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Written CommunicationsPIRC Special Meeting January 20, 2022 Written Communications Item 2 Commission Proposals for the Fiscal Year 2022-2023 City Work Program Kevin Khuu From: Shyam Davuluru <shyamdavuluru@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2022 11:46 PM To: City of Cupertino Parks and Recreation Commission; Parks and Recreation Subject: DOLAs for 2022-2023 Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Flagged CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. LETTER TO COMMISSIONERS & CITY Respected Commissioners and Director of Parks & Recreation, I am writing today to urge you to include DOLAs in the list of top priorities that the Commission sends to the Council for the 2022-2023 City Work Program. New DOLAs were not on the City Work Program for 2021-2022. The Jollyman DOLA work was completed only because it was already on the Parks & Rec Work Program from the previous year. If DOLAs are not given priority by the Commissioners in the 2022-2023 City Work Program, this will mean that despite fervent community pleas for support, there will be no work on any new DOLAs for two years. We also need more DOLA sites and their data before standardisation for future DOLAs. Every DOLA site will have its own unique set of issues such as size and location of the park, proximity to adjacent homes, proximity to fast moving traffic, location of children's playgrounds or sports facilities, fencing status, size and number of relevant dogs, and more. Because of this, it is too early to standardize the rules governing DOLA programs. Right now, the city only has data from one DOLA. That is insufficient. More data from multiple DOLAs is needed before standardized rules can be developed. DOLAs and Labyrinths are the only two projects on the current list of priorities that have significant community -driven support and outreach behind them. Residents in every corner of the city have already been running unofficial DOLAs in their local parks for years and are eager to convert these to official DOLAs. The city needs to show leadership on this issue by providing a quick and easy path for residents to set up additional DOLAs. Since DOLAs and the labyrinth are both community -driven projects, there is a natural synergy in combining them into one project. I urge you to adopt the following as one of the Commission's top 5 priority projects for the 2022-2023 City Work Program: Project: Facilitate Community Driven Projects such as DOLA and Labyrinth Project Objective: Develop frameworks to enable the community to expand and increase these low overhead projects while maintaining and creating involvement opportunities for students and residents. Partner with the community and local CUSD and FUHSD schools to sustain and implement more community -driven projects like DOLAs, labyrinths, and nature play. Thank you for all the hard work you do on behalf of our beautiful city. Best regards, Shyam Davuluru Kevin Khuu From: Sumanth Gangashanaiah <sg.blogworld@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2022 11:27 PM To: City of Cupertino Parks and Recreation Commission; Parks and Recreation Subject: LETTER TO COMMISSIONERS & CITY Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Flagged CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Respected Commissioners and Director of Parks & Recreation, I am writing today to urge you to include DOLAs in the list of top priorities that the Commission sends to the Council for the 2022-2023 City Work Program. New DOLAs were not on the City Work Program for 2021-2022. The Jollyman DOLA work was completed only because it was already on the Parks & Rec Work Program from the previous year. If DOLAs are not given priority by the Commissioners in the 2022-2023 City Work Program, this will mean that despite fervent community pleas for support, there will be no work on any new DOLAs for two years. We also need more DOLA sites and their data before standardisation for future DOLAs. Every DOLA site will have its own unique set of issues such as size and location of the park, proximity to adjacent homes, proximity to fast moving traffic, location of children's playgrounds or sports facilities, fencing status, size and number of relevant dogs, and more. Because of this, it is too early to standardize the rules governing DOLA programs. Right now, the city only has data from one DOLA. That is insufficient. More data from multiple DOLAs is needed before standardized rules can be developed. DOLAs and Labyrinths are the only two projects on the current list of priorities that have significant community -driven support and outreach behind them. Residents in every corner of the city have already been running unofficial DOLAs in their local parks for years and are eager to convert these to official DOLAs. The city needs to show leadership on this issue by providing a quick and easy path for residents to set up additional DOLAs. Since DOLAs and the labyrinth are both community -driven projects, there is a natural synergy in combining them into one project. I urge you to adopt the following