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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2016-06-07 PRC Regular Meeting Agenda Packet CITY OF PALM DESERT �l , ,�1� PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION C.PT) ;l kti : POSTED AGENDA •••.;.' y;;..*F. Tuesday, June 07, 2016 — 8:30 a.m. Administrative Conference Room — Palm Desert Civic Center 73-510 Fred Waring Drive, Palm Desert, California 92260 1. CALL TO ORDER II. ROLL CALL III. ORAL COMMUNICATIONS Any person wishing to discuss any item not on the agenda may address the Parks and Recreation Commission at this point by giving his/her name and address for the record. This is the time and place for any person who wishes to comment on items not on the agenda. It should be noted that at the Parks and Recreation Commission's discretion, these comments may be deferred until such time on the agenda as the item is discussed. Remarks shall be limited to a maximum of five minutes, unless additional time is authorized by the Commission. IV. CONSENT CALENDAR A. MINUTES OF THE PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION MEETING OF TUESDAY, APRIL 05, 2016. Rec: Approve as presented Action: V. NEW BUSINESS A. BLM ANNUAL REPORT B. DESERT X: HOMME ADAMS PARK - Presentation by Staff POSTED AGENDA PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION JUNE 07, 2016 VI. CONTINUED BUSINESS NONE VII. OLD BUSINESS NONE VIII. PRESENTATIONS AND UPDATES A. RIVERSIDE SHERIFF'S PALMA VILLAGE ACTIVITY B. CIP PROGRESS REPORT C. VISION SAN PABLO RECAP D. PARK USE REPORT - University Park & Dog Park E. PALM DESERT AQUATIC CENTER F. FAMILY YMCA OF THE DESERT G. DESERT RECREATION DISTRICT - First Tee Update IX. STAFF AND COMMISSIONER COMMENTS X. ADJOURNMENT I hereby certify under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California that the foregoing agenda for the Parks and Recreation Commission was posted on the City Hall bulletin board not less than 72 hours prior to the meeti !. Dated this 3`I day of June 2016. .1.4.AA04 . wAng lirarron, Recording Secretary 2 CITY OF PALM DESERT N.N.. PRELIMINARY MINUTES = PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION A ,� � = REGULAR MEETING Fo= ,44,11 "'•«•.......N••sal TUESDAY, APRIL 05, 2016 — 8:30 a.m. Administrative Conference Room — Palm Desert Civic Center 73-510 Fred Waring Drive, Palm Desert, California 92260 CALL TO ORDER Chair Jerry Dawson convened the meeting at 8:30 a.m. II. ROLL CALL Present: Absent Chair Jerry Dawson Vice Chair Mary Helen Kelly Commissioner Raymond Rodriguez Commissioner Randy Guyer Commissioner Kim Housken Commissioner Lynn B. Jutovsky Commissioner Deborah Hall Commissioner Mike Hardin Commissioner Lindsay Holt, Alternate Ex-Officio Members: Rob Ballew, YMCA of the Desert Kevin Kalman, Desert Recreation District Also Present: Rudy Acosta, Acting City Manager Mark Greenwood, P.E., Director of Public Works Ryan Stendell, Director of Community Development Kim Warpinski, Management Analyst Randy Chavez, Landscape Supervisor Sabby Jonathan, Council Liaison Van Tanner, Council Alternate Liaison Angie Marron, Recording Secretary Guests: David Keyes, Aquatic Center Brenda Nutcher, Desert Recreation District Deborah McGarrey, Friends of the Desert Mountain John Greenwood, Chair Planning Commission 1 PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION MINUTES APRIL 05, 2016 III. ORAL COMMUNICATIONS Ryan Stendell introduced Kim Warpinski, he stated that she is the new successful candidate for the Parks and Recreation Committee. Following the introduction from Mr. Stendell, Chair Dawson asked the commissioners to introduce themselves to Kim, and delightedly welcomed Ms. Warpinski. IV. CONSENT CALENDAR A. MINUTES OF THE REGULAR MEETING OF TUESDAY, JANUARY 05, 2016 Rec: Approve as presented Upon a motion by Vice Chair Kelly, second by Commissioner Guyer, and 9-0 vote of the Commission, (AYES: Kelly, Guyer, Hall, Dawson, Housken, Jutovsky, Hardin, Rodriguez, Holt; NOES: None) the Consent Calendar was approved as presented. V. NEW BUSINESS A. CONCUSSION DISCUSSION Chair Dawson introduced this subject because he feels it reflects on our parks and hiking trails. Kim Warpinski stated that she did some research on the topic and presented the commission with the information she found. Some of the information was a publication from the Institute of Medicine, and