SPR Boardroom: All right. Good evening, everyone. Welcome to the May 28th meeting of the Board of Parks and Recreation Commissioners. I'd like to start, by asking the Commissioners and the staff
SPR Boardroom: In the room and online, just briefly, introduce themselves, and then we'll proceed with the agenda.
SPR Boardroom: James Shunteiper, at Large Commission.
SPR Boardroom: John Flynn, District 3. Ryan Ball, at-large Commissioner Kocher.
SPR Boardroom: I got you. District 7.
SPR Boardroom: And then, Tricia?
Tricia Diamond, PhD, Boards & Commissions Seat (4/4/24-3/31/27): I'm Tricia Diamond, I'm a Boards and Commission Seat Commissioner.
Steve: Hi, everyone.
Steve: Steve Blair, at-large, Commissioner.
SPR Boardroom: Thank you. Dia, perfect timing. Would you like to introduce yourself?
SPR Boardroom: Great point.
SPR Boardroom: Alright.
SPR Boardroom: We will guide you, with the Seattle Parks and Recreation Land Acknowledgement, Seattle Parks and Recreation acknowledges and affirms the Indigenous Coast Salish people as original caretakers of our waters and landscape.
SPR Boardroom: We're nurtured and shaped.
SPR Boardroom: Today is Parkland. We honor their legacy with gratitude and appreciation, and will safeguard their knowledge and stewardship as enduring treasures to promote community welfare, cultivate inclusive expressions of nature and recreation, and commit to land acknowledgement for each ensuing generation.
SPR Boardroom: I'll go back and let the two commissioners join. Apologies for my delay. My train broke down. Oh, no. I'm Elise Chisholm-Clair for District 4.
SPR Boardroom: Diane, are you… Table to hear us?
Daya Zhang: Yeah, hi, this is Dia, I'm sorry, with District 2.
SPR Boardroom: Awesome. Thank you, everyone. Next up on the agenda, we have 3 items on the consent agenda for tonight's meeting. We have our March and April meeting minutes, and today's meeting agenda.
SPR Boardroom: If there are no objections, I would move forward, consent agenda By unanimous acclamation.
SPR Boardroom: Any objections or concerns? Any answers removed?
SPR Boardroom: Right?
SPR Boardroom: Very! Consent agenda is adopted. Our first item of business is public comment.
SPR Boardroom: Will the staff members…
SPR Boardroom: Please introduce the public comment. Yes, so we're going to start public comment, and everybody gets 2 minutes, so I will time you in a little heads up before that ends. And first up on the list is Craig.
SPR Boardroom: Should I go over there or stay here? It picks up much better for the, folks online. Thank you.
SPR Boardroom: So after, I will have Tony.
SPR Boardroom: Some people signed up aren't here yet, so… Yes.
SPR Boardroom: Such a small and quiet meeting. Thank you for your time. My name's Craig Montgomery, I live in the Central District, and even though it's not on your agenda for today, I just wanted to put in a word for tenants, because there's a lot of heat about wrecks.
SPR Boardroom: Tennis players are people, too. We're also part of this community. We're not as online or as organized. We don't have a 501c3
SPR Boardroom: Matching t-shirts, but, seattle's public tennis facilities are very important to us.
SPR Boardroom: Especially the Amy E Tennis Center, which is…
SPR Boardroom: the hub of public tennis for Central and South Seattle.
SPR Boardroom: There are a few myths out there that I'd like to dispel. One is that tennis is an elite sport. It's not. It's played by everyone, all ages, all races, all ability levels, all income levels.
SPR Boardroom: And if you spend any time at the NBA Tennis Center, you can see that.
SPR Boardroom: Another myth is that tennis courts are empty.
SPR Boardroom: They're not empty. If you look at peak demand, when everybody wants to play either tennis or pickleball.
SPR Boardroom: The tennis courts are full.
SPR Boardroom: Yee is full, lower woodland is full, upper woodland is full, any good park.
SPR Boardroom: It's full of tennis players. Whenever that anecdote comes up, I always wonder where and when did you see the empty tennis court? You let me ride around at 1PM on a weekday, I can find you plenty of it.
SPR Boardroom: I know we've been assured multiple times that dual use is never coming to Amygate Tennessee. I just really wanted to thank the city.
SPR Boardroom: For doing that work, and… Understanding where it is is inappropriate.
SPR Boardroom: But, points. Thank you.
SPR Boardroom: Next up.
SPR Boardroom: Tony?
SPR Boardroom: Okay, chanel. Chanel? Ruth's picker.
SPR Boardroom: Hold on.
SPR Boardroom: Amy, I see you now online. I'm gonna give you permission to unmute yourself.
SPR Boardroom: You'll still need to unmute yourself, I can't do that for you, and then you will have 2 minutes to speak.
SPR Boardroom: Amy, you are still muted if you're talking.
SPR Boardroom: Let's keep coming on, we come back. Alright, come back. Amy, we can always come back to you here.
SPR Boardroom: I do not see Tony online or in the room, so Chanel, Christopher?
SPR Boardroom: No?
SPR Boardroom: Sue Nickel?
SPR Boardroom: Okay, sure, yeah. Can we stand up there so we see a time? We all represent friends of Seattle Parks, and we're here…
SPR Boardroom: to, to discuss the school district's athletic field project in Lower Woodman.
SPR Boardroom: First of all.
SPR Boardroom: Orwoodland was designed in 1910 to be an athletic fields, so we are not opposed to athletic fields. We are simply opposed to fields that are too large for the space, and that will kill aged trees. And we are assuming
SPR Boardroom: that, option A will very likely be the, the proposal, of option, which would kill 8.
SPR Boardroom: homestead design, linen trees planted prior to 1907. I have a photo from August 1907 showing the trees that are several years old. So, these are the trees coming out.
SPR Boardroom: Now, the issue we have is there's been no actual
SPR Boardroom: Public, presentation of a survey or actual dimensions of the site.
SPR Boardroom: And, the lower woodland field dimensions listed here are actually not placed on a survey, so it's been very,
SPR Boardroom: Loosey-goosey regarding exactly the impact of these fields on the actual site.
SPR Boardroom: Bruce and I measured the field number 2 a couple days ago, and there's actually
SPR Boardroom: Way more space east to west than what these fields will take.
SPR Boardroom: So, we ask, and this is our proposal and request, that you require the school district designers to actually stake out
SPR Boardroom: The playfields on the site, so that people can really evaluate the true impacts to those historical trees that we're trying to save.
SPR Boardroom: Okay. Okay
SPR Boardroom: So just a few ideas that we have, is that there's… there could be potential adjustments.
SPR Boardroom: In terms of the fields configuration. There really are a couple. One is the actual dimensions of both fields. One of them is 180 foot width, one is 195. I understand from the school district.
SPR Boardroom: Presentation with 180 is… is acceptable.
SPR Boardroom: But in this case, one is 180, one is 195, so that can be, considered. The other factor is there's a PMX course.
SPR Boardroom: It's on the west side of the… Sorry.
SPR Boardroom: That is… actually, some of it's encroaching on the service growth.
SPR Boardroom: And it sort of developed organically over… Some period of time.
SPR Boardroom: We think that could be potentially, reconfigured slightly, even on the edge, bringing it in a few more feet. And to put it in perspective, what Sue was suggesting was we measured 387 feet from the, the blank line of the east field.
SPR Boardroom: Correct. The currency, at least.
SPR Boardroom: Side of that, which could be that's either one of the fields set the other way.
SPR Boardroom: And then we measured all the way down to the surface road. That's 387 feet. The combined width of these two fields, as currently, suggested 180 and 195 is
SPR Boardroom: 375, so that's 12 extra feet. What we don't know is what is required for the buffer. We don't know if any adjustments can be made to the service road, which is adjacent to the NX site. Even a few feet might be enough to save the trees. The other point I think worth noting, and I would…
SPR Boardroom: make sure that this gets back to somebody looking at this. When Sue and I were out there, we realized that, if the trees are taken out, that location where the trees are is below the grade of the current field, and so we'll have to copies, that'll have to be filled.
SPR Boardroom: And they have to be a retaining wall. I think that's part of the plan, is to put a retaining wall and then a forfeit fence.
SPR Boardroom: That has to be extremely expensive, so if there's any way to start the field at the curb edge that's currently there today on a flat field, and readjust some of the dimensions, potentially, realigning the service road and part of the site, that could save a lot of money.
SPR Boardroom: I'm Kim Butler, and I,
SPR Boardroom: So, as well as Tree Action Seattle, and I have a different,
SPR Boardroom: perspective on this, in addition to whatsoever shared, and that is that the public school, Tiana Public Schools has already closed the comment period and public input without actually giving the public an opportunity to ask questions. There has been no legitimate meeting in which the public has been allowed to ask questions about these proposals, and there's been a total lack of transparency on
SPR Boardroom: processed, as well as which trees can be removed for Plans A, B, and C. There's more than just Plan A down there off all over them, there's
SPR Boardroom: potential for developing a lot upon existing lot. And right now, there's a lack of clarity altogether as to which trees would be removed for these plants other than Plan A.
SPR Boardroom: And without kind of understanding the logistics of what the plan is, it's very difficult to put, you know, the public in a position for added input.
SPR Boardroom: Two meetings that they've hosted have been in non-neutral territory, both located at Seattle Public Schools instead of a neutral area, in which a facilitator has declared questions.
SPR Boardroom: There has been no opportunity, just presentations, and no opportunity to ask any questions of people involved in this process. When we have emailed, Seattle Public Schools and their project manager, there has been no, no,
SPR Boardroom: like, accountability for which trees are going to be moved. It's a very big, you know, unclear situation. So what I'm asking for is a request, and really, what is also unclear is the process in which parts plays in ultimately determining whether or not Plan A, B, or C is going to be used.
SPR Boardroom: The public comment It's supposed to be used in…
SPR Boardroom: providing input to this decision-making process, and since that is closed, we asked for an extension, given the fact that there was no useful information in allowing the public to make that decision or add public comment. What we asked for was an extension of the comment period. Since they didn't extend it, it is unclear where we're at with this process. What is… I'm asking
SPR Boardroom: from the Parks Department is basically to require another meeting in which the public is involved and questions could be asked.
