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From YouTube: Boise Parks and Recreation Commission
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February 17, 2022
A
B
A
A
Cool,
thank
you
chloe.
Just
a
quick
update
for
commissioner's
information.
We
do
have
a
change
in
our
senior
leadership
team
within
our
department.
Jennifer
tomlinson,
who
was
our
previous
superintendent
of
parks,
has
accepted
a
position
as
the
deputy
director
of
parks
and
recreation
in
plymouth
minnesota
and
we're
very
happy
for
her.
It
was
a
good
move
for
her
and
her
family
and
her
first
day
was
on
february
7th
and
so
she's
been
able
to
get
her
feet
a
little
bit
wet.
A
D
A
We
have
not
made
an
offer
to
that
person
yet,
but
we
do
have
somebody
that
went
through
the
interview
process
with
our
our
other
members
of
the
leadership
team
and
so
we're
hoping
to
make
that
offer
shortly
to
fill
that
role
and
then
we're
we'll
be
fully
staffed
in
our
senior
management
with
our
senior
management
team.
So
just
wanted
to
make
sure
that
our
commissioners
were
aware
of
some
of
those
changes.
A
So
the
next
item
on
our
agenda
are
the
elections,
and
so
we
do
so.
I
don't
know:
if
is
susan
online
she's?
Not
so
I'm
sorry.
I
skipped
over.
I
skipped
over
agenda
b
recognition
of
service
vice
president
susan
mcelroy
is
stepping
down
to
spend
more
time
with
her
family,
and
so
she
will
not
be
moving
from
the
vice
president
role
into
the
president
role,
which
was
previously
held
by
andy
angie,
nelson
and
jason.
B
B
A
Not
want
to
serve
in
a
leadership
role,
that's
perfectly
fine!
We've
just
moved
to
the
next
commissioner
tenured
commissioner
on
the
list,
and
so,
if
you
hang
with
us
long
enough,
you
end
up
serving
multiple
times
which
could
happen
and
so
and
has
occurred.
But
having
said
that,
we
still
go
through
the
election
process,
and
so
I
will
open
it
up
and
we
will
do
the
president
first.
So
I
would
entertain
a
nomination
for
president.
A
D
A
A
Okay,
hearing,
none
all
those
in
favor
of
liz
urban,
as
vice
president,
say
aye,
aye
aye
any
opposed
awesome.
So
congratulations,
liz
urban!
Commissioner
urban!
You
are
now
vice
president
of
the
parks
and
recreation
commission,
and
these
terms
are
for
the
next
year,
and
so
thank
you
for
serving.
I
appreciate
that
and
so
now
we
will.
I
will
step
aside
and
turn
it
over
to
president
preston
carter
to
continue
with
the
agenda.
B
B
A
F
Yeah
this
was
my
number
one
request
every
single
year,
and
so
I'm
glad
to
be
back
on
here
with
you
again
and
to
be
also
be
serving
with
a
council
member
lisa
sanchez,
as
our
other
city
council
liaison
to
this
department.
So
I'm
such
a
huge
fan
of
everything
that
everybody
does.
Some
of
you
have
been
on
here
when
I
was
on
here
and
some
folks
are
new,
so
I'm
excited
to
be
on
this
team.
D
B
E
B
B
E
Sorry
about
that,
I'm
going
to
talk
briefly
about
the
zoo,
boise
master
plan
and
how
we're
what's
happening
next
for
the
zoo
we've
had
in
it.
You
know
it's.
It's
been
a
trying
couple
of
years
with
covid,
but
the
zoo
has
done
really
well.
Last
year
we
had
bounced
back
almost
to
our
2019
numbers
when
gorongosa
opened
in
spite
of
limited
attendance,
so
things
are
are
going
really
well
at
the
zoo.
E
E
In
2019
we
saw
we
started
the
process.
Well,
we
opened
up
the
gorongosa
exhibit
in
2019,
as
I
said,
and
then
once
that
was
done
in
early
2019,
we
started
our
master
plan
process
with
our
friends
of
zoo,
boise
board.
