Planes on the streets.
Medic one has been phenomenal. SPD has been phenomenal and our very own Rangers are hustling
During these events
The greatest thing, you know, this is a spotlight on our partners, but the collaboration
partners. We learned so much from each other. I would never want to be a wedding planner. I'm able to help in other ways. I've learned so much from this
public space management, OEV internal assistive
Thanks for your opportunity.
Any questions?
Patrick? Yeah. So this is like
What Spokane has.
In the 303 tournament, are you familiar with that? Yeah. But you have various other sports
which street
Does it start and does it end on 7th? Is it like from Olive to Denny?
So it's on the street sports
between Lenore and I believe the 30 tournaments had started
The only difference in those tournaments is that we're focused on the younger kids. They're younger kids that participate in Canada work just what's
It's gonna be 7 different
Thank you.
Anyone else?
Thanks. I have one broader question. I love this. What's the vision?
Well, is this we want to just keep building this out? Do we want to do
More frequent type of events throughout the year? Do we want to
More locations downtown like I can see these ideas and how they're growing and building on them, but I'm missing a little bit more. I guess Patrick might be for you, like, where do we go beyond this? This looks to be incredibly successful with
The events you've done so far, but
Is there sort of bigger wish of where this could go?
So, I would say, like, my team is primarily focused on, like, the permanent
We can facilitate the tournament, which I think are great. We still want to continue to do that and collaborating with PSP, the Office of Economic Development, all of that. I think for my team, we've been exploring new locations for new ones in the right approach
Okay. Looking how can we leverage some open space that isn't being utilized as freight currently, or maybe an alternative, something like that, give me the park site
It's a great open space, but it needed a refresh. So trying to find other opportunities for that in our city from our Shoreline Credence team to any kind of leftover space.
Our team also does all of the right-of-way vacations so we can continue to work
Internally, the different groups normally see how we put more play in our strengths and partnering and then if people want to come do this in our communities
That's kind of what our role is here, is to help support them and facilitate that. Similarly
art wants to do more stuff. Yeah, except come and talk to us, and we can help kind of find those opportunities, use all of our resources internally, to kind of help leverage that and make their lives easier to navigate all of the stepping stones
But the big deal here is that there's a name sponsor putting out enough money to
make it happen and make it work out. Okay. Yeah, the big deal was. I need you guys to come back just because one line can't hear as much
The big objective of the requirements was first make them accessible
And second, make it sustainable financially sustainable.
Which is absolutely
The other thing is
Keep it scaled appropriate, because every time you've got a good idea
People are always asking, you know, expand, expand, expand. Well, maybe instead of expanding, you come up with another so and I think we're finding that
And I really love our partners, just honing in on doing
Doing better on the most achievable goals, i.e. accessibility. And I know Park is coordinating recreation now as to how can they better serve local community centers
Thanks.
All right
And then next item we have is on park rangers. The board has been excited to hear
For a while we're very excited about the park
Ranger program. Anybody got a question like, what is the board gonna ask? Or like, we're just excited. Tell us more. Where are we going? What's happening? So thanks for taking the time to come back to us and talk about
Park Ranchers
Thank you for inviting us. And my name is Daisy. Before I get into the slide, I did want to introduce the team as you know who's in the room. We recently did a refinement
my branch along. We stood up a division which is now called City White Services
And is serving as interim. She can talk a little bit about what's in her division, and then I have a lovely project with the pleasure of her
So I can operate services, the interim director, and I cover our natural resources unit, which is our specialty gardens
Natural area crews
GSP
heavy trees we kind of in that group. I also have our unified care team and then our community services for our Rangers are at and our parks activity.
It's awesome.
He's gonna be my co-presenter today.
Good evening, everyone. John, how you guys? I'm the Resource Branch Manager overseeing Emergency Management, Park Ranger, and our Park Activation Unit.
And I'm monitoring to be fires in Seattle right now. We saw one of us. We have a story unit behind us on Terry Street. There's 240 or 214 residents in that structure. That's why
Just to the east up here and Seattle Fire itself
I get called out, especially on the apartment fires to set up with Red Cross for immediate shelter for people to get this place.
