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So, Mr. Murray, we stand up and raise your right hand and repeat after me. I and then say your name. I, Joseph Murray. Solomely, swear or affirm. Solomely, swear or affirm. That I will support the Constitution. that I will support the Constitution and will uphold the laws of the United States and the State of Florida that I will in all respects, observe the provisions of the charter and ordinances of the City of Naples and warden in says and will faithfully perform the duties and will faithfully perform the duties of the office of community services advisory board alternate member of the offices of the community services advisory board alternate member very good thank you congratulations roll call member Burone present member Morocco present alternate member Murray present member Oshar by chair Smith present chair Smith present thank you by Chair Smith. Present. Chair Smith. Present. Thank you. Stand and give the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic which it stands one nation under God, indivisible, the liberty, justice, and crawl. Announcements, presentations. Good morning, Chad Merritt, Parks Recreation Facilities Director. I've got three items today and I will actually turn over for A, which is the welcome to the new team members to Aaron to complete that portion. Good afternoon everyone. Aaron Hopkins, Deputy Director, Parks Recreation Facilities Department. I have the pleasure of introducing some of our new team members. I'm going to first start off with the three individuals that are not here. We've been fortunate enough to hire three new landscape technician twos, Ruben, ETM and Andy. And we do have the pleasure of one of the other new supervisors. Alberto Rodriguez is here. We're going to have him come up and say a few words. But again, Alberto Rodriguez is the assistant We're gonna have him come up and say a few words, but again, Alberto Rodriguez, he is the assistant aquatic supervisor at the River Park pool. So Alberto, if you'd like to come on up and say a couple things, that'd be great. Thank you. Good afternoon, I'm Alberto Rodriguez. I come from Clark County, Banks, Rec, and I just wanna say it's an honor and a pleasure to be here to serve the city of Naples. I'm someone who's actually born in Naples right down the road at Baker. So it's actually quite phenomenal to be back here again. I remember coming to this park right over across the street as a kid when it used to be a wooden structure. How's many years ago. So once again, I have quite a diverse background with athletics, summer camp, and most recently the quadrux I started off as a lifeguard when I first got into parks. And for me to kind of come back into it is kind of a little bit of full circle. But once again, I'm absolutely happy to be here. Happy to work with you guys as well and really excited to serve this community and give it everything you, it needs and wants. Thank you. Thank you, Roberto. Thanks, Alberto. So again, you know, I want to personally welcome Alberto. He's kind of jumped right in and it's like he's been here for a lot longer. Obviously we had to summer break, so it was delayed. But it's good to have the pull have that position filled and we're very excited and once again we feel that we've strengthened the team and we'll continue to fill our vacancies. Right now we don't have many. We're down to just a couple and we're actually working on the Marina manager position which closed out. We've got interviews this week and we hope out of the five applicants that we got there that we have some good, all right, we'll have to end up with a good employee as well. All right, so next item 4B, I'm gonna bring up Heather Shields. This is the Urban Forest 3rd quarter report. This is done and usually she includes it in the report but this time I was going to let her kind of talk especially with this having some new members. I think it's good for you to understand the importance of trees in the city of Naples and how Heather's role is vital to maintaining that urban forest in the city of Naples. Good afternoon. You neglected to mention I'm new as well. Yes, there's a couple new faces on the board. I haven't met before for the record Heather Shields Urban Forest Manager. I don't know if you were advised when you took the role on the Community Service Advisory Board. You also technically sit on our tree board. So you will see myself from time to time for a variety of different things that need to come before all you and that capacity when you switch hats. So the third quarter report is included in your packet. And the report was prepared in the beginning of July. So it's a little out of date since it's the middle of August. And of course, tree work continues nonstop. So a few of the items, the numbers, will be a little bit different. And I'll let you know what's happening with there. We did get our exotic report, our exotic tree out on Bel Air Court and have rep landed it with a beautiful gumbo limbo. It turned out fantastic. Residents are all real happy. We have just a few more exotics to get out and we'll be able to wrap up that project. We're hoping we'll be done next year. It has taken us about six years to get all of the class one invasive exotics out of our urban forest. Was a task, but it was a very important one to get those removed. We are still working on a rewrite of the tree ordinance. We're hoping we'll be able to get that to legal here shortly. And then of course that will come before you all for review. Minor changes that are being made to it, things to just tighten up. We've had it for about five, six years now when we rewrote it last time. So now that we've taken it for a few spins around the block, a couple of things that we think we can fine tune to make it a little bit stronger protection specifically as it relates to buildings of construction and driveways. We did develop a hurricane flyer this year for the hurricane seminar that we hold, that's included, the one that we have, we had a very successful little, know what would we call that? Little fiesta kiosk. Yes, so we did, it's a community hurricane preparedness, it's kind of like a just event that we invite the community and we have different departments and if you haven't been to it, it's very, I like it. I think it's got a lot of information and we do it every year and we'll do it right before the hurricane season starts and so Heather she always comes and she gets a lot of questions about trees and how to prepare and what to do and what trees what we do to prepare the trees and it's a lot that goes into it so but I would encourage you next year you should attend it. It's a really cool little session. It's a fun time. Tree Fillin has finished for this year. The last tree is went in last week. And actually on your paperwork it says we put in 120. We actually ended up with 133. So we did get a few more in after I had put this information together. It's a variety of hardwoods and palms where, of