RE GONNA SUBMIT FOR THAT INDOOR FACILITY.
AND SO THAT'S THE ONE THAT WE REALLY NEED TO KIND OF, AND KNOW WHERE SPECIFICALLY LIKE YOU WOULD LIKE TO PUT THAT.
WHAT SIDE? WELL, I, I THINK THAT, THAT, THAT'S PART OF THE STUDY IS TO DETERMINE WHERE IT WOULD MOST LIKELY, UM, SERVE MOST OF THE COMMUNITY.
I THINK WE TALKED ABOUT POTENTIALLY YOU AND I, ABOUT MAYBE PENDLETON.
'CAUSE THERE'S SPACE THERE ALREADY, BUT I MEAN IF THERE'S, I I DISTRICT FIVE, I LIVE IN DISTRICT FIVE, BUT IT'S JUST WHEREVER, WHEREVER THERE'S, WHEREVER IT'S GOING TO PROVIDE US OPPORTUNITY TO NOT HAVE TO WHAT ARE SOME OF AVAILABLE SPOTS OF HERE? YEAH.
WELL, ONE OF THE, THE PARKS WAS PENDLETON.
THAT'S THE ONE THAT I RECOMMENDED.
UM, YOU CAN BARELY SEE IT, BUT IT'S UP HERE ON TOP.
UM, SO YOU HAVE PLENTY OF PARKING.
WE'D HAVE TO RELOCATE THE TRAIL.
UM, BUT THAT'S THE ONE THAT HAS THE MOST, UH, GREEN SPACE AT WHERE WE CAN BUILD A
AND SO THIS WOULD BE OF COURSE A A A LARGE FACILITY TO SERVICE THE WHOLE CITY.
UM, AND THEN THE GOAL WOULD TO BE FOR US TO FOCUS ON LITTLE SMALL RECS WITHIN THE COMMUNITY AS WELL.
WE DON'T HAVE ANYTHING, UM, LIKE A LITTLE BIT MORE CENTRALIZED, LIKE EVEN LIKE IN DANIEL'S DISTRICT OR SOMETHING A LITTLE BIT MORE CENTRALIZED.
THE WAY I THOUGHT ABOUT IT PERSONALLY, JUST THINKING OUT LOUD IS IT WOULD HAVE TO BE IN MY MIND OFF OF LIKE HARRISON, TYLER THE LOOP.
SO IT'S AFTER WOULD BE NICE ON THE NORTH SIDE.
SO LIKE THINK OF BY LIKE THE WATER TOWER, RIGHT? LIKE BY MY DISTRICT WOULD BE BY SPANISH ACRES, RIGHT OFF THE DO YOU HAVE ANY LAND THERE? SO AGAIN, ANYWHERE THAT'S JUST QUICK TO GET TO BECAUSE NO, NO, THAT'S WHAT, THAT'S MY THINKING.
THAT YOU WANT EASY ACCESS TO IT.
THE ONLY THING WE HAVE THAT MIGHT BE SOMEWHERE CLOSER THERE IS A SOCCER COMPLEX, BUT THAT'S TOO FAR.
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OTHER PLACE I WAS THINKING, WE DON'T OWN THE LAND THOUGH, BUT IT'S A BIG OPEN LOT.IF, YOU KNOW, IF IT'S IT'S COMMERCE HARRISON, THEN YOU GO TO WHAT? JACK VAN BUREN JACKSON.
THEN YOU GO TO JEFFERSON WHERE LIKE ALICIA'S A MEXICAN RESTAURANT IS MM-HMM.
IF WE'RE GONNA BE DOING THIS HUGE UPGRADE ON COMMERCE.
AGAIN, JUST AN IDEA, RIGHT? I'M JUST THINKING LIKE A SCRAP YARD.
NO, IT'S IT'S A MASSIVE LOT RIGHT ACROSS FROM A BUT THAT'S WHAT ELISE SAYS.
THEY HAVE LIKE, THEY PUT LIKE A LITTLE BIT OF PARKING I PARKED THERE, RIGHT? YEAH.
BUT IT'S JUST A BIG OPEN SPACE.
I DON'T KNOW IF SHE OWNS THAT OR NOT.
WELL, IF YOU'RE NOT READY WITH A LOCATION, WE COULD DO A, A FEASIBILITY STUDY.
UH, WELL THAT WAS THE GOAL, RIGHT? SO THAT WAY, I MEAN, AND OR JUST, I JUST THINK THAT THE CITY NEEDS ONE AND IF IT COULD BE CENTRALLY LOCATED, THAT WOULD BE IDEAL.
BUT WE HAVE TO BE REALISTIC ON WHERE DO WE HAVE LAND, WHAT'S AVAILABLE AND WHAT THE COST IS.
AND SO I THINK THAT EVERYBODY WANTS TO SAVE AS MUCH MONEY AS POSSIBLE, BUT THAT WOULD, IT WOULD BE IDEAL TO HAVE, I MEAN, IT'D BE GOOD TO EXPLORE THESE IDEAS OR THESE POTENTIAL AREAS, BUT, UM, WE TALKED ABOUT PENDLETON JUST BECAUSE OF THE SPACE AND THAT IT WAS, IT WAS ALREADY THERE, RIGHT? FOR, FOR THE CITY, UH, EXCUSE ME, KAVIER, MAKE SURE YOU CONSIDER THE FLOODING AREAS.
I BELIEVE THAT AREA OF PENDLETON HAS AN ISSUE.
OKAY? SO WE GOT TO BE CAREFUL ON THAT.
IT'S NOT LIKE JUST BECAUSE THE LAND IS THERE, WE'RE GONNA HAVE PLENTY OF WATER, PLENTY OF RAIN THIS NEXT, THIS NEXT WEEK.
SO WE NEED TO BE CONSCIOUS OF THAT.
OKAY? ME PERSONALLY, THROW IN MY 2 CENTS WORTH.
VICTOR PARK IS RIGHT OFF THE EXPRESSWAY AND YOU GOT 1, 2, 3 ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS PLUS A HIGH SCHOOL NEARBY.
SOMETHING I'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT ON THAT, ON THAT, IN THAT VEIN, RIGHT? IS, AND I DON'T KNOW JAVI YET IF YOU'VE THOUGHT ABOUT IT, BUT WE HAVE LIKE PARKS THAT HAVE DESIGNATIONS FOR CERTAIN THINGS.
SO LIKE GROWING UP, VICTOR PARK USED TO BE WHERE WE ALWAYS PLAYED SOCCER, RIGHT? BUT NOW WE HAVE THE, UM, HARS AND SOCCER COMPLEX ABOUT TURNING VICTOR PARK INTO, LET'S SAY A FOOTBALL COMPLEX, RIGHT? AMERICA TURNING BENEATH THE PARK INTO A DIFFERENT TYPE OF COMPLEX.
SO YOU KIND OF LIKE CAN PUSH PEOPLE AROUND THE CITY, RIGHT? EVERYONE KNOWS, OKAY, IF WE'RE GONNA PLAY BASEBALL, WE GO TO, I REMEMBER GROWING UP, WE ALWAYS PLAYED THERE, VICTOR PARK AS WELL.
RIGHT? NOW YOU ALSO HAVE AT WILSON, I THINK ADULT LEAGUES OVER THERE, BUT SPORTS COMPLEX.
THE SPORTS COMPLEX, I KNOW WE'RE THROWING A LOT OF DIFFERENT IDEAS AT YOU.
BUT
AND SO WE HAVE ONE FOOTBALL FIELD HERE.
WE ONE LIGHT THIS ONE, THIS ONE'S ALREADY LIT, RIGHT? THIS ONE ALREADY HAS LIGHTS ON IT.
WE WOULD HAVE THREE FOOTBALL FIELDS THERE.
AND THEN DOWN HERE ON THE SOUTH SIDE OR WEST SIDE I GUESS, UM, THERE IS, UH, BASEBALL FIELDS.
AND SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE ALSO HAVE TO LOOK AT IS UPGRADING THE SERVICE FOR VICTOR.
UM, WE'VE HAD SOME ISSUES WITH ELECTRICAL, UH, THERE AND WE'VE TRIED TO REPAIR IT.
UM, BUT IT GOT MORE COMPLICATED THAN WE THOUGHT.
UM, 'CAUSE THE WAY IT IS, IT'S NOT IN COMPLIANCE.
AND SO A EP IS TELLING US, LOOK, YOU NEED TO MOVE THAT TRANSFORMER OR MOVE YOUR, YOUR, YOUR SERVICE, YOUR PANELS.
UM, AND SO HE GOES, EVEN IF YOU HIRED SOMEBODY TO, TO REPAIR IT, BECAUSE WE'RE NOT GONNA, IF IF YOU DISCONNECT THAT METER, WE'RE NOT GONNA RECONNECT YOU BECAUSE IT'S IN VIOLATION.
SO WE NEED TO LOOK AT THAT AS FAR AS, UH, IMPROVING THE, THE, THE ELECTRICITY THERE FOR THE, FOR THEIR LIGHTS, THE SPORTS LIGHTING.
HOW LONG HAVE YOU HAD THAT ISSUE? UH, ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF.
I THINK YOU BROUGHT IT UP TO US LAST TIME WE TALKED ABOUT THIS.
