[Music] good evening and welcome to the lake full Park Commission meeting on Thursday February 13th at the C Council on Aging is there anyone here other than Lake cam recording the meeting
no Peter announcements good evening good evening no the only uh just to let you know I notified coach rig uh that they have the field from 1:00 onward on Saturdays I talked to Saka last night and he's so
he's good with that and glad to be able to move forward and so will we see him on Saturday uh that's a good question I don't think he needs to be there but of course he's
invited okay review and approved minutes of January 23rd 2025 anyone see anything sorry I didn't get a chance to look on item number three um I asked Kevin if anything had
changed from the last time we approved it and he said no but I don't see that in here I think that's important for it to be in there okay and number four on motions item number for motions
one and two Mike doesn't have a roll call vote also important to be there so on the first one he abstained and the second one he said yes okay I'm sorry I was just writing a note on item what
item what number four y um the first motion Mike abstained okay and on the second one he voted yes if I remember correctly Mike is that yep yep yep okay that was
all great thank you appreciate it I want make a motion to review and approve minutes of January 23rd 2025 second I'll make the motion to approve minutes of all in favor I great okay
we're going to go five up to three we're going to review budget report for year-to date 2025 Peter everybody get a chance to look at
this I'll have some things to put in but anybody have any questions okay um just a couple things we need to think about one is we're we're getting build back
4K for LOM Pond and the estimate for the telephone polls is I'm going to put at the high 12K at John Pon park at John Pond Park so we need to figure out not today where do you think we want to put
it and do we want to use 4K I'm sure it can fit in repairs and maintenance but I I don't know cuz looking at up to date didn't you say 12,000 12,000 for the polls for three polls three polls lights new brackets for the other
polls now it could be 105 it could be 11 I talked to Paul so I'm just putting it up just in case okay so one of the options is obviously is the 21210 so you need to think about that uh one that we
have or what 21210 that's that facility Improvement thing that we have that we haven't touched it's on the bottom of page the back page the facility improvements yeah that was the extra money yes yes yep so that's just an option
too well so um when I get all that stuff when they get it then it's just something to think about when does he think those are coming out those are going to go in March but
can I tell you February is almost over it is almost over going to be really soggy but when Middleboro gas and electri feels it safe they'll put them in yeah and they says they hardly use it we really don't I mean like they might
have maybe just a couple two night games a a year there's occasional like practice towards the UND practice sometimes they turn them on but it's mostly blue bur ball okay that uses them um and when we had the last poles replaced I said you know is aren't they
just going to fill up with water and do the same thing again and they had put something around them I don't know if it was a cement like wall but is are they going to make sure that it doesn't happen again are they going to put something around it oh yeah I mean they're going to test it and make sure whatever it is it's going to be
able to hold water and wind and everything but that's why we don't know quite the price the other problem is is that the other poles have a wood bracket and we want to replace it with metal because the wood starting to
so there's these extra costs you're going to replace the all of them on the on the on all the the whole three that we're replacing we're going to put in metal brackets as we can and um are you going to replace it on the others too if it's starting to rot well we'll look at
that but it's it's not so much an issue that it's rotting it's just while we're doing it down the road he might as well do it right that's all so yeah so if we do it in April we do it in April obviously talking to
softball they said Mike you know whatever I did we did have a talk about the Dugout not the Dugout the shed mhm and he gave me a figure of how much it would cost to replace yeah they
got a couple quotes yeah and I said all right like we can't bring it up this month we're too busy MH and I'll bring it up at another meeting mhm feel free to come to the meeting and it'll be under discussion I said I I not promis you we're going to put in a penny but I
want to understand your concerns and make sure everybody knows what they to replace the whole shed or to fix it I thought it was to fix it it was to yeah but it's no it was for the roof it was like $2,800 $2,800 for
,000 right so and it was just we weren't splitting it it's just we were going to pay for it so that's where that stands okay um but you didn't tell them
