Welcome to the Oakdale Parks and Recreation Commission meeting. We're at the Oakdale City Council chambers. Uh we are calling this meeting to order and now we'll take a roll call. Julie, Commissioner Berth here. Commissioner
Cunningham here. Commissioner Gianini here. Commissioner Meyer here. Commissioner Proer here. Commissioner Shore here. Great. Please stand for our pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. All right, everyone get take a peek at the
agenda for today? Yeah. I get a motion to approve. I'll make a motion. All right. Second. All right. All in favor? I passed.
February 18th minutes. It's been a while. Yeah. You guys check it out. Do you remember it first of all? Yeah. Okay. Um, can I get a motion to approve anyone? A motion. All right, Jan. Second. Second. Second. All in
favor? Passes. Great. Right now, we'll go to an open forum. There's just tons of people here today, so take your time and we'll get you as you come. There's no one here. Hannah, you want
anything other to say? All right. Um, now we'll go into old business 2025 work plan commissioner education. Julie, you want to Yeah, thank you, Commissioner Meyer. Um,
so speaking to our 2025 um work plan um education assignments, I'm not sure how you guys want to do this this year. Um, I I feel like how we did it last year wasn't necessarily the best way to do it. Do you have any suggestions on how
you would like to see that happen? Um, I'd still like to see just someone, you know, take an event or a park visit each month, but I'm not sure the best way. Do you want to email me what you would like to do or would you like to to pick something today? What do you guys What
would you guys like to see? Well, I picked one for myself uh for this month. Perfect. Okay. We'll have we'll have you report um as soon as we I can report that I did just recently.
Okay. Okay. So, do do you want to have a month assigned or would you prefer just to come and report if you were at a park or an event? That's a little easier, but I don't know if that's going to work for everybody.
But yeah. Yeah. I'd rather re report when I go. Okay. So, okay. Are we okay with that? Yeah. Sure. Well, yeah. The only It'd be nice to have someone at
each event though, representing the commission. So, if we just do it ourselves and nobody shows and it's kind of not what we're about. Um, so if we can email Julie if we're going to be around and doing something and if you
see someone doesn't have an event covered, if you could put it out to all of us and say, "Hey, who can get here?" Sure. Well, last year, so everybody just picks something. So, we had someone covering something every month. I think if we picked a program and everyone had
to attend, that would be kind of a heavy list. I don't mean everyone has to attend a one that's not covered and you just put it out and say, "Who can cover this? who can make this cuz if we're all doing our own thing and say we're going to be here, we're going to be here. Okay. But you have one
event that's in a social or something. Can one of you make it out of here? Okay. Does that sound okay to everyone? So to recap, are we So we're going to email you Julie every month and say So I I'll say okay, next month is the an
indoor market in November. Who would like to take that? Okay. So like that works. Um I had signed up for it I believe but like I was there at the Beski Beski Park tree planting. Um do you want to know before or
afterwards like I could have emailed you and said hey I attended that. It was really a good um event. Right. Well you know so just going forward I just wanted to have a better process. But um what we'll plan to do then is for July um
I'll reach out to everyone and ask if anyone can cover whatever it happens to be and then and then you can whoever you know was available can pick that but we only need one person then we'll just do that every month. Um but you can certainly report to the activities that
you were at today. Okay. And is that at a different point of this meeting or Oh, you can do that now. Yep. Oh, so yeah, I did attend a really good event. Um Andy, I think you were there too, but um it was the um Bethky Park tree planting.
They had lost a lot of trees in that park due to emerald ashbor. And so they had um I think like 25 to 30 trees that we planted uh right to the front um off of Granada Avenue
there. and the mayor was there. Um, and we had a lot of um, people from some of the local schools help planning and um, it was just really a fun event to see um, you know that we pay attention to
our parks and we get people who are interested in our parks and um, Maxine Bethky um, was really happy that we all paid attention to it too, you know. So yeah, it was well turned out I thought excellent. Thanks. The weather wasn't
great, but it wasn't bad. It wasn't this full day rain like we have today. So Okay. Wonderful. Thank you. Uh Julie, anything else on that? Yeah, I think Mike had a Oh, no. I meant I had a a upcoming event that I was planning to attend, so I'll report next time. Okay.