the other was from a concussion foundation. Ms. Warpinski also mentioned that she spoke to one of the park inspectors, and all but two parks passed the federal standards that provide the best protocol in the prevention of concussions and injuries. That being said, only small elements were lacking, not the entire parks' infrastructure. The two schools that did not meet federal standards were, Washington Charter and Hovley Soccer Park. Commissioner Hall asked why Washington Charter is not up to standard, and that it should be tended to with urgency because it is located in a school. Randy Chavez stated that they did an audit and conducted a head impact test, with a drop ball and part of the surfacing did not pass, due to kids pulling, tugging and removing it. Those areas have been addressed, and they will be renewed this summer. Hovley Soccer Park will also be redone within a month or so. Some areas do tend to deteriorate faster than others. The whole park playground will also get a new surface. Mark Greenwood mentioned that every park will 2 PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION MINUTES APRIL 05, 2016 fail, within a ten year span. This is expensive material, we try and get max life out of existing material and then renew it. Chair Dawson mentioned the two issues, surface and activities are concussion related. Basketball is the most contact sport as well as football that might relate to the concussion issue. It is too hot out there for synthetic turf, it is all natural turf for the DRD. Rob Ballew stated there is limited amount of activity with flag football and all playgrounds at the schools have their own guidelines as well. Kevin Kalman asked if they reseal, and Mr. Chavez stated that they don't reseal, they follow the manufactures guidelines. Vice Chair Kelly made a great point, the over-all good that our city and parks and recreation department provides to the children is wonderful. However, protecting everyone is not quite possible. Ms. Warpinski made a great statement; educating key personnel on this topic is a great proponent in prevention. B. MONTHLY CIP PROGRESS REPORT Kim Warpinski wanted to make everyone aware that following the next meeting there will be an overview of CIP project status provided. Commissioner Guyer asked about the 20 year plan, and if there was anything moving forward. Ryan Stendell noted that they spoke to BBK, our City Attorney, and he will have Kim do some more research on the topic. Kevin Kalman mentioned that the DRD can house a fund for the City of Palm Desert and expand the number of board members if necessary. VI. CONTINUED BUSINESS NONE VII. OLD BUSINESS NONE VIII. PRESENTATIONS AND UPDATES A. VISION SAN PABLO Ryan Stendell announced that there will be some articles and posters going up in, and around city hall. The first week of May, there will be an event on San Pablo in addition there will also be an informal block party, to introduce the concept of San Pablo to the community. The city will have local vendors, food trucks, and a beer garden, to offer a fun evening. The Italian Deli and El Rodeo restaurant will also participate and have their businesses open during the event. Mr. Stendell is also working with SKAG, on a ten day demonstration project. It will be a great and cool event for everyone to attend. The event space will be from Alessandro to the stop sign, and the demo project will occur up to the first community 3 PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION MINUTES APRIL 05, 2016 garden, Guadalupe. Commissioner Rodriguez asked what the time frame for this event was. May 4th to 11th will be the demo project. Saturday, May 7th 5:30 to 10 pm will be the informal block party. Sabby Jonathan reminded everyone that this event is in conjunction to the First Weekend Palm Desert, not only envision this, but also experience this vision. Moving forward, after this event, they are looking for City Council approval. Commissioner Guyer asked about Palma Village Park and the conjunction with this Vision San Pablo, and if there is anything that needs to be done to upgrade that park, because it will be impacted with this Vision. The park is not over utilized; it is well used but not over utilized. Commissioner Jutovsky feels it is a great idea and is excited for this event. B. FRIENDS OF THE DESERT MOUNTAINS WILDFLOWER FESTIVAL Deborah