as one of the Commission's top 5 priority projects for the 2022-2023 City Work Program: Project: Facilitate Community Driven Projects such as DOLA and Labyrinth Project Objective: Develop frameworks to enable the community to expand and increase these low overhead projects while maintaining and creating involvement opportunities for students and residents. Partner with the community and local CUSD and FUHSD schools to sustain and implement more community -driven projects like DOLAs, labyrinths, and nature play. Thank you for all the hard work you do on behalf of our beautiful city. Best regards, Sumanth Gangashanaiah Kevin Khuu From: louise saadati <Iwsaadati@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2022 11:51 PM To: City of Cupertino Parks and Recreation Commission; Parks and Recreation Subject: Prioritisation of DOLAs during Commission Meeting January 20, 2021 Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Flagged CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Respected Commissioners and Director of Parks & Recreation, I am writing today to urge you to include DOLAs in the list of top priorities that the Commission sends to the Council for the 2022-2023 City Work Program. New DOLAs were not on the City Work Program for 2021-2022. The Jollyman DOLA work was completed only because it was already on the Parks & Rec Work Program from the previous year. If DOLAs are not given priority by the Commissioners in the 2022-2023 City Work Program, this will mean that despite fervent community pleas for support, there will be no work on any new DOLAs for two years. We also need more DOLA sites and their data before standardisation for future DOLAs. Every DOLA site will have its own unique set of issues such as size and location of the park, proximity to adjacent homes, proximity to fast moving traffic, location of children's playgrounds or sports facilities, fencing status, size and number of relevant dogs, and more. Because of this, it is too early to standardize the rules governing DOLA programs. Right now, the city only has data from one DOLA. That is insufficient. More data from multiple DOLAs is needed before standardized rules can be developed. DOLAs and Labyrinths are the only two projects on the current list of priorities that have significant community - driven support and outreach behind them. Residents in every corner of the city have already been running unofficial DOLAs in their local parks for years and are eager to convert these to official DOLAs. The city needs to show leadership on this issue by providing a quick and easy path for residents to set up additional DOLAs. Since DOLAs and the labyrinth are both community -driven projects, there is a natural synergy in combining them into one project. I urge you to adopt the following as one of the Commission's top 5 priority projects for the 2022-2023 City Work Program: Project: Facilitate Community Driven Projects such as DOLA and Labyrinth Project Objective: Develop frameworks to enable the community to expand and increase these low overhead projects while maintaining and creating involvement opportunities for students and residents. Partner with the community and local CUSD and FUHSD schools to sustain and implement more community -driven projects like DOLAs, labyrinths, and nature play. Thank you for all the hard work you do on behalf of our beautiful city. Best regards, Louise Saadati Sent from my Whone Kevin Khuu From: Deepa Mahendraker <deepam@yahoo.com> Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2022 9:49 AM To: City of Cupertino Parks and Recreation Commission; Parks and Recreation Cc: louise saadati Subject: DOLAs on the City Workplan for 2022-2023 Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Flagged CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Respected Commissioners and Director of Parks & Recreation, I am writing today to urge you to include DOLAs in the list of top priorities that the Commission sends to the Council for the 2022-2023 City Work Program. New DOLAs were not on the City Work Program for 2021-2022. The Jollyman DOLA work was completed only because it was already on the Parks & Rec Work Program from the previous year. If DOLAs are not given priority by the Commissioners in the 2022-2023 City Work Program, this will mean that despite fervent community pleas for support, there will be no work on any new DOLAs for two years. We also need more DOLA sites and their data before standardisation for future DOLAs. Every DOLA site will have its own unique set of issues such as size and location of the park, proximity to adjacent homes, proximity to fast moving traffic, location of children's playgrounds or sports facilities, fencing status, size and number of relevant dogs, and more. Because of this, it is too early to standardize the rules governing DOLA programs. Right now, the city only has data from one DOLA. That is insufficient. More data from multiple DOLAs is needed before standardized rules can be developed. DOLAs and Labyrinths are the only two projects on the current list of priorities that have significant community -driven support and