[Music] So, thanks everybody for for me tonight. This has been a long time coming. I think the board uh just over a year now we applied for uh the funding for
recreational mass. We've taken a snip. We've hired timeless and we're gonna over the time the plan hopefully the end of the year.
I am going to do I'm going to go All right. So, my name's Ryan Morrison. Uh, with me today is Alison, my mom. Um, we're uh excited to have the opportunity to help
the community planning opportunity. um doesn't mention today. What we're trying to do is just hang out in the community, what we're trying to accomplish as part of this process, kind of let you look at what our uh process looks like and get some feedback from the community. Maybe
there's some things we haven't talked about that we want to look at. Um or maybe there's some things we thought we were going to look at and we don't need to look at. So, we just want to get some feedback from everybody introducing the process. Um, this process will be iterative and it will depend a lot on community feedback. So, you'll hear me
say a couple times during this presentation. You know, we'll be reaching out to folks um this process to get like, you know, no one knows these facilities and fields better than you used to. Like, I can't come in here and know how you use them without your
input. So, you guys will be uh and helping this master be doing something useful for the community. And so uh well the princesses just one other quick thing is um just curious there was a lot of moment
here is is that even if you would not if you represent a youth demon this is a made a new one. This involves learning. So, just to let you guys know a little
bit about a little bit about Bond, we're a multi-disiplinary firm throughout the Northeast. We ran all the way from New York to New Hampshire. Um, we have a group that does specialize in athletic field and recognition projects. some of those key people on this project team.
Um you'll see a lot of himself as part of this group. We also have Dave Amari, Karen Rooney, Andrew Hovie, and Katie Weaver. Uh that will help us implement this project. For example, Sharon Rooney is a principal planner with our group. We
send comprehensive plans and master planning efforts throughout the northeast. uh a uh technical perspective. So I will address some of the community and development pieces when we go to survey the community uh when we go to support by doing another meeting at some point
where we'll have statements to government some uh feedback on our last design. She's going to put together some conceptual plans candy behind it once we decide what we want to do so that we can help sell this
plastic thing. Um I'm going to take a lever. One of the things we'll do uh on this project is we'll GIS map all of your nursing facilities GIS map show you an example of that later community has for uh different
facilities each part uh is there walkways is there buildings is there fields and then we'll go confirm in the field that these facilities are kind of the first time rethink the town recreational
master plan is and you know again that's a little review for you know we know rethink the town recreation master plan is maybe there's other elements here that the community wants to understand where we are in that process in the process um just having a kickoff meeting
about a month ago and then kicking it off in the public now um looking at community engagement opportunities and then scheduling that steps So the the master plan the idea behind the master plan is one I think it's a dynamic needs along the way but we're trying to do is
provide a road map for the future of build for how they can improve the recreational facilities sometimes these these recreational improvements that are needed for communities communities we better understand you just need a land you need for example if we need
more baseball fields you know we can expand and baseball field is done from software and so it needs to be done in a multiase approach. So the point behind a master plan is to understand your facilities come up with what you need to do to improve those facilities to meet the community's needs and then come up
with a phased approach that's reasonable for each community. Um another thing is community relation right so when we get some feedback from the community one of the things we keep are sports if it's increasing in volume
do we think there's a not being um noise sport so understanding some of those community also but to your if anybody wants questions
during that filming me and do you want me to go through this question for the exam um the master plan will develop into key phases here facilities assessment report
facility assessment report will go to each one of these facilities I personally will stop in at these facilities ities. I'll look at each one of the fields uh to make sure they're meeting requirements for clarity. Is there requirements? Is the fencing in good shape? Are the dugouts accessible?
