Welcome everyone. Welcome. Good to see you all again. Let's start off with the roll call. Thank you. I'm Jimmy. Let's see what's next here. Ed. Bill. Eddie. Hello. Michael. Olivia. Paul. Chris. Aaron. Jillian. Here. Adam. Chris. Here. Thank you. we have a whole house tonight. All right, so there's some things I want to mention, because we're missing people and I also want to talk, I have Jillian, it tells herself, but I'm going to do that during the chair update if that's okay, and just do it there and kind of roll right into public comment. And remember, if you want to speak, please hit that green button. Okay, so everybody out there in John's Creek can hear your wonderful voices. All right, let's go into public comment. Do we have any public comment? All right, sir. You okay? You can just come up here. I'll bring you a mic. This is almost a privilege because it doesn't happen often. Five years, I think we've had six people, seven people. I think it's because of the Joseph Jordan. That's right. Okay, hi, I'm Craig Cunningham. I'm the founder and director of Georgia Express Soccer. We founded the club in 2008. And so we're celebrating our 15th year this year, serving the city of John's Group. That includes boys and girls from four years old up to 17 years of age. It includes families, a lot of new families into the United States and into our area, coaches, as well as on any given weekend, 10 to 25 boys and girls and teenagers that are referees for us. And so that's an ability for them to earn money for vehicles. Dating, we encourage as much dating as possible just to help with the long term growth of the sport. In 2009, I had my first meeting with City of John's Creek staff. And over those next 14 years, it was very difficult for us. And so the new staff, now it's a breath of fresh air to have people that will listen, that will get back to you, et cetera. And so having said that, we come from a background of a lot of knows and what I feel like, not full, transparent access to things. So I'm very encouraged by the start of a colleague creek and the new staff, but just always as a youth group understand that. There are a few key things I wanted to note that I've passed along to this group through Chris and others before. For a colleague creek, I would call a creek park, I would encourage that we have a field status ability on the City of John's Creek website. Now you've got field rentals that are going on, and there's no real good way to know in bad weather if the field's open or not. And so I would encourage us to have that. Safety is paramount on the soccer side, whether it be sandbags on the goals or wheels for the goals. In 2010, there was a local church where a goal fell on, I think, like a nine-year-old who was hospitalized. So that's part of the insurance for at least for youth soccer with them. Adult usage, I had a meeting recently with Roswell, Alfa Red, a Milton and Sugar Hill clubs that utilize their parks. And the bane of their existence on turf fields are adults that hop on and do a lot of damage to the fields. And so I would just encourage the City of John's Creek to be sure that you have good oversight when it comes to adults utilizing the park. And then lastly, just equitable access for usage of the field. You know what I'm hoping is that as a youth group we have full transparency of what is available, what's not available. We're traveling to Gamesville to play games for lack of turf fields. So, and those games being on Saturdays and Sundays. And so, we don't have high need necessarily. As a scheduler, I'm able to manipulate the schedule. But we hope that we have as much ability to utilize Colleague Creek Park as a inter-euth organization nonprofit in the area. So, thank you very much for the time. Thank you. Thank you very much. And thank you for what you're doing this community for our years. It's greatly appreciated. Let's go right into reports and presentations starting with the department update. Can I just point out that it's a department update and not a division update anymore? So, you know, just saying. Just saying. any more. So, you know, just saying. Just saying. So, um, I'm flipping things around a little bit. So, I'm going to go over projects first, mostly because it gives me opportunity to introduce some of the staff. So, but I'll just go through the agenda and then I'll tell you amazing things about the folks we've hired at the end of this. So, these things you should all know about. There's some pretty pictures you all were there for some of this. So these things you should all know about. There's some pretty pictures. You all were there for some of them. So we opened up. By the way, do you all realize we haven't had a regular meeting since May? I mean, like a lot has happened since we last met in May. So really big things, such as opening of Rogers Bridge over there on July 10. That was huge. Followed shortly thereafter by the grand opening of Colour Creek Park. So thank you and our pack for all y'all did to support us and make that even more fun that week. So it was really awesome. Of course, we keep rock and roll on the projects we do have in design, including the Chattachy Greenway. That is with the National Park Service, which means it is with the Federal Agency. So it takes forever. But we are still moving along on that project to connect Colour Creek Park to Abbott's Bridge. Creekside North. I want to mention that one specifically. I hope you all got the invite. We're doing a groundbreaking for the first phase at noon on this Friday if you can join us. So I believe the intention is to park here at City Hall and then walk across the dam over there. Did you want to say something? Okay. And make sure that everybody did get the invite. Okay. Great. You did not. You didn't get it. You didn't need it. Okay. There's something in a cancellation after that. Okay. Yeah. So those who didn't check their email quick enough probably didn't see it come in. Okay. So you didn't get it and you didn't get it. All right. So I've got something else to tell you. No, I'm kidding. So that is our, we're calling that phase one of Creekside Park. It's a sidewalk connection from Medlock Bridge into the Creek Side Park area, the sidewalk there. The other thing I'm thrilled that we are moving forward is the Autry Mill Trails Project and Autry Mill amphitheater. So I'm so thrilled to have Matt here because he's really helping move those forward. I'm so glad to see those really move in. We're aiming to hopefully get the amphitheater out to bid later this fall and the trails as well. Other projects of note, we are planning to renovate the Newtown Pickleball Courts. So that's going to be coming up on the council agenda, the work session agenda on the third. It's been needed and we kind of moved it, we wanted to see how the parks plan panned out, but we're ready to roll on that one. It will expand the courts from four pickleball to six pickleball within the same footprint. So that's great news too. Rogers Bridge Public Art, I think you all know that the Rogers Bridge Steel was taken apart and given to Fulton County and John's Creek, the installation at Colleague Creek Park, it's a Fulton County partnership between Fulton County. That piece is due to be installed within the next six weeks? Does it kind of mirror what dilute it on their side or is it totally separate? Totally different. Yes. Yes. I wish I remember the name. I do not, but you will see it soon, and I'm sure we'll make a big fuss over it at that point in time. It's real big. You'll be able to walk through the middle of it. Other public art, along our phase one connection, the ACE Committee, John Creeke has, we have our own artist, we are also commissioning four pieces out of that Rogers Bridge steel. So one of those four pieces will be installed along the path over there, the Phase One connection. The other thing that's been a long time coming is way finding signage. So we've got that requisition in. We've got we've had bids come in last week on that. So you should see some really great way finding signage. We're sort of rolling out a new sign standards for all of our parks that we will use for all of our parks starting with Newtown and also to Cally. So you'll see those going as well. Oh, yes, of course. One thing I'm all looking forward to is the RFP coming out for the Cully Creek Park Athletic Association. We will be going live with that tomorrow. So that will be out. It will be due October 19th. I do want to especially note because in case people are listening or interested in this, it's important to note procurement regulations that are all listed in there, but it's a big document, so you might skip over them. But really what it means is, I am on the selection committee care and Matt as well as Chairman Jackson. And so within this procurement period, we cannot answer your questions directly about the RFP. There is a proper channel by which it's a proper channel by which to ask questions, and it is not looking me in the face and asking them. I'll politely tell you, I'm sorry, I can't discuss that with you. You need to go through the proper channels and do it. So that also includes, of course, our elected