[Music] Good evening and welcome to the parks commission meeting. Is there anybody besides Lake Cam recording? No. Okay. We'd like to start our meeting by welcoming Mr. Gallagher
of Schools Out Ice Cream. Welcome, Mr. Gallagher. Thanks for having me. No problem. What's up with you lately? Nothing. We actually just started a ice cream. We took a old school bus and changed it into an ice cream truck. And we actually have three routes planned
around Lakeville. And we're actually hoping to get permission to drive through Ted Williams on the beginning of our routes and at the end cuz we live about 5 minutes from here. So, it would be a good start and ending point for us. Nice. What about um the other parks like
John Pond Park? We were thinking that, but I know they have a snack shack there, so we didn't want to take away from them. I know Ted's Ted Williams doesn't have that I know of. We do not. So, we didn't want to go and take away from what they already had. I mean, we can go when they're doing I know they do
things at night when the snack shack isn't open if we were able to, but we wouldn't want to take from what's already there. Um, yeah. So, multihazard softball does not sell ice cream. Um, so I mean I could I'm on that board too, so
I could talk to them and see if anyone would get upset about that, but we don't sell ice cream, so I don't think you'd really be taking away. Um, and then at night is over the summer. Lots of adults exerting energy. Probably
love to buy ice. I was going to say, um, we can check about tournaments, too. Mhm. Yeah. Okay. Does anybody have any questions for Mr. Gallagher. No, we already have ice cream. All the prepackaged stuff you guys everybody's
used to. We have We go from Richie's Italian ice to the two ball screw ball to the bomb pop. Spongebob. Yep. Spongebob, Ninja Turtle, Spider-Man. All the all the fun stuff. Good. The must
haves. Mhm. Okay. Do you have any questions for us? No. Okay. Well, thank you for coming in. We will be in touch shortly. All right. Thank you for having me. No problem. Go grab a coffee and like hang out for a
while. Thank you. Thank you. See you. Have a good one. Take care. You too. Okay. Okay. We're going to skip from Mr. Gallagher down to Clear Pond applications.
Okay. Do you have any recommendations except for hire every lifeguard that has applied? I hire every lifeguard that's applied. And uh as I was looking through and going through the applications um to meet the needs of the park, it
might be advantageous since youngsters take weeks off now, take a week here a week there that we hire the seven people that are there because three or four of them said they wanted to work part-time as it was and that way it would give us the flexibility that we didn't have in
the past. Last year we had two that were there all the time and it worked out really good. But uh and but we because we had two I ended up having to spend a lot of time you know covering and so forth like that but um but there's seven of them um I can easily you know get
them 20 25 hours a piece and some will want more and some want less and I'll do that when I when I talk to them. But uh okay they're all I went through them all. They're all former students. They're all um they're all very intelligent. Uh they
are there's three of them that are I think two or three of them that are seniors going on to college. Uh they have their their licenses. They um have worked you know uh most most of them have worked. There was only one that hasn't already previously worked and
uh but uh I'd be very happy to to have them all. I'm all about working, getting lifeful kids to a summer job and and and give them a chance to work and see. Do we need to save room for others who are
still working on their lifeguard certification or they'll we need we need to No, we would still need to uh the lifeguard situation if we have two that are certified. Um Ashlin's the only one returning. Yes. But the other is already sent send certifications. We got one
that's three. Uh last year we had six. The year before that we had 10. So um hopefully we have some more that can come in and fill in and and we can piece it together. We're very
flexible. Does Excuse me. Does this list include the one that came out yesterday? Yes. Okay. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. We did the numbers because we didn't put an executive session on the um agenda. So, we didn't want to
wait. Mhm. So, any other questions, recommendations, concerns? Are there potentially more guards? Do you know? Uh I have I have talked to three more. Two of them are waiting for their parents
for transportation. The other one is very interested. He went to apply and he went on there and he needs he just he's in the process of doing it. He's trying to find a class. Yeah. That would give us six. Yeah. So, there was one that I came across and I don't remember where.
