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          OKAY. 
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UM, I WOULD LIKE TO CALL THE NOVEMBER 15TH, 2023 MEETING OF THE RECREATION, MUSIC AND PARKS COMMISSION TO ORDER. 
          UM, CLERK, CAN WE PLEASE TAKE ROLL CALL. 
          MARIA MARIANNE ELLI. 
          HERE. 
          CODY CHISHOLM? HERE. 
          STACEY EARL? HERE. 
          KATE GREENSPAN. 
          HERE. 
          MEGAN KELLY? HERE. 
          HANNAH. 
          ROSA SIMMONS. 
          HERE. 
          KAREN. 
          NOW HERE. 
          GREAT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          NOW LET'S STAND AND SAY THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. 
          I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE PLAN OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS. 
          ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. 
          OKAY, CLERK, ARE THERE ANY 
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IN-PERSON? UH, GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENTS? I KNOW THAT WE HAD ONE ONLINE COMMENT. 
          THERE ARE NO IN-PERSON COMMENTS. 
          UM, AT THIS TIME THERE WAS ONE GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT SUBMITTED, AND THEN ONE, UM, GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENTS SUBMITTED FOR ITEM NUMBER ONE THAT WERE POSTED TO THE AGENDA PRIOR TO THE MEETING. 
          GREAT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OKAY. 
          WE 
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ARE GOING TO START WITH OUR PRESENTATIONS FOR THE EVENING. 
          UH, FIRST UP WE HAVE RELEASE, UH, FALL AND WINTER 2023 AND 2024 TREE PLANTING PROJECT DESIGN PLANS. 
          UH, THESE PARKS HAVE IDENTIFIED THE NEXT ROUND OF PLANTINGS THAT INCLUDES GRANT PARK, ANNA MEADOW, LA TURNBRIDGE PARK, AND FOX HOLLOW PARK. 
          DREW, WOULD YOU LIKE TO TAKE IT FROM HERE? UH, SURE. 
          UH, BE HAPPY TO INTRODUCE CAROLINE LACERA FROM RELEAF PETALUMA, UH, WHO'S BEEN WORKING VERY CLOSELY WITH OUR, OUR PARTNERS, WENDY JACOBS, WHO YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH. 
          UM, AND CINDY CHONG, YOUR SUPERINTENDENT OF PARKS AND FACILITIES TO FACILITATE, UH, THIS NEXT ROUND OF PARK TREE PLANTING PROGRAMS. SO, UH, EXCITED TO INTRODUCE CAROLYN. 
          WE'LL, WE'LL WALK THROUGH THE PARKS, THE PROPOSED DESIGNS AND HERSELF, CINDY AND I ARE AVAILABLE FOR QUESTIONS AFTERWARDS, SO TAKE IT AWAY. 
          IT'S NICE TO SEE YOU ALL AGAIN. 
          UM, LIKE DREW SAID, I'M HERE TO PRESENT THE SIX PARKS TO OUR NEXT PROPOSED PLANTINGS. 
          SO, UM, THIS TIME WE HAVE $62,000 GRANT FOR FIVE PARKS AND FOUR SCHOOLS, AND IT'S FUNDED BY CAL FIRE, CALIFORNIA RELIEF AND CALIFORNIA CLIMATE INVESTMENTS. 
          SO THESE ARE THE PARKS THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO PLANT IN GRANT PARK, ANNAS MEADOW, LAER TURNBRIDGE AND FOX HOLLOW. 
          AND THEY TOTAL ABOUT 95 TREES. 
          UM, THESE ARE THE SPECIES THAT OUR, UM, TREE EXPERTS HAVE DECIDED ON. 
          UH, WHITE ALDER, CALIFORNIA, BUCKEYE COAST, REDWOOD NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, BLACK WALNUT, VALLEY OAKS, BLACK OAKS COAST, LIVE OAKS, BLUE OAKS, AND WESTERN SYCAMORE. 
          AGAIN, WE'RE WORKING WITH OUR FABULOUS PARTNERS. 
          UM, OF COURSE, THE CITY OF PETALUMA REBUILDING TOGETHER AND PETALUMA PEOPLE SERVICES. 
          SO, UM, WE ACTUALLY HAVE COMPLETED OUR OUTREACH ALREADY. 
          SO WHAT WE DID WAS WE, UM, ALERTED ALL THE PEOPLE WHO USE THE PARKS, UM, AND LIVE IN THE SURROUNDING AREAS. 
          WE PUT UP, UH, SANDWICH BOARDS TO ANNOUNCE THAT WE HAVE THIS PROPOSED PLANTING. 
          UM, WE HAD DAYS WHERE WE HAD OUR OUTREACH TEAM AT THE PARK SO THAT, UM, WE COULD TALK TO PEOPLE WHO WERE JUST WALKING BY IN THE PARK. 
          WE LEAFLETED HOUSES ALL AROUND THE PARKS AND LET THEM KNOW OF OUR ZOOM COMMUNITY ZOOM MEETING SO WE COULD TALK ABOUT WHAT WE WANTED TO DO IN THE PARKS, AND THEN ALSO, UM, GO THROUGH THE WHOLE PLAN AND THEN THEY COULD ASK QUESTIONS. 
          UM, AND THAT WAS A SUCCESS. 
          . 
          THESE ARE THE, UH, SANDWICH BOARDS THAT WE PUT AROUND THE PARKS, AND WE WILL BE PUTTING UP, UM, PERMANENT INTERPRETIVE SIGNS AT EACH PARK. 
          AND THIS IS WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE. 
          THEY KIND OF, UM, EDUCATE THE COMMUNITY ON WHY WE'RE PLANTING TREES. 
          SO THIS IS THE FIRST PARK 
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THAT'S PROPOSED, ANNAS MEADOW. 
          AND WE WE'LL BE, UM, PUTTING THREE BLACK OAKS IN THE PARK. 
          THE NEXT ONE IS GRANT PARK, WHERE WE WILL BE ADDING, UM, EIGHT COAST REDWOODS TO REDWOOD TREES THAT ARE ALREADY THERE. 
          LAER PARK. 
          UM, WE'LL BE GETTING SIX WHITE ALDERS, FIVE COAST LIVE OAKS, AND THREE BLACK OAKS TURN BRIDGE PARK. 
          UM, WE'LL BE GETTING THREE BUCKEYES, SIX NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BLACK WALNUT, FIVE COAST LIVE OAKS, AND THREE BLUE OAKS ALL ALONG THAT WALKWAY. 
          AND THE LAST PARK, FOX HOLLOW PARK. 
          UM, WE'VE GOT SEVEN CALIFORNIA BUCKEYES, EIGHT WESTERN SYCAMORE, 16 COAST LIVE OAK, 17 BLUE OAK, AND FIVE VALLEY OAK. 
          AND, UM, OUR PLANTING DATES ARE COMING UP. 
          UM, OUR PROPOSED PLANTING DATES DECEMBER 2ND AND DECEMBER 16TH. 
          AND, UM, WE HAD A WONDERFUL PLANTING TWO SATURDAYS AGO. 
          UM, AND THESE ARE SOME PICTURES FROM THE PLANTING AND WE HOPE THAT YOU CAN ALL BE THERE. 
          DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU FOR THAT PRESENTATION. 
          DOES ANYONE ON THE COMMISSION HAVE CLARIFYING QUESTIONS? MEGAN, THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          I ALWAYS LOVE HEARING FROM RELIEF THAT YOU GUYS ARE SO AMAZING AND SO POWERFUL. 
          THANK YOU. 
          MY QUESTION IS MORE FOR DREW AND CINDY, UM, TWO OF THOSE PARKS THAT WERE LISTED, ANNA'S MEADOWS AND LARA ON OUR, ON OUR PLAYGROUND REPLACEMENT AND HOPEFULLY OUTSIDE OF OUR PLAYGROUND REPLACEMENT, WE'LL DO A LITTLE PARK REIMAGINING IF THERE'S ANY ROOM FOR THAT. 
          THERE ISN'T ALWAYS, BUT WHO KNOWS? THERE COULD BE. 
          AND I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THAT'S BEEN TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION IN CHOOSING WHERE THESE TREES ARE GONNA BE PLANTED. 
          BECAUSE IF WE'RE REIMAGINING A PARK, I WOULD HATE FOR TREES TO BE PLANTED AND THEN THAT HINDER THE REST OF THE RE-IMAGINING. 
          YEAH, SO GENERALLY WHEN, WHENEVER WE'RE LOOKING AT THE TREES, WE LOOK AT THAT AND SEE THINGS THAT WE MIGHT USE FOR PROPOSED SPACE. 
          SO YOU'LL NOTICE BOTH AT ANA'S MEADOWS, IT'S REPLACING THE TREES THAT, THE MATRIC TREES THAT HAD TO BE TAKEN OUT OF ANNA'S MEADOWS. 
          AND THEN AT LARA IT'S ALONG THE PATHWAYS AND ALONG THE EDGE ALONG THE SCHOOL. 
          SO THOSE ARE, YOU KNOW, WE ALWAYS DO THAT WITHIN MIND. 
          NOW IF THE MASTER PLAN FOR THE PARK CALLS FOR LIKE IT'S A MEADOW, THEN IT'S MORE OF LIKE, YOU KNOW, WE MIGHT FILL IT IN MORE 'CAUSE IT'S MEANT TO BE MORE MEADOW LIKE, BUT IF IT COULD BE MIXED USE SPACE AND, UM, YOU KNOW, TURN BRIDGE IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF THAT, RIGHT WHEN WE SAT DOWN AND WENT THROUGH THE PLAN, WE'RE LIKE, HEY, WE NEED SOME SHADE TREES HERE BECAUSE THERE'S NONE. 
          BUT WE KEPT IT ALONG THE PATHWAYS THAT ARE PREEXISTING. 
          SO YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. 
          ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? NO, I'D LIKE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE PUBLIC COMMENT, ONLINE PUBLIC COMMENT THAT WE GOT FROM SUSAN KIRK'S. 
          UM, I DO THINK THAT THAT COMMENT WAS A LITTLE BIT MORE DIRECTED TO ITEM NUMBER TWO. 
          UM, BUT I DO WANNA ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WE HAVE IT. 
          DO WE HAVE ANY, UH, PUBLIC COMMENT FROM ANYONE IN PERSON? OKAY. 
          NO, UH, PUBLIC COMMENT. 
          UM, ANY COMMENTS FROM THE COMMISSION? WOW, THEY'RE SILENT. 
          THIS IS FANTASTIC, . 
          HOPE THAT'S A GOOD SIGN. 
          UM, THANK YOU FOR THIS PRESENTATION. 
          IT'S ALWAYS GREAT TO HEAR, UM, EVERYTHING THAT RELIEF IS DOING FOR OUR CITY AND ALL OF THE PLANTINGS. 
          WE LOOK FORWARD TO IT. 
          AND, UH, I'LL BE SHOVEL READY FOR SURE. 
          UM, WELL THANKS SO MUCH FOR THAT. 
          AND WE THANK THE CITY FOR, UM, ALL THE SUPPORT YOU GIVE RELIEF, SO THANKS VERY MUCH. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OKAY, WE WILL MOVE ON TO ITEM NUMBER TWO. 
          THIS IS FROM DAILY ACTS, THE PARK LINE DESIGN, UH, PARK LAND DESIGN CONCEPTS AND CL FOR CLIMATE ADAPTATION AND RESILIENT LANDSCAPES. 
          WE'D LIKE TO REVIEW AND PROVIDE INPUT ON INITIAL PARK LANDSCAPE DESIGN CONCEPTS, UTILIZING CLIMATE RESILIENT BEST PRACTICES AND FUNDING THROUGH THE URBAN AND MULTI-BENEFIT DROUGHT RELIEF PROJECT GRANT FUNDS. 
          UH, BRIANNA SCHAFER PROGRAM DIRECTOR OF DAILY ACTS, AND LIZ PLATT, UH, BURO EO FROM CLIMATE RE RESILIENCE PROGRAMS, UH, IN MANAGER AT DAILY ACTS. 
          DID I GET THAT? THAT WAS ALL ONE THING. 
          I WASN'T SURE IF SHOULDA BEEN A . 
          GRAVITY IS NOT A SONG. 
          YES. 
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IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN A COMMA A COMMA IN THERE OR NOT. 
          UM, THEY WILL TAKE US THROUGH THIS PRESENTATION, SWAP YOU OUT. 
          UM, SO I, I WANTED TO INTRODUCE MYSELF. 
          MY NAME IS JESS GALLAGHER AND, UM, LIZ, UH, BRIANNA IS NOT HERE TONIGHT, BUT I'M HERE WITH MY COLLEAGUE LIZ. 
          UM, AND I'M THE LAND RESILIENCE PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM MANAGER. 
          SO, UM, WE'D LOVE TO TELL YOU ABOUT OUR, I JUST SAW THAT DREW WANTED TO, HE MIGHT, HE MIGHT WANNA DO AN INTRO. 
          I, I DID FORGET TO HAVE HIM DO THAT. 
          YEAH, EITHER WAY. 
          I COULD BE THE FRONT OR THE BACK, BUT YOU ALREADY HAD IT GOING, SO I'M A LITTLE NERVOUS. 
          WE'LL HAVE ANOTHER ONE, . 
          BUT YEAH, I MEAN, REALLY BEFORE, UM, LOOKS LIKE YOU'VE GOT YOUR SLIDES READY TO GO, BUT JUST REALLY QUICK FOR THE, THE COMMISSION, UH, AND, AND COMMUNITY, UH, HERE TONIGHT. 
          TO ADD A LITTLE BIT OF CONTEXT TO, YOU KNOW, HOW, HOW THIS CAME ABOUT BEFORE WE, WE TURNED THE REINS OVER, UH, UM, DAILY HAS BEEN A TREMENDOUS PARTNER IN COORDINATION WITH THE CITY AND, AND MANY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS, UH, TO REALLY HELP, UH, INSTALL THESE, SOME OF THESE DEMONSTRATION SITES THAT ENGAGE OUR COMMUNITY, UH, ON EDUCATION AND BENEFITS, CREATING MORE RESILIENT AND CLIMATE-FRIENDLY ANY LANDSCAPES. 
          SO TONIGHT YOU'LL HEAR ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY TO WORK WITH DAILY ACTS ON SOME REGENERATIVE LANDSCAPES WITHIN SEVERAL PARK SITES THAT WE WORK TOGETHER TO IDENTIFY BASED ON SOME GRANT CRITERIA, BUT ALSO, UM, IDENTIFIED NEED AND, AND SITE CONSTRAINTS. 
          SO, YOU KNOW, THIS IS A PRESENTATION ITEM SO WE'RE NOT, UM, PUTTING THIS IN FRONT OF THE COMMISSION INPUT FOR, UM, YOU KNOW, RECOMMENDATIONS ON ULTIMATE LOCATIONS, SCOPE, ET CETERA. 
          BUT IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT BEFORE WE KIND OF SET, UM, THIS PARTNERSHIP LOOSE TO GET ALL THE INFORMATION AND THE FEEDBACK ON SITES AND WHAT IT FEELS RIGHT, UM, WHERE SHOULD WE PUT KIND OF THAT ENERGY, UM, AND RESOURCES IN TO, TO FULLY, YOU KNOW, NAIL DOWN THESE DESIGNS BEFORE WE GET TO THAT POINT. 
          SO WE'RE TRYING TO COME EARLY AND OFTEN THAT'S THE POINT OF TONIGHT. 
          AND THAT'S REALLY WHAT I WANTED TO DO IS TEE UP. 
          SO WITH THAT, JESS AND LIZ, WE'LL WE'LL HAND IT BACK TO YOU AND LOOKING FORWARD TO IT. 
          THANKS. 
          THANKS. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU DREW. 
          UM, SO YEAH, OUR DAILY ACTS MISSION IS TO INSPIRE TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION THAT CREATES CONNECTED, EQUITABLE AND CLIMATE RESILIENT COMMUNITY. 
          UM, WE COMMUNITIES, WE DO THIS THROUGH MANY OF OUR PROGRAMS. AND, UM, OUR NEXT SLIDE IS OUR AGENDA. 
          WHAT WE'D LIKE TO JUST REALLY QUICKLY GO OVER IS, UM, JUST AN OVERVIEW OF ONE OF OUR PROGRAMS, WHICH IS THE LAND RESILIENCE PARTNERSHIP, UM, WHAT OUR PROGRAM GOALS ARE, OUR EXISTING PARTNERSHIPS, AND THEN SOME COMPONENTS OF, UM, THE PROGRAM AND THEN OUR PROPOSED PARKS, WHICH WE HAVE FIVE. 
          AND THEN JUST SOME DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE PLANS, AND THEN ANY QUESTIONS WE COULD ANSWER. 
          SO THE LAND RESILIENCE PARTNERSHIP IS FUNDED BY THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES. 
          IT'S A WONDERFUL PROGRAM AND REALLY OUR GOALS, UM, ARE, UH, DEDICATED TO THE CITY OF PETALUMA CURRENTLY, UM, WHERE WE CONDUCT 150 RESIDENTIAL SITE ASSESSMENTS. 
          UM, AND OF THOSE 150 SITE ASSESSMENTS AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT LANDS, AND THIS IS ALSO OPEN TO BOTH LANDOWNERS AND RENTERS, UM, JUST HOW THEY CAN GET THE MOST USE OUT OF, UM, THEIR LAND AND BECOME LAND STEWARDS. 
          UM, SO JUST ADDRESSING EVERYTHING FROM, UM, FLOODING TO HEAT, ET CETERA. 
          UM, AND THEN OF THOSE 150 RESIDENTIAL SITES, WE WOULD DO 70 INSTALLS, WHICH WE JUST COMPLETED OUR FIRST, UH, ROUND OF RESIDENTIAL INSTALLS. 
          SO, UM, WE CAN TALK ABOUT WHAT THAT, UM, INCLUDES LATER. 
          AND THEN ADDITIONALLY, WE WOULD BE INSTALLING FIVE PUBLIC, UM, PARK SITES, SO, SO PUBLIC SITES, AND THEN IN PARTNERSHIP WITH FOUR SCHOOLS. 
          SO WE JUST, UM, COMPLETED OUR SCHOOL INSTALLATION NOVEMBER 4TH, UM, WHICH WAS, UH, VERY HEAVILY, UM, ENGAGED AND WE HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE THERE. 
          UM, SO, UM, WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO MORE PARTNERSHIPS AND, UM, PRODUCTION. 
          AND THEN THE PRIORITY AREA FOR US IS THE EAST SIDE OF PETALUMA AND ALSO REALLY, UM, SERVING DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES. 
          UM, AND THEN OUR TIMEFRAME IS EVERY, ALL OF OUR PROJECTS NEED TO BE COMPLETED BY DECEMBER, 2025. 
          UM, AND SO REALLY, UM, THE LAND RESILIENCE PARTNERSHIP IS REALLY A HOLISTIC APPROACH AND IT'S A HUB IN ENGAGING ALL, UM, ALL CLIMATE IMPACTS. 
          UM, SO, SUCH AS, AS I MENTIONED, HEAT, FLOOD, UM, WATER CONSERVATION, ET CETERA. 
          UM, AND I SHOULD, SORRY, I SHOULD, BASICALLY WITH A SITE ASSESSMENT, WE WOULD LOOK AT AN INDIVIDUAL PROPERTY AND SEE, YOU KNOW, UH, EXACTLY WHAT THE 
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NEEDS ARE FOR THAT LAND TO ADDRESS THE IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE. 
          UM, AND THESE ARE SOME OF OUR WONDERFUL PARTNERSHIPS, I SHOULD MENTION THAT RELIEF. 
          WE, WITH THESE PROJECTS, WE DO CONSIDER, UM, THEIR PLANS AS WELL. 
          SO THEY'RE A WONDERFUL PARTNER AS, UM, AS WELL AS SONOMA RCD, WHO WE HAVE REPRESENTATION HERE. 
          BUT REALLY OUR PARTNERSHIPS REALLY REPRESENT, UM, THE NEEDS OF OUR COMMUNITY AND ALSO THE ENGAGEMENT OF OUR COMMUNITY. 
          UM, AND OUR PLAN, AGAIN, OUR PLAN IS TO ALIGN WITH, UM, YOU KNOW, OUR PARTNERS, UM, TO WORK WELL AND COLLABORATIVELY JUST AS LRP DOES. 
          IT'S A HOLISTIC APPROACH IN PARTNERSHIPS AS WELL. 
          AND, UM, SO OUR PROPOSED PARKS, OUR ME WALK PARK, LARA PARK, MCDOWELL PARK, LUC CASEY PARK, AND SUNRISE PARK. 
          AND I'M GOING TO HAND OVER, UM, THE REST OF THE PRESENTATION TO MY WONDERFUL COLLEAGUE, LIZ. 
          GREAT, THANKS JESS. 
          ALRIGHT, SO FOR ALL OF THE PARKS THAT WE'RE GOING TO INTRODUCE, THEY'RE ALL GOING TO INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING PRO UH, COMPONENTS, ALL OF WHICH ARE GOING TO HELP US STORE WATER ON SITE, SLOW SPREAD AND SINK WATER VERSUS SENDING WATER INTO THE STORM DRAINS. 
          ALL OF THESE COMPONENTS ARE GOING TO HELP TO SEQUESTER CARBON AND BUILD HABITAT. 
          NEXT SLIDE. 
          . 
          AWESOME. 
          SO ME WALK PARK IS ONE OF THE FIRST PARKS THAT WE ARE HOPING TO COMPLETE A PROJECT WITHIN. 
          WE ALREADY HAVE A PARTNERSHIP WITH ME WALK SCHOOL, AND WE HAVE PERMISSION TO SHEET MULCH WITHIN THEIR FENCED BORDER, UH, OVER AT ME WALK. 
          WE ALSO WOULD LIKE TO BE ABLE TO INSTALL A SERIES OF RAIN GARDENS IN SWALES, UH, STRATEGICALLY INSTALL THEM IN AREAS IN WHICH FLOODING DOES OCCUR, AGAIN TO HELP TO REDUCE ANY STORMWATER POLLUTION AND KEEPING THAT WATER ON SITE. 
          THE GREEN PLANTINGS ON THIS SLIDE AND ON THE, THE REST OF THE SLIDES ARE ALL REPRESENTING, UH, PROPOSED PLANTINGS FOR RELIEF. 
          THERE MIGHT BE SOME, UH, NEWER ITERATIONS, BUT JUST WANNA UNDERSCORE THAT WE ARE CONSIDERING, UH, PLANTINGS THAT ARE ALREADY OCCURRING AT THESE SITES. 
          LARA AS WELL. 
          WE WOULD LIKE TO SHEET MULCH, UH, UM, IN THE AREA THAT IS ADJACENT TO PEGGY LANE AND, UM, THE OTHER STREET NAME IS ESCAPING ME RIGHT NOW. 
          BUT WE WOULD ALSO LIKE TO INCLUDE A SERIES OF RAIN GARDENS, SIMILARLY, TO KEEP WATER ON SITE. 
          IT'S WORTH NOTING THAT THE CLIMATE APPROPRIATE PLANTING THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO BE CONSIDERING WOULD BE UNDERSTORY TO THE TREES THAT ARE GOING IN WITH RELIEF. 
          AND I'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT LATER ON ABOUT THE MULTITUDE OF BENEFITS THAT WOULD FOLLOW WITH THE CLIMATE APPROPRIATE PLANTING. 
          MCDOWELL PARK. 
          THIS PARK IS REALLY WELL POSITIONED FOR A LARGE SWALE AND RAIN GARDEN, UM, WHICH IS REPRESENTED BY THAT NEON GREEN, UM, OVAL SHAPE. 
          THAT AREA EXPERIENCES A LOT OF FLOODING AND WOULD REALLY BENEFIT FROM SOME INTENTIONAL DESIGN TO HELP TO KEEP THAT WATER ON SITE AND REDUCE ANY SORT OF FLOODING, UH, NEGATIVE IMPACTS THAT ARE CURRENTLY OCCURRING ON THAT LANDSCAPE. 
          LOU CASEY PARK. 
          SIMILARLY TO THE REST, WE WOULD LIKE TO INSTALL A SERIES OF CLIMATE APPROPRIATE PLANTINGS, SHEET MULCHING, BIOSWALES AND RAIN GARDENS. 
          AND AT THIS PARK AS WELL, WE WOULD LIKE TO INSTALL A RAINWATER CATCHMENT SYSTEM CLOSE TO THE BUILDING TO HELP TO STORE WATER TO OFFSET, UH, WATERING NEEDS AROUND THE BUILDING. 
          BUT ALSO AS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR, UM, WATER RESERVES FOR EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS SUNRISE PARK. 
          AGAIN, SIMILARLY, WE WOULD DO A SERIES OF SHEET MULCHING, CLIMATE APPROPRIATE PLANTINGS ON THIS PARK. 
          THERE IS REPRESENTED A MO STRIP TO HELP TO ENSURE THAT MAINTENANCE IS EASIER FOR OUR PARKS CREW. 
          UM, BUT AGAIN, PLANTING, UM, SWALES RAIN GARDENS SHEET MULCHING. 
          ONE THING THAT I HAVE FORGOTTEN TO MENTION IN THESE IS EACH PARK WOULD ALSO INCLUDE A SERIES OF IRRIGATION RETROFITS TO HELP TO ENSURE THAT THE DISTRIBUTION UNIFORMITY FROM OUR SPRINKLERS WOULD, UM, BE TARGETED TO THE PLANTINGS THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE INSTALLED. 
          SO IT'S ESSENTIAL THAT WE ARE CONSIDERING ALL OF THE FOLLOWING CONSIDERATIONS WHEN WE ARE DESIGNING A LANDSCAPE. 
          SO THAT WOULD BE PLANT SELECTION. 
          AGAIN, CLIMATE APPROPRIATE PLANTING IS REALLY WHAT WE'RE STRIVING FOR, MEANING THAT WE ARE GONNA BE WORKING WITH PLANTS THAT ARE ADAPTED TO THIS CLIMATE. 
          PLANTS THAT ARE ADAPTED TO THIS CLIMATE REQUIRE LESS WATER, THEY REQUIRE LESS MAINTENANCE, AND LONG-TERM WILL BE MORE RESILIENT THAN, UH, NON-NATIVE PLANTS. 
          WE LIKE TO PLANT DENSELY TO HELP TO REDUCE WEED SUPPRESSION AND REDUCE THE OPPORTUNITY FOR WEEDS TO COME THROUGH. 
          WE WOULD LIKE TO INSTALL MOST STRIPS WHEREVER SEEMS APPROPRIATE. 
          AGAIN, TO HELP TO ENSURE THAT OUR PARKS DEPARTMENT CAN EASILY MAINTAIN A LAWN'S EDGE. 
          IRRIGATION RETROFITS WILL INCREASE THE EFFICIENCY OF OUR WATERING AND RAIN GARDENS AND SWALES WILL HELP TO REDUCE FLOODING AS WELL AS REDUCE STORM WATER POLLUTION WITH ALL LANDSCAPE RETROFITS. 
          IT'S ALSO INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT TO CONSIDER MAINTENANCE AND WHAT OUR MAINTENANCE NEEDS ARE GOING TO BE. 
          SO WHEN WE ARE SHEET MULCHING A SITE, IT IS IMPORTANT THAT WE 
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ADVISE THE CLIENT THAT THEY REPLENISH THAT MULCH ABOUT EVERY TWO YEARS, AS THAT WILL HELP TO REDUCE THE WEEDED PRESSURE AS WELL AS INCREASE OUR WATER HOLDING CAPACITY. 
          AGAIN, OUR CLIMATE APPROPRIATE PLANTS ARE GONNA BE SPECIFICALLY SELECTED SO THAT THEY DON'T NEED MUCH PRUNING, IN FACT, LITTLE TO NO SEASONAL PRUNING. 
          AND THEN ANY LEAF LITTER THAT IS DROPPED DURING DIFFERENT SEASONS CAN REMAIN ON SITE AS MULCH RAIN GARDENS. 
          IT'S ESSENTIAL TO BE SURE THAT OUR OVERFLOWS ARE CLEAN AND TIDY AND THAT THE SYSTEM IS DRAINING PROPERLY WHEN IT IS RAINING. 
          AND THEN FOR RAIN TANKS, IN ADDITION TO ACTUALLY USING THE WATER, IT IS IMPORTANT TO ENSURE THAT OUR FIRST FLUSH SYSTEMS ARE CLEAN AHEAD OF THE RAINY SEASON. 
