Good evening and welcome to our January 22nd parks commission meeting. Is anybody besides Lake Cam in the parks commission recording tonight's meeting? >> I am Christy Clark from the Girl Scout. >> Thank you.
Okay, we're going to skip right down to the Girl Scouts to discuss and vote on the Girl Scout water safety project. Good evening, girls. >> Good evening. >> Good evening. >> We are waiting on two others still. >> Okay, so you want us to wait, skip down? That's absolutely fine.
>> Okay, so you guys get the whole experience. Announcements. Peter, do we have any announcements? >> No announcements. Okay. review and vote to approve the park commission meetings for December 11th, 2025. Okay, I have a question where it says
other attendees, everybody in the audience needs to be noted because Chris Plunka, he must not have signed in because he was not noted, but I didn't know if it was mandatory to record everybody that here. >> I not sure.
>> I was say, yeah, we don't come I know everyone >> all kinds of things we don't come across. >> I know everyone who participates does, but I'm not sure. >> Y >> I'll check on that and and change it if necessary. >> Okay. Did anybody everybody have a
chance to look over the minutes and all right page two on the middle bottom when it says FLA it says FLA asked the recommended the town. So you can choose recommended or
asked. >> Yes, I see. >> Okay. >> And then on the back page, the first line, Freetown Lakeville soccer will not be charged for fertilization since they are not taking care of that. Since they are
taking care of that. >> They are taking care of it. Yes. Okay. Thanks. >> Okay. Anything else? >> Do we have a motion to accept the minutes for December 11th? >> I motion to accept the meeting minutes
of uh January 8th. >> Second. I'll second. That's busy. All in favor? >> I >> I minutes are accepted. Review and possible vote to approve Clear Pond assistant director job
description. I thought it looked good. Peter, >> did anybody have a chance to look that over? >> If we approve it tonight, it can get on the next select board meeting. If not, we can just
push it another two weeks. No me. >> No notes from you. Okay. We have a motion to accept the new assistant director of Clear Pond job posting. >> I motion to accept the assistant
director of Clear Pond job posting. >> I can second. Any further discussion? Okay. All in favor? >> I I >> I. So, we'll get that to Lacy who will get that to the select board.
>> Good. Okay. Back to the 6:30, the discuss and vote on the Girl Scout water safety program. Excellent. Now, I didn't know this was your bronze award. How exciting. >> Yes. So, I'm Michelle Heck. I'm a Lakeville resident and I have the
privilege and honor of leading this troop of girls. I'm going to give you each a copy of the presentation they've prepared. Thank you. >> They have been working on this community service project called a bronze award since the summertime and they're very excited to take you through uh what
they've learned and what they'd like to do. And we certainly will have plenty of time for questions. So before we get started, um I would love for each of them to take an opportunity to share what your name is, uh what town you live in, and maybe since this is the parks
department, one thing you love about Lakeville. >> Go ahead, Reagan. >> My name's Reagan. I live in Lakeville, and my favorite part of Lakeville is um Clear Pond. >> Oh, nice.
>> My name is Addison. I live in Lakeville. My favorite part of Lakeville is in the winter when the snow comes down and you're on the highway looking at all the trees when the snow's on it. >> It's super pretty. >> My name's Nora. I'm from Lakeville and I
like the water in Lakeville. >> We have a lot of that, don't we? >> I don't like the what? >> She likes the water. >> Oh, yes. >> Yeah. >> My name's Abby. I live in Lakeville and I also like Clear Pond. >> Clear pond. My name is Riley. I live in
Lakeville and I like the lakes. >> Wonderful. >> All right. So, clearly we love the outdoors. We spend a lot of time enjoying Clear Pond. We also did some fishing at Lon Pond for a badge earlier this year and that was great fun also. Um, but I'm going to turn it over to the
girls and we're going to get started on slide one. And Reagan, just nice and loud please. We are members of Girl Scout Troop 7620 representing three time. We are junior steps presuming of wood a community
service initiative will we identify a plan a identify a need plan a sustainable solution and take action to make a longlasting impact as ghost coast our mission is to make the water a better place safety
free town and lake lakeville have the most fresh water of any towns in Massachusetts this makes our community a very special place, a place where you can swim, fish, boat, or enjoy its beauty. However, there is little to no water safety structures available to help keep our community safe. This puts
people, children, and pets at risk of dangers such as drowning and sunburns. Our solution, we propose installing a waterfront safety station at Clear Pond Park. The station would include life vest, a life ring, sunblock dispenser,
and other helpful emergency and water safety information. We would build and install the station. Our troop would ensure the station had ample supplies through a three-year maintenance plan where we would visit and ex and inspect the station monthly and replenish
supplies as needed during the summer months. If approved, we would like to install the station at the beginning of May and promote it with a water safety awareness campaign throughout the month of May, which is water which is national water safety month.
