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          OKAY, I WOULD LIKE TO CALL THIS MEETING, UM, OF THE RECREATION PARKS AND MUSIC COMMISSION TO ORDER. 
          IT IS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19TH, 2025. 
          AND CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE TAKE ROLL CALL ELLI. 
          HERE, CHISHOLM. 
          HERE, EARL? HERE. 
          GREENSPAN. 
          KELLY? HERE. 
          RIZZO SIMMONS? HERE. 
          DI CARLY? HERE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          AND NOW LET'S STAND AND DO THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. 
          I DO NOT SEE ANY GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENTS. 
          I BELIEVE THESE ARE ALL, UM, FOR ITEM NUMBER TWO, CORRECT? YES. 
          THEY ARE ALL FOR ITEM NUMBER TWO, AND I DO NOT SEE ANY THAT WERE EMAILED IN, CORRECT? I HAVE NO EMAILED COMMENTS. 
          OKAY, GREAT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          SO I WOULD 
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LIKE TO, UM, DO THE APPROVAL OF MINUTES. 
          THAT'S ITEM NUMBER ONE. 
          WE ARE APPROVING THE MINUTES FOR THE MEETING OF FEBRUARY 26TH, 2025. 
          ARE THERE ANY CHANGES OR WOULD ANYBODY LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION? I'LL MOTION TO APPROVE THE MINUTES FROM FEBRUARY 26TH, 25. 
          I'LL SECOND. 
          GREAT. 
          THE MINUTES FOR THE MEETING OF FEBRUARY 26TH, 2025 ARE APPROVED. 
          WE'RE GONNA MOVE ON TO 
          [PUBLIC HEARINGS AND MATTERS FOR CONSIDERATION]
PUBLIC HEARINGS AND MATTERS FOR CONSIDERATION. 
          ITEM NUMBER TWO, WE ARE GOING TO HEAR A, UM, WELL, WE'RE GONNA DO A FEW THINGS, BUT FIRST, UH, WE ARE GOING TO LISTEN TO THE RECOMMENDATION FROM THE CITY COUNCIL TO CONSIDER RENAMING CENTER PARK TO HISTORIC CHINATOWN PARK IN RECOGNITION OF GEOGRAPHIC SIGNIFICANCE AND HISTORICAL CONTRIBUTIONS. 
          WE, I THINK, DREW, YOU WILL BE KICKING THIS OFF TO HEAR THE PRESENTATION. 
          THANK YOU. 
          YES. 
          THANK YOU, CHAIR. 
          UM, GOOD EVENING COMMISSIONERS, UH, COMMUNITY STAFF. 
          UH, I AM JOINED HERE TONIGHT, UM, WITH JONATHAN L UH, JONATHAN'S JOINED US AS A MANAGEMENT ANALYST WITH THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT, AND TOGETHER WITH, UH, A FEW OF THE ORGANIZERS HERE IN THE CHAMBERS, UH, WE'RE GONNA WALK YOU THROUGH, UH, THE ITEM TONIGHT. 
          UH, FOR THOSE OF YOU, UH, THAT HAVE NOT SEEN A, UM, DISCUSSION ITEM TO NAME OR RENAME A PUBLIC PARK, JUST WANTED TO GIVE YOU JUST SOME QUICK CONTEXT. 
          UH, ONE REASON, UH, IT'S HERE WITH US FIRST IS THE ITEM UNDER CONSIDERATION IS CURRENTLY NAMED CENTER PARK COMES UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THE PARKS AND RECREATION, UH, DEPARTMENT. 
          UM, BUT FINAL AUTHORITY ON NAMING ANY PARK OR PUBLIC FACILITY WILL REST SOLELY WITH OUR CITY COUNCIL. 
          SO OUR JOBS AND RESPONSIBILITIES TONIGHT ARE TO, UH, HEAR THE, UM, THE RECOMMENDATIONS, UH, WALK THROUGH THE PROCESS AND EVALUATE, UH, AT THE END OF THE NIGHT, UM, WHETHER TO SUPPORT A RECOMMENDATION THAT WE, UM, TAKE TO CITY COUNCIL A A RECOMMENDATION TO, TO PICK UP THE, THE RENAMING EFFORT AS PROPOSED. 
          SO WE'RE GONNA GO INTO A LITTLE BIT MORE DETAIL, BUT WANTED TO JUST KIND OF GIVE YOU THAT HIGH LEVEL LOOK. 
          AND WITH THAT, UM, I'LL INTRODUCE JONATHAN TO GET US STARTED. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UH, THANK YOU DREW. 
          UM, JOHN THE LUNG SENIOR MANAGEMENT ANALYST WITH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT. 
          UM, JUST WANNA GIVE A LITTLE BIT BACKGROUND ABOUT ME. 
          UH, I'VE BEEN IN PUBLIC SERVICE ABOUT 10 YEARS. 
          I'VE BEEN WITH THE CITY OF PET FOR TWO AND A HALF, AND SO FAR REALLY THRILLED TO BE HERE. 
          AND FOR, UH, FOR THIS EVENING. 
          I GET THE, THE PRIVILEGE AND OPPORTUNITY TO INTRODUCE THIS AND BRINGS THIS ITEM TO YOU FOR DISCUSSION AND CONSIDERATION. 
          UM, IT'S, UH, UH, WELL, I, WHEN I FIRST GIVE, UH, A BIT OF BACKGROUND OF WHAT THE CITY AND THE COMMUNITY HAS BEEN DOING, UH, UM, CURRENTLY, THERE'S BEEN, UH, A LOT OF DESIRE FROM THE COMMUNITY TO, UH, REALLY RECOGNIZE, IDENTIFY, AND RECOGNIZE AND HONOR A LOT OF THE UNIQUE AND LOCAL HISTORY OF PETALUMA. 
          AND, UH, UM, THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO SO. 
          UM, IF YOU, UH, IF YOU, UH, WEREN'T, DIDN'T HAVE THE, THE O UH, THE OPPORTUNITIES TO BE THERE BACK IN FEBRUARY, IN ADDITION TO THE PROCLAMATION OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH, UM, UH, A, UH, A COMMITTEE FROM THE COMMUNITY, 
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UH, SPEARHEAD INITIATIVE TO RECOGNIZE HENRY SCHNAT, WHO WAS A, UH, ONE OF THE, UH, FIRST PROMINENT BLACK BUSINESSMAN IN PETALUMA BETWEEN, UH, 1860S, UH, I'M SORRY, I APOLOGIZE, 1930S, 19, UH, SIXTIES. 
          UH, AND ADDITION TO HIM, HE HAD A STORIED MILITARY, UH, CAREER, BUT HE'S MOST KNOWN FOR HIS, HIS KIND HEART, HIS WISDOM, HIS MATURITY, AND HIS, UH, HIS SHOE SHINE STAND OFFERING, UH, SERVING US, CALLING IT UNOFFICIAL SICK STREAM OF COMMERCE FOR A LOT OF ADVICE AND, AND WISDOM. 
          UH, AND SO WHAT THE CITY HAS DONE WITH THAT EFFORT IS, UH, WE'VE, UH, CREATED THE OT WASTE SIGN. 
          UH, WE'RE, WE'RE GOING TO INSTALL IT IN, UM, WESTERN AVENUE AND WATER STREET, THAT LITTLE THRESHOLD THAT TURNS INTO THE ALLEYWAY. 
          AND THAT'S, UH, SPEAKS TO KIND OF THE LARGER CITY AND COMMUNITY EFFORT TO RECOGNIZE A LOT OF PEOPLE, INDIVIDUALS, AND GROUPS WHO, UH, HAVE UNTOLD STORIES. 
          UH, AND, AND, UM, THAT IN TELLING THESE STORIES, ADD TO THE RICH TAPESTRY OF PETALUMA IS INDUSTRIAL, ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY AND ITS TAPESTRY. 
          SO THAT'S REALLY, UH, UH, REALLY ALSO REALLY LED BY THE COMMUNITY. 
          I WANNA EMPHASIZE THAT. 
          UM, THAT WAS, UM, FOR, HE AND I WAS LED BY, UM, FOLKS FROM PELLUM FOR, UH, PETALUMA BLACKS FOR PETALUMA DEVELOPMENT AND, UH, ACU MEMBERS. 
          AND TONIGHT, THIS EFFORT'S ALSO LED BY, UH, UH, LOCAL, UH, LOCAL RESIDENTS TOO. 
          UM, AND IN A MOMENT, I'M GOING TO, UH, BRING UP LENA HAS AND, UM, AND, AND TO ALSO FRANK CHONG, UH, ABOUT THIS, UH, TO SPEAK ON KIND OF THE VOICE AND PERSPECTIVE OF THE CHINESE IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE DURING THE, UM, UH, 19TH CENTURY, THE LATE 19TH CENTURY THROUGH THE 20TH CENTURY. 
          UM, LENA HASINA HERSELF, SHE IS A LONGSTANDING RESIDENT WITH LOT OF TIES WITH PETALUMA AND REALLY LEADING VOICE IN THIS EFFORT, UM, AS PART OF THE HISTORIC CHINATOWN PARK AD HOC COMMITTEE. 
          AND, UM, FRANK CHONG WILL BE LENDING HIS VOICE, UH, AS, UH, THE FORMER PRESIDENT OF SANTA ROSA JUNIOR COLLEGE, TOO. 
          UM, SO HOPING TO BRING THIS AND OFFER A LOT OF INFORMATION AND, UH, AND ENRICH THE DIALOGUE. 
          AND, UH, ALSO IN, UH, AFTER THAT, TO GIVE A BIT OF A TIMELINE SO I CAN KIND OF GUIDE YOU THROUGH KIND OF CHRONOLOGICALLY, UM, UH, HOW CHINATOWN CENTER PARK REALLY DEVELOPED IN PARALLEL AND WHY THAT REALLY CENTERS ON THE HISTORIC AND, AND GEOGRAPHIC SIGNIFICANCE. 
          UM, BUT WITH THAT, I'M GOING TO, UM, ASK LENA TO COME UP AND SHE'S GONNA SPEAK ON THIS PART. 
          THANK YOU, JONATHAN. 
          UM, I HAVE MY CHEAT SHEET, SO YOU HAVE TO EXCUSE ME. 
          UH, GOOD EVENING, COMMISSIONERS AND FELLOW COMMUNITY MEMBERS THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO DISCUSS AND RENAMING CENTER PARK TO HISTORIC CHINATOWN PARK. 
          I'M LENA LYNN HO, A FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL CHINATOWN PARK AD HOC COMMITTEE. 
          THE HISTORICAL CHINATOWN PARK AD HOC COMMITTEE IS A GRASSROOTS EFFORT, UH, INITIATIVE FORMED BY A API SCHOLARS, GENEALOGISTS ARTISTS, HEALERS AND STORYTELLERS. 
          IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE PETALUMA HISTORICAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM, AND THE CITY OF PETALUMA. 
          THE GROUP AIMS TO RECOGNIZE THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF EARLY CHINESE RESIDENTS THROUGH INNOVATIVE PROGRAMMING AND OUTREACH. 
          I'D LIKE TO SHARE A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HOW I GOT HERE. 
          MY PARTNER AND I OPENED A VOLUMA PIE COMPANY 15 YEARS AGO. 
          SHORTLY AFTER OPENING AN ARCHEOLOGIST NAMED BILL RUP, WHO HAD AN OFFICE ACROSS THE ALLEY, CAME IN TO INTRODUCE HIMSELF. 
          HE MENTIONED THAT THERE, THERE WAS ONCE A CHINATOWN IN PETALUMA, WHICH TOOK ME BY SURPRISE, GIVEN THE LACK OF ANY VISIBLE TRACE OF IT AROUND TOWN. 
          YEARS LATER, THE PANDEMIC BROUGHT A WAVE OF HOSTILITY TOWARD ASIAN PEOPLE, INCLUDING MYSELF, PROMPTING ME TO INVESTIGATE HOW SUCH HOSTILITIES COULD TAKE ROOT. 
          I LOOKED THROUGH OLD NEWSPAPERS DISCOVERING AN OVERWHELMING NUMBER OF REFERENCES TO CHINESE PEOPLE. 
          HERE. 
          AS I GATHERED THIS INFORMATION, I BEGAN WRITING ARTICLES FOR THE ARGUS COURIER, INITIALLY FOCUSING ON SHARING WHAT I LEARNED LATER, BROADENING TO WRITING PEOPLE ABOUT WRITING ABOUT LOCAL PEOPLE WHOSE CONTRIBUTIONS HAVE BEEN OVERLOOKED. 
          AFTER LEARNING ABOUT BILL R ARCHEOLOGICAL WORK IN THE THEATER DISTRICT, I CONSULTED LOCAL HISTORIANS, INCLUDING TERRY PARK FROM THE HISTORICAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM, AND CHINESE AMERICAN HISTORY EXPERTS LIKE 
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DAVID LAY, ANNA ING AND GRANT D TO PROVIDE CONTEXT, ALTHOUGH THERE'S STILL MUCH WE DON'T KNOW, LOCAL PEOPLE. 
          DATE PAPERS DATING BACK TO 1850S REVEAL THAT CHINESE LABORERS CAME IN EARLY YEARS OF PETALUMA'S INCORPORATION, PLAYING VITAL ROLES IN RESHAPING THE PETALUMA RIVER, CONSTRUCTING RAILROADS, WORKING IN BRICK FACTORIES, RUNNING WASH HOUSES AND OTHER BUSINESSES, AND WORKING AS AGRICULTURAL WORKERS. 
          CHINESE PEOPLE HELPED LAY THE FOUNDATION FOR THE CITY WE KNOW TODAY. 
          I ALSO LEARNED ABOUT TROUBLING CONNECTIONS BETWEEN LOCAL LEADERSHIP, INCLUDING THE VERY NEWSPAPER I WROTE FOR, AND THE ANTI-CHINESE MOVEMENT THAT LED TO THE CHINESE EXCLUSION ACTS, NOTABLY THE GEAR ACT, WHICH EXPANDED THESE DISCRIMINATORY POLICIES. 
          IN 1892, THE CONGRESSMAN, UH, CONGRESSMAN THOMAS GEARY, THE ACTS NAMESAKE, STARTED HIS CAREER AS A LAWYER, JUST A BLOCK FROM OUR PIE SHOP, AND CAPITALIZED ON ANTI-CHINESE SENTIMENT. 
          THE ANTI-CHINESE LEAGUE HELD MEETINGS JUST TWO BLOCKS FROM SOUTH FROM US. 
          THERE WERE WEEKLY MEETINGS. 
          THESE DISCOVERIES DEEPEN MY RESOLVE TO ADDRESS OUR COMMUNITIES' HISTORICAL NARRATIVE GAPS. 
          WHILE WE WERE UNABLE TO IDENTIFY DESCENDANTS OF THE CHINESE PEOPLE FROM THAT ERA, BECAUSE MANY OF THEM WERE DRIVEN OUT, I REACHED OUT TO THE LOCAL A API COMMUNITY, INCLUDING LANCE L, WHOSE FAMILY WAS ONE OF THE FIRST CHINESE FAMILIES TO ESTABLISH. 
          AFTER MOST OF THE EARLIER WAVE OF CHINESE IMMIGRANTS WERE GONE, TERRY, THE MUSEUM HELPED PINPOINT THE LOCATIONS OF MANY CHINESE BUSINESSES, AND OUR GROUP ORGANIZED A PILGRIMAGE TO REVISIT THESE SITES. 
          WE SHARED OUR FINDINGS THROUGH PRESENTATIONS AT THE PELLUM OF RIVER PARK AND HOSTED DIGITAL STORYTELLING WORKSHOP, SHARING DOCUMENT, AND, AND DOCUMENTING STORIES. 
          THIS EFFORT HAS LED US TO PARTNER WITH THE PETALUMA HISTORICAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM TO DEVELOP AN EXHIBIT CALLED PETALUMA CHINATOWN UNEARTHED FACING THE PAST FOR A BETTER FUTURE. 
          TODAY, I ASK THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION TO ENDORSE RENAMING CENTER PARK TO HISTORIC CHINATOWN PARK. 
          THIS CHANGE IS NOT JUST SYMBOLIC. 
          IT REPRESENTS A COMMITMENT TO LEARNING FROM THE PAST, TO AVOID REPEATING THE MISTAKE OF SCAPEGOAT, SCAPEGOATING, THOSE WHO MAKE PETALUMA GREAT. 
          BY HONORING THE STRUGGLES AND CONTRIBUTIONS OF ONE OF THE EARLIEST A API IMMIGRANTS, WE WILL STRENGTHEN OUR COMMITMENT TO A SAFER, WELCOMING PETALUMA WHERE EVERYONE CAN THRIVE. 
          AS MARTIN LUTHER KING SAID, THE TIME IS ALWAYS RIGHT TO DO THE RIGHT THING. 
          NOW IS THE MOMENT TO RENAME THE PARK. 
          THIS ACT WILL SERVE AS AN INSPIRATION AND A POWERFUL EDUCATIONAL TOOL FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS, ENSURING THAT THE STORIES OF THE PEOPLE WHO CONTRIBUTED TO BUILDING PETALUMA ARE REMEMBERED. 
          LET'S SEIZE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO HONOR THOSE WHO HAVE GONE BE BEFORE US WHILE PAVING THE WAY FOR A BETTER FUTURE. 
          THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. 
          UH, THANK YOU, LENA. 
          VERY WELL STATED. 
          UH, I'D LIKE TO BRING UP FRANK CHONG NOW TO, UH, TO SPEAK ON THIS AS WELL. 
          THAT WAS BEAUTIFUL. 
          UH, THANK YOU, LENA. 
          UH, THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO ADDRESS YOU. 
          UH, THANK YOU. 
          I REALLY APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY TO ADDRESS YOU. 
          UM, I AM A, A 15 YEAR RESIDENT OF, UH, PETALUMA IN PETALUMA YEARS. 
          THAT'S LIKE SIX MONTHS. 
          UH, YOU GUYS KNOW THAT. 
          UH, AND PEOPLE ASK ME, WHERE DO YOU LIVE IN PETALUMA, DR. 
          CHONG? AND I SAY, WELL, THE EASIEST WAY TO SAY IS I'M IN THE HOUSE DIRECTLY LEFT 
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OF, UH, CONGRESSMAN, FORMER CONGRESSMAN LIN WOOLSEY. 
          AND PEOPLE SCRATCH THEIR HEAD AND SAY, YOU'RE LEFT OF LIN WOOLSEY. 
          YOU MUST LIVE NEAR HAVANA. 
          SO, . 
          SO, UH, BUT I WAS JUST WITH LYNN TODAY AND TOLD THAT I WAS GONNA BE COMING, UH, BEFORE YOU. 
          AND AS MANY OF YOU KNOW, SHE, SHE'S A, A LEGEND HERE IN THIS TOWN AND, UH, REALLY, REALLY, UH, SUPPORTIVE, UH, OF ME. 
          AND THE, I'M THE FIRST NON WHITE MALE PRESIDENT IN THE 108 YEAR HISTORY OF SANTA ROSA JUNIOR COLLEGE. 
          AND, UH, IT WASN'T REALLY, UH, HIT ME UNTIL I ARRIVED, UH, THAT THE COMMUNITY'S CHANGING AND, UH, DEMOGRAPHICALLY AND I THINK FOR THE BETTER. 
          AND I TRIED TO HELP EMBRACE THAT CHANGE. 
          'CAUSE I ALWAYS FELT THAT THE COLLEGE SHOULD REFLECT THE DIVERSITY OF ITS COMMUNITY, BOTH THE STUDENTS, THE EMPLOYEES, THE STAFF, AND THE BOARD. 
          AND I WORKED VERY HARD TO DIVERSIFY AND MAKE THE COLLEGE MORE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE PEOPLE WHO LIVED IN THE COMMUNITY. 
          UH, AND, UH, I HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF EXPERIENCE AND EXPERTISE IN THIS AREA. 
          'CAUSE AT BERKELEY, UH, ALMOST 50 YEARS AGO, I WAS AN ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES MAJOR AT UC, BERKELEY. 
