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From YouTube: 10-23-18 Park & Recreation Board meeting
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City of Des Moines Park & Recreation Board meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2018 in Des Moines, Iowa.
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C
We
have
two
guests:
both
have
some
other
arrangements
tonight,
so
I
hope
you
would
entertain
this
first.
We
have
the
mayor
walking
in
here
in
a
second
I,
see
him
now
right
on
time
and
we
have
our
I
guess.
Archie
from
the
cemetery
tours
are
cook,
so
we'd
like
to
go
with
live
des
moines
first
and
then
under
the
directors
report,
go
into
Cemetery
tours.
If
that's
okay,.
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A
E
C
C
C
D
Davis
members
of
the
Parks
and
Recreation
Board
Richard
Brown
assistant
director,
like
Ben,
said
I'm
very
pleased
tonight
to
be
here
to
give
you
your
first
overview
of
what
we
consider
the
kind
of
final
plan
for
live
DSM.
This
is
our
once
in
a
generation
opportunity
to
really
chart
a
new
vision
for
what
we
believe,
parks
and
recreation
will
be
in
Des
Moines
over
the
next
20
years
and
very
excited
to
give
you
an
overview.
Obviously
you
receive
a
as
part
of
your
park
board
packet,
a
link
to
download
the
plan.
D
D
A
quick
overview
of
what
are
some
of
the
high
points
in
here
and
give
you
an
opportunity
to
then
go
through
it
over
the
next
month.
Should
you
have
any
questions
coming
up
at
our
next
meeting
before
we
ask
you
to
make
a
recommendation
on
this?
I
won't
be
happy
to
take
any
of
those
questions
and
between
now
and
then
we'll
also
have
an
executive
summary
that
really
summarizes
the
key
points
of
the
plan
as
well.
We'll
get
that
to
you
before
the
next
parks
before
your
next
meeting
as
well,
which.
C
Begins
just
reminder:
we
did
not
print
this
for
the
reason
that
we
don't
know.
If
you
have
comments,
we
won't
even
print
it
for
the
next
meal,
unless
somebody
really
needs
a
special
copy,
we'll
print
it
for
you
on
case-by-case.
If
you
need
one,
but
the
plan
would
be
is
to
make
it
all
the
way
to
the
City
Council
and
get
it
out,
but
then
we
would
print
official
copies
and
make
sure
all
board
members
and
council
members
all
have
a
final
copy
with.
Hopefully,
at
that
point,
everybody's
important
all.
D
D
Next.
This
was
also
called
out
in
guy
DSM,
which
is
really
the
city
council
strategic
plan
and
how
they're
prioritizing
what
the
city
staff
works
on
and
what
we
work
to
improve
in
the
City
of
Des
Moines
and
this
document
again
taking
for
that
DSM
naming
convention
is
guide
DSM,
so
in
2015-2016
you
can
kind
of
see
here
under
the
top
priority.
D
The
Parks
and
Recreation
comprehensive
plan
was
one
of
those
really
top
priorities
for
the
entire
city
to
begin
working
on
so
again
kind
of
walking
through
how
the
importance
of
this
before
we
actually
started
it,
and
then
also.
Where
did
we
come
from?
What
was
our
previous
comprehensive
plan?
This
is
a
document
that
was
adopted
by
the
City
Council
in
1995.
It
was
called
parklands
a
celebration
des
moines
community
spirit.
D
It
was
really
a
shared
vision
for
the
community
on
what
the
park
system
is
today
and
what
they
wanted
it
to
become
today,
and
it
was
a
plan
for
the
entire
community,
just
a
few
things
that
were
talked
about
in
there.
They
talked
about
taking
what
was
a
formal,
gravel
pit
and
really
a
run-down
Park
just
off
a
floor
drive
and
turning
it
into
a
crown
jewel
of
a
park,
and
today
we
have
Gray's
lake
as
a
result
of
that
another
big
thing
that
was
really
a
foresight.
There
was
the
evolution
of
our
trail
system.
D
They
really
called
for
in
this
plan
an
expansive
green
system
that
could
link
all
areas
of
the
community,
and
you
can
see
since
that
time
how
much
our
trail
system
has
developed
and
really
links
most
areas
of
our
community.
And
finally,
another
big
thing
that
was
talked
about
was
really
enhancing
and
redeveloping
our
riverfront
to
be
a
place
that
we
didn't
really
push
people
away
from,
like
we've
done
in
the
past,
but
really
invite
people
there
and
you
can
see
through
all
the
work
that's
been
done.
D
So
as
we
wanted
to
start
to
develop
this
plan,
we
really
had
to
go
out
and
see
what
the
public
thought
of
what
parks
look
like
today
and
what
they
wanted
to
see.
It
looked
like
in
the
future,
and
what
might
that
vision
be?
So
we
are
able
to
make
over
2,000
public
contacts
with
people
that
live
in
the
city
that
use
our
facilities
or
have
registers
for
some
of
our
program.
We
did
this
through
online
questionnaires.
We
did
stakeholder
workshops,
we
helped
public
open
houses.
D
We
didn't
almost
50
Neighborhood
Association
meetings
where
members
of
our
team
went
out,
sat
down
and
really
asked
members
of
that
neighborhood
what's
important
to
them
in
their
neighborhood.
What
would
they
like
to
see
improved
and
what
would
they
make
their
parks
look
like
in
the
future.
We
all
said
helps
to
community
discussions
such
as
the
racial
equity
Institute
workshop,
as
well
as
a
public
forum
that
night
to
really
talk
about
how
race
impacts,
Parks
and
Recreation.
D
D
What
programs
could
be
done
and
utilizing
that,
because
you
know
10
years
ago,
no
one
had
a
smartphone.
Now
today
everyone
has
a
smartphone.
So
how
can
we
capitalize
on
that
and
get
people
out
in
our
parks
and
learning
and
really
enjoying
the
public
spaces
that
we
have
in
Des
Moines,
but
also
making
sure
that
our
operation
maintenance
needs
are
in
sync,
with
what
we
have
for
funding
and
there's
always
a
concern
that
you
know
with
all
the
facilities
we
have
across
the
city?
D
D
We
also
talked
about
mission,
and
it
really
did.
We
need
to
reinvent
the
wheel.
Is
there
a
new
mission
statement
that
was
needed
and,
after
all
the
work
we
went
into,
this
really
felt.
Like
the
previous
mission
statement,
we
had,
which
we've
talked
a
lot
about,
but
helping
Des
Moines
live
well
play
hard
and
protect.
The
Earth
was
really
still
the
most
improper
it
mission
statement.
So
we're
sticking
with
that,
or
at
least
I
be
our
recommendation
that
we
stick
with
that
moving
forward.
D
Also,
what
was
important
to
us
moving
forward
in
a
new
vision
for
Parks
and
Recreation
was
to
bed
mark
our
self
against
our
peers
and
cities
that
we
wanted
to
be
so
we
spent
quite
a
bit
of
time
with
our
steering
committees
talking
about
what
are
cities
that
we
would
really
consider
our
peer
cities,
people
that,
if
we
asked,
are
you,
how
do
you
match
up
to
this
city?
Who
would
they
be
so
we
determined
through
that
process
that
Madison
Wisconsin,
Omaha,
Nebraska
and
st.
D
Paul
Minnesota
were
really
probably
the
three
cities
that
made
the
most
sense
to
be
our
pure
cities
when
we're
looking
at
benchmarking
reason,
for
that
were
a
couple
deep
things:
state
capitals,
as
well
as
being
in
the
Midwest
and
being
the
largest
city.
So
Omaha
is
the
largest
city
in
the
state
of
Nebraska
medicine
and
st.
Paul
are
both
the
capital
of
their
states.
So
I
really
felt
that
they
were
good
comparison
as
to
who
we
are
in
Des,
Moines,
being
the
largest
city
in
Iowa,
as
well
as
a
state
capital.
D
Then
we
want
to
look
at
who
has
really
top-notch
park
and
recreation
systems
that
we
could
compare
ourselves
to
or
if
we
were
striving
to
be
moving
forward.
So
we
came
up
with
Minneapolis,
Minnesota,
Denver,
Colorado
and
Austin
Texas.
Just
to
give
you
a
comparison,
both
st.
Paul
and
Minneapolis
have
been
ranked
as
the
1
in
2
best
park
and
recreation
systems
in
the
country
for
the
last
5
years
by
the
front,
the
Trust
for
Public
Land.
D
So,
just
right
in
our
backyard
here
we
have
some
really
great
examples
of
both
being
peers
and
aspirational
cities
to
look
look
towards
some
of
the
key
findings
of
the
benchmarking
when
they
looked
at
those
systems
versus
our
systems.
Des
Moines
on
average,
has
a
lower
operating
budget
than
both
our
peer
and
aspirational
cities.
Obviously
there
are
different
sizes,
but
when
you
compare
that
out,
based
on
the
amount
of
people
that
live
in
the
community,
we
are
lower
than
average.
D
We
also
found
that
des
moines
serves
nearly
3
times
as
many
people
that
use
our
system
per
full-time
employee
than
any
of
the
other
cities
combined.
So
any
you
take
any
little
six
cities
and
we
serve
three
times
as
many
people
with
the
staff
that
we
have
here.
So
we're
able
to
get
a
lot
done
with
the
limited
amount
of
staffing
that
we
have
and
then
finally
kind
of
looking
at.
Where
can
you
go
or
how
can
you
get
to
where
some
of
these
aspirational
cities
are?
