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PKS Boardroom: alright and go to clients meeting to order it. Welcome everyone to like to start with a land acknowledgement and recreation, knowledge and of firms, the digital sales as original caretakers for daughter and landscape to nurture and shape today's partner. We already like to see gratitude, appreciation, and save further knowledge and stewardship and during welfare cultivate inclusive expressions of nature and recreation, and commit to life knowledge for each, and zoom generation
PKS Boardroom: with that so first thing on the Jeff before we get to consent items, I'd like to do a round of introductions starting with Josh on my way Commissioner John Secret at large.
PKS Boardroom: Philip man, get engaged. Commissioner
PKS Boardroom: Christopher Williams, our Chief staff
PKS Boardroom: Marlborough co-chair of the Board.
PKS Boardroom: Jessica, farmer at large. District 6. Recreation
PKS Boardroom: next.
PKS Boardroom: With that we have 2 items on our consent. Agenda. It is our meeting minutes from July thirteenth as well as the agenda for today. August the tenth
PKS Boardroom: second. It's been motion seconded all those in favor.
PKS Boardroom: any of those.
PKS Boardroom: and the motion passes
PKS Boardroom: with that I'll be moving to public comments all our event. We have one Justin. Wanna play out there. Thank you very much for having me. I have one kind of man or reason. I was here that fortunately, that
PKS Boardroom: remember, hop it's gonna help me with with the contracts. So my name is Justin Rose. I'm the regional vice president for house construction. The infills that go into the Seattle public schools feels terrific. They've gone organic. The main info that's used is cork. But if you go ahead and look at any field. It's over 2 or 3 years old.
PKS Boardroom: Course has one bad problem is that it's light. It's floats, and every single field in Seattle like I said, it's over 2 years old is low on info with that doesn't allow the field to have a shot company or the cleat
PKS Boardroom: indentations into the field like it's supposed to. So here's the court. This is the court that we use. There's another organic material. It's actually not made by Hellas. It's made by safe play organic.
It's made out of all the pits
PKS Boardroom: it sinks. It doesn't flow. If you blow on port. It's very, very light. It spreads out and it goes everywhere. You know, my email is on there. If anybody wants any more information on a different organic. So save the city money that's gonna provide a better product in the long run, and so stay around longer. Please let me know. So how much is a standard athletic bill.
PKS Boardroom: a standard athletic field for just the infill right core within. Within. So yeah, it's it's very, very cost. Effective. This company gets it right now from Italy. They made it
PKS Boardroom: they're gonna start harvesting this from waste, and there's no additional value. There's no really useful in Italy. There's mountains of it, and they press it into logs, and they burn it like. And that's it. So sustainable, economic and
PKS Boardroom: completely natural moths, not noth house
PKS Boardroom: cleats.
PKS Boardroom: How about, please? How about level cleats? Baseball, please?
PKS Boardroom: Posts? Yeah. Yeah. Well, no artificial turf will stand up to metal pleats. So we try to get the synthetic leaks. But this will work for that. We have it, this actually into the standard for Tacoma public schools. Okay, we're putting our seventh field in this year.
PKS Boardroom: With that so and also university. I'm sorry St. Paul's, San Francisco has this on their performance football field, and they wanted to go California championship 2 years ago with this. So it's still performing.
PKS Boardroom: That's and for the deal you're doing right now. That's the city standard. And you can see
PKS Boardroom: just
PKS Boardroom: it. Just it's like, it's it was good looking out 10 years ago. But now there's a better organic.
PKS Boardroom: Thank you. Thank you.
PKS Boardroom: Yeah.
PKS Boardroom: anyone else. That is it for public comment. Wow! Must be summer sale with that. Chris. Particular. Great. Thank you. And thank you for that
PKS Boardroom: public testimony. And that's something. We'll probably go back and look into
PKS Boardroom: rich dealings.
PKS Boardroom: So thank you to passport members for being here tonight on the first. See how pre-season game, and reasonably nice summer evening. We're always May said. During this time of year, with so much going on and see. Thank you for being here. We appreciate your volunteerism.
PKS Boardroom: So we've had a very intense mainly because we've had such great weather. Seattle is position in the gold, the Goldilocks zone, where it's not too hot, not too cold, and people are really out enjoying the park system. And we'd like to use this presentation today, maybe to share a little more information about what's going on across the park system than we normally do.
PKS Boardroom: This is one of our busiest summers from recent memory. And again, the incredible weather has contributed to that to crowds at parks, features, pools, and our water features. We're in the home stretch of our community summer programming this means that summer mills and recreation programs continue this month
PKS Boardroom: through Monday, Friday.
PKS Boardroom: rather Monday, through Friday, at 11 park sites across the city. There are a lot of kids in the summer that depend and rely on the sale partner, recreation Department for meal during the day when their families are at work, and we do that at 11 locations, and that will coincide. The end of it will coincide with the start of school at the end of the month
PKS Boardroom: the summer. Safety is a recreation program for young people. It's offered at 7 community centers, and it was created in response to youth violence, and is intended to be an intervention
PKS Boardroom: to for use violence, and to channel youth and to productive recreational activities in our community centers.
PKS Boardroom: Our summer hours continue to Alkyne Golden Garden beaches these hours will continue through September fourth, as a reminder for closing the Park early at 1030 pm. At both of these locations, and I think that has helped a lot in terms of being able to manage the behaviors
PKS Boardroom: separate beaches are open through late August or early September last month we close the beach at Matthews Beach, due to high bacteria levels as sampled by team, county public health. As a result we. We reopen Magnus Beach and Magnuson Park for the remainder of the summer, so we close one north, East beach, and open the one at Magnus
PKS Boardroom: outdoor pools. Monger and Magnolia and Coleman Pool and West Seattle are open through Labor Day. These are our 2 outdoor pools, and again we'll call. Their closures will coincide with the start of the Seattle public school system.
PKS Boardroom: Our waiting pools
PKS Boardroom: are open most of August with 3 Green Lake, Lincoln Park down a cell and Volunteer Park being open through Labor Day
PKS Boardroom: our spray parts are open through September fourth.
PKS Boardroom: so that's sort of the snapshot of just sort of drop in recreational activities that families kids can take advantage of.
