Good evening. I call the April 16, 2026 Parks and Recreation Board meeting to order at 4.32. Deputy Clerk Goins, will you please call the roll? Actually, let's hold on. You're working. Mine's not either. Yeah, OK. It's not working. It is. I love the library. There it is. OK. Soon enough. All right, I got in. Let me just one second, if I could. Good evening. I call the April 16, 2026 Parks and Recreation Advisory Board meeting to order. at 4.33 p.m. Deputy Clerk Goins, will you please call the roll? Chair Ball? Not present. Chair Potem-Faber? Present. Board Member Murray? Present. Board Member Wright? Present. And Board Member Veith? Present. Chair Potem-Faber, you have a quorum. Next on the agenda is public comment. Public comment is designed for you to share your thoughts and concerns with the board. This is a formal business meeting of the board, and as such, we follow a standard protocol, which means it is not an interactive discussion. It is a one-way forum. 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Hearing none, the minutes are approved as presented. Our first general business item tonight is an update on Coyote Ridge Park and Soaring Hawk Park. The presentation will be given by Kyle Davis and Mia HCO. Okay, thank you for having me. I'm Kyle Davis with HCM, a landscape architect on the project, and I'll go over at Coyote Ridge Park, and as you mentioned, I'll introduce myself. And I'm Mia Rikessens, a landscape architect with HCM, and I will be presenting the Soaring Hog Park. You're Kyle. And I think Jen Sonnier might be showing up as well, so if you see her pop in, she's also with HCM and been an integral part of this project, but... My understanding is we just want to give you a overview of these park projects, kind of what's been done and where we're at so that you're familiar with the new design for these park redevelopments. So I'll start with Coyote Ridge Park. Right now we're doing phase one improvements. This is an existing park. And go to the next slide. And this was a process that started a while ago. We've been working closely with the city's park and recreation department. I've been working quite a bit with Marcus. He's been a great partner in this project. So it's really been an enjoyable experience. We're excited to work on this. I think we have an exciting design that we hope the community is excited about as well. This was a process that started a couple of years ago with the master planning phase kind of initial. public outreach to understand what the local community wanted to see at their park. This was an extensive process with various surveys. And we can go to the next slide. And here's a quick rundown on some of the general results from one of the surveys. And this was asking, what style playground do they want to see? The existing playground there is old and outdated. I think there's a couple of components that we can reuse in a new playground to be conscious of costs and not getting rid of stuff that we don't need to, but it is lacking in a few features. And so based on the public input, a nature inspired playground was what was selected. That's not exactly nature play, but it's nature inspired. So it's gonna be a traditional playground with all new exciting features, but it kind of has that aesthetic and look of kind of a natural environment. You go to the next one. And you can see the rankings of some of the features that they would like to see. Obviously, slides and shade are up there. They'll be typical for park projects. When we've been out there at the existing condition, it does have a lack of shade and seating options. We've noticed some people pulling tables and benches into the playground for places to sit and get shade. Swinging, that's always big. It's oldie but goodie. I think all playgrounds should have some sort of swinging. Obstacle fitness course and towers. That's a tower play structure, so something substantial. And then hillside play, and then you can kind of read down the line. But those are the... the main components that they wanted to see. You can see some examples on the right of what that could look like. Can you go to the next slide, please? So this is the master plan that was done for the entire park, Coyote Ridge Park. The areas that are outlined with the dashed blue line, that's for the phase one. So you can see that there is a bigger park picture, but based on available funds and timing, we're breaking out these components as part of the phase one, the initial stuff. You can see it's at the intersection of roughly Salina Drive and Hidden Point Boulevard. There is an existing ball field that's out there, kind of at that intersection across from the creek. And we are going to improve that to be regulation quality. It's pretty informal right now. I think they do use it for some games, but we want to bring that up to current standards so that it could be utilized a little bit more as well as part of this process. There's an existing pickleball courts that are out there at the entry drive into the park. And then there's also some existing basketball courts as you go to the primary parking lot. You can hop to the next slide. Okay, so this is zoomed in. This is our more recent master plan, overall site plan for the phase one work to show a little bit higher resolution detail of what we're doing here. At the pickleball courts, those are relatively new, and what we're going to do there is just provide a new restroom structure there. It's a vault restroom, so it's not plumbed, but it will be a new restroom by the pickleball courts. Down by the existing basketball courts, we're going to provide a chain link fence adjacent to the creek to help prevent basketballs from going into the creek, just as a little bit of a barrier. And then you can see at the playground area, that's a whole new playground. We are going to do a new restroom as well. That's going to have forest halls in it, also a vault restroom. It will have electrical to it, so it will have lighting as part of that. And we can get into the details of that a little bit more in some of these other slides. The parking lot off a hidden point, we're going to bring up to be ADA-accessible, as well as those concrete trails that go down to the creek, provide accessible pathways. Right now, this all looks a little bit too steep. There are some habit trails that have formed, just kind of people cutting across, so we're going to pave those as well, just to... kind of formalize some of those paths and not have people walking on dirt. And then we're going to have a new restroom by that parking lot as well. That could also serve the new ball field. So you can go to the next slide. So this is zoomed in. That square at the top by the pickleball, that's where the restroom is going to go. That's a small restroom, two stall. And then you can see by the basketball court where that fence is going to go. So not a whole lot going there, but just want to improve the existing site, make it a little bit more usable. Next slide, please. So here's the playground area. This is the meat and potatoes of the improvements. There are existing shade structures there that we're going to keep. We don't want to remove those. But we do want to bring a concrete path to it that's accessible. Right now they're just sitting in the middle of the sod, so they're not accessible. So we do want to make that accessible. Upgrade the lighting in those. We do have two primary play areas. Intermediate, which is generally the older kids, that's five to 12 year old. And primary, which is for the younger kids, two to five year old. That is separated. And we do have a new shade structure kind of on the on the west end there that has sight lines to both those areas. So people can sit in the shade under the structure and see both playgrounds as well. We are working with the topography. So we're gonna have some seat walls, natural stone block seat walls. That's also helping hold some of the grade in certain areas. And at the entry, kind of right off the parking lot there, it's a little hard to see on here, but I can show you a better picture. It's kind of our signature play piece. It's a custom-themed coyote rock climbing boulder so that you'll see that as you come up to the park through the parking lot. And then we're going to provide accessible routes down to the creek. We're not replacing the existing crossing there. We're going to leave that as is. It's in good enough shape, but we will bring new paths to it that are accessible as well. Next slide, please. Here's some 3D renderings. This is all brand new play equipment. We worked quite a bit with multiple different play manufacturers to select exciting equipment with colors that would fit with the area. We have a synthetic turf kind of berm or ridge that cuts through. That's bisected by a concrete walk that connects kind of a musical sensory area with that shade structure. Yeah, so the one on the lower end there, that's the primary play area for the younger kids, so a little bit lower play equipment. And you can see the taller tower structure for the bigger kids on the upper playground area. We're using poured-in-place rubberized surfacing. That's easier to maintain over the long term. You can do some interesting color shapes and stuff like that as well. Next slide, please. So this is just a different angle looking the other way. By the new shade structure, which is on the right end there, it's kind of hard to see in here. We're doing what we call a wavy walk. It's not really a pump track per se, but if kids wanted