11-10-2025 PARKS & RECREATION COMMISSION

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What charter changes are being considered for the Parks & Recreation Commission?

Unknown 0:19

These are.

Unknown 1:15

Discussion.

Unknown 1:53

I don't.

Unknown 2:49

your comments without notice to the

3:27

Thank you.

Unknown 4:04

Thank you for your patience while we maneuver the different system in this room. And we appreciate the different systems in each room. Yes. Okay, so if you don't mind scrolling down. Thank you. You can keep going.

Carolyn Chu 4:45

Well, do we want to look at the city charter since that is currently being looked at? So that is where we're mentioned in the charter and those are our duties as listed. We can potentially think about changes to the city charter because this is this is the moment.

Carolyn Chu 5:13

Yeah, we changed our work plan goals to include B, the recommendations with respect thereto. Are

Unknown 5:24

we getting a 7th number? After the first. After the first of the year. Yeah. And we won't be able to take action on this item tonight because it's not noticed, but because it is on the work plan and you had a conversation in the hallway with the attorney obviously um it's of interest but um that topic would be brought forth with a report um at a future meeting so yeah thank you news to us and we'll probably be getting something from the attorney's office real soon are you okay to scroll down further yeah

Unknown 6:21

Thank you. You can keep going.

Carolyn Chu 6:23

The council priorities we haven't updated in a while. I don't know if those have changed. We might want to consider updating

Unknown 6:29

that. Good

Carolyn Chu 6:32

call. Thank you, Fabrics.

Rafael Mandelman 6:43

Thank you.

Unknown 6:49

Passed.

Rafael Mandelman 6:52

Okay.

Unknown 6:54

For the record, dealing with auditory issues, we want to make sure that we're not having echoes. So any meeting was not intentional. Yeah. So these council priorities are prior. We'll double check that they're still, that they're current.

Carolyn Chu 7:13

Or we can just remove them also. I don't know. Yeah. We don't always look at them. Yeah. I don't know if they need to be here. Priscilla, can you check? It looks

Unknown 7:24

like we're muted again. No, we were told to go through that system. That's fine. Do you mind scrolling down a little bit further?

Carolyn Chu 7:55

Are those still our priorities? We haven't looked at this part of the work plan in a while. Did I read them out loud? I don't think so. Okay. The screen's being shared for the amount of public we have online. You can scroll.

Wade Brammel 8:20

It's not okay.

Carolyn Chu 8:22

So the only update I'd have for this line is the number four just says art and wine, but we really participate in a lot of the festivals, 4th of July, tree lighting.

Unknown 8:33

Yeah, I've always wondered why specifically. It's OK to call out one thing, but maybe that should only be an example.

Carolyn Chu 8:40

Yeah, because our goal, we've changed the wording in the goal around art and wine to include other events. We do that in the priorities as well.

Unknown 8:49

Yeah, it might be worth generalizing number four.

Carolyn Chu 8:56

Okay, so goal number one is review park site and facility condition assessments recommend priorities given existing anticipated service levels and available resources. We had talked about a new system of tracking our park attendance. Is there any?

Unknown 9:12

Oh, are you talking about the access? No,

Carolyn Chu 9:22

we had previously done the form and we wanted to move away from the form because it was too onerous for people to fill out. And so we were thinking about maybe just an Excel spreadsheet where we tracked what parks we go to to try and get to all the parks.

Unknown 9:34

And then if we had any issues, we would put them on the My Santa Clara app. Right.

Carolyn Chu 9:37

Unknown 9:39

like a checklist, a park checklist that you visited it.

Carolyn Chu 9:43

Yeah.

Unknown 9:43

Okay.

Carolyn Chu 9:44

A way to keep the commissioners accountable and also a way to share information.

Unknown 9:50

Useful input rather than do a bunch of paperwork. Yeah. Do you want the spreadsheet to have the ability to... Do you want it electronically?

Carolyn Chu 10:03

That'd

Unknown 10:04

be good. Do you want the ability to write in issues that you see?

Carolyn Chu 10:10

General comments.

Unknown 10:11

General comments. So you just want park, checkmark, maybe the date you visited... And then general comics and then anything beyond that you will submit to my Santa. Okay. So it's just as a clarification, I don't know that the form was problematic in as much as it was a form. It's just that there's a lot of fields that are not applicable to all the places. Right. you could imagine going to the swim center in Central Park, and it's going to ask you about sports fields and playground and walking paths.