course, always trying to put in the shade tree, the hardwood over the palm tree. You know, try to get more shade in there, but it was a very successful project this year, got a lot of good trees in the ground. In terms of our pruning practices, our palm trimming is finished for the year. They actually just finished the sable palms in Orchid Linear Park today. That was the last thing of the palm trees. So they're all wrapped up and finished for the year. We'll get started again on coconuts in October. As far as hardwood pruning goes, that's almost complete as well. We're down to our final two tasks, which is the City Operation Center over on Riverside Circle, where our office is set. They're there now working on those, and when they finish that, we'll get into our tropical flowering trees, which are things like the Royal Poinsiana, Copperpods, Hong Kong orchids. If any of you go past the intersection of Moring Line Drive in US 41, there is a Royal Poincyana that is very happy in that median. It has encompassed almost the whole median tip up there. It's right, you probably drive past a lot, Cassie. So they're getting ready to be wrapped up with that pruning as well. The pruning usually takes us all the way to the end of September. Removals are cruising along. We have had several large, ficus trees, Cuban laurel trees needing to be moved recently, removed recently, because they have just not rebounded after Hurricane Ian. So we did lose actually recently seven in a few different locations and we'll get those replanted next year. So I think that sums up what we've been doing in a nutshell. But I'm happy to answer if there's any questions or anything specific that you might want to know about. Heather just kind of mentioned the project that's going to start on Central. Sure. We have the project starting actually on Monday on Central Avenue. We are redoing the landscape in the mediums between Gulf Shrubble of Ard and Sixth Street. So we will be removing everything from those mediums with the exception of two royal points, the anatries, which will be preserved and have been put into the new landscape. We are going to be reusing the stable poems that are existing today into the new design. They're going in different places but we're going to trim them up and we're going to relocate them into the new plans instead of you you know, removing them and then buying new ones. So we're going to do that for that. The project should take about 60 days. There could be some intermittent lane detours when they're working through that. We have got that permit and it will be out in the regular bulletin from O'Neeck that she sends out. I hope you all receive that. If not, probably want to make sure that you get on that list. But we're looking forward to that. It's been a long time coming that those medians, they have irrigation that runs on the top of the roots. And it's definitely a long time coming to increase that. We have a lot of trees there that have sustained a lot of damage over the storms. So we're looking forward to the new new crisp design. I think it'll be a nice improvement down there. So you mentioned and we talked about this prior meeting tightening up the regulations a little bit when it comes to taking down trees purely for development reasons. How are you talking about greater fines now or a shorter time period, limiting the number of appeals? How are you going to accomplish that? We haven't gotten through all of that just yet. The fines are capped for us. It's code enforcement. Fines are capped through the state. So the maximum fine we can have for any given tree is $5,000. And our code does already advise that each tree is its own individual violation. That was a major change that we made back in 2017. So, prior to that, if you had one property that removed six trees, it was one violation for $5,000. If that happens now, it's six violations for $30,000. So that was a huge, huge change in definition on that. We are looking to not as much change what would, like I said, the fines and stuff because that's really restricted on us. We're looking more at defining what a critical root zone is, what a structural root zone is, what a structural root zone is, so that you cannot put a driveway three feet off a tree, because you're in its critical root zone. So those are some of the things that we're looking into now as a little bit better protection when it comes to those types of things. And I don't know if Chad, whether this would be you or Heather, but for the folks who were relatively new, can you explain briefly what the tree board is and what they do? The tree board is one of the four requirements that the City of Naples has for tree-city the Tree City USA, you have to have a board that reviews your policies, that is a function of your protection. Annually, you will see the Urban Forest report that comes before you that will talk about what we did in the past, what we plan on doing in the future. So the tree board is instrumental in approving all of that and offering the guiding principle. I know that the chair mentioned the appeals process. That is something that we also will be looking at, not because we don't want it to appeal to other people to appeal stuff, but some of them are just not really worthy of appealing sometimes. It seems like it's a simple answer. But that all goes to you all. You know it's not the final decision of the administration of the staff to make that. So as the tree board you all get to do that, have that privilege. And I guess just from my limited experience, sometimes they've seen more like a negotiation than an appeal, but it didn't seem to me reading the statutes that was a negotiation. It was, here's the violation, here's my request. Yes or no? Correct, yeah. The appeals when they come before you are basically the black and white of is the code met or is the code not met. So most of the negotiation on something like that would have happened prior to. That's what myself and Jim Hodgden, we attempt to do when somebody has a concern, we attempt to find a solution. Can we do it this way, can we do it that way, can you rearrange this? Typically when it comes to you all, it's because somebody, we've been unable to come to another resolution and what is desired is the removal of the tree or something. So at that point, any residents, right, is always to appeal and we make that very known to them right from the get go that if you wish to appeal you have every right to do so. This is what's in front of you but. Excellent. Thank you. You're welcome. All right. So thank you Heather. And she'll continue. You'll see Heather around. And we do some events. We have an Arbor Day event. So next year, if you have a bend to that, I encourage you to go as well. And we'll continue to move forward and always protect the trees when you can. We always want to, the importance of trees as well as the beauty that they add to the community is important. And Naples has always been, it's been an emphasis for the city and Naples. So