Okay. We'll um we'll discuss via email. Yeah. Okay. Perfect. Anybody else on that? I went to the blood drive over at the discovery center. Uh thankfully it wasn't busy because they only had like two people drawing blood and it would
have taken forever. Um but no, it was it was fine. No problems. We and I haven't been here for a little while. Um but we went to me and my family went to the egg hunt and we also
went to Sunday bingo. And I mean the egg hunt is always a great event. It was lots of fun. Lots of families, lots of kids. Um the bingo was also a lot of fun. And I was actually really surprised like how many like non- young
families there were. It was a lot of like older generation there cuz um which was great. You know, it's a it's a neutral environment, you know, to be able to just go and play bingo and eat some ice cream. And it was it was fun
and we're definitely going to do that again. Perfect. Thanks for the feedback. Anyone else? Mark. Yeah. I did forget to say that um that tree planting was in honor of Jane Klein who was on our parks
and rec commission before she died. Yeah. So, it was good to honor her, too. Definitely. Okay. Good. All right. Yep. Moving along. Uh we have Hannah Dunn, our community development specialist here to talk about the park system plan
update. Welcome Hannah. Thank you. Just wait for my slides to pop up. There we go. So, thank you for having me here this evening. Um for new faces on the commission, my name is Hannah Dunn. I am a community development specialist with the city and I have been leading the park system plan
project. Um, as the project is getting fairly close to wrapping up, I want to take the time to come to your meeting um to provide an update and review the project. The park system plan is intended to be a comprehensive park plan that will serve as a guiding roadmap for
the next 20 years. The city of Oakdale already has a really wellestablished parks, trails, and recreation system. However, um due to significant city growth, changing demographics, um interest in different park amenities, and aging infrastructure, um we felt
that a new park system plan was needed. Um so it it will provide um a way to to meet the demands and communes uh demands and needs of the community. Um, the park system plan will identify and prioritize recommendations for
improvements, schedules, costs, staffing, and funding opportunities. Uh, the project kicked off in January of last year, so we're looking or we're about a year and a half in. Um, and we're anticipating that it'll be completed within the next couple of months. Um, SRF Consulting Group, they
are the consultant that we hired. They're not present, but um, Stuart has been and Ken have been here to a couple meetings. Um so they they were hired to provide professional planning services for the project. The next few slides goes over um how the city staff and SRF consulting
you know developed the park system plan the different tasks that we did. So back in um early last year the spring uh very early stages of the project a number of tasks were completed. We um reviewed previous plans and studies. Um we analyzed demographic trends. Uh we
completed a comprehensive inventory and assessment of all our parks and their amenities, trails, buildings, athletic fields. Um this was done by city staff and SRF consulting group. Um going out, spending a few days in the parks, walking around, taking notes um and
filling out an assessment form. There was an initial survey in March that uh sought to gather just general feedback from um residents and park users about um what they like about our system, what they think can be improved. And then lastly, there were a few days that city staff and the
consultants spent um going through design sharets. Um we met with various departments such as public works, the police department to do some informal interviews. And then from that information that we gathered as well as the survey results, we just started to um put some ideas to paper and developed
some preliminary concept plans. The consultant then took those kind of just you can see on the picture, you know, trace paper. They took those designs and put them into the um you know really nice professional format. Last summer was our really big engagement push. Um so following the
development of the preliminary concept plans, we wanted to gather people's feedback about those plans and see whether they were supportive of the recommended improvements. There was an online survey which we promoted um on social media and we used yard signs in the parks to get people to um take the
survey. We attended events such as the farmers market and summerfest to engage with visitors. We had stakeholder meetings with the Oakdale Athletic Association and Oakdale Wellness 50 plus. We attended city commission meetings such as yours. Um em uh the environmental management commission, the
economic development commission. Um there were also some informal popups at Tanner Lake as well as other parks. Um and when we were out in the other parks, we were really trying to be intentional about engaging volleyball players. So, this is a um a use of our park that we're seeing increase. So, we were
trying to be intentional about um speaking with those um that play grass volleyball to gather their thoughts. Um following all that engagement, um concept plans were further refined and um we attended two different um council workshops in the fall of 2024 to gather
