[Music] Oh, nice two people. We see Olivia come back >> hangs out with her a little bit, >> right?
>> Still on the call. [Music] >> Your daughter softball. >> She 12 now. She's we >> also have >> we did it. I did it.
>> Good. >> Good morning. >> Morning. Oh, >> here on your computer. >> No. >> Can you guys hear me? >> Let me just check the speaker here again.
[Music] >> Hello. Hello. We can hear you, but it's >> We can hear you. I think we have the same situation as last time with the audio setting. >> Oh, okay. >> So, but we can hear you, Alison. >> Okay, great.
>> Yeah. Turn it up a little here. >> Okay. So, you guys are on your laptop this time. >> Yeah. >> Yeah, I know. That's just him on that. >> No,
>> I don't think so. Do you think? >> Yeah, >> that's at 100. >> Yeah. >> How's this volume? >> All right. Okay. >> All right. You ready? like to call to
order the January 8, 2026 meeting of the park commissioners. I'm Rob Le said Carol member need to approve the meeting for 1225. I get a motion.
>> I make a motion to approve the meeting from December 4th. >> Second. Yes. Yes. >> Yes. >> All right. Um, is there anybody online that would like to um speak for public
comment? Any hands raised or just here to observe? >> Kathy or Bob? >> Just observing. Uh, just observing. >> Okay. Okay.
>> Thank you. Um, all right. So, Allison, you Allison and Ryan, we'll turn it over to you for the survey and the master plan update. >> Good time. >> Hi, guys. Sorry, I just hopped on Bob. I
don't know if maybe this was just a me problem, but that uh meeting link was not working from the uh notice you guys sent us yesterday. So, I had to end up signing in via the app and uh putting the meeting ID. Ally, does that work for you?
>> I have to enter it on on the web. Um >> so, you have to go the same way. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> I don't know if that >> meeting like I said I emailed you last night. Didn't work. >> Um Rob had sent us one at 1:15, which I
assumed was from the same >> It should have been the same. Yeah. And so, but when I click on that link, I can't I couldn't get to this meeting. It it wouldn't let me in. So, we had to go through the app and put in the meeting ID and the PIN passcode. And so, I just I know this is public and so I wanted to
make sure you guys knew that that was a technical difficulty that might be happening for others. >> No, it's good to know. >> Okay. >> Um, so I assume you guys got through the other portions. I know I'm late. Uh, got through the other portions and you were asking for an update, Rob. >> Yeah. Yeah.
>> Okay. So, the last time we met the board, we had reviewed a draft survey. We had gotten some final comments from the board and we had sent it for it to be published to the public. Um, in the process of publishing it to the public, we found that there was an issue with uh
its formatting on some of the mobile devices. Um, looked fine on a web-based design. If your mobile uh device was set for a uh desktop view, it looked okay. But when it was on the mobile view, the
matrices um became pretty difficult to work with and had a visual that we thought would cause issues with folks taking the survey and we didn't want to uh run the chance of not getting good results back. Um so we went back to the drawing board with Rob and we actually created a new
survey through a different app. Um the previous survey was done through survey 123 which is a EZRI program that uh works with GIS. Um we switched the survey over to survey 123. And now we find while it doesn't appear the same
from a desktop view to a mobile app um the visual for both desktop and mobile are much more userfriendly in this in this particular app for this uh particular survey. And so basically what what we've done is recreate the survey that we had previously had approved by the board um through survey 123 and
wanted to just quick take a look at it in survey monkey with you um so that we get final okay to get that published to the public. Um also Rob has asked me to kind of go through where we are schedule-wise. Um originally we had planned to have
this um master plan done somewhere along this time. Um after we had gotten into our initial investigation phase, we realized that it may may be more useful to kind of um slow down the master plan a little bit while we wait for some additional
information. And I think we talked at this last board meeting and so at some point we'll bring up a schedule and kind of walk through uh we'll bring up the old schedule and walk through a new schedule so that we can lay out to the board what we think the new schedule get looks like and then uh get some feedback
from the board on whether that's appropriate. Um other things we've been working on is we had started reaching out to coaches around the holiday season or just before the holiday season in between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Our return was not great prior to Christmas.
