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MINUTES �F THE REGULAR MEETING
❑F THE FDIJNTAIN HILLS COMMUNITY SERVICES ADVIS�RY CDMM{551�N
OCT�BER 27, 2�25
A Regular Meeting of the Fauntain Hiils Cammunity Services Advisory Commissian was
convened at 15705 E. A�enue ❑f the Fountains in open and public session at S:Dfl p.m.
Members Present: Chairperson Carey Reddick II; Cammissioner 5#ephen
Barr�es; Commi��ioner Craig Rudo�phy; Cammissioner Ron Ruppert
Members Absent: Vic� Chairperson Rvey Wilsvn; Youth Cammissioner
Shreyaan Nath; Commissioner Natalie Varela
StafF Present: Cammunity Services ❑irectvr Ke�in Snipes and Executi�e
Assistant Paufa Woodward.
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L1NfDENTIFIE❑ SPEAKER 1: Request.
CQMM1551DNER RUPPERT: 1 do.
UNIdENTIFIED SPEAKER 1: Ron.
CDMM1551�NER RUPPERT: Well, welcome back everybody and evErybody who's not
here. But I hape e�eryb�dy had a goad summer. And you know, time t❑ get back to
business a little bit. But a �auple things I just wanted to talk about that went ❑n at the
enci of our session last year or this year. And now is everybody doing the park
inventories, and i know i faund them to be enlightening, as my partner Craig did. And I
definitely think that's samething that we should revisit maybe every cauple of year5 or
5a.
My overall assessment was really good. You know, when you start laoking, you
knaw, underneath the -- the chairs for b�hble gum, and -- and things like that, and you
realize that, yeah, mayhe a �ouple things dvn't match ar a couple ❑f things need
painted. But yau know, the two parks tha# we did were, yau know, outstanding. Sa you
know, kudas tQ the staff and kudas to the tawn far that.
I a15� want ta reiterate that I think that taurs thi5 -- over this sessian 5hould be
reinstituted and -- and keep going with same, yvu know, new ideas and new pla�es to
go. And the last thing I wanted tv talk about was -- mostly, because I want to get this on
the re�ord, Kevin, is the retentian area at Golden Eagle Park, and how it fared three
weeks or a month ago fram the storms. I was out of town during this, but af cour5e, I
gat calls from the tawn and the W�A, yau kn�w, immediately and had p'rctures, so it was
hard t❑ react. But when ! did com� back, laoking at the property that I five ❑n -- and I'm
speakir�g solely for Golden Eagie Park -- lot of money was put into that retentian.
There's three different washes that feed that. But what the -- the astaunding thing
t❑ me was t�at with clasely the same amount of rain, and the same amount af time
frame, two washe5 ta me were normal, and ❑ne was ten times the velacity that it should
have been in years past. And that one is the ❑ne that cames down on the svuth end
there that would go past the basketball courts and whatnot. And I'm -- we're just, you
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know. analy2ing this an our -- our end. And it's -- it's not the -- the valume of the rain,
it's the �elacity. Because all the rain was the same an the other washes.
But it's something that we -- yau knaw, we're visiting ❑n our side of the road. And
I think that the town should really pay attention to tt�at particular wash, because naw
it's -- yau knaw, the -- the development that's way upstream has changed the �elocity
on it. And I just wanted t❑ get that on the record. But you know, I've �een 5taring at
those washes far thirty-fi�e years naw, and ! was absolutely flabbergasted at the
difference. So the other -- the other side seemed to ha�e warked well. But what f'm
trying to say there is, you know. the tawn may want ta look at it, because af you know,
maintenance costs in the future far �fearing out that -- just that ane site compared to
the others, and why is this happening.
5a I got my two cents on -- aut an that. Also, we were always looking for speakers
you know, o�er the year. And I still want ta get, you knaw, Rachel in here.
[JNidENTIFIE� SPEAKER 1: Is yaur mic on? Yaur mic's an, right?
LJNI�ENTIFIEQ SPEAKER 3: Yeah. It'sjust down low.
UNiQENTIFIED SPEAKER 4: ❑h, it's down low.
UNI�ENTIFIED SPEAK�R 3: Yeah.
IJNIDENTIFIE❑ SPEAKER 4: Qkay. Excuse me. Dkay. Thank yau.
COMM1551�NER RUPPERT: So if you �auld, you know, remind Rachel that we'd lave to
get her on the agenda. She -- she -- I think she awes this Commission a �isit, and we'd
lo�e tv see her. That's all.
CNAIR REDdlCK: ihank you, Ron, for the repart. I will share our hrainstorming sessivn
that Rory and I did while we were on reces5 -- break. It's a long list, so I'll kind of go
through this very quickly. In regards ta grants, Rory and I decided we want ta get and
give more time for research and apply t❑ purchase town for an ambulance. That's
something that she's been wanting to address. Anather pvint was higher engagement
within aur parks that you've just touched ❑n a5 well.