D
They
found
that
they
are
all
certified
by
the
National
Recreation
and
Parks
Association
as
Capra,
so
what
Capra
is
is
a
set
of
108
standards
that
that
parks,
record
national
recreation
is
so
next
in
our
PA
has
said,
are
important
to
have
a
professionally
managed,
Parks
and
Recreation
agency,
so
they
have
all
certified
and
become
up
to
that
standard.
So
that's,
maybe
something
we
want
to
look
at
in
the
future
as
we
work
to
be
one
of
those
aspirational
cities.
D
Finally,
what
we're
able
to
do
from
that
is
create
five
goals
that
really
chart
where
we
think
think
parks
and
recreation
needs
to
go
in
the
future
here
in
Des
Moines,
the
first
one
of
those
is
equity
and
that
what
we
mean
by
that
is
delivering
equitable
services
and
facilities.
That
can
mean
a
lot
of
different
things,
but
what
we
want
to
try
to
do
here
is
give
you
a
flavor
for
what
an
approach
would
be,
or
maybe
some
things
that
would
come
about
from
when
we
talk
about
delivering
equitable
services
and
facilities.
D
So
here's
a
couple
of
things:
one:
we
want
to
better
define
the
term
parks
and
what
we
mean
by
that
well
Park
can
mean
a
lot
of
different
things
to
a
lot
of
different
people.
People
that
ride
their
bikes
on
the
trails
might
consider
those
parks.
People
that
are
new
to
our
community
that
have
immigrated
from
different
countries
might
have
a
different
definition
for
what
a
park
or
public
space
is.
D
So
what
we
want
to
do
is
continue
to
work
with
the
people
that
live
here
and
really
define
what
a
parks
mean
to
people,
because
maybe
they're
different
than
what
we
consider
parks
today
and
as
we
evolve,
and
we
move
forward
as
a
community
that
vision
might
include
looking
at
spaces
in
a
different
manner.
We
also
want
to
continue
the
dialogue
on
equity
and
Parks
and
Recreation.
D
We
had
a
really
great
workshop
and
evening
open
house
where
we
invited
people
to
come
talk
about
the
role
racial
equity
has
in
Parks
and
Recreation,
and
so
one
of
the
things
that
came
out
of
that
was
that
people
really
thought.
That
was
a
good
event,
but
they
want
us
to
see
us
continue
that
dialogue
so
that
we
can
continue
to
talk
about
and
make
sure
that
we're
keeping
an
eye
on
those
things
as
we
looking
at
future
parks
or
programming.
D
Another
one
was
potentially
looking
at
establishing
a
program
called
parks
for
new
Des
Moines
residents
and
really
what
this
could
be
is
new
people
come
to
town
either
from
other
parts
of
the
country
or
other
parts
of
the
world.
Maybe
there's
an
opportunity
to
work
with
them
to
put
together
programming
and
that
really
suits
the
needs
and
fits
how
they
live
their
life
and
how
they
use
public
spaces
so
really
taking
a
different
look
at
all
the
new
people
that
are
coming
here,
and
can
we
provide
public
spaces
and
programming
that
really
feels
their
needs?
D
Additionally,
you
know
one
of
the
things
we
want
to
be
able
to
do.
Is
we
want
to
measure
how
much
progress
we're
making
towards
this
so
just
kind
of
a
few
approaches
here,
one
we
would
probably
want
to
establish
a
baseline
for
how
are
we
equitable
serving
people
with
facilities
and
programs?
Today
we
want
to
be
able
to
measure
that
progress,
and
then
we
want
to
be
able
to
develop
and
adopt
policies
regarding
equity
that
helps
us
move
towards
that
goal.
Longer
term.
D
So
a
lot
of
people
have
been
identified
by
CDC
statistics
and
may
be
obese,
or
have
some
other
health
issues
and
crime
and
combined
those
all
together
to
really
come
up
with
an
may
be
a
potential
priority
for
areas
of
high
equity.
You
need-
and
so
you
can
see
here-
it's
a
little
bit
hard
to
see,
but
then
that
you
took
all
that
together
and
you
circled
some
areas
on
the
map.
What
we
can
start
to
do
is
then
quantify
that
and
help
us
make
better
informed
decisions
and
recommendations
to
you
and
the
City
Council.
D
The
second
goal:
we're
calling
attraction
so
we're
looking
at
programs
that
attract
people
to
parks.
A
few
approaches
we're
looking
at
here
that
commedia
flavor
this
is.
We
want
a
bit
begin,
a
dialogue
about
unmet
recreation
needs
again.
Are
we
missing?
Some
programs
out
there
that
are
potentially
would
be
very
valuable
to
people
live
in
our
community,
or
is
there
something
that
maybe
people
would
really
like
to
see
that
we
just
haven't
undertaken
yet?
Are
there
groups
of
people
that
we
haven't
hit
from
a
standpoint
of
programming?
D
A
second
one
is
taking
and
starting
a
community
activities
guide,
set
out
at
least
once
per
year
to
all
Des
Moines
households.
One
of
the
things
we've
been
doing
very
City
source
in
every
year
is
putting
some
of
our
activities
out
there
ahead
of
the
seasons.
But
can
we
take
that
another
step
and
really
publish
a
year-round
activities
guide
that
goes
out
separative
City
source
that
goes
to
every
household
City
of
Des,
Moines
and
finally,
here
winter
season?
D
Programming
was
something
that
we
heard
a
ton
and
I
think
kind
of
caught
us
by
surprise,
but
people
wanted
opportunities
to
get
outside
outside
of
April
through
October.
Are
there
ways
to
embrace
the
colder
weather
regardless?
If
our
climate
is
changing
or
not,
it
gets
cold
in
the
winter.
So,
if
we
have
snow,
are
there
activities?
Do
we
do?
If
we
don't
have
snows
or
other
activities?
We
can
we
can
program
and
get
people
out
there.
D
So
really
looking
at
your
around
programming
throughout
the
entire
system,
a
couple
of
other
potential
options
related
to
this,
maybe
there's
ability
to
establish
a
recreation
committee
that
is
a
formal
subcommittee
of
the
Parks
and
Recreation
board
to
understand
the
recreation
needs
of
the
community.
We
have
a
trails
and
greenways.
We
have
an
urban
conservation.
We
have
a
cemetery
advisory
community.
All
of
these
subcommittees
help
you
to
make
recommendations
on
areas
of
specific
needs
within
the
Parks
and
Recreation
system.
D
This
would
be
potential
to
take
out
some
sort
of
mobile
recreational
opportunity
and
just
set
it
up
for
the
day
or
the
night
or
a
couple
hours
to
get
people
engaged
in
our
community
and
Recreation
programming
that
doesn't
necessarily
have
a
park
today.
It
would
be
a
great
way
that
we
can
get
out
have
some
fun
getting
people
engaged
in
their
community,
and
we
can
take
that
back
at
the
end
of
the
night,
or
we
can
do
that.
A
few
nights
in
a
row.
D
It's
really
a
really
flexible
opportunity
for
us
to
get
out
into
the
community.
More
next
is
Hart.
We
want
to
make
sure
that
parks
and
trails
are
the
heart
of
the
community,
and
what
do
we
mean
by
that?
What
they
really
talked
about
is
being
very
important
here,
and
this
is
a
standard,
that's
becoming
a
nationwide
standard.
It
is,
but
we
want
to
ensure
that
all
citizens
are
within
a
safe,
10
minute,
walk
to
a
high
quality,
Park
or
trail.
What
do
we
mean
by
that?
D
So,
wherever
you
live
in
the
city
of
Des
Moines
from
the
street
grid
that
you
live
on,
you
could
get
to
a
Parker
trail
within
a
10-minute
walk
just
to
give
you
a
reference,
that's
about
a
half
a
mile
for
the
average
person.
So
to
give
you
a
feel
for
how
far
you'd
have
to
go.
As
part
of
that,
we
really
need
to
understand
our
system
and
where
we
might
have
gaps.
This
could
be
gaps
where
we're
missing
parks
and
trail
connections.
D
There
might
be
a
part-
that's
fairly
close
to
your
house,
but
there's
just
no
connection
to
get
there.
Are
there
areas
in
need
of
enhancement?
Do
we
have
a
park,
but
it's
not
most
high
quality?
Maybe
it
needs
a
new
playground
equipment.
Are
there
things
we
can
do
to
enhance
that
Park
to
make
it
a
more
high
quality
Park
for
people
to
live
there
and
then
finally,
areas
that
need
activation?
D
Are
there
areas
on
parks
that
are
really
probably
pretty
nice,
but
a
lot
of
people
don't
go
there
because
they
don't
really
have
a
reason
to
so.
Can
we
look
at
programming
opportunities
to
really
engage
people
and
get
them
to
come
out
to
their
park
and
that
might
create
some
sort
of
stance
sustainable
activity
within
that
park?
This
map
on
the
right
just
shows
you.
What
are
what
the
big
gap
areas
we
have
in
the
city
of
Des
Moines?
So
you
can
see
the
Southside
has
a
pretty
large
gap.
D
The
north
side
has
a
gap
and
then
kind
of
the
west
side
has
a
gap
and
there's
obviously
little
smaller
areas
once
you
get
it
down
to
the
nitty-gritty,
but
those
are
really
big
gap
areas
now.
One
thing
I
do
want
to
note
on
gaps
that
doesn't
count
public
school
grounds.
Unless
we
have
an
agreement
with
the
Des
Moines
public
school
district,
we
do
have
a
couple
agreements,
one
at
Brody
school
parks,
so
that's
considered
a
public
park
because
we
have
an
agreement.