council feedback. Then throughout the winter um and spring of this year, the project team worked more with city council to finalize preferred concept plans and develop detailed cost estimates that will be really helpful when we're working on our capital improvement plans in the future. We also worked to to develop a
prioritization and phasing matrix um that prioritizes all the park improvements that are in the concept plans um over the short term which is 0 to 5 years um the midterm 5 to 10 years and then the long term 10 to 20 years. All of that work takes us up to
now where we're um compiling all of that, the concept plans, the phasing and prioritization matrix um into a digestible plan that current city staff and city council as well as future city staff and city council can use to guide the city's park system. I'll pause
briefly um to see if commissioners have any questions or comments about um how we developed the park system plan um engagement that was done. I'll just open it up for Go ahead. Well, I guess tonight are we going to go
through each park and Nope. So, this was just an opportunity to as we're getting to the final stages to just kind of close out um have a final opportunity for questions. Um but we were not going to we had an opportunity I think back in November to walk through all the concept plans. Um so we were not going to walk
park by park again tonight. Um the park concepts have been provided in your packet. They've changed a little since um since the last time we were here um based on council feedback. So if you looked through those and had any questions, I'm happy to answer them now. But um really this was just an
opportunity to kind of as we're wrapping up the project to get in front of you and just kind of um let you ask questions. Are you guys satisfied with the feedback from the city when you went out from the from residents and park users? Yeah, there was a lot of really
great um really great comments. People left really intentional feedback. Um I don't remember off the top of my head how many people took the survey. It was pretty good response rate based on um other similar surveys um for projects and studies um and and at events we
talked to um to lots and lots of people. So, I know um that there's still probably, you know, more that more comments that we could have collected, but um we we did do a really big engagement push over the summer. So, yeah, I thought the emails
and how they could reply to that was very good, actually. So, who has some questions? Oh, that was Mike. Oh, go ahead. So in Tanner's Park um it refers to H as
a water play area feature. Is that Yep. Uh splash pad? We were intentionally keeping that flexible. That is something that future council will decide how how that looks. Um but they had been supportive of of of a water play feature
there. Um but we don't know what the what that will exactly look like. So, um, when that area, um, and I don't off the top of my head know in that phasing matrix when that is proposed. I think that's more of a long-term um, park improvement. Um, we will go through more
of a final design process and and determine what that will look like. I was just going to comment that I know this is a huge project to take on. So, I appreciate all the outreach and effort put into soliciting all the comments and
feedback. Thank you. Absolutely. No, I think it's a job well done. Like I said, the layout's great. Presentation's wonderful, and you guys did put a lot of hard work into this, all of you, and uh we appreciate that for sure. I did have
uh one park specific question also uh for the uh Goose Pond Park. Yes. Yes. Uh was there anything in the proposal about signage for like not feeding the geese? We the concepts are pretty high level so they don't go into that sort of
wayfinding or other signage. Um but that could be something to consider down the line when we get into final design um processes. Um there was an an it'll take further refinement, but we were attempting to um create some sort of
buffer that will kind of keep um some of the geese hopefully away from that that turf glass grass that they love so much. Um but I think when we get into those final design phases, we'll have to really put a little bit more thought into how that can work, but maybe something that along the lines of more
signage that could potentially help. Didn't council just talk about geese? Another question I have is um will we be um in on like deciding which ones are priority and which ones
um you know like Armstrong Park was it's really been nothing up to this point and um so I mean city council went through um at multiple workshops and gave their priorities and hierarchy. Um so it's it
was the phasing matrix is pretty much based on um their their priorities. Um but it's something that maybe we can um as we continue it's a living document. Nothing is set in stone. So each time we kind of are revisiting maybe there'll be more opportunities um in the future for
parks smart commission to weigh in. Um but I'm at this point I don't quite know how that will look like but it's something to consider. I'm not saying that I think Armstrong should be immediately or anything. I think it's just been one of those things that we have as a park, but it's been
like why? Yeah. Um Yep. And we um reclassified a number of the parks like Armstrong and Meadows that don't have um trails or active amenities as natural resource parks. We still find value in them in in um providing ecological