Yes.
Yes, we are here to keep you guys an update on our partnership
So the next few slides is just a refresh certainly has a baseline in regards to the things we want to give
As we all know, our park ridge is fully leak with our
We've got education, we've got engagement and there really are really key to ensuring that people and users of our parks and our assets feel safe and welcome. And it's really done through this human-centered approach
Next slide.
So this is just a refresher in regards to our program timeline. Really, everything kind of kicked off for us when we launched in March of 2023 and we introduced the first cohort and at that moment it was 13 rangers and a supervisor.
We focused on recruiting, onboarding, and training so that we could deploy the first cohort around July of 2023. At that point, it was really focused just on the downtown corridor, and as we all know, 24 towards the end
It got lifted, and we were able to introduce a cohort of new rangers which brings us up to cohort 2, which I believe are around 28
Last year we got to this point of refining the program as we moved into the citywide model. And as you can see, we are just coming into like a full year of what this citywide approach looks like. So I lead into this knowing that this is a constant
continuous improvement as we're learning more about the program, and how to better serve the community
So I'm going to ask John to come up because the next few slides he has more of the details in regards to programs, but we do have two different seasonal hours in regards to how our program works. And so I'll talk about
Yeah, so we kind of go on the seasonal
So, with 28 Rangers for 489 parks, 26 community centers, 4 golf courses
12 pools and 125 plus miles of trail can't be everywhere at once, but we're doing the best we can. So what we've done, we've broken it down to kind of like a
fall, winter, spring, summer type of a program to help deploy the rangers so that we can better utilize and try and get to as many parts we can, even though we know that we have some priority parks that we've got to get to.
That are, kind of high on our priority list, just because of the different activities that's going on, and also some of the other programs, like our beach fire program
A lot of other city activities that we do, because we get called out to help to assist for other activities. So for the what I call the what I call the winter schedule, all winter schedule
Basically, the Rangers start at 6am to 4.30 PM. That's our first show. Then we bring in a second group of Rangers from noon to about 9.30 at night. So, we're constantly going through, and how they're deployed is basically, it's
the two supervisors and the leads will talk to each other and find out what's going on to see if there's something that they need to circle back
monitor, look at. So they really kind of talk to each other to really figure out what else they need to do based on their regular direct controls that they're trying to get to. Our spring-summer schedule, we adjusted that, and that
was by some experimental process we did last year, trying to figure out how can we utilize rangers a little bit better and keep them later at night till closing, because most of our parks close at 11.30 at night, even though there's some variations with some
fire program and stuff, but we want to make sure that we are working together with SPD and our private security. Make sure that our parks at 9 are getting blocked and they're safe. So we altered and we're bringing our first shift in at 9:00 in the morning
about 7.30 PM that helps us out because there are a couple parks like Hall Mine in the Little Saigon area that we literally rangers locked and closed at that gate at night to help
the evening staff. And then we bring in our second shift at 1:30, and then we stay on till about 12 midnight. And again, each one of those senior leads and the supervisors talk to each other
And we've created some email chains so that we can see what's going on in the next group that's can see the reports from the other leads and supervisors that pick up, making sure that we're
Everything that's on the list.
Yeah, so just real quick
John has already shared some of this, but this will share a little bit more about what we do in regards to prioritizing the climate. It's already mentioned each 5 programs, but the previous slide, I think, with the day like with the different times and seasonal work is, you know, we have to consider
How much time we have with the daylight and then when it turns into you know Seattle, a little bit darker than normal. There's that space, but also just trying to be mindful about the programs that we have. Like, obviously, everyone knows right now we're in our peak season. Everything's outside and everything stays out lighter
you know, longer in the day, where when we go into fall and winter, it's a little bit darker, but we still have laid-back programs that are offering. We still have community centers that are activated and are waiting until 9 p.m, so new things that we can to best support.