UH, 'CAUSE I, I WANNA SAY WE TALKED ABOUT THAT.
WE'VE GONE IN THERE AND WE'VE REPAIRED WHAT WE CAN.
AND, AND BACK WHEN, UM, CRAIG COOK WAS HERE, HE HAD SUGGESTED HE GAVE US SOME IDEAS.
AND SO THAT WAS WHEN WE WENT OUT AND WE, UM, HIRED AN ENGINE, I MEAN A, UM, ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR.
WE TOLD HIM, LOOK, THIS IS WHAT WE WANNA DO.
AND HE SAYS, THERE'S NO WAY THEY BROUGHT A EP IN.
AND HE SAYS, THERE'S NO WAY WE CAN DO THAT.
SO, UM, IT TURNED OUT IT'S 80,000, UH, ORIGINALLY.
SO IT'S PROBABLY NOW MAYBE, YOU KNOW, MAYBE 200,000.
'CAUSE WE GOTTA MOVE THAT TRANSFORMER OVER.
WE'RE JUST UPGRADE ELECTRICAL SERVICE.
NO, THAT'S FOR THE FOOTBALL FIELDS.
SO JAVI, I DIDN'T GET A CHANCE TO OPEN YOUR EMAIL THAT YOU SENT.
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YEAH.UM, BUT I JUST REMEMBERED THAT.
AND I WOULD LIKE TO REALLY PRIORITIZE, I DUNNO WHAT THE REST OF THE COMMISSION FEELS LIKE, BUT I REALLY THINK WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING WITH GUTIERREZ PARK.
WE NEED TO TAKE THAT PART BACK TO THE COMMUNITY.
SO THAT CLIENT, SO THE CLIENT'S GOT THE LAWYER HAT, SORRY.
SO THE, SO THAT THE COMMUNITY CAN UTILIZE THE PARK.
SO I, AND, AND I THINK THAT MAYBE THERE'S A WAY BASED ON THE HISTORY OF THE PARK, WHERE ANA CAN BE CREATIVE IN, IN GRANTS FOR THAT, FOR THAT PARK.
UM, MAYBE SOME LIGHTING, SOME LIKE LOTS OF LIGHTING MIGHT, MIGHT HELP IN THAT AREA BECAUSE IT'S IMPACTING, AND I THINK I SHARED THIS WITH YOU, THE, THE PEOPLE THAT ARE THE BUSINESSES IN THAT AREA.
AND IF WE'RE REALLY GONNA REVITALIZE DOWNTOWN, WHICH HAS BEEN KIND OF A PRIORITY AS WELL, THAT NEEDS TO BE A FOCUS.
AND THAT'S IN THE RIGHT, IN THE MIDDLE OF OUR COMMUNITY.
SO KIND OF LIKE THOSE FIELDS, THE, THE, THE, THE VIDEO THAT YOU SENT ME WITH THOSE DIFFERENT TYPES OF COURTS.
I DIDN'T OPEN IT, BUT I FIGURED
IT'S A DIFFERENT TYPE OF SPORT.
IT'S A NEW SPORT STARTED IN BRAZIL.
UH, AND IT'S A COMBINATION OF BASKETBALL AND, UH, SOCCER.
WELL, NO, THAT'S WHAT, THAT'S WHAT COMMISSIONER BEEZ WAS REFERRING TO.
I SENT HIM A VIDEO ON THIS NEW SPORT THAT'S, THAT'S, UM, WHAT'S COMING DOWN.
WHAT'S HIS PHONE CALLED? I'M SORRY.
WHAT'S IT CALLED? THERE'S, THERE'S TWO NAMES.
IT'S FUTSAL OR, UM, WHAT'S THE NAME OF THE ONE BOOK? UH, OKAY.
ANYWAY, BUT IT'S A COMBINATION OF, OF FOOTBALL, UH, I MEAN, SOCCER AND BASKETBALL.
WE JUST NEED A REASON FOR THE KIDS TO GO THERE.
'CAUSE RIGHT NOW THERE'S NO REASON FOR KIDS TO GO THERE OTHER THAN THAT LITTLE PLAYGROUND AREA.
THERE'S NOTHING, THERE'S NO REASON FOR KIDS TO GO THERE.
AND THAT'S WHY WE HAVE THE ISSUES THAT WE HAVE AT THAT PARK.
NO, AND THAT'S WHY, I MEAN THAT, AND THAT'S WHY I PUT ON THAT COST ESTIMATE WAS TO REPLACE THE PLAYGROUND.
BUT, UH, I DON'T HAVE A, I DIDN'T WANNA PUT ANYTHING THERE BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW IF WE WANT TO, IF WE WANNA INVEST IN THAT, I THINK IT NEEDS TO BE REIMAGINED.
RIGHT? SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE DID WAS WE HAD, UH, WERE THINKING ABOUT PUTTING SIDEWALK ALL THE WAY AROUND, UM, THE PARK.
'CAUSE RIGHT NOW, IF YOU WALK IN FROM ANY SIDE OF THAT PARK, AND IF YOU WALK DOWN THE SIDEWALK, YOU WOULD HAVE TO GET OFF THE GRASS AND GO TO ANOTHER SECTION OF IT, RIGHT? SO, OR WALK BACK TO THE SIDEWALK, COME DOWN HERE AND THEN WALK THIS WAY.
SO WE FIGURED THAT IF WE PUT A SIDEWALK, THEN YOU COULD, YOU KNOW, GO ANY PLACE IN THAT PARK, UM, WITH THAT, WITH THAT ONE SIDEWALK.
BUT I WONDER IF IT COULD HAVE LIKE A DEDICATED STAGE AREA AND UM, LIKE THE WAY THAT THEY WERE DOING AT THE SCHOOL DISTRICT WHERE NOW THEY'RE, THEY'RE SHOWING MOVIES IN THAT PIECE OF LAND THAT THEY HAVE OVER THERE BY THE, I THINK IT'S NOT MEMORIAL VERNON, VERNON, UH, AND, AND UTILIZING THAT AND HAVING LOTS OF, YOU KNOW, BRIGHT LIGHTS DURING, DURING THE, IN THE EVENING HOURS WHEN IT'S NOT BEING USED.
AND, AND JUST A SPACE WHERE FAMILIES CAN GET TOGETHER AND, AND WATCH MOVIES.
I KNOW YOU ALL DO, THE PARKS DEPARTMENT DOES A TON OF PARKS, UH, MOVIES AT THE PARK, AND THOSE ARE ALWAYS SUCCESSFUL, BUT THEY'RE KIND OF HIDDEN TOO.
RIGHT? AND THIS WOULD, WHEN YOU'RE DRIVING DOWN THE STREET, YOU CAN SEE THAT SOMETHING'S, SOMETHING'S GOING ON IN THAT PARK.
UM, I THINK THAT MIGHT BE AN OPTION, BUT JUST GETTING SOME CREATIVE IDEAS ON, ON HOW TO, HOW TO CHANGE THAT.
WELL, ONE THING THAT, IN THAT VIDEO I SENT YOU ALL FROM KYLE, UM, THEY HAVE A SIMILAR TRACK OF LAND IS DOWNTOWN.
UM, AND THEY DID ADD PLAYGROUND TO IT.
THEY DID, UM, IN THE MIDDLE PART.
I'M, I DON'T, I CAN'T REMEMBER IF THEY HAD A, A GAZEBO OR NOT, BUT WHAT IT, IT'S OPEN, IT WAS VERY WIDE.
UM, BUT THEY DID BUILD A SORT OF A SMALL, LIKE AN AMPHITHEATER, LIKE A LITTLE, UH, A STAGE, UM, FOR EVENTS.
UM, AND THEN OF COURSE IT WAS FENCED THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE THING.
SO, UH, WHEN, WHEN, UM, TIME, THE TIME IS WHEN WE HAVE TO CLOSE THE PARK, OF COURSE WE WOULD, WE'D LOCK IT.
UM, BUT, UH, THOSE ARE SOME OF THE IDEAS.
AND IF Y'ALL CAN WATCH THAT VIDEO, IT'S, IT'S PRETTY INTERESTING.
I THINK IN ORDER FOR THAT TO SUCCESSFUL, YOU HAVE TO CRACK DOWN AND THEY'RE STARTING TO INFILTRATE PENALTY NOW.
THREE OF THEM ARE UP THERE AND THEN SET UP 10.
THAT'S, YOU KNOW, NOT SOMETHING THAT KIDS WANT BE AROUND, BECAUSE LONG WAY, WE OWNED A THRIFT STORE RIGHT DOWN THE STREET FROM THIS PLACE, AND 15, 20 HOMELESS PEOPLE COME IN THERE AND STEALING STUFF.
I'M HAPPY TO CHAT WITH YOU ABOUT THAT AFTER, AFTER
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THE MEETING, BUT I, I APPRECIATE THAT.AND THAT IS, THAT'S, YOU KNOW, ONE OF, ONE OF THE CONCERNS AND I KNOW THAT I'VE TALKED TO SOME OF THE BUSINESS OWNERS THERE AND THEY ALL FEEL THE SAME.