D
We
also
have
an
agreement
for
the
tennis
courts
and
walking
trail
up
at
the
Huber
and
Meredith
Complex
out
there.
So
those
count
as
public
parks
for
this
analysis.
So
there's
a
lot
of
opportunities
out.
We
can
probably
fill
in
some
of
these
gaps
pretty
quickly
to
ensure
public
access
to
parks
all
over
the
community.
D
Also,
like
we
talked
about
earlier,
neighborhood
parks
really
are
the
hardest
system,
almost
everyone.
We
talked
to
said
that
push
this.
To
be
a
importance
of
that.
We've
talked
about
our
entire
city.
We've
talked
about
the
regional
parks,
the
great
lakes
of
the
world
of
soccer
complexes,
the
baseball
and
softball
complexes,
but
really
felt
like
the
neighborhood
park
is
where
people
want
to
go
and
go
most
their
time
also
talking
about
consistently
providing
a
sense
of
safety
and
security.
D
This
talks
about
programming,
lighting
and
patrol
working
with
the
police
department
and
then
prioritizing
areas
where
equity
needs
are
the
highest.
If
we
have
limited
dollars,
you
know,
maybe
we
take
the
equity
scores
that
we
put
together
working
with
you
and
prioritize
those
areas
for
limited
funding.
If
we
have
limited
funding
goal,
four
is
improving
our
natural
systems,
so
this
is
the
nature
goal
and
talking
about
an
approach
to
this
is
really
describing
what
a
healthy
resilient
natural
system
in
Des
Moines
parks
and
what
they
are.
D
What's
the
benefit
to
the
city
of
Des
Moines
of
people
that
live
here
parks
and
natural
areas
are
more
than
just
recreation,
space,
they're,
green
infrastructure,
they're
opportunities
for
people
to
improve
their
health,
so
looking
at
nature
and
how
it
fits
into
the
overall
system.
One
of
the
things
talked
about
is
creating
a
system-wide
natural
resource
management
plan
that
looks
at
priorities
for
improvement,
repair
restoration
both
on
the
land
in
the
water.
Talking
about
monitoring
and
reporting.
D
One
of
the
things
that
we
started
to
engage
this
year
is
we
joined
into
a
program
with
Polk
County
conservation,
where
we're
testing
water
quality
across
the
park
system.
I.
Believe
it's
about
20
sites
that
we're
measuring.
So
we
can
bring
back
monitoring
and
results
on
where
water
quality
looks
like
across
the
entire
system,
and
then
how
do
we
use
volunteers
and
other
resources
throughout
the
system
to
improve
our
natural
resources?
Another
one
is
educating
people
to
understand
and
engage
with
nature
in
our
parks
without
harming
the
wildlife
or
sensitive
natural
features.
D
D
And
our
fifth
goal
is
what
we're
considering
innovation?
How
do
we
launch
these
new
approaches
to
parks
and
recreation
services
across
the
city?
One
of
the
things
that
Ben's
talked
a
lot
about
over
the
years
and
you've
all
been
very,
very
and
a
huge
part
of
that
success
is
helping
us
find
partnerships
that
stretch
the
limited
city
dollars.
We
have
has
been
so
key
to
our
success
as
a
park
and
recreation
system
and
the
programs
that
we
provide.
D
How
do
we
continue
to
expand
and
engage
more
people
in
what
we
do
and
providing
the
best
possible
facilities
and
services?
How
do
we
take
and
leverage
best
practices
from
other
park
systems
across
the
country?
One
of
the
great
thing
is:
we
have
thousands
and
thousands
of
other
agencies
that
we
can
steal
all
their
best
ideas
from
so
rather
than
reinventing
the
wheel.
How
do
we
steal
the
best
ideas?
D
Bring
it
back
here
and
adapt
it
to
our
community,
so
continue
to
leverage
that
and
find
the
best
possible
things
to
bring
back
here
and
then
finally,
putting
together
in
evaluating
existing
processes
and
decision-making
criteria,
so
that
we're
not.
We
don't
have
a
major
problem
if
something's
not
working,
we're,
okay,
giving
it
up
and
moving
on
to
something
else,
because
we've
had
sound
criteria
and
how
we
evaluated
it
and
how
we
considered
it.
Providing
that
service
or
facility.
D
Also,
one
of
the
things
we
want
to
do
is
continue
to
maintain
a
culture
of
creativity
and
innovation.
Make
sure
that
we're
out
there
always
looking
what
the
possibilities
are
working
with
the
people
that
use
our
parks
and
our
facilities
and
get
out
there
and
make
sure
that
we
continue
to
provide
the
best
of
services
and
facilities
continue
and
establish
additional
data-driven
analytical
processes,
methods
and
tools
to
help
us
make
the
best
possible
recommendations
to
you
as
a
board
and
the
City
Council,
and
then.
D
And
finally,
you
know
when
we
talk
about
a
plan
being
20
years.
It
can
be
very
daunting
to
think
how
do
we?
How
do
we
accomplish
all
that
for
the
next
20
years
or
where
do
we
even
start?
So
one
of
the
things
that
we
asked
the
consultant
team
to
do
was
put
together
a
short
chapter
at
the
very
end
and
you'll
see
that
there
but
recommendations
on
where
we
start
to
ensure
that
we
get
off
to
a
quick
start
and
can
be
successful
in
the
long
term
on
this.
D
So
that
make
some
recommendations
to
us
a
related
to
policies
to
bring
forward
to
you
projects
to
consider
processes,
to
look
at
additional
partnerships
to
reach
out
to
and
potential
standards
for
what
we
want
to
accomplish
moving
forward,
so
a
whole
series
of
those
to
make
sure
that
we
get
off
to
the
right
start
here,
the
next
two
to
five
years
and
finally,
just
wanted
to
bring
this
forward
to
you.
But
this
is.
This
will
be
the
fourth
time
that
we've
kind
of
talked
about
Lib
DSM.
D
This
started
all
the
way
back
in
the
director's
report
in
June
of
2017,
and
it's
worked
its
way
up
till
now.
So
we
appreciate
you
taking
the
time
every
time
we've
asked
you
of
questions
too,
but
through
this
and
provide
us
feedback,
we
think
we've
got
a
really
solid
plan
that
really
represents
what
we
to
be
as
a
community
and
where
we
want
parks
and
recreation
services
to
go.
D
So,
where
we
plan
to
go
from
here
on
out
is
we
will
ask
the
plan
and
Zoning
Commission
I
apologize
that
kind
of
switch
these
two
but
plan
and
Zoning
Commission
will
be
asked
on
November
15th
to
adopt
live
DSM
as
part
of
Libya
are
part
of
plan
DSA
on
the
city's
comprehensive
plan.
If
they
did
that,
that
recommendation
would
go
forward,
a
City
Council
will
ask
you
to
do
the
same
thing.
At
your
November
27th
meeting
on
the
morning
of
December
10th.
D
So
we're
very
excited
about
getting
to
this
point
and
all
the
continued
input
we're
gonna
get
until
we
get
all
the
way
up
to
December
17th
and
with
that
I'm
just
gonna
leave
you
a
quote
from
mayor
County
that
something
that
came
up
when
we
were
going
through
this
process.
And
how
do
you
digest
that
I'll?
Ask
the
mayor
to
come
up
and
make
a
few
remarks.
Thank
you.
G
G
You
know
a
number
of
things
and
that's
another
one
of
the
ways
in
some
of
the
ways
that
we
participate
and
think
about
it,
and
is
we
think
about
what
all
the
needs
are
of
all
of
our
citizens
and
I.
Think
about
citizen
outreach.
You
know
and
I
think
about
North
High
School
which,
where
I'm
going
after
I
leave
here,
as
we
think
about
some
other
aspects
of
our
city
and
some
of
the
things
that
happen
and
the
importance
of
a
swimming
pool
in
what
that
means
to
the
future.
G
And
these
are
all
our
partners
and,
as
I
was
making
a
couple
notes
and
and
thinking
about
it
and
thinking
about
by
the
way
you
know
we're
talking
about
looking
at
other
Park
systems
around
the
country
and-
and
you
know,
let's
steal
all
their
best
ideas-
I'm
all
about
that.
But
I,
don't
like
the
word
steal.
So
much
I.
Think,
let's
call
it
legitimate,
larceny
and
I
think
that
those
are
in
and
I
I
invite
them
to
steal
our
good
ideas
too,
because
I
think
that
is.
G
G
Hopefully,
we
can
teach
kids
how
to
raise
food,
how
to
prepare
food,
how
to
canned
food,
how
to
do
what
they
can
in
healthy
ways,
and
maybe
they
can
sneak
at
home
and
have
legitimate
larceny
and
take
it
home
and
say
mom
and
dad.
We
ought
to
be
eatin
like
this.
This
is
what
we
should
be
doing
and
I
think
it's
an
opportunity
for
our
Parks
Department
and
our
community
gardens
and
everything
that
we
do
to
share
our
best
ideas
and
practices
with
all
of
our
citizens.
A
C
Well,
justjust
I'd
like
to
ask
you
guys
to
as
just
for
staff
direction.
We
realized
that
trying
to
consume
237
pages
of
the
comprehensive
plan,
it's
difficult
to
do
in
30
minutes
as
we've
just
done.
Is
there
any
tips?
Any
requests
before
now,
I'm
thinking
that
next
board
meeting
we'll
have
this
on
the
obviously
for
board
action.