SPR Boardroom: Thank you. Thank you.
SPR Boardroom: Has anyone else come up that kind of recalled upon us?
SPR Boardroom: Rebecca? Okay.
SPR Boardroom: If you want to give me two more minutes? Justin, you have your hand? Anyone else?
SPR Boardroom: Sorry, go ahead, please. I'm Rebecca Laslow, I live in Denny Triangle, much in this place. And I play pickleball in three different neighborhoods, to which I commute by foot, by e-bike, and by car.
SPR Boardroom: I ask that parks pause the current plan and make an explicit goal to disallow such a drastic reduction in existing pickleball courts.
SPR Boardroom: or to drop to two new locations. Instead, I asked parks to analyze court reservation data and work directly with existing port users to develop a more equitable and balanced plan for all neighborhoods.
SPR Boardroom: Don't favor tennis players over pickleball players, or vice versa. All should be entitled to use Seattle's precious and increasingly rare courts.
SPR Boardroom: I understand that tennis players don't like multi-striped courts, but there are better ways to reformat existing courts to allow for tennis only, pickleball only, and multi-stripe courts to exist, all in the same general locations in virtually all neighborhoods.
SPR Boardroom: And there are ways to multi-strike a single, both-size tennis court into four perpendicular pickleball courts while minimizing confusing line convergence.
SPR Boardroom: And I bought sample photographs for the other day. And, the parks person has this online app.
SPR Boardroom: I encourage involvement with the Seattle Metro Pickleball Association, which I'm a member, I'm not a leader, just a member, as well as the relevant Tennis community association to develop a better plan.
SPR Boardroom: The pickleball courts I regularly use are Fifth and Taylor, yes, that corner over here, Macon Hill Playfield, and Mount Vapor Park.
SPR Boardroom: Thank you.
SPR Boardroom: Amy, I see that you are online, and again, I will certainly pass and give you permission to unmute yourself.
SPR Boardroom: If you are there, you can unmute yourself, and you will have 2 minutes.
Amy Greger: Hi. Can you guys hear me?
SPR Boardroom: Yes.
Amy Greger: Okay, sorry, I actually wasn't prepared to speak, because we thought we were not talking about RSS tonight.
Amy Greger: Are we…
SPR Boardroom: You do not have to if you do not want to.
Amy Greger: Okay, well, we absolutely…
Amy Greger: are interested in the updates from SPR. We, we heard there is going to be an updated plan released tomorrow. We have not had…
Amy Greger: great, communication, from SPR, even though we have been, working on, getting updates. I know Tony has tried, and he was supposed to join, I think he's having some technical difficulties.
Amy Greger: So we are very much interested in finding out the, changes to the original RSS plan, and want to make sure we are not halting any, access to courts until we have a better solution.
SPR Boardroom: Okay, thank you.
Amy Greger: Thank you.
SPR Boardroom: And just confirming before we move on…
SPR Boardroom: Tommy, are you in the room?
SPR Boardroom: All right, and that's it. That includes our public eye? My name's Chanel? Oh, yes, we did. I'm so sorry, I could not figure out how to have access to the first time here. That's fine. Is it too late? No, no, no. Please.
SPR Boardroom: If you just, essentially stand up, just because we have some folks online, and want to make sure that they're able to hear you, and the room mics work best if we're… Oh, that's fine.
SPR Boardroom: Hi, I don't know how many minutes I have, just have a few minutes to, okay.
SPR Boardroom: So my name is Cheryl Christopher, I'm a Seattle resident since 2000, live in the same neighborhoods, and home since 2002, and so I just wanted to represent, the local Cal Anderson community. I've been the host of Seattle Street Dog Well for about
SPR Boardroom: 78 years now, and that organization, as you may know, has been going strong at Cal Anderson.
SPR Boardroom: Sharing space at the tennis.
SPR Boardroom: tour with the multi-use sports that represent all three of those courts. I'd like to point to my fellow tennis, basketball, skateboarding, all manner of roller sports.
SPR Boardroom: And so we also do street outreach there. So what we do is we have
SPR Boardroom: food, water, Narcan. First aid, we offer lots of supplies.
SPR Boardroom: A safe connection, and this is the actual demographic.
SPR Boardroom: of Cal Anderson that we serve. So, we…
SPR Boardroom: We're just on court, both last Sunday and the Sunday before. I want to point out, the Sunday before.
SPR Boardroom: We walked on to court and found the fences.
SPR Boardroom: sorry, the Sunday before, the fences were intact, and then the following day, it began being
SPR Boardroom: ripped from existence. So, I want to point out there's been no Accessible Land Use Survey.
SPR Boardroom: There's been no,
SPR Boardroom: public input process. Nothing accessible to the people, no notices, no large board saying, proposed land use, action. This does affect that footprint, because
SPR Boardroom: Those are fences being removed, lines being redrawn. So we do recognize the city's response right now is
SPR Boardroom: Sorry, the park's response is, oh, we're only replacing fences right now.
SPR Boardroom: So, I just want to point out that I do know of the 2020 aside plan, which calls for
SPR Boardroom: repurposing that court for dedicated pickup law court. So we don't know how that happened without public process.
SPR Boardroom: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much.
SPR Boardroom: All right, that concludes our public comment period. Thank you for being able to make it, and appreciate everyone for making their comments.
SPR Boardroom: We had moved the super… we traditionally moved the superintendent's report right after public comment, as sometimes there are updates, that were late, or just to give us a more general overview of what's been going on. We were a little, worried that Michelle was going to be running late, so we had moved it back, but I would like to
SPR Boardroom: adjust the agenda. I can still do the report. No, if you're ready to go for the report. You're ready. I can do whatever you'd like. That would be… that would be great, and we'd adjusted this just purely on risk of the Westlake running late, so… We made it. Thank you. Let's go ahead with the superintendent's report. Okay. Great.
SPR Boardroom: Thank you for pivoting, and we just had a really great, reopening of Press Lake Park.
SPR Boardroom: Jesus, thank you.
SPR Boardroom: Candy was there.
SPR Boardroom: there was a brass band that I didn't get the name of, but Andy and I decided they must be at more of our events. So,
SPR Boardroom: Thanks, Ben.
SPR Boardroom: I didn't bring these notes, but okay, I…
SPR Boardroom: The notes assume that you have had, the annual report and summer readiness.
SPR Boardroom: Before this, so I'm gonna go quick, and get more readiness as you get to the next two.
SPR Boardroom: So we're gonna… a couple updates, it'll be short, then we're gonna… that feedback loop I've been trying to, initiate, and then give you guys some opportunities to engage, and some of that feedback loop relates to the…
SPR Boardroom: comments tonight, so… unless I missed one when I walked in late. So, next slide, Ben.
SPR Boardroom: Just a couple project updates. The removal work has been completed at Gas Works.
SPR Boardroom: park. We're still doing some site cleanup in,
SPR Boardroom: Disposal and that sort of thing, but if you go by, all the appurtenances that will be removed have been removed.
SPR Boardroom: The actual project will probably close out in mid-June as we finish the last elements of that.
SPR Boardroom: In partnership with SDOT, we…
SPR Boardroom: implemented Phase 3, what we call Phase 3 of the Lake Washington Boulevard Safety Enhancement, which is basically more of the speed.
SPR Boardroom: Let's get my word wrong, I think we call them hubs.
SPR Boardroom: I'm old. I think there's speed humps.
SPR Boardroom: Is that right, Andy? Speedhomes?
SPR Boardroom: Okay, so those are going in. We had our kickoff for the bicycle weekends last weekend.
SPR Boardroom: Good crowd.
SPR Boardroom: A nice day.
SPR Boardroom: This picture in the lower…
SPR Boardroom: side shows the Magnuson Park Junior League.
SPR Boardroom: play area that's gonna be closed this summer as we install a new play area there, and you'll probably talk about that a little bit in the asset readiness briefing, and I just wanted to let you know that, next
SPR Boardroom: Thursday, Myrtle Edwards and Centennial Park, which is operated by the port, will reopen to the public.
SPR Boardroom: with, our partners, LA Bay Connections, so we'll be partnering with them on…
SPR Boardroom: warranty work and plant establishment and all sorts of things over the next year or so is, but during that time, it will be open to the public. If you do go out there, you guys, they're baby plants.
SPR Boardroom: So…
SPR Boardroom: It's amazing, and if you just look at the little plants, you'll be, like, a little bit underwhelmed, because they're baby plants, but there are some renderings of what it looks like when it all grows in, and it's pretty amazing, so…
SPR Boardroom: It's not a place…
SPR Boardroom: That we want to have dogs running through the baby plants and all of that, so the more we can do to, text,
SPR Boardroom: It's great, but it's an amazing new revitalized space. I hope you guys can get down there. The Greenway.
SPR Boardroom: Next slide. We are yet again named just one of the top 10
SPR Boardroom: Park and Recreation System by the Trust for Public Lands, and that looks at,
SPR Boardroom: Access for community members, as well as amenities, how many play areas.
SPR Boardroom: Walking distance parks, all of that, so we're proud to be in that top 10 group again.
SPR Boardroom: We have a couple requests for proposals published related to…
SPR Boardroom: Building 41 and 18 at Magnuson Park, and I know if you guys had the test, you would be able to tell us what Building 18 and Building 41 are.
SPR Boardroom: I can't either, Ben, Ben. I'm a friend over there. Tell you everything about him. Yeah, so this is the old fire station and the service station on the corner there, so we're hoping to get some…
SPR Boardroom: partners that want to help us activate… And no community groups in there now? They're just in… No, the old gas station wants our crew quarters reduced.
SPR Boardroom: Get that out of there for a minute.
SPR Boardroom: year, so… If you have anybody in?
SPR Boardroom: That world of public-private partnerships and investing in historic buildings, please send them to our website.
SPR Boardroom: And then this one, I actually need to make a new message.
SPR Boardroom: We have two dog parks that are gonna be closed for not very long, but, for a couple weeks while we do some routine maintenance at Woodland Park and Plymouth Pillars, Woodland Park.