That was the May 31st was the one and there were a few in the beginning of June. Yeah. So, hopefully we can get them in and if it comes down to it and we have to drive them to class, then that's what have to happen. I know there's a couple that I was like, "Okay, can I drive?" There were two there's two
from uh uh Bridgewater and I'm like can I drive over in the morning and pick them up each time? I'm like I don't know. We'll try. But I told them about working on the weekends now. They have they could get transportation on the weekends. But uh they haven't they haven't finalized that yet. But one is
one other one I'm pretty sure is. So if you get two out of the four um that's a start. That's a start. Yeah. Okay. And I can repost it too. I know Lacy was and like I said we we will hire anybody right into July even if
they you know Yep. Okay. Um we do we have to exlo ex disclose because um one of the application applicants did not put that they were related to anybody on
the employee. I asked Mike Smith about that when he was filling it out and Mike's like, "You're not an employee because you're not paid." Yeah, but you are considered a town employee. Okay. So, well, that's why he did it way. Okay. I'm like, "Oh, he just doesn't want everybody to know that you It
wasn't I asked Mike when he was chairman." No, that's fine. Um, but Doug wasn't aware and he's recommending we take them off. So, that's okay. Braden is my son and I'm going to I don't need to be part of any vote or anything. Who's that? Brandon. Braden. Brayden.
Yeah, we've had we've had children of board members in the past. Yeah. Yeah. We need them. We don't It's fine. I just needed We needed to disclose Mhm. that um So, you will talk to Lacy and
interview everybody. Yeah, I I'll give them all a call. Yeah. Okay. And uh Yeah, we'll do that. Take care of that. Yeah. We have a group meet and greet. Yeah. Um Okay. Did we have vote on the agenda? Yes.
Okay. Does anybody want to make a motion to hire all 10 applicants for the lifeguard and attendant positions under Doug's recommendation? Is that a motion?
I was asking for something. I'll make a motion that we hire all the lifeguards pending Doug's um interview with him and uh based on his recommendation. Second. Am I allowed to? Mhm. Yeah.
Second. All in favor? I I I um do you want to do the same thing for attendance? I thought that was I said you did both. I said all I included all of them. All right. I missed that. I just heard all the lifeguards. That's okay. Sorry.
That's all right. Okay. So, you're all set. You can talk to Lacy then talk to all of them and see cuz maybe they all don't want to. I know Autumn has checked in with us a couple times. Yeah. So, she's very anxious to hear. Right.
Okay. Anything else we need to get done before uh what did you say? four weeks from Saturday. That's right. Uh the the other boy that I know, is the application still online? Mhm. So, he'll
just fill it out and you can reach out if he Yeah. As soon as he turns it in, Lacy sends it over. Okay. So, Okay. Um they only work half a day tomorrow and they're off on Monday, but y still. And what do you know when your next meeting
is? Two weeks. June 5th. June 5th. June 12th. June 12th. June 12th. We talked about moving it to the 5th and decides not to. Got it. Okay. All right.
Nothing else. If you think of anything else, let me know. Okay. So, I can contact plumber electrician. Okay. Thank you for coming in. Thank you. That's good. So we have plenty of attendants. Yep. So
do you want us to remove the attendant? Yes. From Yeah. And just keep the lifeguard, right? [Applause] Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Um the only question other question is do you want to call Dr. Paul knee or do you want me
to contact him or I will contact him. Peter will fill out a work order form. Yeah. See, he might even look at it and say, "Well, the tank list is $600. We can't do that." You know, you don't And then we'll have to go with what we have there. But then if he can go in there, maybe he knows what to they're just
little fittings, you know, the little teeny pipes and instead of the big T's, the little teeny ones and they just break. And after a while and then once it builds up pressure, it just pops it again, right? And we don't want that. No. [Music]
Thanks for coming. Thank you guys. Have a good rest of the evening. You too. Yes. Stay dry. Stay dry. Good luck. Want to come back and do ice cream while before we forget? Sure, we can do the ice cream before we forget because we always forget. Okay.