Um, we started getting some phone calls back after the Christmas season was over. So, we're going to re-engage in that process now and start talking to more of the coaches uh in the from the different leagues. Um,
does the board have any questions or do we feel it's appropriate to hop in and look at the survey real quick? Or Rob, is there anything you wanted us to touch on that I forgot to touch on? So, with your new schedule, will you review that like the next meeting that we have? Like what's your plan to review like the
amended schedule? >> I would like to look at the survey first, make sure we're good there, and then I was going to bring the old schedule up on the in front of the board. You know, we'll share screens right now. >> We're going to edit it right in front of the board. >> All right, great. Sounds good.
>> Anyone else have any questions for that? >> No, that sounds good. All right, >> let me make sure I can share screens. Uh, share. Sharing is not turned on. I'm just going to send a request.
I think you guys are looking at the new survey. >> Rob, did the board get this link or that link stay with us? >> Um, I don't know if we like it just got out yesterday, so we'll have to share
again the latest one. Yep. Um, so basically this survey almost looks identical. Basically looks identical. There's a couple of small like um, for lack of knowing the right word actionable items in the old survey
that don't exist in this format. Um, and so I just want to kind of cover that. But our questions um, we basically have kept the same opening paragraph. We've added a paragraph here or a sentence in regards to length of survey. Um as I'll
show you in some of the questions below the questions in which we had a matrices for each particular field option like question I got to go forward more like question six where we had all of
the parks in different information across each one of the columns in the mobile app. What it does is it breaks it down by each individual park because if you tried to fit this on a mobile screen, the boxes become too small to check. And so on the mobile app, the survey appears longer while we're asking
the same amount of questions. It's just more scrolling associated with it. So we've put a sentence at the front of the at the front of the survey says the survey can can be completed on both mobile devices and desktop computers. Due to its length, many responders may find it easy to complete on easier to
complete on a desktop. Um, and then we've kept the same. The survey is anonymous. Um, question one functions the same way it did in in the old survey application. Question two functions the same way it does in the old survey application.
Uh, and question three and four function the same way. Um Rob, one of the things I know you had started to get comments back on this um previously from when we had kind of preliminarily let out the
old survey is the character amount. We have not found a limit in these comment fields. If you type as much as you type, it just starts to scroll. Um the fields themselves, the size of the fields, uh we can tell it how many lines to show. And so for some things that we want
shorter answers, we've shown less lines. for things that we want longer answers on, we've shown more lines. Um, but we've not found a character limit to these yet. >> Okay. >> Um, question five, which parks do organizations most frequent uh use most
frequently? That question remains the same. Six functions very similar to uh the previous version. The only thing that's different is if you remember in the old survey application when you would click on some on like Andrews Park
or Shields Park, it would open a comment field that was directly RA related to Andrews Park or um Shields Park. Now it's just one comment field underneath and they'll be able to say, you know, Andrews Park
comment XYZ and then Fields Park XYZ. So it's not multiple comment boxes. From a visual perspective, it does shorten the survey and kind of makes it a little bit more palatable. They can comment as much as they want um about
each one of those and rather than have two comment boxes, it's one comment box for all of the parks. Um, and Ally, if I'm if I'm missing something because you're more intimately involved with how this survey got changed over, by all means, stop me and tell me, "Oh, this is different or
that's different." Uh, seven, in your experience, which >> Okay, thank you. In your experience, which parks are currently in the best condition for play? Um, that question is still the same. again. Um, one thing I
will say is if you Oh, no, that's not this question. There's another one here. It one of the questions if you have another comment and you select a box, it does require it. It require you to leave a comment, but it does leave an exclamation point right on the question
that you have to answer. So, it's it's pretty user friendly. Um, please rate the overall quality of park maintenance in Milton's facilities. This question functions just the same as uh the previous question did on the other application. Uh which park could benefit
the most from maintenance or improvement? This one functions the same. 10 is another one where it's a matrices. Um and so this will look different from mobile app to desktop application, but again all it does is simplify park by park as you scroll
through. So you'll be able to select each one. I think it's pretty userfriendly. Um this box is one of the box we expected more comment on. So we've given them is it 20 lines Ally here? >> Yeah. So it's 20 lines of comment area. Um because we expect more writing in
this particular area. If I go to one that's small. See if this will I didn't want it to be in a position where you're like can't see your whole text in a in a particular window. So that's why we've made this comment box much larger for this one. You end up