to ride their bike through that, it adds a little bit of interest. You know, it's kind of some bumps. It's not... I wouldn't call it like a bike park or anything like that. It's just a little path that's wavy that little kids can ride their bikes on. I did want that to be right next to one of the primary playgrounds, just to avoid some of those conflicts. So it kind of wraps around the new shade structure. Next slide, please. And just a different view. You can see on this, coming off the existing parking lot, we do have a new concrete walk that is relatively wider than the others. That's about 12 feet wide. The purpose for that is tying into the overall master plan for the area. Maybe someday at a future build out, they would bring food trucks down to the existing multi-use fields there for festivals, things like that. So we did want to provide a route that food trucks can go down off the main parking lot. And also at the bottom there, it's a little hard to see, but in that tannish area at the very bottom, that's our fitness equipment area. So that has some new fitness equipment pieces. I think we have about five total. So it's not directly next to the playground area. It's closer towards the multi-use field. Understanding that's probably going to be a different user group than, you know, the little kids. So next slide, please. So this goes back to our original public outreach, and we're just highlighting some of the different features that this playground will have, the different sensory, physical, cognitive play equipment and elements that we're incorporating to the site. So you can see that there's a lot going on in this space. It's generally about the same size as the existing playground area, but we're just trying to be more efficient with the layout and incorporate more pieces into it. Next slide, please. Here, these aren't the exact colors that we picked, but these are images of the play equipment. You can see on the bottom right there, that's the custom climbing feature boulder playing up on that Coyote Ridge thing. A little literal interpretation of that. But this is a new series play tower that's coming out. Lots of exciting features on there, and they have some nice natural colors and tones that can be incorporated into that. And that play piece is incredibly inclusive as well. So it's a brand new feature that has a lot of different ways you can transfer out of a wheelchair or if you have other different sensory needs, there's a lot of really cool accessible amenities that are very specific to this play piece. So it just allows for universal play. Will it have the... The coyote image or coyote thing in it? That's really cool. Yeah. In the upper left-hand corner, that's going to be included as well? Yeah. Yeah, that's part of the 5- to 12-year-old playground area. Can I ask, I don't know, is there good cell phone coverage there if somebody gets hurt? Jesus. Thank you. Is there good cell phone coverage there if somebody gets hurt with all the new things in the hike and so forth? Yeah, we have helpful coverage there. Speaking of experience of being out there, and plus we have the pickleball courts are run off of the cameras and locks are run off cellular. And the lock on the bathroom will be run off the cellular. So, yes, they're strong cellular. Super. Thank you. So one of the questions I had, because I volunteer at the Denver Zoo, We had a presentation the other day on living with coyotes. We have an employee who works on the coyote project, and she talked about living with coyotes because so many of them are in the Denver area. Is there an issue with why the coyotes are on there? Short answer, yes. Not in that particular area, but they're at the ridge that sits above that neighborhood. there's Coyote, and then it goes into the open space, the Excel, I believe it's Excel, and it's Ranch Open Space up there. There is Coyote up there. Obviously, they are around the whole area, but there is a higher level of coyotes on the backside of that neighborhood. I actually did, I think, what we call Trail 18 recently, whatever I... my Walgreens, and I ran into a coyote there. So just stop, just observe it, take pictures, and then just get going. So I'm just curious about that. Yeah, it's adequately named. Yeah, it's much fun. And we do have some custom graphics that we're incorporating, some sandblasted imagery to kind of play up on that. We don't want anything scary, you know, but just playing up on that coyote theme as well throughout the site. It's educational. Yeah, educational. Next slide, please. So various components, more play pieces, some of that natural aesthetic. Like I mentioned, we do have that synthetic turf berm that cuts across both playground areas that we're incorporating. So it's pretty small. It's probably more for the younger kids, but it'll have some steppers, a rope pole, things like that on there. Kids love to play on those. Different types of components, pieces that do different sensory experiences, group play, different types of swings, ADA-accessible swings for different needs. Try to be inclusive as we can for the different play pieces. Next slide, please. So the question, you talked about the synthetic term. What's underneath the rest? Like what's the material? Underneath the grass? Yes. So there is a shop pad that'll provide a little bit of the cushioning for safety. Underneath that, it's concrete paving that slopes up. We need concrete just to be able to make that steepest slope on the berm. And it won't be too high. No, it should. We're using... It's called a brock pad and brock fill, which it's not like the black rubber pellets that get too hot. It's a little bit cooler. Yeah. And then is that like the rubber material in that first picture? Because that's not going to be turf. Is it going to be mulch anymore? Right. Yeah. We're not doing any kind of like wood play surfacing. It's all either the poured in place rubberized surfacing or that synthetic turf. It's not going to have the wood chips that you might see. The old days. Yeah. We still use them, but we try to do port in place where we can. And this shows some of the other components for the younger kids at the primary playground area. Next slide, please. And the other features, I think that one on the bottom row in the middle. It's an existing piece that we can reincorporate into the new playground. It looks like it's in good enough shape to reuse. So we're going to try and do that. But just small play and sensory features for the younger kids. Next slide, please. Here's some renderings that we've worked with the playground manufacturers on. So this is Fairly basic, but it shows how it lays out. You can kind of see the synthetic turf berm in the back. That's not exactly how it looks, but you can see the relation of that. Next slide, please. Here's another rendering for the primary play area, the younger kids, trying to play up on that natural nature-inspired look. Next slide, please. Top image is that wavy walk that I mentioned, riding a bike on little kids. And then we do have some musical or sound components that are in a central plaza area, a little bit separated from the playground areas. But it's a different experience. They are themed. It is a little bit further away from the shade structure, so parents don't have to listen to it as much, but it does make sound. And then on the right, bottom right, that's some fitness equipment. So your pull-up bars, things like that. Next slide, please. We did want to be very... cognizant of different seating options. We have a wide variety of different seating features. We have a rocking or swinging bench that you can see on the top left. We have a lounge-style bench. We have curved benches that we're incorporating. This is closer to the musical play equipment pieces. Typical just park bench. We'll have ADA picnic tables that'll be incorporated underneath the shade structure. New trash receptacles, trying to be strategic on where we place those. We want to make sure that we have adequate amount, but not necessarily right next to where you're sitting or eating. Viprex, and then that's an image of the new shade structure. Next slide, please. This on the lounge bench, that looks like it's kind of an unfinished wood. What's the life expectancy on that? I believe what we're, do you recall if we're doing wood on that one? All right. Does the seed is kebony? I think we are, yeah. Yeah. Because the other option is like metal, and that would get too hot. Yeah. And usually these are, I can't remember if kebony is thermally modified, but usually they're treated to last basically as long as, like an HDPE. It's not like something that you would have at your house. They're thermally modified to last quite a bit longer. The color might fade a little bit if you don't apply a sealant to it, but generally they have a long life expectancy. I don't know the exact years off the top of my head, but it is rated for public park use. Thank you. And this area is on the other side of the creek. That's the existing parking lot that we're going to upgrade with some ADA stalls and provide a new ADA accessible concrete trail up to it down from the creek. You can see closer to the creek there's kind of a colorful area. We're calling that a pollinator garden area. So we're going to have some plants that are well suited for pollinators. It's not right next to the playground, but we did want to be I'm cognizant of that and provide a place for it. It's an educational component as well. And then on the west side of the parking lot, we