Board reviews labyrinth proposal for Los Arazo Park; member recommends $27,000 installation

A board member (speaker 7) presented a proposal for an accessible labyrinth at Los Arazo Park, recommending a 7-circuit design with a 70-foot diameter footprint, 4-foot-wide ADA-compliant paths and crushed-rock or decomposed-granite surfacing. The presenter recommended contractor Kevin Kupp and cited a $27,000 all-in bid for materials and installation.

The presenter emphasized that a labyrinth is not a maze and described it as a winding circular path that leads to the center and back out again; the design suggested crushed rock or decomposing granite and a path depth of approximately 3 inches of crushed rock. Board members asked about washout and drainage in the area (staff earlier had described ponding and channel flow), and the presenter said the recommended contractor would include borders to mitigate washout.

Discussion noted sizable variance among vendor bids; the Chair observed a bid of roughly $136,000 in the packet that did not square with other lower bids, and the presenter suggested some bids may have been misread or mispriced. Members also discussed maintenance concerns (kids throwing crushed rock versus decomposed granite), the potential difficulty of wheelchair access across grass, and whether benches would be provided (the presenter said benches were not included). The presenter said a sunk-paver design that can be mowed over would be lower-cost and easier to maintain and that modest scaling up (adding circuits) would not dramatically raise costs.

No formal motion to award or fund the labyrinth appeared on the public record in this meeting; the item was presented as a recommendation for future action and follow-up.

Next steps: staff and board members flagged the item for further review, asked for clarified bid documents, and noted the need to confirm drainage mitigation and final materials before any procurement decision.