AND, YOU KNOW, UM, DON'T WANNA GET OFF, OFF TOPIC HERE IN TERMS OF THE, YOU KNOW, HOMELESS POPULATION AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
BUT WE, THAT IS ALSO ANOTHER CONCERN FOR THE CITY, ASIDE FROM THE PARKS THAT WE NEED TO ALSO BE WORKING ON AT THE SAME, AT THE SAME TIME.
AND WE CAN DEFINITELY DO THAT SPLASH PAD.
IT'S RIGHT IN THE CITY AND RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE.
SO I'M JUST GONNA REMIND EVERYBODY AGAIN THAT WELL, LET'S NOT TALK.
I AM HAPPY TO TALK AFTER THE MEETING.
UM, AND YOUR COMMISSIONER IS HAPPY TO TALK AFTER THE MEETING AND EVERYBODY HERE, SO THAT WAY WE CAN MOVE ON.
WE DON'T WANNA BE SETTING NEW, NEW RULES FOR TOWN HALL.
I THINK AT THE NEXT MEETING WE HAVE OF ED AND GABE, WE PUT IN A PUBLIC HEARING PORTION.
SO THAT EVERYONE FROM ALL THE DIFFERENT DISTRICTS AND PARKS CAN HAVE THEIR, UH, SAY THEIR PIECE.
AND THAT WOULD BE GOOD FOR ANA ALSO.
I THINK THAT THAT WOULD BE GREAT.
AND, AND, UM, WE'RE GONNA BE HAVING SOME KIND OF A SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN THAT THIS WILL BE HAPPENING FOR THE DIFFERENT PARKS AND INVITING COMMUNITY MEMBERS.
WE'RE GONNA SHOOT FOR NEXT FRIDAY, A WEEK FROM THIS FRIDAY TO DO THAT.
YEAH, I WOULD LIKE TO, IF IT'S POSSIBLE, I MAY HAVE TO BRING MY BOYS WITH ME.
MY WIFE'S ON A BACHELORETTE TRIP, SO, UM, OKAY.
SO, UM, I, I WOULD STILL LIKE TO GET A FEW PROJECTS PRIORITIZED SO THAT WE CAN FOCUS ON THE GRANTS THAT ANA'S GOING TO BE APPLYING FOR.
UM, ANA DO YOU HAVE ANY PREFERRED PROJECT THAT MIGHT MEET THE CRITERIA THAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR? I HATE TO PUT YOU ON THE SPOT, BUT I HAVEN'T SEEN THE FULL LIST, SO I WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO COMMENT WITH THE LIST.
THERE'S, BUT WHAT I WOULD SAY IS, THIS IS THE REASON I WAS PUSHING FOR THE TOP 10 MOST EXPENSIVE, IS 'CAUSE THAT GIVES ANNA, LIKE FOR EXAMPLE, THERE MAY BE, IF WE PUT, LET'S SAY HYPOTHETICAL, WE PUT VEST TO BE NUMBER ONE, BUT THE GRANT MAY NOT BE THE BEST FIT FOR VEST, MAY BE BETTER FOR WILSON OR SOMEONE ELSE.
WE NEED TO GIVE ANA THAT FLEXIBILITY.
SO WHATEVER GRANT, LIKE IF WE GIVE HER THE TOP 10 WAS EXPENSIVE FOR JUST, FOR RIGHT NOW, ANNA THINK CAN FIT WHICH GRANT FITS THE, WHICH PART FITS THE GRANT THE BEST AND GOES OFF THAT WHATEVER POINT SYSTEM IT IS.
CAN WE DO THAT? CAN, WHEN WE GET TO THE ACTION ITEM PART OF THE, THE MEETING, CAN WE JUST ALLOW STAFF TO PICK THE HIGHEST VALUE GOING FROM THE HIGHEST BEING NUMBER ONE ALL THE WAY DOWN TO 10, AND THEN JUST PICK FROM THOSE FOUR PROJECTS THAT ARE UPCOMING.
ARE, ARE Y'ALL OKAY WITH WHAT I'VE RECOMMENDING? BECAUSE LIKE WILSON, UH, I KNOW COMMISSIONER PEREZ HAS MET AT, ASKED US AT THE LAST MEETING WHEN WE'RE PRESENTED THE, UM, THE, UH, REQUEST RIGHT.
UM, BUT WILSON SPORTS COMPLEX, THERE IS A LOT OF, UM, ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENTS.
AND SO THESE ARE SEVERAL ITEMS. PARKING, UH, WALKING TRAIL, BASKETBALL COURTS, RESTROOMS, MULTIPURPOSE FIELD.
AND THEN THE MISCELLANEOUS, THIS ONE'S 5,328,000.
SO IT'S ALMOST ONE OF THE TOP.
UM, THE OTHER ONE IS, UH, UM, GO BACK ON 11 MILLION.
UM, PENDLETON, WELL, HYDROGEN SOCCER COMPLEX IS 4.9.
UM, AND WHAT WE WANNA DO THERE IS SUGGEST IS ADDING THREE MORE FIELDS, UM, COVER BLEACHERS, MORE PARKING AND IN RESTROOMS. UM, WELL, AND THAT FIELD RENOVATIONS IS THE BIG THING NOW WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT FOREVER.
I THINK THAT WORKS FOR RIGHT NOW IN MY MIND BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WE WENT FOR TWO GRANTS FOR VESTA ALREADY AND THEY WEREN'T THE BEST FIT FOR THOSE GRANTS.
AND SO AGAIN, I WANT US TO PUT OUR BEST FOOT FORWARD ANYTIME WE APPLY FOR A GRANT, IT NEEDS TO BE THE ONE THAT HAS THE BEST CHANCE OF BEING FUNDED.
SO I THINK THEN THAT NEEDS TO BE, UM, THAT NEEDS TO BE THE CHARGE THEN.
NOT NECESSARILY THE MOST, UM, EXPENSIVE BECAUSE IT'S GOTTA BE LIKE, WHAT'S GOING TO SCORE BETTER AND ANNA'S THE ONE THAT'S MOST, WELL, I THINK THAT'S WHY IF WE GIVE HER A LIST, CORRECT.
AND THAT WAS THE INTENT TO GET A LIST FROM THE TOP 10, AND THEN WE PICK THE ONE THAT HAS THE BETTER CHANCE OF BEING FUNDED.
THAT COSTS THE MOST, THAT IS THE MOST EXPENSIVE AND THE BEST FIT, THE BEST FIT FOR THE GRANT.
AND THEN UNTIL WE CAN COME UP WITH ANOTHER RANKING CRITERIA THAT IS SIMILAR TO THAT, THAT GIVES US THE FLEXIBILITY TO CHOOSE FROM.
WELL, HOW ABOUT WE DO WHAT YOUR LIST, YOUR LIST THE MOST EXPENSIVE, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, WE ALSO DO IT BY, 'CAUSE I KNOW YOU WERE GONNA TRY TO SOMEHOW GET THE NUMBERS,
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BUT I THINK THE, A BIG PORTION OF THAT SHOULD ALSO BE THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE THAT ARE SERVICED BY THAT PARK.SO I THINK IF YOU COMBINE THE MOST EXPENSIVE ONES WITH THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE THAT ARE SERVICED BY THAT SPECIFIC PARK, AND YOU KNOW, THOSE TWO CRITERIA SHOULD BE THE ONES THAT SHOULD BE THE PRIORITY.
I, I'D LIKE TO SEE, BECAUSE I'VE GONE AROUND, UM, ME AND MY FAMILY DRIVEN AROUND ON A SATURDAY TO LOOK AT THE PARKS AND SEE WHO'S AT WHAT PARK.
AND THERE IS ALWAYS PEOPLE AT ROYAL PARK.
THERE'S, THERE'S AND THERE, AND THAT'S YOUR, THAT'S YOUR DISTRICT.
THERE'S NEIGHBORHOODS THAT, THAT ARE LIKE, I MEAN, WALKING DISTANCE.
AND SO I IMAGINE THAT MOST OF THE PEOPLE THAT ARE THERE AT THAT PARK LIVE IN THAT, IN THAT AREA.
SO I WONDER IF SOME OF THE OTHER PARKS MAY NOT HAVE A YOUNG POPULATION NEAR THAT PARK.
AND THEN WE SHOULDN'T REALLY BE, WANNA FOCUS ON MAKING IMPROVEMENTS.
BUT I DON'T KNOW IF YOU NEED TO ADD A PLAYGROUND OR YOU NEED TO, YOU KNOW, IF IT'S NOT SERVICING THAT COMMUNITY THAT'S IN WALKING NOT, WELL, I WOULD SAY IN WALKING DISTANCE.
WELL, SO YOU'RE GONNA HAVE THAT WITH, UH, THE SOCCER COMPLEX.
UM, BUT THOSE I THINK ARE THE REGIONAL PARKS.
SO THAT, THAT'S DIFFERENT FROM THE SMALL CORRECT.
I THINK THE SMALL, 'CAUSE WE HAVE A TON OF THOSE LITTLE PARKS.
AND SO IF WE CAN KIND OF FOCUS ON THE ONES THAT ARE, THAT GET THE MOST TRAFFIC, I THINK, YOU KNOW, AND I THINK YOU CAN TELL BY THE WEAR AND TEAR OF EVERYTHING THAT'S THERE, UM, THAT, THAT'S, THAT'S IMPORTANT.
