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Parks and Recreation Committee
May 21, 2018 * Approved Minutes
Meeting Time: Monday, May, 21 2018 from 5:30 – 7:00 PM
Place: Parks and Recreation Bldg. 26379 Fremont Road, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022
1.Call to Order/Roll Call (Quorum = 4)
a.Chairman: Ingrid Sperow; Vice Chair: Scott Vanderlip; Secretary: Kathy Evans
b.Members: Liza Reichert, Patty Radlo, Nina Sutaria
c.Staff: Sarah Robustelli, Chris Knopf
d.Council Liaison: John Radford
e.Associate Members: Karen Lemes, Kit Gordon, Rebecca Hickman, Helene Karlsson, Kjell Karlsson, Val
Metcalfe, Jim Basiji, Craig Murray, Theresa Martin, Alisa Bredo, Nick French
f.Nominate new committee officers: Ingrid /Chair, Nina/ Vice Chair, Kathy /Secretary.
g.Agenda amended to add item “g” – VOTE on officers: unanimously approved
**Our Committee has 3 openings. Introduce committee candidates. Distribute application form.
Everyone asked to bring prospective new committee members to each meeting.
2.Review of April 16, 2018 DRAFT Minutes – Unanimously approved
3.Public Comments (list members of public) Melissa Graney / Eda Cano from the Butterfly Garden
Preschool, Spanish emersion, opening in LAH in the fall. We discussed their program and how we could
work collaboratively to help them. They will be located at Temple BethAm campus where they recently
purchased land for a garden. In the fall we should approach them about possibly letting P&R host some
community garden classes there. They will follow up with Sarah. Also will suggest a LAH parent to
become an associate member of P&R once they complete enrollment in the fall.
4.P & R Budget request to Council – Break into Long Term and Short Term – Continue discussion
Sarah will report out in her meetings with Carl What the P&R budget requirements are.
5.Sub-Committee Reports:
a.Barn Update: Chris / Sarah
b.Garden Update: Ingrid /Scott – Still looking for a site. Follow up with Hidden Villa and the Butterfly
Garden in the fall.
c.Sr. Programming: Karen Lemes/Sarah – Continuing the Sr. Walks and will discuss adding speaker
topics for the fall guide.
d.Preschool Programming: Nina Sutaria – Will collect names and emails at the picnic so that we can
invite a preschool parent to help take over the preschool programming at P&R. Follow up at the
next meeting.
e.Fall Activity Guide Preview – Chris / Sarah (Deadline for submissions now July 1st) New classes must
be turned in with blurbs no later than July 1st for the fall guide.
f.Joint Cities softball game update: Liza/Nick/Sarah – banners will go up and social media will start in
June.
g.Family Campout update: Sarah / Chris / Anna Garverick, YC, coming back for this event.
h.Joint Cities Village Green update: Scott/Sarah Still going as planed. They will allow us to borrow
their movie screen and show us how to operate it and set it up. We will eventually need to
purchase our own. Add to budget and get Sarah’s signing limit raised.
i.Neighborhood Networks update: Scott/Kathy – Kathy met with Dennis Duffy with CRC and will also
attend their meeting in June to discuss collaboratively working with them to restart the NN
program. Both CRC and P&R agree something needs to be done – still determining what actions to
take. May need Town to hire someone like Carol Starbuck to run the program and coordinate Neil
Katin and CERT and ECC into one unit.
6.2018 Events:
a.Earth Day
b.Pathway Run
c.July 4th Parade (10th Annual)
d.Family Camp Out August 10 & 11 5:30pm –
10:00 am
e.Softball Event August 18 1-3pm
f.Hoedown September 15th 3-8pm
g.Preschool Halloween Event October 31st
h.Lights Parade November 25th
i.Holiday Barn Lighting December 2nd 2-5pm
j. Hoppin Hounds
k. Village Green – Joint Town Sponsorship
l. LAH Trivia Night – Need submissions
m Club 55 on First Fridays - FYI
7.Old Business:
a.Piano concerts update - Sara
b.LA/LAH Easter Activity – Recap and plan for next year
c.Discuss having more culturally diverse events in town. Possibly update picnic menu etc.
8.New Business:
Future 2018 Meetings: June 18, No July, August 20, September 17, October 15, November 12
special, No December
Adjourned Time:____7:08 p.m._____________Respectfully submitted: Kathy Evans