2015–16

Dear Portlanders:

Thank you for your recent commitment to repairing and improving Portland’s parks. In November 2014, you and an impressive 74 percent of Portlanders voted “Yes” for the Parks Replacement Bond Projects26 underway — the highest percentage ever for a Parks ballot measure. You became part of a long tradition of Portlanders who’ve built and maintained our city’s enviable collection of park facilities. In this fi rst full year of the Bond, from July 2015 to July 2016, we’ve laid the foundation for the work to be done. In this upcoming year, you’ll start to see tangible results in the parks. Replacement of the 70 to 90 year old mechanical systems at Grant Pool was the fi rst completed project, and next year, results will be visible across the city. Project1 completed About every nine years over the last century, Portlanders have invested in increasing, preserving and maintaining our park system by voting “yes” on parks bonds or levies. Before the 2014 bond, the last major bond was in 1994, meaning 20 years passed without signifi cant park improvements or address- ing dire repair needs. Portland Parks & Recreation anticipates a $248 million funding gap for major maintenance needs over the next 10 years. The $68 million in funds from the 2014 Parks Replacement Bond will not address all of these maintenance issues, but it is vital to fi xing, upgrading and replacing the most crucial of these needs. Projects18 ahead of As your Parks Commissioner and Parks Director, we are making sure the funds will be used wisely and schedule maximize benefi ts to the greatest number of park users. In this report, you’ll see how we are perform- ing in this fi rst year. We will continue to report back to you on our progress each year. Thank you for your continued support.

Sincerely,

4.5million dollars Commissioner Amanda Fritz Portland Parks & Recreation Director Mike Abbaté spent in the fi rst year

To read the full Annual Report, visit parksreplacementbond.org Investment

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Matt Dishman Wilkes Park Pool Grant Pool Forest Park Lower Macleay Trail

84 Pioneer 205 Ventura Washington Park Courthouse Park Rose Garden Square Mt. Tabor Parklane Colonel Summit Summers Park Park 26 CENTRAL CITY South Waterfront Mt. Tabor Lynchview Park Greenway, Portland Yard Tennis Center Bubble and many more SOUTHWEST Spring Garden Park SOUTHEAST Development, April Hill Boardwalk & Trails and Redevelopment, Colonel many more Summers Splash Pad and many more EAST Gateway Discovery and Luuwit Rieke Field View Park Developments, Glenwood Park 148th & Division Acquisition, Multnomah Arts Center (MAC) Sellwood Expansion, Parklane Park Pool Roof Development, Springwater Acquisition and many more Trail

Pools Playgrounds Restrooms, Other Urgent Repairs Prevent emergency closures, stop water Replace or build 10 to 20 play structures Prevent closures; replace and repair leaks, improve water conservation and that are closed, at risk of closure or deficient; restrooms, roofs, and other failing Playgroundsenergy efficiency Trails7 are and included Bridges in the first issuance Poolsstructures throughout the system Replace or build 10 to 20 play structures Preserve access to natural areas and open Prevent emergency closures, stop water that are closed, at risk of closure or spaces by repairing trails and bridges leaks, improve water conservation and de cient (at least $5M) (at least $5M) energy ef ciency (at least $5M) $5 Million $65 Million $5 Million $65 Million $5 Million $65 Million Accessibility Pioneer Courthouse Square Protecting Workers Remove access barriers in parks throughout Replace failing structures, fix leaks and Improve safety, make critical upgrades; city; recent report found tens of thousands cracks, make improvements at fix leaking roofs, update equipment at of ADA barriers across park system most-visited park maintenance facilities

Protecting Workers Pioneer Courthouse Square Restrooms, Other Urgent Repairs Improve safety, make critical upgrades; Replace failing structures, x leaks and Prevent closures, replace and repair x leakingTrails roofs, and update Bridges equipment at cracks,Leveraged make improvements Funding at most restrooms, roofs, and other failing maintenance facilities (up to $10M) visited park (up to $10M) structures throughout the system Preserve access to natural areas and open PP&R invests other sources of funding for (at least $5M) $10 Million $65 Million $10 Million $65 Million spaces by repairing trails and bridges  “growth” projects, which are not the focus $5 Million $65 Million of this Bond.