But
do
you
need
the?
Would
you
want
to
have
another
review
of
the
presentation?
Is
there
anything
we
could
do
better
to
help
you.
C
F
Some
time
going
over
at
this
past
weekend
and
week,
and
it's
very
good
if
you
have
time
you
don't
have
to
read
every
word,
just
there's,
there's
a
lot
of
it
that
we
know,
because
we
spend
so
much
time
with
it.
But
the
information
is
just
incredible
and
and
narrowing
it
to
these
five
items.
I,
don't
know
how
you
were
able
to
do
it,
but
fantastic
job,
because
I
think
you
really
nailed
it
with
the
five
five
leads.
C
Is
you've
done
a
wonderful
job
in
the
last
two
decades,
building
the
regional
facilities
think
the
Grayslake
think
the
trails
think
your
sports
complexes
think
sculpture
park.
It
says
continue
to
resource
those
and
maintain
those
would
turn
your
attention,
your
priorities
of
the
neighborhoods
and
equal
access
and
equity.
That's
what
this
plan
says
it's
hard
to
boil
it
down
again,
two
hundred
plus
pages
to
that.
But
that's
what
this
plan
is
asking
you
to
do
is
focus
on
your
neighborhoods
focus
on
those
neighborhood
connections.
I!
C
A
Think
we've
been
in
we've
been
informed
as
they've
moved,
along
with
each
process
of
us
or
each
chapter
basically
and
they've
kept
us
all
informed
and
I
think
men,
your
staff
has
done
a
great
job
on
keeping
us
as
individuals
and
as
a
board
informed.
So
we
appreciate
it
anything
else.
Kimberly
you
had
a
motion.
A
C
J
Good
afternoon,
chair
Davis
and
members
of
the
Parks
and
Recreation
Board
of
Directors
Ganesh,
Ganpat,
Parks
and
Rec
supervisor
cemetery
manager.
For
over
22
years,
we've
had
two
volunteers
who
have
given
tours
of
the
historic
Woodland,
Cemetery
Gerald
LeBlanc,
who
many
of
you
know
or
have
heard
of,
has
given
tours
to
over
6,000
individuals.
J
Gerald
was
a
history
teacher
at
North,
High
School.
He
also
studied
a
lot
of
Des
Moines
history
and
a
lot
of
Cemetery
history
when
he
started
doing
this
Gerald
because
of
his
ill.
Health
has
asked
that
back
he's
still
doing
well.
He's
living
at
Valley,
View,
Village,
Archie
cook,
stepped
up
in
2013
and
started
giving
the
tours
of
what
Sun
Cemetery
and
a
lot
of
this
a
lot
of
the
the
work
that
Archie's
put
into
this
is
based
on
watching
Gerald
do
this
over
many
years.
J
J
In
parks
on
streets
and
in
buildings
here
in
the
community,
and
mostly
as
these
tours
are
done,
they
also
talk
about
the
military
service
of
the
individuals
who
have
tributed
in
significant
ways
and
given
the
ultimate
sacrifice
for
their
city,
the
state
and
the
country
tours
are
done
April
through
October,
typically
on
Saturdays.
There
are
about
two
and
a
half
hour
public
tours
that
are
done.
There
is
a
number
of
other
private
other
tours
that
are
also
done.
J
J
J
So
I
want
to
introduce
Archie
Cook
to
you
all
and
Archie
has
lived
in
Des
Moines.
All
of
his
life
he's
been
married
for
40
years.
He
is
a
former
history,
teacher
retired
in
2015,
taught
at
North,
High
School.
He
earned
a
degree
from
DMACC
and
then
went
on
to
Grandview
college
and
studied
history
and
education.
J
J
We
went
through
and
pulled
the
room
in
a
room
and
he
actually
knows
mostly
your
names
by
the
way
and
probably
your
family
history,
but
if
you
haven't
had
an
opportunity
to
attend
one
of
these
tours,
we
just
concluded
this
year,
so
please
plan
on
it
next
year
in
2019,
in
March,
he
and
Jen
Fletcher
and
Callie
and
I
will
get
together
we'll
plot
out
the
year
about
that
the
number
of
tours
but
Archie.
Thank
you
for
what
you
do.
A
hundred
percent
of
your
time
is
volunteer
and
we're
grateful
for
your
efforts.
C
Just
wanna
good
Nash's
support
of
Archie
Archie
is
a
wonderful
person
and
he
does
this
for
free
as
a
volunteer
and
I
continue
every
year
that
I
work
here
in
the
last
few
years.
That
he's
done
this
people
keep
saying.
Can
we
do
more?
Of
these
can
I
say
we
have
to
ask
Bart
he's
the
one
giving
us
all
the
time
and
he's
done
all
the
research.
So
thank
you
and
thanks
for
helping
us
put
a
positive
light
on
our
cemetery
operations.
C
L
We
were
doing
World
War
one
and
there's
no
fitting
people
to
talk
to
about
city
parks
that
World
War
one
because
I
was
reminded
last
Saturday
when
we
did
the
last
tour
that
many
of
our
city
parks
are
not
only
named
for
people
buried
in
Woodland,
Cemetery,
I,
think
of
the
UN
park,
I
think
of
Redhead
park
on
the
east
side.
Don't
don't
tell
anybody
on
the
east
side,
I
stumped
almost
stumbled
on
that
name
or
they
won't.
Let
me
back
right
anyway.
L
I
would
just
like
to
remind
everybody
that
there
are
many
city
parks,
I
can
think
of
at
least
three.
We
have
the
gold
star
section
in
Woodland
Cemetery
and
it's
almost
the
hundredth
anniversary
of
the
ending
of
World
War
one
and
the
44
men
that
we
have
buried
in
the
wood
and
the
gold
star
section
of
Woodland
Cemetery.
They
were
actually
buried
for
three
to
five
years
in
France
and
that
big
nice
gold
star
monument,
that's
on
on
university
by
Lutheran
Hospital,
originally
intended
for
Woodland
Cemetery.
L
But
the
community
did
such
a
great
job
of
raising
money
for
that
monument
that
they
would
have
had
to
leave.
Three
of
the
soldiers
unburied,
if
they'd,
have
put
it
down
in
woodland
and
so
what
the
little
park
across
the
street.
The
point
I
was
trying
to
make
is
the
little
park
across
the
street
on
university
is
Burke
Park
and
John.
Burke
is
one
of
those
World
War
one
soldiers.
We
also
have
a
Medal
of
Honor
recipient
that
hardly
anybody
in
the
community
until
I
started
taking
North
High
kids
down
there
with
Gerald
LeBlanc.
L
We
have
a
Medal
of
Honor
recipient
in
Woodland,
Cemetery,
that's
buried
with
those
44
men,
his
name's
Lou,
Lieutenant,
Colonel,
Emory,
Pike,
and,
and
so
we
also
have
McHenry
Park
as
one
of
those
44
men
and
so
I.
Think
your
predecessors
and
and
and
everything
that
we
do
with
tying
the
parks
and
the
cemetery
together
are
just
such
a
fantastic
way
that
I
can
lead
people
on
a
history
tour
and
plus
promote
our
parks
too.
So
thank
you
for
that
and
thank
you
for
allowing
me
to
take
over
for
Gerald.
L
A
L
F
B
A
A
C
A
E
B
B
L
C
Have
some
affinity,
disks
I
used
to
do
this
presentation
when
Don
Tripp
was
here,
so
it's
been
updated
and
also
in
the
back
row
as
Jessica
Butler
you,
some
of
you,
raise
your
hand.
Jessica
jessica
is
our
liaison
to
the
city
finance
office,
she's,
wonderful!
She
does
a
lot
of
work
with
us
throughout
the
year,
not
just
one
budget
presentation.
She
helps
us,
maintain
and
watch
our
budgets
in
these
just
ideas
of
where
we
could
maybe
be
more
efficient
on
our
budgets.
Sometimes.
D
Chair
Davis
members
of
the
Park
and
Recreation
Board
Richard
Brown
assistant
director
again,
like
Ben,
said
this
is
our
kind
of
annual
orientation
of
the
budget
for
you,
as
a
board
kind
of
give
you
a
little
bit
better
understanding
about
how
the
parks
and
recreations
budget
fits
into
the
overall
city
budget
and
where
what
we
fight
for
from
a
tech
stock
standpoint.
So
we
try
to
do
is
kind
of
start
from
the
very
high
level.
Where
do
all
the
tax
dollars
go
and
say
Des
Moines?
D
And
if
you
have
a
house,
where
does
every
dollar
of
your
tax
dollars
go?
So
you
can
see
here
things
from
broad
lawns:
the
county
hospital
to
dart,
public
schools,
d-mac
Polk
County,
as
well
as
a
bunch
of
other
little
things
on
a
very
far
right-hand
side,
I'll
fight
for
the
city,
tax
dollar,
but
the
City
of
Des
Moines
gets
about
thirty
five
point,
four,
nine
percent
of
that
and
that
obviously
fluctuates
a
little
bit
from
year
to
year,
depending
on
what
each
of
these
entity
sets
their
tax
rate
at
next.
D
What
we
do
is
kind
of
walk
down
into
the
city's
overall
budget.
The
city
has
about
a
seven
hundred
and
thirty
eight
million
dollar
budget.
That's
what
it
takes
to
run
the
city
of
Des
Moines
for
a
year.
That's
anything
from
all
the
revenue
that
the
city
gets
from
collecting
trash
to
property
taxes
to
debt.
That's
issued
to
do
major
construction
projects.