McGarrey the Vice Chair for Friends of the Desert Mountains, presented the follow up for the 9th Annual Wildflower Festival event. Ms. McGarrey stated that this was a great event located at the National Monument, and had well over 1200 attendees. Parking was available at St. Margaret's and patrons were shuttled to the event, at no cost. It's a great time for people to hike, enjoy educational vendors, children's activities, and dozens of sponsors, including the City of Palm Desert. The beer garden was a successful vendor, and the wonderful sand sculpture was also a great hit, and is still there. We were also able to accommodate disabled visitors, what was once a dirt path is now a brick path. This event was also tied with the City's First Weekend and there was a lot of advertisement, which brought a lot of first time visitors. One other thing, we had a lot of rack cards distributed to the local hotels, which gave a 70 percent increase on their website of hits. Finally, there was great feedback on how well organized the event was. C. PARK USE REPORT - Palma Village Park Kim Warpinski announced that moving forward, for every park discussion, there will be a brief synopsis of improvements, maintenance, and project status provided for the park in review. Mark Greenwood also mentioned that there will be a new City Sourced App, available for citizens to report any park or city street issues. We are looking into how the parks are getting used, and how they can be used. Commissioner Hall mentioned that the commissioners should take it upon themselves to scope the parks. The park is in good shape with the only issue being, the people that live in the park. They don't seem to be building any permanent structures, but the majority of the time, there are people camped out in the corner away from the play area. Kids tend to sit around and meet, and gather and talk, which makes it a great use for the park. Commissioner Housken went by there on Easter and it was being 4 PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION MINUTES APRIL 05, 2016 well used for the holiday. Commissioner Guyer asked if it is possible to provide some sort of police report with the park use reports if any issues or problems to occur. Mark Greenwood also stated that Palma Village is a frequent heavy drug use park. Sabby Jonathan indicated that the issue of the homeless community is being addressed by the CVAG Homeless Committee. Historically the focus of that committee is the impact of the homeless in our parks. The issues that arise, is their use of our parks, whether it be drinking or drugs that affects the use of other park patrons. Part of the solution is to get mental health works involved, because it is a growing issue. The commission needs to be aware of that, with that being said, he invites the commission to get involved and mentioned that there will be an upcoming workshop with CVAG. Rudy Acosta mentioned if it is possible, next meeting we should invite the new police captain to give a short overview in regards to the issues at the parks. D. PALM DESERT AQUATIC CENTER David Keyes reported for Karen Creasy. He mentioned that the aquatic center managed to get a feature ad in two magazines, The Power of Water and The Parks and Rec Business Magazines. Spring break went very well. There was a great turn out for Easter, well over 700 attendees. Mr. Keyes also noted that they are currently hiring life guards as well. Kicking off on May 21st will be the first day to sign up for swim lessons for the summer. Commissioner Guyer asked if there is a max number for the Easter event. The max is over 800 so there is still room to grow. TYR did have a photo shoot at the facility and will send it over to Ryan Stendell. Over 80 percent of the shots is our pool, and there is revenue that generated from those shoots, and there is a significant amount. Commissioner Hall would like those articles scanned and provided to the commissioners. E. FAMILY YMCA OF THE DESERT Rob Ballew stated the following: • Basketball — 250 kids • Flag Football — 125 kids • Day Camp — 60 kids • Youth Government — 62 kids • Y Rookies — 47 kids • Easter Egg-hunt— 883 kids, plus families Mr. Ballew also mentioned that there is a Golf Tourney that will take place on May 5th. There is also the upcoming Reverse Mini Triathlon in October. He also took the opportunity to express how