Santa Cruz County Parks & Recreation Commission

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Parks & Recreation Commission Members

Michael Rosenberg	District 1
Katharine Minott	District 2
Francisco Serna	District 3
Janet Doten	District 4
Dave Mercer	District 5

Meets 2nd Monday, 7:15 PM
County Government Center
Board Chambers, 5th Floor, Rm. 525

   Kate Minott
Biography:
Kate Minott has been a long-time Parks and Open Space activist in the Aptos community and has served on the Parks Commission since 2000, when she was appointed by Supervisor Ellen Pirie. Kate earned her B.A in Psychology from UCSC and worked for several years at the Cabrillo College Library. While completing her Masters in Urban and Regional Planning from San José State University, Kate has traveled and studied historic urban and recreational park space design in China, Cuba, Europe and Canada. Kate’s research reports range from upscale facility design for people with Alzheimer’s to the inclusion of teens in neighborhood park planning. Kate initiated the approval for a temporary BMX park site within Aptos Village and is a strong advocate for a new safe skateboard site within the Second Supervisorial District. Kate is a member of the National Recreational Parks Association, the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and the American Planning Association. Kate is an alumna of Leadership Santa Cruz 2006 and currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Seacliff Improvement Association.

Dave Mercer

 

 

 

 

 

 

Michael Rosenberg

 

 

 

 

 

 

Janet Doten

Francisco Serna
Biography:
Francisco has been of the Davenport Resource Service Center since March of 2003.  Prior to this post, he was the Recreation Superintendent with the City of Watsonville where he assisted in the development of the general plan. Francisco served as Community Liaison and Resources Coordinator for the City of Santa Cruz and managed the Beach Flats Community Center for the Parks and Recreation Department where he assisted in the development of the Beach Area Neighborhood Development Plan. Francisco was also an admissions counselor at UCSC. He assisted Cabrillo College in the development of an outreach plan for the EOPS office impacting the County Latino population.   Francisco attended the University of Oregon and holds a degree in the Philosophy of Political Theory from the University of California.  He served on a congressional commission on Agent Orange during Leon Panetta’s congressional tenure and received the Social Sciences Division award for excellence in community service while employed with the city of Santa Cruz in 1999.  Past & Present Civic ( partial list) involvement includes: Commissioner Parks and Recreation 3^rd district, Member TANF,  Member, Family Resource Network, Member (past) of the Board of Directors, Santa Cruz City Museum of Natural History; Member (past) Santa Cruz Gang Intervention Network; Member (past) of United Way of Santa Cruz County Strategic Planning Collaborative; Member of Santa Cruz County Commission on Youth Access to alcohol; Board of Directors, Leadership Santa Cruz County; Member of Task force on Art Education Santa Cruz City Schools; Member of City of Santa Cruz Public Art Planning Commission.  Hobbies include: music (playing congas to break the silence), salsa & norteno dancing, gardening, art, film, theater, reading, mountain biking, fishing, golfing, cooking, traveling. The Serna’s have four children and have resided in Santa Cruz County since 1976.