I would say with this space, do you want to share any other topics that we didn't talk about? No, I think that's good.
Like, as we know right now, we're prioritizing the summer of safety. We're also prioritizing all of our recreation activation programs that are watch parties. We also are prioritizing our hotspots and that could be in relation to
you know, off-leash dogs, it could be related to
All the things that we're dealing with within Parks and Recreation. So, there's a lot of different ways of how we want to pipeline types of recreation, and how that happens
It also is heavily like led by engagement and education, meaning that you know our programs are just running. And so park rangers want to come in and just see what our team programs are right? We'll be in there to support SP who might be in there to support program
You might be there joining a walking soccer clinic, all the things.
Just wanted to show that prioritization.
Next slide.
I will pass this off. All right. So
We're still evolving. I mean, we just re-established a few years ago. We're trying to figure out the best way to capture
Everything that the Rangers do, plus all the requests that are literally coming in. So we started out with some simple Microsoft form apps that were basically capturing what the ranges were actually doing in the field to help us quantify
what we're actually doing, what parts we're going to. So we started thinking about, okay, last year was like, how do we
get this into even a better format, where we could really pinpoint where the rangers are, what parks they're visiting. So, we teamed up with GIS, and we've kind of combined our simple Microsoft Forms application
And we actually included the Gis element into it so that instead of having like
2 different applications that the rangers are actually including outfield. They only have one, and we actually share this with animal control, too, so that we can capture everything that animal control is doing for us as well. So this actually shows you the exact where the rain
happened just this year in 2026. So they've already been to 3,807 patrols. Those are visits per park
So, they've actually done, you know, a pretty good job. The part list literally shows, you know, the frequencies and the red dots actually show the number of times in that area that the rangers are actually
visiting and engaging with folks is a different part. So
Like I said, we're evolving. We went kind of like baby steps in the first couple things with Microsoft Form. We're starting to become a little bit better, a little bit more detail so that we provide really good information to city council on the park
find everything that we're actually doing
And just to double down on the last part of this, we are also again in the spirit of continuous improvement, we also acknowledge that there's other data systems we need to consider. Probably just working in partnership with our other departments, you know, is there a way for us to better connect with the system that
FAS Animal control is using. Is there a better tool or platform that we do in collaboration with SPD so that we have a better way to talk to each other. You're also right now are exploring a partnership with SDOT and FAS to really think about how we can
support each other with the number of illegal vendors and vendors that are happening in our region, those hotspots. So there's a lot of that coordination that's happening as we try to figure out what are the best systems that are in place. So we're not having to duplicate, but really just amplifying things
The city already has so that is a learning lesson for us to this. Just while we're looking at this slide is that list there things left off the list for space. So for instance, you mentioned you closed the gates. How am I? How am I is not on there at all
So are there other areas that you had visited in 26 that just aren't on the list for various reasons? Yes, actually, just the way the
GIS guru or anything. I'm just a hacker. But if you blow this up, you'll actually see. That's what I figured. It's kind of condensed really shows the example because you like this line here
So you can see, you know, like, like when they're walking, you know there's another line that's out there. There's another park there, so it's just condens
Like, Lincoln's not on there, but there's 183 visits to Lincoln
Makes sense. Something called my eyes, that yellow line is really cold with Gis map is that you can really take this map
You can zoom in on it and you can really pinpoint down like, let's just say a park that has multiple points, and you can click on that point, and it will actually give you the rangers report, and actually show you some pictures that they take it.
It's very detailed. That's what I'm saying. We're really evolving GIS into this to help us with the data.
28 rangers go there. All that for 480 parks. So on a shift there is anywhere from four to six rangers on a shift
Because I already got tired. That's me
You mentioned private security as well. As you're talking about the integration of
issues with that factored in as well, put those costs? It's on our playbook, so yeah, we want to double check because private security, they have their own system has their own system. We're just using a free Microsoft systems with the generous help of
GIS to get us to this point, but there are some other systems that can actually collaborate with some of these folks where
All of our information kind of will be shared so that we can actually look up, see, like, for example, when private security is close in our case.