losing some of your text if you overwrite here or it will scroll up depending on which type of comment field it is. Um, do you believe the town can benefit from more fields? This these three questions are all the same. Actually, the only difference here is this question used to be like
multi-staged question 11. So previously if you'd say do you believe this town can benefit from our fields and you said yes and then this question would pop up. If you said yes, these questions aren't linked to each other anymore. So now, if someone was going to say no, they could
just say no to this one as well. Uh, see, good. It worked. So, please enter your comment. I've clicked on this that I've had a comment, but I've not put something in there. So, if I put a comment, it will accept that field. Uh,
14. What do you value most about Milton Rep Parks? That is an open-ended same as the previous one. Um, one of the ways you improve field availability is field condition. That question is still the same and 16 is still the same. Um, and that's it. The one thing I would
note to the board is that I think our previous survey was 14 questions. Um, the reason that we're up to 16 questions is because some of the questions previously like built on each other or the comment field was related to a particular question and we've
broken those out now as individuals and that's really just a functionality of how each one of the survey apps work. Um, it's really asking for the same information as the previous survey did. It just works friendlier between the two apps, between a mobile app and a desktop app.
Any questions from the board? Ryan, can you go back to question 10? >> Sure can. Yep. So this question is basically asking >> what >> what type of maintenance improvements >> do you think that?
>> Yep. Kelly Field. What was his name at top? Didn't have [Music] >> to make it easier to read on the projector. >> It's probably hard to read. [Music]
>> So, you have if you're having problems with scheduling, are you supposed to click that box? >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Whatever. >> Okay. And then we asked them to describe any of the improvements that they want to see down here. So there's, you know, what we didn't want to do is just leave it at I need scheduling improvement and
then not get any more information out of it. We want to make it easier to get put it in categories for them >> so that it's not like just an open-ended I don't like the oak tree on left field or something like that. You know what things would really have impact? >> Um and then down here they can give us
more detail. So, if we want to dig into someone having a scheduling issue, they could say baseball and softball want to play on this field at the same time and the coaches can never agree, you know, or whatever the case may be. I'm just throwing a throwing a hypothetical out there. >> Rob, I I imagine when this is done, one,
two, three kind of calculates like the yes and nos and sends us something like 50% or 75% yeses, but now >> do you want to show that board based on my based on my response yesterday? Um,
I deleted that one. I had to show all these check boxes. Does it do that or do we just have to kind of look? >> No, it simplifies it into a chart. >> Sorry, I'll use >> Okay. >> Yeah. Yeah, it will. You can generate
>> Survey Monkey or whatever it is now. Automatically does a lot of this stuff for you. [Music] Um so yeah the only big thing is on mobile
these matrix >> at least it works and it >> and I feel like most people are going to submit it and I had asked them to put that at the top the you can go to desktop if you feel it's it's better you know just to have like a couple but I didn't want that I didn't want people
not so people are regardless, >> right? >> So, I mean, I don't know what you guys think. I think this thing I think we're ready to go and send it out at this point. Um, Ryan, just for like timing on this, um, I also think just knowing our
board and everything, I was telling them, just so you guys know, I meet with them weekly. So, I meet with them on like a Tuesday. Um, or is it every two weeks? I don't know if it's every week or every two weeks. We we review whatever they're doing. And then I think it's smart that we continue to meet at this time they're willing to be here
because we get a lot done when we're here so we can do our check-ins on a monthly basis. So I'm wondering for this survey Ryan and Ally if we like we're ready to push it out we push it out today and then leave it open until our
next meeting. Maybe we can have a checkin to like figure out what that is and then maybe we have another week or two weeks after that if there's any snapoos or anything in it. Is that seem like too long or is that like a decent plan? >> No, I like the plan. I'd like to in
front, you know, what I'd like to do is we'll bring up the responses thus far to the board so that we can see, you know, have you had 500 residents respond? Have you had 2,000 residents respond? And then we'll be able to make an evaluate what percentage of your population is that from, you know, the town
perspective and kind of figure out whether, you know, do we need to push more social media, you know, >> awareness about it? Do we need the the town to post it again for something or is there more reaching out we need to do because it's really important that we get the right cross-section of the
community and in my opinion less important that it closes on one particular week rather than another. Yeah, that sounds good. Um, >> so we'll have the survey to start sharing. >> Yeah, I think we have the link.
