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meeting. Alison, may I please have a roll call? Council member here. Present. Yes. Yes. Barbara Olson here. We also have administrator [Music]
attorney CFO Britain engineer parks director and [Music] govern. single ground. All right. Um, we are going to get to recreation fair. Before we get to
that, I just wanted to communicate something that I didn't yesterday. Obviously, I wanted to keep the focus on Memorial Day itself. Um, but I I just want to um touch on two things. one, I really really was excited that every single member of the governing
body was there yesterday at the I I do I'm not going to name the year, but I remember one year I think there was one person there. It made me feel really good about this group and the scene and and um I I just thought it was a great honor today. So, thank you to everyone for for showing up yesterday. Secondly,
I also really want to um uh point out how smooth a um celebration of the day it was. And you know, all of that credit has to go to you. Um you know, it was a beautiful parade and a beautiful
ceremony and you did a fantastic job. segue into DJ has a presentation for us on the recreation survey. Yeah. Um so thanks for letting me go over survey results. Um we quickly just with Memorial Day um DBW's going to cover
that as well. A lot of traffic goes into it. Not just the day of or couple days before, but even like the week before, a couple weeks before a lot to get back to our cooking top, which should maybe So, going to go over these results
as a recap. I know that everyone up there has a a copy. So, these were originally sent out back in January and they it remained active until the end of March. So, just over three months. Um, it was sent out through all the different various mediums that the town
has through constant contact mix Facebook multiple times and all those and purpose of this survey was to collect meaningful feedback from our community regarding their experiences opinions related to parks and recreation
services and we had about 170 submits the survey. So it starts with asking about the ages of the household. So um the different categories were 0 to 5,
63, 14 to 18, 19 to 29, 30 to 64 and 65 and older. And this just kind of gave us a gauge of uh the different ages that are going to be in the households taking place uh that took this survey. Mayor, would you like me to go
over the results if each line here line by line on each on each number? You mean each question? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, or because you have a point of view. Is it what would the preference be? I can read them out. I can I think maybe
read them out and let's just talk about um the top two results on each one. Is that okay? Is everyone? All right. So, um just as far as ages go, um and it's all ages that are in the house. So, 0 to 5 was 23.53%.
6 6 to 13 was 62 from 7%. So I just want to reiterate to everyone here um let's let him finish the presentation and then we'll have our question here. Okay. 14 to 18 is
17.65% 19 to 29 5.88% 30 to 64 is 71.76% and then 65 and older was 15.29 290 signing over to the next one. The question was, how often do you or
members of your household currently participate in recreational activities offered by recreation and uh so regularly? So we did more than six times a year was uh 52.94%. Frequently it would be categorized as four to six times per
year. Uh that was 15.1% occasionally one to three times a year 21.76% and never at least 9.4. So then we ask the question this select all that apply on this one. Which of the following are you or members of
your household interested in? The first one is all the different community events. So there's about 10 of them listed out here. Father Door Dances, Easter egg hunt, fish and derby, Memorial Day ceremony, our summer concerts, camp out movie nights,
Halloween parade, Halloween house decorating contest, bed ceremony, sand halls, Christmas tree lighting, memorial lighting, holiday house decorating contest that had 77.3%.