officials as well. So just, I want to say that out loud just so we all remember, but it's detailed in our P as well. Okay, so there's a great, we're calling this our yearbook photo of our staff. So I want to introduce, I'll say these two for last, but on the top row there, Sean is our new parks field superintendent Sean Brown. He comes to us from PLM. So he should be a familiar face if you spent time in our parks. He's awesome. I'm thrilled to have him. He really knows our park system already. So he's been a great asset, getting rolling right away. The next two there, two Joe in the back that is Joshua in the white shirt and Dylan in the blue. They're not here with us tonight, but there are recreation coordinators. So Joshua is the one who anybody is dealing with Colock Creek Park. That's his world over there. He helps coordinate all that. Dylan gets a lot of other things, all the other things, a lot of our events as well. Mr. Matt Pate is over here. He's my new capital projects manager. We're thrilled to have him. He comes to us from Forsyth County coming up on 20 years of park work up there. So he's got a lot of experience under his belt. I think he's going to just bring a lot to the table for our for our department. So was that like a trade? We gave them Kirk and you. Okay. We'll say so. I wanted his office. Dylan.illon Joshua and Matt all came to us from Forsyth County. So, you know, we're all still speaking to her and I'm sorry, I can't get her to talk. Of course, I hope you know Carol Pearl already, so she was our Recreation Coordinator before. She has just knocked out of the park stepping up into the recreation manager position. So she has a master's in sports administration and she came to us, you know, back a few years ago from Alferreda with eight years of experience running their pool. So she knows a thing or two about parks as a whole. And I'm just super, I just can't say enough good things about the team we've assembled here. And not to mention the fact that we were able to fill all of our positions already, right? So we filled them with really great quality people. I can't say enough good things about that. So cheers for my new staff. They're awesome. There were two people, I didn't get their name. So we'll be left in the woman on the right. Thank you. I'm so sorry. I should have mentioned. I missed them entirely. Stacy is in the orange shirt. That's Stacy Gross. She is our event coordinator. I keep living. I didn't mention them. So sorry. Yes. Stacy is our event coordinator. So she coordinates our special events. Dolly, Lunar New Year, all of the ones, the big ones that that falls under Stacey. She's doing a great job. She, before she came into our department, she was working directly in the city managers office up there as our volunteer coordinator. So she's doing a really great job as well. Maggie, I hope you know Maggie if you don't already. Maggie's worked with us for 12 years. She's our Park Place Coordinator. So she runs the whole facility at Park Place, all of our senior programming over there. So if you don't know Maggie, you should, she's amazing as well. So these are all of our full-time staff. We also have part-time staff, but these are the full-time staff members here. Any questions on that? All right. So I do have a question for the first wall. Great your book picture with the new staff. So thank you. But tremendous thank you to you and the individuals who are involved in hiring new staff in a short period of time. So I'm sure everyone will make a tremendous impact. The question I have is in regards to the amphitheater at the Audrey Mill. Yes. I know over the last few months we have tried to make that location more viable for weddings, events and all that. So will this amphitheater complement, like we passed the alcohol, you know, I guess legislation, whatever you want to call it, will that amphitheater help in the rental of wedding space and all that as well? I would very much think so. I mean, it's really going to be said that you could have your wedding in this amphitheater. You know, there's going to be a banshelves shelter of swords, you know, it could could be well used for wedding right there and outdoor wedding if you wanted it. We can, according to our new rules, they can also serve alcohol and in the education. Yes, within the historic village they are allowed to serve alcohol. Yes. Great. Thank you. And it does, the Amphitheater project is part of, we really, as we did this, we, if you remember, in the Parks Master Plan, we have a, actually, master plan specific for Autry Mill. So we were sort of thinking of it holistically and then carving out this one piece to implement now. So the design of this is, compliments a lot more improvements to come. So, yeah. Any other questions? All right. Compliments a lot more improvements to come. Any other questions? All right. The adults. Okay. In the future, Matt will probably do the project updates for me, the one, but I'm gonna let Kara go through all the, yeah, that's right. There we go. Hi, how you guys doing? Hi, how you guys doing? All right, so we'll start on page three with our program and events update. Along with all the people in the department, we just had to keep plugged along with everything for our crazy summer. So it's been really successful so far. Free outdoor fitness is pretty much on par with last year with our participation. But I'm very proud of that program and to know that you know, we're serving between six and 800 people every month is pretty cool. If you have the schedule you could go and work out almost every day. So that'd be really cool. Our Park Place Senior Center, you can see their number of programs. They just offer phenomenal number of programs, 100 per month in May is just crazy when you think about their limited staff. So I will piggyback with Erica and celebrate our staff all day. Juneteenth, this was the first year of Juneteenth, and it was a huge success. They estimated about 4,000 participants. And again, I want to point out that Stacy was recognized at City Council for a job well done for Juneteenth from her committee and whatnot, so very proud of her. That was exciting. Independence Day was anyone there? So, it was just impeccable timing. The mayor was about to take the stage. Literally his foot was stepping up and the lightning detector went off. So, I said, hold on, come back. So, we didn't end up having a concert, but a lot of people waited out the storm and somehow everything lined up just right. that hold on come back. So we didn't end up having a concert, but a lot of people waited out the storm and somehow everything lined up just right. We launched fireworks at about 9 15. And so those went off with that a hitch. So that was a success in that right. But no band performance. That was sad. Colleague Grant opening. I think you all most of you were there, right? So that was a huge success. We learned a lot about infrastructure and parking, which I think we kind of thought we might, but it was attended by thousands again, and if you were there, you know what a fun time it was. Again, Kudos to Stacey, who puts on a really amazing event. And then I'm very excited about our upcoming schedule. The literary fair is coming up October 1st. That's also a brand new program or event. Lots of authors coming in and it's going to be a cool event. I mean, it might not be everyone's jam, which is the great thing about Johns Creek. You know, some of us are excited about this. Some of you want to go out to the 4th of July. But there's going to be a bunch of authors like a wine truck. It's going to be kind of a mellow, very cool experience for John's Creek. So excited about that. And then our first 5K health wellness innovation 5K at Collie Creek. Also very exciting. There will also be a wellness fair associated with that. So if you're coming out, you get some information and that'll be great for the community as well as for the rest of us. Adaptive dance. We're bringing back adaptive dance based on popular request. Whenever I'm at Bingo night, all of the participants come up to me and they're like, when's our dance? So we're having a dance and I'm at Bingo Night. All of the participants come up to me and they're like, when's our dance? So we're having a dance and I'm so excited. So that'll be October 13th at the Amphitheater from seven to nine. We're gonna have lots of glow sticks and lots of really cool DJ. The same DJ that was at Collie Creek, if you remember him, he'll be there. Yeah. So it's an hour of the DJ. On the one that was Saturday, sorry, not yeah. So he'll be there. Trunker treat will be, and I think you guys are aware of this because your meeting is getting moved. So Trunker treat will be the 18th. That's always a huge and successful event. That actually is hosted by public safety. And then Diwali is coming up November 4th. So. That's a good choice to move that location. I mean, that's a much better place. It's a great choice. Yeah. Paul, do you agree? I agree. Okay. So, Carol, I do have a question in regards to our inaugural 5K run. What activities are we doing for kids? Is it just a 5K for adults or are we going to do like a hundred yard dash for kids or are