WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.060 --> 00:00:01.930 PKS Boardroom: N 2 00:00:04.230 --> 00:00:31.939 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 3 00:00:31.940 --> 00:00:44.570 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. 4 00:00:44.810 --> 00:00:46.989 PKS Boardroom: Philip man, get engaged. Commissioner 5 00:00:47.300 --> 00:00:49.900 PKS Boardroom: Christopher Williams, our Chief staff 6 00:00:50.150 --> 00:00:52.549 PKS Boardroom: Marlborough co-chair of the Board. 7 00:00:52.760 --> 00:01:02.619 PKS Boardroom: Jessica, farmer at large. District 6. Recreation 8 00:01:03.530 --> 00:01:04.230 PKS Boardroom: next. 9 00:01:05.290 --> 00:01:17.060 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 10 00:01:17.320 --> 00:01:21.489 PKS Boardroom: second. It's been motion seconded all those in favor. 11 00:01:21.810 --> 00:01:24.019 PKS Boardroom: any of those. 12 00:01:24.240 --> 00:01:25.740 PKS Boardroom: and the motion passes 13 00:01:25.840 --> 00:01:41.939 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 14 00:01:42.430 --> 00:02:02.549 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. 15 00:02:02.550 --> 00:02:19.819 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 16 00:02:20.450 --> 00:02:31.540 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. 17 00:02:31.710 --> 00:02:33.280 It's made out of all the pits 18 00:02:33.450 --> 00:02:56.000 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. 19 00:02:56.560 --> 00:03:13.339 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 20 00:03:13.340 --> 00:03:30.000 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 21 00:03:30.290 --> 00:03:32.989 PKS Boardroom: completely natural moths, not noth house 22 00:03:34.530 --> 00:03:35.600 PKS Boardroom: cleats. 23 00:03:35.800 --> 00:03:40.609 PKS Boardroom: How about, please? How about level cleats? Baseball, please? 24 00:03:40.990 --> 00:03:56.229 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. 25 00:03:56.560 --> 00:04:09.629 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. 26 00:04:09.700 --> 00:04:17.969 PKS Boardroom: That's and for the deal you're doing right now. That's the city standard. And you can see 27 00:04:18.350 --> 00:04:19.279 PKS Boardroom: just 28 00:04:21.290 --> 00:04:26.450 PKS Boardroom: it. Just it's like, it's it was good looking out 10 years ago. But now there's a better organic. 29 00:04:30.350 --> 00:04:34.270 PKS Boardroom: Thank you. Thank you. 30 00:04:34.330 --> 00:04:37.870 PKS Boardroom: Yeah. 31 00:04:39.050 --> 00:04:49.219 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 32 00:04:49.270 --> 00:04:54.710 PKS Boardroom: public testimony. And that's something. We'll probably go back and look into 33 00:04:54.980 --> 00:04:56.170 PKS Boardroom: rich dealings. 34 00:04:56.360 --> 00:05:19.580 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. 35 00:05:19.850 --> 00:05:46.630 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. 36 00:05:46.650 --> 00:06:08.100 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 37 00:06:08.130 --> 00:06:10.370 PKS Boardroom: through Monday, Friday. 38 00:06:10.500 --> 00:06:31.869 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 39 00:06:31.970 --> 00:06:45.569 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 40 00:06:45.630 --> 00:06:56.290 PKS Boardroom: to for use violence, and to channel youth and to productive recreational activities in our community centers. 41 00:06:56.440 --> 00:07:15.160 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 42 00:07:16.220 --> 00:07:38.990 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 43 00:07:39.120 --> 00:07:54.400 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. 44 00:07:54.710 --> 00:07:56.870 PKS Boardroom: Our waiting pools 45 00:07:57.230 --> 00:08:07.770 PKS Boardroom: are open most of August with 3 Green Lake, Lincoln Park down a cell and Volunteer Park being open through Labor Day 46 00:08:08.280 --> 00:08:12.049 PKS Boardroom: our spray parts are open through September fourth. 47 00:08:12.510 --> 00:08:24.470 PKS Boardroom: so that's sort of the snapshot of just sort of drop in recreational activities that families kids can take advantage of. 48 00:08:24.610 --> 00:08:36.339 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 49 00:08:36.429 --> 00:08:39.230 PKS Boardroom: Seattle to consider 50 00:08:39.289 --> 00:08:43.550 PKS Boardroom: closing the Atlantic Street boat ramp at Beershiva Park 51 00:08:43.580 --> 00:08:51.930 PKS Boardroom: early. That Bill Grant is typically open 24 h there were 2 shootings 52 00:08:52.110 --> 00:08:57.450 PKS Boardroom: there in the space of 28 days the week before we 53 00:08:57.550 --> 00:09:11.650 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 54 00:09:12.170 --> 00:09:22.470 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. 55 00:09:22.480 --> 00:09:27.409 PKS Boardroom: Meanwhile, a few miles away, a few miles north at stands. Here's 56 00:09:27.800 --> 00:09:34.149 PKS Boardroom: Oh, launch the community around that park is requesting the same kind of response. 57 00:09:34.380 --> 00:09:38.240 PKS Boardroom: And we are very mindful of 58 00:09:38.250 --> 00:09:42.829 PKS Boardroom: treating Parks and Southeast Seattle differently than we. 59 00:09:43.250 --> 00:09:46.349 PKS Boardroom: or treating parts other places. We don't want to 60 00:09:46.380 --> 00:10:00.699 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. 