SO IT'S THEN BY THE MOST USE, THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE SAYING BY WHERE? AND TEAR IN THE SMALLER, IN THE SMALLER ONES.
'CAUSE THE REGIONAL ONES, THOSE, I MEAN, EVEN IF THERE'S NOT, LIKE PENDLETON IS USED BY PEOPLE THAT LIVE IN PENDLETON AND ALL THROUGHOUT THE CITY.
AND SO VICTOR PARK AND ALL OF THOSE.
SO THOSE SHOULD BE PRIORITY IN MY VIEW, BECAUSE OF THE, THE FACT THAT THEY SERVICE THE WHOLE COMMUNITY.
AND THEN FROM THERE, THE SMALLER PARKS, LIKE YOUR PARK, THERE'S A TON OF PEOPLE IN, IN, NOT YOUR PARK, BUT ESTO PARK THAT'S RIGHT.
SMACK IN THE MIDDLE OF A COMMUNITY.
JUST LIKE A ROYAL PARK AND OTHER PARKS.
BUT THEN THERE'S ALSO THAT ONE, UM, IS IT WINDSOR PARK? IT'S, IT'S, UH, WOOD PARK AS, UH, CB WOOD.
AND THAT'S RIGHT ALONG THE ROYAL MM-HMM.
AND THEN, UH, YOU HAVE THE COMMUNITY ACROSS THE STREET.
SO YOU DON'T HAVE A MAJOR HIGHWAY LIKE, UH, COMMERCE OR, UM, VICTOR OR ED CAREY AND ON ON THE LINE.
SO YOU HAVE PEOPLE THAT JUST ARE ABLE TO WALK.
YOU HAVE THE HIGHWAY PEOPLE HAVE TO WALK ACROSS AND PEOPLE DRIVE TO THAT PARK JUST LIKE THEY DO AT, AT, UH, PENDLETON PARK.
SO YOU HAVE PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER ROYAL, THEY WALK AND ONCE THEY WALK THERE, THEY USE THE TRAIL TO WALK EVEN FURTHER.
I JUST THINK, YOU KNOW, LIKE VICTOR PARK IS KIND OF LIKE THE HUB FOR SPORTS AND EVERYBODY DRIVES THERE.
AND THAT'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO CON AND WE ALREADY HAVE THE, THE GRANT, YOU KNOW, AND WE'RE GOING HAVE A PLAN TO MAKE THOSE IMPROVEMENTS.
BUT, BUT WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT IS THE SMALLER, IF WE'RE GONNA FOCUS ON THE SMALLER ONES TOO, LET'S JUST GIVE PREFERENCE TO THE ONES THAT ARE GOING TO BE UTILIZED BY MORE OF THE COMMUNITY THAT'S GOING TO BE WALKING TO THOSE, TO THOSE PARKS.
AND IN THAT CASE, ARROYO AND VEST ARE GONNA BE IN THE TOP TWO.
BUT I DON'T KNOW ABOUT, YOU KNOW, IF THERE'S OTHER PARKS THAT ARE IN YOUR DISTRICTS THAT IF, YOU KNOW, IF THERE'S OTHERS, THEN THAT'S, YEAH, IT JUST GOES, UH, IT JUST GOES BACK TO LIKE, WE NEED TO SPEND OUR MONEY THE BEST.
AND SO TO ME, WHATEVER, IF IT'S WILSON PARK, IF IT NEEDS A 5 MILLION AND THAT'S THE BEST FOOT FORWARD FOR US FOR GRANTS TO DO IT.
AS LONG AS YOU REPLACE ALL THE BLEACHERS.
GETTING BACK, GETTING BACK TO BLEACHERS.
THOSE TWO RUN, UH, TWO ROW BLEACHERS.
HOW MANY PEOPLE CAN SIT THERE COMFORTABLY? YOU KNOW HOW MANY DEPENDS ON THE LENGTH.
DEPENDS ON HOW LONG, HOW WIDE THEY ARE.
25 PER ROW, OR 2 25 FOR TWO ROWS.
IF IT'S 20 FEET, YOU'RE PROBABLY GONNA HAVE ABOUT 10 TO 15 PER PLANK.
WHAT, WHAT? WHY DON'T THE KIDS HAVE BLEACHERS TO SIT ON? WHERE LIKE IT, WHEN THEY'RE PLAYING? OH, YOU TALKING ABOUT FOR THE PLAYERS? ANY THE KIDS? YES.
LIKE, BECAUSE I ALWAYS FEEL BAD WHEN I'M SITTING DOWN AND THEN THE KIDS ARE SQUATTING AND, YOU KNOW, ALL THAT.
IS THERE A REASON FOR THAT? NO.
BECAUSE THEY CAN DO, BECAUSE THEY CAN
WHAT DID HE SAY? BECAUSE THEY'RE FLEXIBLE ENOUGH TO GET, I KNOW, RIGHT? SO MAYBE HAVING SOME BLEACHERS FOR THE,
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FOR THE KIDS, WHICH SHADE JUST, YOU KNOW, UM, YEAH.WHAT WE WANNA DO AT, UM, THE SOCCER COMPLEX, UM, FOR THE KIDS TOO.
AND THEN AT VEST, UM, AND AT VICTOR, OKAY.
ESPECIALLY FOR THE FOOTBALL FIELDS AND THE SOCCER.
SOME COACHES WILL BRING, YOU KNOW, ALL THE, AND THEN OTHER COACHES WON'T BRING ANY ANYTHING AT ALL.
'CAUSE BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL, OF COURSE YOU USE THE DUGOUTS, RIGHT? HEY, OSCAR, WHILE WE HAVE YOU HERE, IS THERE A WAY, AND MARK, IS THERE A WAY WE CAN DO LIKE AN EXCLUSIVITY CLAUSE FOR, UH, CERTAIN MATERIALS? FOR EXAMPLE, WE GO OUT FOR BIDS FOR LET'S SAY CONCRETE, RIGHT? AND WE GO FOR THE PERSON THAT'S GONNA GIVE US THE CHEAPEST RATE OF CONCRETE SO THAT OUR, UH, PUBLIC WORKS CREW CAN ALREADY START DOING ALL OUR TRAILS.
LIKE WHY WAIT ON THAT STUFF? IF WE ALREADY HAVE THE MANPOWER TO DO IT, WE JUST NEED THE BEST PRICE FOR THE, THE CONCRETE ITSELF.
WELL, THAT'S WHAT THEY DID FOR THE TRAIL AT, UH, AT VICTORY.
BUT WHAT I'M SAYING IS, I'M SORRY.
AT HILL, WHAT I MEAN BY EXCLUSIVITY IS SAYING YOU GO OUT FOR BIDS FOR, FOR CONCRETE PURPOSE, FOR PURCHASE.
I MEAN, YOU GO THROUGH THE BID PROCESS, YOU JUST CARVE OUT THE CONCRETE.
AND WHAT I'M SAYING IS THAT WE WOULD USE, LET'S SAY, TRYING TO THINK OF HOW TO GET THE BEST PRICE MOVING FORWARD, RIGHT? SAY, HEY, FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS OR THREE YEARS, WE WOULD GET ALL OUR CONCRETE JUST FROM YOU.
RIGHT? AND THAT'S THE BID THAT THEY'RE GOING FOR, RIGHT? BECAUSE IT'S A BIGGER BID RATHER THAN SINGLE PROJECT.
TRYING TO GET THAT WHO SELL PRICE WITH CONCRETE.
AND SO SOME STRUCTURAL, YOU WANT 4,000 PSI AND OTHER STUFF.
AND SO THE MORE PSI, THE LESS SAND, THE MORE, THE MORE CEMENT.
UH, SO THOSE ARE ALL VARIABLES.
AND YOU, YOU ALSO MIGHT END UP, BECAUSE YOU'D BE PLACING THE REST OF PRICE INCREASES ON THE CONTRACTOR.
SO YOU MIGHT END UP GETTING HIGHER BIDS THAT WAY.
JUST DEPENDING ON HOW THE PRICE OF CONCRETE, HOW THEY THOUGHT THE PRICE OF CONCRETE WAS GONNA BE GOING UP.
YOU KNOW, IF THEY WERE WORRIED ABOUT A, A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN MATERIALS, I THINK YOUR BID OVER THE NEXT TWO YEARS MIGHT BE HIGHER THAN YOUR PRESENT COST NOW.
AND THE CURRENT VALUE OF MONEY IS, IS WORTH MORE THAN FUTURE VALUE OF MONEY WHEN YOU'RE PURCHASING THINGS.
WHAT, WHAT WE DO FOR FUEL IS WE GET THE, THE MARKET PRICE PLUS A CERTAIN MARKET.
SO IF THERE'S A FLUCTUATION THAT THE, THE WHOLESALER DOESN'T, DOESN'T TAKE A HIT, IT GIVES YOU A BETTER PRICE.
BUT IT FLUCTUATES ON THE MARKET RATE.
I'M JUST THINKING OF A WAY TO LIKE, JUST START KNOCKING OUT ALL THESE TRAILS AT ALL THE, 'CAUSE IT'S ALL GONNA BE TRAILS FOR THE MOST OF THEM.
THEY'RE GETTING TRAILS AND THEY'RE GETTING BASKETBALL COURTS GOING TO COMMISSIONER PETS.