>> Many local experts and fill approach >> to shape our solution. We spoke to a number of local experts to seek their guidance. Freetown selectman Jared Seagel. >> Freetown building commissioner Carl Bizaro.
>> Freetown certified lifeguard Charlotto. >> Lakeville Parks Commissioner Melissa Turkot. >> Lakeville Building Commissioner Nathan Dolan. >> Lakeville Deputy Fire Chief Pam Garren. >> Lakeville Town Administrator Andrew Su.
>> Our ask. We are seeking your approval to number one build and install a water safety station at Clear Pond Park which would include water safe sunscreen dispensers, life vest, and a life ring. Number two, agree that our Girl Scout troop will maintain the water safety
station by replenishing any missing or broken items for a period of at least 3 years. Three, install signage on the station which would include helpful information such as how to wear a life vest and what to
do in the event of an emergency. And finally, participate in our ribbon cutting ceremony to kick off a water safety awareness campaign in early May. >> So, the girls welcome your your feedback and your questions and hopefully your approval.
>> Thank you girls very much. You did a great job. It's not easy to sit there and go through all that. So, thank you. And thank you for all the work you put into this cuz I know it was a lot of work. Any questions? Where else are you guys because I know
you have one in Freetown too. Where are you putting that one? >> Um, Halfway Park. >> We hope we have we have to present to the Freetown Board of Selectmen. Um, and that will happen at some point in February >> in Eston. >> Yes. Great presentation. >> Thank you.
>> Yeah, you made great points and I think it's going to be a great thing to do. >> Any questions, Scott? Anything you can think of? >> They did a great job. >> Anything else you guys want to share with us?
Personal experiences. What made you choose this project? >> You want to talk about how we came to this project? What was the first thing we did over the summer? >> So, we all came up with ideas and then once we all got our ideas, we voted and
we all chose like um water safety. >> Perfect. It's very important. >> So, they interviewed various members of the community that they weren't related to, that they didn't live with. um at least five people each and then they came together and discussed and debated and decided and one thing that was
really heartwarming for me to see um is just how much they love living here and how much they value the environment that we have and the fresh water that we have. So I think it's a great solution. >> We're super lucky to have that. Not a lot of places have all that water that we do. >> Right.
>> Okay. Does anybody want to discuss putting it into Clear Pond? I think it's a great thing. I think, you know, um the reason to have it is awesome. Safety is super important. So, um I love the idea. >> Perfect. >> They're talking about having the ribbon
cutting in May. There might be more people if you waited till it opened in June. >> Till June. Yeah. >> I That's just a possibility. I mean, if you can, you can't. >> And I understand you installing it in May for water safety week and you know, before but the park doesn't open itself until towards the end of June. So all
your things would just be sitting out there, >> which I mean, >> yeah, >> even if we got a um container to put it all in, if you don't want to store it in your garage um and then you come back. >> Yep. Happy to do that. Happy to look at
the timing. >> It would be great to say it's coming soon, at least in the month of May, so it'll be a national promotion that we could benefit from connecting to. >> Yep. We can hang a sign on the fence, too, so everybody goes by Clear Pond Road. Great. >> And I will say Clear Pond already has a
butterfly house that Addison's sister constructed that was installed there last summer. So, it's a special place. We like to go every summer. >> Perfect. >> He did the virtual calls and everything. >> Yes. Yeah. >> They have put 15 hours into this project so far. Um, and when we think about
construction and then the work to install, they also have a fundraising plan to help raise money to replace any of the life vests as they get damaged or unfortunately some might get taken. Um, so they put a lot of thought and effort into this.