we were going to like this isn't he means they're asking for completely pay for it asking and I said bring it to the parks and we'll discuss it then but I can't give you any promises on anything and he said no I
stand you know he use the excuse that it happened on Park's property and so forth so okay um review and discuss on Park commission budget for FY 2026 everybody get a copy of that did we
do 2025 I just brought it up and nobody had any questions um the the lodge fixed fee does that include February I'll find out thank
you doesn't matter really just still a good number Lodge fixed fee yes and it's um 9500 right now and
it goes up to 10 or 105 105 April 10 10 all right I thought it was our last one was $1,000 increases I think this one's only 500 cuz I calculated first at ,000 I'm like that doesn't sound right so yeah thank you Peter got it got it and the gate fees for um Clear Pond Park I
don't think we're going to reach I mean not that again not that it over really matters the $3,900 gate fee because everybody's buying p like we didn't do that last year but maybe if we do plan like a big kickoff celebration we can get more people in there 100 people would pay for 100
adults that would obviously be mean June you're talking about yeah okay um the only other thing that I've been tosing this back and forth for a little while is the indirect charges the town has said that we're
getting a bargain at $5,700 for our indirect charges yes what if we offset the indirect charges by the amount of money we lose by them giving free room fees at Lon Pon Lodge it's
like two grand at least so okay so you're talking the indirect charges for the labor we use at Town Hall yes 5,000 whatever your thought is to take the deduct the money that we lose by them giving away our room
fees no that's not a fight you want to get into no no cuz I just got I just got an email with the list of what indirect charges would be if they charg us fully okay like it was
$93,000 yeah send that over cuz I don't believe that for yeah no no no it's got a formula whatever and Frank's wages and everyone's raises so I I don't want to open that but that's a good
idea anything else okay 2026 um I want to ask you this since you off through the last budget where do you think what do you think if everything goes the way it is where do you think we're going to wind up at the end of the year at the end of this year yeah I
think we're going to be even I think we're going to be fine why you think no oh no no no no I'm just thinking uh for retained earnings the following year I mean do you think we're just going to stay flat I mean last year we
got we had a pretty good retained earnings right now yeah so I was just concering with the new Lon Pond I thought it would be even higher right so last year we had the new contract so we didn't know like fixed feet and all that
things in the year before we didn't have L Pond's contract so that's new coming in so we don't really we don't really know we don't really know okay well we will after this year because we have to think like we're very close on um the
room fees for this year and we got May and June the end April May and June for um wedding so I see it that coming out fine okay wasn't this bottle Revenue going away mm we still get that I
thought they took away the vents or something no they new Bins new Bins yeah cuz they were gross they're not an Enterprise fund anymore but we still get the donations we still get the Don it has gone down though so I noticed when you did the budget this year you had it
like s of Revenue we budgeted 3,000 this year you had it down to 25 last year and I don't think I don't remember what we made where are you now uh Melissa please the bottle Revenue yeah on this new on the 26 or okay but I don't think that we
were even close we made $2,400 this year okay and we only have one more collection so you might want to drop that down a little okay so just so you know so we've been working I've been working with Andrew as far as capital
goes and working with Mike Michael as far as what we're doing because obviously there's probably going to be some Chang changes according from their budget to our budget so I just wanted to see where that stands um he did get a a draft today he
said it looks solid are we on the next item well we're on 26 we already started that um you said everything looks good but I want to show you in this budget what we've had to change if you go to U
income and you drop down to oh Peter is this the new one hold on I'm sorry be with you in one second here we go so you're going to look at
um the 175 was always transfers from the general fund car which is the town's general fund okay where 99.999% not going to get it so um so
what we've had to do if we want to keep depending on what's happening with our budget and stuff obviously we want to not cut hours at loan plan we would have to take that 175 from retained earnings from this
year um 45 175 so we would definitely have to take it out of this year part of the reason I think is their budget I don't know if it's an Enterprise fund thing but but they see that we have this extra money and why