Things of that nature. We'll look through, you know, traffic is not being to the point where no longer be or does it have to be replaced? Um what type of material is for? What's the surface for the club? Why is the netting associated with it in good standing or at the end
of its useful lifespan? Will living things like basketball courts? Do the hoops meet safety concerns? Is there guiding or there somebody could get injured? We look at setbacks for fun if it's being provided on um one of the things I did is does the
drainage. Another one that usually comes with and some reporting from the community because we can't see the field and all the different conditions. So we scan the community and just feel safe for a long time doesn't really um
you know usage you know the cake matters and where we learn matters but we'll only be viewing them in the sun. So look maybe a football calendar with a center logo worn out Santos. So we want to understand how that throughout the year
strategies may be looking to keep those fields like for the time being. So if we do our graph facility report um we'll analyze and capacity utilization. um just preliminary recommendations for
improving how we expanding system. I think some of these things we'll we'll have to determine as we get into this process when time is to engage the public as we work through this. Uh once we do get some feedback about improvement strategy, we'll put together
a report kind of strategies and improvements. Um and we'll provide this which will go to the board first and then to the public for review. After the job is reviewed in the public um we'll get feedback
and then between timeline. Um so right now we're currently in the resource and discovery process. Um, currently we've uh uploaded a bunch of previous recreational plans and and operating plans out manage that
stuff. So, we're reviewing what some of the previous plans had in them, make sure we're not stepping on an old plan or incorporating something from that plan. We're also going to schedule our field assessments in the upcoming month uh couple of weeks probably at this point. Um,
the facilities with past staff and assignment staff. Um the next month basically from now until probably September um in September and throughout the season we'll start engaging the community on what our communities want
because I think community engagement is going to have multiple groups to it. We're going to engage the uh youth flags uh on a one-on-one basis, allow um community engagement in a public disc
for another meeting. Um so we can engage piece, we'll wrap up our analysis of all the conditions. Um we'll be probably October November time frame
time frame recommendations for today. One of the feels I had kind of the board about this is the stand up in December in December
is that if we're looking for a fee, we may want to give this thing a little bit more time. So we went down this way since we this is so 189 where it doesn't like specific details
to be way early years that only I always think of as more like taxing appropriation and then this nonwide uh
Mexico plan combines a little bit of the passive you know this won't necessarily focus on like that specific So counted in the communities like a lot of communities previously
they built someone donated the land for a lot of years became aged out and at the same time that a none of them got donated. So they've kind of like bandated on the Brooks and then it becomes a timeline. Um I hope we covered all of this already
but our research discovery uh off today is one is through a town. Um and then we'll start our site visits uh to the facilities late in August. Um some one of the things we want to do is identify any key that literally may not
have a bird coming up. So if there's someone here that you know, hey, I wasn't asked to be part of the plan or hey, we've got these filite um goals or objectives and then we'll just find
what's in there [Music] um documentation and data collection um review mapping, look at mechanic documents, anything regarding the parks that have previously been put together. We already talked about US improvements on parks. We want to understand what
improvements may be coming down the road so that if you make for a week, we don't want to suggest a field that's moved. If you just so um set off for maintenance, operations, and programming, this is an important
kind of thing for us. Um, maintenance is one of those things where, you know, even if you had a brand new field, if you if you can't maintain it just because of some labels or whatever, really tough to clean up for a long period of time. And if the fields look
really nice, but you're not in person, the fields look really nice, the written screw is putting a lot of effort into it, you know, it may need to be relaying it. One of the examples I was used for this was a community I won't name
football field south and far from there and they were slotting it a year during their football season just so that they could keep the football field on it. Um, and they were doing them every year, twice a year. And so, like, you know, every time I spent the field, home was
50, $60 million. And so, for that little infinite guess, the field looks really good. Um, but that's reasonable level. Um so we want to understand you know so that the community doesn't
to maintain it we have small animals that housing population trends is the community growing is the community aging what might that mean for recreational you know facilities something that's going to take off something that's going
results, right? We want to understand where things are going and one way or all the other ways that question is the relationship between the task even though they do stuff.
viewing it. So I think so when you know academy we have some of these institutions that we do have access to. We want we want to at least
with this plan because we know more with what we do. videos from us very it's also kind of important to know where they may be going with their facilities, right? like they may have a plan if there's a if there's a sport or baseball field we're using.