SPR Boardroom: actually reopens tomorrow, which is great, and… oh, Plymouth Pillars is our new… Yeah.
SPR Boardroom: Those are my kind of books.
SPR Boardroom: We didn't scare anybody, I'll get to that in a minute.
SPR Boardroom: Now, in this area, what's happening.
SPR Boardroom: So feedback loop,
SPR Boardroom: We have had some misunderstandings about Queen Fool, so I just wanted to restate that you all heard at our briefing before, but we have…
SPR Boardroom: Some people… Wanting clarification. So, we… Are doing a significant
SPR Boardroom: project in order to address this leak at Queen and Pool. We've had questions about whether or not it can be declared an emergency project. It cannot.
SPR Boardroom: Lily does not fall into that category.
SPR Boardroom: We are on an accelerated schedule, because we already had
SPR Boardroom: Designers, engineers on contract for some other pool work, and we are leveraging that contract, so…
SPR Boardroom: I know it takes longer than anybody would want, and it's actually a relatively quick
SPR Boardroom: Public Works project timeline.
SPR Boardroom: We are increasing programming, and we are seeing that being…
SPR Boardroom: leveraged at Munger in this summer. We have a lot more swimming less in capacity there, expanded their swim league, and we are still working, as we mentioned, about fall to get more
SPR Boardroom: Laps women.
SPR Boardroom: lessons and things at Ballard, Evans, and Meg, or Evers, so…
SPR Boardroom: We do understand this is a huge impact. We are working as hard as we can, and…
SPR Boardroom: Ask for the community's patience while we… while we do that work, so…
SPR Boardroom: I don't want to speak out of turn if it's now fallen behind schedule, but I got an email update that Meg Grevers is scheduled to reopen in late June. I think it was June 20th in the mail? Email?
SPR Boardroom: Yes, I don't have that with me, but yes, it's right around that time. We are not able to offer swim teams this summer, but we are a recreational swimming lesson.
SPR Boardroom: So that'll be great.
SPR Boardroom: We're excited to get back in there, too.
SPR Boardroom: Coleman Playfield, we had a public commenter
SPR Boardroom: a month or two ago, that talked about the Seattle Children's Play Garden, and I was unaware of the connection at that moment, so,
SPR Boardroom: not only have I been educated, but I worked at the Seattle Plant Garden Annual Fundraiser in between here and heard even more about the project, which is very cool.
SPR Boardroom: So they're proposing it's right next to Coleman. Their Seattle Playground is on Park's property, right next to Coleman Playfield. They would like to work with us to design the first, fully inclusive
SPR Boardroom: playfield.
SPR Boardroom: And… Andy's team with Planning and Capital Development is engaged with the community on this idea. We're talking about
SPR Boardroom: The right timeline to approach, Grant?
SPR Boardroom: Funds for different parts of the project.
SPR Boardroom: We are also needing to do community engagement, around it. There was a question raised about the current youth and,
SPR Boardroom: We checked in with our scheduling team. For a grass field about lights, it is almost fully utilized, which, obviously, this would have more capacity if it was synthetic and the things that they're looking at, but right now it is.
SPR Boardroom: Pretty well utilized, you know, if there's some intermittent time that could be scheduled if somebody has a one-off event or something, but if you really want to have a
SPR Boardroom: Tuesday night, Little League, or whenever, you're not gonna have a lot of capacity there, so we will need to try to figure out either how to make it…
SPR Boardroom: Integrated into the… Into them.
SPR Boardroom: project schedule, or figure out if there's other opportunities to… to relocate some of those uses. So, we'll be working through that with…
SPR Boardroom: The user groups and the community and the components over… Next.
SPR Boardroom: Timeline yet to be determined, so just wanted to circle back on… we are engaged.
SPR Boardroom: We find it to be a pretty cool project, so…
SPR Boardroom: More on VATS coming back.
SPR Boardroom: And then just follow up, I think you guys got your first compiled… I'm getting it, I believe it. Okay, so we couldn't figure out a way to actually get you, subscribed, and so the comms team is either going to be sending a weekly roundup, or we'll just do it when they post, and you'll get them…
SPR Boardroom: We do not want to create more work for the very hard-working comms team.
SPR Boardroom: I took it on.
SPR Boardroom: I want you to feel fully informed, so you can go to the grocery store without… It's very helpful. It's very helpful.
SPR Boardroom: We appreciate your volunteerism, and we want you to feel like you have the information.
SPR Boardroom: At least know something went out and you'll need to ask us more about it.
SPR Boardroom: So, if it falls off.
SPR Boardroom: Let's do that in the shot.
SPR Boardroom: I appreciate the effort.
SPR Boardroom: Andy's gonna talk about asset readiness and summer readiness. It's a great precursor to a
SPR Boardroom: a briefing you asked for and you're working on getting into the actual asset management work order system and how Find and Fix It fits into that. So, Andy's not going to touch on that today, but we urge you, and we will be coming back.
SPR Boardroom: We believe the next meeting we will have the kind of park ranger deployment,
SPR Boardroom: Briefing for you all.
SPR Boardroom: we're hoping to go back out on Greenlake Evans in July, and so depending on what this agenda looks like, that may be here in a little bit of time to check in with you guys on what that…
SPR Boardroom: That project is looking like.
SPR Boardroom: Racquet, sports, strategy, we heard lots of great feedback during…
SPR Boardroom: the phase from April 6th until when we kind of close the current engagement hub collection. We are synthesizing all that, and one of the things we decided was we need
SPR Boardroom: to dive deeper with community on some of these issues, and so we are going to schedule a round two engagement. The mailers for that will probably go out next week. We're going to have four additional meetings, but the online
SPR Boardroom: People don't want to go to a meeting, they can still engage online, the portal, and, what?
SPR Boardroom: Things up there in…
SPR Boardroom: In the next week or so, I… we were hoping to be able to announce the locations tonight. We don't have them secured, so there will be a West Seattle site. We heard a lot of that feedback, so I'm just saying that out loud, there will be a West Seattle site.
SPR Boardroom: And what's going to be the topic of that? Is it seeking additional feedback, or is it going to be presenting… It's going to be diver deeper into the feedback we heard, so there'll be things like, let's talk more about
SPR Boardroom: Impact of noise. Are there other approaches to deal with noise other than what we proposed in the last time? If you were to look at
SPR Boardroom: Doing a… a,
SPR Boardroom: I don't know what the right direction is. Ramp up, ramp down. How… how would we communicate that this is dual stripe for this amount of time, but, like, how would we… how would we talk about this in a way that makes sense and…
SPR Boardroom: Over some period of time. So, digging deeper with people that would actually be using, living nearby, experiencing those, those changes. So, they're working on the actual meeting
SPR Boardroom: Structure now, but we wanted… we wanted to get them scheduled before
SPR Boardroom: Peak summer, so that people can feel… I got it.
SPR Boardroom: Say their piece before me.
SPR Boardroom: Everyone looks at the sun on that. Does that mean that, I think there were some changes that were slated to go into effect pretty quickly. Does that mean that the meetings will happen before any of the changes?
SPR Boardroom: So, yes, and, so… There had been a question about, like, when would the soonest this happened be, and…
SPR Boardroom: staff answered that to say, like, if… if we went out on public meetings, and everybody agreed with everything we said, and we went to the park board tonight, and we, you know, like, this would be the soonest it could be implemented, and then people kind of took that data as, you're gonna do this on this date. It's like, no, that's not actually… like, we were just skipping the soonest it could be.
SPR Boardroom: So, nothing's gonna… Nothing official is gonna happen during that time frame.
SPR Boardroom: However, some of the feedback we heard was that
SPR Boardroom: Some of the player groups would like to try a couple things at a couple sites to say, would this address some of the neighbors' concerns?
SPR Boardroom: And so…
SPR Boardroom: part of ramping up to and at those meetings. We're going to be talking about that, so it's…
SPR Boardroom: Two or three sites that we would…
SPR Boardroom: So it's… it's not the Parks Department saying, no shelves, it's, we heard you, and you're willing to try, and so we're gonna…
SPR Boardroom: So it's a yes and. So they're working through how to communicate that, and what that signage might look like, and all of that, so,
SPR Boardroom: So, much more to come on Rapids.
SPR Boardroom: People will be invited.
SPR Boardroom: Have more conversations with us.
SPR Boardroom: Lincoln High School, we met with the school district today.
SPR Boardroom: We were…
SPR Boardroom: wondering if we might be ready to come back to the Park Board on June 11th, and I had some
SPR Boardroom: Today, I would say no. The school district is still completing some compilation of their community engagement. We haven't seen… the Parks Department haven't seen all that come together yet.
SPR Boardroom: There is a meeting at Lincoln high school.
SPR Boardroom: on June 11th, and as part of that, The superintendent may.
SPR Boardroom: share what the school district's interests are, so I don't want this board or anybody, if they hear that, that is not a decision for the greater
SPR Boardroom: effort. This is the school district sharing information with school district.
SPR Boardroom: community,
SPR Boardroom: And then we're gonna try to figure out when we're ready to come back to this group when we have,
SPR Boardroom: That information and pull it together, so… I know it's…
SPR Boardroom: Seems like a long time when you're working through all this, and we want… when we come back together to talk to this group, we want to feel like we're…
SPR Boardroom: Ready to have that conversation with you.
SPR Boardroom: Kale Anderson, which isn't on here.
SPR Boardroom: Cal Anderson is actually a poorly communicated regular maintenance effort.
SPR Boardroom: We… have had many complaints about the actual fences at that court. There's been significant damage.
SPR Boardroom: The facilities team, or…
SPR Boardroom: just do what they do, and they get it done, and they're trying to get ready for summer. Went out and took down the fences and are putting up new fences, but it caused quite a stir that that meant something.
SPR Boardroom: more than repair. We've tried to correct it on social media.
SPR Boardroom: We tried to get some signage out there. I don't know if the signage actually made it out there. We chatted today to try to get the signage out there again. And then, because we knew people couldn't
SPR Boardroom: Clay, because we took down the fences to put new fences up.