there going to be any activities for kids? I don't do you know the answer to that? I do. We're not doing a fun run. This is not a fun run. So this is really it's health health and wellness. So it is going to be more geared to adults on this one. Yes, so there will be the 5K run with medals and things like that for the winners of all age groups and then they'll have the wellness fair afterwards. Thank you. The fair and the 5K, that's all under John's Creek and Brilla. You guys are your events and it's not a third party? Yes, well yes, we have a race director that is assisting us and actually running it, but yes, it's the cities. We're putting it on states these planning the whole thing. Yes, it's got some cool sponsors and I mean anyone can walk it too. So there's no age limitation per se, but. Awesome, thank you so much. Congrats to you all by the way. Thank you. Anything else? No, I'll just hang out until my next item. Your next one. I'll just beat you up. Jillian, welcome. Thank you. How about telling us about yourself for a minute? Yeah, so hi everyone. I met some of you at the... The whole... Yes. Well, it's six. Yes. We just had to... Well, it's like, yeah. While drinking, I met you. So that was a fun evening, a fun introduction to this group, right? So I came from the... What became vitality, right? It was I Heart John's Creek before that. So I was there through that whole transition and then obviously, you know, sending it on its merry way. I am excited to give in here and see some of this. It is nice to see some of that now incorporated fused into into this group. So I'm very excited to be seeing a lot of that and partnering with you all. So a background I've been I've been in Johns Creek since 2016. So I just live right around the corner. I work here at a company called Westrock, so some people will say, well, the company makes boxes, well, yes, but we do a lot more than that. So I am the leader for one of our security organizations there, but I'm very delighted to be on here and to serve with you all, and for our Drugs Great community. So thank you. Thank you, and we are glad to have you. I look forward to your input. So we are missing a couple people. Tony has resigned. We're gonna miss his input. He is dealing with some things that are a lot more important than this So nothing with his health or anything like that, but dealing with some family things. I'm not going to get in details and Love the guy. He's been a friend Gonna miss him Jordan Is no longer here. Jordan was One of the originally people I guess he was. Yeah, it was. We're down to four. Yeah, we are. So he obviously is going to be missed, but completely understand his reasoning as well. And I think the mayor is working on finding us to suitable replacements who are going to be hard to replace to be honest. Their input, not just here, but also calling and texting me and to suitable replacements who are going to be hard to replace to be honest. Their input not just here but also calling and texting me and talking to me has been invaluable in my time here. So we will miss them. But we move on. Before I, because I'm going to ask you to speak, I do want to thank everybody who showed up at our last meeting at Six Bridges. It was a get together just to say, hey, job well done. Thank you guys for helping really plan those first two days of Colleague Creek. The first day went off amazingly. The turnout was well more than I expected. We had a lot of food and most of it was eaten by the parents which was just so annoying. Just having people come up and asking me for a quest. I'm like, this is not a restaurant. Second night, DJ set up. We're ready to go and the next thing I hear is Adam screaming, get down. And a tree falls on the ground. And straight line winds come through. And we're all just hollowness inside. And it was like, OK, well, but then Saturday was great. So amazing opening to the park. And thank you all for your ideas, your thoughts, your volunteer, Bill sat out there in the rain. And I think, can you help move a tree or something? Or- I'm watching people move a tree. Okay. Okay. He had the traffic jacket on and just told people pick up the tree. Is a tree fell across the road to the entrance that night. So, but thank you all for your help. It was greatly appreciated. It's, I can't thank you enough. And Chris, I think it was great to see many of the council members there for we get together as well. So everybody but one, I mean that was surprising. I didn't, I heard from some council members that they may show up and then the mayor showed up and all the council people showed up for the six bridges night and it was nice to see the validation of them coming by and saying thank you for the work we did. So if they are listening, thank you. Thank you. I'm going to turn over to Ed because we got an event coming up October 21st at Auxiermell. I mean, yeah, so I'm going to pass these around and these are invitations for you guys to show up and Ed, I'm going to pass it to and these are invitations for you guys to show up. And Ed, I'm going to pass it to you to kind of explain what's going on. So my wife is president at Opera Mel and she asked me to invite this group to an event on October the 21st and what we have is we have two complementing tickets for each member here if they choose to participate. It will require just responding by October 2nd of the 11th rather, and you need to contact Liza Hayes and explain to her that and we'll have this all set up that she'll register you for two complimentary tickets. Now, the event that they're doing is a wildlife rehab program. To my knowledge, it's the only organization of its type in North Worth County. And they have the ability to literally rehab animals in part of the uniqueness of otry mills, the animals. I'm told by my wife every day that 90% of the people that have children that go into a tree mill, the first thing they want to see is the end. And so this is kind of an event, a kick off a fundraiser, silent auction, but there will be two complimentary tickets. If you give Liza and Hayes a call, tell them you're with the Parks Group. And if you'll get me a list, I'll see the license, can match that list up. And if for some reason you have something come up last minute, make sure that you give those tickets to somebody that can use them. There'll be orders, beer wine, a band, and should be a lot of fun. So we're interested in this group understanding and learning more about the outremail and I think I know on the fall they're going to plan on having the city council come down for a lunch and try to bend their area. You've been a great partner and I can't comment a bunch of you enough for that. So with that, please join us and have some fun. Thank you for sharing. Sounds like a wonderful event, so hopefully we can attend. You're getting a lot of compliments tonight. You're going to go home with a really big head. Okay, old business. Is there any old business that says not mentioned on here? If not, we're going to new business. So I'm looking for a motion for the consideration of meeting minutes from May 17th, as well as July 12th, which was our special call meeting. So is there a motion? Motion. Motion and Adam, thank you, is there a second? All right, all those in favor of the motion say aye. Any opposed, any discussion? All right, motion passes. All right, here we go. Partnership approach feedback. Okay. I am here tonight to especially gather feedback from this group as it relates to our community partners and how the city and the park department can best support and we can create those synergies with those groups. So I'm going to tell you a lot of things you already know, but that's the way we do things. So as part of the Recreation Parks Master Plan, one of the key items that came out that we know is that there are providers within the city that provide recreation programming to our residents and they're not part of city services. They are important. They have a lot of importance. They provide things that the city we don't have the staff to do. And so one of the key themes was how can't one of the key goals that came out of the parks plan was to better to create criteria and processes and policies that better recognize and support our programming partners and just figure out ideas on how we can do better, do better to build them into our parks department. So the plan also identifies that there's more demand than supply of athletic fields and that not all of these youth sports program youth sports providers, excuse me, even use city facilities. There's our schools, there's school fields that get used, there's a neighborhood HOA fields that get used and playgrounds that support our residents as well. So, in the agenda packet on the last page, there are four questions and this is what we're trying to gather from ARPAC specifically. So how can the city work with partner organizations to improve access to facilities? How can the city work with partner organizations to raise awareness and promote these efforts, the efforts of these groups? Specifically, what criteria should be established under which recreation program partners can operate with the city? And quite