Uh, I'd like to open the recreation committee on Wednesday, July 9th at 6:39. We'll start with members present on the left hand side. Daniel Jones, Mary Anastasia, Michael Crouch, John Rean,
Dpil Cindy Courier, COA Leaison. Excellent. Um, uh, did people get a chance to look at the previous minutes? Um, I think that Mark sent the June.
Yeah, these are the June minutes. Mhm. June minutes. Were you here on the June minutes? I was. Okay. There was the one that was the the meeting we had that didn't happen that you you didn't make, right? Was that May? Cuz last May.
Yeah. I missed June and it was May that didn't happen. Mhm. Okay. And June happened. June happened. And you were here in June. Okay. I got And I wasn't here. Okay. Yeah. Cuz I that's the only question I had cuz I saw Sy's name on the on the list and I just wanted to
make sure. Um if everyone had a chance to look at it. Um we any uh I motion to uh approve those minutes. Yeah. Second by John.
Uh, any discussion? All in favor? I'll take notes tonight. Oh, you will? That'd be awesome. All in favor? I I'm going to abstain because I didn't have a chance to review and I didn't.
There you go. I made it complicated for you to note taking Mary had it. If I don't type these tonight, I'm going to forget anyway. Yeah. from the video before and it it's genius. That's a Yeah. Um sleeping pill
correspondence. Uh yeah, so we've got two requests for the field. We've got uh Rush and Triton Youth Soccer. It's not looking like we have any um
any complications. Is this fall or summer? This is fall. Okay, cool. Um both starting in late August, uh mid to late August and going until November. Yeah. So,
um I'm looking to approve those if anybody has any um August. What's the 10 version? 16 of August, right? Saturday. Saturday. That is that
do they stop Monday? Hopefully. Actually, I think we looked this up cuz the car shows Friday. Yeah, they have the they have the the fields during that time. So, the the they start on the 18th. Okay, good. Excellent. Um, do you guys have a rain day? No.
Okay. Are you thinking about a rain date? No. Okay. All right. Perfect. Um, it's not good rain. So, we're talking Rush Rush and Triton Youth Soccer. So, I make a motion to uh tenatively
approve Rush and Triton Youth Soccer um with uh the caveat that they have all their paperwork in and payments. Payments, insurance, all that fun stuff. Um a second on that. Second. John seconds. Um any discussion on that?
No one has a problem. I think that will work datewise. All right. Um all in favor approved. Um anything else we have or is those two on correspondence and then bills and claims will be next. We all set my
I have one question about a correspondence. I ran into a uh member of the community. Um, she said that she had emailed Tracy about uh
cutting down the the sledding slope. Yes. Now that the birds have flown their nest in the area. Uhhuh. For preparation for the fall. I know we haven't Yeah, we haven't got there yet, but I
can throw that request in the DPW when it comes out. I know that there that has come up and we had a discussion about it. Um Mark was going on about the birds. Yeah. But I think that is not an issue now. It's just if they're no longer protected.
Yeah. As long as that they have the ability to do that for whatever reason. Yeah. And I know we haven't uh trimmed it in a while. So there's like small trees or something. Yeah. Probably locust or something that grow. So but they can do that. Yeah.
Um All right. So that's only correspondence or something. Sumax everywhere. Back in the correspondence, we probably should have in the calendar the um town day. I'm not sure we haven't got that in there. I think it is. I'm pretty sure we talked about that
with the uh car show, but just make sure. Let me check. So car show the 16th. Yeah. Day 16. Excellent. I don't know if I've got the car show. Actually, it's the Friday, right?
Friday before him. The 15th. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Um I'll add that. I don't have it on here. It has been approved. There's no conflict. Cool beans. Okay. Um billows and claims. Okay.