Hey, you're like, oh, I didn't know that. Now I need a person need to understand what the planning looks like and then you said you guys can plan make sure you're doing all the services. Um, we'll do recreational some of the
things I talked about. We're going to do one-on-one meetings with recreational groups of minority stakeholders stakeholders. Um, in those one-on-one meet one meetings, we're going to want to discuss the experiences each one of those groups are having, challenges they
may have. Um, typical things that come up in this time of just, you know, what are we having a problem with struggling, you know, you may have three baseball teams that need uh a field space on Tuesday and you only have one field
available to you because one's for high school. And so we want to understand those relationships and it's really good when we get here, you know, we're around field spaces. We're only short on field spaces. Maybe sometimes a lot of rectangular are in the fall. So we're only short on field spaces in the fall.
That allows us to kind of understand when we overlap baseball use so that in the fall you have flexibility for the rectangular use and in summer you can use. not seeing that applies to me. Just trying to like give you some examples of what we're planning to do. Um we want to
document usage times and constraints. Um I know that now has be able to get some data from schedule one field. um typically what we find is this one field
like starts on it and it's listed in an inventory but it's not really an inventory because simply you know starts falling over or we literally have the middle of a field I can't play there
anymore rather than down here we won't understand you know are on the field being used and if you're really pieces in fields. Um when something feel space
that's doing some GIS data like we do this in two different ways. one reaching the part uh with each one of those pumps there. Other thing we'll want to identify when we map each one of the strings use this
may already be in facilities at those space and in doing so we'll want to look for environment or fl that may cause a restricted strong facility is if the land's not developed is probably some reason um but
every once in a while we we say oh my god this place to explain facilities um and we'll do a we'll just works within the community. person the community um when we do have
we want to make sure that you know what I'm making that's an example of wanted a place to map their facilities a little bit from here. But what we're doing in this one particular map is what map is each
one of those. One of the things we're going to identify by able not being able previously aligned was we could talk to them about how they can reorient these fields so that they can serve different. Another thing they were struggling with
is where within the community. So, you know, some people out certain areas and rather than leaving fields in a certain place, we're able to talk to them about, you know, how you rotate your fields once a month or once every two months so that you don't wear those same areas
where questions of those in addition to Um phase two is community engagement. Um we'll talk about uh two inerson meetings and one virtual community meeting. Um
like I said we'll talk about what those look like and we're going to announce those meetings on the professional page. We'll um we'll try to get some community feedback from those meetings as possible. So we'd like to you know with our permissions some approvals meeting
should be after we kind of have some thoughts about what are those improvements are push to you guys if you guys are on board the community in and be able to get some sweet tail those improvements before we start doing any design or anything like that.
you bring with the talent of uh my good sites being come up with on that on that website. Another part of our community engagement is we're going to do a survey one two three survey to the community. Um, we're
going to work on providing a bunch of uh, notes, but say 10 to 15 questions that we think come straight up once within the community. I'm sure we've been able to talk to a few folks help understand what the community's needs may be and it may be a question about
lighting or maybe a question about phase or maybe a question about maintenance. series of you see some of these ask you guys today realize you guys don't really that's kind of hard to you can fall down
so that you guys can tell us in detail what's like or what you're struggling with a map for you be able to see where things are happening um and uh be able to give us a feedback on your cell phone
user friendly since I miss anything about the first survey 123 that we want to our analysis is kind of summarizing all the existing conditions after we survey feedback to the one conversations we've had to give community feedback. Um we'll
we'll talk about facility evaluation. Um what I'm telling you right now that is kind of a summary score for facility. Um the main key items we're going to be looking at here are what are the environmental constraints. What are the geometry constraints from uh you know
each individual athletic facility maybe court that may be uh multicular field that may be a baseball or softball field. Um what is general site accessibility? Do I have parking spots? Is there enough parking for that particular facility? Are there pathways to get me from the parking to the
athletic facility? Um is there any safety concerns I see? Is there any drop offs close to the facility? What does this equipment look like since the family outward? Does it look like kids have been building up for 40 years and they
didn't? Um, you know, facility what are the dugout situation look like? Um, we'll make our spacious. Is there provided? Do I see any drainage facilities in there? just look
we can understand I have someone raising my hand online do you want to unmute yourself Lisa, you're muted if you can hear us. The only thing I can do is turn the mic on on my laptop.