>> Like, we should be able to do it now. Like what if we're ready to go then? >> Bonnie can start pushing it out. We can push it out. We can send it to the coaches, whatever. >> So, it's already been tested obviously then on the phones and everything. >> I mean, maybe to be honest, maybe what
we should do is kind of like what I did last time. I just pushed it out on Facebook and I literally got like three responses back and I was like, "Oh, this isn't good." So, like we were like I I like kind of shut it down after that. Um but like the hope is is that we're we've done this once and and we should be good
to go. Um so I think we can share, you know, I think we can push it out maybe a little like a little bit and then said, "Okay, we're good." Response. We send should send something to the old times. >> Yeah. If if we can send it today, it
might go in next week in time. Usually takes a week. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Do a little quick little story. >> Yeah. >> With the link. >> With the link. >> I think we're we're good to go, Ryan, with the survey. Um my one question that I have like I know you're trying to do
multiple things here. I think two other pieces of this like the survey is good to go. Your interviews is a big piece of this too, Ryan. I'm wondering just for like organization sake even if you had like a Google doc or something with like your
interviews that says like hey we've done it or we haven't done it so that like we could see like hey we've contact like yes the first reach out has been there but the person hasn't like reached back out to you. I think anyone on this board
probably knows has like a way to communicate with the person to get to get them to, you know, get back to you. I'm just wondering if that would be like a help to you if if you're having >> the document already kind of exists. I'
I've created like a spreadsheet that I'm working through >> and I just leave myself a note behind whether I've like reached out to them and they haven't called me back or reached back and I've missed them or something like that. so that I have kind of like a running tally of where I am. >> So, we'll make that sharable to the
board. That way, if you see those folks in the in the runningings of the town >> um and you could put a plug in like, "Hey, Ryan's trying to reach out." It would be great if you give them a call back. That would be awesome, >> right? Yeah, for sure. Um I think that would be good. And then I know we spoke about it like they're they're basically
gearing up for doing this report. It's going to take some time to do the record. Um, and then my own off I guess like the last thing would be I think the community event that we had was great like how many more community events are we going to do, right? I guess it would
be good to like understand from your perspective what the community engagement is and if we need to ratchet that up, what do we need to, you know, how to plan that in here too and where do you see that happening? >> Okay, I'm going to bring the schedule back up on the page. Oops.
in the old schedule that we had originally. This is the schedule that we had from the from the start of the I think this is actually in our proposal. Um, and we've marked this up once before, but this is a clean version of it. So, just kind of
like the task items and stuff that we've said we would do. Um, I think right now just kind of uh see if I can get around this sharing thing. Is that still viewable to the board? >> It's It's hard to read for us. Can you
like maximize your screen or zoom in a little bit? It's a little better. >> That's not helpful. Is that any better, guys? >> Yeah, it's good. >> Okay. So uh obviously we've had kickoff meeting,
we've had documentation data collection that was going out in the field pulling old documents uh other than the open space and wreck plan which is currently underway. We have any of the old documents that we have. We've documented the condition of
the field. Recreation group data collection that's reaching out to each one of those each one of those wck groups that's underway. We've gotten feedback from some but not a significant amount at this point. Um project website my understanding already
exists. If I can work around >> this provided information to Bonnie a while ago now. So, I don't I don't know, Bonnie, if um you guys move forward with that. It was uh I sent a markup over. >> Oh, I I sorry that already exists.
>> You have to remind me, Alison, I'm sorry. What was it? >> If there's a um if there's a town project website link for this, >> there a dedicated page for this project. >> Yes. >> Okay, great. >> And that information, anything you sent me is already on there.