simply, who and what entities should be contacted and considered for formal partnerships? So you're aware we have formal partnerships with Newtown Rec, OPAA. We hope to have a new partnership coming. We also have partnerships with the John Street Veterans Association and the group that runs our community garden near a park place. So I will leave it to you, Chair. I'll be in the next question. One of the things to remember is the partnerships we have been grandfathered in for the most part. So this is new territory. So your feedback is very important. The only thing I'll say is something I'll say to mine into the end. I'm going to start, I shall start with you. But I would just hope that we would put a true emphasis on John's Creek based organizations. I mean, it's the citizens of John's Creek who pass the park bonds to helping building these parks. And I know we have some organizations who are, quote, unquote, based on John's Creek, but most of their target audience is not in John's Creek. So I would hope that we would really put a true focus on these not-for-profit organizations that are helping us to really focus in on our youth that live in the city, that pay the taxes for the fields that we use. So that's my two cents initially. You don't have anything to say to you. Okay. I hope you have a long night, you know. No, so first and foremost, I think this is fantastic that we are talking about this. Because then Brian Trusty, who was our consultant, engaged us in that whole parks plan process. This was a topic that we also brought up. There are a lot of organizations that are part of John Screec. Craig, we heard Craig make comments. That organization has been around since 2008. We're 15 years and they have been serving the needs of John's Creek residents and the youth. But unfortunately, based on the way we are currently doing things, it doesn't give opportunities for organizations that Craig is running, other organizations, whether it's football organizations, cricket organizations and other organizations, to really have a seat at the table. One thing I'm absolutely happy about, that in this document you have also mentioned John's Creek Arts Center. Because I think that's another organization that provides tremendous, tremendous benefits to our citizens. And they have the opportunity to engage our youth and all that through parks activities whether putting parks, so-called artwork, or just engaging youth, because I sit on the board of John Scree-Gartson for six years and I know the value that they can provide. So the fact that we are adding arts organization along with sports organization, that's a fantastic thing, right? So in terms of my input related to answering your questions, how can the city work with partner organizations to improve access facilities? I think we need to embrace these organizations. We need to give them skin in the game, right? Because the intentions of these organizations are pure. They are non-for-profit. Because the intentions of these organizations are pure. They are non-for-profit. There are a lot of volunteers who are involved in this to help the citizens, the youth, have a quality of life that is related to healthy lifestyle. So I think we need to have skin in the game for those organizations and be able to listen to them and give them some freedom to actually run with the plan, right? In terms of awareness and promoting it, if we do embrace, and I'm not just saying, if when we do embrace these organizations, my hope is that we will look at them as true partners so that we can also market their activities through our communication channels, whether it's websites, Facebook and other things. So these organizations are not just being partnered with the city, but their activities are also promoted through the channels that the city has. Because their growth is going to be not just their activities because they are also going to be relying upon the goodwill of the city of John's Creek. In terms of the criteria to create these kind of partnership, as Chris mentioned, the organizations that we have currently that has a formal sports agreement association, those are grandfathered, right? So we have not really gone down this path. I think this is an opportunity for us to look it from a clean slate perspective and see how are we going to truly execute and grow this partnership, right? Because here's my concern. My concern is if we are doing the RFP for Colleague Creek, how does this pathway align with that pathway, right? Because if you're gonna go down the path of identifying an association to run Colleague Creek, and on the other hand, we are saying that, hey, we wanna work closely with non-for-profits you know how is that going to work out because if our goal is non-for-profits and local organizations that are subject matter experts then maybe we need to look at it differently right so that's my main concern that you know people are organizations are going to respond to the RFP that are in John's Creek, outside of John's Creek. But how is it that we are going to be able to accomplish both if you want to do it the right way? Right? Lastly, I think you know who these organizations are and the non-for-profits because they've been engaged with the city over the months and years. Craig is a classic example. Over the last 15 years, he's been doing things, right? Today he came and made public comments because this is a topic of discussion for us today. So I think you know already who these organizations are. And I think the key importance that we need to put in is what's the purpose of that organization? Is it to serve the city and citizens of John's Creek or is it for other means? So that's my input and I hope that we continue to go down this path because I think 2 plus 2 can equal 5 here if we do it the right way. So thank you for doing this. Okay, Bill. Any comments? I guess my only comment is really for clarity, Ms. Schifik has said that there's a quarterly creek RFP going out. And this is parallel or separate or in some manner related to that. And if they're not wind up properly, then they should be. WINDER properly than they should be. So is the question on how they're aligned? Sorry, I didn't understand that. Yeah, I guess so. Yeah, yeah. How does the current RFP line up with what we're talking about right here right now? Okay, I think I think I get what you're asking. So this, what we're asking here is a more global question about how we're going to operate in the future and how we can create synergies, right? We have been directed by Council to pursue a colleague-a-a-a athletic association for Colleague Park and to-to the point it does in some ways it it it means that one group or whatever team will have control over Colleague Park. So that way it does not align, I would say, I would just, does not align with saying, okay, all these people are still going to get to use Colleague Park right, because that will be controlled by one team, one athletic association. So, but these questions are really more more global question on how we can do things better in the future. Does that make sense? I mean, because we're gonna take your feedback and we're a new department and we are creating policies and procedures. So there are ways that we can still do other things like promote our partners, the website, the Facebook channels. We can do all these other things and still have the RFP perceived as it is intended. They can go parallel. Yeah, can you in fact proceed with Kauley Creek without answering these questions first? Yes, absolutely. So what if they clash? Yeah. That's where we can decide, you know, as a body and, you know, you can provide recommendations to council on how we can do, you know, as a body and, you know, you can provide recommendations to Council on how we can do things differently at that point. So my only, and I'm sorry, interjecting here, my only thing is this is the time for us to get clarity on that, because if we go down the path of independent RFP and independent taught process with this, I think we're going to put heads. Sooner or later. So we'll need to figure out how can we, if the long term, how the future looks, if the goal is, let's define how the future looks, then tomorrow is also part of the future. So the RFP is also part of the future to have an association and all that. And what will end up happening is once we point someone is also part of the future to have an association and all that. And what will end up happening is once we point someone or select someone, then we may not be able to backtrack and be able to say, hey, how do we go and work with these nonprofits? So just, I think the timing wise, this is the time to really get some clarity if we want to go down. Sure. And we are absolutely following Council direction to go for this RFP, so that discussion, but we are proceeding down that path now, so we're still going to start that come tomorrow. You know, I do want to say that is not a forever contract with that chosen association. It's not a forever contract. So it will, you know, should, whatever the association is for the next, you know, three to five years, you know, we can also change. This is a new department we