We're interested in those seasonal youth camps and programs. This is where uh tennis, soccer, our parent meeting classes and camps, track and field, basketball, engineering, science, things like that,
58.9%. Uh sports leagues was 60.74%. Arts and craft programs would be 26.38, fitness classes 22.7, senior programs 9.2, two parks recreation maintenance. So your
playground needs trail that 54.6% and another fall in this category 64.29%. So how's that overall recreation program? It's a pretty pretty basic overall question. Um and so in the very
satisfied category there were 24.07% 07% satisfied was 40.74% moderately satisfied 27.78%. Dissatisfied was
4.95% the exact and very satis. So in regard to individual fair haven sports leans that someone in your household has taken part in what is your general level of satisfaction of leads very satisfied was 23.61% satisfied was
42.36% moderately satisfied 23.61% satisfied or dissatisfied was 6.94% and very satisfied was 3.47% 47 overall of athletic fields and various ball fields
rather satisfied was 23.08%. Satisfied was 38.46%. Moderately satisfied was 21.15%. satisfied 11.54 dissatisfied 11.54 and
very dissatisfied 5.77 how satisfied are you with the [Music] past satisfied here was 2025% satisfied was 50% moderately satisfied 23 3.42% dissatisfied 3.8 and very
dissatisfied 2.5%. So in regards to fair human camps and programs that someone in your house has taken part in what's your level of satisfaction very satisfied 23.79% satisfied
2.65% moderately satisfied 24.26% satisfied satisfied. The next question is please rank the following reasons that someone in your household does participate in fair recent offerings with one being the most important. So this was really a
question to gauge why families or individuals would want to participate in something that we're offering just to sort of frame what we might offer in the future or sit down and give us an overarching view of what's most important here. So the way so this is open
constant contact. So the way that they rank these types of questions is they give it a ranking score based on for rank order question the total score is used to determine the result reporting. The better the rank the higher the score
touch. So a person in your household that has interested offering that was ranked score of 735. The offering takes place in a convenient location and time that had a rank of 54. The social aspect of the offering is
appealing that had a record of 5003. Moving down, the offering is a program had a rank at 405. The cost of the offering is appealing. That was down at 390. And then at 270, the offering has been marketed well. And the
household feels that they were made aware of the offering. So the flip of that um please rank the following that someone in your household might not participate in a recreation area one
week. So um it's all similar themes here. So a person in the household does not have an interest in the offering because I take two and the offering does not take place in a convenient convenient location or time was 538.
offering is not age appropriate for those in the household was at 517. The cost of the offering is not appealing was at 358. The social aspect of the offering is not appealing was at 362 and the
offering has not been marketed well and our house would have noted where the offer notice is at 357. [Music] So when an event is offered that is age appropriate event that is appropriate for the age group of someone in your
household how likely are they to attend? Very likely was at 28.95% somewhat likely was 42.76% not sure was 2.39% somewhat likely was 7.24 and very
unlikely just uh one responded with 66%. So rank the most important factors in your decision to attend a recreational event. Now type of activity came in first there. Same thing with the rank order. It's by full score. So 38 type of
activity department age range 197 the day of week time of day at 47 location that's 41 and off 237. Next question about volunteer opportunities make sure that
we're things like that there question is how aware are you of volunteer opportunities available fair haven recreation programming very aware so I know many opportunities and a volunteer was at
44.87% somewhat aware I know opportunities that I haven't at 26.28% 28% slightly aware I've heard there are opportunities but I don't know where to find them% and I'm not aware not heard of any
recreation volunt this question asked about the recreation glasses in local town specific to this for recreational events programs things like that so the question is are you aware that there was a Fair recreation eblast
list that you can join to receive updates on all recreational offerings. Contact recreation.net to be added. 68.83% said yes, they're they're aware of it. 9.74 said yes, they're aware of it. Not interested. And
21.43 said no, they're not aware. So they were some open-ended questions that we asked here. Uh the first of which is is there a program or camp that you would like to see included that is not currently offered? As you might expect, we've got a lot of different answers. Um
and government does have um all the raw data here and all the different answers that are included. Um so I'll go through some of the more popular items with the metaphor. So senior activities is
mentioned four times. Water activities. So grab fishing paddle board etc. mentioned eight times. Reck adjustments, that's our David summer camp was mentioned twice. Additional adjustments to camps and sports was off mentioned
seven times. Additions and adjustments for league sports program sports was four additions to camps, programs, non-sports like grouping class that was mentioned miscellaneous program interest. So anything from ski trips,