We don't want Let's see how this um can hear me. Yeah. Can I just start? Sorry for those of you who may not be able to hear us before. Hopefully, you can hear us now and we'll continue uh
with the presentation. big door is our midnight process talking about what are what are improvements that we want to make to facilities. Um and kind of using analytics to help us with that. Um in the upper right hand
corner we uh analyzed what about available hours of field may be available versus how much it was used and it was able to help us come in the case of this particular community that they were using basically every available except in field and this was
one of those communities that the field wasn't being used wasn't being used because the field wasn't um and so uh you may notice that some of those available times um don't make you know not will have the
same available usage depending on how it's built but it's constructive and determined facility can be played on every night and I was thinking good shape or hey that facilities you know built with a little less improvements I said you shouldn't play on it every night because it just can't keep up another thing that
can affect a field or field play ability is whether it has links um you can a little bit because field you could play on all night is probably not a field that's going to survive the spring and summer. Um you're probably going to wear them.
So um a lot of times we needed and then we'll you know make sure we evaluate you know maps of uses versus available we'll kind of come up with where field is available and I know this sounds really field heavy it won't be a
field heavy it's just in the process of analyzing you may need fields it's going to be the most sensitive if it's there should you can lose sun up to sun down and it doesn't wear A lot of these supposed to be done on
the field. After we come up with conceptuals with some we'll work through some and we present that to the community and on board all of this folks that are going to be
right. So is there sense of who these specific stands are? There was also distance. So community and then specifics that I directly.
So in case I'm obviously all in on trying to do this uh for improvements and fixing up these fields um sometimes like what are we looking for
but the folks that are going to be in particular we're going to prioritize so we look at first weekend and u So to answer the initial question, we we have identified some parish groups that
we want to communication from for users just because they're a significant user of the athletic fields like community is a stakeholder. So we don't anybody from the community shouldn't be considered a stakeholder. Anybody who may use the recreation facilities we want to hear
from and so those stakeholders, you know, not have like outreach in those public meetings. So anyone who works survey 123 is a valuable state understand what the community needs around if you think you know
some specific groups we want community just so that we can also go straight to whoever um feel so let's folks playing sports
and not fully as interested they want more right they want not trained Um so right I fully understand that non
so want to make sure that when you talk about what is a community most response but the recall is that you know we're graduates for this master plan so we let the community help us decide what's the priority
response. Yeah. Response level. So maybe survey definitely seeing residents that say they want to walk to the trail to do that. I'm just throwing out to there's a lot of people that are reaching to us about that. And if we get
one person who says I want a bunch and they come to the commission and say guys we got a response on a bunch here. Does that make sense to you or does that make sense to you? So um hopefully there's some errors that will help you know there may be there may be some we may
say you know it's not on the design building anything off this yet so we may say one A is to build this B is to do this like you know said well We really want to put we really want
that's a big idea. Where are we going to put it? So that's we want we want to go through CBC and we've we've made a plan for that and we've looked at so
long in in this plan. So this is something here you know coordinate all back to like you will have individual like
what we want to do is identify and really have like a huge order process. We want to get water too. This is think of conversation. been doing with these sports groups. We
think we both collective agreement on a number of things but ultimately collective disagreement on a number of things and losing some selfish motivations and I think there should be and I would like to advocate for the idea that we use sports groups with your represent single representation representation
could be gather sectively there would be one person having different conversations each individual group I think that would really all the sports organizations understand individual conversations So I thought that was
what I what I will say is so we interview that's why I had answer I think the question you need to have tend to be selective group sports coach. I don't see why that's a a yes or no
think what often happens is individual in this town to say because I think because there's only so much feels like what I found in the past when we've done these numbers and trying to make the
best pieces of all of them every time I do it. When you combine these sort of groups in one room like individual examples of something that happened in the past rather than like why do we only if the board decided they wanted to do
something like that individual sessions recently I said I just want to go on the record that this was requested by multiple presidents it is still going to continue to be requested by multiplying in the past. way we can uh from my too even like
I have a lot of people on their own. So I think we need to have individual speak. So um have our control improvement plan
facilities uh we'll do community benchmark and see opportunities locally to us have for you know not kind of skew with what other communities are doing. We'll discuss strategy. This strategy will come kind of loosely. They're kind
of more one and two and then talking about what three, four, and five might be in the future when you're looking at some of these. So maybe you see a fun
um high levels of um obviously to the community. the youth groups have all said yes I I like this plan again moving forward uh that being some some visuals for the
uh visuals for this techn class. Uh if there were site visits, we'll be working with things that our stakeholders are. Then we're going to do our one-on-one
interviews. Um we'll be up our uh survey. Um we're going to consist in doing some interview. we'll be working on this. This um this next slide is is just some questions we wanted to get our minds
thinking on. Um we're going to pull back to the room to kind of get some feedback from anybody to everybody. I don't know if you're all able to read that or not, but um you know, while we're in this room and we have the public here, what fields do your families use most often?