PKS Boardroom: Both ramps have been top of mind for us here recently in South be Seattle. We received a request from the city attorneys office and the chief of police and
PKS Boardroom: Seattle to consider
PKS Boardroom: closing the Atlantic Street boat ramp at Beershiva Park
PKS Boardroom: early. That Bill Grant is typically open 24 h there were 2 shootings
PKS Boardroom: there in the space of 28 days the week before we
PKS Boardroom: close the vote ramp. There were 2 more shootings. So what we did was we worked with Svd. And we now have that both launch signed
PKS Boardroom: from the hours of closure from 10 Pm. Till 6 Am. In the morning, and this was done to deter the anti social behavior in that part of town.
PKS Boardroom: Meanwhile, a few miles away, a few miles north at stands. Here's
PKS Boardroom: Oh, launch the community around that park is requesting the same kind of response.
PKS Boardroom: And we are very mindful of
PKS Boardroom: treating Parks and Southeast Seattle differently than we.
PKS Boardroom: or treating parts other places. We don't want to
PKS Boardroom: deal with every instance or case of anti social behavior in our public park system through closures. So we didn't close stance airs that didn't make a lot of people happy.
PKS Boardroom: We think we were kind of mitigating that would see fare, you know. They kind of got a break with the behaviors there. But this is something we're gonna continue to have to look at is the behavior at Stan Sayers, but for the time being we only close
PKS Boardroom: the boat ramp had
PKS Boardroom: Atlant Street. Andrews Bay has been the source of lots of I've
PKS Boardroom: questionable behaviors by voters party years on large boats amplified sound alcohol, and all the things that I think, go with party on a boat has been kind of a nuisance to the neighbors. Working with Council Member Staff. We have come up with a
PKS Boardroom: strategy that involves
PKS Boardroom: funding for harbor control. They're now in Andrews Bay on a regular basis, doing much more enforcement there than they had been doing in the past. Even still, signage on shoreline area related to the rules
PKS Boardroom: of how we want people to conduct themselves on the boat. Ultimately. We'd like to get signage that would be mounted on top of the buoys so that that would be visible up close to the
PKS Boardroom: voters. But we have gone to local voting associations. And have they explained the concerns we have about the behavior by boaters, and and I think it's gotten a little better. So
PKS Boardroom: we have some signs on land. So yeah.
PKS Boardroom: next slide.
PKS Boardroom: Okay, so we just have good news coming in space here. So arcism.
PKS Boardroom: a very important part of our
PKS Boardroom: operations. Again, our functions as the agent and the delivery of public recreation programs in our community. And
PKS Boardroom: they struggled like most nonprofits during the pandemic.
PKS Boardroom: and that we did some things to help them out they recently. I think over the course of, and then I can after add, applied for a Federal
PKS Boardroom: mitigation
PKS Boardroom: grants through the Irs. And recently we're still with a 2 million dollar chat. Your board voted to give the Department 500,000
PKS Boardroom: of that 2 million dollars. They were recently awarded to be used on priorities that the Department thought would advance public recreation.
PKS Boardroom: So some of the priorities that we're gonna spend money on
PKS Boardroom: based on the spread. it's a play area of renovation project and plans will be so part
PKS Boardroom: the Kaboom organization offered to donate 50% of a big clarity of project. But we didn't have a match. So this provides a match to take advantage of that donation. We're also going to
PKS Boardroom: add funding for Pilot Pickleball Court. So we think that this will get us as many as a dozen
PKS Boardroom: ad hoc pickle ball courts that will be likely at Lincoln Park, and then at some North End location, maybe even magnificent park. But the idea here is to make a dent in the Pickle Ball court demand and
PKS Boardroom: we're excited about being able to show that we're also gonna make
PKS Boardroom: greater investment and performance metrics for the swim scale program. We think that the data collection and data management will be a big part of showing the efficacy of efforts to teach young people how to swim.
PKS Boardroom: This also means we will provide additional scholarship dollars for the learners learn to swim program
PKS Boardroom: and then we've set funding aside for the greater, greener closing event or
PKS Boardroom: welcoming ceremony. I think one of the big
PKS Boardroom: ideas for us here in Seattle as a local host city is to want to make a big splash and huge
PKS Boardroom: big impression for the greater dinner conference, and
PKS Boardroom: it takes money to do that. So this is money we're setting sign for that
PKS Boardroom: but just a huge set, a huge shout out for our. What we'd like to do and have talked about is invite Jacky and a few art board members to this meeting
PKS Boardroom: for some recognition and appreciation publicly. We would also like to maybe host a luncheon
PKS Boardroom: for them that part members would be invited to, along with other partners, to celebrate this donation to the department, so more to follow on that. It's pretty exciting, and I think it underscores the value of the partnership with our so really happy to be able to report out of that
PKS Boardroom: moving along here. So the mayor has priority. Call Seattle mentors. And this is a program that really
PKS Boardroom: started with this mayor. When he's out on stop talking to the public sharing kind of the personal value that mentors. That meant to him his own personal way.
PKS Boardroom: He is a great storyteller, and has just, I think, been inspirational about the need to establish a mentoring program. So we have launch the Seattle Mentors program, which is a program that will invest in the potential of young people in ways that we traditionally have not done. And ultimately, this is gonna look like group mentoring sessions.
PKS Boardroom: This is going to look like one on one mentoring sessions. There are lots of details to work out here. Ultimately, the mayor has said things like, Well, you know, I can get
PKS Boardroom: 100 executives from at T to come meant where I could get 50 executives from Microsoft. So we really wanna position ourselves to take advantage of that. And really, dig into these one on one mentoring relationships with young people and responsible adults. There's some risk management issues here. Because there's
PKS Boardroom: the risk that we got in background checks. And you have to have some organizational platform to be able to launch an effective vendor program. So we're working on that. We think we're gonna do a hard launch of this program
PKS Boardroom: on August 20 sixth, where the mayor will come out and talk to maybe 100 5,200 kids. We'll have some community leaders in the room really talking about the the potential for you
PKS Boardroom: and ultimately where this mentoring program is going, and just as a reminder to hire or mel weather as our mentoring director, and I don't know if he's had an opportunity to come here. Talk to me. But he says the ball of energy.
PKS Boardroom: Guy, who's so passionate about you, one of those people who says things, and I go away. But he he has a good rap for mentoring, and I think we're good hands with our mentoring program
PKS Boardroom: the other big thing that has happened over the course of the summer is Seattle Aquarium. This is a 160 million dollar project
PKS Boardroom: the city contributed 34 million dollars to this project. At the start of the project. The query, the vision.
