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Parks and Recreation Commission Minutes September 10, 2025 --------- Page 9 of 14 community profile. The mission will be tied to the city council just as we had it and communication and profile develop with community profile, or community profile develop with communications and consist largely of data provided from multiple sources. So, perplexity just left those out. He doesn’t care how they proceed. He really doesn’t. Secretary Larson asked Commissioner Fermoyle if her version is the overview one or the intro one. Commissioner Fermoyle confirmed it was the overview. She said, Let’s go with what Commissioner Loidolt said and go with number three. Secretary Larson asked for documentation. What version are they sticking with up until number three? Chair Anderson said they are just talking. Secretary Larson said that she is trying to take minutes on what they are agreeing to. Chair Anderson said they have not agreed to anything. Commissioner Loidolt said so can they talk about AI and issues they are going to have with governing bodies. How much do they need to change as far as wording is concerned to be able to leave it as a structure like it is. Mr. Stremcha said 50 % plus one. The majority cannot be AI. Commissioner Loidolt said they have work to do. Commissioner Fermoyle said so let’s start with number three. Mr. Stremcha said going through Microsoft Word to change synonyms for a word doesn’t count. Commissioner Goodwin said she thinks it really needs to reflect the spirit of why they are even doing this work. She thinks they all have the ability to do such a task. It’s just arduous, and she thinks they are looking at it as a major chore, and it’s a lot of work for the staff, communications and for them as volunteers. Chair Anderson said they aren’t getting anywhere. Commissioner Goodwin thinks they are spinning their wheels here. She is putting it out there that, yes, it sucks, it’s kind of like a chunky task, it’s like, uh, this is a lot but I also think that we are offering a vision to our community, and we are taking their input and putting it into the future of where they live. They have to look at this with an opportunity lense. Saying this matters and when we think about parks, what do we want our parks to look like and feel like, and how do we want them to bring people together in the future? It would be a great opportunity here. Let’s put on our big boy pants and big girl panties and do the work. So, number 3, and we will keep the language up until here, and we will take into account the language from the AI that is great but that we cannot use. So, inform program and service delivery. This one says strength and this one says enhance. Does anyone have any preference on the words for number three? Commissioner Niziolek said inform, program. That sounds a little awkward to him. Commissioner Fermoyle said take out inform and just put programming or service delivery. Or take out delivery and put program and service. Commissioner Loidolt said that he likes the word evaluate better than assess. So, evaluate current recreational programs, and he likes the way it ends with residents of all ages and abilities. Youth and seniors covers it. Commissioner Fermoyle asked if Mr. Shelby could add all abilities after seniors. Commissioner Loidolt suggested all age groups. Commissioner Goodwin said that meets the needs of resident’s kind of gets at what Commissioner Fermoyle is talking about when she says all abilities, and she thinks that they don’t need to be incredibly explicit but maybe they can talk about adaptive playgrounds later on. Commissioner Loidolt said that’s what ensuring a diverse range of offerings gets covered. Mr. Stremcha asked if it is solely residents or is it the area. He said that a recreational program might have people that live in Ramsey that are signing up for programs in Elk River. They suggested and surrounding area. Councilmember Grupa asked if they wanted to say surrounding area. Commissioner Goodwin said surrounding area doesn’t match, it’s not the same. Commissioner Varty said but then aren’t they writing this for Elk River. Mr. Stremcha said not necessarily, it is just generic, and the needs of the community are left vague. The Commissioners agreed.