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• Conducted annual Board retreat and Strategic Planning Study Session. • Completed annual audit report and updated reserve policies. • Adjusted Budget to reflect increased expenses and lost revenues related to ongoing covid-related limitations to recreation programming, as well as facility and field rentals for sports, arts, picnics, and other gatherings. • Updated (comprehensively) District's Personnel Policy Manual. • Worked with City of Thousand Oaks (City) to update and improve the Alex Fiore Thousand Oaks Teen Center and the Goebel Adult Community Center. CRPD staff will manage project design and improvements to City -owned buildings and provides $3,000,000 toward the cost of the estimated $4,600,000 project. Awarded construction bid to Solex Construction for $3.9 million. • Closely follow and participate in the City's General Plan Update process, including providing comments on the proposed updates to the Land Use Element. • Award Bid for improvements to the Conejo Creek Dog Park, including large shade structures, restroom, paved parking lot, additional trees, landscaping, and bioswale. Completed project and held ribbon cutting for the $1,100,000 project in October. • Entered into agreements with City, Conejo Open Space Conservation Agency (COSCA), and RideOn Therapeutic Horsemanship (RideOn). CRPD acquires the 20 -acre Rancho Potrero Community Equestrian Center (RPCEC) from COSCA. City acquires the library parcel from CRPD. CRPD agrees to use a combination of funds from City, CRPD and RideOn to make improvements at the RPCEC. RideOn agrees to operate and manage public facility for equestrian boarding, therapeutic riding, a public rental string, and to develop other public equestrian and recreational activities over time. • Awarded contract, in concert with City and COSCA, to SoCal Brush to create defensible space of 100' from structures for firefighters to protect property from wildfires. SoCal Brush annually removes 11 11701 000 square feet (257 acres) of vegetation. • Extended Contracts with Azteca Landscaping and EMB for landscape maintenance and custodial services at various park facilities. • Updated Memorandum of Understanding between CRPD and the Arts Council of the Conejo Valley (ACCV). • Extended License Agreements with Southern California Edison (Edison) for access to Fiore Playfields and Sapwi Trails Community Park. • Inducted Karen Lindsay, Steve Wiley and Jim Gilmore into Gratitude Circle • Reviewed, Approved and Adopted FY 21/22 and FY 22/23 Operating and Capital Budgets along with 10 -Year Capital Improvement Plan. • Approved funds for 4 COSCA Ranger positions, vehicles, and equipment; updated job description and hired Supervising Park Ranger.