PKS Boardroom: or an enhanced, expanded aquarium that's been around since 2,004. I think I was sitting right where Phillip is the first time I heard about it.
PKS Boardroom: talk about in this room, and it is great to see kind of the arc of vision, and ideas come full circle over 20 year
PKS Boardroom: period to actually have the ocean pavilion almost complete. They're short about 65 million dollars, and since Northwest bank agreed to loan the aquarium the 65 million dollars. There were lots of details to work out
PKS Boardroom: The city was not willing to collateralize the Aquarium building as part of the loan
PKS Boardroom: so
PKS Boardroom: again, lots of sausage making in the background make the slown actually happen. At the end of the day the city Council actually approved and authorized the
PKS Boardroom: Aquarium. Enter to along with North west Bank for the completion of the aquarium. And
PKS Boardroom: things are really looking good at this, but I don't know if you had an opportunity. Go on to last away to see the improvement to the Overlook block. But the aquarium
PKS Boardroom: expansion is not only integrable, because if those provision to expand the aquarium, the roof of the aquarium will connect the pipe place market to the waterfront, so that areas called the Overlook walk. We're really excited about what this 4 tens for the waterfront, which means that the waterfront project move forward doesn't have to be a pause. And
PKS Boardroom: I think it just speaks to the strength of our partnership with Seattle.
PKS Boardroom: and just a little side note from we transfer the aquarium
PKS Boardroom: back in 2,010. Their budget was roughly 13 million dollars. They have grown exponentially. Their their budget now is about 30 million dollars operating budget. So
PKS Boardroom: they haven't only done well. They've done exceptionally well managing the aquarium and increased visitation revenues, fees, and are relieving
PKS Boardroom: city's budget of 30 million dollars, which would be general fund so kudos to Bob Davidson and the aquarium team.
PKS Boardroom: Alright urban wildlife. It's just a part of the story in a big city, and coyotes are a part of that story at the arboretum. We're cautioning the public to be vigilant and watchful in the arboretum. There is an aggressive coyote
PKS Boardroom: living there, so we are cautioning people to keep dogs leash or leave them at home while visiting their freedom. Coyotes are native to this area, and our Nat and our natural part of our ecosystem and forest of Seattle. And they can also be beneficial to the community. The ecosystem by controlling populations. So we just want people to know that before they go to the park next slide.
PKS Boardroom: Okay. We recently had a Nelson Mandela tree planting day in honor of International Nelson Mandela Day, Svr. Cruise last month install the growth of 5 freeman maple trees at Craft Park. The Department responded to Nelson Mandela Foundation's call of action on the team of climate, food, and solidarity by planning trees reflecting Mandela's legacy.
PKS Boardroom: So that was a great community event. We did another community event with an organization called aspiring youth where Seattle Park crews work with kids of aspiring youth organization and top them little bit about
PKS Boardroom: native plans at trail standards, and they cleaned up 2 trail heads by waiting a mowing brush and
PKS Boardroom: down debris in
PKS Boardroom: in Regener Park.
PKS Boardroom: So always great to be able to interact with young people, to teach them
PKS Boardroom: about the environment in a hands-on way next slide
PKS Boardroom: alright. So we got a piece of equipment called the sports champ. And what this does is, it maintains synthetic term
PKS Boardroom: bill, and it sweeps and back. He was debris
PKS Boardroom: off the synthetic curve fields. And just as a side note from time to time.
PKS Boardroom: The seahawks will call the mayor's office and ask us if they can borrow this type of equipment, because theirs will break down from time to time. And now we have another piece of equipment like this that will probably get loan to the Seahawks one day maintain
PKS Boardroom: same here. So we're really excited about this state of the art. Next slide. Spruce Street, meaning Park riveted heading. So a few weeks ago, on July 20, eighth.
PKS Boardroom: Superintendent Diaz and community members celebrate at the opening
PKS Boardroom: of the newly renovated Spruce Street Mining Park in Seattle Central area. But we've worked with communities since summer of 2020 on the project which included play, area improvements and accessible loop trail. Your drinking power.
PKS Boardroom: community engagement and the planning and design is key to this project success. Previously we partner with the Community
PKS Boardroom: and Sale Office of Arts and Culture to create a neural
PKS Boardroom: at this park. One of the things I'll say about these ribbon cutting says particularly for little part like through street part. You wouldn't imagine so many people in the neighborhood will show up.
PKS Boardroom: or part of that like this. But these parts are near deer
PKS Boardroom: to the community, and no matter how small they are, you know, I think there's a lot of community ownership of their local neighborhood park. So this is one of they piece for scriven cuttings. And we had a really good turnout on a really nice Saturday
PKS Boardroom: morning at that part athletic field replacement projects. We continue to leave the way and develop and installing synthetic state of the arts and
PKS Boardroom: bill systems that are safe, playable, durable
PKS Boardroom: every can heat less in the summer, as part of our
PKS Boardroom: Asset management. Synthetic care plate bills are renovated every 10 to 12 years. For safety reasons. All synthetic turf bills have lighting which allows these fills to be used year round.
PKS Boardroom: Yeah, the following is an update on 5 field projects that are currently underway. Together with our partners that sell prep. We recently completed the project at
PKS Boardroom: this was a donation
PKS Boardroom: of a synthetic perf route from the University of Washington.
PKS Boardroom: Down there the University of Washington replaces their synthetic field more frequently than your local partner Recreation Department. So that road was in really good shape when we got it
PKS Boardroom: high lock the plane bill. This bill renovation begin early. June will be completed, and early September.
PKS Boardroom: The del rich play fill the contractor, begin work on July first, and complete both bill renovation
PKS Boardroom: work in early November. This is the picture there. Delbridge.
PKS Boardroom: the magnificent park, Mickey, Marian Bill, number 5. Instruction will begin in mid August, and will be completed by end of September. So this has been on the books for a long time. We're looking really forward to building out that Mickey Marian Field.
PKS Boardroom: And just as a factoid, Vicky was an employee here who had incredible affinity with the Athletic Bill community, and Mickey was one of those employees who just had a lot of personal
PKS Boardroom: power, who who could talk to mayors and
PKS Boardroom: Ceos of the mariners, and just sort of
PKS Boardroom: capital dollars out of organizations. And he was responsible for this big vision that we have today this legacy of athletic bills at Magnus Heart and the mariners and other organizations really laid down the base funding to make happen. So this bill is in his honor with your friend and several of his family members still work here in the park department, and it's really exciting. Field
PKS Boardroom: I don't think so.
