Portland Parks Commission cancels meeting due to lack of quorum

[0:40] Speaker A (unidentified): But she's ready for it. She's so honest. She's probably a little older than a lot of that. But during summer, some of the white trackers do it. They work like that. It's fun. But it's like, I was going to say, it's fun. It's hard. But at least it puts them in structure. It's great. They like it. Four or six and like it's a husband date. Yeah, four or six. Yeah, yes, I know they like to be a rape song. [1:24] Speaker B (unidentified): Love summer. My youngest is graduating this year, this year, so June 4th, Casco Bay High School. Yeah, so all sorts of like nice. Yeah, they all, like, within a couple of days of each other, they're all a marriage. Exactly. I haven't been to Casper's yet, but apparently they do their own special approach to it. I can't wait to see. Say some choices that I'm going to share. So but I suppose. [2:45] Speaker A (unidentified): Portland High School details. [2:56] Speaker B (unidentified): Yeah, we're just wondering what the only people that people need. [3:00] Speaker C (unidentified): To be here. The only people that said they weren't coming was Marie Gray and Beth. [3:08] Speaker A (unidentified): Beth. It's kind of an important meeting, right? [3:11] Speaker C (unidentified): This is the CIP. We have. [3:14] Speaker A (unidentified): Six more minutes. What do you think of three people? And then we can, you all can have your evening back. [3:23] Speaker B (unidentified): Three's not enough? Not a quarrel. [3:26] Speaker C (unidentified): There's eleven on the, well, actually, wait. So with Elizabeth Pagan, a full. Sorry. Is one, two, three, four, five. [3:35] Zach McGoon: We're very close. [3:37] Speaker B (unidentified): I can hear you, Angel. Don't worry. And then,. Wow. [4:01] Speaker C (unidentified): So that means there's three known no-shows. There's 12 without Elizabeth Fagan. We have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 people on the commission. Here's another. I did not think you would talk about them. Okay. [4:23] Speaker A (unidentified): Do we have one more to perform? [4:26] Speaker C (unidentified): Form. We have 12. How many do you need to perform? We're. [4:32] Speaker B (unidentified): Trying to figure out how many people we need here to have an official meeting. [4:56] Speaker E (unidentified): It's also to see like yeah I did of course there's so many cars going up yeah of course the time and the way it changes, you're like, you'll never get across what they really want those people. Yes. [5:12] Speaker C (unidentified): Especially now. So. [Speaker A (unidentified): I'm.] Sharing the screen, but for the video that is recording. [5:53] Speaker A (unidentified): We're kind of talking. We're going to have, like, several. I'm using one in a bunch of seats. So just so you know. Yeah. Mm. Mm. Mm. Mm. Mm. Mm. Mm. [6:16] Speaker E (unidentified): Mm. But I only had three responses. I sent out to about 40 people, three defendants to show up, and they must have thought, one of them found out somehow that it was cancer. But I'm getting back in touch with the President, who's having difficulty because her husband is in heavy dementia. And he's fallen, they both themselves, so she's almost, it's hard to be present, but she's been, she's the one who's been doing outreach to a lot of the organizations that might show up, that might bring, where can I find out about the a date. About the red date is the 13th is Tuesday from four [7:10] Speaker C (unidentified): to six. Wednesday. Yeah. [7:19] Speaker A (unidentified): I'll see if I can do that. It's like it's it's a tough time. Or I can't pick up the details. We'll say maybe I'll survive. The only thing that we did see was [7:31] Speaker E (unidentified): Nikki and I had passed through Payson Park and there was a couple of trucks and there was actually three people digging the shelves in the gardens there. So they were planting something new. So I figured Arthur was there, but I was on my way to play tennis and I had to keep going, so I went by. [7:54] Speaker A (unidentified): So this is what they're all doing. [7:57] Speaker C (unidentified): Was there trees? [8:00] Speaker E (unidentified): Well, a list I got. My wife looked at it and she said none of these are native to me. Well, one of them is a gay couple and it's just things from different places. But she would know because she got her degree from MSMTC. [8:16] Speaker