next item, go to 4C. This is the CIP report or Presentation so I wanted to share this and I'll continue to do this each year Probably around the same time But we want to make sure that as we go through this that you're aware of what we got ahead of us and I try to keep you updated what we're working on currently and the Director's report and then we have an actual five year CIP plan which is once it's approved which officially will go to council we did our operating budget presentation on Monday and we will be looking at this the budget We'll come back and go through its process and we hope to have an approved budget by the end of this coming up month. So I wanted to share with you the CIP portion of that and what the request was and if the budget is approved entirely then this is what it would include. So first I kind of show you that the capital request, there are a little over 3.3 million for this coming up fiscal year, which is FY25. This is how it's broken out. You see that we have public service tax general fund, tennis fund, beach fund, Baker Park Fund, and the CRA fund. These are the amounts, the majority of it does come out of the general fund, which you see at 1.6 million. We have a Baker Park request that will go into details about but at 950,000. You see the others as well. This shows you a kind of an overview of what the requests are and what sections you'll see the landscape parks and parkways. You'll see recreation facilities and then you'll look down and see the city facilities which we don't have any requests in at this time. That's our total 1.6 million in the general fund. General fund, the breakout, we have about 735,000 in recreation division and then we have 950,000 in the Parks and Parkways division. Tree fill in replacement program that we do each year, that is a $250,000 request and that is to plant estimated 100 to 200 trees per year and depends on hopefully we hope it's not that many but if we lose them then you saw we were already up at 130 plus this year. So we always try to budget for that if we lose trees. Other item, we have 450,000 that's requested for the construction of BANION. Just like we're doing with central avenue right now, we're looking to do the same thing. These pictures are examples of, I believe that's good, lit. And, excuse me. And a tree in a median is like a plant in your house and a pot. Eventually it outgrows the pot. And that time, you've got mulch and you've got organics that break down and it really builds it up and that's where we lose a lot of our irrigation and et cetera. So we have to come back in and we have to redo these in order to maintain that beauty that we seek in Naples when you come through. Otherwise you end up with either damage to the road, you end up with damage to the curbing, and then you end up with damage to your irrigation as well as when it mounds up like that. It doesn't really serve a purpose for stormwater purposes. It basically pushes the water away. The trees really start to help, starts to decline. So we take more of a proactive approach. So that's where each year we always look we try to see if there's a median that's kind of running it's the end of its life expectancy then we design another one so you see there 50,000 for the design of Harbor Drive. We have vehicle replacements that we do in here. There's a $65,000 request here for irrigation van. Small equipment. We request small equipment. 35,000 here for a basically a spreader, the replacement. And we've also asked for a roller so that we can roll some of the athletic fields and some of our spaces. So they're not as bumpy, especially if you're walking through and you turn to ankle. That's, we want to try to prevent that when we can. And I'll show you this because a lot of this stuff, these requests are not going to come to you all when we go to make this purchase. It's going to go straight through a lot of the CIP projects when we do things like building new shelters or the recreation items that we'll talk about here in a second will come to you all. The Urban Forest Tree Inventory Update, you'll more likely will be involved in this as we go through. They'll contract out, they'll go in and they do an inventory of all the trees which is over 20,000 trees. They grade them. They since the last one was done it's done about every five years and they try to develop a plan okay this tree needs it's got some help decline this is what we recommend. Heather's one person Heather does not issue we could not afford to have her going out and looking at over 20,000 trees in inventory and that's why we have them, they do a GPS on each one of them so we have a map where we can tell you exactly where the tree is, exactly what the tree, what kind of tree, what kind of health it's in, etc. So it's a very important inventory for us, and that's how we budget what we're going to do from year to year on the tree filling. So here's another item when you look at $100,000 requests. We will be repainting the band shell. It's another item. More likely it's not going to come to you to ask if you're good with us, repainting the band shell that needs to be repainted. But it is an item that's important to maintain our facilities so that we don't have deferred maintenance and we don't want things to rust and we want it to stay in shape. I don't want to have to replace the band shell. So we will be repainting that and sandblasting try to take off the years and years of paint that's just been coated on after year after year. North Center improvements as you all know, golf shore playhouse scheduled to be leaving in the very near future. The end of this month, maybe a transition. We may see some towards the end of next month, but the space and it'll kind of give me an opportunity. One of the things that we've started to do just as proactive staff has started to research and they've tried to put together some shows so that we continue that level of service. And I think they've done an outstanding job. I've got a list of those shows and everything that's penciled in. And as soon as the budget is approved, then we can kind of formalize these to make sure that we've got the funding to pay those different shows. But there is a revenue source that comes in from that. But also with God Shore Playhouse, if you see the amount of space that they took up well basically we get our building back and we've got to go in and we've got to repaint it and we've got to look at the flooring and the ceiling and try to get it back up to par so that it's usable space for us because we want to be able to program, we want to be able to run camps, we want to be able to run events in such at the North Center and we want to make it very versatile. So this is an important portion here of the CIP and when I talk about the budget perhaps next month, I'll talk about how that's going to relate to some other requests. Plyishment Park, $250,000 request there to do some upgrades to the concession, some field improvements, fencing, padding, etc. The