They
fully
funded
the
rfp
and
we
selected
a
designer
architect,
glmv
architects,
they're
out
of
wichita
kansas
and
they
specialize
in
zoo
master
plans
and
zoo
architecture
and
design,
and
they
partnered
with
local,
firm
erstead
architects,
and
we
ended
up
coming
up
with
this
really
great
master
plan
to
get
what
we
needed.
E
E
We
actually
had
our
first
meetings
in
december
of
2019
and
then
covet
hit,
so
we
ended
up
putting
the
project
on
hold
picked
it
back
up
in
september
and
april
2021.
We
had
the
rough
draft
done
and
it
was
completed
in
may
and
the
board.
The
friends
of
zoo,
boise
board
approved
it
and
we
ended
up
with
an
absolutely
great
wonderful
master
plan.
E
That'll
take
the
zoo
into
the
into
the
future,
so
the
main
goals
is
about
conservation
and
sustainability,
animal
care,
guest
experience
and
revenue,
generation
staff,
experience
care
and
support,
and
education
and
learning
those
were
the
things
that
the
master
plan
focused
on
and
those
are
the
things
through.
Our
feedback
when
we
reached
out
from
information
were
the
areas
they
really
wanted
us
to
target
the
needs
that
were
identified
in
the
planning
process.
Updating
old
exhibits
if
you've
been
to
the
zoo.
E
E
That's
a
big
part
of
the
master
plan,
how
you
get
around
the
zoo,
how
you
get
into
the
zoo
from
the
park
as
well
as
organizing
our
animals.
Geographically,
a
lot
of
things
are
kind
of
placed
here
and
there
we're
really
making
it
a
geographic
experience.
So
you
can
have
a
whole
immersive
experience
when
you
come
visit,
the
zoo
plan
holding
areas
for
when
we
breed
animals
right
now
we
don't
have
a
lot
of
off
exhibit
stuff
and
some
species
the
ssp
species
survival
plans.
E
As
part
of
this,
we
need
to
build
a
new
catering
kitchen,
our
events
and
our
rentals
has
exploded,
and
if
you
come
to
the
zoo,
the
little
concession
stand
at
the
front
of
the
zoo,
they'll
cater
events
for
one
to
two
thousand
people
out
of
that
little
kitchen
up
there
and
it's
just
exploded.
So
we
need
a
better
facilities
for
that,
as
well
as
an
expanded
kitchen
for
our
animal
diets.
We've
looked
at
revenue,
generators,
zip
lines,
splash
pads
things
like
that.
E
All
of
that
makes
an
extended
visitor
stay
that
increases
the
bottom
line
of
the
zoo,
and
everything
we're
doing
is
a
conservation-minded
decision.
The
zoo's
mission
is
we
make
your
you
know
we
when
you
visit
the
zoo,
we
connect
you
with
conservation
globally
and
locally,
and
so
this
whole
master
plan
is
about
tuning
into
all
of
the
conservation
projects.
We
do
and
really
educating
our
visitors
on
that.
E
E
E
We
came
up
with
a
phased
approach.
Phase
one
we
need
to
complete
in
zero
to
eight
years
and
it
addresses
a
lot
of
our
needs
that
are
required.
Domain
aza
accreditation,
in
particular
the
animal
exhibits
in
the
middle
of
the
zoo.
When
you
come
in
the
red
panda
exhibit
the
snow
leopards
the
sloth
bear.
The
penguin
exhibit
is
another
one.
E
When
we
have
the
earthquake
at
the
beginning
of
the
pandemic,
I
think
it
was
the
end
of
march
that
building
actually
sustained
damage,
and
so
the
pool
leaks
it
was
engineer
surveyed
and
it's
safe
for
occupation,
but
with
a
leaking
pool
and
it's
an
older
building.
It's
lived
its
life,
so
we
need
a
new
penguin,
exhibit
grandma's
house.
What
that
is
is
in
the
middle
of
all
of
these
new
asian
exhibits.
