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Home My WebLink About12-02-1980 - Agenda• CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH PARKS, BEACHES & RECREATION COMMISSION REGULAR MEETING HELD TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1980 CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS 6:30 p.m. AGENDA I. PROCEDURAL MATTERS: 1. Call to Order 2. Roll Call 3. Approval of Minutes - Meeting of Tuesday, November 4, 1980 4. Adoption of Agenda II. SPECIAL RECOGNITION AWARDS: • 5. Boys Flag Football and Orange County Volleyball Club III. ITEMS FOR ACTION: 6. Capital Improvement Proposals for 1981 -82 7. Park Division Efficiency Proposal 8. Develop agenda for joint meeting with City Council - December 22, 1980. IV. ITEMS FOR DISCUSSION: 9. Delegates to California Park and Recreation Conference - San Diego, March 6 -10, 1981, Vl�iI�151uM�ii�1�:7?Il�liicA 10. Budget 11. 'Ocean Front General Plan • 12. Park Planning and Development PARKS, 'BEACHES AND 'RECREATION COMMISSION MEETINGS ARE TAPE RECORDED: TESTIMONY LIMITED TO 5 MINUTES • 13. Parkway Trees 14. Recreation Facilities 15. Recreation Program & Citizen Involvement VI. LIAISON REPORTS: 16. Bikeway Trails Committee 17. Litter Control Committee 18. Friends of Oasis 19. Friends of the Theatre Arts VII.. INFORMATION REPORTS: 20. Recreation Division (report attached) 21. Park Division (report attached) • VIII. SPECIAL, URGENT OR LAST = MINUTE ITEMS: • IX. ADJOURNMENT: PARKS, BEACHES AND RECREATION COMMISSION MEETINGS ARE TAPE RECORDED; TESTIMONY LIMITED TO 5 MINUTES COMMISSIONERS r s Present Absent Motion Second Ayes 'r • • CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH PARKS, BEACHES & RECREATION COMMISSION November 4, 1980 City Council Chambers 6o30P.M. 1'A. Whitley, Director )y C. Kolin, Rec. Supt. le Alberta, Secretary and Recreation Commission [Call to order lutes of the October 7, )rrections: item be referred to the :hat there are three i who have not had a park state that this item be n & Citizen Involvement is presented. its time. to discuss the basic ne of them are: for Ocean Front sidewalk forms of public usage ing). of utes an Front eral Plan x x x x x x x Ex- Officio Member Present: Ronal Staff Present: Jeffr Miche' I: PROCEDURAL MATTERS: Item #1 The meeting of the Parks, Beaches was called to order at 6:40 p.m. Item #3 x Motion was made to approve the mii x 1980 meeting with the following c x x x x x Item 7 on page 3 should state tha Tree Committee for further study. Park Tour on page 6 should state commissioners and seven councilmei tour. Awards Ceremony on page 6 should referred to the Recreation Progral Committee. Item #4 Chair Schwarz adopted the agenda II. P. B. & R. COMMITTEE REPORTS Item #5 There is no committee report at tl Item #6 A meeting was held on October 31, objectives of this committee. Sol 1. Establishing priorities relative to the various (walking, jogging, skat 1'A. Whitley, Director )y C. Kolin, Rec. Supt. le Alberta, Secretary and Recreation Commission [Call to order lutes of the October 7, )rrections: item be referred to the :hat there are three i who have not had a park state that this item be n & Citizen Involvement is presented. its time. to discuss the basic ne of them are: for Ocean Front sidewalk forms of public usage ing). of utes an Front eral Plan CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH COMMISSIONERS PARKS, BEACHES & RECREATION COMMISSION November 4, 1980 City Council Chambers 6o30PM. 9 i � r IN UtJI Present 2. Identification, of additional sites for small boat launching. 3. To act as liaison between PB & R Commission and the Marine Department in requesting relevant information and reports (I.E. Status report on the 40th'St. to 44th St. 'body surfing area, and the status report on small ,boat launching at 18th St.). 4. To assist PB & R as deemed appropriate with respect to the volleyball tournament. 5. To provide input to the PB & R Department re various other projects including the Pedicab concession. 6. Placement of the bott dots. • Item #7' lark Planning Development A committee meeting was held on October 31. Suggestions were discussed. Another meeting this month will be held to discuss other priorities. Item #8 3arkway Trees A meeting was held with Jack Brooks, Ron Whitley and Commissioner Cole. Discussion of Council Policy I -9 took place. Also, the reevaluation of recommendations for a street tree lmst -be ammended to take off any trees that are causing problems and add trees to better suit the nature of our needs. Waiting to notify homeowner associations with recommendations. Item #9 lecreation acil'ities Commissioner Winburn met with Mayor Heather, Ron Whitley and Jeff Kolin and it was determined to have the park tour in March