They weren't do any kind of problems or issues
Same thing with SPD is just saying, you know, if, Rangers
put something in the data. SPD will be able to see it. Actually, it's just not SPD. It's the goal citywide is to have it department-wide sharing for fire
parking enforcement, parks, police
are kind of the same thing, but we're not sharing the information
How would the public access that?
We would probably have to go through and check and see public records request to see what we can actually have a public facing
I'm sorry
or through the city of Seattle
through SPR. Yeah, Kerry, you can fall from make a request. Yeah, thanks.
Yeah, no. So this is basically kind of a drawing of the data summary for this year. And you can see that, you know, we really go through that. So we really emphasize the engagement
So, we really have contacted 2,988 people. That's going up to a person, seeing how they're doing, what's going on, how can they, you know, do they need help? Do they need first aid? So it's really engaging with folks
We've captured that, you know, over 1200 times we've educated folks on different park rules. We spent it over 200 finding fixes. We cannot remove anyone that's camped at the park still
So we have to go through the final fix, and so that's probably most of that's, like, a lot of tents that are in the park. There's also, like, graffiti violate, you know, other bands and stuff like that that's there. Verbal warning
We've done over 2,876 verbal learnings, which actually means that we've gotten voluntary compliance
from folks to understand an and engage with them and educating them on their roles. And yes, we have
probably the law enforcement this year because we got through a lot more training with the city attorney's office and SPD and park enforcement. So we've done 2
Verbal trespass warnings. We've done 21 written citations that were issued mostly animals burning off
And then we've done 2 written trespassionately eight different trespass warning on public conduct.
So
John, can I ask? So
Park Ranger comes upon someone illegally camping in a park
their only path
As long as there's not some serious conduct issue, is to go through find and exit.
Yes or no
So, let's just… that's a very good example. So let's just say our rangers come up on somebody at this camp in the park. We'll go up, we'll say, you know, hello, you know, park ranger, you know, are you guys okay? You're tapping a park, you know, we just want to make sure that you know that camping
It's not prohibited. In our parts, can we help you in any way? Can we get you some resources?
We actually will call 911 on our police radios. We'll ask and see if there's a CURES team available to come down to outreach. If not, then we'll call for a community service officer to come and help as well
Our last resort to see if there's any police officers that work with the CARES team to try and get help with these folks. So we do
reach out to them as well, or we'll make a note of it at the same time, let's say it's coming down. We're still putting that encampment that's in the park into find and fix it so that the field coordinator for the unified care team can follow up the next day to see if they're still there
Okay, and if they repeat, it does, thank you. And if they refuse support, they don't want that. We'll put that note
to reach back out to them, or we'll stay there until Ciara actually shows up.
Not the best resource.
Thank you. I would love, you know, in a future report, if you could include those stats too on those connections made, that would be
Colleen
I would just like to amplify on this slide that you can see that through engagement and education, like, voluntary compliance is extremely effective from a preparation standpoint
Which is why you can see all the numbers, so just trying to make it better.
And just a little education for everybody, because a lot of people get confused on this because it is very confusing
So everything on this side here, where we give them a verbal warning, we see that 1812, that is our city municipal code that under the park. So these are civil fractions. So these are the violation
We have a separate ticket book just for the similar fractions
trespass warnings and exclusions are a separate book, and that's just the code of conduct. That's a policy that's part of the smc 1812, but it's actually a part policy code of conduct rules
That have been administered and approved by the park superintendent. So that is a separate this has no auditory or penalty fees where these actually have the county fees and they go directly to the
So just want to make sure that folks understand that there are actually two different
Oh, no, please, Trisha
Hi, I may have missed this, but just looking at the data, there's a huge difference between verbal warnings and written citations. So can you explain what the threshold that determines when a ranger moves from a verbal warning to a written citation
Very good question.
And if there are any demographic data on who receives the written citation versus the verbal warning. Thanks.