61 00:10:00.700 --> 00:10:19.879 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 62 00:10:20.570 --> 00:10:23.819 PKS Boardroom: the boat ramp had 63 00:10:24.000 --> 00:10:33.230 PKS Boardroom: Atlant Street. Andrews Bay has been the source of lots of I've 64 00:10:33.350 --> 00:10:54.590 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 65 00:10:54.710 --> 00:10:57.679 PKS Boardroom: strategy that involves 66 00:10:57.810 --> 00:11:13.370 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 67 00:11:13.430 --> 00:11:27.930 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 68 00:11:28.010 --> 00:11:40.729 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 69 00:11:40.830 --> 00:11:47.750 PKS Boardroom: we have some signs on land. So yeah. 70 00:11:47.760 --> 00:11:49.339 PKS Boardroom: next slide. 71 00:11:49.800 --> 00:11:56.900 PKS Boardroom: Okay, so we just have good news coming in space here. So arcism. 72 00:11:57.020 --> 00:11:59.589 PKS Boardroom: a very important part of our 73 00:11:59.750 --> 00:12:10.840 PKS Boardroom: operations. Again, our functions as the agent and the delivery of public recreation programs in our community. And 74 00:12:11.230 --> 00:12:15.400 PKS Boardroom: they struggled like most nonprofits during the pandemic. 75 00:12:15.410 --> 00:12:27.549 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 76 00:12:27.570 --> 00:12:29.070 PKS Boardroom: mitigation 77 00:12:29.170 --> 00:12:38.569 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 78 00:12:38.830 --> 00:12:48.369 PKS Boardroom: of that 2 million dollars. They were recently awarded to be used on priorities that the Department thought would advance public recreation. 79 00:12:48.480 --> 00:12:52.480 PKS Boardroom: So some of the priorities that we're gonna spend money on 80 00:12:52.560 --> 00:13:00.009 PKS Boardroom: based on the spread. it's a play area of renovation project and plans will be so part 81 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:16.629 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 82 00:13:16.680 --> 00:13:26.420 PKS Boardroom: add funding for Pilot Pickleball Court. So we think that this will get us as many as a dozen 83 00:13:26.580 --> 00:13:44.879 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 84 00:13:45.240 --> 00:13:50.539 PKS Boardroom: we're excited about being able to show that we're also gonna make 85 00:13:50.780 --> 00:14:07.639 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. 86 00:14:07.880 --> 00:14:14.489 PKS Boardroom: This also means we will provide additional scholarship dollars for the learners learn to swim program 87 00:14:14.710 --> 00:14:21.890 PKS Boardroom: and then we've set funding aside for the greater, greener closing event or 88 00:14:22.840 --> 00:14:28.959 PKS Boardroom: welcoming ceremony. I think one of the big 89 00:14:29.160 --> 00:14:36.580 PKS Boardroom: ideas for us here in Seattle as a local host city is to want to make a big splash and huge 90 00:14:36.670 --> 00:14:40.960 PKS Boardroom: big impression for the greater dinner conference, and 91 00:14:41.160 --> 00:14:47.130 PKS Boardroom: it takes money to do that. So this is money we're setting sign for that 92 00:14:47.160 --> 00:15:00.250 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 93 00:15:00.410 --> 00:15:08.209 PKS Boardroom: for some recognition and appreciation publicly. We would also like to maybe host a luncheon 94 00:15:08.340 --> 00:15:28.509 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 95 00:15:29.380 --> 00:15:39.320 PKS Boardroom: moving along here. So the mayor has priority. Call Seattle mentors. And this is a program that really 96 00:15:39.430 --> 00:15:52.120 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. 97 00:15:52.160 --> 00:16:17.240 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. 98 00:16:17.240 --> 00:16:27.350 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 99 00:16:27.370 --> 00:16:51.859 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 100 00:16:51.900 --> 00:17:07.579 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 101 00:17:07.750 --> 00:17:21.719 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 102 00:17:21.740 --> 00:17:37.409 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. 103 00:17:38.050 --> 00:17:54.240 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 104 00:17:54.310 --> 00:18:02.859 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 105 00:18:02.940 --> 00:18:10.560 PKS Boardroom: the city contributed 34 million dollars to this project. At the start of the project. The query, the vision. 106 00:18:10.590 --> 00:18:22.639 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. 107 00:18:22.790 --> 00:18:32.550 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 108 00:18:32.650 --> 00:18:53.839 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 109 00:18:54.060 --> 00:18:59.649 PKS Boardroom: The city was not willing to collateralize the Aquarium building as part of the loan 110 00:18:59.670 --> 00:19:01.760 PKS Boardroom: so 111 00:19:01.860 --> 00:19:13.260 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 112 00:19:13.380 --> 00:19:19.939 PKS Boardroom: Aquarium. Enter to along with North west Bank for the completion of the aquarium. And 113 00:19:20.010 --> 00:19:30.789 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 114 00:19:30.970 --> 00:19:55.740 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 115 00:19:55.840 --> 00:20:00.780 PKS Boardroom: I think it just speaks to the strength of our partnership with Seattle. 116 00:20:00.800 --> 00:20:04.309 PKS Boardroom: and just a little side note from we transfer the aquarium 117 00:20:04.630 --> 00:20:17.379 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 118 00:20:17.530 --> 00:20:26.719 PKS Boardroom: they haven't only done well. They've done exceptionally well managing the aquarium and increased visitation revenues, fees, and are relieving 119 00:20:26.850 --> 00:20:35.880 PKS Boardroom: city's budget of 30 million dollars, which would be general fund so kudos to Bob Davidson and the aquarium team. 120 00:20:36.950 --> 00:20:56.370 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 121 00:20:56.460 --> 00:21:26.239 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. 