          UM, ALL OF THESE PRO PROJECTS AND PROPOSED OPPORTUNITIES HAVE A MULTITUDE OF BENEFITS. 
          SO JUST AS AN EXAMPLE, UH, A THOUSAND SQUARE FOOT LAWN WILL USE 34,000 GALLONS OF WATER EVERY SINGLE YEAR, BUT A MULCH LANDSCAPE WITH NATIVE PLANTS WILL USE ONLY 8,000 GALLONS A YEAR. 
          SO WE'RE GONNA SEE SIGNIFICANT WATER SAVINGS WHEN WE ARE MAKING THESE TRANSFORMATIONS. 
          WE'RE ALSO GONNA BE REDUCING GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS BECAUSE THE PLANTS THAT WE WOULD BE CHOOSING WOULD REQUIRE SIGNIFICANTLY LESS MAINTENANCE AND GAS POWERED MACHINERY. 
          UH, WE WOULD ALSO BE INCREASING SOIL HEALTH, SEQUESTERING CARBON, AND SUPPORTING POLLINATOR HABITAT WITH THE TREES, THE PLANTS, AND THE MULCH. 
          AND THEN, LIKE I'VE MENTIONED BEFORE, ALL OF THESE STRATEGIES AND COMBINATION ARE REALLY GOING TO HELP TO REDUCE RUNOFF AND STORMWATER POLLUTION THAT MIGHT ENTER OUR WATERWAYS OTHERWISE. 
          LASTLY, IT FEELS IMPORTANT TO HIGHLIGHT THAT RIGHT NOW CLIMATE MITIGATION TRENDS ARE, CONVERSATIONS ARE BEING HAD AND POLICIES ARE BEING IMPLEMENTED AT A STATE LEVEL. 
          AND IT FEELS INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT FOR PETALUMA TO BE A LEADER IN ADDRESSING OUR CLIMATE INITIATIVES. 
          I THINK WE ALL ARE ALL AWARE THAT WE REACHED STAGE FOUR DROUGHT IN 2022. 
          THERE WERE SERIOUS DROUGHT RESTRICTIONS PUT ON COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES, AND I THINK THE CITY AND OUR COUNTY IS REALLY WELL POSITIONED TO BE A LEADER IN IMPLEMENTING CLIMATE MITIGATION STRATEGIES. 
          UM, SO I JUST WANNA WANNA HIGHLIGHT THAT I THINK WE, WE HAVE A REALLY GREAT TEAM AND A LOT OF SUPPORT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          AND NOW IT'S TIME FOR QUESTIONS. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          YEAH, WELL, THAT WAS A GREAT PRESENTATION. 
          UM, LET'S GO THROUGH, UH, CLARIFYING QUESTIONS FROM COMMISSIONERS. 
          MEGAN, THANK YOU. 
          THAT WAS REALLY GREAT TO HEAR. 
          IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU JESS IN PERSON AFTER FOUR YEARS ON ZOOM. 
          FUNNY OH WOW. 
           FOR OTHER THINGS. 
          UM, SAME QUESTION AS MY LAST QUESTION, ESPECIALLY. 
          SO AS NOW IT'S LA AND ANNAS MEADOW, OR NO, SORRY, LARA MCDOWELL. 
          THIS TIME IN, YOU KNOW, ESPECIALLY WE'VE TALKED ABOUT MCDOWELL AND MAYBE MCDOWELL COULD REALLY BE REIMAGINED AND THERE'S, I THINK, IF I REMEMBER RIGHT, THERE'S SLOPING ISSUES THERE AND THERE'S OTHER THINGS HAPPENING THERE. 
          I JUST, I I WONDER WHERE, WHAT, WHAT THE THOUGHT PROCESS IS IN HAVING THIS GO IN FIRST BEFORE WE LOOK AT THE PARK AS A WHOLE FOR BOTH OF THOSE . 
          SO WE'RE GONNA, WE'LL, WE'LL TRY TO PULL UP THE SLIDE SO YOU, YOU CAN ALL FIND THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, THAT'S A POINT WELL TAKEN. 
          WE'RE TRYING TO, UM, THOUGHTFULLY FOCUS ON SOME OF, UM, ACTIONABLE GOALS THAT WE CAN TAKE TO IDENTIFY SOME PARKS AND IDENTIFY SOME AREAS WITHIN PARKS THAT FEEL LIKE COMFORTABLE RISKS TO TAKE. 
          SO, FOR EXAMPLE, WE TALKED ABOUT THE BIOSWALE AND, AND THAT AREA THAT'S PRONE TO FLOODING AND IT'S ALSO AN AREA THAT WE'RE GONNA LOSE OR HAVE LOST, UM, SOME TREES THAT ARE GONNA BE NEEDING TO GO. 
          SO WE FELT IN, IN THIS PARTICULAR SITE THAT THAT WAS A GOOD, UM, GOOD AREA TO REALLY DEMONSTRATE INSTALL AND THEN LEARN FROM ABOUT WHAT WORKS, UM, HOW, HOW CAN WE USE THIS TO MAYBE IDENTIFY OTHER SITES THAT THAT MAY WORK. 
          UM, SIMILARLY, THERE'S A, UH, A PARK IMPROVEMENT ACCESS PROJECT THAT'S GONNA BE GOING FORWARD. 
          I'LL HAVE AN UPDATE ON THAT TONIGHT. 
          SO PART OF THIS IS TO DOVETAIL ON THAT EFFORT. 
          SO WE HAVE, UM, PATHWAYS HERE THAT YOU CAN KIND OF SEE SHADED HERE INTENTIONALLY. 
          UM, THOSE ARE INTERIOR PATHWAYS THAT WE INTEND TO, UM, RECONSTRUCT. 
          AND THIS KIND OF NATIVE PLANTING WOULD BE AN EFFORT THAT DOVETAILS ON SOME OF THAT CONSTRUCTION WITHOUT GOING TOO FAR INTO THE PARK INTERIOR THAT MAY PROHIBIT KIND OF FUTURE VISIONING AND PLANS. 
          SO FOR THIS SITE, THAT WAS ABOUT KIND OF THE EXTENT OF RISKS THAT WE TOOK, KNOWING THAT WE'VE GOT RELIEF, UM, AS HAD A DEMONSTRATION ON THIS SITE. 
          WE'D ALSO REALLY WANT TO BE ACTIVE ON USING THIS, UM, THE TURF TO, TO DO SOME THINGS TO, TO, UM, YOU KNOW, HAVE MORE OF A REGENERATIVE TURF PROGRAM HERE. 
          SO FOR, UH, FOR MCDOWELL, WE, YOU KNOW, WE, WE WERE EXCITED TO GET THIS IN FRONT OF YOU ALL AND SEE WHAT YOU, SEE, WHAT YOU THINK, SEE IF IT FEELS RIGHT. 
          AND 
          [00:25:01]
THE OTHER PART YOU MENTIONED . 
          OKAY. 
          WANNA THERE, DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING MORE ON THIS ONE? CINDY LARA IN PARTICULAR TOO, BECAUSE THIS IS KIND OF JOINT WITH THE SCHOOL, SO THE AREAS THAT YOU'LL NOTICE, UM, WE'RE CHOSEN BECAUSE IT'S NOT AN AREA. 
          I THINK EVEN IF YOU REIMAGINE IT, UNLESS YOU WERE JUST RAISE THE WHOLE PARK AND GET RID OF EVERYTHING AND START FROM A BLANK SLATE, THAT WOULD BE COUNTERPRODUCTIVE TO BEING ABLE TO REIMAGINE PARK SPACES, RIGHT? SO AS WE KIND OF WENT THROUGH EACH SPACE, UM, THIS ONE IN PARTICULAR, AND IT'S LIKE, OKAY, IT'S, IT'S NOT EVEN TURF. 
          I THINK THE OVERHEAD PICTURE SHOWS IT AS TURF, BUT IT'S REALLY JUST KIND OF LIKE DEAD RIGHT NOW, RIGHT? AND SO IN PARTICULAR, IN ORDER TO PROVIDE KIND OF A NEW SPACE, A NEW LOOK. 
          AND REALLY, IT'S ALSO PARTIALLY, YOU KNOW, FROM MY STANDPOINT I'LL TELL YOU, IS TEACHING OUR NEIGHBORHOODS OF HOW SPACES CAN LOOK AND DO AND BE DIFFERENT AND BE PART OF THE ECOSYSTEM THAT'S IMPORTANT. 
          UM, NOT ONLY FROM THE RAIN CATCHMENT TO THE BIO SWELL TO WHY MULCHING IS IMPORTANT, WHY, YOU KNOW, I THINK MANICURED TURF IS SOMETHING THAT WAS IN VOGUE OF, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU LOOK BACK TO PARKS AND YOU KNOW, EVEN IN THE 18 HUNDREDS AND BACK IN EUROPE, RIGHT, IT'S WAS VERY IN VOGUE. 
          BUT IN DROUGHT PLACES THAT CARRY DROUGHTS A LOT, IT'S REALLY HARD TO WATER TURF A LOT. 
          SO WE WANTED TO ALLOW FOR SPACES WHERE WE CAN CONVERT SOME OF IT TO SHOW THAT YOU CAN HAVE DIFFERENT TYPES OF LANDSCAPES, BUT STILL HAVE A BEAUTIFUL PARK SPACE. 
          UM, AND ONE THAT YOU DIDN'T BRING UP, LIKE LUCCHESE IN PARTICULAR, IT'S A BIG PARK AND WHEN WE WENT THROUGH IT, WE SAID WHAT MAKES THE MOST SENSE? AND SO LIKE, AREAS CLOSE ALONG THE COMMUNITY CENTER, SO YOU'LL SEE AND WE'RE LIKE, OH, THAT DOVETAILS TO THE PRESCHOOL. 
          SO THAT'S REALLY INTERESTING BECAUSE THEN THE KIDS CAN COME OUT AND LEARN ABOUT WHAT THE SPACE IS ABOUT. 
          SO IT WAS REALLY KIND OF REALLY THOUGHTFUL ON WHY WE CHOSE THE SPACES WE DID. 
          UM, AND NO, IT, IT DOESN'T STOP US FROM REIMAGINING AND DOESN'T MAKE SENSE. 
          TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, YES AND NO BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU IMAGINE A PARK, WE'RE GOING TO HEAR ABOUT ONE HERE PRETTY SOON TONIGHT, RIGHT? , IT'S A LONG PROCESS. 
          SO TO SAY THAT WE DO SOMETHING THAT WE INSTALL FOR FIVE, 10 YEARS, IT'S STILL A GOOD, I THINK A GOOD PROCESS TO DO AND REALLY USEFUL FOR THE COMMUNITY. 
          EVEN IF I LIKE, YOU KNOW, WE SAY WE'RE GONNA STILL WANNA REIMAGINE THE PARK AT SOME POINT, RIGHT? IT DOESN'T PRECLUDE US FROM DOING THAT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          I THINK, I THINK WE RUN INTO THIS WHEN WE PUT IN PLAYGROUNDS IN THE OPPOSITE WAY OF PUTTING IN A PLAYGROUND AND DON'T IMAGINE THE REST OF THE SPACE. 
          SO IT'S JUST THE OPPOSITE THIS TIME AROUND THAT I'M STRUGGLING WITH. 
          BUT I THINK WE HAVE THE EXACT SAME PROBLEM WHEN WE PUT IN A PLAYGROUND AND DON'T THINK ABOUT THE REST OF THE SPACE. 
          SO SOMETHING TO JUST ENCOURAGE TO LOOK AT GOING FORWARD. 
          AND THEN ALSO YOU HIT ON IT A LITTLE BIT, BUT HOW WERE THE PRIORITY AREAS DETERMINED IN THE FACT THAT THEY'RE ALL ON THE EAST SIDE? IS THAT BECAUSE OF THE PURPLE PIPING AND THE RECYCLING OF RECYCLED WATER? OR WHY WERE, WHY ARE THEY ALL ON THE EAST SIDE? SO I THINK MAYBE DAILY ASK CAN ANSWER THIS QUESTION IN PARTICULAR, BUT THE PARKS THAT WE WENT THROUGH WHEN WE WERE FIRST, YOU KNOW, TALKING ABOUT THE PROJECT IS NUMBER ONE, WHERE ARE OUR DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES MOST AND WHICH PARKS ARE CLOSEST TO THOSE MAYBE POCKETS AND NEIGHBORHOODS WAS ONE OF KIND OF THE IMPETUSES, RIGHT WHEN WE PICKED PARKS. 
          UM, AND FORTUNATELY, OR UNFORTUNATELY, I'LL TELL YOU THAT MOST OF OUR DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES DON'T, THEY'RE NOT ON THE WEST SIDE OF TOWN. 
          SO BECAUSE OF THAT, YOU KNOW, IT JUST HAPPENED TO BE, UM, BUT YOU KNOW, MAYBE DX CAN STEP IN AND I WOULD SAY YOU JUST COMPLETELY ANSWERED THAT WOULD'VE BEEN MY ANSWER, CINDY. 
          MM-HMM. 
          . 
          OKAY. 
          UH, KATE, THANKS. 
          UM, THIS KIND OF ALREADY I GUESS WAS ANSWERED A LITTLE BIT, BUT I WAS JUST WONDERING WHY BUSINESSES WERE NOT ELIGIBLE FOR PARTNERSHIP IN THESE INSTALLS. 
          UH, IS THE FOCUS JUST THE RESIDENTIAL, I MEAN THE SCHOOLS AND PARKS OBVIOUSLY HIGHEST AND BEST PRIORITY, BUT, UM, I CAN JUST THINK OF SO MANY BUSINESSES THAT HAVE THESE HUGE BUSINESS PARK, GREEN TURF AREAS, THIS PARTICULARLY ON THE EAST SIDE, AND I WAS JUST WONDERING ABOUT THAT. 
          WELL, I, I WOULD SAY THAT'S, I MEAN, THAT'S A WONDERFUL IDEA AND THAT'S SOMETHING MOVING FORWARD THAT, YOU KNOW, IF WE EXPAND BEYOND OUR, REALLY OUR GOAL IS, YOU KNOW, THE LAND RESILIENCE PARTNERSHIP IS A MODEL, SO YOU CAN REALLY TAKE THAT TO ANY COMMUNITY. 
          UM, SO OUR, YOU KNOW, OUR HOPE IS THAT, YOU KNOW, CURRENTLY IT'S LIMITED TO PETALUMA, SO WE COULD CER AND OUR HOPE IS TO EXPAND THROUGHOUT SONOMA COUNTY. 
          UM, BUT WE CERTAINLY COULD, YOU KNOW, PROPOSE THAT IT INCLUDES, YOU KNOW, BUSINESSES FOR SURE. 
          THANKS. 
          ANYONE ELSE? ANY, UH, UH, COUNCIL PERSON NOW? UM, THANK YOU AND THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION. 
          UM, I UNDERSTAND THE DISADVANTAGE, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE TRYING TO, UM, DO SOMETHING FOR THAT POPULATION. 
          UM, I HAVE BEEN WORKING VERY CLOSELY WITH 
          [00:30:01]
A NEIGHBORHOOD THAT IS OUR WORKING CLASS. 
          SOUTHGATE IS ONE OF OUR NEWER NEIGHBORHOODS, BUT THEY, UM, GOT INTO THAT NEIGHBORHOOD THROUGH A LOTTERY. 
          THESE WERE OUR TEACHERS, OUR EMERGENCY WORKERS, OUR POLICE AND FIRE AND, UM, GOVERNMENT WORKERS. 
          MM-HMM. 
          , UM, HOSPITAL WORKERS. 
          AND THEY HAVE A BEAUTIFUL PARK CALLED SOUTHGATE IN THE MIDDLE OF THERE, BUT IT HAD A WONDERFUL COMMUNITY GARDEN AT ONE TIME, BUT THOSE NEIGHBORS MOVED AWAY AND NO ONE HAS PICKED UP THE TORTURE AND RUN WITH IT. 
          I DID THE GIVE THEM YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION BECAUSE THEY'RE REALLY PROACTIVE. 
          THEY'RE NOT ANGRY, THEY'RE NOT MAD AT US. 
          THEY'RE, IT IS REALLY NICE TO GET A POSITIVE THANK YOU. 
          UM, BUT THEY HAVE TOO MUCH WATER. 
          MM-HMM. 
          AND IT'S ON PURPLE PIPING, BUT IT'S ALSO A LOW END. 
          UM, IT'S ALMOST LIKE A MEADOW AND THEY'RE VISIONING, MAYBE SOME MEADOW THINGS. 
          I KNOW THIS ISN'T PART OF THIS PROJECT, BUT IF YOU WOULD REACH OUT TO THEM, THEY REALLY WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM EXPERTS AND THEY'RE REALLY, UM, EXCITED ABOUT DOING A POLLINATOR AND WHAT TO DO WITH THAT. 
          I KNOW THEY'VE WRITTEN EMAILS TO DREW AND CINDY AND, UM, THEY WANT TO MAKE THE PARK, UM, BENEFICIAL FOR THE WHOLE ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD. 
          MM-HMM. 
          . 
          AND THIS IS OUR WORKING CLASS. 
          YEAH. 
          SO I JUST WANTED TO DO A SHOUT OUT FOR SOUTHGATE PARK, BUT THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK. 
          YEAH. 
          THANK YOU FOR THE CONTRIBUTION AND ME WALK IS MY NEIGHBORHOOD, SO I REALLY APPRECIATE IT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OKAY. 
          ANY OTHER CLARIFYING QUESTIONS? NO. 
          UM, I HAVE A QUESTION. 
          SO IS, AM I CORRECT THAT THE CITY WILL TAKE CARE OF THIS UPKEEP THAT PARKS AND RECREATION HAS TO MANAGE THIS? UM, IS THERE AN ESTIMATE OF THE COST OF THE UPKEEP OF THIS AND WHERE DOES THIS MONEY COME FROM? GREAT QUESTION. 
          UM, THAT WILL BE, YOU CAN ALWAYS COUNT ON ME . 
          THAT WILL BE THE, THAT WILL BE THE MISSION. 
          THAT'S THE MILLION DOLLAR QUESTION WE HOPE WILL BE LESS THAN THE MILLION DOLLAR QUESTION. 
          UM, BUT, BUT YEAH, THAT'S, UH, ALWAYS A CHIEF CONCERN IS AS WE TAKE IT FROM KIND OF CONCEPT THROUGH DESIGN. 
          UM, WE'LL HAVE TO, WE'LL HAVE TO FIGURE THAT OUT. 
          UM, WE'LL ALSO LEARN A LITTLE BIT BY DOING THIS, UM, ABOUT HOW TO DIVERT HOURS AWAY FROM MANAGING TURF AND SPRINKLER HEADS TO MANAGING A DRIP. 
          SO, UM, ALL GREAT QUESTIONS. 
          I THINK IT'S WORTHY OF A REPORT BACK, UH, ONCE WE HAVE A FINALIZED DESIGN CONCEPT THAT GIVES YOU GUYS AN IDEA OF, ALRIGHT, RIGHT, THIS IS WHAT OUR, WHAT WE'RE GOING WITH. 
          UM, BUT HOPEFULLY IT COMES WITH US HAVING A, A GOOD STORY TO TELL FOR PROCURING MORE RESOURCES AND THEN HAVING A, A, A WAY TO EVALUATE THAT AND REPORT BACK ON HOW THOSE RESOURCES ARE, ARE PANNING OUT. 
          SO WE, UH, TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, WE NEED TO, WE NEED TO HAVE SOME EXPERIENCE AND SEEING HOW THESE THINGS PLAY OUT, BUT ALSO NOT OVEREXTEND OURSELVES AT THE SAME TIME. 
          MM-HMM. 
          . 
          YEAH. 
          I'D ALSO LIKE TO ADD TO THE BEST OF OUR ABILITY DAILY ACTS WOULD BE PUTTING TOGETHER MAINTENANCE PLANS AND OFFERING EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR PARK STAFF. 
          UM, AND WITH ALL OF THE PROGRAMS THAT WE INSTALL, FOR THE MOST PART, COMMUNITY INSTALLATIONS ARE DONE WITH THE HELP OF OUR PEOPLE, OF OUR COMMUNITY, OF VOLUNTEERS. 
          AND SO THERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES TO WEAVE IN, UM, A SENSE OF OWNERSHIP TO SOME OF THESE PARKS. 
          NOT TO SAY THAT VOLUNTEERS IN THE COMMUNITY WOULD BE THE SOLE MAINTENANCE CREW, BUT IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE DO TRY TO WEAVE INTO ALL OF OUR PROGRAMMING. 
          GREAT. 
          UM, THE CAPTURED WATER AT THE LOCATIONS, UM, THAT ARE IN, IN THE BARRELS AND STUFF, ARE THEY GOING TO BE PIPED IN? ARE THEY GOING TO BE USED TO WATER? BOTH TREES, THE PLANTINGS AND GRASS WHERE GRASS IS PART OF IT? YOU KNOW, LIKE NEXT TO A SCHOOL YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO HAVE AT LEAST SOME GRASS, RIGHT? MM-HMM. 
          , UM, IS, AND SO IS THERE GOING TO BE, UM, AN IRRIGATION SYSTEM THAT'S SET UP THAT'S LINKED TO THOSE ON ALL OF THEM? MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THE RAIN TANKS WOULD PRIMARILY BE WATERING THE TREES AND THE CLIMATE APPROPRIATE PLANTING. 
          I HAVE NOT, I DON'T HAVE TOO MUCH FAMILIARITY WITH A SYSTEM, A RAIN CATCHMENT SYSTEM THAT IRRIGATES A LAWN. 
          OKAY. 
          SO I'M NOT SURE HOW THAT WOULD OPERATE. 
          I DON'T EITHER. 
          SO ? NOPE. 
          OKAY. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          GREAT. 
          UM, AND YOU KNOW WHAT, YOU GUYS DID, UH, A GREAT, UM, RESIDENTIAL SITE IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD. 
          IT LOOKS REALLY GREAT. 
          YEAH. 
          THE HOUSE, IT LOOKS GREAT. 
          DO YOU KNOW THE, THE HOMEOWNER'S NAME OR THE RENTER'S NAME? NO, I DON'T. 
          UM, IT'S ON THE CORNER OF MARIA AND MADISON. 
          OH MY GOSH. 
          MARIA DRY. 
          NICE. 
          YEAH, WE JUST DID THAT ONE . 
          IT LOOKS REALLY, I MEAN, I'M TELLING YOU IT'S A CORNER HOUSE. 
          YEAH, I'VE BEEN WORKING ON THAT HOUSE. 
          UM, LET'S JUST SAY IT SPRUCES IT UP. 
          IT LOOKS FANTASTIC. 
          SO IT'S GREAT. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT RECOGNITION. 
          THAT WAS A VERY FUN CLIENT TO WORK WITH. 
          YES. 
          UM, AND, AND SO, UM, DO WE HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENTS? UH, MOVING ON SINCE I'M THE LAST ONE TO ASK A CLARIFYING QUESTION, NO PUBLIC COMMENTS. 
          AND THEN, UM, I DO WANNA ACKNOWLEDGE SUSAN 
          [00:35:01]
KIRK'S, UM, COMMENT. 
          SHE DID HAVE, UM, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU TWO GOT TO READ IT, BUT THERE WAS SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT, UM, AT LOU KESSIE PARK JUST TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION WHERE SOME OF THE GEESE NEST MM-HMM. 
           AND THINGS LIKE THAT. 
          SO YOU MIGHT WANNA TAKE A LOOK AT HER COMMENT. 
          SHE'S ALWAYS UP ON, UM, ON THOSE ASPECTS. 
          MM-HMM. 
          , UM, TO FINISH UP, DO WE HAVE ANY COMMISSIONER COMMENTS? YES, COMMISSIONER GREENSPAN. 
          UM, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR PRESENTATION. 
          EVERYTHING THAT DAILY ACTS TOUCHES I THINK IS JUST SO GREAT FOR OUR CITY. 
          I ALSO WANTED TO RECOGNIZE IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD, I'VE BEEN WALKING PAST ONE OF YOUR INSTALL SITES IN MIDTOWN, AND I'VE BEEN SO IMPRESSED BY HOW QUICKLY AND EFFECTIVELY, AND IT'S BEEN REALLY FUN TO SEE THE, ALL OF THE DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS AND TEAMS WORKING TOGETHER ON THE INSTALL. 
          AND IT LOOKS AMAZING. 
          AND I'M JUST SO EXCITED TO SEE NOT ONLY THE RESIDENTIAL SITES, BUT THESE POPPING UP AT SCHOOLS. 
          I THINK IT'S, I MEAN, I KNOW MONEY IS ALWAYS A CONCERN FOR THIS COMMISSION, BUT I'M JUST SO EXCITED, . 
          SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL OF YOUR HARD WORK. 
          YEAH. 
          THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT. 
          COMMISSIONER KELLY, THAT ADDS A QUESTION, UM, FOR ME, . 
          UM, SO HOW ARE YOU GONNA INVOLVE, OR ARE YOU PLANNING ON INVOLVED? PLEASE TELL ME YOU ARE THE STUDENTS AT THE SCHOOLS IN THIS PROCESS. 
          YEAH, SO WE ACTUALLY, WE JUST DID, AS I MENTIONED, WE DID, UM, AN INSTALLATION AT, UM, MCKINLEY SCHOOL, SO THAT THERE WAS A, A SHEET MULCHING DAY IN SEPTEMBER. 
          AND THEN WE, UM, DID A, A PRESENTATION IN OCTOBER AND, UM, AND THEN WE DID OUR PLANTING DAY WAS NOVEMBER 4TH. 
          SO ALL OF THAT, WE ENGAGED THE, YOU KNOW, THE SCHOOLS, THE TEACHERS, WE INVITE THEM, UM, TO PARTICIPATE IN THOSE PLANTING DAYS. 
          AND THAT NOW WE'RE KIND OF IN, UM, REALLY DEVELOPING OUR MAINTENANCE PLANS AND HOPING WE'VE TALKED ABOUT, UM, HOW WE CAN, UM, CREATE INTERPRETIVE SIGNS AND WORK DAYS FOR THE STUDENTS. 
          UM, WE'RE STILL KIND OF BUILDING THAT OUT. 
          UM, BUT THAT'S DEFINITELY IN THE PROCESS OF, AS LIZ KIND OF TOUCHED UPON IT, IS WE REALLY WANT OUR COMMUNITIES TO TAKE OWNERSHIP OF AND BECOME LAND STEWARDS. 
          SO ESPECIALLY WITH THESE PUBLIC INSTALLS, UM, THAT'S ONE OF THE, THE PARTS OF ENGAGEMENT IS THOSE MAINTENANCE PLANS IS, YOU KNOW, THIS IS YOUR PARK, THIS IS YOUR SCHOOL, COME, YOU KNOW, COME DO SOME, SOME PRUNING AND SOME WEEDING AND, AND LEARN ABOUT, YOU KNOW, LEARN ABOUT A RAIN TANK AND HOW IT, HOW WE COLLECT THE WATER AND REPURPOSE IT. 
          UM, SO THO WE'RE BUILDING THOSE OUT STILL. 
          MM-HMM. 
          . 
          UM, BUT AT AS A BASELINE WE HAVE DURING OUR, UM, MULCHING AND PLANTING DAYS, IT'S, IT'S ALL VOLUNTEERS. 
          AND THAT DOES INCLUDE STUDENTS. 
          MM-HMM. 
          , I THINK THAT'S REALLY GREAT. 
          I MEAN, I THINK WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT CREATING, GIVING EDUCATION AND WHATNOT, WHO BETTER THAN THE YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY TO THEN LIKE, RISE UP AND GROW UP WITH THIS THOUGHT PROCESS IN THEIR HEADS? MM-HMM. 
          , PLEASE CONTINUE TO ENGAGE THEM. 
          YEAH. 
          THANK YOU. 
          I THINK WHERE WE CAN, IT WOULD BE WONDERFUL FOR US TO BE IN THE CLASSROOM TOO, EVEN JUST FOR A 20 MINUTE PRESENTATION, 15 MINUTES. 
          IT'S BEEN REALLY IMPRESSIVE TO ME TO SEE HOW MANY TEACHERS AND SCHOOLS ARE INTEGRATING CLIMATE CURRICULUM. 
          MM-HMM. 
          . 
          AND I THINK THAT WE CAN REALLY BUILD OFF OF THAT AND EVEN BETTER WHEN WE'RE ABLE TO GET THEM IN THE DIRT TOO. 
          AWESOME. 
          YEAH. 
          THANK YOU. 
          MM-HMM. 
          . 
          OKAY. 