just have a white square right now, but that's where the new restroom structure is going to be. Corey's online. She has a question. Okay. Hi there. I'm so sorry I couldn't be in person, everyone. I'm not feeling well, but I did want to ask, and I'm sorry, I can't remember your name. the person who's speaking. But I know you talked a little bit about some of the material that you were going to reuse. Of all the material that's currently there, are most of the materials going to be reused, or what's the process for that to happen? Yeah, so there's only two existing plate features that we're going to be reusing. One are the small little cover seats. They spin their individual seats. I think there's a few of them out there. They're pretty small, so they're easy to incorporate in the new playground. And then the other one is kind of that wavy play structure. We had an image early on of what that is. I believe it spins. You can fit multiple kids on that, and it spins around like a somewhat of a merry-go-round feature, but more inclusive. And those are the only two existing plate features that we're able to reincorporate. And the rest will be, what will be done with the rest of the materials, the current materials? They'll be removed and disposed during construction. Okay. All right, next question, or slide please. So this is the new ball field. It meets current regulations. It is on a steeper slope and it is a little bit bigger than what's out there just to meet those requirements. So you can see that we've had to incorporate two tiered retaining walls at the north end there just to get those grades to work. It is a 300 foot foul line ball field. And we're going to have two dugouts covered in shade, players benches and baseball bat boxes as well for those. It's a natural sod outfield with a dirt infield. Yeah, and it'll have a new connection down to the existing parking lot and tie into the existing trail system on the west side there. One of the comments that we heard one of the previous times that we presented this is with those being retaining walls and two sets of them, what that would look like for adjacent people or people driving down the road and if there's ways that we could soften that. So we did incorporate planting areas in front of that to do some shrubs to help kind of screen those walls so it's not quite so in your face. Will that be irrigated? The shrubs will, yeah. No, I mean the play field. Yeah. Sprinker systems. Yeah, that'll have a fully new irrigation system for the field and the shrub beds. Is that a chain link fence? It goes around the outfield wall. Yeah. How tall is that? That's just a six foot. That's a eight foot. Six or eight foot. I'll have to double check that. And then it'll also extend down the lines into a chain link backstop as well. Yeah. That's great. Next slide, please. So some 3D renderings. I'll graphically show how that might look. Next slide, please. And these are renderings of the new restroom structures. Like I mentioned, these are all vaults. They're different sizes depending on where they're located. So the top one, that's at the playground area. That has four stalls to it. which is about as big as you can get for a vault restroom. Otherwise, the smell can just become a problem. So it's about as big as we can get with a vault restroom. The one on the bottom there, that's a three stall. That's what's closer to the ball field by that existing parking lot. And next slide, please. And here's the smaller one by the pickleball. So this has two stalls. We sent all of these web locks Yeah, we're incorporating mag locks, electronics, so they'll set a timer on when they lock and open. And just to confirm, it is eight feet tall for the fencing around the ball field. Thank you. Next slide, please. So again, this is just the overall site plan. You can see how it all fits together. We did look at the easement for the existing power poles that are out there, and we made sure that we kept the ball field and any improvements out of that, so we're not having any conflicts with the Xcel easement that goes through there. Next slide, please. Okay, so this is Suriname. I'll hand it over to Mia. And before Mia starts, I'll kind of, one, if there's any other follow-up questions, this was a great opportunity to want to bring HCM, and they've been here since the beginning of this, from the start of it to ask the questions, the community engagement, working closely with PrAB, so with our new members. Wanted you guys to get an idea of what it looks like, where it's going. PrAB was vital in creating these steps, and the... different amenities and the recommendations and all of that. Really, that was hard work and dedication on this group of working with that and getting to that and identifying these areas and making sure that what the community wanted were staying true to. Some of the last things that were additions was the ball field. It is... We had cut short currently on the left side because it goes into the Excel, so it stops, so it's very short. And then there's a steep hill, so we had to have identified that, moved that over, recommended that to council, and it was accepted to make it full. And then all the details from the backstops to the warning tracks, and then seeing what the ball toilets, recognizing the need out there for the ball toilets. that the current Epic Bowl, we have two sandalettes, and then we have two stalls at the playground. No, I take that back. We have one sandalette up at the ball field currently. It was not enough, so Pratt recognized that need and did that. So that's kind of where we're going, and with Soaring Hawk, we'll do that presentation. This group will be more involved in prepping that Soaring Hawk. i ask one more question you guys can ask us many questions that's what they're here for is for the new prep numbers for sure this is a lot of facility um plans for more parking looks like it's a bit of a walk to some of them and they're probably going to get with this nice of a of a change um We're upgrading the parking lot up on top by adding the ADA. We're adding some ADA spaces on below, which were a need. We did not have, I think there was one, maybe two tops below, and I don't think there were any on top. So those were a need. Where it really comes from, special events. is when the parking, and that's, then unfortunately we're going to have the overflow still on that. Special events will still be a problem. But on a day-to-day basis, the park handles the parking very well. Between a lot of people walking and biking to the area, and the pickleball handles it well. So right now the flow is good. It's the special events where we have food. When you guys go to Food Truck Frenzy that first week in June, which will be the last event at this park before we start construction, you'll see that parking is an issue with special events, and that one's a hard one to gauge. But that's why we're building the other parks, looking at Soaring Heart and looking at that to disperse some of that action throughout the city. It certainly is a lot better than Elbridge. Elbridge events get very tight out there. Thank you. Yes. Did that answer your question? Yes. This may be a little out of place because this is my first meeting. So have you guys had a conversation about turfing that baseball field versus doing it in natural grass and dirt? I think that was some of the initial conversation earlier on. Yeah. And it was determined that the preference would be to do a natural sod. and also for just thoughts and considerations. Yeah, and we may be so far past it, you know, there might be a conversation for the other fields, but I'm plugged into the local baseball world, but the need is super high, so rentals for the fields and stuff, I'm sure we'd fill them up. I just was curious what the conversation was. You're going to love the sorry not presentation. Yeah, I've seen that on the plan, so it's really nice. Spoiler alert. But, yes. I came in kind of at the end of that, too, and it was a couple – the cost was a big option because it was an add-on. It's probably a 3x cost. Yeah, and also there was a worry of what that area would look like and maintain a natural feel in that coyote. That's why we did the wall the way we did it is because we still wanted to maintain what it looks like out there and not get too crazy. So that's – Both of those things, but ultimately the cost and budget is what that was. But again, more to come. You'll like the next presentation. And then if I may, just I think one of the things that was brought up is it's really hard to play on. And that was a concern, especially for the kids and stuff. Through your cleats, it's not comfortable. I've played on it, and it's not fun. Any more questions? Again, feel free. Terry has seen this probably a third time. But, yes, we did want to bring you up. And this next one, again, at any point, same like the other one, if you have questions, feel free to chime in. It's an open discussion. Any question at all, there's no such thing as a silly question. You guys are coming up to speed on this, and we're excited to have you aboard. All right, with that, before I jump right into Soaring Hawk, just to orient yourself with the city. So Coyote Ridge Park is on the west side of I-25, and then Soaring Hawk Park is now on the east side, just south of the reservoir. So if you kind of picture that in context of everything, this is now going to the other side of the interstate. All right, so Soaring Hawk Park, we have completed the schematic design phase of the