can change things. So I don't know if that helps at all, but we're going down this one path, but we still have a lot of other avenues to go down with our partners. We're also exploring, you know, with our schools. If we can, you know, the city can better partner with our school systems to, for example, you know, how can we work with the school systems too? They have fields there, we appeal the need fields. How can we help each other with more equitable access across the city, even if it's not a city field? You know, so there's things we can do here that don't relate to Colleague Park and that association. Betty. I'm gonna sound very similar to what's been said is because I don't know a whole lot about how football or cricket operates, but I know a little bit about soccer. And I know that I think what you could do is look at the partnership that Offeretta has with the ambush, because my kids played with ambush for a little bit. And originally we had to pay an out of city fee, but with the partnership that John's Creek and Offeretta struck up at the last season, we did not have to pay that fee, unless you play competitive, and then it's a different story. But if you look at what they did at Wehrbridge Park, that turf field, the artificial field was originally had about 5,000 lines on it, and then they ripped it up, put it just a soccer field now, and then their upper field is grass, and they're going to rip that up, my understanding is that they're going to rip that up, but artificial turf up there too. So, again, I think that in the way the rentals, the way I understand the rentals right now is that, you know, organization like Craig's, it's been here for a long time. They can't afford to rent the fields the way it's currently set up. So, you know, with the RFP going out and simultaneously trying to answer these questions, it seems like a difficult ask to me. It seems like that as part of the RFP, we should be answering some of those questions within that. I'm currently involved in a group that's submitting a proposal to offer it tomorrow for their taste of event. And they have a, you know, there's a certain amount of points for local, for locally based, if you're based, if your business is based in Elf Ready, you get a couple extra points. But I don't, I think that for something like this, it should be, you know, and again, without having being able to see the RFP annoying, that that that that horses are out of the barn, you know, I don't know if any, if the fact that Craig's been here for 15 years, if he submits a bid to run the soccer program, if that has any weight, or if that carries any weight. And then we have cricket, we have football. I mean, how is, and again, not knowing how the RFP looks. I don't know how we can answer those questions within that RFP because we have a gem there. And obviously there's going to be a needed association to run it. But we have a bunch of people that have been running pieces of what we're asking for a long time. And now that we have this jewel here, can we ideally, in a perfect world, our football, our cricket, our soccer, and our lacrosse people would get together and use their vast experience for in their own organization. But again, I don't know how the RFP is written. And if someone can bring all the experience together, but that's just kind of my general comment. So not really an answer, more questions, but- You gave me a few tips, though. Yeah, all summer at the end, all summer is what I've written down, so we can make sure I got that. And to the field, to the schools issue, I know that there is a soccer club that's, I mean, they have thousands of people all around, you know, South, Northwest, East Atlanta that rents the fields from the schools and they have maintenance agreements. So my kids go to, or went to, well, I guess one's still there, but Abbot's Hill. And that field used to be full of goose droppings. And now it's now looks great because they have an arrangement with the soccer club that comes in and they do the maintenance. So, you know, without the ability to go around to schools and do maintenance, I'm not sure that that they'll be receptive to opening their fields to that. But that's just kind of another. That's just my understanding of how the schools work. If you want to come in and pay money to help keep them, then they'll let you use them. But in the absence of that, they, uh, yes, that's my understanding as well. Thank you, Ray. Michael. All right, Michael. I'll keep my comments brief, because I don't feel like I'm knowledgeable enough to talk about all the partnerships and things But I can't say from just an awareness standpoint I'm kind of going to that stage where I have two young boys and getting interested in what John Treecast to offer And I can tell you it's it's really hard right now to see who are the nonprofits who are the organizations that exist within the city As options so whether it be soccer football lacrosse, what I have found is I have to go into Google and just search for soccer, North Fulton or soccer, John's Creek. And it's just really confusing to say like has, hey, these are all the groups that offer this in Johns Creek. Here's how you can contact them. Here's their website and whatever other information that's available there. I think a lot of it's just, there's these groups that exist and the first one that pops up on Google is the one that I click on. It's just, it's just easy, but I don't really know what else is out there. It might be nice to have some of the words on the web page. And when something like that gets created, promote it. Promote it to, hey, schools, tell your kids and your parents about it. Hey, social media, let's push some things out to make people aware. Things should be nice to have an idea of what's out there. Thank you for the comments. Olivia? I'm going to second what Michael said. I know the City of Alpharetta has an operational dashboard now that they use online and it has like every sport, everything that's done through their city. An individual can go on and sign up. You put your address in and it determines if you're in city out of city, different fees associated with each address, right? So for example, like I play Pickleball out of North Park, Alphorena. I found it on this website that I you can go through and they have everything from like adaptive bingo night on there to youth flag football to adult Pickleball and everything is on this dashboard and there's like search toggles on you know days of the week you want to play when like what time of day you want to play. So I think I would second that. I think if we look over to our neighbors I think they've done a great job with that. Thank you. Yeah I um I'm sort of where I am is my kids are all through this but now I have grandkids that are coming up into the you know four and four and five plane soccer, et cetera. So being relatively new to the committee, I feel like I'm walking, I've walked into a conversation, I don't fully understand, so I don't have a lot to add. But I do have a ton of questions, because I'm not sure I really understand the issue that's going on. So, Sheffique said, you all know the organization. I don't. Do you? I mean, are they clearly identified? Have you identified every organization who wants to use our facilities or who potentially want to partner with? I mean, I'm almost starting with number four first. It seems to me you get the list. Sure. Chairman Jackson has created a list of all the people we're aware of. Okay. So we have big is that list just to educate me. Not 12. 12? Yeah. Okay. And you know looking at that list are they can you determine the John's Creek focus which is clearly important? Yeah. So we had sucking on a mint. Three-time call. Do we get the old camera? So we had sucking on a mint, pretty time, Paul. Do we get the old camera? So we had a meeting about a year and a half ago, a little over a year, two years? Okay. And so these were organizations who weren't necessarily OC or Newtown, but who were providers in this igno, they showed up. But we sat and talked about what can we do better to serve you. And we came up with the ideas, took notes, hand them over, and that's where it ended. I'm just being honest. And so now I think what Eric and her staff are trying to do is get back in with these folks to say how can we truly serve you? Was it you're lacking? And that's actually some of the points I was going to bring up at the end because there's been some great suggestions so far. Because you're exactly right, why are we here? What's the problem? What's the complaints at this point in time? What are we, what problem are we trying to solve? So you have done the legwork of identifying the organization, discussing with them about how they would like to work with us, I guess, to that right? So number four is done. Look at that. I think that specifically is. There's two parts, who are the nonprofit, but also who should be considered for formal partnership? So there's kind of two parts. Right, and that comes with your analysis of those people. And again, you know, the focus on John's Creek, I would assume that there would be some kind of equity as far as the sports that