beautiful the roses look at 5 PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION MINUTES APRIL 05, 2016 Civic Center Park; he commended city staff for keeping them looking gorgeous. F. DESERT RECREATION DISTRICT Kevin Kalman stated that the First Tee Invitational will be held on April 22nd Second, we are also in the process of reconfiguring the Community Center for a number of reasons. We are looking into redoing the roofs, and replacing the 20 year old air conditioning units. Mr. Kalman also mentioned that they stopped distributing activity guides by mail to cut costs. Last winter however, the activity guides were mailed and it made a difference in activity in the center. Brenda Nutcher stated that the DRD partnered with AAA for the Teen Driving Program, center programming has grown within the last two months. Ms. Nutcher also mentioned The Senior Games were down due to the soccer person taking his entire soccer team to Palm Springs. There will be soccer next year, and the only downfall was that nobody showed up for the wine reception. We did have the highest rating for pickleball, volleyball was the largest sport followed by pickleball. IX. COMMISSIONER COMMENTS Commissioner Jutovsky mentioned that she has a lot of volunteers that come down from out of the area to help volunteer at the BNP, and they mentioned how great the facility for pickleball is over at Freedom Park. Kevin Kalman wanted to remind everyone, if they haven't gone out to see the wildflowers, make time to do so. The Art Smith Trail has an abundance of gorgeous wildflowers. Commissioner Hardin commented on the new proposed City Sourced App and on how everyone will have access to reporting incidents, he has his reservations as it can turn into a full time job. He has the opportunity to be at most of these parks and he was recently at two of them and he sees what goes on, and there is four or five landscaping people that take care of one area versus the four to five hundred people that visit the parks. There is a small city crew and a large crowd that visit all the city parks. He feels as a commission we need to find a way to support staff. Commissioner Guyer stated that he tried to find negative comments on the Senior Games, and there were none. Everyone seemed to be very happy because the venue allows everyone to be together at the same time all day long, get it done and get out of there. He hopes this can continue to have that event in the same venue, rather than get split up. 6 PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION MINUTES APRIL 05, 2016 Commissioner Housken just followed up with Ryan Stendell in regards to the Vision San Pablo event, and confirmed when the next meeting date and time is, because this sounds like a really exciting event. Mark Greenwood mentioned that University Dog Park is next on the agenda. Mr. Greenwood wants to ask everyone to bear with him. It is currently not in the best state due to the drought issues, it's also a highly active turf, and it really suffered. Funds have been added to next year's budget to replace some of the turf. Water will also be turned up a bit this summer, only in the highly active areas. Mr. Greenwood reminded everyone to be patient since it takes 6 months or more to see improvements. Sabby Jonathan gave kudos to Mark Greenwood, Randy Chavez and the rest of the staff on the great job they did out on the ball fields, they look great. Just a few weeks prior they were not in the best condition. On opening day, operating under the challenges with the water measures, he could not believe how wonderful they turned out. X. ADJOURNMENT With unanimous consent of the Commission, the meeting was adjourned at 10:00 a.m. Angie Marron, Recording Secretary 7 Annual Report,July 1,2015 to June 30,2016 Contract No. C34350 MOU with Bureau of Land Management Per Contract No. C34350, stipulation I.B.,the BLM is to provide an annual report to the City regarding expenditure of the City's contributed funds in accordance with the MOU that was approved by the Mayor on May 14, 2015,and the BLM Field Manager on June 2, 2015. This annual report is submitted for the period of July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2016 to coincide with the City's current fiscal year, and in advance of payment by the City for said period.A courtesy statement/invoice is concurrently submitted to the