as many field when the fields feel too both for the passive and the active. You know, is there times where the PB team doesn't have a facility to play on or is there a time where there's passive recreation, somebody wants to just go a walk and there's it feels too hard to do. So, um what improvements would make
you feel make your experience better at the parks? How there's sports or activities that you don't have enough space for right now? How important is it to have lights in your fields? And what are their field locations do you think unused or uncovered?
So, you know, anybody in the in the community here has many of these that they want to voice an opinion on for that matter. Okay. Uh if they wanted to voice opinion on about the parks or the master process, we'd be it'd be great to get some feed.
Thank you. It's not a huge space may not be useful, but I often think the area behind the middle school is an underused area. I had a question about um the final recommendations. So, a lot of this is
infrastructure, fields, facilities. Will it also incorporate recommendations for our town leaders if there's resources that you see that we're constantly following best practice or we don't have enough staff um mainten I know you
mentioned maintenance a little bit on maintenance we're probably not going to do like analysis of um we had intend on doing an staff and levels um you know there can be something that's discussed along the way and you know we Maybe that's if you
have one staff member and you have 37 maybe that's not we'll get to see that we a little bit further and evaluates levels we we have on that um many of the fields don't have u
restrooms or water service would that be part of the study in terms of like certainly going to identify the ones that don't we'll leave that up to the community even that is So that um you know facilities meet those needs and so we'll certainly probably
do you just take it out reasons. That's the main field. Was it filter or should be something for whatever reason we need
opportunities for kids whose mom um Dy's families Right. I mean I haven't spent so many incomes you know paying to this immediately
I think there is plans to to CPC application right with with also Anderson. One of the things I think you you probably missed was we talked about we're going to map ultimately as a whole and understand where the groups are. Maybe what I'm hearing is we should kind
of subset that with like do we have inventory in all the corners like I think probably there was a list today, but the list that we gave
was like, "Hey, here's Here's the inventory of everything that we're looking at. So we doing we did you know pretty pretty extensive where we include the school we include like 50 and such as um three little bits of
facilities facilities we're talking about and so we really only know like what six or seven months but there's pockets. Is there any distinction between fields and school fields
and stuff like [Music] that for a lot of players? said they've been good to a lot of police. Why are we doing stuff over
making that clearing notation? I think we're further away facing you know for the school facilities. I know
and elementary school is talking about having playground but I don't know what so what I will say is playgrounds not like for schools that are small like Tucker aren't necessarily
that that's not one of 14 pieces on this someone said to point Pearson's there space right So once I identified one high school basically clearly because we we use that time
what I will say though is like the CPC has funded you know we funded Cunningham um we funded uh lumber and I know so we are doing a loop there you know
specific uh school playgrounds specific Medic on the list field middle school high school flight fields pond fields park academy college 32
field access site Neon we should design whatever we think was just a playground. So it's it's a small elementary space very
was like 40,000 was it 40,000 and then we that's not enough to get it wasn't enough to remedy you $4,000 and then it's for like a year looking
ways to improve. I also believe you'll see needs one. Another one we're missing. Is there another facility we haven't thought about? We're actually remove 32. That's a that's first of all not in Milton and
it's an agreement to the organization. Um and it's just verbal agreement. It's not something that we have in writing or it's not appropriate though because it's Thank you to get away. Yeah, I haven't season
maybe one of those shows what remains. Yeah. And they won't do it. affect what we consider the granite fields in
which we still only two days a week um getting back weekly in terms of the something I said in some field we're
going to study it just like there's an inventory because you probably don't have the space we had a field use it like two years ago and it was it was my life but we didn't use it we didn't use it
right I imagine when you do the oneonone meetings you're going to ask the youth organizations what do they use identify I don't need any universe included
couple things questions I have I guess there's that what is effectively a dog park I think it's closer memorial effectively a between field and that unused parking lot that you told I think that should be included there
other fields like that on street Yeah. [Music] Universe question I have as plague hands that those are out of the scope of this but
really it's because elementary schools I think we do playground and the whole