should they be giving us money for something we can pay for out of our budget so we're taking the um transfers from the general fund will be empty the other source retained earnings will be the 175 plus the 15
right just got plus the 15 which we're looking for our Capital project to replace the roof so being that that would be um that would be 32500 that would leave us with a balance of $2,737 five that's not something we
always had we cut I was at Clear Pond we pull it from somewhere else I would not not take that out of our retained earnings well that's we will discuss that at our last meeting I I understand where did we used to get it
before passes we it used to be open to everybody the only reason we got that 175 is cuz the select board didn't want us inviting out of town residents so it's not wait but it rich doesn't make those decisions on his own he has a committee and it has to be majority so
you can't just blame him yeah so if we have to open it up more we open it up more if we have to close it for one day a week if we have to close in a couple hours early we should not take that money out of retained earnings good listen I'm just showing how we can pay
for it if if we don't get it that's all I wanted to put that in there yeah um oh I have it on my thing I wouldn't count on this the 175 you're smart um so do you sorry do you have like I I don't know cuz I never
went to clear pong growing up like do you have like theme days or something like is there like a movie at the lake he does movie nights um I don't know I know you talk to him Michael is he plan on doing everything he's did the past
couple years this year too who I'm sorry who's this Doug we haven't talked to him so he did movie Nights once month he did Carnival he brings in DJs and they do dance parties and stuff like that they do treasure hunts things like that so he does do that and it made yeah I
would think that would make EXT Clear Pond activity put it in right we just discussed it made I'll show you I don't know what it made $47 it yeah remember I say rais 10 so we need to work on there we didn't put because
the people that are coming there have a seasonal pass for movie Nights they still have to pay but during the for the weekend things and stuff yeah um but we need to put it out there and I think with um
Lacy's as long as we get a calendar like before the season opens of when everything's going to be done we can put it in the newsletter that Lacy does Yeah you mentioned that before I think good idea everybody um so just you know two things is with the 175 we still lose what
seven um not this past year we lost less but the previous years they put in 175 and we put in 175 so we lost $34,000 $35,000 at clar fond wages are yeah cuz it has to be so many lifeguards it has
to be dug it has to be yeah we got rules we got to follow I mean I mean obviously I do agree with you that we need to open it up but there's no reason like I was doing an now some stuff like the fees for Resident adult could go up
$2 to 10 the non-resident adult guest could go up from 10 to 12 I mean those are little things that can help because it's not really a big boost because I think it's a good thing so what what we need to do we're looking at this budget is think of ways that if we don't
get the 175 what changes can we make up to make up that 175 what will we have to do two days 3 days open up till close at 4 I I don't know close on Mondays Monday's not
really Monday's a good day if you're going to Monday and Monday Wednesday Tuesday Thursday our school lessons Monday Wednesday Tuesday Thursday and I guess Friday would be busy so I don't know I would think we we have to figure out increase in fees and we got to
figure out opening up to who who would you open up to We Can't we're not doing me new BET for fault right I would open up to anybody who wants to buy a season pass like this year we let Freetown and middleb buy season passes yes I would if somebody wants from new bed wants to buy
a season pass they can buy a season pass how much is a season pass $200 I feel like that's too cheap no sorry no no it was $110 for residents so it's still $110 I believe for
residents so we decided to do $200 for non-residents right for this season pass the amount of slack and backlash we got for that everybody saying how we ripping them off and all this stuff it was horrible horrible yeah I mean for years
I've taken my it's different it's not a PR but I've taken my kids to the Athletic Club for the pool and it's a lot more than that yeah and the pass includes immediate family members well it's up to six people in your household six people in your household so when you divide that that's pretty good yeah so
the whole we thought so 10 weeks yes so it's $20 a week so Melissa in your thought say we say people in B River New Bedford or Kush whatever buy a season pass M okay mhm so they can bring up to
guest too six household members six household M they have to their names are on the pass right so you can't just go out and find Tom Dick and Harry off the side of the road right but they're not allowed to bring they right currently are