SPR Boardroom: we took down the basketball hoops to put up new basketball hoops, but it didn't happen in the same day, and so now everybody's thinking we're trying to send some terrible message about we don't like basketball because it's just basketball hoops now, but that's…
SPR Boardroom: Unfortunately, it is a… Murphy's Law type, cycle of miscommunication.
SPR Boardroom: Begetting more miscommunication, and… So, we are putting the fences back up.
SPR Boardroom: We are putting the basketball boots back up.
SPR Boardroom: hopefully the fences will be better, and the, passable hoops will be fresher. I'm sorry, I don't know the exact date, but…
SPR Boardroom: working.
SPR Boardroom: I'm giving that, and I can talk to you after the meeting if you want to stay, or you can give Ben a phone number or an email, and they can call you after.
SPR Boardroom: Tomorrow.
SPR Boardroom: One thing I would add is I appreciated your comment, and I think if, to the extent that there are impacted place… fields or places in the strategy that aren't
SPR Boardroom: full… they're not known as hubs for racquet sports. We might want to do some extra outreach. So, for instance, Kyle Anderson
SPR Boardroom: it sounds like, and it doesn't surprise me, there is nobody sort of with their eye on a racquet sports strategy for parks, because it's… there's no, like, dedicated group of users there, it's used by six different groups. You know, I represent District 3, and when somebody reached out to me, I was surprised Kyle Anderson was on there, because I just hadn't noticed it.
SPR Boardroom: And then there's a little asterisk that said, change in designated use, so some of those are hard to, you know, discover if you're not fully versed. So.
SPR Boardroom: Just a sensitive… sensitivity to that, and if there are those, you know, kind of hidden… hidden courts that might be impacted, just put up signage, or try to make an effort to reach out to a community room, because that's our public.
SPR Boardroom: Andy and I are both in with Yes.
SPR Boardroom: The next one, a couple partner spotlights we talked about before, the Arboretum and Botanic Gardens,
SPR Boardroom: We actually just did a briefing with them yesterday, it was great, and we want to let you have that information, so,
SPR Boardroom: trying to get done scheduled in the next 1 or so, the 11th or so. So they'll be here next meeting, and then,
SPR Boardroom: our golf program and our contractor premier, we like to bring them in.
SPR Boardroom: share some stuff, and we have friends that have athletic skills go over.
SPR Boardroom: July 9th, so they'll be… Michelle's at Bill's group. That's Bill's group. Craig, you've been asking for a while. Yeah.
SPR Boardroom: Yep.
SPR Boardroom: We've had that date saved with him. He travels a lot, too.
SPR Boardroom: You're set for July 9th.
SPR Boardroom: And the next slide has more on subcommittees, but hopefully this moment I can say out loud that you should have all heard from your staff leads, next steps on your subcommittee. Oops, it's not the next committee. Okay, go back. Well, there you go.
SPR Boardroom: Out of order.
SPR Boardroom: That one. Everybody should have heard from those humans.
SPR Boardroom: I see nodding, that makes me very happy.
SPR Boardroom: Previous slide, Ben.
SPR Boardroom: And opportunities to engage. We have a Beacon Hill Festival, if you have not been to that at least once in your life.
SPR Boardroom: I say must. It's a really great event.
SPR Boardroom: Coming up on June 6th.
SPR Boardroom: The Parks Foundation did some pop-up concerts in the parks last year as part of their
SPR Boardroom: embarrassing myself. 25th anniversary?
SPR Boardroom: I'm gonna go with that, I may be wrong.
SPR Boardroom: 20th, 25th, dating myself, 20?
SPR Boardroom: Anyway, they had such a good time that they're doing it again, so, there's 6 states that…
SPR Boardroom: They're hosting more concerts this summer.
SPR Boardroom: And then…
SPR Boardroom: Just because I was at Westlake Park, and just because we're doing so much with the beautiful games,
SPR Boardroom: Please.
SPR Boardroom: go check those out, and shout out to Whitney, who…
SPR Boardroom: Read the blog post on our beautiful games, and was like.
SPR Boardroom: But I keep getting questions about just general, what does this mean for Seattle, and so our small but mighty comms team facilitated with other Small But Mighty comms teams to develop a Seattle
SPR Boardroom: overarching World Cup website. It's now added to our
SPR Boardroom: blog post, so if you refresh that blog post, you can find it. There's also a broader thing about the Unity Loop and the whole thing, so…
SPR Boardroom: So, cardboard.
SPR Boardroom: Recommendations in action.
SPR Boardroom: Okay, that's a little bit covered.
SPR Boardroom: There's other questions for me that I might hunt and answer right now.
SPR Boardroom: Or we can come back.
SPR Boardroom: I do have one. I know that you said we'll have a park rangers update, but are there going to be, like, extra hours authorized for the park rangers during this sort of FIFA and FIFA time period, or…
SPR Boardroom: How… how are you thinking about that?
SPR Boardroom: Well… There's a balance between letting…
SPR Boardroom: Asking people to work overtime and not burning people out.
SPR Boardroom: Yes, that's not an easy job, so we're more, there probably will be some overtime, but we're more trying to do it by focusing on…
SPR Boardroom: Where and when there are places, so…
SPR Boardroom: But we're upping our maintenance teams and other eyes on the park to also help.
SPR Boardroom: Story.
SPR Boardroom: Yeah, and you'll see them before the whole six weeks starts, so you'll see them fresh.
SPR Boardroom: You, forgot to give yourself kudos.
SPR Boardroom: For that self-heart opener.
SPR Boardroom: Where are we sweating? That one? That was a great opening.
SPR Boardroom: That's a great project.
SPR Boardroom: Another place, if you haven't been to yet.
SPR Boardroom: So nicely redesigned park. Amazing.
SPR Boardroom: Oh, but I will… well, no, Andy's gonna talk about it. See?
SPR Boardroom: I'm already ahead of summary.
SPR Boardroom: Andy will give you an update on that.
SPR Boardroom: Part of the time.
SPR Boardroom: Any other questions from any commissioners online?
SPR Boardroom: Thank you. Yeah, that was helpful to try and answer some of them. I appreciate that. So, on our time schedule, at least. Justin…
SPR Boardroom: I believe you're up presenting the 2025 Annual Report.
SPR Boardroom: Awesome. Well, thank you all for having me. I get to talk to you about our annual report, which is
SPR Boardroom: One of my favorite projects to do all year, because it's both kind of strategically important, but it's also just an opportunity for me to… weeks of my calendar are full of 30-minute appointments with staff.
SPR Boardroom: Saying, sort of, what was the best part of your year? Tell me what your challenges were.
SPR Boardroom: Is there a partner you really want to celebrate? So I get to… just really,
SPR Boardroom: Celebrate our good work, so it's one of my favorite things.
SPR Boardroom: So, what I'll do with you tonight, we'll give you some background on why we do an annual report, and the broader ways we think about accountability and reporting.
SPR Boardroom: I'll tell you about this year's annual report. We'll do some,
SPR Boardroom: some highlights from it, and then, traditionally, the… you all put a letter in front of the report. You should have received last week a draft letter, that your fellow commissioner, Phillip, wrote, so I just want to
SPR Boardroom: It's not… we're not taking a formal vote, but we'll just kind of informally ask if they feel good about,
SPR Boardroom: Do you feel good about that letter representing you all?
SPR Boardroom: in the report.
SPR Boardroom: So, more… and feel free at any time to stop and ask questions, but more broadly, we've got kind of this accountability ecosystem of
SPR Boardroom: You know, the elected mayor, who gets to appoint department leadership and set our priorities, the elected city council, both in their role as city council members and in their role as part of board members.
SPR Boardroom: We'll set our funding levels and general policy guidance. We've got our, resident advisory body, the Board of Parks and Recreation Commissioners, and especially our Performance Oversight Subcommittee, who really work closely with us to track performance.
SPR Boardroom: We've got the city auditor who conducts independent analyses. You know, we're, in the midst of implementing restroom, recommendation
SPR Boardroom: improvements.
SPR Boardroom: So that's kind of the broader ecosystem of who's keeping an eye on our work and how we're accountable. And so, you know, you are… and doing things like this are a critical part of that whole system.
SPR Boardroom: So, our approach to reporting to the public, as a part of the adoption of Cycle 2, we were asked to create a reporting plan, so that's this document here.
SPR Boardroom: that,
SPR Boardroom: That really set across all our lines of business, you know, for how… what are they… what's their funding level, what are they supposed to be producing, and to what level are they supposed…
SPR Boardroom: That was recently updated in the 2025-28 Action Plan that we, in January.
SPR Boardroom: Can you talk to you about?
SPR Boardroom: So, you know, just comprehensive, kind of, performance levels across
SPR Boardroom: We report on those things and our finances in our online dashboards and, other places on a twice-annual basis, and then we put out an annual report
SPR Boardroom: It kind of puts those numbers out, but then also puts them in context for some storytelling.
SPR Boardroom: We also are on the hook for a mid-cycle evaluation, so after 4 years, we'll take a look at how are we doing comprehensively in this period of time, and then we do an end-cycle report as a sort of summative assessment over the 6 years.
SPR Boardroom: So that's kind of the big picture on reporting. So let's…
SPR Boardroom: think about our annual report. So the interlocal agreement, this… reporting.
SPR Boardroom: stems from our park district accountabilities, right? Essentially, it was
SPR Boardroom: When voters and elected officials entrusted us to the whole new revenue source in the form of the Park District, there were stricter accountability requirements around data tracking
SPR Boardroom: And this was one.
SPR Boardroom: So the language in the interlocal agreement that actually called on us to make our annual report says, you know, that we'll do an annual report that assesses our performance measures and tells you how we set the market.
SPR Boardroom: The three, kind of, constituencies we see for this report are, kind of, our elected officials.
SPR Boardroom: You all, and then the general public.
SPR Boardroom: So we're writing this with an eye toward all three of those folks. So it's kind of a mix of celebratory storytelling.
SPR Boardroom: Pointing out challenges and real issues, and just the actual hard data of what we accomplished. We're trying to get all three of those things.
SPR Boardroom: Just to tell you a big picture, we… I sort of just said this, but we do a pretty fun annual report picture, but we also do an appendix that really shows you by each chunk of the organization, you know, so community center operations, grounds maintenance, what was their budget, and how much money did they spend? What were their performance targets, and where did they actually
SPR Boardroom: probably about 15 people who look at that, but we feel good about that. Excellent.
