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13.

City Council Regular Meeting

Meeting Date:

02/25/2020

BACKGROUND

The special events and recreation programing have been scheduled for 2020 and the attached flyers list all the dates for the Music & Movies in the Park Series, the Nature Discovery Series, and the Star Parties. Also, included is the flyer for the 2020 Daddy Daughter Dance: Under the Sea, and this year we expanded the event to encompass the entire Civic Center and have sold out with 505 attendees registered.

City staff also worked with Ms. Valerie Wilenchik and the Mays Cancer Center to re-brand Wilenchik's Walk for Life and the event is now: Kick Cancer! Pep Rally and Run. The event now includes a chip-timed 5K race, a 1K kids race, and the traditional 5K walk. The event has now been moved to Pickrell Park and Schertz Parkway will not be closed. These changes have been made in an effort to increase participation in the event (and thus raise more money for cancer research), minimize disruptions to traffic flow on the busy Schertz Parkway, and to create a more festive atmosphere for the event in the park versus the parking lot feel of the past location. We are hoping folks will stick around and want to hang out with the event now being in a beautiful park setting.

Lastly, the FY18-23 Park Maintenance Project Priority List is attached and was reviewed at the Parks & Recreation Advisory Board meetings on November 18 and January 27 and was approved by the board on January 27. The Board had shown some hesitation in proceeding with the list in November given the fact that trail development is a high priority for them and the department did not receive the dedicated $250,000 in trail development funds that was requested through the expanded programs budget process. After hosting the Trail Development Workshop with the board, (and passing that timeline and cost estimates on to council in the Jan. 28 packet) Ultimately, the board agreed the maintenance projects on the list were equally important and needed to proceed, and they needed to keep pushing for additional trail development funds separate from the maintenance efforts. The board gave their approval for city staff to continue in the same direction we were going with maintenance projects and proceed with the projects on the list.

Attachments
2020 Music & Movies in the Park
FY 18-23 Park Maintenance Project Priority List
Kick Cancer Pep Rally and Run
2020 Star Parties
2020 Nature Discovery Series
2020 Daddy Daughter Dance: Under the Sea