122 00:21:27.380 --> 00:21:53.280 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. 123 00:21:53.380 --> 00:22:08.430 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 124 00:22:08.550 --> 00:22:17.960 PKS Boardroom: native plans at trail standards, and they cleaned up 2 trail heads by waiting a mowing brush and 125 00:22:17.970 --> 00:22:20.730 PKS Boardroom: down debris in 126 00:22:21.580 --> 00:22:23.030 PKS Boardroom: in Regener Park. 127 00:22:23.090 --> 00:22:29.340 PKS Boardroom: So always great to be able to interact with young people, to teach them 128 00:22:29.400 --> 00:22:34.790 PKS Boardroom: about the environment in a hands-on way next slide 129 00:22:36.110 --> 00:22:44.050 PKS Boardroom: alright. So we got a piece of equipment called the sports champ. And what this does is, it maintains synthetic term 130 00:22:44.110 --> 00:22:47.380 PKS Boardroom: bill, and it sweeps and back. He was debris 131 00:22:47.450 --> 00:22:53.970 PKS Boardroom: off the synthetic curve fields. And just as a side note from time to time. 132 00:22:54.190 --> 00:23:15.560 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 133 00:23:16.120 --> 00:23:28.649 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. 134 00:23:28.690 --> 00:23:32.649 PKS Boardroom: Superintendent Diaz and community members celebrate at the opening 135 00:23:32.680 --> 00:23:45.900 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. 136 00:23:45.990 --> 00:23:54.540 PKS Boardroom: community engagement and the planning and design is key to this project success. Previously we partner with the Community 137 00:23:54.590 --> 00:23:57.949 PKS Boardroom: and Sale Office of Arts and Culture to create a neural 138 00:23:57.990 --> 00:24:09.739 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. 139 00:24:09.830 --> 00:24:13.250 PKS Boardroom: or part of that like this. But these parts are near deer 140 00:24:13.350 --> 00:24:29.339 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 141 00:24:29.450 --> 00:24:42.650 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 142 00:24:42.660 --> 00:24:46.390 PKS Boardroom: bill systems that are safe, playable, durable 143 00:24:46.420 --> 00:24:51.329 PKS Boardroom: every can heat less in the summer, as part of our 144 00:24:51.850 --> 00:25:04.509 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. 145 00:25:04.760 --> 00:25:20.040 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 146 00:25:20.240 --> 00:25:22.219 PKS Boardroom: this was a donation 147 00:25:22.280 --> 00:25:27.330 PKS Boardroom: of a synthetic perf route from the University of Washington. 148 00:25:27.550 --> 00:25:40.300 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 149 00:25:40.430 --> 00:25:46.880 PKS Boardroom: high lock the plane bill. This bill renovation begin early. June will be completed, and early September. 150 00:25:47.010 --> 00:25:54.320 PKS Boardroom: The del rich play fill the contractor, begin work on July first, and complete both bill renovation 151 00:25:54.450 --> 00:25:59.180 PKS Boardroom: work in early November. This is the picture there. Delbridge. 152 00:25:59.210 --> 00:26:15.399 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. 153 00:26:15.490 --> 00:26:28.539 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 154 00:26:28.720 --> 00:26:32.050 PKS Boardroom: power, who who could talk to mayors and 155 00:26:32.140 --> 00:26:36.820 PKS Boardroom: Ceos of the mariners, and just sort of 156 00:26:36.920 --> 00:27:06.829 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 157 00:27:07.200 --> 00:27:08.589 PKS Boardroom: I don't think so. 158 00:27:09.640 --> 00:27:20.429 PKS Boardroom: Jefferson Park. Replacement construction began earlier this month will be completed in October. So lots of field 159 00:27:20.960 --> 00:27:25.650 PKS Boardroom: projects underway. Almost done here. 160 00:27:25.830 --> 00:27:54.899 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. 161 00:27:55.120 --> 00:28:01.749 PKS Boardroom: The big day of play is coming up. This is our marquee event. Where we like to showcase 162 00:28:01.760 --> 00:28:08.459 PKS Boardroom: all of the active play recreational things that 163 00:28:08.660 --> 00:28:27.719 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. 164 00:28:27.760 --> 00:28:49.980 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. 165 00:28:50.170 --> 00:29:02.990 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 166 00:29:03.240 --> 00:29:08.110 PKS Boardroom: us@www.co.gov slash 167 00:29:08.270 --> 00:29:14.389 PKS Boardroom: and then I'll pause there, and I'd be glad to take any questions 168 00:29:16.110 --> 00:29:23.870 PKS Boardroom: pushing about the Metro program. Okay, why does it sit here? 169 00:29:23.970 --> 00:29:41.540 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 170 00:29:41.580 --> 00:30:01.919 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 171 00:30:01.950 --> 00:30:04.559 PKS Boardroom: mentoring and 172 00:30:04.570 --> 00:30:09.830 PKS Boardroom: youth team program interventions. So 173 00:30:10.200 --> 00:30:15.679 PKS Boardroom: the early on, when we were talking about this during the partnership project 174 00:30:15.760 --> 00:30:30.739 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 175 00:30:30.940 --> 00:30:34.510 PKS Boardroom: back and March, April May. 176 00:30:34.520 --> 00:30:43.100 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. 177 00:30:44.290 --> 00:30:52.169 PKS Boardroom: Question great to hear about. Everything is going on. One of the public comment letters that we got 178 00:30:52.170 --> 00:31:17.269 PKS Boardroom: this month was about winter web 179 00:31:18.060 --> 00:31:30.930 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. 