          UH, AND, UH, I'M PROUD TO SAY THAT, AND, UH, LEARNED WHAT, UH, HELEN CIA, WHO'S A AUTHOR AND FRIEND OF MINE, WROTE A BOOK. 
          UH, AND AS, UH, SHE TALKED ABOUT MISSING MIH MISSING IN HISTORY, MIH, MISSING IN HISTORY. 
          AND WHEN I WAS GROWING UP IN NEW YORK, CHINATOWN, UH, I NEVER SAW ANYTHING THAT REFLECTED ANY TYPE OF CONTRIBUTION, ANY PICTURE OF THE CONTRIBUTION, EVEN THE EXISTENCE OF CHINESE AND ASIAN AMERICANS IN THE TEXTBOOKS, UH, WHEN I WAS GROWING UP. 
          UM, SO I HAD NO ROLE MODELS. 
          I HAD NO INKLING OF WHAT, UH, I HAD TO COME 3000 MILES TO THE LEFT COAST, UH, TO FIND OUT THE HISTORY OF MY PEOPLE AND MY COMMUNITIES. 
          AND IT WAS REALLY EYE-OPENING. 
          AND TO THIS DAY, UH, WHEN I MOVED TO PETALUMA 15 YEARS AGO, UH, TO BECOME THE PRESIDENT, I'M THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF SANTA ROSA UNION COLLEGE, NOT TO LIVE IN SANTA ROSA, THE FIRST ONE TO LIVE IN PETALUMA, WHICH PEOPLE WERE VERY, VERY HAPPY ABOUT. 
          I DIDN'T KNOW THAT. 
          BUT WE ALSO HAVE, AS YOU KNOW, A PETALUMA CAMPUS THAT'S THRIVING, UH, ON THE EAST SIDE OF TOWN. 
          UM, SO IT'S SOMETHING THAT IS VERY PERSONAL TO ME, UH, FROM A STANDPOINT OF BEING CHINESE AMERICAN, ASIAN AMERICAN, AND ALSO A PETALUMA RESIDENT, YOU KNOW, TO SAY THAT, UH, THE, THE TOWN IS CHANGING, IF YOU WANNA CALL IT A CITY, IT'S CHANGING. 
          UH, AND I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT THE, UM, SYMBOLS, WHETHER IT'S THE NAME OF A STREET, THE NAME OF A PARK, UH, REALLY REFLECT, UH, ALL THAT THE COMMUNITY'S ABOUT THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY. 
          YOU KNOW? AND THAT'S WHAT I THINK REALLY HISTORY SHOULD BE ABOUT. 
          AND, UH, UH, ONE OF MY FIRST ACTS AS, UH, WHEN I WAS ON THE SAN FRANCISCO SCHOOL BOARD MANY YEARS AGO, WAS THE RENAMED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN SAN FRANCISCO, CHINATOWN FROM COMMODORE STOCKTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TO THE GORDON H LAU ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, BECAUSE GORDON LAU WAS THE FIRST ELECTED OFFICIAL WHO SERVED ON THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS IN SAN FRANCISCO. 
          AND IT WAS FUNNY, I GOT A LOT OF PUSHBACK FROM CHINESE AMERICANS WHO ARE VERY FAMILIAR WITH THE NAME AND LOVED, AND WERE VERY PROUD OF COMMODORE STOCKTON. 
          SO I'M GLAD THAT THE NAMING OF THIS PARK ISN'T NAMED AFTER MR. CENTER, YOU KNOW, SO IT'S LESS, UH, UH, SENSITIVITY AROUND THAT. 
          UM, SO I JUST LIKE TO SAY THAT, UH, I, I LOVE LIVING IN PETALUMA AND, UH, THE PEOPLE BEHIND ME LOVE LIVING IN SONOMA COUNTY. 
          WE REALLY JUST WANNA SEE A RECOGNITION, UH, OF THE FACT OF UNEARTHING HISTORY, SO THAT WE CAN'T SAY THAT PETAL THE CITY OF PETALUMA IS MISSING IN HISTORY. 
          UH, AND I'LL CLOSE WITH A, MY FAVORITE, UH, MARTIN LUTHER KING QUOTE IS THAT, UH, WE ALL CAME IN DIFFERENT SHIPS, BUT WE'RE ALL IN THE SAME BOAT NOW. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU, FRANK. 
          THAT WAS VERY WELL SAID. 
          UM, SO COMMISSIONERS THIS EVENING, YOU, YOU'VE HEARD, UH, THE VOICES FROM THE COMMUNITY IN DRIVING THIS EFFORT. 
          BUT, UM, AS STAFF, I WANNA BE ABLE TO ALSO WALK YOU THROUGH THE, THE TIMELINE OF HOW, UM, CENTER PARK AND CHINATOWN CAME TO BE. 
          AND YOU'LL START TO SEE HOW THEY KIND OF DEVELOPED IN PARALLEL IN A LOT OF WAYS, UH, WHICH THEN REALLY UNDERSCORES THE HISTORIC AND GEOGRAPHIC SIGNIFICANCE OF THE AREA, UH, WHICH, UH, REALLY FULFILLS, WELL FULFILLS CRITERIA BASED ON OUR, UH, OUR CITIES AND, UH, PARK AND NAMING POLICIES. 
          SO, I, I'LL GO THROUGH THESE, AND THIS IS BY NO MEANS A COMPREHENSIVE, DETAILED TIMELINE, BUT FOR THE SAKE OF THIS, UM, I THINK IT'S A GOOD AID TO UNDERSTAND THAT THEIR CONNECTION TO EACH OTHER. 
          SO, FIRSTLY, UM, UH, ALTHOUGH PETALUMA WAS FOUNDED 
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AS A TOWN 1852, IT WAS, IT WASN'T INCORPORATED UNTIL 1858. 
          UM, AT, FROM THAT POINT, UH, IN THE 1860S, UM, THE AREA WE NOW KNOW IS CENTER PARK WAS, DIDN'T HAVE A NAME. 
          IT KIND OF SERVED AS A MAKESHIFT AREA WHERE MERCHANTS AND, UH, UM, FARMERS OF WAGONS WOULD COME IN, HITCH THEIR HORSES, AND KIND OF JUST PARK THEIR HORSES IN, IN MANY WAYS, AND CONTINUE TO SERVE THAT FUNCTION FOR, FOR SOME TIME. 
          UM, AS WE GO INTO 1866 AND THE SIXTIES, YOU'RE STARTING TO SEE HUGE INFLUX OF CHINESE IMMIGRANTS. 
          AND, UM, THE PRIMARY INDUSTRIES THEY FILLED WERE VERY, UH, UH, LABOROUS ROLES, UH, IN, UH, VITICULTURE AGRICULTURE, RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION. 
          AND I'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT LATER ON ABOUT THE PETALUMA RIVER DREDGING AND RESHAPING, WHICH IS A HUGE FEAT. 
          UM, SO AS THESE IMMIGRANTS STARTED TO COME IN, OF COURSE, NATURALLY ENCLAVES ARE TO FORM, UH, IN AROUND 1870S CHINATOWN, UH, ENCLAVE FORMED, UH, AROUND, UH, THE MAP YOU SEE HERE, I'M NOT GONNA ASK YOU TO LOOK AND SQUINT, BUT YOU HAVE THIS ATTACHMENT, ATTACHMENT B IN YOUR STAFF REPORT. 
          THAT'S, UH, MORE OR LESS THE BROCHURE FOR KIND OF SHOWING AND MAPPING OUT THE, UH, THE BOUNDARIES AND BORDERS SOME OF THE CHINESE BUSINESSES. 
          AND SO, UM, ENTITIES SPRAYING UP LIKE WASH HOUSES, UH, RESTAURANTS, BOARDING HOUSES, UH, THINGS YOU WOULD, YOU WOULD SEE IN A SMALL COMMUNITY AS IT BECAME MORE SELF SELF-SUSTAINING. 
          SO, UH, AS WE'RE PROGRESSING THROUGH IN, UH, UM, 1871, THE AREA WAS FINALLY GIVEN, UH, A REAL NAME. 
          IT WAS CALLED LOWER MAIN STREET PLAZA. 
          AND SO IT STARTED, IT STARTED TO GROW AT THIS POINT, AND, UM, UH, HAVE STARTED TO GROW IN TERMS OF, OF FUNCTION, UH, UH, STILL JUST REALLY JUST AN AREA FOR, FOR HORSES AND WAGONS AND MERCHANTS. 
          UM, BUT AT LEAST IT HAD AN OFFICIAL TITLE. 
          AND THEN AS WE, AT THE TIMELINE, UM, DUE TO A, UH, LARGE RECESSION THAT OCCURRED IN, UH, 1873, UM, RESULTING FROM, UH, DROPPING IN EUROPEAN DEMAND FOR, UH, USED FARM GOODS AND ALSO JUST OVER SPECULATION OF RAILROAD, THE, THE ECONOMY CRASHED. 
          THERE WAS A HUGE RECESSION, AND THE FARMHOUSE IS SHUTTERED, AND THERE WAS MASSIVE UNEMPLOYMENT, WHICH, UH, UNDERSTANDABLY FUELED A LOT OF, UH, LOT OF RESENTMENT AND A A LOT OF SCAPEGOATING THAT ENDED UP ON THE, UH, THE, THE DOORSTEPS OF A LOT OF THE CHINESE IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY AT THAT TIME. 
          SO BY 1877, UM, LOCAL CLUBS ALMOST SPRANG UP OVERNIGHT THAT OPPOSED TO, UH, UH, OPPOSED, UH, THE CHINESE PRESENCE. 
          AND INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH, THESE WERE THEMSELVES, UM, OF IRISH, ITALIAN, GERMAN ORIGIN, IMMIGRANTS THEMSELVES. 
          AND SO IT WAS A CONFLICT OF LABOR. 
          IT WAS CONFLICT OF, OF, UH, WHAT WHAT WAS PERCEIVED AS AMERICAN AND NOT AMERICAN. 
          UM, AND A LOT OF THAT GROUNDSWELL BUILT UP INTO STATE, REGIONAL, AND FEDERAL LAW, WHICH CULMINATED IN THE 1888 PASSAGE OF THE CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT, WHICH BANNED CHINESE IMMIGRATION EFFECTIVELY STOPPING THE FLOW. 
          SO, REALLY, BETWEEN THAT TIME FROM THE CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT, AND, UH, FROM THE LATE 19TH CENTURY, THE 20TH CENTURY, UM, THERE WAS A RAPID DECLINE IN THE CHINESE PRESENCE. 
          UM, UH, LOCAL ZONING LAWS AT THE TIME WERE, UH, ENACTED TO PREVENT ANY KIND OF ADDITIONAL BUSINESSES TO BE DEVELOPED THAT WERE LIKE WASHOUTS AND LAUNDROMATS, AND EVENTUALLY JUST KILLED THE ECONOMIC, UM, UH, LIFEBLOOD OF THAT COMMUNITY. 
          SO, BY THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY, THAT DECLINED SIGNIFICANTLY, UH, AT, AT THE SAME TIME, UH, TOWARDS THE 1920S, UH, A NEW LA A NEW NAME WAS SELECTED FOR LOWER MAIN STREET PLAZA, WHICH WE'VE COME TO KNOW TODAY IS CENTER PARK. 
          AND, UH, I THINK IT WOULD BE DOING DISSERVICE IF I DIDN'T EXPLAIN KIND OF WHAT THAT AREA STILL FUNCTIONED AT THE TIME. 
          SO, UH, FOR, FOR FOR MANY YEARS, THAT SERVED AS A GATHERING SPOT FOR THE COMMUNITY FOR PARADES, EVENTS, AND FESTIVITIES. 
          UH, MORE, MORE RECENTLY THAT HAS KIND OF FALLEN OUTTA DISUSE AS SOME OF THE EVENTS HAVE MOVED ELSEWHERE. 
          AND SO CENTER PARK STILL HAS A, UM, A LOT OF HISTORY IN THAT AREA, BUT IT'S NOT AS ACTIVATED AS IT AS IT WAS IN THE, IN THE PAST. 
          AND I, I JUST WANNA PAUSE HERE. 
          WHAT YOU'RE SEEING IN FRONT OF YOU ON THE SCREEN IS THE, THE PLUMER RIVER. 
          UM, AND ONE OF THE CRITERIA THAT WE'RE ASKING YOU TO EXAMINE TONIGHT COMMISSIONERS IS IF IT FILLS THE, THE CONTRIBUTION SIGNIFICANCE END OF HISTORIC VALUE, UH, TO, TO WARRANT, UM, A, A, A RENAMING. 
          AND IN ADDITION TO SOME OF THE INDUSTRIES, THE IMMIGRANTS SORT WERE, UH, VERY CRUCIAL IN WITH, UH, WITH, WITH ALL OF PET AND SONOMA COUNTY. 
          ONE OF THE BIGGEST ONES WAS DURING THAT TIME PERIOD, THEY WERE A HUGE COMPONENT 
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IN THE DREDGING AND THE WHINING OF THE CHANNELS OF THE PILLAR RIVER, WHICH THEN, UH, OPENED UP A LOT MORE OPPORTUNITIES TO RESHAPE IT, STRAIGHTEN IT OUT MORE, WHICH, UH, GAVE WAY TO MORE MARITIME COMMERCE, FLOOD MANAGEMENT, AND NAVIGATION. 
          AND SO WHAT YOU SEEING, WHAT YOU'RE SEEING ON THE RIVERFRONT, WHAT YOU'VE, UH, CAN'T SEE SO WELL IN THE DOWNTOWN, 'CAUSE THE PRESENCE IS LARGELY ELIMINATED, IS THAT RIVER, UH, REALLY EXEMPLIFIES THE WORK THAT WAS PUT IN BY THE CHINESE, CHINESE IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY. 
          AND, UH, I WANT TO TIE IT IN WITH KIND OF CITY GOALS AND PRIORITIES. 
          UH, UH, UH, WELL, THE FIRST POINT IS THIS SUPPORTS THE CITY'S GOALS AND, AND, AND PRIORITY OF RECOGNIZING UNDERREPRESENTED HISTORIES, UH, LIKE HENRY CHANA, LIKE THE CHI CHINESE IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY, AND PROBABLY MANY MORE STORIES WE HAVEN'T HEARD OF YET. 
          UM, THIS ALIGNS WITH THOSE VALUES. 
          UH, 0.2. 
          UM, IT ALSO HELPS ADD MORE OF A LAYER OF HISTORY TO, UM, PALOMA'S CULTURE, PARTICULARLY 'CAUSE WE HAVE HISTORIC DOWNTOWN DISTRICT. 
          THIS ADDS ANOTHER RICHNESS TO THAT, THAT AREA. 
          AND IT REALLY ALIGNS WITH A, A, UH, ONE OF THE VALUES OF FOSTERING SPACES IN PLACES THAT INSPIRE. 
          AND, AND LASTLY, ON THIS POINT, IT, IT'S A COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION, AS LENA HAS MENTIONED, AS FRANK HAS STATED. 
          WELL, UH, IT NOT ONLY TALK TELLS HISTORY, IT INVITES, UM, PEOPLE, IT INVITES QUERY, IT INVITES COMMUNITY, AND IT REALLY HIGHLIGHTS THE RICH CULTURAL, ECONOMIC, INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF, OF PETALUMA. 
          AND WITH THAT, FOR THE NEXT STEPS, JUST TO, UH, I KNOW YOU'VE BEEN HEARING A LOT, UH, I WANNA JUST PUT A BIG PERIOD ON IT IS STAFF IS SEEKING A RECOMMENDATION FROM THE RECREATION, MUSIC AND PARKS COMMISSION TO REQUEST CITY COUNCIL CONSIDER RENAMING CENTER PARK LOCATED AT SEVEN PELOMA BOULEVARD NORTH TO HISTORIC CHINATOWN PARK, AND RECOGNITION OF THE HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF PETALUMA'S EARLY CHINESE COMMUNITY, AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE CITY'S CULTURAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE HISTORIC DOWNTOWN. 
          UH, AND WITH THAT, I THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND HERE FOR QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. 
          GREAT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UH, BEFORE WE GET TO, UH, CLARIFYING QUESTIONS, I NEED TO CLARIFY SOMETHING. 
          UM, ELIZABETH, UM, ESCALANTE, UM, IS YOUR COMMENT A GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT, OR WAS IT, UH, IT'S ON THIS ITEM. 
          IT'S ON THIS ITEM. 
          OKAY, GREAT. 
          SO I'LL TAKE IT DURING THAT. 
          IT WAS JUST, WE HAVE A, I WANTED TO MAKE SURE I WASN'T MISSING A GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          SO I'LL CALL YOU, UH, WHEN WE GET TO THESE COMMENTS. 
          GREAT. 
          OKAY. 
          TURNED IT OFF. 
          UH, COMMISSIONERS, ANY CLARIFYING QUESTIONS AT THIS TIME? CLARIFYING. 
          OKAY, GREAT. 
          SO WITH THAT, WE WILL GO INTO, UM, PUBLIC COMMENTS. 
          WE HAVE NUMEROUS THAT I'D LIKE TO ACKNOWLEDGE ONLINE THAT WE RECEIVED, UM, INCLUDING THERE IS ONE LAST ONE IN THE AFTERNOON THAT WE RECEIVED AS WELL. 
          UM, AND THEN FOR IN PERSON COMMENTS, I'D LIKE TO START WITH HENRY KAKU. 
          DID I SAY THAT CORRECTLY? I'M, I'M NOT GONNA SPEAK. 
          OH, YOU'RE NOT GONNA SPEAK. 
          OKAY. 
          I'D LIKE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU'RE HERE THEN. 
          THANK YOU. 
          MOVING ON, WE'LL GO TO PHYLLIS, UH, TAJI. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          I'M A PETALUMA RESIDENT FROM 1985, AND I'M A THIRD GENERATION JAPANESE AMERICAN. 
          I'M A BOARD MEMBER OF THE SONOMA COUNTY JAPANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE. 
          AND THAT ORGANIZATION, THE SONOMA COUNTY, JAPANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE, IS HELPING TO SPONSOR THIS PETALUMA CHINATOWN UNEARTHED EXHIBIT AND PROGRAM. 
          AND I PERSONALLY SUPPORT RENAMING THE PARK BECAUSE IT'S A WAY FOR THE CITY TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE EARLY CHINESE COMMUNITY THAT WAS HERE. 
          AND IN THE PROCESS HELPS TO TELL A MORE COMPLETE HISTORY OF PETALUMA. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANKS FOR LISTENING. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          UH, NEXT WE WILL MOVE TO ANGELO. 
          HI, MY NAME IS ANGELO, AND I'M ALSO A PETALUMA RESIDENT. 
          MM-HMM. 
          UM, AND, UH, YEAH, WHEN YOU WALK AROUND OUR HISTORIC DOWNTOWN, YOU SEE A LOT OF NAMES OF, UH, PEOPLE, UH, WHO EMPLOYED CHINESE PEOPLE, UH, WAY BACK WHEN AND HELPED BUILD THIS TOWN. 
          UH, THEIR NAMES ARE EVERYWHERE, UH, BUT THERE'S NOT ONE TRACE OF, UH, ANY HINT THAT THERE WERE CHINESE PEOPLE LIVING HERE BECAUSE THEY WERE ACTIVELY PUSHED OUT. 
          AND, UM, AND THEN HISTORY 
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WAS KIND OF, UH, COVERED UP AS FRANK SAID, UH, THEY'RE MISSING IN HISTORY. 
          SO WE HAVE A HISTORIC, UH, DOWNTOWN DISTRICT, AND IT'D BE GREAT TO JUST, UH, HIGHLIGHT THAT IT WOULD MEAN A LOT TO A LOT OF PEOPLE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UH, CATHERINE. 
          HELLO, UH, MY NAME IS CATHERINE WANG, AND I AM PART OF THE HISTORICAL CHINATOWN PARK AD HOC COMMITTEE. 
          UM, MY FAMILY CAME TO SONOMA COUNTY IN 1980 AS BOAT REFUGEES AFTER THE FALL OF SAIGON. 
