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From YouTube: Boise Parks and Recreation Commission
Description
October 21, 2021
A
A
A
E
Thank
you,
madam
president.
Commission
members
just
a
real
high-level,
quick
overview
for
you
to
give
you
a
little
bit
of
an
update
of
what
our
plans
are
with
our
south
and
lowell
pool
engagement
process.
As
commission
members
are
aware,
both
south
and
lowell
have
been
closed.
The
last
two
summers
the
first
summer.
It
was
closed
in
20
due
to
we
closed
all
of
our
pools.
Due
to
the
covet
19.
E
in
november
of
20.
Through
about
february
of
21,
we
did
a
contract
with
a
engineering
consulting
firm
to
do
an
analysis
of
both
pools
and
just
to
to
look
at
code
and
ada
requirements.
Something
we've
been
looking
to
do
in
the
last
few
years,
but
took
the
opportunity,
with
the
pools
being
closed
to,
to
hire
a
consultant
to
take
a
deeper
dive
on
both
of
those
partners
on
looking
at
any
any
deficiencies
that
we
have
at
both
locations.
E
It
was
fairly
extensive,
the
deficiencies
and
primarily
they
were
in
both
code
and
code
deficiencies
in
electrical
in
plumbing
and
then
had
some
fairly
significant
ada
deficiencies
as
well,
and
if
you're
familiar
with
these
two
pools,
they're,
both
above
ground
pools,
they
do
not
have
access
ada
access
from
the
main
floor
to
the
actual
pool
deck
itself.
That's
obviously
one
of
the
major
issues
where
we're
trying
to
create
accessibility
opportunities
in
all
of
our
facilities
for
all
of
our
citizens,
equal
access
and
opportunity.
E
But
due
to
this
significant
number
of
deficiencies,
we've
made
the
decision
that
made
the
decision
that
they
would
not
open
last
summer
as
well.
So
the
those
were
the
only
two
pools
that
we
didn't
have
open
this
past
summer,
and
so
what
our
our
plan
is
now
is
to
start
to
engage
our
public.
That
has
a
very
high
interest
in
both
of
these
pool
locations.
They
are
our
oldest
pools.
They
are
called
a
bits
design
which
was
back
in
the
40s
and
50s.
A
number
of
these
pools
were
built
all
across
the
country.
E
E
The
report
that
came
in
from
our
engineering
firm
back
last
february
did
have
about
a
2.4
million
dollar
price
tag
on
each
pool
to
bring
it
up
to
just
to
code
requirements,
and
that
did
not
include
some
significant
ada
adjustments
that
would
need
to
be
made
as
well.
Nor
did
it
include
a
structural
integrity
analysis
of
each
pool.
It
just
looked
at
really
the
the
code
requirements
that
we
were
in
violation
of,
and
so
that's
also
what
created
some
pause
with
our
mayor
and
council
at
2.4
million
before
putting
that
money
into
the
pools.
E
Let's,
let's
get
it
out
to
the
public.
Let's
have
the
public
weigh
in
on
what
they
would
like
to
see
occur
with
the
two
pools,
and
so
I'm
just
here
to
give
you
an
update
on
where
that
is
at,
which
is
beginning
next
month,
we're
in
the
process
right
now
of
bringing
a
consultant
facilitator
on
contract
under
contract
with
the
city.
E
That
will
lead
the
effort
for
us
that
will
start
in
november
with
some
stakeholder
meetings,
and
then
it
will
wrap
up
with
a
report
to
the
mayor
and
city
council
on
options
for
each
of
those
pool
locations,
whether
it
be
the
pools
get
rebuilt,
whether
they
you
know
there
will
be
just.
We
will
just
present
a
number
of
options
to
the
public
and
then
gauge
what
the
public's
interest
in
with
price
tags
attached
to
each
of
those
we'll
bring
those
options
back
to
the
city
council.
E
So
that
gives
you
a
generational
flare
of
or
flavor
of
what
an
interest
in
these
locations
are
and
we're
very
sensitive
to
that,
and
the
mayor
and
council
are
as
well.
So
we
want
to
go
through
that
public
engagement
process,
which
will
be
about
a
three-month
process
in
the
beginning
of
2022
and
then
hopefully
come
up
with
the
goal.
E
We
come
up
with
those
options
that
we
would
present
to
council
with
the
price
tags
attached
to
each
and
then
it's
up
to
the
council
and
the
mayor
to
decide
what
options
they
would
like
to
move
forward
with.