park. This is, again, after all the master planning process, we went to the community, asked a bunch of questions for both Coyote Ridge Park and Soaring Hawk Park. Out of all the cities and communities we've ever worked with, the city had the most participation from the community. We had hundreds and hundreds of participants come to each event, and it was... really, really encouraging to hear so many different voices. And so with all of that, it was great to put that together and create these two visions for the community. So. But community context, you can go ahead and go to that. Yeah, that's great. This is just a little bit of context of the architecture and the structures in the area. We kind of took the bigger picture before working our way in. So we. needed to understand what kind of materials were being used, what the aesthetic was of the community. And so these are kind of the major architecture structures because we do have some really nice shade structures and restroom facilities at this particular park. So next slide, you can see a little bit of just the landscape context. We have some really beautiful prairie landscapes, a lot of beautiful natural surroundings. with trees and a lot of natural planting. So we carried that theme into this park as well and wanted to maintain as much of that as possible. Next slide. History and ecology. We dug into a lot of the history. There's a lot of Native American history, a lot of when the stagecoaches came into town, a lot of history from that side of things. ecological aspect of the community is what's the most beautiful. I mean, even when we were out doing sidewalks, you could see deer walking the periphery and it was just a really beautiful space and being Soaring Hawk Park, there are hawks in the area. And so, you know, that was a lot of part of our inspiration of getting inspired from the play equipment as well. So kind of similar to Coyote Ridge, we definitely wanted to play into the natural themes. So next slide. The existing site conditions, there isn't a whole lot out there, so it actually was a really nice blank slate. There's a lot of up-and-coming communities being built in the surrounding areas, a lot of existing communities that are going to stay in place, but the space itself has some existing scrub oaks, but the rest of it was kind of a prairie-ish kind of landscape with not a lot going on yet. Next slide. So this is the conceptual master plan. This is the big, big picture. It's about a 50 acre park total, but Soaring Hawk Park, the northwestern portion of it is kind of the focus of this phase one. So this is, I didn't mention this at the beginning, this is the phase one portion of Soaring Hawk Park. So the outline in black is the part that I'm focusing on today and the rest of the master plan is sort of a future phase. So just phase one we're gonna look at, and that's the area dotted in black. And that is about 24 acres, just to put it in context. Next slide. Okay, so these are the top 18 amenities that were voted on by the community as preferred amenities for the park. And this is for the total park, so not just the phase one portion, but the phase two portion as well. So restrooms were a really big pool, community pool, which we did not end up putting into this park because space wise, it didn't make sense. And context wise, it makes sense. It also took up a large portion of the budget. And so in working with the parks department, they acknowledged from the community that yes, pools are very highly requested, but this was not right as far as location goes. So I just wanted to acknowledge that we didn't purposely ignore it. It was a huge topic of conversation, but ended up not, feeling like the right fit for this particular park. Paved and soft trails, sledding hill, community center, shade, big, big request, pickleball courts, multi-use fields, seating, inclusive play, trees, courts, and of course, playgrounds and natural spaces. Next slide. Oh, you're fine. All right, so here's the schematic design plan. I'm going to kind of walk her away from east to west, but we... I'm going to interrupt just real quick. For those that live on the east side, you recognize this. Yeah, all of you. You recognize this plot. The road below there is... That's Canyonside Boulevard. Yeah, so right now... Yeah, where we had the drive-in movie. I know over the summer, did you guys participate? Okay. It was, it was, it's in that, that plot right there. So just to kind of give you reference in, in, in the city where that, that, that area is at. And you may have said that, but I just want to clarify. And it's, once you know where it's at, it, it, the, the shape is just very distinct of that property. Yeah. No, thank you, Marcus. So one of the big things that was voted on by the community was preservation of natural landscape. And so on the west side of the site, you can kind of see some blobs of gray. Those are the existing scrub oaks. We wanted to protect those and make that more of the natural entry into the park. So as you're coming into the space, there's a lot of trail systems. There's a little bit of an incline over there. And then you're kind of working your way into the central portion. which has inclusive playgrounds, it has its parking lot, lots of shade structures, it has some bike amenities, and then you kind of work your way up the hill to sort of a plateau area of the different courts. We've got pickleball and tennis, a parking lot for that space, a restroom facility, shade, and the multi-use ball field, which I'll get into. And so now I'm going to work my way with enlargements from east to west. So next slide. All right, so here's an enlargement of that multi-use field. And to answer the question earlier of artificial turf, this one is an artificial turf field, mainly because of all the different sports that are kind of going to be using this space. And so you can kind of see it's kind of light in color, but there's a lot of different sports happening. We've got baseball, softball, soccer, lacrosse, and some of the smaller sports. sports for kickball and things like that. So this is a great space for multi-use opportunities and we can stripe all of those in the artificial turf. So the different sports know which area to kind of play in. And then we have portable soccer goals where soccer games would be happening. We have a 20 foot high netting on the back backside. a some shaded dugouts, shaded bleachers, scoreboard and flagpole and some other like retaining walls to make sure the grades are working next to the road. But the imagery on the right is kind of showing some of that overlapping inspiration of different sports sharing the space. And some of the questions we got when we were. talked about this prior, you see the image and you see the infield there. That's still turf. It's not a rock down infield. It's still turf. So it's a really cool concept. I'm excited for that. Thanks, Marcus. It's also a 300-foot ball field, a full-size soccer field, which is 360 feet by 225 feet with a 30-foot run out, two U-10 soccer fields. lacrosse and flag football so lots of really great opportunities there yes good i'm not sure but looking to the to the top of that before you get to the road before the trees there's kind of like that triangle that's a little bit of a detention area so there's going to be it's kind of just collecting any water that's on that site and um it's it's going to have like a detention seed mix in that space and then the light green surrounding the artificial turf that's all native seed with some new plantings, some new trees, some new scrub oaks to kind of match the aesthetic on the west side of the site. Are you including nighttime lighting or is it just day? So there is lighting, nighttime lighting for this site, for specifically the ball field, some Musco light. Thank you. And this will be the only lighted field in town. We don't. The new baseball field is not lighted. Elkridge is not lighted. It's a little unique here in the fact that the neighborhood is going to be both around this. The other one's the neighborhood. It's the first one in our scheme. So it makes a big difference. Because how long, I mean, because you're getting scared when you hear about how tall the light posts are. What are they, 100 feet? Yeah, small. Yeah, so they're large. But the way that the lighting now is, the directional lighting, the light now, it's really come a long way. But it creates a regional park feel for this area. All right, next slide. So here's an enlargement of the pickleball and tennis courts. We have two tennis courts and six regular sized pickleball courts with two accessible pickleball courts. And they're accessible in the term of you can actually have sport rated wheelchairs play on those courts. And they're also really great for classes. So if you have a big group of people out there learning to play the sport, It's kind of nice to have a little bit of extra room around the court for those classes, but we call them adaptive courts. So they're a little bit bigger. You can actually have tournaments there, too, if there's crowds going there. So it's a little bit more of a multi-use in terms of who's using those pickleball courts. But, yeah, so this space has shade structures in between. We have the restroom and storage facility, so you can store – things to help maintain both the ball field and the courts. But there's also really nice little shaded areas of custom shade structures and planting and trees and boulder seating. And so it's just kind of a nice little space