>> Perfect. Do we have a motion to allow them to go forward and install that? Um, so when you have the final plan, you'll bring it back. Yes, we have um a final plan that we had shared with um Nathan Darling. >> Okay. >> Um I think you were on the email, but it
was a while ago. Um so I can certainly forward it back around to this group to take another look at. >> All right. So, anybody want to vote to approve them installing their water safety? >> I'll make a motion to allow to proceed.
>> Perfect. Second. >> I second. Any further discussion? All in favor? >> I I >> I Perfect. Girls, you have a unanimous vote to continue your project. >> And just keep us updated. That's all we ask. >> Well done, girls. Congratulations.
>> Perfect. Thank you all for coming. >> Thank you for your support and your mentorship. This has been a great learning experience for the girls. We love it. >> Thank you. >> Thank all you parents and guardians for coming. Thank you for having us >> anytime. We're here every two Thursdays
a month. Okay, so we have disc golf at 7 or when they're all here, they're not here yet. So, we can jump to the 2026 tournament application. I don't think it's too different from last year. Was it Peter? Did you make
any changes? >> Just a second. >> Just the amounts changed for pretty much. >> Um >> um I don't even think that did. It went from $3 to $12. There was just a couple of editorial changes. See if I can
remember what they were. They were really insignificant. They're essentially the same. >> Okay. Um I just had a couple questions. >> Under bathrooms, it says, "Please keep bathrooms clean and report any issues." Um do you want to put
two with my phone number? I mean, my phone number is out there everywhere. Just so that they have a place to report it to. I mean, if what does everybody think? Like, I don't care about putting it out, but if you think we shouldn't put it
out, that's fine. And they can just I don't know who they contact, who they report their issues to, cuz you know, it's going to be a Saturday morning. >> If it's minor, it's not a big deal. If it's something that >> takes attention right away, >> they need someone would be good.
>> I mean, if you want to put your phone number there, that's entirely up to you. >> Did you want to put yours? >> No. My phone number is everywhere and it's my cell phone. So, I mean that's fine, especially in an emergency like last
time when they flooded the bathrooms and it was I called him and then I called them and then I called him. So, it was like a day and a half before I finally knew that they bathrooms were flooded. Um, the other thing was clean up all trashes to be picked up and put in the
proper receptacles. ensure all surrounding areas are free of trash. At John Pond Park, that is the dumpster. So, what happens when they do a tournament or when they prep the snack shack is they take it and they put all their trash in the trash can so that
they're overflowing and piling up everywhere and not in the dumpster that's 50 ft away. So, I would like to put that they need to put their stuff in the dumpster. >> Good point. M >> the only reason I know that is cuz after the last one I had to go over there and
empty the trash cuz we were short Ryan. >> Yeah. Well, it used to happen at the ball field, too. You know, they dumped the pizza boxes in the thing and here I am hauling a trash barrel the dumpster at the end of the night. >> Right. >> Because the next day it would have been overflowing. >> Right. And the raccoons and everything.
>> Oh, yeah. But those are the only two I thought everything else was good >> and placed. >> I can give you that if you >> Okay. Yep. >> And where was it? You wanted your phone number >> number the fourth bullet on the second
half, right? >> Bathrooms. >> Clean up all trash. It's to be picked up and properly set to go. And then the >> phone number bathroom's the second one. >> Yep. >> Okay.
>> Just because I wouldn't know who to call. >> Okay. >> So, with those changes, >> make a motion we accept the request for tournament clamps clinics and camps. um
after those res revisions. >> I second. >> Any further discussion? All in favor? >> I >> I >> I. So, we're all set on our application form. Park accomplishments for 25 26 and goals
for 26 and 27. So, every year we have to turn in three accomplishments and three goals for the future. Um, time blurs for me. So, I'm always like, "Was that this year? Was that last year?" Um,
so does anybody have anything that we're proud of doing for this past year or looking forward to for next year? Hopefully next year we'll have baseball field improvements. We could even have that this year
in a disc golf, a nine-hole disc golf implemented next year. And I know that we do a lot I know that we do a lot of things. I just >> Did we open up the soccer fields in the spring or was it the fall before >> the fertilization?
uh from the soccer through through uh Freetown Lakeville. >> So the closing one of the fields for redoing one of the fields >> the that was the year before. I know it all blends together. Interesting. >> I couldn't remember if we opened in the fall or froze in the spring.