MIGHT AS WELL JUST START KNOCK, BANGING THOSE THINGS OUT NOW.
AND THEN WE GO TO THE PUBLIC FOR THE OTHER AMENITIES.
THEY WANT, LIKE SPLASH PADS, SWING SETS, THINGS LIKE THAT.
I THINK THE PRIORITIES SHOULD BE TRAILS AND, UH, BASKETBALL COURT.
AND WE CAN ALREADY LAID DOWN LAB CENTERS.
WELL, NO, I, I THINK THAT SHOULD HONESTLY BE OUR FIRST ONE.
IT'S BECAUSE WE DO, WE'RE WE DESPERATELY NEED ONE.
AND I FELL IN LOVE EVER SINCE WE WENT TO EDINBURG.
TO THE EDENBERG ONE THAT THEY HAVE OVER THERE.
YOU'RE NOT GONNA BUILD THE AS ASPECT THOUGH.
AND THE OTHER THING I WAS THINKING, 'CAUSE I'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT IT FOR VESTO PARK, I THINK IT SHOULD BE AT ALL OUR PARKS, IS WE PLANT TREES ALONG THE, THE MM-HMM.
SO AT LEAST WHEN IT GETS HOT, WE HAVE SHADE FOR ALL OF OUR CONSTITUENTS RIGHT.
'CAUSE GOD TRYING TO WALK AT LIKE 6:00 PM EVEN LIKE TODAY, YOU GONNA MELT UP THERE
THAT'S WHY WE NEED INDOOR REC CENTERS.
WELL, AND TREES, RIGHT? THE PROBLEM WITH TREES WITH AN INDOOR TRACK, I DON'T KNOW.
I REMEMBER WHEN THEY, WE USED TO HAVE A SPORTS PALACE.
DO YOU REMEMBER WITH THE INDOOR TRACK FROM THE MALL WE PLANTED S**T, I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY HUNDRED, PROBABLY THREE.
EVERY TIME I DRIVE BY THERE I WANT TO CRY BECAUSE THERE'S NO WAY TO WATER.
SO THEN CAN WE SCHEDULE A MEETING FOR NEXT FRIDAY? IS EVERYBODY AVAILABLE TO COME BACK? AND WE'LL HAVE THE INFORMATION IN TERMS OF WHAT'S ALREADY BEEN COMPLETED FROM THE 2015 PLAN AND WHAT'S LEFT LEFTOVER, AND ALSO HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE SERVED WITHIN THE DIFFERENT ARCS.
AND SO THAT SHOULDN'T CHANGE THE PRIORITY, BUT IT MAY CHANGE THE MAKEUP OF EACH OF THE DIFFERENT PLANS ON THE, THE COST ON THE MM-HMM.
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OR DID YOU TAKE INTO ACCOUNT WHAT'S ALREADY BEEN DONE WHEN YOU PROVIDED EACH OF THE BREAKDOWNS PER PARK? WELL, NOT NECESSARILY WHAT WAS ALREADY DONE.UH, IT WAS JUST BASICALLY WHAT WE FEEL THAT THERE'S NEEDS MM-HMM.
UM, AND, AND SOMETHING THAT WE WOULD BE ABLE TO, SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE WOULD USE.
UM, AND SO, LIKE FOR EXAMPLE, HERE AT, AT ROYAL PARK, RIGHT? SO THIS IS KIND OF PRETTY MUCH A, A TRAIL OR, OR CYCLE OR BICYCLE HUB.
UM, AND SO, AND THAT'S WHY WE'VE BEEN FOCUSING ON, UM, CYCLING AMENITIES HERE, RIGHT? SO THERE IS A BA EXISTING BASKETBALL COURT THAT WE WANT TO REFURBISH, UH, PUT A LIGHT ON, PUT LIGHTS ON IT.
UM, AND THEN THE RESTROOMS ARE VERY OLD, SO WE WANNA EITHER, UH, REPLACE THEM, UH, OR RENOVATE THEM IF WE CAN.
AND THEN THERE'S ROOM FOR ADDITIONAL PARKING.
UM, THEN THESE FOUR FIELDS HERE ARE SOFTBALL FIELDS FOR THE GIRLS.
AND SO WE WANT TO LIGHT THOSE.
UM, AND SO THEY'RE ALWAYS, UM, TRYING TO USE THESE TWO BECAUSE THEY'RE, THEY'RE, UM, THEY'RE LIGHTED.
UM, AND THEN OF COURSE, WE JUST BUILT THAT PUMP TRACK HERE.
UH, THIS RIGHT HERE, THIS TRAIL IS, IS SOMETHING THAT DAVID AND HIS GROUP WANTED TO PROPOSE TO US, WHICH IS AN ADAPTIVE, UH, TRAIL.
UM, AND IT'S SORT OF A, UM, SORT OF, IT GIVES YOU THE, THE SIMULATION OF, UH, OFF-ROAD, BUT IT'S FOR ADAPTIVE, UH, FOR, FOR PEOPLE IN WHEELCHAIRS.
UM, SO ANYWAY, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE, WE WANT TO LOOK AT.
UM, BUT AGAIN, THERE'S, THERE'S STILL A LOT OF GREEN SPACE HERE IN THE MIDDLE, UH, FOR SOMETHING.
IS THERE A REASON ON THIS ONE? IT, IT CAUGHT MY EYE.
IF YOU LOOK AT THE PARKING LOT ON THE LEFT SIDE.
WHY THAT PARKING LOT DOESN'T GO ALL THE WAY TO THE BRUSH LINE.
I JUST MIGHT AS WELL MAXIMIZE HOW MANY PARKING SPOTS WE CAN GET.
UM, WE SENT THIS TO BRENT, UM, AND HE CAME UP WITH THIS WITH A, THE CONCEPTUAL RIGHT? I'M SURE WHEN WE HIRE AN ENGINEER, THEY'LL BE ABLE TO, YOU KNOW, MAXIMIZE, MAXIMIZE THAT IN THAT PUMP TRACK.
IT LOOKS LIKE YOU HAVE ROOM TO EXTEND ON IT ALSO BY WHERE IT'S POSITIONED.
AND SO THAT WAS ONE OF THE IDEAS, RIGHT? AND SO, UM, WAS TO BUILD ONE NEXT TO IT, UM, EITHER FOR YOUNGER KIDS, UH, FOR THE NOVICE WRITERS, UM, OR MAKE IT MORE CHALLENGING EITHER WAY.
UM, AND SO WE'VE ALREADY TALKED TO THE, THE, THE CONTRACTORS THAT WERE OUT THERE.
WE ASKED THEM, UM, WHAT THEY THOUGHT AND THEY SAID, YEAH, DON'T PUT 'EM TOGETHER WHERE YOU CAN USE 'EM TOGETHER, BUT, BUT YOU CAN BUILD IT RIGHT NEXT TO EACH TO, TO THE OTHER ONE.
AND SO THAT WAS THE, THE IDEA, UH, WHEN WE FIRST CAME UP WITH THE PUMP TRACK, UH, CONCEPT WAS, WAS WORKING WITH THE SCHOOL DISTRICT TO TRY TO HAVE A PROGRAM WITH THEM, SORT OF LIKE A CURRICULUM THROUGH, UH, WHATEVER AGE, UH, WE CHOOSE.
RIGHT? BUT THAT THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO, UH, GO OUT THERE, UM, AND LEARN HOW TO RIDE A BIKE.
EVAN, CAN YOU GO TO DIXIELAND? I WAS WONDERING HOW WAS IT? 'CAUSE I KNOW LAST WEEK WHEN WE WERE TALKING ON FRIDAY, YOU WERE MENTIONING HOW WE MIGHT NEED TO RE 'CAUSE WE'RE GONNA BE ADDING HOPEFULLY MORE STUFF LIKE A BASKETBALL COURT.
UM, AND WE MIGHT HAVE TO REDESIGN THE, UM, THE AIR, THE DISC, THE DISCUS, THE GOLF DISCUS.
HOW DO WE DO THAT? WELL, I, I'M NOT SURE, I KNOW THAT MANDO IS, WAS, UH, TRYING TO SET UP A MEETING WITH THE, WITH THE GROUP.
UH, BUT FOR EXAMPLE, THERE'S A, THERE'S A HOLE RIGHT HERE.
UM, AND THERE'S ANOTHER ONE HERE.
AND SO THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT COME HERE, UM, TO THE PAVILION IF THEY RENT IT.
SO IT'S KIND OF DANGEROUS, UH, PEOPLE THROWING THEIR DISCS.
AND SO WE KIND OF WANTED TO RECONFIGURE THAT, UM, THE, UH, COURSE TO MAKE IT SAFER FOR EVERYONE.
UM, AND THEN OF COURSE WE PUT SOME TYPE OF SIGNS, RIGHT.
YOU KNOW, UH, WARNING PEOPLE, IF YOU GO BEYOND THIS POINT, THERE'S, YOU KNOW, FLYING DISC OR, AND SO ON.
SO THIS IS NOT SOMETHING WE'D HAVE TO GET LIKE, UH, YOU KNOW, AN EXPERT TO DO OR ANYTHING WE COULD GET JUST FROM YEAH.
IS THAT ENOUGH? WE COULD GET THEIR INPUT.