5omething that we touched an, commissian cleanup, commissioner pop-up
baoths, e�ents ta promvte our cvmmi5sianers. 5a ha�ing the commissioners attend
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other e�ents just to spread mare awareness of what we da here. Community center
programs. We thvught it would be great for us to ge# more in�ol�ed evaluating the
current programs at the cammunity center, identifying potential gaps where we're
underserved within �ertain grQups, identifying potential ways to improve, mare time
with the senive yauth. We definitely thought that we could attend mare lacal clubs,
organization5, share mare about CSAC, ask questians about what they need and how we
can suppart. And that kind of transitions inta group clubs, participate in line dancing,
sen�or citizens, mayor yauth caunsel and join the NYC CSAC meeting, which is gaad for
NYC to see an� participate in Commissian meeting5.
A�so, other ad�isory haard cammissions. Team building within CSAC, we thought
wauld be great for us to do �ertain team building e�ents quarterly ar �iannualby. Gaod
to get to know ea�h other hetter by doing these type of events as well. For the holidays,
we thought it would be great t❑ do the engagement with more families and folks who
are experiencing financial hardship, how we �an suppvrt them here at this Committee.
An active approach in donations� which is a great �annection with what f'�e said earlier,
haw we can donate to #amilies wha are in need. Espe�ially with the halidays
approaching. Create a committee to help folks who need financial access and support.
We als❑ said resear�h more grant appor�unities, which I tauched on with the ambulance
earlier. And also, 411 locally far tt�e town of Fountain Hills. And thase were all af �ur
brainstarming sessivn5 that we and l did.
Any ather cammissioners wauld like to bring up anything else? All right. Well.
we'll move right along. We'll �onsent to the agenda. Ail the items are here, sa we'fl
ma�e right along. Ke�in, would yau like to discuss -- review and discuss the update of
park assets e�aluation5? I'm sv sorry about that. And �an I get an appraval for our
minutes?
UNIDENTIFIE� SPEAKER 5: Mave to appro�e the meeting vf June 23rd.
LINIDENTIFIE❑ 5PEAKER 1: Can I get a secand?
IJNIDENTIFIE❑ SPEAICER 3: SeGvnd.
IJNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER 1: Dkay. All those in favor?
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IJNIDENTIFEE❑ SP�AKER 3: Aye.
UNIQENTIFIED SPEAKER 4: Aye.
UNI�ENTIFIED SPEAKER 5: Aye.
�NIDENTIFIED SPEAKER 1: ❑kay. We have an approvaf to mo�e the minutes, which
appro�e the minutes from June 23rd, ��25. And thers, Ke�in, we'll transition ❑n t❑ yQu
to re�iew and discus5 the park e�a�uations.
MR. SNIPES: Certainly. So first of afl, i'd just like to -- to say thank you to e�erybody's
time and attention t❑ detail, and going thraugh the parks and -- and daing this project.
It's the first time that we'�e done it, and it means a lot getting a new set of eyes on -- on
the parks, and the things that we see an an everyday basis. You guys see totally
different than what aur staff does ar e�en that I do. And so that's why we wanted t❑
start doing this. I think it's a goad way for yau guys to -- t❑ also get a feel af what's in
the park, what all it really means to say that we ha�e fifty 6en�hes at the park, ❑r fifty
trash cans at a park or -- you kn�w, and -- and seeing that there's -- there's a Iot of
m�ney in that in -- in our assets.
And we want to make sure that we're taking care r�f them the best that we can.
And doing these asset reviews and e�aluation5 gaes a long way ta planning what we
should be loaking at daing next, or what that we've dane well in the past. 7hat's
changed from being a poor score ta being -- to -- to increasing to being a better score.
Dur next steps in this process will he to take your information and put it witt� our
information, kind Qf blend the twv together sa that we can get an overall where we're
at taday. And -- and then like Ran said, in -- in another year or two, we'll be looking at
going back and dQing that again, so tt�at it'S just this angaing thing of -- of loaking at the
parks in a different light and -- and getting that information, 5o that we can make sure
that we're �onstantly improving, and not ietting something slip thr�ugh the cracks, so to
speak, to in -- in the future.
,IUSt b�C3U5E It's new taday doesn't mean that it -- it's new forever. it's going ta
fail an us somewhere along the way, and the only way to kind af keep tra�k af that is to
see s�mething 5lipping through a scare process, and -- and knawing what we need to
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CDI71� I7aC�C t� aSIC f01' ClffFel'Ent Capltal IfT'1�.7fOV��'T12flt j31'Oj2Ct5, ar if it's �ust as simple as
one time supplement fees or the maintenance needs to he increased tv -- t❑ make sure
that we're getting better quality out of flur stuf€. 5a I know that it takes a long time to
do them, because I've dane them enough to knaw. And I'm sure going out for yaur first
time -- there was -- I know ! talked to Craig a little bit about how the -- the -- and there
we missed something somewhere, we got to ga back and ivok again, and then we
missed something samewhere else. We got to go over here and look again.
And 5a I-- I understand that feeling. I had that exact same feeling as I was going
thraugh, and I know where mast of my stuff is. So -- so I know that it'S -- it's �ery
challenging, and it takes time. And i truly appreciate aii of your time in -- in gaing
tnrough that. And it -- it, it will be used for multiple different things that we're -- that
we're -- as we get asked why we need things, and when we need things. It's great to be
able t❑ go, actually, we'�e been trending thi� o�er the last five years. And that's how we
got t❑ where we are today, is that we icnaw that it's something that used ta be a really
high end vf the scale, and now it's just not up to aur standards anymore, and we need
ta get thvse repla�ed.