E
We
want
to
build
it's
an
interactive
immersive,
viewing
area
that
will
will
look
like
you,
you're
in
the
himalayas
and
you
go
into
a
house
and
you
look
out
the
windows
and
you
see
the
sloth
bears.
You
see
the
snow
leopards
and
then
you
have
the
sea
eagles.
So
it's
combining
the
cultural
aspect
with
the
natural
and
the
geographical
aspects,
sort
of
like
what
we
did
in
gorongosa.
E
E
We
have
about
800
different
individual
animals,
we
take
care
of
now
and
this
commissary
was
designed
for
maybe
a
third
of
that
number.
So
our
staff
does
an
amazing
job,
giraffe
feeding.
We
want
to
build
a
fully
ada,
accessible,
giraffe,
feeding
station,
it's
so
popular.
We
want
to
do
more
with
that
education,
complex,
our
education,
volunteer
and
classrooms
are
all
in
one
tiny,
building
the
big
green
building
in
the
middle
of
the
zune
in
the
carousel.
E
So
we've
got
a
series
of
tents
to
do
programming
our
camps
sold
out
as
soon
as
we
opened
them
this
year,
and
we
could
do
even
more
if
we
had
the
space.
So
we
need
to
address
our
education
complex
to
meet
those
needs,
and
then
we
want
a
new
gift
shop
and
restrooms,
so
it
complements
the
visitor
experience
and
our
restrooms
will
meet
the
demands
and
the
requirements
for
ada
accessibility
for
that
and
the
gift
shop
phase.
E
Two
comes
after
that:
we're
going
to
renovate
tigers,
orangutans
great
apes
for
the
most
requested
animals
in
our
visitor
survey.
We
do
have
a
way
we
could
do
orangutan
so
down
the
road.
We
would
do
that
when
we
bring
in
something
like
that,
we
need
to
expand
the
animal
hospital.
We
would
move
food
facilities
to
the
middle
of
the
zoo
and
we
would
build
a
new
petting
zoo
themed
around
gorongosa
phase
three
15
years
out.
E
That
would
be
the
expansion
area
right
outside
of
the
existing
zoo
footprint
and
that
would
be
north
north
and
south
american
animals.
Butterflies,
walk
through
aviary,
bringing
in
a
splash
pad
and
some
conservation,
and
this
just
kind
of
shows
you
where
all
the
amenities
are
and
it
gets
it.
So
it's
a
better
flow
and
shows
you
where
the
event
areas
are
the
revenue
generators
are
and
how
staff
can
work
their
way
around
the
zoo,
as
well
as
improving
ada
accessibility
phase.
One
zero
to
eight
years
meets
those
critical
needs.
E
The
going
rate
to
do
a
zoo
exhibit
is
anywhere
from
one
thousand
to
two
thousand
dollars
per
square
foot
to
build
a
new
modern
zoo
exhibit,
and
so
these
numbers
are
hard
numbers
through
glmv.
That
does
this
all
over
the
country,
and
you
can
see
in
the
map
addressing
the
middle
of
the
zoo
and
some
of
the
stuff.
In
the
plaza.
E
This
just
gives
you
some
artist
conceptions.
The
new
penguin
exhibit
the
new
red
panda
exhibit
where
we
have
multiple
exhibits
with
overhead
trails
for
the
red
pandas.
Those
are
really
really
big
red
pandas
in
that
transfer
shoot
you
see.
I
just
noticed
that
snow
leopard,
the
snow
leopard
exhibit,
would
give
it
a
much
more
naturalistic
look
with
where
snow
leopards
are
from
they're
found
in
the
himalaya
region
and
up
through
the
mountainous
regions
of
china.
So
really
trying
to
get
that
look.
E
Sloth
bear
same
thing.
They
found
northern
india
into
nepal,
tibet,
pakistan,
so
getting
a
more
naturalistic
exhibit
there.
This
is
a
rough
version
of
what
grandma's
house
would
look
like
right.
Now,
it's
just
a
shelter,
but
we
fleshed
out.
So
it's
an
indoor
building
it
could
be
used
for
rentals.
