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Approved 9/3/14 2 Perdita Holtz introduced DEAPR staff members and gave a brief overview of the purpose of tonight’s item. 55 56 Marabeth Carr: We didn’t hire a consultant to do this report; it was done by DEAPR staff and other Orange County 57 agencies. We had $30,000 and we have money left for printing. Reviewed plan differences. 58 59 Paul Guthrie: You should be congratulated for doing this yourself and not hiring a consultant. You may need to talk 60 a little more about trails and acquisition and the question is have you got a working concept of how you would go 61 about acquisition of trails. One problem is you are doing a large trail from a good distance and one land owner won’t 62 play then you don’t have a trail. The second is how you maintain what you have and keep the quality up. Have you 63 got the budget base in place of how you will do that? 64 65 Marabeth Carr: This coming year, we have a new budget line item for maintenance. In developing what I call 66 Chapter 3, park facilities, we took that chapter and in the appendix we are outlining all the maintenance needs for the 67 next five years and put numbers with them. We are trying to have a chunk of money in this budget line item to 68 address these items at each park. 69 70 Paul Guthrie: I would strongly encourage you to talk to your general county budget people so they are aware there is 71 a strategy involved. A couple of things; one is coordination with school facilities. 72 73 Marabeth Carr: Just recently, we introduced a resolution which is called the Community Use of School Facilities for 74 Recreation. I am in charge of the Intergovernmental Parks Work Group which is a group that meets quarterly, all the 75 recreation directors, and we have other representatives. We address different issues and make sure we don’t 76 overlap with other counties. We wrote this resolution for using school facilities. It been adopted by all the 77 jurisdictions, school boards, etc. but has not been adopted by our BOCC yet. 78 79 Paul Guthrie: A subset of the school coordination is year round use and the school systems are offered a seven to 80 eight month use and when schools are not in session, there is more of a need for their outdoor facilities. Another 81 thing is the integration with the municipal and state facilities similar to the school focusing on how you get a long term 82 relationship with municipalities that have separate recreation departments. Another point is the Mountains to the Sea 83 Trail needs a lot of emphasis but that gives you something physical in place you can use to spring off side trails. 84 That interest the state has in that trail may help. 85 86 Marabeth Carr: The reasons those connections show up is because of the IP Work Group. The municipalities 87 wanted to make sure they were connected to it. 88 89 Bryant Warren: There was lot of discussions at the meetings about whichever route the Mountain to the Sea Trail did 90 take that all those municipalities had access to it. 91 92 Paul Guthrie: How much discussion was on what the uses on the trail would be permitted? 93 94 Marabeth Carr: Since it is a state trail, they will go by their guidelines. 95 96 Paul Guthrie: How far have you gone in organizing your thoughts identifying the options for the trail and beginning to 97 start the dialogue about possible options because sooner or later, you will generate both generate people who think 98 is a good idea and those who think it’s a bad idea? 99 100 Marabeth Carr: Rich Shaw is directing that effort. 101 102 Paul Guthrie: You have a lot of terrific data but in terms of your public report you may have too much. 103 104 Tony Blake: A lot of the comments I have had is the county has taken a lot of land off the tax rolls and there is a 105 great deal of consternation there from my people. I am personally not that opposed. It would seem that some of 106 these places are natural venues. One thing missing is the ability to organize community events (i.e. Southern Village 107 Outdoor Theater). 108