passholders can bring guests they have to pay for it they have to pay for them the guest daily rate so maybe we put a limit you can bring four guests or six guests or yeah cuz it it used to get a little Rowdy back in the days we did that they be
and hiding in the Woods and Woods walkway for them to right so I don't know that I would open it flat up to everybody but I mean if you're buying a seasonal pass you're kind of committed to it you're not just going there to
party one day right we and I I thought they were exaggerating I really did but after being there and watching the people from trying to come in with their big coolers and stuff like it was crazy we' have like big groups of to 20 people carrying each end of the coolers and so
what's going to happen is in March we're going to have a joint meeting with the select board cuz they go over every department and we go over the budget when we go over the budget we're going to explain to them for Lon Pond that if we don't get this clear clear Pond we don't get it we're going to have to open
up to other towns which is how it used to be and then there were problems and that's why they didn't want it anymore police presence and stuff like that now they may have a change of heart and say they don't want to it mhm but from what I understand it's not going in
their budget this year no it's a matter of Enterprise fund they not happy with us and when is that big project going to be done that's like 10 years what project
the engineering project oh yeah yeah yeah um we started with it we met with the engineer and we um they've been asking questions that I've been Fielding so they're working on it um was Britney on that thing with you
she was the second person so she's no more so you you're just going to do it well there will be new people on the board commission come April mhm so that's up to you if you think you need someone I'm not going to fight it obviously great do we have more people
running now yeah we got uh one two people who want to get written in okay nobody want papers no it's too late so they're going to be asked to be written in so I me's one of them or no no this
is so right now obviously you're going to stay as long as my schedule stays what it is I can do it okay so we'll just say it works out yeah so that leaves three people so we'll have two opening Scott officially dropped off too no no Scott
that email was just Tim being Scott being Scott yeah if if we changed to the Enterprise fund at 5:00 at 9:00 tonight he would resign but that's not I think we all were and they would get what they wanted so it would be fine so that's not that's not going to happen this year so it leaves two people and there are two
people who are interested and willing to so they got to go down and see Lilian saying hey I'm going to do this and then they just got to spread the word so forth so I'm confident it's going to be a full a full thing which is good who are they can you tell us no more are your
neighbors I was I was told by select board person that they found two people cuz they saw what was going on so the select board are picking part people I can't choose or what who's running no let check him
bye okay as far as this budget also goes um sorry I had another idea great um for the porta potties we don't have to have two porta potties we just have to have a Ada accessible porta potty yes so that
would save us like almost half of the porta potty budget you're exactly right we don't need a men or women we just need one another ramp right so instead of having two at commissioner fields and two at John Pon Park we only need one and the and the hand washing stations so
that's $200 a month for each place so that's $400 a month 10 months that's four grand I know it's not 175 but any of your ideas can you email to Peter so we can make adjustments before the final budget goes out I V them all on the side on my thing okay um all right so as far as
capital things are going Peter got a quote on a new roof for the um office which we need desperately Peter what was the final amount uh it was just it was $9,800 uh plus an additional possible
$4,000 if I needed to put uh new plywood on the yeah so great basically 14,000 and then does that include prevailing wage I talked to them about that it wasn't on the quote but they understand that's going to be necessary and R and
this was just to get a rough quote to get us started so that's what Paul said cuz he said it was $7,500 without prevailing wage 15 grand with prevailing wage so so um so that's something we need to do so that's why we put in that figure um and then you know I said well
what else can we do but we know may have the money I mean I'd like to get a handicap rent but that's 20 grand right yeah so right the roof is the roof is number one right so um the free cash so we have there's two
Capital there's two types of Capital One is retained earnings which is ours which is ours and then there's free cash from the town mhm okay so the town generally gets 1.4 million all the Departments put in what they would like to get out of the free cash s will put in 3 million it
doesn't matter because we only approve so much most of it generally goes to the highway department the police department and the fire department they're the ones who whatever so from what I understand everybody who's put their stuff in