area and was built outside and so I don't see that as a as a huge need for the community because we have you know for example it's a pretty big underutilized space to be a basketball court or two you know just throwing that
out there because I know people raised it there's a lot space there. I don't know. Interesting to see it on the west. Well, and to be honest, the like legally part we just passed and had a meeting
anyways and that would be we we could um park there's that field. So like what Eko was saying about not like huge field and also shield spark like
sorry triangle. She'll change that. We didn't miss any history. I don't think so. Maybe we missed one yesterday. Just let's get out there. We want to make some
spot. Okay. So part of your planning, do you look at each space and understand like I know the GIS piece of the mapping, but how about like legally the the land part of it? There's some disagreements,
agreements of different land ownership, but also like what you can do to like you know can you you know dig it up to use soding and you know sprinklers and all that or not. in those whether we not on the figure
itself for the site or whether we note it within the report you know we want to know like explanation there so anything we're going to do is probably most that way. So we fly through our interviews to our
business on those figures. I didn't know there's like we probably won't lay out like legal agreements by any stretch of the imagination. I want to try to simplify for the purposes of felt like
you know that the money study came from CPA money for this study think when they give us a recommendation in the spring um not breaking ground you know to the box
you know we just punch the witness just override. Um there's some low hanging fruit things that we can do immediately. They will do know some of that stuff. But you know automatically going to be you know
they cost a lot of money a lot probably 10 years but there's many ways that we can fund this. I think we need to get the editor to do this before we
really um I know that there's been a great job in social media you know plan to clean up the library and physical go as well you guys like
it's a good way we can do it to see so we can do it on space um do social media we get an um trying to of the survey outreach. If we're going to rely on the neighbors to hear it from
neighbors and that's the best way for word to spread is you know we want your we want to hear from every so as you want people so if you have someone
survey. We can remember from the study is that we'll be able to come to sleep. So once we can throw this also be um
to um different opinions about what groups are. We did not plan on reaching out to voters and I have not in the past because multiple years. So without that kind of context I think
um when you have anything like that information I think it's extremely helpful in a few or you know to use as an example since many of us know that you know was the old
grand be walking by the ditch. I know who's inviting people with you know that unless you get butter through them every single day. also we're gonna have to
so everybody who's in specifically in everybody's house you don't think this if you live field chances are you've had experience with it anyways many others don't folks who are good for the
students doing this for the field not experiencing So I'm going to hold down and I really suggest that please please please entertain people's questions because one has that ability I'm happy to do that you know one two of
us and let us go and do that because this you know so we may not want you know like be an issue for a lot of folks Please highly do that. And when when we
met with sign we were doing that was and how they can really make a good product and so they very aware the best way to approach that and we'll come up with with a way to uh I think
electronically we can we My eyes. What do you expect? various reiterate that I really like to know that you have a clear plan for outreach beyond schools teams because you had said earlier in the presentation you
have eight people saying one thing and only one person says number just that weight is just kind of the accident with who's responding and so putting some effort into the
outreach plan how you get the survey the news of the survey and beyond I mean absolutely I mean it's a field heavy thing and the sports teams are super important for this and for the kids there are a lot of other parties and I
think it's going to take you know, what's your plan for how you're going to reach into the associations, getting activated a butters to go around um making sure maybe you stuck by the COA or something like that. I think it's going to be
really there's a danger I mean it's being presented to the entire question. the terror mechanism from capturing uses of the fields
about kids off leash all the time digging holes just way that that's going to be captured questions or uh really specific
sometimes independent numbers like you know there may be a general concept in our survey things like that historical knowledge can come out and it'll be you can make it paragraphs long write photos if you
have photos and stuff to that effect but um we'll want to have we'll want to get that feedback on whether there's going to be fields I think I think we recommend you know one we can say You might get some signs up to say, you know, no dogs onions.
