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Collaboration with parks department and other cooling initiatives
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Christina Farrell discusses the city's collaboration with the parks department and other partners on cooling initiatives. She explains how they incorporate various cooling options into their public information and mentions new pilot projects.
- The Cool It website includes information on pools, splash pads, and other park-based cooling options
- The city is working with C40 and nonprofits on a pilot project to set up misting stations in vulnerable neighborhoods
- These initiatives aim to provide alternative cooling options beyond traditional cooling centers
Lynn C. Schulman
0:44:08
Do you do any collaboration like with the parks department to make because where there are more trees, it's the temperature seems to be lower because you have the asphalt and all that that creates heat.
0:44:21
So is there any, in terms of planting trees or whatever, collaboration there?
Christina Farrell
0:44:25
Yeah.
0:44:26
If you look so the overall website, the Cool It website and the cool options, we do put things like if there are pools.
0:44:33
I don't know if we get to the level of, you know, shadier areas, but we do talk about splash pads, about other things that may be available if somebody doesn't want to go to a library but they want to visit a park or something like that.
0:44:48
We're also working with C40, the city got a grant to work with some non profits to set up misting stations.
0:44:57
So like if you've ever been to an amusement park or something like that, you may go by where the cool mist goes on you and you get immediate relief.
0:45:04
So we and other partners are working with some nonprofits to set some of those up in some of the more vulnerable neighborhoods that you've mentioned as a pilot project.