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The Cainmuniry Ser�ices Advisory CommiSsion can�ened a regular meeting at 5:�0 p.m. at
167Q5 E. A�enue ❑f the Fountains in an apen and public session.
Present: Chair Carey Reddick; Vice Chair Rory Wilson; Co�n�nissioner Barnes, Cammissioner
Craig Rudalphy; Commissianer Ron Ruppert; Yauth Carrunissioner Shreyaan Nath
A%sent: CammiSsioner Natalie Varela
Staff Present: Cainmunity Services Directar Ke�in Sni�es, 5enior Recreation Program
Coordinator Skylar Thamas; Recreatian Prograin Caardinatar, Sarah Lind, Recreatian Manager
Ryan Preston, Executi�e Assistant Patti Lopuszanski
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]ANiIARY 27, ZQ25 VERgATIM MEETIIVG MINUTES
REDDICK: All right. Well, gvod afternoan, I'd like t� Call to Qrder our January 27, 2025,
meeting of the Community Services Advisory Commissian at S:flD pm. Can I please note the
time and get a Rall Call, }�lease?
LOPUSZANSKI: If we could just observe the peaple that are here? Thank yau.
REDDICK: Sa, we'II g❑ ahead and get started. We'll welcome 5arah Lind, the new Recreatian
Program Coordinator, the Mayor's Yauth Council, and Skylar Thotnas.
PREST�N: I was just gving to intraduce 5arah really quick. So, my name is Ryan Preston and
I'm ti�e Recreation Manager here, and I want to introduce yau to Saxah, our newest Recreation
Program Coordinator. Sarah comes to us by way of Minnesota by way of Wiscansin. Is that
clase envugh? Yeah, so, there we go. She's b�en on a recreation team far about 10 years
already. She's g�t a degree in Recreation Manageinent as well as Public Adtninistration. We are
happy to ha�e her an board. She's been here for almost a manth now. She has already been a
great asset to the team.
REDDICK: Welc�me! �kay, wauld one of aur Mayar's Youth Council like to share ar speak
up? �h, anc� we'd like to welcome yvu as well. Ali right, sa we'll get started with a Rall Call.
May ha�e Roll Call, please?
LDPUSZANSK�: Chair Reddi��C?
REDDICi�: Here.
LOP[]SZANSI�I: Vice Chair Wilson?
WILSUN: Here.
LDPU52ANSKI: Commissianer Barnes?
SARNES: Here.
LUPUSZANSI{I: Commissioner Rudolphy?
R[I�QLPHY: Here.
LQPU5zAN5KI: Commissianer Ruppert?
RUPPERT: Here.
LUP[]SZANSKI: CommissiQner Varela is absent today.
L�PUSZANSKI: Youth Coinmissioner Nath?
NATH: Present.
LQP[75zANSKI: Thank yau.
REDDICK: All right, s❑ can we get a Call to the Public?
L�PiISZANSKI: There are no comment �ards for the Call ta the Public.
REDDICI�: Thank you, Patti. The next item on the agenda is Reports by Commissianers. 50,
daes anyane ha�e anything that they'�e attended that they would like ta share?
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WILSON; I do want ta say, Ke�in and team, since you're all here, great jQh vn the A�enue
lig�ts this year. I also, once again, did the Light []p the Tflwn Tour, which was fun. I
Always ha�e fixn with that no matter how long it takes. There was a gaod mix of new lights and
old lights. So that was good to see, especially s�read acrass town. And then I've also kind af
enjoyed just watching the progress of the sidewalk impro�veix�ent. So that's I�een caal. They'�e
been doing a very fast job an that. 5o yeah, awesame to see all the different stuff going an in
tawn.
REDDICK: I guess I'd just like to add that at the Health Expo, I got a lot of great feedback. I
heard that it was ane afthe largest groups ar cr�wds that we'�e had, sa that was good to hear. So
goad jab. Atl right, sa I guess we'il mo�e forward to the next item on the agenda,
Consideration and Pnssible Action Appro�al ❑f the Community Ser�ices Ad�isory
Commissian No�ember 25, �024 Verbatim Meeting Minutes. All right, may I get a motion
to approye the minutes, please?
WILS�N: Mo�e ta appra�e.
REDDIC�: Can I get a sec�nd`?
BARNES: Second.
REDDICK: All those in fa�ar say.
ALL: Aye.
LUPU52ANS�I: Motion passes 6-�l. Thank you.
REDDICK: All right. Thank yau. The next itein on the agenda Update far the Tree
Protectivn �rdinan�e.