SPR Boardroom: Even though this…
SPR Boardroom: all of these accountabilities came out of our park district work. We use this as an opportunity to really drive better accountability and performance reporting across
SPR Boardroom: the whole organization, right? So we're not just
SPR Boardroom: reporting on the park district investments. You know, something like community centers are 35% funded by the park district, 65% funded by other money. It doesn't make a lot of sense to report on, here, let me tell you about these 35% of community center hours, right? So we really take this opportunity
SPR Boardroom: To, report comprehension.
SPR Boardroom: Yeah, and we put an emphasis on telling… we made a whole variety of commitments around cycles, right? Programs we would expand.
SPR Boardroom: projects we would fund, and so we stayed
SPR Boardroom: While we tell stories about the whole department, we do stay focused on those, sort of, commitments that were important to the public.
SPR Boardroom: So, our Performance Oversight Subcommittee was deeply involved, so over… over the years, they've had an orientation to our budget, our performance indicators.
SPR Boardroom: We spent several meetings doing, kind of detailed budget to actuals and performance against goals based on 2025. We worked with them to identify themes.
SPR Boardroom: They read a draft, and, Helped, helped write a letter.
SPR Boardroom: So, I want to thank our past subcommittee, our subcommittee emeritus, I guess, who helped make this happen. So, Ryan, John, Phillip, and Trisha.
SPR Boardroom: Thank you all.
SPR Boardroom: So, with that said, let's just jump into what, annual
SPR Boardroom: We're having this… we aim to put the annual report out,
SPR Boardroom: concurrent with a meeting that we presented to the City Council. And that meeting is a week earlier this year, so me bringing this to you is several weeks earlier this year, so usually I might have some screenshots of it in full design, and you'll see it's real splendor. I don't have that for you now for a week earlier, but…
SPR Boardroom: I'm pretty sure this will be… Justin, when is that meeting scheduled for? June 16th. Thank you. Yeah, it's one of the three times each year that we present to the City Council Partnership Board, so…
SPR Boardroom: Except they're not on vacation. It'll be all the council members wearing their… and it's kind of our one chance to
SPR Boardroom: You know, we don't have a whole lot of other business there, it's really intended to report on
SPR Boardroom: And if you have copies to bring for us on June 11th, please do so, if you're ready.
SPR Boardroom: Maybe. I understand. I mean, it is really… it's tighter this year. I'm sorry for that meeting's a week ago.
SPR Boardroom: So, one of the things that we do is highlight key staff members and partners in the report. So, I just want to start there, because as our
SPR Boardroom: colleague, Shananica McElroy always says, like, we, you know, the fancy people who do stuff like budget and policy and storytelling, we have jobs, because the public actually values the work that's done by our frontline students.
SPR Boardroom: I just think it's important for us to…
SPR Boardroom: Keep that orientation in mind, and celebrate the hard work that happens to actually make the system greater.
SPR Boardroom: So, I want to introduce you to Alex, who works in our facilities and park maintenance division.
SPR Boardroom: Who's… who is inspired to spend every day making sure park assets like play equipment and park furniture, are clean, safe, and graffiti-free. We'll do this for the community and the kids in the community, making sure parks are safe and welcoming for all.
SPR Boardroom: We've got Nicolasa, who is a naturalist in our Environmental Learning Unit.
SPR Boardroom: One of my favorite parts of this work is watching a connection happening.
SPR Boardroom: Seeing folks notice something in a park they've walked through a hundred times, or watching young people realize they can teach on the others.
SPR Boardroom: And lastly, I'm not sure if she's ever come to…
SPR Boardroom: speak with you, but you have seen many things that she's done. So, Pamela works in our contracts office, helps connect community partners
SPR Boardroom: who occupy spaces. So think about, you know, Seattle Till. Many of the partners you've heard.
SPR Boardroom: Okay, okay. So many of the partners you've heard from, right, we have kind of long-term agreements with them about how they're going to use our spaces, and what we'll provide, what they'll bring, public benefits, all that. So she is the person helping make all that happen, and the contracts have to do that.
SPR Boardroom: She said, I love supporting community groups to operate at their optimal levels, doing what they do at their best.
SPR Boardroom: Groups that grow and educate… grow food and educate the public on how to grow food, that offer life skills learning and connection to those challenges with disabilities, and groups that provide affordable recreation wellness.
SPR Boardroom: So, just wanted to start with a note of celebrating our…
SPR Boardroom: Some… some big themes for this year are that 2025 and the end of it, you know, we plan in big six-year increments, right? Cycle 2 is a six-year plan from 2023 to the end of 2028, and the end of 2025 was the halfway point.
SPR Boardroom: So it's a great, well, we formally do our mid-cycle assessment after 4 years of data, halfway through is a good time to just take a look and see how we're doing.
SPR Boardroom: And…
SPR Boardroom: As you all know, Cycle 2 added a whole lot of resources to our budget. There was a whole lot of, you know, rangers, decarbonization, a wide variety of, kind of, new investments for rebooted or expanded programs.
SPR Boardroom: And by and large,
SPR Boardroom: as of the end of 2025, we are generally delivering on those commitments, because, you know, we said we would expand community center operating hours. We said we would launch a new program to get trees and develop parks. We're generally about where we want to be on all of those things.
SPR Boardroom: And our capital projects, Are generally on track, with a few complex exceptions that you probably already are.
SPR Boardroom: A quote from the letter, that we are encouraged by, from your letter, making sure you feel good about it. We are encouraged by continued progress across the system, maintaining community center hours, robust volunteer participation, improvements to park maintenance, particularly around restrooms, and other steps to make parks cleaner, safer, and more welcome.
SPR Boardroom: I want to say the next sentence in the letter that I didn't put up here, but says, and we're tracking these big, important capital projects.
SPR Boardroom: Right, so I think that's sort of… that's sort of a good message for where we're at in 2015.
SPR Boardroom: So, this is kind of a table of contents, or at least the content of the annual report, and I'm… I have pulled out
SPR Boardroom: And just a few highlights to give you tonight. And this looks similar to a presentation… the presentation we're planning to give to the City Council in the Rollins Park District Reporting. So, getting a little preview.
SPR Boardroom: The items in bold are the ones.
SPR Boardroom: I'll, share with you.
SPR Boardroom: So… athletic field schedule.
SPR Boardroom: As you… Our athletic scheduling team coordinates field use, both on our field and on tailcoats fields.
SPR Boardroom: For all sorts of… both our own teams and the general public.
SPR Boardroom: And our goal is generally that we schedule 250,000 hours of use across all those units off here.
SPR Boardroom: So you can see we've met that goal the last several years.
SPR Boardroom: It… it represents a daily average of 700 hours of sports activity happening on the field. So, every day throughout the city, there's a cumulative of something like 700 hours permitted
SPR Boardroom: And by more than 2180 individual organizations.
SPR Boardroom: This team also updated their field scheduling policy to prioritize newly available
SPR Boardroom: Do you have time for new user groups? You may… some of you would have been a part of that, right?
SPR Boardroom: pretty well filled, and it's hard to add new users to the field, but they've done a lot of work to prioritize when new field time comes online through capital projects.
SPR Boardroom: I don't have time to go into this level of detail on each highlight, so I'll just… We also kind of maintain these
SPR Boardroom: And I will say I added more highlights when you thought, Michelle might be the lady, so… All of them. But,
SPR Boardroom: As we mentioned, we are adding new field time through field improvements, right? So when we turf a field that was grassed before, you can play longer into the wetter parts of the year. When you add lights, you can play later in the evening. So those kind of capital projects help, help expand operating time.
SPR Boardroom: So, you know, we've set some goals that we would do 8 to 10 synthetic turf field replacements, so when you… maybe you know all this, but our usual turf's got to be kind of replaced every 10 to 12 years, something like that, and so you've just sort of constantly got to be in a cycle of replacing and renovating them.
SPR Boardroom: So we aim to create 8 to 10 over the course of this period of time.
SPR Boardroom: We did 3 in 2025, so that gives us 8 altogether. I will also say, all this data is true as of December 31st, 2025. My next question. So there's a… so Soundview, I don't think, is in here. There's a handful… Software's open, right. It is… I think it is now. Don't think it is in this data.
SPR Boardroom: We also were gonna do two full field conversions, so take grass and artificial turf, so…
SPR Boardroom: We don't have any done yet, but as of December 31st, 2025,
SPR Boardroom: between construction. I think South Park was, was one of those. So… And down view of the other. All right, well, there you go. We are…
SPR Boardroom: We are really reaching our cycle 2 goal.
SPR Boardroom: And then sort of an innovation that developed over the course of the cycle is sort of, ball field, infield conversions.
SPR Boardroom: That was not initially… we didn't have a roll around, but as it became important to the community, and we really looked at what we could do, we created a goal to do seven, year 2 in 2025.
SPR Boardroom: Cycles.
SPR Boardroom: There's also a variety of work going on around playability when we do things like this, so better bleachers and, lighting and things like that.
SPR Boardroom: Move a little faster. So, our Lifelong Recreation program.
SPR Boardroom: Celebrating its 50th year this year. And it has blown through its performance goal each of the last few years, so we're going to work with that team about what's behind that, and if you want to increase that goal.
SPR Boardroom: This is them on a field trip to Bassan Island, field trips to Southern Warren.
SPR Boardroom: Part of the things they do.
SPR Boardroom: So, jumping to the environmental side of what we do, one of the big…
SPR Boardroom: critical pieces for Cycle 2 was to decarbonize,
SPR Boardroom: our facilities, right? So to move them from,
SPR Boardroom: From natural gas, heat, to electric.
SPR Boardroom: to reduce fossil fuel emissions. And…
SPR Boardroom: We made a few commitments as a part of that. One is all of the really big community center redevelopments, so Lake City, Greenlight, Queen AM, Royal Heights, all of those, we would include decarbonization and electrification just in the scope of the redevelopment.
SPR Boardroom: And so, while we haven't finished any of those, they see that they are all in planning at the moment, and construction is anticipated to begin sometime in 2017.