          ANY OTHER COMMENTS? OKAY. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR PRESENTATION, ALL OF YOUR HARD WORK. 
          IT WAS, IT WAS GREAT. 
          UM, AND HAVE A LOVELY EVENING. 
          THANK YOU. 
          YOU TOO. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OKAY. 
          OUR NEXT ITEM 
          [APPROVAL OF MINUTES]
OF BUSINESS IS APPROVAL OF MINUTES. 
          UM, DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY, UM, CHANGES, UH, TO THE MINUTES FOR OCTOBER? WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO START THE APPROVAL PROCESS? A MOTION TO APPROVE THE MINUTES FROM THE OCTOBER MEETING? I SECOND. 
          GREAT. 
          THE MINUTES ARE APPROVED FOR OCTOBER. 
          OKAY. 
          AT THIS TIME, WE WOULD LIKE 
          [PUBLIC HEARINGS AND MATTERS FOR CONSIDERATION]
TO INVITE YEP. 
          WE WOULD LIKE TO INVITE OUR PETALUMA ART COMMITTEE TO JOIN OUR MEETING. 
          THE NEXT ORDER OF BUSINESS. 
          WE'LL HAVE TO, UH, DO WITH KENNELWORTH PARK. 
          WE'RE EXCITED TO HAVE YOU HERE. 
          EXCITED TO SEE THE PRESENTATION WILL ALLOW YOU ALL TO GET CENTERED. 
          IT ALSO ALLOWS ME TO FIND MY WRITTEN THING ON THIS. 
          OKAY. 
          HERE WE GO. 
          SO I THINK I NEED TO CALL IN. 
          YES, 
          [00:40:01]
I HAVE THAT. 
          YES. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          SO NOW WE ARE TRANSITIONING INTO A JOINT MEETING BETWEEN THE PETALUMA PUBLIC ART COMMITTEE AND THE RECREATION PARKS AND MUSIC COMMISSION. 
          THIS MEETING IS GOING TO BE, UH, WE ARE GOING TO BE RECEIVING AN UPDATE ON KENNELWORTH PARK, UM, THE REVITALIZATION PROJECT CONCEPT DESIGN FROM DESIGN PARTNERS, MIG INCORPORATED, AND THE SELECTED PROJECT ARTISTS, OLEG LAKIN. 
          DID I DO OKAY THERE? ALL RIGHT. 
          UM, TO PROVIDE AN UPDATE AND THE OVERVIEW OF THE INITIAL CON, UM, PROJECT DESIGN FOR KENNELWORTH PARK, UM, WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR HERE IS TO PROVIDE INPUT AND FEEDBACK ON THE PROJECT, ALIGNMENT WITH THE DESIGN OBJECTIVES, THE REVIEW OF THE PROJECT GOALS AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, AND LOOKING AT THE INTEGRATION OF PUBLIC ART AS FEATURED PLAY ELEMENTS. 
          DREW, DO YOU WANNA TELL US A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THIS BEFORE WE GET STARTED? YEAH, THANK YOU CHAIR. 
          UH, THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING HERE TONIGHT. 
          UM, FOR STARTERS, UM, WELCOME. 
          AND THIS IS, UH, THE LAST BUSINESS ITEM ON TONIGHT'S AGENDA AND REALLY ONE OF THE FIRST, UH, JOINT MEETINGS BETWEEN THESE TWO BODIES. 
          SO JUST WANNA CELEBRATE YOU ALL FOR BEING IN THIS SPACE, UM, AND EXCITED TO, TO, UM, TALK ABOUT THIS PARK AND THIS PROJECT WITH YOU ALL. 
          SO I DON'T FEEL THIS GROUP NEEDS ANY CONVINCING THAT THERE'S A GREAT DEAL OF ALIGNMENT IN THE IMPORTANT ROLE THAT PARKS AND PUBLIC ART PLAYS, UH, IN ACTIVATING PUBLIC SPACES, AS WELL AS CREATING, UH, PLACES THAT MAKE PEOPLE FEEL WELCOME AND INVITE THEM TO, TO GATHER. 
          SO, UH, TO KICK THINGS OFF TONIGHT, WE'RE EXCITED TO BE BRINGING FORWARD, AS OUR CHAIR SAID, A PRESENTATION FROM THE KENNELWORTH PARK REVITALIZATION PROJECT DESIGN TEAM, UH, THAT WILL BE WALKING US THROUGH SOME OF THE CRITICAL ELEMENTS THAT HELPED INFORM THE DESIGN EVOLUTION UP TO THIS POINT. 
          THIS INCLUDES INTRODUCTION TO THE DESIGN TEAM, WHICH YOU'LL HEAR FROM THEM IN A MOMENT, AS WELL AS GETTING TO KNOW HOW THE PUBLIC ART ELEMENTS THAT ARE INTENDED TO BE THE UNIQUE PLAY FEATURES IN THIS DESIGN INTEGRATE STRATEGICALLY, UH, INTO THE OVERALL SITE. 
          SO, TO FOCUS OUR DISCUSSION TONIGHT, I WANT TO REITERATE THAT WE ARE NOT SEEKING ACTION VIA RECOMMENDATION FROM THE COMMITTEE OR COMMISSION TONIGHT, UH, ON PUBLIC ART FEATURES THEMSELVES OR PROJECT ELEMENTS. 
          BUT I DO WANT TO CALL TO YOUR ATTENTION THAT WE HAVE A COMMUNITY SURVEY THAT'S ONGOING THROUGH THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER, AS WELL AS, UM, ENGAGEMENT MEETINGS AND FURTHER OUTREACH GOING ON. 
          SO REALLY, UH, CRITICAL THAT WE HAVE THIS CONVERSATION EARLY AND OFTEN, BUT, UM, FROM HERE WE REALLY NEED THE HELP AND SUPPORT, UH, REALLY MAKING SOME PUSH TO GET THOSE ENGAGEMENT AND CONVERSATIONS HAPPENING SO WE CAN GET AS MUCH FEEDBACK AS WE CAN ON, ON WHAT'S BEING PRESENTED. 
          SO TONIGHT, OPPORTUNITY FOR THE DESIGN TO PRESENT THE INITIAL CONCEPT. 
          UM, AND AS A JOINT MEETING BETWEEN THE, THE TWO COMMITTEES, I WANT TO JUST BE SURE AS WE WALK YOU THROUGH, UM, ENCOURAGE BOTH SIDES TO PROVIDE INPUT ON ELEMENTS THAT ARE PUBLIC ART RELATED AND PARK RELATED, REGARDLESS OF WHAT HAT YOU'RE WEARING TONIGHT. 
          UM, THAT REALLY IS THE INTENT FROM THE BEGINNING WITH THIS PROJECT. 
          SO, UM, JUST WANT TO KIND OF GRANT EVERYBODY THE, THE, THE FEELINGS TO DO THAT, UM, REGARDLESS WHAT COMMITTEE YOU SIT ON. 
          SO WITH ALL OF THAT, UM, EXCITED, IT'S MY PLEASURE TO INTRODUCE, UH, LAUREN IVY THOMAS, WHO'S THE SENIOR PLANNER, LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT, AND PROJECT MANAGER WITH MIG. 
          AND I'LL, I'LL LET HER INTRODUCE JAN AND THE REST OF HER TEAM. 
          UM, AND I'LL LET DAVID WARD, UH, WHO THE PUBLIC ART SPECIALIST WHO'S JOINING US REMOTELY TONIGHT. 
          UM, HE WILL, UH, TAKE YOU THROUGH AND INTRODUCE OLEG AND THEIR PART OF THE TEAM. 
          BUT FOR THIS PART, WE'LL, WE'LL INTRODUCE LAUREN AND HAVE HER KICK THIS OFF. 
          THANK YOU. 
          HI, I'M LAUREN IVY THOMAS. 
          UM, I'M A LICENSED LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT AND AICP PLANNER. 
          UM, I'M THE PROJECT MANAGER FOR THIS FROM MIG. 
          AND THIS IS JAN EASTLAND . 
          SHE'S MY, UH, DEPUTY PM SO REALLY MAKING SURE THAT THINGS ARE GOING NICE AND SMOOTHLY. 
          AND THIS IS OLE YOU WANNA INTRODUCE YOURSELF. 
          HE'S THE ARTIST WHO'S WORKING WITH US. 
          SO, UM, I'M GONNA DO, LET ME, I THINK I CAN SHARE MY SCREEN NOW. 
          RIGHT. 
          OKAY. 
          WELL MAYBE BEFORE I SHARE THE SCREEN, I'LL DO JUST A KIND OF A QUICK OVERVIEW OF WHERE WE ARE IN THE PROJECT. 
          SO, MIG WAS SELECTED IN SPRING OF 23 TO WORK ON THIS PROJECT, AND WE'VE BEEN CONTRACTED TO CREATE SCHEMATIC LEVEL DESIGN DRAWINGS, UM, THAT EVENTUALLY ONCE THE CITY FINDS FUNDING, WE CAN CREATE THE CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS FOR THOSE. 
          SO THOSE WOULD GO TO BID AND THEN EVENTUALLY BE CONSTRUCTED. 
          BUT RIGHT NOW WE'RE IN THE PHASE OF LETTING OUR CREATIVITY RUN WILD AND, UM, 
          [00:45:01]
ENVISIONING WHAT THIS PART CAN REALLY BE. 
          SO, UH, WE WON THE PROJECT WITH THE CITY IN SPRING 23. 
          WE DID A KICKOFF IN JULY. 
          UM, OLEG IS A VERY EXCITING PART OF THIS PROJECT AS AN INDEPENDENT ARTIST WHO'S WORKING ON ART PLAYGROUND. 
          SO THIS PRESENTATION'S GONNA FIRST TALK ABOUT THE DESIGN CONCEPT, THE WHOLE PROJECT, AND THEN WE'RE GONNA LEAN INTO, UM, OLEGS SPECIFIC DESIGN ELEMENTS THAT WILL BE FITTING INTO THIS PROJECT AS A WHOLE. 
          UM, SO THE PROJECT KIND OF HAS TWO PHASES. 
          WE'RE NEARING THE END OF THE FIRST PHASE OF THAT PROJECT, WHICH IS TO CREATE A SCHEMATIC LEVEL DESIGN. 
          UM, WE'VE WORKED WITH COMMUNITY MEMBERS, CITY STAFF TO DEVELOP THAT DESIGN. 
          IMPORTANTLY, WE'VE BUILT ON THE EXISTING CITIES EFFORTS OF COMMUNITY OUTREACH. 
          SO THE COMMUNITY, YOU GUYS CONDUCTED A COMMUNITY OUTREACH PHASE, I THINK LIKE AUGUST TO NOVEMBER, 2022. 
          AND WE FOUND, WE READ THAT RESEARCH, WE, WE, UM, UNDERSTAND WHAT WAS COMMUNITY PRIORITIES FROM THERE, AND THEN WE WERE TASKED WITH CREATING AN INITIAL DESIGN, KIND OF BASED ON WHAT WE'RE HEARING FROM THE CITY, AS WELL AS WHAT WAS HEARD IN THAT INITIAL COMMUNITY OUTREACH PHASE. 
          UM, WE'VE CREATED A DESIGN THAT HAS BEEN PRESENTED TO THE CITY. 
          IT'S INCLUDED IN OUR QUESTIONNAIRE. 
          SO IT WAS ACTUALLY LAUNCHED PUBLICLY ON OCTOBER 20TH, AND IT'S GONNA REMAIN PUBLIC UNTIL, UH, I THINK NOVEMBER 30TH. 
          UM, ONCE WE SEE THE COMMUNITY RESPONSES ON THAT SPECIFIC DESIGN, WE'LL TAKE IT BACK, DIGEST IT, AND WE'LL DEVELOP OUR FINAL SCHEMATIC DESIGN. 
          SO THAT FINAL SCHEMATIC DESIGN IS GONNA BE A BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATIVE PLAN, A BEAUTIFUL RENDERING THAT'LL HELP THE CITY GARNER FUNDING AND SUPPORT TO KIND OF MOVE ON TO THE NEXT, NEXT STAGES OF THAT PROJECT. 
          UM, ALL RIGHT, SO THAT'S THE HIGH LEVEL OF WHERE WE ARE IN THE PROJECT, AND LET ME SHARE OUR ANALYSIS, PUT IT IN THE PRESENTATION MODE FOR YOU GUYS. 
          ONE SECOND. 
          DOING THE THING WHERE, LIKE, THE ZOOM CONTROL IS AT THE TOP, BUT I WANT THE TOP OF MY CONTROL. 
          OKAY, HERE WE GO. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          SO, UM, WE DID DO SITE ANALYSIS TO GET US WHERE WE ARE TODAY. 
          UM, SO THIS IS OUR CONSTRAINTS STUDY, REALIZING THAT WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT OUR DESIGN FITS INTO THE EXISTING FABRIC OF THE CITY, UM, AND ISN'T MAKING ANY CONDITIONS WORSE, ONLY REMOVING THEM. 
          UH, WE SAW IN THAT FIRST COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT OUTREACH THAT THERE IS CONCERNS FOR TRAFFIC. 
          THERE IS IN FACT, HEAVY TRAFFIC ALONG EAST WASHINGTON AS WELL AS PAYMAN STREET. 
          UM, THERE'S A UNIQUE TRAFFIC CONDITION RIGHT HERE WITH ONE-WAY TRAFFIC NOT SUPER CONDUCIVE FOR PARKING AND ACCESSING THE SITE. 
          UM, THERE ARE EXISTING TREES ON THE SITE, WHICH WE WANT TO PROTECT AS NECESSARY, BUT WE VISUALLY, WE'VE DONE A QUICK VISUAL ASSESSMENT. 
          ALL OF THOSE TREES DON'T NECESSARILY, ARE THRIVING, ARE NOT CURRENTLY THRIVING. 
          SO, UM, WE ARE PROPOSING TO, TO PERHAPS REPLACE SOME OF THEM. 
          UM, OUR OPPORTUNITIES ARE MANY. 
          SO THIS IS A CLOSEUP ZOOM IN OF ALL THE OPPORTUNITIES. 
          YOU HAVE AN EXCELLENT AMOUNT OF SPACE HERE. 
          UM, THERE IS, IT'S GREAT THAT DAILY ACCESS HERE EARLIER 'CAUSE OUR DESIGN CONCEPT IS ACTUALLY INSPIRED BY THE NATIVE GARDEN THAT THEY MAINTAIN ALONG, UM, THE LIBRARY, JUST THE CONNECTIONS TO EXISTING RECREATION FACILITIES, THE TEEN CENTER, I KNOW IT'S NOT OPERATING AS A TEEN CENTER, BUT THE CITY PROPERTY, IT'S, THERE'S JUST SO MANY OPPORTUNITIES FOR US TO BUILD INTO THIS. 
          UM, TAKING A STEP BACKWARDS, YOU CAN KINDA SEE HOW THIS PARK IS LOCATED CENTRALLY TO THE CITY. 
          IT'S REALLY AT THE HEART OF PETALUMA. 
          UM, AND WE DID SOME RESEARCH AND FOUND, UM, EXISTING AND PROPOSED, UH, PEDESTRIAN BIKE ROUTES. 
          SO THESE DASHED ORANGES ARE PROPOSED CLASS THREE BICYCLE ROUTES. 
          THE DASH PINK ARE PROPOSED CLASS THREE BICYCLE ROUTES, AND OUR SITE IS RIGHT HERE. 
          SO ENHANCING THE SITE REALLY PROVIDES ENHANCED CONNECTIVITY ACROSS THE BOARD FOR THE CITY AND BRINGING INDIVIDUALS TO WHERE THEY WANNA GO. 
          THERE'S GREAT CONNECTIONS TO THE EXISTING SWIM CENTER, SKATE PARK TARGET. 
          I KNOW THAT THERE'S PEDESTRIAN CORRIDORS RIGHT HERE. 
          SO THINKING BIGGER PICTURE, NOT JUST THE PLAYGROUND ITSELF, NOT JUST THE RENOVATION OF THE SITE ITSELF. 
          HOW CAN WE MAKE THIS BETTER FOR PETALUMA AS A WHOLE? AND HOW CAN WE SUPPORT INTERESTS OF CONNECTIVITY PEDESTRIAN WISE, UM, BY ALSO ENHANCING THIS DESIGN. 
          SO HERE'S OUR PAGE ON KIND OF OUR DESIGN INSPIRATION. 
          SO WHAT IS THE HEART OF PETALUMA? YOU SAW THAT WE'RE, WE'RE ATTACHING OURSELVES TO THE HEART OF THE PET PETALUMA CENTRAL PETALUMA. 
          UM, WE KNOW THAT PEOPLE CALL IT HOME. 
          IT'S THE RIVER AND IT'S THE NATURAL LANDSCAPE. 
          THE PARK'S DESIGN IS INSPIRED BY THE STRONG INFLUENCE OF THE PETALUMA RIVER. 
          AS SINCE ITS BEGINNING, ITS WATERS HAVE WELCOMED AND CONNECTED THE COMMUNITIES TO EACH OTHER. 
          UH, THEN 
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AND NOW BEING PETALUMA IN CALIFORNIA, HAVING YOUR OWN WATER RESOURCE IS REALLY COOL. 
          IT'S A, IT'S, UM, HISTORIC. 
          IT'S AGRICULTURAL, IT'S GROUNDING. 
          AND, UM, THAT CONCEPT HAS LED US TO KIND OF THIS CIRCULATION PATTERN OF IMAGINING THAT THERE'S ACTUALLY A RIVER THAT GUIDES US THROUGH THE SITE. 
          AND THEN WE'VE BROKEN THE AREA INTO KIND OF FOUR PROGRAMMATIC ELEMENTS THAT YOU'LL SEE IN OUR, IN OUR QUESTIONNAIRE PROCESS. 
          SO THAT FIRST ELEMENT OF PLAY IS WE WANNA HAVE UNIQUE AND NATURE ORIENTED PLAY THAT IS ACCESSIBLE, COLLABORATIVE, AND ENTICING TO USERS OF ALL AGES. 
          WE KNOW THAT ONCE WE BECOME ADULTS DOESN'T MEAN THAT WE DON'T WANNA PLAY ANYMORE. 
          WE WANNA HAVE GATHERING AREAS FOR COMMUNITY SPACES AND EVENTS. 
          UH, WE WANNA HAVE BETTER CONNECTION TO THE TEEN CENTER AND THE LIBRARY. 
          WE WANNA HAVE AREAS FOR ACTIVE RECREATION. 
          WE KNOW THAT AT THIS PARTICULAR SITE, VOLLEYBALL IS OF INTEREST. 
          IT'S THE CITY'S ONLY, UM, PUBLIC VOLLEYBALL COURT. 
          AND THEN FINALLY, CONNECTING TO NATURE. 
          WE KNOW THAT FROM YOUR PREVIOUS COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, OUTREACH OUT, OUT OUTREACH EFFORTS, THAT CONNECTING TO NATURE IS A BIG PRIORITY. 
          ENHANCING EXISTING HABITAT, FINDING WAYS TO BE DROUGHT TO TOLERANT, AND ALSO CREATING A SITE THAT'S EASILY MAINTAINED AND SUSTAINABLY MAINTAINED. 
          SO WE DON'T WANNA GIVE YOU SOMETHING THAT'S GONNA BE AN EXTRA BURDEN TO MANAGE. 
          WE WANT SOMETHING THAT'S GONNA FOLD IN REALLY WELL INTO YOUR EXISTING COMMUNITY. 
          AND THIS IS THE DESIGN CONCEPT. 
          SO I'M GONNA WALK THROUGH THESE ELEMENTS AND THEN THESE ELEMENTS ARE GONNA BE, UM, LIKE WE'RE GONNA, I'LL SPEAK TO EACH OF THEM IN MORE DETAIL. 
          SO MOVING NORTH ISH TO SOUTH ISH, 'CAUSE THIS PLAN IS ROTATED. 
          UM, WE'RE STARTING AT OUR GATHER. 
          SO HERE WE HAVE OUR TEEN CENTER. 
          UM, WE IMAGINE ENHANCING THIS HARDSCAPE, SO IT KIND OF REALLY DOES FEEL LIKE A TRANSPARENT PUBLIC SPACE WHERE INDIVIDUALS CAN MOVE FROM THE LIBRARY TO THE SCENE TEEN CENTER, AND VICE VERSA, ALLOWING THIS AREA TO BECOME A MULTI-USE EVENT SPACE WHERE THERE COULD BE THINGS SUCH AS FOOD TRUCKS, MOVIE NIGHTS, UM, KIND OF JUST ACTIVE OPPORTUNITIES, BUT ALSO PASSIVE OPPORTUNITIES FOR THOSE WHO WANNA ATTEND. 
          UM, RIGHT NOW WE KNOW THAT THIS IS MAINLY USED BY LIBRARY STAFF FOR PARKING. 
          UM, BUT THAT DOESN'T NECESSARILY MAXIMIZE HOW THE SITE CAN BE USED. 
          SO WE ENVISION IT AS BEING AN OPEN MULTI-USE SPACE WHERE POTENTIALLY FOOD TRUCKS CAN PULL IN HERE AND KIND OF SERVE THIS OVERALL. 
          UH, WE CAN DO FARMER'S MARKETS, UM, OTHER COMMUNITY EVENTS, AND IT KIND OF CREATE, I GUESS, A HARDSCAPE MULTI-USE GATHERING AREA. 
          MOVING DOWN INTO THE PARK, YOU CAN SEE WE HAVE OUR RIVER, WHICH GUIDES US AROUND WHAT WE'RE CALLING OUR RIVER BANK. 
          UM, IN ONE OF OUR FIRST ITERATIONS, WE CALLED THIS AN ISLAND, AND THEN WE REALIZED THAT A RIVERBANK IS A LITTLE BIT MORE DYNAMIC FOR THE PETALUMA RIVER. 
          SO THE RIVERBANK IS NOT COMPLETELY ISOLATED, RIGHT? IT, IT KIND OF CONNECTS BACK TO FAIRGROUNDS DRIVE, PULLING THIS WHOLE SITE TOGETHER. 
          UM, RIGHT AT THE NORTH OF THIS RIVERBANK, WE HAVE OUR FIRST INTERACTIVE ART AREA. 
          SO OLES GONNA ELABORATE ON WHAT THAT INTERACTIVE ART LOOKS LIKE, BUT WE, WE, WE'VE BEEN DIRECTED TO HAVE CLIMBABLE ENGAGING SAFE ART. 
          THAT'S NOT JUST SOMETHING YOU LOOK AT, IT'S SOMETHING YOU CAN ENGAGE WITH. 
          AND IN THIS AREA IS WHERE WE'RE PROPOSING TO HAVE THOSE LARGEST ART PIECES, KIND OF FOR OLDER KIDS. 
          AND THEN MOVING HERE WE HAVE OUR FIVE TO 12, UM, PLAY AREA WITH CLIMBING ELEMENTS, UH, SWINGS, SLIDES, A SMALL PICNIC AREA. 
          RIGHT HERE WE HAVE, WHAT IS OUR RIVERBANK? SO THIS IS OUR MORE INTIMATE PLAY AREA. 
          SO BUILDING ON PLAY DEVELOPMENT AND DIFFERENT TYPES OF PLAY. 
          THIS DESIGN REALLY CELEBRATES THE VERY DIFFERENT WAYS THAT KIDS, FAMILIES ALL AGES WANT TO OR CHOOSE TO PLAY. 
          YOU HAVE OPEN AREAS, VERY ACTIVE, YOU HAVE NICE RECLUSIVE AREAS. 
          SO IN OUR RIVERBANK AREA, IT'S LIKE A MORE OF A RETREAT. 
          UM, WE'RE ALSO PROPOSING TO HAVE SOME ART ELEMENTS IN OUR RETREAT AREA, BUT THIS AREA IS ORIENTED TOWARDS, YOU KNOW, CALMER, QUIETER PLAY. 
          AND THAT CONNECTS OUT TO OUR AGE TWO TO FIVE PLAY AREA, WHICH CONNECTS TO A SAND AND WATER PLAY AREA. 
          AND THEN WE HAVE SWINGS FOR BOTH AGES. 
          UM, RUNNING ALONG HERE, WE ARE PROPOSING A MULTI-USE PEDESTRIAN PATH THAT COULD EVENTUALLY PLUG INTO THAT CONNECTION THAT I SHOWED A COUPLE SLIDES AGO. 
          AND THEN WE HAVE OUR PASSIVE RECREATION VOLLEYBALL RIGHT HERE. 
          AND THEN THROUGH THE WHOLE SITE, BIO RETENTION. 
          SOMETHING I COMPLETELY OMITTED TO SAY, UM, IS THAT MANY, AS MANY OF YOU'RE AWARE, IF YOU JUST DRIVE BY THE PARK AROUND JANUARY, FEBRUARY, IT FLOODS. 
          THERE'S A SIGNIFICANT LOW PORTION RIGHT HERE. 
          UM, SO A BIG PART OF OUR RIVER DESIGN CONCEPT IS HOW CAN WE MOVE WATER? HOW CAN WE MANAGE, MANAGE WATER WITHOUT, UM, YOU KNOW, HIDING IT UNDERGROUND IN UTILITIES? THEY'RE AWARE THAT WE CAN INCORPORATE THIS NATURAL PROCESS, MAKE IT A MORE SUSTAINABLE SITE, WHILE ALSO LETTING INDIVIDUALS ENGAGE WITH THESE NATURAL ELEMENTS. 
          UM, SO THIS, I KNOW IT'S SHOWN AS BLUE, UM, BUT I WANT YOU TO IMAGINE A, A DRY CREEK, UM, COBBLE DRY BED PLANTING. 
          AND THAT'S KIND OF WHAT THAT AREA IS. 
          THERE IS OPPORTUNITY TO GET INTO IT. 
          NOT TOO MUCH OPPORTUNITY. 
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IT'S MAINLY THERE TO, UM, MOVE WATER AND PROMOTE WATER PROCESSES, UM, NATURAL PROCESSES. 
          SO ON THE QUESTIONNAIRE THAT'S AVAILABLE RIGHT NOW, WE PRESENT THIS DESIGN AND THEN WE PRESENT THE FOUR PROGRAMMATIC AREAS. 
          UM, AND WE ASK INDIVIDUALS WHAT KIND OF THINGS DO THEY LIKE? SO RIGHT HERE YOU CAN SEE WE'VE HIGHLIGHTED OUR GATHERING AREAS, THE GROUP PICNIC, THE LARGER GROUP PICNICS, SEATING AROUND THE, THE RIVERBEND. 
          UM, AND WE WANTED TO KNOW HOW THE COMMUNITY WILL RESPOND TO HAVING EVENT SPACE FOR SEATING, UM, PASSIVE BENCHES EVENT SPACE, POTENTIALLY HAVING SOME TYPE OF AMPHITHEATER OR STEPS CONDITION, MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE PROVIDING SHADE THROUGH, THROUGH NATURAL DESIGN, TRELLISING GROUP PICNIC, HAVING SEAT WALLS THAT ARE, UM, YOU KNOW, INTIMATE INTO THE PLANTING AREA, MAKING SURE THAT THERE'S ACTUAL SPACE FOR TEENS. 
          LOOKS LIKE THEY'RE DOING A TIKTOK OVER HERE. 
          UM, AND THEN MULTI-USE PAVING SUSTAINABLE PAVING. 
          SO THIS WAS THE DESIGN THAT WE PRESENTED. 
          THESE, THESE ARE LIKE THE INSPIRATIONAL IMAGES THAT WE PRESENTED TO THE CITY. 
          AND THEN ONCE WE GOT THE CITY'S APPROVAL, WE'VE, WE'VE SENT THESE TO THE PUBLIC TO SEE HOW THEY'RE ALSO, UM, RESPONDING TO THAT IN OUR PLAY AREAS. 
          WE ENVISIONED SOMETHING THAT IS SUPER INCLUSIVE BUT ALSO SUPER UNIQUE. 
          WHAT WE'VE HEARD FROM THE VERY BEGINNING IS THAT, YOU KNOW, THE CITY AT THIS PARK ISN'T NECESSARILY INTERESTED IN HAVING A, YOU KNOW, PREFABRICATED PLAYGROUND STRUCTURE. 
          THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE REALLY COOL CREATIVE ART PIECES. 
          UM, THIS IS ACTUALLY ONE OF OLEGS PROJECTS WHICH HE'LL EXPAND ON. 