practical programming, workout classes, nor bike rodeos, things like that was that seven times. Um that all logistical management of sports leagues by rural professionals, not volunteers was mentioned twice in this part. Miscellaneous, so general field access,
um sports team, scholarships, athletic encouragement, equipment costs like that. Second open-ended question was really just about anything that maybe we didn't capture, anything you want to add on. And the question was, is there any other feedback you would like to provide that
you feel would lead to a more enjoyable recreational experience? Same thing, tons of different answers. Um, so miscellaneous additions and adjustments to camps was mentioned here three times. Miscellaneous adjustments and additions to programming. Um so seniors board
things like that was mentioned here four times uh to miscellaneous and everything from fan behavior to new volunteer groups needed to communication the town buying all the equipment for all the leagues was mentioned here. So there's five of those miscellaneous additions
and adjusted support. So additional training more centralized uh facility allocation all those different components mentioned 14 times mislead adjustments to events. So a lot of those events I just mentioned and possible new
ones was mentioned four times. All logistical management of sports leagues by professionals not volunteer groups was mentioned six times. parks. So, enhancements and improvements um to our facilities was mentioned 15
times and then s parks adjustments um the maintenance and clean of the parks 16 times and then foundation for recreational quality diverse recreational programs offered
three times. Lastly, overarching question for those with children who have taken part in fair and recreational offerings. How would you describe a child's overall experience? Extremely positive meaning
my child lasting. Positive memories 24.9% 24. Positive my child enjoys programs memories 57.66%. Mutual my child participated but I don't
have strong feelings about their experience was 15.33% and negative my child did not enjoy the programs and did not make positive memories was 2.92%. And that's all about quickly and
thank you DJ. Um, a few things that just going over that I'm just speaking out loud to here. Um, it doesn't look like cost is the primary driver
in what people are using to determine whether they participate in activity. Now, I certainly don't want to price anyone out, but I think that that could potentially drive new ideas. um you know people are looking for
exciting activities and it doesn't mean that that's necessarily the the the barrier from them participating. So that was one thing I noticed. Another thing I noticed is almost on every single category. The very satisfied wasn't the
main selection. It was always the next one down. What I get out of that is we're doing a good job. we are, but there's always room for improvement, too, which is I think it's actually the best spot you can be, you know, because we can we can continue to improve um the
programs that we're offering to our residents. Um and and that there is that opportunity to go from satisfied to this is amazing. This the greatest uh program that we we have. And the other thing I I
noticed um um I want to mention on the recreation blast list. I think we're still looking to potentially join two more farmers markets this year and we want to have stuff on the table. So, if there's some sort of QR code that we can put up on a
big sign so the people walking by can just take a picture, sign up fast. I don't know if we can put on the same thing as the buzz and transfer it over. So, thanks to the two council leads on sitting here. We actually made that up about a month ago. So, we had that for
you looked at. So, that's that's perfect. And then the two more specific points which is more just me, you know, giving my opinion. I do think if we can come out up with something similar to the fishing derby that is on our river
crab, I think it would be I think it would be a home run and and I think it would encourage a lot of kids that maybe haven't participated in crabbing and their their parents don't know how to get started. Um if they're around people that do know and um they can teach them,
I think they'll have a long lasting love for it. The last one I have is there is one comment in here about the rectum it would be great if it was phone free. I don't know what the, you know, current guidelines are, but I would, and I know maybe a bunch of
kids will hate me for this, I would be strongly in favor of that. Um, if you could get kids away from their phones, you know, a few days a week during the summer, I think the parents will be very appreciative and quite truthfully, I think they'll get a lot more out of it and a lot more out of being with each
other. So, just go on my Anyone else have anything on direct survey? I mean, I'll weigh in. I I thought it was great. Sorry, I was going to say I thought it was great. I loved your pictures. They were very good. Um, and to be honest, nothing's too surprising
to me. I would say that a lot of the feedback is stuff that I've, you know, hear and that I've experienced. So, I think this is a really good kind of place to review and like make some changes. I think this is a really good starting point, but I think there's definitely a lot of
feedback in here that can help us make some really positive changes and I'm happy to be on the rec committee to be part of this be very happy with the work we've done. So the people are satisfied with upkeep of the parks 93% are satisfied or
another only 7% are satisfied. I think that's outstanding. And then the athletic field a little bit worse but still 17% give people that really
well. I mean I forget for the voice of the residents. I mean I know people appreciate it. I think 170 people out of there 6,500 residents or how many can actually take the survey. Um it's a great experiment.