there's still good amount of money floating around okay so what I'm doing is for this free cast is uh and Melissa if you want to do that with me Monday or Tuesday I'm going to put in four fencing all around Clear
Pond okay all the way around all new fence all the way people ice fishing out there the other day and um and it it's Melissa knows better than it it's leaning it's horrible you can do whatever you want mhm so I would like to
fence that in and use the free cash money because we've already spent 400 grand for the water to get in there we're eventually going to spend more money in there but I think for security purposes we need to put a new fence in there any thoughts I don't disagree but
my only question would be when this 10 year new project is like the fence going to be in the same place yeah it's cuz it's around the perimeter oh it's the same where it is now it's along the road and all the way around but you know we have to make it as less accessible as we
can yeah and I'm not comfortable with people ice fishing but you can't stop them there's a million ways you can get in that Park you just jump over there jump over the snow fence you can drive right in so do you want to walk around with me and with
M Monday or Tuesday yep he's going to call me Monday morning cuz you may have better ideas too so I think that's a great thing to do for free cash he's already been out there cuz when Paula we yeah but he only did 79 right he didn't do Clear Pond right
yep um okay great ideas okay next next on the agenda review and possible votes to approve 2025 job descriptions for Clear Pond Park Peter you want to go through that
there's four of them there you should have in your packet the first one is for uh the director then there's two for the uh lifeguards one of them is uh lifeguard just a regular lifeguard the other one is lifeguard water safety
instructor and then the and then there's finally a uh description for the attendance these are the same ones from last year we didn't basically um yeah Lacy I asked for her to review them make sure everything look good she hasn't
obviously she hasn't putting put in the uh the wages she needs to clarify what those are going to be but uh other than that ra or we're just concerned about the H we're just concerned about the job description now
wait this one up right we don't need that no right should put those in obviously we need to change the posting dates and the closing dates right um and so it kind of you're talking about reduced hour for the park
potentially this states that it's going to be 40 hours well yeah that's the thing we don't that's what his would still be 40 hours because even if we closed it for it's open 8 hours a day for 7 days a week so that's 56 hours so
we have one less lifeguard or something right right right well you can't you have to have two to three no I'm talking full time but either way you're right we can correct that Doug that 40 hours is FY cuz he worked I was a weak and doesn't get paid
so I'm sure he would be happy with the extra time off curious to see how many people are coming back this year coming back for lifeguards from last year most of them I would think they've been there for a few years yeah
it's true well I don't know if any of them graduated from anywhere doing we've had graduate and they still come back and they work part time on the weekends everybody loves working for Doug oh yeah okay are we voting on
this uh we're going to vote on each one individually or just can do all of them at once okay hold on do we need a um two lifeguard ones for the water safety person and the water safety person because it says
like 50 c differential for WSI on both of them I mean I don't care I don't mind why we don't just because if it's headed that way if it's a header that way is there a question I have a question is there like an age limit on
cories like you don't need one under 18 or something um no I think they all have to have them I thought it was 18 as well we've been through this and they do drug tests and they all if you're under 18 you have to have a work permit right I think they got to get their
parents' permission and counselor at school yes so they have to give permissions at at the age of under 16 is it is that what we thought it it is 16 yeah it just doesn't say anything about the court unless I'm missing it no I know
we've been through this before so we can ask Lacy but I think that's just the part there see I think it into the work permit yeah here it is proof of certifications oral interview and
reference CH Cory evaluation and drug test required oh it is there under experience and training is UN yep perfect all right anyone to make a motion to approve the 2025 job
prescription more the attendant Oh I thought we were so Lacy hasn't come back with the um pay the pay scale for these no you did not no not
yet I don't think she can until a budget gets approved I mean they have to be at least minimum wage put the payroll no but no they're our our our rates are good they're we paid $18 so it's they're doing pretty
