[music] Good evening and welcome to our July 9th park commission meeting. Is there anybody besides Lake Cam reporting? Hearing none. We'll continue any announcements.
>> I have none. I will announce that um Clear Pond is open. We're underway. We're into our third week. Um this week is tie-dye week. Next week is sand castle week. And then don't quote me, but I think the week after that is pirate week.
Um the dock just went out today. It'll be in and ready to go tomorrow. We have crafts with Mia on Friday afternoons from 1 to 2. So anybody's welcome to come. We also have for the first time this Sunday, we
have junior lifeguarding for anybody ages 12 and up. You can come and spend the day with our lifeguards and see what it's like to be one. Okay. No guests tonight. Review and approve
minutes. Did anybody have a chance to go through the minutes? >> I did. >> You did? >> Yeah. >> Okay. Let's start with the first one. May 28th. Did you find any errors or omissions?
>> Not me. [snorts] >> So I went we went through that one and I did not find any either. So anybody want to vote to approve that? >> I'll make a motion that we approve the meetings from the meeting minutes from May 28th.
[cough] >> I can [clears throat] second. Okay. Okay. How about June 11th? >> I need to vote on it now that it's >> Oh, yeah. Sorry. All in favor of accepting those minutes. >> I I >> I been in the sun all day.
Um June 11th. I also looked at that one and did not find any. >> You're good. >> You Noel? >> Nope. No problem. >> All good. >> Okay. Motion. >> A motion to approve the meeting minutes on Thursday, June 11th. I'll second it.
All in favor? >> I June 25th. >> I did not have a chance to look at June 25th. >> I didn't see any issues either. >> Okay. >> Okay. You want a motion to accept?
>> Motion to accept meeting minutes on June 25th. I'll second it. All in favor? >> I >> I >> I Okay, whipping through those minutes. Okay. Discuss and possible vote to approve application requests for the Ted
Williams camp adult volleyball tournament August 29th. Time of event is noon. 9th annual Breathe forbe volleyball tournament. This event is to raise money for a nonprofit organization, Breathe for Be, to help other families help deter some of the expenses dealing with
cystic fibrosis. I would like to request that you consider waving the fee for this tournament so more funding can go to the cause. >> It's great and it's by Jamie, so >> Yep. And if anybody out there wants to participate, it's jamie.vlgmail.com. We can let her know. I'm sure the more
the marrier. Okay. Anybody want to motion? I'll make a motion that we accept the application for August 29th for the um breathe for B tournament and that we wave the fee.
>> Second. All >> in favor? I. >> Perfect. Okay, Clear Pond Park update. Update on season. Thus far, I think [snorts] the season's going very well. This thus far,
we have um we are on pass 78, I believe, for residents and like 29. We're on 29 yesterday for non-residents. So, we've sold a lot of passes. That's good. We still have a lot of people coming in
today. Today we hosted a um school and 24 teenagers came in. >> Nice. >> So yeah, they had a good time. Hopefully they'll they've scheduled for two more times this year. So that'll be good. Update on season thus far.
>> Did you see what I uh were able to see what I sent? >> No. >> Yeah. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to print it out. >> Did you email it? >> Yes. >> [clears throat] >> has just a financial update with
everything and uh >> is it broken down from last year and this year >> compared to uh yep compared to last year? >> Clear upon summary.
>> Okay. >> [clears throat and cough] >> plus the attendance. Although I have some questions about those numbers which we don't need to discuss [laughter] here. I think those forms need to be >> We're not patting the numbers I promised. >> What >> I said we're not patting the numbers. I promise. >> Yeah. Well,
>> passes sold in at passes sold online last year was 11,000. This year >> you're already almost there. You're at 10 five 10,500 >> out of the 17,000. So yeah, >> well 17,000 is the total
>> for the whole year >> for the Well, no, it's the total both sold online and sold at the gate. >> Okay. >> So we've sold >> 14,7 so far. So we're getting pretty close to the um to the to the goal.
>> Mhm. And is that the number from what we've processed at the gate or is that the number from the town? >> This is um >> this is uh based on the online purchases that uh >> from the town
>> from the town. Okay. Right. >> Through um through the end of June. So, anything that's been purchas hasn't doesn't include uh online purchases in July. Uh so, anyway, it's looking good. Plus,
if you notice, um daily gate fees are already >> over over twothirds of the way. Not two-thirds, two- fifths of the way there. >> Yep. >> Yeah. And I know we have some events coming up that bring in a lot of people.
Your swim lessons are doing great. >> We had um 20 kids for swim lessons for our first day on Wednesday and we have three more signed up for next week. So if you're looking for swim lessons, they're Monday and Wednesday. So you can come down Monday at 11:00 and sign right
up then because they they've only had one cuz we were closed last Monday. group outings. We've already um we've booked four, I think, birthday parties already.
Wow. >> Family activities. >> Town of Lakeville. >> So, yeah. >> Yeah, I'm pretty happy. >> All the kids have been great. No problems.