So
that
just
gives
you
a
quick
overview
of
where
we're
at
with
those
two
pools.
So
when
you
hear
there
will
be
my
guess,
is
there
will
be
a
lot
of
public
interest
in
this
process.
E
So,
as
commission
members,
if
you
get
any
questions
regarding
the
process
or
regarding
wanting
to
provide
you
input,
please
just
relay
that
on
to
us.
If
that
does
happen,
my
goal
will
be
to
give
you
updates
each
month
on
what's
happening
with
that
with
the
rollout
and
the
engagement
and
and
keep
you
abreast
of
what's
going
on.
But
certainly
as
you
hear
from
the
public,
please
relay
that
on
to
us,
as
we
want
to
capture
as
much
information
from
the
public
on
these
two
pools,
as
we
possibly
can.
F
F
You
know
drone
level
view
of
my
division.
Today
I
have
a
few
slides.
Obviously,
at
any
point,
if
you
have
questions
feel
free
to
hop
in
and
ask,
but
what
we're
going
to
be
discussing?
My
name
is
sarah
arkell,
I'm
the
superintendent
of
foothills
and
open
space,
and
what
we're
going
to
be
discussing
are
the
three
main
programs
that
this
division
includes.
F
F
Hawkins
range
reserve,
antelope,
bitter
brush
reserve
and
then
we've
added
to
stack
rock
reserve,
two
thousand
acres
or
excuse
me,
a
thousand
acres,
so
our
open
space
management
program.
What
I'm
going
to
do
through
the
course
of
this
presentation,
is
just
provide
you
with
some
key
projects
that
we
are
currently
involved
in
for
each
of
these
programs
ridge
to
reverse
partnership.
I
know
you're
all
very
familiar
with
our
trail
partnership.
F
Five
agencies
city
count
the
city
of
boise
being
the
lead
agency,
all
of
our
ridge
to
rivers,
staff
members
are
city
of
boise
staff
members.
We
have
four
full-time
staff
members
and
then,
during
the
summer
months,
we
bring
on
four
additional
temporary
workers
to
manage
and
maintain
over
200
miles
of
trails.
F
F
F
Weed
warriors
is
a
program
that
crowdsources
invasive
species
management.
We
train
and
empower
individuals
to
identify
and
remove
invasive
species
that
are
problematic
in
our
reserve,
such
as
goat
heads,
that's
the
one
that
most
people
know
about
it's
a
great
program.
We
have
seen
a
a
pretty
big
jump
in
participation
due
to,
I
think
in
part,
coveted
19
and
people
seeking
ways
to
be
outside
and
to
be
contributing
to
their
community.
F
Finally
adopt
a
habitat
is
a
new
program
similar
to
adopt
a
park,
we're
hoping
that
groups
or
adopt
a
trail,
we're
hoping
that
groups
and
businesses
will
adopt
a
habitat
and
participate
in
volunteer
efforts
there
to
remove
invasive
species
and
to
restore
native
habitat,
so
our
ridge
to
rivers,
partnership
projects
before
I
move
on.
Does
anybody
have
any
questions
about
any
of
the
restoration
work
that
I
just
talked
about?
F
Nope,
okay,
I'll
plow,
ahead?
Right
now
we
are
engaged
in
a
unique
management
program
for
ridge
to
rivers
for
30
some
odd
years.
This
partnership
has
existed
and
collaborated
and
done
a
great
job
of
growing,
a
wonderful
trails
program
and
we've
managed
those
trails
pretty
much
the
same
way
for
those
30
years,
multi-use
multi-directional,
mostly
off
leash.
F
We
asked
in
2016
and
in
2018
in
two
separate
survey
events
we
asked
do
you
want
us
to
try
different
management
strategies
on
the
trails
that
would
improve
safety
and
user
experience,
but
would
potentially
separate
uses
and
in
those
two
surveys
in
2016
and
2018,
the
feedback
from
our
trail
users
and
the
folks
who
took
that
survey
was
pretty
clear,
we're
not
ready
for
it.
It's
too
confusing.
F
F
4
400
people
took
that
survey
and
it
was
pretty
clear
based
on
that
feedback
that
they
wanted
us
to
try
out
some
different
strategies
on
four
different
trails
in
our
foothills
and
those
trails
are
lower
hulls,
gulch
polecat
around
the
mountain
and
bucktail
bucktails
and
military
reserve,
and
so
those
strategies
have
been
sort
of
playing
out
since
april,
we've
had
a
lot
of
signage.