>> Yeah, because it's been two seasons. Did you think of anything, Peter? And we installed a new light timer for the volleyball court, but doesn't seem to work. >> I guess that was done. Clear pond. That was all done the previous year.
The water coming in. >> No, that was just Well, no, because remember we talked about that it was July because we brought the portaotties in for a couple weeks. So, that wasn't July. But do we take credit for that? We didn't really have anything to do with it.
>> Nope. >> Um the John Pawn engineering >> plan. Yeah, that'll be finished. >> We had that meeting. >> So, we did I mean we didn't pay for that, but we were the ones who put it through. So, yeah, we can do that.
Well, you think of that, I will just tell you that I met with Ashley for the archery. She was so nice. She was so fun. Um, I had hurt my knee, so we had to jump on one of the carts. And as we went around to that field, there were two deer standing in the field. I had
never seen deer here before. We see their poop all the time, but I've never seen an actual deer. And they stayed in that field until we left off the other side. Then they walked into the woods. So I showed her um that she could pull up and park up the top and I gave her
the gate to code and um as we drove back through there were two big deer and a little deer. >> It was like the best day. >> Sure. >> So um she's going to park down here so she's good with that and carry all her stuff cuz she likes to walk. She's going to put the signs out. Um she emailed you
a schedule today so we can just double check those dates and get back to her. But she was um her she's here till March 10th and then she goes to Turkey where she competes. >> Awesome. >> Yeah. I just said, you know, be careful the deer cuz that's right where we were.
>> Yep. And then the day before I was out with the disc golf people. >> Hi. >> Hi. >> With Bob. >> Yeah. >> Um are you it? Are you ready? >> I'm it. >> All right. >> You got me. >> Come on up. You can have a seat at that
table anywhere. Perfect timing. >> Across our corner here. >> Wherever you would like. >> I'll sit across. >> Um, so I went out with Bob and that's probably where I hurt my knee, so had to use the But that's fine. >> Well, at least you can say that now you can see how much exercise you got when
you went out there cuz we traveled the entirety of the park. >> Yeah, we really did. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. So, he has it. We broke it up. He broke it up into two nine-hole courses. Um, and the park side was where we were going to start. >> Yeah, I that seemed like how you would
wanted to do it. We would definitely clear out that part at least or whatever we need to clear up for that one since that was less work to do >> and then work our way over to the other side. >> Yep. So, I forwarded um the maps, both of them, to Nancy Yates, who's our
conservation commissioner. Yep. >> One of them. And she said the only thing that she sees that might be a problem is behind the library. There's that >> the longer one that we were talking about. >> Yeah. So the one with the water. >> Yeah. >> Um you can barely see on your little map
the water. So that's actually a pond. It actually has a name. I can't remember what it was. Um >> is it to consider a pond there? Where is it? >> I googled it. Right. see the mask thing.
>> This is the library. So that's shaded little shaded green area. >> Um she said we have to fill out a form and turn it in. Yep. >> And then it has to be published in the newspaper >> and um if nobody has any complaints then you're we're okay to
>> build a bridge over it and >> do your thing. So it's not an un unobtainable >> goal with stipulation. >> It just has Okay. >> Yeah. It's funny that you can say you can build a bridge over it, but it's considered a pond, >> right? Well, it's not
>> I know it's very small pond. >> Yeah. She doesn't think it's going to be an issue. Doesn't mean it's not going to be. It just >> all it takes is one or two people, you know, >> of course >> cause a problem. >> But not anonymous, right? >> No, not anonymous.
