The meeting, held on Earth Day 2023, highlighted the improved condition of Fall River's parks, noting that they are in their best shape in years, partly due to increased public interest in maintenance. A cleanup event took place, but the parks were already clean upon arrival. Several park improvement projects were discussed, including the installation of pickleball courts at Britland and another unnamed location, redoing tennis courts, and basketball courts at Britland. Additionally, projects at North Park are in the design phase, and one of the skateboard parks at Abbott Court is slated for improvement. The discussion also emphasized the importance of tree canopy cover and green space, particularly in mitigating the urban heat island effect, which can make Fall River's urban areas 10 to 20 degrees warmer than suburban surroundings. Tree cover also significantly aids in storm water runoff management and supports green infrastructure for pollutant control. Fall River was proudly announced as a Tree City USA for the 18th consecutive year, a designation that underscores the city's commitment to urban forestry.
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foreign I think the parks are in as good a shape as they've been in a number of years I mean just look around this one obviously we did a cleanup today but it was clean when we got here so I'm kind of glad that people seem like they're taking more interest in keeping the city going looking good uh well right down below us you'll see we have a pickleball courts
0:26going in both here and at britland we're redoing the tennis courts here we'll be doing the basketball courts at britland uh North Park we have a couple of things in the design phase right now at Abbott Court we should be tackling one of the skateboard parks so there's a number of good projects going on in the Parks and we'll get through it this summer hopefully there's a lot of science
0:43behind tree canopy cover and open Green Space and they go hand in hand so we're making a lot of efforts to increase that one of the big issues that a lot of municipalities are facing is urban heat island effect and it's something that's significant here in Fall River in a lot of our urban areas it can be 10 to 20 degrees warmer than in our Suburban surroundings so increasing tree canopy
1:08cover is really important for that it helps you know people enjoy the outdoors a little more and another big benefit of tree cover is storm water runoff so it helps with our storm water runoff our sewer departments having green infrastructure to deal with the pollutants that's in our storm water we are Tree City USA the announcement hasn't gone out yet but we have we were named Tree City USA
1:36again this year which is the 18th year running so it's something to be proud of and something that we are proud of
1:54thank you