          AND, UM, I REMEMBER US GOING TO SAN FRANCISCO CHINATOWN EVERY CHANCE WE HAD BECAUSE WE LONGED FOR A CONNECTION OF ANYTHING THAT REFLECTED US IN OUR HOMELAND. 
          UM, I WASN'T AWARE AS A CHILD THAT ASIANS EXISTED IN SONOMA COUNTY AS FAR BACK AS THE 18 HUNDREDS. 
          AND I THINK THAT YOUNGER PART OF ME HAD I KNOWN THAT WOULD'VE FELT LESS ALONE AND MORE ROOTED IN OUR COUNTY AND OUR, UM, SO WHILE THE RENAMING OF CENTRAL CENTER PARK TO HISTORIC CHINATOWN PARK MAY SEEM LIKE A SMALL GESTURE, IT DOES SPEAK VOLUMES TO PEOPLE WHO DON'T OFTEN SEE THEMSELVES REPRESENTED IN THE COMMUNITY AND OUR HISTORY. 
          SO I'M HERE TO SUPPORT THAT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UH, IS THIS LING, AM I PRONOUNCING THAT CORRECTLY? YES, CORRECT. 
          HELLO. 
          UM, LET ME MAKE SURE THAT I DON'T SOUND TOO LOUD AND TOO NOT LOUD ENOUGH. 
          UM, I AM A PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH AT SONOMA STATE. 
          AND, UM, FIRST I WILL BE, BEFORE I SAY ANYTHING, I WANT TO THANK THE CITY FOR PUTTING UP, HAD LUMA STAND UNITED AGAINST HATE IT. 
          BRING CLEAR TO MY EYES. 
          IT MAKE ME FEEL HOW POWERFUL THE CITY COUNCIL IS AND HOW INSIGNIFICANT I AM AS A FACULTY OF COLOR. 
          RIGHT. 
          AND YOU MAY HEAR ME TEARING UP BECAUSE IT'S HARD NOT TO TEAR UP. 
          WHEN I THINK OF THIS HISTORY OR THE FEELING THAT I HAD, WHEN I SEE PETALUMA STAND UNITED AGAINST HATE SO MUCH MICROAGGRESSION. 
          AND IT'S NOT ONLY JUST ONE LIFETIME, BUT MANY, MANY LIFETIME. 
          I CAME TO THE UNITED STATES TO GET MY PHD IN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE IN TWO, UH, IN 1996, I SPENT EIGHT YEARS STUDY, BOTH BRITISH AND, UM, AND, AND CHINESE HISTORY. 
          I KNEW CHINESE HISTORY VERY WELL, AND CHINESE LITERATURE VERY WELL BACK THEN WHEN I WAS IN, IN TAIWAN, BECAUSE I STUDY BRITISH LIT, BRITISH AND AMERICAN LIT, AS WELL AS CHINESE LITERATURE AS DOUBLE MAJOR. 
          SO I WAS WELL EQUIPPED TO DO COMPARATIVE LITERATURE. 
          MY DISSERTATION WAS ON THE EARLY ENCOUNTERS OF BRITISH AND THE CHINESE, OR IN FACT, THE WEST AND THE CHINESE. 
          I WENT ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE 16TH AND 17TH CENTURY OF THE TRAVEL RECORDS, RIGHT? AND I STUDY, WHY DOES THE WEST WANT TO COME TO THE EAST? I THEN MAP OUT THE CHANGE IN STRUCTURAL KNOWLEDGE IN MY DISSERTATION. 
          SO BY 2005, WHEN I GRADUATED FROM MY DOCTORATE DEGREE, I DECIDED TO STAY IN THE UNITED STATES TO TEACH BECAUSE I WAS AFRAID THAT CHINA AND THE WEST WOULD HAVE A WAR, RIGHT? AND THAT FOR FOUR THOU, 400 YEARS OF CHINA SCAPEGOATING, THAT THIS WAR WILL BE DEVASTATING FOR THE MOTHER EARTH. 
          SO DESPITE THE FACT THAT I HAVE A VERY STRONG ACCENT, I DECIDED THAT I WANT TO ACTUALLY STUDY NOW, ACTUALLY, I WANT TO ACTUALLY BE A TEACHER IN THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT, AND I KNOW THAT MY ACCENT WILL HELP MY STUDENT LEARNING, PEOPLE LEARNING TO LISTEN TO PEOPLE THAT THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND. 
          AND EVENTUALLY, IN, IN 2011, I HAVE A SON BECAUSE I DECIDED I, THAT I HAVE EXPERIENCED SO MUCH MICROAGGRESSION FROM MY STUDENT BECAUSE OF MY ACCENT. 
          THAT IS YOUR 
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TIMER. 
          WOULD YOU LIKE TO JUST QUICKLY WRAP UP BECAUSE EVERYBODY'S LIMITED TO THREE MINUTES? OKAY, SURE. 
          UM, I'LL QUICKLY WRAP UP AND SAY THAT THE LONG SHADOW OF LACK OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT IS DEEP, RIGHT? I CAN GO GIVE YOU ANY MANY, MANY EXAMPLES, RIGHT? EVERY ONE OF YOU WHO MAKE CONTRIBUTION WOULD LIKE TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED. 
          AND YET, THESE ARE LABELERS WHO COME FROM OVERSEAS, BUT DID THEIR WHOLE LIFETIME. 
          AND THEY DIE HERE WITHOUT MONEY TO GO BACK HOME. 
          AND THEY HAVE NO ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. 
          WHEN I COME IN AS A, AS A FIRST GENERATION WORKERS, MY UNIVERSITY TREAT ME THE SAME WAY. 
          THE THE SHADOW IS VERY LONG, RIGHT? THEY, I STILL FELT ISOLATED. 
          I STILL FEEL INSIG INSIGNIFICANT. 
          THE MEANING OF CHANGING THAT AROUND IS IN YOUR HAND, RIGHT? AND IT WILL BE SIGNIFICANT. 
          PETALUMA IS NOT ANYWHERE. 
          PETALUMA IS A PLACE THAT ENFORCE THE CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT IF BRING FORWARD THE, THE, THE CARY ACT THAT ARE ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, EXTENDING THE EXTRUSION ACT. 
          SO THIS IS A VERY REGION THAT, AS DIVERSE AS IT IS, YOU KNOW, ARE VERY CENTER TO THE WHOLE PROCESS. 
          AND ALSO, WE THEN ALSO HAVE THE, YOU KNOW, HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO RECTIFY THAT HISTORY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OUR LAST PUBLIC COMMENT IS FROM ELIZABETH ESCALANTE. 
          UH, GOOD EVENING. 
          I'LL TRY TO FIT, UH, THREE MINUTES WITH MY OWN PERSONAL COMMENTS. 
          AND I'LL FIRST START IT OFF BY READING THIS LETTER, UH, FROM THE WINE COUNTRY YOUNG DEMOCRATS, UH, DEAR COMMISSIONERS OF THE RECREATION, MUSIC AND PARKS COMMISSION, ON BEHALF OF THE WINE COUNTRY, YOUNG DEMOCRATS, SONOMA COUNTY'S LONGEST RUNNING YOUTH LED DEMOCRATIC ORGANIZATION, WE ARE WRITING TO EXPRESS OUR STRONG SUPPORT FOR THE RENAMING OF PETALUMA CENTRAL PARK TO HISTORIC CHINATOWN PARK. 
          THIS AGENDA ITEM REPRESENTS AN IMPORTANT STEP IN RECOGNIZING AND HONORING THE RICH CULTURAL HISTORY IN CONTRIBUTIONS OF PETALUMA'S CHINESE AMERICAN COMMUNITY. 
          AS WE REFLECT ON PETALUMA'S HISTORY, IT IS CRUCIAL TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE SIGNIFICANT ROLE THAT THE CHINESE COMMUNITY PLAYED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF OUR CITY, PARTICULARLY IN INDUSTRIES LIKE AGRICULTURE AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE RAILROAD. 
          PETALUMA'S. 
          FORMER CHINA DOWN, THOUGH LARGELY DISPLACED OVER THE YEARS, WAS ONCE A VIBRANT, INTEGRAL PART OF THE CITY. 
          RENAMING CENTRAL PARK TO HISTORIC CHINATOWN PARK WOULD BE MEANING BE A MEANINGFUL TRIBUTE TO THOSE WHO HELP SHAPE THE CITY'S IDENTITY, AND WOULD PROVIDE AN OPPORTUNITY TO EDUCATE CURRENT AND FUTURE GENERATIONS ABOUT PETALUMA'S DIVERSE CULTURAL HISTORY. 
          AGAIN, WE STRONGLY ENCOURAGE THE RECREATION, MUSIC AND PARKS COMMISSION TO APPROVE THE RENAMING OF CENTRAL PARK TO HISTORIC CHINATOWN PARK. 
          WE HOPE THAT THIS THOUGHTFUL GESTURE WILL HELP PRESERVE THE MEMORY OF PETALUMA CHINATOWN AND INSPIRE ONGOING CONVERSATIONS ABOUT CULTURAL HERITAGE, INCLUSIVITY, AND COMMUNITY BUILDING. 
          THANK YOU FOR CONSIDERING THIS ITEM. 
          SINCERELY, THE WINE COUNTRY YOUNG DEMOCRATS EXECUTIVE BOARD. 
          UM, I'M GONNA USE THE REMAINDER OF MY ONE MINUTE TO MAKE MY OWN PERSONAL, UH, COMMENTS ON THIS AGENDA ITEM. 
          UM, AND THAT I AM IN FULL SUPPORT OF THE RENAMING OF THIS, OF CENTRAL PARK TO HISTORIC CHINATOWN. 
          UM, BEFORE I GOT HERE, I'VE GOT, I'VE ENGAGED IN A LIVELY DISCUSSION WITH MY FATHER, UM, ABOUT SOME ASIAN AMERICAN HISTORY THAT HE DID NOT KNOW. 
          UM, THE NAME LARRY ITLIONG DOES NOT FALL, UM, YOU KNOW, INTO THE MINDS OF MANY PEOPLE WHEN WE SAY CESAR CHAVEZ DAY, WHICH FOR US TOO, WHERE THE CELEBRATION OF CESAR CHAVEZ IS ALMOST ANONYMOUS TO THE CELEBRATION OF LARRY ILI. 
          UM, AND THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF, UH, MANY ASIAN AMERICAN LEADERS THAT HAVE, YOU KNOW, BEEN PRESENT. 
          WE WANNA SEE THAT TOO IN SONOMA COUNTY. 
          WE'VE LIVED HERE, UM, SINCE 2008, UM, AND EVEN SURPRISED MY OWN PARENTS THAT WE HAVE, UM, A LONG, YOU KNOW, THAT LONG HISTORY OF CONTRIBUTIONS HERE, NOT ONLY IN PETALUMA, BUT SUN, SONOMA COUNTY, AND ALL THROUGHOUT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          AND THE LAST CARD THAT I GOT, NINA, THIS IS A GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT, CORRECT? NOT ON THE, NOT ON THIS. 
          UM, I'LL, 
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I'LL PREFACE MY REMARKS BY SAYING THE SAME SPIRIT THAT IT'S, I'M NINA ZITO, I'M A NEIGHBOR. 
          OH, HOLD ON. 
          CAN I JUST CLARIFY, I KNOW THIS SEEMS ODD, BUT I JUST NEED TO STICK TO ONE TOPIC AT A TIME. 
          OKAY. 
          AND SO I JUST WANT, I'LL PREFACE MY COMMENTS BY AN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF THE NECESSITY TO CONSIDER NEIGHBORLINESS AND INVITATION AND WARMTH AND COMPATIBLE USE. 
          AND AS WE SEEK TO REMEDY THE HISTORICAL DEFICITS IN THAT REALM, WHICH WE MUST ACKNOWLEDGE EXISTS DESPITE, UH, CURRENT PRESSURES TO THE CONTRARY, UH, I WANNA DISCUSS TO START AT THE BEGINNING, JUST LIKE, WHO'S AROUND US? LET'S BE THOUGHTFUL, WHAT'S GOING ON? AND SO WHEN I EXPERIENCED, UH, AT OUR DOG PARK, UH, ON MCNAIR DOG RUN AT MCNEAR'S, HOLD ON. 
          CAN, CAN I, I HATE TO INTERRUPT YOU. 
          YOU'RE WANTING TO PIN ME DOWN? NO, NO, NO. 
          TO THE TOPIC. 
          IS THAT CORRECT? YES. 
          SO IF IT JUST, OKAY, THIS IS A NEW ITEM, AND CONVERSATIONALLY I'M ACKNOWLEDGING THE NECESSITY OF NEIGHBORS AND CONSIDERATION AND A, A, A SENSE OF ALOHA AND WELCOME AND, UH, REMEDYING HISTORICAL ISSUES. 
          THAT'S JUST CONVERSATIONAL. 
          OKAY. 
          SO I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR YOUR COMMENTS ABOUT THAT. 
          GREAT. 
          AND IT SOUNDS, AND I'M TALKING ABOUT THE DOG PARK YES. 
          AT ERS. 
          SO CAN WE DO THAT AFTER WE FINISH, CAN WE FINISH THIS TOPIC AND THEN WE'LL BEG YOUR PARDON? WE'LL GO BACK, PARDON? ABSOLUTELY. 
          POINT OF ORDER. 
          OKAY. 
          YEAH, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE, I KNOW THERE'S LIKE A CERTAIN ORDER, SO WE'LL FINISH THIS. 
          WE'LL BE ABLE TO, UM, GIVE OUR COMMISSIONER, FORGIVE ME, I'M NEW AT THIS. 
          YEAH, TOTALLY. 
          YEAH. 
          SORRY, I, YEAH. 
          HEY, I'VE BEEN HERE FOUR YEARS AND I'M STILL GETTING IT DOWN, SO DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT, . 
          OKAY. 
          SO WE WILL JUST TO, TO, WE'LL HEAD BACK TO YOU RIGHT WHEN WE CAP THIS UP BEFORE WE GO TO THE ADOPT A PARK. 
          OKAY. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          SO, UM, THANK YOU EVERYONE WHO SPOKE, UM, THAT TOUCHED ME. 
          AND, UH, I WILL SEE MY COMMENTS AT THE END. 
          LET'S GO STARTING WITH COMMISSIONER COMMENTS. 
          UH, HANNAH? YES. 
          THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR YOUR PRESENTATION AND THE HISTORY. 
          UM, I REMEMBER LOOKING SOMETHING UP A FEW YEARS AGO AND LIKE REALIZING THAT PETALUMA HAD A CHINATOWN, AND I WAS LIKE, WHAT? LIKE, I HAD NO IDEA. 
          UM, MY HUSBAND'S HALF CHINESE, MY KIDS ARE BOTH A QUARTER CHINESE. 
          UM, SO YEAH, IT WAS INTERESTING FINDING THAT PIECE OF HISTORY AND HAVING GROWN UP HERE AND NEVER HAVE KNOWN THAT LEARNING IT IN ANY SCHOOL I WENT TO HERE. 
          SO, UM, I THINK IT'S GREAT THAT WE START HONORING THAT HISTORY IN THIS TOWN. 
          AND I THINK THIS IS A SMALL STEP, AND HOPEFULLY WE CAN KEEP GOING AND, YOU KNOW, HAVE, WHETHER IT'S QR CODES WHERE YOU CAN LEARN LIKE, OH, WOW, THIS WAS THIS BUSINESS AND THAT, YOU KNOW, SO THANK YOU GUYS FOR BRINGING THIS HERE TO THE CITY'S ATTENTION. 
          I, I WANNA ECHO THAT IN THAT I APPRECIATE YOUR ADVOCACY. 
          I APPRECIATE YOU SPEAKING UP AND, UM, YOUR DESIRE TO EDUCATE, UH, AND SUPPORT THE COMMUNITY IN LEARNING THE HISTORY. 
          I THINK, UM, THERE, THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE HISTORY BEHIND THIS. 
          THE EXHIBIT IS GONNA BE INCREDIBLE AT THE MUSEUM, AND WE PLAN TO BRING A LOT OF PEOPLE IN TO SEE IT AND TO LEARN ABOUT IT AND SEE IT ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND WHATNOT. 
          UM, I APPRECIATE THAT THIS IS, UM, THIS IS WHAT WE WANT IN PETALUMA, RIGHT? THIS WE WANNA MOVE FORWARD WITH, UH, CELEBRATING ALL ASPECTS OF OUR COMMUNITY. 
          UM, AND, UH, I'M JUST, I'M REALLY PROUD THAT, THAT WE'RE MOVING IN THIS DIRECTION. 
          SO THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU, UH, COMMISSIONER ELLI. 
          YES, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR COMMENTS. 
          I WAS VERY MOVED BY YOUR PERSONAL STORIES, AND I'M VERY HAPPY TO SEE THE CITY RECOGNIZING AND HONORING THE VITAL CONTRIBUTIONS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE MANY AND DIVERSE CULTURES AND COMMUNITIES THAT MAKE UP THE POPULATION OF PETALUMA. 
          UM, AND I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO MORE OPPORTUNITIES TO BE ABLE TO SHARE THE HISTORY AND THE STORIES OF THE CHINESE AND OTHER UNDER UNDERREPRESENTED COMMUNITIES IN PETALUMA. 
          AND AS, UH, COMMISSIONER RIZZO MENTIONED, I HOPE THIS IS JUST THE START OF MANY MORE OPPORTUNITIES TO SHARE THOSE STORIES WITH THE PUBLIC. 
          PERHAPS THE PARK COULD BECOME THE STARTING POINT FOR AN AUDIO TOUR OF, UH, THE VARIOUS BUSINESSES THAT USED TO BE IN THE ORIGINAL, UH, CHINATOWN. 
          AND I HOPE THAT WE CONTINUE TO DO MORE OF BRINGING THESE STORIES TO LIGHT AND INFORMING PEOPLE OF THEIR RICH AND WONDERFUL 
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CONTRIBUTIONS AND CULTURES THAT ARE ALL AROUND US AND THAT MAKE UP THIS BEAUTIFUL CITY THAT WE ALL LOVE. 
          SO, THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UH, COUNCILMAN KERLEY? YES, I, I THINK, UM, YOU KNOW, RENAMING THIS PARK IS SOMETHING I'D BE HAPPY TO SUPPORT. 
          UM, I'M KIND OF AN ODDBALL. 
          I, I DO LIKE HISTORY A LOT, ESPECIALLY OUR, OUR LOCAL HISTORY. 
          AND, AND COMING FROM AN OLD FAMILY HERE, I, I GREW UP LEARNING THAT, HEARING THE STORIES. 
          UM, SO I, I DID KNOW A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE, THE CHINATOWNS IN PETALUMA. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS IN AGRICULTURE WITH THE POULTRY INDUSTRY, THE DAIRY INDUSTRY, UM, I LIKE RAILROADING A LOT. 
          AND SO I, I HAVE AN UNDERSTANDING OF IT FROM THERE TOO. 
          YOU KNOW, AFTER THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD WAS COMPLETED IN 69, UM, YOU KNOW, MANY CHINESE CAME HERE AND HELPED BUILD OUR RAILROADS. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, THE NORTH PACIFIC COAST, WHICH RAN FROM SAUSALITO TO CADRO, THE PETALUMA SANTA ROSA RAILROAD, WHICH WENT FROM PETALUMA SANTA ROSA, UM, THE NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC. 
          AND, AND THEY, THERE ARE MANY CONTRIBUTIONS THAT THE CHINESE HELP MAKE HERE. 
          SO I, I THINK THIS IS SOMETHING I'D BE HAPPY TO SUPPORT. 
          UM, AND AT THE SAME TIME, I'D MAKE THE ASK TO PARKS AND REC THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, I, I FEEL LIKE OFTEN IN OUR SCHOOLS, WE'RE NOT TAUGHT LOCAL HISTORY AND, YOU KNOW, ASK THAT MAYBE WE BRANCH OUT TO, YOU KNOW, THE SCHOOLS AND TRY TO DO FIELD TRIPS TO PLACES LIKE THIS AND OTHERS IN TOWN WHERE, WHERE PEOPLE CAN LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR HISTORY, OUR CULTURE, AND, UM, YOU KNOW, DO, DO A LITTLE BIT MORE THAN JUST, UM, NAMING SOMETHING WHICH IS IMPORTANT, BUT, UM, BRING PEOPLE TO IT AND TEACH THEM ABOUT IT. 
