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EMAILS RECEIVED From: Jill Humphries Sent: Friday, January 4, 2019 9:33 PM Tom and Andrew, why would you not want to facilitate educating our neighborhood residents on climate change and global warming?? Tom Flood is willing to help us and he is brilliant on the topic. You need to think outside the box. You need to make a difference for our community. Not just be administrators... From: Susan Kane Sent: Sunday, January 6, 2019 9:42 PM Mr. Mooney and Mr. Hare: As we are unable to attend the upcoming January 10th CRPD Board meeting, we felt it important to share with you our concerns about suggested restoration of our North Ranch Neighborhood Park. One of the great neighborhood assets that drew us to move to in 1997 was the proximity to the lovely park. At that time, our children were 2,4 ana 6 years old and we knew that we would spend many years enjoying and making memories at North Ranch Neighborhood Park. Although our children are now grown, we continue to derive great pleasure from the park, watching the next generation on the playground equipment, playing basketball, practicing soccer, enjoying family time or just walking our dogs around the perimeter. When the perimeter grass was replaced with bark a few years ago, we understood that water conservation was a priority and appreciated that CRPD was taking proactive steps to protect our environment and precious resources. Little did we know at that time, the risk that this step was imposing on our community. We have all seen the damage and devastation that the fire has wreaked on our area, and the immense impact that the burning park perimeter bark has had on the homes on the streets near the park. I understand that this great risk and damage might not have been foreseen when the decision was made to lay bark as the perimeter material... but, I absolutely cannot understand why this same flammable material is once again being suggested. Although it has been proposed that some of the area be covered with DG (decomposed granite), that still leaves a very large area of bark. It seems to be an illogical and highly risky choice of material. I imagine that there must exist non or low flammable materials that could be used, therefore significantly lowering the risk that, in the event of another fire that reaches our park, our homes would not be at high risk of flying bark embers and ash, which cause significant or irreparable damage.