          UM, BUT US AT MIG WE'VE WORKED EXTENSIVELY WITH, UM, COMPANIES LIKE EARTH SCAPE WHO PRO, WHO PROVIDE REALLY COOL, REALLY SUSTAINABLE, UM, REALLY UNIQUE PIECES THAT CAN BE COMPLETELY TAILORED TO THE SITE. 
          SO WE WANNA MAKE SURE WE HAVE CLIMBERS, WE WANNA MAKE SURE WE HAVE A VARIETY OF SWINGS, NEST SWINGS, AS WELL AS TRADITIONAL SWINGS. 
          UM, WE KNOW THAT FOR COGNITIVE PLAY AND DEVELOPMENT, HAVING ELEMENTS OF SAND AND WATER ARE REALLY CRITICAL, ESPECIALLY FOR THOSE AGES OF, YOU KNOW, LIKE FIVE TO EIGHT. 
          THEY KIND OF WANNA HAVE OPPORTUNITIES TO BE DOING THEIR OWN THING. 
          AND THE SAND AND WATER PLAY REALLY LETS THEM HAVE THAT. 
          ALSO, HAVING PLACES FOR RETREAT AND IMAGINATIVE PLAY, BEING ABLE TO KIND OF, YOU KNOW, COME IN DIFFERENT LEVELS OF, UM, DIFFERENT LEVELS OF HOW ALL FOLKS WANNA ENGAGE IN PUBLIC SPACES, SLIDES AND PLAY MOUNDS. 
          SO AGAIN, JUST AS THE PREVIOUS SLIDE, WE PRESENTED THESE IMAGES TO THE PUBLIC TO SEE HOW THEY'RE GONNA ALSO RESPOND TO THESE DIFFERENT PLAY ELEMENTS. 
          NEXT WE HAVE OUR ACTIVE RECREATION AREA. 
          UM, SO BASED ON THAT INITIAL COMMUNITY FEEDBACK FROM THE CITY, WE DO WANNA TRY TO MAINTAIN AN AREA FOR BEACH VOLLEYBALL. 
          UM, AS IT IS THE CITY'S ONLY SITE THAT THEY MAINTAIN FOR VOLLEYBALL. 
          SORRY, GOT A LITTLE AHEAD OF MYSELF. 
          UM, BUT WE ALSO KIND OF WANTED TO GAUGE THE PUBLIC. 
          LIKE IF WE WERE ABLE TO GO OUTSIDE OF OUR FOOTPRINT OF THIS PARCEL, WHAT IF WE CAN EXTEND INTO ADDITIONAL ALREADY CITY OWNED PROPERTY? IS THERE POTENTIAL HERE TO HAVE MULTI-USE SPORT COURTS? UM, IS THERE POTENTIAL HERE FOR PICKLEBALL COURTS? WHAT CAN WE DO TO KIND OF MAKE THIS WHOLE AREA PROGRAMMATICALLY ACTIVE? AND THEN FINALLY, OUR CONNECTING TO NATURE. 
          SO IN THESE AREAS THAT'S HIGHLIGHTED, YOU CAN REALLY SEE THAT THAT RIVER CONCEPT RUNS REALLY STRONGLY AND WE SEE IT AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO IMPROVE. 
          FIRSTLY, THE WATER QUALITY. 
          HOW I MENTIONED THAT DRY CREEK BED IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO ENGAGE WITH NATURE, BUT IT'S REALLY A WAY TO SUSTAINABLY MANAGE, UM, WATER ON SITE AS WE KNOW THAT'S ALREADY BEEN AN ISSUE. 
          UM, BUT THEN THROUGH THE DESIGN WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THERE'S OPPORTUNITIES FOR OUTDOOR LEARNING. 
          UM, HABITAT FOR BIRDS AND POLLINATORS. 
          DAILY ACTS HAS CREATED AN EXCELLENT PRECEDENT WITHIN THE CITY. 
          UM, I WILL SAY THAT A LOT OF OUR DESIGN WAS ACTUALLY INSPIRED BY THE NATIVE GARDEN THAT THEY ALREADY MAINTAIN OUTSIDE OF THE LIBRARY, AND WE WANTED TO FOLD THAT AND KIND OF PULL THAT DESIGN INTO OUR OWN RIVER DESIGN TO MAKE SURE WE'RE NOT REINVENTING THE WHEEL. 
          WE WANT SOMETHING THAT'S BEAUTIFUL, MAINTAINABLE, UM, ECOLOGICALLY SENSITIVE, AND THAT'S THE DESIGN. 
          SO I WILL , I'LL SEND IT NOW TO DAVID. 
          UM, SO DAVID, I'M CONTROLLING THE SCREEN AND UM, YOU JUST LET ME KNOW WHEN YOU'RE READY TO SWITCH. 
          GREAT. 
          CAN EVERYBODY HEAR ME? CAN I GET A THUMBS UP THAT I, ALRIGHT, GREAT. 
          SO THANK YOU LAUREN. 
          UM, GOOD EVENING EVERYONE. 
          MY NAME IS DAVID WARD. 
          I'M THE PUBLIC ART COMMITTEE'S STAFF LIAISON AND PUBLIC ART SPECIALIST. 
          I'M SORRY I COULDN'T BE THERE TONIGHT, BUT GLAD I COULD BE HERE REMOTELY. 
          I'VE BEEN WORKING, UM, AS PART OF THE CITY TEAM ALONGSIDE THE MIG TEAM AND WITH THE PROJECT ARTIST OLEG LUKIN AND REPRESENTING INTERESTS OF THE PUBLIC ART COMMITTEE AND PROGRAM TO DESIGN THIS OPPORTUNITY FOR PUBLIC ART TO SEAMLESSLY HARMONIZE WITH THE SITE PLAN THAT MIG HAS BEEN DEVELOPING, AND HELP US ENVISION HOW WE CAN MAKE A TRULY UNIQUE PUBLIC ART EXPERIENCE AT THE NEW KENNELWORTH PARK. 
          I HAVE TWO SLIDES THAT I WILL SUMMARIZE HOW 
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THE PUBLIC ART PROGRAM AND COMMITTEE BECAME INVOLVED IN THIS PROJECT. 
          AND, UH, DEFINE THOSE GOALS THAT WE ARE USING FOR THE PUBLIC ART ELEMENT OF THIS PROJECT. 
          UM, THE SELECTION PROCESS THAT WE FOUND OLEG THROUGH. 
          AND I'LL ALSO ENTER, UM, INTRODUCE OLEG AS WELL. 
          SO AFTER THAT I'LL HAND IT OFF TO HIM AND HE CAN TALK THROUGH HIS, UH, CONCEPT DESIGNS FOR PUBLIC ART AND KENNELWORTH. 
          SO, UM, HE HAS SEVERAL SLIDES AND IMAGES THAT HE UH, CAN SHOW US SCALED CONCEPTS OF WHAT HE HAS IMAGINED FOR THE SITE. 
          AND AFTER THAT, I'LL TAKE IT BACK AND, UH, PRESENT SOME OF THE CONCEPT IMAGES IN AN OVERLAY OF MIG SITE PLAN. 
          SO, UM, THAT SHOULD CONCLUDE OUR PRESENTATION. 
          BUT THE PUBLIC ART COMMITTEE IDENTIFIED KENNELWORTH PARK AS A PRIME CANDIDATE TO SERVE MANY OUTLINED GOALS AND INITIATIVES THAT THE PUBLIC ART PROGRAM STRIVES TO ACHIEVE IN OUR PROJECTS. 
          WITH THE REIMAGINING OF THE PARK PUBLIC ART COMMITTEE, UH, IMAGINED A UNIQUE PUBLIC ART OFFERING THAT THIS SPACE COULD REALLY REACH A BROADER AUDIENCE, MORE THAN A TRADITIONAL PUBLIC ART INSTALLATION MIGHT BE ABLE TO AND ACHIEVE SOMETHING THAT'S REALLY UNIQUE IN IMMERSIVE AND IMAGINATIVE AND EXCITING FOR PETALUMA. 
          SO, THINKING ABOUT CREATIVITY AND PLAY, THE COMMITTEE WANTED TO DESCRIBE A UNIQUE EXPERIENCE THAT KIDS AND FAMILIES AND TEENS AND EVERYONE COULD CONNECT WITH AND FEEL INSPIRED, FEEL A SENSE OF WHIMSY AND AN IMMERSIVE, UM, OR REALLY IMMERSIVE THEMSELVES IN A PLAYFUL SPIRIT. 
          SO THIS KENNELWORTH SITE, AS I'S ANALYSIS, HAS SHOWN US, IS NOT ONLY GEOGRAPHICALLY CENTRAL TO PETALUMA, BUT ALSO UNIQUELY CENTRAL TO ACCESSIBLE TRANSIT MODES LIKE THE NEARBY SMART STATION AND THE COPELAND TRANSIT MALL. 
          SO SERVING THE, THE CENTRAL PETALUMA NEIGHBORHOOD IMMEDIATELY, BUT ALSO AS ACTING AS A MAJOR CONNECTOR, UH, AND MAJOR TRANSPORTATION ARTERIES AND NEARBY AMENITIES, UH, FOR KIDS AND TEENS, UM, LIKE LIVE OAK AND THE LIBRARY, MCKINLEY, THE TEEN CENTER. 
          THE SWIM CENTER, SKATE PARK. 
          SO IN EARLY 2022, THE PUBLIC ART COMMITTEE SET OUT TO TRY TO DESCRIBE WHAT KIND OF OPPORTUNITY THIS COULD BE, AND HOW COULD WE PRO PROVIDE ENOUGH PARAMETERS FOR AN ARTIST OR A DESIGNER OR A TEAM TO RESPOND TO THIS KIND OF CALL FOR PUBLIC ART WITHOUT BEING TOO PRESCRIPTIVE OR STIFLE CREATIVITY TO, AS LAUREN SAID, LETTING ARTISTS DREAM BIG AND, UM, BE AS BIG AS IT COULD BE. 
          SO THE PRODUCT OF THIS LED TO THE CREATION OF A PROJECT PLAN, UM, TO TRY TO ANTICIPATE HOW WE CAN, UH, PUT OUT A CALL FOR ARTIST PROPOSALS, AS WELL AS MAKING A FINANCIAL COMMITMENT TOWARDS THE CREATION OF THE ARTWORK THAT IS DESIGNED AND PROPOSED FOR THE NEW PARK. 
          UH, NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. 
          SO, ON MAY 1ST OF THIS YEAR OR OF, UH, YES, OF THIS YEAR, WE PUBLISHED A REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS DOCUMENT THAT SET OUT TO FIND, UH, AN ARTIST OR DESIGNER WHO HAD EXPERIENCE WORKING ON UNIQUE PUBLIC ART PROJECTS AND HAD DIRECT EXPERIENCE WORKING WITH PLAY STRUCTURES, AND ALSO HAD AN UNDERSTANDING OF THESE PLAY SAFE REQUIREMENTS THAT ARE NECESSARY IF WE'RE INVITING KIDS AND OTHERS TO, UH, SAFELY CLIMB AND INTERACT PHYSICALLY WITH THE ARTWORK. 
          THE RFQ APPLICATION RAN FROM MAY 1ST TO JUNE 9TH. 
          WE RECEIVED 24 ELIGIBLE APPLICATIONS, AND FROM THAT APPLICANT POOL, THE COMMITTEE SELECTED, UM, OLEG TO JOIN OUR TEAM AND, UH, WORK CLOSELY WITH MIG AND THE PUBLIC ART COMMITTEE AND CITY STAFF TO DESIGN THIS PLAYABLE PUBLIC ART EXPERIENCE. 
          SO, OLEGS PORTFOLIO ACTUALLY FIRST CAUGHT THE EYE OF THE COMMITTEE, UH, BACK WHEN HE WAS APPLYING FOR A DIFFERENT OPPORTUNITY WITH THE PUBLIC ART PROGRAM. 
          UM, HIS LABREA TAR PITS, PUBLIC ART, UM, ARTWORK IS SHOWN ON THE BOTTOM RIGHT OF THE SCREEN RIGHT NOW, AND THAT WAS ONE OF THE INSPIRATIONS FOR THIS PROJECT, UH, THIS ACTUAL PROJECT. 
          SO WE'RE EXCITED TO SEE THAT HIS APPLICATION CAME IN FOR THE KENNELWORTH OPPORTUNITY AND WE'RE REALLY GLAD TO HAVE HIM ON THE TEAM. 
          UM, A SMALL INTRODUCTION ABOUT OLEG IS THAT HE IS A LOCAL BAY AREA ARTIST WHO RESIDES IN EAST PALO ALTO. 
          HE IS INSPIRED BY THE QUOTE, MYSTERY OF TRANSFORMATION AND THE NATURAL WORLD, AND, UH, CREATING PORTALS TO OTHER DIMENSIONS WITH HIS ART, EXPLORING TRUTH, HARMONY, AND CONTRADICTIONS, AND LINKING THE PHYSICAL AND METAPHYSICAL WORLD. 
          UM, OLEGS WORK CAN BE FOUND ACROSS THE GLOBE FROM NEW YORK TO JAPAN, AS WELL AS RIGHT HERE IN OUR BACKYARD IN THE PRES CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO. 
          HE'S WORKED WITH A NUMBER OF PUBLIC AGENCIES IN HIS BACKGROUND IN PAST PROJECTS. 
          WE'RE VERY LUCKY AND GRATEFUL TO HAVE OLEG ON OUR TEAM. 
          AND WITH THAT, I'LL HAND THE PRESENTATION OVER TO HIM TO TALK THROUGH THE ARTWORK CONCEPTS. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THERE YOU JUST PRESS THAT ONE BECAUSE I THINK EVERYONE, WHAT DO WE NEED TO MAKE SURE YOU JUST CAN JUST PRESS THIS ONE. 
          YEAH, JUST CUT DOWN. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          CAN THIS MOVE A LITTLE BIT? YEAH. 
          I CANNOT SEE THIS. 
          I KNOW YOU'RE RIGHT. 
          IT'S GOOD. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, 
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IN COUPLE WORDS, JUST ABOUT ME, UH, I'M 57 YEARS OLD. 
          I'M RATIONAL. 
          ORIGINALLY FROM ST. 
          PETERSBURG. 
          UH, ABOUT HALF OF MY LIFE I SPENT IN UNITED STATES, IN NEW YORK, SIX YEARS, AND THE REST HERE IN CALIFORNIA, I CONSIDER MYSELF AN INTERNATIONAL MAN, A MAN OF GLOBALIZATION. 
          I LIVE IN SILICON VALLEY, BETWEEN FACEBOOK, GOOGLE, AND STANFORD. 
          THAT AREA CALLS IS PALO ALTO. 
          AND, UH, AND I'M VERY MUCH APPRECIATED FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY. 
          VERY MUCH APPRECIATED TO CITY OF TULUM, WORKING WITH SOMETHING LIKE THIS. 
          IT'S REALLY EXCITING, UH, BECAUSE WHEN IT COMES TO SCULPTURE, ESPECIALLY IN PUBLIC SPACE, QUITE OFTEN YOU CAN SEE SIGNAGE ON IT, NO CLIMBING AS A SAFETY, UH, HAZARD. 
          UH, HERE WE WORK AND ACTUALLY WE WANT TO MAKE SOMETHING CLOUD EXCITING, EXCITING FOR CHILDREN, UH, TO WORK ON. 
          SO LET ME JUST GO AND READ THIS. 
          UH, THE TITLE OF THE SERIES IS SPLASH. 
          WHY? IT'S A SERIES. 
          ACTUALLY, IT DID NOT EXISTED BEFORE WE CAME TO THIS OPPORTUNITY, BUT WHEN I KIND OF STARTED WORKING ON IT, THEN TITLE SHOWED UP. 
          THEN ONE WORK LEADS TO NEXT ONE, TO NEXT ONE. 
          AND I HAVE NOW A SERIES OF WORK, WHICH WANNA CALL SPLASH. 
          IT'S, UH, ABOUT TWO WEEKS OLD. 
          THAT'S IT'S SUBTITLE. 
          THE THEME RECOGNIZES THE BASIC TRUTH THAT WATER IS LIVE ESSENTIAL TO AGRICULTURE AND FOOD PRODUCTION, AND OUR VERY BODIES. 
          THE DESIGN CONCEPT AIMS TO EDUCATE AND INSPIRE CHILDREN TO RECOGNIZE THE VITAL NATURE OF WATER THROUGH EXPLORATION, DISCOVERY, AND STIMULATION OF IMAGINATION THROUGH ART. 
          THE PROPOSED PLAYGROUND SCULPTURES FORM A GROUP OF PIECES RANGING IN SIZE FROM FOUR TO 12 FEET HIGH, AND THREE AND EIGHT FEET WIDE, MADE OF GFRC, GLASS FIBER, REINFORC CONCRETE BEST SUITABLE FOR CLIMBING, SAFE AND DURABLE, PERHAPS WITH SOME TINY AND PIECES FOR SITTING LIKE BENCHES, FEATURING FREESTANDING IN ABSTRACT SCULPTURES IN WHIMSICAL, ORGANIC, AND BIOMORPHIC SHAPES. 
          THEY REPRESENT VOID AND SUBSTANCE WHILE DRAWING ATTENTION TO FLOW. 
          AND THIS IS VISUAL ART IS BEST PROBABLY JUST TO SEE INSTEAD OF TOKEN. 
          SO THIS IS, UH, ONE OF THE PROPOSAL. 
          I KIND OF SEE COUPLE OPTIONS, BUT BASICALLY I DO SEE EVERY DROP OF SPLASH DROP OF WATER. 
          IT'S PROBABLY UNIQUE TO THE DEGREE AS EVERY HUMAN FINGERPRINT AND PERHAPS, UH, CHILDREN ON THIS LARGE SCALE. 
          UH, PROBABLY NOBODY SEE SPLASHES SO CLOSE OR SO LARGE. 
          BUT ANYWAY, I'M JUST LOOKING AT EVERY SCULPTURE, EVERY SPLASH AS SOMETHING ELSE. 
          LIKE I CAN SEE HERE, VERTICAL PIECES, UH, CUBE BASED PIECES, CLIMBING WALL, AND SO ON. 
          THIS IS ONE OPTION. 
          UH, WHICH ONE REPRESENT FOUR SCULPTURES AND TWO BENCHES AND BENCHES THERE, UH, IN FORM OF MOUNTAIN U OR THE DROP OF WATER HERE? SAME OPTION, JUST DIFFERENT SHOT, DIFFERENT RECORDS. 
          HERE'S ANOTHER OPTION. 
          PRETTY MUCH SAME SCULPTURES, BUT NO BENCHES. 
          BUT INSTEAD OF FOUR SCULPTURES, FIVE SCULPTURES, THEY COULD BE SPREAD AROUND. 
          DEPENDS ALSO ON LANDSCAPE DESIGN AND, UH, AND NEEDS. 
          THEY CAN BE STAND OUT AS INDIVIDUAL PIECES. 
          THEY CAN WORK TOGETHER LIKE A KIND OF A SCULPTURE PARK. 
          UH, HERE IS SOME MANNEQUINS JUST FOR SCALE TO SHOW AND FEEL IT. 
          THE HIGHEST PIECE HERE, IT'S ABOUT NINE FEET HIGH, WHERE YOU SEE MAN CANS. 
          UH, THEY'RE CLIMBING WALL ON THE ON, ON THE LEFT. 
          IT'S, UH, ABOUT SIX FEET HIGH. 
          ALL PIECES ARE ANYWHERE BETWEEN FIVE AND, UH, EIGHT AND A HALF FEET HIGH. 
          HERE. 
          UH, HERE YOU CAN SEE ACTUALLY THE SCALE, SCALE OF THE MODELS ALREADY ADAPTED FOR FUTURE FABRICATION. 
          UH, IT CAN BE FABRICATED AND SCALE IS HERE TWO INCHES. 
          IT'S ONE FOOD. 
          UH, HERE'S, UH, MUCH MORE WORKS. 
          STARTED KIND OF WORKING ON IT AND KEEP GOING, KEEP GOING. 
          I WAS WORKING WITH COUPLE ASSISTANT ASSISTANTS ON THIS, UH, JUST LAST FEW WEEKS. 
          WELL, BEFORE THAT ACTUALLY ALSO 
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WAS DONE SOME WORK, BUT THIS IS KIND OF A RESULT. 
          OR RESULTS. 
          THIS IS DIFFERENT VIEW, JUST DIFFERENT DESIGN, DIFFERENT OPTIONS, EVEN INCLUDING LIKE SOME COMMENTS, LIKE FOR EXAMPLE, I HAD LIKE FROM, UH, LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS AND OTHER PROFESSIONALS, LIKE THINKING ABOUT HOW PLAYGROUND SCULPTURE PERHAPS COULD BE USED BY SOMEBODY WITH SOME PHYSICAL DISABILITIES, BASICALLY TO HAVE ADA ACCESS, HOW TO PUT IT TOGETHER. 
          IT'S, UH, IT'S CHALLENGING, BUT THE RECEPTION. 
          YEAH. 
          AND HERE WE ARE. 
          DAVID, BACK TO YOU. 
          THAT'S, THAT'S ALL MY PRESENTATION. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          I FEEL IT. 
          OLEG. 
          AND I'LL ROUND OUT THIS PRESENTATION, UM, THIS EVENING WITH A FINAL SLIDE THAT EXPLORES SOME OF THE MENTIONED DESIGNS PRODUCED BY OLEG MIXED WITH THE SITE PLAN BY MIG. 
          SO I WANNA BE CLEAR THAT THIS IS NOT A FINAL MAP, AS WE HAVEN'T CONSIDERED ALL THE ARTWORK THAT OLEG HAS, UH, DEVELOPED AND PRESENTED TONIGHT. 
          AND THAT THESE ARE JUST SOME OF THE CONTENDING LOCATIONS THAT WE HAVE EXPLORED FOR PLACEMENT OF THE DIFFERENT ARTWORK DESIGNS THROUGHOUT THE PARK. 
          SO THE PURPOSE OF INCLUDING THIS IS TO HELP VISUALIZE WHERE SOME OF THE DIFFERENT ARTWORKS COULD ENGAGE WITH THE DIFFERENT AREAS AND PARK SPACES THAT LAUREN WAS MENTIONING EARLIER. 
          I'LL QUICKLY TALK ABOUT THE FOUR NUMBERED BUBBLES. 
          SO ON THE TOP RIGHT NEXT TO THE TEEN CENTER, AS YOU MIGHT HAVE NOTICED ON THE SITE PLAN SHOWN TO US EARLIER, WE IDENTIFIED THIS SPACE AS A GREAT WELCOMING POINT TO THE PARK. 
          AND USING SOME OF THE LARGEST SCALE WORKS THAT OLEG HAS PRODUCED, WE CAN DRAW ATTENTION TO THE PARK AND CATCH THE EYE OF NEARBY VISITORS, UM, LOCATED NEXT TO THE TEEN PATIO AND CENTER. 
          THESE TALLER WORKS COULD NOT ONLY BE A STATEMENT PIECE, UM, BUT ALSO BE APPROPRIATE FOR TEENS AND MAYBE KIDS THAT ARE A LITTLE BIT OLDER TO INTERACT WITH THE ARTWORK AS WELL. 
          MOVING ON TO THE IMAGES ON THE LEFT PART OF THE SCREEN, THE NUMBER TWO BUBBLE, UH, WE MOVE TOWARDS THE RIVERBANK SPACE. 
          OLEG HAS COMPLIMENTED, UH, THIS MORE CONTEMPLATIVE AND QUIETER SPACE THAT LAUREN WAS DESCRIBING WITH SMALLER WORKS AND PIECES THAT COULD BE, COULD POTENTIALLY DOUBLE A SEATING. 
          AND, UM, AS HE, UM, AS HE USED THE WORD SCULPTURE GARDEN, THAT KIND OF, YOU KNOW, ILLUSTRATES WHAT HE, WHAT THIS SPACE COULD KIND OF BE WITH SOME OF THE WORKS THAT COULD BE STILL CLIMBED ON, BUT, YOU KNOW, UH, HAVE A MORE REFLECTIVE EXPERIENCE. 
          AND THEN ON BUBBLE NUMBER THREE IS NEARBY THE SAND AND WATER PLAY AND AREA THAT MOVES MORE TOWARDS THE BOTTOM CENTER OF THE MAP. 
          WE DISCUSSED MAYBE HAVING SOME SMALLER WORKS THERE AS WELL. 
          UM, AND THEN FINALLY, BUBBLE NUMBER FOUR, WHICH WE ONLY RECENTLY DISCUSSED COULD BE A POTENTIAL, UM, IT COULD POTENTIALLY PEAK THE INTEREST OF PARK GOERS THAT, UM, ENTER FROM THE PAY RAN SIDE. 
          AND, UM, IT, IT'S A NICE IDEA OF LEADING FOLKS INTO THE PARK AND CONTINUING THE VISUAL INTEREST THROUGHOUT THE DIFFERENT PLAY SPACES, BUT ALSO, UM, HAVING A LITTLE BIT OF ROOM FOR THE SCULPTURES THEMSELVES TO BE OBSERVED IN A NATURAL AESTHETIC TOO. 
          UM, BUT I BELIEVE THAT'S IT. 
          SO I, IF THAT CONCLUDES THE PRESENTATION, I'LL HAND IT BACK TO YOU CHAIR. 
          THANK YOU. 
          I JUST, I WANTED TO ADD ONE THING THAT I, UM, FORGOT TO MENTION EARLIER IS, UH, US AS LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS, WE'VE WORKED CLOSELY WITH OLEG TO MAKE SURE THAT HIS DESIGNS, UH, MEET THE STANDARDS FOR PLAY. 
          AND SO THEY DO. 
          SO I JUST WANNA AFFIRM THAT WE'VE WORKED WITH HIM TECHNICALLY, UM, SO THAT ALL PIECES PROPOSED ARE REALISTICALLY SAFE AND COMPLETELY CONSTRUCTION FOR THIS PROJECT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          IS IT BETTER UHHUH? OKAY. 
          SEE, EVERY TIME I, I WORRY I GET WAY TOO CLOSE. 
          OKAY. 
          SO WE WILL START WITH CLARIFYING QUESTIONS. 
          AND I THINK WHAT I'LL DO IS I'LL START, UM, WITH THE ART COMMITTEE AND WE'LL KIND OF WEAVE OUR WAY AROUND. 
          IF YOU HAVE CLARIFYING QUESTIONS, THEN WE WILL ADDRESS ANY PUBLIC COMMENT AND THEN MOVE INTO COMMENT COMMENTS. 
          OKAY. 
          SO ARE THERE ANY CLARIFYING QUESTIONS FROM THE ART COMMITTEE? I APOLOGIZE. 
          I DON'T KNOW ALL OF YOUR NAMES. 
          SO , THANK YOU. 
          AND WELL, ACTUALLY, I, I DO KNOW, SORRY. 
          UM, ANY CLARIFYING QUESTIONS? I HAVE ONE, ONE QUICK QUESTION. 
          GREAT, KEVIN. 
          UM, HOW DOES THIS SUBSTANCE HOLD UP TO MAINTENANCE CLEANING? IS IT, UM, WILL CHEMICALS AFFECT THE SURFACE IF THEY'RE GRAFFITI OR PRETTY MUCH SAME, LIKE A CONCRETE. 
          OKAY. 
          BUT ACTUALLY I'M ALSO OBSERVING OLE, SORRY TO INTERRUPT. 
          UM, WOULD YOU MIND COMING UP TO THE MICROPHONE, JUST SO WHEN WE GO BACK AND DO THE MINUTES, 
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WE CAN RECORD THOSE. 
          THANK YOU, OLE. 
          OKAY. 
          UH, WELL IF YOU GONNA USE, UH, GFRC, WHICH ONE? I'M KIND OF THINKING, UH, ONE OF THE OPTIONS MOST DEFINITELY ONE, I'M, I'M NOT DROPPING UP ANY OTHER OPTIONS. 
          I MEAN, WE CAN DO IT IN BRONZE, WE CAN DO IT IN MARBLE, UH, IN STAINLESS STEEL TOO. 
          I DO HAVE EXPERIENCES, BUT ALSO REALISTICALLY LOOKING AS THE BUDGET AND AT THE SAME TIME ALSO SUITABLE FOR CLIMBING. 
          UH, IT'S PRETTY MUCH WILL ACT THE MATERIAL PRETTY MUCH ACT LIKE CONCRETE. 
          SO REGARDING MAINTENANCE, UH, PRESSURE WASH, WHEN YOU NEED TO, IF ANY GRAFFITI, WHICH ONE IS ALL VANDALISM, WHICH ONE IS A COMMON THING FOR ANY PUBLIC ART? IT'S, UH, YOU CAN REMOVE GRAFFITI. 