>> Perfect. And the link will go on there, Bonnie. >> The link will go on there. Yes. Okay. >> We had our first public meeting. We are not done with public meetings. As as Rob had mentioned, survey 123 app
has been completed. Some of the community partnership discussions has not necessarily completely happened at this point. Some of the Cunningham conversations happened. Um, but there's some additional partnerships that I think we'll follow up with and those have kind of been rerouted to this
recreational group data collection uh page. This also included getting the matrix from Bonnie. Bonnie has sent over a matrix of field use. Uh, but we're going to supplement that with our community partnership discussion. Um, existing conditions mapping has been
completed. Oops, wrong thing. facility evaluation but facility use has not occurred quite to this point. So part of what educates the facility use evaluation is this community partnership discussion and recck group discussion.
And so these two will kind of pile down into facility use evaluation. The facility evaluation has already been completed. Um and so we're just looking to pair those two together.
Um the main thing that's kind of still, you know, kind of in progress as we had mentioned was understanding field demand. And so before we can get to visioning, we need to understand how many fields do we think the
community needs. Do we have enough? Do we not have enough? Is there a certain type we need more of? And so these three open task items, the rec group data collection, uh really the public feedback including the survey 123 feedback and the
community partnership discussions all educate that field demand matrix. And the end result of that will hopefully tell us, hey, we need one field, hey, we need two fields or we need one rectangular field and one baseball field or whatever the case may be. And that
will allow us to um finish this facility use evaluation. I I had mentioned to Rob our goal for doing these evaluations is we let the numbers we do our own evaluation basically kind of I don't want to say separate from the board but without the board and then we come to
the board and say here's what we found. Does this make sense? And the board will say hey I don't think that makes sense or hey that that does make sense. That's also what I've been hearing. And then if it doesn't make sense, we'll go back through all the assumptions we made to
get to that number and find where our assumptions were wrong so that we can uh correct it and then let the numbers just kind of fall out where they are. Um once we get to that point, we'll start looking at visioning. Visioning is uh
will be a process of you know what facilities maybe are in the worst condition and does it make the sense to do the most improvements to what facilities provide the most maximum amount for expansion which I don't think you have a ton of availability for expansion at any of your facilities or
is there new areas that we could expand or build out additional services for um additional recreational services for that meet the needs of the community and so I think that's thing Rob is working on on his end. Um, right now the the
wreck department had one piece of land that looked like it may have had an opportunity for recreational development. After looking at the topography of the piece of land that we we think is available to the recck department, it may not be the most feasible to develop. And so I think Rob
is working with the open space and recck group and you know when when it's the right time we're happy to attend a meeting with them um so that we can see if there's any other land that may be available in the town uh coffers to help supply or meet the demand of the
community. Um and so that's where we're headed as far as schedule goes. If we say survey uh if we say survey was going to be closed um let's see it's February or it's
January now so we said another four weeks so six weeks say we midFebruary >> right [Music] >> oh jeez It's going to take me a minute to get used to that >> this week.
[Music] >> Is this still super small for you guys? >> Yeah, there you go. That's better. >> Sorry. We won't even look at the other chart. So if we say the survey is done by February 26, our goal should be to
complete >> all of this by 2026 because we'll need all three of these pieces of information information together to complete this. So, when we take this down here, after we have all three of these, we'll start working on the facility use evaluation,
which I don't need more than a month for. I hope to be able to finish that faster than that, but that will give us time to go back to you guys, have a conversation, fine-tune it, and close it out, and then we can start on visioning. >> How long do you think visioning will
take you? >> It really depends on on Um, it shouldn't take more than a month, Rob. But if it's if it's, you know, we want to look at this piece of land, then
we realize that doesn't work, and then we want to look over there, you know, it's that that portion of like I think our I think our proposal said that we would look at two pieces of properties for improvement and provide one
>> um rendering of a property. >> Um, you know, so that will take us a month. But if we look at two pieces of property and we decide neither of those have great feasibility and the board decides we want to expand that search for additional you know additional
properties um then obviously that process could take longer and we won't do the rendering till the end. So the rendering is just you know whatever property the board decides is like the favorite and wants to have a a piece of public eye candy that we can show what an improvement to this facility would
look like. Um we'll do that. Um, so that is April. Our report is going to be updated this entire time. So every time we complete a task, we start working on that section of the report. Um, and so I would expect
no longer than another month to get this done. And the reason I say it's going to be a month is because we'll wrap up our report based on what happens in the visioning process. will issue the report to the board. The board will read the draft report, provide us comment and feedback, make sure the language is
appropriate for different entities, make sure we're saying things that make sense with the with what the board sees. We'll issue a final draft and it'll be presented to the to the community publicly. As far as where I see public comment happening or
where we want to have public meetings, I think we'd like to have one after this February date. Yeah, and I'd like to see another one happen after we come up with some initial feasibilities.