180 00:31:31.050 --> 00:31:34.449 PKS Boardroom: And our response to that is. 181 00:31:34.550 --> 00:31:38.199 PKS Boardroom: you know. So Parks is a resource organization 182 00:31:38.370 --> 00:31:50.540 PKS Boardroom: where we have. We take direction from the office of emergency management. We take direction from Human Services office 183 00:31:50.660 --> 00:31:54.680 PKS Boardroom: release the coordination of emergency sheltering. 184 00:31:54.790 --> 00:32:07.999 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 185 00:32:08.060 --> 00:32:15.889 PKS Boardroom: mutual aid agreements with community partner organization. So, for example, in Lake City, there is an adjacent church 186 00:32:15.920 --> 00:32:25.469 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 187 00:32:25.510 --> 00:32:40.010 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. 188 00:32:41.300 --> 00:32:42.030 thank you. 189 00:32:43.810 --> 00:32:44.660 PKS Boardroom: Gosh. 190 00:32:45.590 --> 00:33:12.629 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. 191 00:33:40.290 --> 00:34:09.400 PKS Boardroom: Anyone else have anything else to move on. 192 00:34:10.850 --> 00:34:29.230 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. 193 00:34:29.250 --> 00:34:42.320 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 194 00:34:42.480 --> 00:34:49.480 PKS Boardroom: you know, since that call conversation, the mayor wants us to call these rest room. So. 195 00:34:49.670 --> 00:34:58.489 PKS Boardroom: you know, conversation, piece of history. Here is a legacy from the old error. And speaks to kind of that 196 00:34:58.580 --> 00:35:02.920 PKS Boardroom: Victorian language around public restrooms. 197 00:35:03.050 --> 00:35:11.420 PKS Boardroom: As a result of direction from the mayor we are now calling each restroom. So Chris is gonna talk to us about 198 00:35:11.670 --> 00:35:25.979 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. 199 00:35:26.260 --> 00:35:38.330 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. 200 00:35:38.370 --> 00:35:54.509 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 201 00:35:54.520 --> 00:35:56.869 PKS Boardroom: what we're sharing with that 202 00:35:58.240 --> 00:35:59.670 PKS Boardroom: you got it, Christy? 203 00:36:03.040 --> 00:36:07.230 Kristy Darcy: Alright! Can you hear me? Good? Yay, alright! 204 00:36:07.250 --> 00:36:18.409 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 205 00:36:18.460 --> 00:36:24.460 Kristy Darcy: strategic advisor role. And prior to this I was in and out of class 206 00:36:24.740 --> 00:36:30.029 Kristy Darcy: an administrative staff analyst role. And that's actually the role in which I 207 00:36:30.120 --> 00:36:36.340 Kristy Darcy: birth to the dashboard. So can you? Can you go to the next slide. 208 00:36:39.630 --> 00:36:49.589 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. 209 00:36:49.630 --> 00:36:59.550 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 210 00:36:59.720 --> 00:37:04.930 Kristy Darcy: help for a lot of things. As far as processes on 211 00:37:05.260 --> 00:37:14.170 Kristy Darcy: data analysis, and also just keeping this fresh on our minds and helping keep 212 00:37:14.240 --> 00:37:21.620 Kristy Darcy: or get our restrooms open faster. So when I put this timeline together, I was actually quite surprised to recall that 213 00:37:21.650 --> 00:37:24.640 Kristy Darcy: I actually only started this in April. 214 00:37:24.750 --> 00:37:32.870 Kristy Darcy: So this timeline is basically the top is the rollout of various versions of the dashboard. There's basically been 3, 215 00:37:32.990 --> 00:37:35.060 Kristy Darcy: and the bottom is kind of some 216 00:37:35.560 --> 00:37:45.250 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 217 00:37:45.400 --> 00:37:56.460 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 218 00:37:56.780 --> 00:38:07.269 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 219 00:38:07.400 --> 00:38:08.860 Kristy Darcy: system to 220 00:38:09.140 --> 00:38:19.169 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. 221 00:38:19.280 --> 00:38:21.089 Kristy Darcy: So next slide 222 00:38:25.090 --> 00:38:31.550 Kristy Darcy: alright. So in April, early April I got that the tas I was tasked with 223 00:38:32.090 --> 00:38:35.450 Kristy Darcy: putting together or keeping the data of 224 00:38:36.130 --> 00:38:38.010 Kristy Darcy: restroom. Sorry I'm a 225 00:38:38.160 --> 00:38:42.489 Kristy Darcy: try not to say comfort stations I was tasked with 226 00:38:42.600 --> 00:38:50.269 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 227 00:38:50.310 --> 00:39:05.739 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 228 00:39:06.080 --> 00:39:12.209 Kristy Darcy: time I actually connected with not only the ground crews, the crew chief 229 00:39:12.260 --> 00:39:21.870 Kristy Darcy: but I also connected with facilities and planning and development. and while doing that it kind of dawned on me that 230 00:39:22.210 --> 00:39:27.470 Kristy Darcy: that was the key to keeping this information alive. And 231 00:39:28.610 --> 00:39:31.920 Kristy Darcy: be because I'll go back, because historically. 232 00:39:31.930 --> 00:39:34.480 Kristy Darcy: every time when I have my crew chief hat on. 233 00:39:34.830 --> 00:39:46.430 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 234 00:39:46.500 --> 00:39:51.779 Kristy Darcy: especially with restrooms. I don't. Necessarily. We didn't necessarily have the power to 235 00:39:51.890 --> 00:40:06.900 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. 