S❑ having multiple different people invoived in that gaes a lang way �ersus me
going, I want something new. And they go, you always want somethirtg new. And I say,
yau're right, I always da want something new. But I aiso want t❑ maintain all the new
things that we have, and make sure that they're being taken care vf to the best of vur
ability. And what you guys did means a lat. So thank yvu sa much.
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER 1: ThankS, Kevin. We'll mave on to the next item. 7g; update
on the Panorama Park and Pleasant�ille Park.
MR. SNIPES: Sa Panorama Park, we are naw campleted with. !t went in, we had some
issues with -- I think the last time we met, we were still having some issues with the
pathway, and having to have that redone, because the contractor used a nonappra�ed
praduct for the pathway. We went back and had them -- they tried to come in and redo
it with the same materials that we used up at Adera Trailhead for the stay lack
materials. They were not qualified to do that install either. It became abundantly clear.
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5❑ what they ended up doing was then having the same campany that we had do it,
which we recommended at the start, �ome out and they did it. And third time's a
charm. 5a I think it looks really gaod. The plants are doing realky well over there. We're
startir�g to see a lot of new grawth out of e�erything that's there.
Ar�d I lceep hearir�g -- it's -- it's ir�teresting that with it being such a small park and
in kind of an odd Iacation, how many peaple have approa�hed me and 5aid that they'�e
walked thraugh and they like going there and sitting, and ali the plants are still really
small. Yau know, when this turns inta what it's going to be, and ance we get a few years
under its belt, we actually get some trees that ha�e same height and some plants that
fill the -- fill the �oids. It's just going t❑ be a-- su�h a beautiful site campared ta what it
was. So we're really excited about that one. And it's -- it's come a long way. And I think
that -- that the cantrasting �olor5 o�er there are really cool. And e�en an the dri�e t�y, it
kind of catches yvur eye already. As we start getting Chose colors to p�p, it's really
going to make a difference. Any questions an Panorama at all?
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER 8: Dan't ha�e any update5. �kay. It say5 the time, but it's not a
red light.
UNI�ENTIFIED SPEAKER 4: No. Try the ather hutton and then switch a�er.
L1NI�ENTIFIED SPEAKER 1: There we go.
UNIQENTIFIED SPEAKER 4: Can you gi�e us your take ar� Golden Eagle Park an how it
weathered through the stvrms?
MR. SNIPES: Yeah, not ❑n this tapi�, but I think -- is there anything on today's? I� nat,
�-- we can do an update at the end when we're talking. I was going to piggyhack vff vf
his comments, but I dan't want to jump in in the middle af this. Let me -- I'll add that at
the end.
The Pleasantville Park praject, we're at abaut farty, fifty percent plan5 naw in
getting that ane thraugh. We're working a lot with our ❑ark Sky peaple trying to iigure
aut our lighting arrangement and how we're going ta pull that off. It's prabably the
mast difficult part with Golden Eagle ha�ing a hillside where cars drive down the hill,
point directly at the park and then make a turn right before they get to Bainbridge ta go
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on d4wn the hill. So all thase headlights are coming directly at us. So -- and I don't want
it to all he hardscape. 5a we're warking really hard with our plantings, and what we put
and what la�ation to be a light biack, as well as trying to make sure that our center area
+s as dark as passible to -- t❑ ha�e our -- Dark Sky Abilities, their biggest concern are
flashes of lighr where it's a quick flash, and then next thing you �Cnaw, your eyes taice a
long time ta readjust.
5o we're trying to pre�ent those cars dri�ing down the hill and ar pulling in the
parking lot ar �n the Bainhridge off of Golden Eagie from heing a light �oncern. Andi we
think we have same really gaad solutions. We -- we've -- we'�e been working with
Lighting Unlimited for quite a while naw on a lot of our different lighting issues. We
ha�e a specialist that's �ome in thraugh t�em that came up with, if yau go Q�er to right
by the Veterans Memvrial, we naw have a ballard up there that you'll see is a noticeably
more amber colored, and it's right where it g�es -- we have a bunch ❑f silver hollards,
and then it's -- it'll switch to the yellow one, and then it switche5 to the black ones that
are just i� the Veterans Memorial area.
And yau'11 definitely 5ee the difference between them. But I'm really excited about
this company's ability t❑ retrofit hoth those boklards out there, as well as all of our other
lights as we'�e had issues. We've started talking with them about ways that we can get
thase dane. They're now a part of the Pleasantvilie project as well. And it's -- what I'�e
always said is we're only a5 good as the �endvr5 that support us. And it takes a long
time to draft a really good group of �er�dars. And we've done that over the years. And
this is another ❑ne that I think is caming to fruition. They alsa did all the lighting for the
cammunity center that just �ame in today. Actually, we'fl be putting that up here saon.
So -- so we're really excited abvut our lighting technology falks and -- and -- and what
we're able to pull off.