habitat and serving as green space. Um so there are some parks. We do have quite a number of them that are more of those natural resource parks, but um Armstrong does have a concept plan um for kind of changing it up a little bit. Um but like I said, nothing set in
stone. If the future council decides that they want to go a different direction, that is certainly um a possibility. Okay. Anyone else? And I have one question. Yes. Um, and we can take this offline,
but one of my lacks of skill is reading a map. Can we walk Tanner's Lake at some point so I can see what all of this means? Yeah,
absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. And I think as Tanner's um is improvements are implemented, there will be a lot more community engagement involved around that park and things like walking tours is something we've discussed as potential ways to
engage people and help them understand what our vision for the park is. But in terms of we can certainly just go on a a walk of tanners. Yeah. When you have when you have some time because this is a foreign language to me. So, I just don't get it. Yeah, absolutely. I think
that would be a great opportunity for, you know, to open it up to whoever's interested. I'd be interested in seeing I'd like to get in on that. Yeah. Um, and I don't I don't know what your plans are for summer. I do believe that maybe there's one meeting that you take
outside. I don't know if you have plans for that, but um I am willing to um offer Okay. a walking tour of Tanners if that's something if you don't have different plans. So, no, we don't. Be a great time for it. That'd be a great idea. Yeah, great time for it.
Excellent. Excellent. Well, there's no other questions. I do have just a few more slides. Um, so um now that we have all the pieces of the plan completed, concept plans, cost estimates, phasing and prioritiz prioritization matrix. The project team is in the process of preparing a draft.
The contents of the plan will um include an introduction that provides an overview of the plan. It identifies the vision, goals, objectives. Um there will also be an assessment of need chapter. That's where demographics will be discussed, the current system and park assessments. Um the park gap analysis
that we've completed and then there will be maps that show the distribution of the different um amenities such as playgrounds, multi-use fields. You can kind of understand um the system as a whole where um maybe there's some gaps. The public engagement chapter will summarize the e efforts of the project
team. And then there will also be a recommendations chapter that's going to identify highlevel systemwide priorities related to accessibility, safety, connectivity and so on. And then another chapter will be the Tanners Lake Park longrange plan. Um as part of the consultant scope of work, Tanner
received a bit of a deeper look um and more thought went into developing a preferred concept plan. So that park is going to get its own chapter. Then there will be an implementation and funding chapter. This is where that phasing matrix will go. Um and opportunities for funding will be identified. We'll have
this really great plan with concepts and phasing, but it'll be really important to identify funding sources so we can actually implement the uh recommended improvements. So this is something that city council is actively thinking about. At the very end of the plan, we'll have all the concepts, all those detailed cost estimates. So when the
city council is going through the capital improvement um plan process, those that that chapter will be really helpful um for them. But uh it's a 20-year plan. It's a living document. It can change as um you know change with the times and the needs
of the park users. So um we wanted to make sure that um it's it can be a living document. Nothing has to be set in stone. Next steps. The project team is in that final push to get a draft completed. Once we have one, we will send it out to city council, the parks and rec commission, as well as other
commissions for an opportunity to review and provide comments. And then the input that you provide will be considered and when possible incorporated into the plan. A final plan will go through council and will be adopted by them. Um this is um going to occur within the next couple of months. Once we have an
adopted plan, um we want to make sure that doesn't sit on a shelf and it's an active living tool for the city. Um, so aligning that phasing and prioritization matrix with the city's capital improvement plan will be a step in the right direction and that's something that city council um is thinking a lot about right
now. So um before we wrap up this evening, I'll open it up to commissioners if you thought of any other comments or questions, feedback. No, I think it's um wonderful job. Wonderful job. Well, if there are none, thank you for having me this evening. Um, as always,
you um are free to email me with any questions or things that come up. So, don't don't be shy. Thanks, Anna. Appreciate it. Thanks for the ecoair, too. Oh, yes. You're welcome. That was a great event that we'll be talking with city council about um hopefully next
week. Or two weeks, no, next week. Yeah, I saw some of you there. So, thank you for coming. Thank you. Thanks, Hannah. All right, staff. Julie, you're the only one here. I am. I can go ahead with the the
May June update for you. Um the summer Oakdale update has arrived in mailboxes, so hopefully everybody received theirs. Um that will include um the months of June through September.
