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Public Comments on Items Not on the Agenda <br />Dear Members of the Board, <br />I would like to offer some suggestions for Community Park. <br />Trees, trees, trees. <br />I have lived here long enough to remember concerts in the park at Memory Square and then Cottonwood <br />Park. What those venues had that Community Park doesn't have is shade. The most sought-after seats are <br />always in the shade. The expansive lawn of Community Park is rarely, if ever, used in full. I would <br />encourage you to start planting trees in a ring at a distance around the performance stage to provide a <br />more pleasant ambiance and welcome shade at any time. <br />The actual siting of the stage is most unfortunate. The performers have to look straight into the setting sun <br />and the amplified sound is pointing into the neighborhood, though it could have pointed at the railroad <br />tracks. Of course, unless the City wants to pay to re -do it, we're stuck with this, so trees will help, at least <br />with shade (after a decade or two). <br />Community Park would also be much more inviting if there were more places to sit away from others, <br />either on a bench or a picnic table, that isn't in the pavilion or in concentrated seating on concrete. The <br />area to the north of the pavilion is little used. Perhaps more picnic seating areas could be created there - <br />with a shade structure or trees, though it might mean flattening those hillcocks, the purpose of which <br />eludes me. Indeed, they visually isolate the park from the sidewalks on the north periphery. <br />Thanks for listening. <br />Laura Page <br />920 Rex St <br />12 <br />