Very good question, very good. I'm glad you brought that up. That's a really good point. So we actually have three steps that we actually have to do for the park rangers. We have to start with getting that voluntary compliant
And we keep communicating with the person. Most of the time we are getting that verbal warning and that verbal
clients from those people
If it repeats again, then that's where it goes into the
Written warning.
And then let's just say if it happens a third time, that's when you get into like your written citations and the trespass exclusion. So there's like a three step that we've got to do where the ranger's really got to keep an eye on
And that's probably why you're seeing, like, 1,42
Animal violations out there, and then if you look over to the written citations, you'll see there's 21. So, 3 were animals running at large, 3 were animals running the part that's
prohibited areas kind of like
A good example is baseball soccer field where people are letting their dogs off leash
when there's a game going up for youth soccer game. So you'll see most of those are animals running off these, and those are the people that were actually
On first name basis with. That's why they're getting the written citations, because the rangers have clearly identified them, and that they have gotten verbal work in the past, and they continue to make this rule of leather
Does that help?
Yes, that does. Thank you.
Oh
Did you have the follow up question on profiling concerns?
Right, well, it sounds like they know who these people are because they know them by name. But is there, yeah, I guess just generally, do you also keep demographic data on
Probably it's just like a couple of people that keep doing this.
Just… the only, demographics is literally the person's name who kind of like our repeat vendors.
People have to voluntarily give us their identification to be able to get the full background on a person. Again, we're not police officers, but we are authorized by the superintendent to
Give out the citation for the SMC 1812 art codes and the code of conduct
And that's pretty much as as far as our limitation of authority goes to. So we
cannot force anyone to give us their their identification. They have voluntary give it to us. And if they refuse, we kind of just have to walk away and just kind of remind them about the article that they were violating.
Can I take photos
Only if
There's a danger or a threat to the ranger.
But we just don't go up. We can't have body camps
I
I'm trying to have the right way to phrase this. I'm not surprised at the number of warnings about animals running
around.
But I am, I guess, a little bit concerned that are the Rangers filling in for animal control, right? Is this
Sort of
I understand the examples where
You have dogs running through active play fields
I'm just sort of surprised. Is it just the Rangers are going to the park, and this is what they're finding? I would say yes. Okay. And also, we're getting some calls from our daytime
our quarterly, which is what we call in-house or different dispatch line where we'll get a complaint from like a coach or a
Youth, sports activity and then there's
I believe this is going on. I'm just surprised that more of it isn't going to animal control.
Yeah, that's probably the supporting part.
I think the only other thing I would just share on that is a key piece of how Rangers engage is also about ranger safety
And so they're not going to push an issue. Yeah.
If they don't feel safe to do so, and that's something we're very clear with them, like, so if escalating to a citation is going to escalate the situation, then they don't do that
Definitely kick it off. I think I said this at the beginning, like, Heart Ranger program is really human centered based, right? We do everything we do really is based on connection and interaction that we're having with the user and the person at the park. So
However way or whatever situation it is that we're dealing with, it's kind of unique to each setting, right? Sometimes we have bad days and you know sometimes you have good days. And so what we're
pretty much trying to say, as we're learning how to improve the program, it's more of a science regards to how we want to make this move forward. But definitely want to reinforce that education and engagement, like the voluntary compliance is effective
You know, we know when people see park rangers in our parks, there's this immediately sense of relief and peace to just see them in the in the area. You know, there's situations where we actually can you know either at the right time at the right moment, and we'll, you know sometimes
have to do first aid response immediately if there's things that will put them in danger and better suited for SPP to to deal with
But they're really here to make sure people feel safe and welcome in our parks. I think just kind of double downing on the mission statement that I really feel like this has been really integral to just the program from the beginning.