236 00:40:07.030 --> 00:40:13.380 Kristy Darcy: And so with that sort of idea, I thought, I need to come up with a way to 237 00:40:13.450 --> 00:40:16.659 Kristy Darcy: make sure that we have this in 238 00:40:17.520 --> 00:40:28.309 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 239 00:40:28.430 --> 00:40:32.299 Kristy Darcy: I'll give it a go. I'd never done one before, and I made this dashboard 240 00:40:32.490 --> 00:40:41.550 Kristy Darcy: And what was really great about it is we actually use this dashboard every week in our facilities and maintenance managers. 241 00:40:42.040 --> 00:40:43.560 Kristy Darcy: Meeting. 242 00:40:43.680 --> 00:40:57.469 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 243 00:40:57.680 --> 00:41:02.840 Kristy Darcy: and the goal is eventually to have it updated more frequently than that, actually. 244 00:41:02.980 --> 00:41:08.279 Kristy Darcy: But right now we're, you know, working on ensuring that we're able to keep it up to date. 245 00:41:08.420 --> 00:41:09.980 Kristy Darcy: And so 246 00:41:11.050 --> 00:41:30.879 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 247 00:41:30.890 --> 00:41:39.880 Kristy Darcy: restroom repair needs, but also another really great side benefit to this was that it brought to the forefront some restrooms that 248 00:41:40.130 --> 00:41:49.640 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 249 00:41:49.790 --> 00:41:52.980 Kristy Darcy: major vandalism, and 250 00:41:53.140 --> 00:42:01.870 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 251 00:42:02.150 --> 00:42:05.090 Kristy Darcy: at the doors were actually welded shut. 252 00:42:05.650 --> 00:42:12.799 Kristy Darcy: But because we have this dashboard and we're constantly seeing it on there. we thought, why don't we 253 00:42:12.940 --> 00:42:25.320 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 254 00:42:25.570 --> 00:42:28.129 Kristy Darcy: last week. So 255 00:42:28.170 --> 00:42:31.720 Kristy Darcy: it's been really great having this. You can go to the next slide if you'd like. 256 00:42:35.080 --> 00:42:46.759 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 257 00:42:47.040 --> 00:42:58.129 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 258 00:42:58.250 --> 00:43:04.050 Kristy Darcy: the updating is having a bigger effect. It's actually updating with an ammo. 259 00:43:04.080 --> 00:43:15.620 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. 260 00:43:15.910 --> 00:43:37.930 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 261 00:43:38.080 --> 00:43:41.510 Kristy Darcy: is that we added the layer of the equity 262 00:43:41.550 --> 00:43:48.199 Kristy Darcy: map, which may be hard to see on here. It's underneath all the dots, because that's all of the restrooms 263 00:43:48.280 --> 00:43:50.639 Kristy Darcy: and the equity map. What's great about it is 264 00:43:50.870 --> 00:43:59.419 Kristy Darcy: on this dashboard. When you filter down to just showing restrooms that are closed for repair, you're able to see 265 00:43:59.620 --> 00:44:07.579 Kristy Darcy: and prioritize your repairs. You can say, Okay, we're gonna start with those that are in the areas of most need 266 00:44:07.610 --> 00:44:15.580 Kristy Darcy: and then work our way the other way. So it's helping inform our decisions on that as well. So next slide. 267 00:44:19.720 --> 00:44:30.210 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 268 00:44:30.380 --> 00:44:33.930 Kristy Darcy: creating this public dashboard, which we rolled out in July. 269 00:44:34.150 --> 00:44:50.479 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. 270 00:44:50.640 --> 00:45:01.620 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. 271 00:45:01.690 --> 00:45:11.020 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 272 00:45:11.250 --> 00:45:19.900 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 273 00:45:20.260 --> 00:45:23.219 Kristy Darcy: council districts is gonna be a better 274 00:45:24.120 --> 00:45:28.810 Kristy Darcy: division of of them for the public. And 275 00:45:29.700 --> 00:45:33.670 Kristy Darcy: wh? What's great about these power Bi's is you can click on 276 00:45:33.710 --> 00:45:38.480 Kristy Darcy: different things so like if you clicked on the plight on that pie chart. If you clicked on one of those 277 00:45:38.880 --> 00:45:50.960 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. 278 00:45:51.090 --> 00:45:58.470 Kristy Darcy: The restrooms by current status will show you how many within that council district are open, close, or have limited use. 279 00:45:58.860 --> 00:46:03.200 Kristy Darcy: and so on, and so forth. So and if this 280 00:46:03.210 --> 00:46:10.609 Kristy Darcy: Powerpoint gets shared that lower on the lower left, the click here is actually the link to the live 281 00:46:10.800 --> 00:46:19.149 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. 282 00:46:19.380 --> 00:46:23.599 Kristy Darcy: It just says, Find a park, a public restroom in a park, so 283 00:46:24.080 --> 00:46:25.879 Kristy Darcy: next slide 284 00:46:29.630 --> 00:46:40.390 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. 285 00:46:40.670 --> 00:46:43.369 Kristy Darcy: We have kind of 4 reasons. 286 00:46:43.550 --> 00:46:50.250 Kristy Darcy: and they're just right there. I'll just sort of expand on what this says. Couple of projects 287 00:46:50.390 --> 00:47:06.179 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. 288 00:47:06.290 --> 00:47:16.250 Kristy Darcy: But we do sometimes get some. Recently, we have one where the a plumbing underneath of the building actually first and 289 00:47:16.680 --> 00:47:19.230 Kristy Darcy: had and was basically leaking everywhere. And 290 00:47:19.540 --> 00:47:29.980 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. 291 00:47:30.180 --> 00:47:35.940 Kristy Darcy: 60 are currently closed like currently do not have freeze or thought protection. 