outreach behind them. Residents in every corner of the city have already been running unofficial DOLAs in their local parks for years and are eager to convert these to official DOLAs. The city needs to show leadership on this issue by providing a quick and easy path for residents to set up additional DOLAs. Since DOLAs and the labyrinth are both community -driven projects, there is a natural synergy in combining them into one project. I urge you to adopt the following as one of the Commission's top 5 priority projects for the 2022-2023 City Work Program: Project: Facilitate Community Driven Projects such as DOLA and Labyrinth Project Objective: Develop frameworks to enable the community to expand and increase these low overhead projects while maintaining and creating involvement opportunities for students and residents. Partner with the community and local CUSD and FUHSD schools to sustain and implement more community -driven projects like DOLAs, labyrinths, and nature play. Thank you for all the hard work you do on behalf of our beautiful city. Best regards, Deepa Mahendraker Sent from my Whone Kevin Khuu From: Kwang Liew <kwangliew@comcast.net> Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2022 11:17 AM To: City of Cupertino Parks and Recreation Commission; Parks and Recreation Subject: DOLA - LETTER TO COMMISSIONERS & CITY CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. LETTER TO COMMISSIONERS & CITY Respected Commissioners and Director of Parks & Recreation, I am writing today to urge you to include DOLAs in the list of top priorities that the Commission sends to the Council for the 2022-2023 City Work Program. New DOLAs were not on the City Work Program for 2021-2022. The Jollyman DOLA work was completed only because it was already on the Parks & Rec Work Program from the previous year. If DOLAs are not given priority by the Commissioners in the 2022-2023 City Work Program, this will mean that despite fervent community pleas for support, there will be no work on any new DOLAs for two years. We also need more DOLA sites and their data before standardisation for future DOLAs. Every DOLA site will have its own unique set of issues such as size and location of the park, proximity to adjacent homes, proximity to fast moving traffic, location of children's playgrounds or sports facilities, fencing status, size and number of relevant dogs, and more. Because of this, it is too early to standardize the rules governing DOLA programs. Right now, the city only has data from one DOLA. That is insufficient. More data from multiple DOLAs is needed before standardized rules can be developed. DOLAs and Labyrinths are the only two projects on the current list of priorities that have significant community -driven support and outreach behind them. Residents in every corner of the city have already been running unofficial DOLAs in their local parks for years and are eager to convert these to official DOLAs. The city needs to show leadership on this issue by providing a quick and easy path for residents to set up additional DOLAs. Since DOLAs and the labyrinth are both community -driven projects, there is a natural synergy in combining them into one project. I urge you to adopt the following as one of the Commission's top 5 priority projects for the 2022-2023 City Work Program: Project: Facilitate Community Driven Projects such as DOLA and Labyrinth Project Objective: Develop frameworks to enable the community to expand and increase these low overhead projects while maintaining and creating involvement opportunities for students and residents. Partner with the community and local CUSD and FUHSD schools to sustain and implement more community -driven projects like DOLAs, labyrinths, and nature play. Thank you for all the hard work you do on behalf of our beautiful city. Best regards, Kwang Kevin Khuu From: Yogish Kode <yogish.kode@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2022 11:26 AM To: City of Cupertino Parks and Recreation Commission Cc: Parks and Recreation Subject: Request for DOLA at Other Cupertino Parks CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Respected Commissioners and Director of Parks & Recreation, I am writing today to urge you to include DOLAs in the list of top priorities that the Commission sends to the Council for the 2022-2023 City Work Program. New DOLAs were not on the City Work Program for 2021-2022. The Jollyman DOLA work was completed only because it was already on the Parks & Rec Work Program from the previous year. If DOLAs are not given priority by the Commissioners in the 2022-2023 City Work Program, this will mean that despite fervent community pleas for support, there will be no work on any new DOLAs for two years. We also need more DOLA sites and their data before standardisation for future DOLAs. Every DOLA site will have its own unique set of issues such as size and location of the park, proximity to adjacent homes, proximity to fast moving traffic, location of children's playgrounds or sports facilities, fencing status, size and number of relevant dogs, and more. Because of this, it is too early to standardize the