I would like to remind our folks
injured of our mission statement, because it really is trying to increase the safety in our parks so that everyone can enjoy the park. So you know we do it by providing the best customer service that we can out there. I always tell them
Do not get out of your car and just walk through the parks. I expect you guys to say hello to everyone who passed by the park. See what they're doing a little bit of a situational awareness. Let them know that you're human, you know. Talk to them. Make them feel that you're they're friendly. You're you're
You're safe. But we do this in a uniform presence, and a uniform presence really, I think, helps us so so people that see us in the park, they understand that, okay, here comes, you know, rangers, you know, they know that we're not police officers, but we're going to engage
And then we do have limited if we have to. The baby is really it's providing, you know that quality customer service and getting that volunt
And that's just through engaging with folks out there. That's why our numbers up
It's a lot higher than voluntary compliance, but they're very close together. A lot of times, we're just given directions to people, you know, especially the last couple of weeks, there's a lot of people in from out of town that we're finding out, and a lot of people are literally asking
Who's got the best coffee or who's got the best Seattle dog? And I'm like, I didn't know there was a variation. I was like.
Anyways, but it's building that relationship with the people in the park so that the rangers and folks that are in the park all the time
get to know them on a first-name basis, and that's that building that, you know, the community out there, so that people know that, you know, they can calibrate
We're doing the best we can to do it. Like, again, we've only got 28 graders, 489 parks, 26, 4 golf courses, 12 pools
And 125 miles of trail, but we're gonna do the best. Don't go on the count of all the pools.
So, anyways, but maybe there's by doing that, you know, we're hoping our goals by providing that good customer service that we're hoping that we're deterring a lot of
Some good examples, recent examples that the Rangers have actually encountered. This is last Friday, our beach patrol, Golden Gardens
was on duty. It was about an hour before closing, it was 930, and this one park, user and female came out to one of the rangers, and was very concerned, and said, hey, there are a bunch of
folks in the north parking lot
And they're all displaying firearms and rifles
And so the Rangers did a really good job and they did not create a panic, but they started asking people to just, you know, quietly leave early and start, you know, exiting the park
At the same time, one of the other Ranger's calling police for backup. They gave a good description of folks cars that were involved
They've positioned themselves to let the police officers know at the gate which cars it was and they were able to stop them and to encounter them
They encountered several firearms and
So that was a really good point of situational awareness supply and the action that they actually took to make sure that part users were safe. And there was probably over
Mostly kids trying to celebrate their graduation for the high schools. Some of them didn't want to leave that we got another good one was we had the
Three grand opening for Westlake Park
This one gentleman came up to us, he wasn't feeling very well, so we had to provide first aid for, and then we had to call Medic one and he had strangling low blood pressure. He had another TBR to the hospital
Not once
12 minutes before
Yeah, police are required on the scene.
So, these folks are doing a great job. They're just not patrolling the parks, looking at the park code and getting the folks, but they're really first responders providing first aid and customer service.
And trying to figure out where the best Seattle dog is.
John, did you see, are they all CPR trained? Yes, it's required first aid CPR
trauma, stuff that we so yes. Great. And based on the impact you're seeing, are there hopes to expand the program and have more rangers in the future?
But you're seeing enough positive
We are now tracking the amount of requests that we're getting
If people want your presence in their nearby parks, how do they just call our work order line and put in a request for the park rangers to be at a park.
Thank you, everyone.
I had a question. I can't tell if, is this an okay time? Okay.
Yeah, sure, James, please.
Okay, first, thanks, John and and Daisy, for the presentation and all the data you were starting to touch a little bit about the training that these folks have, and it just it seems like that they are put in a wide range of situations
And I'm curious what the training is like, and then also what sort of retention you're seeing.
We do an in-house six week training. We model it after our last park ranger program we've expanded. We bring in the city attorney's office. We bring in fire
ODs. We also, do some collaboration with the community service officers and now the CARES team and 911 for, most of the time actually for a full week, Rangers will be in the 911 dispatch next to a dispatcher listening to both a fire
pick up the language and the cadence that they need to use on the radio to be very
clear
To the point so that to whatever incident that they're involved in. But we also do a lot of OAB training that's a lot of de-escalation training
to de-escalate, because again, you know, police officers. The only thing that the rangers literally have as a tool is explaining
And are uniform. Everything else is basically what we call verbal judo so that we can help de-escalate a situation using our voice very calmly to help calm folks down
and get them to understand and to start a communication conversation with us, so that we can understand
what need that they're going through, what impacts are… how we can better serve them
Any other questions?