Um all that we have is the mellow invoice and we really had nothing encumbered from last year. So, we're in the next fiscal cycle. Now, Mark isn't here right now, but Bills and Clint, what was the cost of do you know that
of Yeah, it's 18 uh excuse me, 1815 for me. I know that was an issue with um and I don't know if it's been resolved yet uh with someone throwing trash, household trash in there. And it might be more of
an issue now because uh Republic Sanitation Group uh they're having a strike and so there's all these communities around here on the Northshore that they're not picking up trash. So I have a feeling that um people will look for the closest dumpster to start. So we should probably
look into I'll I'll be Mark seems to has a a person at Melo, but I will I will talk to Mark about see if we can secure that. Silly idea. We the select board saw that lead up from the woman. Yeah. I went down the next day. There were two
flat screen televisions inside the dumpster. There was a 2x4 frame that was about a foot square and and uh I talked to Tracy DPW. They moved the dumpster. They relocated it. They put it in sight of a camera
instead of a camera. There's a sticker on it or something that says the next step the next step is to um if it gets abused more is to um somehow secure the lid and put a slot in it. So you're limited with what you can put in there. You can't put anything beyond
what the slot will carry. My first reaction was pull the dumpster out and tell you tell your teams you bring it in you take it out. Yeah. The reason that we have the dump I think one of the the the main reasons we've had the dumpster there um or maybe
it's not the main but um there people walk dogs and so it's them them leaving the plastic bags there. There used to be kind of a hole but it's not secure with that plastic cuz we used to you know you put down the the lock and it used to be locked but people just pull it up.
Yeah. It's plastic. So, um, replace if if the main purpose of it is supposed to be dog poop. I mean, they make the Yeah, that's a whole we sort of looked into that. That's a whole other thing because I think we'd have to have a
group. We'd have to um pay uh service to have that picked up. Yeah. It's like hazardous waste. I don't think the main purpose is animal. I think it's I think the main use of it is like they look in that dumpster, it's all little green bags. Yeah.
Yeah. And that's I mean a lot of people I know I think a lot of people because people who aren't supposed to bring their dogs in the field bring their dogs in the field. Well, they technically don't go on the field. Yeah. Uh and I trust me I I I I thought the other day we should put a shoot so
it'd be like a like a drive up window. Just drop your bank. I like your idea. carry and carry out cuz No, but the other thing on the same line is it'd be nice if we put some kind of thing with the u the fall season like
they should take a pass to the to the bathroom before they go home. Oh yeah. Yeah. Zach on Monday mornings just gets nuts. Pummeled. Yeah. Really? That's why we had to get those bigger trash cans. Does Zach use the dumpster or does he take it?
I've seen him use the dumpster. Yeah, that's I think this other Okay. Okay. Okay. We'll take the fourth time. Yeah. Yeah. Um Okay. That's uh actually again on Melo though. Uh could we when's the regular pickup day?
It's the bill comes in the first. I don't know what the pickup day is. Yeah. The question would be whether we want to empty it before town day. Like if it's a Monday pickup, if you have an extra pickup or an extra pickup after they're done or
I'm not sure what you've got picking up for a count, but you're going to have trash. There's going to be food there. Um I don't think you haul in another one, but All right, I'll let Mark know since he
seems to be the first person doing the I I have another question about time. Go ahead. in subject system. I think we pumped last year. We did. So, we should be okay. I think so. I think the uh DPW's been in charge of that. It wasn't because we we
had we had thought about that and sort of threw it out there, but I think that that's their their gig. Okay, cool. So, just and I think they charge us, but they know what you know it might be lumped into the DPW charge.
Okay. Good adjectives. Uh I want to actually come back to that as well. Confirming it is only the 16th and not the not the 17th as well. No Saturday. Okay, cool. Uh originally when Dave
reached out I booked both days just to in case there was a rain day. Um and confirming August 15th is the car show. Yes. What are the times and what are the times and is it fields as well as parking lot or just parking lot? Um I just parking lot.