          YEAH. 
          UH, VANDALISM, WELL, IT CAN BE FIXED TOO. 
          BUT, UH, WHEN IT COMES TO MAINTENANCE AND LONG TERM, I WOULD SAY METALS, STONE, CONCRETE, THAT'S THE BEST MATERIALS FOR OUTDOORS. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OKAY. 
          ANY OTHER CLARIFYING QUESTIONS? NO, NOTHING. 
          OKAY. 
          WE'LL START, UH, ANY, UH, COMMISSIONER, CAR COMMISSIONER KELLY? WHAT IS THE, I I THINK THIS IS MARK QUESTION AGAIN FOR DREW, WHAT'S THE FALL SURFACE LIKE UNDER THESE AND WHAT'S THE FALL ZONE AND WHAT, WHAT DOES THE GROUNDING LOOK LIKE UNDER THESE? YEAH, I MEAN, THIS IS, UM, UP, UP FOR DISCUSSION. 
          UM, WHEN WE TALKED, AND I THINK, UH, LAUREN MENTIONED THE, UM, THE STANDARD, UM, WOOD FIBER SURFACES, THE MULCH IS WHAT YOU'LL SEE IN MOST PLAYGROUNDS AND PARKS. 
          BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, WE LOOKED AT THE, THE, THE POROUS RUBBERIZED SURFACE TOO MAKES A LOT OF SENSE IF YOU'RE BUILDING, UM, ESPECIALLY FOR AN ALL-INCLUSIVE DESIGN. 
          SO, UH, THERE'S ALSO SAND ELEMENTS IN HERE. 
          I MEAN, IT'S REALLY EVERYTHING IN HERE RIGHT NOW. 
          UM, I KNOW, UM, BEING THOUGHTFUL WITH THOSE SURFACES AND MAKING SURE THAT THERE'S MAINTENANCE AND CONSISTENCY IS A PRIORITY, BUT THERE'S NOT A, UM, DETERMINATION AT THIS POINT ON ONE SURFACE OR ANOTHER. 
          WELL, AND I JUST MEAN, I, I MEAN, IT, THERE WERE A LOT OF SURFACES THROUGHOUT YEAH. 
          THROUGHOUT THE PARK, BUT UNDER THE FALL ZONE OF THE, IS, IS THERE A SINGULAR KIND OF FALL? I CAN THINK RIGHT? I'LL, I'LL LEAN ON THE YEAH. 
          EXPERTS HERE. 
          YEAH, GREAT QUESTION. 
          WE'VE MET EXTENSIVELY ON THAT EXACT TOPIC. 
          UM, SO OUR PREFERENCE RIGHT NOW IS RESILIENT MATTING. 
          AND THE WAY THAT WE'RE INCORPORATING OLEGS ART PIECES IS WE DO HAVE IN OUR TECHNICAL DRAWINGS, UM, THE KIND OF FALL ZONES DESIGNED OUT. 
          SO ONCE WE'VE SELECTED THE SPECIFIC PIECES THAT WE'RE GONNA MOVE FORWARD WITH, WE WILL INTEGRATE THEM INTO THIS PARTICULAR DESIGN. 
          WE CAN MOVE THINGS AROUND TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE REACHING ALL OF THAT FALL ZONE THAT WE'RE EXPECTED TO HAVE. 
          RESILIENT MATTING IS THE PREFERENCE BECAUSE IT, IT, IT'LL KIND OF BLEND REALLY WELL INTO OUR OTHER PLAY AREAS. 
          BUT, UM, ENGINEERED WOOD FIVE BAR, WHICH I KNOW THE CITY ALREADY USES PRETTY MUCH AND, AND MAIN AND KNOWS HOW TO MAINTAIN IT REALLY WELL, THAT IS ALSO GONNA BE ACCEPTABLE. 
          UM, ONE THING ABOUT THE FIVE BAR IS IT'S A LITTLE BIT LESS ACCESSIBLE TO LIKE, UH, TO PUSH A WHEELCHAIR ONTO. 
          SO THAT'S ANOTHER REASON WHY WE'RE, WE'RE KIND OF LEANING TOWARDS THAT RESILIENT MATTING, SO THAT WAY YOU'RE JUST MOVING FROM ONE RELATIVELY FLUSH SURFACE TO ANOTHER ONE, AND YOU CAN KIND OF REALLY EXPERIENCE THE ART AT A VARIETY OF LEVELS. 
          AND I JUST, SORRY, I JUST HAVE ONE MORE. 
          MM-HMM. 
          . 
          UM, I'M THINKING ABOUT KIDS OF ALL ABILITIES. 
          MM-HMM. 
          . 
          AND ON THESE, AND THE BENCHES ARE NICE BECAUSE THAT'S FOR, YOU KNOW, FOR DIFFERENT ABILITIES AND DIFFERENT, BUT I'M JUST WONDERING HEIGHT, WHY AND, AND WHERE YOU TOOK THAT INTO CONSIDERATION. 
          THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION. 
          UM, THERE'S ONE PIECE IN PARTICULAR THAT OLIG DID, UM, BRING TO OUR ATTENTION INTERNALLY. 
          MAYBE I DON'T HAVE IT HERE. 
          UM, BUT THOUGHT HAS, IT'S THIS ONE, THE CENTRAL ONE THOUGHT HAS BEEN CONSIDERED IN HOW, UM, YOU COULD FIT A FULL ADULT IN A WHEELCHAIR THROUGH THIS CENTRAL PIECE RIGHT HERE. 
          SO THAT IS ONE CONSIDERATION. 
          THERE'S ALSO CONSIDERATIONS IN WHERE THE LITTLE ARMS ARE REACHING OUT SO THAT THEY ARE ACCESSIBLE FROM ALL THE WAY ON THE GROUND. 
          MAYBE YOU CAN KIND OF PULL, USE YOUR UPPER BODY TO GET ONTO CERTAIN PIECES, OR MAYBE YOU CAN SIT NEXT TO IT AND STILL FEEL THAT EXPERIENCE. 
          UM, WE HAVE GIVEN OLEG ALL THE DIMENSIONS NEEDED FOR THOSE HEIGHT REQUIREMENTS, YOU KNOW, 42 INCHES, 36 INCHES, AND HE, HE'S COME, HE, HE MET THE CHALLENGE . 
          UM, THE PIECES, THE PIECES REALLY DO, ARE REALLY IN ALIGNMENT WITH THOSE KIND OF PARAMETERS THAT WE GAVE HIM FOR REACHING, UM, ACCESS, CRAWLING, GETTING IN AND OUT, YOU KNOW, EVEN THINGS LIKE PINCH CONSTRAINTS, TELLING, TELLING HIM THINGS CAN'T BE SMALLER THAN A CERTAIN SIZE. 
          'CAUSE WE DON'T WANNA CREATE ENTRAPMENT. 
          THINGS CAN'T BE LARGER THAN A CERTAIN SIZE BECAUSE WE DON'T 
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WANNA CREATE A HAZARD. 
          SO, AND MISSING SHARP AND NOTHING SHARP. 
          YES,  DEFINITELY, I MEAN, ONE OF THE JOYS OF DESIGNING FOR THE PUBLIC IS YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT THEY'RE GONNA DO WITH IT. 
          SO, UM, BUT WE CAN, WE CAN CREATE A STANDARD OF SAFETY. 
          MM-HMM. 
          , UH, COMMISSIONER GREENSPAN. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, THIS QUESTION PROBABLY GOES TO DREW. 
          WHAT IS THE FEASIBILITY OF BEING ABLE TO INCORPORATE SOME OF THE ADDITIONAL SPACES LIKE THE PARKING LOT AND THE MULTI-USE SPACE FOR, UM, COURT PLAY? THAT WASN'T REALLY SOMETHING THAT HAD BEEN DISCUSSED BEFORE, SO I JUST WANTED TO SEE KIND OF HOW THAT CAME ABOUT. 
          YEAH, GREAT QUESTION. 
          IT CAME ABOUT REALLY FROM AN OVERWHELMING SENSE THROUGH THE OUTREACH, THE INITIAL OUTREACH DONE THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, WE PRESENTED THIS FOOTPRINT FROM THE PARCEL, YOU KNOW, I WAS REALLY, UH, HONING IN ON, HEY, LET'S, LET'S STICK TO THIS. 
          UM, LET'S TRY TO GET A PROJECT WITHIN THESE CONFINES. 
          AND WE REALLY LEARNED THAT, UH, WE WOULD BE DOING A DISSERVICE IF WE DIDN'T ALLOW US TO LOOK FORWARD. 
          AND HOW DO WE INTEGRATE AND ACTIVATE THIS WHOLE SITE? HOW DO WE PULL IN PROGRAMING OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE LIBRARY? HOW DO WE BRING IN THE TEEN CENTER INTO A REACTIVATE SPACE, UM, ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN? AND WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT, UM, ACROSS THE STREET, WHICH IS NOW WITHIN THE, THE FOOTPRINT OF THE FAIRGROUNDS, IT'S, UM, A, A CON OR A, UM, AN ASPHALT PARKING LOT THAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR TO INSPIRE OR THE COMMUNITY TO GET FEEDBACK ON, YOU KNOW, WHAT WOULD IT TAKE FOR KIND OF A DEMONSTRATION OR A QUICK BUILD PROJECT TO SET UP COURT PLAY RES STRIPING AND SOME, YOU KNOW, COORDINATION WITH THE FAIR NEEDS ON WHAT THEY NEED FOR AN ADMIN BUILDING, BUT REALLY NOT MUCH ELSE. 
          SO THAT'S WHY YOU DON'T REALLY SEE A BUILD OUT THERE. 
          BUT I FELT THROUGH THE OUTREACH AND TALKING WITH THE DESIGN TEAM AND THE COMMUNITY THAT WE NEEDED TO PRESENT STUFF LIKE THIS SO WE COULD GET FEEDBACK ON WHAT AREAS AND SHOULD WE GO. 
          BUT, UM, BUT YEAH, THAT WAS REALLY KIND OF THE INTENT THERE. 
          GREAT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          MM-HMM. 
          , ANY OTHER, UH, COUNCILPERSON NOW? UM, THANK YOU, UM, FOR THAT PRESENTATION. 
          IT WAS VERY, UM, EDUCATIONAL. 
          AS A RETIRED TEACHER, IT'S REALLY FUN TO SEE A REIMAGINED PLAYGROUND. 
          AND I HAVE SEVEN GRANDCHILDREN IN PETALUMA FROM AGES 12 TO THREE MONTHS. 
          AND EVEN TODAY, I HAD A VERY ACTIVE SEVEN YEAR OLD, EIGHT YEAR OLD AND FIVE YEAR OLD THAT I TOOK TO THE PARK IN THE LIBRARY. 
          AND THEIR FAVORITE GAME IS JUMPING FROM THING TO THING. 
          THE FLOOR IS LAVA. 
          YEAH. 
          SO I'M LIKE, OH MY GOSH, CAN THEY JUMP FROM SCULPTURE PLAY PIECE TO PLAY PIECE? OR HOW DOES THAT WORK? AND, AND, AND THEN I LIKED THE, THE, THE FALL MATERIAL. 
          WHAT IS UNDERNEATH THAT? BECAUSE , THOSE ARE THE QUESTIONS. 
          YEAH. 
          OKAY. 
          WHAT I WAS JUST, CAN YOU JUMP FROM, THEY LOVE TO PLAY THAT GAME WHERE THEY JUST JUMP FROM EQUIPMENT TO EQUIPMENT AND DESIGNED, DID, DESIGNED WANT GRAY HAIR. 
          THEY'RE DESIGNED SO THAT YOU CANNOT DO THAT. 
          OKAY. 
          THE INTENT IS THAT YOU CANNOT DO THAT. 
          UM, THE INTENT IS THAT EACH ONE HAS ITS OWN FALL ZONE. 
          SO THAT FALL ZONE OF AT LEAST FIVE FEET, THAT CREATES 10 FEET BETWEEN, UM, TWO PLAY STRUCTURES, TWO PIECES, RIGHT. 
          SO, I MEAN, IF YOU HAVE A REALLY ATHLETIC PRE OLYMPIAN CHILD, I MEAN MAYBE, BUT THAT, THAT'S DEFINITELY NOT THE DESIGN INTENT. 
          UM, WE DO HAVE A LOT OF FLEXIBILITY THOUGH, IN WHERE THIS DESIGN IS GOING. 
          SO WE CAN IMAGINE, ESPECIALLY FOR THESE KIND OF SMALLER, INTIMATE AREAS, THAT THERE COULD BE A CLUSTER WITHIN THAT HOPPING AREA, BUT THEY'RE GONNA BE HOPPING ON THINGS THAT ARE, YOU KNOW, 24 INCHES, 18 INCHES, NOT LEAPING FROM THE BEAUTIFUL NINE FOOT PIECE TO SOMETHING ELSE. 
          SO THERE'S CERTAINLY OPPORTUNITY TO ALLOW KIND OF THAT FUN PLAY, UM, IN A VERY CONTROLLED AND SAFE WAY. 
          BUT THE BIGGER ONES, NO, THAT IS, THAT IS NOT THE DESIGN INTENTION. 
          THE ALSO LOVE ZIP LINES THOUGH. 
           JUST TELLING YOU ANYTHING TO MOVE. 
          GREAT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UH, COMMISSIONER ROBERT ELLI. 
          UH, FIRST I LOVE THE FACT THAT YOU HAVE MADE THE SITE A UNIFIED WHOLE, BECAUSE INITIALLY WE'RE JUST LOOKING AT THAT FRONT SECTION AND IT JUST SEEMED LIKE THERE NEEDED TO BE ALL THE, THE WHOLE PROPERTY NEEDED TO BE INCLUDED IN THE PLAN. 
          AND I THINK THIS IS THE PLAN. 
          LOOKS GREAT. 
          UM, GETTING BACK TO MEGAN'S COMMENT ABOUT THE, UH, THE, UM, RESILIENT MATTING AND JUST FROM MY EXPERIENCE WITH PLAYGROUNDS IN SAN FRANCISCO AS A, UM, PARK SUPERVISOR, UM, I WOULD JUST ENCOURAGE THAT THOUGHT THAT TO KEEP THE SAND SEPARATE FROM THE MATTING. 
          YES. 
          BECAUSE IT, IT REALLY TEARS UP THE MATTING, 
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THE SAND IS GONNA GET ALL OVER THE PLACE, AND WHEN IT'S ON THE MATTING, IT, IT QUICKLY JUST WEARS IT TO DOWN TO NOTHING. 
          SO IF YOU CAN JUST MAKE SURE THAT THERE'S GOOD SEPARATION BETWEEN THOSE TWO AREAS IN A WAY TO KEEP THE SAND, UH, CONTAINED SO THAT IT DOESN'T, IT'S NOT ALL OVER THE PLACE ALL THE TIME. 
          OTHER THAN THAT, I THINK THIS IS FANTASTIC. 
          I LOVE THE SCULPTURES. 
          I THINK IT'S GONNA BE AN AMAZING, AN AMAZING ADDITION TO PETALUMA AND WONDERFUL FOR, UM, FOR ALL, FOR ALL OF PETALUMA. 
          'CAUSE I WANT TO GO CLIMB ON THOSE SCULPTURES. 
          . 
          THANK YOU. 
          UH, CLARIFYING QUESTION. 
          COMMISSIONER CHISHOLM. 
          GREAT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          FIRST, WOULD YOU MIND PUTTING A COUPLE OF THEM ON THE DESK A LITTLE CLOSER SO WE CAN SEE 'EM? THINK THE MODELS? YEAH, THE MODELS. 
          'CAUSE THEY'RE REALLY COOL. 
          I'D LOVE TO SEE 'EM CLOSER. 
          UM, AND MEANWHILE, UH, DREW THE PLAY STRUCTURES THAT ARE THERE NOW, UH, UH, WERE WE ABLE TO REUSE THEM OR REPURPOSE THEM? WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO THEM? NOT, NOT LIKELY REPURPOSED OR REUSED? USUALLY DURING AN EXCAVATION. 
          UM, YEAH. 
          AND WE ARE, WE'VE NOT COME TO A CROSS WHERE WE'RE REMOVING A PLAYGROUND THAT, THAT COULD BE SALVAGED AT THIS POINT. 
          SO WHEN WE RUN TO OUR FIRST, OKAY, ASK ME AGAIN. 
          BUT FOR THIS ONE, WE WOULD BE, UH, UM, DISCARDING. 
          YOU CAN BRING 'EM INTO THIS TABLE IF YOU WANT TO, IF YOU WANT. 
          SURE. 
          YOU, I MEAN, JUST HONEST, WE DON'T WANNA FALL. 
          I, I HAVE TO SAY, I WALKED IN AND I WAS LIKE, CAN I HOLD ONE TO TOUCH THEM? BECAUSE THIS IS JUST MODELS GENTLE. 
          WELL MAYBE WANT OKAY. 
          GENTLE. 
          VERY GENTLE. 
          IS THERE A, 'CAUSE THIS ACTUALLY FOR YOUR EYES. 
          MM-HMM. 
          . 
          OH. 
          BUT EVEN IF YOU WAS ALREADY , THAT'S A GOOD SIGN. 
          NO, NO, NO. 
          I JUST MEANT ON THE TABLE NOT FOR US TO, NOT FOR US TO HAND THEM AROUND. 
          NO, NO, NO. 
          THERE YOU GO. 
          OKAY. 
          IS THERE A MAXIMUM HEIGHT FOR THESE? YES, THERE IS A MAXIMUM HEIGHT. 
          UM, I THINK THE MAXIMUM HEIGHT THAT WE GAVE WAS 12 FEET OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD. 
          WELL, IT'S, UH, IT DEPENDS BECAUSE ACTUALLY, I DON'T KNOW IF THERE IS MAXIMUM HEIGHT. 
          IT'S KIND OF A STRANGE, BECAUSE LIKE, EVEN LIKE PARK LABREA, WHICH ONE WAS DONE ACTUALLY OVER 20 YEARS AGO IN LA AND UH, LANDSCAPE AND ANOTHER PLAYGROUND EXPERT WAS INVOLVED IN IT. 
          AND THEY DIDN'T TELL ME LIKE, THERE IS NO ACTUALLY HIGH LIMIT. 
          THERE IS SOME LIMITATIONS REGARDING HOW SOFT GROUND SUPPOSED TO BE, ESPECIALLY AS HIGH AS STRUCTURE AS SOFTWARE IT SHOULD BE. 
          UH, BUT THERE'S NO LIMITS LIKE THIS. 
          UH, BUT I DIDN'T REALLY USE IT OR EVEN, LIKE, IT MIGHT WORK, WELL, IT'S NOT HERE. 
          I DO HAVE, MAYBE THE HIGHEST PIECE IS ABOUT 12 FEET, BUT EVEN 12 FEET, IT DOESN'T MEAN CHILD CAN CLIMB TO 12 FEET. 
          OH, OKAY. 
          FOR EXAMPLE, THERE'S JUST DESIGN THE WAY YOU LIKE, SOMETHING LIKE THIS. 
          THIS PIECE IS JUST ABOUT EIGHT AND A HALF FEET, UH, BUT LAST TWO FEET, THEY'RE KIND OF NOT REALLY CLIMBABLE AT ALL. 
          UH, I ACTUALLY TOOK ATION, SO NOT NECESSARILY I WANTED TO GO SO HIGH, SO WE JUMPED FROM THAT. 
          OH, LIG, I'M SORRY TO INTERRUPT AGAIN. 
          I'VE, I'VE GOT A MICROPHONE HERE. 
          YEAH. 
          FOR US TO KEEP THE MINUTES PIECE LIKE THIS, YOU THIS, BUT THIS PIECE KIND OF LIKE MORE LIKE A CLIMBING WALL, UH, WHICH ONE ACTUALLY HAS CROSS SECTIONS? I KIND OF BUILT ALL OF THEM ON THOSE CROSS SECTIONS, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, THINKING ABOUT, BECAUSE I'M LOOKING AT NOT JUST LIKE A PIECE OF ART, ACTUALLY I'M DOING IT FOR, FOR THE SAKE OF ART. 
          UH, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, THINKING ABOUT FUNCTIONALITY, UH, I NEED TO ESTIMATE WHAT THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE OPENINGS SO THEY CAN REACH BY THEIR FEET, THEY CAN REACH BY THEIR HAND AND THEY CAN MOVE FROM ONE TO OTHER. 
          ALSO, I DON'T KNOW, I WAS ASKING SOME PEOPLE, WHAT DO YOU SEE IN THIS WORK? FOR EXAMPLE, I DO SEE SOME KIND OF, I DON'T KNOW, DRAGON FACE OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. 
          UH, SOMEBODY TOLD ME LIKE SOMETHING ABOUT LORD OF THE RINGS OR ANOTHER MOVIE, UH, UH, AND THAT LITTLE GUY, I DO SEE KIND OF A GINGER, UH, BREAD MAN. 
          SOMEBODY SEE NICKELODEON SIGNED, UH, TRADEMARK OR SOMETHING. 
          IT REALLY DOESN'T MATTER. 
          BUT WHAT I GLAD ABOUT IT, I, I THINK THEY DO, THEY ALL DO HAVE KIND OF MULTI INTERPRETATIONS AND THEY CAN STIMULATE IMAGINATION FOR KIDS. 
          I DON'T WANT GIVE THEM SOMETHING LIKE TRULY SPECIFIC. 
          UH, IT'S ABSTRACT PIECES. 
          UH, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, YES, THERE SHOULD BE FUNCTIONAL, FUNCTIONAL FOR CLIMBING. 
          WELL, SO THAT WAS MY LAST QUESTION FOR CLIMBING THEN. 
          I'M GUESSING THIS MATERIAL SINCE LIKE CONCRETE CAN AT LEAST BE NOT SMOOTH, POLISHED, BUT AT LEAST ROUGH, LIKE MAT SMOOTH, LIKE A TILED FLOOR IN A BATHROOM WHERE YOU CAN'T SLIP. 
          NOT NECESSARILY TO THAT DEGREE, 
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BUT IT'S GOING TO BE SMOOTH. 
          YEAH. 
          AND IT'S GOING TO BE SAFE TO GRAB IT. 
          THAT'S WHAT I MEAN. 
          THERE WILL BE SOME ROUGHNESS, SO YOU CAN'T JUST SLIP RIGHT OFF. 
          IT'S NOT LIKE POLISHED MARBLE. 
          YES, YES. 
          IT'S NOT GOING TO BE LIKE A POLISHED STAINLESS STEEL, THIS MIRROR POLISHED AND GET VERY HOT, UH, UNDER SUN. 
          NO CONCRETE IS PRETTY MUCH, WELL, IT'S MADE FROM LIMESTONE FROM PORTLAND CEMENT. 
          UH, EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS MATERIAL, BUT IT IS SUITABLE FOR THIS WORK. 
          IT'S NOT GONNA LOOK LIKE A CONCRETE, IT'S ACTUALLY'S GONNA BE, IT IS GOING TO BE MORE WHITE ACTUALLY, THE COLOR, WHAT YOU SEE HERE, THAT'S WHAT I'M KIND OF PROPOSING. 
          I DON'T KNOW WHAT TIM WILL DECIDE LATER ALTOGETHER WHAT COLOR IT CAN BE. 
          BECAUSE ACTUALLY IT CAN, HAS ALSO A NUMBER OF OPTIONS. 
          PERHAPS IT, IT CAN BE EVEN PAINTED IF YOU WANT TO HAVE INDIVIDUAL BRIGHT COLOR EACH WORK. 
          UH, IT'S UH, STILL IN PROGRESS. 
          . 
          YEAH, THERE'S NO FINAL DECISIONS. 
          THERE'S NO CONCLUSIONS. 
          SO WE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE YOUR INPUT TOO. 
          UH, THANK YOU. 
          I WANTED TO NOTE REGARDING THAT HEIGHT QUESTION THOUGH. 
          UM, SO THE WAY THAT PLAYGROUND SAFETY IS, IT'S ACTUALLY DICTATED BY THE SURFACE YOU'RE PUTTING UNDERNEATH THE OBJECT. 
          SO, UM, WE WILL ACCOMMODATE THE HEIGHT OF THE, YOU KNOW, THE PRODUCT, THE END PRODUCT, BY MAKING SURE THAT THE SURFACE IS DEEP ENOUGH WE CAN ACTUALLY POUR DEEPER FOR CERTAIN MATERIALS TO ENSURE THAT THERE'S THAT BUOYANCY. 
          SO LIKE I HAVE A PROJECT THAT WAS COMPLETED IN BERKELEY. 
          I THINK IT'S LIKE SEVEN 16 FEET TALL. 
          AND JUST FOR THAT ONE PARTICULAR CLIMBER, IT'S LIKE, YOU KNOW, IT'S A THREE FOOT POUR OF RESILIENT MATTING RATHER THAN THE REST OF THE SITE, WHICH IS JUST A FOOT AND A HALF. 
          SO WE CAN ACCOMMODATE ONCE AS WE KIND OF PROGRESS IN THE DESIGN IN THE TECHNICAL SIDE. 
          DID YOU HAVE ANY MORE QUESTIONS, STACY? I, I DO, YEAH. 
          COMMISSIONER GREENSMAN. 
          THANKS. 
          UM, THIS IS KIND OF A TWO-PART QUESTION. 
          FIRST, FOR DREW AND CINDY, WHAT IS THE CITY'S EXPERIENCE IN DEALING WITH SAND AND WATER PLAY? THE CLEANLINESS AND SANITATION AND MAINTENANCE. 
          AND IF THERE IS NO EXPERIENCE, THEN HOW DOES MIG DO THEY COME IN WITH A PLAN OR TRAINING? YEAH, PART OF THE DELIVERABLES IS TO HELP KIND OF CREATE THAT, THAT, UM, OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE PLAN WITH THE CITY, UM, PRIOR TO KIND OF CREATING THOSE CONSTRUCTION READY DOCUMENTS SO THAT WE CAN, UM, BUILD OUR MAINTENANCE PLAN TOGETHER. 
          WE HAVE SAND AND PLAYGROUNDS. 
          UH, WE'VE FOUND, YOU KNOW, CHALLENGES ARE, ARE USUALLY THOSE PLAYGROUNDS ARE, WERE CREATED FOR FALL SURFACES. 
          AND IT DOESN'T MAKE A GREAT FALL SURFACE. 
          IT GETS COMPACTED OVER TIME. 
          SO ONE THING ABOUT THIS DESIGN WAS, YOU KNOW, BEING VERY THOUGHTFUL WITH THE SAND AS KIND OF A CREATIVE PLAY SURFACE. 
          UH, WHICH WE'VE HAD MORE SUCCESS IN WALNUT PARK OR MCNAIR, WHERE YOU'VE GOT A SMALLER, UM, SECTION OF, OF MAINTAINABLE SURFACES. 
          BUT, BUT LIKE COMMISSIONER ELLIS COMMENT, UM, HAVE TO BE THOUGHTFUL WITH WHAT'S AROUND THAT SAND. 
          'CAUSE WE ALL KNOW, UM, WATCHING KIDS, THEY WILL TAKE IT WHEREVER THEY NEED TO GO. 
          YEAH. 
          GREAT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          YEAH, THANK YOU. 
          OKAY. 
          UH, MELISSA, DID YOU HAVE A QUESTION? A CLARIFYING QUESTION? YOU CAN ASK HER. 
          PARDON? OH, OH, I'M SORRY. 
          I DIDN'T SEE YOU. 
          GO AHEAD. 
          I I JUST HAD A QUESTION BECAUSE WE'RE SO CLOSE TO THE LIBRARY WITH THIS PARK AND THIS, UM, AND THE GARDEN THAT'S THERE THAT DAILY ACTS PUT IN, IT HAS A LOT OF, UH, LITERACY. 
          THANKS FOR, UM, PEOPLE TO READ ABOUT THE NATIVE PLANTS, WHAT HAVE YOU. 
          I WOULD LOVE TO SEE SOME. 
          AND I JUST SPENT A WEEKEND IN THE CITY AT GOLDEN GATE PARK WHERE THERE'S THE ALPHABET IS THE WHOLE STRETCH OF THE, UM, ROADWAY. 
          AND IT HAD A IS FOR ART. 
          AND IT EXPLAINED WHAT ART CAN BE ALL THESE DIFFERENT FORMS. I WOULD LOVE TO SEE SOME LITERACY INCORPORATED INTO IT. 
          I LOVE THE DEFINITION OF YOUR, UM, ART SCULPTURE SPLASH AND GIVE THAT TO THE, THE, THE, THE CHILDREN AND ADULTS THAT ARE UTILIZING THAT PARK. 