Any questions about school ice cream? I did see the pictures today. It sounded looked like fun. Yeah. Facebook. Are we getting a percentage? Is that They're just driving through. So, I don't know how they would calculate the percentage of what they sell just here. What about
like if they were to park for like um an event like a tournament or a trifest? Um well, if they were to I think we should charge them the 5% if they were to come for like an event for like the day. Yeah. But if they're just driving
through, I don't know. What do you think? How would you do that? I wasn't even thinking about that. I thought they were just coming and parking it. Going to stay for the night, the day. I don't think so. Right. He said he was going to start off his route driving through and end his route
driving through. Know he's going to cut the corner and come through here. And hopefully get somebody. Heck, if I'm here, I mean, could we just say if it's if you're coming to an event, suggested 5%
donation and then maybe end of season donation donation of your choice. Yeah, we could we could just ask and then I guess we
say what about the like um what we said with dudes and foods like the exclusivity like would we say that the donation keeps them being like we don't allow whether our only ice cream vendor
ice cream truck And that's why Yeah. You know, that's why we're asking for a little donation to keep it exclusive with you. Yeah, we can do that. Hey, somebody mentioned they got their board
of health clearance. Um, do they need insurance? Um, I'm sure they have it, but we can check. Just verify that. Yeah. Get a copy. I don't think he needs um we need the insurance for him just driving
through selling it though. Do you? Only like he comes from a med. He comes from a vint. Right. Right. It's just it's just getting the binder. That's all it is. Right. It's not extra insurance. Right. Yeah.
Okay. Somebody want a motion? I will make a motion that we allow schools out ice cream truck to uh drive through our parks as part of their routine route. Um with a suggested donation of
their choice at the end of the summer season. Uh and additionally, if they are to park at any event such as a softball tournament or trifest, um they give the standard 5% of profit
donation to the parks for their first year for the first year and donation rate to be re-evaluated the following year. Perfect. Second. Any more discussion? All in favor? Hi.
Oh, I I see him. Okay, Peter, you want them to let them know or Carrie, do you want to give them a call? Let them know. I have Sure. You can do some fun stuff. Let them know. Well, I'll uh I mean, you can call them, but I can
text them, but then we want the Oh, yeah. Peter, you'll send them an email with all they need. It's just like it is for that other, you know, just something a little bit more formal so that they can show someone if they're coming through the park and they have our blessing. Yeah, we talked about that with the food truck that they have like
a sign that says like parks and sponsored by or approved by parks approved. Yeah. Yeah. I think it's a good idea to give them something too that they have our blessing. Yeah. You can come up with like a nice little graphic like you know
in there. Right. Right. Oh, I want to do that, too. Right. Everybody starts driving through. We don't want that. No. Okay. All right. Back up to the minutes. Find my agenda. By the way, there are no announcements. No announcements. All right. I knew this
would be a quick meeting. Out ice cream minutes. Any omissions or errors in the minutes of May 8th? I didn't see any. It was a lot.
A lot of minutes. It was a long meeting. Mhm. A little over two hours. They're going to be sorry they missed this one. Mhm. Yep. Nobody finds any. A motion to accept the minutes.
Make a motion we accept the minutes of May 8th. Second. Any more discussion? No. All in favor? I. All I. Perfect. Minutes are accepted.
Okay, Ellen. Ellen Morgato, she reached out because um civics projects, everybody's got to do a civics project now. So, she would like to add a book library, a lending library to Ted Williams camp. Um
I think it's a good idea. Maybe we can put it over by the fields so that moms or dads or kids could borrow books while the siblings or children are playing. Um over over near the bathroom area. You're talking like in that triangle. Yeah, that would be fine. Yeah. No, that's
where you can have the most traffic. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. I think it's perfect. We talked about this last meeting adding one. Oh, yeah. Yeah, we did the next project. Yeah. Um All right. So, does anybody want to make
a motion to So, just I guess discussion her her email says she's looking for resources. What do you think that means? like she wants us to pay for it. Um, no. I think first she wants to cuz I told her that, you know, she's got to get
permission to put it here first. Like that's step number one. So, we'll give her permission to put it here and then she can have a book drive or something here to collect books for it. Yep. And I think it'd be a good idea if you just do a do like a hand sketch of
what she's planning on doing, what it looks like, and bring it to the so we can go good or not so good, you know. Yep. A pictures of potential what it looks like. Yeah. You know, just a sketch. I mean, it doesn't
have to be anything formal. I'm sure she's um seen others that have inspired her. Mhm. Okay. You want to hold off on motioning till we get that or do you want to motion in condition of
We I don't know if she has a deadline. She doesn't set if she has a deadline. So it doesn't I mean and and my feeling is I mean you know if if she does have a deadline you know and and so she's kind of getting pushed to
get it done you know if she passes in a sketch to you and you say yeah it looks great. I think that's fine. I I just I think somebody on the board should see it. That's all. doesn't have to be a meeting. You can you can make that motion that, you know, we allow Melissa or whomever, you know, gets gets to see
it. All right. So, let's motion to accept it when she turns in an approved picture. Well, we could vote to approve it now pending the picture. Okay, that's all. Yep. Go ahead. I'll make a motion that we accept
um the proposal to have a lending library here at the camp. Um and um all we ask is that she provide some type of a sketch and uh to be approved by any one of the board members. You don't take your thinking. No, just I
guess to add to that, do we want to specify the installation location and have it and well where do we want it? The best. Yeah. Okay. So, I'll add to that that our our preferred choice of
location would be out in the bathroom area, maybe up against one of the fences there. Um, so that uh it's not in Ryan's way. Right. Yeah. Yeah. I think that would be a good spot. Yep.