athletic fields, we really need to do some work to them. We're trying to get some of that work completed this year, and staff is trying to get the field and everything. We've got some lips that have built up on the infield that needs to be removed. That's a safety concern, you don't want your kid going to ground a ground ball and it bounces up and hits them in the nose. I've had that happen as a baseball player many times. This is another vehicle request. Excuse me, Chad. Go ahead. I heard a rumor that Fleischmann was gonna add some permanent pickleball courts. Is that, I guess not true. I don't have anything in here. We do have temporary pickleball courts. We have looked at potentially adding additional temporary pickleball courts, but it would be something, as we, and just a second, you'll hear me talk about the master plan. And if we do the master plan and it's deemed that we need to pursue something like that, then perhaps we would, but it would mean having to take away something and so we don't wanna take away something until we know that the community is, it's not a need in the community before we do it. But we have the kind of briefly discussed that staff has really been working with a group over there and they do play every morning until about one o'clock and it's been very, very successful here recently we created a little storage area for them to keep their stuff, they organize themselves and staff has really been working with them to improve and we've got a very local and when I say local surrounding area around Flashman Park has got a lot of the residents are utilizing this pickleball almost called it a program that we've got. So anybody that's interested in pickleball and it's in the city, I would encourage you to get involved there and get a Flashman and get the information, but it's a very good group and we've met with them and they've put, they've really kind of organized themselves well. And so it's been very beneficial. But right now, if you look in the master plan, the current master plan states in there that it was recommended or that we not put pickle ball courts in in our parks and I don't I wasn't here during that process but I can tell you right now that if you look at the county the county is pushing right around 100 and we've got about 60 was it 66 that's over at East Naples 66 and that's within about four miles if you look at it from Canberra Park and then it's probably about five miles from Flashman Park but we you know we want to make sure that we don't replicate if we don't have to but again it's going to all be what the community wants. And when we go through that master plan process, they do a needs assessment and needs assessment really draws up and says, hey, what are you guys looking for? What does everybody want? What are, where are we falling short? How many tennis courts do we have per capita? How many athletic fields do we have per capita? How many centers do we have per capita? How many centers do we have per capita? And that's what they compare programs. They'll look at the demographics. They'll see, okay, well, you've got a lot of age 10 to 12. So we would encourage you to do programs for ages 10 to 12. Those are the types of things that we find out. And that's why it's important for that. And I'll actually go to the next slide that shows it. So this is the master plan update. Right now our master plan is approaching five years. You want to do this every five years because things change. Five years ago, I could run a seven and a half minute mile and now I'm not even sure I want to go out and run into heat. That's just that's what happens in five years. So a lot changes in five years. So we want to be able to go and make sure that it's reflected. You've got a lot of trends. You've got things people move, people move in. So we've got a different group of people than we did five years ago. So we'll continue to do that. We have actually been very successful and we've accomplished a lot of the recommendations on the current master plan. Last year in the CIP actually put a kind of a diagram. If you go back, you'll see just in that year where we were at and what has been accomplished and what was still outstanding and understand that even more has been done since that. So we've been very, very efficient and a field confident in that what product that you see out was reflective of that master plan. And that's what we strive to do in our profession. Baker Park Fund, this is a fund that was created back when Baker Park was developed. There were funds that were still available for future development. If there was something that we felt that needed to happen. Well, if you look, this is a perfect picture here, and I think you can see my mouse should be able to see. Currently, this area here, which is heavily used, and in this area that you see the top of heavily used. If you see, this is perfect because there's an event set up. This event set up, so if you need to use the restroom, that restroom is right over here. So if I've got three kids, I've got to walk the kids across through this event to this restroom, and that's from a convenient standpoint, especially if you have an event with 200 people, that restroom is used heavily. One thing that was drawn up on the original plans was to add an additional restroom and it was right down here in this location. So what we've done is we budgeted to add that restroom and construct that restroom where it's a little bit more convenient and it also will help with alleviating people moving through special events that are held at the GoMath Center and it will be able to handle the capacity of the park. If you've ever been over to make a park on a really nice day when it's not pouring down rain, it's packed. And there's people enjoying their playing football or throwing football, they're walking their dogs, they're just sitting reading books, they're whatever kids are running around playing, running through the splash pad. So we want to make sure that we've got the facilities to be able to accommodate those types of activities. We feel that that is, that we'd like to pursue and go ahead and put in that restroom facility. Another thing that we don't have there is an office for staff to work out of. So when we run these special events, we have to have staff there. We've got a park that's one of the busiest parks and one of the, it's the largest park that we've got. And we don't have a space for staff to be able to work out of and help with some of the patrons and so on that are using. So we are requesting and we will be looking into building a office area so that we can have staff in that part. It won't be always, but we will have that opportunity to have them in. Tennis fun. Chad, that would be in the same building where you would put these new restrooms, different building. Yeah. That's still up in the air. So we have two options with that. And I kind of want to look at what the cost is going to be. Because you see what we we got as a budget. There's a