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Parks and Human Services Committee April 19, 2018
Minutes Kent Washington
Approved
Date: April 19, 2017
Time: 5:00 p.m.
Place: Council Chambers
Attending: Chair Brenda Fincher, Councilmembers Bill Boyce, and Satwinder Kaur
Agenda:
1. Call to Order
Chair Brenda Fincher called the meeting to order at 6:01 p.m.
2. Roll Call
Chair Brenda Fincher, Councilmembers Bill Boyce and Satwinder Kaur in attendance.
3. Changes to the Agenda
There were no changes to the agenda.
4. Minutes dated March 15, 2018
MOTION: Councilmember Kaur moved to approve the minutes dated March 15, 2018.
Councilmember Boyce seconded. The motion passed 3-0.
5. Resolution for Grant Application #18-1527 to the Recreation and
Conservation Office for Service Club Ballfields Drainage – Recommend
Every other year staff pursues funding for park development and/or acquisition of
property through the Washington Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO). Staff is
requesting authorization to submit a grant application to the RCO Washington Wildlife
and Recreation program to fund drainage improvements for three fields at Service
Club Ballfields Park. The application is submitted this year, funding occurs the
following year contingent legislative approval in July, and the timeline would be the
year after to begin improvements.
MOTION: Councilmember Boyce moved to recommend council adopt the resolution
authorizing the submittal of grant application #18-1527 to the Recreation and
Conservation Office, to assist in funding drainage improvements at Service Club
Ballfields Park. Councilmember Kaur seconded.
The motion passed 3-0.
6. Park Planning & Development Division Overview – Information
Hope Gibson, Park Planning & Development Manager, shared with the Committee a
summary of the City’s Park Planning & Development responsibilities, in an effort to
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educate and inform the Committee and to allow for any questions to be answered, as
well as open dialogue and discussion.
7. Parks and Recreation Commission, Ordinance Update – Recommend
The Mayor and staff are introducing a new Commission position – an ‘alternate,’ to
be appointed and confirmed by Mayor and City Council. This ‘alternate’ position would
serve in a nonvoting capacity, except when a regular member is absent from a
meeting, at which point the alternate would then serve as a pro tempore member and
will have the ability to vote on all matters coming before the Commission at that
meeting. The alternate will not be required to assume a vacant commission spot but
will have the option to do so. We are reducing the youth members from two to one. In
building the youth initiative, we will have a Youth Commission that will be called on
for input.
MOTION: Councilmember Kaur moved to recommend Council amend Section 2.60.020
of the Kent City Code to reduce the membership of the Parks and Recreation
Commission from 16 to 12 members; to provide for only one youth representative
position, and to create an alternate position on the Commission. Councilmember Boyce
seconded.
The motion passed 3-0.
8. Human Services Commission, Ordinance Update –Recommend
The Mayor and staff are introducing a new Commission position – an ‘alternate,’ to be
appointed and confirmed by Mayor and City Council. This ‘alternate’ position would
serve in a nonvoting capacity, except when a regular member is absent from a
meeting, at which point the alternate would then serve as a pro tempore member and
will have the ability to vote on all matters coming before the Commission at that
meeting.
MOTION: Councilmember Boyce moved to recommend Council amend Section
2.53.040 of the Kent City Code to create an alternate position on the Human Services
Commission. Councilmember Kaur seconded.
The motion passed 3-0.
09. Director's Report – Information Only
Parks is putting in a request for proposal for a marketing and outreach plan. The plan
will help to identify our marketing collateral better and how are we doing reaching
populations we normally do not reach. It will also identify how we are utilizing social
media for our true brand and how we tell our story to the community. In creating the
strategy document, we will be working internally on how best to deliver our services.
CBDG application cycle closed. We received 97 applications, of which 86 applications
were complete. Currently, the applications are under review by the Human Services
Department.
RFP for the new restaurant concessionaire at the Riverbend Golf Course closes May 11th.
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The Recreation Youth and Team Division were one of 20 grant recipients of twenty-five
thousand dollars from the “Healthy Out of School Time” grant from the National
Recreation and Park Association in partnership with the Walmart Foundation.
10. Adjournment
Chair Fincher adjourned the meeting at 6:43 p.m.
Ronald Lashley
Ronald Lashley
Committee Secretary