rules governing DOLA programs. Right now, the city only has data from one DOLA. That is insufficient. More data from multiple DOLAs is needed before standardized rules can be developed. DOLAs and Labyrinths are the only two projects on the current list of priorities that have significant community -driven support and outreach behind them. Residents in every corner of the city have already been running unofficial DOLAs in their local parks for years and are eager to convert these to official DOLAs. The city needs to show leadership on this issue by providing a quick and easy path for residents to set up additional DOLAs. Since DOLAs and the labyrinth are both community -driven projects, there is a natural synergy in combining them into one project. I urge you to adopt the following as one of the Commission's top 5 priority projects for the 2022-2023 City Work Program: Project: Facilitate Community Driven Projects such as DOLA and Labyrinth Project Objective: Develop frameworks to enable the community to expand and increase these low overhead projects while maintaining and creating involvement opportunities for students and residents. Partner with the community and local CUSD and FUHSD schools to sustain and implement more community -driven projects like DOLAs, labyrinths, and nature play. Thank you for all the hard work you do on behalf of our beautiful city. Best regards, Yogish Kode Sent from my Whone Kevin Khuu From: winnie Chan <winnieschan888@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2022 2:07 PM To: City of Cupertino Parks and Recreation Commission; Parks and Recreation Subject: DOLA CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Respected Commissioners and Director of Parks & Recreation, I am writing today to urge you to include DOLAs in the list of top priorities that the Commission sends to the Council for the 2022-2023 City Work Program. New DOLAs were not on the City Work Program for 2021-2022. The Jollyman DOLA work was completed only because it was already on the Parks & Rec Work Program from the previous year. If DOLAs are not given priority by the Commissioners in the 2022-2023 City Work Program, this will mean that despite fervent community pleas for support, there will be no work on any new DOLAs for two years. We also need more DOLA sites and their data before standardisation for future DOLAs. Every DOLA site will have its own unique set of issues such as size and location of the park, proximity to adjacent homes, proximity to fast moving traffic, location of children's playgrounds or sports facilities, fencing status, size and number of relevant dogs, and more. Because of this, it is too early to standardize the rules governing DOLA programs. Right now, the city only has data from one DOLA. That is insufficient. More data from multiple DOLAs is needed before standardized rules can be developed. DOLAs and Labyrinths are the only two projects on the current list of priorities that have significant community -driven support and outreach behind them. Residents in every corner of the city have already been running unofficial DOLAs in their local parks for years and are eager to convert these to official DOLAs. The city needs to show leadership on this issue by providing a quick and easy path for residents to set up additional DOLAs. Since DOLAs and the labyrinth are both community -driven projects, there is a natural synergy in combining them into one project. I urge you to adopt the following as one of the Commission's top 5 priority projects for the 2022-2023 City Work Program: Project: Facilitate Community Driven Projects such as DOLA and Labyrinth Project Objective: Develop frameworks to enable the community to expand and increase these low overhead projects while maintaining and creating involvement opportunities for students and residents. Partner with the community and local CUSD and FUHSD schools to sustain and implement more community -driven projects like DOLAs, labyrinths, and nature play. Thank you for all the hard work you do on behalf of our beautiful city. Best regards, Winnie Chan Sent from my Whone Kevin Khuu From: Mary Ellen Chell <mary.ellen.chell@sbcglobal.net> Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2022 2:20 PM To: City of Cupertino Parks and Recreation Commission Subject: Additional DOLAS CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. LETTER TO COMMISSIONERS & CITY Respected Commissioners and Director of Parks & Recreation, I am writing today to urge you to include DOLAs in the list of top priorities that the Commission sends to the Council for the 2022-2023 City Work Program. New DOLAs were not on the City Work Program for 2021-2022. The Jollyman DOLA work was completed only because it was already on the Parks & Rec Work Program from the previous year. If DOLAs are not given priority by the Commissioners in the 2022-2023 City Work Program, this will mean that despite fervent community pleas for support, there will be no work on any new DOLAs for two years. We also need more DOLA sites and their data before standardisation for future DOLAs. Every DOLA site will have its own unique set of issues