This
is
what
it
takes
to
run
the
city
for
an
entire
year
tonight,
we're
talking
just
about
the
operating
budget,
but
wanted
to
take
just
a
second
to
differentiate
between
the
two.
C
D
Operating
budget
is
your
day-to-day
expenditures,
that's
what
it
takes
to
run
the
Parks
and
Recreation
Department.
It's
mainly
employee
salaries.
It's
maintenance
of
the
park
system.
It's
the
contracts,
we
pay
for
mowing.
It's
supplies.
We
purchase
chemicals.
We
buy
pretty
much
anything
that
you
need
to
do
you
on
a
day-to-day
operations
of
the
city's
Parks
and
Recreation
Department.
The
capital
budget
is
money
we
use
for
major
construct
major
construction
projects.
These
are
projects
that
the
city
bonds
for
that
goes
out
and
buys
a
bond
to
help
pay
for
the
construction
of
these
projects.
D
Basically,
if
you
want
to
look
at
what
we'd
use,
Capital
Improvement
bonds
for
would
be
anything
we
expect
to
last
20-plus
years,
we
expect
to
last
less
than
that.
The
general
rule
is
that
that's
an
operating
budget
budget
expenditure.
So
this
is
your
trails.
This
is
new,
enclosed
shelters.
This
is
new
playgrounds.
It's
pretty
much
any
major
construction
project,
you
think
of
and
yeah
Chris.
A
D
So
what
we
do
is
we
work
through
a
process
with
the
finance
department,
the
city
manager
and,
ultimately,
the
City
Council,
to
prepare
a
budget
for
the
city
every
year
and
we
work
through
both
to
operating
what
we
need
for
operating
needs
every
year
as
well
as
then,
we
put
together
a
five-year
CIP
budget
that
helps
us
kind
of
project.
What
projects
we
see
coming
forward,
what
potential
grants
we
have
and
what
donations
were
able
to
work
with
different
partners
on
I?
D
Don't
expect
you
to
read
this
sheet
like
Ben
said
we'll
hand
it
out,
but
just
want
to
show
you
how
does
Parks
and
Recreation
fit
into
the
overall
budget
of
the
the
city
city
departments
and
how
the
city
operates.
You
know
anything
from
finance
to
Public
Works,
to
please
fire
the
library,
a
lot
of
the
things
you
don't
see,
such
as
human
resources,
information
technology
and
civil
and
human
rights
and
ultimately,
the
mayor
and
council.
Everything
is
broken
down
into
a
budget
where
they
get
their
funds
and
how
they
spend
it.
D
We
also
just
wanted
to
talk
you
briefly
through
what
are
some
of
the
historical
budget
changes
that
we've
had
and
over
the
last
10
years,
we've
experienced
major
changes
in
how
we
operate
the
number
of
staff.
We
have
we've
looked
at
things,
such
as
increasing
revenues.
We've
worked
with
you
as
a
board
to
set
fees
and
just
for
a
lot
of
our
events
and
the
services
we
provide.
We've
seen
a
shift
in
priorities.
We've
seen
a
lot
more
emphasis
on
trails
and
natural
resources
and
some
of
the
programming
we
do.
D
D
This
is
just
to
give
you
a
flavor
of
what
the
budgets
have
looked
like
since
2012.
So
blue
is
what
the
taxpayer
subsidized
for
the
park
and
recreation
system
to
operate
and
manage
that
Green
is
our
revenue,
so
you
can
see
back
in
fiscal
year
2012
we
were
just
short
of
about
16
million
dollar
operating
budget
to
operate
the
entire
parks
and
recreation
system.
The
one
thing
I
do
want
to
point
out.
We
didn't
actually
get
cut
that
much
in
2017.
D
Also,
like
I
talked
about
earlier,
we've
come
to
you
a
lot
for
finding
ways
to
increase
revenues.
One
of
the
most
important
things
that
Ben
has
talked
about
is
finding
ways
to
make
sure
that
we
can
bring
as
much
revenue
as
we
can,
but
not
being
overly
burdensome
that
people
don't
participate
in
our
our
projects,
our
processes,
our
programs,
you
name
it.
We
have
to
make
sure
that
we
pay
attention
to
the
demographics
that
make
raising
additional
revenue
as
a
challenge.
D
We
understand
as
a
Parks
and
Recreation
agency
that
we're
not
in
the
business
to
make
money
or
bring
even
or
even
make
a
profit,
but
we
need
to
make
sure
that
we
can
bring
as
much
revenue
as
possible
while
looking
at
and
providing
the
services
that
everyone
can
participate
in
some
of
the
areas
of
success
that
we've
been
able
to
achieve
are.
We
now
are
able
to
charge
parking
fees
to
all
the
people
to
come
from
out
of
town
that
use
our
soccer
facilities.
D
One
of
the
things
that
we're
very
proud
of
is
we've
been
able
to
maintain
the
majority
of
services
provided
by
the
department
with
a
lot
of
changes
that
have
happened.
Examples
are
we've
outsourced,
mowing
and
custodial
services.
We've
worked
very
hard
with
new
nonprofits
that
operate
both
the
zoo
and
the
Botanical
centers
vertical
gardens.
We've
had
major,
departmental
reorganizations
how
we've
looked
at
the
services
we
provide
and
we've
reduced
pool
and
aquatic
center
operating
hours,
but
try
to
minimize
the
impacts
to
people
that
use
them.
D
We've
worked
to
outsource
the
golf
operations
to
a
private
contractor,
so
we
work
with
C
corporation
now
to
manage
all
three
of
our
golf
courses
and
then
we've
eliminated
some
full-time
positions
over
that
time
to
make
sure
that
we
can
still
can
try
to
meet
our
budget
targets
as
well
as
providing
those
services.
So
now
we're
looking
at
what
is
our
current
operating
budget?
D
We're
now
at
a
budget
of
about
13
million
dollars,
we'd
bring
in
just
short
of
four
million
dollars
in
revenue,
so
the
the
taxpayer
subsidized
Parks
and
Recreation
by
about
nine
million
dollars
each
year
and
what
we
do
and
I'll
walk
you
through
this.
But
we
break
that
down
into
service
lines
and
service
lines.
Aren't
an
exact
science
on
how
we
spend
all
this
money.
But
what
we
try
to
do
is
break
it
down
into
buckets
that
make
the
most
sense
and
they
are
aquatics.
D
Now,
as
we
start
to
jump
into
our
budget
a
little
bit
more,
you
can
kind
of
see
from
a
percentage
standpoint
of
each
of
those
service
lines
that
take
up
the
most.
Obviously,
cemeteries,
Parks
and
Recreation
are
some
of
the
biggest
things
followed
by
aquatics
trails,
civic
attractions
and
there's
some
other
ones
that
don't
make
necessarily
sound
like
they
make
a
lot
of
sense,
but
one
if
we
get
to
each
one
of
those
service
lines,
I'll
make
a
little
bit
more
sense.
D
Again
here
just
looking
at
how
the
adopted
budget
lines
up
with
revenues
for
these
service
lines,
so
you
can
see
here
cemeteries
bring
in
the
biggest
proportion
of
our
revenues.
They
are
by
far
out
of
pretty
much
everything
at
35
percent
of
the
biggest
revenues
we
bring
in
and
yet
that's
still
an
operation
that
is
subsidized,
despite
all
the
revenue
that
comes
in
I
won't
make
you
read
all
this
here,
but
basically
this
is
just
a
little
bit
more
detailed
information
about
each
one
of
these
service
lines.
It
talks
about
what
the
service
line
is.
D
It's
our
two
pools
our
three
aquatic
centers,
all
the
splash
pool
spray
grounds,
wading
pools
as
well
as
our
swimming
lessons,
and
you
can
see
here
in
the
bottom
right
it's
about
a
1.6
million
dollar
budget
and
we
bring
in
just
short
of
a
half
a
million
dollars
in
revenue
and
revenue
from
that
comes
from
people
fees
they
pay
for
swimming
lessons.
All
the
revenue
that
comes
in
from
daily
admissions
that
our
pool
and
Aquatic
Center
next
is
city
landscape
support.
D
So
this
is
a
little
bit
different,
but
this
is
things
such
as
our
green
house.
We
grow
several
hundred
thousand
annuals
and
perennials
every
year
that
beautify
the
city.
This
can
be
anything
from
downtown.
We
provide
the
plants
for
floor,
drive
or
Water
Works
to
Des,
Moines,
Water
Works
to
plant
and
hundreds
of
thousands
of
annuals
that
go
all
over
public
spaces
in
neighborhood
associations
in
our
parks.
You
name
it
there.
What
beautify
the
city
every
year?
Also
it's
talking
about
things
such
as
non
park,
land
management.
This
is
litter
control.
D
It
could
be
plantings
outside
of
parks.
It
could
be
snow
removal
on
the
streets.
We
have
a
partnership
of
the
Public
Works
Department,
where
our
staff
goes
over
there
to
help
ensure
that
the
streets
are
plowed
in
a
timely
manner,
again:
expenses
about
1.2
million
dollars
a
lot
less
revenue
on
something
like
this
there's,
not
a
lot
of
revenue
who
do
you
meet
in
in
city
landscape
support?
So
we
subsidize
that
pretty
heavily
next
one
cemeteries,
seven
cemeteries
across
the
city.
D
That
includes
the
managing
a
lot
and
niche
sales,
and
we
do,
on
average
about
600
to
650
burial
services
annually
that
obviously
changes
from
year
to
year,
so
about
1.8
million
dollars
in
expenses,
but
bringing
in
about
1.3
million
dollars
in
revenue.
