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Parks and Recreation Board Meeting
Minutes
Tuesday, June 5, 2018
5:30 p.m.
Auburn Community & Event Center
Call to Order 5:30 pm
Present were members Michael Hassen (chair), James Jeyaraj, Wayne Osborne, Lisa Russell, Bailey Stober. Department staff present were Parks Director Daryl Faber, Parks Planning Manager
Jamie Kelly, Recreation Manager Brian Petty, Secretary Julie Mehl.
Minutes
The May minutes were approved.
Committee Member Input
Member Wayne Osborne asks if parks watering has begun, Jamie states irrigation usually begins the end of May. He also asks if the blackberry bushes can be trimmed on 104th property,
Jamie to follow up.
Member Lisa Russell was at the AIF Market Sunday, the turnout was great and the HOA site had numerous positive remarks, including hopes for the new location to be permanent.
Member Bailey Stober asks if we have the same meeting schedule for the summer? We usually don’t have a July meeting, usually meet in August.
Correspondence/Public Input
Friday, June 22 is Kids Day 11a-4p.
Old Business
New Business
Department Report (Faber/Kelly/Petty)
Summer Camp update: Recreation Manager Brian Petty discussed summer camps including Day Camp, Teens & Trips, Movin on Up, Mix & Match, sports, Adventure Camp, Girls on the Edge, Theater
Camp. The Mix & Match camps are new, wildly popular and many are full already. Last year by June 4, we had 780 registrations, this year by June 4 we have 1,531. 34 out of 54 Mix
& Match camps are already full. Nine camps are one child away from being full.
Brian also shares our newest program, Rec Riders, will begin this spring. We received a $40,000 grant and purchased 30 bicycles and a trailer. 18 people have signed up for the Family
Snoqualmie Falls tunnel Mountain bike ride on June 16. We will offer some biking days in upcoming camps as well. We hope to win more grant funding to include paddle boarding and kayaking,
making it a true outdoor program.
Fee waiver discussion whether $50 is enough for students at schools like Pioneer Elementary, as a large percentage qualify for the free lunch program. Ideas offered were a Parks Foundation
which would sponsor children for more expensive activities, or corporate sponsors for more expensive programs such as theater camps. Costco, Boeing, Microsoft have all given to these
types of programs in the past.
Daryl Faber and Jamie Kelly went to Olympia for a technical review and received feedback from the RCO committee. Jamie will finalize for critical areas and flood plains as well as future
restoration areas. We can turn in final application in July.
Jamie Kelly shares that long time Parks Maintenance Manager Mike Miller is retiring June 30.
Adjournment
The meeting was adjourned at 6:30 pm.