292 00:47:35.980 --> 00:47:44.489 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 293 00:47:44.610 --> 00:47:52.789 Kristy Darcy: get more and more retrofitted for that, so that they can survive are now colder winters that we're sometimes having. 294 00:47:52.830 --> 00:47:55.720 Kristy Darcy: and also longer in in some ways. 295 00:47:56.030 --> 00:48:08.120 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 296 00:48:08.540 --> 00:48:15.599 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 297 00:48:16.150 --> 00:48:25.989 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. 298 00:48:26.010 --> 00:48:35.149 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. 299 00:48:35.390 --> 00:48:40.820 Kristy Darcy: and then decommissioned is, we just have some 300 00:48:40.870 --> 00:48:44.480 Kristy Darcy: like vandalism that just made it to where 301 00:48:44.540 --> 00:48:53.980 Kristy Darcy: they were unrepairable, or for instance, another one is discovery part the number bluff the 302 00:48:54.260 --> 00:49:04.239 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. 303 00:49:04.320 --> 00:49:06.220 Kristy Darcy: Next slide. 304 00:49:10.990 --> 00:49:11.890 Kristy Darcy: And 305 00:49:12.230 --> 00:49:18.179 Kristy Darcy: I just wanted to share this information cause. It's just something that we get a lot of questions about. And 306 00:49:18.380 --> 00:49:19.460 Kristy Darcy: I feel like 307 00:49:19.700 --> 00:49:25.899 Kristy Darcy: we. We collect a lot of data through ammo, but it's people entering their time in on their time sheet 308 00:49:25.950 --> 00:49:27.140 Kristy Darcy: and 309 00:49:27.390 --> 00:49:29.320 Kristy Darcy: there's 310 00:49:29.680 --> 00:49:31.830 Kristy Darcy: human error, I guess, in that. 311 00:49:31.990 --> 00:49:38.970 Kristy Darcy: And we're really working hard on getting our staff to do a better job of entering their time. But 312 00:49:38.980 --> 00:49:45.579 Kristy Darcy: the the story isn't being told. It's not being told through the data as well as it could be. 313 00:49:45.690 --> 00:49:51.420 Kristy Darcy: And so I wanted to put this out on the table, because this is the true story of how frequently 314 00:49:51.460 --> 00:49:53.319 Kristy Darcy: and what types of cleanings 315 00:49:53.340 --> 00:50:00.020 Kristy Darcy: restrooms get. And so in the upper left, you can see the types of cleanings. There are 3 different kinds. 316 00:50:00.060 --> 00:50:03.990 Kristy Darcy: and the main difference between the 3 is, that 317 00:50:04.160 --> 00:50:06.610 Kristy Darcy: is, whether they get 318 00:50:07.210 --> 00:50:13.920 Kristy Darcy: hose down, or what like wedded for the whole surface inside, and which way? So 319 00:50:14.100 --> 00:50:25.320 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 320 00:50:25.540 --> 00:50:39.389 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. 321 00:50:39.520 --> 00:50:51.159 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 322 00:50:51.480 --> 00:51:00.980 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. 323 00:51:01.190 --> 00:51:09.409 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 324 00:51:09.460 --> 00:51:12.959 Kristy Darcy: they are not. Not. All of our restrooms are locked. 325 00:51:13.170 --> 00:51:27.269 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. 326 00:51:27.280 --> 00:51:38.960 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. 327 00:51:38.970 --> 00:51:45.279 Kristy Darcy: and there are some parks where it will still happen twice a day, because they're just really really busy parks 328 00:51:45.540 --> 00:51:57.669 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 329 00:51:57.680 --> 00:52:02.360 Kristy Darcy: that's the pressure. Wash every surface situation. And that's gonna happen 330 00:52:02.630 --> 00:52:13.100 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. 331 00:52:13.350 --> 00:52:22.649 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 332 00:52:23.890 --> 00:52:25.410 Kristy Darcy: all right. Next 333 00:52:30.250 --> 00:52:31.969 Kristy Darcy: oh, it went backwards 334 00:52:37.860 --> 00:52:43.130 Kristy Darcy: alright. And you can't talk about restaurants without talking about Seneca. So 335 00:52:43.270 --> 00:52:44.640 Kristy Darcy: basically. 336 00:52:44.730 --> 00:52:49.989 Kristy Darcy: Seneca's are there for a reason. We either have 337 00:52:50.240 --> 00:52:54.419 Kristy Darcy: no infrastructure somewhere, like Nico books Park, for instance. 338 00:52:54.530 --> 00:53:00.030 Kristy Darcy: and we need to have something there, or we have events, and they're there temporarily for that 339 00:53:00.380 --> 00:53:06.950 Kristy Darcy: obviously for projects and repairs. We're gonna put them when they're especially longer. and then 340 00:53:07.360 --> 00:53:10.979 Kristy Darcy: seasonal as well for locations that are. 341 00:53:11.100 --> 00:53:13.370 Kristy Darcy: you know. just not. 342 00:53:13.570 --> 00:53:25.559 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 343 00:53:25.930 --> 00:53:33.879 Kristy Darcy: hopefully inform ourselves on possible future infrastructure additions where we could add 344 00:53:33.960 --> 00:53:35.990 Kristy Darcy: where the need is for 345 00:53:36.070 --> 00:53:45.160 Kristy Darcy: new restrooms. I feel like that. Just happened not too long ago at quota gardens. They historically had Santa cans 346 00:53:45.340 --> 00:53:56.080 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 347 00:53:56.500 --> 00:54:00.410 Kristy Darcy: yeah. alright. Next and last side. 348 00:54:03.350 --> 00:54:09.640 Kristy Darcy: So basically, where do we go from here? We can do a lot 349 00:54:09.870 --> 00:54:19.610 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 350 00:54:19.640 --> 00:54:28.229 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 351 00:54:28.380 --> 00:54:36.270 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 352 00:54:36.660 --> 00:54:37.940 Kristy Darcy: when we 353 00:54:38.010 --> 00:54:45.759 Kristy Darcy: we're working on various ammogis integrations. For different reasons. But one of the benefits of this is going to be that 354 00:54:45.990 --> 00:54:53.209 Kristy Darcy: Ammo and Gis will be able to speak back and forth to each other. So yeah, once we get it 355 00:54:53.430 --> 00:55:04.179 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. 