so that is where we got together with our ada coordinator, the department of public works, kevin jensen, and also talking with some of the designers in the landscape department, who do most of the play areas, and came up with recommended guidelines for these and where to put hand grips and maybe where to increase the number of play elements just to enrich the experience? and we're looking to finalize those, as a voluntary standard, because otherwise we would have to go to the board of supervisors to do a mandatory standard. it's better to have consensus and voluntary compliance, always. so where do we stand? because of our foresight and because some of us were involved in the development of the accessibility guidelines going back all the way to 1992, when the current generation of ada coordinators came on-board, back in about 2000-2002, we already knew what this thing was going to look like. so we were requiring all of the playgrounds to be designed to already be in compliance with these standards, and that was eight years before they came into law. so in 2014, we have 194 play componen

kevin kooistra-manning. he's with the western heritage center. and joyce jensen wrote a book about the town. how did billings get its name? >> billing got its name from frederick billings, former president of the northern pacific railroad, who they honored by naming the town after him. >> the railroad actually created the town, and it happened almost by accident. >> there was a nearby town by the name of coulson, which expected to be the next great railroad town. but instead, because they raised prices and made it kind of inconvenient for the railroad, the railroad decided to build their own town, the town of billings. and billings basically prospered. coulson disappeared. >> about the only thing left of coulson is boot hill cemetery. >> this is the burying grounds of coulson. most people buried here died violently. there were murders, suicides, and accidents. they died with their boots on, so we call it "boot hill." >> meanwhile, back at billings... >> when the railroad came in, billings grew so quickly, one writer said "like mushrooms after a rain storm." it quickly took on the nickname th