So I think it's very people I think you know for me the themes more um but you know the themes around sort of you know what was most curious as to what what the plan might solicit more feedback in a
targeted way. Are we going to take a look at some short term items that we want to act on about things longer term just throw that out as a question? Um but I think it's a great starting point. Just follow up on what you said. Are you
going to present um some of this information to the rec? Okay. says so just to kind of finish what I saying I think you know I am certainly in a hurry to take it and folks are
getting feedback okay my feedback now what um so I just want to be able to be prepared to say the next step is we're going to meet and then from there if there are any shortterm solutions that are about to offer goal you know Mr. large
if you if you feel this is a good idea. Um DJ will take it up with the committee and maybe kind of look at the analysis in a couple different ways and um see what are those things where there were lower level satisfaction where are the
growth improvement opportunities and kind of look at it from that standpoint. Um, I think there are some strong themes. I probably think there are some shortterm intermediate and long-term goals to set, but um, it's probably not important, but maybe a little bit more
nuts and bolts level conversation with the committee. Does that sound good? Y a little bit on that. And I know um you cult and mayor we discussed a little bit about that and you know our recreation you know uh committees are in nature and
that's almost similar analysis to what the mar committee did these recommendations back maybe they put together an action plan address some of this and how we could continue I think with DJ's presation and the uh the careful data we have to the survey I
think she got a great start and um to your point you through that. Sound good? Yeah. I have a question. So, what what's your main thing? Yes. So, I think who or Yeah, I think a lot
of different themes around each of the questions and the open-ended questions I think provide a lot of different feedback. Um, and it's always interesting to see all of the different answers where there's things that we might have not ever thought about. Um, there's things that we're aware of. There's things that, oh, wow, that would
be kind of cool. Maybe we could do that. Or or to Mayor Herman's point, wow, Grabberry could be something new and fun that we could do. Um, and then, you know, taking all that information back to the liaison committee and Chris to see kind of what's feasible. Um, so I think there's a lot of good ideas that I
want to get um get some more feedback on. Good idea. Thank you. um what were the total number of people who responded to the survey and do you know what percentage of people received
the survey and chose to respond? So I don't know the second question because we've sent it out and had sent out on all the different communication mediums various times various Facebook postings. I' I'd be shocked if it was less than 10 times total. I don't know the exact number content sent out but all all the
different you know buzz Facebook all those things um but I know that 170 people okay um which is good think about households if you talk about 170 households data that'd be about 10% depending on the latest updated census
of fair haven um so that's another so you're guessing maybe 10% if if you wait one submit to one household it would be rounding yourself. I found it interesting that 33 people didn't know you had a wreck eblast, but
they filled out this survey. So, it makes me think just on the communication side, if maybe we send out an email with all of our burrow newsletter, specifically to all the places we sent this out so that everyone's aware of all the different ways they can get information from us because it's it's
kind of interesting that 33 people didn't even know that that existed, but they they care enough about wreck to fill out the survey, but they didn't answer. One thing I will say about this, and we were made aware of this sort of after the fact, but we don't hit a lot about the senior population in this
survey. I think moving forward, we could probably gear a little bit more of the questioning to some of the senior population or the older population. It does, it is very youth heavy and in truth, I saw this before it went out, so it didn't even occur to me. So I think that that's one area right away moving
forward we can are we satisfied with response rate we should definitely committee no doubt but in parallel to that should we also have more smaller targeted sessions with groups that didn't take a survey access survey we're saying or are we happy with
I guess my question is is this the type of thing we're going to send out annually question for Chris. I don't know if I can pass it out just from from my approach on it. I think any data that you get and can slip from your
res are we meeting the mark or not I think is important you know so I would be you know whether you get it annually or whether you did it you know by annually I think gathering information how we continue to do better than so I would say yes this would be a consistent
thing and even maybe going back to the committed committee themselves you may want to do some followup there may be some courts you might want to have some followup um on the information that we gather maybe have targeted survey which seems only you know I feel that that's a
a void that's in the data that we have so I don't think this ends here I think this is just the beginning of however [Music] I I like the idea of using the same questions and adding additional questions but based on the data we can
find out you know what trends are we going up in this category are we going you know so other than static I would only say one and I'm sure you guys all have as soon as I say it but surveys can be part of plan process too
and with that out of the way there's a kind of saturation point to take surveys tactical about when we deploy it when we get it back and think about um you know where that threshold is for the
community as a whole so that we good results. And I really I just feel like more. So what does Betsy knock on the door? Right. I'll need a paper copy.