I just had one. I just was looking at the mission. And if you had to think about the types of metrics by which you would measure success
over a period of time. And as you define a number, you know, measure right now, but what are the types of things that you'd want to be able to look for? And they might be things that are, like, they're hard to gather, right?
Like, I think there's, like, for example, you're gonna get… there's a public sentiment. Like, do I feel safe in park? If I could get answers to that type of questions, I would know I'm doing my job. But I'm trying to say if there are other things that maybe could or want to measure that would say, yes, we feel the program successful
And that would be able to help
Communities see that, and, you know, if they want more of it, help advocate for more of this type of support
We just started working with the police analytic team where what I think that would be really important to see is to measure
and compare
the years of like without arrangers from like
2020 to 2023 to when they were first like it was on the ground 425, 26 and compare the park M11 calls.
During the time the Rangers are on ship, because we don't have a brick on ship, you just don't have enough people for that, but we do have a morning shift and an afternoon ship head to the sea
How many say if the Rangers are affected by reducing the 911 bills to our parks
Versus when we did not have so that's kind of like one of the metrics I work on right now, just to kind of compare just to see there's some other ones I think that we
I'm not sure how to capture it, but it's that human element of like all the
First day calls, the meta calls. How many times have we administered Narcan? I mean, it's in their notes, but we don't really have a place to capture that. I mean, this is how bad some of the synthetics are on the street
Typically, one dose of spray out of one Narcan would do the trick. And you've got a two hour period for that person when they are revived to get them to the hospital because it's only a two hour fix, right?
But we're finding out the last one is that we have to hit folks 4 times
That's four separate
And they're coming back, and there's no thank you. It's
Huge has rectified you guys up for it. That's what they have.
Okay. To capture, you know, that type of metric with
Because it's something that's gone unsung where we don't, and I don't think I highlighted enough for my work because most of the time we're stated people on this
I think there's something, too, about I don't disagree with what you're saying, John, but I
There's also a lot of
The same amount like
Your idea of like the ball field folks being able to continue their game. And that's not a 911 call, right? So just as we think about like
Is park use happening the way we envision park use? Because we have a
A more proactive engagement from this team that is not the, you know, the
911 response type of issue and like that just makes our
Civic
Community bill do their thing about it, right? So I don't know how to capture that part, but just you know I don't want it to only be about life and death and guns versus it like there there is 911 for those things, right? Also for
You know, there's not runs on the ball field and kids aren't hurting their ankle because they dogs weren't running wild that morning and get in there
And so I think there's something about
That type of
Part code
They didn't realize this
Get up to near or on the park or by the playground.
kids are playing on the playground. So there's a lot of parents who are quit smoking because the park rangers that talk to the east
Especially next to your kid who's
It'd be good to see the number of campers connected services
Thank you. Yeah.
All right, well, we have a few minutes. If anyone has any
New or old business thing to follow up on
Trisha, did you have a comment on this online? I'm sorry, I couldn't see the chat.
Oh no, it's more of, I don't know if it's a new or old business question.
So I just wanted to ask staff if they could share what role parks and Rec is playing in this year's Juneteenth events, and if it's like direct programming or in-kind support like permits
And yeah, that's essentially my question.
But I didn't know where I would place that question.
Okay.
I know we have events going on. I don't have that in front of me right now, so we can send it out as a follow up, but we do obviously we support a lot of events happening in our parks and we do some programmatic elements, but
Sorry, Trisha, that's a great question.
Okay, thanks.
I think we had a nice feature on it last year. There was a couple of call-outs, so I remember that as well.
I love that.
I was looking forward to it. That's okay. Thank you.
Or anything else? I think we'll go ahead and adjourn the meeting a few minutes early. Thanks everyone for coming. Appreciate your time.
Thanks, everyone.