well for lifeguards plus their 3% raise but I the job descriptions I want to work on and then she can put in the wages the only question I had right so when Doug's not there cuz we just went over he works 40 to 60 hours so when
he's not there do we need a like a subdirector somebody in charge when he's not there lifeguard head lifeguard senior yeah I would say the head lifeguard they they can't put it this way I don't think they should be gone at the same time but it
could be the director and the head lifeguard right do we have like the head lifeguard we just pick them we just what pick him that would be up to him Doug yeah Doug knows and like you said they've been there a long time they all know what to do yep all right I motion
to accept the four job posting applications for Clon park for 2025 season second okay all approved I eyes have ey meaning too so talking to Peter you know that
credit card thing is not going to happen there why put it in working because we have to put in our social security number to get it the town doesn't do that Andrew wasn't doing that how do we have a Home Depot credit card
Peter you talked to them about the credit card machine right I was talking with uh because that's what happened to about it right and she um I'm sorry you were talking to who about it the treasur Michael Erica er er oh now I have
to think back to the conversation and figure out take your time what we talked about but uh yeah first of all to get the account first of all there's quite a number of charges involved quite a number of fees it's not it's not cheap right uh first of all there's a setup
fee there's all there's all kinds of fees that go along rent the machine as well as fees per um transaction transaction so so we're talking about it and if you're talking about so the question is whether or not you're going
to take a hit on Revenue you because of that uh CU you're only going to have it there for two months right so um and then and then there's the issue that somebody has to uh put their social security number into that income tax
purposes yeah right so um and you know who's going to do that I don't know nobody um so um yeah um so again no it's up to the commission what you want to do if you want to
pursue that but it's right well one family gets turned away cuz they don't have cash and they could have paid by credit card that would probably like one family's $26 two adults and two kids that would probably offset your charges for most of the year cuz I think it's
like 3% you pay but that's something to look into something to look into do we take checks people can just go people can go down the street at to Star and there's an ATM there you know it's uh half a mile down
yep yeah you're right I would never go to a park like that and not bring gas you'd be surprised no I'm saying different world where like everyone's check automatically deposited like right yeah nobody my kids don't have cash ever
ever have cash I never have cash I always have cash we don't have like a bank account right we can't that M yeah no same thing right somebody's got up right so let me ask you this question when people pay for their passes
online that's through the the towns credit card that goes to their it's a the same thing like when you do your burning permit it goes through it goes daily pass online and like print it out and bring it um we didn't do passes
daily passes online just a season pass online right I'm just asking if you could have that option for the people that we have credit card but could um what do you think about people photocopying them like how do you know that it's the like you'd have to like
it'd have to print the date and on it and name or something that you name and then you get to can I see your name yes so we can work on that cuz maybe people could say I I don't want to pass but I'll go four times and then if they go through there they don't have to worry
right right me just see how that would be set up good idea okay next on the agenda we have review impossible vote and application for Field Court time for FAA Peter
[Applause] um that that one is not complete so we can skip that one okay let go to number seven for the Freetown Lakeville men's softball league that's the usual Sunday guys and Dave
saluts they've been here forever um Carrie mhm never an issue um one thing though so I do have a question on this um oh first of all just let you know I
put uh there certif of insurance uh needs to be updated but that's independent of being approved but that's uh they'll get that done um you notice that I forget what we've
done in the past I think but they they checked two seasons season 1 and season two and they're playing from uh April through September do we charge them two seasons
I don't think we have I don't think so just I would just charge them one season that new figure 25 that's what we voted on mhm okay um can you look and see what they paid last year and that'll tell you if they paid one season or two
seasons right I'm yeah I'm pretty sure it's just one because they only play once a week and it's five months yeah yeah it's just once a week if they could not dump their kids on the playground will they play softball though that I would appreciate that