I'll second it. Um, any discussion? No. All in favor? I which is the employment applications application for London Horseshoe Club. I will
um All right, never mind. I'll wait till we get done. Okay, they have their first tournament June 7th 8:00 a.m. to 400 p.m. First question is, do you know if there's anything going on? Is there anything going on at the lodge?
Um, probably not 8 to 4. I will check right now. Wedding come in. Uh, what is it? June 7th. Is that a Sunday? Uh, it's a Saturday. There is a wedding, but it doesn't say what time.
I think did it only say 24 people? It's only a small tournament. Yep. That's I didn't see that. It says minimum of 24. Yeah. Hoping for a minimum of 24, right? Do we have some type of agreement with
the lodge that like people won't be playing horseshoes during a wedding or we're just trying to be considerate? Just being considerate. Considerate. Yeah. But you know, they're hoping for 24, you're talking, you know, 15 cars,
right? No. Right. It could be 12. Right. Right. or even if it is 24. I mean, there's plenty of parking here and the maintenance shing for them and not like the noise. Um, no, the pickle ball makes more noise, right? Believe it or not, and if
it's a outside reception that it's they're bothering like it's loud, Heather will go over and ask them to stop. So, we'll they'll have the we'll put a caveat in here that if there's an outdoor wedding, they may have to pause there. Okay.
Yeah, that's important to tell them too if we're approving it just so they know. Yeah, it could be different. Yeah. Right. So, if if it's a night wedding, it shouldn't be a problem. Shouldn't be a problem. Um only if it's an afternoon deal, right? Could there be an issue?
And it's probably not. It's probably a night wedding. Yeah, cuz June would get into it being light out. So they like to do it at sunset. Mhm. Which they'll be done. So yeah. Okay. Do we have a motion to accept Lon Porn
Hashu Horseshoe Club tournament request for June 7th? I'll make a motion to accept the application for Lon Pawn Horseshoe Club tournament June 7th 8:00 a.m. to 400 p.m. Uh just uh with
the what do you call it? um caveat that if there's an outdoor ceremony, we inform them they may need to pause their game at times. Perfect. Second. Second. Any discussion?
All in favor? I I perfect. Thank you, Carrie. Very nicely done. All right. Austin Strong Soccer Tournament. It's the fourth year. Yep. We've never
had any problems. Nope. They coordinate with the league. Yep. I think it's a one of these good things that we should just stamp it. Yes. That's my feeling. Okay. It's It's They're not making any money. They're
donating all the proceeds. They're not making any money. Nope. They're donating all the proceeds. Oh, they're only charging $5 to play. Well, that's what I was just going to say like would the commission consider waving because it's a tournament. Would they consider waving the per player fee if it's all going to
charity? We have for the last three years waved their fee. So, we can do that again if we have a motion. Uh, make a motion that we accept the application for the Austin
Strong Charity Soccer Tournament. um 8 9 and 810 all day. Additionally, that the park commission wave the per player tournament fee since it's a charity tournament.