All seasonal staff have been hired for all of our summer programming and that um they'll start on June 6. So coming fast. Yeah. Um park cleanup update. We had over a 100 volunteers to um help clean our 16
the 16 parks that we had people sign up for. Thanks to all the volunteers. They really do a good job helping keeping our parks clean. Um we also gave out seed bombs as thank you gifts. So, they're just little round balls that you can just toss wherever you'd like. And hopefully everybody who received those
will have some sprouts sooner than later. I planted mine, but I don't know with all this rain today. So, good luck. Um, our artist of the month, the painting pals, who are local artists. They um that paint together at Glad
Gladstone. Um, they've returned for their annual group art display, and that will be um at the Discovery Center May through June. So, stop by and take a look if you're if you're at the Discovery Center. Um, we've got a couple kayak programs coming up. Silverfin
Kaying Kaying, who we partner with, um, they'll be instructing to learn to kayak programs on Wednesday, May 28th. And then we also have a Strawberry Full Moon Kayak and that'll be on Wednesday, June 11th. And we still do have openings. So,
if anybody's interested, um, jump online and you can you can register for those. Um the farmers market kicking off very soon, Wednesday, June 4th. And again, that's 2 to 6 at city hall. Uh new this summer, we have live music schedule and
those will start at 3:00. The first one will begin on June 25th. So, we'll have a variety of different dates and those will be advertised on our website as well. Um it's their the band names and that type of thing. So, so look for that. Um, we'll also have several new
vendors and that will be joining us this summer and you'll be able to find those on our updated farmers market list prior to Memorial Day. So, take a look for that. Take a look at that. Um, our always popular amphitheater series will kick off on June 12th. So, we've got a few different
ones this year. We've got the Sustainable Safari, the Yo-Yo Master Dazzling Dave, and we've got Snake Discovery, and then the always popular Raptor Center. So, we always tell people, get there early and get a spot. They always fill up really
fast summer concert series that'll kick off on Wednesday, June 18th. And that will be um with a performance by Salsa Dell Soul. And that is a Caribbean infused um band. So, we've got five total concerts this summer. Uh series
will wrap up on August 20th with a 6 PM kids dance party and bubble party from Imagine Music Bubble Parties. We had those um that group at Summerfest a couple years ago for one of the the kids shows and um it's really enjoyable and I
know a lot of people showed up. So, um they'll be back if anyone wants to pop into that one. Um, we've also partnered with the Maplewood Oakdale Historical Society this summer to provide summer programming at the Eer Schoolhouse. So, that'll be fun, new, and exciting. Um,
they've got, um, one room schoolhouse camps, and that one will be in June and one will be August. So, um, interesting to see how that'll that'll look and turn out this summer. I do have a question about that. You're having camps around
that, but is there times that you could just as adults you could just go through to see it or as of yet they haven't done programs for that just the open house that they'll have in September that'll be the one date but that is their goal to start working um at that and and you
know having that open on a more regular basis in the summer. Okay. Um we've got outdoor story time and craft series. That's something new we're doing um with paper pie and that will um happen at the amphitheater June, July, and August. And um April does kids
stories and crafts. Free program recommended for kids 10 and under. No registration is necessary. That's something you can just show up and participate in. Um we're also offering new Zumba in the park fitness classes and that will happen at the Eater
Schoolhouse in the grassy area there. Um we'll do that this summer. We've got three different sessions. Um, sign up. We've still got plenty of openings for that. Uh, the Nature Preserve 5K coming up on Saturday, June 28th at the
Discovery Center. Again, the event is sponsored by Everhard Group with Keller Williams Reality. So, we really appreciate their sponsorship for the third consecutive year. Um, we're able to buy the nice high quality um, race shirts that people really appreciate.