PKS Boardroom: Jefferson Park. Replacement construction began earlier this month will be completed in October. So lots of field
PKS Boardroom: projects underway. Almost done here.
PKS Boardroom: So upcoming events, we've got Shakespeare in the Park since 1989. Our community partner, Green Stage, was brought free. Shakespeare in the park to Seattle area audiences. Our show our shows tour over 20 parts, large and small, all around Seattle. There are no ticket costs or reservations required the final shows, or at Park and Laura Woodland Park. Please visit the greenstage.org website or details.
PKS Boardroom: The big day of play is coming up. This is our marquee event. Where we like to showcase
PKS Boardroom: all of the active play recreational things that
PKS Boardroom: families can do in our part system. It's gonna take place at Rainier. Play fill on August nineteenth and it. Re. This event is really a source of pride for Seattle Park recreation employees. So on August twentieth or August twenty-first.
PKS Boardroom: the planning for the big day of play next year literally start. I mean, it is that intense of an effort. And we have a really good turnout. It's an opportunity for hard work members to actually see the public experiencing the park system not at a park.
PKS Boardroom: So we encourage you to put that on your calendars. There are numerous play area design meetings on our public basic website that we encourage people to go to by visiting
PKS Boardroom: us@www.co.gov slash
PKS Boardroom: and then I'll pause there, and I'd be glad to take any questions
PKS Boardroom: pushing about the Metro program. Okay, why does it sit here?
PKS Boardroom: Is that because of the community centers and the yeah. So so that's a great question. Because there are lots of other city partners like the Department of Education. Early learning can Services department
PKS Boardroom: the mayor said, I want parts to be the lead on this, but I want to involve all these other city departments, and I think because of our close relations. Kind of a captured audience. And in addition to that, we put $800,000 in the partnership budget for
PKS Boardroom: mentoring and
PKS Boardroom: youth team program interventions. So
PKS Boardroom: the early on, when we were talking about this during the partnership project
PKS Boardroom: rather budget development, the mayor do. He wanted to do something, but didn't know what that something was. So we called it. You team intervention funds, which is sort of the mayors part of funding. Do what we're doing. Because
PKS Boardroom: back and March, April May.
PKS Boardroom: He hadn't really landed on. Okay, I wanted this. So now we have resources to do it. And that's why it's here.
PKS Boardroom: Question great to hear about. Everything is going on. One of the public comment letters that we got
PKS Boardroom: this month was about winter web
PKS Boardroom: like city community center, so will fully damage that it's gonna be close to the next center. And they're saying, Well, hey, what about our emergency shelter needs. And let's see.
PKS Boardroom: And our response to that is.
PKS Boardroom: you know. So Parks is a resource organization
PKS Boardroom: where we have. We take direction from the office of emergency management. We take direction from Human Services office
PKS Boardroom: release the coordination of emergency sheltering.
PKS Boardroom: So they basically decide on behalf of city. If there's gonna be emergency sheltering and where those emergency shelters are gonna be located, they also make the decision on
PKS Boardroom: mutual aid agreements with community partner organization. So, for example, in Lake City, there is an adjacent church
PKS Boardroom: that we have previously partner with and have open up their doors. I imagine if we became imminent for sheltering from like city
PKS Boardroom: Human Services Department would execute that mutual data agreement and collaborate with that church so that people wouldn't have to travel to North Gate or Metalbridge, which are.
thank you.
PKS Boardroom: Gosh.
PKS Boardroom: great! Well, I have a few questions. I'm a freaking flyer like Washington Boulevard itself. And I know that the decision to close that was taken lightly, and that was a lot of tragedy. In a very short amount of time you did mention, I'd like to dig into that because I do run paddle hasn't necessarily been experienced.
PKS Boardroom: Anyone else have anything else to move on.
PKS Boardroom: All right. I want to hand it back to you for support to introduce our next topic, which is public restaurant as well. Right? So Christy Darcy is one of our top notch, and she does an excellent job managing the ground statements crew in West Seattle.
PKS Boardroom: her headquarters are at Lincoln Park, and really manages very effectively all the parts was Seattle Christie is also taken on a special assignment of creating a
PKS Boardroom: you know, since that call conversation, the mayor wants us to call these rest room. So.
PKS Boardroom: you know, conversation, piece of history. Here is a legacy from the old error. And speaks to kind of that
PKS Boardroom: Victorian language around public restrooms.
PKS Boardroom: As a result of direction from the mayor we are now calling each restroom. So Chris is gonna talk to us about
PKS Boardroom: our conversation strategy little bit the public base dashboard public restrooms are a priority for the mayor because he's got Grant. Guess what he likes to take them to the Park.
PKS Boardroom: I guess sometimes those bathrooms have been closed, and we need to do a better job having more visibility around when a rest room is closed.
PKS Boardroom: Why, it's closed. When will it be open? Then? Where's the most close? It's nearby restrooms. So Christy has done a great job of creating transparency visibility around open and close restrooms. And it's gonna talk you through
PKS Boardroom: what we're sharing with that
PKS Boardroom: you got it, Christy?
Kristy Darcy: Alright! Can you hear me? Good? Yay, alright!
Kristy Darcy: so as Christopher said, my name is Christy Darcy, and I am the crew chief of the Southwest district. I'm actually currently in and out of class
Kristy Darcy: strategic advisor role. And prior to this I was in and out of class
Kristy Darcy: an administrative staff analyst role. And that's actually the role in which I
Kristy Darcy: birth to the dashboard. So can you? Can you go to the next slide.
Kristy Darcy: What's funny? When I was making the slide was, I have been. I was in the role of analyst starting in January of this year.
Kristy Darcy: and for me it felt like today. It has felt like this. Dashboard has been in existence this whole time, cause it's been such a big
Kristy Darcy: help for a lot of things. As far as processes on
Kristy Darcy: data analysis, and also just keeping this fresh on our minds and helping keep
Kristy Darcy: or get our restrooms open faster. So when I put this timeline together, I was actually quite surprised to recall that
Kristy Darcy: I actually only started this in April.