Second. Second. Any discussion? All in favor? I I update on budget. Um, so the budget looks pretty good. I did Scott after you asked about the um that line. Yeah. It does does seem like
that's a lot of money for that line. I mean, cuz one's way over, right? And the other one's way under, right? I mean, I know we got a bill here for $5,000, but Right. That's that's still um that's going to be the the last bill in this
in this year. Yep. So I mean it's still way under, right? But you have to remember that that's only like a third of the fertilizer, right? So if stalker wasn't fertilizing, it would probably be 10,000 more. True. So that's a big chunk there. But yeah, that but I know um yeah
it just Mike sends over it's itemized on that one the one. So what was the question you had Scott about the buildings and grounds? Uh yeah 52400 4,000 I mean 52 4,000 building and grounds. I mean our budget is 10,000 and
we're already at 16 and we haven't even got into the spring here yet. I mean it just seems it's way over. It's over by $6,000. I'm just wondering if there's something posted in that account that possibly should be in the groundskeeping supplies 543100.
Yeah, I let me see. Can you read off what they Yeah, I can tell you what's there. Uh the uh Okay, these are the the larger items there. Sure. Uh the
uh replacement bench. I think this is the one that we for the uh park that was damaged in the accident. Yep. That's in there. That's a thousand. That's $1,100. That should be under equipment. Should it?
Yeah. I mean, that's my feeling on it. It's it's equipment. It's it's it's not a supply. That's not ground. That's not That's not a building. That's not the grounds repair. I mean, it's repair and maintenance, but All right. Go ahead. Get one. So,
all right. The next um uh is a bas $900 for the electrical panel in the maintenance building. What was that for? I have no idea. That was I think when they were identifying uh all the different circuits and
labeling it and in their fuse box. Yeah, I think that's what it was for. There may have been some other things there, but it was it was electrical work at the uh they also put in new lights. Yeah, that
may have been it too. There's uh in the maintenance shed light poles. There's the light poles we paid for at John Pawn. Those are Oh, those are in there. Those are $2,500. Those could go into other contracted
services. It's not a contracted service like the trash and the portaotties. No, but it was contract with the Yeah, cuz it just wasn't regular. It could The reason I say that is we don't want to be over budget on something and way under budget
on something else. And I mean it could fit in there, right? That's fine. Go ahead. The next big item is the lights for uh John Pawn Park. That was $6,500. Wow.
That was But I think as long as I mean we budgeted $10,000, we weren't expecting poles and lights to come down. So No, because we didn't budget for it. Probably a talked about show facility improvements down the bottom.
C. Yeah. So that's where the roof is going to come out of. Oh, okay. That's right. And then there's also another problem at Clear Pond at Lon Pond Lodge. Loon Pond Lodge. Um that's going to be a costly
one to say on camera. Um, it appears that there's a broken pipe leading to the septic tank. Costly. Yeah. So, and that'll probably be fixed hopefully before July.
So, yeah. So, once you say $6,000 for the lights, that it kind of all makes sense. Yeah. Well, the other just um um I was talking with Mike Ellis, the accountant, about this and and he and
about categorizing things and he he said I could go or we could go one or two different ways and he said uh you can adjust things into different categories so that everything is within budget as long as it could fit. Right.