Not a scantron. Yeah. I mean, it also could be something we do once we go back to Wreck and come up with some ideas or plans. We could even put out a survey possibly based off of what we think we might do. Since we have this data, maybe that's the next step.
But ultimately, like what I would love is like a plan and data of more cons like the consol consolidation came up alone. That was definitely one of the themes and I feel like it's important for us to really have a consolidation of
understanding at least of all the different wreck programs, all the different sports, how they are funded, who's running them, and just like a real report on what how everything is working. I think that would be a great next step based off of this. Thank you. Thanks. Thanks.
Uh, next up we have public comment on agenda items only. This is only for agenda items. Please observe a brief minute time limit. Please stand identify yourself by clearly stating the name items for the record. Anyone have anything on agenda items only?
Allison, anyone online? All right, we're going on to approval of minutes. May 12th, 2025 regular meeting. Do I have a motion to approve as presented? Motion. Alison, may I please have a roll call? Yes. Yes.
Yes. Huh? Yes. Yes. Thank you. Next up, old business hearing adoption of ordinances 2025-08, amend code 22-27.17b, exemption from fees. Do I have a motion to open? Second. All in favor? Anyone
opposed? Anyone up here have anything on this? Anyone in the public have a comment on this? Allison, no. Got a motion to close. Second. All in favor? Anyone opposed? Motion to approve. Motion.
Second. Alison, may I please have a roll call? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Thank you. 2025-09 special emergency appropriation master plan preparation. I have a motion
to open. Second. All in favor? I. Anyone opposed? Anyone have anything on this here? No. Anyone in the public have anything on this? Allison. No. All right. Do I have a motion to close?
Motion second. All in favor? Anyone opposed? I have a motion to approve. Motion second. Alison, may I please have a roll call? Yes. Yes. No, that's
Did you call me? Sorry. Yes. Yes. All right. New business. Introduction of ordinances 2025-10 bond ordinance improvements to foreman street. um need to explain this or anyone know where we're at with this?
Yeah, we're good. All right. Yeah. Say in relation to a grant we're receiving projects all I asked that question. I just asked him today. Second, I please have a roll call.
Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Thank you. Senate agenda were resolutions 2025- 159 3170. Before I ask for a motion, does anyone want to separate anything off the six?
No. Does anyone want to discuss anyone? No. Do I have a motion to approve? Second. Alison, I please have a roll call. Yes. Yes.
Yes. Yes. Thank you. Uh, next up, department reports, April 2025. Do I have a motion to approve as presented? Thank you. Oh, thank you. I forgot cuz is there a second? Second. Thank you.
All in favor? I. Anyone opposed? All right. Commission Burrow, please stand identify yourself by clearly stating your name to the record. Please observe a time limit for three minutes. Anyone go to the bur? I'll come right back to you. Allison,
anyone? Uh, the um that's fine. privilege and u honor to let you know that the historic association of fair haven would like to make a donation to fair haven and vice
in particular. The board voted to support the creation and installation of a plan as sort of a finishing touch by Paul with the hope of it being completed in time for commission's birthday.
Um we have taken no steps yet other than authorized to commit funds and really prompts to the governing body to propose this plan. Um next steps would definitely include interviewing landscape architects reviewing costs
every step of the way obviously iterations on design and feedback from the governing body. happen. Sounds okay. Come back to the governing body with updates ongoing. Sounds great. Thank you. Yeah, sounds great. Anyone
else? We're good. Last year because we were ahead of so many towns. Um I'm just curious to from your perspectives like whether it's nicer because I'm seeing a big uptick on Facebook and others
around. I'm just curious. Well, we uh like I said, they stop that are you not doing something appropriate actually keep track of that and the PBA actually just
bought coupons. We'll do that again. How in terms of like what do you see China wise are there more in fights are people well it's like this time of year definitely more invites on the other
day but yeah I mean I think it was first came out aware chief is there a program in place at the schools for these kids oh did it a fall um and we made the uh
And then the information went out to everybody uh you know did you address the five party thank you great with that being said we're going to move towards executive session for any student journalists that
may be in here every one of our meetings is only 40 minutes long so All right. Do I have a motion motion to adjourn to executive session? All in favor? Any opposed? Thank you. Any out there?
Motion to close the meeting.