>> We don't take anonymous things seriously. Too seriously. No, they're not going to impede that piece of property that we were talking about for the the workout station. >> No, we just you told me about that and it was it was we pulled it back a little
bit cuz we were assuming that that was going to be there. So, it might abut it, >> but it won't impede it. >> Beautiful. >> Okay. >> Yep. >> Yeah. >> And it doesn't doesn't uh interfere with any of the current pathways that we have. >> No. So the um
>> the park side doesn't campsite might >> campsite might but it's even if it does the whole the tea and the hole won't be it would just be throwing would you call it throwing? >> Yeah. All the fairways do not use the
paths. The paths are only to get from T box to the next one. Yeah. So >> right. So yeah. >> Okay. Um, with the baseball fields being in this vicinity of of throwing, I assume,
you know, it would just be like don't don't use it during baseball. >> Well, you can you can use it during baseball, but there is the high stipulation of not throwing in there because then you lose strokes. So that's why we tried to say that anything that was going to be fenced off was going to be an out-of- bounds area. So then you
lose strokes and obviously you want to do that if you want a good score too. So I mean that's going to be part of that stipulation as well. Um we will highly encourage not throwing uh during that period. Plus I try to keep it as tight to the tree line as I could with my plans as instead of
>> trying to put it around the baseball area making it a little less susceptible for getting over the fence. >> Yeah. And maybe like people who are just starting out start out at the ones in the woods and not at the ones in the >> Well, also if we were when we were discussing potentially putting in the
shorter tea pads as well for people that were newer. So that way we would have to worry about that and there would be far less opportunity for them to get over the fence if that was the case as well. Especially if we're just doing the nine at first. If we can do nine at first, then they'll probably want to put the two tap pads in there. That way you can still technically do 18. You can just do
a short and a long in that scenario. Yeah, because we decided that doing the nine holes on the park side would be better because it's not as much clearing and all that stuff. Correct. >> And then depending on how that came out and what the commission thought then we
would continue on because the um campsite is going to be much more difficult >> with the trees. Yeah. A lot more brush. >> Yeah. And then we'll have to check back again with Nancy on these. She didn't
mention any of this except for the water throwing over the water. >> Yeah, I I told you that was >> right. >> That was the whole like grand scheme thing, but I wasn't necessarily counting on that one being a hole. So, >> yeah, I told her like we discussed it cuz I was like, well, what happens? Do they float? Like what happens when they
end up in the water? Okay. >> So, >> um the one by the uh precinct street entrance, um that I assume is the T- box going into the woods. >> Yeah. Going back into the woods towards the parking area. Yeah. So, I made sure that there was going to be enough area
where it would land in an area where you wouldn't necessarily be encroaching on the cars, especially now with that uh the pit that is there. So, you you have that to cross over before you even got to the cars. So that would be uh less intent of them getting into the the
parking area. And I also would put up signs to make sure that you're not throwing in there any cars going by either side. So >> right because the two holes will be in where the house used to be. >> But I didn't think that was a problem.
>> So being used? >> No. >> Other than by the police. >> They like to park there. Is that the um turnaround area that we were Yeah, that Yeah, we do like to park there. >> Yeah, there used to be a house by there. >> Yeah, we used to rent it.
>> Oh, always felt safe living there. That's my parents house right here across the street. >> Yeah. >> And I was looking all over this. The land behind those houses is all the T
and water department owns that >> over here on the left. Yeah. >> Yeah. I didn't know that. Yeah. From the from the the intersection all the way and then behind. >> Yeah. I was shocked. >> All the way down to town hall. Well, because that building I believe is still
owned by them. Well, the town hall is >> Anybody have any questions, concerns, comments? And I also learned that Bob is my neighbor. >> Yeah. Right down. Yeah. The street that I didn't know the name of because I just figured it was just the house. Why would
there be a street name? That's me. >> Yeah. >> I got a when we changed the name, I got a 30 minute lecture from the post office. >> Why couldn't you just be Hardcourt or Reservoir? >> When we moved in, they stole our street sign.
>> And then we got a new street sign and they stole our street sign. And then we got a new street sign and they stole our street sign. So the chief of police called and he's like, "Why don't you pick a new name?" So we're like, "All right." So then we got a call from the post office. You just can't go around changing street names. Oh my god.
I'm sorry. >> What street was it? >> It used to be oceaning way. >> Oh, okay. >> Um the tree the tree clearing is that um do those have to be marked beforehand?