Yeah, I think it's parking lot. But they might gravitate towards the field. But I just look at the book areas or not book. Yeah. No, it's a parking lot. Okay. It's the evening, isn't it? Yeah. It's I think it usually starts at 5:00. And I wish I had the notes on that. I have to like 4, but that's the
way I can. Yeah. Um it's funny you mentioned something about the back gate. U Yeah. I don't know what the story of that is. Someone cut it. So they put a new No, there's a lock that's cut. Oh, really?
It's unlocked now. Yeah. Interesting. Cuz I tried the combination last time and I think it was frozen and someone must have cut it. Okay. So maybe someone from DVD must have Yeah. But if we're going to talk to James then Okay. Maybe I just noticed it. But I had offered it to these guys in case they
had Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. I did talk to someone who parked cars last time and he thought you could get like 150 cars in there. Three rows in the in the way down. No, in the front. In the front. Yeah.
Although one of the things Are we ready to jump to town? Um those you're good with the car show. Uh town day is is next to me agent. One of the thoughts they had was using that area where you want to put the
volleyball nets that as you come in with the little section on the right, it might be a good place to put um I had mentioned in the email like the ecoin rescue uh just to have it off there. But we might if we're parking if they're parking cars, they need to probably
leave the sidewalk and let's not have people running across the We're going to have the fire engine over there. Fire engine over there. Okay. All right. Um, yeah, because I I know that that with a car show there's you have to sort of people have to watch out for running
people and we've been lucky so far with soccer and the um Saturdays and Sundays that have been busy. I just don't know. I don't know way to designate a sidewalk, you know, unless you get someone that has line lines or
whatever. One of the thoughts they we had right cuz I walked through the field with them was just get some caution tape and kind of make it stakes. Well stakes. Yeah, that's another thing. Um
staking off the field. Uh I don't know whether there's any objection to just like cording off certain se like this might be where the children's area is. The other thing I'd be concerned about just be careful with the irrigation stuff because irrigation goes down like
I think probably 8 to 10 in. So there's like plastic irrigation line down there. It might be problem. Yeah. I don't I know that there's sprinkler heads cuz we pay to have someone fix sprinkler heads every year. So that's something I'd be concerned about.
So as long as that the states were less than eight inches. Yeah, I think so. I think that's probably what it is. I mean, I Yeah, I don't think they're going to be that deep. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And I think that a lot of that irrigation stuff takes a lot to cut through.
I do it all the time, which is not a good thing, but it's not good. Um, but you got no objection to staking off certain areas. I I don't see a problem at all. Yeah, I didn't I I I Yeah, because the the the soccer groups,
they, you know, reduce fields by putting those little flags in and they they have some kind of stake system to have those um I don't know if you've driven by and you see all the little flags that they have. I think they have them for wind direction, right? I don't know if anyone's the soccer hero. I don't know anything about them, but
corner flags. Maybe you maybe that's what they are. I don't I don't know. I didn't play soccer, so I played soccer. I was a soccer mom. Yeah. Pass the bat. I'm not going to say anything about soccer. I'm going to try to be
Be nice. Be nice. Um, anything else? Do you guys need anything else from uh the rec committee? recommend on fire. So, so the activities that we're um thinking about are pickle ball and
uh per John, you know, the the nets, we'll have three we'll have three nets available, two in play, and one with our team pickle ball instructor. Yeah. Like a demonstration or try out
area. I'm going to try and get just people to play on the court. Are you recruiting from Yeah, I'm recruiting council on who you want to go to. I'll let them know.
All right. Pick a ball. And we have enough um there's Yeah. uh basketball and and so what we would do is have different times for these because the basketball it's hard to think both while they're playing pickle ball on
basketball and you guys it sounds like the basketballs are there one or two are there three whatever they should be are they are they officially full or I'm sorry to report someone traded oh we got an old I got an old one in exchange for a new
one but do How how many new ones did we buy? I think there's two girls b two I guess ladies. Yeah. Two women's balls, two men's. There's a difference. There is women. Yeah. Men's ball is bigger. Our hands are smaller.