But Pleasantville, I'm getting more and more excited abaut as we -- as we work
❑ur way through the plan5, and caming up with dif'ferent designs and gefting the right
people on board there. 5a t�at one's coming along very nicely as well. And we'll
prohahly he -- probably somewhere in the �ebruary tirrie frame be#ore we'll start
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putting this out and starting getting this project moving forward.
UNI�ENTIFIE❑ SPEAKER 8: Kevin, a question on actualiy both parks, and why do yau
have to have lights at all?
MR. SNIPES: Mastly because it's gaing ta �e apen after haurs, and so we f�ave to have a
certain amaunt of sa#ety in there. And if we want to -- I don't want t❑ limit it tv being
anly far dark sky �iewing. If we want ta do yoga ar tai chi under the -- under the stars
over there, we can easily go in there. It's going to have a push button light shut off in
the main center ring. 5a you cvuld literally walk in, ha�e conversation, get e�erything all
set, and then hit -- hit the button, and the lights wiil stay aut for an hour within that
roam. And then all the lights around the edges are for pathway lighting and things like
that. Sa we're using like low le�el bollard lighting in those areas ta accommadate that.
There alsa is going ta �e displays of difFerent pfants in their natural state, because
we want ta try and push that with aur residents. Getting them to stop using a hedge
trimmer every thirty days, whether it needs it or not. We would prefer that you let a
plant �ae a plant, and do what it needs to da t❑ survi�e. 5a we want to show ❑ff haw
that can happen and -- and wt�at the difference is in the plant that you have at your
house that yau touch every month, �ampared to ane t#�at's grawing naturaliy. And how
much more ❑f a show piece thase plants can be.
UNIDENTIFIE❑ SPEAKER 1: Thank you, Ke�in. And as I mentianed earlier. your team is
cioing an amazing job just within the parks and e�erything. Sa kudos to your team.
MR. SNIPES: Thank yau.
IJNI�ENTIFIED SPEAKER 1: We'll mave on to 7C, which is an update for the I�ri�ona
5tate Puzz�e Donor program. Centennial Pavilion, please.
MR. SNIPES: 5a we just put up our last ❑ur latest raund af ten. I'm drawing a bfank aff
the top af my head of where we're at. I think it's ab�ut probably �lose to fifty pieces
that are on there by naw. It's really starting to ta�Ce shape. I had twv more orders right
after we put those up tawards ❑ur next raund. �ne of the puzzle pieces that we did
during this round was in honor of Ken Valverde, who -- who worked with the town for as
long as anyone can remember. ❑ne af my favorite human beings �f all time. And we
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lost him here recently. And so the staff raised funds to pay for a piece. And ye5, we
paid for the entire piece in his #�onor.
And because we wanted him to he remembered, and it was just coincidence, it
was the the last piece that was t�uching the fountain piece that's on the puz2le. And !
felt like that was fitting t�at e�en with all the anes that had been an there far some
reasan, that piece was open, and I thought that was c�ol, that it was left open #or us to
get a piece out there far him. And it's just something that meant a lot t❑ us as staff.
And it was a-- it was a fun pie�e to rai5e funds for. And our staff, really, it -- it took
nathing ta get the funds to -- to put it up. Staff }umped all a�er it. 5a -- sa it was -- it --
this was a-- this was a more personal raund of -- of puz2le pieees that went up for me,
and for all ❑f our staff that -- that pitched in towards it.
And sa we're excited to have that up, and seeing that more pieces are being
boughtjust says that we're still doing the right t�ing. And this -- and this s�tup is a
unique setup, for sure. And an art piece that wilE -- that will hang araund with -- with
the shade structure that it's helping ta fund.
LINIDENTIFIED SPEAKER 4: So haw is it holding up in the weather? Is there any --
MR. SNIPES: It �ou1d �are less. No -- na issues at all. No. And if any of them I thought
would -- would I�e tested hard, it's the new one that we put on the avenue, and it held
up really well as well. lust be�ause of the length, the cahEes being 11Q, 12n feet long,
that's a lat of cable length for the 3,540 mile an hour winds that we ►ruere hitting during
the storms. But they did great.
COMM15510NER RUPPERT: it's amazing how that's getting utilized, yau lcnaw? Wink,
wink.
UNIDEN�IFIE❑ SPEAKER 1: Yeah.
MR. SNIPES: Yeah, it's -- yeah, we're -- we're getting a lot m�re tra�tion for sure.
L1NiaENTIFIEp SPEAKER 4: And just ta add to that, the pu2zle piece. 1 mean, we have
people caming from California t❑ come IoQk at these pieces. And I knaw firsthand
hecause my father-in-law is ❑n there. 5o I think it's just a great representatiQn of our
cammunity, but a great way ta remember others as well. Sa it's awesome.