          SO THAT'S JUST MINE, UM, INPUT. 
          AND IF YOU HAD THOUGHT ABOUT THAT LITERACY BEING SO CLOSE TO THE LIBRARY, UM, THE LITERACY COMPONENT IN THE LITERAL ASPECT OF LIKE, UH, SHOWING WORDS. 
          I CAN'T SAY THAT THAT'S COME INTO OUR DESIGN CONCEPT YET, BUT WE HAVE HAD STAKEHOLDER MEETINGS WITH THE LIBRARY TO UNDERSTAND, UM, AND LIBRARY STAFF MEMBERS TO UNDERSTAND HOW THEY ENVISION CONNECTIONS. 
          UM, SO WE ABSOLUTELY ARE OPEN TO THE PROGRAMMATIC CONNECTION BETWEEN THE LIBRARY. 
          IF WE CAN TURN THAT PROGRAMMATIC CONNECTION INTO A VISUAL CONNECTION, WE REALLY SUPPORT IT. 
          UM, SO YOU BRING, I, I WROTE, I WROTE IT DOWN . 
          SO, UM, YOUR COMMENT IS DEFINITELY NOTED. 
          AND I, I THINK THAT THERE'S REALLY AWESOME WAYS TO INCORPORATE THE LIBRARY MORE PHYSICALLY INTO, INTO THIS PROJECT. 
          CERTAINLY. 
          THANK 
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YOU. 
          WHAT IS THE VISUAL BOARD AT BOND PARK? WHAT'S THAT NEW WHAT IT, IT'S GOT A NAME. 
          IT'S JUST GOT IT INSTALLED. 
          IS IT ABOUT LIKE HOW MICROPHONE NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION? MM-HMM. 
          . 
          IT HAS PICTURES. 
          YEAH. 
          IT'S A COMMUNICATION. 
          IT'S A, IT'S A COMMUNICATION BOARD. 
          COMMUNICATION BOARD, YEAH. 
          AND SO WE GO, CAN YOU FIND THIS PON PARK AND THIS? AND IT KEEPS THEM KIND OF  DOING SOMETHING, UM, PROACTIVE SO THEY'RE NOT GETTING HURT AS GRANDMA IS IN CONTROL. 
          YES, WE WE'RE SUPER FAMILIAR WITH THIS PRODUCT. 
          OKAY, GREAT. 
          DO YOU HAVE A CLARIFYING QUESTION? NOT A COMMENT? YES. 
          OKAY, GREAT. 
          GO AHEAD. 
          OKAY. 
          WELL CAN YOU, UH, SAVE YOUR COMMENT FOR COMMENT SECTION? IT'S JUST THE WAY THAT THE MEETINGS ARE RUN. 
          GREAT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          HELLO. 
          THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION. 
          IT'S NICE TO SEE IT AGAIN. 
          UM, I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY. 
          I HAVEN'T SEEN A LIGHTING PLAN FOR THE SITE. 
          AND WHEN I LOOK AT THESE PIECES, THEY RELY SO HEAVILY ON NEGATIVE SPACE AND THE IMPACT AND HOW YOU LIGHT IT WILL REALLY AFFECT HOW THE PARK IS PERCEIVED IN THE EVENING AND HOW IT PRESENTS AS ART. 
          SO I WANTED TO KNOW IF THAT'S PART OF THE PLAN TO DATE. 
          YES, IT TOTALLY IS. 
          IT'S LIKE, OOH, SHE, THAT'S A REALLY GOOD QUESTION. 
          YES, WE ACTUALLY HAVE LIGHTING CONSULTANTS ON THIS PROJECT. 
          WE'RE WORKING WITH, UM, OMM. 
          AND SO THEY HAVE REVIEWED OUR SCHEMATIC PLAN FOR, UM, AND THEY'VE PROVIDED KIND OF A HIGH LEVEL RECOMMENDATIONS. 
          UH, WE WANTED TO PRESENT THIS DESIGN TO YOU ALL BEFORE WE REALLY STARTED TO DEVELOP THAT LIGHTING PLAN SOONER. 
          'CAUSE THAT ELEMENT IS VERY TECHNICAL. 
          UM, AND SO IF THEY DON'T KNOW WHERE THEY'RE EXPECTED TO DO THEIR ELECTRICAL CONNECTIONS, UM, ANY UNDERGROUNDING, IT'S KIND OF HARD TO GET THEM ON THE PROJECT. 
          BUT YES, WE HAVE HAD OUR LIGHTING CONSULTANTS, THEY'RE ACTUALLY AT THE KICKOFF MEETING. 
          SO THEY, THEY PARTICIPATED AT JULY 14TH. 
          UM, THEY'VE LOOKED AT IT, THEY ACTUALLY HAVE SOME SAFETY RECOMMENDATIONS AS WELL AS WHERE WE CAN PLACE LIGHTING FOR SAFETY IN ADDITION TO THE AMBIENT LIGHTING EXPERIENCE. 
          UM, AND I THINK SOME OF THOSE QUESTIONS WILL NEED TO BE ANSWERED IN THE FUTURE OF HOW MUCH WE WANT THIS PROJECT TO BE LIT. 
          HOW, UM, IS THIS GONNA BE A LIT PARK OR IS THIS A PARK WITH LIGHTING? SO, UM, LOTS OF QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED. 
          THAT WILL ABSOLUTELY BE, UM, BROUGHT BACK AROUND IN THE NEXT ITERATION. 
          GREAT. 
          ANY OTHER CLARIFYING QUESTIONS FROM EITHER THE ART COMMITTEE OR THE COMMISSION? GREAT. 
          UM, CLERK, DID WE HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT? NO PUBLIC COMMENT FOR THIS AND NO PUBLIC COMMENT, UM, VIA EMAIL. 
          SO NOW I WOULD LIKE TO OPEN IT UP FOR ALL OF THE COMMENTS. 
          UM, AND AGAIN, LET'S START WITH THE, UM, WE'LL GO THROUGH THE ART COMMITTEE AND I BELIEVE, KEVIN, DO YOU HAVE ANY COMMENTS ON THIS? I LOVE IT. 
          UM, I'M VERY EXCITED FOR MY CHILDREN TO PLAY ON IT. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          AND I LOVE THE NEW THEME OF SPLASH. 
          I THINK IT'S PERFECT FOR THIS SPACE. 
          ANY COMMENTS, ANNE, TO ADD? SURE. 
          I JUST HAVE TO, UH, ECHO KEVIN. 
          I THINK IT'S BEAUTIFUL SITE PLAN, AND I THINK THESE SCULPTURES ARE, ARE SPOT ON. 
          AND YOU REALLY ADDRESSED OUR COMMENTS FROM THE LAST ROUND. 
          I APPRECIATE THAT. 
          UM, I THINK THIS SETS A NEW STANDARD FOR PARKS AND CREATIVE SPACES IN PETALUMA THAT, UM, I REALLY HOPE THIS CITY CAN, YOU KNOW, PICK UP THE BALL AND RUN WITH. 
          SO I'M EXCITED FOR THIS TO, TO COME TO REALITY AND BE OUR NEW, NEW PLACE. 
          GREAT. 
          AND MELISSA, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING WILLING PARTNERS WITH US AND WORKING ON THIS TOGETHER. 
          I, IT SEEMS SO SMART TO APPLY BOTH OF OUR FUNDS FOR SOMETHING THAT'S GONNA HAVE SYNERGY TO IT FROM BOTH OUR BODIES. 
          UM, I REALLY APPRECIATE OLEG SINCE OUR LAST INCARNATION, LIKE TAKING THIS AND DEVELOPING IT INTO SOMETHING THAT'S BOTH REPRESENTATIONAL AND COMPLETELY IMAGINATIVE ALL AT ONCE. 
          'CAUSE I THINK TO A CHILD'S MIND, THIS IS GONNA READ IN A MUCH DIFFERENT WAY THAN OUR MINDS. 
          AND I FEEL LIKE ADULTS WILL ALSO BE ABLE TO REGISTER IT. 
          I DO LEAN TOWARDS THE BONE COLOR FOR THE REASON OF LIGHTING. 
          I FEEL LIKE LIGHTING IS JUST AS MUCH OF AN ELEMENT OF THE ART AS THE ART SOMETIMES. 
          AND I THINK IF WE HAD A PHOTO PLAN FOR IT OR A LIGHTING PLAN FOR IT, WE COULD PROJECT COLORS ON IT FOR TONALITY, FOR SHADOWS ON THE TEEN CENTER OR BUILDINGS. 
          THERE'S A LOT OF CONCEPTS FOR IT. 
          AND THE CITY ONLY ALLOWS CERTAIN TYPES OF LIGHTING. 
          SO WE ALSO HAVE TO TAKE THAT. 
          WE CAN'T DO UP LIGHTING, SO WE HAVE TO, I'M NOT SURE IF THERE'S EXCEPTIONS FOR PARK, BUT I, I FEEL LIKE THIS IS ANOTHER COMPONENT OF VISUAL INTEREST THAT SHOULD REALLY BE CONSIDERED FROM THE ONSET. 
          UM, THAT WOULD BE MY 2 CENTS ABOUT IT. 
          I LOVE THE IDEA OF CLUSTERING, THE IDEA OF THE FOOTPRINT LEANING 
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ACROSS THE SITE. 
          I FEEL LIKE IT'S GOT A STORYTELLING TO IT AS WELL, AND A FLOW ALONG WITH THE WATER. 
          UM, THERE'S A LOT OF LIKE COMMONALITY AND THE THEMES AND THE LAYOUT THAT MAKE A LOT OF SENSE TO ME. 
          THE BENCH AREAS ALLOW CLIMBING FOR YOUNGER PEOPLE, AND I DON'T ALWAYS SEE IT NECESSARILY AS LIKE SOMEWHERE PEOPLE WOULD BE SITTING SO MUCH AS YOUNG PEOPLE FEELING THAT THEY CAN ACCESS THE SITE AT THE SAME LEVEL OR AT, YOU KNOW, AS THEIR OLDER SIBLINGS OR, YOU KNOW, INS INSPIRING OLDER CHILDREN. 
          UM, I DO LOVE THE IDEA OF A ZIP LINE SOMEWHERE BECAUSE WE HAVE YET TO HAVE ONE IN OUR PARKS AND THAT'S THE GO-TO, TO EVERYTHING. 
          MY, I HAVE THREE SONS AND MY YOUNGEST IS SEVEN. 
          AND WHEN WE GO ANYWHERE, IT'S LIKE THE ZIP LINE IS LIKE KID FANTASY. 
          LIKE, I DON'T KNOW. 
          I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY DO WITH THAT. 
          BUT WHEN I LOOK AT THESE, THESE, I, I FEEL LIKE THERE'S A LOT OF CREATIVITY THAT CAN COME OUT OF THIS. 
          AND WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT A PUBLIC ART PIECE AT THIS SITE, WE WANTED ART THAT INSPIRED PLAY. 
          AND THE IDEA WAS THAT IT WAS FOREMOST ART. 
          AND I FEEL LIKE YOU CAPTURED THAT. 
          AND I KNOW I LOOK FORWARD TO CLIMBING ALL OVER THESE  SO I THINK ADULTS WILL ALSO FEEL INSPIRED. 
          SO THANK YOU AND I APPRECIATE YOUR HARD WORK. 
          GREAT. 
          UM, I AGREE WITH ANNA ABOUT, THIS REALLY RAISES THE STANDARD FOR WHAT PUBLIC SPACES CAN BE IN PETALUMA. 
          AND I ALSO AGREE WITH MELISSA ABOUT THE COLOR OF THIS. 
          UM, I ACTUALLY REALLY LIKED THE SURVEY. 
          I DID IT TODAY AND I THOUGHT THAT IT WILL REALLY GIVE PEOPLE WHO LIVE HERE KIND OF AN ENTHUSIASM ABOUT WHAT THE PROJECT MIGHT BE. 
          THE RENDERINGS ARE AMAZING AND I THINK IT JUST, IT'S, IT BUILDS EXCITEMENT. 
          IT MADE ME MORE EXCITED, LIKE, OH, THIS COULD BE THIS OR THIS COULD THIS. 
          AND I THINK IT WAS REALLY, IT WAS REALLY WELL DONE. 
          SO THANK YOU. 
          OKAY, COMMISSIONER GREENSPAN. 
          THANKS. 
          THIS IS A REALLY FULL CIRCLE MOMENT FOR ME. 
          UM, I VISITED HAL BROWN PARK A COUPLE YEARS AGO AND THOUGHT, WHY DO WE NOT HAVE A SPACE LIKE THIS IN PETALUMA? AND THAT WAS KIND OF THE IMPETUS FOR ME JOINING THIS COMMISSION. 
          SO, UH, I AM OBVIOUSLY OVER THE MOON THAT MIG IS ON THIS PROJECT. 
          AND OLEG, I'M SO EXCITED TO SEE YOU PRESENT HERE TODAY. 
          AND I'M REALLY, I'M JUST INSPIRED BY THE ART, EVEN JUST SEEING IT AT THIS SCALE. 
          SO I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE IT IN PERSON. 
          AND, UM, I LOVE THE IDEA OF EXPANSION , OBVIOUSLY. 
          I'M LIKE, LET'S DO ALL OF THE THINGS. 
          BUT, UM, THE MULTI-USE, UM, AREA IDEA AND THE COURTS, I THINK IS, YOU KNOW, IF WE CAN GET EVERYONE ON BOARD WITH THAT, THAT WOULD BE SO GREAT. 
          UM, AS FAR AS, UM, THE ARTWORK, I THINK LIKE HAS BEEN MENTIONED BEFORE, INCLUDING THE BENCH COMPANION PIECES, UM, INCREASES THE FLOW OF KIND OF THE AREA AND, UM, INCREASES ACCESS FOR ALL AGES AND ABILITIES. 
          SO I THINK THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT. 
          UM, JUST LOOKING AT THE POTENTIAL LOCATIONS, I REALLY LOVE THE IDEA OF HAVING, UM, ART AT NOT JUST ONE, TWO, AND THREE, BUT ALSO THAT FOURTH SITE. 
          BECAUSE AS A FREQUENT USER OF THIS PARK, THAT IS WHERE MOST PEOPLE ENTER THE PARK. 
          SO I FEEL LIKE HAVING THAT INITIAL INVITATION TO COME IN COULD BE REALLY NICE. 
          UM, AND THEN THE LAST THING, I WOULD LOVE TO SEE SAND AND WATER AT THIS PARK FOR SAND AND WATER PLAY. 
          IT'S SUCH AS AN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATOR. 
          IT'S AN ABSOLUTELY MAGICAL THING TO INCLUDE IN A PARK. 
          UM, SO IF THERE'S A WAY TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN, I JUST, UM, I'M SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS PROJECT AND THANK YOU SO MUCH TO THE ART COMMITTEE FOR ALL OF THE HARD WORK THAT YOU'VE PUT INTO THIS. 
          AND, UM, SO GLAD THAT WE COULD ALL COLLABORATE TOGETHER. 
          IT'S REALLY, REALLY INSPIRING. 
          I'M ALSO EXCITED, ESPECIALLY 'CAUSE IT'S MY NEIGHBORHOOD PARK, YOURS TOO. 
          UM, WHICH I JUST FEEL SO, I FEEL SO LUCKY THAT I GET TO LIVE IN A NEIGHBORHOOD WITH THIS PARK AND THAT MY KIDS GET THIS PARK AND THAT WHEN I LOOK AT THIS PARK, I DON'T THINK, OKAY, MY KIDS ARE EIGHT AND NINE RIGHT NOW, THEY'RE GONNA OUTGROW THIS PARK, BUT THEY'LL BE GOING TO THIS PARK AND I'LL BE GOING TO THIS PARK FOR MANY YEARS TO COME. 
          AND SO WHEN I THINK ABOUT THE WORD MULTI-USE, I'M THINKING MULTI-USE, MULTI INTEREST, MULTI-AGE. 
          LIKE IT'S MULTI, MULTI, MULTI. 
          IT KIND OF HITS ALL THOSE BRACKETS, WHICH IS REALLY, REALLY NICE. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, I HAVE A KID THAT'S A CLIMBER. 
          I HAVE A KID THAT APPRECIATES ART . 
          I FEEL LIKE IT, YOU KNOW, IT, IT HITS THE DIFFERENT, THE DIFFERENT AREAS. 
          SO I THINK THIS IS REALLY EXCITING. 
          UM, I ALSO FEEL LIKE MY CONCERNS WITH OUR FIRST TWO TOPICS TONIGHT OF NOT BEING ABLE TO SEE AN ENTIRE DESIGN. 
          LIKE, THIS 
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IS WHAT I WANT WHEN I COME TO A PARK. 
          AND I KNOW WE DON'T ALWAYS HAVE THE MONEY TO, TO DO THIS, BUT BEING ABLE TO SEE A PARK AS A WHOLE JUST FEELS SO AMAZING. 
          AND IT HELPS ME SO MUCH IN, IN MY DECISION MAKING AND MY THOUGHT PROCESS ON THE DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF IT. 
          SO I JUST, AS MUCH AS WE CAN DO THIS, UM, BUT I KNOW THIS TAKES A LOT OF MONEY AND IT TAKES A LOT OF TIME AND EFFORT AND EVERYTHING, BUT SO THANK YOU TO EVERYONE THAT'S BEEN INVOLVED IN THIS. 
          IT'S BEEN INCREDIBLE. 
          GREAT. 
          UH, ANY COMMENTS? COMMISSIONER BOTTICELLI? NO, NO. 
          COUNCILPERSON. 
          NOW I'M GONNA DATE MYSELF, BUT I REMEMBER WHEN THE KENNELWORTH BUILDING, UM, KENNELWORTH TEAM CENTER OPENED. 
          I WAS A TEENAGER AND WE HUNG OUT THERE. 
          THAT'S WHERE WE WENT. 
          AND IT WAS THE BICENTENNIAL AND WE DID A LOT OF ACTIVITIES, A LOT OF PICNICS, A LOT OF BARBECUES, AND IT WAS ALL MULTI AGES. 
          NOW AS A GRANDMOTHER, AND I'M FREQUENTLY, UM, ON THE FAIRGROUNDS, PICKING UP CHILDREN FROM HAPPY ARTS OR LIVE OAK AND USING THAT PARK IN THE LIBRARY, IT'S GOING TO BE WONDERFUL FOR ALL AGES FOR GRANDPARENTS WITH THEIR CHILDREN, THEIR GRANDCHILDREN AFTER BEING AT THE LIBRARY. 
          UM, AND THE KIDS GET TO USE THEIR ACTIVE ENERGY IN A, IN A SAFE WAY, BUT ALSO LEARNING. 
          UM, SPENDING THE WEEKEND IN SAN FRANCISCO AT GOLDEN GATE PARK, THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE HAD A REAL NEAT OUTDOOR AREA THAT HAD SAND AND WATER AND, AND WOOD AND THAT WATCHING THE, AND ROCKS THAT THEY COULD MAKE SCULPTURES OUT OF. 
          AND THIS ALSO ALMOST REMINDS ME OF WHAT YOU WOULD SEE IN THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN. 
          UM, THE, YOU KNOW, THE, UM, CORALS. 
          YEAH. 
          AND SO IT REMINDS ME OF THAT. 
          AND SO IT IS SEEING IT AT NATURAL COLORS AND WHEN YOU ARE ADDING LIGHT, LIKE WHEN YOU'RE IN THE OCEAN, YOU GET THE LIGHT FROM THE, JUST THE, THE WATER AND THE SUN AND THE, IT'S JUST INCREDIBLE. 
          SO HAVING THOSE NATURAL COLORS AND NOT GIVING IT ANY PAINT OR KEEPING IT NATURAL AND KEEPING THE PARK WITH THEIR NATURAL EARTH COLORS. 
          SO THAT'S MY, MY TAKE AND THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          GREAT. 
          UH, COMMISSIONER CHISHOLM. 
          THANK YOU. 
          WELL, I'VE BEEN, UH, REALLY INSPIRED LATELY WHEN I GO TO MORE MODERN PARKS, HOW THEY INCORPORATE INTERACTIVE NESS INTO THE ART OF THE PARK AND EVERYTHING ELSE. 
          AND, AND I THINK THIS WILL BE ANOTHER INSPIRING EXAMPLE OF WHAT PARKS CAN BE. 
          UM, AND IT REMINDS ME A LOT OF TUNNEL TOPS. 
          I THINK THIS WOULD KIND OF BE OUR TUNNEL TOPS WITH THE, THE PLAY SCAPES THAT ARE NOT THE TRADITIONAL. 
          AND I REALLY HOPE THAT WITH THE OTHER, UH, PLAY STRUCTURES IN HERE THAT AREN'T THE ART THAT THEY WILL TAKE ON THAT SAME NATURE OR LIKE EVEN THE NEW ALAMO SQUARE, UM, PLAY AREA IS REALLY NICE TOO. 
          NOT THE CLASSIC PLASTIC METAL STUFF. 
          I'D LOVE TO SEE IT BE MORE LIKE THOSE OTHER PARKS. 
          UM, AND I REALLY LIKE THE, THE ROUGH, THE HARDSCAPE. 
          I DON'T SEE A LOT OF PARKS THAT HAVE THIS SORT OF INTERACTIVE WHERE YOU CAN EVEN HAVE THE, THE FOOD TRUCK COURT AND ALL THAT. 
          I THINK THAT'S, UM, JUST REALLY COOL AND, UM, REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THE INTERACTIVE SCULPTURES. 
          I I JUST THINK THIS WOULD BE A GREAT EXAMPLE FOR WHAT MODERN PARKS CAN BE. 
          THANKS. 
          GREAT. 
          ANNE, I HAVE ONE MORE QUESTION. 
          I DO HAVE ONE MORE QUESTION. 
          JUST LOOKING AT THIS SITE MAP FROM HERE, AND THIS IS REALLY FOR LAUREN. 
          I GUESS, DID YOU ALL, UM, WHEN YOU WERE PLACING THE STRUCTURES, HOW DID YOU CONSIDER, I GUESS IT WOULD BE THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF THE PARK BECAUSE A LOT OF PEOPLE EXIT THE HIGHWAY AND COME INTO PETALUMA ON EAST WASHINGTON. 
          THEY HEADING INTO DOWNTOWN. 
          I'M NOT SURE WHAT WILL BE VISIBLE. 
          UM, AND I WAS WONDERING IF THERE WAS ANY CONSIDERATION GIVEN TO THAT CORNER FOR THE WESTBOUND TRAFFIC THAT WOULD SORT OF INVITE THEM INTO THE PARK ITSELF? NO, I THINK, I MEAN, MAYBE THE TREES, MAYBE IT'S OPEN ENOUGH THAT THEY'LL SEE ACROSS, YOU KNOW, THAT WHOLE BLOCK THERE. 
          DO YOU MEAN THIS CORNER? LIKE, UH, KIND OF, YEAH, NO. 
          UM, NEXT WASHINGTON AND PAY CORNER. 
          YEAH. 
          WASHINGTON AND PAYAN. 
          OH YES. 
          OH MY GOODNESS. 
          YES. 
          I THOUGHT I WAS LIKE, OH NO, THIS IS WHERE THE LIBRARY, SORRY. 
          SO WE DON'T WANNA, MAYBE IT'S NOT NORTHWEST. 
          I DON'T KNOW. 
          BOTTOM LEFT. 
          YES, WE DEFINITELY THOUGHT ABOUT IT. 
          UM, WE'RE ACTUALLY, I MEAN, THERE'S TWO LITTLE TREES ON TOP OF IT RIGHT NOW, BUT WHAT WE'RE SHOWING HERE IS ACTUALLY A MOUNTED TOPOGRAPHY. 
          SO, UM, IT'S KIND OF, OF INSTALLATION. 
          WE IMAGINE IT'S, I MEAN, THAT'S A REALLY BUSY INTERSECTION. 
          YEAH. 
          AND I DON'T IMAGINE THAT THAT'S GONNA CHANGE IN THE VERY NEAR FUTURE. 
          UM, SO WE INITIALLY DID THINK ABOUT THAT AS A PLACE FOR ART, BUT IF YOU KIND OF LIKE STEP BACK AND LOOK 
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AT ALL THE ACCESS POINTS FOR THIS SITE, THE ART WANTED TO BE THIS WAY. 
          LIKE, IF I'M LOOKING AT THE PLAN, I'M GOING THIS WAY. 
          UM, IT'S JUST, IT'S MORE ACCESSIBLE. 
          IT'S CALMER. 
          THERE'S LESS TRAFFIC. 
          I THINK THAT I, I MEAN I THINK IT'S DEFINITELY SOMETHING WE CAN CHAT ABOUT AND, AND UM, TALK ABOUT LIKE IF THERE'S A WAY THAT WE CAN LIKE VISUALLY TIE THIS ARTISTIC PIECE OF THE CORNER. 
          BUT OUR THINKING THUS FAR WAS LIKE, LET'S KEEP PEOPLE, LET'S MOVE THEM IN AND KIND OF PROTECT THEM FROM THE SPACE. 
          UM, BUT YOU BRING IT. 
          GOOD POINT. 
          THERE'S A SIGN AT MELISSA. 
          YEAH. 
          THERE'S A SIGN, RIGHT? YEAH. 
          THERE'S THE, YOUR CURRENT PARK SIGN RIGHT THERE. 
          UM, I HAVE AN ADDITIONAL COMMENT. 
          UM, I KNOW IN THE PAST, I THINK BELIEVE YOU GUYS WORK OFTEN WITH CREATIVE PLAY THINGS IS THAT THE, THE DESIGNER AND I REALLY LOVE THE INVENTIVENESS OF THEIR STRUCTURES. 
          I'VE HAD A COUPLE MEETINGS WITH THEM AND IT FELT LIKE THEY WERE AMAZING AND I DON'T KNOW, I WOULD LOVE TO SEE THAT IN OUR COMMUNITY. 
          ANOTHER CONSIDERATION, JUST TO GET THIS IN A MINDSET ON THE FRONT END OF THIS PROJECT IS, UM, A LOT OF KIDS IN OUR COMMUNITY TAKE JUDO AT THE TEEN CENTER MONDAY, TUESDAY, AND THURSDAY NIGHT. 
          AND THEY ALL GO FROM FIVE 30 TO SEVEN THROUGH THE PARKS AND RECS DEPARTMENT. 
          MY SON'S DONE IT FOR SEVERAL YEARS. 
          IT'S ONE OF THE MORE ACCESSIBLE AND AVAILABLE CLASSES TO OUR COMMUNITY. 
          IT'S $50 A MONTH FOR ALL AGES OVER SIX. 
          AND HENRY KAKU WHO HAS TAUGHT THERE, HAS BEEN AN EDUCATOR IN JUDO FOR OVER 40 YEARS AND AN EDUCATOR IN OUR COMMUNITY. 
          AND I WOULD LIKE TO ASK THAT SOME PART OF THIS PARK BE DEDICATED TOWARDS HIM. 
          I THINK HE'S A COMPLETE INSPIRATION TO KIDS AND HE IS TOTALLY UNDER RADAR IN OUR COMMUNITY. 
          AND THE CITY OF SANTA ROSA JUST, UM, DID A MURAL. 
          LIKE THEY HAVE A MURAL WALK AND THEY DID A PORTRAIT OF HIM. 
          BUT HE IS A TOTAL JEWEL IN OUR COMMUNITY. 
          AND I'D LIKE TO SEE PERHAPS THE APPLAUSE OUTSIDE OF THE TEEN CENTER OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. 
          ACKNOWLEDGE HIM. 
          HE'S JUST WONDERFUL. 
          SO THANK YOU. 
          UH, COMMISSIONER CHISHOLM. 
          UH, JUST ONE THING I FORGOT. 
          SHE WAS TALKING ABOUT, UM, INTERACTION WITH THE LIBRARY. 
          AND SO, UM, I REALLY WANNA STRESS THE, THE PRIVATE NATURE OF THAT RIVER BANK CENTRAL AREA BECAUSE ONE REASON I DON'T ATTEND PARKS AS MUCH AS I SHOULD IS I WANNA GO FIND A PLACE TO READ. 
          AND WHEN YOU HAVE ALL OF THIS PLAY GOING ON, IT'S REALLY HARD TO FIND A QUIET PRIVATE SPACE IN THE PARK. 
          SO TO SEE THIS IS REALLY COOL 'CAUSE YOU DON'T NORMALLY HAVE THAT ISLAND. 