Right. Move things around. or he said he said all he really cares about is the bottom line and and and to my point it seems to me that there's an advantage to just putting things where they're where they are so that when we do the budget for the next year we have a better idea
of sort of where our costs are and we can look at it and say well is that an anomaly or is that something we need to budget for going forward right because when we have to go in and defend this budget they ask you why is this line $16,000
when it's only 10. So next year if we put in 10, they'll be like, well, you spent 16 last year. Why is it only 10 this year? And I have to go like, I don't know. So yeah. So it being where it should be is obviously the better option, but
sometimes it does get a little tricky because it can fit in more than one place. Right. So, I mean, correct me if I'm wrong because I'm I'm still new to this, but when you say groundskeeping supplies,
uh I think fertilizer. I think I think I think Yeah, I think of stone dust. And I didn't know what was in there. Yeah. So, I wouldn't It doesn't sound to me that those it pretty much any of those things
should go into the ground keeping supplies. I just didn't know if a if a bill got popped into that one by mistake, you know, and that's it doesn't appear to be. No, I don't think so. No, it's rather extraordinary items this year. Just came up and we have the money
to cover them overall, right? Yeah. It doesn't look pretty, but it's what it is. Anything else in the budget? It looks pretty good. I'm feeling pretty confident since we only have 39 days
left in this budget. Yeah. Well, wages are way down. Yeah. So, Ryan helped because unfortunately he got hurt so he was out on disability so we didn't his wages came from somewhere else and um
Bob Beach didn't work much over the winter. Nope. So, do we have an update about these other like surpluses that we have projects for on the um is this money or something? Sorry. On the back
page water, the front page on Commissioner Field. Yep. So, have you contacted I've reached out to him twice. I've sent him a text message and I haven't heard back. I've heard back. So, yeah. So, that's when does soccer stop playing? The end of
June. But the sprinklers aren't on. So if they want to keep their water, although I guess we don't have to really worry about that, right? But I I'll call them again tomorrow. And then skate park improvements is $6,000 left in that budget. Um commissioner's field. So
question, do we have 6,000 earmark for anything? Well, it has to go skate park. I understand that. But no. Well, what about the bench that you you just replaced? Was it a Was it a skate park? Oh, I thought I thought I thought you said it was I thought I heard
skatepark. Carrie asked if it was skate park. No, remember when the Right. Right. So, we never we never get anything for that. Nope. I'm going to ask and see if it does like a statute of limitations. So, when does
this money go away? This money go away. It doesn't go away. it well commission's field water and electric will go away next December because ARPA funds have to be used by
then but hopefully we'll have that done this summer. Skate park skate park was a um different that came out of our retained earnings that went into the skate park thing at town meeting two years ago. So we just have it till we
Yep. It just rolls over. Okay. the commissioners commissioners field ARPA that also gets taken away. It says $1,300 that we have left. Is that true that we have that $1,300 left? Um I thought Mike had said no, we didn't
have that much. I thought you said it was Oh, I know you said that, but I think that's correct. I'd have to double check and I'm pretty sure. Okay. And then the fiscal year 2023 articles, it was 28,000 that we had put aside to do a shed and then the shed
money came from somewhere else. So we got that 28. No, it was supposed to go for the tennis courts, but then we used ARPA money for the tennis courts. So that just keeps rolling. We repurposed it and used it for everything for the shed, the electric, and and a
lot of the things that we needed over there. Yep. the shower and the raft. There was a lot of things. Yep. That we spent that on. Yep. So, the $103 probably isn't going to pay for a tankless water heater, but So,
nowhere near $6,000. We can put under repairs or maintenance. Now that the cameras are done, we talked about having some signs made that just said like I I have them. I went into a store and they're like this big and they're yellow and they have the picture of the camera and they say the same
thing. I just put them in the shed the other day and they were on clearance for $2.50. Perfect. Great. So, I bought four of them. Okay, perfect. Okay. Anything else on the budget? Perfect. No, I just wanted to
uh talk about and it's it's not a big deal, but I just want people to understand why like in the like you got seasons passes and and and gate fees and things like that that are showing negative, right? But they're they're heavy in the first two weeks which are
in this fiscal year, right? Especially the passes. Yeah. So hopefully June 1st we'll have or even by next week we'll have the passes available online. So that'll start right. That'll start trickling in. Y and that'll that'll make that negative
probably come flush. Let's hope it come let's hope it goes positive. Yeah. Yeah. I think season passes will. I don't think gate fees will. No I don't think I don't think that 3900 will make will will come. But that's all right if we get close season passes thousand of cover it. Just
pray for good weather. Yeah, I was going to say I used all that praying for a good weather for Lakeville day and it worked, right? So, it was pretty good day. But, um, yeah. So, I'm probably out. All right. Proposable proposal for online field court reservation system.
All you Peter. Okay. This is something I mentioned in an email and basically uh I just want to put it out there and I can drop it and not pursue it any further but if you're interested I can pursue it
and it's the idea of uh right now all all the the courts particularly tennis and I'm thinking particularly tennis and pickle ball are just open to the public first come first serve and the idea was that if you had a
a system where for a small fee people could uh reserve a slot and and that would uh allow them to come knowing that they have a slot reserved and and they
can uh and they and that they'll have the court if anyone else is there. they can show them their reservation and say we have this and uh put a sign out front and you know saying that you have a reservation system and if you want to reserve it um this is how
you do it and and please yield to anyone who's reserved and the idea the thought is uh there uh it probably wouldn't be a big money maker but it might bring in a little bit of extra income since we're
looking for income and it would also be a convenience for for people who who want to be able to know that they're able to come to the courts at a particular time and know that there'll be a place for them to play.