>> Do we are May is our like typical annual town meeting. Um, I wonder when that date will be because it would be nice to have it done before that >> right >> before the before the annual town
meeting. >> Yeah. So, we'll get back to you Ryan on that and maybe if if it is possible to align with it, it might be good. >> Yeah. I don't This is, you know, I'm walking through this in front of you guys at the moment just just to give you an idea of what I'm thinking. If there's
a date we need to hit, we can condense anything that you know you want us to condense as far as >> it could give an opportunity to make a presentation to town meeting possibly >> y >> from the board with your findings I
think would be good. Um so that's we'll get back to you with the date. It's probably Yeah. might not even be said, >> right? >> But it is. But it's typically >> But if there's like a typical week it is and we can shoot for that week, then >> Yeah. Yeah.
>> You know what I mean? That makes sense. >> You know, just laying this out. Does the board have concerns, comments, questions about schedule? >> I know it's late later than we thought, but I just think making sure we get the right information back. you can shoot
for that maybe like that builds up enough time. >> Yeah. >> Like to >> to continue to go and then we'll do our monthly check-ins and then um May May 4th it's early.
So that might be the only thing Ryan is if like May 4th is I guess is when we have to see how it goes. We'll have a good idea of where we're at by next meeting. >> Okay. >> If our survey results are great and I've gotten more feedback from our WCK groups
by that time, I have no problem meeting the May date. if if our survey responses are slow and we want to leave it open more uh you know it ends up being two months the survey is open and the recck groups are kind of dragging their feet calling back um you know then that May date gets
a little tougher but let's let's by our next meeting I think we'll have a pretty good idea of where we fall because we're at that point we're not getting information from others we're uh kind of the steers of our own ship at that point >> okay >> Ryan do you I think by the end of maybe
next week, you can let us know who who you haven't had a chance to talk to yet. >> Yep. >> And then that way we can help with that process because >> I I'll get a a document that's sharable available um by the end of next week and
I'll have Rob share that with you guys or we'll put on that Google doc. I'm not as familiar with what we did last time, Rob, but Ally will help me and we'll we'll get something up and running so we can share it with the whole board. >> Yeah, perfect. I think just for community engagement, I think it makes
sense, right? Like I would shoot for two at least so that we would have one for after all your surveys back and all the public feedback to present that and then obviously during your visioning I would think you'd want to put another one,
right? Um, and I think that looks good. >> Revise this and it's in like a the actual format rather than writing on top of it. And I'll send it back to you guys. Just >> all seems good and and workable. Um,
good plan. >> Great. Anything else we were supposed to cover, Rob? >> I don't think so. I think I think we got a This looks good. Thank you guys. Appreciate your time this morning. >> Thank you.
>> Thank you. >> Thanks >> everyone. Have a good morning. If we could do the we could get it done by meeting. Yeah, >> it's a good thing about opportunity because that only happens once a year
and I I guess we could potentially do like a fall one or something, but it's not typically like a time for like prison. >> Right. >> Right. >> So, it's unfortunate. It's like once a year, but >> yeah, >> but that's five months. I guess it's
really four months away. If >> nothing else, we can give an update. Maybe, you know, some results of our surveill. >> Next topic is lower dial curve project. >> So nothing back from um a decision, put
it that way. You guys would have known about that. Um but I am meeting with uh an electrical contractor. um who's proposed to do all the electrical work there. Who's we have a building down there right by behind Pietelli.