[clears throat] I haven't been by there, but how'd the raking go? Looks good. >> The raking on the beach. Yeah, he came in and he um roto tilt and there wasn't a little flower or piece of grass in sight. >> Nice. >> Yes. Thanks to Mr. Stish for doing that.
Yeah, it was like night and day. Kids were getting nervous that they were going to have to do it themselves and we wouldn't have made them do that. Okay. Options for up to coverage when neither assistant director is available.
So, we have a the end of August, right? Some of our kids go back to college um including our assistant director and our other assistant director is away that weekend.
So, so we have a couple choices for coverage. we can promote somebody. Um Sophia would be the logical choice. She's getting she knows the stack bar. She knows the um gate and she knows a little bit about
the lifeguard things that go on. But the lifeguards are all super good. Um we start the day with the two long whistles for the emergency and we added a one long whistle just to get our attention in case something's needed yet not an
emergency. Um, we had one heat exhaustion case. So, that was a case where we should have used one long whistle, but we hadn't had that in place because it hadn't occurred yet. Um, but all was good. She recovered pretty
quickly. All good. Um, any questions about Clear Pond so far this year or what you would like to do [clears throat] for taking over when people aren't there? I mean, what a park commissioner can
certainly cover. >> Um, I think I mean taking somebody that's there and promoting them for the day makes sense. >> Probably for like a week. >> A week. >> And it'll be the end. So, we would just promote her. Yeah.
Yeah. It'll be after you have a whole summer of training apparently, right? For lack of a better word. >> Right. No, because Yeah. And depending if um what Peter's plans are, what my plans are, somebody will have to take care of the money. So, we can actually
have time to train them to take care of the money. See, I hate being on the end. I can't see everybody. >> Yeah. >> Pardon me. >> I said I hate I can't see everybody. >> Yeah. I got to lean back. I know. All right. So, you're on board with that, Noel, >> with promoting Sophia?
>> Yeah. >> Somebody. >> Absolutely. >> Yep. >> All right. We'll um confirm at the next meeting. >> Should that be officially voted on? >> Officially voted on. Do we have vote on here? >> No, but we can do it next. Yeah, next meeting. We'll add vote.
>> Should just out out of curiosity, would Ashlin be a possibility or would she not be available? >> Ashton's already one of our assistant directors. >> Okay. So it would be in addition to >> Ashley and Colleen. Well, Ashton's got to go back to school. >> Okay. She Okay. >> She leaves on the 15th.
>> Okay. >> So, it's the week, the last week. >> Yeah. >> Gotcha. But it's I mean, I think it's pretty good that we make it to the last week before we have a scheduling conflict. >> Yeah. >> All right. Review of fiscal year 27
enterprise fund which began July 1st. So for July 1st at Clear Pond, we've already meet our we've already met our goal for 27. Um there were two things. One was swim
lessons. We surpassed that goal and the other one was um events. So we've already got those two under our belt. So that's good.
season passes. We What did we say? We had 14 something already for next year. So, the budget stayed the same. 17,000 was our budget for this
year and last year. Same with concession stand, same with swim lessons, which we've already met. Um, group outing fee was the $500, which we've already met. Gate fees $5,000.
Activity fee $500. Group Ted Williams camp group outing fee. I don't think we met we didn't make that. But the same we kept everything pretty much the same because of inflation and
all that stuff. So other field rentals we only bumped up $1,800 more. >> Yeah. And the hall rental went down a little bit because of the concerns over the fire station building which I think right now I think
it looks so much better than it did a month a month and a half ago. All those dirt piles are gone. So all those brides should come back and take a look at Non Launch cuz it's big difference. Utilities went up, bottle service went
down. gift revenue stayed the same. Wages um wages were also pretty status quo this year because of the town's financial condition. It nobody
got that 3% raise that everybody usually gets which is unfortunate. Workers compensation went up. Our retirement plan went up, employee insurance went
up, Medicare stayed the same. So, our costs went up. So, you just have to hope our revenue does, too. Okay. We have 20,000 in repair and bait
maintenance on buildings. Contracted services we kept the same though I'm sure our water testing went up from 40 45 to 46 this year. So I'm sure it'll go up again next year. But that doesn't make me mean what is that?
46 * 10 open is $460. So not the end of the world. Grounds keeping supplies went down. Equipment went up, so they even themselves off.
Facility improvements, $25,000. That went up. >> What did that consist of? Well, the hand um facility improvements. I don't think we made a um
we had anything in mind, but I know the maintenance shed needs work. I know we need playgrounds. I know we need ball fields. I'm sure something will come up probably in the bathroom. the groundskeeping supplies. That was
>> Did we just not hit the $25,000 this year? And >> we didn't hit the $25,000 this year because when we put in this budget. Hey, Mike. >> How you doing? >> Good. How are you? >> Planning was here. >> No, planning is not here. Check the police station. >> Okay. >> Good luck. >> Thank you. >> Thank you.
>> Um, soccer took over fertilizing and maintaining their own fields. So that's like half of our fertilizing budget. So we got to take that away, but they told us too late to take it off for last year.