Some communities dogs on the farm or the person says people are using maybe the community Kevin correct me if I'm wrong but the parks department is pretty aware of what
fields experience enforcement of feels about it. I'm sure people science are good feedback that's on it. This isn't
this isn't so sports focused. So it needs to be from the community and so we'll do there's a lot of people in this room and it's not fully open as many people.
One of your questions was around lights and you know using lights as we're going to extend our fields and our spaces, courts, trails and everything much longer. Um how early the sunset much of the year. So I think that would be a
great question for the survey for our voters and our community members. I'm a newer community, but I run the MIT Athletic Center and we that we run programs till 11 p.m. to be able to, you know, allow all of our sports teams to
activate. So, I think it'd be a good question to know if that's important to the community, but also, you know, incorporate the letters theme on having lights in there. Sure. The only way that I know is really the
high school has lights now. You can imagine this feels kind of secluded. You put that in Andrew's or 11 or that might not be too
said maybe put it in the survey. So we think but also would impact everybody's quality of life. And we do use it. You use it? Yeah. It's for
the storage as well. It's storage. They can put in stores. We know we need a finite amount of running. We we don't we're over programmed that
all our programs are going to finefield we're going to Boston wherever so what can we do currently only owns has really nice wheel. But if they b your skull, the leg gets fulfilled
which is really kind of because it's or another one um not necessarily tied to fields but any student study like auxiliary uses at these fields. thinking like um dark pavilions for you know
people to gather and team have a after sports inventory I make basic notes about it doesn't look like it's falling apart unless you rot there
falling off the general um things about it we don't make very specific recommendations um like I recommend like this could use this type of facility. something usually will come out of a we wouldn't recommend that unless we're
doing like we're working on rebuild number is a really good field space and but it's oriented all wrong it should never been built this way everything's super old saying is one of those example let's let's rebuild the whole
thing and then when we reimag certainly we would look at doesn't need pavilion but if we look at baseball fields and we can baseball teams and they don't need pavilion community doesn't have recommend we can't spend less amounts of dollars.
Um, now that being said, just because it's not in the master plan doesn't mean that when it gets to the next funding stage, you master plan is not we're locked in stone. We can't do anything about what's in this plan. to give this kind of general idea of what the road map looks like at when the time
goes to funding the funding's about we can focus on one two three like little little tiny bits but at least we'll break it up immediately here's
just a couple things. Don't want to make people fear full of athletic lighting. Maybe 11:00 industry has come a really long way. They can do it even with light spill. Um pre-program lighting fixture to shut off.
