Based on feedback that we heard from the city council on parkboard at a variety of meetings during this process the city staff has prepared two draft ordinances that amend existing regulations related to offleash dogs in the City generally and public parks in particular.

the one thing I I have an issue with rra leashes which I'll get to I do too but the presentation here and the commentary by the city council made it sound like everyone needs to have a 20 foot retractable leash when in fact the ordinance is restrained by a leash up to 6 feet or a a retractable leash up to 20t and I just want to if we do use this again I think it wouldn't hurt to make that clear.

I agree with Dave I'm as a bicyclist and um I appreciate when people have their dogs on a short leash and then when I'm biking by they hold their dog by the collar and off to the side presumably because they're attempted to run after bicyclists um but there have been some very painful nasty accidents with people hitting dogs and a 20 foot leash is pretty long.

I do think dis disturbance is pretty personal my tolerance for a dog approaching me is pretty low you know my personal space bubble is very big and other people maybe you know their personal space bubble is 6 in so my level of disturbance would be higher I think that like illustrates the point though that's super unclear.

the state did retain control over a number of regulatory areas but did give local jurisdictions like cities the discretion to regulate use in what they're calling outdoor public spaces.

I'm looking at the second one so the property and upon which a city operated building is located so just like here is the entire C where where it is what's the property right around this building the entire area the whole Civic Center campus.

is there anything on this slide that's divergent or different than our tobacco laws that I don't have memorized.

I'm not aware of any calls that we've had regarding issues in the Parks or or otherwise regarding cannabis Ed.

part of the plan actually prioritize Parks so we we had some criteria developed um so we could actually more um put some more prioritization on where we're putting our efforts into and then part of the other strategy identified in the plan is to develop what we call Park habitat restoration and maintenance plans.

restoration is not um like a typical engineering project where we can you know cost out linear feet of this particular pipe and know exactly what we're getting restoration is a bit of a process there's um seasonality rain drought heat seed Effectiveness there's a lot of sort of uh um mushiness to the these particular efforts so we like to consider these documents as living and they'll they'll evolve as we see restoration and maintenance activi sort of respond in the field.

in late April there was going to be um to early May garlic mustard mother Mor and stick seed spot spraying I wasn't aware that that was is that what the contractors have done in other places I'm mostly familiar with pulling it.

I walk around starring Lake sometimes and I I know that they have three times tried to get rid of their Buckthorn and it's it's a Buckthorn Forest again and it I know that's the as you mentioned the restoration Community understands better how to deal with buckthorne now you know each year some somebody figures out some new thing um so I'm very hopeful that once we stamp it out it'll be under control.