Kristy Darcy: So this timeline is basically the top is the rollout of various versions of the dashboard. There's basically been 3,
Kristy Darcy: and the bottom is kind of some
Kristy Darcy: sort of highlights when, like in early May, when I got to present to the executive team that was very fun for me to get to meet everyone kind of showcase
Kristy Darcy: sort of what I'm proud of is what we do in parks and And then I love to tell the story of what we do so. That was really fun for me. and then
Kristy Darcy: You'll see the acronym ammo, and I will use the acronym ammo a lot. But that's the asset management work, order system. It's our time sheet or our time entry, but it's also our
Kristy Darcy: system to
Kristy Darcy: track management of our assets, and it's tied to the find it, fix it so when you put in, find it, fix it requests they go into work orders that go to the crews.
Kristy Darcy: So next slide
Kristy Darcy: alright. So in April, early April I got that the tas I was tasked with
Kristy Darcy: putting together or keeping the data of
Kristy Darcy: restroom. Sorry I'm a
Kristy Darcy: try not to say comfort stations I was tasked with
Kristy Darcy: managing and upkeeping the data of that as far as the status. What was open what was closed. And so I inherited this
Kristy Darcy: spreadsheet. That was from the previous data managers, and the very first thing I did was I went through, and I just confirmed all of the information on it and verified, and then also started gathering more information. And in that
Kristy Darcy: time I actually connected with not only the ground crews, the crew chief
Kristy Darcy: but I also connected with facilities and planning and development. and while doing that it kind of dawned on me that
Kristy Darcy: that was the key to keeping this information alive. And
Kristy Darcy: be because I'll go back, because historically.
Kristy Darcy: every time when I have my crew chief hat on.
Kristy Darcy: Someone had a question about a restroom. They would call the the district, and while as a crew chief, I know so much about what's going on in my district. I don't know everything, and
Kristy Darcy: especially with restrooms. I don't. Necessarily. We didn't necessarily have the power to
Kristy Darcy: open a restroom that was need in need of a repair. That was something that facilities would have to do, or I wouldn't know the status of a project necessarily as well as a project manager in planning and development.
Kristy Darcy: And so with that sort of idea, I thought, I need to come up with a way to
Kristy Darcy: make sure that we have this in
Kristy Darcy: accessible location for all of us, and in a visual way and easy, user, friendly way. And so I had seen Power Bi's. And I thought
Kristy Darcy: I'll give it a go. I'd never done one before, and I made this dashboard
Kristy Darcy: And what was really great about it is we actually use this dashboard every week in our facilities and maintenance managers.
Kristy Darcy: Meeting.
Kristy Darcy: and it's a check in, and we look at it and see what's what it says is pose and what it says is open. And we look at what our, you know repairs ongoing or projects, and we update every week
Kristy Darcy: and the goal is eventually to have it updated more frequently than that, actually.
Kristy Darcy: But right now we're, you know, working on ensuring that we're able to keep it up to date.
Kristy Darcy: And so
Kristy Darcy: well, it's really been great about that is, we've actually reduced our turnaround time on repairs. So because it's so fresh on in our minds, and because we do visit it every week, this dashboard we're able to continually keep in at the front of our sort of list of things
Kristy Darcy: restroom repair needs, but also another really great side benefit to this was that it brought to the forefront some restrooms that
Kristy Darcy: had been closed for a long time, and we just kind of they kind of fell off the radar a little bit. University playground was one where we had
Kristy Darcy: major vandalism, and
Kristy Darcy: it actually big, and it had to do with an encampment that was near there that has since been removed and hasn't come back
Kristy Darcy: at the doors were actually welded shut.
Kristy Darcy: But because we have this dashboard and we're constantly seeing it on there. we thought, why don't we
Kristy Darcy: see if we can open that again, and finding out the information about why it was shut in the first place and welded, yet we were able to get it open, and I actually opened again for the first time in, I think, 3 years
Kristy Darcy: last week. So
Kristy Darcy: it's been really great having this. You can go to the next slide if you'd like.
Kristy Darcy: So this is actually the new version of the internal dashboard. That previous version was fed through a data set made of a spreadsheet that we just kept up. We would update the cells for the
Kristy Darcy: status, this one actually, that is fed from data, from ammo. and it's actually tied to the assets within ammo. So now it's actually a better
Kristy Darcy: the updating is having a bigger effect. It's actually updating with an ammo.
Kristy Darcy: And another great thing about it is we're gonna be able to keep track of the data on how many times we like. Every time a status is changed. We're able to log that.
Kristy Darcy: Whereas before, when you're just changing a cell in a spreadsheet, it wasn't logging that. So now we're gonna be able to see how many times is this restaurant been closed? Why was it for this reason or that reason, and how long between being closed to open? So it's really, actually gonna be very useful for us. And the other really great element about our new dashboard internally
Kristy Darcy: is that we added the layer of the equity
Kristy Darcy: map, which may be hard to see on here. It's underneath all the dots, because that's all of the restrooms
Kristy Darcy: and the equity map. What's great about it is
Kristy Darcy: on this dashboard. When you filter down to just showing restrooms that are closed for repair, you're able to see
Kristy Darcy: and prioritize your repairs. You can say, Okay, we're gonna start with those that are in the areas of most need
Kristy Darcy: and then work our way the other way. So it's helping inform our decisions on that as well. So next slide.
Kristy Darcy: And then, because the internal dashboard was so informative, and we were able to actually keep it up pretty well. We ended up starting. We started with this
Kristy Darcy: creating this public dashboard, which we rolled out in July.
Kristy Darcy: And, you'll notice a couple of differences. This dashboard is a little simpler. It doesn't have the notes, or because on the internal one we use the notes to communicate between various units that are involved in it or keeping it up.
Kristy Darcy: And then the other thing is that it's showing the council districts instead of the maintenance districts, because the maintenance districts are important for the internal one.
Kristy Darcy: because once a rest room repair is done or a project is completed, it takes the district going out there, cleaning it and reopening it
Kristy Darcy: for it to then get into the open status, and so that dashboard needs to include maintenance districts in it, whereas this one
Kristy Darcy: council districts is gonna be a better
Kristy Darcy: division of of them for the public. And
Kristy Darcy: wh? What's great about these power Bi's is you can click on
Kristy Darcy: different things so like if you clicked on the plight on that pie chart. If you clicked on one of those
Kristy Darcy: pieces of the pie, what'll happen is, the table down below will actually re filter down to that. and the map will show you just that one council district.