City for$25,000.00 per stipulations II.A. of the Contract. II.A.The City of Palm Desert shall provide funding not to exceed$40,000 annually to the BLM for the following: (1)Law Enforcement Ranger patrols of roads,trails,trailheads,facilities, and lands within the National Monument—patrols conducted with funds contributed by the City will occur on lands within the City; and(2)management of the trails within the National Monument where located on City lands. Of these funds,no less than$30,000 is to be allocated by the BLM for law enforcement patrols, and no more than$10,000 is to be allocated for trail management. Should the BLM incur costs less than $10,000 for trail management,the difference between$10,000 and the costs of trail management may be allocated for law enforcement patrols on City lands within the National Monument. Due to circumstances beyond the BLM's control,the law enforcement ranger normally assigned to patrol City lands within the National Monument was out of service from July 1 through November 30,2015. Therefore,to maintain consistency with costs per patrol hour as cited in the annual reports for 2013 through 2015,the payment request for law enforcement patrols is reduced from$30,000.00 as provided for in the Contract/MOU to $25,000.00. Report Law enforcement: Patrol days/hours and contacts/warnings/citations/arrests recorded within the City of Palm Desert and the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument by BLM Law Enforcement Ranger Wesley Miller 2015 2016 20161 Total Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun days -- -- -- -- -- 12 11 11 15 12 12 12 85 hrs -- -- -- -- -- 46 50 55 69 55 55 55 385 con -- -- -- -- -- 77 45 65 116 303 warn -- -- -- -- -- 3 9 7 2 no report pending actual 21 contacts,warnings, cite -- -- -- -- -- -- arst -- 4 5 1 citations,and arrests 10 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- days=days of patrol;hrs=hours of patrol;con=information contacts;warn=written warnings;cite=citations;arst=arrests Law enforcement ranger support costs,prorated for patrol hours identified above, which comprise 29 percent of a standard work-year as determined for administrative purposes (1,760 hours): 'In lieu of actual figures for April,May, and June 2016,which are not available at this time,patrol days and hours are an average of those for the months of December through March,2015-2016. Page 1 of2 Capital Improvement Projects Recently Completed Projects: • Playground resurfacing at the Hovley Soccer Park and at Freedom Park • The Homme Adams park shelter is on order and will be done by the end of the fiscal year. • The basketball courts were resurfaced and we also replaced the roses at the Joe Mann Park rose garden FY 16/17 Projects: o Washington Charter Park o Install new poured in place playground surfacing over entire playground. o Sod worn areas. o Install new smart irrigation controller o Cahuilla Hills Park o Install new smart irrigation controller o Ironwood Park o Replace shade covers over playground o Magnesia Falls Park: o Install shade covers over playground o Freedom Park o Remove skate park ramps and install shade cover and tables o Hovley Soccer Park o Replace existing table tops and seating areas with recycled concrete table tops and benches • s • DESERT RECREATION DISTRICT Date: June 2, 2016 To: Palm Desert Parks and Recreation Commission From: Brenda Nutcher, Community Services Coordinator Subject: April Activity Report (Numbers reflect activity through April 30, 2016) Palm Desert Community Center PD Gym and Fitness Center • 5275 members utilized the gymnasium and fitness Member Scans 5275 center facilities Drop In/Daily Pass 318 • 318 additional gym and fitness center users paid the Total 5593 daily walk-in fee • 313 people registered for classes, camps and special Memberships Sold programs Fitness Pass 131 • 194 additional people participated in classes on a Desert Willow 336 drop in basis The First Tee 15 • 336 Desert Willow Resident Cards issued Skate Park 57 • 131 Fitness Center Passes issued • 1 Community Center rentals for the month of April Total 539 Portola Community Center Activity Enrollments • 42 rental reservations Tae Kwon Do 26 • 183.5 hours of rental use Sports 27 Health and Fitness 95 Palm Desert Parks Reagan Intramural Sports 59 • 325 park reservations After School/Camp 37 • 1916.5 hours of rental use