          GREAT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COMMISSIONER CHISHOLM. 
          YEAH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          UH, JUST QUICKLY, I'M, I'M LEARNING SO MANY NEW THINGS TONIGHT FOR, TO THE FIRST SPEAKER I DIDN'T KNOW WE HAD A JAPANESE, UH, LEAGUE IN SON COUNTY. 
          I JUST GOT BACK FROM MY SECOND TRIP FROM TO JAPAN, AND I WILL BE GOING THERE MANY TIMES BECAUSE I LOVE THE CULTURE. 
          SO IF I CAN SUPPORT IT ANY WAY, PLEASE LET ME KNOW. 
          UM, SO, UH, I THINK THIS IS GREAT. 
          I THINK FIRST OF ALL, THERE'S NO WAY THAT THE CITY CAN DO ANYTHING BUT BENEFIT FROM US TELLING ALL OF THE STORIES THAT MADE THIS PLACE WHAT IT IS. 
          UH, TELLING ONE, UH, ONE HISTORY DOES NOT TAKE AWAY FROM ANY OF THE OTHERS. 
          SO THE MORE DIVERSE AND INTERESTING WE CAN MAKE THIS TOWN, THE, THE BETTER. 
          UM, I THINK BACKING THIS, IF THE, THE NAME HAS CHANGED, BACKING IT UP WITH THE HISTORY WOULD BE REALLY IMPORTANT. 
          HAVING IT AT THE MUSEUM WILL BE GREAT. 
          UH, I THINK JUST TELLING THOSE STORIES AS MANY WAYS AS POSSIBLE SO PEOPLE UNDERSTAND, UH, THE PUBLIC WHO AREN'T HERE TONIGHT UNDERSTAND THE, THE, THE NAME CHANGE. 
          I THINK IT'S GREAT THAT YOU'RE PARTNERING WITH THE RIVER PARK. 
          UM, FIVE YEARS AGO WHEN WE STARTED OUTREACH FOR THE RIVER PARK, WE WERE STUMPED ON HOW TO REACH THIS COMMUNITY. 
          AND NOW THEY JUST GOT THE, UM, WE JUST GOT THE COASTAL CONSERVANCY GRANT TO TELL THE STORY OF CHINESE AMERICANS BUILDING THE MCNAIR CHANNEL AND MCNAIR PENINSULA. 
          SO THIS IS AWESOME THAT WE CAN TELL THIS STORY MANY WAYS AND BACK UP THE HISTORY OF THIS, UH, NAMING OF THIS PARK. 
          UM, ALSO PHYSICALLY THERE WOULD BE GREAT, RIGHT? SO THERE'S A SERIES OF LECTERNS AROUND TOWN THAT MY DAD MADE THAT ARE STEEL LECTERNS THAT HAVE HISTORY OF THE TOWN. 
          THERE'S ONE IN THIS PARK, BUT IT DOESN'T TELL THIS STORY. 
          SO I'D BE HAPPY TO FABRICATE AND DONATE A SECOND LECTERN TO HAVE A PLAQUE. 
          IT'S A BOARD THAT TELLS THIS STORY BECAUSE THEN WHEN PEOPLE COME, I MEAN, EVEN WHEN THEY GO SEE A, A MURAL AROUND TOWN, PEOPLE WANNA KNOW THE HISTORY ABOUT IT. 
          SO I WOULD BE HAPPY TO HELP WITH THAT. 
          UM, AND I'D ALSO LIKE US TO TALK TO PUBLIC ART COMMITTEE ABOUT HOW WE CAN FIND AN ARTIST FROM THIS COMMUNITY TO DO SOMETHING, REPRESENTATIVE PUBLIC ART THAT BEAUTIFIES THIS SPACE. 
          SO THIS IS GREAT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU COMMISSIONER CHISHOLM. 
          AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR OFFER TO BUILD A PLAQUE. 
          THAT WAS GOING TO BE SOMETHING THAT I WAS GOING TO SUGGEST. 
          WE NEED SOMETHING ELSE THERE AS WELL. 
          UM, SO AS I LISTENED TO ALL OF YOU TALK AND THE PRESENTATION, UM, I THINK THE THING THAT CAME TO MIND FOR ME IS WHAT PEOPLE ARE ASKING FOR. 
          THEY'RE ASKING TO BE SEEN, HEARD, REMEMBERED, AND ACKNOWLEDGED. 
          AND I THINK THAT, THAT, THAT'S THE NUMBER ONE STREAM THAT I ALWAYS FEEL IS WE ALL WANNA BELONG. 
          LIKE EVERYBODY WANTS TO BELONG. 
          AND SO I'M REALLY HAPPY THAT, UM, YOU TOOK THE TIME TO TAKE THIS ON. 
          I THINK IT'S REALLY HAPPY THAT YOU'RE HERE EDUCATING ALL OF US, AND THAT WE CAN HELP PUT, IT SEEMS LIKE FORWARD THIS RECOMMENDATION TO, UM, THE CITY COUNCIL AND THAT WE CAN MOVE FORWARD. 
          AND, UM, I LOVE THE IDEA OF SOME PUBLIC ART THERE AS WELL. 
          UM, AND SO MAY THIS BE, YOU KNOW, ONE OF MANY DIFFERENT THINGS THAT HAPPEN IN THIS TOWN TO, AGAIN, ACKNOWLEDGE THE MANY DIFFERENT PEOPLE 
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WHO CAME AND, AND BUILT OUR TOWN. 
          UM, AND WITH THAT, DREW, DO WE NEED TO MAKE A MOTION OR IS IT A VOTE? IS IT A MOTION? YEAH, NO, THANK YOU CHAIR. 
          IF THE RECOMMENDATION, OBVIOUSLY, UH, WE ARE SEEKING TONIGHT, UM, UH, A RECOMMENDATION. 
          SO WE ARE SEEKING A MOTION AND A VOTE TONIGHT, UH, RECOMMENDING, AND MAYBE JONATHAN, IF YOU WANNA PULL THE LAST SLIDE UP FROM THE PRESENTATION, IF YOU STILL HAVE IT. 
          UM, AND WITH THIS RECOMMENDATION, THE NEXT STEPS WOULD BE TO TAKE, UH, THIS ITEM TO THE CITY COUNCIL, UM, LIKELY IN MAY. 
          UM, BUT YES, THIS IS, UH, AGAIN, UH, RECOMMENDATION THAT WE'RE SEEKING TONIGHT THAT THE COUNCIL CONSIDER, UH, A RENAMING OF CENTER PARK TO HISTORIC CHINATOWN PARK. 
          GREAT. 
          CAN I MAKE THAT MOTION? YOU'RE, YOU'RE WELCOME TO. 
          IT'S, UM, IT'S ALWAYS NICE TO GET SOMEONE ELSE. 
          OH DARN. 
          I NEVER GET TO DO IT AS CHAIR. 
          PUT SKIN IN CHAIR. 
          ANYONE LIKE TO MAKE THE MOTION? ? I'LL MAKE THE MOTION TO SEND A RECOMMENDATION TO, UM, CITY COUNCIL TO RENAME CENTER PARK AS CHINATOWN HISTORIC PARK. 
          I'LL SECOND. 
          FABULOUS. 
          WONDERFUL. 
          WE'LL SEND THAT OFF TO CITY COUNCIL. 
          OH, OH, AND THEN, I'M SORRY, WE HAVE TO VOTE. 
          YOU WOULD THINK AT THE END OF TWO YEARS I'D GET ALL OF THIS DOWN, BUT I STILL HAVE MY SENSE OF HUMOR. 
          UM, CLERK, CAN WE TAKE A VOTE, PLEASE? YES. 
          ELLI? YES. 
          CHISHOLM? YES. 
          EARL? YES. 
          KELLY? YES. 
          RIZZO SIMMONS? YES. 
          DE CARLY? YES. 
          OKAY. 
          NOW WE'LL RUSH IT OVER TO CITY COUNCIL. 
          YES. 
          THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR BEING HERE. 
          THIS WAS TRULY A GREAT PRESENTATION. 
          UM, AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO GETTING, YOU KNOW, THE THUMBS UP FROM CITY COUNCIL AND MOVING FORWARD WITH THIS. 
          AND I LOOK FORWARD TO THANK YOU. 
          THE EXHIBIT AT THE MUSEUM. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OH MY GOSH, I LOST HER CARD. 
          OH, HMM. 
          OH, ARE THEY TAKING A PHOTO? OH, I MISSED THEM. 
          I WAS LIKE, OH, OKAY. 
          EVERYBODY'S TAKING A PHOTO IN THE MIDDLE. 
          IN THE MIDDLE, YEAH. 
          THERE WE GO. 
          1, 2, 3. 
          KEEP SMILING. 
          NOW. 
          LOOK LIKE, THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU, NINA, FOR YOUR PATIENCE. 
          CAN YOU COME BACK UP HERE? AND, UM, LET'S TAKE YOUR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT ABOUT, UH, MCNAIR PARK THAT WAS DEEPLY TOUCHING AND, UM, IN, IN SUPPORT OF A, A SPIRIT OF, UH, COMMUNITY INCLUSION. 
          I'D, UH, LIKE TO ENCOURAGE, UH, CONSCIOUSNESS ABOUT WHO USES THE PARKS AND WHY. 
          AND, UH, MY EXPERIENCE OF BEING BLASTED BY A LEAF BLOWER, UH, FROM A PARK DAD, WHO'S, YOU KNOW, PREPPING THE FIELD FOR HIS DAUGHTER'S SOFTBALL GAME WAS A LITTLE UNNERVING BECAUSE HE DID IT DURING OUR, YOU KNOW, KIND OF SCANT, UH, DOG RUN HOURS. 
          AND, UH, FURTHERMORE, I'M NOT SURE HE'S ALLOWED TO BE LIKE USING HIS OWN TOOLS ON, ON CITY, YOU KNOW, COMMUNITY PROPERTY. 
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REGARDLESS, I UNDERSTAND THE NEED TO TEND OR THE DESIRE TO TEND, YOU KNOW, SHARED AN IMPORTANT SPACE. 
          UM, AND WHAT I'M, UM, HOPING FOR IS A LITTLE MORE CONSIDERATION ON THE PART OF THE, UH, SOFTBALL AND, AND BASEBALL USERS OF THE PARK WHO BOMB IN ONCE A WEEK, LEAVE GATES OPEN, LEAVE THEIR DRINKS, LEAVE TRASH, ET CETERA. 
          UM, THE PEOPLE WHO WERE THERE FIRST AND WHO WERE THERE, UH, ONCE A DAY, EVEN TWICE A DAY ALL YEAR ROUND. 
          AND THESE ARE THE DOG USERS. 
          I'M, AND I REALIZE THERE'S SOME HISTORY AROUND THIS. 
          I'M KIND OF NEW TO IT. 
          I THINK A SOLUTION MIGHT BE, INSTEAD IF THE KIDS NEED A CLEAN FIELD SOFTWARE, SOFTBALL FIELD, THEY SHOULD USE RAKES. 
          I DON'T, I DON'T NEED ANYBODY'S GAS POWERED ENGINE, YOU KNOW, BLASTING ME. 
          AND WHEN I ASKED THE FELLOW NICELY IF HE WOULDN'T MIND, 'CAUSE I'M SPEAKING TO ANOTHER PARK USER, IT'S LIKE, NO, I GOT A JOB TO DO. 
          DUDE, YOU'RE NOT CITY. 
          THE CITY PEOPLE ARE POLITE, CONSIDERATE, THEY EXPLAIN. 
          THEY WOULDN'T DO THAT. 
          THEY'D, THEY'D, YOU KNOW, GIVE US OUR ONE MOMENT IN CONVERSATION WHEN MINUTE, EXCUSE ME, IN CONVERSATION, BUT THERE'S A SENSE OF ENTITLEMENT THAT DOES NOT EMBRACE, UM, IMPORTANT USERS OF OUR PRECIOUS CITY FACILITIES. 
          AND I'D, I'D LIKE TO JUST INVITE AN AWARENESS OF THIS. 
          I, THAT'S ALL. 
          THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION. 
          THANK YOU FOR ALERTING US TO THAT. 
          OKAY. 
          WE ARE MOVING ON. 
          UM, I FEEL LIKE I NEED TO, I, I KIND OF WANNA ACKNOWLEDGE YOU AS WELL IN YOUR, IN YOUR COMMENT, NINA. 
          UM, THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO COME UP BECAUSE I DO THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE WOULD, UM, MAYBE GET FRUSTRATED OR LIKE NEXT TIME A PERSON IS OUT THERE, START AN ARGUMENT OR THERE'S LIKE SO MANY DIFFERENT WAYS THAT YOU COULD HAVE HANDLED THAT. 
          BUT I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT YOU CAME IN TO TALK TO US TONIGHT. 
          AND I'M SURE CINDY AND DREW APPRECIATE THAT TOO. 
          IT JUST GOES A LONG WAY IN THAT, LIKE YOU SAID, THE NEIGHBORHOOD, YOU KNOW, VIBE AND FEEL THAT WE ALL WANT AND TAKING CHANNELS AND, UM, SO ANYHOW, I APPRECIATE THAT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          WE ARE GOING TO MOVE ON TO ITEM NUMBER THREE, ADOPT A PART PROGRAM. 
          WE ARE GOING TO RESER, UH, REVIEW, DISCUSS AND PROVIDE A RECOMMENDATION ON TWO PARK SITES AND DATES FOR THE 2025 ADOPT A PARK, UH, ADOPT APAR EVENTS BASED PILOT PROGRAM. 
          UH, CINDY, YOU ARE GOING TO TAKE US AWAY ON THIS. 
          YES, I AM. 
          THANK YOU COMMISSIONERS. 
          I'M BRINGING THIS BACK TO YOU AGAIN. 
          I KNOW MAYBE IT'S, FEELS LIKE I'VE BROUGHT THIS TO YOU EVERY MEETING IN THE LAST, YOU KNOW, FEW MEETINGS THAT WE'VE HAD, BUT WE'RE KIND OF AT NOW ACTUALLY AT A POINT WHERE WE WANT YOUR NOMINATIONS AND FEEDBACK. 
          I DO NOT HAVE A PRESENTATION FOR YOU TODAY 'CAUSE I THINK YOU HEARD THE BACKGROUND THE LAST TIME YOU HEARD WHY WE'RE DOING THIS. 
          I'VE EMAILED YOU AND ASKED YOU TO BRING YOUR NOMINATIONS TODAY. 
          SO WHAT I'M GOING TO GO AHEAD AND DO IS I'M GONNA ASK THE CLERK TO PULL UP THE STRAW POLL SO THAT WE CAN ACTUALLY PUT YOUR NOMINATIONS OUT THERE AND WE CAN SEE WHICH PARKS, UM, WE'RE GONNA GO AHEAD AND MOVE FORWARD WITH, WITH YOUR RECOMMENDATION. 
          AND IN THE STAFF REPORT, I ALSO DID GIVE YOU A HOST OF DATES THAT I TRIED TO ALIGN AROUND, UM, EVENTS THAT WE ALREADY SUPPORT IN THE PARKS SYSTEM SO THAT WE'LL MORE FULLY BE ABLE TO SUPPORT THE EVENT. 
          AND AS WE FIRST BROUGHT TO YOU GUYS THE DATES IN PARTICULAR TOO, WE HAD DISCUSSED DOING, UM, A VARIED DAYS INSTEAD OF JUST DOING A SATURDAY, BECAUSE TYPICALLY IN THE PAST WE'VE ALWAYS TRIED TO DO A SATURDAY, BUT DIFFERENT DAYS OF THE WEEK, THAT MAY WORK BETTER TO GET DIFFERENT, UM, PEOPLE OUT INTO THE PARKS TO DO THESE EVENTS. 
          AND, YOU KNOW, EVERYTHING. 
          JUST A REMINDER, EVERYTHING THAT WE'RE DOING HERE THIS YEAR IS A PILOT. 
          WE'RE GONNA SEE WHAT WORKS, WHAT WORKS THE MOST. 
          AND THEN AT THE END OF THE YEAR, AFTER WE'VE DONE OUR THIRD EVENT FOR THE YEAR, WE'LL BRING IT BACK TO THE COMMISSION FOR YOU GUYS TO GIVE FEEDBACK TO SAY, THIS WORKED, THIS DIDN'T WORK, THIS IS WHAT WE LIKE, THIS IS WHAT WE'VE HEARD FROM THE COMMUNITY SO THAT WE CAN BASE THE PROGRAM FOR 2026. 
          RIGHT? SO THIS IS, WE JUST DON'T KNOW WHAT WILL WORK BEST. 
          YOU KNOW, THE ADOPT A PARK EVENT FOR ARBOR DAY. 
          WE KNOW THERE WAS SUCCESS LAST YEAR AND WE'RE RECREATING THAT AND WE'RE REALLY EXCITED, RIGHT? TREE COMMITTEE'S VERY EXCITED ABOUT WE'RE GONNA DO THIS YEAR AT CITY HALL. 
          UM, BUT WE DIDN'T GET TO THAT POINT WITHOUT TRYING THINGS LAST YEAR AND KNOWING WHAT, WHAT WORKED AND WHAT WE WANTED TO BRING FORWARD AND SOME THINGS WE OMITTED AND SOME THINGS WE'RE GONNA CHANGE. 
          AND WE'LL HAVE DIFFERENT ELEMENTS AT THE FIRST EVENT. 
          UM, AND I HOPE THAT YOU ALL WILL BE THERE BECAUSE IT'S GONNA BE REALLY FUN. 
          WE'RE GONNA HAVE AN ART INSTALLATION AND YOU KNOW, WE'RE GONNA DO GAMES AND LONG GAMES AND WE'RE GONNA HAVE MULCHING AND I THINK IF IT WORKS OUT DAILY ACTS, WE'LL BE DOING A CITY HALL PLANTING IF WE CAN GET OUR PLAN IN PLACE IN ENOUGH TIME. 
          UM, BUT FOR THE OTHER TWO REMAINING EVENTS FOR THE 
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YEAR, THAT'S WHAT WE NEED YOUR INPUT. 
          SO WE NEED TWO PARKS THAT YOU EACH SHOULD HAVE BROUGHT WITH YOU. 
          IF YOU DIDN'T BRING YOUR FORMS, IT'S OKAY. 
          THAT WAS A TOOL TO HELP YOU AS YOU WENT THROUGH TO NOMINATE PARKS. 
          RIGHT? UM, BUT WE'RE GONNA ASK YOU FOR TWO PARKS. 
          WE'RE GONNA GO THROUGH AND THE CLERK IS GONNA HELP US AND SHE'S GONNA CALL YOUR NAME OUT AND WE'LL MARK, WE'LL MARK YOUR NAMES DOWN. 
          BUT BEFORE WE DO THE STRAW POLL, IF THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS THAT I CAN HELP CLARIFY ABOUT THIS PILOT PROGRAM, LET ME KNOW. 
          I'M, AND I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER THEM. 
          OKAY. 
          CLERK, WILL YOU TAKE IT AWAY? YES. 
          I'LL GO IN ORDER OF, UM, OF WHAT'S ON OUR STRAW POLL HERE, BUT WHEN I CALL NAMES ELLI, YOU JUST WANT TWO PARKS MM-HMM . 
          AND IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE ONES THAT I PUT IN THE STAFF REPORT, THOSE WERE JUST GENERAL GUIDELINES TO HELP HELP THE COMMISSIONERS. 
          BUT IF THERE'S A PARK YOU FELL, WASN'T ON THE LIST AND SHOULD REALLY BE INCLUDED, FEEL FREE TO CALL THAT OUT AND WE'LL ADD IT TO THE LIST. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, I WOULD LIKE TO, UH, NOMINATE LEGHORN PARK JUST BECAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT ACTIVITIES THAT GO ON THERE. 