SPR Boardroom: We also had resources to decarbonize 8 additional ones. So we decarbonized Magnuson.
SPR Boardroom: Hiawatha and South Park were also, on this list, so…
SPR Boardroom: Well, that number will quickly jump to 3 once you look at it today, but as of December 31st, I want to finish. And then, we also made really big progress. This is a complicated technical thing that we won't go deeply into now, but you can read about it in the report, but…
SPR Boardroom: We were approved to do an innovative procurement method to sort of bring on a general contractor earlier and involve them in design, which helps… just helps, we think, industry practices, helps deliver the projects.
SPR Boardroom: a little cheaper and more reliably, and it took some work for us to get approved to do that kind of procurement, and we got approved and selected that contractor in 2025, and so they're jumping into doing the kind of planning and design work on the additional sites. We expect to see those go into construction.
SPR Boardroom: I didn't miss that call.
SPR Boardroom: The Green Seattle Partnership, which you know and love, I'll just say, you know, they've got a goal of 50,000 native trees planted.
SPR Boardroom: They planted 6,800 last year, and are now at just about 25,000.
SPR Boardroom: Similar story with, Other… the other native plants and shrubs and ground cover and all that.
SPR Boardroom: They also celebrated their 20th anniversary, and as a part of that, reissued a strategic plan to guide their work for the next 10 years.
SPR Boardroom: Huh?
SPR Boardroom: And child care. As you may know, we operate licensed child care programs in collaboration with our partner, Associated Recreation Council. Together, we're, I think, still the biggest child care provider in the state.
SPR Boardroom: And just sort of see, well, we don't have…
SPR Boardroom: specific goals, we do have reportables for how many we're starting.
SPR Boardroom: And so you can see.
SPR Boardroom: what's exciting is if I showed you this data back to the pandemic, it's been growing ever since, right? We had a super robust program pre-pandemic.
SPR Boardroom: pandemic made childcare a whole other story between remote work and COVID compliance and all of that, but we've been steadily growing since the pandemic. And we continue to distribute, all of our scholarship money to help make those programs.
SPR Boardroom: Some other things,
SPR Boardroom: of note are that we became an eligible provider for the state's Child Care Assistance Program. We have our own bucket of money for child care scholarships.
SPR Boardroom: But that bucket hasn't grown in a while. I mean, the child care cost has grown, and need for families has grown. So one of the things we did was work with, other city departments to become an eligible provider for the broader state's child care system.
SPR Boardroom: We're also eligible for the state. That wasn't new.
SPR Boardroom: And then, just to tell you a little bit about, kind of, new park development and where we're at, some of the commitments we made were around developing, kind of, long, long-awaited sites like Smith Cove and, a series of land bank sites. So there were sites that, without boring you too much.
SPR Boardroom: When we had money to buy land, to just sort of grab land that we knew we wanted to build a park at, even if we weren't ready, either funding-wise or planning-wise, to actually develop the park yet.
SPR Boardroom: So we sort of buy those sites and put them in the land bank.
SPR Boardroom: And so part of the commitments that we made in Cycle 2 were to develop those into parks.
SPR Boardroom: And…
SPR Boardroom: We can say that at long last, mid-go Phase 1, our goal is to complete it this cycle, and we feel pretty confident in that.
SPR Boardroom: As, construction's underway, by the fall, it'll be done.
SPR Boardroom: There were 8 sites
SPR Boardroom: that, as a part of Cycle 1 were… was our goal to complete, and during the
SPR Boardroom: chaos of COVID era budgets, those sites were deprioritized and defunded to use that resource elsewhere.
SPR Boardroom: And we refunded them as part of Cycle 2, and have jumped into building them. Three of them are now complete. Our goal is to do 8 of them, 3 are now complete, 4 are in, kind of, early part of construction phase, and 1's in design, so we're pretty confident about
SPR Boardroom: Having those evening parks online.
SPR Boardroom: And then there were a variety of sites funded for the first time as a part of Cycle 2.
SPR Boardroom: One of those has already been completed, two are in design, three are in planning.
SPR Boardroom: Some of those… two of those are pretty complicated, because there's pollution and, writing other issues there, so we're… you know, those may take longer. We hope to make some real progress on them, but those are a longer, more complicated time.
SPR Boardroom: And the last thing I have for you, I think, is, restrooms! Everyone's favorite. So our site or two commitments around it were that we would renovate 27 restrooms, so really kind of take an aging facility and either really renovate it or tear it down and rebuild.
SPR Boardroom: We did 8 of those in 2025, but 12 in the cycle to date, so you can see us going from 0 to 4 to 8, and I think we anticipate a similar level of
SPR Boardroom: Increase over the next few years, because we're,
SPR Boardroom: Our work to do innovative, like, packaging restroom projects together for efficiency takes a little bit more time, but then yields… yields more bang for the buck.
SPR Boardroom: As they emerge.
SPR Boardroom: And then we also committed to weatherizing
SPR Boardroom: About half of our restrooms could not be operated in the coldest months of the year, just based on their design or other reasons, and we committed to weatherizing those so that they could be operated.
SPR Boardroom: So that's 60 of them.
SPR Boardroom: And 10 last year, and 28 total so far. So, kind of well on.
SPR Boardroom: And we also, did some… made some real accomplishments in a few other ways. So we renovated, we developed new design standards for our restaurants.
SPR Boardroom: So as we're building new ones, that we really take lessons around vandalism resistance, material durability, safety, and maintenance into account.
SPR Boardroom: And then, as you probably know, we have piloted some staff restroom left calendars.
SPR Boardroom: And…
SPR Boardroom: Okay, that is all I have, except for… so, the last thing I've got is sort of our frame of business about the letter. Any questions or thoughts, or… Oh, and you know what? I meant to offer our…
SPR Boardroom: Subcommittee members a chance to speak to anything we wanted to say about
SPR Boardroom: Let's, let's do that first, yeah, for the subcommittee members.
SPR Boardroom: You hit on the things that we were talking about as we sort of looked at, okay, what are the themes, and
SPR Boardroom: We kind of rallied around things that are called out in Philippe's letter.
SPR Boardroom: around it being the community's backyard. Parks are where people meet each other, get together spontaneously, plan a party, and I think sort of building on that idea of, you know, park, I think to a lot of people, means, like, maybe a playground or a ball field, but it serves such a broader function.
SPR Boardroom: I think that was a nice emphasis. Hopefully we can just sort of continue to build on that in future years.
SPR Boardroom: And I like Flip Flutter, good job, Flip.
SPR Boardroom: I will say we had vigorous debate among readers on this board and the readers on staff on whether
SPR Boardroom: Things you're talking about, whether we should use the language
SPR Boardroom: third places, or melting the Seattle freeze. Nobody, we have not come to consensus. That was one of the objectives, so yes, I'm aware. Philip, Tricia, anything you want to add? Your experience? And thanks, Philip, for writing the letter as well. I have to sign it, so I really appreciate you doing that.
SPR Boardroom: Like, otherwise, I'd have to write it, so I really appreciate that.
SPR Boardroom: Any other comments from your experience, Phillip or Trisha?
Phillip Meng: No, I would just… just maybe to add that the annual report, it's… it's super interesting. There are a lot of figures. Justin and team have certainly… certainly met the… the subcommittee's wish for lots and lots of metrics about, about
Phillip Meng: And it is really interesting to read.
SPR Boardroom: I appreciate the process of engagement, and it's detailed work, but, I do feel that the subcommittee is clearly meeting the standard that's been set up to, sort of, for oversight. So, thanks to the committee members who have been, and thanks to the committee members who will be serving
SPR Boardroom: For the next.
SPR Boardroom: year on the subcommittee and your oversight. Any other questions in the report?
SPR Boardroom: Awesome. Well, I would, I was… I was comfortable with Letter, I'll say that. I would like Whitney to…
SPR Boardroom: weigh in as well, so I could follow this with her. Yeah. We've got a little time, to do that. I… you got it last week, I have a few copies in case anyone wants to look at it, but with that caveat of Whitney weighing in, informally, in general…
SPR Boardroom: Okay, thank you. And if you have to get a change of heart in the next 6 days, you have a little… And I just want to end by, saying that the work you do with the subcommittee is, would not be possible without
SPR Boardroom: support of Shawnee Mika, my colleague, and at the…
SPR Boardroom: Work of the annual report is huge, right? Like, first and foremost, you have the staff actually doing the thing that we're talking about.
SPR Boardroom: You've got a whole, you know, in each division, there's kind of a beta champion, a person who's sort of that division's budget and performance, lead, and they do a tremendous amount of work making sure all those facts and figures are accurate, the same way we measured it last year, how it relates to the goal, communicating that back to their folks.
SPR Boardroom: there is a whole, ecosystem of people who help make the report possible, and you all are the first part of that, so…
SPR Boardroom: Thanks, and, it will take a look at the City Council, watch the Seattle Channel on June 16th, and as soon as we can, we'll bring you copies. Would you like to have Commissioners?
SPR Boardroom: Oh, if you want, if you want to come and just… Yeah.
SPR Boardroom: And then those meetings are probably well attended, so… Is it an official time, or is it, like, after regular council meetings?
SPR Boardroom: resolution says 4pm.
SPR Boardroom: Okay. But I know sometimes they… They shipped it a little earlier, yeah? Yeah, let me know.
SPR Boardroom: Thank you, Justin. The one person Justin didn't, or the one role that Justin didn't give credit to is having a clear and passionate
SPR Boardroom: Project manager to lead the work.
SPR Boardroom: Justin has been doing that for a number of years, and…
SPR Boardroom: Shows in the output, so thank you.
SPR Boardroom: Can I introduce Andyon? Please?
SPR Boardroom: Yeah, we're done. So, my notes in the back of this, I apologize.
SPR Boardroom: So next up, summer ratings.
SPR Boardroom: So, Andy? Andy took on a challenge from me about 8 weeks ago, where I said.