such as size and location of the park, proximity to adjacent homes, proximity to fast moving traffic, location of children's playgrounds or sports facilities, fencing status, size and number of relevant dogs, and more. Because of this, it is too early to standardize the rules governing DOLA programs. Right now, the city only has data from one DOLA. That is insufficient. More data from multiple DOLAs is needed before standardized rules can be developed. DOLAs and Labyrinths are the only two projects on the current list of priorities that have significant community -driven support and outreach behind them. Residents in every corner of the city have already been running unofficial DOLAs in their local parks for years and are eager to convert these to official DOLAs. The city needs to show leadership on this issue by providing a quick and easy path for residents to set up additional DOLAs. Since DOLAs and the labyrinth are both community -driven projects, there is a natural synergy in combining them into one project. I urge you to adopt the following as one of the Commission's top 5 priority projects for the 2022-2023 City Work Program: Project: Facilitate Community Driven Projects such as DOLA and Labyrinth Project Objective: Develop frameworks to enable the community to expand and increase these low overhead projects while maintaining and creating involvement opportunities for students and residents. Partner with the community and local CUSD and FUHSD schools to sustain and implement more community -driven projects like DOLAs, labyrinths, and nature play. Thank you for all the hard work you do on behalf of our beautiful city. Best regards, Mary Ellen Chell Jollyman DOLA "Sheriff' Sent from my Whone Kevin Khuu From: Marie Schmitt <schmittmkl @gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2022 2:20 PM To: City of Cupertino Parks and Recreation Commission Subject: Please include DOLAS in top 2022-2023 priorities CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Respected Commissioners and Director of Parks & Recreation, I am writing today to urge you to include DOLAs in the list of top priorities that the Commission sends to the Council for the 2022-2023 City Work Program. New DOLAs were not on the City Work Program for 2021-2022. The Jollyman DOLA work was completed only because it was already on the Parks & Rec Work Program from the previous year. If DOLAs are not given priority by the Commissioners in the 2022-2023 City Work Program, this will mean that despite fervent community pleas for support, there will be no work on any new DOLAs for two years. We also need more DOLA sites and their data before standardisation for future DOLAs. Every DOLA site will have its own unique set of issues such as size and location of the park, proximity to adjacent homes, proximity to fast moving traffic, location of children's playgrounds or sports facilities, fencing status, size and number of relevant dogs, and more. Because of this, it is too early to standardize the rules governing DOLA programs. Right now, the city only has data from one DOLA. That is insufficient. More data from multiple DOLAs is needed before standardized rules can be developed. DOLAs and Labyrinths are the only two projects on the current list of priorities that have significant community -driven support and outreach behind them. Residents in every corner of the city have already been running unofficial DOLAs in their local parks for years and are eager to convert these to official DOLAs. The city needs to show leadership on this issue by providing a quick and easy path for residents to set up additional DOLAs. Since DOLAs and the labyrinth are both community -driven projects, there is a natural synergy in combining them into one project. I urge you to adopt the following as one of the Commission's top 5 priority projects for the 2022-2023 City Work Program: Project: Facilitate Community Driven Projects such as DOLA and Labyrinth Project Objective: Develop frameworks to enable the community to expand and increase these low overhead projects while maintaining and creating involvement opportunities for students and residents. Partner with the community and local CUSD and FUHSD schools to sustain and implement more community -driven projects like DOLAs, labyrinths, and nature play. Thank you for all the hard work you do on behalf of our beautiful city. Best regards, Marie Schmitt Sent from my Whone Kevin Khuu From: X Zhang <xialinzhang@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2022 2:25 PM To: City of Cupertino Parks and Recreation Commission; Parks and Recreation Subject: Please keep New DOLA in 2022-2023 City Work Program CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Respected Commissioners and Director of Parks & Recreation, I am writing today to urge you to include DOLAs in the list of top priorities that the Commission sends to the Council for the 2022-2023 City Work Program. New DOLAs were not on the City Work Program for 2021-2022. The Jollyman DOLA work was completed only because it was already on the Parks & Rec Work Program from the previous year. If DOLAs are not given