We've
done.
F
We've
done
mid,
mid
project
surveys
to
make
sure
that
every
step
of
the
way
we
know
that
we
are
getting
feedback
from
the
community
and
learning,
because
this
is
all
new
to
us,
and
so,
as
our
trail
users
are
learning
these
different
strategies
and
how,
to
you
know,
change
their
use
based
on
them.
We're
learning
also
how
to
tweak
it
so
that
it's
more
a
more
useful
option
for
our
trail
users.
So
last
night
we
just
had
our
final
virtual
meeting.
We
have
a
survey
open
right
now
that
will
close
next
wednesday.
F
So
the
other
project
I
wanted
to
highlight
here
was
hawkins
range
reserve.
This
is
a
400
acre
reserve
that
is
just
above
dry
creek
on
the
west
side
of
bogus
basin
road,
the
three
properties
that
created
hawkins
range
reserve
were
purchased
in
2015
and
2016.,
and
since
that
time
we've
been
working
with
our
partners.
F
The
blm,
because
part
of
our
trail
design
goes
on
blm
property,
blm
and
then
the
property
owners
up
there
to
create
a
trail
design
find
some
some
funds
to
build
the
trail
and
build
a
trailhead.
So
we
are
doing
that
right
now
the
trail
is
being
built
as
we
speak.
We
hope
to
have
a
trail
and
a
trailhead
built
by
early
2023,
so
that
we
can
open
up
this
new
area
to
the
public.
It's
a
neat
spot.
It
has
pretty
good
intact
grasslands
as
well
as
some
intact
shrub
lands.
F
We
have
one
planned
to
do
one
approximately
six
mile
loop
with
a
smaller
nested
loop
for
folks
who
you
know,
don't
want
to
go
that
far,
but
still
want
to
experience
and
enjoy
the
views.
There's
beautiful
views
out
there
can't
wait
to
take
you
all
out,
so
those
are
the
two
projects
I
wanted
to
highlight
for
our
trails
and
finally
we'll
get
into
environmental
education,
you're
all
familiar
with
the
two
facilities
that
we
manage
and
provide
environmental
education
programs
to
children
and
adults.
F
The
jim
hall
foothills
learning
center
is
nestled
in
hulls
gulch.
It
is
a
beautiful
facility.
If
you
haven't
been
up
there,
please
I'd
love
to
give
you
a
tour.
We
have
a
firewise
garden
and
a
pollinator
garden
and
a
nature
play
area
and
we've
been
really
trying
over
the
last
five
years
to
create
it.
Cr
enhance
it
as
a
destination,
regardless
of
whether
or
not
you're
coming
to
participate
in
a
program.
We
want
you
to
be
able
to
learn
and
experience
kind
of
native
habitat
in
and
and
learning
tools
on
the
property.
F
F
Covid19,
oh
and
I
should
say
I
might
as
well
say
it's
been
so
successful
and
such
a
good
program
at
jim
hall,
foothills
learning
center
that
we
have
expanded.
Now
that
outdoor
preschool
opportunity
for
the
boise
urban
garden
school
and
there's
now
a
preschool
garden
out
there,
there
was
a
ribbon
cutting
what
was
it
a
year
ago
now
and
we
are
going
to
be
enhancing
that
garden
over
the
next
year.
F
Kovid
19
really
changed
our
experience
up
at
these
facilities
at
these
facilities
because
we
weren't
able
to
bring
in
field
trips
and
we
missed
those
school-aged
kids.
We
still
do
because
a
lot
of
schools
still
aren't
doing
field
trips,
so
now
we'll
be
looking
towards
doing
and
enhancing
and
improving
our
outreach
so
that
we
are
going
to
students.
Busing
has
been
an
issue,
it's
expensive
and
obviously
you've
all
heard
about
the
lack
of
the
shortage
of
bus
drivers,
so
asking
kids
to
come
up
to
the
facility.
F
The
facilities
over
the
next
few
years
might
be
a
little
challenging
so
we'll
be
looking
at
ways
to
bring
wildlife,
education
and
stewardship
to
children
across
the
valley
at
different
grade
levels.
So
we're
really
looking
forward
to
that.
And
finally,
I
just
want
to
highlight
the
culinary
and
nutrition
programs
that
we
offer
at
the
boise
urban
garden
school.