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MR. SNIPES: Yeah I agree. It's that space is -- and we're going to be going to counsel
and asking for more for that area. And I'll be talking ta yvu guys more ahout that as we
get cl�ser to aur budget season. We �ust 5tarted loaking at it, and we really want to
activate the space �loser to the �ammunity center hack there as well. It's lcind af
designed in a less opportune way at this time, ancf we would like ta make it mare
opportunistic as we move farward. And so we want to level up same of the turf areas
over there. We're laaking at potentially doing like a fitness area for balance and more
for our seniars.
lust outside the back door o�er there, we tafked ahout buifding in that area at one
paint, and it was a gargantuan number. And with the quality of fitness stuff that's
outside that we'�e already pr��en functians well and gets used well v�er at �esert
Vista. This will be a more strengthening balancing. We'�e been doing a lat af, like, chair
yoga �lasses and -- and things to help people get more strength and balance. As we're
seeing that, that's something that's been called �ut for, we think that this area in the
back will -- wili be a great way t❑ d❑ that outdoors, where you can came anytime yau
want and -- and wark an that sart af thing versus having ta came into a class that -- and
❑ur classes are filling up fast. So sornetimes there's nat rovm. 5o we'd like to have it
where it cauld be a usable spa�e instead af a space that just sits outside and dvesn't get
used.
Sa that's kind of what we're looking into in that area. And the shade structure is
one hundred per�ent what's starting activating this space, and the e�ents that have
gone on aver there have pra�en that it functians really well. I know our �ktoberfest
was o�er there, and they were super excited about haw well it functioned, and �ery
thankful for having that spat versus what it takes ta put it an at the park is tenfpld
versus having it there. And I think as we're getting ready t❑ do our fall cancerts aver
there, and I �an't wait for that to kick aff, ❑ur ecvnomic development is helping fund
that. So we're going to ha�e concerts there, concert5 an the Avenue. You know,
we're -- it's really a �ibe change far the dawntawn area in general.
UNIDENTIFIEQ SPEAKER 1: All right. Thank you far that, ICe�in. We'll mave on ta our
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next action agenda item, 7E future agenda item for chair and vice chair appointees.
L1NIpENTI�IE❑ SPEAKER 3: I think probabiy if we �ould is maybe table this until the next
meeting, and where we have more vf a representation to make that decision. !s that
possible, Kevin?
MR. SNIPES: Yeah, we can absolutely da that.
UNIDENTIFfEO SPEAKER 9: �an I ask if any o# the existing counsel members are
inrerested in either tif the positians?
L1NiDENTiFfED SPEAKER 5: Rory has expres5ed wanting to stay in her currer�t rvle. I did
mention to Ran as well that I'm open #o staying in the current roie as well.
UNIDENTIFIEQ SPEAKER: Thank you.
UNI�ENTIFI�❑ SPEAKER 1: We'll mo�e on t� �ur next agenda item, se�en F an update.
11NI��NTIFIE❑ SPEAKER 4: Let's da ❑.
L1NIpENTIFIED SPEAKER 1: I'm s❑ sorry. I dan't know how we misse� that. tJpcoming
e�ents and �olunteer opportunities. I was just so excited to go ta �.
MR. SNIPES: Well let's see. I don't ha�e my list on this ane. 5o I know yau know, our
up�oming events that we're aiways looking fQr -- for help at are our Turkey Trot, which
we're planning vn hitting numbers that we'�e ne�er hit before, and a�tually having to
�ap it based on haw we're trending so far. We're over 1,OOD runners, walker5, rollers,
stroilers, whatever it takes, at thiS time. And so we're always looking far some help for
that. With all af our holiday autings that are caming up, there's plenty of oppartunities
at any ane af those, if yau're interested. You knaw, with -- with increasing our size of
our events, we're not increasing the size af aur staff. 5o ha�ing valunteer5 ta heip us is
the only way that we can keep allowing thase to grow in the way that they're growing.
We're kind of the �i�tim of our own su�cess sometimes.
Sa anytime that we can get more volunteers, and ha�ing especially people an aur
commissions and stuff that -- that knaw mare abaut what's going on, and are able to
intera�t better with our residents, I think it -- it -- it gaes hetter. And I appreciate -- you
know, I know that a lat of people da volunteer in thvse pvsitians and help us aut. So it's
just a matter af finding a spot t❑ that you're interested in being invaived in and -- and
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jumping in. We're always happy to -- to take an extra people to help out, so.
11NIDENTIFIE❑ SPEAlCER 1: All right. Now I will move on to E. ❑h, no. I'm so sorry. F.
We'll update for CSAC youth cvmmissianer, and I don't think we're here, so we just
mo�e past that.
MR. SNIPES: Yeah, we can mave past that far now. !t's -- they've just dane the -- I knQw
theyjust got through the inter�iew part and getting approvals done for multiple af our
commi5sions. We're in need vf some people ta -- ta fill spaces. So we'fl be getting alf
that d�ne and squared away and back to us hopefully by aur next meeting.
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER 1: All right. 7G let's get an update far fall aver seeding and
ho�iday lights installation.
MR. SNIPES: Afl righty. O�er -- over seeding. We certainly had a challenge with the
amaunt of rain that we had at the timing that we had. Same of the grass thaught it was
fantastic. Others thought it was a white-water rafting trip and floated away. 5o we are
daing some new -- some touch up spats for sure around Fountain Park. But o�erall it --
it went pretty smaathly. No majar issues ❑ther than the rain coming when it did. We
had several days ahead of it that we had ❑ur -- our 5eed dawn far the mast part. So at
least some af it was atta�hed. And as it 5tarts ta -- ta push, we're seeing some spots
where -- especially where we had na turf or no weeds in Fountain Park, it was easy to
mv�e that seed off of those dirt spats. So those are a Iot af the spots that we're going
back to retouch up.