Music/dance 41 Palm Desert Skate Park Tiny Tots 28 • 57 skate park memberships sold Total 313 • 126 skaters used the park Drop-in Class Participation • 154 bikers used the park Fitness 115 Dance 33 Pickleball/table tennis 213 Sports 46 Total 407 Palm Desert Community Center First Tee Golf Course Use • We are partnering with the city to add fun activities Driving Range 649 to the Vision San Pablo event on May 7, 2016. DRD 9-Hole Youth 170 will have a children's zone with face painting and 9-Hole Adult 534 activities throughout the event,Trips for Kids will be Lessons 0 giving guided tours down San Pablo, The 1st Tee will Misc. Usage 14 teaching children golf, Gymnastics will bring their Total 1367 mats, all of our different instructors will either be giving lessons on having the children put on a Rentals by Location performance at different times during the day. • The beautiful weather has the parks in full use and Civic Center Park 124 almost all the pavilions at Civic Center are reserved Freedom Park 87 every weekend. Olsen Field 29 • Another School year is almost behind us. We are PD Soccer Park 85 planning summer camp. We will be partnering with PD Community Center 58 Desert Sands Unified School District to offer the free Portola Center 42 lunch program again. FIND will be bring the Farmer's Total 425 Market back every Wednesday with free fruits and vegetables for the camper's to take home. Rentals by Facility Type • June 7, 2016 we will be closing the gymnasium and become a polling place for the day. Amphitheater 5 Football Field 22 Gymnasium 12 First Tee Multipurpose Room 88 Pavilion 15 Programming Update—No Update Provided Softball Field 189 Soccer Field 94 Total 425 Hours Rented by Location Civic Center Park 1004 Freedom Park 448 Olsen Field 124.50 PD Soccer Park 340 PD Community Center 182.75 Portola Center 183.50 Total 2282.75 Hours Rented by Facility Type Amphitheater 80 Football Field 98 Gymnasium 36 Multipurpose Room 330.25 Pavilion 240 Softball Field 1090.5 Soccer Field 408 2282.75 • s • DESERT RECREATION DISTRICT Date: June 2, 2016 To: Palm Desert Parks and Recreation Commission From: Brenda Nutcher, Community Services Coordinator Subject: May Activity Report Palm Desert Community Center PD Gym and Fitness Center • 4956 members utilized the gymnasium and fitness Member Scans 4956 center facilities Drop In/Daily Pass 268 • 268 additional gym and fitness center users paid the Total 5224 daily walk-in fee • 237 people registered for classes, camps and special Memberships Sold programs Fitness Pass 156 • 143 additional people participated in classes on a Desert Willow 188 drop in basis The First Tee 15 • 188 Desert Willow Resident Cards issued Skate Park 40 • 156 Fitness Center Passes issued • 2 Community Center rentals for the month of May Total 399 Portola Community Center Activity Enrollments • 43 rental reservations Tae Kwon Do 25 • 184.25 hours of rental use Sports 33 Health and Fitness 23 Palm Desert Parks Reagan Intramural Sports 68 • 318 park reservations After School/Camp 15 • 1986 hours of rental use Music/dance 45 Palm Desert Skate Park Tiny Tots 28 • 40 skate park memberships sold Total 237 • 116 skaters used the park Drop-in Class Participation • 188 bikers used the park Fitness 73 Dance 19 Pickleball/table tennis 216 Sports 51 Total 359 Palm Desert Community Center First Tee Golf Course Use • At the Vision San Pablo event on May 7, 2016 we Driving Range 393 surveyed guests. We asked if they were aware that 9-Hole Youth 76 Palm Desert Residents could purchase a 9-Hole Adult 302 membership card to use our facility for $25 a year. Lessons 0 58 % were aware 42% were not aware. We also Misc. Usage 19 asked if they were aware the center offers dance, Total 790 fitness, music, sports, after school and summer camp programs. 