couple of things that I worry about. You know if I put an office and a restroom over here and we're running an event out of Gomez Center over here it's kind of a long but you can't really watch and that's really what the staff is trying to make sure that you know We don't want something to get not a control if a Cassie decides the Roberta party and they just go wild We got somebody there to be able to watch them So we want to make sure they're kind of in close proximity. So we'll be looking at something on this building as well, but You know, we want to weigh the options those are probably some things that are going to come back to you all when we get to that point that's going to be a here's what our options are what do you think and that's where it's important for this board to weigh in because when we take the final product to City Council we need to be able to say was a disgusted city at CSAB and this was the determination this is what we felt was appropriate so it's all in that AGM and this is again another project that will be coming to you all in the future. If approved, tennis fun as shows you a $75,000 request. What we're looking to do here is on the side. If you're looking at that picture here, it's on this side. We're looking at adding the shade structure. There's a little grass area there. We have a lot of summer camps. And what we said was the most kids that we've had in summer camp at the Tennessee Center this year. So we want to make sure we've got enough shelter and shade that we can add. We also run the Clay and May. We run other events and you have a lot of people that utilize the Tennessee Center that just want to kind of get out of the sun when they're not playing and they don't need to have to walk up the steps and sit up there. They need to have an area that they can escape. So we will be looking to install a shelter here at the tennis center on this end. And that was the only request in the tennis center. Chat. Oh, I'm sorry. Yep. I'm sorry. I saw you flipping. I heard on the tour that the tennis center was completely self-sufficient financially. Right? Did I hear that? So it is an enterprise. So the tennis center and the city dock are enterprises. The goal of an enterprise is basically operate it like a business that it sustains itself. Now, just like the owners of any other, if you've got a rental property, if the refrigerator breaks, then more likely you as the owner are going to have to repair it. So this, the CIP items, CIP items are really, it's kind of a toss up whether or not they're covered within what's brought in from year to year that we exceeded what we were projected on certain things as we move through the year. If you look at the time of year, you know, we might have so more tennis lessons or there was more camp kids that attended. Sometimes when our expenses are down and we're not spending as much, it doesn't usually shake out. Like you're going to see a revenue budget at $991,000 if you go back and look in the presentation on Monday. So $991,000 revenue projection, and there's an expense of $974,000. If that shakes out, we spend everything, and we maximize their programs and everything, and we hit that $974,000 expense, we're projecting that we should make about $991,000. It's very rare that we spend $974,000 on the dime. It's usually a little less than that, and our projections could come out. We want to try to keep them above obviously but we wouldn't have, we spend $100,000 paying tennis lesson contractors then that's going to be offset and it's going to generate a little bit of revenue because of the agreement that we have with them. So it is operated like a business and as you see it does support itself from an operational standpoint. But about two years ago, they had $46,000 that was contributed from the general fund into there that was appropriated, it was removed. And it was removed because we kept seeing that it wasn't really necessary to have that in. And I think the job that the staff has done out there is going to continue to drive that number, that revenue number up. I think there's some things that again that I know you all are privy to that will announce here shortly that's going gonna also help and influence and bring more traffic in, but then you got, that thing got hit very badly by the hurricane and we had to rebuild 12 courts. So we had that, we had to redo the Tiki Huts. We had damaged all of the equipment downstairs. We had to replace the ball machines, et cetera. So that tennis center is off. It's branded. So when you say we, do you mean, they replace the courts or did the city replace the courts? Are they? I'm just struggling with understanding whether or not are they break even operationally, but we pay for all the CapEx. So if there's, if the courts are damaged, the city pays to replace the courts. And we're paying for the structures, right? Any CapEx we pay for for any operating expenses they pay? When you say they, they are, is we. We, we are the, the tennis center. We operate the tennis center. We have staff that operates in the tennis center. So it's, it's still a, it's an enterprise and we have a tennis manager, which you met in a assistant tennis manager and two recreation coordinators. So if you look in assistant tennis manager into recreation coordinator. So if you look in their operating budget, those are found within the operating budget. So they are part of the expense of the tennis center. When we have a storm that hits us, we have separate funds which are hurricane-eating funds at that time that paid for the damage and then those are submitted to FEMA for reimbursement we have insurance and so on that helps to pay for that just like your house. So again I'll take it back to you rent it out your house, storm hits, your renters are not going to be the ones that are doing that. It's going to be you your insurance company is going to cover that. Not calling them renters but they are part of us and it is an enterprise and it is on city property and it is ran as an enterprise for the fact that it wants or that we want it to support or maintain itself operationally. So the operating budget is maintained by the revenue that's brought in. Okay, thank you. Yep. Right, so the beach fun, we have, there's two section or we've got three sections, excuse me, and the beach fun. And here you're going to see a lot of about park improvements, 300,000, and beach maintenance cart, 17,000. So here's what we're looking. Lettermark Park, we'd like to add a gazebo shelter. Just currently the ones, if you've been over there, they're little small ones. And it doesn't, if I want to have a family picnic, it's very difficult to do that. So we're looking at trying to put one in. This also will help when we run some of our programs and we have things that take place over there will be able to have something that a large group can kind of get under, especially when it rains on this time of year. We would also be putting picnic tables and benches and things throughout the