are offered. Also, you know how many, the popularity of one versus another, I mean, so you have all those factors that are going to weigh through. And one last question, so on these nonprofit organizations, we are still charging them for rental. Just because they're nonprofit, they don't get a break. Is that essentially correct? We have a nonprofit rate. First? So they're going to reduce rate. Yeah, basically. Yeah, I'm sorry, I don't have a, I'm just, I feel like I need more data to provide. I appreciate that, appreciate the honesty. Chris? Yeah, this also, I'm a little bit with him. I mean, it sounds like you're, you're almost starting from scratch, trying to redo the entire concept of who gets what, right? And I'm feeling that you're looking primarily towards, the overall picture is prioritizing John's Creek and having an equitable playing time for all the groups, basically, that was, is equity a really big problem? I mean, it was mentioned on the comments, but I was just wondering how much feedback you get of, we're in John's Creek, but not getting a decent cut of the fields. So there's different ways to talk about equity. There is some providers we have offered space to and they decline because perhaps they can't afford it within the rates they've established. So the some have been offered space and we did our best for call for example to gather all the people that wanted space and divvy it out as best we could and some some groups, we have allocated this much space if you want it and those some decline, some accepted, some said we want some, not all. You know, so I would say we, the one thing I wrote down from a discussion so far is, you know, is the fees, or the fees for field rentals too high because I've heard that, I know our special needs group, you know, they don't charge a fee to their participants, but yet we have as a city, they're another non-profits that we charge them a fee for rentals, but where that lands in their budget, that's for them to decide and they've, you know, it's just not within their budget to rent our field. So there's also, we only have so many fields. So, you know, there is a lack of fields. If everybody can't get all the field space, they want all the time. So that's, so they get the, the improving access deals with the financial ability as well as the supply of the manability. I have to say. That as well. The second part seems a little more difficult because then you have to prioritize certain groups I would assume. I don't know if you have any methodology of doing that. I know you talked to talk about the formal partnerships and you have your list of 12 people. It just does sound like a big, I got to think a while to do something like this. What she was talking about with Alfred, the clearing house sounds good. If there was, it is heavy personnel and I would have a fear. I'm sure it's way around it. Like, you know, tell us who took us, go on sale, everyone jumps online. If you can't do that, it can't do something like she's put your name in and just get, oh, we want seven soccer fields every Saturday morning or something. So I think, again, it might not be that much help either. But I think the concept of prior to James John's Creek, either who's with us a while, maybe they can apply every year to show intent that they want to do something. And not an application of any money or something, but just say, I'm going to go through this. This is my intent. This is how many I want every year. I know you can do a little bit of that to feedback of the groups, but if we can get a really good idea, anytime you put something up paperwork or tell people to do something, it will show intent if they get it back, not just I want to call up and get something right now that it sounds like another step, but it will be difficult to serve all the people in John's Creek with the equity issue of financial and supply and demand. And hopefully we can come to something that with overlapping sports, I don't know how big a play is. There's got to be a couple of weeks out just a nightmare. I would assume for different sports combining as well, then what's work as priority beginning of season and the season. Again, I guess I'm not too much helpful, but it just seems like there's going to be a lot of thinking and ranking and stuff going on. That might be the next process of how we're going to really give at least a fair shake to everybody. I think the finance part, unfortunately, might have you put aside a little bit, but at least if they have an chance to get in, then they can work with the finances either through the nonprofit part you said, or just you might have a sliding scale based on how many games you play or something. I'm not sure. Total revenue, seven games, times of amount. But times of cheaper amount might be different than 12 games times something which might be cheaper or 20 games, which would be cheaper per game. You know, like going to Disney World. The more days you stay, each day is cheaper, but you're paying more to go there. I don't know. So I'll conclude with that. I mean, I just may overthink it a little bit, but there's, there's quite a bit, I think, about the equity song that people are fairly served or have the perception of fairly served. I think we should go down that path. Real quick on that. Something I think that could help remedy that equity for those nonprofits. For eight years, I was the head coach of a special needs soccer program out of Swani, out of George Pierce Park and we could not afford the field. So we partnered with the local soccer club, which I miss, like we have here in Johns Creek, and we also partnered with the city, and the club was able to help undercut some of those costs and the city gave us an extremely discounted rate. So I think that's something we can explore too when we're talking about equity. Thank you, Aaron. Okay, so I was, I'm going to just take everything Olivia said. I'm going to jump on with Michael. So my daughter played varsity, softball for Johns Creek. And then in between, she would play a written work part. I mean, the ease of that. I mean, it was Johns Creek, it was a hot mess. The workpart made it a breeze. But and then the other thing I worked with children with physical disabilities, so to partner with somebody that would have an interesting special needs. I loved offering these parents some where you know some places to go, but you can't get chairs and a lot of, you know, I tried to get into a playground. I was like, Miss Erin, last time I came here, I got stuck. And you don't want to get one of those chairs stuck. Not a feeling. So, you know, just things like that. That's really something on the top of my mind, because that's what I do more so of. I haven't been in the athletic field in a while but the end of the work park is a well oiled machine and I really feel like that that's worth a look. Thank you. Thank you. Jillian? Right into the fire. I know, I'm like, no. So it's interesting and I'm also trying to understand, you know, from a clarification just because I'm new obviously so I can play that new kid role for probably one meeting. I also am a parent of a younger person who is in sports, right? So, and we've been at a lot of these different facilities with its art sports other activities. So obviously I'm very of the mind of how do we support them? So I think wherever you can get creative around financial assistance, whatever that looks like, if you're going to put into policy, right? You're talking about this master plan, where you can put into policy and get creative around the financial assessment for some of these organizations. We want them to stay in Johns Creek. Some of them have been in Johns Creek for a very long time, in their supporting our community and our children. And even the adult programs, right? There is adult sports as well. It's obviously very interested in the topic. So I think that that's, it's interesting how do we keep them in our community, but I think you also have to add in there that you've got a platform for them to be able to give feedback on an ongoing basis. And not just like a one and done, I think that's my, the concern I'm hearing from over here is that there was a discussion and information gathered and then it stopped. Nothing happened to it. So I think if you put into policy and into the plan that you've got those routine, whatever it is, annual, every other, whatever it is that you get their feedback to on how things going. What do you need? Are we meeting your expectations and needs? So that's just more of a bigger picture perspective. I am surprised there's only 12 that were identified and maybe the lens then was different than the lenses today, but I'd be curious to know, have we overlooked anything in our community that is potentially there that we're not helping to support? So I do know that it's, I have seen it even being on the fields, you know, from baseball and otherwise. It's a challenge, even for people to walk up and say, I want to use this facility for 15 minutes, just to do a quick exercise with my kids. And there's no space for them whatsoever, right? So not even, you know, the parents that are out there that are trying to use the