356 00:55:04.370 --> 00:55:17.400 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 357 00:55:17.710 --> 00:55:26.919 Kristy Darcy: and Then I already mentioned this one using status updates to track average closure times is gonna be really useful for us. 358 00:55:27.060 --> 00:55:41.289 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 359 00:55:42.220 --> 00:55:46.060 Kristy Darcy: better our time entry cause we do. 360 00:55:46.770 --> 00:55:52.770 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. 361 00:55:52.960 --> 00:56:01.120 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. 362 00:56:01.600 --> 00:56:02.630 Kristy Darcy: And then 363 00:56:02.680 --> 00:56:09.350 Kristy Darcy: Seneca's. I just put that on there. We had thought about putting Santa Cans on the restroom dashboard. 364 00:56:09.390 --> 00:56:17.880 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. 365 00:56:17.990 --> 00:56:33.750 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 366 00:56:33.890 --> 00:56:34.860 Kristy Darcy: having 367 00:56:35.280 --> 00:56:41.670 Kristy Darcy: the status updates become more frequent through training and use, and 368 00:56:41.760 --> 00:56:47.109 Kristy Darcy: of this of the system, then eventually, I think, Santa Cans could be added so 369 00:56:47.660 --> 00:56:54.720 Kristy Darcy: alright. That was a lot. I don't know how much time it took. And I wanna know if you have questions. 370 00:56:55.800 --> 00:57:02.159 PKS Boardroom: Wonderful. Thank you so much. Yeah. I was said. This was 371 00:57:03.090 --> 00:57:13.160 PKS Boardroom: a fantastic presentation restrooms. Chrissy. This was like fantastic a lot of notes. I mean, I think 372 00:57:13.960 --> 00:57:27.399 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 373 00:57:27.830 --> 00:57:35.170 PKS Boardroom: playing this out through different sort of applications and and departments, right? How that might start to inform 374 00:57:35.500 --> 00:57:43.589 PKS Boardroom: capital to capital decisions becomes really, really important, really goal and it. But at the same time, I think there's a 375 00:57:44.360 --> 00:57:46.450 PKS Boardroom: I don't know if you said it was 376 00:57:46.890 --> 00:57:57.450 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 377 00:57:57.500 --> 00:58:01.719 PKS Boardroom: easily accessible. This, a lot of people have access to a phone this day. 378 00:58:02.410 --> 00:58:12.389 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. 379 00:58:12.680 --> 00:58:19.289 Kristy Darcy: Thank you. Yeah. It is. It actually is available to the public, the external one, the public facing one. 380 00:58:19.370 --> 00:58:29.839 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 381 00:58:29.930 --> 00:58:40.859 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. 382 00:58:40.870 --> 00:58:42.860 Kristy Darcy: We're gonna kind of 383 00:58:43.010 --> 00:59:03.349 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. 384 00:59:04.780 --> 00:59:30.239 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 385 00:59:30.470 --> 00:59:39.879 PKS Boardroom: available available to the public. And it looks like some pretty amazing work getting everything from a centralized data set to 386 00:59:39.940 --> 00:59:59.399 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? 387 01:00:00.200 --> 01:00:07.410 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 388 01:00:07.790 --> 01:00:15.670 Kristy Darcy: you could look at it. Oh. yeah, if you know where it is, I guess. Maybe we could 389 01:00:15.910 --> 01:00:17.300 Kristy Darcy: think about 390 01:00:18.680 --> 01:00:22.840 Kristy Darcy: posting it in community centers or something 391 01:00:22.860 --> 01:00:26.409 Kristy Darcy: where or I'm not sure. Actually, it's a really great question. 392 01:00:27.960 --> 01:00:42.030 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. 393 01:00:42.280 --> 01:00:49.079 Kristy Darcy: And so just like keeping it live in people's minds. That's the challenge, I guess, in that right like. 394 01:00:50.130 --> 01:00:54.710 Kristy Darcy: how frequently would we need to do it? And yeah. 395 01:00:55.070 --> 01:01:04.670 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 396 01:01:04.960 --> 01:01:14.159 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 397 01:01:14.800 --> 01:01:17.930 PKS Boardroom: what's going on with that bathroom, or where there's one available. 398 01:01:19.280 --> 01:01:22.380 Kristy Darcy: Yeah, that'd be actually a great idea, just even 399 01:01:22.430 --> 01:01:28.110 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 400 01:01:28.460 --> 01:01:39.700 PKS Boardroom: find it. It's the find it. Find it. Fix it, Chrissy. Did you say that there are 24 h apples open? 401 01:01:40.230 --> 01:01:45.619 Kristy Darcy: Right? So it's just there are ones that don't get locked. 402 01:01:45.900 --> 01:01:56.909 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. 403 01:01:59.130 --> 01:02:09.069 Kristy Darcy: I mean. Well, if it's if it's open to be to use, then we just 404 01:02:09.470 --> 01:02:14.480 PKS Boardroom: I mean, if we see a down comfy. Hello, you know. 405 01:02:15.110 --> 01:02:30.049 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. 