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Highlights of the May 5, 2015 Facilities and Transportation Committee Meeting
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1. CALL TO ORDER - (00:00:14)
The meeting was called to order by Mayor Cutter at 4:14 p.m.
1.A. Attendance
Committee Members: Mayor Pauline Cutter, Councilmember Corina Lopez, Councilmember Ursula Reed
City Staff Present: Cynthia Battenberg, David Baum, Reh-Lin Chen, Keith Cooke, Kirsten Foley, Kyle Lei, Austine Osakwe, Debbie Pollart, Breyana Riggsbee, Nick Thom, Chris Zapata
Outside Presenters: None
Public Present: Deborah Cox, Jim Prola
1.B. Announcements
None.
2. DISCUSSION ITEMS - (00:00:50)
City Manager Chris Zapata announced reconfiguring discussion items with Item 2.C. to be discussed first.
2.C. Discussion Regarding Siempre Verde Park Rehabilitation - (00:01:01)
Keith Cooke announced that this project is on a fast track to be completed by June 2016 due to grant funding.
K. Cooke introduced Kyle Lei, Project Manager for the Siempre Verde Park Rehabilitation project who gave a presentation on the major design features of the park.
Siempre Verde Park is a relatively small park, approximately 80,000 sq feet. The landscaping will be drought tolerant. The new restrooms will be made out of more durable material. There will be a fitness area with six pieces of equipment, similar to the equipment at the Marina Park. There are two non-reservable picnic tables with coal receptacles. Instead of one full basketball court there will be two smaller courts, a high school and a junior high school court. More play equipment will be added and separated by age group, (2-5 year olds and 5-12 year olds).
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Water restrictions were discussed, whereby Mr. Lei said that currently the park is being watered two days a week. He included three additive bid items to the base bid that will accommodate water restrictions- the top priority being an irrigation well that will cost $221,000 to install. Other additive bids...
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