          AND I JUST WANNA STRESS TO REALLY MAKE THAT PRIVATE. 
          'CAUSE IF YOU WANNA INTERACT WITH THE, UM, WITH THE LIBRARY, THE BEST WAYS TO HAVE PLACES TO READ. 
          SO I THINK THAT WOULD BE REALLY GREAT. 
          I THOUGHT IT WAS ON, IT WASN'T CAN CAN I ADD TO THAT? MM-HMM. 
          , UM, BEING AT THE LIBRARY TODAY, I JUST, IT WAS KIND OF GONNA RAIN OR MAYBE IT WASN'T GONNA RAIN, BUT THERE'S A NICE QUIET AREA RIGHT NEXT TO THE, UM, ENTRANCE TO THE LIBRARY THAT HAS BENCHES. 
          AND I SAW A GRANDFATHER READING TO HIS GRANDDAUGHTER AND I JUST, I WHEN YOU SAID THAT, I WAS LIKE, OH, YOU DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT THAT BECAUSE IT'S KIND OF SECLUDED BECAUSE IT'S GOT NATURE AND IT'S GOT TREES AND BUSHES AND FLOWERS AND UM, IT'S LIKE A COMMUNITY GARDEN, BUT IT'S RIGHT OUTSIDE THE ENTRANCE OF THE LIBRARY. 
          YEAH. 
          AND THERE REALLY ISN'T WITH THIS, THERE'LL BE LIKE A NICE LITTLE PATH THAT'LL LEAD YOU INTO THE PARK WHERE RIGHT NOW YOU GO AROUND THE VERY CONCRETE KENNELWORTH REC CENTER AND THERE'S NOTHING FRIENDLY. 
          UM, THANK YOU FOR CLEANING THAT UP STAFF. 
          BUT, UM, THERE, THERE IS A NICE QUIET AREA RIGHT OUTSIDE THE ENTRANCE. 
          YES. 
          I THINK DAILY ACTS ALSO HELPS MAINTAIN THAT FRONT GARDEN. 
          I THINK SO. 
          YEAH, I DO. 
          OKAY. 
          WE'RE GOOD. 
          OKAY. 
          I'LL ADD MY COMMENTS. 
          UM, I'M REALLY, REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THIS. 
          I JUST THINK YOU GUYS HAVE EXCEEDED I PROBABLY ANYONE'S EXPECTATIONS IN THIS TOWN. 
          I HAVE TO SAY, LIKE, THIS IS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. 
          UM, I WAS ON THE ART COMMITTEE WHEN THIS WAS FIRST BROUGHT UP AND I JUST, I'M SO HAPPY THAT IT'S COME TO FRUITION. 
          UM, I REALLY LIKE THAT YOU CONSIDERED THE MULTI-AGE PIECE OF THIS. 
          UM, I DO THINK THAT TALLER SCULPTURES WOULD BE GREAT BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, I I I THINK THAT SOMETIMES WE THINK THAT AS KIDS AGE AND THEY GET TO BE TEENAGERS, THAT THEY DON'T WANT TO CLIMB ON THINGS AND THEY REALLY DO. 
          I CAN'T STRESS THAT ENOUGH. 
          SO I THINK MAKING SCULPTURES SO THAT THEY TOO FEEL LIKE THEY CAN GO TO A PARK AND WON'T BE RUN OUT OF IT. 
          UM, AND IT'S, AND BECAUSE IT'S CONCRETE, WE DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT A, UM, A WEIGHT LIMIT, THINGS LIKE THAT. 
          RIGHT. 
          SO I THINK THAT THAT'S, UH, IMPERATIVE. 
          UM, I LOVE THE MULTI-USE EVENT SPACE AROUND THE TEEN CENTER. 
          I COULD REALLY, UM, AMONGST THE THINGS THAT I, I GO ON ABOUT HERE, UM, THE TEEN CENTER JUST, WE NEED TO USE IT. 
          WE NEED TO HAVE A SPACE. 
          AND I THINK THAT THIS WILL NOT ONLY BE GREAT FOR 
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TEENAGERS TO BE ABLE TO HANG OUT AT, BUT ALSO AGAIN, AN EVENT SPACE, THINGS OF THAT NATURE. 
          UM, I DO REALLY LIKE THE, THE USE OF THAT, THE, OF THE MULTI AREA BETWEEN THE LIBRARY AND THE TEEN CENTER. 
          UM, I KNOW THAT THEY MIGHT NOT BE HAPPY ABOUT PARKING, UH, THE LIBRARY STAFF LOSING THEIR PARKING, BUT MAYBE WE CAN DEDICATE SPACES SO THAT MAYBE THEY'RE NOT WORRIED ABOUT FINDING SOME SPACES. 
          BUT AGAIN, I THINK THAT THAT'S CAN BE THAT TRANSITION. 
          IT LOOKS LIKE THAT GREAT TRANSITION THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE NEED. 
          I KNOW THAT I'VE RUN IN GIRL SCOUT TROOPS, LIKE BACK AND FORTH AND YOU'RE RUNNING THROUGH WHAT ARE NOW GOPHER HOLES, THINGS LIKE THAT. 
          UM, THE MULTI-SPORT COURTS, UM, THAT ARE, ARE TECHNICALLY IN THE FAIRGROUNDS AREA. 
          UM, I THINK THEY'RE THE SCHOOLS, OH, I GUESS MCKINLEY IS THERE, BUT THEY'RE NOT ACCESSIBLE. 
          RIGHT? THE MOST SCHOOLS EXCEPT FOR CHERRY VALLEY USUALLY HAVE A FENCE AROUND THEM. 
          THEY'RE NOT ACCESSIBLE. 
          SO I THINK DOING COURT SPORTS LIKE FOURSQUARE, SOMETHING LIKE THAT. 
          UM, BECAUSE AGAIN, TEENAGERS WILL DEFINITELY PLAY THESE TYPES OF GAMES IF THE COURTS ARE SET UP TO USE THEM. 
          SO AGAIN, THAT'S, UM, WITHIN THAT RANGE. 
          UM, THE OTHER LAST THING IS WITH COMMUNICATION IN THE SURVEYS, I THINK IT WOULD BE GREAT IF YOU GUYS COULD STATE THAT THE SURFACES HAVEN'T BEEN DETERMINED. 
          THAT WAS ONE REALLY BIG THING THAT I SAW IN, UM, ON FACEBOOK IS PEOPLE WERE VERY CONFUSED WHEN THEY SAW THE BLUE. 
          THEY WERE LIKE, IS THIS WATER? IS IT THIS, IS IT THAT? AND, AND THEN PEOPLE THOUGHT IT WAS A SPLASH PAD, WHICH WERE DEFINITELY NOT INSTALLING A SPLASH PAD . 
          I KNEW THAT FOR SURE. 
          IT'S ACTUALLY A LAZY RIVER THAT YOU CAN, UH, FLOAT . 
          YEAH. 
          OH, OH YEAH, TOTALLY. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          AND THEN TO THE LEFT OF THAT WILL BE THE WATER SLIDE. 
          UM, AND THEN YOU WILL EXIT OFF OF THAT ONTO A ZIP LINE, RIGHT? UM, LIKE MY KIDS' DREAM. 
          UM, BUT, BUT ANYHOW, JUST CLARIFYING THAT AND MAYBE SAYING SOME OF THE TYPES OF SURFACES, UM, THAT COULD BE USED. 
          UM, LASTLY, I THINK MAKING THIS COMPLETELY HANDICAP ACCESSIBLE, UM, FOR, UM, BUT, BUT, UH, BUT ALSO AGE FRIENDLY. 
          SO NOT ONLY THAT, YOU KNOW, UM, PEOPLE WHO ARE USING WALKING POLES, WHO ARE USING WALKERS, WHO OF COURSE HAVE WHEELCHAIRS, BUT THAT BEING ABLE TO, TO BE AT A SPACE LIKE THIS, UM, I THINK IS REALLY, REALLY ESSENTIAL. 
          AND I KNOW, UM, IT'S PROBABLY MORE EXPENSIVE AND I KNOW, I DON'T KNOW THAT IT'S MORE UPKEEP, BUT, BUT I THINK IT, IT'S REALLY SOMETHING TO HOLD ONTO. 
          SO THAT'S MY LAST COMMENT. 
          OKAY. 
          SO I THINK THAT ROUNDS OUT THIS, DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING ELSE DREW WITH THIS COMPLETED? NO. 
          JUST REALLY APPRECIATE, AGAIN, ALL OF YOUR TIME. 
          VERY THOUGHTFUL COMMENTS. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, YOUR DUE DILIGENCE COMING IN, BEING, STAYING ENGAGED WITH THE SURVEY AND, AND AGAIN, GIVEN US A LOT, UM, GIVEN US IN OUR TEAM A LOT TO, UM, CONSIDER AND TAKE BACK. 
          SO APPRECIATE THAT AND WANNA RECOGNIZE DAVID TOO. 
          IF THERE'S ANYTHING ELSE THAT YOU WANTED TO PUT AN END CAP ON. 
          HERE'S THE TIME IF DAVID'S AWAKE. 
          ALL GOOD? YEP. 
          MM-HMM. 
          , GREAT PRESENTATION EVERYBODY. 
          THANK YOU, UH, COMMISSIONERS, COMMITTEE MEMBERS FOR BEING HERE. 
          AND, UM, I LOVE THIS PROJECT, SO I'M REALLY HAPPY TO SEE EVERYBODY SO ENGAGED AND GIVE SUCH THOUGHTFUL FEEDBACK. 
          SO THANK YOU ALL. 
          MM-HMM. 
          , THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS PRESENTATION. 
          I REALLY CANNOT, I, I REALLY DON'T EVEN THINK THE PUBLIC REALIZES HOW AMAZING, UH, THIS CAN BE. 
          SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OKAY. 
          THAT ROUNDS OUT ALL OF OUR PRESENTATIONS FOR THE EVENING. 
          WE'RE GOING TO MOVE INTO COMMISSIONER COMMENTS. 
          OH, OH YES, THAT'S RIGHT. 
          I TECHNICALLY HAVE TO DISMISS YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          SHE'S BEEN CHAIR FOR THE LAST YEAR. 
          SHE SOMETIMES HELPS ME. 
          UM, THANK YOU OUR COMMISSIONER, UH, COMMITTEE FOR, UH, VISITING US THIS EVENING. 
          WE REALLY APPRECIATED YOUR, UM, FEEDBACK AND JOINING US DURING THIS MEETING. 
          , WELL WE GOTTA FINISH THE SURVEY AND THEN I GUESS TAKE, TAKE THE TONIGHT, BUT IT'S MILESTONE. 
          WHAT'D YOU SAY? BUT IT'S MILESTONE. 
          WHAT? IT'S MILESTONE. 
          YEAH, IT'S A MILESTONE. 
          YEAH. 
          IT'S SMALL ONE. 
          YES. 
          YEAH, I THINK, I MEAN, YEAH. 
          THANK YOU DREW. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH DREW. 
          I'M JUST HERE TO CARRY ART. 
          THAT WAS AWESOME. 
          I KNOW. 
          OKAY, SO WE'LL BE MOVING INTO, 
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UM, COMMISSIONER COMMENT. 
          I'M GONNA START TO MY RIGHT, UH, WITH COMMISSIONER GREENSPAN. 
          I HAVE HAD A LOT TO SAY TONIGHT AND SURPRISINGLY I HAVE NO MORE TO SAY, SO I HAVE NO COMMENTS. 
          . 
          GOOD. 
          I'LL TAKE YOUR AIRTIME 
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. 
          UM, BUT I'LL BE QUICK. 
          UM, SO LOTS HAPPENING LATELY AROUND HALLOWEEN AND EL DE SAMOS. 
          THE CEMETERY TOUR THAT THE POIS OF PETAL MOONS OF YESTERDAY ARE PUT ON WAS PHENOMENAL. 
          AND IF YOU HAVE NOT BEEN TO IT, I ENCOURAGE YOU TO GO NEXT YEAR. 
          GOING TO THE GRAVE SITES OF WICKERSHAM AND MCNAIR AND WHATNOT WAS JUST SO COOL. 
          UM, AND THEY ARE PUTTING ON GHOST TOURS THROUGHOUT TOWN, SO I HIGHLY RECOMMEND, DID I JUST UNPACK THAT? CAN YOU HEAR? IS THAT GOOD? UM, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND CHECKING OUT THE GHOST TOURS. 
          UM, HALLOWEEN, DOWNTOWN WAS VIBRANT AND FUN AND AMAZING, AND THE MUSEUM HANDED OUT, UH, CRAYONS, WHICH I THOUGHT WAS GREAT. 
          MY KIDS DID NOT, BUT, BUT . 
          BUT I THOUGHT IT WAS GREAT. 
          UM, AND THE COMMUNITY FEELING OF EVERYONE BEING DOWNTOWN WAS REALLY, REALLY AWESOME, REALLY. 
          UM, GOING WITH THAT, UM, THE CELEBRATION FOR EL DIA DE LOS MUTOS DOWNTOWN WAS PHENOMENAL. 
          IT WAS SO AMAZING. 
          THE COMMUNITY CAME OUT. 
          I COULD HEAR IT FROM MY HOUSE, WHICH WAS AWESOME. 
          THE, UM, THE TIE TO THE EXHIBIT HAPPENING WITHIN THE MUSEUM AND SEEING, UM, PEOPLE COME THROUGH THE MUSEUM TO SEE THE EXHIBIT AND TO, UM, THERE WAS A OPPORTUNITY TO ADD TO AN ALTAR OR ADD YOUR THOUGHTS OR WHATNOT. 
          UM, THAT WAS REALLY AMAZING. 
          UM, I ALSO THOUGHT IT WAS INCREDIBLE. 
          WE'VE HAD, UM, A FEW PETALUMA OF YESTERYEAR PASS AWAY IN THE, IN THE PAST YEAR, AND SO THE MUSEUM PUT ON AN ALTAR FOR THEM, WHICH WAS REALLY SPECIAL. 
          UM, AND ANOTHER COMMUNITY EVENT, VETERANS DAY WAS ALSO INCREDIBLE AND AMAZING AND JUST FELT REALLY, REALLY GOOD BEING OUT THERE. 
          ALSO TIED TO THE MUSEUM EXHIBIT OF WOMEN IN THE MILITARY, WHICH WAS AWESOME. 
          UM, WE'RE TRYING TO DO THAT. 
          WE'RE TRYING TO CONNECT WHAT'S GOING ON OUTSIDE INTO THE MUSEUM. 
          SO, UM, SO THAT WAS GREAT. 
          AND THAT EXHIBIT IS STILL UP. 
          YOU ARE WELCOME TO VISIT IT. 
          UM, I WOULD LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT THE WORK THAT THE COMMUNITY IS DOING AROUND SAFE ROUTE TO SCHOOL. 
          UM, I'M SEEING IT OUT THERE, UM, YESTERDAY, YESTERDAY WAS RUBY BRIDGES WALK TO SCHOOL DAY, AND, UM, A LOT OF COMMUNITY MEMBERS PARTICIPATED IN THAT. 
          I FEEL LIKE I'M SEEING A LOT OF SIGNS AROUND TOWN SAYING SLOW DOWN, AND KIDS LIVE HERE. 
          AND THERE'S FUNNY SIGNS ALL AROUND THE GRANT NEIGHBORHOOD OF, I DON'T KNOW, THERE'S LIKE CHICKENS AND SIGNS AND SAYING STUFF AND WHATEVER. 
          SO THAT'S REALLY GREAT. 
          UM, ALSO WITH THE MUSEUM, WE HAVE BROUGHT ON NOT ONE, BUT TWO YOUTH LIAISONS THIS YEAR. 
          WE HAVE HAD ONE FOR, UM, FOR THE PAST, I THINK FOUR YEARS NOW. 
          IT'S BEEN A TRADITION THAT, UM, FROM THE HISTORY DEPARTMENT AT PETALUMA HIGH. 
          AND I JUST THINK IT'S GREAT TO GET THAT YOUTH VOICE INTO THE MUSEUM AND FOR THEM TO HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN ABOUT THE BOARD AND WHATNOT. 
          SO WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT THAT. 
          UM, I'M HOPING TONIGHT THAT WE HEAR A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT UPCOMING HOLIDAY EVENTS. 
          AND WITH THAT, I'M VERY PROUD THAT I'M NOT ON SOCIAL MEDIA ANYMORE. 
          I THINK THAT THAT'S A GOOD THING AND A HEALTHY THING FOR ME. 
          AND I'M NOTICING MORE AND MORE PEOPLE ARE NOT ON SOCIAL MEDIA. 
          SO I'M WONDERING FROM STAFF, UM, WHAT WAYS OF COMMUNICATION OF GETTING OUT EVENTS IS HAPPENING. 
          UM, ASIDE FROM SOCIAL MEDIA AND, UH, THE WEEKLY COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER, IF THERE'S ANY OTHER WAYS OR MODES OF FINDING OUT INFORMATION ABOUT COMMUNITY EVENTS, THAT WOULD BE GREAT TO HEAR. 
          THAT'S ALL I GOT. 
          DO YOU WANNA ANSWER THAT NOW, DREW, OR ADDRESS IT LATER? UM, YEAH, I'LL, I'LL HAVE RACHEL HELP TAG TEAM ME ON THIS AND WE CAN TALK ABOUT, UM, KIND OF WHAT WE DO INTERNALLY. 
          AND THEN WE DO A LOT OF COORDINATION WITH OUR CITY'S COMMUNICATIONS, UM, DIVISION, WHICH WE HAVEN'T ALWAYS HAD, SO WE LEAN ON THEM A LOT. 
          UM, WHETHER IT'S A PROJECT OR A SPECIAL EVENT, UH, DETERMINES HOW AND, AND TO WHAT LEVEL WE ENGAGE. 
          BUT AGAIN, I THINK THIS IS SOMETHING THE CITY HAS NOT ALWAYS DONE VERY WELL, BUT THERE'S A LOT OF ENERGY AND EFFORT BEING PUT INTO TRYING TO REACH FOLKS THAT ARE NOT THROUGH THOSE TRADITIONAL CHANNELS. 
          SO IF YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT, UM, MAYBE NOT OUTSIDE OF SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE NEWSLETTER, UM, SOME OTHER STRATEGIES OR APPROACHES THAT YOU USE FOR HIGHLIGHTING SPECIAL EVENTS. 
          SURE, ABSOLUTELY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, AND YOU SAID OUTSIDE OF COMMUNITY UPDATE? SO THE COMMUNITY UPDATE EMAILS. 
          SO WE DO HAVE AN EMAIL LIST, ANYONE THAT'S REGISTERED THROUGH ANY OF OUR PARKS AND REC PROGRAMS, EVENTS, IT'S OVER 5,000, ALMOST 6,000 PEOPLE. 
          UM, AND SO WE EMAIL BLAST REGULARLY UPCOMING CLASSES, UM, SENIOR CENTER NEWSLETTER, ACTIVITY GUIDE, SPECIAL EVENTS. 
          SO THAT'S ANOTHER KIND OF AN EMAIL LIST. 
          UM, WE HAVE OUR COMMUNITY BOARDS AT THE SENIOR CENTER AND COMMUNITY CENTER WHERE WE CAN PUT PHYSICAL FLYERS AND WE ACTUALLY SEE A LOT MORE MAYBE IN THE LAST YEAR, PEOPLE COMING AND ACTUALLY TAKING PHYSICAL FLYERS FROM OUR FRONT DESK. 
          SO THAT'S ANOTHER, UM, KIND OF FORM OF COMMUNICATION, I THINK. 
          UM, OTHER THAN THAT, I GUESS THAT'S KINDA WHAT WE'RE DOING OUTSIDE OF SOCIAL MEDIA. 
          UM, AND THEN OUR, FOR OUR PRESCHOOL SPECIFICALLY, WE HAVE BRIGHT WHEEL, WHICH IS KIND OF A COMMUNICATION PLATFORM 
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BETWEEN OUR STUDENTS OR OUR PARENTS AND OUR TEACHERS. 
          AND SO WE CAN USE THAT TO KIND OF COMMUNICATE WITH THAT NETWORK. 
          AND THEN I KNOW PARENTS WILL SHARE WITHIN THEIR, UH, PARENT GROUPS OR, OR WITHIN THEIR PERSONAL SOCIAL MEDIAS OR SOCIAL CHANNELS, UM, THROUGH THAT. 
          AND I THINK THAT'S ALL I HAVE, DREW. 
          I DON'T THINK I HAD ANY OTHER EXAMPLES, UM, BUT I KNOW MORE AND MORE PEOPLE ARE KIND OF MOVING THAT WAY. 
          AND SO GETTING ON OUR EMAIL LISTS IS, ARE REALLY GREAT. 
          UM, PEOPLE WILL REACH OUT, UH, TO PARKS AND REC, AND SO WE'LL HAVE OUR ADMIN KIND OF ADDRESS ANY QUESTIONS THAT PEOPLE HAVE. 
          UM, BUT WE ALSO WORK WITH, OH, THIS IS ANOTHER ONE, SONOMA MEDIA GROUP. 
          UM, AND SO THEY, UH, OVERSEE OUR ADVERTISEMENTS FOR ARGUS COURIER AND PRESS DEMOCRAT. 
          AND SO THAT'S ONLINE AND IN PRINT. 
          AND SO WE HAVE A MEDIA PACKAGE THAT'S SEPARATE FROM THE COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT WITH THE CITY. 
          SO WHAT WE DO IS EVERY YEAR WE WILL IRON OUT A SCHEDULE AND I'LL WORK WITH THEM ON ALL OF OUR EVENTS THAT WE'RE DOING THAT ARE JUST PARKS AND REC RELATED. 
          SO AGAIN, OUR ACTIVITY GUIDES, SENIOR CENTER EVENTS, UM, KIND OF ANY HOLIDAY EVENTS OR ANYTHING, MOVIES IN THE PARK, FOR EXAMPLE, THAT WE HAVE GOING ON 4TH OF JULY. 
          AND WE WILL, UM, WORK WITH THEM ON THE KIND OF OUR MARKETING PLAN. 
          AND SO THAT'S SEPARATE THAN KINDA WHAT THE CITY ALREADY PUTS OUT. 
          SO THOSE ARE PRINT ADS, DIGITAL ADS, AND THEY'LL HAVE A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TIMES THAT THEY'RE ONLINE AND, UM, KIND OF THE CLICK THROUGHS. 
          SO I THINK THAT WE, UM, OH, GO AHEAD KAREN. 
          I JUST WANNA KNOW, DO WE UTILIZE THE WATER BILLS BECAUSE THAT GOES TO LIKE EVERY RESIDENT WE HAVE IN THE PAST, UM, WHEN WE NEED TO NOTICE ABOUT, UM, I GUESS CERTAIN EVENTS, BUT WE HAVEN'T SPECIFICALLY FOR, UM, OUR PARKS AND REC PROGRAMS. I KNOW WE DID, UH, WE ASKED ABOUT A SENIOR CENTER, UM, PROGRAM THAT WE WERE TRYING TO GET FEEDBACK ON OR A SURVEY, BUT I CAN ASK AGAIN. 
          UM, I THINK, I DON'T REMEMBER. 
          MAYBE DREW YOU CAN BACK UP. 
          YEAH, I DON'T REMEMBER WHAT THE REASONING, IT'S A TOOL AND IT, IT IS DEFINITELY A BROAD, UM, REACH, UH, AND IT'S, IT'S PRETTY CONSTRAINED TO A CERTAIN SIZE. 
          SO 4TH OF JULY FOR EXAMPLE, UM, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE BIG ONES THAT MAY HAVE BIG IMPACTS THAT YOU COULD USE, THAT THEY ALSO HAVE, UM, YOU KNOW, REALLY CONFINED PARTS WHERE THEY PRINT THOSE WATER BILLS AND STUFF. 
          AND SO YOU REALLY HAVE TO, YOU KNOW, THEY'LL, IT HAS TO BE A BIG EVENT THAT ALIGNS JUST, JUST THE RIGHT TIME TO GET THAT OUT. 
          BUT THAT'S ANOTHER TOOL THAT THE CITY USES, WHETHER IT'S FOR PARKS AND REC OR SOMEWHERE ELSE. 
          AND, AND I'LL JUST SAY TOO, YOU KNOW, WE'RE OPEN TO YOUR ALL EXPERIENCES MM-HMM. 
          . 
          AND IF YOU, IF THERE'S ANOTHER AVENUE THAT WE'RE NOT NOT TOUCHING OR A PROGRAM THAT YOU THINK, YOU KNOW, UH, A COMMUNITY WOULD BE BETTER SERVED, WE'D LOVE TO HEAR IT. 
          I THINK WE'RE MOSTLY MOVING INTO THESE MODELS WHERE EVEN IF IT'S NOT ONE OF OUR STAFF ATTENDING A POP-UP, WE'RE REALLY TRYING TO KIND OF ARM PARTNERS OR YOU ALL WITH LIKE A TOOLKIT THAT YOU CAN GO INTO YOUR CIRCLES OF INFLUENCE AND SAY, OKAY, UM, HERE'S THAT SOCIAL MEDIA BLURB, OR HERE'S THAT FLYER, OR HERE'S THAT WAY TO SIGN UP. 
          WE'RE KIND OF MOVING INTO THAT MODEL. 
          UM, WE'RE JUST, YOU KNOW, BUILDING CAPACITY TO DO THAT. 
          SO LOVE TO YOUR, HEAR YOUR THOUGHTS. 
          THANK YOU. 
          MM-HMM. 
           DARN. 
          OKAY, COUNCILWOMAN NOW. 
          UM, THANK YOU. 
          UM, I, I WAS GIVEN THIS LITTLE FLYER FOR THE GHOST WALKS AND I HELD ONTO IT BECAUSE IT'S GOING, THE MUSEUM'S PUTTING IT ON THROUGH FEBRUARY. 
          MM-HMM. 
          . 
          SO I, SOMEONE HANDED IT TO ME. 
          UM, I FORGET WHERE I WAS, BUT I WAS AT AN EVENT, MAYBE IT WAS A FARMER'S MARKET, I DON'T KNOW. 
          I WAS AT AN EVENT AND SOMEONE HANDED IT TO ME AND I SAID, OH, THANK YOU. 
          AND I WAS LIKE, OH, I CAN HOLD ONTO THIS. 
          'CAUSE IT'S THROUGH, UM, FEBRUARY. 
          ANYWAY, UM, THE, UM, POSTERS BEHIND US, IT SAYS, PEDAL IN MY STANDS, UNITED AGAINST TATE WITH THE QR CODE IS BECAUSE THIS WEEK IS THE WEEK. 
          UM, AND ESPECIALLY BECAUSE THE CITY COUNCIL, DURING OUR MEETINGS, WE'VE EXPERIENCED SOME REALLY HORRIBLE, UM, COMMENTS THAT HAVE COME THROUGH, UM, OUR VIRTUAL. 
          SO WE NO LONGER HAVE THE VIRTUAL COMMENTS, BUT YOU CAN ALWAYS EMAIL THE CITY COUNCIL WITH ANYTHING YOU WANNA SAY. 
          UM, AND IT GETS PUT INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD AND WE READ IT. 
          UM, BUT WE HAD TO, UM, JUST SHUT IT DOWN BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT LOCAL COMMENTERS. 
          THEY'RE FROM ALL OVER. 
          THEY COULD BE FROM ANYWHERE AND THEY'RE TARGETING THESE PUBLIC MEETINGS. 
          SO, UM, I TRIED TO GIVE MY GRANDSONS THIS POSTER AT THE LIBRARY TODAY 'CAUSE THEY'RE AVAILABLE AT THE LIBRARY. 
          YOU CAN GO GET THEM FOR YOUR BUSINESS OR SCHOOL, BUT THEY HAD THE WORD HATE AND THEY GO, OH, GRANDMA, THAT'S A BAD WORD. 
          WE DON'T WANT THAT. 
          SO I SAID, WELL, IF IT SAID KINDNESS, WOULD YOU HAVE YES, WE WOULD DO KINDNESS. 
          SO ANYWAY, I JUST, UM, THE CITY, UM, HAS BEEN WORKING ON MAKING 
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MARIA DRIVE MORE SAFER. 
          UM, I FORGET WHO SAID THEY LIVED ON MARIA OR NEAR THERE. 
          I, YEAH, SORT OF OFF OF MARIA. 
          THERE'S, THERE'S A PLAN AND, UM, WE GOT TO LISTEN TO THE PRESENTATION FROM OUR TRAFFIC ENGINEER, UM, KEN, WHO'S JUST AWESOME WITH ENHANCED CROSSWALKS AND MAKING IT SAFER TO GET TO LAKE CASEY PARK AND GET TO THE SCHOOLS. 