when you're walking around between the different courts. Have you done any sound studies? Pickleball is great, but a lot of people don't want them close to their house. That's very true. And that's a great question. So a lot of times, Pickleball courts will have a slightly larger post now where the fencing are kind of supported by the posts and those are upsized slightly. So if you have dampening soundproof dampeners on on the posts, the wind isn't going to impact it structurally. So that's what we're planning for. So it's like a four inch round post. around the pickleball cords. You're going to do acoustic damage? If that becomes a problem, you could install them without impacting the structural capability of the fence. Thank you. And remind me, the behind there towards Canyon's side is a berm, correct? It berms upwards? That's correct. And then Canyon's side will also be getting expanded. to Four Lanes and Berm. So some of those are in traffic into the design as well. Yeah, and currently there's some nearby existing houses, but nothing has been built yet. So anybody moving into that community will know what they're buying into, knowing that there's courts right there. But that is one of the things that kind of comes with Pickleball. It does have a little bit of a sound. component to it. Although I do hear they're inventing quieter balls and paddles, but I don't know where that is yet. And we've been fortunate in our current pickleball, but the location is key. We don't get any complaints. I'm going to knock on wood because everybody's watching this, right? But no, it's put in a very strategic good spot. current location, coyotes. And it's well used in the morning hours when you would think you would get, because in the summer, it's morning and evening that they get hit hard, because at noon, especially at Coyote Ridge, that sun's coming down. It's pretty exposed. But all of them are. If you look at them, I mean, we'll have them designed with trees and stuff, but when you're on those courts at noon in the summer, it's going to get pretty warm. And these don't have lights, so you don't have to worry about it. These do have lights. Oh, these have lights. Yes. And all the lights will be on timers, so they won't be on all night or access them. Okay, next slide. All right, so we're coming down into the center area of the park. We have some really amazing play spaces. We have a two to five play space that's kind of in the center there, a five to 12 play space off to the side, And then another 5 to 12 play space that is a hillside play going up the hill, and there's an accessible route to the top of that hillside. All very inspired by what the community requested as far as tying into the nature theme. So I'll get into kind of the renderings of those in a moment, but just... Looking outside of the playground for a moment, we have a restroom and storage facility building in this space as well, which is great for maintaining these areas. We have a gateway pavilion, which is just kind of a custom shade structure and another sort of picnic pavilion next to the restroom building as well, just kind of south of that restroom building. We also have a toddler pump track, which is a little bit of an upgrade from Coyote Ridge in terms of what That includes, but it is going to have a little bit more of a challenge to it and it will have some some cool signage and some little interactive features that kids can learn how to start and stop and kind of mosey around the cute little pump track. So that's a really great feature. There's also a challenge course, which is going to be a little more fitness focused next to the five to 12 for a little bit of the older kids that want either parkour or. a little bit more of a climbing kind of structure. So very, very challenging. And that one will be artificial turf. Next slide. I'll get into things a little bit more. So this is the playground theme. We kind of went with a tall grass haven theme with just playing off of the beautiful environment of the natural birds, the natural grasses, a lot of the natural insects and the natural just flowers and little bunnies and things in the area. And then with this inspiration, if you go to the next slide, we have the two to five playground, which is very nature themed. We have a cute little bunny structure. The kids can climb in and through. There's integrated slides, both off of the side of the bunny and through the tail of the bunny. And then the surrounding areas, we have some little climbing berms, some sensory play, a very inclusive merry-go-round feature. We also have, like I said, in the little pump tracks and little stop and go kind of things. So kids can go up and down and learn how to use their pump track. And then in the next slide, we have the five to 12, which... All very custom equipment. We worked with the playground manufacturers to make this soaring hawk theme come to life. And what a cool structure they ended up helping us come up with. So we have this soaring hawk feature that as you come into the park from the parking lot, you see this hawk kind of towering over you, which is super, super cool. And it's very inclusive. As you can see, you have a lot of different means of getting up into that space and a lot of climbing opportunities. spinners, musical instruments, just all kinds of crazy fun stuff in that area. And then the next slide, you can kind of see this is at the hillside play. So this is next to that space where you can kind of have an accessible route up to the top of the hillside. And this is the, we were inspired by a hawk nest. So the hawk is kind of down below, but his nest is up on the top of the hill. So we had this nest idea of kids being able to walk through the space and very inclusive. You have an accessible ramp kind of into that area and then multiple ways of sliding down and various climbing features as well. So very fun. One of my favorite projects to design was one of this one. So next slide, we have a few other features nearby. We have the toddler pump plot. toddler pump track, like I mentioned, and then we have a bike skills course, which is a really cool, once you upgrade and grow from the pump track and you want to get your little mountain bike out and test your little skills, we've got some little ups and downs and little opportunities to go through the little dirt track and learn some bike skills in that area. And, of course, that connects to the trail system to the west. So you can kind of walk through that space, take your bike, and you have multiple opportunities to either bike your way to the top of the hill or get to the bike skills course. Next slide. And like I said, so here's the little soft surface trail space on the west, maintained a lot of the nature and added a stair incline. So the steepest portion of the site, we thought, what a great opportunity to get some extra steps in. climb your way to the top and get some great views of the area. So the area dashed in red is the ADA accessible route, and then the others are a little more challenging and steeper. Very cool. Next slide. And the fitness course, like I mentioned, it could either be parkour or something a little more traditional. We kind of left that open to future decisions, but there's a lot of opportunity there. You can have opportunities within the artificial turf for some stretching before you get into the crazy fun portion of the fitness area. Next slide. And then these are just some inspirational images of gateways and shade structures that we would like to put in the space too that adds to the theme of the space with some little laser cut shade opportunities, but still provides lots of shade. Next slide. We also have some restroom buildings, which are kind of tying into that aesthetic of the community with some stone along the base and some little accents of wood, which is really nice. Next slide. Those will have water? They will have water. Okay. And what's nice, so when we start taking over there, obviously right now the city doesn't have too much of a presence for storage. gear and things like that for us to use. We will, at this park, they show the garage door where we can have, you know, the field rakers, the groomers, and things and materials that we'll need while I have a presence on the east side. So that'll go a long way for park maintenance as well. And just some little aesthetics of some retaining walls, seat walls. educational signage. What a great opportunity to learn about the native landscape and also play on it. So these are just some materials of inspiration and some sandblasted graphics. Next slide. Some site furnishings also having some pops of color, having some nice materials that are durable and long lasting and rated for public use. And next slide. Landscape character. This just kind of shows you the different various colors of where we have native seeds. So the pink is native seed. Sort of the yellow is pollinator seed mix. The detention we have along the north side of that multi-use field. And then the north and west sides of the parking lot, sort of the center portion. And then purple, very minimal planting beds. We've really played into the native seed mixes into this project. Next slide. And I think this is the final slide. We have the construction phasing plan. So if you don't have the funding to build the whole thing all at once, we do have phase one in green being the parking lot and multi-use field. Phase two being the trail systems on the west side. And then phase three being the pickleball courts and the tennis