F
We
actually
help
manage,
I
think
it's
eight
community
gardens
and
they're
all
over
the
city
from
coma
to
you,
know
the
east
end
and
through
those
gardens
we
seek
to
not
only
get
fresh
and
healthy
veggies
into
the
hands
of
folks
who
need
it
most
by
working
with
partners
like
rolling
tomato,
but
we
also
try
and
teach
kids
how
to
cook
with
those
fresh
and
healthy
veggies.
So
we've
been
really
fortunate
in
that
picture.
F
E
Tax
yourselves
on
commissioners
happens
to
be
housed
within
our
foothills
and
open
space,
and
sarah
is
the
basically
the
steward
over
that
funding
and
commissioner
rayburch
serves
on
the
open
space
and
clean
water
committee
as
a
representative
from
the
park
and
recreation
commission,
and
so
he
is
your
liaison
into
that
group
that
into
that
committee
that
makes
recommendations
to
the
mayor
and
city
council
on
how
those
funding
dollars
could
be
spent.
So
if
you
wanted
to
kind
of
address
that
real
quickly,
sarah
that'd.
F
Be
great,
thank
you,
director,
holloway.
That
was
a
silly
omission
on
my
part.
Yes,
so
in
2015
our
citizens
voted
to
tax
themselves
in
a
two-year
temporary
property
tax
increase
to
create
a
10
million
dollar
fund
to
basically
refill
the
coffers
that
had
been
filled
in
2001
and
allow
the
city
to
be
flexible
and
available.
F
F
Excuse
me
enhance
habitat
in
the
boise
river
corridor,
so
one
of
the
projects
that
is
currently
going
on
currently
just
about
to
start
excuse
me
is
a
project
that
is
in
partnership
with
the
golden
eagle,
audubon
society
and
their
proposal
is
to
restore
habitat
on
public
lands
along
the
boise
river
corridor,
including
including
city
property,
ada,
county
property,
and
to
plant
all
of
these
native
species
and
with
volunteer
help.
So
that's
one
that
will
be
coming
before
council,
I
think
in
november.
C
But
I'm
glad
that
I
caught
that
part
about
the
preschool
and
there's
always
something
just
to
marvel
at
at
your
guys's
meeting.
So
thank
you
for
that.
That
was
just
a
nice
little
boost
to
have
to
see
that
we're
on
the
cutting
edge
of
something
you
know,
as
as
our
state
grapples
with
child
care
and
child
education.
Early
childhood
education
just
to
see
us
make
use
of
our
assets
in
such
a
way.
I
think
it's
just
beautiful.
So
thank
you
for
adding
that
in
there
thank.
A
D
Yeah
I
I
was
just
gonna
dovetail,
that's
exactly
what
councilor
sanchez
was
talking
about.
Sarah,
the
your
team
and
really
the
culture
of
your
department
is,
is
really
amazing
because,
like
you
said,
and
you
kind
of
humbly
went
over
that
pretty
quickly
the
work
that
that
your
department
is
doing
to
kind
of
reach
back
out
into
the
schools,
you
know,
field
trips
are
a
challenge
right
now,
but
your
team,
you
know
they're
they're,
just
so
willing.
They're
doing
you
know
online
presentations.
D
Just
imagine
yourself
trying
to
make
a
online
presentation
for
a
preschool
kid
or
or
even
elementary
age.
Kids
is
is
not
easy.
You
guys,
if
there's
there's,
just
a
tremendous
amount
of
work,
but
your
team
is
is
just
fabulous
like
you
mentioned
paulie,
but
janice
and
and
lisa
are
just
really
just
doing
so
much
work
for
our
kids
in
our
school
because
it
fits
into
our
health
curriculum
with
the
nutrition
and
so
anyway.
D
E
E
That's
happening
on
spaulding
ranch,
and
it's
going
to
tie
in
to
all
this
educational
components
that
we
have
built
between
the
foothills
learning
center
and
between
cumber
park,
which
is
where
our
bugs
location
is
at,
is
going
to
really
really
work
and
springboard
well
into
what
we're
going
to
be
doing
at
spaulding
ranch,
which
is
going
to
be
one
giant.
Youth
education
turn
of
the
century,
agricultural.
E
Opportunity,
it's
going
to
be
the
most
mind-blowing
stuff
that
you
that
we
will
ever
have
in
this
city,
and
it's
going
to
be
so
cool
and
and
sarah's
team
is
really
heading
that
up
and
we'll
have
you
back
sarah,
maybe
you
and
lisa
to
talk
a
little
more
in
depth
about
some
of
the
cool
stuff.
That's
going
on
with
with
spaulding
now.