all right anyone to make a motion on to approve the Lakeville men softball league for 2025 any motion to approve the lake men's softball application for field one Sundays 2025 second all in favor I I motion
passes next uh we're going to review andoss vote on application for field time for Freetown lakevi women soccer same as last year I'm surprised it's three Fields they three Fields yeah three
Fields they need three Fields because they have three teams but two of them are up in the Ted Williams fields and one is down in commissioner field so that worked out okay for them last they were very happy very
happy so that's good news any questions so two two fields are going to be in the uh Williams one at Commissioners yeah two yeah two at Ted and one at Commissioners and they still Sunday Sunday same time Sunday
yeah anyone want to make a motion I motion to accept preown L go women's soccer for Sunday afternoons from 12 to dusk from April to June 2025 second all in favor I
I have it okay um oh the old new business okay uh old new business there are a few things um Peter do we have an old business to talk about do you
remember or is it just new nothing at all all right the first new business is um we received a resignation letter from Parks commissioner britley leore dear Parks Commission chair hereby resigned as Parks commissioner for the town of
Lakeville due to several personal reasons I am no longer able to serve the community in this capacity obviously this is going to be sorely missed uh the cpc's got to know that they're going to have a a hold because it's got to be a
Parks rep and I told need to send this to the select board so that we can go she's going to put it to the C yeah wait so CPC also needs a part PR that's who we are yeah want to do that when is there oh
you you you're too busy yeah I can't do both cuz you're doing Softball still you're doing this what the select wood reps can go to the CPC plus you're going to pick up a maybe maybe a group to monitor during the season because are you still working on
the camera thing yes that's probably going to take a long that should have been old business there you go goodhead yeah well these people are not very well you you saw the email we got an email finally yeah we got an email saying I'm sorry the flu but it's been three months that's the longest I've
seen this is the new it it lasted longer than Co this flu they have yeah so they're going to get us something hope they didn't forget about us and they said they'd get us something by the end of this week and yeah well that's good I call them once a week we see they must have a small office maybe
you where they flew can't shake them you got that right okay so this is something that kept me busy today so I got a call from Jeff Smith Jeff Smith is the guy who wants to try Fest our big event okay and
I go hey how are you doing and how are things I hope things are going well look forward to seeing you and then he goes oh being you're saying that I guess you don't know what's going on and I'm going oh okay so he goes let me send you this
email we can discuss it so he got an email from is it Tim yep malanoski yeah okay close up thanks hello Jeff sorry to be the bear of bad news but Lun Pon Lodge and the Ted Williams Camp will not be able to
host a trifest event this year we have transformed the property into a full service wedding event and the weekend dates are far too valuable so first thing I said to him you're booked you signed a contract do not worry about it okay we will deal
with this the the immediate thing that I was upset about is that the letter intimated that we at Ted Williams Camp decide this we are not we are the commission that would have to come from us so um I
got that this morning I went to the office and so happened that Tim was over there so sorry he's the person that runs he own it he owns it nice guy nice guy so I said Tim what's going on here I said I got the guy he's pretty upset
what is up with this cuz we don't know anything about this and he said that um that this thing will affect their wedding business I said well do you have anything booked and he goes no I said you understand this is on a Sunday he
goes yes but he goes I can't sell a wedding when there's portal parties and railings you got to see it tents and everything out there it's not on the lon Pond property but it's across the street and they book Friday Saturday and Sunday it's the race is only on Sunday but they
set up they sell tickets on Friday and set up and they set up on Saturday so it's an all weekend thing so I get there frustration go ahead yes but and we both agreed if he wanted to do Bridal hours corporate outings whatever they they
don't care about this um and I said well okay but I'm I'm sorry if you were concerned about this then maybe you should have brought it up and put it in the previous contract because we love to work with you and this has been a past precedent
and you've been doing the food for it and he goes I don't make any money it's not worth it so so and then I said well what are you looking for out of this because I'm telling you now they're going to come we have a contract we