Kristy Darcy: The restrooms by current status will show you how many within that council district are open, close, or have limited use.
Kristy Darcy: and so on, and so forth. So and if this
Kristy Darcy: Powerpoint gets shared that lower on the lower left, the click here is actually the link to the live
Kristy Darcy: public dashboard on our website. But if you also wanted to get to it. It's on the parks website. on the bottom, on the on the right.
Kristy Darcy: It just says, Find a park, a public restroom in a park, so
Kristy Darcy: next slide
Kristy Darcy: alright, I have talked. I showed you the dashboards and talked about closed open and different, and things like that, and so I wanted to kind of go over just reasons for closures.
Kristy Darcy: We have kind of 4 reasons.
Kristy Darcy: and they're just right there. I'll just sort of expand on what this says. Couple of projects
Kristy Darcy: are gonna kind of be longer closures. Obviously, projects are longer. Repairs can be really short or really long. Sometimes it depends on the degree of damage, and I would say the most common repair repairs are because of vandalism.
Kristy Darcy: But we do sometimes get some. Recently, we have one where the a plumbing underneath of the building actually first and
Kristy Darcy: had and was basically leaking everywhere. And
Kristy Darcy: the plumbing didn't work. So they had to repair that which is a really big job. and then coming up in the winter, we'll have a winterization for the season.
Kristy Darcy: 60 are currently closed like currently do not have freeze or thought protection.
Kristy Darcy: That's gonna reduce over the years, we're definitely working really hard to well, facilities are working really hard to make sure to
Kristy Darcy: get more and more retrofitted for that, so that they can survive are now colder winters that we're sometimes having.
Kristy Darcy: and also longer in in some ways.
Kristy Darcy: and then aquatics those ones. That has to do with the fact that they have showers and locker rooms, and really for them to be open. You need kind of constant
Kristy Darcy: sort of you need someone there to monitor in a way. So that's why we would only have them open when Lifeguards are there
Kristy Darcy: and the other goes for other is either it's not public. So metro bus drivers there's one at Volunteer Park, for instance, for Metro, bus drivers only.
Kristy Darcy: or Marinas Volunteer Park also has one. That's for events only. So it's only open when that when it's scheduled for an event.
Kristy Darcy: and then decommissioned is, we just have some
Kristy Darcy: like vandalism that just made it to where
Kristy Darcy: they were unrepairable, or for instance, another one is discovery part the number bluff the
Kristy Darcy: I think it was a landslide. So there's the access and also no sewage line anymore. So that's decommissioned right now.
Kristy Darcy: Next slide.
Kristy Darcy: And
Kristy Darcy: I just wanted to share this information cause. It's just something that we get a lot of questions about. And
Kristy Darcy: I feel like
Kristy Darcy: we. We collect a lot of data through ammo, but it's people entering their time in on their time sheet
Kristy Darcy: and
Kristy Darcy: there's
Kristy Darcy: human error, I guess, in that.
Kristy Darcy: And we're really working hard on getting our staff to do a better job of entering their time. But
Kristy Darcy: the the story isn't being told. It's not being told through the data as well as it could be.
Kristy Darcy: And so I wanted to put this out on the table, because this is the true story of how frequently
Kristy Darcy: and what types of cleanings
Kristy Darcy: restrooms get. And so in the upper left, you can see the types of cleanings. There are 3 different kinds.
Kristy Darcy: and the main difference between the 3 is, that
Kristy Darcy: is, whether they get
Kristy Darcy: hose down, or what like wedded for the whole surface inside, and which way? So
Kristy Darcy: the middle one will wet clean. You can see it, says Hose down all surfaces always, and pressure wash sometimes. And that's just because
Kristy Darcy: sometimes you don't need to use a pressure washer if you're on top of your cleanings, and you're doing the deep clean regularly enough as well like. I'll get to the frequency in a minute. Then a nice hose down is great.
Kristy Darcy: Sometimes you get there and encounter something like that photo in the bottom, and maybe it's not as a day where you were. Gonna do a deep clean. But now you are going to, because well, that
Kristy Darcy: and then the frequency is pretty simple. Every day they get a dry clean in the evening or in the morning and evening.
Kristy Darcy: and you might ask why? They get a dry clean in the morning if they got one in the evening, and that has to do with the fact that
Kristy Darcy: they are not. Not. All of our restrooms are locked.
Kristy Darcy: every night. They're not locked. Some stay open 24 h. I'm sorry during park hours. And some of them don't have solid doors, so lots of debris comes in.
Kristy Darcy: and so they have to get cleaned, and there's never such thing as too much sanitizing. I would say. the wet clean happens once a day during non peak season.
Kristy Darcy: and there are some parks where it will still happen twice a day, because they're just really really busy parks
Kristy Darcy: during peak season, they're gonna happen 2 or 3 times a day. And so those ones that get probably 2 in the in the non peak are, gonna get 3 in the peak season, and then the deep, clean is something
Kristy Darcy: that's the pressure. Wash every surface situation. And that's gonna happen
Kristy Darcy: one or 3 times a week depending on the location. And then, of course, like again, I'll refer to that picture there on demand when you encounter something like that.
Kristy Darcy: and hopefully the result of all cleanings, especially when you're using water, is going to be that lower left picture at Donner need. So
Kristy Darcy: all right. Next
Kristy Darcy: oh, it went backwards
Kristy Darcy: alright. And you can't talk about restaurants without talking about Seneca. So
Kristy Darcy: basically.
Kristy Darcy: Seneca's are there for a reason. We either have
Kristy Darcy: no infrastructure somewhere, like Nico books Park, for instance.
Kristy Darcy: and we need to have something there, or we have events, and they're there temporarily for that
Kristy Darcy: obviously for projects and repairs. We're gonna put them when they're especially longer. and then
Kristy Darcy: seasonal as well for locations that are.
Kristy Darcy: you know. just not.
Kristy Darcy: They don't have enough infrastructure to support the use. What's really great about standard cans. especially if we can start to sort of track. The usage of them is gonna be that we're gonna be able to
Kristy Darcy: hopefully inform ourselves on possible future infrastructure additions where we could add
Kristy Darcy: where the need is for
Kristy Darcy: new restrooms. I feel like that. Just happened not too long ago at quota gardens. They historically had Santa cans
Kristy Darcy: within it, and then they got a new restroom installed in or built inside of it, with the help of the Kobota foundation. But
Kristy Darcy: yeah. alright. Next and last side.
