VISTA CITY COUNCIL (CC)
CITY OF VISTA
WORKSHOP MEETING MINUTES
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
The September 5, 2024, Workshop Meeting of the City Council of the Chartered City of Vista, was called to order by Mayor Franklin at 5:32 pm in the City Council Chambers, 200 Civic Center Drive, Vista, California.
COUNCIL MEMBERS PRESENT
Mayor John Franklin, Deputy Mayor Katie Melendez
Corinna Contreras, Dan O’Donnell
COUNCIL MEMBERS ABSENT
Joe Green
DEPARTMENT REPRESENTATIVES PRESENT
John Conley City Manager
Walter Chung City Attorney
Imelda Huerta Assistant City Manager
Kathy Valdez City Clerk
Mike Pacheco Recreation and Community Services Director Rob Anderson Recreation and Community Services Operations Manager
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
Mayor Franklin led the Pledge of Allegiance.
DISCUSSION
D1. PARKS & RECREATION MASTER PLAN / WAVE WATERPARK NEEDS
ASSESSMENT UPDATE (CC)
Mike Pacheco, Recreation and Community Services Director, introduced the item. Neelay Bhatt of Next Practice Partners, Doug Grove of RHA Landscape Architect Planners, Inc., and Dennis Berkshire of Aquatic Design Group, gave Consultants’ presentation and were available for questions.
August Slivnik thanked City Councilmembers and staff for their efforts to encourage community engagement for the Parks & Recreation Master Plan.
Carol Jefferies asked for improvements to the City’s skatepark facilities.
The City Council and staff discussed the following:
• Depreciation costs are built into the Wave Waterpark budget but not to the extent needed.
A future discussion item on the Wave Waterpark will be scheduled. • Only existing parks were included in the presented data. Future site-specific park surveys will be sent out to residents later on in the planning process. • One way to “activate” a park is through safety measures. Park safety measures include (but are not limited to): security cameras, staff on site, visibility of the park, location of bathrooms, lighting in the park and parking areas.
• More baseball fields needed.
• Request for social media campaign to highlight existing hiking trails. • Based on needs assessment, additional solar lighting may be needed at park locations.
WORKSHOP MINUTES
MAY 5, 2024
2 •As temperatures in San Diego can be warm in September/October, City Councilmembers requested staff to analyze keeping the Wave Waterpark season open to the public past Labor Day.
•Need to identify additional “cool zones”.
•Mayor Franklin requested that surveys be sent out not by mail but by email/social medial/text message.
•Mayor Franklin expressed concern with the cost of the master plan update.
ADJOURNMENT
Mayor Franklin adjourned the meeting at 7:03 pm.
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Kathy Valdez, City Clerk