SNIPES: I'll go ahead and take that one. We're mo�ing along with that right now. It is to aur
De�elopment Ser�ices side vf the house ta make sure it mat�hes up with all �f their inforination
and �v that it gets distributed e�enly. We wer� scheduled to have a meeiing late last week with
them, and we had an emergency here in the building that kicked us all out of the building during
the time we were ha�ing that meeting. So hopefully by next month, we'll ha�e some better
updates far you and get that closer to being ready to push.
REDDICI�: Thank yau far that. The next item on the agenda is the Update for the Four Peaks
Park Restroom Grant.
SNIPES: I'll tackle that ane as well. It is open and ready far business, aIl kinds of husiness. Sut
y�ah, it was well recei�ed. For those that don't know, it was a prefabbed restroom that came in
in two halves to be put in place. It toak them abvut a week to put ii in. It taok us a little bit ❑f
time to get the landscaping ready around it and get e�erything back open. But it's a rea[ly nice
fa�ility and it was a grant-funded facility. We had $500,04Q from the grant and the tawn paid
$1 �,��Q. Qur grant pro�iders were there at our ribbfln cutting, and they were impressed with the
quality. And they're like, y�u dan't knaw how many restraains we see. This is by far the best
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and wanted to know if we'd be willing to share the infonnatian a�aut who did it for us, who we
worked with, and how our experience was, which, af caurse, �'m always wi�ling to da, because
when you find something goad, yau want everybady to have that saine experience. But from
start t� finish it was fantastic. Patti did all the legwark ta get all af our in�oi�es paid and taken
care af. Thank you for that. Grants are no small task and far those that ha�en't e�er participated
in ane, they require a lat af bookkeeping, a 1Qt of making sure yaur i's are dotted, t's are crassed
ta make sure yau get your funding back. And so Patti always does a great job with that, and
Brandan did a great job keeping all th� contractors n.inning in the rig�t directian, which is no
small task as well. But overall, it went really sinaothly. There were no majar hiccups in it at al�
and the only issue that we'�e had is f guring out the auto locks which we failed at an�e ar twice
because the restroom has aut� locks in it, which is nice. The problem is if someone goes anc� key
locks it be�ause they're so used to key locking it, the auto locks now are being bypassed �y the
key lock. Sa, we just need our nighttime staff, to th� janitors ta n�t lock it up when they're don�
cleaning it. Sv, but yeah, they'�e it's been it's gatten a lot of campliments fram our Pickleball
users and our playground users, and it just really changes that whale at�nosphere over there, as
far as making it a usable side of the park. Sa, we're excited about it.
REI3DICK: I will say the park keeps getting hetter and better. So, thank yau for all that you
d�. The next item on the agenda, it's the Update for the Arizona State Puzz�e Dvnor Program
Centennial Pa�ilian.
SN�PES: Sa we're currently intv anather round, I think aur third or faurth raund so far, and
we're at three more puzzle pieces that have been ardered, sv we're se�en away fram making our
next raund. We'll b� pushing that information out again here shartly with Mike to txy and keep
people interested in it. It's caming alang and if you ha�en't looked at the puzzle lately, it's grown
in size. I'm happy with it. I think it's a cool piece of it'll be neat to ha�e that sticking araund for
years tfl come.
REDDICK: All right. Thank you far that. The next itein on the agenda, it's the Update from
the Mayar's Youth C�uncil.
NATH: So, I could speak tv that a little bit. So the past few months ha�e been pretty e�entful in
the Mayor's Youth Council, where we'�e f nished the sur�ey that we were planning an making,
which is the Cominunity Valunteerism Survey, which has #lyers for and I belie�e is also in this
it should be towards the end, but it's the survey is asking a bunch of �uestions, both poised
towards Scottsdale and Fauntain Hills residents, where it's saying, where da they draw their
e�ents from? Like, what makes them interested in their community? And what really �an we
bnng ta Fountain Hilis that l�rings more people in? Sa we just ha�e, like, a few questions here
and there, and we'�e started recei�ing a few responses. E�eryane here, I'm pretty sure, has
already participated in that survey, hopefully, but, yeah, we started receiving some respanses
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here and there far that, and now with these flyers, we're gaing ta distril�ute them at same
schaols. I know for a fact that I'm gaing to ga ta Basis Scottsdale, ta speak tQ a few teachers,
and get them the links and all that so they can ha�e our Student5 fill ❑ut the survey and get more
responses for it.
REDDICK: So, I guess I just wanted to ask are you utilizing social inedia to get the respanses
that you need fram the students?
NATH: Oh yeah, I'm pretry sure we ha�e. Fa�ebook page and Instagram. Yeah, we ha�e
Facebaak and Instagrain. Sa, I mean, Skyiar is the most inf�rmed here. So, if she wants ta ad�
anything she can.
REDDICK: I was just going to add, could yau maybe da something ta draw the students in like,
maybe, a raffle, ar just something to incenti�ize the indi�iduals?