It's like a red building and he's going to check out the capacity whether we have to build another small structure to hold all the electrical from the field that's coming in the scoreboard and all the lights. Um
I'll let you guys know what happens. It's the life school on my electricity. >> I'm trying to do I'm thinking solar for the uh school board. I'd like to >> school boards use much electric you
>> so that's all I have with Logan. It's not the It's all based on the decision by >> Yeah. >> Um CPC update that's with all the projects have been approved except the
war part one that is still working. >> They're still we had some comments from the last year on that project getting some discussion back. I think it's next Monday is the is the Scott and K is gonna come before the board. It's a
big one because they got a bond and all that. So if they will get approved so um that's the update. >> Rob, what about other projects like from the past from even when I was in the board? Like any projects like kicking off or or starting?
>> It's been a challenge for some of the board like you know it's a lot always on the applicants that have like come to do it. So now, and we've also lost an admin. We don't have an admin anymore. There's no more admin. So we've lost
that. So the town's looking to hire that person >> just to be to figure out. So there's like an inventory list and then there's so many things like you know the bridge over at like that's been out there forever. >> Yeah. What about Forbes? Like how was Forbes going? Like
>> yeah, I think they're they're with they're moving on that but the you know so I think we have an inventory of stuff and then they continue to go back. I know PGA continues to like to seek out if people and there's only so much. >> We have to because those projects are
years old that have they started? >> Yeah. If they haven't, the money should get pushed back or whatever. We just bought um the all the equipment for Pebbley. >> Okay. >> And we saved money by doing it before 26 2026.
So the >> playground, >> but there was money in past years from >> that's really then that's >> Yeah, but we have to uh now it's got to go out to bid for installation.
That's the >> Yes, he's he's gonna help with that. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yep. >> I just figured I'd give you an update uh on Pebble that the equipment they saved some decent money by buying it this year.
>> Some decent money. So, >> um you have on this agenda item any budget updates? You've heard the steps some >> Yeah. Um, our budget went in front of the Warren Committee. Um, I don't know if you saw that in the last meeting and they just,
you know, they noticed we had turned some money back at the end of the year on out of our general. Um, so basically u there was questions uh sent out to Kevin and I as to you know why this was left and you know we just sent a response back to you know we didn't use
as much water. it was a you know rainy season and there was some discussions about moving some money around. So we might revise slightly the general budget uh just to reallocate where more funds are needed in the general now just to
reflect more current needs. You know uh we've saved some money maybe on the electrical with the new lights that were installed but you know down the field. So, you know, we're saving a little money here. So, maybe we can move some more into general maintenance, uh, grounds maintenance where we need it
more and, you know, we could do more whip. So, we the ask will be the same for the budget. Um, >> differentocate buckets to more Yeah. a more precise. >> We didn't know if you guys saw it on the
>> We we did and I think >> there was something in the Milton Times about it too. >> Yeah. I I mean even even more so that we continue to do connect with other committees and whatever it would be helpful even when we do the survey and
stuff we're going out to that I don't mind also we're as a piece of this going to the one committee and like listen here's some of our results back from this with you know hey this is the real time data people in town just to kind of help with the new conversation
>> um we can do that and then I think Brian mentioned the the open space and recon that you guys know that you're on. >> Yeah. >> But um >> to to get that and allocate funding for that. So they said
and I said I'm willing to like go sit in front of the board or go help out on that but we need to have betteration to get this done. And I would bring mine or whatever to that board as well to like get people talking to be like listen they're they're doing the survey right now. We also need to know I asked I
asked Meredith I was like listen we know about the one parcel at the time dump there's also the parcel that's over by what >> that's really it and I don't even so we can we can also like put that back out to Ryan. I don't know what is possible
there. Um, so that was like the other the the one other part. So my guess is they're going to come back. They're going to pick two parcels. One something's going to be unexistent that they're going to want to pick. Right. >> So that is still that committee is still like ground level. >> So no architects. No architects fix.