          I THINK IT WAS GOOD MULTI EAST PARK AND UM, I WAS KIND OF TORN ABOUT THE OTHER ONE, BUT, UM, MAYBE LUCCHESE PARK, BECAUSE IT'S SUCH A BIG PLACE, I THINK IT COULD USE ANY, ANY EXTRA HELP. 
          IT COULD USE A LOVE EVERY DAY. 
          IT IS OUR BIGGEST PARK. 
          ALRIGHT, WELL MAYBE S SCHLUMBERGER'S BIGGER. 
          IT'S JUST DIFFERENT. 
          YEAH, IT'S MORE NATURAL. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COMMISSIONER CHISHOLM? YES. 
          UM, OAK HILL PARK AND STEAMER LANDING PARK. 
          I KNEW YOU WOULD PICK STEAMER LANDING. 
          . 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER DI CARLY. 
          I'LL DO, UH, STEAMER LANDING AND I'LL CHOOSE, UM, PROBABLY EAGLE PARK. 
          OKAY, THANK YOU COMMISSIONER EARL. 
          SO MANY OF MY CHOICES ON HERE. 
          UM, NUMBER ONE, PICK STEAMER LANDING HANDS DOWN. 
          UH, NUMBER TWO, LUC. 
          HEY MAN, STEAMER LANDING. 
          IT'S JUST A PRIME OPPORTUNITY. 
          LIKE, COME ON. 
          I WAS THERE TODAY LOOKING AT EVERYTHING, NOT DISAGREEING. 
          I'M SMILING. 
           AND I'M SORRY, WAS YOUR SECOND CHOICE LUCCHESE, UH, ON LUC CASEY PARK? YES. 
          THANK YOU. 
          YES. 
          ALL RIGHT, KELLY. 
          UM, I WANNA GO OAK HILL AND EAGLE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          AND COMMISSIONER RIZZO SIMMONS. 
          I WILL DO LOU CASEY AND STEAMER LANDON. 
          AND UNFORTUNATELY COMMISSIONER GREENSPAN IS NOT HERE TONIGHT, SO WE WON'T HAVE HER INPUT. 
          UM, BUT HAZARD AND GUESS, AND KNOWING HER, I'D SAY SHE'D BE SUPPORTIVE OF CHOICES THAT HAVE BEEN PUT FORWARD TONIGHT. 
          CLERK, CAN YOU GIVE US THE TOP TWO AND THE RANKINGS PLEASE? YES, THAT WOULD BE STEAMER LANDING AND LUCCHESE. 
          OKAY. 
          DISCUSSION ON THE TOP TWO. 
          DOES EVERYBODY FEEL GOOD WITH THE TOP TWO? WOULD YOU LIKE TO MAKE A RECOMMENDATION TO HAVE THE EVENTS FOR THE TOP TWO OR IS THERE QUESTIONS? NO, I THINK WE'LL BE GOOD TOO. 
          PARTNER WITH THE RIVER PROJECT AND FRIENDS OF THE RIVER AT STEAMER LANDING. 
          YEAH, I KNOW THAT THE RIVER PARK WOULD JUMP ON AND HELP. 
          ABSOLUTELY. 
          I, I WOULD SAY FOR STEAMER LANDING SUGGESTIONS ARE, WELL, AND A BIG ONE FOR THEIR THEM IS THE SAFETY OF THE BARN. 
          MM-HMM . 
          UH, IT'S BEEN VANDALIZED AND BROKEN INTO AND FLOODED AND BURNED MULTIPLE TIMES IN THE LAST COUPLE YEARS. 
          THE ROAD IN AS WELL. 
          UM, IT NEEDS WORK, BUT THERE'S OTHER, I I COULD GIVE OTHER IDEAS. 
          WE CAN FLUSH IT OUT. 
          I JUST WANNA SAY THAT, UM, THIS WAS HARD BECAUSE ALL OF OUR PARKS NEED LOVE, ALL OF 'EM. 
          AND I WENT WITH SMALLER PARKS THINKING THE IMPACT, YOU KNOW, COULD BE IN AND OUT IN SENSE OF, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE BIGGER ONES THERE WOULD BE AN IMPACT. 
          THERE'S AN IMPACT FOR SURE, BUT IT'S NOT GONNA REDO THE ENTIRE PARK VERSUS HAVING A CREW COME IN AND DO EAGLE PARK IN A DAY WOULD PROBABLY HIT THE ENTIRE PARK AND REALLY GET IT RIGHT. 
          SO I'M GOOD WITH, WITH 
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THE TOP TWO, THAT'S FINE. 
          BUT THAT'S WHY I WENT WITH THE SMALLER ONES. 
          YEAH. 
          SO I JUST TO CHIME IN THERE, I, THAT'S WHAT I SAID EARLIER IS THAT I FELT LIKE AT SOME OF, AT MANY OF THE PARKS, HONESTLY, YOU GUYS ARE DOING A BANG UP JOB. 
          LIKE THEY REALLY DO LOOK VERY GOOD, BUT THERE ARE KEY THINGS AT EVERY PARK THAT NEED TO BE REDONE, LIKE PICNIC TABLES, YOU KNOW, LIKE AT EAGLE, I WAS THERE TODAY LOOKING, AND I HAVE TO SAY LIKE THAT PARK, IT'S THE PLAYGROUND STRUCTURE, RIGHT? THAT'S SO OLD. 
          BUT WHEN WE WERE TALKING ABOUT IT AND HE SAID, YOU KNOW, WELL YOU, IT COULD BE PAINTED, BUT THE PLASTIC CAN'T BE PAINTED. 
          THE METAL LOOKS GREAT, THE HANDLES ON THE THINGS ARE BRAND NEW. 
          I MEAN, IT'S JUST OLD, RIGHT? BUT THE TABLES ARE IN NEED. 
          AND SO I, I DO THINK, UM, THAT'S AN INTERESTING ASPECT OF LIKE, I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S SOME WAY TO LIKE HAVE SOME SORT OF FOCUS ON PICNIC TABLES WHERE THE COMMUNITY CAN HELP WITH THAT BECAUSE THERE'S SO MANY CON THERE'S SO MUCH CONTRACTING BUSINESS IN THE CITY, YOU KNOW? UM, I DON'T KNOW. 
          BUT ANYHOW, LIKE I, I UNDERSTAND YOUR POINT, BUT THEN I ALSO UNDERSTAND LIKE AT STEAMER LANDING, YOU GIVE THAT THING A MAKEOVER, IT'S, IT'S THE GEM LEADING INTO THE RIVER PARK. 
          UM, MORE AND MORE PEOPLE ARE PARKING THERE, UM, AND IT, IT NEEDS, MAN, THERE'S A LOT OF DEAD TREES AND LIKE IT'S A FIRE HAZARD, YOU KNOW? SO I'M RAMBLING. 
          I'LL STOP. 
          AND CINDY, I KNOW WE WERE LOOKING FOR DATES ON THE SECOND. 
          CAN YOU, DO YOU WANNA READ THOSE OFF OR PULL THOSE UP FOR A VISUAL? IF WE DON'T HAVE THOSE, I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE GET SOME FEEDBACK ON THOSE DATES. 
          CLERK, CAN YOU PULL UP THE STRAW POLL FOR THE DATES? I'LL ALSO READ THEM TO YOU. 
          JUST SO YOU KNOW, I KNOW THE SCREEN IS PRETTY SMALL, BUT FOR SPRING 25, IT'S ALREADY BEEN CHOSEN. 
          THAT'S THE ADOPT, UH, THE ARBOR DAY CELEBRATION ON THE 26TH HERE AT CITY HALL FOR THE SUMMER, JUNE 7TH, WHICH IS A SATURDAY, JUNE 24TH, WHICH IS A TUESDAY, JULY 18TH, WHICH IS A FRIDAY, JULY 27TH, WHICH IS A SUNDAY FOR FALL 2025, OCTOBER 8TH, WHICH IS A WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8TH, WHICH IS A SATURDAY. 
          AND IN PARTICULAR, I'LL TELL YOU NOVEMBER 8TH WAS PUT OUT THERE ON A SATURDAY BECAUSE IT'S POST HALLOWEEN AND BEFORE THANKSGIVING, FAR UP ENOUGH THAT IT WOULDN'T AFFECT FAMILIES, YOU KNOW, AS MUCH. 
          SO THAT'S WHY THAT SATURDAY DATE WAS THROWN OUT THERE. 
          AND HOPEFULLY THE RAINS WOULDN'T HAVE STARTED QUITE YET BECAUSE GENERALLY WE'RE DEPENDING ON THE YEAR, RIGHT? SOMETIMES IT'S END OF OCTOBER, BUT GENERALLY MID-NOVEMBER IS WHEN WE SEE RAIN. 
          CAN I MAKE A COMMENT? I PERSONALLY DON'T CARE ABOUT ANY OF THESE DATES, BUT I DO WANT TO NOTE THAT, UH, RIVERTOWN REVIVAL HAPPENS IN JULY. 
          AND SO DOING SOMETHING LIKE RIGHT AROUND THAT IS PROBABLY NOT THE BEST IDEA. 
          IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S JULY 18TH AND 19TH. 
          I ALSO AM FINE WITH IT'S EVER CHOSEN. 
          I JUST WANNA THROW OUT THERE JUNE 7TH, SCHOOL ENDS JUNE 6TH, THAT'S GRADUATION WEEKEND. 
          LOTS OF STUFF HAPPENING IN TOWN. 
          NOVEMBER 8TH, UM, VETERANS DAY IS ON TUESDAY THE 11TH. 
          SO WHILE SCHOOLS AND WORK WILL BE IN SESSION ON MONDAY, I ANTICIPATE A LOT OF PEOPLE TAKING FOUR DAYS, BUT WHO KNOWS? I THINK THAT'S GONNA HAPPEN WITH ANY DATE CHOSEN TOO. 
          SO I JUST WANNA THROW THAT OUT THERE, BUT I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THOSE TWO THINGS WERE NOTED. 
          ANY OTHER COMMENTS ON DAYS BEFORE WE PULL THE STRAW POLL UP? AND YOU GUYS CAN PUT YOUR VOTES WHERE YOU WANT THEM TO GO. 
          I THINK EQUITABLY SPEAKING, UM, WEEKENDS ARE BEST TO GIVE THE MOST PEOPLE THE OPPORTUNITY AND SATURDAYS OVER SUNDAYS. 
          IF THERE'S NO OTHER COMMENTS, WE'LL PULL UP THE STRAW POLL, TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE COMMENTS MADE BY COMMISSIONERS HERE. 
          SO GO AHEAD AND PUT YOUR TWO VOTES FOR TWO DATES. 
          AND LIKE I SAID, THIS IS PILOT, SO PART OF IT IS EXPERIMENTING TO SEE WHAT WORKS AND WHAT DOESN'T. 
          AND I'M NOT SAYING A TUESDAY IS GONNA WORK GREAT. 
          I DON'T KNOW. 
          WE'VE NEVER DONE AN EVENT ON A TUESDAY ON A BIG SCALE RIGHT. 
          WITHOUT HAVING A GROUP ACTUALLY COMING FORWARD AND SAYING WE'D LIKE TO DO SOMETHING ON THIS DAY. 
          BUT, UM, CLERK, WHEN YOU'RE READY, YOU CAN DO THE STR PLEASE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COMMISSIONER BOTTICELLI. 
          JULY 27TH AND NOVEMBER 8TH. 
          COMMISSIONER CHISHOLM, 
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JULY 27TH AND NOVEMBER 8TH. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER DI CARLY. 
          JUNE 7TH, OCTOBER 8TH. 
          COMMISSIONER EARL. 
          I AM SORRY. 
          I . 
          I REALLY, UH, I'M JUST GONNA PICK TWO OUT OF A HAT. 
          UM, I AGREE. 
          I THINK WEEKENDS ARE BEST. 
          UM, JULY 27TH AND, UH, NOVEMBER 8TH, COMMISSIONER KELLY, JULY 27TH, NOVEMBER 8TH, COMMISSIONER RIZZO SIMMONS. 
          DITTO. 
          JULY 27TH, NOVEMBER 8TH. 
          THANK YOU CLERK. 
          CAN YOU TELL US WHAT THE TOP TWO DATES ARE? JULY 27TH AND NOVEMBER 8TH. 
          THANK YOU. 
          SO CHAIR, IF THE COMMISSION WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO RECOMMEND BOTH THE TOP TWO PARKS AND THE TOP TWO DATES, THAT WOULD BE MUCH APPRECIATED. 
          UH, YES. 
          CAN WE HAVE A RECOMMENDATION? UH, OH MY GOSH. 
          WHAT YOU JUST SAID TO ME WENT OUT OF MY BRAIN. 
          FOR STEAMERS LAND, PLEASE. 
          UM, CAN WE PLEASE HAVE A MOTION FOR THE TOP TWO DATES AND THE TOP TWO PARKS? OH, AND THE TOP TWO PARKS. 
          SO TOP, LET'S START WITH THE TOP TWO PARKS, AND THEN WE WILL MOVE ON TO THE TOP TWO DATES. 
          THAT WOULD BE STEAMERS, LANDING PARK, AND LUCCHESE PARK. 
          ALL MOTION TO MAKE THE TWO PARKS FOR OUR PILOT ADOPT A PARK PROGRAM, STEAMER LANDING PARK AND LUCCHESE PARK SECOND. 
          GREAT. 
          AND CAN WE HAVE A MOTION FOR THE DATES OF JULY, UM, 27TH AND NOVEMBER 8TH FOR THE, UH, DATES FOR THE ADOPT A PART PILOT PROGRAM? YEAH, I MOTION TO MAKE JULY 27TH AND NOVEMBER 8TH, OR TO PRIORITIZE THOSE TWO IN 2025 FOR THE ADOPT A PARK PROGRAM. 
          I'LL SECOND THAT. 
          YEAH, I WAS JUST GONNA SAY BEFORE WE GET A VOTE, UM, WE CAN JUST GET A, UH, SHOW OF HANDS ON THE FIRST VOTE WE MADE. 
          THE MOTION MADE THE SECOND. 
          SO JUST HAVE A SHOW OF HANDS. 
          EVERYBODY PROVES THAT? I THINK I SAW THAT WE WERE ALL IN FAVOR. 
          AND THEN WE'LL MOVE ON TO THE SECOND AND DO THE SAME. 
          YEP. 
          THANK YOU. 
          CAN WE HAVE A SHOW OF HANDS WHO IS IN FAVOR FOR NOMINATING STEAMER LANDING AND LUKE KESEY PARK? THANK YOU. 
          CAN WE ALSO HAVE A SHOW OF HANDS FOR THE DATES OF JULY 27TH AND NOVEMBER 8TH AS THE ADOPT ADOPT A PARK DATES? GREAT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU, COMMISSIONERS. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          I THINK THAT FINISHES OUT THAT CINDY RIGHT? THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          UH, WE 
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ARE GOING TO MOVE ON TO COMMISSIONER COMMENTS. 
          I'M GONNA START TO MY RIGHT WITH COMMISSIONER SIMMONS. 
          HELLO. 
          UM, PARKS LOOK GOOD. 
          UM, THE EAST WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FIELDS ARE A LITTLE, LITTLE GRIMY, LITTLE DIRTY, UH, I DON'T KNOW WHAT OUR PROTOCOL IS FOR CLEANING, UH, ARTIFICIAL TURF. 
          I KNOW THE HIGH SCHOOL HAS LIKE SOME WEIRD VACUUMING THING THAT THEY RUN OVER THE FIELD. 
          I DON'T KNOW IF WE HAVE ONE OF THOSE OR NOT, OR IF IT'S A BLOWER OR SOMETHING, BUT THERE'S JUST LIKE A LOT OF TRASH OUT ON THE FIELD. 
          UM, BEER BOTTLES, JUST, IT'S, IT'S LOOKING A LITTLE ROUGH. 
          UM, I HAVE ALSO BEEN NOTICING A LOT OF PEOPLE BRINGING THEIR DOGS OUT ONTO THE TURF FIELD. 
          UM, SO YEAH, UH, THAT'S KIND OF NOT COOL, UM, ESPECIALLY WHEN THERE'S THAT NICE WALKWAY THAT GOES TO WISEMAN THERE. 
          UM, BUT YEAH, OUTTA MY PARKS, THAT'S THE ONE THAT I'M KIND OF NOTICING GETTING, GETTING A LITTLE FUNKY. 
          I KNOW IT'S DEFINITELY HARDER TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN SOMETHING THAT'S NOT REAL SO ARTIFICIAL, YOU KNOW, LIKE, YOU CAN'T LIKE JUST RUN THE MOWER OVER IT AND IT PICKS UP ALL THE LEAVES AND ALL THAT STUFF. 
          SO, YEAH. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, SO WE SPOKE ABOUT THE CHINATOWN EXHIBIT. 
          THAT'S GONNA BE AT THE MUSEUM. 
          IT'S GONNA BE AWESOME. 
          OPENING NIGHT IS APRIL 17TH. 
          I ENCOURAGE YOU ALL TO COME. 
          THERE'S LIKE AN RSVP, BUT YOU DON'T REALLY HAVE TO SVP. 
          IT'S OKAY. 
          JUST SHOW UP. 
          IT'S AT FIVE O'CLOCK. 
          UM, AND THEN THERE'S ALL KINDS OF EVENTS FOR THE NEXT, UM, TIME PERIOD AFTER THAT. 
          SO LOOK AT THE WEBSITE, SEE THE OTHER EVENTS THAT ARE OFFERED. 
          UM, I REALLY WANNA HIT 
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ON THE FACT THAT THAT GROUP COLLABORATED WITH RIVER PARK, WITH THE MUSEUM. 
          I MEAN, LOTS OF VOICES HEARD THERE, AND I THINK THAT THAT'S REALLY AWESOME. 
          UM, I'M REALLY PROUD OF THE MUSEUM FOR BEING PART OF THIS CONVERSATION AND DOING RESEARCH AND DOING A WHOLE EXHIBIT ON IT. 
          UM, ALEX, ONE THING THAT YOU BROUGHT UP, UH, UH, AFTER I HAD ALREADY COMMENTED, SO I DIDN'T WANNA SAY ANYTHING AT THE TIME FIELD TRIPS. 
          SO THAT'S LIKE PURVIEW OF THE MUSEUM, RIGHT? LIKE THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE, I'M SURE YOU WENT ON 'EM WHEN YOU WERE A KID HERE IN PETALUMA AND WE'RE TRYING TO BRING 'EM BACK. 
          UH, IT ALL GOES WITH FUNDING AND TIME AND COORDINATION AND WHATNOT, BUT, UM, WE DID HAVE HUNDREDS OF KIDS COME THROUGH THE MUSEUM LAST YEAR. 
          I DON'T KNOW IF KIDS ARE COMING TO THE CHINATOWN EXHIBIT. 
          I HOPE THEY ARE. 
          UM, BUT I THINK, YOU KNOW, WE GOTTA GET THAT AWARENESS OUT THERE. 
          UM, WE HAVE SOME NEW BOARD MEMBERS COMING ON TO THE MUSEUM BOARD. 
          UM, I THINK IT WOULD BE REALLY GREAT. 
          WE'RE TRYING TO GET COUNCIL MEMBERS TO COME TO THE MUSEUM TO SEE THE MUSEUM. 
          ALEX CAME. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, I THINK IT'D BE GREAT IF PARK AND REC CAME AND SAW THE MUSEUM. 
          OUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR WOULD LOVE TO GIVE YOU, YOU KNOW, A 20, 30 MINUTE TOUR JUST ABOUT THE HISTORY OF THE BUILDING AND OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CITY. 
          UM, I ALSO THINK IT WOULD BE REALLY GREAT IF OUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR CAME TO A PARK AND REC MEETING AND SPOKE ABOUT THE MUSEUM AND OUR PARTNERSHIP. 
          WE'RE GETTING REALLY CLOSE IN OUR AGREEMENT, SO THAT SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD TIME TO HAVE THAT HAPPEN. 