>> It wouldn't be a lot of tree. No, there would be no large trees as far as uh I could tell so far. The one that I would be questioning the most would be what would be considered hole three, which is the one we were discussing. that would be going over that little pond cuz there's a lot of stuff that you can't see yet. It'll be a lot of >> sort of brush claying first and most of the
>> I would say 90% of it is going to be brush. There might be one or two trees and we would definitely mark those and let you guys know which ones those ones were in case that and also we discussed uh clearing some more than I thought we might have to just cuz of the uh police needing to be able to see have a line of sight on everything as well. So
>> yeah, that was taken into consideration as well. But again, most of it's going to be that real low brush thorny stuff that nobody wants there anyway. >> Okay. >> Yeah. I don't think you want to get your discs have to go into that pond. >> No, I've had to before in many other places. It's not fun.
>> That that No, that pond is >> not good. >> Yeah. >> How many softballs and baseballs we've lost to thorns. >> It's a discharge. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. It's not a not clean water. >> Yeah. That's all I really have.
>> Okay. Anybody want a motion to move on with the next steps? Um, >> which is what would be the next step? >> Well, the next step would be on your end. I would suppose lining up volunteers. >> Lining up volunteers and also creating
that 501c3 that we discussed that I will need to um >> we need to figure out how we're going to do that because you asked if I could do that. That would be >> something that would be a little bit more park beneficial as opposed to just being disc golf beneficial, which >> we need I'm still need to talk to the
lawyer that I have in mind for helping me out with that as well. >> And I wanted to talk to our um town administrator. So Bob is going to is planning on opening a 501c3 under the dis golf >> sports organization. Um, so one morning
I had this revelation that if he did a more a broader one and did friends of the Lakeville parks or friends of whatever with his basis his focus on disc golf like when he decided to let it go or whatever then we could use it for
other other things >> other sources of uh donations and >> and then I asked him to join the board and then he was like but you said and I'm like oh yeah you can't be on you can't be on the park commission. Yeah, >> supposedly that's not 100% true, but >> No, it's not. >> But for Lakeville, I might be different,
but >> Well, yeah, cuz I I went over I told the story with the clerk cuz she's like, "Do you have anybody? Scott hasn't called me yet." >> And I told her the story and um she's like, "Yeah, conflict of interest because he's on the 501c3 board." >> There is a friends of the Lakeville
Parks already out there. I'm not sure if they officially got a 501c3 or not. I looked through the database and tried to find it and I couldn't find it. I did friends of Lakeville parks. I did friends of parks. I did friends of Ted Williams
camp. >> I looked >> I'll ask the guy that has the checkbook. >> Okay. >> He may have just got a number for >> which happens. >> Check writing purposes. Yeah. No, we're >> Yeah, because that's the easy part is the rest of it.
>> Right. Right. You got to have somebody fill it out. >> Yep. Y and I didn't know if he had the same person fill it out that did it for the soccer or not. >> Yeah. So, if you check with them and just find the name, >> I can do that. >> Okay. And then the other next step is
checking with the town administrator and just letting I know some of the select board is aware of this and they're all for it, but just to let them know this is our plan. It'll be probably a couple of weeks before I get an answer because he's
currently in Guatemala. >> Nice. >> And then we'll be going to Arizona. So, >> okay. >> He's on vacation. >> Okay. >> Anything else? You want a motion to next steps? >> Yeah. Motion to um
approve the disc golf to continue to next steps. Well, we ask that you keep us informed, >> of course. Yeah, you guys will be uh step in step with me on that one. So, >> yeah. And I'll let you know what I find out about the 501c3 from the town.
>> Sounds good. I uh just might need a letter of intent from you guys at some point as well, just to let whoever is going to be filling out or I'll be filling out applications, but whoever is going to be potentially giving me any kind of grant funds, too, just so they can see that you guys are intending on building the course as well. So, >> on boarding.
>> Yep. Yep. Can do. >> Great. >> All right. Thanks for coming out. >> Hey, thank you guys very much. >> You're welcome. >> Thanks. >> We're pretty excited. We haven't had something new >> in a while. >> Since volleyball or horseshoes
fitness trail, the new >> only took which only took 10 years. >> Yeah. >> 10 years. Hopefully, we'll be within a year. Hopefully. >> I was going to say I don't think we've had a project turn around in under a year. So, >> I hope to break that then because I get again I don't feel like that side's
going to take as long. >> I know you don't, >> right? Yeah. On volunteer work, too. >> I'll have to actually reach out to the people that reached out to me like, "Hey guys, now that I have approval, >> cleaning on that brush is not fun." >> No. No, it is not. >> Good. >> All right. Thank you. Have a good night.