Two questions and so yeah, go ahead. I'm sorry. No, you you you Yeah. Basic. So, just to say I' I've done a little bit of research and I don't want to pursue it a whole lot further, but uh there is a uh I found a an online system where people
could we could set it up so they have with the the particular locations and dates available and then people could use that to to do their reservations. it uh it would cost us to to
$9 a month for that particular um system and it takes their payment through that system. It does not. Uh the other what they would um again this is what I think the way it would have to work cuz in order to to to get a system which where
you could actually take the payments through it first of all it's really difficult to do it when you're talking about town accounts to get to do yeah it just pretty much unworkable unless the town were to purchase some large system to do it in.
Uh so but but what we could do is is there and I'm pretty sure I could set this up but I have to pursue it with Erica uh at the our treasurer. But we could uh people could purchase basically
credits online and then those credits we would we would put into the system and and then people could use those credits to to purchase or you know a slot. So that would be the mechanism. So
it basically end up costing us about $9 a month to do it. There's also a that's for the first tier on the program, you know, but if you end up on the second tier, that means you're making money and you can afford at least
another $9 a month. So anyway, so that's the the basic scheme. And as I said, um if you want me to pursue it further, I will. But if if you if it's an idea you don't like, then I'll just drop it. Well, my first question was number one,
the cost. what our cost would be and it seems pretty pretty manageable pretty pretty pretty small. Um the second thing is if there's any if we do do payments online remember the town does
not pay the credit card charges. They're all paid by the person using the credit card. And I hear that more times and I go it's a municipality and I don't mean just Lakeville. I'm talking any municipality. Why am I paying $2.50 to
charge my thing with the town? I It's a municipality. They don't pay those fees. You do, you know, and it's all towns. It's all towns that do it. So, I mean, for for, you know, a $5 payment to be paying 250, right? You know, or whatever. I I don't know what what the
what the cost would be. I'm just Yeah. Well, well, if you did if you did it $5, that that's one thing, but but what they would be purchasing is a bigger is credit. In other words, they could they could they could do a $100 and and that would that would allow them, right? I don't know if anybody's going to do $100
unless they're it's like the pickle ball league buy $100 worth of credit $50 or whatever, you know, that way they they've purchased enough to, you know, for 10 hours that Right. Yeah. But I mean, I know there's people that that like playing, you know, tennis every Saturday morning, you know, they want to
come down here and play from 8 to 10 or whatever. Oh, yeah. We totally would have done it, you know. I mean, I know you guys did. I know you and your family came down and played tennis. We There were times we drove from here to Aanuit, then ended up in Middlear, and some days we didn't even get to play. So, we totally would have done it. Yeah.
Yeah. You know, I mean Yeah. I mean, or or even Yeah. I mean, if the fees become a an issue, I mean, we could even, I don't know, have a lock box and have them leave us money and but then that's then
you got to That's work trust people. That's a lot of work. Yep. Well, we could do that actually. you could um uh you know if again that if if people wanted to
mail a check to the parks commission for $25 and then and we would just give them you know credit the credits instead of rather than go online so it might be something I mean especially what you're saying you know
um it could be cumbersome because the town doesn't have anything like that that maybe we have to do something like that to start and see what that if it doesn't work then we stop it right we're finding that it's not working you know I I don't know I I don't know what
the answer is I'm just trying to um think of some way well in principle I guess the question is in principle if you I mean the the one of the thoughts is it's it's public open to first come first serve and we just leave it that
way and if that's what you wanted to do fine But if you wanted, I can I can I can look into this a little bit more carefully and see exactly what the logistics would be and then come back uh you know the next meeting or so and figure out
I think we'd have to figure out the logistics a little more cuz it's a lot of honor system right like where telling people oh you're buying this time but then if they show up and someone's on the court and like refuses
to leave. They didn't get what they thought they were getting. Right. And you're always going to have those people who are like, "No way. I was here. This is I'm using the court." Right. Cuz it's always been that way, right? Yeah. That's the hard thing, right? Like
training changing changing midstream and right getting people to buy into that. Like unless we like big picture wanted to like gate off one court or something and only like go down and unlock it when someone has a reserve time do that.