I'M SORRY, IS THAT ENOUGH? BASKETBALL COURTS FOR THAT AREA? OH NO.
I WANT MORE BASKETBALL COURTS.
SEE WHAT HAPPENS IS BIG SITAN NO, THIS HERE, HUH? THEY SIT PARK.
NO, THAT'S LIKE, NO, THEY DON'T.
SO WHAT HAPPENS IS THAT THIS AREA HERE IS, IS A HIGH, UH, HIGH PROPERTY OR HIGH LAND, RIGHT? AND THEN IT DROPS DOWN, UH,
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I DUNNO, THREE, FOUR FEET.UM, AND SO THAT'S WHERE THE DISC GOLF IS AT.
AND SO WHAT WE WANNA DO IS BUILD THAT BASKETBALL COURT ON THE TOP, UM, LEVEL.
AND ON GABE ON THIS ONE, THE NUMBER ONE.
UM, 'CAUSE I RE I'VE TALKED TO A LOT OF MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY AND THE NUMBER ONE THING THAT THEY WOULD LIKE, OTHER THAN, YOU KNOW, THE, THE GOLF DISC IS THE BASKETBALL COURTS, IS THEY WANT A CONNECTION TO THE, TO THE MAIN TRAIL.
SO I NEED YOU TO GET ME THAT CONNECTION 'CAUSE IT'S LIKE RIGHT THERE.
LIKE IT'S ABOUT HALF A MILE DOWN FROM DIXIELAND PARK.
IT'S THERE, BUT IT'S NOT THERE.
UM, IT'S A, IT'S A PLANNING GRANT.
AND THAT'S TO GET US FROM THE TERMINUS OF WHERE THE TRAIL IS NOW UP TO DIXIELAND.
AND SO WE'RE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THE BEST ROUTE IS.
AND THAT'S WHAT THAT PLANNING GRANT IS FOR.
YOU KEEPS SENDING ME THE, UH, THE DOCUSIGN AGREEMENT.
NO, IT, IT, THERE'S A MISTAKE ON IT.
BECAUSE YOU SAID, I'M AFRAID THERE MIGHT BE A WAY WE COULD DO IT WITHOUT HAVING TO GET THAT OTHER PIECE OF LAND.
SO ONE OF THE IDEAS THAT WE HAD, AND WE'RE NOT SURE IF IT WOULD WORK, RIGHT, BUT IT IS RIGHT HERE.
THIS IS THE, THE ING AND WATER WORKS.
SO WE WERE THINKING THAT, UH, IT WOULD 'CAUSE BACK HERE AT THE BACK IS THE, UM, THERE'S AN IRRIGATION CANAL AND THERE'S A DRAIN DITCH.
THAT DRAIN DITCH BELONGS TO TXDOT.
AND SO WHAT WE'RE THINKING ABOUT DOING IS WE'VE TALKED TO THEM ALREADY.
THEY SAID THAT WE CAN USE THEIR RIGHT OF WAY.
SO IF WE CONNECT THE ROYAL TRAIL ALONG THAT DRAIN DITCH, WE CAN POSSIBLY MAKE THAT CONNECTION HERE AND THEN TO THE PARK.
'CAUSE THE OTHER WAY WOULD COME UP, UM, ALONG DIXIELAND, WE'D HAVE TO NEGOTIATE WITH THE PROPERTY OWNER OWNER, IF POSSIBLE, AND THEN BRING IT DOWN.
THE OTHER OPTION, OF COURSE, IS TO GO ALONG.
THERE'S AN IRRIGATION CANAL THAT'S JUST SOUTH OF THIS, UH, RESERVOIR AND USE THEIR RIGHT OF WAY AS WELL.
AND NONE OF THAT IS INCLUDED IN THE PRICE FOR THIS, RIGHT? NO, SIR.
NO, THAT'S A SEPARATE PROJECT.
SO THAT WOULD MEAN, UH, CONSIDERED PART OF DIXIELAND PARK IMPROVEMENTS.
UM, BUT WHAT WE WANT TO DO IS, IS THIS PLANNING GRANT IS, UM, IS WHATEVER, WHATEVER, UH, PLAN WE COME UP WITH, UM, IS HAVE SHOVEL READY PRO UH, SHOVEL, SHOVEL READY PLANS SO THAT WE GO TO THEIR NEXT, THE NEXT CYCLE, UH, TO TXDOT AND REQUEST CONSTRUCTION MONEY SO THAT WE CAN FINISH THE, THE TRAIL.
SO HOW WOULD YOUR PEOPLE, JUST THINKING ABOUT IT, COMMISSIONER PEREZ, WOULD YOU WANT TO I PRESUMABLY ADD A WALKWAY FROM THE STREET? LIKE I GUESS THAT TOP RIGHT CORNER, THE ONE THAT'S CLOSEST TO US HOMES, WALKING ALL THE WAY BACK THERE EITHER THAT WAY.
'CAUSE WE, WE WERE ON FRIDAY, WE TOOK A YEAH, YEAH.
SO WE WERE WALKING OR WE'RE DRIVING BY IT, AND THEN WE NOTICED, LIKE IF YOU DO IT BY THE STREET, BY DIXIELAND STREET TO CONNECT MM-HMM.
THE ONLY, UM, LIKE COMMISSIONER PETTY WAS TALKING ABOUT, SO RIGHT HERE BY, UM, ALONG DIXIELAND, THERE'S A, A DRAIN.
AND SO THAT DRAIN CROSSES THE ROAD, CROSSES DIXIELAND.
AND SO WE'D HAVE TO BUILD A BRIDGE OVER THAT.
WHAT DO THEY CALL
AND SO, SO WE'D HAVE TO BUILD SOMETHING TO GO OVER UNLESS WE CROSS DIXIELAND AND THEN COME UP NORTH AND THEN CROSS BACK OVER AFTER THAT.
YOU DON'T WANT TO HAVE TWO CROSSINGS OVER NICKS TODAY.
SO ALL I NEED IS MONEY AGAIN,
I'M SORRY, WHAT? ALL I NEED IS MONEY.
DID YOU BRING YOUR WAND
IT GOT, IT GOT TAKEN AWAY FROM ME.
LEMME SEE IF, CAN YOU, CAN YOU PUT THIS REAL QUICK? THAT'S, THAT'S A, THAT'S A PUMP TRACK.
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WE WILL WORK ON PICKLEBALL FIRST.SO IS THAT, SO THEY, THEY DO, THAT'S MY, THAT'S MY GENRE RIGHT THERE.
SO DO THEY DO LIKE SOCCER AND THEN THEY UTILIZE THE SAME SPACE AND THEN DO BASKETBALL? OR THEY'RE DOING 'EM AT THE SAME TIME? THEY'RE DOING IT AT THE SAME TIME.
SO, SO YOU KICK THE BALL AND SO DEPENDING ON WHAT YOU DO, YOU GET DIFFERENT POINTS, RIGHT? SO IF YOU SHOOT THIS, IF YOU SHOOT A BASKET, YOU GET SO MANY POINTS.
IF YOU KICK IT, I'M NOT SURE IF YOU SAW THOSE LITTLE GOALIES.
IF YOU KICK IT THROUGH THERE, YOU GET SO MANY POINTS.
UM, AND THEN THE GOAL, THE MAIN GOAL OF COURSE, IS ALSO YOU GET SO MANY POINTS.
AND SO, UM, THIS, THIS, UM, SPORT ORIGINATED IN, IN BRAZIL.
AND SO, UM, I SAW IT IN NEW YORK, UH, DOWNTOWN.
THEY HAD A LITTLE, UM, WHAT DO YOU CALL IT? A COURT DOWNTOWN.
AND SO THAT'S WHEN I FIRST SAW IT.
UH, SO LUIS AND I WERE, WERE RESEARCHING IN TRYING TO FIND WHAT THE CORRECT NAME OF IT WAS.
AND SO WE FOUND THIS, THIS VIDEO.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, IT'S SOMETHING UNIQUE.
I MEAN, I DON'T KNOW WHERE ELSE THEY, THEY HAVE IT.
UM, BUT HE SAYS THAT THEY'VE PLAYED SOMETHING SIMILAR IN MATAMOROS.
UM, BUT UM, IT'S A SMALLER COURT.
UM, AND SO, YOU KNOW, JUST SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
I THINK I WOULD LIKE TO SEE GUTIERREZ PARK WITH SOME PICKLEBALL COURTS AND SOME FOOD TRUCKS.
AND THEN IT COULD BE A PLACE WHERE ADULTS AND KIDS COULD HANG OUT.
H JAVIER, HOW FEASIBLE IS IT TO HAVE PICKLEBALL CORDS OUTDOORS? DOES IT HAVE TO BE INDOORS THAT NO, IT DOESN'T HAVE TO HAVE TO BE.
AS LONG AS YOU HAVE THE WINDSCREENS, UH, FOR IT, BECAUSE IT'S A WAFER BALL.
AND SO YEAH, IT'S WHIFFLE LIGHT.
SO YOU HAVE TO HAVE WINDSCREENS TO PROTECT.
YEAH, I WAS, I JUST HAPPENED TO STUMBLE ACROSS ON TV, THE, LIKE, THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP FOR PICKLEBALL AND IT'S OUTDOORS IN THE, THE SETUP LOOKS LIKE A MINI WIMBLEDON OR RIGHT.