          UM, BUT I DO ENCOURAGE YOU ALL TO GO VISIT, SEE THE DOME, SEE THE CHINA TAB EXHIBIT AND SO FORTH. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, WE'RE ONLY, WE'RE ONLY ONE EARTHQUAKE AWAY FROM THAT BUILDING BEING DESTROYED. 
          SO , WE, WE REALLY NEED TO PUSH THE RETROFIT RIGHT NOW AND, AND MAKING SURE THAT THAT HISTORIC HEART OF PETALUMA IS PROTECTED, THAT THAT DOME IS PROTECTED. 
          IT'S AMAZING. 
          THE BUILDING SURVIVED 1906. 
          UM, IT MAY NOT SURVIVE THE NEXT ONE. 
          SO, UM, SO, YOU KNOW, CREATING AWARENESS AROUND THAT AND SEEING IT. 
          SO, UM, ALSO THERE WAS AN EXECUTIVE ORDER ISSUED, UM, BY OUR PRESIDENT FOR THE ELIMINATION OF THE INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SCIENCES. 
          UM, THAT'S GONNA DIRECTLY IMPACT FUNDING FOR US. 
          WE HAVE A GRANT, A BIG GRANT OUT WITH THAT ORGANIZATION. 
          UM, AND, UH, THE FUNDING AND OPERATING OF HUNDREDS OF MUSEUMS. WE DID A BIG STUDY LAST YEAR OR IN THIS PAST YEAR WITH MAPS, WHICH WAS DIRECTLY FUNDED THROUGH THAT. 
          SO, UM, ON SOCIAL MEDIA, THERE'S A POST RIGHT NOW WHERE THEY CAN TAKE YOU TO, UM, A SITE THAT THEN YOU CAN EMAIL DIRECTLY. 
          IT'S A FORM EMAIL THAT GOES TO YOUR CONGRESS PEOPLE. 
          PLEASE EVERYONE DO THAT. 
          IT LITERALLY TOOK ME TWO SECONDS TODAY AND IT'S, YOU KNOW, WE'RE JUST TRYING TO MAKE OUR VOICES HEARD ABOUT HOW IMPORTANT MUSEUMS ARE TO THIS COUNTRY. 
          SO CONTACT YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS, PLEASE. 
          UM, THAT'S MY HIGH HORSE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          SEND IT TO ME. 
          YES. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UH, COMMISSIONER BERTELLI. 
          UH, WE HAD A TREE ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING TODAY. 
          WE TALKED ABOUT A, WE HAD A PRESENTATION ABOUT PETALUMA RIVER PARK AND, UM, WE ALSO HAD A PRESENTATION ABOUT OUR URBAN FORESTRY MANAGEMENT PLAN THAT WE'RE WORKING ON. 
          UM, BOTH OF WHICH THE TREE COMMITTEE WILL HAVE SOME INPUT ON, UH, IN TERMS OF TREE SPECIES, RECOMMENDED TREE SPECIES, CANOPY COVER AND THINGS LIKE THAT. 
          AND THEN WE HAD, UH, AN UPDATE ON OUR PLANNING FOR THE ARBOR DAY, UH, CELEBRATION, WHICH IS COMING UP ON A APRIL 26TH. 
          AND THAT SHOULD BE A FUN FAMILY EVENT FOR EVERYBODY AT CITY HALL. 
          UM, AND I WAS OUT RIDING MY BIKE AROUND A COUPLE WEEKS AGO, RAN INTO A FEW OF THE GUYS, SAT A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT PARKS OUT WITH THEIR MOWERS AND STRING TRIMMERS. 
          IT'S THAT TIME OF YEAR THE GRASS IS GROWING, AND, UH, THEY WERE ALL OUT WORKING HARD, SO I STOPPED AND CHATTED FOR A LITTLE BIT WITH THEM AND, UH, TOLD THEM WHAT A GREAT JOB THEY WERE DOING AND HOW MUCH WE APPRECIATE THEM. 
          THAT'S IT FOR ME. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UH, COUNCILMAN DI CARLY. 
          UM, I JUST WANNA ECHO TOO, WHAT, UH, WHAT MEGAN SAID ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THE MUSEUM AND, AND THE FUNDING THERE. 
          I RECEIVED THAT EMAIL EARLIER, EARLIER TODAY. 
          UM, SO I THINK THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT, THAT WE'RE ABLE TO SECURE THE FUNDING FOR THAT. 
          UM, ALSO TOO, I, I WOULD LIKE TO START THE CONVERSATION WITH PARKS AND REC ABOUT, UM, OVER IN MY DISTRICT, RAYMOND HEIGHTS, THAT STREET HAS A LITTLE, UM, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT MUCH, BUT USED TO BE A PARK AND IT'S NO LONGER CONSIDERED A PARK. 
          AND, AND THOSE RESIDENTS OVER THERE WOULD, UH, WOULD LIKE IT TO BECOME A PARK AGAIN. 
          AND SO ANYWAY, I JUST WANNA START THAT CONVERSATION AT SOME POINT. 
          COMMISSIONER CHISHOLM. 
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THANK YOU. 
          UH, ON THE PUBLIC ART SIDE, WE DIDN'T HAVE A MEETING LAST MONTH AND WE WON'T HAVE A MEETING THIS MONTH. 
          UM, HOWEVER, JOHNNY, THE ART OF JOHNNY HAS BEGUN HIS MURALS, UH, AT LYNCH CREEK TRAIL. 
          SO THAT'S PRETTY COOL. 
          AND CHECK IT OUT, SEE THE PROCESS. 
          UM, ALSO, UH, LAST MEETING I HAD GOT BACK THE DAY BEFORE FROM JAPAN, AND, AND DREW ASKED ME TO SAY SOMETHING ABOUT IT. 
          SO I'LL ECHO WHAT I SAID THE LAST TIME I GOT BACK, WHICH WAS, YOU KNOW, COMING BACK FROM A COUNTRY WHERE THERE LITERALLY ARE NO PUBLIC TRASH CANS. 
          LITERALLY NOT EVEN IN BATHROOMS, BUT EVERYBODY PICKS UP AFTER THEMSELVES AND BRINGS WHATEVER THEY HAVE HOME WITH THEM. 
          UM, AND IT JUST MADE ME THINK, 'CAUSE I KNOW I'VE HEARD COMMENTS ABOUT CAN WE ADD, UM, TRASH CANS TO PARKS BECAUSE YOU HAD TO WALK TOO FAR TO THROW AWAY YOUR TRASH? OR CAN WE ADD MORE, YOU KNOW, TRASH CANS OVERFLOWING? CAN WE GET THEM PICKED UP MORE OFTEN? AND JUST MA IT MAKES ME THINK ABOUT THE FACT THAT IN A PUBLIC SPACE, THERE'S DUAL RESPONSIBILITY, THERE'S THE CITY'S RESPONSIBILITY, BUT IT'S ALSO PUBLIC RESPONSIBILITY. 
          IT'S A PUBLIC SPACE. 
          AND THE MORE THE CITY HAS TO PICK UP OUR TRASH, THE LESS TIME IT HAS TO DO MORE IMPORTANT THINGS IN PARKS THAT WE CAN'T DO. 
          SO IF THE PUBLIC, YOU KNOW, EVERY TIME YOU GO TO THE PARK, JUST MAKE A LITTLE MORE EFFORT TO REMEMBER THAT DUAL RESPONSIBILITY. 
          IF WE CAN DO THE THINGS THAT WITH ARE WITHIN OUR POWER, SUCH AS PICKING UP AFTER OURSELVES, WE ALLEVIATE THAT DUTY ON THE CITY WHO CAN THEN DO THINGS THAT AREN'T IN OUR POWER, BUT ARE IN THEIRS. 
          AND TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE THESE SPACES BETTER FOR EVERYONE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, ALL OF MY PARKS ARE LOOKING GOOD. 
          UM, UH, I JUST HAVE ONE COMMENT ABOUT THE POOL, UH, FEEDBACK FROM PEOPLE ABOUT THE POOL UPDATES, UM, WHAT PEOPLE, UH, UH, THE FEEDBACK IT'S BEEN ON FACEBOOK AND THEN ALSO THROUGH COMMUNICATIONS WITH, UM, POOL PATRONS. 
          THEY WOULD JUST LIKE SOMETHING MORE DETAILED. 
          UM, SO MEANING THEY, THEY, THEY LIKED THAT YOU GUYS WENT THROUGH AND WAS LIKE, WE'RE DOING THIS AND WE'RE DOING THIS AND WE'RE DOING THIS. 
          THE NUMBER ONE THING THEY CARE ABOUT IS WHEN IS IT GONNA BE DONE? JUST NUMBER ONE THING. 
          SO IF YOU CAN, I KNOW I'M, AS I'M, I IMAGINE THAT IT IS DIFFICULT THAT YOU DON'T WANNA THROW OUT A DATE, BECAUSE WHAT IF THE DATE CAN'T COME THROUGH? I UNDERSTAND THAT, BUT WHEN PEOPLE HAVE A DATE, BECAUSE WHEN IT'S VERY VAGUE, LIKE THE SUMMER SWIM SEASON, OH BOY, THAT'S VERY, VERY, PEOPLE ARE VERY CONCERNED THAT THEIR KIDS AREN'T GONNA GET LESSONS. 
          THAT THE TEAM ISN'T GONNA BE BACK. 
          THAT THE LAP SWIMMERS ARE, I DON'T KNOW, GOODNESS, STILL BE AT THE HIGH SCHOOL. 
          SO IF YOU CAN PUT SOMETHING OUT, LIKE AN UPDATE THAT SAYS THE PROJECT IS ESTIMATED TO COMPLETE ON X DATE, I THINK THAT WOULD LIKE CALM AT LEAST 60 FAMILIES THAT ARE PART OF AC SWIM WHO ARE STILL KIND OF LIKE, OH MY GOD. 
          LIKE, 'CAUSE I MEAN, THEY'RE REALLY STARTING TO THINK THAT THE POOL ISN'T GONNA BE DONE UNTIL JULY. 
          AND SO, AND ALSO IF THE POOL ISN'T GOING TO BE DONE UNTIL JULY, LET US KNOW. 
          LIKE, JUST CLEAR AS KIND. 
          AND I THINK, UM, THAT WOULD DEFINITELY STOP THE, THE POST THAT WAS ON FACEBOOK. 
          WOW. 
          WERE PEOPLE MEAN, I, UM, I DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO GO IN AND TRY TO DO MY STACY, HEY EVERYBODY, LET'S BE NICE COMMENT. 
          BUT, UM, BUT IF YOU CAN ADD SOME SORT OF, OF, UM, ESTIMATED TIME OF COMPLETION, UM, IT IS ON TRACK. 
          YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? UM, I THINK THAT PEOPLE, AND IF IT'S NOT SUDDENLY ON TRACK, JUST LET EVERYBODY KNOW WHY I THINK THAT EVERYBODY UNDERSTANDS THE LARGE, LARGE PROJECT, UM, THAT'S GOING ON. 
          BUT, UM, I THINK THAT WOULD REALLY JUST EASE A LOT OF PEOPLE, UM, BECAUSE A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE DRIVING, I DON'T KNOW, 35 MINUTES ONE WAY FOR THEIR LITTLE SWIMMER. 
          UM, AND THAT'S IT. 
          THAT'S ALL THAT I HAVE. 
          UM, DREW, 
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CINDY, OH YEAH, SURE. 
          JUST WANTED TO TAG ONTO COMMISSIONER CHISHOLM'S COMMENTS. 
          UM, BECAUSE I HAVE PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WITH THIS. 
          AT DOLORES PARK IN SAN FRANCISCO, WE WERE INUNDATED WITH TRASH EVERY SUNNY WEEKEND. 
          PILES AND PILES AND PILES OF IT. 
          IT DIDN'T MATTER HOW MANY TRASH CANS WE PUT OUT IT, IT WAS EVERYWHERE. 
          WE WOULD HAVE TO SEND A CREW OF LIKE 10 PEOPLE AND TRUCKS AND STUFF TO GO THROUGH AND TRY TO BAG EVERYTHING UP ON, ON A MONDAY MORNING. 
          IT WOULD TAKE HALF THE DAY JUST TO GET THE TRASH OUT OF THE PARK. 
          AND WE DID A MAKEOVER OF THE PARK AND WE STARTED A CAMPAIGN OF PACK IT IN, PACK IT OUT. 
          WE RELOCATED ALL THE GARBAGE CANS 
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OUTSIDE OF THE PARK, NO CANS IN THE PARK AT ALL, JUST AT THE ENTRANCES OUTSIDE. 
          AND WE REALLY MADE AN EFFORT TO CHANGE THE CULTURE AT THE PARK. 
          AND IT WORKED. 
          UM, PEOPLE HAVE, THERE'S HUGE EVENTS AT THE PARK NOW, BUT WE DO NOT HAVE PILES OF TRASH LEFT BEHIND THERE IN DOLORES PARK ANYMORE. 
          SO IT CAN BE DONE. 
          IT'S, UM, IT WOULD HAVE TO BE LIKE A SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN, SIGNAGE AND ALL KINDS OF STUFF LIKE THAT. 
          BUT SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT FOR PROBLEM PARKS. 
          ANYWAY, JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THAT'S A REALLY GREAT POINT. 
          YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? IT IT CAN, IT CAN ABSOLUTELY BE DONE. 
          UM, CINDY DREW, WHICH ONE OF YOU WOULD LIKE TO UPDATE US FIRST, WE WILL, UH, DEFER TO CINDY HERE TO GET US STARTED. 
          CINDY CHONG, OUR SUPERINTENDENT OF PARKS AND FACILITIES. 
          YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. 
          AS A NORMAL, YOUR PARKS TEAM HAS BEEN REALLY BUSY, BUT I THINK IF YOU'VE GONE THROUGH THE PARKS, YOU'LL SEE WE'VE DONE SOME REFURBISHMENTS AS WE COME AT THE END OF OUR WINTER SEASON, OBVIOUSLY SINCE THE SPRING. 
          SOLTI SOLSTICE IS UPON US. 
          UM, BUT ELECTRO SARAH, WHICH HAD A HUGE FACELIFT IN THE LAST YEAR, WE'VE COMPLETED THAT. 
          THE LAST LEG OF THAT WAS PLANTING THE TREES THAT NEEDED TO GO AROUND THE PLAYGROUND. 
          SO IF YOU GO THERE, YOU'LL SEE THE ELM TREES THAT HAVE BEEN PLANTED, AND AS THEY GET MATURE, THEY'LL PROVIDE NATURAL CANOPY TO THE PLAYGROUNDS. 
          I KNOW IT TAKES TIME, BUT WE WANTED TO REALLY BE ABLE TO PROVIDE SOME NATURAL CANOPY THERE. 
          UM, ONE OF THE OTHER THINGS, IF YOU'VE GONE THROUGH WISEMAN PARK THIS WINTER, WE DID REFURBISH ALL OF THOSE BENCHES THAT WERE ALONG THERE. 
          AND THOSE ARE ORIGINAL, SO THEY WERE LIKE 30 PLUS YEARS OLD. 
          SO IT LOOKS REALLY, REALLY GOOD. 
          AND IF YOU HAVE A CHANCE, I'D SAY GO THROUGH AND WALK THE PATH AND JUST TAKE A LOOK. 
          THEY'RE REALLY PROUD OF THAT. 
          UM, OUTSIDE OF THAT, I'D SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, THE PARK STAFF HAS JUST REALLY BEEN BUSY AND DOING ALL THE WINTER PROJECTS AND GETTING READY. 
          WE'RE GETTING READY TO START OUR AERATION AND OUR PLAYING FIELDS, OBVIOUSLY, BECAUSE WE'RE COMING UP IN THAT SEASON AND WE'RE COMING INTO HIGH WEEDS. 
          BUT MARYANNE, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING KIND TO THEM. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, THEY ALWAYS APPRECIATE IT. 
          THEY APPRECIATE THE KIND WORDS. 
          AND I THINK ONE OF THE COOL THINGS WE FINALLY GOT, ONE OF OUR FIRST ELECTRIC MOWERS IS A 60 INCH DECK. 
          IT'S A GRAVELEY. 
          THE CREW HAD TESTED JUST ABOUT EVERY ELECTRIC MOWER OUT THERE, AND THEY DECIDED THAT THE GRAVEL WAS THE MOST WELL BUILT. 
          THEY, THERE IS A LEARNING CURVE, THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GAS POWERED AND ELECTRIC. 
          AND THEY FOUND THAT THE BATTERIES ARE HEAVY. 
          SO WHEN YOU'RE AT HENRY PARK, MAYBE YOU DON'T TAKE THEM ON THE STEEP INCLINE, RIGHT. 
          . 
          UM, BUT THEY'RE REALLY HAPPY TO HAVE IT. 
          AND WE WILL LIKELY BE GETTING A SECOND ONE BECAUSE ONE OF OUR OTHER JOHN DEERES NEEDS TO GO OUTTA COMMISSION. 
          THEY'RE JUST BEYOND LIFECYCLE AT THIS POINT. 
          SO JUST REALLY EXCITED TO GET SOME NEW EQUIPMENT, UM, AND GETTING SOME OF THOSE, YOU KNOW, WINTER PROJECTS THAT WE ALWAYS WANNA GET TO. 
          AND LIKE EAGLE PARK IS ONE OF THEM, RIGHT? SO WE CYCLE THROUGH EACH PARK AND WE CAN'T GET TO ALL OF THEM EVERY TIME. 
          BUT PRINCE PARK, WE DID REFURBISH THOSE PICNIC TABLES. 
          UM, AND WE DO HAVE SCOTT ON OUR TEAM WHO'S JUST A GREAT CARPENTER AND KIND OF TAKES THESE ON HIMSELF. 
          AND SOME OF THE FINISHED PAINT WORK, DANNY HANDLES THAT. 
          SO LIKE THE RAILINGS AND ALL THE STUFF HE TAKES CARE OF. 
          AND IT IS THE CARE THAT THAT TEAM DOES TAKE IN MAKING SURE THAT THEY TRY AND CYCLE THROUGH. 
          SO WE DO HAVE KIND OF A CALENDAR AND WE TRY TO GET TO EVERYTHING, BUT WE CAN'T. 
          AND THEN SOME WE JUST HAVE TO PUSH NEXT YEAR. 
          BUT HOPEFULLY SOME OF THESE ADOPT A PARK EVENTS WILL HELP KIND OF FILL THOSE HOLES THAT WE'VE HAD. 
          SO WE'RE REALLY EXCITED ABOUT IT. 
          YOUR PARK STAFF HAS BEEN BUSY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU, CINDY. 
          AND, UM, WHAT I'D LIKE TO DO TONIGHT, WE WANTED TO PROVIDE, UM, KIND OF A RECAP OF THE LUMA ICE EVENT, UH, FOR YOU ALL. 
          SO WE'RE GONNA, UM, HAVE KAT KINDA LOAD UP SOME SLIDES BECAUSE I THINK WE CANNOT DO, UH, THREE AND A HALF, FOUR WEEKS OF JUSTICE WITHOUT SOME PHOTOS. 
          UM, SO WHILE KAT ROLLS THAT UP, UH, I JUST WANTED TO TOUCH ON A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS ASKED FROM THE COMMISSION AND COUNCIL. 
          SO THE COMMUNITY SPORTS FIELDS, UH, PCSF AS WE CALL 'EM, YES, WE DO HAVE, UH, GROOMING EQUIPMENT. 
          UM, THERE ARE ATTACHMENTS ESSENTIALLY THAT ARE RUN ON VEHICLES. 
          SO THANK YOU. 
          UH, WE'LL TAKE THAT FEEDBACK WITH THE BASEBALL FIELD IN, IN ITS FIRST SEASON, WE'RE ALSO KIND OF LEARNING. 
          THERE'S ALSO SOME SPECIALIZED EQUIPMENT THAT WE'RE GONNA BE TESTING SO THAT USER GROUPS CAN KIND OF GROOM THE INFIELD. 
          UM, BUT IF THERE'S DEBRIS, ACCU ACCUMULATION, OTHER THINGS LIKE THAT, YOU'RE, THAT YOU'RE STARTING TO SEE A PATTERN OF, THAT'S GOOD FEEDBACK. 