priority by the Commissioners in the 2022-2023 City Work Program, this will mean that despite fervent community pleas for support, there will be no work on any new DOLAs for two years. We also need more DOLA sites and their data before standardization for future DOLAs. Every DOLA site will have its own unique set of issues such as size and location of the park, proximity to adjacent homes, proximity to fast moving traffic, location of children's playgrounds or sports facilities, fencing status, size and number of relevant dogs, and more. Because of this, it is too early to standardize the rules governing DOLA programs. Right now, the city only has data from one DOLA. That is insufficient. More data from multiple DOLAs is needed before standardized rules can be developed. DOLAs and Labyrinths are the only two projects on the current list of priorities that have significant community -driven support and outreach behind them. Residents in every corner of the city have already been running unofficial DOLAs in their local parks for years and are eager to convert these to official DOLAs. The city needs to show leadership on this issue by providing a quick and easy path for residents to set up additional DOLAs. Since DOLAs and the labyrinth are both community -driven projects, there is a natural synergy in combining them into one project. I urge you to adopt the following as one of the Commission's top 5 priority projects for the 2022-2023 City Work Program: Project: Facilitate Community Driven Projects such as DOLA and Labyrinth Project Objective: Develop frameworks to enable the community to expand and increase these low overhead projects while maintaining and creating involvement opportunities for students and residents. Partner with the community and local CUSD and FUHSD schools to sustain and implement more community -driven projects like DOLAs, labyrinths, and nature play. Thank you for all the hard work you do on behalf of our beautiful city. Best regards, Charles Zhang Kevin Khuu From: Gauri Dwivedi <GauriDwivedi@yahoo.com> Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2022 4:07 PM To: City of Cupertino Parks and Recreation Commission Cc: Parks and Recreation Subject: LETTER TO COMMISSIONERS & CITY Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Flagged CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Respected Commissioners and Director of Parks & Recreation, I am writing today to urge you to include DOLAs in the list of top priorities that the Commission sends to the Council for the 2022-2023 City Work Program. New DOLAs were not on the City Work Program for 2021-2022. The Jollyman DOLA work was completed only because it was already on the Parks & Rec Work Program from the previous year. If DOLAs are not given priority by the Commissioners in the 2022-2023 City Work Program, this will mean that despite fervent community pleas for support, there will be no work on any new DOLAs for two years. We also need more DOLA sites and their data before standardisation for future DOLAs. Every DOLA site will have its own unique set of issues such as size and location of the park, proximity to adjacent homes, proximity to fast moving traffic, location of children's playgrounds or sports facilities, fencing status, size and number of relevant dogs, and more. Because of this, it is too early to standardize the rules governing DOLA programs. Right now, the city only has data from one DOLA. That is insufficient. More data from multiple DOLAs is needed before standardized rules can be developed. DOLAs and Labyrinths are the only two projects on the current list of priorities that have significant community -driven support and outreach behind them. Residents in every corner of the city have already been running unofficial DOLAs in their local parks for years and are eager to convert these to official DOLAs. The city needs to show leadership on this issue by providing a quick and easy path for residents to set up additional DOLAs. Since DOLAs and the labyrinth are both community -driven projects, there is a natural synergy in combining them into one project. I urge you to adopt the following as one of the Commission's top 5 priority projects for the 2022-2023 City Work Program: Project: Facilitate Community Driven Projects such as DOLA and Labyrinth Project Objective: Develop frameworks to enable the community to expand and increase these low overhead projects while maintaining and creating involvement opportunities for students and residents. Partner with the community and local CUSD and FUHSD schools to sustain and implement more community -driven projects like DOLAs, labyrinths, and nature play. Thank you for all the hard work you do on behalf of our beautiful city. Best regards, Gauri Kevin Khuu From: Debargha Mukherjee <debargh@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2022 4:54 PM To: City of Cupertino Parks and Recreation Commission; Parks and Recreation Subject: DOLA Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Flagged CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. LETTER TO COMMISSIONERS & CITY Respected Commissioners and Director of