facilities, they also are challenged. We've been in soccer for a long time too, so I can appreciate it. But I think that's all I can really share for now just because I'm not close enough yet. Thank you for your comments. Madam, good news as most people said what I've already said, so it won't be that long. I think that first question, how can the city work and partner organizations to improve access? You guys have nailed that. I mean, just as Craig said, the ability to go online, I almost run into field a few times. That's a big door that is opened. It would help, as she mentioned, that if you know we have all those digital boards at the parks to let them know, hey, today's Tuesday, and if six o'clock George Express will be out here on Field Turf 2 or something like that. So, would be nice to know if people want to use it passively if it's reserved, probably helps with conflicts too. If we have this field reserved, yeah, you know, or whatever like that. So those digital boards could be really effective for that. How can this be partnered with organizations? Again, like everyone, people said you all have an incredible marketing department here. I mean, it's corporate level marketing with your video and your print and your digital advertising for nonprofits like me. You know, we've spent tons of money on Facebook ads and school dude stuff and it doesn't really get much traction. But, you know, when you guys identify those partners you want to work with by, like they said, the website directory and everything like that, that would propel us into a different level of traffic that we haven't been able to see. Criteria to establish the programs and operate with the city again. I'm big, I think, you know, there's room for profit, but I think Don profit brings a different, you know, view to what we're trying to do here and what the problems we're trying to fix here. So that's a big thing for me, the percentage of your participants that are John's great kids. And this is where the strange things with parks without borders comes in because as much as we like that, now are we now shooting out a foot that we've lost kids to other communities that we want back now. And so say Billy's been over playing softball over here, excuse me, Cheney, whoever, at Alph We want her back, you know, but she's playing over there without any type of, the things you're trying to keep those people in your community. So maybe you're looking at, again, it parks out borders. Is that something that's going to help us or hurt us as we're now, because starting off from zero, basically, with Cully Creek, you know, that might be a problem really almost. So maybe identify that. And the other thing I was thinking about, I lost my police promotion. K through eight obviously is a big thing too, because I think we don't have K through five. So almost more about K through five, but some of our sports still offer. Because again, our city does not have middle school sports or elementary school sports. So I think where very big disadvantages from going at and forced to item things like that, who Those schools offer that. We don't have that. So I think that's an extra thing that we really need to consider with that. And the other thing is if we do get an RFP with an organization that doesn't offer a particular sport, let's just say cricket, because I won't talk about me. You know, would that RF, would that organization be willing to say if we don't offer cricket, would you be willing to work with one of our local organizations that does offer that and roll that in? So we can offer the equity and to all sports that are trying to get in there. So that's all I have. Wonderful. Thank you. Crystal. I like going last, because I don't have to say much. Because you guys made so many points. I love the liviest points about look to our neighbors because they've been around for so long. And they've got most of their bugs worked out. Really, truly, Adam, Olivia, Michael, Aaron, they all should fake. They all said what I would want to say. I do want to point out, though, since we're complementing you so much tonight, that it is tremendous that you guys are willing to sit down and talk about this and go through this and fix the bugs and figure out how to make this better for everybody. So thank you very much, I'm not going to sit and rehash stuff, but I would say that for me the most important thing is number three first, because I think we need to find out who we want to work with. So we want to develop the criterion to go, okay, these are the partnerships that we want to look for. I think that's the most important because there's a lot out there, but maybe it just doesn't fit what we really need as an organization. It is a city overall based on the feedback we got on the strategic plan. There's some organizations that don't serve enough of the community to really make a dent, whereas soccer is exploding. La Crosse is exploding. Blah blah blah, we need to put more emphasis on those groups, my opinion. Before Kirk and Robbie left, one of the things we talked about was when the city did bring parks and house, that somebody would probably be hired to oversee what was going on at Colley and Shakerad, which are only two parks that don't have an organization. I would, my suggestion then, and I think we've talked about, is to have that person be the person that schedules who gets what fields and wins. And by doing that, they meet with all the organizations that fit the criteria that you develop. So let's say there's six organizations that fit the criteria. That person meets with them and goes, okay, Adam, you need football how many months out of the year? How many fields is that? Okay, should I speak cricket? How long has it been across and works it backwards from that point in time? I do think that what you guys have mentioned about what North Park has done, we should emulate success and make it work for us. If maybe it's just tweaking it a little bit to fit this community, but I think that's a great idea. You know, the, here's the thing that would solve our problem. And we've been talking about this for four years and that's to get an IGA in place with Fulton County. The challenge with that is what we do in North Fulton has to also work in South Fulton. And that's the struggle I'm working with, the school system. I got an IGA in place with Charlotte, Meckler County. We had access to the fields in Charlotte. We never had problems with getting on a soccer field. It was just there, and there was a shared cost and shared maintenance and what have you. And I know we were working on that. I know Lenny was working on that before he left and I know that nobody's picked up the ball since then. I've tried to help but I can only do so much. We had a meeting in this very room with myself, now Mayor Bradbury, Lenny, the athletic directors from John's Creek High Schools, Chatterwitch, in Northview, Centennial actually, I don't know if you know, John's Creek, Jason, my son goes there. And they all were 100% for it, 100% for it because it was for the youth. And I think we need to find a way to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that along with the athletic directors, you, the mayor, and talk about how to make this work. But it needs to happen sooner than later. We don't have much opportunity for more land in John's Creek, which is we don't. We're not annexing anything around us. We're landlocked. There's a couple of opportunities for us to buy some things, but it's not going to solve the problems. And it takes money. And if anybody watched the City Council meeting on Tuesday, nobody's going to agree on where that money's going to be spent at this point in time. So if we can get an IGA in place, the amount of money it would take for us to pitch in compared to what it would take for us to go buy land for $10 million, or another bond, which we may or may not need for $25 to $30 million, and now you throw more money out of your land, adding a tax to people, which is a small tax, but a necessary tax. I think we're better off at least trying to go the path of, least resistance possibly, was an IGA, but I just don't think people are talking to each other anymore. We were hot and heavy with it, we dropped it, and nobody's talking about it. And in perfect reality, Audrey Mell has a field that sits below across from CCS, empty, empty. And I have met with people to talk about it who were willing to help pay for that field. The softball folks were willing to do it. But it never got anywhere because we don't have any agreements with the schools to say, hey, can we do this? Because everybody has said, well, if we do it here, we've got to do it in South Florida. Fine, let's just get something in place to where we can move forward. Even if it's a small thing, a small thing. But I think the most important thing is to develop the criteria of what makes a partner for John's Creek. Just because your organization doesn't mean that you're a great fit for what we're trying to accomplish here. It's great that you're providing sports for youth, but it may not really serve everybody in John's Creek. So if we put that focus on the organizations that are focused in