Yeah. You know and the other side of it is I mean you know if if somebody comes strolling in and they see nobody on the court who's to stop them from going to play right without paying. Right. Right. Well, that's that's fine, but there's no reservation. Right. Right. Right. And
that just the only risk they have there is that if someone else comes who has a reservation says they have Yeah. But if you put if you put if you put some some good signage up and say, "Listen, you must yield to whoever has a
reservation." And again, someone might grumble about it, but Right. Anyway, I think you can look into it if you like if you don't mind. If you don't mind.
Okay. Okay. Okay. Do it a little bit more. Let's see. All right. Leaison updates. Anybody have a liaison update? I have one for um John Pond. Okay. on um just
play combine John P and uh Clear Bront um June 12th uh 6:00 p.m. probably till 8:00 p.m. It's the softball league's end of season party awards ceremony. So, um, the
league will be there with, you know, handing out trophies, doing a little speech, music, and then they have like bouncy houses and stuff like that. But just that's the date they picked. So, just so you know, what time? 6:16.
Probably definitely over by 8. Is there anybody playing? The women aren't playing yet, I think. So, not yet, right? And the other one shouldn't be playing cuz they're not supposed to be on there till July. It should be good. Were you inviting us or just telling us? Uh, well, now we
can't. None of us could go cuz we have a meeting. We have a meeting. The 12th? You said the 12th? Yeah. Oh, yeah. They did want me to invite you guys, but Well, maybe we can make it a super fast meeting. Yeah, we can have a meeting at Jump on. We could have a
meeting at Jump on by. We could at the picnic table. So, that's what day? The 12th. the job started. So, um, basically softball's got it reserved. Anyway, I just didn't want there to be accomplished. That's all. So, you know, I want to be some of the cars come
rolling in. Oh, we got the field at 8:00. Yeah. You know. Yep. Thank you. Yep. And I um I touched base on Lon Pond Lodge. Um, the roof should be done, roofs should be done in the next four to
five weeks. I haven't signed the contract yet, but it came in yesterday. So, we should be good there. Clear pond. Obviously, we're still staffing. I'm sure I have another thing. I just can't think of it. Sorry, I have
one other thing on John Pond, too. Um, so they I don't know if you've driven by, but they made some headway on the shed. So they're super appreciative for the dumpster that got off for the Yep. So they filled that up with the debris. Um, yeah. And it was really fast when it
showed up. Who ran for softball did it? They did the work, but we gave them the container, right? We didn't. I didn't. Oh, we authorized up to $500. So maybe they'll
So, yeah. Okay. But hey, I'm glad we could help. Yeah. All right. Anything else? New business? No new business, Peter? Uh, not that I'm aware of. Did we need to talk about that Christmas thing
email? Parade email that you sent. She's going to send us a meeting invite when she gets around to it and then we'll deal with that. Do you have you heard about that? Um so the same people who did the snowmen thing
last year. They want to do a Christmas event this winter and um they've already been to the select board. Um they've already had a meeting in March, February. I think it was February because the next one's supposed to be March and they just
haven't had another one. Um, they want to do, you know, Santa goes around on the fire truck. They want to turn it into a whole parade. Um, they want to come here and have a bonfire. Um, I think they're piggybacking off of all
that glitters. I'm not positive on that. Um, but they they've got everybody involved. So, great. Love to see stuff done at the park. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, especially when it doesn't cost us anything.
I hope they can pull it off. Yeah. So, Carrie and I asked to for an in when they start talking about it more. So, that's it. Nothing else. All right. Our next meeting is June 12th. Peter will not be here.
Okay. But he's coming back, so it's all right. All right. We can nominate Andrew to take notes. Um, do that while he's not here. Yeah. Yeah. We'll ask if he has any objection. Um, motion to adjurnn.
Motion to adjurnn at whatever time it is. 7:32. 7:32. Okay. All I meeting is closed at 7:32 p.m.