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APPROVED Meeting Minutes
Regular Meeting on Thursday, September 19, 2019
1. CALL TO ORDER
The duly noticed regular meeting of the Burlingame Parks & Recreation Commission was called
to order by Chair Milne at 7:01 pm at the Burlingame Community Center, 850 Burlingame Ave,
Burlingame.
2. ROLL CALL
COMMISSIONERS PRESENT:
COMMISSIONERS ABSENT:
STAFF PRESENT:
OTHERS PRESENT:
3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
Milne, Holzman, Lee, Lewis, Ardito, Matthews & Palacio
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Parks & Recreation Supervisor Acquisti and Recreation
Coordinator Roman
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Commission Lee noted an addition to the minutes in Item 8. Staff & Commissioner Reports:
Note that she will be the Pet Parade Judge. Commissioner Palacio made a motion to approve the
August 15, 2019 minutes with the noted addition. The motion was seconded by Commissioner
Holzman and was approved. 7-0.
4. CORRESPONDENCE
None
5. PUBLIC COMMENTS
None
6. OLD BUSINESS
None
7. NEW BUSINESS
a. Update - Summer Enrichment Program
Recreation Coordinator Roman introduced himself to the Commission and gave a brief
background on the development of the partnership between the City and Mercy Burlingame High
School as it pertains to the Department's enrichment programming. The partnership has been in
existence for five years and has been mutually beneficial to both agencies and the population
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they serve. He presented a summary of the variety of programs offered: Science, Arts & Crafts,
Lifeskills, Computer Coding, Specialty Camps, Cooking and Arts & Crafts.
Questions from Commission included:
Ardito: Why did the District decide to offer alternative programming to the Recreation
Departments program? Acquisti stated the MOU with the District and the City allows the City to
program a certain number of rooms at each site. After the Department programmed the rooms
with classes, the remaining rooms were available to the District to program. The District chose
to program competing programs to the Department and for various reasons a new location was
needed. Acquisti had a contact at Mercy High School and developed the partnership that exists
today.
Milne: Is it typically the same programmers/companies during the summer that teach during the
school year? Roman responded in the affirmative and that the Department utilizes afterschool
instructors and routinely reaches out to new instructors to keep the programming relevant and
current.
Lee: Any idea why there was a drop in registrations in 2017? Roman stated that was unknown;
however, due to the increase for the consecutive two years, he concluded it may have been a dip
in interest, class sizes or scheduling.
Roman noted the Department is contracted with Mercy through 2020 and due to the scheduled
construction of the new Community Center, the Department has also added the Summer
Adventure Camp program to the rental at Kohl Mansion.
8. STAFF AND COMMISSIONER REPORTS
a. Parks & Recreation Department Reports
Acquisti reported on the following: requested Chairperson Milne to ask for two Commissioners
to sit on the Ad Hoc committee for Victoria Park Playground Renovation — Stephanie Lee and
Leslie Holzman volunteered. In addition, she reminded the Commission about the Pet Parade on
October 22 and the Fall Fest on Howard is the weekend of Oct 26-271n
b. Commissioners Reports
Commissioner Lee reported the Family Campout was a fun event and was happy to see the
Facebook contributions of the inflatables and the Bubble Man to enhance the event. Acquisti
noted Facebook also contributed the stage and sound for the Music in the Park series which was
a very welcome addition.
Commissioner Holzman stated she helped at the Department table during Burlingame on the
Ave. as did Commissioner Palacio. Both were happily surprised at the number of people who
stopped at the booth to chat and to learn more about the Department and future events and
programming.
Commissioner Ardito noted how much fun she is having and how active and engaged this
Commission is at events, committees, etc. It is great to see how much the public is engaged as
the Commission is out and about representing the Department and the City.
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Commissioner Matthews noted the fundraising campaign for the new Community Center is off
to a great start and is gaining a foothold on acquiring sponsors for rooms in the Community
Center.
9. FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS
None
10. ADJOURNMENT
There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 7:34 pm.
The next meeting of the Parks & Recreation Commission is scheduled to be held on Thursday,
October 17, 2019 at 7:00 p.m. at the Burlingame Community Center.
Respectfully submitted,
Joleen Helley
Recording Secretary
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