That's years. That's a year. That's >> No, that's way >> started with Bill Clark. >> You did? >> Yeah. >> I mean that was that was six years ago. >> Six years ago. >> Yeah. It was whenever Tim Dinsky was here. And so yeah, it needs to get done
in order to get grant funding too. Like it's like a step that needs to happen. So um they they know I've been quite adamant about it. >> Yeah. >> So I think um we don't we should hear soon like that committee should be done. I think
trying to get funding for the consultant because it's been so long didn't even try to get it done but it needs to get done. So, um, continue to work. >> Yeah. >> I think she's I think it's like 10 grand
or something extra, but she's like >> and Nick's like trying to and they know. So, it's like, okay, we're asked for it. Uh just for clarification, we're okay with I just want to make sure the
board's okay if we re reallocate those funds around on the general. Um just for >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Managers report. Um actually the So I'll just give you a
quick it's kind of CPC but it's um so the deolds were all shipped to Folsam. They installed them at their warehouse at their location. Two of them were dented in the shipping. They already sent them back. They already got them
back. They already rein they built them up there. It's it could happen today. They could start installing today because today is a nice day. and they were supposed to do it this week, but the weather's been awful. So, if you see them out of Kelly today, >> that will be a good thing.
>> Um, yeah, and that will that's the last thing they have to do. >> So, that's really all I have with mine today. >> Yes. >> Um, we start back tomorrow night with our winter youth basketball, Friday
night basketball. Snowball starts back up as well. And then we are starting our Irish step on Thursday at Cunningham. So, and then we've got a couple of middle school ID events we're running in the meantime. So, that's it for us.
>> Uh we did have CPR babysitting over winter break that was very well attended. Um I had a wait list for that. So, we're definitely going to try to ted um >> run another one in February over February break. Yeah. Thank you to Coastal. Uh they did a great service. We
had two EMTs on site and then Andrew also uh for the good part of it and everybody uh did a great job and we had pizza midday. We did it as a one-day clinic this time. Usually we break it up into two days. So we tried it this time as a one day and just a break for lunch
with pizza and whatnot. And uh we also had Sean Hutchinson, our team coordinator, attend so he could get reertified for uh CPR and worked out wonderful. So that was a great success. And we used the old firehouse versus
using >> it was great >> and it was so handy for me to just run back and forth, >> you know. Shout out. Yeah, just game 200. >> Anything else from the board? It's a new
year. Were there any other I guess my question with you guys priies for this year? >> Obviously you don't mind trying to get this thing done. >> Yeah. 2026 that's finally >> 2026 let's finally
>> make it happen >> but that's it's great that the dugouts are going in to your point we just got to make sure to use the CPC money well it's being spent things are >> when it's about three years into that or
two and a half years into that we all kind of I remember the meeting I remember and we all realized that yeah we need to start >> yes >> you start losing track of the money that you sent and we didn't really have a process set up to do that. So,
>> and and the good news is like it's it's it's not like that those people are sitting on money or whatever, right? But it's just it's but it's just s and like that's the one you know the bridge by our house. Why isn't that >> what is the >> I don't know. We don't even like we
don't even know. It's it was a con that wanted to do that. They were gonna have like Northeastern do it and got those pounds for a year. So >> as soon as I get the money, I just >> Yeah. >> We've been very good at >> we just get it. I just want it like
>> Yeah. >> 100%. Yeah. >> It's almost like the fun should have an >> You also have to be reasonable. So it's close, you know, how many years it is. Um but then right
>> and that's usually there's funds set aside for the CPC too to have an admin and the admin is supposed to help out >> and they're trying to hide which I think will help it will help >> what's the name of the man behind the
bridge project Kevin you know who it John. [Music] >> Oh, how about next meeting? How about that? How about if we continue that the first week of February would be
good? >> That would be the 5th. >> That is that >> works for me. >> What was the date? >> February. >> So, we didn't want to meet after the survey was completed. I'm just
>> No, I think No, I think what we want to do is before So, we have four weeks check in. and they're going to give us an update and then we can say after that meeting you can say hey there's another week basically >> right >> right to like push it out again for
>> so I think that makes >> right >> and we got like Sunday February so we have another week to do it but that makes sense to me and then they'll continue to have checking whatever I'll
see how it goes. The biggest thing I think is getting those interviews is going to be >> I mean >> if people don't call back or whatever, >> right? They might not. >> I did have um he had a football call me and said, "Is this guy legit?"
>> I said I said call him back. It's all It's all all. >> And he did. He did call back. So >> I think that's probably what >> Yeah. All right. >> All right. Meeting
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