Kristy Darcy: So basically, where do we go from here? We can do a lot
Kristy Darcy: in ammo. Now that the status update? Well, now, we update a status within ammo. We can actually tie that to work order. So when
Kristy Darcy: person goes out and makes a repair like a facility staff member, it goes out, makes a repair. They're able to then go on and
Kristy Darcy: update the status of the rest room right within putting their time in so they can do it there which is really great
Kristy Darcy: when we
Kristy Darcy: we're working on various ammogis integrations. For different reasons. But one of the benefits of this is going to be that
Kristy Darcy: Ammo and Gis will be able to speak back and forth to each other. So yeah, once we get it
Kristy Darcy: integrated more, we're gonna be able to in the field actually be able to update the status of a rest room through Gis on your phone, or something which will be great.
Kristy Darcy: And then we're working on dashboards for similar assets, drinking fountains, irrigation systems. things that people really wanna, know. When's it on? Why is, if it's not on, why is it not on
Kristy Darcy: and Then I already mentioned this one using status updates to track average closure times is gonna be really useful for us.
Kristy Darcy: And they and we're gonna start adding labor data into our internal dashboard, which is gonna help inform us of kind of how we're doing on that. And for me. I feel like that's gonna mostly, and help us
Kristy Darcy: better our time entry cause we do.
Kristy Darcy: I know being in the field or haven't been in the field that what we're doing is what I said in that previous slide.
Kristy Darcy: But the data again, it's not reflecting that right now, and I want it to reflect it, because I wanted to tell the story of the amazing work that we're doing.
Kristy Darcy: And then
Kristy Darcy: Seneca's. I just put that on there. We had thought about putting Santa Cans on the restroom dashboard.
Kristy Darcy: The issue with that is that so many of them are just there for a few days, like for an event or short repair.
Kristy Darcy: that if you waited, if we were with our every week kind of updating. we're not able to keep it as live of information as it should as it would need to be, I guess, in this case. So as we get better at
Kristy Darcy: having
Kristy Darcy: the status updates become more frequent through training and use, and
Kristy Darcy: of this of the system, then eventually, I think, Santa Cans could be added so
Kristy Darcy: alright. That was a lot. I don't know how much time it took. And I wanna know if you have questions.
PKS Boardroom: Wonderful. Thank you so much. Yeah. I was said. This was
PKS Boardroom: a fantastic presentation restrooms. Chrissy. This was like fantastic a lot of notes. I mean, I think
PKS Boardroom: it's a really incredible technology that's being developed. That's really sort of forward thinking. And you know, II there's a lot of ways you could imagine
PKS Boardroom: playing this out through different sort of applications and and departments, right? How that might start to inform
PKS Boardroom: capital to capital decisions becomes really, really important, really goal and it. But at the same time, I think there's a
PKS Boardroom: I don't know if you said it was
PKS Boardroom: roll out to the public, yeah or not. But there starts to become a way in which it addresses equity issues and and things like that. And to have this be
PKS Boardroom: easily accessible. This, a lot of people have access to a phone this day.
PKS Boardroom: right? And so making sure this is something that's easily findable and sort of very intuitive is really important. I think you're doing a it's fantastic work. Thank you.
Kristy Darcy: Thank you. Yeah. It is. It actually is available to the public, the external one, the public facing one.
Kristy Darcy: And one thing I know we're gonna be doing is we're going to be installing. I think it's coming soon on the restrooms. We'll have signage
Kristy Darcy: related to when they're close, that, you know. Typically, we put a piece of like a, you know, a duct tape piece of paper laminated, one that says pose for repair.
Kristy Darcy: We're gonna kind of
Kristy Darcy: standardize how that looks and actually make it to where the it looks a little more professional, and that there's a QR. Code that would be a link to this would go right to that dashboard to show you. Okay, this one's close. But where's the one that's gonna be open? That's near me. So that's gonna be part of that.
PKS Boardroom: Christine, not only a great presentation, but also amazing mind reading. I just wanted to ask if if the public is going to be redirected when they see so I guess. Ju, just just a quick comment. This is really incredible. II remember that that we heard about the internal dashboard at the last at the last meeting. So it's really exciting that this is
PKS Boardroom: available available to the public. And it looks like some pretty amazing work getting everything from a centralized data set to
PKS Boardroom: I guess. So. Once follow on on to. That is what are some. So you know the public can search for. They can find it on the website. Are there any other steps being taken? And so that folks proactively, proactively use this, maybe to to locate bathrooms to start with restrooms. Sorry?
Kristy Darcy: Yeah. I mean, all of them are listed regardless. So if it's open, it's listed. If it's closest listed. So I think
Kristy Darcy: you could look at it. Oh. yeah, if you know where it is, I guess. Maybe we could
Kristy Darcy: think about
Kristy Darcy: posting it in community centers or something
Kristy Darcy: where or I'm not sure. Actually, it's a really great question.
Kristy Darcy: Paula, yeah, definitely, social media. I know we have like, when it got rolled out initially, there was a social media blast about it.
Kristy Darcy: And so just like keeping it live in people's minds. That's the challenge, I guess, in that right like.
Kristy Darcy: how frequently would we need to do it? And yeah.
PKS Boardroom: yeah, I wonder even if there might be a way to in it? I don't know how flexible find it fix. It is put a way to integrate a link to this in effect. So somebody's
PKS Boardroom: going on there to complain that the that they would get a link to be able to get more information about where the
PKS Boardroom: what's going on with that bathroom, or where there's one available.
Kristy Darcy: Yeah, that'd be actually a great idea, just even
Kristy Darcy: for people that once they notice that it's there, too, they would maybe start to use, find it, fix it to even
PKS Boardroom: find it. It's the find it. Find it. Fix it, Chrissy. Did you say that there are 24 h apples open?
Kristy Darcy: Right? So it's just there are ones that don't get locked.
PKS Boardroom: so do we do. Do we track? If we have a surprise at 6 Am. When we get ready to clean the bathroom that someone's there.
Kristy Darcy: I mean. Well, if it's if it's open to be to use, then we just
PKS Boardroom: I mean, if we see a down comfy. Hello, you know.