SPR Boardroom: I'm nervous, and I don't know what's gonna happen this summer, and can you make sure that, like, everybody's paying attention to the…
SPR Boardroom: That the waiting pools are gonna be ready, and the… So…
SPR Boardroom: Fields are gonna reopen, and the…
SPR Boardroom: All of our playgrounds, we know which ones are open and closed, and everybody's…
SPR Boardroom: ready for when a player comes back on the line, and he said, yeah, we'll make a team for that. I'm like, okay, go make a team for that. So Andy's been leading this more from an asset
SPR Boardroom: standpoint, but Daisy Katahi's at the AHRQ Annual General Meeting tonight, so Andy's also going to cover how the
SPR Boardroom: Recreation and operations team is… are bringing those assets to life for the summer, so thank you, Andy, for all your leadership in this space.
SPR Boardroom: Thank you, and, we've got a great team.
SPR Boardroom: And I said, readiness team, ARC,
SPR Boardroom: That is meeting regularly to optimize our assets across lines of business, so that we can more fully support the public.
SPR Boardroom: And I'll also… Discuss programming readiness that has been touched by asset readiness.
SPR Boardroom: -Oh, sorry.
SPR Boardroom: And again, asset readiness is all about optimizing our assets, making sure we're ready
SPR Boardroom: For the, peak season.
SPR Boardroom: The seasons change, so the focus on different aspects change. We've had a big focus on waiting for spring parks, making sure we're ready to open on Memorial Day.
SPR Boardroom: The current landscape. We go over this every meeting, every other week. Where do we stand today?
SPR Boardroom: We have 30 different asset categories. At any given time, there's about 15 that are high priority right now, like I mentioned before.
SPR Boardroom: over all the rating pools, play areas, playfields, diverse asset portfolio that goes from trees. We have an asset management system.
SPR Boardroom: Trees, community centers, to everything in a community center.
SPR Boardroom: Assets support every single line of business. Every single staff member should be plugged into our asset management.
SPR Boardroom: Work order, asset management system, calling in work orders to always tell the public to use the fire defense.
SPR Boardroom: We want to be aware of the condition of our assets.
SPR Boardroom: Core pillars of asset readiness, preventative maintenance, major maintenance. That's asset management. We've talked about asset management in other meetings like this, and I'll briefly go over that.
SPR Boardroom: Coupled with that is strategic resource management. We need to make sure we are resourced for the peak season, from a maintenance standpoint, for staffing, and from a programming standpoint.
SPR Boardroom: Performance monitoring and optimization.
SPR Boardroom: We need to know which assets are being most utilized, which aren't. Are we spending too much money on assets that aren't
SPR Boardroom: fully utilized.
SPR Boardroom: And… You know, the opportunity cost associated with assets that are closed.
SPR Boardroom: Evaluating the number of days that assets are closed down for repair, and how many assets
SPR Boardroom: And that's kind of a test of our asset management system.
SPR Boardroom: So, if we're… When our assets are renewed at industry standard intervals, they shouldn't be routinely closed down, right?
SPR Boardroom: So, the asset meant… the asset readiness cycle
SPR Boardroom: for parts looks something like this. In the spring, we're de-winterizing all of our plumbing systems.
SPR Boardroom: Irrigation systems, wading pools, fountains, domestic water supplies for drinking pandemics.
SPR Boardroom: We are, in doing so, we're testing over 300 double-check valve assemblies. If the double-check valve assembly fails, we're required to rebuild or replace it.
SPR Boardroom: We're cleaning all the public spaces for activation, like all the downtown parks. Landscape care, we're mulching and mowing, starting a big mowing surge.
SPR Boardroom: Irrigation pants, or turning on all these irrigation systems in the outfall, winter, there's a lot of repair needs. And at the same time, we're hiring, we're doing a hiring search for intermittent,
SPR Boardroom: labor for summer months, prepping all this, prepping the beach program,
SPR Boardroom: starting Park Ranger Emphasis Patrol, and every single season, there's capital project readiness for operations.
SPR Boardroom: There's about 30… 15 to 30 capital projects every quarter that are going into operations, which is all part of this. Summer is all customer-focused work, extended hours.
SPR Boardroom: Weekend hours, evening hours, increased litter, garbage pickup.
SPR Boardroom: Vent coverage, picnics, tree watering, beach fire program.
SPR Boardroom: Fall, we're winterizing systems.
SPR Boardroom: Tons of lease management. Recovery of assets is a major work element. They… after the tremendous use.
SPR Boardroom: in the summer, errors.
SPR Boardroom: A lot of both facilities and grounds maintenance attention to just recovering those assets, repainting, assets.
SPR Boardroom: Working on the fields, cleaning roofs, cleaning solar rays, etc. And then catching up in the winter, catching up on hiring.
SPR Boardroom: Doing project-based work.
SPR Boardroom: A lot of the crews come together for a project-based work that also is identified in the asset readiness team.
SPR Boardroom: Asset management system from a capital standpoint.
SPR Boardroom: Starts with assessing the assets and planning.
SPR Boardroom: And, determining the…
SPR Boardroom: Life cycle duration. Like I said, we've got about 30, asset categories for all of our major assets. Irrigation systems.
SPR Boardroom: We have, capital renewal projects at regular intervals, anywhere from 10 years for… A synthetic turf field.
SPR Boardroom: A re-carpeting project, about 26 years for a play area.
SPR Boardroom: We implement the project.
SPR Boardroom: And then we commission the asset, which is testing all the systems, and then putting the operations maintenance data.
SPR Boardroom: From the project into our asset management work order system, which, puts out the preventative maintenance work orders for our shops and ground staff to implement in order to maintain and extend life that asset.
SPR Boardroom: So if it's… if we're putting in a new HVAC system at the end of the project.
SPR Boardroom: Project data goes into our asset management work order systems so our HVAC techs know when to go out and clean the systems, replace filters, flush out, the lines for the heat pump systems, etc.
SPR Boardroom: And then…
SPR Boardroom: I just want to touch on asset evaluation really quickly. Performance metrics are key to ensure that our assets are meeting, service demands, levels of service,
SPR Boardroom: Based on walkability.
SPR Boardroom: surveys of users and used data. We now have used data, we're putting geofencing around all of our assets.
SPR Boardroom: Used and placed your ID, so we know the number of people using different assets. We're kind of gradually coming into that information as we enter on the geofence. There's so many hundreds of assets, it's a lot of time.
SPR Boardroom: Future demand projection, always thinking about current trends, and then risk assessment,
SPR Boardroom: What is our risk exposure to… associated with the condition of some of our grass? A good example is over water structures. It's constantly a topic of conversation.
SPR Boardroom: Evaluation of asset categories really clenched.
SPR Boardroom: This is something we go over in the bi-weekly meetings. We got two outdoor pools, both are open, no, no issues. I think that the screen is live tonight, so if you touch it, you might blow it up.
SPR Boardroom: The dorm pools, 8 of the 10 are open.
SPR Boardroom: Edgar Evers, we're doing carbon, fiber wrap with structural beams. That's complete. There's some facilities work, and that'll get open. Queen and Pool, you're aware, there's the leak. That'll be addressed in the capital project.
SPR Boardroom: In 2027, future closures, in 2027, 2028, Colleen, Madison, Attleboro, Premier, locker room… Mechanical…
SPR Boardroom: some lighting improvements. Those are standard, asset,
SPR Boardroom: Renewal projects. Wading pools, 19 of 19 are open. They're all checked. PGB drains were inspected, all passed. They're currently open. Except for Magdison and Cal Anderson.
SPR Boardroom: Which are in the decommissioning process.
SPR Boardroom: Magnuson, has been closed because of
SPR Boardroom: The unintended use of that facility, And, which disabled
SPR Boardroom: It being able… disabled it from functioning as weighted function. No, there had wildfire viruses.
SPR Boardroom: Cal Anderson, not the right audience. Spray parts, 19 of 21 or over, there's two closed.
SPR Boardroom: One being Beacon Mountain.
SPR Boardroom: The preseason, repair has extended… been extended by a couple weeks, a little more expensive.
SPR Boardroom: And South Park, waiting on inspection, we have an inspection scheduled for June 5th, end of next week, and we are gonna pass on inspection. Turn it on.
SPR Boardroom: Another example, restrooms,
SPR Boardroom: 117 out of 129 are open. We go over the restrooms of people every other week.
SPR Boardroom: We got 3 in repair. Gilman, yes, they're the exterior based in Western Yester. That's a frequent customer for repair. Discovery Beach, that one's got a sewer line that has to be
SPR Boardroom: partially rebuilt. So this will be closed for a little while. Gilman and Yester will open back up. Then,
SPR Boardroom: We've got all these capital projects.
SPR Boardroom: In… in our… these are… all these facilities are closed.
SPR Boardroom: Two, three will start construction next year. Jetkins and Dahl had fires. They're in design now, they go under construction next year. Genesee has structural problems, it's over a landfill.
SPR Boardroom: I advance, sorry. Backwards, backwards.
SPR Boardroom: Let's see. So I think that covers transist rooms.
SPR Boardroom: Not bad, only 3 clothes for repair, honestly.
SPR Boardroom: Play areas, 154 out of, 158, are open… We've got…
SPR Boardroom: A few closed for capital projects.
SPR Boardroom: We've got several more closing later this year for capital projects. We've got two… only two partially closed due to repair. The 2-5 year area
SPR Boardroom: at Ravennaxpin, the 5-12 year old area at North Cape, and both those situations would cause a lot of the road would post arrival, and what happens is
SPR Boardroom: and post.
SPR Boardroom: Awesome.
SPR Boardroom: Again… Another asset category, synthetic turf replacement, shown in a different fashion. This is how all of our
SPR Boardroom: asset categories are depicted in our spreadsheets, showing a timeline for replacement. For synthetic turf, it's typically 10 years. We shoot for 10 years. Now that we've got a shock can do a synthetic turf, we're not
SPR Boardroom: Using the actual infill for fall attenuation, using the shock pad under it when the infill migrates, we're less liable. We can extend it a couple years, so if there's some kind of vandalism, we have a little bit of flexibility, but we're still shooting
SPR Boardroom: Years.
SPR Boardroom: Benefit of an asset-ready approach, enhanced user experience, builds community trust.
SPR Boardroom: That's… that's really the underlying… Doctor, any, questions on… Asset-heady approach. You know.