          'CAUSE THEN WE CAN ADJUST MAINTENANCE SCHEDULES OR GO BACK TO PERMIT HOLDERS AND KIND OF WORK THROUGH IT. 
          UM, BUT SHORT ANSWER IS YES, THERE'S GROOMING EQUIPMENT AND WE WANT TO BE THE ONES OPERATING THAT FOR THE MOST PART. 
          UM, GOOD FEEDBACK ABOUT COMMUNICATIONS FOR AQUATICS. 
          UM, YES, ABSOLUTELY. 
          THE TEAM IS HESITANT TO RELEASE A DATE. 
          WE ARE ON TRACK. 
          UM, SO WE UNDERSTAND WITHOUT THAT, YOU'RE, YOU'RE KIND OF SHOOTING YOURSELF IN THE FOOT BECAUSE PEOPLE WILL ASSUME SOMETHING'S WRONG. 
          UM, SO WE, WE ARE ON TRACK. 
          HOWEVER, UM, THE PROJECT TEAM ALSO UNDERSTANDS THAT WE'RE OPERATING A VERY OLD FACILITY. 
          AND AS YOU KIND OF PULL BACK THE LAYERS, UM, WE WANNA 
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GIVE OURSELVES AS MUCH LATITUDE TO FIND OUT WHAT IT IS BEFORE WE CAN KIND OF RELEASE A FIRM TIMELINE. 
          AND THEN WE'RE ALSO DOING THIS WITH THE WEATHER. 
          UM, SO AGAIN, SO FAR THINGS ARE LOOKING GREAT. 
          UM, HOWEVER, WE UNDERSTAND THAT MAYBE WE CAN PROVIDE SOME MORE TENTATIVE TIMELINES. 
          BY SUMMER, WE MEAN MEMORIAL DAY, YOU KNOW, THAT WE'RE ON TRACK FOR A MAY OPENING, NOT A JULY, AND THEN MAYBE SOME CAVEATS ON UPDATES EVERY WEEK OR TWO WEEKS. 
          UM, BUT WE'RE HOPING WITH SOME DETAIL AS IT COMES, MAYBE WE CAN GET OUT OF THE, THE RAINY SEASON, UH, AND THEN PROVIDE A LITTLE BIT MORE DETAIL. 
          SO APPRECIATE THAT. 
          UM, AND YEAH, ABSOLUTELY APPRECIATE YOU BRINGING IT TO OUR ATTENTION SO WE CAN MODIFY WITH OUR COMMS. UM, AND YES, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER RAYMOND HEIGHTS, UM, IT WAS KIND OF, UH, I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S A, A HISTORICAL PARKS, RIGHT? IT'S ONE OF THOSE THAT HAS ALWAYS BEEN CONSIDERED BY A GROUP OR DISTRICT, UH, AS A, AS THEIR PARK. 
          UM, UH, IT'S NOT, TECHNICALLY IT'S NOT IN ONE OF OUR 48 PARKS DESIGNATED, BUT FOR A LONG TIME, UM, THERE WAS A CARETAKER IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD THAT KIND OF TENDED TO THIS PARK. 
          UM, THE NEIGHBORS COME AND GATHER IN THIS AREA. 
          IT'S OUT OF AN AREA OF RAYMOND HEIGHTS IF YOU'VE NOT BEEN THERE, WHERE IT'S, UM, IT'S LIKE THE FLAT SPACE, A AMONG SOME STREETS, BUT IT'S IN A MEDIAN. 
          IT'S IN THE MIDDLE OF ESSENTIALLY A TWO-WAY DRIVE. 
          SO IT IS UNDER CONTRACT TO GET MAINTENANCE. 
          UM, SO IT'S LANDSCAPED, UH, THERE'S SOME IRRIGATION, A COUPLE OF TREES AND A BENCH. 
          UM, BUT THERE'S A LOT OF CHALLENGES FOR ACCESS. 
          UH, NO PARKING. 
          THINGS THAT YOU WOULDN'T REALLY WANT TO, UM, ENCOURAGE OR DESIGNATE A PARK WITHOUT HAVING A BETTER PLAN AND IDEA WHAT THOSE COSTS ARE TO BRING THINGS LIKE ACCESS, UH, TO IT, SAFETY OF TRAVEL, LIGHTING, THINGS LIKE THAT. 
          SO IT, IT'S DEFINITELY BEEN LIKE, TALKED ABOUT AND, AND WHAT WE WANNA DO IN THE MEANTIME IS, UH, MAKE SURE IT'S MAINTAINED ONE, AND THEN TWO, THAT WE'RE ENGAGED WITH THE NEIGHBORHOODS. 
          AND THEN WHEN WE GO THROUGH A PARKS MASTER PLAN OR WE START CONSIDERING, YOU KNOW, OTHER AREAS TO ADD PARKS, AMENITIES, WE DON'T LOSE TRACK OF RAYMOND HEIGHTS. 
          'CAUSE IT'S, UM, IT'S, I KNOW IT'S A GEM FOR THE COMMUNITY THAT USES THAT LITTLE GREEN SPACE, WE'LL CALL IT. 
          AND IT IS COOL IF YOU HAVEN'T BEEN THERE. 
          UM, YEAH, IF ANYTHING IT'S AN ACHIEVEMENT JUST TO GET TO IT. 
          YEAH, YEAH, TO FIND IT. 
          AND, AND THEY'RE VERY, THE, IT'S THE PRIDE OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD. 
          UM, AND I CAN'T REMEMBER HER NAME MAYBE IF YOU CAN, BUT SHE USED TO WRITE LETTERS AND SHE WAS LIKE SINGLE-HANDEDLY MAINTAINING THIS GREEN SPACE FOR LIKE, DECADES. 
          UM, SO ANYWAY, THERE'S THE LITTLE HISTORY THAT WE HAVE. 
          SO WITH THAT, KAT, IF YOU'RE READY AND TAKE IT AWAY. 
          GOOD EVENING EVERYONE. 
          THANK YOU CLERK. 
          SO TONIGHT JUST HERE TO PROVIDE A PRETTY QUICK, VERY HIGH LEVEL, UM, KIND OF LUMA ICE UPDATE AND RECAP. 
          WE DO NOT HAVE SPECIFIC NUMBERS TO SHARE WITH YOU AS WE'RE STILL CLOSING OUT SOME OF OUR REPORTING AND FINANCES, SO THEY WOULDN'T BE ACCURATE, UM, FULLY ACCURATE AT THIS MOMENT TO SET THE EXPECTATIONS ON WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO BE SEEING HERE. 
          BUT HOPEFULLY THIS WILL PROVIDE A NICE RECAP OF KIND OF WHAT WENT ON DURING THE ALMOST FOUR WEEKS OF HOLIDAY PROGRAMMING ON THE FAIRGROUNDS. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          WHEN WE WENT INTO LUMA ICE AND DETERMINE KIND OF WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO, HEY, ICE RINK, WHAT WERE OUR MAIN OBJECTIVES? OUR MAIN OBJECTIVES REALLY WENT BACK TO LOOKING AT THE GUIDING PRINCIPLES THAT WERE PART OF THE DEMOCRACY NOW GROUP THAT WERE, AGAIN, THE GUIDING PRINCIPLES. 
          UM, THERE'S EIGHT OF 'EM THAT WE AS CITY STAFF WERE PROVIDED AS PARAMETERS FOR HOW TO MAKE DECISIONS RELATED TO THE ENTIRE FAIRGROUNDS PROPERTY. 
          WHERE DO WE INVEST TIME AND EFFORT, MONEY INTO PROGRAMMING, FACILITY INFRASTRUCTURE? HOW DO WE REALLY USE IT? SO WITH LUMMI ICE, WE WANTED TO CREATE A WELCOMING, ACCESSIBLE, AND INCLUSIVE ENVIRONMENT FOR COMMUNITY PLAY WHILE ENGAGING STAKEHOLDERS AND ENHANCING COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS, WHICH REALLY TOUCHED ON OVER HALF OF OUR GUIDING PRINCIPLES. 
          A NICE BYPRODUCT AS WELL WAS EXPLORING SOMETHING NEW AND EXCITING WHILE BUILDING A FOUNDATION FOR SUSTAINABLE ANNUAL PROGRAMMING THAT UNIQUELY ATTRACTS MORE VISITOR TO VISITORS TO PETALUMA. 
          WHEN WE LOOKED AT USING THE FAIRGROUNDS, WE WERE REALLY LIKE, WHAT CAN WE DO THAT ARE TRYING AND DO? THIS IS SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT. 
          WE DON'T WANNA JUST DO ANOTHER JUMPY HOUSE THING OR SOMETHING SMALLER, BUT LET'S ACTUALLY, LET'S TRY IT AND SEE THIS PILOT USE. 
          NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. 
          . 
          THIS IS JUST A VERY HIGH LEVEL, UM, OVERVIEW OF ALL THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES WE HAD DURING THE LUMA ICE EVENT SPACE. 
          THAT WAS ALSO PART OF OUR THOUGHT PROCESS IN 
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LET'S GO BIG OR GO HOME, WAS THAT BY CHOOSING SOMETHING THAT HAD MULTIPLE USES, WE COULD HAVE MULTIPLE DEMOGRAPHICS AND TYPES OF USERS COME TO USE THE, UM, FACILITY PIECE. 
          UM, AS YOU CAN SEE IN THE PHOTOS, THERE'S UM, YOU KNOW, DIFFERENT WAYS TO ENGAGE IN THE PROPERTY, OR EXCUSE ME, THE EXPERIENCE. 
          NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. 
          SOME FUN LUMA ICE HIGHLIGHTS AND NUMBERS. 
          HERE WE WERE ABLE TO HOST 45 BIRTHDAY OR PICNIC PARTY RENTALS. 
          THOSE ARE YOUR KID BIRTHDAY PARTY PACKAGES IN THE TENT. 
          UM, THAT NUMBER TO ME IS AMAZING. 
          AS SOMEONE WHO HAS A JANUARY 2ND BIRTHDAY THAT I SHARE WITH MY TWIN BROTHER RIGHT AFTER THE HOLIDAY SEASON. 
          IT IS AWFUL TRYING TO FIND A BIRTHDAY PARTY SPACE FOR, UH, YOUR KIDS OR, WELL, WHEN I WAS A KID, UM, UM, SO THE BIRTHDAY PARTIES WAS REALLY EXCITING FOR US. 
          WE HAD 26 FULL DAYS OF SKATING, OR 312 HOURS OF OPERATION, WHICH IS A PRETTY, PRETTY BIG CHUNK OF TIME AVAILABLE TO BE ABLE TO PLAY IN PETALUMA. 
          WE WERE ABLE TO PULL OUT THAT WE HAD 7,685 DROP-IN PARTICIPANTS. 
          SO WE HAD 7,600 SKATERS CAME. 
          SO THOSE ARE THE SKATERS WHO PAID TO SKATE. 
          ONE THING THAT PEOPLE REALLY LOVED WAS THAT YOU DIDN'T ACTUALLY HAVE TO PAY TO BE THE GRANDPARENT TO STAND ON THE SIDE OF THE ICE RINK AND WATCH YOUR KIDS SKATE. 
          OR IF YOU WERE A PARENT THAT DIDN'T WANNA BREAK YOURSELF, YOU ALSO DIDN'T HAVE TO PAY. 
          SO WE ESTIMATE A LOT MORE PEOPLE WERE ACTUALLY ENGAGED IN THE ACTIVITY ON LUMA ICE. 
          WE WERE ALSO PLEASANTLY SURPRISED AT THE WIDE VARIETY OF CITIES. 
          WE WERE ABLE TO PULL SOME DATA TO SEE WHERE PEOPLE WERE TRAVELING FROM TO BE ABLE TO COME AND CHECK OUT PETALUMA. 
          ANOTHER THOUGHT PROCESS IN, UM, DOING LUMA ICE WAS THAT IT'S A BIG TENT. 
          IT'S A BIG ICE RINK, IT'S A BIG EXPERIENCE. 
          SO PEOPLE WHO HAVE NOT COME TO PETALUMA BEFORE ARE GONNA BE ABLE TO SEE PETALUMA. 
          THEY'RE GONNA GET HUNGRY, THEY'RE GONNA SHOP AT OUR SHOPS. 
          THEY'RE GONNA CHECK OUT HOW COOL AND AWESOME IT IS AND HOPEFULLY WANNA COME BACK. 
          TWO OF OUR REALLY SHINING STAR EVENT NIGHT COMMUNITY NIGHTS WAS THE HISPANIC NIGHT AND THE HANUKKAH THEMED NIGHT. 
          WE PARTNERED WITH, UM, BALLET FOLK LOKO AND CAFE PUENTE FOR THE, HIS, UM, HISPANIC NIGHT. 
          AND WE HAD A SPANISH SPEAKING SANTA. 
          AND IT WAS AMAZING TO SEE A DEMOGRAPHIC IN FAMILIES WHO TRADITIONALLY DO NOT ENGAGE IN ICE SKATING AS PART OF THEIR KIND OF CULTURAL EXPERIENCE ON THE ICE. 
          IT WAS SO COOL AND, UM, IT JUST, IT IT WAS REALLY TRULY ONE OF THE MOST EX, UM, TOUCHING EXPERIENCES DURING THE HOLIDAY SEASON FOR ME TO BE ABLE TO SEE FAMILIES HAVE THE ABILITY TO TRY SOMETHING THAT THEY TRADITIONALLY WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO HAVE ACCESS TO IN A SAFE SPACE WITHIN THEIR ACTUAL COMMUNITY. 
          AND, AND THE HANUKKAH NIGHT AS WELL. 
          UM, TRADITIONALLY, YOU KNOW, LUMA ICE OR A HOLIDAY COULD BE VERY CHRISTMAS OR MERRY CHRISTMAS TREES ORIENTED. 
          BUT WE PARTNERED WITH THE, UH, SHABBAT JEWISH CENTER AND DID A HANUKKAH NIGHT WHERE WE ACTUALLY HAD A SIX FOOT TALL MENORAH THAT WAS LIT ON THE ICE. 
          AND I'M LIKE, WAIT, WE GOTTA BRING IT BACK. 
          NOT ON THE ICE, THAT'S A HAZARD. 
          UM, SO WE MOVED IT AWAY FROM THE HAZARD ON THE ICE. 
          IT WAS ACTUALLY REALLY FUN AND WE HAD LOCK KEYS AND A REALLY FUN EXPERIENCE AND GOT TO ENGAGE, UM, THE COMMUNITY. 
          IN ANOTHER CULTURAL EVENT, WE WERE ABLE TO HOST 11 SCHOOL FIELD TRIPS. 
          SUPER FUN. 
          DEFINITELY LEARNED A FEW THINGS ON HOW TO HOST, YOU KNOW, 250 KIDS THROUGH GETTING ON THEIR ICE SKATES INTO THE LITTLE DOORS SAFELY WITH THE PARENT CHAPERONES WHO ALSO DON'T KNOW HOW TO SKATE. 
          UH, REALLY FUN, NO INJURIES. 
          AWESOME WIN. 
          AND 11 GLIDE AND GIVE NIGHTS. 
          THOSE WERE NONPROFIT FUNDRAISING NIGHTS WHERE YOUR TWO HOUR SEGMENT WINDOW, ANY OF THE SALES, 15% OF THE SALES OF THE TICKET WOULD GO BACK TO THE NONPROFIT THAT WAS HOSTING FOR THAT NIGHT. 
          SO, FOR EXAMPLE, WISE GIRLS WORKSHOP, THEY ARE AN ORGANIZATION HERE IN PETALUMA THAT, UH, HOSTS A WISE GIRL, INDEPENDENCE WELLNESS FOR TEENS. 
          UH, IT'S AMAZING PROGRAM. 
          UM, THEY HOSTED A NIGHT WHERE, YOU KNOW, A BUNCH OF GIRLS AND ALL THE TICKETS. 
          SO 15% OF THE SALES WENT BACK TO THAT ORGANIZATION. 
          WE GOT TO PARTNER WITH THEM, WHICH WAS REALLY AMAZING. 
          UM, SO IT'S OUR ABILITY AS A CITY TO BE ABLE TO BE THE HOST SITE TO BE ABLE TO FUNDRAISE AND GIVE BACK TO COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS WHILE ALSO, YOU KNOW, GETTING THEM TO COME OUT AND TRY SOMETHING NEW. 
          OH, I COPIED MY DROP IN, SORRY. 
          UM, THERE WE WERE ALSO ABLE TO, UH, PROVIDE 70 TEMP EMPLOYEE JOBS. 
          ON ONE OF MY SLIDES, I'D PUT ONE OF OUR HIGHLIGHTS AND KIND OF PROGRAMMING THINGS WAS THIS WAS ALSO AN EXPERIENCE FOR STAFF WHO, OR INDIVIDUALS IN THE COMMUNITY WHO ARE ABLE TO GET A HOLIDAY JOB. 
          MANY PEOPLE WORKED FOR THE WHOLE ENTIRE FOUR WEEKS. 
          THERE WAS AN AVERAGE HOURLY 
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RATE BETWEEN 20 AND $27 AN HOUR, DEPENDING ON WHAT YOUR JOB WAS FOR THE EXPERIENCE. 
          AND WE HAD EVERYONE FROM HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS, COLLEGE STUDENTS, RETIRED, UH, PETALUMA RESIDENTS, AS WELL AS MULTIPLE INDIVIDUALS FROM THE COTS PROGRAM, WHICH WAS ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC TO GET TO HAVE THEM, UM, PARTICIPATE IN THE HOLIDAY. 
          AND IN TOTAL THERE WAS 4,318 HOURS WORKED BY US BEING ABLE TO CREATE JOBS WITHIN OUR LOCAL COMMUNITY, LITERALLY BRINGING CHEER OR AT LEAST WE HOPED IT WAS CHEERFUL. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          WE DID HAVE SOME FACILITY CHALLENGES. 
          OF COURSE, OUR OPENING WEEKEND WAS THE WEEKEND THAT SANTA CRUZ HAD THE TORNADO, I BELIEVE IT WAS. 
          UM, YOU CAN SEE THE FENCE HERE. 
          THAT WAS ONE OF OUR SHINING MOMENTS WHEN THE FENCE WAS BLOWING OVER AND WE'RE HOLDING IT UP IN THE, THE JAVA HUT, PEOPLE GETTING THEIR CARS COPIES ARE WATCHING ALL OF US, BUT WE MADE IT HAPPEN. 
          AND THE MOST EXCITING THING IS THAT PEOPLE STILL CAME OUT. 
          THERE WERE PEOPLE IN THE TENT WHEN IT WAS ALMOST BLOWING AWAY WHO WERE LIKE, WAIT, WHY ARE YOU CLOSING? WE'RE LIKE, WELL, , GIVE US AN HOUR. 
          LET THE WIND SETTLE DOWN. 
          UM, WHICH WAS AWESOME. 
          I WAS ASTOUNDED. 
          I'M AN EARLY TO BED PERSON. 
          OUR 8:00 PM TO 10:00 PM TIMEFRAME WAS ACTUALLY REALLY POPULAR. 
          SO WE WERE ABLE TO LOOK AT A LOT OF DATA FROM THE PROGRAM ANALYSIS TO BE ABLE TO SEE KIND OF WHERE ARE PEOPLE COMING OUT, WHAT ARE THEY HUNGRY FOR, WHAT DO THEY WANNA SEE? UH, THE FOUR TO 6:00 PM TIMEFRAME. 
          I DIDN'T REALIZE IT WAS GONNA BE AS POPULAR AS IT WAS WAY MORE POPULAR THAN THE SIX TO EIGHT OR EIGHT TO 10. 
          UM, 'CAUSE I DIDN'T REALIZE THAT OUR WORK WITH YOUR FAMILY, BUT SOME STUFF WE'RE LEARNING FOR OUR COMMUNITY, WHICH IS FABULOUS 'CAUSE DOING SOMETHING THIS BIG AND THIS IMPACTFUL. 
          WE CAN TAKE THE MODEL AND ALL OF OUR LESSONS LEARNED AND TRANSMIT IT INTO EVERYTHING ELSE THAT WE'RE TRYING TO BRING INTO THE FAIRGROUNDS. 