406 01:02:30.580 --> 01:02:48.710 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. 407 01:02:49.130 --> 01:02:55.790 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 408 01:02:56.010 --> 01:03:00.490 Kristy Darcy: tracking activity. And that's actually what Huntley play field. We used to. 409 01:03:00.540 --> 01:03:03.019 Kristy Darcy: That used to be open for park hours 410 01:03:03.070 --> 01:03:07.309 Kristy Darcy: and after in enough 411 01:03:07.390 --> 01:03:11.270 Kristy Darcy: activity happening in them and the neighbors 412 01:03:11.650 --> 01:03:19.279 Kristy Darcy: noticed it in the night, and then we noticed remnants of it. In the morning we actually started locking those. So 413 01:03:19.700 --> 01:03:20.940 Kristy Darcy: it does happen. 414 01:03:21.720 --> 01:03:27.240 PKS Boardroom: Thank you. Thanks, Chrissy. You have done such a great job. II was 415 01:03:28.080 --> 01:03:42.280 PKS Boardroom: and myself another staff member 416 01:03:42.850 --> 01:03:52.820 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 417 01:03:52.840 --> 01:04:04.820 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. 418 01:04:04.870 --> 01:04:17.699 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 419 01:04:17.700 --> 01:04:35.769 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 420 01:04:36.120 --> 01:04:40.360 Kristy Darcy: well, I'm excited to be able to present it for you. 421 01:04:40.490 --> 01:04:50.909 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. 422 01:04:51.080 --> 01:04:55.760 Kristy Darcy: The better things will be for all of us, because. 423 01:04:55.880 --> 01:04:57.929 Kristy Darcy: you know, I think sometimes 424 01:04:58.400 --> 01:05:03.460 Kristy Darcy: the amazing work that we do can get lost in 425 01:05:03.770 --> 01:05:10.460 Kristy Darcy: like our our own inability to kind of tell the story in a way that 426 01:05:11.130 --> 01:05:27.359 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. 427 01:05:27.500 --> 01:05:28.960 Kristy Darcy: And 428 01:05:29.300 --> 01:05:33.159 Kristy Darcy: that's what II think it's very special. So 429 01:05:33.280 --> 01:05:38.299 Kristy Darcy: and I don't mind talking about restrooms, cause. Yeah, they're restrooms, but they're very important. 430 01:05:38.810 --> 01:05:46.419 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. 431 01:05:46.810 --> 01:05:49.509 Kristy Darcy: Yeah, thank you. Thank you. 432 01:05:51.390 --> 01:06:14.669 PKS Boardroom: Alright. I'm gonna I'm gonna throw it to Chris now to introduce the next topic 433 01:06:14.670 --> 01:06:22.150 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. 434 01:06:22.180 --> 01:06:24.200 PKS Boardroom: So 435 01:06:24.540 --> 01:06:44.940 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. 436 01:06:44.940 --> 01:07:08.979 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. 437 01:07:09.460 --> 01:07:13.090 PKS Boardroom: Thanks. That last subcommittee. 438 01:07:13.170 --> 01:07:32.279 PKS Boardroom: Yes. 439 01:07:32.510 --> 01:07:41.150 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 440 01:07:43.030 --> 01:07:56.849 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. 441 01:07:57.220 --> 01:08:10.010 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 442 01:08:10.110 --> 01:08:15.139 PKS Boardroom: yeah, oh, that's right. She's not on my 443 01:08:15.690 --> 01:08:24.329 PKS Boardroom: anyway. So you will hear from from the staff member. And you know, some 444 01:08:24.490 --> 01:08:29.469 PKS Boardroom: Parks community fund 445 01:08:29.760 --> 01:08:46.240 PKS Boardroom: and 446 01:08:46.560 --> 01:09:15.499 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. 447 01:09:15.500 --> 01:09:22.470 PKS Boardroom: and working with that criteria to make sure that it was 448 01:09:22.590 --> 01:09:31.579 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. 449 01:09:32.250 --> 01:09:42.949 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. 450 01:09:58.050 --> 01:10:09.620 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. 451 01:10:09.720 --> 01:10:11.450 PKS Boardroom: yeah. It's second. 452 01:10:33.240 --> 01:10:40.010 PKS Boardroom: let me know 453 01:10:40.430 --> 01:10:50.910 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. 454 01:10:51.520 --> 01:10:58.869 PKS Boardroom: Kind of vision, right? For how to get those 455 01:10:58.960 --> 01:11:00.170 PKS Boardroom: specific 456 01:11:00.210 --> 01:11:08.430 PKS Boardroom: thanks covered so, and as our annual call retreat, we may talk about if there's other stuff. 457 01:11:08.470 --> 01:11:11.510 PKS Boardroom: am I going? Do you have any ideas that we had to follow? 458 01:11:11.610 --> 01:11:28.500 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. 459 01:11:28.620 --> 01:11:31.560 PKS Boardroom: okay. 460 01:11:34.700 --> 01:11:44.180 PKS Boardroom: so I guess 461 01:11:44.760 --> 01:11:51.510 PKS Boardroom: reminder to like the next part just a second, we really want to. 462 01:11:51.840 --> 01:12:06.990 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 463 01:12:07.550 --> 01:12:13.460 PKS Boardroom: what missing on the board, and how we can make it as representative. So 464 01:12:13.890 --> 01:12:27.110 PKS Boardroom: that's great. 465 01:12:27.170 --> 01:12:37.790 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 466 01:12:39.950 --> 01:12:43.140 PKS Boardroom: with that. Any questions for Paula. 467 01:12:44.620 --> 01:12:49.800 PKS Boardroom: That brings us to all the new business. Anyone have they? Wanna talk about? 468 01:12:52.440 --> 01:12:54.870 PKS Boardroom: We just want to get out of there and some use cases. 469 01:12:54.980 --> 01:13:04.729 PKS Boardroom: Thanks everyone for being here. Manager.