THAT'S THE NAME, RIGHT? FOR TENNIS.
I THOUGHT IT WAS SO YOU HAVE BLEACHERS AROUND IT? YEAH, THEY, THE ONE I HAPPENED TO CATCH, IT WAS ALL BLEACHERS OUTSIDE.
THEY EVEN HAD LIKE A SPORTS ANNOUNCERS,
I MEAN, THAT, THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING DIFFERENT FOR THE CITY.
AND THE CITY COULD GET SOME, UM, REVENUE FOR FOOD TRUCKS OR IT COULD BE SET UP WHERE THERE COULD BE, UM, THEY DON'T HAVE TO NECESSARILY BE TRUCKS, BUT A LITTLE COMMERCIAL KITCHENS OR SOMETHING.
I SAW, I, I WAS IN CORPUS, MY BROTHER'S HUGE INTO PICKLEBALL, AND HE SHOWED ME PLACES AND THEY WERE LIKE THE SIZE OF LIKE THE INDOOR ONES, LIKE THE SIZE OF THE OLD SPORTS PALACE.
AND YOU REMEMBER THAT PICKLE? I REMEMBER THE SPORTS P MY NEIGHBOR OWNED IT.
YEAH, THAT'S WHAT I WAS SAYING.
THERE WAS AN INDOOR WALKING TRAIL.
I HAD A HUNG OUT WITH A FRIEND OF MINE FROM, FROM DALLAS, UH, A FEW, UH, ON FRIDAY.
AND UM, HE WAS MENTIONING PICKLEBALL AND DAN WAS ABSOLUTELY ARE, WE'RE LIKE SUPER BEHIND ON THAT.
WELL, THAT'S WHY IT'S A HUGE THING UP NORTH.
SO IF WE WERE TO HAVE SOMETHING LIKE THAT IN THE MIDDLE OF, I MEAN, IT'S RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF TOWN AND IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE A HUGE, HUGE COURT, BUT, AND THEN SOME TYPE OF OPPORTUNITY FOR FOOD AND SNACK, I THINK THAT WOULD CHANGE THE VIBE IN THAT, IN THAT AREA.
ONE THING JUST TOO SMALL, THAT PARK IS TOO SMALL AND THE PARKING WOULD BE, UH, AN ISSUE.
I THINK GOING BACK TO WHAT MR. COMMISSIONER PEREZ IS SAYING IS IF WE GO FOR LIKE A LARGE PLOT OF LAND IN DISTRICT FIVE, I AGREE.
I WOULD SAY BASKETBALL COURTS WOULD PROBABLY BE A GOOD PLACE THERE TOO.
OR MAYBE IT'S ONE OF THOSE, UM, SOCIAL, WHAT IS IT? THE, THE BUTTERFLY, BUTTERFLY GARDEN AND JUST PLANT MAKING IT, YOU KNOW, VIBRANT AND PRETTY.
WELL, HAVE Y'ALL BEEN, HAVE Y'ALL BEEN TO THE PEARL? UM, YEAH.
YOU KNOW, SO THEY HAVE THESE AREAS THAT HAVE ARTIFICIAL TURF, ARTIFICIAL GRASS.
AND THEY HAVE THESE LITTLE PICNIC TABLES, RIGHT.
AND SO THEY HAVE THESE BUSINESSES ON THE SIDE AND THEY, YOU KNOW, COFFEE OR WHATEVER.
AND THEN YOU JUST GO SIT THERE AND IT'S, I MEAN, YOU SEE TONS OF PEOPLE, THEIR DOGS.
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YES.UM, SOMETHING LIKE WOULD BE INTERESTING WOULD BE REALLY NICE.
JUST I HAVEN'T, I HAVEN'T REALLY THOUGHT THIS ONE THROUGH, BUT JUST THINKING OUT LOUD, THAT STREET THAT'S BETWEEN WHERE THAT, THAT THAT PLACE WAS, THAT CLOSED THE SNACK PLACE.
MAYBE POTENTIALLY LIKE SHUTTING THAT LITTLE SECTION DOWN.
AND THEN YOU CAN OPEN THAT UP SO THAT NOW THE REST, THE BUILDING, LIKE ALL THE, THE LITTLE SH SHOPS RIGHT THERE CAN HAVE PATIOS AND YOU NOW HAVE EXPANDED THE SIZE OF GI PARK.
CAN WE DO THAT MARK? HMM? CAN YOU DO THAT? CAN WE DO THAT AS A CITY STREET? YOU COULD SHUT DOWN THE STREET LIKE PERMANENTLY.
LIKE THEY DID IT IN BRASWELL IN FRONT OF THE CAMERON COUNTY COURTHOUSE.
THEY SHUT IT DOWN PERMANENTLY.
WE ALREADY DID THAT BY THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB.
THAT'S ANOTHER, THAT'S A GOOD POINT.
BUT THERE'S, THERE'S NOTICE REQUIREMENTS AND PROCEDURES AND THINGS, BUT SURE.
BUT THE CONCEPT BEING, YEAH, YOU GIVE THOSE PLACES, YOU EXPAND THEM OUT, NICE LITTLE BISTROS.
AND YOU JUST OPEN IT OUT BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT THEY HAVE AT THE PRO.
THEY HAVE A WHOLE FOOD COURT RIGHT.
SO NOW YOU'VE GIVEN THOSE BUSINESSES AN OPPORTUNITY.
AND PEOPLE ARE SITTING DOWN ON THE GRASS JUST READING A BOOK OR DRINKING COFFEE AND HANGING OUT AND ONE THING THAT I WANT.
ONE THING I WANTED TO SHARE, A COUPLE OF OTHER ONES WITH YOU IS, IS HERE IS THE, UM, PENDLETON POOL.
UM, SO WE, WE NEED TO REPAIR THE ROOF.
UM, WE NEED TO REPLASTER THIS, THE, THE SURFACE OF THE POOL.
AND SO THESE ARE QUOTES THAT WE GOT, UM, ABOUT SIX, EIGHT MONTHS AGO.
UH, IT WAS 325 TO REPAIR THE ROOF.
UM, AND THEN TO PLASTER WAS 112.
UM, WE DO NEED TO REPLACE THE LIGHTING AND THEN THE, THE MECHANICAL VENTILATION.
BUT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT, THAT WE DID LOOK AT ALSO IS BECAUSE WE DID HAVE SOME COMPLAINTS ABOUT SHOWERS.
UH, THIS DARK GRAY, UH, SHADED AREA IS THE EXISTING RESTROOMS. AND SO OUR THOUGHT WAS, IS THAT WE'D PUT A, A, UM, ADD ONTO IT AND BUILD SHOWERS.
UM, SO THAT'S, THAT'S AT A COST OF 220,000.
UM, AND OF COURSE THIS IS A SPLASH PAD.
UM, YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY YEARS IT'S, I'VE BEEN HERE 15 AND IT WAS ALREADY HERE.
UM, WE HAVEN'T REPLACED ANY OF THE, THE COMPONENTS.
UM, BUT I THINK WE NEED TO WHAT PART DID YOU SAY? CY HILL? HILL.
AND THEN THIS IS THE PUMP ROOM.
AND SO ONE OF THE THINGS I HAD SHARED WITH, WITH GABE, AND I PUT IT IN THE BUDGET, BUT, UH, SO WE'RE LOOKING AT OTHER WAYS OF MAYBE TRYING TO SKIN THIS CAT.
IS THIS IS THE PUMP ROOM, UH, FILTRATION SYSTEM AND EVERYTHING.
SO, UM, SO RIGHT NOW THIS, SO THIS WATER RESERVOIR IS RIGHT NEXT TO THE, THE SPLASH PAD.
SO THE, THIS IS YOUR WATER SOURCE.
SO WE PUSH WATER FROM HERE TO THE FILTRATION SYSTEM AND THEN WE PUSH IT BACK TO THE SPLASH PAD.
AND SO IT'S NOT WORKING VERY EFFICIENT.
SO YOU CAN SEE THE WATER'S VERY LITTLE PRESSURE.
UM, AND SO THE OTHER OPTION HERE IS COURSES ABANDON THIS TANK AND THE FILTRATION SYSTEM.
AND THEN WE JUST GO DIRECTLY WITH WATER FROM HARING AND WATERWORKS.
UM, BUT WE JUST DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT COST WOULD BE ANNUALLY.
UM, SOME COMMISSIONERS RAISE THE WATER RATE, SO IT'S GONNA BE MORE EXPENSIVE.
THAT WAS EVERY COMMISSIONER, NOT JUST SOME YEAH.
SO THOSE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE NEED TO LOOK AT ALSO, UM, IN, IN THE FUTURE.
UM, AND ONE OTHER THING I WAS GONNA SHOW YOU WAS THAT PENDLETON.
ONE THING THAT WE WERE LOOKING AT WAS THIS COURT RIGHT HERE IS A NEW COURT.
THIS IS PROPOSED AS A CHAMPIONSHIP COURT.
UM, AND THEN WE'D HAVE A PAVILION, AND THEN THESE HERE ARE PICKLEBALL COURTS.
