Intergovernmental Parks Work Group Agenda 10-13-21

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• Kim Livingston— ENO River Association; Director of Conservation and Stewardship. They have a nature preserve north of Hillsborough and a partnership with ENO River State Park. Just interested hear how everyone is addressing the increased park use. • Robb English— Hillsborough Board of Commissioners. Robb has been with IPWG for many years in several different capacities and now as a representative from the town of Hillsborough board. He's interested in joint use and forming partnerships with everyone but mostly with municipalities and the county. • Mayor Pam Hemminger— Representing the Chapel Hill Town Council. She was part of the IPWG from the beginning. Pam mentioned the Parks locator map and resolution passed for collaborations between the schools. She said the community doesn't see us as separate entities; that's why collaborations are so important. Would like to change the meeting time and or date. She is proud of staff working together during the pandemic. Excited about the other opportunities for folks that are out there. • Susan Romaine- Carrboro Board Town Council. She was elected in Nov 2019. Tonight is her first meeting with IPWG. During COVID she was a regular at Hank Anderson Park and is interested in accessibility to all community members. • Renuka Soll—Chair of the Chapel Hill Parks & Recreation Commission. She is excited to hear what other towns are doing and possibly doing things jointly. • Cecily Kritz—Orange County Recreation & Parks Advisory Council. Her main goals are to expand access to parks, greenways and trails. She pointed out that we are all now faced with budget issues coupled with high facility use and that we need creative solutions to solve this; which almost always involves collaboration. • Amy Fowler- She is the other new Orange County BOCC member. She is also a pediatrician and runner. Stressed the importance of recreation to physical and mental health. • Deon Temne -Chapel Hill /Carrboro City Schools. He is looking forward to working with everyone. Dave next asked staff to do the same • Anita Jones-McNair- Director of Carrboro Recreation and Parks and Cultural Resources and is also the Race and Equity Officer for the town. • Stephanie Trueblood— Public Space Manager for the town of Hillsborough. She noted that Parks and Rec is a critical component of public space. She doesn't think staff typically gets to choose what is reported to us. That staff is here to serve. Stewardship and sustainability are what continues to be exciting and that there is lots of possibilities for partnerships across jurisdictions. And she'd like to see expanded opportunities for connectivity. • Phil Fleischmann— Director of Chapel Hill Parks & Recreation. Likes the ability to share in the ideas of collaborations and this group is a great venture to share ideas to get on the same page for collaborations this group also presents a great venue for alignment for staff leader's elected leaders and board's leaders to get on the same page for interest for planning purposes. • Aaron Davis— Director of Mebane Parks and Recreation (serves as both Mebane City Council member slot and Staff Support). This was his second meeting after 2 years in Mebane. Excited to partner with everyone and has news to share about Lake Michael latter;which many people don't realize it is partly in Orange County. • Wendell Rodgers - Facilities Administer for the Town Carrboro Recreation and Parks. He oversee their parks system and Century Center. He is always interested in hearing what his other colleagues are doing. He and Anita are both long time members. • Marabeth Carr—Orange County Landscape Architect in charge of developing parks for Orange County. She has been on the committee since 2004 so she considers herself one the old timers of the