So
that
accounts
for,
like
I,
said
the
third
of
all
the
revenues
we
bring
in
as
a
department.
D
Next
one
is
civic
attractions.
This
is
the
management
of
the
long-term
operating
agreements
for
the
regional
facilities,
so
these
are
the
nonprofit's
or
contractors
that
we
work
with
to
manage
the
facility.
As
you
see
here,
it's
a
little
blank
Park
Gazoo.
It's
all
three
of
our
golf
courses:
it's
principal
Park,
as
well
as
a
Botanical
Center,
again
about
six
hundred
thousand
dollars
in
expenses,
but
we
do
bring
in
quite
a
bit
of
revenue
this.
This
could
be
the
lease
for
principal
park
from
the
Iowa
Cubs.
D
Next
one
is
our
community
recreation
centers.
This
is
our
two
centers
that
we
have
across
the
city,
1/4
mile
on
the
east
side
and
pioneer
Columbus
on
the
south
side.
These
are
great
facilities
that
are
really
a
hub
of
activity,
year-round
from
anything
from
Polk
County
senior
meal
sites.
They're
there
24/7
365
pretty
much.
We
have
preschool
activities
after
school
activities,
drop
ins,
holiday
recreation.
We
do
special
events
November
all
the
way
through
February
around
in
our
basketball
programs,
we
have
day
activities.
D
There
are
incredible
opportunities
for
people
to
get
out
and
really
experience
opportunities
in
our
city
and
as
well
as
there's
opportunities
for
Trent
for
birthday
parties
or
fitness
classes.
You
name
it,
but
about
$600,000
and
expenses
again,
not
a
lot
of
revenue
and
this
kind
of
talks
towards
what
we've
talked
about
with
our
demographic,
they're,
very,
very
affordable.
You
can
get
in
for
a
dollar
and
it's
a
very
affordable
price
to
get
in.
You
can
have
Jim
use
whatever
activities
we
have
there.
There's
pool
tables
ping
pong
tables
weights,
you
name
it.
D
Fitness
equipment,
so
really
a
great
opportunity
for
people
to
have
an
affordable
space
to
use
in
our
city
next
one.
This
is
a
majority
of
the
cost
that
we
have
here,
but
it's
managing
your
park
system,
it's
mowing
and
maintaining
its
natural
resource
management.
It's
looking
at
green
infrastructure
and
conservation
practices,
its
plantings
and
trees
irrigations
along
some
of
our
boulevards.
It's
the
constant
pickup
of
litter
throughout
the
park
system
custodial
services,
community
garden
and
Grayslake
Park.
We
just
want
to
point
out
that
you
know
major
park
like
that
is
filled
in
here
as
well.
D
D
The
second
biggest
one
is
our
recreation.
This
is
all
our
adult
and
youth
sports
special
events,
environmental
education.
This
is
shelter
rentals,
so
all
the
shelter
rentals.
Would
you,
across
the
system,
disc
golf
courses,
it's
cyclocross,
rentals
that
we
have
and
all
the
field
space
we
ran
out
for
sports,
about
2.6
million
dollars
in
expenses,
and
we
do
bring
in
quite
a
bit
of
revenue
here.
D
Just
Ding,
Darling
shelter
alone
brings
about
thirty
thousand
dollars
in
revenue
from
shelter
rentals
there
a
year,
so
very,
very
popular,
and
they
do
bring
in
in
quite
a
bit
of
revenue
trails.
This
is
our
81
miles
of
paved
trails
and
nature
trail.
Through
the
system
we
see
millions
of
uses
per
year
across
this
system,
expenses
go
to
managing
and
maintaining
mowing
litter
control,
any
sort
of
plantings
or
tree
trimming
as
well
as
snow
removal.
D
So
this
was
an
exercise
that
Rebecca
sent
out
to
you
the
board.
We
got
most.
Everyone
turned
this
back
in,
but
we
wanted
to
see
how
your
priorities
for
budgeting
along
these
service
lines
would
reflect.
The
actual
budgeting
that
I
presented
here
today
so
I
just
want
to
point
out.
The
red
line
is
what
our
adopted
budget
is,
and
the
blue
line
is
all
your
responses
averaged
out.
D
D
So
we
do
have
a
few
proposed
budget
adjustments
here,
so
I
just
want
to
walk
through
these
with
you,
real
quick.
One
of
the
things
that
has
been
recommended
is
that,
in
order
to
reduce
the
budget
a
little
bit,
we
would
change
Gray's
lake's
hours.
So
what
we're
proposing
here
is
that
Grayslake
a
would
be
closed
from
10:00
p.m.
to
midnight,
so
two
hours
at
the
very
end
of
the
night
April
through
October.
D
That
would
allow
us
to
reduce
those
two
hours
of
staff
time
through
April
all
the
way
through
October
and
save
about
20,000
dollars
annually.
We
see-
that's
probably
the
lowest
time
of
the
year,
that
the
park
is
actually
used,
those
last
two
hours
of
the
night
and
think
that
it's
a
pretty
easy
savings
without
impacting
the
predominant
amount
of
use
for
the
park.
A
second
one
is
to
look
at
Gray's
lake
concession
stand
this
and
this
isn't
a
budget
cut,
but
this
is
a
potential
revenue
enhancement.
D
So
what
we're
proposing
to
do
is
send
out
our
current
concessions
operations
so
right
now
we
do
pops,
candy
bars,
chips,
all
kind
of
packaged
food
as
well
as
then.
Our
rental
facility,
with
our
boats
or
kayaks,
our
paddle
boats,
canoes,
you
name
it
put
that
out
to
an
RFP
similar
to
what
we
did
at
Birla,
marina
with
Captain
Royce,
and
see,
if
there's
a
potential
to
increase
the
amount
of
revenue.
D
We
see
there
so
something
that
we're
working
to
develop
and
we
can
see
if
that's
something
that
might
result
in
a
revenue,
enhancement
and
increased
service
at
Grayslake.
And
finally,
the
last
one
is
the
proposal
to
close
the
remaining
traditional
waiting
pools
that
we
have
as
the
2020
season,
so
not
next
year
but
the
following
year.
So
we
believe
at
that
point
we
should
have
eight
of
those
facilities
left
and
would
result
in
about
a
twenty
thousand
dollar
operating
budget
savings
per
year.
D
Once
holes
were
all
closed,
that
would
reduce
the
amount
of
service
that
people
have
from
aquatics
facility
standpoint.
The
goal
is
still
to
eventually
place
all
those
with
our
spray
grounds,
but
budgets
have
not
allowed
those
to
be
replaced
in
a
way
that
would
keep
up
with
this.
If
this
was
accepted
by
the
City
Council
just.
A
Have
a
when
we
were
at
our
executive
meeting,
we
talked
about
the
traditional
wading
pool
closures
and
how
there
is
now
those
wading
pools
are
the
traditional
ones
that
are
filled
up.
You
know
every
day,
usually
they
have
to
have
a
Park
supervisor
there
and
then
they're
drained
every
night,
but
it
just
so
happens.
I
think
we're
talking
about
ten
or
eight
of
those
pools.
A
Which
just
happened
to
be
in
the
most
suppressed
areas
economically
in
Des,
Moines
and
I-
think
that
I
I
would
like
to
have
us.
Take
an
additional
look
at
that,
because
the
savings
is
twenty-five
thousand
roughly
in
that
name
yeah
the
savings
I
wonder
if
the
savings
justifies
the
service.
That
would
be
not
there
anymore.
So
I
would
appreciate-
and
maybe
we
can
have
board
discussion
on
this,
but
to
take
a
look
at
that,
especially
since
we
don't
have
any
Sprague
rounds
coming
in
to
the
future.
A
F
C
Me
answer
that
real
quick,
absolutely
you
are
an
advisory
board,
so
one
of
the
things
you
could
do
is
write
a
letter
to
the
city
manager
and
tell
me
how
you
feel
about
this
and
ask
to
come
your
next
executive
committee
meeting
and
he
came
to
the
last
one.
He
was
very
good
about
that.
Tell
him
where
you'd
like
to
be,
and
you
could
then
decide
what
your
next
tip
is.
C
After
you
meet
with
him,
the
two
cuts
as
one's
a
revenue
enhancement
and
we
can't
forecast
what
that
would
be,
but
the
two
cuts
about
fifty
seven
thousand
dollars
from
just
rounding
off
the
nearest
numbers
here,
there's
there's
going
to
be
eight
left.
We
can
send
you
a
map
tomorrow.
We
have
a
map
of
these
things
based
upon
wards
and
somebody.
C
It's
not
perfect
science
that
we
don't
have
a
reason
why
some
wards
have
more
wading
pools
traditional
ones
because
they
were
built
many
many
decades
ago,
but
it
does
affect
some
wards
more
than
it
affects
the
other
words
too.
So
there's
some
issues
nothing's
ever
perfect
as
far
as
making
reductions,
but
this
is
one
of
the
things
that
we
felt
like
cutting
this
versus
something
else.
Everything
we
do
touches
some
level
of
poverty
in
our
community
and
we
don't
like
that
to
begin
with.
But
this
is
one
area
we
thought
we
could
propose.
You.