We're doing our first mawing this week vn Thursday af Fauntain Park. We have an
event there -- a nonevent on Saturday, the 7th, I think is that date, if I remember right.
There's going ta be a cancert aut there on the Great Lawn, sQ it was a lot of pressure t❑
get it dane and up and ready f�r a new client ta come in and host an event that they're
nat even sure how big it's going ta be. Makes it extremely difficult to know what to be
prepared far. Sa we're doing aur hest ta -- ta help them have a suc�ess€ul event as well
as have our -- ha�e our park look as goad as it �an, and survive through it so t#�at it laoks
good all winter long. Sa that'll be our challenge for that. The lights, if you ha�en't
noticed, alf the fountains an the avenue are empty. That was s❑ we cauld get vur
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colored LED iighting put in.
That project is now complete, and they, in theary, started filling them today. I
haven't been out there to see, but they were filling them today and tamarrow. 5o we'll
ha�e all �f those up and running with the white lights on until we do the official kickaff
of the lighting up for the avenue. I think it's just going ta add a really cool atmosphere.
It's e�ery single light is adjustable on its own independently, or we can group them all
tagether, and do all af them in a single calar. Qr we can group just ind+�iduai fauntains.
5a it's going to take --1 wauld say, us a while, hut it's Kyle -- Kyle is going to take some
time to learn and figure out how to do this. He's been p�unding Chrough it. He`s like,
you wouldn't think it, you knaw -- he's like, once yau start loaking at it, you go, man, it's
a Ivt to get it gaing. Once it's set up� then it's easy, you just push a single button.
8ut it's fifty-two different buttons ta get it set up the first time for every single
thing that we wanted t❑ do. So -- and it's something where, again, I dan't want it to be a
narrnal ❑perating thing where we're changing the colars al! the time, just like the
fauntain. 1 want it ta run white ninety-nine percent of the time sa that it's special when
it does turn colors, e�erybady nvtices. And I think the way tt�at -- that we're setting it
up as -- as we start messing with it a little bit, we'll see haw easy we can make different
things to da. But highlighting our holidays and stuff like that, ! think will be fun �nd -- or
the major things that we've done for the fountain, I think it can be incorparated inta the
avenue to just kind ❑f give it that unifarm look and give a downtown feel versus a
fQuntain feel.
Dnly we ean help draw people to see more than just the fountain when we're
daing the color changing. Sa I'm -- I'm really excited ahout seeing what it daes, because
I have n❑ idea what it's going t❑ look like once those fights are underwater and -- and --
and pushing. But they're all -- it's all wireless contralled from aur phones, sv that makes
it super easy an staff as well. It's just the next phase af things that we're upgrading tv
be at the standarc�s that we want them to be at, where we �an actually da a lat of our
work on our phone, where we can set it up, make sure everything's working, and ha�e it
tell us when things are wrong instead af us having to find it. It will help us know that it`s
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gat a prohlem, so it should be really cool.
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: How about hanging of any vther Christmas lights and using
decorations?
MR. SNIPES: We -- as far as that, we have done righ# now?
UNIpENTIFIE� SPEAKER: Yeah.
MR. SNIPES: Yeah. Sv all the tree5 ha�e been wrapped up. They're in the process. Let's
see. It'I! be next week. They'il be �oming back, because they gain access again tQ the
park. We shut them down for a month while we're overseeding, and then they'll k�e
�ack hanging like the cluster lights. And they'�e done a lot from the sides of the road
while we'�e heen overseeding. So you'll 5ee that there'S a lat of the -- the -- the band
iights that hang and stream up and down in the trees. Those ha�e been hung. They'�e
done the -- the lights in the Centennial Circle again. We`re also, far rhe first time, going
to have banners around Centenniai Circle. 5o we're excited about that. I just got the --
the banner hangers taday. We'�e been working with Econamic De�elapment t❑ help
with our funding on stuff like that as well.
And so we'll have banners that we'll put up far the holidays, and then we'll have
the one in Centennial Circle will pra�ably -- we ha�en't figured out exactly what we're
going to put up f�r the year round over there, fiaut we'll be changing out from the
holidays to that. It's one of the things that we wanted to get dane last year, and kind of
like the lights for the fountains. We wanted to do those last year, tao. And one of us in
this roam was way ta❑ busy to do that, and he failed. 5o i have athers now that are
warking on that. 5a that's kind af where we're at right naw.
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: 5o Kevin, going back to the overseeding just the other day, the
restroom at the fountain. It seerns as thQugh there's f�ooding fram one of the sprinkler
systems. I'm nat sure if you've noticed that as well. �h, well, yau know, yau're the guy
arvunc! here, so I'm nat sure if your team has addressed that, hut it was pretty rough
yesterciay. It's by ihe re5troom at the fountain, the sprinkler was.
MR. SNIPES: 1Nhich restroom?
UNIdENTIFIED SP�AKER: 5o if you're heading to the fvuntain, it's the restrovm right by
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the entrance.
MR. S�VIPES: At the east part, like, near the playground or near the east parking lot?
UNI�ENTIFIED SPEAKfR: DppoSite side of that.
