Chair, committee members, it's a valuable question to note as part of this presentation. Um one thing to consider is yes, this park is currently not funded. It's not earmarked in the city council's capital improvements plan, CIP is what we call that. We go out and look at a 5-year review that's approved by council as part of their budget process. As part of this discussion, we're hoping to glean from the committee what amenities might be selected for this site to help earmark um what that funding may look like um and when on that timeline does that does this park get funded? So, just know that as part of this, we are looking to receive some ideas about amenities to help eventually do some budget estimating for our future uh CIP conversation upcoming um this fall.

Um, that is not a designated wetland. So, in theory, um um, we have every opportunity to do whatever we would like with that entire space within the park. You we could, um, turn it into some sort of amenity within the park, or you could turn it into an actual wetland if that is the the choice that we ultimate go down ultimately go down.

I think, you know, we I think we should do what we think we we should recommend what we think should go in the park and then it's up to the council to figure out how to fund it. Uh I don't think we should limit what we think should [clears throat] go in the park. I think we should say what you know. And I guess if the council wanted us to do it the other way, they would we would have a number, but uh this way uh let's do what uh what we think the community wants. That's what we've been asked to do.

committee members, that is definitely something we can look at doing. It's actually part of a a future conversation we related to the comprehensive plan and that 2050 process cuz uh Brian McCann, our city planner, talked at the last meeting. Uh he might have not gotten too much detail related to this cuz a lot of it's is going to be focused on future growth areas, but also really focusing on a parks master plan, which also looks at us currently, um redevelopment of parks, although that's hard to comprehend at this point cuz we're such a growing city by 2050, we probably will be looking at redevelopment of some parks, maybe even this park that we're talking about today. Um so, yes, looking at different type of park names, not like actual names, but community park, small neighborhood park, larger neighborhood park. And what does that actually mean? Does it meet the city of Victoria's vision is absolutely a homework assignment we will be doing um in the near future.