Kristy Darcy: Yeah. So the districts do definitely keep track of issues when we do have ones that are open. That are, you know, technically, they're only open during park hours. So if they're there outside of park hours, that's an issue.
Kristy Darcy: But if we're not lucky, and then, you know, we just need to track it. We definitely, I'll say, as a crew chief, I definitely kept track of mine that we're open 24 h, and if we had ongoing issues, then we would start to think of stuff. Some, I think some restrooms. Actually.
Kristy Darcy: I can. I can actually name one that I know of that. Historically, we did not lock that now we do lock because of
Kristy Darcy: tracking activity. And that's actually what Huntley play field. We used to.
Kristy Darcy: That used to be open for park hours
Kristy Darcy: and after in enough
Kristy Darcy: activity happening in them and the neighbors
Kristy Darcy: noticed it in the night, and then we noticed remnants of it. In the morning we actually started locking those. So
Kristy Darcy: it does happen.
PKS Boardroom: Thank you. Thanks, Chrissy. You have done such a great job. II was
PKS Boardroom: and myself another staff member
PKS Boardroom: every single week we would have to meet, and we call it potty talk, and we would have to go through all the spreadsheets of all the parts of what was open and what was closed and verified, and it took
PKS Boardroom: forever. So you you've got a great system going here, really quite difficult to keep track of the conversations. We literally have. Reporters come in.
PKS Boardroom: say, well, you gave us a list of everything that was supposed to be open, everything that was supposed to be closed and wrote about it. And it's really hard. So, Christy, we appreciate you. Given this group of masters class
PKS Boardroom: so much, you know, Christy? Yeah, thank you. Again, I know this isn't everyone's favorite topic. But a lot of people say they can go to person, either bathroom. And this is incredible work again, to make this all this
Kristy Darcy: well, I'm excited to be able to present it for you.
Kristy Darcy: I love what we do. I love what like the amazing work that we do in parks. And I think that the more we can tell our story the more we can be clear about it.
Kristy Darcy: The better things will be for all of us, because.
Kristy Darcy: you know, I think sometimes
Kristy Darcy: the amazing work that we do can get lost in
Kristy Darcy: like our our own inability to kind of tell the story in a way that
Kristy Darcy: shows that. And I'm I'm speaking, from like ground crew level, like our own staff telling our story. I think we get a lot. We just kind of get into the monotony of the work we're doing. And we were just kind of don't really realize how special it is.
Kristy Darcy: And
Kristy Darcy: that's what II think it's very special. So
Kristy Darcy: and I don't mind talking about restrooms, cause. Yeah, they're restrooms, but they're very important.
PKS Boardroom: And, Christy, thank you for everything else. You do share the appreciation of the folks out in the field. I mean, they're the ones who make the magic happen.
Kristy Darcy: Yeah, thank you. Thank you.
PKS Boardroom: Alright. I'm gonna I'm gonna throw it to Chris now to introduce the next topic
serving on a subcommittee. So just wanted to walk through that a little bit with you and just let you know sort of what to expect.
PKS Boardroom: So
PKS Boardroom: first slide. So this is where we are in our subcommittees. You can see your names are assigned accordingly. And you also have a part staff contact there. So in the next few weeks that staff contact will be in touch with you and let you know.
PKS Boardroom: you know, introduce themselves and talk about the meeting schedule, answering any questions you might have about the commitment and work that will be happening in that committee. So expect expect a contact in the next few weeks. And again, thank you so much for doing this, we're gonna try and make it number one, a good use of your time and number 2. Not too much.
PKS Boardroom: Thanks. That last subcommittee.
PKS Boardroom: Yes.
PKS Boardroom: and, by the way, the numbers are the way they are, because we can't have a quorum. So they have to be that certain level next slide
PKS Boardroom: so participate subcommittee. This gives you an idea of the kinds of things. That will be happening with that group. Nothing should be surprising to any of you except for Josh.
PKS Boardroom: Not around the last part district, are you around? No, no, Marcela. So you guys haven't been through a park district cycle. But
PKS Boardroom: yeah, oh, that's right. She's not on my
PKS Boardroom: anyway. So you will hear from from the staff member. And you know, some
PKS Boardroom: Parks community fund
PKS Boardroom: and
PKS Boardroom: recommending the list of projects that will be funded in the end. So that one should be exciting, and they're really excited to start that work, both so appreciate that and the last one is the Park naming committee. We have our work cut out for us as well. We are just there's some revisions coming to to the Park naming committee. Will be obviously reviewing, proposing for Seattle Park.
PKS Boardroom: and working with that criteria to make sure that it was
PKS Boardroom: how we do that. And then making plan recommendations to the superintendent. So that's some some fun work to do with that.
PKS Boardroom: No, just so. So do you know, that don't know much about perfect process, we go out to the public, basically. So we get feedback from anyone and everyone that wants to get them.
PKS Boardroom: And that's something that will. We haven't allowed that in the past. We're looking at that in the oh, yeah, yeah.
PKS Boardroom: yeah. It's second.
PKS Boardroom: let me know
PKS Boardroom: to focus and get the work done. That was the task specifically assigned to the part District Oversight Committee. When that was the original oversight of the park district.
PKS Boardroom: Kind of vision, right? For how to get those
PKS Boardroom: specific
PKS Boardroom: thanks covered so, and as our annual call retreat, we may talk about if there's other stuff.
PKS Boardroom: am I going? Do you have any ideas that we had to follow?
PKS Boardroom: So Jessica Marlon are retiring? But don't they have that? Don't. Didn't put that policy in the Covid year where they got stage one more year.
PKS Boardroom: okay.
PKS Boardroom: so I guess
PKS Boardroom: reminder to like the next part just a second, we really want to.
PKS Boardroom: Yeah, full compilation of board members. So I'm going to be sending you guys an email. But you know, we're we're trying to take a look at some gaps that we have. And if you guys kind of think to identify that want to be really purposeful about, you know
PKS Boardroom: what missing on the board, and how we can make it as representative. So
PKS Boardroom: that's great.
PKS Boardroom: Oh, so yeah, and send me any anything to ever any thoughts you have, because we are just trying to gear up fashion
PKS Boardroom: with that. Any questions for Paula.
PKS Boardroom: That brings us to all the new business. Anyone have they? Wanna talk about?
PKS Boardroom: We just want to get out of there and some use cases.
PKS Boardroom: Thanks everyone for being here. Manager.