06-08-2026 Parks & Recreation Commission - Jun 08, 2026

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What does the chair say to open the Parks & Recreation Commission meeting?

Unknown 0:03

Everyone, today is Monday, June 8th, 2026. This is the regular meeting of the Parks and Rec Commission. This is a hybrid meeting and the meeting will be recorded. The Zoom application just notified you that this meeting is being recorded. Press continue on the app to stay in the meeting. If you're using the hand raise in Zoom, ra raise your hand to speak on an item and lower it when you're finished. Unmute if called on to speak. I don't think we have any public online. And if you're calling by phone, press star to raise or lower your hand and six to mute or unmute. This is the call to order. Welcome to the Parks and Recreation Commission meeting. I now call to order the Parks and Recreation Commission meeting of June 8th, 2026 at 701.

Unknown 0:45

Do roll call, Commissioner Caldwell. Chair Chu here. Commissioner DeMarco, you're Commissioner Forte. Yeah. Vice Chair Gupta. And Commissioner Sousa. Yeah. All here, so we don't need to excuse any absences.

Nathan Pavlov 0:59

A gold star. Yeah, that's

Unknown 1:02

perfect attendance.

Nathan Pavlov 1:03

Wonder why I found one of those yesterday just for you on.

Unknown 1:07

Uh we're moving on to the consent calendar. We have one item that's item one, approval of the park and rec commission meeting minutes of May 11th, 2026. Do we have any discussion or comments on our minutes?

Nathan Pavlov 1:23

And minutes. Oh. Um that's a basic uh a a summary of what we're gonna discuss.

Unknown 1:28

Summary of what happened last meeting. I can make a motion to approve the minutes from the last meeting. Second. Yeah. Motioned by Commissioner Forte and seconded by DeMarco. Commissioner Caldwell. Yes. Chair Chu, yes. Commissioner DeMarco, Commissioner Forte,

Rafael Mandelman 1:47

yes.

Unknown 1:47

Vice Chair Gupta.

Rafael Mandelman 1:49

Yes.

Unknown 1:49

And Commissioner Sousa?

Rafael Mandelman 1:50

Yes.

Unknown 1:51

Hey, the most fun passes. We'll move on to public presentations. This portion of the meeting is reserved for members of the public to address the Parks and Recognition on any matter not on the agenda that is within the Commission's subject matter jurisdiction. The law does not permit action on or extended discussion of any items not on the agenda except under special circumstances. The commission or staff may briefly respond to statements made or questions posed, and the commission may request staff to report back at subsequent meetings. As a reminder, comments can be emailed to pr CustomerServe at Santa Claraca.gov. If there is any member of the public who would like to make comments, please fill out a speaker's card or raise your hand on Zoom.

Unknown 2:40

To accommodate all speakers, we request that you complete your comments within I think we've agreed three minutes for public. Oh. Think now we have Gail

Gail Achiebo 2:51

Achiebo to talk about pickleball. Yeah, so um you want to go Parks and Recreation Department, we um launched our tennis and pickleboss survey for the community. So um We are doing online survey and we did on Friday at the night market. We actually got 134 responses. So we're doing that. Is that who are we? Parks migration Yeah. Great. Yeah.

Unknown 3:18

I was expecting public comment. This doesn't feel like a public comment. The department is doing public comment. We we didn't have it scheduled. Okay. Right.

Gail Achiebo 3:26

She can't wait till the staff

Unknown 3:27

and it just launched last week.

Gail Achiebo 3:29

Yeah, it says really hot and oppressed, and we want you guys to know first. Um, we're gonna do a bunch of outreach and um at the like sit uh senior center barbecue, the night market, our fourth of July event. Um, and then also we're doing this uh senior center newsletter and that kind of thing. So we really want you guys to, you know, get it out to the community and get our survey out there and get a lot of feedback for our survey for the community.

Unknown 3:53

So we'll have Gail will um make sure that Priscilla has the um link and email to the survey. It's also live on our website. So we'll send you the website link as well as the survey link. Um Priscilla will send that out. Um could you send us links to social media as well?

Gail Achiebo 4:11

Yep. So we're gonna have it on Gov Delivery will be out on Wednesday. And then I think Thursday there'll be a social media post. So like getting all that out. So it's really fresh again. So this was um kind of survey detook. I mean to talk to people at our booth.