John's Creek that meet our criteria, then we can sit and go, okay, how can we better work with you? What do you need from us? What's gonna help make you a success to better provide for our youth? Was it we can do, to raise awareness of what you're doing and ask them? But first and foremost, I think you need to have an established criteria of organizations that you want to partnership with, not just everybody, and who wants to be a partner. Because that's just gonna be a lot. I think you used to word hot mess, you know, it's just, and we don't need that, and you don't need that starting out. Because if you start out falling down, it's gonna take you a lot to come back up. So you've come out of the gate hot. I think you've done an amazing job. Your staff is amazing. The people that I work in and state that worked with the Colleys doing that. Exemplary, I can't say enough. And I just think we need to keep that momentum and we need to keep looking for them and just think a little bit out of the box of how do we solve the problem. Thinking to ourselves, we're not going to find any more land. We have to have deal with what we have. So how can we think out of the box and part of that is utilizing these fields that aren't being used right now. I mean, football fields are not being used right now. Soccer fields are not being used right now. Baseball fields are not being used right now at schools. There's got to be a way to come to the meeting of the mind. So my, two cents. Part of my two cents. You have three cents on that. Why you're on that? They're about to put T-splots money in to most of these full and county schools. So in addition to that, they have all their side grass fields are about to be turfed. So you're actually about to, some cases, double the amount of turf that you have available. And a lot of those schools don't want kids coming in. No offense tearing up their grass and having a big mud pit, but now you have turf fields like Northears going to get Parsons and possibly Abbott Hill with the T-Spawns money that. So you're about to double some of your high school space around here for that. And the crowquick the second one that I'd like to mention that, I think it was Joshua who actually did call and reach out to us about field usage and our needs for football. So I'd like to, you know, commend him for reaching out and doing that. He'd actually did do that. Yeah and then the only thing I'll say is you know whatever we do we're doing it for the future and future being 10 years down the line right there are some tough steps that need to be taken yes we are part of Fulton County but no city no county no country can say that you cannot run a pilot. So if you do something that's unique to John's Creek, you're running a pilot in a city that is well known for its schools. It's known for its schools. And you're now creating healthy lifestyle, or you are pushing for healthy lifestyle through the school system. And if it's a pilot project becomes successful it can always be replicated right it's a sales process but more importantly I think we just need to take the bull by the horn and understand that if there's a home run opportunity then let's go and go and bat at it let's swing our a few times. And let's just go and try to make things happen. So I'd love to just summarize what I saw here, what I heard here. And also just bring, let's y'all know that city leadership and myself and public work director have actually met with the school systems and we're discussing a pilot agreement with one of our local elementary schools to just start somewhere and improve, get a little trust involved, see what works with the schools because there are fields there. They have their own agreement sometimes with providers, but just where we are starting that we have restarted that conversation as recently as this summer. So that is a goal for sure. So I divided my little page into four parts here for the four questions. And so I'm just going to sort of go through what I heard. In terms of improving access, so put some skin in the game. I think by that you meant give them some space. I'm not I'm not sure what I meant by them is not only give them space but make them true partners. So they are accountable at the same time also have Accessibility got it. Okay. I heard I'm Al for it as a prime example several times So with us for improving access. I also heard from improving access Potentially be creative about how we do rental fees Especially if made for our special needs groups. I thought the idea of some sort of like financial assistance, you know, because then we could have some merit there especially. I heard that online access, transparency and how things are rented was helpful. So to keep up that transparency in terms of improving access, to promote awareness. I heard create a centralized resource for sports providers, including contact info, websites, like a dashboard that you could go to and see who all operates. I heard potentially provide notices on kiosks in the park. I also heard to you leverage some of the city resources for marketing potentially. Also provide some sort of platform for routine feedback from the partners that we do have on how we can improve. In terms of criteria on which partners can operate with the city, I heard definitely being a John's Creek based organization. I heard even the time that they've been established here in John's Creek, I've heard that we would want the partner to really have an emphasis to serve the residents of John's Creek, potentially, you know, be ranked on their percentage of residents served versus non-residents. In terms of who to identify for formal partnerships, the ones we already have, of course, but I also heard the John Schoolyard Center and just the providers that have been here for a long time. So this has been really helpful. We're going to be circling up as a staff and with city management to, we'll be back more to talk about these, but this is a really great start for us to sort of try to path forward. So I think- So Eric, can I also suggest one more organization? You may want to look at, which is the Johns Creek Symphony, right? Because, you know, we are going to build the amphitheater in the back, the parks will have, you know, all three mill and other places. So I think the outdoor activities symphony could be a good partner in that process. I'm going to add one more. And you have the resource right in your office now with the foresight because my youngest, it's in fourth grade, he wanted to play tackle football. And that wasn't offered in John's Creek, so we're playing with Sharon Springs right now. And they have great relationships with, I mean, they practice at Sharon Springs Park and joint venture park, which I'm assuming is so named because it's with that school threat there. I don't know for sure, but that's what it seems like. And they do stuff with the, they do stuff with the, the high schools too, you know, with Lambert and South Forseys, and I'm sure there's other ones too, but I think that's probably a good place to look at how that special needs community and the accessibility to city funded programs and just city organizations to programs for special needs is huge here and I want to applaud that because I have my nephew who special needs up in Gwinnett County him and his whole class and little teammates from a special Olympics do come to John's Creek to partake in all of our stuff. Thank you. I didn't want to make an interesting point about this symphonies. Because also so many schools do have orchestras and symphonies here. It might be interesting to look at some sort of reciprocity of like, you know, you can come to use it, and shells and sketch that, and then you can have some leverage to talk to them or the county about the sports stuff as well. You can use some of your school stuff and have a better place than just a general auditorium, and we can work on, you know, the breast prostate of the sports fields as well, unapossibly. Hey. Be the exception. All right, I threw it out there. I threw it out there. All right, thank you. So, October. What do you have? It's cheesy. Our October meeting is the same night as Trunkertreats, so it has been suggested that maybe we meet on October the 11th, which is a week prior to when we would normally meet. So does anybody have any problem with that? I think we probably need to make a motion and have it approved. So check your calendars real quick and see if that works. And then I will ask for a motion. The 11th. The 11th. So it would be, you know, Wednesday the 11th instead of the 18th. It's by way for me. Good. All right. So can I get a motion to change that to Christie? I'll do it. OK. Can I get a motion to change that to Christie? I'll do it. Okay, is there a second? Does anyone opposed? All those in favor say aye. All right, we're on the eleventh. All right, lastly, we have no other business, yes sir. Yeah, I gotcha. We're good. We don't have any other business, correct? So with that, I'm looking for a motion to adjourn. Why are you looking at me? Yes, you. You're heading to the second. Anybody? All right, folks. We are adjourned to 7.51. Thank you so much for your words tonight.