park that's uh that have been damaged and you know with usage as well as the sun is just terrible on some of those benches it fades them terribly. The beach cart that we've got in here is 17,000 typically we always replace one of the beach carts it takes a lot of wear and tear when it's constantly in the sand and the salt, it doesn't take them long until you road up underneath. So we always look to replace one and we'll be doing the same thing this year as well. CRA, CRA is basically your area that's in this, well actually I think it, I can't remember the exact boundary but this is an area in the Baker Park River Park, Anthony Park, all sit in within the CRA. So in our operating budget this year we had CRA maintenance funds that were paid out of the CRA budget, but per guidelines with the CRA we had to move those in our operating budget. But what happens is the CRA can pay for capital projects within the CRA boundary. So because Baker Park, River Park, and Anthony Park within that CRA boundary we were able to shift some of those into the CRA fund. So what we plan to do with that, you see a $300,000 request from the community redevelopment agency. That is at Baker Park, $150,000 to improve the pavers that we are consistently having to reset. I've already reset them twice since I've been here. And we need to find a permanent solution to that. It's about 8,000 square feet. We've also got River Park Aquatic Center, 100,000. We're going to resurface and install a new tile around the pool. Anthony Park is a $50,000 request to install a shade structure behind the community center. Community center, if you've ever been to Anthony Park, right behind it we have a large concrete pad and it is like a pizza stone when it's hot outside. It's you got kids that are coming out of the community center there and they're they're planning that field so we're trying to add some relief. The perfect time and we all, if you got to go to the Anthony Park ribbon cutting where we did that project, just standing out there on that concrete pad, waiting for that event and it was hot. So it really shows you we're always trying to increase shade where we can. We've got two shade structures that was actually approved through CSAB that getting ready to go up at Flashman Park in this year's budget. So you'll see that happen here shortly. And that's kind of an overview of the CIP. Obviously, things that you don't see in the CIP right now are things that like the Naples peer that's continuing that we are working on improvements that we're going to do to the beach accesses from the hurricane. Those things are not in this budget because those are already in the works and they would not be included. Well, one, you're not going to see the Naples peer because of the fund that it's going to come out of. But those continue, we'll continue to pray and hope that we don't get any more hurricanes so that we can kind of get ourselves back together. But we've accomplished a lot this year with having to kind of juggle some of the hurricane stuff and as well as the CIP items and bringing on staff. You know, they've still got a little bit of, we've got some projects that are being initiated. Now you look at some improvements that are gonna be done at Lottermoot Park, which will start soon with the landscape and where we lost all the landscaping. So that'll start up. We've got some improvements that are going to be done to the Laudermot Park concession, where we're doing some enhancements to the restroom to make those more ADA accessible, et cetera. And we're just the Batchy Courts just actually approved that project. The Batchy Courts were a casualty during the storm as well, so we're getting ready to reconstruct the Batchy Court and try to enhance that as well so that it's a little nicer. So, a lot going on that shows you that we have a lot to do for next year to add to all the everything else. So, we'll continue to update you and we'll bring these items to you when it's time, but I did feel like it was a good thing to go ahead and get these items in front of you all. So you see what's ahead of us in the work that we'll have to have your assistance with. So thank you. So anyone have any questions on the budget or? Can I ask a question on the ladder milk? The shade structure is that in addition to the ones you have or replacing this album? Yeah, it'll be in addition. So there'll be three then. Yes. Okay. You'll have the two small ones that are right there by the beach and we'll have another one that'll be in an open space. But further. More likely it'll be what I envision is it would be on the south end as you come into the park on the left-hand side where that climb and structure is We'll probably put it in that area. Okay great So quick question chat on the Recreational vehicle is it city policy to purchase to Least to to pay employees mileage when they use personal vehicle, is there any across the board city policy on something like that? Yes, so there is a mileage reimbursement if you're looking at using your own vehicle. Some positions have stipends if you're using your own vehicle. But when you're talking about recreational vehicles, if you're talking about like the ATV, obviously that's something that's purchased, just financially it's done through the equipment services. So we request it, we budget for it, and then when it's time to initiate it equipment services, they have contracts or contacts, one with the different manufacturers and they, you know, we get governmental rates for those purchases and they organize it and make it happen. So that's really, as far as the vehicles typically, that comes from equipment services too. They have like a computer system in there where they can tell they kind of grade or provide this grade for each vehicle. So if you've got a truck or the ECO van that we had, they'll look at it and they'll say, okay, this is starting the maintenance of this vehicle, starting to really increase. And we've had issues, This is what the mileage is. You might see a low miles, but understand that 50,000 miles in the city is basically like 200,000 miles of what I felt. It used to be a calculation I had, but it's very different than what it looks like. It's a lot of wear and tear when their stop goes, stop go. And that's where how most of our vehicles are driven. And you know, a lot of time that's spent accelerating and slowing down. So, yes, we have a program through the equipment services that is maintained. Got it. Thank you. All right. Public comment? We have no slips. Item 6 changes to the agenda. No changes for me. Item 7. Approval of the meeting minutes. Is there a motion to approve the May 21, 2024 meeting minutes? I know you have one change, but I think it's in the July one front. That's for the July, yeah. Go ahead. So we would motion for them separately though. Yeah. Is there a motion to approve the May 21, 2024 meeting minutes? I move to approve the May 21, 2024 meeting minutes. Second. Second. All approved. Hi. Hi. Hi. You know, Animus, in the 7B approval of the July 11, 2024 meeting minutes, since we have photographic proof, I want to add that Laura Usher was present. She was left off the list, but we got proof. Other than that, know the changes. So you want to approve it with that change? Correct. So I motion that the July 11th, 2024 meeting minutes be approved with the addition of Laura Osher as present. Second. Hi second. I'm sorry I see the date is wrong as well. Second. I second. I'm sorry I see the date is wrong as well on that. Just a three years off. Are you think it was the night? I think it wasn't 2021. I could I completely missed that one too. I can't wait to see the next meeting. I can't wait to see the meeting. I can't wait to see the meeting. I can't wait to see the meeting. I can't wait to see the meeting. I can't wait to see the meeting. I can't wait to see the meeting. I can't wait to see the meeting. I can't wait to see the meeting. I can't wait to see the meeting. I can't wait to see the meeting. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. the minutes today. So should we restate the motion? Yeah, you would just make a motion state to make those three changes and you would approve it based on that. Got it. So moved. I second. The changes be recorded as Laura being included, the date and year be corrected as well. So we have a motion and a second. All approved. Aye. Oh, no, I'm sorry. That one I approved. Yes. Aye. Aye. I. Oh, no, I'm sorry. We had you. That one I. Yes. Hi. Hi. Hi. So moved. So approved. Regular agenda. Item 8. A. Yes. Again, Chad Mayor, Parks Recreation Facilities Director. We will go through the Director and Staff Report. A couple of highlights, and I'll kind of flip through here. You can kind of see here where it shows a rundown of what we had in City Council. What that it was approved or not approved or continued. I believe most of our items were approved on here. I don't think we had any that were continued. So that does show you, so every month, we're gonna show you what went the City Council, what was approved, what the resolution was or what the item number was. So if you really wanna go and watch and tune in, you can go back and watch that on the website, but that shows you what item that is. Let's see if I can. All right, that'll bring it in. Let's see if I can flip. So it was easier to flip the other way. All right, so again, budget presentation was completed on Monday. We also, we're still moving a little bit on this Cambier Park Playground project. What we've done so far is actually Jason, who's an audience, has been working on a scope and has put a scope together where we can put that out to the playground companies and what our goal is at this point is we got feedback, a few hundred people replied to the playground survey. We took that survey, we tried to incorporate some of those that feedback into the scope and we're going to have these contractors or these playground designers put the five different, or I'm striving for five different designs. And then at that point, we want to bring those designs. We'll review it for one from a staff level to make sure it doesn't have something crazy on it that we can maintain. And then we're going to come back and we want the opinion of the CSAB at that time. Once we get your opinion and if we decide we want to make some changes to any of those five before we put it out, I would like to, my goal at this point is to try to put it out to the public to allow them to vote on these designs to see what Everybody fills and then once we kind of get one Nailed down that'll be kind of our base design that we work with will do some additional Meetings if we need to own that but you all are gonna be very important during that project and we want to try to move this thing forward with a lot of community involvement. We've done more community involvement at the end of this. I think I've ever done with any of the playgrounds. And from my understanding, from the playground companies, we've already done more than most cities do. So I like to say that I feel that we've really tried to listen and we've got some good feedback and we've tried to utilize that. And I think we've got, you know, we have a good understanding too of what we'd like to see. Obviously, it can be our park is very near and dear to all of us and we want to make sure whatever is in there fits in there, meaning not size wise, but I'm more concerned with the theme of it and the look of it and it needs to be aesthetically pleasing and it needs to, and I want to make sure I say this on the record, there are no trees being removed in that area. At no point, we designed the other playground and actually we were at a crossroads during construction over the tree and Flashman Park. That was one tree. So understand that the trees around that playground are very important to the shade. And let's be honest, when it can block the sunlight, it really helps to the playground equipment to last a little bit longer as well. So it's important. So we'll continue move that forward. We do have some reclassifications there that you see and promotions. So we did add Roxanne. She was not here as a new employee of the department because she came from another department, but she is an administrative coordinator that's handling and working with parks and parkways and facilities maintenance. So very important position there and we're glad to have her over here and also to keep her with the city. New employees, we talked about the CSAB tour. I felt like it was a huge success. I hope you all learned a lot. It's always good to get out and see the staff. And I felt like the staff had a good time because I got to talk with you all and really tell you what they do in a very, very short window. And it's very difficult to tell everything that they do throughout a day. And I gave them what, like, 10 minutes. And they had to go through it. But I thought they did a great job. And it really shows you how hard they work. And they really enjoy go through it. But I thought they did a great job and it really shows you how hard they work and they really enjoy serving the city. And I'm very appreciative of having them. Here's some of the pictures here. I have to show that because it puts all you all in the spotlight here. I don't know where I was at. I think it was actually going to take into pictures. Project updates. Again, here's a list of the projects. If you see something you want to ask about, just send me an email. I'm not going to go through each one of those. Peer report. Still got people showing up on to the pier. If you look compared to years previous, we're still up there. I think last, probably the biggest years it looks like 2021, 1.6 million people. We still have a few months left here to calculate, which I expected to go over a million, which is pretty wild considering we only have like 150 feet of the pier versus the thousand feet. So that's pretty good. The project again, we're still working through and you can go back, I'm not