courts. And then phase four being the playgrounds in the middle with the. shade structure, restroom, and parking lot right in the middle. So is there any others? I think there might be one more slide that shows sort of the estimated cost of the breakdown of each of the phases and then the total cost at the bottom being close to 32 mil. But of course, depending on how many phases you do at once, that can be broken up. And that'll be... part of what I was doing. Can you explain a little bit of the community engagement part to how you got to this point? So we approached the community and asked them some of their top amenities that they wanted. So at the very beginning, I kind of shared the top, I think it was 18 amenities. And then based off of what they really, really wanted, that kind of helped drive which phases we recommended as far as which ones come first and, you know, multi-use ball fields seem to be really, really highly desired. And then nature was so passionately voted on. We wanted to make sure that trail system, very low, low costs. You can add that in pretty easily and you can still have the trail systems kind of connect and the community can use that right away. And then the courts, small area, but they can knock that out pretty quick. And then, of course, the last piece is kind of the biggest hall right there. And since we have some people that live around there, were you guys able to participate in any of those during those times? You're talking about the surveys, right, that were sent out? There were surveys and there were some in-person events as well. So they were either one of you. Yeah, and there was quite a few, from my understanding, that was prior to my time, but from my understanding, there was quite a few people there to give guidance on, to look for. Yes, we had, let's see, we had three different community events. One was a party at the park. We had thousands of people at that booth, but the other ones were, one was hosted here, one was hosted at a I think the coffee shop that was near Soaring Hawk Park, but essentially people got to vote with stickers on the images that they liked the most. They also got to build their own park with little play pieces and they aligned them and we took a picture of them to get inspiration. And then they had a survey component as well. So they got to vote and write all the different things that they wanted. We took all that information, put it in a spreadsheet and digested it all in order to get both of these parks kind of up and running with the community desires. And what's the timing for this phase one? Phase one is as far as the schematic design is complete. And now it's kind of back in your in your court in terms of how much funding you have to to keep it moving. And maybe Marcus can speak to that a little bit more. Yeah. Before that, I'm going to let Corey jump in. She has a question for the group. Thank you, Marcus. Thank you all. I just. Just for clarification purposes, I know you mentioned the schematics are already done and that's already been paid for. So how is that included in the final cost? Is that separate from, because I know you're showing here construction costs, but just for people to know this was paid for schematics, this is what's paid for construction. So everything's transparent and we know where all the money's going. So the numbers you see on the screen do not include design fees. And so any additional drawing sets would not be included in that overall cost. But what you've done so far has already been paid. Correct. Yes. Is that something we could put together, Marcus, maybe for a future, just for everyone on the board to know and for the other residents to know? Yeah, pull up those. They're probably resolutions. I'm sure I'll pull those up for the group. Yeah, we can get those for sure. So you can see where we are, what council's allocated for design and these planning portions. And then anything as far as the construction costs have not been approved because we haven't, our group hasn't proposed anything to council on that as of yet. But yes, thank you, Corey. I think that's a really great idea. Thank you. I appreciate it. And then what's the timing? So costs aren't an object. What's the timing of each phase? That's a good question. That is a good question. That'll be what's coming with this group. That'll be things that you guys will be planning on based on funding and where we're at and what plans and really doing a deep dive with this plan and where... which areas we can do. That'll be the fun job of this group for the years to come. So as of right now, there's no hard set time for us. The area that's in purple, and I've not walked this, I need to go do that. I'm assuming the area that's in purple with the incline is probably the most altitude difference, right? What are your thoughts? if we build this out and then there's more desire to put more facilities on that property versus leave it as open space, kind of, is that going to be doable? Or is this, I mean, do we look at expandability as like a next phase in 10 years? There are definitely some grading challenges with the site. That is definitely a high point on the site. And if you were to add more facilities, you would need parking for it. So you'd have to plan for parking lot. We had looked at putting something in that location at one point and it was difficult to get the entry and parking to all kind of work within that space. And we were trying to maintain some of the preservation of the natural area as well. But I guess it depends on what those amenities are. If it's shade structure versus a community center, then those are pretty different. Yeah, I think anything along those lines would probably look at future sites. So efficiency purposes, we really need to do what we're doing here. Correct. Yeah, this is based on the plan that was done. And then there's a phase two of this that includes like an amphitheater. It's more of a passive. It does have a playground too, though, but a small. It's a playground and a natural turf. Yeah. So there is space available if we decide. Correct. There's a heel that comes off of. This is just the phase one. site of this. I don't know if you can go back to slide two, just for reference. But as far as Soaring Hawk goes, this will be the plan based on the master plan that was made. Thank you. Yeah, you can see the... The cutoff there where there's that other section, and it's as big as the other, but there's natural areas there, too, and more. And that one has kind of been looked at as the social gathering point of the city. Okay. there's been one of the things that was identified during this process is where's the kind of a heartbeat of the city? Where is the social gathering? Where are people going? That's what the phase two is. That's why you see like, three large parking lots, and those parking lots will have electric outlets for when food truck frenzy goes that they don't have to run the generators that they can plug into. And there's an amphitheater in there, the field, the natural field. So when we have bigger events, you have the parking lot, the field, and the amphitheater with a small play area. And you'd be able to go between the two, but they're quite a hike between the two. So when you have the special events, this is the area that we'll be able to handle the volume between the upper lots, the lower lots, the walkability of the area. So when that phase two comes, that has been kind of that solving that heartbeat of the community and having the space to gather. That was kind of the thought behind that. Correct me if I'm wrong on that. Correct. That was very nicely put. Thank you, Marcus. That helps a lot. Any questions? And we'll have more dialogue, and as Corey said, we'll bring in, I'll show you the resolutions at the meetings to come, what's been approved, how much has been allocated. We have spent money, obviously, on the programs, the slides you're seeing, so we've already had that dot, so we'll get that in front of you, too, to clarify that. And there's a second package to this that has all the irrigation, electrical, civil, landscape drawings that went into the schematic design of this set. And with that being said, go ahead and any questions you might have or if we answered them all or at any time. And really, this was just kind of a showcase to tell you where you're at. So even after this, if you do have questions, feel free to reach out to me directly. on that i would just ask that you don't include the whole prep just reach out to me directly on that so it doesn't get constituted as a meeting but um and and and also i'm always available if anybody i do sometimes things don't work out i get they get pulled in different directions but if anybody wants to meet or anything on that too um feel free and i can go into any of this in more depth as well and that's open to residents too when they want to know about this Marcus, there's a question in the chat about eventually, you know, we're getting Happy Canyon Interchange to connect to Canyonside Boulevard. So just the access to this park will eventually be able to access from Happy Canyon Interchange, correct? I'll have to. Canyonside Boulevard eventually will reach it. So I guess I would imagine since this is on. I would imagine, yes. I just want to make sure before I. Go on record, that is indeed, but I believe so. I also wanted to mention that along Saddlesmith Street, there is street parking as well. So if for some reason the parking lots didn't support. And is that written in the