>> Thank you guys. Did >> we vote on that? >> Yes, we did. I didn't. You made a motion? >> Yes. >> Do we second it? And we all but we all agreed. >> Okay. >> All right. >> Yeah. Now that you mentioned it, but we
sure >> Okay. Park accomplishments and goals. Did anybody think of anything? >> Motion to move forward with the dis golf. >> I'll second it. All in favor? >> I >> Okay, there you go, Peter.
Um, oh actually I could have done this liaison reports. So I checked all our dates with Loon Pond Park, Lon Pond Lodge for all our events. Loon Pond Lodge only has on Saturdays and Sundays the holidays left from now until Thanksgiving with nothing on their
calendar. How great is that? They have Father's Day open, they have Valentine's Day open, and they have Mother's Day open. Everything else, there's something every day other than that. every weekend day. >> So, yeah. So, Lakeville Day is going to be a little different this year because
Lon Bon Lodge will not be participating. So, I already um sent emails >> to Dudes and Foods and Schools Out Ice Cream and then depending when they say like how many food trucks do you think? Two or three and then the ice cream truck?
>> At least two. >> Andrew, you're like laughing. >> I just um >> Is it time? No, I mean it was close. So like No, no, it's not like time. I'm just like getting excited. >> Sorry.
>> No. Give a word of advice. When I was having my first child, the beep beat the little monitor and my husband would start laughing and get this big smile on his face while I was having the contractions. I'd be like, "You better wipe that smile off my face. Don't do that." >> I might.
>> Yeah. All right. So, we'll go through the quickly. So, we'll just have to do that. Get food trucks. Ashley, we talked about um disc golf. So with um we had forget dis golf when we were walking through get dis golf there was tire
tracks tractor tracks at the bottom of the hill going when you go down the path and you go down the hill towards the turtle area there were tractor tracks. And I was like who's been down here in a tractor as they're cutting trees. So I was like all right. So he's talking
walking and I'm going the other way following the tire tracks and I'm like I don't see anything. I don't see anything. So when you got closer stumps were dumped in the tall grass and I was like what the heck? And of course it's after hours so everybody's gone. So I
just messaged Lraine and I said can you just let everybody know like there's no dumping because we went through that with the big dump piles and we're like nothing can be dumped >> right on trees, >> right? So she's like absolutely da da da. So the next day I came in and I'm
like, "Hey, did anybody dump those stumps?" And they were like, "Yeah, we did. We were told to take them from the front and put them in the back." And I was like, "All right." I said, "Um, we can't dump. >> Can't dump there. >> Can't dump back there. Um, there's 10 acres." So looking at the maps and on
the town map, I think it was a town map, it actually says 10 acre conservation area across the things. So everything from the left of the walking trail all the way to outback is conservation land. So there's no dumping anywhere there. >> It's not fenced all the way up to
>> even though it's not fenced all the way up. Yeah. Only there's only a little bit cut out for the turtles. So they only get a little bit. That's okay. So that was just the big thing. Um, coming up in April, we have SERPED,
which stands for Southeastern Regional Planning and Economic Development District. They're going to come out and map the trails for us. So, we'll have a onepage trail map of the trails at Ted Williams Camp. Doesn't cost us anything. They get a grant from the transportation
DOT. So, they're going to do that for us. It's part of the open space initiatives, too. So, double duty. Two birds, one stone. on on that trail. Is it going to be impeded by the fire station that corner? >> I don't know the answer to that yet >> because their fencing didn't come out
that far. But >> no, it didn't. But some of the little red flags did, >> right? And we do have a station there. And if they're going to I hope they would move it and put it down the trail a little bit. >> Tell us first. >> Yeah. Yeah. Or we just going to find it.