Um, speaking of Summerfest coming on as well, um, our seasonal staff will be making a few appearances. The IT struck will be there Friday and that date is June 27th. Uh, they'll be there from 11 to 1. And then again on Saturday, June
28th from 12 to 4. They'll also be helping out with the popup splash pad along with the fire department. And that'll be on that Saturday from 1 to 2:30. Um, lastly, we have our wellness transition to new transit. Maybe I'll
let Jay on talk about that. I know she likes discussing the wellness um 50. So, if you wanted to do that during your time, you can certainly do that. Movies in the park. Yeah, that'll be coming later in the summer. So, I was just talking about Yeah. May and June, but I'll address that at our July meeting
for sure. So, with that, I stand for any questions. Anybody has comments, anything? Okay. Thank you. All right. Thanks, Julie. Uh, commissioner updates. If there's anyone from Willowbrook
watching, stay off the grass. There are signs there that nobody's paying attention to. And um, the grass isn't going to grow if you're playing volleyball on it. But have fun at the park. It's a great
park. Thanks. That's good. Jan, um yeah, so Julie had mentioned the um wellness 50 plus transition to transit. And so we do have two times um Thursday,
June 12th and uh or um yeah, it's in the um Oakdale Wellness 50 plus uh part of the Oakdale update. And so, um, I hope that people, you don't have to be 50 or older to attend some of these events
that we offer. We just like to make sure that people get accustomed to what's going on. Um, especially, you know, as it helps you get around. Um, so yeah, that is Thursday, June 12th, 1 to 3 at Discovery Center and then again on
Tuesday, June 24th. But as Mark had mentioned, we do um have the blood drives um which are always good events to attend and um you know rewarding. So um yeah, please always check out what
we've got going on and um you know just a lot of events you just show up but um the ones that you sign up um it's easily done through the discovery center and our website. Yeah. So,
thank you. Um, it's not really park cleanup, but if any of the commissioners want to help, uh, the Oakdale Athletic Association, we jumped into the adopt a highway. I don't know if you guys have seen the signs. Um, we have from Lake Larpender on
Century Avenue up a little past 36 up past the Dairy Queen there. Um, we just did our first cleaning last week and there'll be another one in the fall. So if you're interested in helping, let us know. Good. Our wellness group or Twin Cities
just did adopt a highway too. Excellent. J, I have nothing more. Anything else? Yes. Uh I have a little bit. Um so the parks are really clean and I love that. The park cleanup event
is I think very successful and I love it. Uh, but I often ride along the walking trails, the multi-use trails, like all over Oakdale. And the parks are always clean, but I often see trash on the trails themselves. And I was wondering if there was a way to like have a trail cleanup event or like have
that as part of the annual park cleanup. I especially notice it once the snow melts, like you suddenly see all the trash that accumulated over the winter. Um, and uh, I guess this might be more of a question for Jeff, but I I just wanted to mention um, that idea.