It
would
be
buildings
classrooms.
Everything
like
that,
then
you
get
into
phase
two,
which
is
nine
to
fifteen
years
out
it's
another
18
million
dollars
to
expand
tigers
and
to
bring
in
great
apes
and
expand
the
hospital.
That's
where
you're.
E
We
talk
about
moving
the
restaurant
right
to
the
canal
waterfront
in
the
zoo,
and
this
is
an
artist's
conception
and
if
you
look
at
the
back
of
that
picture,
you
can
see
the
back
of
the
snow.
Leopard
exhibit
you
can
see
downstairs
would
be
a
new
commissary
with
restrooms.
Upstairs
would
be
all
of
our
snow
leopard
holdings,
so
it
shows
something
from
phase
one
in
that
phase
three's
15
years
out.
E
That
would
be
the
future
america's
where
we
would
focus
on
some
idaho
species,
as
well
as
south
american
species
and
again
with
escalation
of
what
their
predicting
costs
will
be.
Then
you're
learning
about
17
million
dollars
give
or
take
when
you're.
Looking
15
years
out.
For
that
section,
there's
a
few
unphased
high
profiles.
E
We
would
want
to
move
the
carousel
down
near
the
new
petting,
zoo
kind
of
keeping
all
of
those
things
together.
Building
a
new
entrance
just
to
better
accommodate
expanding
around
the
new
education
for
nature
play
combining
some
of
our
african
yards
to
make
a
multi-species
so
making
the
giraffe
the
niala,
the
zebra,
exhibit
all
one
big
exhibit.
There's
a
cost
to
do
that.
E
E
Kijiji
cafe,
needs
to
be
renovated
and
some
catering
expansion,
all
of
those
unfaced
things
are
about
four
million
dollars
and
they
could
happen
at
any
time.
That's
why
we
said
they're
unfazed.
They
don't
need
to
go
in
any
particular
area
and
then
the
whole
goal
of
it
is
just
to
rob
conservation
here
locally.
We
just
finished
voting
we're
going
to
be
contributing,
350
000
to
conservation
locally
and
globally.
E
The
board
just
decided
who
that
was
going
to
and
that's
about,
12
of
our
annual
revenue
and
percentage-wise
there's
no
zoo
in
the
country.
That
does
what
we
do
contributing
to
conservation
globally
and
locally.
So
that's
the
quick
version
of
it.
Thank
you.
If
you
got
questions,
I
can
zip
back
through
it.
We
can
look
at
particulars.
A
Yeah,
mr
president,
I
just
wanted
to
thank
you,
gene.
That's,
I
told
you
to
move
through
it
fairly
quickly,
so
that
if
you
had
any
questions
as
you
went
along,
he
did
mention
you
could
stop
him.
He
also
could
answer
any
questions
right
now,
if,
if
the
commission
has
any,
but
one
of
the
things
that
the
friends
of
zoo
boise
has
committed
to
is-
and
I
think
everyone
understands
and
realizes
what
the
relationship
with
zoo
boise
it's
part
of
the
city-
it's
part
of
parks
and
recreation.
A
And
then
the
city
of
boise
owns
the
exhibits
that
the
animals
are
in.
So
I
say
all
that
just
so
that
you
understand
that
this
is
one
of
the
most
collaborative
relationships
that
any
city
in
the
country
probably
has
with
with
two
organizations
the
city
and
the
friends
of
working
together
for
the
betterment
of
not
only
providing
an
experience.
That
is
just
that
the
zoo
experience
provides.
A
But
when
gene
talked
about
the
conservation
piece,
a
little
known
fact
is
that
the
friends
of
zuboisi
have
committed
50
000
a
year
over
a
five-year
period
for
foothills
restoration
projects.
So
they
really
walked
the
talk
of
the
local
conservation
effort
when
and
it
all
started
with
the
table
rock
fire.
After
that
it
had
occurred.
A
The
friends
of
zoo,
boise
board
got
together
and
said.