70%were aware and 30% were not Rentals by Location aware. We had a very nice day and everyone enjoyed the activities offered throughout the day. Civic Center Park 115 • Another School year is almost behind us. We are Freedom Park 87 planning summer camp. We will be partnering with Olsen Field 27 Desert Sands Unified School District to offer the free PD Soccer Park 89 lunch program again. FIND will be bring the Farmer's PD Community Center 51 Market back every Wednesday with free fruits and Portola Center 43 vegetables for the camper's to take home. Total 412 • June 7, 2016 we will be closing the gymnasium and become a polling place for the day. Rentals by Facility Type Amphitheater 4 First Tee Football Field 21 Gymnasium 2 Programming Update— Multipurpose Room 92 Pavilion 7 : As the Spring 8 week session is winding down we are Softball Field 192 gearing up for our 11 weeks of Summer camps along with Soccer Field 94 our Advance Q school camps, Saturday NEW PLAYer class Total 412 and our all new Evening summer practice series. This spring session has been great and broke more records. We had about 380 juniors involved in classes this spring and that is Hours Rented by Location about a 5-10% increase from last spring. We had many Civic Center Park 848 different outreach events with Vision San Pablo, Friday night Freedom Park 535.5 at the children museum, Summer camp expo at the River Olsen Field 79 and many other golf outings. We also ran a class at the PD Soccer Park 205.5 Barbara Sinatra Children Center that was absolutely PD Community Center 187 AMAZING for the 8 juniors that participated. We really made Portola Center 184.25 an impact on those youth's lives and hope to get them in the normal TFT program. We also ran another class at The Total 2039.25 Academy at the Presbyterian Church in Palm Desert with 13 young ones. Hours Rented by Facility Type Amphitheater 64 Golf Center Activities: With the seasonal departure of our Football Field 174 winter residents, the golf course and practice range activity Gymnasium 19 has started to significantly slow. This pattern will continue Multipurpose Room 352.25 as the increasing temperature drive our golfers to the early Pavilion 112 morning and early evening hours. Accordingly, we have Softball Field 1088.5 Soccer Field 229.5 2039.25 adjusted our hours of operation to reflect this business pattern. Commencing late May, our hours of operation will be 7:00A— 12:00P, 5:00P —8:00P daily. This will also correspond with our summer camp activities which will be held weekdays 8:30A— 11:30P. Also, as we get further into the summer, we will review the potential of reducing certain 'slow' days of the week hours to best use operational hours and dollars. As we continue to learn our customer needs, we held two Golf Center Parking lot sales in both February and March. Selling an assortment of donated goods, we raised in excess of $3,000. and will look for other opportunities to expand this promotion next season. As we enter the summer season, we can review the prime season activities with the primary overall impact being felt with the reduced volume of Canadian golfers. While we realized slight improvement Year over Year owing to significantly more outreach and marketing,the dollar exchange rate caused both fewer and reduced seasonal visitors from north of the border. We will continue to monitor for the upcoming fall season. Finally, overall golf course conditioning continue to show positive as we transition form our winter rye grass to the warm season Bermuda grass with good golfer response. The First Tee Outreach/Board: Our The First Tee Board continues to increase it's engagement and participation with TFT activities. The larger sized board has been organized to include four separate committees including Programming/Volunteers, Marketing, Strategic Planning/Board Development and Fundraising/Special Events. These committees have now starting meeting with each group crafting their initiatives and goals to be developed and acted upon. We also continue to utilize the resources of the National The First Tee organization. To that end, Mike Wales, TFT Board President and Tim Skogen, TFT Executive Director traveled to Denver for a 4 day training session highlighted with key topics such as Strategic Planning, Board Governance and Chapter Fundraising. These meetings also enabled our attendees to grow their TFT networking resources and expand their best practices library. Further, on April 22nd, TFT-Coachella Valley held it's annual Golf Invitational at Desert Island Country Club with over 84 participants enjoying a fun day on the links in addition to great food, silent and live auction activities. We thank the members of Desert Island for providing such a great venue for our event. Finally, in an anticipation of the fall season outreach and fundraising , we have received our TFT — CV promotional video which we will incorporate into our TFT presentations.