chat so I can follow up on that? Yes, it is. Okay, I'll follow up on that. Thank you. Yep, thank you. Do we have a more itemized detailed budget that either the city have it or do you guys have it still? Marcus has a copy of it. Okay. I figured as much. Any other questions? Well, great. Thank you guys so much. Coyote's going to come at us quick. We didn't really talk about that timeline, but our goal is to get that in the recommendation on the bid. winter by June, by the June council meeting. So that will be coming quick. So what you're seeing is kind of 100% drawings done hopefully next week. So what you've seen is kind of the most complete on that. The 100% drawings will be more in detail with the irrigation and everything on there. And then those will be the ones that we can put out for. It will go to BidNet, and then it will be open for... 30 days on bid net. And then we do open, opening on that to go with that. Hopefully we get a lot of vendors because then we get the, some of the committedness going. If it's anything like the community center, we should be in good shape because we had like 15 people bid on the community center renovation. So hopefully we do as well on this one too. So if that's the case, we'll be breaking ground and hopefully, You know, it's June, July, July sometime, and then construction could take nine, ten months depending on how it goes. So it'll be a while. When it is down, we are going to do our best to keep the multipurpose. We'll have to get creative because there are field rentals in the multipurpose. The multipurpose fields of Coyote are not being renovated at all. So there's a lot of community use in that. So we're trying to keep those open during the time. But otherwise, the baseball fields won't be open. We actually have those closed right now. They can be used for a first come first serve basis right now until construction happens. We're just not renting them out or anything like that. Same with the playground. We're not closing it down. people to play and do things until construction starts. And we'll get ahead of that. Communications will push all that information out. So a lot of people will know, the community will know, man, this is happening. So it's not a surprise. But just so you guys know that that's coming pretty quick. June will be here fast. But it's been years. What year did this start? We were trying to remember before this meeting. It's been three years? I feel like. So a lot of fun from community engagement, putting the plan together, getting in process, getting the different access. You know, we added the ball fields, added the bathroom, some things like that, that added on. So this has been quite a thing to get to where we are. So it'll be very exciting when it happens. Thank you, guys. Yeah, it's been great to work with you and the Parks Department. It's been a really nice opportunity to... design something really fun for your community. Before we leave, Corey, do you have any other questions or comments? Nope. Thank you so much. This is great. I'm excited. Awesome. Thank you. Well, thank you guys very much. Our next item of business is the Parks and Recreation Reservation Cancellation Policy. Presentation will be led by Parks and Recreation Open Space Director Marcus Graves. No, no, you're fine. I've got to get through the slides. Well, for mine, I'll give some background to what we're discussing. So currently... the cancellation process. So let me get to it. I don't know. They have to be reading right off of this. So I'm doing it the right way. One of the things we've really worked on with this group, what I've done is given you guys some staff memos so that you guys can come in and, be prepared and kind of where we're coming from on what we're asking you. So if you have any questions, so when you come in, you kind of know what's going on. We do this with council, so we thought it'd be a good thing to share with you as well and kind of follow that same process. So the policy question is, does the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board submit a recommendation to city council regarding the updates to field reservation cancellation, including language regarding refund timelines and misuse prevention? And the background to that is when we do our field reservations, twice a year, we open it up in, thanks guys, in January and then in June. And those are for, you know, January is for spring, early summer. Then the June dates is for late summer into the fall, when we close the fields. The current language in the council, cancellation policy is 48 hours. 48 hour notice currently for part cancellation to get a full refund. No, you're fine. Current, I should have known that too right off the bat, but I wanted to confirm. 48 hours is the current policy. You get a full refund. And then weather cancellation, the day of, we'll have issued those. The city does that. We're not looking at changing that at all. The reason we're looking at changing the 48 hours to 10 days is because what happens in January and June is organizations will come in and rent a whole bunch of times, just guessing on what they'll – if they have full rosters for their leagues and practices. And then – We rent it out and we have an equitable process. So it's not first come first serve. So we do take a look and it is actually quite an in-depth multiple staff to make sure that we're giving equity to groups and residents to use the fields. With all that work we do, but inevitably they'll cancel because a league didn't fill up or they don't have a coach and they had to consolidate. You name the reason. And then we're giving, you know, a week within, because it's two days, then all of a sudden a bunch of dates open up. Well, those are dates that could have been used for other people in the community that if they wanted to rent a field to play, something happened. You have a team in Castle Rock, but something happened to that field and you need a field, and it would have been really great to have it, but ultimately you could have, but because of the way that it's structured, you wouldn't be able to do it. So that's why we're looking at that as the background of it. It's not a monetary issue. We're not trying to keep people's refunds or anything like that. What we're trying to do is change habits to cancel earlier to allow other people to use those fields. This is going to be a dumb question, but 10 business days or just 10 days? 10 calendar days. Okay. difference between 10 and 14? 10 is we looked around at what other organizations were doing, and it was all over the place from, like, we have it for 48, and then up to 10, there weren't a lot more than 10, and that's why we were trying to keep it what other organizations. are doing instead of creating a new wheel, staying within the parameters of what's out there industry-wide. What are fees? Can you just give us an example of what things cost? Yeah, it's based on, let me pull it up here real quick. Real-time costs, because they're different as far as like half-field, full-field. Do you want to? Oh, you don't actually, you don't. I got it. We're looking at, and really we're only looking at the fields. The pavilions, we don't have that issue at all with the pavilions or when the community center opens back up. That was not really an issue with the community center. It really is just the ball fields. So Coyote Ridge baseball field, $50 an hour. Coyote Ridge grass field. So Coyote Ridge is divided into six portions, six smaller fields. It's $25 an hour for each one of those quadrants. A lot of the times they'll rent two of those quadrants, so $50 an hour on that for Coyote. And then Elk Ridge, which is our most popular one. It's a supply and demand. We don't have... We have more people, and it's one of those things where they sit empty until about 3, 3.30 in the afternoon, and then they get real busy until about 6. Everybody wants the same times. Daniel's Gate, a full field is $50 an hour. Elk Ridge, full field, $50 an hour. Both of those fields are full-size fields, so 120-yard capability for those. They can both hold full-size games. And then $25 an hour for half-field. So we do half-field rentals on Elk Ridge at the 50-yard line, just split it in half. That's probably one of our most common because the organizations, they only need to practice, so it's not uncommon to have. One organization on field A at Oak Ridge and a whole other organization practicing on field B, that's pretty common, and we work through those. So when you have a cancellation, how do you get the word out that the field is now available? It opens on the calendar. So it would be you requesting it. Like you would just go on and ask for it. So right now, if you called in or went online, online is the majority of the requests that we get. If it wasn't canceled, you wouldn't be able to do it. But if I had wanted that field and somebody had taken it two months ago, and then now it's available, am I notified then or not? No, there's no wait list on them. Yes, correct. And right now, the process you have, because it's a smaller amount of days, you're losing. Right. The way it is right now, we don't get a lot of, and some organizations are really good. Some, right at the beginning of their season, they clear the calendar. There are a couple organizations that wait to the very, very end, and that's the ones that cause a little bit of a problem. But yes, correct you. And that's common. They'll look online and we do have a very nice website where they can go on and it'll tell you when fields are