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<br />Parks and Recreation Commission Minutes
<br />September 10, 2025
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<br />the questions about what you think about when you think about resources, and so, one of the things
<br />that jumps into mind is natural resources. Chair Anderson said, But if it says financial in front of it,
<br />Commissioner Niziolek said, then it's not, but do we want to do that. So, it’s a perception of the word.
<br />Commissioner Fermoyle said, right, but everybody is going to have a different perception of what
<br />resources is. Commissioner Varty said, But if we have a section later on about natural resources, if they
<br />have a question here, it will be answered later so she thinks it should be more general now.
<br />Commissioner Niziolek said that is fine. The commissioners agreed to take it back out. Commissioner
<br />Loidolt said he agrees with Commissioner Varty, and he thinks this is more of a broad statement.
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<br />Commissioner Fermoyle said, Alright, #five engage the community. Commissioner Goodwin asked if
<br />they were going to move it up or keep it at number five. She asked if anyone else had any feelings about
<br />it. Commissioner Goodwin said she thinks they need to start with vision, and then she feels like it
<br />should definitely be moved up because it is valuable and necessary. Commissioner Loidolt said that he
<br />thinks it should be moved up to number two. Commissioner Fermoyle said to say Community
<br />engagement. Commissioner Goodwin said that most of them start with a verb" provide, guide", and we
<br />eliminate it from program and service delivery. It should be deliver programs and services. Mr.
<br />Stremcha said delivery of programs and services. Mr. Shelby asked if they were talking about moving
<br />engaging the community up. Commissioner Fermoyle said she thinks you are right talking about
<br />community. This is going to the community, and it is a reference guide for them. Commissioner Loidolt
<br />said he thinks it has to be one of the top headers. Commissioner Goodwin said the question she has
<br />about all this is are we supposed to come up with the strategic vision, are staff supposed to be coming
<br />up with the strategic vision? Is it a collaboration between us, community residents and staff? Who is
<br />providing all this? She said, You guys have all these great ideas about what the parks need to look like in
<br />the next decade.
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<br />Mr. Stremcha said that when we originally planned how this would all frame out, is that for each
<br />chapter, each section of the plan, each month, staff would come in with the recommendations that they
<br />had seen from other plans and provide that feedback to you, so you would have the data or comps and
<br />then weigh in on okay we are talking about introduction section this month and then next month we
<br />can move to section two and then section three and so on. So, each month we would be talking about a
<br />different section. Commissioner Goodwin said, Okay, so that’s based off what other cities have done?
<br />Commissioner Goodwin asked if it’s looking at our city. We aren’t just going to do something because
<br />another is doing it. We are thinking about what the long-term plan is for Trott Brook or what is the
<br />long-term plan for some of our smaller parks. So, when it comes to engaging the community, what’s the
<br />process like? She thinks it should mirror how our systems already work. So, like the Play My Way
<br />survey you all did, did that come out of an initiative that you did? Mr. Shelby said that it was largely
<br />Secretary Larson. Secretary Larson shared that when staff make decisions, they do a lot of research
<br />first. For example she spent months researching other cities that did similar things to play my way. By
<br />the time staff put things together, we had looked at up to 30 different cities and put so much effort into
<br />picking out different things from their websites. Sometimes it's picking out one or two things that each
<br />city does, such as community engagement, and then putting them all together and building one that I
<br />liked. I then went to our marketing team and regurgitated that to them and explained my vision. They
<br />then created a logo and, based off things in my head, they came up with colors etc. and the campaign.
<br />We as staff do not’ just make up anything. The first version of Play My Way came to fruition from what
<br />I consider and tell people what it is like what you do when you pitch an ad for the Superbowl. When
<br />you begin on a whiteboard in a room with a bunch of people, you start with version one. By the time
<br />that commercial hits the Superbowl, it's version 195, but that is what makes it to such an awesome
<br />thing. I want you to know that a lot of effort went into that, and so we do a lot of research. When I
<br />sent out the master plan examples to you to review, I sent out 14, but I looked at way more than that. I
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