And also I well question for Jeff. Uh but the recent construction the four street bridge the the gold line and all. Um there was seemed to be a particularly large amount of trash there and I was wondering if like that was from construction that was going to be cleaned up at some point or or not. I
can certainly pass those along to to Jeff and have him respond back to you. But that's that first one was a great idea as far as the cleanup on the trails. I'm not sure. Um, you know, we typically have people choose a park, but not necessarily, you know, a sidewalk or anything. So, maybe that's something,
you know, an opportunity for us to look at. Great. Thank you. I got nothing. All right, Councilman Mark, welcome. Thank you for having
me. Appreciate the feedback. Always a lot going on in Oakdale. So, a few updates for you. Anytime there's new construction equipment in town, I like to give people an update because that's usually what we get asked about. But I know at 15th in Helmo, just over the bridge here, if you've seen just south
of the veterinary clinic, there's quite a bit of construction going on. That's going to be an upscale childcare center. Tiantada is going in and it'll be, I believe, birth through PE preK, uh, Spanish immersion. It would be a really
nice addition to the the city, especially knowing there's a high demand for additional child care. So, tell me the name of that again. Tiarra and Kenta. And they've they've started here in the Twin Cities and they've grown
nationwide. So, she's awesome, too. Yeah. Kristen Denzer. Yeah. She's formerly a council member here in Oakdale. So, she's been really successful. But, uh, another good project happening there in relation to the parks plan. Uh, to echo your comments, a year and a half
of work. It's been a lot of work and it's been really, really good. It's been needed to kind of reinvision what these parks look like. And now we're to the point as we finalize about looking at the investment, you know, where the dollars uh, hit the road. And across all
these parks in the early estimates, it's many, many millions of dollars to do everything across 27 28 soon to be more than 30 parks. So we as a council are really looking at each individual project in our capital planning process and seeing what makes sense because as a
council, we've had a lot of conversations and we really want to make sure whatever investments are made are going to serve as many people as possible and for the benefit. And that's why the parks were classified as community parks. the bigger parks like Tanners and East Side and and Walton here and then they've got neighborhood
parks and then community resource parks. I live close to Armstrong and most people live next to it. They don't even know it's a park. No, but it is city land. That park before we didn't this year. We chose Willowbrook instead, but right it nobody does. So there's a lot of conversation about where do we
invest, how do we invest, but we are excited to invest. So your feedback is really important in that process. Even um going on from that, two new parks are going to be finished again by the end of the summer. So, Willowbrook North and Willbrook West are uh being bid out
right now and they're going to be doing the work and those will be the final two portions of the parks for Willowbrook. The North Park is going to be more of a natural park with trails and places to sit down and and relax, but no amenities, no playgrounds or ball
fields. The west park is going to have a very large soccer field. It'll have some pickle ball. It'll have some nice amenities there. Uh turf volleyball court because we've seen so so many people wanting more volleyball in the city. So those are all exciting additions. Um yeah, that's happening.
And then of course Summerfest. Hope to see everybody at Summerfest. And those of you who use social media, please promote it, share it, like, and show your interest, and send it to friends because uh the Summerfest organization has been growing each year as they've taken it on as their own separate
nonprofit, but they depend on people in the community to promote it and they depend on uh people to spread the word. So, please continue to do that. Otherwise, those are the announcements I have now and stand for any questions if anyone has any. Yeah, I think Jeff was saying that the
soccer field at Willowbrook will be done this summer, but it won't be usable until the spring. I think they want the grass to take hold and because I asked about that. I'm like, can I use it for soccer this fall, right? Like probably not. No, we even had conversations about
I mean it all depends on where the bids come in, right? Uh because these are expensive amenities to add to the city. Uh we did ultimately decide to use irrigation in that space to make sure that what's there is going to be good quality and usable. Um but again, yeah, I'm sure it's like Willowbrook uh
Commons Park where it'll take a little time for the grass to come in and for it to be usable because those kids, they tear it up, right? Definitely good. Any other questions? Anyone? All right. Good. Thank you so much. Yep.
Thank you.