B (unidentified): Sometimes, you know, I feel like, well, every reason is different. [8:29] Speaker E (unidentified): If you're doing a street tree in front of your house, generally they'll give you a choice. Or they'll suggest, like they did with us, Jeff Tarling said, here's what I think is going to happen. He said, put it in, you know, but in the cemetery, there's a bunch of evergreens, a bunch of maples that are really old, really old. And then there are some newer trees that have been put in, both by the Friends of Evergreen and by the city. The city actually put them in. We provided the money to them. We would like to see that continue with us. When Jack was here last time, he was very and the email he sent, it was very generous about the because I know the woman whose wife to know it's winter and I didn't know that this was kind of thing that his wife her wife had left and what they want to do is plant 10 to 20 trees each year for five years and in everyone [9:41] Speaker A (unidentified): And that was long in the cemetery she used to be a landing conditioner shirt more understood that could be yeah I think she knows [9:57] Speaker E (unidentified): Maybe that's yeah because that's near me I'm on Brooklyn Street the wayside is my exit to get [11:04] Speaker B (unidentified): Well, they got lost, and I ended up biking through somewhere like right now. I don't know, it's just that I'm like, okay, this is a longer run than I intended. [11:16] Zach McGoon: That's what I'm saying. It was like, I'm coming through like this. Yeah. [11:19] Speaker A (unidentified): But, like, if I go off of, like, the one trail and get to going up, I don't know how. [11:25] Speaker B (unidentified): It's really, those trails have mine there. [11:30] Speaker A (unidentified): So, I'll report with Wheeler today. Did you? It was running, and they stopped filming the whole trip. That's awesome. I could just pull up the agenda, and then I would show you that. [11:41] Speaker E (unidentified): We booked one of our walking tour sites down at the twit, at the ponds and everything. Because with the Audubon birders, there's like, you could just be up to 100 people there, seeing the ballpark and walking around there. [11:57] Speaker A (unidentified): And if they see it, some people might go, you know, all right, well then here's your mission, take this and post it there as well. Are these going to be taken? Yes. Oh, okay. I thought that was an F1, like, no joke, seriously, take any house, you've got a bunch of these, I'll put some month. Yes. [12:21] Speaker E (unidentified): Great. Yeah. Well, we kind of like that stapled onto the backboard. [12:34] Speaker B (unidentified): You know, people do it all the time. I don't know what you're supposed to do. Yeah. [12:42] Speaker E (unidentified): So there's one right there. Yeah. [12:47] Speaker A (unidentified): All right. It's not gonna work tonight. [12:52] Speaker C (unidentified): We don't have a forum. No. [12:56] Speaker E (unidentified): Well, I can go home and have my non-alcoholic beer. [13:00] Speaker B (unidentified): Well, could we informally just hear what you have to say? [13:04] Speaker A (unidentified): Yeah. I can come back, too. [13:06] Zach McGoon: But my name is Zach McGoon. I'm a Portland resident for about over 20 years now, but I'm also a crew leader for the greater Portland chapter of the New England Mountain Bike Association. So, we've been working with a bunch of Portland area organizations, the community parks department, Portland Trails, and professional governments to do some work in a couple of areas, do some work there. We also have a great partnership to work on the Riverton Jump Trails and that project. I was fortunate enough to work on the beginning of it when we were just building it and then again this year to sort of maintain and making it bigger but we're just looking to create just a world-class mountain bike community here in fort louis i think the city is uniquely poised to really blossom into something that can be great for not only people in the area but for people coming to the area and i know there are a lot of and talk about projects and works that would help that. So we just want to say thank you so much for your support, and we look forward to working with you guys even more over the next few years to kind of make some of these projects come to fruition. We have a very motivated group of about 10,000 members in the greater Portland area. So we try to do.