or April of 1981. Mayor Heather urges to continue .with the idea. Chair Schwarz commented to have certain guides written out for each site when travelling. This guide will be helpful for council members if they cannot make the tour. They could go on the tour alone and have • this guide to help familiarize them with the park sites. -2- CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH COMMISSIONERS PARKS, BEACHES & RECREATION COMMISSION s s ^s a6� o.po s Present • 0 November 4, 1980 City Council Chambers 620P.M. Ensign and Lincoln Middle Idgets, have had to drop for boys and girls. to maintain recreational >chool. Commissioner :hy of pursuing. > using the bike lanes. s brought up. Dick Sweet, :ing over for the month. ing President. •e Arts Center started 'eatured the play, Fathers 'Girls in 509', a Neil, creational ogram & tizen In- lvement ikeway Trails ommittee itter Control ommittee riend_s of asis riends of he Theatre its alifornia eague of ities Commissioner Winburn stated that Schools, due to constraints on bl two to three after - school sports Commissioner Stuart stated to tr� or competitive activities after Ammerman stated that this is wor Item #10 No report at this time. III. P. B. & R. LIAISON'REPORTS Item #11 One point brought up was Pedicab Item #12 No report given at this time. Item #13 - The resignation of Jim Felton wa second Vice President will be tal He was voted by the Board as Act Item #14 The season'for the Newport Theat Friday night, October 31,.which Day. Future plays will include Simon play, and "Hot L Baltimore' IV. ITEMS FOR DISCUSSION: Item #15 No report given at this time. V. INFORMATIONAL REPORTS: -3- Ensign and Lincoln Middle Idgets, have had to drop for boys and girls. to maintain recreational >chool. Commissioner :hy of pursuing. > using the bike lanes. s brought up. Dick Sweet, :ing over for the month. ing President. •e Arts Center started 'eatured the play, Fathers 'Girls in 509', a Neil, creational ogram & tizen In- lvement ikeway Trails ommittee itter Control ommittee riend_s of asis riends of he Theatre its alifornia eague of ities CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH C \ \ \OMMISSIONERS PARKS, BEACHES & RECREATION COMMISSION November 4, 1980 City Council Chambers 6030 P. M. Present is Motion Second Ayes • ei FA s- Item #16 Jeff Kolin stated that the special recognition forms were distributed to the flag football coaches this week. We will be sending out letters to parents,o6 the week of November 18. Special recognition awards will be ready for the next commission meeting. Item #17 No report was given. VI.. SPECIAL, URGENT OR LAST - MINUTE ITEMS: Productivity Improvement Program, Mr. Bill Taylor, Consultant for William Hamilton & Assoc. attended the Commission meeting to present to the Commission an innovative productivity program that will contribute to the City of Newport Beach's ability to address current service needs and to meet future growth in the area serviced by our Park Division. Basically, this program is designed to improve the methods of work that is being done. Mr. Taylor stated that this program would take five to six months to implement. It was suggested by Commissioner Cole to have the Commission take an active part in the observations of the problems involved in the Park Division and become more acquainted with the problems and identify them before a recommendation is made. It was suggested that a committee be appointed to explore . this and come back to the Commission with a recommendation. x Commissioner Ammerman moved that we-refer this matter to a x sub - committee for further investigation. The committee will x x consist of Jack Brooks, Ron Whitley, Doug Ammerman, Joan Winburn and Stan Cole. For purposes of timing, the committee will review and analyze this situation within the next month so that a�report can come back to the Commission in December. .VII.. ADJOURNMENT: There being no further business, the Parks, Beaches and Recreation Commission adjourned. ��AA..�^^..--nn� ��Q�^�`�Q!'�, IVl/1�..��R. 1'�IJ�JQ " -4 - INDEX 2ecreation- )ivision report lark Division report ''F""" • RECREATION DIVISION PROGRESS REPORT NOVEMBER 1980 Special Classes The majority of fall session classes were completed before Thanksgiving: Special two week December sessions for Tennis, Dance Exercise and Holiday Decorations are currently accepting registration. The winter brochure has been printed and should' be delivered to residents by December 2. Mail -in registration for winter classes begins December 13. Winter classes will begin January 5, 1981. A special performance of "The Magic Flute" will be held at Oasis Center's Multi - Purpose Room on December 6, at-11 a.m. The show is an introduction to opera through puppets. This