05-2: Budget Working Group Minutes of February 21, 2025 — original pdf

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Parks and Recreation Board Budget Working Group Meeting #2 Friday, February 21 Attendees: Lane Becker, Kathryn Flowers, Nicole Merritt 1. Updates from City Process Discussed that we still have not yet heard guidance from the Clerk’s oEice regarding timeline. City Manager has announced public sessions. Vice Chair Flowers noted that she believes the timeline will be unchanged, as the budget is due at the same time and she is concerned if we continue to wait for guidance, we will get late notice. We were notified of the timeline last year in late January, so it is at least a month late. Agreed we should proceed with a March recommendation in the absence of guidance. 2. Strategy for Recommendation + Updated from Board Member Becker Board Member Becker noted he is already far along on a draft recommendation related to wildfire prevention for Joint Sustainability Committee and that we can and should use aspects of it for our own recommendation. It was also discussed that we should focus on a few key issues we are aware of from last cycle and from Board activities this year that are high priority. Those issues were determined to be wildfire prevention, staEing for extended hours for aquatics over the summer (lifeguards), staEing for increased cemetery maintenance, and staEing for park patrol to address property crime in parks. 3. Action Items Per discussion, action items were determined to be as follows: - Board Member Merritt and Vice Chair Flowers to reach out to their respective council oEices to inquire regarding guidance and any budget priorities for Parks from their perspective - Board Member Becker to share his draft wildfire prevention recommendation for Joint Sustainability Committee with the group - Vice Chair Flowers to draft a shell recommendation and share with the group for populating before our March 7 meeting - Vice Chair Flowers to shift our next meeting from Friday, February 28, to Friday, March 7 at the same time (12pm – 1pm)