SPR Boardroom: I'm really proud of the fact and capital that we forecast every quarter, the next four quarters, that forecast
SPR Boardroom: the next four quarters over and over again, because then you can check your forecast. You get better each time, and that's what we wanted here the past.
SPR Boardroom: It's good, people are hyped up. Who's on, I think I mentioned it, it's facilities in the meetings, it's recreation in the meetings, it's a… it's all the lines of business, so those people have a venue
SPR Boardroom: To share what they need.
SPR Boardroom: It's the community center part.
SPR Boardroom: good conversation, and it's a stand-up meeting, you go through the asset categories.
SPR Boardroom: I have one question about the life cycle. Like, you think of a homeowner, they know, okay, in 5 years I have to replace my roof, so I'm going to start putting aside money right now. Are you able, from each budget, to put aside money for future maintenance that you see coming, or does the cycle work just like everything that comes in goes out, and you know you'll have another chance
SPR Boardroom: when that roof needs replacing to ask for the money then? Just curious. We identify funding sources associated with the life cycles. To a certain degree, the life cycles are
SPR Boardroom: far longer.
SPR Boardroom: Then, the climate is safe.
SPR Boardroom: But they inform the funding sectors, like AMP, and we identified specific funding for different assets.
SPR Boardroom: And… We use grants.
SPR Boardroom: And rely more and more.
SPR Boardroom: To shorten life cycles, to get closer and closer to the standard.
SPR Boardroom: And that's something that has really been ramped up in the last years. Now.
SPR Boardroom: We're looking at 14 to 20 million a year.
SPR Boardroom: grants.
SPR Boardroom: So that's pretty…
SPR Boardroom: I would add, before the park district, we did more of what you're saying, because we didn't know that we were going to have a sustained funding source, so we would say.
SPR Boardroom: We got $500,000 of REIT to deal with Gilman, Restroom, and we would…
SPR Boardroom: do a little bit of that planning, even knowing how to design, we kind of bank it, and now that we have the Park District, we're trying to put
SPR Boardroom: 20% of that in this year for design, 30% the next year for…
SPR Boardroom: the next phase, then we get to bidding on the 80% bulk of the month. You know, so we're trying to actually budget a project for the year that we actually think we're going to spend it, so we're not sitting in the money.
SPR Boardroom: And it's important… I believe it's important to use grants to support our asset management plan, because if we use grants.
SPR Boardroom: For new park development.
SPR Boardroom: That, it kind of, you know, we just have to be very thoughtful.
SPR Boardroom: To be able to maintain a sustainable park system. And frankly, really proud that we have enough security as well.
SPR Boardroom: And the community has told us over and over to maintain what you have. Yeah, yeah.
SPR Boardroom: Just real question, what's the…
SPR Boardroom: I was trying to understand the cycle time that you're using for this. It's a quarterly plan for next four quarters for most operational. That's, that's budgeting. Yep. And for housing management, we meet every other week.
SPR Boardroom: And we go through all the permanent, asset categories.
SPR Boardroom: All the facilities, I go through the spreadsheet.
SPR Boardroom: every… like, has every player, has every restaurant. What's the problem? Is there a restroom? We have a restroom dash.
SPR Boardroom: Very proud, though. Yeah, yeah. It's available to the public. It is really cool.
SPR Boardroom: And, Sunday, like, he's gonna have four holographs, so he didn't have the time, just so I could find it all.
SPR Boardroom: Yeah.
SPR Boardroom: Real time is hard. It's a lot of communication, and sometimes we're not perfect at communication. We've heard so much about restaurants and sets that you do that by communicating.
SPR Boardroom: So now we're getting into, recreational programs, summer readiness, outdoor programs, community centers, summers, citywide events programs, aquatics…
SPR Boardroom: Outdoor recreation programs, Most importantly, the summer food service and community.
SPR Boardroom: free lunches, snacks, recreational opportunities in partnership with United Way, HST, Sears Ages, 0… 0 to 18.
SPR Boardroom: 9 outdoor sites, little Beacon Hill, Rocks Hill, Island, Jutkins, Othello, North Hagers.
SPR Boardroom: Super important. You hear a lot from the public.
SPR Boardroom: Demand for this program.
SPR Boardroom: Wrecking the streets is all heard. Wrecking the streets, busy as can be, agile, moving from sites to sites, neighborhood to neighborhood. Neighborhoods include Rainier Beach, South Park, Lake City, they were just as South Park is the…
SPR Boardroom: The spray park wasn't open, so they went there, anticipating folks wanting to use the spray park, and
SPR Boardroom: It was wonderful. It was a breath of fresh air to be able to live right through the streets, in lieu of this great park you can imagine. And we were stressed on this day, and they came through, and will always come through in the
SPR Boardroom: Community centers, summer day camps and activity camps.
SPR Boardroom: Everyone relies on our community-centered camps. School-age camps 5 to 12, activity camps 3 to 10,
SPR Boardroom: Those activity counts in the sports, art, science, math camps.
SPR Boardroom: outdoor education, and more. Up to 30 different activity camps, 15 licensed summer day camps, through widely, geographically distributed across the state.
SPR Boardroom: Summer Safety Recreation programs, this is… Very highly relied upon.
SPR Boardroom: Where the parents, kids out of school, they can go to their local communities, there is something happening.
SPR Boardroom: My… I never thought… I was just amazed. My daughter wants to go to junkers.
SPR Boardroom: It's a Saturday night, there's so many things, I mean, there's so much to do at home. She wants to go to… so much to do. And we were just here while you're…
SPR Boardroom: It's a fun, structured activity. It's supervised… supervised activity at most emerging from these separate locations safe.
SPR Boardroom: And… Interesting.
SPR Boardroom: Citywide events.
SPR Boardroom: Teen Summer Musical, Location to be Determined, 5 shows from August 28th, 30th.
SPR Boardroom: Big day of play is gonna go on this year, August 15th.
SPR Boardroom: Summer City Center events, including dancing, Hold on, Center City Cinema, Wesley, Freeway Park, Cal Anderson, King Hay.
SPR Boardroom: Summer youth employment and Learning.
SPR Boardroom: Programs, internships for youth ages 16 to 24, large number of
SPR Boardroom: youth employed by Seattle Parks. And then, the Vehicle Games series, these events, the watch party events during the club, games were phenomenal.
SPR Boardroom: 7 outdoor watch parties in neighborhoods featuring, match screenings, a lot of family activities, cultural performances.
SPR Boardroom: 12 indoor watch parties at community centers, 2 soccer jamborees at Magnus Bellridge, more than 60 recreational
SPR Boardroom: Recreation programs have been reimagined, with the soccer theme, throughout our system. Aquatics.
SPR Boardroom: Free, free programs at swim beaches, free beach lessons for all kids ages 6 to 16.
SPR Boardroom: And then there's also…
SPR Boardroom: pre-swim lessons through Swim Seattle at swimming pools. Those participants with free swim lessons at the swim pools can also
SPR Boardroom: We've got free swim lessons, swim beaches. We've got two lifeguard training programs, one at Mount Baker.
SPR Boardroom: And one at West Green Lake.
SPR Boardroom: 9 summer lifeguarded beaches. First time since COVID, we've got all 9 back open, we're so excited. The water quality seems good. Yes.
SPR Boardroom: 19 waiting pools, 19 spray parks, 6 indoors.
SPR Boardroom: Tools, and, two… sorry.
SPR Boardroom: to outdoor places. This is probably the most robust soccer season we've had.
SPR Boardroom: Recreation…
SPR Boardroom: So, so I asked the team to highlight this because this was another, public comment that we got as to what was happening this summer at Discovery Park as it related… they were talking about the…
SPR Boardroom: World Cup season, but we just…
SPR Boardroom: that and, agents of Discovery Act is being created for, discovering the Loop Trail with, digital education tour. They'll highlight different modes of interest on the trail, and, provide a,
SPR Boardroom: SPR branded way, for wayfinding centers for us,
SPR Boardroom: Increases educational outreach and visitor engagement.
SPR Boardroom: And then, we're gonna have a visitor information center pop-up tent in the immediate vicinity of the visitor center.
SPR Boardroom: And, which is right there in the lower right-hand corner.
SPR Boardroom: Temporary restrooms, and this is also the location where the, shuttle…
SPR Boardroom: Well, I shuttle folks to the, Come to the lighthouse.
SPR Boardroom: And that shuttle service… It's the weekend.
SPR Boardroom: Just on the weekends. Just on the weekends.
SPR Boardroom: That's it.
SPR Boardroom: Thank you. Thanks, Amy.
SPR Boardroom: Hold on one second, Ann. I was gonna say, there might be a question. Just real quick, yeah. Sorry, there's one online.
Phillip Meng: A very quick, quick one. I'm just out of curiosity. Is that shuttle, like, is it a parks-operated shuttle, or is it… is it some other city agency?
SPR Boardroom: We actually partner with the Associated Recreation Council to do it.
Phillip Meng: Got it, thanks.
SPR Boardroom: I had a quick question about lifeguards. So, I saw at the beaches, we're… we're all set there. About… what about the other… the other pools? Are we feeling like we're fully staffed at other pools and lifeguards now?
SPR Boardroom: Yes, outside of Summer Swim Lake, at Niagara Evers. Hope that was one place that we didn't have enough to fully staff it.
SPR Boardroom: I just wanted to say thanks, Andy, like, I'm fired up.
SPR Boardroom: So we're not. Good job! It's wonderful to hear that they're working with Carlson.
SPR Boardroom: Somebody readiness.
SPR Boardroom: It started. I was down in Alcam. It's on.
SPR Boardroom: And staff are pumped. I mean, that's… this is the season. Yeah.
SPR Boardroom: Right.
SPR Boardroom: I know, I… are there any items, that the commissioners want to…
SPR Boardroom: bring up, either as an old or new business. We have some more, or open questions, or…
SPR Boardroom: as concerning, I've always had this.
SPR Boardroom: I would say that there aren't. We will… During the meeting.
SPR Boardroom: All right, the moment ahead of schedule. Thank you, everyone, for, coming. Thank you for public holidays, and, see you Commissioners in a few weeks.