UM, SO WE CAN RUN THAT PROGRAM OUT OF THE TENNIS CENTER.
UM, WE CAN COLLECT THE FEES, WE CAN, YOU KNOW, HAVE THEM RESERVE THE, THE SITES OR THE COURTS AND SO ON.
SO THAT WAS ANOTHER ADDITION THAT WE CAME UP.
THAT'S WHERE, WHERE THE CHAMPIONSHIP FIELD WAS GONNA BE BUILT AT.
THE CHAMPIONSHIP FIELD IS RIGHT HERE.
AND THEN RIGHT BEHIND IT IS A, THE IS A CHAMPIONSHIP COURT.
AND THEN BEHIND IT, THERE'S A FENCE RIGHT HERE THAT SEPARATES IT.
THIS IS WHERE HE WANTED TO BUILD THOSE PICKLEBALL COURTS.
THERE'S NOTHING THERE NOW, RIGHT? THERE'S NOTHING THERE YET.
SO I'LL GET YOU THE REST OF THE INFORMATION Y'ALL ASKED FOR, FOR NEXT FRIDAY, BEFORE NEXT FRIDAY FOR NEXT MEETING.
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OKAY.I'M, I THINK, UM, THANK YOU FOR PUTTING EVERYTHING TOGETHER AND PROVIDING ALL THIS INFORMATION.
UM, I THINK WE HAVE, WE NEED A MOTION FOR ITEM TWO.
I MEAN, UNLESS THERE'S ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR, UH, JAVI YET.
WHAT ARE WE DOING? WE'RE TABLING OR WHAT? NO, I DIDN'T, NO, I THINK THE MOTION WAS, THE MOTION IS GOING TO BE TO, UH, GIVE ANNA, UH, FOUR GRANTS THE TOP 10 MOST EXPENSIVE PROJECTS, COUPLED WITH THE TOP 10 PROJECTS THAT HAVE THE MOST, UH, PARTICIPATION OR USE ON THOSE, UH, ON THOSE PARKS AND THAT ARE BEST FOR THE PRO, THE GRANT THAT SHE'S
YOU THEN HAVE THE DISCRETION SAY WHICH, UH, GRANT APPLIES BEST TO WHICH, UH, PARK.
SO THAT, UH, THAT WE GET 'EM DONE.
I HOPE, I DUNNO IF THAT'S APPROPRIATE.
UM, JUST WANTED TO, UH, SAY, UH, TWO QUICK THINGS WHEN YOU'RE CONSIDERING PROJECTS.
ONE, UH, KIND OF DIFFERENTIATE MAINTENANCE VERSUS ACTUAL AMENITIES.
AND THEN THE SECOND THING WILL BE, UM, THE TIME, UH, BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE THERE'S THIS PRESSURE RIGHT AFTER WE GET THE GRANT, WE CELEBRATE AND THEN PEOPLE WANNA SEE ACTION RIGHT AWAY.
AND SO TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE, UM, GRANTS, IT'S BEEN A YEAR.
I MEAN, IT'S GONNA BE A YEAR BEFORE WE CAN ACTUALLY YEAR AND A HALF, MAYBE BEFORE, BEFORE WE CAN ACTUALLY BREAK GROUND ON VICTOR PARK.
IF YOU WANT SOMETHING DONE FAST, FIXED FAST, THE GRANT'S NOT GONNA BE THE RIGHT, UH, FUNDING MECHANISM FOR THAT.
SO BASKETBALL COURTS, WE SHOULDN'T RELY ON THE GRANTS FOR BASKETBALL COURTS.
AND I THINK ACTUALLY THAT WAS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I, I THINK I HAD ASKED, UM, FROM GABE, IS TO PRESENT TO THE COMMISSION WHEN, WHAT THE PLAN WAS FOR VICTOR PARK, BECAUSE THAT IS THE CONCERN PEOPLE WANNA KNOW, JUST LIKE THEY WANNA KNOW ABOUT COMMERCE AND THEY JUST YEAH.
YOU KNOW, AND, AND WE UNDERSTAND, BUT HAVING THAT, UH, AND BEING TRANSPARENT WITH THAT, I THINK IS, IS IMPORTANT.
BUT DOESN'T MEAN WE DON'T WANNA STILL GO AFTER THAT MONEY.
BUT AS LONG AS WE'RE CLEAR THAT IT'S GONNA TAKE SOME TIME, YOU KNOW, TO START RIGHT.
I, I THINK THAT PUBLIC WORKS CAN HELP US WITH SOME OF THE BASKETBALL COURTS.
I REALLY THINK THAT WE NEED TO ALSO, AND I, AND I KEEP, NOT TO BELABOR THE POINT, BUT WE NEED TO BE CONSCIOUS THAT IT, WE ARE IN SOUTH TEXAS AND IT'S REALLY HOT AND THAT THE KIDS NEED, UH, KIDS AND FAMILIES NEED SHADE, UH, FOR THE SPORTS THAT ARE HAPPENING IN THE DIFFERENT PARKS.
AND MAYBE THAT'S A COST THAT WE NEED TO ABSORB AS A CITY TO BE ABLE TO GET THAT DONE AND NOT WAIT ALL THAT LONG TIME TO BE ABLE TO DO IT AS PART OF THE WHOLE PROCESS.
THAT THOSE, THAT'S, THAT'S MY PERSONAL, UM, POSITION OPINION.
I DON'T KNOW IF EVERYBODY SHARES IT, BUT I THINK THAT NEEDS TO BE A PRIORITY BECAUSE EVERY DAY YOU, YOU, YOU KNOW, YOU WATCH THE NEWS AND THERE'S A KID THAT HAS, YOU KNOW, DIED OF HEAT STROKE OR IS IN THE HOSPITAL BECAUSE OF THAT.
AND WE NEED TO, TO DO OUR PART, IT'S GONNA GET, KEEP GETTING HOTTER AND HOTTER.
UM, AND WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF SUMMER, SO I KNOW THAT IT'S, UM, BEN VITAS PARK AND PRECINCT ONE, I WANNA SAY THEY J JUST DID A, UH, THEY DID BASKETBALL COURTS THERE AND THEN THEY PUT UP ONE OF THOSE COVERINGS THAT YOU SEE, LIKE A, UH, S COURTS ELEMENT ENTRY.
AND THE OLD, REMEMBER WHEN GROWING UP, THE OLD, UH, UH, REALLY OLD ELEMENTARIES, THEY WOULD HAVE THE OUTDOOR BASKETBALL COURTS AND THEN THEY BUILT THAT CON LIKE THAT, UH, CEMENT, CEMENT THAT COULD NOT THE HOUSE SHADING ON THE BUS, KIND OF LIKE THESE OH YEAH.
IT'S A LITTLE MORE HEAVY DUTY, BUT YEAH.
AND THEY'RE REALLY HIGH AND THEY'RE GINORMOUS.
THOSE ARE THE ONES, AND I THINK THAT WE JUST NEED TO BE, AS WE'RE LOOKING TOWARDS THE FUTURE ON ALL PROJECTS, WE NEED TO BE CONSIDERING, CONSIDERING THAT AND HOW WE CAN IMPLEMENT THAT.
SO THIS IS ONE THAT IDEA, RIGHT? SO YEAH, WHEN I GOT OFF THE INTERNET, SO THIS, THIS IS A COVERED BASKETBALL COURT.
UM, IT'S LIKE, IT COMES RIGHT, LIKE IT COMES YEAH.
AND SO THIS, THESE RESTROOMS HERE, THESE ARE PREFAB RESTROOMS AND THAT'S WHAT I PRICED ON THE, ON THE BUDGETS.
UM, AND THAT'S, I LIKED YOUR MIX OF THE, THE CONCESSION AND THE RESTROOM.
THAT MM-HMM,
WELL THEY HAVEN'T, YOU KNOW, AT ALL.
THAT'S THE WAY IT IS AT THE STADIUM.
THAT'S THE WAY IT IS LIKE A VICTOR.
THAT'S THE WAY IT'S AT THE STADIUM WHEN YOU GO TO THE GAME THERE.
UH, I HAVEN'T BEEN TO BOGUS IN A WHILE.
YOU GO TO THE, YOU GO TO THE CONCESSION AND RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER OF THE RESTROOM.
THIS IS THAT SHADED, UM, BLEACHER THAT I WAS, THAT I WAS SHARING WITH YOU? MM-HMM.
THIS IS THE IDEA THAT WE HAVE.
WELL WE KNOW WE HAVE A LOT OF MONEY THAT WE NEED TO COLLECT.
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SO ANYTHING ELSE, JAVIER? WELL, IS, SO YEAH.WE'RE, ARE WE DONE WITH
SO ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
OPPOSED? DID HE LEAVE? OH YEAH.
AND SO JUST TO RECAP, WE'RE GONNA HAVE ANOTHER MEETING, NOT THIS FRIDAY, BUT NEXT FRIDAY AT FIVE 30.
WE HAVE DINNER IN THE, UM, EXECUTIVE CHAMBERS.
DO I NEED TO PICK THEM UP OR NO, WE BROUGHT 'EM OVER, RIGHT? OSCAR? THEY'LL BE HERE.
JUST THROW 'EM IN THE TRUCK AND I'LL THROW 'EM IN THE TRUCK.