08-10-2026 Parks & Recreation Commission - Aug 10, 2026

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What opening procedures and roll call were conducted at the start of the meeting?

Unknown 0:00

Good evening. Today is Monday, August 10, 2026. This is the regularly scheduled and hybrid meeting of the Parks and Recreation Commission. This meeting is being recorded. If joining by Zoom, the application will notify you that this meeting is being recorded. Please press continue when prompted to stay in the meeting. use the raise hand feature in zoom when you'd like to speak on an item and please lower your hand when you're finished speaking please unmute when called to speak and mute yourself when you're done speaking if you're calling in by phone identify yourself by name before speaking on an item press star 9 on your phone to raise and lower your hand then press star 6 if you are participating by phone to unmute right welcome to the parks and recreation commission meeting i now call to order

Unknown 0:46

Parks and Recreation Commission meeting of August 10th, 2026 at 7.03 PM.

Unknown 1:03

You guys are

Rafael Mandelman 1:06

muted.

Rafael Mandelman 1:20

Can you hear me?

Unknown 1:25

Oh, that's

Rafael Mandelman 1:29

all right.

Unknown 1:31

There is an echo.

Rafael Mandelman 1:32

Yeah.

Unknown 1:50

There's one video which says Kimberly. The other one says Roberta Jones. Both are muted. Can you hear me now? I'm coming up from your computer. Where's

Commissioner Ganesh 2:06

it coming out? Yeah, I think the audio is on.

Unknown 2:11

Can you still hear us? I'm on mute. Can you thumbs up if you can hear us? Okay. Perfect. Thank you, everyone, for your patience. We'll go back to taking a roll. Commissioner Caldwell. Caldwell, even. That's a good answer. Commissioner Chu. Here. Commissioner DeMarco, I'm here. Commissioner Forte. Yeah. Commissioner Ganesh. Here. Chair Groupette.

Chair Gupta 2:41

Yes.

Unknown 2:42

And Commissioner Susan.

Chair Gupta 2:43

Here.

Unknown 2:45

Congratulations, everyone. Full attendance sticker for the meeting. Been here a long time. Right. We have one item for this consent calendar, item 1A, 26-848, the approval of the Parks and Recreation Commission meeting minutes of July 13, 2026.

How did the commission approve the minutes from the July 13, 2026 meeting?

Unknown 3:01

And those have been provided to you in your meeting packets. Are there any comments or suggestions for edits?

Commissioner Forte 3:12

No comments. I'll make a motion to approve the minutes.

Unknown 3:15

I second the motion. Excellent. That was Commissioner Forte making the motion and Commissioner Chu for seconding. And now we'll take a vote. Commissioner Call. Yes. Commissioner Chu. Yes. Commissioner DeMarco is yes. Commissioner Forte. Yes. Commissioner Ganesh. Yes. Chair Gupta. Yes. Commissioner Souza. Yes. The motion passes unanimously. We will now move to the public presentation section of our meeting. This portion of the meeting is reserved for members of the public to address the Parks and Recreation Commission in any matter and not on the agenda that is within the commissioner's subject matter jurisdiction. Staff, do we have anybody in the waiting room on Zoom? No, sir, we do not. And there's no one here in person either, though we invite all members of the public to join and have robust conversation in future meetings.

Unknown 4:05

With no comments present, we will move on to general business. That's item 226-849, review and finalize Parks and Recreation Commission work plan goals and activities for fiscal year 26-27. This was also provided in our packets. Folks, remember at our last meeting, we had gone through the notes of that commission goals and activities plan to date. We made a couple of edits. And the goal with this evening is to review these updated goals and activities for recommendation to council. The city staff noted before our meeting started that there isn't notated in these goals and activities where a subcommittee might get formed. But I think that that's okay for the time being in as much as once the council approves them, we can take care of that housekeeping.

Unknown 4:54

So we'll get started on goal number one. Historically, you would drive this on the shared screen? Historically, you are correct. If that is not possible, it's okay. You can learn. I can read? You can use my notes here if you want until I get there. Goal number one, attend and visit citywide special events, activities, parks, and facilities to inform Parks and Recreation Commission recommendations to the City Council. Our first action, create a draft park visitor and event survey tool, traditional, that means physical paper, and electronic to be administered by staff and supported by the commissioners.