>> Oh, okay. >> So as long as they keep doing that, we're all set. If they decide that they're not going to do that anymore, then we might have a problem. >> Then equipment went up 10 grand. >> Equipment went up. Equipment went up that $10,000. Yeah. So
hopefully we'll have be able to get that gator. And I think that's why we didn't know that our lawnmower was going to die, but all of our equipment was getting we knew getting old. >> No, >> cuz I I go into the maintenance shed and
I'm like, "All right, what do you guys need?" Like, "Nothing. Nothing. We're good. We're good." And then I see the lawnmower who that the visor is held together with duct tape and it was still bouncing off. I'm [laughter] like and then they're like, "Well, you know, we could use some more gas cans." And I'm
like, all these times that I come in and ask like, "What is what are you doing?" So like June 30th, they're like, "We could have gas cans. We could have a new roof." So, but we're starting a running list.
Okay, that's the budget leaison updates. I haven't checked in at Lon Pond Lodge since I started at Clear Pond, so I have no updates. I feel horrible that I've been like out of the loop. Um I will John Pond Park, we got an email saying
that their picnic tables were dangerous, so we went and removed them. One of them has to be trashed. Um, unfortunately they were the ones with the metal legs. The other one we can just replace some boards. So, but
we're going to need new picnic tables for John Pond in the fall. Anything else? >> I have no updates. >> Yeah, me either. >> I'm so out of it. But yeah. All right.
Any new business? Anything? Peter, got anything? Um I just I'm thinking like the retained earnings all the retained earnings we have. Should we like put that on an agenda to talk about like some point? Yeah,
>> we absolutely can. Um could I could I get an update? >> Yeah, the retained earnings like that we have to put it on agenda for all of us to talk about like what we should do with it. >> Okay. >> Put it towards >> Right. So, I think one of the things that we've talked about is if the CPC
covers doing the ball fields cuz it's not, we'll have to look into it. It's not regular maintenance. It's like a whole new ball fields. So, if they cover that, maybe we match half like we put in 50, they put in 50, maybe the town kicks in
a little bit and we get the fields done. >> Get all of them. Yeah. When I spoke with Andrew, the last time I spoke with Andrew about it and and because of our changing municipal budget, the last time I talked with him, you know, about the ball
fields, he said, "I think there might be some money that I can squeak out of it." But I mean, that was that was like 3 weeks ago. And that money was from the sale of the golf course because if they sell the golf course and put in all
those senior housing units, the plan is was to do Clear Pond. Now to do the ball fields, but um >> isn't that all too far in the future to >> I would think because we don't even know if when he signs on the dotted line, he'll be like,
"Oh, here's your money for the fields." or all right, we just signed our last lease on the building with the 10-year plan. All right, here are your ball fields. >> Yeah. >> Okay. I um I reached out to the Ted Williams Foundation in Florida. I'm a
little disappointed I haven't heard back yet, but I I don't think >> I sent a heartfelt a real heartfelt email. Um, I will try to reach out again because that would constitute
our some other funding, >> right, >> which would enable us to fill out an application for CP and I it would be great to see those fields done. >> Um, so let me see what um >> I think right now I think safetywise at
Ted Williams camp I think the ball fields are our biggest thing. Like we've redone this skate park. I mean, not to everybody's ideal skate park dreams, but it's safe. >> Yeah. >> The basketball court, the tennis courts,
they were redone and took out all those cracks, so they're safe. Um, horseshoes is safe. Botchi is almost done. I just have to weed it someday. So, but it's safe. Like, you're not going to trip over the rotten boards and stuff. So,
that's the last thing here that's unsafe. We have problems at John Pond Park, problems at Clear Pond Park, but we're working through them little by little. >> Yeah. Yeah. I mean, if we show that, hey, we have this retained earnings that we're going to put towards this, I think
that should go a long way of getting some other funding, >> you think? Oh, fingers crossed. >> Um, >> or we attack a field or two at a time, right? >> That's another option, >> right? which might be the everybody wants it done done done but that might be the better way to go cuz
then you can still use some well summer and then you do the rest the next year. >> Oh maybe we have more retained earnings a couple years from now and then >> right you know >> choices so before we spend all our retained earnings we just have to make sure our um Lon Pond Lodge is up in
March. Mhm. >> So after that, we don't know what we're going to be getting from them. If it's more, if it's less, if it's the same. >> Makes sense. >> Um, and I don't believe the RFP has gone out yet. So, we're talking it's 9 months away, so it'll be down to the wire.
>> Yeah. >> So, we have actually done it before without a contract because it takes so long. >> Yep. It's unfortunate, but it's how it is.
Okay. Anything else? Any other new business? >> No. All right. If there's nothing else, we can call it a half hour meeting and somebody can motion to adjurnn. >> I motion to adjourn the meeting at 6:54.
>> I'll second it. >> Any discussion? All in favor? Hi. >> Hi. >> All 655 we're journed. Thank you everybody for tuning in. Thank you. >> Thank you.