Parks and Public Landscaping Advisory Board Agenda and Packet 2022 09 14

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Open Space Advisory Board Minutes August 10, 2022 Page 2 of 7 Jessamine asked if Catherine had information to share about the status of the fire mitigation RFP. Catherine replied that she had no information to share. Charles relayed a question from a citizen about the Warembourg Fishing Pond and Hecla Lake. This individual had observed that both of these Louisville bodies of water seemed quite full, while Lafayette's ponds were not able to be fully filled, and he asked for clarification. He also asked if the Fishing Pond's leak has been fixed yet. Catherine replied that the reason Hecla Lake can be filled is that it is the water supply for the agricultural land at Harney Lastoka. She said that the Fishing Pond was filled only once at the beginning of the summer and has not yet been repaired. Susan commented that a city employee left his truck running for 45 minutes near her house while he was doing landscaping work. When she contacted him about it, he didn't seem to know there was a state ordinance against leaving a car idling for an extended period of time. She recommended staff training on the topic. She later contacted the OSAB secretary to include the specific state ordinance in the minutes: 2016 Colorado Revised Statutes. Title 42- Vehicles and Traffic Idling Standard. Article 14- State Idling Standard 42-14-105.Idling. Catherine presented Open Space staff's current map for potential memorial bench locations. Laura said she thought it looked good. David said he thought the board's previous comments had been addressed and was also happy with how it currently looked. The board members discussed the written comment explaining staff's logic against including benches along the trail backing to the Enclave community on Davidson Mesa and decided to defer to staff members' opinions on this, rather than contest them. The board members liked the map as shown and was grateful to staff for their work on this topic. 6. Board Updates Wayfinding Tiger Team: Laura shared the wayfinding tiger team's presentation with the board. She explained that the intention behind this document was to respond to the City Manager's office recent decision to drop the wayfinding CIP from the city budget, despite it being a consistent top priority of both Open Space staff and the Open Space Advisory Board, popular with the public, and indicated in both the Open Space and Trails Comprehensive Master Plan and the Transportation Master Plan. The document also tries to address the mayor's request to identify lower priority projects to trim or delay from the budget to pay for the $350k wayfinding CIP. The tiger team identified a CIP ($600k) for work on the Coal Creek Trail, submitted by Public Works, that OSAB has never been asked to review, several cuts suggested by Open Space staff, and an extended timeline of the current $1.4 million CIP for Parks playground equipment replacement. Helen and Laura prepared this document with the hope that board members can share it with members of the public and city decision -makers to communicate the importance of this project. Wayfinding will enhance safety by giving staff and first responders a better way to communicate with the public with trail names and by more effectively communicating the rules. It addresses a pressing maintenance need to replace current signs, which are both obsolete and highly deteriorated. Wayfinding will help citizens use the trails and communicate routes to each other, further encouraging their use. The