open or they're not available. Marcus, I'm curious, is there a process or like some software available where there could be an alert like, hey, this this field is now open. If you're interested, go ahead and. Request it. I don't know if there's anything like that pot like out. I'm sure there's something out there, but I don't know. Yeah. So we are in the process. We currently use a platform called Kaizen and we have we just signed a one year extension on that. But we are in the process of looking at different platforms that are more robust and more friendly for our community members. So, yes, they do have waitlist options where Kaizen does not. Awesome. Thank you. Yep. And timeline, that's different at this, but timeline on that, we're in the process of looking at demos right now with the thought of going into anything we do in November when we go live with the new system. Are there any other questions? Okay, the Board will make a recommendation to City Council, and we have a suggested motion in front of you. So, then I have somebody who could make this recommendation and a motion to begin the discussion. Is there any other discussion? No? Okay. I go ahead and move to recommend City Council approve the updated PL Reservation cancellation policy language as presented. Is there a second? Second. Okay. Okay. Board member Peter Z, you gave the motion. Would you like to begin any other debate? No. Okay. If there's no further discussion, we have a motion and a second. Deputy Clerk Goins, would you please call the vote? Board member Wright? Agree. Board member Z? Agree. Chair votes in favor? Agree. And Board Member Murray? Agree. The motion passes. Moving on to our final item of business, the Elk Statue discussion, which will also be presented by Mr. Graves. Thank you. This is a policy question. Does the advisory board support the relocation of the elk statue from Elk Ridge Park to a more prominent location to reduce likelihood of vandalism and improve long-term preservation? So a little background and history on this. We have the elk that is in Elk Ridge Park. If you've done the little walkway area there beside the hill coming up on that, I'm going to call it, I guess, the East Lot. There's like a little scavenger course and you go around and you do some things or just a walking path. And there is an elk statue there. Over the years, this elk statue keeps getting its horns broken off. Anything from what we can tell is real vandalism. The first time it was a saw cut, you could see that it was actually cut into. And then once that happened, the integrity, we found a way to, you can't weld it. It's made of material that you really can't weld. But we found a way to secure the horns back on. And I think a lot of it's unintentional vandalism now, just because it's in a spot that's not easily seen. People trying to get up on the elk. for whatever reason or doing a pull-up on the antler because they look sturdy and they break off. So it's become an occurrence that happens a lot now. So it happened, I don't know if it was last week or a week ago or two weeks ago, and we took the second one off because when they're – When one's off, they become unsteady, and they do have some weight behind them, so they could hurt somebody. So we took the second one off, and we're holding on to it right now. So the thought is we'd like to move this, and we're looking at evaluating. The reason I don't have a place to put it, one, I want it because we have different options that Brad can look at. Do we want to just keep it where it is and accept what happens and keep – repairing the elk to move it to a location that's more prominent that will not be hidden. And there's several locations we can identify that would for sure reduce vandalism. Or three, just get rid of the statue altogether. Those would be kind of the three options that BRAV would have to kind of talk through and see what they want to do. Just to give an idea of what we thought of, and again, this isn't a lookup. We have to find out if we can even do it, but the thought was we could maybe move it to the roundabout of... Viking supers there. That leads to Elk Ridge Park, you know, where the sign says Elk Ridge Park. So it still kind of keeps that theme of the elk. But being in the roundabout, you're not going to get. And it's going to have a solar light on. It's going to be lit up at night. It's not going to get. the foot traffic that it currently has. So that's just one of the ideas. And that we'd have to flush out with Public Works to make sure there's no safety issues and traffic issues with that. But something like that where we can put it where it is going to still maintain the integrity of the park, but not hit like it is. Because this spot has a big hill and you can't see this spot from the road and you can't see it from the houses. And with that, I'll let you guys. discuss it. Are there any questions for Mr. Grace? No questions. I think the thank is great. The recommendation you made makes a lot of sense. They're about park. No one can really access it. It's great. Okay. The board will make a recommendation to city council and we have suggested motion in front of you. Can I get a motion to begin the discussion? A move to recommend to City Council we relocate the Elk Statue from Elk Bridge Park to a future site to be reviewed by the Advisory Board at a future meeting. Is there a second? Second. Board Member White. You gave the motion. Would you like to begin the debate? Any debate? No. There's no further discussion. We have a motion and a second. Deputy Clerk Goins, will you please call the vote? Board Member Murray. Agreed. Board Member Wright, agreed. And Chair Pro Tem Faber, agreed. The motion passes. Next on the agenda are staff updates. Mr. Graves, do you have anything to report tonight? I will give you guys a report on the community center renovation while we're going. Things are on track on that. We just had our architect owner meeting this morning, and things were there starting to frame. Demolition is... almost 100% complete, minus the HVAC duct work because they're replacing that, and they chose the absolute coldest days in the last month to do it because they're tearing it out right now. So this weekend they will not have heat in that area, and it's going to be cold, so they've got to hurry. But the framing is happening, so that area looks good. We did have a couple change orders that were – One was the structural issue. Once they dug in with the demo, there was a large red iron beam inside the wall, so they had to remove that. So they did that, and it was just very heavy and extensive. It took a lot of manpower to do that. We did shore up the flooring. in there. There was a little bit, even once we got it gutted, there was a little bit of bounce. Structurally, everything was just fine, but just to make it so it didn't have as much of a bounce in there in certain areas, we did add that to it. And then there was an electrical panel, a Siemens panel that the amount of, well, the amperage it was calling for, the old panel wouldn't handle, so they had to upgrade that. So that was... Unforeseen on that too. So those were the three. So with just those three change orders, we're in good shape on that right now. And the goal is on the July city council meeting that that's where it'll be. And we did pick an AV company. Forte will do the AV. So it will have built-in AV. So we won't have the owls or the microphones. They'll be wired mics. There'll be cameras. It'll be programmed. So BRAB will have a program. Dining Commission will have a program. City Council will have a program. The courts will have a program. And then we're also talking with... being good neighbors with the Metro District, because they'll be there as well, get them a program. So everybody will have a program. So set up will be, and if you haven't seen it, it's pretty cool. It has the main room. It'll actually have a divining wall where the dais sits. So perhaps we'll sit at the dais and you'll have your own dais, just like city council. And then there's an area for staff to the side. And then there's a conference room also in the back. for study sessions. all kinds of opportunity in there. But it's not only just the city council. We're talking, you know, a couple times a month and once a month, planning commission once a month, Metro District once a month. HOAs are able to rent this space. Birthday parties, those were big ones. Different events, two graduation parties, just those events that you don't want to have at your house to make your house dirty. We have the tables and the chairs, so it truly is. And that's why it's called the community center. Sometimes that gets on People are like, why is it community-centered? Because you think of either pool tables, ping pong tables, or workout equipment. Those are kind of some traditional thoughts. But it truly is a place that, and the fee on it is very affordable for those as well. And we do have it open. It does get used. Any questions on that? I know some of you, Terry's heard it before, but if you have any questions on community-centered, what we're doing, how it looks. But please feel free to ask. Anything else? No, that was it. Okay. I will adjourn the meeting at 6.05 p.m. Are you still on? I used to ask since you're not on if you had anything for us. No, thank you so much. It was great. I'm sorry I couldn't be there in person. But, yeah, I hope to see you all. We'll see you next month. I hope you feel better. Thank you. Appreciate it. Bye, everyone. Yeah, take care. Bye.