So if the county says that light fixture shuts off at 9 and fields are done, then the light fixture shuts off at night. But it can extend our field from 5:00 at night to 9:00. So if the community and the environers concerned that this thing's going to be playing all night and we need to advocate for acceptable
features with light. Um another comment that I made that was made earlier was just want to be clear. We certainly won't play. We're not going to make safety assessment for each of these playgrounds. some really specific
stuff that people have understand if there was something that the community was concerned just to clarify. I wanted to obviously focus on the fields. Um, so you're not going to look at
a birth or it's like we're not going to it's like a walking along we always use too but I would always go back to the community and say one of our friends say you like whether it's in
Milton or we we go I always say Um the kids I would go and like crap there was soccer field they're uses once they have a time when you're supposed to do it anybody who's gone
but it not just sports it incorporates landscape it incorporates track and walking walking pieces on that so many it's completely United question about this last year and everything else. I
mean when you sort of do you follow them afterwards like as the plans are like how much of plans end up implementing usually how does that end up how much variation um
have a much greater um one of the examples I showed even earlier what we're talking about field usage versus the field availability with a town in New York. Um that community is now on its fifth phase of that master
plan. Um they continue to build out and there uh more land that wasn't previously part of our master plan. We're probably getting ready to revisit that one. Other communities will take a look at a master plan and they go, "Oh my goodness, that's so much funding that we didn't have a plan for. It's going to
sit in front of us. we've got to wait till some other long we made comes off and then we can we can wait the small stuff. So you know it's like instant give and take with community financing and what's available for funding um but
you communities tend to come with following up on them and the durability of the plans that you make and you can just sort of keep how much variability is there that gets done. I'm telling so hard to just Yeah. It's another question.
Does the road commission, you know, stay the same during, you know, if we have a fivey year or 10 year planning, hopefully all these folks are still with us, but maybe someone new comes on the board has different ideas on what we should do or, you know, there's a million ways which these plans can change. I like to say they have like five years before we should revisit
them. Uh because some things may change. I'm not saying you need to rewrite the whole master plan, but you may say your priorities the same today as they were five years ago. He doesn't know whether or not you know I give you an example from the CPC when
we been on the CPC planning. So if we can get processing planning and a really good community engagement building this effort to make recommendations on the main
feel. The answer we have the problem with is differently and we feel that our ability to support a lot of things that we may not get until the end of the study. So like when
I look at a field's ability to support a use, what what it would depend on is does it have proper irrigation? What's its constru made out of? Does it have painted? And also who's using it? Is it a high school user using it or is it a Pix using it with shoes on? Is it
football that's on it? You know, how does chewing up? Is it flooding with peace is another one for field. So, um, we try not to try not to ever say it's an exact science. We
try to give tools in the report that allow the folks that maintain the facilities what a field should look like and what it shouldn't look like so that when it does arise and it's getting overused, they can make the call to say, "Hey guys, we need to rotate this field. We need to shoot this one down for a little
bit. We just need a month to get it to come back." uh eating fields is not like uh you can't do the same thing every year. This year we're not from this area of rain every weekend and so fields are doing really well right now. Um in
another year it could rain it could not rain for six months and all these fields could look like deserts right now. And so it's not something you can say you know year in year out it's capable of severe summer uses. It's going to have to be as capable of this next
to all that. Any other questions? No one. No one. Oh, thank you guys for your participation. I didn't expect this big of a group or this act of a question.
So, this was great on our end to kind of get this initial feedback. we want to take this back and we'll process it and probably look into these guys and say, "Hey, what do you think about these couple of tweaks in our approach? Make sure we're we're serving you and doing the things you guys want." And then uh
we'll get started again and and certainly we'll be posting on the website what our you know after we complete our assessments and when next time we want to engage the public, we'll be reaching out to I think what whatever way we can make this outreach more we'll
we'll do it. I I think it's really important that everyone's feedback and those um it's all important. So we'll get to engagement as we can and the time to to to you know ways to do it.
If someone has an idea, should we reach out to the rep, you know? Yeah. So, how many is your email on that? So, you can you can reach out to any followup questions
emails or you can reach out to us as well. Yeah. I think any feedback on how residents think we can do the best job here especially online to get out to as many people
association. So whenever they we can get rich couple submitted by yeah I just I didn't really follow specific questions about circumments
um I think one was in regards to tennis courts and stuff like that about the field and then I think one about maybe an indoor facility and so delivered during the process Um we don't have access to any of those things right now but certainly we'll get
back to those facilities that they thought might be certainly we can review that summer night. [Music]