Friends and accessibility improvements Accessibility Leveraged Funding Remove access barriers in parks Maijawelcome to provide text... visitors to Washington Park throughout city; recent report found tens of thousands of barriers across Kimberly Bown is a volunteer tour guide or strollers down and up steps at the Frank park system (up to $5M) at the Washington Park International Rose E. Beach Memorial Fountain. Instead, $5 Million $65 Million Test Garden, which receives over 500,000 they’ll be able to focus on the landscape visitors every year. Thanks to the Parks and views as they roll or walk the length Replacement Bond, the visitor experience of the garden via ramps and smooth will be enhanced as the Garden celebrates concrete, a gracious Portland welcome to its centennial in 2017. one of our city’s signature attractions. Along the main promenade, visitors will Read more of her story at: no longer have to lift wheelchairs, walkers parksreplacementbond.org Investing in our local Bond funding stays community in Portland to benefit

o create a more equitable Portland, small businesses C O L U M B I PP&R has ambitious goals for ensuring “I know how to practice,” Naim Hasan A R T Delta Park I V St. Johns E that emerging small businesses, especially says of his success in sports and in busi- Community Center Urban Forestry HQ R = Bond projects those owned by women and minorities ness, and where he learned to practice breaking ground (known as MWESB firms), have the was in the pools, weight rooms and box- in 2016–17 Kenton Park opportunity to bid and work on our Bond ing gyms, and on the tracks and fields of W = Bond projects I 5 projects. The Bond Team has engaged Portland Parks & Recreation. Work ethics L breaking ground Forest Park L NORTH A in future years in extensive outreach so that consulting acquired there took him all the way to the Maple Trail M Dawson Park Play Area, Peninsula Pool E Pier/Chimney Bridge = Additional and contracting opportunities are widely 1988 Summer Olympics. T Trail Improvements, T Open Meadow Property NORTHEAST Investments advertised. Our goal is for future utilization Growing up in Irvington in the 1970s, E h Acquisition and K unamokwst Park, Thomas R Cully Park (in partnership with rates to continue to increase, particularly in Naim says, “I spent hours, days, most of The city’s many parks, Naim believes, I many more V Verde), Fernhill Park Splash E R Pad, Colwood Acquisition construction. my childhood at Irving Park; I swam at are good for his business not only as and many more Argay Park the Dishman pool before it was covered; photogenic backdrops but because they’re Matt Dishman Wilkes Park I learned how to box from Lee Jenkins evidence of a city that cares. He knows Pool Grant Pool at Dishman. So many park directors and that intention and ongoing effort lead to Forest Park Lower Macleay Trail personal trainers and instructors had a success—in business, on the road to the

84 % huge influence on my life: Roy Pittman, Olympics, or in maintaining the legacy of Couch Park North Park Blocks Ali Muhammad, Von Ray Johnson, Chuck parks this generation of Portlanders has 205 Percentage32 of professional Amato and Vede Simington.” inherited. Pioneer Ventura Washington Park Courthouse Park services contracts that Today, through his business, Naim “I’m proud of our conscious intent to Rose Garden Square Mt. Tabor Parklane went to Minority / Colonel Summit Hasan Photography, he is documenting upgrade our parks and provide the next Summers Park Women and / or Park 26 CENTRAL CITY Emerging Small the “before and after” of park projects generation of Portlanders with the gifts we South Waterfront Mt. Tabor Lynchview Park Greenway, Portland Yard Businesses funded by the Parks Replacement Bond. enjoyed as kids,” he says. Tennis Center Bubble and many more Creston Park SOUTHWEST Ed Benedict Park Spring Garden Park SOUTHEAST Development, April Hill Westmoreland Park Lents Park Boardwalk & Trails and Redevelopment, Colonel Bloomington Park many more Summers Splash Pad and many more EAST Gateway Discovery and Luuwit Rieke Field View Park Developments, Glenwood Park 148th & Division Acquisition, Multnomah Arts Leach Botanical Garden Center (MAC) Sellwood Expansion, Parklane Park Transparency Pool Roof Development, Gateway Green Springwater Acquisition and many more Trail ur work at Portland Parks & Recreation must reflect the Ocommunity’s needs and desires, as our parks belong to everyone. PP&R’s primary focus for the Bond program has been to hold true to the bond language—that was the contract made between us and voters. For example, we promised bond funds Restrooms, Other Urgent Repairs would be allocated for 10 to 20 playgrounds. There were seven Prevent closures; replace and repair playgrounds included in the first issuance, so more playgrounds restrooms, roofs, and other failing will be a priority for the second issuance, which will occur in mid- Playgrounds Trails and Bridges Poolsstructures throughout the system 2017. Public meetings, electronic communications and printed Preserve access to natural areas and open Prevent emergency closures, stop water Replace or build 10 to 20 play structures materials—such as this report you now hold in your hands—are that are closed, at risk of closure or spaces by repairing trails and bridges leaks, improve water conservation and de cient (at least $5M) (at least $5M) energy ef ciency (at least $5M) just some of the tools that PP&R has used to communicate on our $5 Million $65 Million $5 Million $65 Million $5 Million $65 Million progress in the first year of the Bond.