gonna go do a full blown update on this. We have a website, you can go, we did an update at City Council meeting that you're welcome to kind of go to. We're still working through some permitting and we've got to fulfill the needs of FEMA as those kind of where we're at right now. And once we do that, then we'll be able to move the project forward. Timeline shows you timeline. Talk about the beach accesses. We're going to continue. We did remove all the fencing from the beach accesses so you won't see the fencing anymore. Facility maintenance. They've been working on several projects. Again we talked about the Lottermelt Park. They've been working on several projects. Again, we talked about the lot of milk park. They're working on Vodato Beach access, which is an ADA thing. We did do a dredging at the Naples Landing. We've got, actually, I'll talk about that here in a second in recreation. And that's the River Park river part the roof if you've been over that way again I know you went in but we've done a lot of work on river part within the last year and you know it is an amazing facility with amazing staff so when you talk to community members if they've never been there, encourage them to go. You saw it firsthand. Very beautiful facility and it's got a lot to offer. The parks and parkways, they've just been working on some trimming and as you heard the central avenue project was going to start up. A lot of them out park, landscape projects going to be starting up. And they've also been working on golf shore Boulevard north. If you've been up that way, you'll see that the mediums have been restored pretty much to 100%. And they're continuing to do that throughout the city. And we'll have the mediums in front. A lot of them out part will be restored. We did a cove lane, which was down and port royal. That's been restored. And we'll just keep on chopping away, trying to, I shouldn't say chopping away since it's a treat. But we'll keep on pushing forward to get all these things done. We did use and test out a robotic mower over at Anthony Park. It was a demo done by JSM. So if we get kind of a report, I may tell you how that went because it kind of cool shows you the new technology it had to play. Here's a couple of the medium projects and so on here, recreation. Summer camp has ended and we have turned them all over the Cassie and all of her teammates. So the school systems now have the kids so we get them after school for a little while but they got them for the majority of this shows you we had a 1300 low over 1300 registered camp participants and this shows right down to beach one Great times here. You see where this is the closing ceremonies over at River Park. They do a color run And if you blow the picture up, it's got all the shirts or all sorts of colors where they have a blast when they do it. I'm not going to go through all of these special events again if you look at that. If you do not follow us on social media, if you have a social media, I encourage you to do so. Danielle, who is our marketing special events person, has been doing a great job with providing updates. So if you want to see what's happening in Naples this coming up weekend, she's going to build a post and she's going to tell you this is what's happening in Naples this weekend. So it's a great thing to look at. It is on the calendar on the website. So for those that don't have social media, You can go on the website. You but she continues to kind of move that needle and our followers so that we can reach as many people as possible. So when we put information out, that portion is covered as well as she's been doing a lot of work on the website. This kind of shows you an example during the Parks and Recreation Month. She posted this in the Quatic Center just letting people know this is a free facility to use for residents and people in the community. So I encourage you to use it. Here is an example of an upcoming weekend what she will post and show you these are the items that are happening where it's happening and their times and all. And then if we have something that we're having to do maintenance on, we also try to put that out as well. So, Tennis Center, again, we talked about the camps, 410 campers. That was a very high number for tennis campers. And if you rode by, you saw tennis balls flying everywhere. So it was very active and we appreciate all of the kids for participating and hope they had a blast. They seemed to be having a blast. And City Doc, again, I told you that we were working on a Marina manager fill in that position. We've got interviews on Thursday. And we hope to be standing in front of you within the next couple of months, introducing our new employee for that facility. And that should be 100% facility and that should, we should be 100% full at that point because the other position will be handling in a different capacity. So that is the Director and Staff Report in a summary. So if you've got any questions, let me know. Otherwise, thank you all. And it's been a privilege for us to serve you all in the summer. It's been hot and rainy. Thank you Chad. Item 9, member of communications. I have one, anyone else? I wanted to thank you, Chad, Aaron Jason, your whole crew for the July 11th, 2024 facilities tour. It really, if it is true that it pictures worth 1, thousand words, then that was worth a lot of words. Very valuable not only to see what you all do, but to really kind of drive home the wide variety of the skills that you all need to bring to your job as Parks, Recks, and Facilities. And very valuable both for new members and current members in terms of helping us get oriented. Everybody talks about how beautiful Naples is, but I don't think most people realize, I think the average outsider or 20-year resident thinks oh this must be Port Royal or this must be old Naples or but it's not it's the city in Naples and it's what you all do so again thank you very much and I'll kind of add to it if there's something as we did that I know we didn't put anything formal but police innocent email if there's something you felt like you'd like to see maybe next year covered more or something we didn't cover. That would be beneficial or you find it would be beneficial because you're serving at this capacity. We live it every day so I can sit here and tell you all this stuff and talk all day long about it. But if there's something that you feel could help you making decisions and conversation when you have these meetings, send them me an email. Let me know so we can add it in and we can put it in some notes and we'll try to make that adjustment next year, but we really felt like staff was prepared and they did their own thing and it was kind of fun for them, I think. And it was fun for me because I don't have to sit there and talk all the time. So thank you again. If there is no further business, I make a motion to adjourn the August meeting of Community Services advisory board. I second. All in favor. Hi. Hi. Thank you. you you you you