NATH: The only issue wi#h incenti�es that we ran int� when trying ia make the survey is that
y�u would ha�e to collect some sort of data of like ❑r like identifying infonnatian ❑n that
indi�idual, anc� that would lead ta, like, a whole bunch of like yau would need an IRB and all
these other steps that could lead to, like, a gray area where we don't want to enter that. So it's
just lik� we're just ha�ing, like the broad sur�ey.
REDDICK: 4kay, so I was just going to suggest that if you just maybe did the fourth or fifth
person that would send a survey just ta help if yau're still missing.
TH�MAS: I would like to add I am one ❑f the ad�visors far tk�e Mayor's Yauth Council. So we
are g�ing ta do, they don't knaw this yet, we are going to da an Instagram reel. Sa that's k�nd of
one of the things that we're going to target, that co�er5 a�r Teen Survey, our Teen Takea�er
E�ent, and alsa recruiting future tnembers. Sa t�at's at ❑ur meeting next time. So be prepared. In
addition ta that at aur Teen Takeo�er, we're thinking that's probably going to �e the biggest hub
for the most responses we're gaing to get. And we always ha�e raffles at that e�ent, s❑ that will
just be an extra incenti�e. If yau take this sur�ey, yau get an extra raffle ticket. S❑ that will help
kind of incenti�ize, at least at the e�ent. So that will help at least at Teen Takeaver we just don't
have, financially, the ability to raffle multiple items off. But thank yau. Thank you.
WILSON: I just want to say qui�kly. Shreyaan, thank yau for the update. That's really
awesome. E�erything that yau guys are doing. It's really good to hear t�e �iifferent progress.
And again, I mean, I'�e said this a billion times I was a fori-ner MYC member, and it was totally
different in my day. Sa it's really gvod t� see the different pragress that staff and als� the
students are making. And I'm excited to see what you guys do.
SNIPES: And you mean far t�e better.
REDDICI�: Very nice. Thanks, Rory. The next itetn an the agenda, is the Cvnsideration and
Passible Action far Park Tnurs and Rory, would yau like ta interje�t?
WILSaN: I belie�e Ran's taken this.
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REDDICK: Sorry.
RUPPERT: Patti cantacted me a week ag� and wanted me to thraw out some ideas to the
Commission here af possible ones that we can do in the future months, and I wrote dawn Four
Peaks Park hecause we haven't t�een there f�r a while, and o�' course, with the new restroom and
the pickleball courts and sidewaiks and playground equipment. Then Adero Canyan ta see, yau
knaw, when it's busy, you know, ta see how the parking lot aperates and how that whole area up
there is working aut. And, yau knQw, talk �f future expansion possi�ly up there. Then the new
parks maybe we can stand on the corner there and take a look at Pleasant�ille. Then, back to
Galden Eagle Park after m�re wark should be d�ne by the time we get there. So my thoughts
were, maybe do Qne a month here, right? You kn�w, going froin February thraugh June, and
then at the bottom of that ane after Golden Eagle Park, you knaw, Rory braugl�t up. And maybe
we can e�en sn�ak in the Dark Sky at the end. And that prabably wauld be a little further along
than we wauld get ta it. What I w�uld like t� do is einail e�erybody tamorrQw. What I normally
dQ is, yDll I�I1bW, throw out a few dates and times. I knaw it's hard for e�erybady, but usually,
we try ta do it in the afternoons, you know, during the week, if we can. And then, you know, �
kind of take a majority ❑f the �otes, and if we have, you know, three �f us, vr, you knaw, faur
there, and samebody fram staff, that's what we kind of do with these. So think abaut it, and I'll
send out an einail, a graup email, ta everyone in�ol�ed.
WILSUN: Thank you, Ron. I think this is �ery helpful. Also, I was thinking that maybe we
cauld try to do the tours a week befare our next meeting if that makes sense. So, it's still fresh in
our minds, and we can still tal� about it. So, if that would be passible for e�eryone, I think that
wouZd �e �ery helpful.
Ri]PPERT: We'll try. But, yau know, everybvdy has �iifferent schedules, so that's the tough
part.
REDDICK: �Ve were wondering if we could thraw aut same dates on Wednesday and
Thursday as options. But does that wark for yau with your schooling`? So if that hel�as. Thank
yau for arganizing this, Ron. The next item an the agenda is the Consideration and Possible
Action for Future Agenda Items and Speakers.
SN�PES: I wasn't sure if you guys were going ta discuss what else yau wanted to bring in.
Amanda is coming next month to talk. Are there any specific areas that yau want her t�
highlight as far as Ecanomic de�elapment gaes?
RUPPERT: I think ju5t pr�bably a broad stroke and future thoughts and how she's doing and
go frQm there.