>> Right. Right. So, that's all I have for the Oh, Lun Pun Lodge has had a rough couple weeks. Um, their ceiling in the kitchen fell down. It was the the grids with the little acoustic panels that fell there
having work done in the attic insulation put in. So, the fell down in the kitchen. Paul put it up and reinssulated it with um wires. He like just so it shouldn't fall down again. If it does, it'll just be one thing, but nope. hasn't happened before, so we're hoping that won't happen again. And the
dishwasher doesn't get hot water, so it's not a dishwasher problem. And our plumber has been out there two or three times to try to figure out what it is. And it's warmer, but it's not hot water yet. So, and we just had somebody out in the fall doing the extra water tanks,
the booster tanks that are in the closet. There's two of them. So, we just had him redo those to get the water to the dishwasher. So nobody can figure out why. >> And we used to have hot hot hot water. Used to be flaming hot. >> It's in the middle. Like the sink here gets water, then it goes to the
dishwasher, and the sink there gets hot water. So it's just the dishwasher. And somebody came out to check the dishwasher already, and they're like, "No problem." >> So I'm not It's like wicked strange. So >> that's going on there. Anybody else have liazison reports?
>> Um I do about baseball. Okay. Um, I was talking with Ken Lai. Um, he wants to continue working on the batting cages. >> Mhm. >> Um, and I said that
Freetown Linkville was planning on doing a workday. I'm not sure when. Um, I thought I might have heard from them by now, just as a courtesy call. Not not nothing solid plans or anything. Uh, but Ken was going to try and get out there
more in the wintertime. And I said, "When you want to go, let me know and we'll make sure." He goes, "I know. I got to hug the trees." And I said, I says, "Yeah, you can't go across the soccer field." Cuz that's what happened. That was the worst part is they went across the soccer fields. And if you go across the soccer fields, you're going across irrigation. >> Yep.
>> You know, if you take it tight to the trees, you're going to be fine. You know, I says, "You're just going to have to tight to the tree all the way down and around and come out, you know, on that little corner out behind um field two." And he's like, "I know just what you're talking about, but I will let you know in advance and I'll go down there
and make sure that um because they're going to, you know, they're going to want to bring a >> toll digger." >> Yeah. A little bucket truck there. Um so they'll, you know, so I said, "Well, we're just going to, >> you know, we're going to have a trail and it's going to be along the woods and just like what they were talking about,
you know. I mean, if we're going to beat up a spot, let's beat it up there and everybody use the same thing and >> and uh throw some seed on it and let it go." >> Yep. you know, but uh so I'm waiting to hear back from him and I'm waiting to hear from Freetown Lakeville. >> Yeah, they were out there the last week when we had that nice day. I think it
was last Thursday. They were some of the kids out there, the big the older kids on that field practicing. Perfect. Anything else? Any new business? I'm sure there is. I just can't think of
it. Old business. Um, the water and electricity. Do you want me to take care of that? Do you want to look into it? Do you have any projects you want to do before you leave? >> Oh, the water just on the down the soccer fields.
You know, I don't know where Michael left it, you know. >> I Yeah. >> You know, he said, "Oh, yeah. K, you know, um, Clancy's ready to go." And I'm like, "All >> right." you know, I said, "You were handling it and now you're gone." And >> right,
>> you know, we're we're left in a lurch. Um, you know, I mean, I can call Mr. Clancy and see where he stood on it, unless you want to. Um, >> I think you know him better. >> Yeah, I do. >> And maybe check with Mike, too, and see. >> Yeah, I I'll try and call both of them.
How's that? And then we'll see where that gets us. >> Yeah. And if it doesn't get us anywhere, just let me know. >> What's your busy season? coming up real soon. >> Yep. >> I know Clancy too from uh Refab uses them. >> Sure.
>> Yeah. He's Mr. Clancy and Mr. Mali have like touched every inch of this parks, I think. So, >> good people. >> I'm sure he'll Yeah. >> All right. Do we have a vote to adjourn at 7:18? Andrew's got things to do >> potentially.
>> Make a motion we adjourn the meeting at 7:18. All right. Second. >> Okay. >> All in favor? >> Our next meeting would be >> 7:18 is the is the 12th of February. >> Oh, the second and the fourth. Is that
what we're doing? The 12th. So, it be the 12th and 26th. >> The 11th. >> 12th and the 26th. >> 12th and 26th. Yep. We all set.