can't break that contract if if you feel that you're going to lose weddings then put something else there so what he wants to do and I said I'm going to bring it up tonight but we're not going to vote on it because he wanted to go see the town manager I said you're wasting your time he's going to send it
back here he wants to deduct 2,000 off his August rent for us to do this for one weekend for for this which is mindboggling to me because we it's a $4500 event and we're going to cut it in
half because he can't book anything that's that doesn't just for me and we're not voting that's not going to fly there's nothing legally that we have to do on that um we can't go against this person's contract it's our biggest
Revenue profit thing of the Year we're not using Lon Pond property not using the building and he doesn't even have anything booked yet so I but it's August if it was open it would B but so his concern is parking or his concern is like the Aesthetics of everything just
the Aesthetics he said you know if I get showers and events that's not going to affect it but no bride's going to want to come and I truly understand that but there's nothing we can do now
because we have have assigned contract well and haven't you been having the triest for years and years right but we can did we talk to Jeff and sit down and see if we can find change the Angles and find other areas like we don't have to put the PO porta potties it's not it's
not the pter parties it's it's you see how everything is set up with the tents and the railings and stuff like that and he said the Porta PO is a very small portion of it he just think the Aesthetics if they want to take pictures and but they don't take pictures they
take pictures out back yeah but whatever it's just the Aesthetics of it and so um you know we have a contract we can abide by I said you know and that and see his point is is
that and I understand he's paying rent now for the first time how much is the rent by month 10,000 so it's 10,000 but so it's one weekend out of the month and he wants well no but but but but here's the issue is he wouldn't have cared last
year because he didn't have to pay rent okay and we gave him a portion of fuit and berries he he would have just said go do it I don't care but now to him he's got lost lost Revenue but still paying for the rent
which that's that's our contract I can't do anything about it I can't um and that's two grand that we cannot afford take out of our budget we are slim slim slim
slim so um so anyway that's where it stands uh I told him it would be on the next agenda we will discuss it uh I invited him to see if he wanted to come that's
great um I said uh I think it's best that uh before the meetings and stuff I think you should really deal with Melissa on this she's your rep I said I'll tell Melissa about it and the Parks Commission um but he was just going to
go to the town manager which would have been a waste of time um so anyway that's where it stands you guys can think about it you have any questions but I know what Scott's thinking but that's where it is so right
now we're not doing anything Jeff is still happening so I'm not going to worry um dates for next meeting the next meeting is the 15th of the police station did um I got a
message from horseshoes today uhhuh did we invite them to the thing did we invite everybody to the police station mhm it's 9:00 a.m. right yep 9 to 10 I think it said yeah Scott's got to leave
the town okay so the meeting after that is what 27th all all right so the 27th is going to be a virtual meeting at which at which time we'll vote on the budget and see whatever other things that we can get out of the
way um what else if you have any ideas you want to put on the agenda for that meeting it's going to be a lot easier to meet at home than it is here for me um and then we'll just go from there because there will be there is stuff
coming up um have we done the March meeting yet no I've booked them for the second and fourth uh Thursdays at COA going
forward second and fourth Thursdays of the council and aging going forward till forever ever the end of decide otherwise okay I 6:30 Carrie do you want to just keep us updated on what time
works for you we'll do it at 6:30 if you have an issue you know ahead of time say I can't make it till 6:45 then it's easy to okay if you know you know like the Monday before the meeting then we can change it okay uh I know Scott is till
March 15th he is tax season crazy right now and and then the election is in April right is it like April 4th yeah it's the first first be here before you do it yeah I have three more meetings
um it's all right good this was a fast meeting am I wrong or right no it wasn't very much it wasn't controversial wasn't controversial everyone came up with some great ideas I appreciate it any ideas please s to Peter about the budget
Capital any of all that Clear Pond um okay anyone want to motion to adjourn yes I do on motion to adjourn at 7 2 on February 13th second all in
favor I thanks guys for coming I appreciate it