We
want
to
help
with
the
rehabilitation
of
that
and
since
then,
they've
continued
to
fund
on
a
yearly
basis,
restoration
projects
that
we
can
take
and
put
in
martha
brayback's
hands
in
our
with
our
foothills
and
open
space
team
to
do
projects
all
over
the
foothills.
So
so
there
really
is
a
relationship
between
the
city
and
us,
but
really
a
strong
one
between
the
friends
and
this,
and
our
department
and
gene
has
just
done
a
remarkable
job.
Coming
into
this
role.
A
D
B
A
B
C
E
E
Everybody
does.
You
know
we
did
ask
about.
Is
there
going
to
be
a
city
component
with
gorongosa?
The
city
contributed
and
helped
fund
part
of
it
with
some
of
the
other
stuff,
so
doug,
and
I
will
be
talking
to
the
to
the
mayor
and
the
council
and
everything
about
about
funding
that
way.
But
we
are
in
the
process
of
putting
together
a
fundraising
campaign.
E
The
zoo
and
the
friends
of
zoo
boise
has
done
very
well
the
past
couple
of
years,
so
we've
actually
just
moved
over
about
two
million
dollars
into
the
capital
campaign,
painful
campaign
fund
to
get
a
jump
start
on
it.
So
we
already
have
a
couple
of
million
of
it
already
raised
and
we
got
a
250
000
grant
a
couple
of
weeks
ago
to
get
into
the
conceptual
architectural
drawings
to
have
those
funded.
So
we've
already
started
on
that
we'll
be
looking
at
community
sources.
G
I
ask
a
quick
question:
sure
hi
everybody:
how
are
you
doing?
Hi,
good
hi
gene,
it's
good
to
see
you
what
a
great
presentation!
Thank
you
so
much
for
that,
and
you
know
I
I
think
I
speak
for
our
community
when
we
say
how
grateful
we
are,
that
the
zoo
was
able
to
find
ways
to
to
be
there
for
the
community,
as
we
saw
so
many
of
our
community
members
turn
to
the
outdoors
and
and
looking
for
different
activities
that
they
could
do
in
this
new
normal
that
we
call
it.
G
I'm
just
wondering
these
new
features
that
we're
talking
about.
Are
we
taking
into
consideration
the
possibility
of
us
going
through
something
like
this
again
and
how
the
zoo
in
in
whatever
new
configuration
with
these
new
additions,
might
accommodate
that,
so
that
people
could
continue
to
use
the
zoo
in
a
safe
way.
E
One
of
the
things
we're
going
to
do
is
make
the
zoo
more
ada
accessible,
there's
large
parts
of
it
that
are
not,
and
a
big
part
of
this
plan
is
making
things
ada
accessible
in
regards
to
covid.
If
you
visited
the
zoo,
especially
early
on,
we
had
a
lot
of
green
fencing
up
and
we
had
to
create
barriers.
The
recommendations
from
aza
and
usda
is
six
foot
six
foot
distance.
E
Well,
what
we're
doing
in
a
lot
of
these
exhibits
you're
going
to
have
a
lot
of
glass
viewing
in
places,
so
we
won't
have
to
do
a
lot
of
that
fencing.
So
a
lot
of
what
we're
going
to
do
behind
the
scenes,
as
well
as
for
the
public,
is
going
to
be
tailored
for
exactly
what
you're
asking
if
this
happens,
we'll
be
able
to
keep
the
zoo,
open
and
operating,
and
it's
going
to
make
it
more
accessible
and
so
we'll
be
able
to
continue
serving
the
needs
so
yeah.
E
G
If
I,
if
I
conformed
to
the
rest
of
my
cohort,
I
might
have
the
need
to
care
for
elderly
parents
and
young
and
young
folks
still
in
my
home,
and
so
I
think
it's
if
we
can
think
about
that
that
we
might
have
people
visiting
the
park
who
might
not
only
be
pushing
a
stroller
but
possibly
a
blessing
bike.
You
know
pushing
around
grandma
or
or
somebody
who
is
incapacitated
and
needs
to
have
that
access.