,118 Protecting Workers Pioneer Courthouse Square Restrooms, Other Urgent Repairs Improve safety, make critical upgrades; Replace failing structures, x leaks and Prevent closures, replace and repair Public meetings 5 Bond Oversight Committee Chair 40 Yard signs 95 Postcards x leaking roofs, update equipment at cracks, make improvements at most restrooms, roofs, and other failing maintenance facilities (up to $10M) visited park (up to $10M) structures throughout the system is glad to help “fix up the back (at least $5M) $10 Million $65 Million $10 Million $65 Million yard of Portland” $5 Million $65 Million Dion Jordan is proud to carry on the legacy of his father, Charles OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE Jordan, Director of Parks from 1989-2003. “My dad wasn’t so As required by the bond measure, a five-person much into parks as he was into people,” Dion says. “He loved the Oversight Committee was established by City Council to employees—the people who took care of the people, and that’s review bond expenditures and report on the Bond Team’s what draws me in. My best memories are of how engaged park Accessibility Leveraged Funding performance annually directly to City Council. This workers were with us. So I got involved as an opportunity to cre- Remove access barriers in parks Maija to provide text... throughout city; recent report found committee consists of the following five members: ate for other kids the same environment I grew up with.” tens of thousands of barriers across At quarterly meetings, he and four other Portlanders reviewed park system (up to $5M) • Dion Jordan, Chair progress on bond-funded improvements and will report to the $5 Million $65 Million City Council this fall, with the goal of ensuring that bond funds • Don Grotting bring the greatest benefit to the greatest number of Portlanders. • Jonath Colón “I love that the bond is focusing on equity: that there’s access • Zari Santner to parks, and that they’re safe. Rich or poor, everyone can afford • Karen Loper Tracy to go to a park. It’s a place of common ground: a ball rolls by, you give it a kick back . . . you’re all there together.” Read more of his story at: parksreplacementbond.org 18 ahead of schedule Performance 3 behind schedule 12 on schedule he performance of the Bond projects can be judged by three Tkey indicators: schedule, budget and scope. In order to deliver the promises made, voters expect these three areas to be responsibly

managed by PP&R. Performance is not just about the numbers—it Design and Permits Contracting Construction Expected Completion also about making sure the projects are true to the goals of “Fixing Playgrounds Our Parks” by not just repairing but truly making our parks better Couch Park• 2018 places for all. Creston Park• 2018 Schedule Kenton Park• 2018 All projects are generally projected to be delivered on schedule, with Lents Park• 2017 the exception of Grant Pool which opened late and Couch Park Loo Lynchview Park• 2019 and Playground. North Park Blocks• 2017 Budget Ventura Park• 2017 • All projects are currently within allocated budgets except Grant Pool, which has had higher construction costs. Trails and Bridges • Administrative costs are being tracked as part of bond manage- Forest Park: Maple Trail• 2017 ment. As expected, administrative costs were high in the start-up Forest Park: Lower Macleay Trail 2017 of the Bond and are now trending down as construction work • begins. Springwater Trail• 2019

Scope Pools All projects have been kept within their defined scopes. Grant Pool• 2016 Keys to bond success in first year Matt Dishman Pool• 2016 • Kept projects on or ahead of schedule. Peninsula Pool Feasibility Study• Done • Separated bond fund tracking from other parks funds. • Established tracking systems. • Followed bond language in scoping and designing projects. Protecting Workers • Involved the public and created transparent processes. Mt. Tabor Yard• 2019 Delta Park Urban Forestry HQ• 2019

Pioneer Courthouse 2017 Square•

Restrooms, Other Urgent Repairs Argay Park Tennis Courts• 2017 Bloomington Park Restroom• 2017 Couch Park Loo• 2018 Loo• 2017 Ed Benedict Park Loo• 2020 Three generations of Portlanders Glenwood Park Restroom• 2017 benefit from the Sellwood Pool Lynchview Park Irrigation• 2018 Mary Rieke Soccer Field• 2017 In his work at MWA Architects, Paul Klein is honored to be in- Mt. Tabor Summit Restroom• 2017 volved in preserving the historic Arts & Crafts pool bathhouse MAC Seismic Study 2016 in part because of his family’s long history with it: after her • childhood days at the pool, Paul’s mother Eileen took him there MAC Cottages Study• 2016 in the 1960s, and he later brought his own daughter. Parklane Park Loo• 2016 Read more of his story at: parksreplacementbond.org Sellwood Pool Bathhouse Roof• 2016 St. Johns Community Center Roof• 2017 Ventura Park Loo• 2017 LOOKING FORWARD Wilkes Park Loo• 2016 A highlight of the coming year will be the development of the second bond list, as over $20 million in bond funds have not yet been allocated. A list of potential projects, Accessibility drawing from PP&R’s capital improvements list, will be Washington Park 2017 Rose Garden• developed continuing the theme of urgent repair and replacement later this year. In the spring of 2017, we’ll be Visit portlandoregon.gov/parks/67638 to find asking the community for your input. more details about project schedules.

To read the full Annual Report, visit parksreplacementbond.org

Note: Information in this report is accurate as of June 30, 2016