          BUT NOT ONLY IN THE FAIRGROUNDS, BUT IN OUR GREATER COMMUNITY AND ALL THE OTHER EVENTS AND ORGANIZATION PROGRAMS THAT'S GOING ON. 
          'CAUSE IT'S BEING ABLE TO TRY SOMETHING THIS BIG, YOU KNOW, IT TAKES, IT TAKES AN OOF TO HAVE IT START. 
          SO, UM, WE ARE VERY EXCITED ABOUT ALL EVERYTHING WE'VE LEARNED AND HOW WE CAN DO MORE. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          UH, KIND OF SOME OF THE LESSONS LEARNED, KEY PROGRAMMATIC TAKEAWAYS. 
          THE EVENTS APPEAL, AGAIN, WAS ACROSS ALL AGE GROUPS, WAS A SIGNIFICANT ADVANTAGE. 
          YOU CAN SEE THE GRANDPA ON THE SIDELINES. 
          WE DID, UM, WHEELCHAIRS WERE ALLOWED ON THE ICE. 
          WE DID HAVE A FEW WHEELCHAIRS THAT WAS REALLY FUN. 
          UH, THE LOCATION WAS FAVORABLY RECEIVED. 
          ALL OF YOU PROBABLY HAVE ACCESS TO FACEBOOK AND SAW PEOPLE ASKING ABOUT RIGHT NEXT TO THIS, THE STREET. 
          IT WAS GREAT. 
          WE HAD NO PROBLEMS WITH THAT. 
          PEOPLE COULD SEE IT, THEY COULD ACCESS, UM, ANYTHING THAT THEY REALLY WANTED. 
          UH, THE LIMITED ATTENDANCE DURING OUR PEAK HOUR IS SOMETHING WE LEARNED AGAIN, THAT ACTUALLY WE DIDN'T REALIZE WE WERE GONNA SELL OUT OF OUR SPOTS, BUT THE FOUR TO 6:00 PM TIMEFRAME, WE HAD 250 UH, PASSES AVAILABLE AT THAT TIMEFRAME. 
          WE SOLD OUT PRETTY REGULARLY. 
          THE, UH, SKATE FRIENDLY PATHWAY TO ACCESS BEVERAGES AND FOOD. 
          SOMETHING THAT WE WERE TRYING WAS THE POLAR LOUNGE TO SEE HOW LIKE, CAN WE, CAN THIS BE, YOU KNOW, A GOOD POTENTIAL VENDOR SPOT FOR MORE FOOD TRUCKS OR, YOU KNOW, WE HAD SAXES THERE, WHICH WAS AN AMAZING PARTNERSHIP. 
          UM, WHAT WE DIDN'T REALIZE WHEN WE SET UP EVERYTHING IS THAT YOU HAVE TO TAKE YOUR ICE GATES OFF TO WALK ACROSS THE GRAVEL TO BUY A BEVERAGE OR HAVE FRENCH FRIES. 
          SO IF YOU'RE ALL SKATING, SOME OF YOU, ONE OF YOU HAS TO SACRIFICE AND GO OR YOU KNOW, IT JUST, IT JUST CHANGES THE FLOW. 
          SO NEXT YEAR WE'VE ALREADY MAPPED IT OUT WHERE WE'RE GONNA HAVE THE BLACK MATS SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO TAKE YOUR SKATES OFF, YOU KNOW, LESSONS LEARNED. 
          UH, DEFINITELY ENHANCING OUR TICKETING PROCESS. 
          NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. 
          YES. 
          UM, SINGLE POLAR, LIKE WE THOUGHT PEOPLE WERE GONNA WANNA LIKE SIT AND HANG OUT MORE AND WE DID HAVE SOME SITTING AND HANGING OUT, BUT REALLY PEOPLE WENT TO SKATE, WHICH WAS REALLY COOL. 
          AND WE, ONE FEEDBACK WE DID RECEIVE IS PEOPLE WANNA HAVE LIKE A FREQUENT FLYER PASS OR BE ABLE TO BUY MULTIPLE PACKAGES OR MEMBERSHIP ALMOST FOR HOW LONG THE ICE SKATING IS. 
          'CAUSE PEOPLE CAME BACK REGULARLY. 
          UH, INCREASED DIRECT VIEWING OF THE ICE RINK, RINK SIDE SEATING. 
          PEOPLE WANTED MORE SEATING, THEY WANTED TO SEE IT. 
          IT WAS, UM, BY THE END OF IT, ONCE PEOPLE REALIZED WHAT WAS HAPPENING THAT YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO PAY TO COME AND OBSERVE. 
          IF YOU WANTED TO GRAB A BEVERAGE AND LISTEN TO THE MUSIC AND WATCH ICE SKATING, YOU COULD GO. 
          SO IT REALLY, ONCE WORD GOT OUT, YOU COULD DEFINITELY SEE THE TREND AND ATTENDANCE NUMBERS TOWARD THE, TOWARDS THE END OF THE EVENT. 
          UM, YEAH, JUST A FEW MORE KIND OF INCREASED. 
          PEOPLE WANTED MORE SKATING LESSONS. 
          THEY WANTED HOCKEY RENTAL SPACE ONCE THEY REALIZED IT WAS AVAILABLE. 
          JUST, YOU KNOW, INSTEAD OF GOING UP TO SNOO IN SANTA ROSA. 
          SO THAT WAS GREAT. 
          NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. 
          A KEYNOTE JUST AS WELL IS THAT IT WAS MORE THAN JUST AN ICE RINK FOR US. 
          UM, THESE WERE A COUPLE THINGS. 
          WE WERE ABLE TO PARTNER WITH THE, UH, BOYS AND GIRL SCOUTS FOR THE TREE FARM THAT THEY SOLD OUT OF ALL OF THEIR TREES. 
          EVEN AFTER BUYING AN ADDITIONAL 150 TREES, 
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I BELIEVE IT WAS FROM MICKELSON'S, WHICH WAS REALLY COOL. 
          THESE ARE THE GIRL SCOUT COOKIES THAT THEY USED, THE BIG TENT WHEN IT WAS RAINING WHEN WE WERE OUT OF LUMA ICE AND THEY HAD TO HAVE COOKIE DELIVERY. 
          UM, THE FOOD NOT FENTANYL EVENT, IF YOU DIDN'T HEAR ABOUT IT, IT WAS A HUGE AMAZING, UM, AWARENESS EVENT FOR FENTANYL. 
          WE HAD OVER 18 NON-PROFITS, UM, AT THIS EVENT. 
          OVER 900 PEOPLE ATTENDED AND WE, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH SACHS JOINT AND THE OTHER NONPROFITS WERE ABLE TO RAISE 15 OVER $14,000 FOR MICAH'S HUGS, WHICH IS A NONPROFIT THAT SUPPORTS, UM, FENTANYL AWARENESS IN OUR COMMUNITY. 
          SO JUST KIND OF SOME IDEAS OF, WE'RE ALWAYS LOOKING AT WAYS HOW CAN WE DO SOMETHING WITH WHAT WE ALREADY HAVE EXISTING. 
          SO WE'RE NOT JUST GONNA LET THE TENT SIT THERE, BUT WHAT ELSE CAN WE DO TO MAKE IT USEFUL? NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          JUST THANK YOU. 
          THAT'S KINDA MY HIGH LEVEL OVERVIEW OF ALL THE THINGS WERE HAPPENING. 
          UM, I'M AVAILABLE FOR QUESTIONS OR I DON'T KNOW IF WE DO QUESTIONS ON AN UPDATE. 
          YEAH, WELL WE'VE GOT HERE IF THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS. 
          I'VE GOT JUST A FEW MORE UPDATES. 
          BUT YEAH. 
          ANYONE HAS ANY QUESTIONS? I KNOW THAT WAS A LOT, BUT PICTURES NEED PICTURES. 
          PICTURE SO THERE'S SO MANY, MANY PICTURES. 
          NEED PICTURE. 
          I HAD TO SLOW IT DOWN. 
          YEAH, DREW SAW THE FIRST DRAFT. 
          HE'S LIKE, YOU NEED TO CUT SOME SLIDES, . 
          I WAS LIKE, BUT THERE'S SOME GREAT PHOTOS. 
          I JUST WANNA SAY THAT IT WAS REALLY WELL RUN. 
          I WAS AT GIRL SCOUT DAY, I SAW YOU. 
          OKAY. 
          THAT WAS A LOT. 
          THAT WAS A LOT, RIGHT? AND, AND IT WAS SO WELL DONE. 
          AND THEN LIKEWISE THE GIRL SCOUT COOKIES AT THE END, HAVING THAT SPACE WAS HUGE FOR THE GIRL SCOUTS. 
          UM, A LOT OF MY KIDS WENT TO BIRTHDAY PARTIES AND SO FORTH. 
          IT WAS REALLY WELL ATTENDED. 
          I DID SEE ON THERE THE RENTAL FOR THE, UM, THE PUSH THING. 
          UM, I JUST WORRY IT'S ALREADY EXPENSIVE TO GO, BUT THERE DOES HAVE TO BE A SYSTEM. 
          I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT SYSTEM LOOKS LIKE, BUT I JUST, YOU KNOW, WORRY ABOUT EQUITY ISSUES AND WHATNOT. 
          'CAUSE IT'S ALREADY EXPENSIVE TO GO. 
          BUT I, BUT I DO, UH, THERE HAS TO BE SOME KIND OF SYSTEM FOR THAT PUSH THING. 
          , YES, AND THANK YOU  COMMISSIONER. 
          THIS WAS A HUGE UNDERTAKING, ESPECIALLY GIVEN EVERYTHING PARKS AND REC IS ALREADY DOING. 
          SO I THINK IT WAS A HUGE SUCCESS, EVEN IF IT JUST BREAKS EVEN. 
          IT WAS A HUGE SUCCESS FOR WHAT IT GAVE TO OUR COMMUNITY. 
          AND JUST, THIS IS A WHOLE NEW WAY OF THINKING ABOUT HOW WE CAN USE OUR ASSETS TO ENGAGE THE COMMUNITY. 
          SO THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING. 
          I CAN SEE THERE'S BEEN SO MUCH GOING ON WITH THE FAIRGROUNDS THIS LAST YEAR. 
          UM, AND I, I JUST THINK IT'S A GREAT DIRECTION. 
          SO CONGRATULATIONS. 
          IT WAS, IT WAS A HUGE SUCCESS. 
          I ONLY EVER GOT TO ENJOY IT JUST DRIVING BACK AND FORTH, GOING BY IT. 
          BUT SEEING EVERYBODY THERE HAPPY. 
          UM, I, I AM CURIOUS, DO WE HAVE ANY FINANCIALS YET FOR, FOR WHAT THAT DID COST? AND WE DON'T HAVE ANYTHING FULLY FLESHED OUT YET, BUT DREW YEAH, WE, I THINK THE PLAN IS TO PRESENT IT TO COUNCIL IN MAY AS PART OF, UM, ESSENTIALLY THE KICKOFF, WHENEVER THAT BUDGET PROCESS IS. 
          UM, THAT'S, WE'RE GONNA, I THINK WE'RE COMMITTED TO PRESENT FINANCIALS AT THAT POINT. 
          UM, YEAH, SO WE SEE A PART OF IT, BUT WE KNEW IT WAS THE FIRST YEAR AND THEN THERE WAS A LOT OF MOVING PART, YOU KNOW, INFRASTRUCTURE PLUS IN-KIND DONATIONS VERSUS TICKET SALES. 
          SO YEAH, I THINK YOU, YOU COUNCIL GETS THE FIRST GLIMPSE OF THE WHOLE PICTURE, I THINK IN MAY. 
          OKAY. 
          YEAH. 
          DREW, IT WOULD BE GREAT IF WE COULD GET LIKE A MINI VERSION OF THAT. 
          JUST, I, I, I FEEL LIKE WE OFTEN MISS THE FINANCIAL SIDE OF THINGS, RIGHT? AND IT'D BE NICE TO KNOW HOW PROFITABLE IT WAS AND, YOU KNOW, THERE'S SO MANY SUCCESSES OUTSIDE OF THE MONEY, BUT IT WOULD BE GREAT TO GET A MINI VERSION TO HERE TOO. 
          YEAH, NO, ABSOLUTELY. 
          UM, IT'S CERTAINLY NOT PROFITABLE. 
          WE'LL SAY THAT IN YEAR ONE. 
          WE KNEW THAT. 
          UM, BUT I THINK, YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. 
          UM, FINANCIALS AND, I MEAN, WE'RE IN FAIR PLANNING TOO, SO I THINK THE IDEA IS TO PRESENT KIND OF SPECIAL EVENTS, BUDGETS, ALL OF THAT. 
          BUT YES, ABSOLUTELY. 
          IT'S NOT 'CAUSE WE DON'T CARE ABOUT YOU GUYS. 
          . 
          OKAY. 
          YEAH. 
          UM, I HAD ASKED DREW TO DO THIS PRESENTATION 'CAUSE I WAS WORRIED WE WOULDN'T GET ONE. 
          UM, BUT WHAT REALLY SPARKED IT WAS TALKING TO THE OWNERS OF SAXES. 
          LIKE THEY, I MEAN, WHEN YOU GUYS GO TO PLAN, I HOPE, I MEAN, I KNOW THAT THEY'LL BE A PART OF IT, BUT I SHOULD HAVE HAD A PEN AND PAPER. 
          LIKE THE AMOUNT OF IDEAS THAT THEY THREW OUT IN LIKE FIVE MINUTES WAS REALLY, REALLY AMAZING. 
          UM, BUT I DON'T, UM, I THINK MOVING FORWARD, LIKE I, I WOULDN'T HAVE EXPECTED THIS, THIS TO BE PROFITABLE. 
          I EXPECT IT TO BE PROFITABLE, PROFITABLE PROBABLY IN LIKE TWO YEARS, YOU KNOW? BUT EVERYBODY HAS TO GET THEIR THINGS GOING. 
          I THINK YOU GUYS REALLY TOOK A LEAP OUTSIDE OF A COMFORT ZONE AND I THINK YOU GUYS REALLY DID WELL. 
          UM, AND UH, AND IT ALSO SOUNDS LIKE THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT HOW THEY TALKED TO THE PEOPLE UP IN WINDSOR AND GOT LIKE TONS OF IDEAS FROM THEM TOO, AND THAT THEY WERE, UM, WILLING TO TALK WITH THE CITY AND STUFF LIKE THAT, WHICH I THINK IS GREAT BECAUSE WINDSOR IS SO FAR AWAY, IT'S NOT COMPETITION. 
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UM, AND IT SOUNDS LIKE THE ONE IN TERRA LINDA ISN'T GONNA HAPPEN. 
          SO YOU CAN PULL ALL THE MARIN PEOPLE UP NORTH. 
          SO I THINK IT, I THINK IT'LL BE GREAT. 
          YEAH. 
          HATS OFF. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, AND KEEP TRUGGING AND GIVE IT A FEW YEARS. 
          RIGHT? ROME WASN'T A BUILT IN A DAY OR WAS IT ANY OTHER? YEAH. 
          WELL, THANK YOU. 
          UM, I JUST HAVE A FEW MORE AND, UM, YEAH, JUST APPRECIATE THE CONVERSATIONS TONIGHT AND AGAIN, UM, YOU ALL FOR YOUR SERVICE. 
          UH, THANK YOU KAT. 
          THAT WAS A GREAT RECAP. 
          UM, JUST, UH, AS A REMINDER, SUMMER CAMP REGISTRATIONS ARE FILLING UP. 
          SO, UM, THERE'S THAT FIRST TRANCHE WAVE OF, UH, ANXIETY FROM ALL NERVOUS PARENTS THINK THEY'LL HAVE NOWHERE TO SEND THEIR KIDS FOR THE SUMMER. 
          UH, SO THERE ARE WAITING LISTS ON, ON MOST OF THE CAMPS, BUT THERE STILL IS SOME AVAILABILITY. 
          SO GET IN TOUCH. 
          UM, I THINK YOU TOUCHED ON THE MUSEUM. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, COMMISSIONER, UH, KELLY, UH, COMMISSIONER CHISHOLM TOUCHED ON THE MURAL. 
          ST. 
          PATRICK'S, I THINK IT'S, I THINK WE CALLED IT ST. 
          UH, PAJAMAS DAY AT THE SENIOR CENTER. 
          UM, THAT WAS ONE OF THE CUTEST SLASH MOST FESTIVE PLACES IN THE CITY IN THE MORNING ON ST. 
          PATRICK'S DAY, OUTSIDE OF MAYBE A, A PUB OR TWO IN IRELAND. 
          UM, BUT AGAIN, JUST A, A, A BUZZ IN PLACE AT THE SENIOR CENTER. 
          SO MAYBE WE SHOULD THROW SOME MORE VIDEOS OR MAYBE NOT VIDEOS, PHOTOS, STILL PHOTOS OF THAT EVENT. 
          THE TRANSHUMAN FESTIVAL, I WANTED TO PUT THAT ON YOUR CALENDARS IS APRIL 12TH, UH, IS NINE TO 10 30. 
          BUT THE, IF YOU REMEMBER, THIS IS WHERE WE, UM, WORK WITH OUR LOCAL GRAZERS TO PARADE, PARADE THE SHEEP, UM, ESSENTIALLY FROM, UH, FAIRGROUNDS, UM, D STREET WILL BE CLOSED. 
          IT'LL PARADE AT 10 30. 
          AND SO A VERY SHORT TIME, WE'LL, WE'LL TIME IT RIGHT WITH SMART, OUR, OUR PARTNERS AT SMART TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'VE GOT A GOOD SHEEP CROSSING. 
          AND THEN IT'LL HEAD RIGHT INTO THE FESTIVAL, UM, AT, UH, RIVER PARK AND THE STEAMERS LANDING, THAT'S APRIL 12TH. 
          CINDY TOUCHED ON ARBOR DAY, THAT WAS, THAT'D BE APRIL 26TH. 
          WOULD LOVE FOR, UH, ANYONE AROUND THAT WEEKEND TO BE RIGHT BACK HERE AT CITY HALL. 
          IT'S NOT JUST, UM, ABOUT THE TREES, IT'S ABOUT THE COMMUNITY AND THE, THE FESTIVITIES THAT OCCURRED THERE. 
          AND THEN JUST KEEPING YOUR EYE ON MAY, MAY 10TH IS THE, UH, MIRACLE LEAGUE, UH, WHIFFLE BALL TOURNAMENT. 
          SO $400 WILL GET YOUR TEAM IN. 
          BUT THIS IS A REALLY, UM, JUST AWESOME POSITIVE EVENT. 
          YES, THERE'S WHIFFLE BALL, BUT THERE'S A LOT OUTSIDE OF WHIFFLE BALL THAT'S JUST, UH, INCREDIBLE TO SUPPORT THIS ORGANIZATION. 
          UM, PLAY SOME BALL, BUT IT, IT REALLY KIND OF TAKES OVER A GOOD PORTION OF LUC CASEY PARK ON THE 10TH. 
          UM, SO IF YOU'RE NOT INTO WIFFLE BALL, UM, MAYBE AVOID THE AREA IF YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT THAT. 
          AND THEN, UH, FAIR PLANNING IS UNDERWAY. 
          SO WE'VE GOT, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THESE THAT YOU'LL START SEEING AROUND TOWN. 
          BUT I WANTED TO LEAVE EVERYBODY WITH THE KIND OF POSTER OR HEADSHOT, IF YOU WILL, OF UM, WHAT WILL BE THE, UH, EVENT, UH, PUBLISHED FOR THE PETALUMA FAIR. 
          SO I'M GONNA HAND THIS AROUND TO EVERYBODY, UM, BUT YOU'LL HAVE THESE ON DIGITAL FORM AS WELL. 
          UH, AND THAT IS MY COMMENTS. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU, DREW. 
          OKAY, UH, WITH THAT I'M GOING TO ADJOURN THIS MEETING OF THE RECREATION PARKS AND MUSIC COMMISSION FOR MARCH 19TH, 2025. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU.
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