MR. SNIPES: That east par�Cing kvt.
UNIDENTIFiED SPEAKER: Yeah� it was pretty had.
MR.SNIPES: ❑kay.
IJNIdENTIFIED SPEAKER: And then there's very similar situation at Golden Eagle. It's
right by the dumpster. f'�e noticed thi5 was just yesterday when 1 was just going around
the parks. 1 mentioned it to Natalie. I don't have yaur numher, Ron, or I would have
texted you, but I'm not sure if yaur team has addressed that with you.
COMM1554�NER RUPPERT: Shoot -- shoot it ta me, if yvu see stuff like that.
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Qkay. I'11 get your number.
MR. SNIPES: I'll make sure he gets taken care of. Yeah, you �an just email it to me ar
text it to me. Either way is fine.
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: ❑kay. CoQi. Thank you.
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER 1: A�I right we'11 move ❑n to 7H, whi�h is the �onsideratiQn and
possible action for Fountain Park A�A playground grant.
MR. SNIPE5: Arsd this ane, actually, we faund vut that aur co�erage -- our mat�hing
grant -- federal grant kind pf died aff on us. And so our funding source wasn't going to
be ahle to match �ur -- like, what we did ftir the restrooms. We had twa different
grants that funded each ❑ther. We didn't ha�e that ability. And sa at this time, this
one's going t❑ die for a littie bit. And they're constantly doing these, and so we'll be
loaking back inta them later. But for right now we will not he moving forward with thi5
grant, because of lack af funds to match. 5tili definitely one high on my priority list. 5a
I-- I think if we can get a-- a rea{ly nice A�A playground at Fvuntain Park, it'll go a long
way towards what we'�e seen for aur activities aver there.
And the amaunt of people tF�at came ro use that sort of a enviranment makes it an
afl-inclusive graup, and it's already set up to -- to be that way to a certain degree. We
just want to take it to another level. And we have multiple vans that come in fram
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around from aur local homes and stuff that -- that came and use it, that we think this
wauld he a really coal idea. 5❑ I'm not giving up, I'm just pausing for a little bit, which
I'�e had tv do on lats of prajects that we've dane, but we'll get there.
L1Ni�ENifFIED SPEAlCER: Is there anything that we can do as commi5sioners on this
cammittee to help support with that grant?
MR. SNIPfS: Next time that we're -- we're putting -- every time that we put in fvr
grants, we loak far letters of support from aur commissions, and we dv �ate5 on it
an� -- and -- and 5how that suppart as well. But yeah, that -- that's our biggest way of
getting support �rom yau guys is letters of suppart, sa that we �an add those t❑ our --
our list �f qualifications and recommendations from others t❑ -- to get the grants that
we're getting.
UNI�ENTfFIED SPEAKER 1: Thank you for that, Ke�in. We'll m��e �n to 7, update far
Cammunity Center holiday decoratians policy.
MR. SNIPES: 5a for those that have lived in #his town far more than a year, you'll
remember that last year there was some interesting disp�ays that ended up showing up
in the Community Center which toak away fram what our goal was. Be�ause of that,
there was many conversations up ta and including terminating our holiday di5plays in
the Community Center. For those of you that don't know my staff, they la�e the
haliday5, and doing stuff at the Cammunity Center is one �f their highlights. And last
year it was destroyed hy hate far lack of a better term. There was way too many people
that were daing way toa many things, �ausing -- and yelling at our staff like, it's our fault
that things were gaing on, which I wQn't let ha{�pen.
And so w�at we did this year was we came up with a policy, and we're making all
the -- all of the peaple that are participating have to de5cribe what their display is going
to be, get it approved prior to them putting it in. And ❑n our li5t, it lists through a Lan of
things that yau can and �annot d❑ as part af the -- the haliday display. We had to have
❑ur attorney invafved and make sure that everything was legal for our #�uilding, and we
came up with ❑ne that we all got behind and got camfartable with. Tovk us all 5ummer
lang ta -- to work an it just because every time we think we got somewhere, we find a
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hole in it and go, okay, sa haw do we fill tFtat hole up? And it's very difficult to dv when
you know you're in a public setting. And -- but basi�ally, we -- we've made them ail sign
❑ff on 5aying that they'll play ni�ely, and da it far the betterment of the entire town.
We've gotten in -- several of our tree display graups have already sent in their
plans for this year, and they're all laok govd. And again, it was just a couple of bad
examples that caused everything to go sideways. 5o it dvesn't take much. But this is
something that we've dane and grown into something that's -- it'S my -- it's one af my
favorite things. I think having thirty trees in a single lo�atian, something that I'�e never
seen anywhere, and getting to see it in vur own k�a�lcyard, where we get t� go a�er all
the time means a lat. And y�u knaw, ha�ing all the quilt displays and the -- and the
wreath displays, it's -- it's an impactful sp�t. Ar�d we ha�e peqple that �ome fr�m all
over now to see it, because they've heard about it, you knaw, and -- and last year when
it went sideways, we had a lat af people coming ta see it that weren't here for the joy.