program is co- sponsored with the City Arts Commission. Senior Citizens The staff of the Oasis Center has been working hard to con- tinually provide new programs and services for the center. The latest addition to the program is a golf team. Special • rates for Oasis members have been made available by local golf courses. On the books for the future are a senior softball 'program, merchant discount program and outreach services. A special Thanksgiving Dinner was catered by the Newport -Mesa Unified School District. All in attendance enjoyed turkey with the trimmings. A new president has been appointed by the Board of Directors of the Friends of Oasis Center to fill the vacancy created by Jim Felton's resignation. The new President of the Friends is Dick Sweet. Dick has served on the Board as Fundraising Chairman and promises to do an excellent job in his new position. Sailing Program Fall sailing lessons were wrapped up this month. Sabot classes were extended one week because of the recent high winds. Lessons are scheduled to begin again in January. During December boats will be in for repairs and new rigging. • Community Youth 'Center The Community Youth'C'enter will be performing special holiday performances of "The Christmas Carol" at Oasis Center,-December 10, 11 and 12. Bob Conrad, our Recreation Leader at the Center r a �r Progress Report • November 1980 Page 2 will be directing the production. He is a student at U.C.I. majoring in theatre. Both local children and U.C.I. students will be in the production. Youth & Adult Sports Youth Flag Football teams completed their City championships this month. Division winners will represent Newport Beach in the Orange County Tournament in Buena Park on December 5, 6, and 7. Registration for the youth basketball program is underway. Fliers have been distributed to all local schools. Games are scheduled to begin in January. Adult Basketball and Softball are continuing in League Play. Championship rounds are scheduled for December and January. Jeffrey C. Kolin JCK:ma is • November 26, 1980 TO: PARKS, BEACHES AND RECREATION COMMISSION FROM: Park Superintendent SUBJECT: PARKS DIVISION ACTIVITY REPORT FOR OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER In addition to our routine tasks, the Park employees per- formed the following work: 1. Removed the ground 'cover on Irvine Avenue traffic islands and triangle. Installed turf in the areas where ground cover was removed. 'This was a large project and has improved the area considerably. 2. Replaced two large Windmill Palms that were lost in a traffic accident on Coast Highway and Marguerite Avenue. 3. Completed the planting of ground cover at Spy- glass Hills Park. 4. Seeded a large area in Cliff Drive Park with Creeping Fescue to prevent erosion. 5. Picked up and delivered furniture that was donated to Theatre Arts Center. 6. Removed weeds along the road side at 5th Ave. and Larkspur. 7. Removed five trees at 32nd Street Fire Station for new construction. 8. Removed weeds in front of Big Canyon Reservoir. 9. Trimmed trees and shrubs along Bayside Drive to eliminate traffic hazzard. 10. Removed weeds obstructing traffic signs on Backbay Drive. 11. Our crews spent alot of time cleaning up debris from the wind storm. n U X21 • Park Div. Activity Report Page 2 November 26, 1980 The Tree crews trimmed a total of 654 trees during the two months. They planted 19 new trees and removed 16 trees. 39 Work Requests were completed. During the wind storm we lost 12 trees. They were all small ones. We had 38 tree calls because of the storm and most of the calls were for limbs down. The Eucs. on Poppy Street were trimmed just before the wind storm. We feel that there would have been alot of damage on Poppy Street if they had not been trimmed. Our crews are currently working in Fashion Island, Corona del Mar, 15th Street in Newport Heights and in Eastbluff. G�'Zze� llatel� Jack Brooks • JB:ma n l.J COY (ect I maw -Pr. q� on. YV1(/Vi • P. 9 -3 P �o�mrrji�sion The minority report implied that the majority vote was based solely on the basis of testimony by one witness. The report implied further that the witness was seriously biased and testified on the basis of self interest only. The overall implication is offensive to the majority and brings into question both their credibility and their judgment. The fact was that the majority vote was based on the consider- ation of rational evidence which is still available to anyone who wishes to investigate the issue. The point is that such offensive insinuations by commission members about other commission members, particularly when made as part of the public record, have no rightful place in the proceedings of this body and can only by counter productive. 11