          AND THAT WAS OUR LAST MEETING. 
          UM, WE ALSO, UM, THERE'S A, A NEW PARK COMING ON, UM, LINE, UH, WHERE THE RED BARN IS AND WHAT WE WANNA DO WITH THE RED BARN UP IN THAT. 
          UM, WHAT IS THAT SUBDIVISION CALLED? IT'S, IT'S SCOTT RANCH AND HELEN PUTNAM DIFFERENT BARN. 
          IT'S THE, THIS ONE'S THE RED HELEN PUTNAM EXTENSION. 
          THE SCOTT RANCH. 
          IT'S SCOTT RANCH. 
          YEAH. 
          THANK YOU. 
          IT'S SCOTT RANCH. 
          I SEE IT'S TAKEN 25 YEARS, BUT IT'LL BE A VERY INTERACTIVE REGIONAL PARK, BUT IT'S GONNA BE AWESOME. 
          IT'S GONNA TALK ABOUT OUR HISTORY OF OUR AGRICULTURE, UM, THE NATIVE AMERICANS THAT WERE HERE FIRST AND, UM, ANYWAY, IT'S GONNA BE WONDERFUL. 
          SO WE HAVE A, UM, A PRESENTATION ON THAT. 
          UM, WE HAVE, UM, COMING UP WE HAVE THE DOWNTOWN, UM, CONTROVERSY. 
          AND SO THAT'S COMING UP, UM, WITH THE OVERLAY AND, UM, WHAT WE WANNA DO WITH THE, THE, THE HOTEL PROJECT THAT'S COMING ON BOARD. 
          SO THAT'S COMING TO THE COUNCIL IN DECEMBER. 
          AND MY PARKS LOOK GREAT. 
          LIKE I SAID, I GET TO UTILIZE 'EM WITH REAL CHILDREN, , AND THEY LOVE TO JUMP OFF THAT TURTLE. 
          I WISH IT WAS AN OVER CONCRETE AT BLONDE PARK, BUT THEY DO LIKE THAT COMMUNICATION BOARD. 
          AND, UM, SO ANYWAY, UM, CROSSWALKS AT THE, UM, THE, TO GET FROM THE PARKING LOT WHERE THE LIBRARY, THERE'S NOT A LOT OF PARKING, SO WE HAD TO GO FROM THE, WHERE THE AIRPORT OR PARKING LOT WAS. 
          AND THERE ISN'T ANY CROSSWALKS ACROSS KENWORTH DRIVE AND NO CROSSWALKS. 
          UM, SO IT'S JUST FYI, THERE'S NO CROSS. 
          I MAKE SURE WE MAKE A HUMAN CHANGE. 
          SO ANYWAY, UM, THE PARKS LOOK GREAT. 
          UM, EVERYTHING LOOKS GREAT. 
          UM, BRANCHES HAVE BEEN PICKED UP AFTER STORMS AND WE'RE IN FOR A STORM COMING, SO THANK YOU COMMISSIONER CHISHOLM. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, JUST, WE RECEIVED AN EMAIL THIS MORNING ABOUT, UM, A CITIZEN WAS CONCERNED ABOUT, UM, MONEY IN THIS, UH, NEW PROPOSAL GOING TOWARDS ARTIFICIAL TURF REPLACEMENT. 
          UH, I'M READING IT SAYS TURF REPLACEMENT. 
          I JUST WANNA KNOW, IS THAT ARTIFICIAL TURF REPLACEMENT OR IS THAT TURF GRASS REPLACEMENT? YEAH, WE, WE RECEIVED THE EMAIL AS WELL. 
          UM, I, I THINK TO ANSWER THE QUESTION, IT, IT'S AN MOVING FROM AN ACCOUNT FROM A, A GENERAL FUND TO A RESTRICTED GENERAL FUND. 
          SO TO NOT GET INTO THE WEEDS TOO MUCH, IT'S A PART OF THE MID ANNUAL BUS ADJUSTMENT. 
          SO WE ARE COLLECTING FEES INTO A TURF REPLACEMENT FUND. 
          UH, AND THEN ANNUALLY, IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT, UH, THE FINANCE TRANSFERS A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF THOSE FEES INTO A TURF REPLACEMENT PROJECT. 
          SO THAT'S WHY I THINK THE COMMENT CAME IN THAT, UM, IT'S ON A TENTATIVE AGENDA THAT'S GOING TO COUNCIL AS PART OF AN ITEM THAT COVERS ALL OF THE FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS. 
          THERE'S NOT, TO MY KNOWLEDGE THAT THERE'S ANY RESTRICTIONS ON IT, ON IT BEING A SYNTHETIC TURF REFU, TURF REPLACEMENT FUND. 
          I KNOW IT WAS SET UP WHEN THE FIRST FIELD THAT LU CASEY WAS INSTALLED. 
          UM, BUT THAT'S ULTIMATELY A DECISION THAT'S GONNA GO FORWARD TO COUNSEL ON, UM, REPLACING OR INSTALLING ANY TURF. 
          AND THEN THE FUNDING, THE APPROPRIATE FUNDING WILL BE MATCHED AT THAT POINT. 
          SO LONG-WINDED WAY OF SAYING IT'S A, IT'S AN ACCOUNTING PRACTICE AS FAR AS WHAT'S ON THE BUDGET, NOT A PROJECT THAT'S GOING FORWARD, BUT WHEN IT DOES, I DON'T THINK THERE'S A RESTRICTION ON THE TURF REPLACEMENT ITSELF. 
          YEAH. 
          DOES THAT HELP? YEAH, SHE WAS WORRIED ABOUT IT BEING ARTIFICIAL TURF, BUT IN HERE IT DOESN'T SAY ARTIFICIAL, IT SAYS TURF. 
          SO THAT COULD BE GRASS TURF AS WELL. 
          RIGHT. 
          IT'S A TURF REPLACEMENT FUND. 
          YEAH. 
          YEAH. 
          OKAY. 
          I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING ELSE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OKAY, THANK YOU. 
          UM, I WONDERED ABOUT THAT AS WELL. 
          UM, BUT SPEAKING OF LUSSI FIELD, UM, OR TURF, UH, WHEN DOES THAT GO BEFORE CITY COUNCIL? IT HASN'T, RIGHT? NO, WE DON'T HAVE A, A 
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DATE YET FOR WHEN IT WILL GO TO CITY COUNCIL. 
          IT WON'T, I MEAN, WE'RE, WE'RE ALMOST OUT OF COUNCIL'S, UH, DATES BEFORE THE NEW YEAR, SO IT'S NOT GONNA GO BEFORE THE NEW YEAR. 
          UM, WE ARE STILL DOING SOME ANALYSIS. 
          UH, WE'RE TRYING TO, UM, ALSO PROVIDE SOME EVALUATION ON LEGISLATION. 
          I KNOW THERE'S SOME QUESTIONS THAT COME IN ABOUT WHAT THE STATE LEGISLATURE'S GONNA DO, AND WE'RE TRYING TO GET SOME RECOMMENDATIONS ABOUT, UM, WHAT ALTERNATE, UM, OPTIONS ARE AS WELL. 
          SO ALL OF THAT IS GONNA TAKE MORE TIME, BUT WE'RE TRYING TO GET IT IN FRONT COUNCIL AS SOON AS WE CAN. 
          'CAUSE WE'VE GOTTA DO SOMETHING. 
          MM-HMM, , YEAH. 
          UM, AND DATE THOUGH, BUT THAT, THAT TURF REPLACEMENT FUND, IT IS SPECIFIC TO SYNTHETIC, RIGHT? THE MONEY, I MEAN, TECHNICALLY I THINK THAT IS CORRECT THAT IT GOES TO SYNTHETIC, RIGHT? BECAUSE THE MONEY WAS COLLECTED FROM THE FEES, CORRECT. 
          RIGHT. 
          AND THEN IT GOES INTO THAT, BUT THEN IT WOULD BE DEPENDENT, I'M, UH, LET ME, YOU'LL, UH, LET ME CLARIFY THIS. 
          UM, BUT IT, IT WOULDN'T BE USED FOR, WELL, I GUESS MY QUESTION IS, LET ME REPHRASE THIS. 
          IS THAT FUND, IS THAT LINE ITEM ONLY USED FOR SYNTHETIC? OR IF CITY COUNCIL SAYS, NOPE, WE WANNA GO TO GRASS, CAN THAT MONEY THEN BE TRANSFERRED TO GRASS? SO THIS, LET ME GO BACK AGAIN. 
          THE, THE COUNT EXISTS WHEN THE ORIGINAL TURF LUCCHESE, RIGHT, SYNTHETIC TURF WAS INSTALLED, AND WE KNEW IT WAS GONNA HAVE ABOUT A 10 YEAR LIFE CYCLE. 
          SO THE RATES TO INCUR, UH, RENTAL FEES WERE BASED ON WHAT IT WAS GONNA COST THE CITY TO REPLACE THAT. 
          UM, BUT THE FUND ITSELF IS A TURF REPLACEMENT FUND, AND THE CITY COUNCIL ULTIMATELY GETS TO WEIGH IN AS YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS ON APPROPRIATIONS OF ALL ALL FUNDS. 
          SO THEY WILL GET ULTIMATELY A PROJECT, MAKE, YOU KNOW, DIRECT STAFF TO GO ONE DIRECTION AND THEN FIND THE APPROPRIATE FUNDING SOURCES TO DO THAT. 
          SO WHILE HISTORICALLY, YES, WE'VE ONLY USED THAT, THAT REPLACEMENT FUND, UM, TO REPLACE LUCCHESE TURF FIELD, UM, IT'S STILL MONEY COLLECTED THAT'S, UM, GONNA BE USED TO REPLACE FIELD, WHETHER IT'S SYNTHETIC OR NATURAL, OR WHO KNOWS. 
          OKAY. 
          YEAH. 
          SO IT CAN BE, IT CAN BE SWITCHED INTO, THAT'S MY UNDERSTANDING IS YES, IT'S A, IT'S COLLECTING THERE, UM, WHEN THE PROJECT GETS, GETS FINALIZED AND IT'LL BE A SOURCE OF FUN TO REPLACE THAT TURF ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. 
          YEP. 
          I THINK THE CITY SHOULD BUY THE GOLF COURSE THAT'S DEFUNCT AND THAT COULD BE ALTERNATE GRASS FIELDS. 
          UM, WE CAN GET GOING ON THAT RIGHT, . 
          OKAY. 
          A QUESTION ABOUT, UM, SCOTT PARK, UM, BECAUSE I HAD HEARD, YOU KNOW, WE HAD HEARD ABOUT THAT PREVIOUSLY. 
          WILL THAT BE UNDER WILLOW COUNTY CARE FOR THAT? OR WILL THE CITY IT WILL BE, IT BE A RE COUNTY REGIONAL PARKS. 
          THEY HAVE, UM, SOME OTHER, UM, COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION PARTNERSHIPS, BUT IT'LL BE MAINTAINED AND MANAGED BY SONOMA COUNTY REGIONAL PARKS, WHICH WILL ALSO HAVE TITLE AS PART OF THE HELEN PUTNAM EXTENSION. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, FOR, I DO NOT, DON'T HAVE ANY UPDATES. 
          UM, PARKS LOOK GOOD. 
          UM, UH, PBAC MEETING THIS MONTH WAS, UM, UH, WITH THE TREE COMMITTEE. 
          AND SO WE WENT THROUGH THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN AND, UH, WE'RE, YOU KNOW, KIND OF LOOKING AT, UM, THE DIFFERENT BICYCLE PLANS OR PATHS I SHOULD SAY, HOW THEY INTERSECT WITH ALL OF THE TRAILS AND THE COOL MAPPING SYSTEM THAT THEY HAVE, WHICH IS, THEY'RE REALLY HEADED SOMEWHERE WITH THIS, WHICH I THINK IS GREAT. 
          UM, AND THEN THAT MARIA DRIVE UPDATE, WHICH IS ALSO GOING TO BE A LOT SAFER. 
          UM, I THINK OVERALL. 
          UM, AND THAT'S IT. 
          I DON'T HAVE ANY MORE COMMENTS. 
          UM, DREW, DO YOU HAVE ANY, OR CINDY, ANY STAFF 
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COMMENTS HERE? YES, ABSOLUTELY. 
          CINDY'S GOT A MICROPHONE. 
          SHE'S IN TRANSIT. 
          LOVE TO GIVE YOU SOME STAFF UPDATES. 
          TAKE IT AWAY, CINDY, JUST IN CASE IF SOMEBODY'S WATCHING THE RECORDING AND THEY MISTAKE ME FOR, YOU KNOW, AN ART COMMITTEE MEMBER, , UH, YOU KNOW, YOUR PARKS TEAM IS ALWAYS BUSY. 
          UM, AT THIS TIME OF YEAR THEY'VE BEEN DOING SOME IRRIGATION FIXES BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, IRRIGATION'S STILL BREAKING EVEN THOUGH WE'RE WINTERIZING. 
          SO WE'RE AT THE POINT WHERE WE'RE STARTING TO WINTERIZE. 
          YOU'LL SEE SOME OF YOUR PARK'S, IRRIGATION IS GETTING SHUT OFF. 
          UM, WE, IF YOU HAVEN'T BEEN TO GRANT PARK, IF IT'S NOT YOUR PARK OR YOU DON'T HAVE KISCO THERE, THEY INSTALLED A NEW DRINKING FOUNTAIN. 
          AND THAT'S GENERALLY THE MODEL. 
          AS WE INSTALL OR HAVE TO REPLACE STINKING FOUNTAINS, THAT'S WHAT WE WOULD INSTALL. 
          SO IF YOU'RE WONDERING, UM, IT'S A PRETTY COOL ONE, YOU KNOW, I LIKE THEM, I RECOMMENDED THEM, THE CREW LIKES THEM. 
          SO IT'S ALL, IT'S, UM, A REALLY NICE ONE. 
          SO THAT WILL BE OUR STANDARD MOVING FORWARD. 
          NOT SOME OF THOSE OLD CONCRETE 
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ONES WITH NO BOTTLE FILLER. 
          AND, YOU KNOW, IT'S ALWAYS A BONE OF CONTENTION AND I'M A DOG LOVER, BUT IT HAS A DOG BOWL ON IT, BUT THEY HAVE ANTIFREEZE LINES, SO THEY'RE EASIER TO MAINTAIN. 
          UM, YOU DON'T DEAL WITH KIND OF THE FREEZE ISSUES YOU GET OVER THE WINTER. 
          SO THAT'S A REAL POSITIVE. 
          UM, SOME OF THE OTHER THINGS, YOU KNOW, THERE'S JUST MOVING PARTS AT SHORE BURGER WITH THE PG AND E WORK, SO WE HAD TO MOVE SOME PICNIC TABLES OUT TO ELLIS CREEK FOR PWA TO DO, UM, KIND OF THE STUFF THAT THEY DO THERE. 
          SO THAT WAS, AND WE'LL BE MOVING THEM BACK SOON. 
          UM, BUT OUTSIDE OF THAT, YOU KNOW, JUST REALLY GETTING TO WINTERIZE AT THIS POINT OF THE YEAR. 
          SO IT ALSO MEANS WE, UM, YOU KNOW, OUR, OUR SEASONAL STAFF, THEY KIND OF HAVE FALLEN OFF AND WE'RE PRE AROUND. 
          WE KEPT ONE ON THAT HAS IRRIGATION EXPERIENCE TO HELP US OUT WITH SOME OF THESE IRRIGATION FIXES. 
          UM, BUT THAT'S WHAT'S HAPPENING OUTSIDE OF THAT. 
          I'LL GIVE YOU THE TREE COMMITTEE UPDATES SINCE MARIANNE HAD TO LEAVE TONIGHT. 
          UM, SO TWO, I WAS GONE FOR THE JOINT PAC MEETING, BUT I HEARD THAT IT WAS LONGER THAN MY TREE COMMITTEES USED TO MEETING . 
          SO  CHAIR EARL, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING PART OF THAT MEETING. 
          UM, TODAY WE HAD TWO PRESENTATIONS, THE ONE FROM RELIEF, UM, THAT THEY PRESENTED TO YOU, THE SIX PARKS TWO. 
          AND THEN ALSO WE HAD, UM, FRIENDS OF THE PETALUMA RIVER COME AND PRESENT ON THEIR PROPOSED PROJECT THAT THEY'RE WORKING ON ON THE NORTH RIVER OVER BY MOND REACH, WHERE THEY'RE HOPING TO ACQUIRE LAND, WHICH IS JUST REALLY COOL. 
          I MEAN, IT'S REALLY COOL. 
          I MEAN, THE IDEA OF IT, THE CONCEPT, IF YOU CAN MAKE THAT HAPPEN, HOW IT CAN CONNECT THE EAST AND THE WEST SIDE OF TOWN AND GIVE RIVER ACCESS, THAT'S, YOU KNOW, WALKABLE OR BIKEABLE FOR EAST SIDE RESIDENCE WILL BE REALLY, REALLY NICE. 
          SO THAT WAS JUST REALLY NICE TO HAVE AND COME AND BE PRESENTED. 
          UM, RELEAF HAS, THEY PRESENTED THEIR SIX PARKS TOO, BUT THEY'VE BEEN PLANTING SIX PARKS. 
          SO IF YOU HAVEN'T BEEN TO ARROYO PARK, AND IT'S NOT YOUR PARK, IF YOU GO OVER THERE, THEY PLANTED OUT THAT PARK. 
          THEY REPLACED SOME OF THE TREES AT WISEMAN, UM, THAT, YOU KNOW, JUST DIDN'T FARE SO WELL, UM, FROM THAT FIRST PLANTING. 
          BUT THEY REPLACED ALL OF THOSE AT GRAND PARK. 
          THEY ALSO PLANTED REDWOODS. 
          I KNOW REDWOODS ARE ALWAYS A BIG ASK OF US, YOU KNOW, TO PLANT. 
          WE DID, YOU KNOW, TALK ABOUT IT A LOT AND WITH OUR STAFF WHO ARE ARBORISTS AND WELL AS, UM, THE UC, DAVIS SPECIALISTS KIND OF TRYING TO MAP OUT WHERE THEY WOULD DO WELL. 
          AND GRAND PARK WAS ONE REALLY THE ONLY PARK THAT WAS IDENTIFIED THAT THESE CAN REALLY PROSPER. 
          AND SO IF YOU GO OVER THERE, YOU'LL GET THESE LITTLE POCKETS OF REDWOOD TREE. 
          SO JUST BUSY AND MOVING ALONG AND YOUR PARK STAFF IS DOING GOOD AND, YOU KNOW, WE'LL KEEP ON CHUGGING. 
          THANK YOU. 
          GREAT. 
          THANK YOU DREW. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          THANK YOU CHAIR. 
          THANK YOU, CINDY. 
          SOME PROGRESS UPDATES ON PARK PROJECTS THAT ARE IN THE WORKS. 
          UH, THE BASEBALL FIELD UNDER CONSTRUCTION AT, UH, THE PETALUMA COMMUNITY SPORTS FIELDS HAS A NUMBER OF FINISHING TOUCHES LEFT TO BE WORKED OUT BEFORE WE CAN ACCEPT THE PROJECT FROM THE CONTRACTOR. 
          BUT THE LIST IS PRETTY LONG, EVEN THOUGH THEY'RE ALL KIND OF MINOR. 
          THERE'S SOME LANDSCAPING, THERE'S SOME PADDING, THERE'S SOME TOUCH UP TO THE TURF, UM, ET CETERA, ET CETERA. 
          BUT WITH ALL OF THAT, WE REALLY DON'T EXPECT THAT TO HAPPEN TILL JANUARY AT THE EARLIEST WE ANTICIPATE, UM, YOU KNOW, WEATHER DEPENDENT. 
          SO GIVE OR TAKE. 
          BUT, UH, THE INTENT REALLY WAS TO DO KIND OF AN OPENING PITCH, UH, OUR FIRST PITCH OPENING CEREMONIES AND REALLY PROBABLY TRY TO ALIGN THAT WITH MARCH, UH, AS THE WEATHER TURNS. 
          AND IT'S HISTORICALLY KIND OF THIS GOOD TIME FOR BASEBALL, UH, AND SOFTBALL TO COME KICK OFF. 
          SO THAT'S STILL THE INTENT. 
          WE DON'T HAVE A DATE SET OR A REALLY PLAN IN THE BOOKS, BUT YOU KNOW, YOU'RE ALL BEING PUT ON NOTICE NOW. 
          UM, YOU'LL BE INVITED AND ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND FOR A, AN OPENING CEREMONIES OF WHICH, WHICH WE THINK TBA SOMETIME IN MARCH. 
          WE ALSO HAVE, UH, A DATE SET FOR THE AWARD OF A BID OF CONSTRUCTION FOR THE PARK ACCESS PATHWAY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT THAT YOU'VE HEARD ABOUT. 
          I BELIEVE WE'VE TOURED TWO OF THOSE PARKS LAST TIME WE WENT THROUGH THE PARK TOURS. 
          UM, YOU SAW A NUMBER OF THOSE PLANS TONIGHT. 
          SO THAT'S MCDOWELL, UM, LARA, AND A SECTION OF MCNAIR PARK. 
          SO WE, UM, EXPECT THAT TO GO TO COUNCIL ON DECEMBER 18TH FOR CONSTRUCTION BID. 
          SO WE'RE DOING THE KIND OF LAST MINUTE TO SET THAT THING UP. 
          BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, START WEATHER DEPENDENT AGAIN AS SOON AS WE, UH, WE CAN GET IN THERE. 
          REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THAT PROJECT. 
          MOVING OVER TO SOME OF THE RECREATION HIGHLIGHTS, HOLIDAY BREAK CAMPS, UH, WE ARE PARTNERING WITH NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ATHLETICS WHOLESOME CREATIONS AND PLAY WELL TECHNOLOGIES TO HOST CAMPS FOR KIDS AND YOUTH, UH, THANKSGIVING AND WINTER BREAK. 
          SO THERE ARE STILL AVAILABILITY, SO IF YOU'RE LOOKING OR ANYONE YOU KNOW IS LOOKING FOR, UM, CAMPS TO DO, PLEASE PUT 'EM IN TOUCH WITH US AND, UM, FIND SOMETHING. 
          THE SENIOR CENTER LUNCHEONS IS WORKING WITH, UH, SENIOR CENTER IS WORKING WITH PPS C'S SENIOR CAFE TO HOST A FRIENDSGIVING LUNCHEON 
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NEXT TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21ST AT 1:00 PM AND THE SENIOR CENTER WILL ALSO BE HOSTING A HOLIDAY CHEER LUNCHEON ON TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19TH AT ONE EXCITING PLACE TO BE DURING THE HOLIDAYS. 
          UM, THE TURKEY TROTT PETALUMA TURKEY TROTT IS CONTINUING THIS YEAR AND WILL TAKE PLACE ON THANKSGIVING DAY. 
          THE, UH, THE EVENT, YOU KNOW, OUT OUTGREW THIS, UH, ORIGINAL, UH, STAGING POINT AT MCNAIR PARK. 
          SO THEY WILL AGAIN, RETURN TO THE PUBLIC PARKING LOT AT ELLIS CREEK WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITY. 
          SO THEY'LL ACCESS THE TRAILS THERE AND THEN, UM, ACCESS THE SCHOENBERGER TRAILS DEPENDING ON THE SIZE AND THE LOOP. 
          SO I KNOW STAFF ARE GONNA BE THERE, UM, DRESSED UP AND READY TO TROTT. 
          SO THAT'S A CHALLENGE TO YOU ALL. 
          UM, AND, UH, YES, UM, IT IS A CANNED FOOD DRIVE, SO THE EVENT IS FREE, BUT BRING CANNED FOOD. 
          IT'S A, UH, A FUNDRAISER FOR THE REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK. 
          LIGHT UP A LIFE WILL TAKE PLACE ON FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1ST AT SIX O'CLOCK. 
          WALNUT PARK. 
          SO EXCITED. 
          UH, IT'S ALWAYS ONE OF, UH, YOU KNOW, CHERISHED EVENTS HERE IN PETALUMA. 
          SO, UM, IT'S NICE THAT IT FELL ON DECEMBER 1ST. 
          IT JUST FEELS RIGHT. 
          UM, SO IT'S A NUMBER THAT, OR A, UH, DATE YOU SHOULD HAVE IN YOUR MIND AND COME DOWN TO DECEMBER OR COME DOWN TO WALNUT PARK TO BE A PART OF THAT EVENT. 
          THE NORTH POLE POST IS BACK, SO LETTERS TO SANTA SANTA'S MAILBOXES WILL BE OPEN FROM NOVEMBER 27TH TO DECEMBER 8TH AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER AND CITY HALL. 
          SO, UM, GET THOSE LETTERS IN ORDER AND DROPPED OFF. 
          UM, AND SANTA'S WORKSHOP WILL BE BUZZING THE SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL. 
          THANK YOU FOR HIGHLIGHTING THAT. 
          UM, WE'VE BEEN FORTUNATELY INVOLVED IN, IN COORDINATING SOME OF THOSE MEETINGS. 
          IT'S A REALLY POWERFUL AND, UM, REALLY COLLABORATIVE GROUP, SO EXCITED THAT PARKS AND REC ARE AT THAT TABLE, ALONG WITH OTHER CITY PLANNERS, A LOT OF SCHOOL OFFICIALS, AND IT REALLY FEELS, UM, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT AN, AN NOT A NEW, UM, ISSUE THAT WE'RE TRYING TO TACKLE, BUT IT FEELS LIKE THERE'S A LOT OF REALLY GOOD COORDINATION GOING ON THAT HOPEFULLY WE CAN BUILD AND, AND HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THOSE SUCCESSES AS ROADS GET REPAVED AND PARKS GET REDONE AND WE CAN REALLY BE THOUGHTFUL ABOUT HOW WE CAN MOVE AND BE SAFER. 
          UM, THROUGH OUR, THROUGH OUR, UH, PARKS AND SCHOOL SITES, SOLAR PANELS, WE HAVE TWO UPCOMING SOLAR PANEL INSTALLATIONS. 
          UH, THESE HAVE BEEN IN THE WORKS FOR QUITE SOME TIME, BUT LUCCHESE PARK WILL GET SEVERAL SOLAR ARRAYS. 
          THEY WILL BE, UM, ALONG THE NORTH OVERFLOW LOT AND YOU CAN PARALLEL TO, UM, THE MULTI-USE TURF WHERE THE MOVIES IN THE PARK IS ALMOST WHERE THE CLOCK TOWER ARE. 
          SO THESE ARE YOUR, UM, KIND OF SHADE CANOPY STRUCTURES THERE. 
          AND, UH, TEMPORARY FENCING WILL GO UP AS SOON AS NOVEMBER 27TH AND SET TO BEGIN ON DECEMBER 4TH. 
          THERE MAY BE AN OPENING KIND OF A RIBBON CUTTING CEREMONY FOR THESE TYPES OF EVENTS. 
          THESE ARE PRETTY BIG PROJECTS. 
          THERE'S ALSO SOLAR ARRAYS GOING IN AT THE NEW COMMUNITY SPORTS FIELDS THAT ARE IN THE INTERIOR PARKING LOT OF WHERE THE BASEBALL FIELD IS GONNA GO, BUT THAT SECTION ISN'T CURRENTLY OPEN TO, UM, THE PUBLIC. 
          SO IT'S KIND OF BE DOVETAILED AS PART OF THAT PROJECT. 
          BUT ULTIMATELY, I MEAN, THESE ARE BIG PROJECTS, A LOT OF SOLAR, BUT, UM, EXCITING OPPORTUNITIES TO REALLY, UM, YOU KNOW, BE MORE, UH, STRATEGIC WITH THE CITY'S UTILITIES AND, AND RUN RENEWABLE POWER. 
          SO EXCITED ABOUT THAT. 
          THAT IS ALL FOR MY UPDATES. 
          THANK YOU ALL AGAIN FOR TONIGHT. 
          UM, TONIGHT'S DISCUSSION. 
          I KNOW IT WAS A PRETTY, PRETTY LATE ONE, BUT, UM, ALL VERY POSITIVE. 
          SO APPRECIATE YOU ALL FOR STICKING AROUND. 
          I KNOW WE LOST TWO, BUT I STILL HAVE QUORUM, SO THANK YOU. 
          GREAT, THANK YOU. 
          AND WITH THAT, THIS MEETING IS ADJOURNED. 
          GOODNIGHT.
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