REDDiCY{: All right, the next item Qn the agenda, it's the Re�iew and Discussian far
Upcaming E�ents and Volunteer flpportunities.
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SNIPES: A�cording to Ryan, we're getting ready to be husy again. We toak our week aff, and
we're ready to rall. So there's a lot ❑f things coining up. �1Ve ha�e the Skateboard Classi�, I guess
we got it since we gat done with our Valunteer Expo, which was well recei�ed. I think 7� tables
were used during it. So hopefully, our groups faund the peopie that they needed ta help them
with ti-ieir valunteering. The 5kate Classic I thix�k we're an pace far where we've been in the
past. The Teen Takeover that was j ust mentioned is caming up here an March 1. Irish Fauntain
Fest is where we could use same definite help, because we detennined our cammissioners can
handle money, carrect? I'i-n going to sell ti�at StQry. We knaw Craig daes, but we �ould certainly
use help far IriSh Fest, we're lo�king at trying to ha�e same additianal areas where people can
get the foad and drink5 that they're looking for, s❑ we need same extra cash handlers the latest
that I'�e heard ar we, that's the main thing that we're laoking for right now, right? Sa if
anybody's interested in taking a shift ❑n that, we c�uld use yaur help there. Then our Concerts
on the A�enue are getting ready ta kick back up here in a couple of months Music FeSt. If Ryan
was here, I wauid gi�e hiin a hard time, because the logo is not ready yet, and we'�� only seen
about 7000 different �ersions af it, and we'r� narrawing it d�wn slawly, and I'll lea�e this all up
to Skyler ta get it narrowed down. But yeah, we're excited about this year's Musi� Fest is gQing
to be rolling thraugh tl�e ages af rock and rall, and we're going to try a little bit different than
what we'�e done in the past, and doing a lot more co�er bands. VVe seem to �ase some energy
when we ha�e up-and-caming groups. And sa �ur last band end5 up heing the one that has the
least crowd, and they're the ones we're paying the m�st for. That math didn't add up. So we're
trying satnething a little bit different. We're starting Iike 5�s, 6Ds, 7�s, and then $Os, 9fl5, ta kind
of rol� up thraugh the through the ages. So, we're excited ab�ut that. And then I heard that we
just got in a ton of eggs for Extra�aganza, 300 paunds worth of eggs. S❑ we're serious about �ur
Extravagarjza. Sa yeah, thase are the main things that we ha�e caming up. We ha�e our
monthly. This is all part ❑f this ta❑ the Care Card�. We ha�e a lot of them, I knaw they're getting
ready to make some hearts for Valentine's Day right now. It's a it's a graup that keeps growing
taa I think naw we're typically up to 18 to 19, people that are coming far that each month, which
is great because thase Care Cards and the gifts go to our home deli�ery meals recipients. So a lot
oftimes it is people that don't get to see peaple �ery often, and sa we want them to feel welconie
and brighten up their day a little bit with it, with a gift that goes along with the meals that they
get e�ery day, and a lot of times that's the ❑nly meal t�iey get, so they split it into three meals for
th�ir day and so it helps our people �e able ta stay in their houses �anger, and it goes a long way
ta help brighten up their day. S❑ autsi�e �f that, that's about it for us for naw.
REDDICI�: It's a lat of gaod stuff. I ha�e to say, the Concerts on the Avenue, I absolutely la�e.
They're amazing. S❑ absolutely the next item Qn the agenda is the next community ser�ice
ad�isar.
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The commission meeting will take pla�e an February 24, 2�25, and wiil be with Amanda, as we
just heard earlier, Amanda Jacc�bs, the Ecanomic De�elopinent Directar, will be presenting. If
we da ha�e any questians or anything that we would like to bring up an the topic. We shauld
emai l them to Patti on February 12, it's Abraham Lincaln's birthday and my birthday as well. So,
if we dan't have any further business, can 1 get a Motion Adj ourn?
WIL5UN: Mation to Adjaurn.
REDDICK: Can I get a secand`?
R[]PPERT': Second.
REDDICK: All right, all those in favar?
ALL: Aye.
Ha�ing no further husiness, Chair Carey Reddick II adjourned the Regular Meeting of the
Community Services Ad�i�ary C�ininissian he�d on January 27, �D�S, at 5:22 PM.
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Chair arey Reddic
ATTEST AND PREPARED BY:
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CERTIFICATIUN
I hereby certify that the foregoing minutes are a true and carrect copy of the minutes �f
the Regular Meeting held by the Community Secv�ces Advisory Cammission in the Town
Hall Council Chambers on the 27th day of January 2025. I further certify that the meeting
was duly �alled and that a quarum was present.
DATED 24th Day of February 2a25
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atti Lo uszans�Ex uti�e Assistant
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