HomeMy WebLinkAboutOctober 16Town of Los Altos Hills
Parks and Recreation Committee
October 2017 Final Minutes
Meeting Time: Monday October 16, 2017 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 = 5) The meeting was called to order on time with a
quorum and all members present. John Radford Council Liaison was absent. Val
Metcalf – Associate member was present.
a.Chairman: Ingrid Sperow; Vice Chair: Scott Vanderlip; Secretary: Kathy Evans
b.Members: Liza Reichert, Patty Radlo, Champa Sreenivas, Nina Sutaria, Julia
Zarcone
c.Staff: Sarah Robustelli, Chris Knopf
d.Council Liaison: John Radford
e.Associate Members: Karen Lemes, Yoko Hughes, Kit Gordon, Rebecca
Hickman, Helene Karlsson, Kjell Karlsson, Val Metcalfe, Jim Basiji, Craig
Murray, Theresa Martin, Alisa Bredo
2.Approval of August 2017 amended, corrected and condensed Minutes Unanimously
approved (September minutes will be reviewed at next meeting)
3.Public Comments (list members of public) Roy Woolsey – Chairman of CRC, Tori Dye
of Westwind Barn and Paul Schechter – a professional mediator here at Scott
Vanderlip’s request.
Item #7 Mediation Resources was moved up in the agenda so that Roy Woolsey could hear the
report on Mediation services available to Town residents. Scott thought that our Town should
have better branded services available because the brochure we currently use appears to be Los
Altos focused and he was not aware that they also provided services to Los Altos Hills residents.
He invited Paul Schechter to speak about the kind of mediation services he provides. This
brought up the idea that it has been a long time since we had activated the Neighborhood
Networks system in town. Sarah brought out a file of material showing what had been
developed several years ago with Joan Sherlock and Ginger Summit and the Fire District.
Neighbors in town could host gatherings and a representative of the Fire District would attend
and give info on CERT and other free town programs available to residents.
With the recent fires in Napa and Santa Cruz Mountains, we felt it might be important to bring
back the Neighborhood Networks and remind people to host these events again, to reconnect
with neighbors new and old. Roy Woolsey said he would take this feedback back to the next
CRC meeting to see if they could champion this effort.
Everyone agreed the mediation and the Neighborhood Network were a better fit with the CRC
mission.
4.Sub-Committee Reports:
Barn: Julia Zarcone/Val Metcalf: Julia reported that she and Val had met with Tori
and decided that there was a need for a covered arena, but there needed to be
some conceptual work done in advance because this was a longer term project and
we should see if there is consensus in the community to move forward. She
requested seed money to do some preliminary drawings and have discussions with
stakeholders at the barn, to assure them that our intent is to maintain the barn as a
resident and/or stakeholder community barn and asset. The addition of a covered
arena should not impact this goal. Tori can work out procedures and policy when
the time comes. We discussed not having an evening fundraiser in 2018, but moving
it to 2019 after we have a chance to look at the drawings, examine the costs and
assess the political will to move forward.
Garden: Craig Murray: Defer to next meeting
Purissima: Exercise Equipment- Sarah reported that the Council had approved the
additional funding to install the equipment and that we should have some kind of
announcement or ribbon cutting to let the residents know the new equipment was
going to be available. Ingrid suggested some SR. Walks in the area to also
demonstrate their use, as well as a short video on each element, that could be
posted to the Town website and NextDoor.
Sr. Programming: Karen Lemes – Defer to next meeting
Preschool Programming: Champa Sreenivas and Nin Sutaria reported that the time
for the Preschool Halloween Event might need to be adjusted to accommodate
preschool hours, so it will be changed to 11:00 – 1:00 p.m. Nina will also help to
advertise the event through her mothers group. Sarah and Chris have started to
assemble Halloween decorations. Kathy and Ingrid will attend in costume and help
with the craft activities and circle time songs.
5.2017 Events:
o Preschool Halloween at Town Hall: October 26, 11am – 1:00 p.m.
o Holiday Lights Parade- Changed to a Town Float instead of a P&R Float – so
Sarah will send email to all Town Committee chairs to solicit Float Pushers.
o Barn Lighting – Dec 3, 2-5 pm – Defer to next meeting
6.Old Business
a.Pathway Recreational Loops: Escape routes! sub-committee – Liza Reichert & Scott
Vanderlip
b.Town Mailer Proposal –Maps – Scott Vanderlip will contact and attend the Pathway
Committee meeting to seek approval from them to print and distribute the map to
all Town residents in either the Activity Guide, the Town newsletter or a separate
mailer – depending on price. Timing of mailer depends on approval.
7.New Business
Town Mediation Resource- Scott Vanderlip- item moved up
Neighborhood Communications- Scott Vanderlip – item moved up
Future Meetings: November 13 SPECIAL, Dec– no meeting, Jan 22 SPECIAL, Feb 26 SPECIAL
Adjourned Time: ______7:05 p.m.___________
Respectfully Submitted: Kathy Evans