Parks & Recreation, I am writing today to urge you to include DOLAs in the list of top priorities that the Commission sends to the Council for the 2022-2023 City Work Program. New DOLAs were not on the City Work Program for 2021-2022. The Jollyman DOLA work was completed only because it was already on the Parks & Rec Work Program from the previous year. If DOLAs are not given priority by the Commissioners in the 2022-2023 City Work Program, this will mean that despite fervent community pleas for support, there will be no work on any new DOLAs for two years. We also need more DOLA sites and their data before standardisation for future DOLAs. Every DOLA site will have its own unique set of issues such as size and location of the park, proximity to adjacent homes, proximity to fast moving traffic, location of children's playgrounds or sports facilities, fencing status, size and number of relevant dogs, and more. Because of this, it is too early to standardize the rules governing DOLA programs. Right now, the city only has data from one DOLA. That is insufficient. More data from multiple DOLAs is needed before standardized rules can be developed. DOLAs and Labyrinths are the only two projects on the current list of priorities that have significant community -driven support and outreach behind them. Residents in every corner of the city have already been running unofficial DOLAs in their local parks for years and are eager to convert these to official DOLAs. The city needs to show leadership on this issue by providing a quick and easy path for residents to set up additional DOLAs. Since DOLAs and the labyrinth are both community -driven projects, there is a natural synergy in combining them into one project. I urge you to adopt the following as one of the Commission's top 5 priority projects for the 2022-2023 City Work Program: Project: Facilitate Community Driven Projects such as DOLA and Labyrinth Project Objective: Develop frameworks to enable the community to expand and increase these low overhead projects while maintaining and creating involvement opportunities for students and residents. Partner with the community and local CUSD and FUHSD schools to sustain and implement more community -driven projects like DOLAs, labyrinths, and nature play. Thank you for all the hard work you do on behalf of our beautiful city. Best regards, Debargha Mukherjee Kevin Khuu From: Jayati Ghosh <jayatig@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2022 5:48 PM To: Parks and Recreation; City of Cupertino Parks and Recreation Commission Subject: Please put DOLA in the list of top priorities Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Flagged CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Respected Commissioners and Director of Parks & Recreation, I am writing today to urge you to include DOLAs in the list of top priorities that the Commission sends to the Council for the 2022-2023 City Work Program. New DOLAs were not on the City Work Program for 2021-2022. The Jollyman DOLA work was completed only because it was already on the Parks & Rec Work Program from the previous year. If DOLAs are not given priority by the Commissioners in the 2022-2023 City Work Program, this will mean that despite fervent community pleas for support, there will be no work on any new DOLAs for two years. We also need more DOLA sites and their data before standardisation for future DOLAs. Every DOLA site will have its own unique set of issues such as size and location of the park, proximity to adjacent homes, proximity to fast moving traffic, location of children's playgrounds or sports facilities, fencing status, size and number of relevant dogs, and more. Because of this, it is too early to standardize the rules governing DOLA programs. Right now, the city only has data from one DOLA. That is insufficient. More data from multiple DOLAs is needed before standardized rules can be developed. DOLAs and Labyrinths are the only two projects on the current list of priorities that have significant community -driven support and outreach behind them. Residents in every corner of the city have already been running unofficial DOLAs in their local parks for years and are eager to convert these to official DOLAs. The city needs to show leadership on this issue by providing a quick and easy path for residents to set up additional DOLAs. Since DOLAs and the labyrinth are both community -driven projects, there is a natural synergy in combining them into one project. I urge you to adopt the following as one of the Commission's top 5 priority projects for the 2022-2023 City Work Program: Project: Facilitate Community Driven Projects such as DOLA and Labyrinth Project Objective: Develop frameworks to enable the community to expand and increase these low overhead projects while maintaining and creating involvement opportunities for students and residents. Partner with the community and local CUSD and FUHSD schools to sustain and implement more community -driven projects like DOLAs, labyrinths, and nature play. Thank you for all the hard work you do on behalf of our beautiful city. Best regards, Jayati Ghosh