C
I
H
Here's
my
concern,
and
if
you
look
at
this
in
the
big
picture,
if
you
go
back
to
2007,
you
know
the
operating
budget
was
over
19
million
dollars
and
so
right
now,
if
you
look
at
the
economy,
it
is
about
as
good
as
it's
ever
going
to
get
and
I've
been
here,
been
a
lot
of
you've
been
here
through
some
of
these
budget
cycles,
where
the
downturns
have
been
more
severe
and
Park
and
Rec
is
the
first
one
on
the
chopping
block.
It
just
happens.
H
Every
time
2007
we
had
145
employees
parking
rates
down
to
58
I.
Remember
a
couple
years
back
was
last
year
we
thought
were
hard
to
claw
back
one
planning
solution
and
I'm
increasingly
uncomfortable
with
this
idea
that
this
board
is
just
going
to
say:
here's
your
choices.
You
need
to
cut
$50,000
out
of
this
budget
and
then
the
partner
network
comes
in
wherever
stamps
it
and
says
this
is
okay
to
do
it.
I
would
like
this
for
to
to
sending
an
animist
signal
to
the
City
Council.
Now,
ultimately,
they're
gonna
make
these
decisions.
H
H
Now
we're
not
talking
a
huge
sum
of
money,
it's
maybe
a
couple
hundred
thousand
dollars.
It's
again,
this
we're
just
recommend
this
recommendations
to
the
City
Council,
but
maybe
it's
time
that
we
kind
of
send
a
signal
to
the
City
Council
that
maybe
they
should
stop
and
think
here
before
they
continue
to
cut
Park
and
Rec.
So
whether
we
receiving
file
stage
may
be
something
that
can
be
discussed
more
if
Executive
Committee
amongst
the
board
members
but
I'm
wondering
if
we
just
do
a
disservice.
H
If
we
come
back
and
rubber
stamp
and
and
approve
a
budget
that
cuts
services
and
that
you
know
it's,
the
city
manager,
City
Council's
office,
to
make
those
tough
political
decisions.
But
as
advocates
for
a
park
and
rest
system,
are
we
really
doing
our
job?
If
we
just
vote
for
a
reduction,
and
maybe
we
should
collectively
send
a
signal
and
reject
this
budget
and
improve
one
that
includes,
doesn't
include
the
$50,000
and
cuts
have
been
articulated,
but
also
includes
additional
monies
to
restore
the
aquatic
tools
to
to
their
regular
think
about.
A
This
is
really
a
pretty
good
budget
for
us
not
to
be
hit
because
I
think
you're
right
when
you
said
these
are
the
best
of
economic
times
that
we're
gonna
have,
and
it's
probably
gonna,
go
downhill
from
here.
If
I'm,
paraphrasing
it
correctly
I
think
we
come
out
of
this
pretty
well
with
those
you
know
the
our
cuts
at
Grayslake
that
doesn't
really
impact.
Much
of
anything
the
concession
stand,
hopefully
they'll
get
something
that
will
be
like
the
one
that
they
have
done
on
the
river.
Hopefully,
that'll
be
an
increase.
A
The
only
thing
that
really
hits
us
is
the
traditional
waiting
pool
for
twenty
thousand
dollars
savings,
or,
if
we
inflate
it
to
twenty
five
thousand
dollars,
I
think
that
that's
something
that
can
be
fixed
but
I,
don't
think
I
think
that
we
need
to
discuss
this
more
and
I.
Would
certainly
welcome
everyone
to
be
there
and
let's
discuss
this
as
to
what
Avenue,
but
I,
think
we
have
to
go
fairly
quick,
because
this
budget
is
in
the
process
of
being
adapted
and
so
I
think
it
would.
That
would
be
the
best
way
to
do
it.
E
C
Want
to
remind
folks
that
the
trail
system
at
that
I
want
to
point
out
a
loophole
on
T
V,
but
the
trail
system
is
open,
24/7
365
because
by
ordinance
it's
part
of
the
city's
transportation
system.
So
if
graze
it
like
closes,
what
happens?
The
parking
lots
closed.
The
beach
closes,
the
terrace
building
and
concession
operations
and
restrooms
closed
under
this
proposal,
but
those
that
wanted
to
simply
just
go
walk
on
actual
trail
would
still
be
allowed
anywhere
in
all.
G
C
Would
have
to
park
anywhere
that's
open
to
them
to
park,
that's
not
under
our
jurisdiction.
This
part,
you
know
that
you're,
you
have
a
few
parks.
The
Riverwalk
raised
like
two
examples
that
have
our
literally
they're
different
from
the
vast
majority
of
parks.
The
vast
majority
parks
close
one
half
hour
after
sunset
by
ordinance
things.
You
all
have
advice
on
and
recommendation
powers
on.
I
would
say
you
have
to
remember
to
you're.
Gonna
have
an
opportunity
to
if
the
process
has
has
been
the
same
as
it
has
been
in
my
11
years.
C
Working
here,
there'll
be
a
public
budget.
I,
don't
know
this
for
a
fact,
but
that
is
passed
in
public
budget
input
sessions
where
you're
invited
to
you
all
are
appointed
by
at
least
one
city
council.
Member
on
there
you
can
talk
to
your
council
member,
you
can
talk
to
the
city
manager.
He's
will
he's
good
to
come
to
our
meetings.
You
have
all
these
abilities.
I
just
want
to
give
you
your
opportunities
and
outline
the
process
for
you.
The
city
won't
adopt
a
budget
likely
again.
A
F
F
A
But
I
wanted
to
emphasize,
but
I
wanted
to
emphasize
that
we've
come
to
this.
The
executive
meeting
it's
at
7:30
and
I
realize
that's
an
inconvenience
for
some,
but
coming
let's,
let's
get
our
heads
together
on
this
and
see
which
way
we
want
to
go
and
Lloyd.
You
do
bring
up
great
ideas
about
the
pools
because
we
have
pretty
Spartan
pool
hours
now
in
Des
Moines,
but
you
know
I
don't
see
monies
coming
in
so
this
is
something
that
and
I
think
been
alluded
to.
A
K
A
couple
things:
if
we're
gonna,
you
know
kind
of
look
at
tool
hours
and
the
waiting
pools
I'd
like
to
have
information
that
allows
us
to
kind
of
drill
down,
see
you
know
how
much
usage
there
is
of
those
facilities.
I
mean
I'm.
Assuming
that
the
you
know
you
didn't
just
decide
on
these
waiting
pools,
they're
not
like
spring
rounds,
I
assume
they
don't
get
the
same
usage.
The.
C
Unfortunate
thing
for
us,
when
it
comes
to
spray
grounds
and
judicial
wading
pools
is
traditional.
Wading
pools,
has
standard
required
by
state
law,
so
I
can
count
those
folks
at
spray
guns.
I,
don't
have
a
good
way
to
count
me
up.
Nobody
there
right,
we
can
go
off
the
eye
test
and
driving
by
and
then
seen,
wear
and
tear.
So
just.
K
A
K
K
K
A
A
A
C
What
we
did
just
a
quick,
quick
history
is
when
we
had
those
cuts.
Maybe
2009
don't
quote
me,
but
we
we
came
together
because
we
had
a
larger
target
by
the
budget
deficit
and
we
sat
down
and
we
had
three
public
meetings
again,
not
to
perfectly
answer
Lloyd's
question,
but
we
went
out
to
three
different
parts
of
the
community
and
said
hey.
We
can
have
a
library
model
where
one
library
is
open.
One
pools
open
this
day.
C
Next
pool
is
open
this
day
or
we
can
look
at
different
hours
for
different
pools
or
we
can
look
at
one
set
of
hours.
It's
uniform.
The
public
told
us
pick
the
uniform
hours
across
all
five
pools,
so
I
have
some
old
data.
That
could
tell
me
what
those
pools
were
like
during
that
hour,
but
I
can
tell
you
that
public
said
if
you
were
going
to
cut
hours,
cut
them
in
the
evening
instead
of
during
the
middle
of
the
day
or
later
starting
of
the
day.
C
M
C
So
I've
been
a
1
year,
so
it's
we
don't
have
a
great
dad.
These
things
are
more
economic
development
than
they
are
making
a
city
rich.
Remember
those
facilities
today
before
they
were
captain
Roy's.
This
will
be
a
little
different.
I'll
tell
you
this
number
in
a
second
captain.
Roy's
was
an
old
metal
building.
C
So
it's
not
a
perfect
example
that
was
storage
and
we
no
longer
needed
it,
because
the
building
you're
sitting
in
was
now
the
new
central
function
of
set
recreation
so
that
that's
usually
a
sliding
scale
in
less
than
10%,
like
HubSpot
captain
Royce,
we
get
10%
I'm,
just
giving
you
an
verges
of
all
these
operations
of
gross
revenues
after
they've
paid
I
mean
that's
the
revenue
when
they
get
their
expenses.
Now,
today,
Grayslake
concession
stand.
We
we're
not
fancy
there
on
purpose,
because
we
just
don't
have
the
ability
to
be
fancy.
C
We
can
clear
around
$30,000
a
year
with
watercraft
rentals
at
$5
per
1/2
hour
and
prepackaged
foods,
no
alcohol,
but
pop
water,
candy
chips,
etc.
So
we
believe,
after
what
we've
seen
in
other
areas,
that,
with
with
the
right
ordinances
in
place
and
the
right
purview
by
the
park
board
that
approved
things-
let's
just
say
there
was
limited
alcohol
sales
and
higher-end
foods
and
higher-end
services.
There's
a
chance
to
raise
like
being
Gray's
lake
with
its
million
visits
per
year
is
gonna.
C
Have
a
lot
of
people
be
interested
in
giving
us
a
higher
return
that
you
can
see?