They were here for a tatally different reasan. And so we wantec! ta make sure that
that doesn't repeat itself ar we will stop doing this project. And that's the last thing that
I wan# to do, hut I'm not going through that another season. It was not fun for any vf
us. So we want the -- the -- the spotlight to be shined on us for all the right reasons,
and nat for the reasons that it was last year that we were a11 ❑n the news. And it's just
not akay. Sa we think we'�e -- we've �ome up with a way to make sure that that never
happens again. And are hopeful that thi5 year goes smaoth4y. We've had some long
talks with several different key peaple in the tawn about how it went last year, and how
we would like for it to run this year. And I think we're in a gaad spat for moving
forward. 5o it wasn't easy, but I think we gat to where we needed to he, sa.
UNIDE�ITIFIED SP�AKER 1: Wel�, thank yau for that, Kevin. And with there being na
further busine5s, may I have a motion t❑ adjourn?
IJNEDENTIFIE❑ SPEAKER: Did yau want -- Kevin.
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Yes. Tell us ahout how Golden Eagle Park wound up with the
storm.
MR. SNIPES: Certainly. So just in -- in -- in touching on Ron's earlier discussian, we -- we
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also -- we definitely noticed that we had a higher amaunt of flow down in that lower
end. We -- it was the only hreach that we had. And we didn't have a big -- a large
breach there. But we did came up onto the tennis courts around that corner. 5o we
made some madifications there imrnediately after the storm. 6ut autside of tF�at, I-- i
couldn't be mare pleased with haw GQlden Eagle handlec! the rain, considering the
amount that we had. Like I said, it was the only breach that we had was -- was coming
right under Galden Eagle. It immediately was abie ta g� narth towards the tennis courts
and �ut off the �orner of the tennis court, and then flooded out onto the fields and
across the fieids.
And we ended up with some ❑f your galf balls if you need them out an the -- out
an the �al� fields. But other than that, we didn't avertap anywhere. We were very
close, and a lot of locatians, we had some �leanup an the warning tracks ❑n three and
four mostly from just the amount of water that comes through all the fields and ends up
out there. But considering how much work that we spent on making sure that we
covered all aur bases, that we were actually protecting the park, that part was one
hundred percent su�cessful. We had some erosion in a �oupl� of spots that dawn at the
right field line ❑n field 1 for Ashbrook. The speed of the water making the turn there cut
into and undercut significantly inta that hill a little bit. 5o we are going ta f�e armaring
that turn, which isn't a t�ig thing. 8ut samething that definitely -- with a st�rm of that
quality definitely showed that we needed to armar that side s❑ it wouldn't change the
width of our wash down thraugh there.
UNI�ENTIFIEQ SPEAKER: I was ❑ut af tawn al5❑ during that. I heard two inches of rain.
Is that a�vut right?
MR. SNIPES: It depends on where you were at in town. We had three inches, three and
a quarter in same areas. We -- and it's interesting, when you look at our parks, like
Qesert Vista typically gets abaut a half in�h less. When we hit that run, and it was about
three quarters of an inch less, it was just like two and a quarter at Qesert Vista. Far
peeks, was it like, twa and three quarters. Goiden Eagle was mare at just over three. So
-- but it's -- and it's �ery consistent like each one af vur -- it's -- it's haw the mountains
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affect the rain and -- and it's been -- you know, a�er the years, it's every once in a while
something weird wil� happen and one ❑f the other ones will get more. 6ut most a� the
time Golden Eagle gets the most.
UNI�ENTIFIED SPEAKER: Craig, you can ga on the Maricopa Cvunty wehsite and they
have --
MR. SNIPES: Weather stations.
UNIDENTIFIEa SPEAKER: -- they have rair� -- c�aily rain reports of all the dams that are in
Fauntain Hil1s. That gi►►es a good indication. And that's uploaded every day at 5:aD in
the morning. And so you can get all the data off of that if you're ever interested.
LINIDENTIFIEQ SPEAKf R: Well, thank yau for reminding me, Ron. that Craig had another
question. 5o withflut further ada, if there's no further business, may I have a motian to
a�journ?
UNIDENTfFIED SPEAKER: I make a motiQn we adjourn.
11NIDENTIFIEQ SPEAKER: Can I get a second?
UNIDENTIFIEd SREAKER: 5econd.
UNIDENTIFIE� SPEAKER: All thvse in f��or?
UNIDENTIFIE❑ SPEAKER: Aye.
UNI�ENTiFrED SPEAKER: Aye.
11NI�ENTIFIED SPEAKER: And we'll have our next meeting take place Nv►►ember 24th.
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Having no further �usiness, Chairperson Reddick ad�ourr�ed the Regular Meeting of the
Community Ser►�ices Ad�isory Commissian meeting held an ��tober 27, 2�25, at 6:50 p.m.
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ATTEST AN� PREPAREO BY:
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5tormy Mazeilci�, Admini�tra#ive Assistant
CERTIFICATI�N
I hereby certify that the faregaing minutes are a true and carrect capy of the
minutes af the Regular Meeting held by the Community Services Ad�isvry
Commission of Fountain Hil�s in the Town Hall Cauncil ChambErs on the 27 of
Qctober 2��5. I further certify that the meeting was duly �alled and that a quarum
was present.
DATED this 24 Day of Novem�er 2�25.
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