That's
the
thinking
behind
this,
so
we
wouldn't,
like
I,
told
the
city
manager
we'll
put
an
RFP
out,
but
we're
not
gonna
do
anything
less
than
our
baseline
of
$30,000
per
year,
unless
we
think
it's
very
close
and
they
can
offer
a
higher
and
better
service.
So
I
just
gave
a
clue
to
all
the
bidders.
Unfortunately,
but
that's
what
we
need
to
be
we're,
not
we're
not
gonna.
Do
this
just
a
break-even
and.
C
A
I
C
N
Davis
members
of
the
Park
and
Recreation
Board
Matt
calcific
recreation
manager,
as
Ben
mentioned,
just
a
quick
review
of
our
inaugural
fall
Family
Fun
Fest.
We
gave
you
some
initial
information
about
this
in
our
fall
programs
preview.
So
we
certainly
wanted
to
come
back
and
talk
about
the
successes
of
the
event.
This
first
time
out,
we
hosted
things
on
Saturday,
October,
13th
and
again,
first
time
offering
we
used
some
resources
from
some
other
events
that
have
run
their
course
and
combined
them
to
provide
this
new
opportunity.
N
We
hosted
the
event
primarily
at
Union,
Park
and
also
at
captain
Royce,
want
to
take
this
opportunity
to
recognize
some
of
our
fantastic
sponsors.
Taco,
John's
and
hyvee
were
instrumental
in
helping
us
execute
on
our
first
ever.
Food
eating
competition,
fire
and
police
had
an
interaction
and
and
we're
integrated
into
activities.
Throughout
the
day.
The
Des
Moines
music
coalition
partnered
with
us
for
our
youth,
music,
showcase
and
obviously
captain
Roy's
and
their
provision
of
the
facility,
as
well
as
their
promotion
of
the
event
to
their
population
and
their
followers,
especially
on
social
media.
N
So
talking
specifically
about
our
first
ever
food
eating
competition
provided
through
Des,
Moines,
Park
and
Recreation
again
hosted
the
event
at
captain
Roy's.
The
original
vision
was
to
have
it
be
outside
on
their
pontoon
stage,
looking
out
at
the
river,
but
it
was
lo
cold
that
day
and
those
are
things
that
are
just
factors
in
any
program
outside
this
time
of
year,
so
we
moved
inside.
But
again
it
was
a
perfect
setting.
N
We
had
three
competitions,
tacos
and
potato
relays
provided
by
our
partners
from
Taco
John's
and
then
pumpkin
pie
provided
by
our
partner
at
hive,
eat.
So
we
had
prize
packets
for
the
champions
we
had
gift
certificates
from
our
sponsors
as
well.
Some
Park
and
Rec
specific
gift
certificates
for
golf
grace,
Lake,
rentals
and
different
things
that
would
help
them
burn
off
these
calories.
They
were
consuming
during
the
event,
so
get
them
active
afterward.
But
as
far
as
the
creation
of
this
new
event
was
concerned,
we
ended
up
deciding
to
go
with
picnic
style
rules.
N
So
a
lot
of
you
have
seen
some
of
these
competitive
professional
food
eating
competitions,
where
there's
just
kind
of
a
mass
consumption
happening.
The
picnic
style
rule
format
really
allows
the
food
to
be
consumed
as
it
was
intended.
So
there
was
a
real
element
of
having
to
actually
eat
the
food
as
opposed
to
do
anything
else
and
I
think
it
was
the
right
choice
for
our
competition.
C
N
You
go,
we
can
have
celebrity
participants
and
that's
definitely
something
we'll
make
room
for
so
again,
thanks
to
Ben
and
members
of
our
team
for
exploring
a
new
opportunity
like
this
and
was
definitely
unique
and
exciting
and
fun
and
I
think
people
who
were
there
enjoyed
the
spectacle
of
it,
and
that
was
certainly
part
of
what
we
were
going
for
next
at
1:00
p.m.
that
day
we
went
with
our
youth,
music,
showcase
and
again,
captain
Royce
as
the
host
location.
N
Obviously
that's
become
a
professional
music
venue
here
in
the
community,
where
we
have
a
lot
of
local
music
talent
who
are
paid
to
perform,
and
this
was
just
great
opportunity
to
integrate
the
youth
into
what's
become
obviously
a
tremendous
new
venue
in
the
community,
our
partnership
at
the
Des
Moines
Music
coalition.
This
was
just
a
very
logical
expansion
of
what
we
do
in
our
summer
program
and
they
jumped
in
with
promotion
and
provided
the
equipment
that
we
used
for
our
backline
and
so
certainly
we're
a
great
partner
here.
N
To
make
this
happen
in
our
first
iteration
the
performers.
There
you
can
see
the
lineup
I
think
it
reads
pretty
well,
we'll
show
you
some
pictures
of
our
youth
performers
here
equally
divided
there
in
the
middle
was
our
only
true
band,
but
we
had
a
pair
of
duets
come
up
next
with
Romero
and
the
hobo
squirrels,
and
then
a
few
soloists
at
the
end,
Jolie
cites
and
cold
st..
N
This
was
performers
only
from
12
to
18
years
of
age,
but
I'll
tell
you
the
quality
and
caliber
of
what
they
shared
with
us
on
this
day
was
outstanding
and
I.
Think
the
youth
music
community
is
very
well
represented
here
and
for
many
years
to
come
again
an
event
that
went
so
well.
We
will
certainly
offer
this
again
in
some
form
or
fashion,
and
we
may
not
have
to
wait
all
the
way
until
next
fall.
The
team
of
captain
Roy's
was
so
pleased
with
what
we
offered
here.
N
N
We
estimated
about
500
people
in
attendance,
so
a
really
great
turnout
for
a
first-time
offering
you
see
the
various
things
that
we
had
to
engage
people
during
the
evening
portion
pumpkin
carving
contest
we
had
12
entries,
of
which
we're
very
high,
caliber
and
you'll
see
one
example,
I
believe
our
ultimate
winner
on
a
slide
I
have
coming
up.
We
also
had
inflatables,
which
is
a
tremendous
attraction
for
kids.
We
had
an
obstacle
course
and
a
slide
that
we're
busy
the
entire
time
we
were
there.
N
That
was
in
addition
to
the
rocket
slide
and
the
regular
playground.
That's
there
as
part
of
Union
Park
police
SWAT
vehicle
was
on
site
and
the
police
dog
again
appreciate
their
contribution
same
with
fire
who
brought
out
a
truck
and
actually
helped
run
our
s'mores
station
and
did
some
fire
education
as
well.
This
lined
up
perfectly
with
the
end
of
Fire
Prevention
Week,
so
appreciated
that
support
from
our
internal
city
counterparts.
We
had
some
family
activities
where
we
did
some
environmental
education
regarding
animals
and
wildlife.
N
They
might
see
around
the
park
and
we
handed
out
some
candy
at
that
time
as
well,
not
on
the
list.
We
also
had
a
face
painter.
That
line
was
pretty
long,
the
entire
time
again,
a
very
popular
feature
for
any
family
event
that
we
run,
and
then
we
have
the
Heritage
carousel
open
and
that
was
free
from
5:00
to
7:00
o'clock.
Again,
during
the
time
of
our
event,
they
had
an
estimated
650
riders.
So
a
wonderful
addition
to
the
services
and
opportunities
we
provided
during
that
night.
N
The
one
casualty
of
the
weather
during
that
week
was
we
did
not
get
the
chance
to
show
an
outdoor
movie.
We
had
originally
hoped
that
we
would
be
able
to
do
that
as
part
of
our
offering
that
night,
but
because
of
the
rain
and
wet
turf
of
the
park
and
then
the
delicate
nature
of
some
of
our
equipment,
the
temperature
that
was
projected
for
that
evening.
N
We
had
to
make
a
call
on
Friday
afternoon
about
providing
the
movie
or
not,
and
we
erred
on
the
side
of
caution
there
so
be
part
of
the
concept
in
the
future
and
hope
to
actually
provide
it.
When
we
run
this
event
again,
but
had
to
make
that
difficult
decision
this
time
around,
but
I'll
leave
you
with
this
collage
and
some
images
of
a
lot
of
what
I
just
described
we
had
at
the
event
at
least
the
night
portion
there.
You
can
see
that
pumpkin
down
at
the
bottom.
N
That
was
somebody
pretty
talented,
bringing
that
to
our
events.
We
appreciated
them,
sharing
that
with
us
again
very
successful
first
offering
and
something
we
will
continue
in
the
future
and
I
certainly
just
want
to
thank
everybody
here
and
members
of
our
team
who
took
a
chance
on
this
as
a
first
time
event,
and
just
so
please
personally,
that
it
was
so
well
received
and
certainly
excited
about
what
it
could
evolve
into
in
the
future.
A
We'll
go
to
well
actually
do
the
lateness
weekend.
Unless
someone
has
something
pressing
on
boards
and
commissions,
we
can
catch
that
next
meeting.
Rex
I
want
to
thank
you
for
coming
and
being
part
of
the
presentation
tonight,
you're
always
involved.
We
appreciate
that
another
announcement
is
Jim.
Bollard
has
been
appointed
by
Councilman
Gatto
to
replace
mark
Godwin
on
the
board,
and
so
he'll
be
here
at
the
next
meeting.
Sam
pew
was
just
reappointed,
so
that
was
a
good
thing.
Anything
else
that
I'm
missing
Joel
you
look
like
I.
Miss
am
I
missing
something
no.