Yeah. Do you want to? Maybe. No. You know what? I I'm happy the other ones have stayed there. It It was funny cuz it was actually in the blocks. Yeah. But is the old one Is it flat? Well, we have a little pump, too. The pump's in there.
Okay. And we do have a a needle because there was I couldn't find a needle last. The needle's actually built into the pump. Okay. Okay. Yeah. It's like a corkcrew almost. It's just hidden in there. It's brilliant. I must have got you the good one. You did. You did. I really And there's pickle ball balls. There's
paddles. And those weren't properly put away. But generally speaking, I consider it a success. Just it be nice if we put soccer balls in there and stuff, but we can talk about that another time. Is there any other activity that we're thinking about that we can purchase?
Yeah, cornhole. I think we could. We certainly have the budget for it. So, I was looking on Amazon and and this typical price is unless you want a flimsy one like 100 120 for for a good cornhole.
Um, I would say that if we're going to do that, we should get two, uh, you know, two sets, not just one. Two sets. So, appropriately like $400 just in case we'll get a decent Quick question. Is that a store in the fieldhouse type of thing or is that a
store outside in a box type of thing because we need to incorporate a box type? No, no. I think what we could do is we could store in the fieldhouse and then the garage. Or the garage. Those are both. It's When are we going to take it out again? Yeah. It's not big. Oh, they're not big.
I mean, yeah. So, I have a cornhole set for the council of aging that we bought from Wicked Cornhole. They're local in Tukbury, I think. Yeah. They're pretty decent size. They do come with a carry case, but you have to buy your bags separate.
I mean, I don't know what you're looking for, but those are solid, nice boards. Yeah. Yeah. You know, I can double check and see what the price point was, but I think it was more than depends on what you like how much it depends on how much you want to really
put into it. Do you want to just go sort of middle of the road right now? Yeah, I I I think it's it's something like that we could actually bring out or we could have available maybe on busy soccer weekends cuz there's about 8 billion kids that are with nothing to
do, right? It's an all ages thing, too. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. How much is the I hate to do this, but how much is like the decent one if if that makes sense. How much was yours?
I Yeah, I I saw them range up to like $300 if you want to get like super solid wood kind of thing. I don't know if that has anything to do with durability. Um, you know, depending upon W cornhole.
So, this one on Amazon is they're wooden boards. It looks like they come with bags. It's 200 bucks. What? You know, how about the Twixer, which is a local company, right? You said it's local. Yeah, I would rather I can add it. You have it? I I'll get it up. I'm looking at their site right now. Okay.
Trying to find it. All right. So, Cornhole, we'll get back to that. Uh what's the um does anyone know um John got back to us about the uh person who teaches yoga
and she's unavailable. She's out of town that weekend. Yeah. So does anyone know anyone else that might She was going to be perfect cuz she This is She's from town. Exactly. She teach Yeah. And people love her. She It would have
been a great Yeah. Yeah. What's your name? Chris How? She's awesome. She lives on the island. She teaches two of our We do two yoga classes a week, but I had to expand it because people liked it so much. So, there's um my yoga teacher lives right
over by the S. I didn't ask her. Yeah. And I just I just sent a That might be good out to a friend of mine that might do it. Okay. So, you might have yoga, right? Would that be inside the field? Yes. Okay. Okay. So, you can let them know it be an indoor thing.
Would that be a paid thing or or a volunteer thing? I have no like just so I understand what I'm telling her. Probably volunteer. Uh I volunteer for just as long as I'm letting her know. Yeah. You know, publicity blah blah
blah. Oh, she works for Riverside, so I'm not sure that she cares cares about the publicity. Okay. Uh the other thing uh Mark's not here but uh they were talking about um soccer and I said I've got zero just
like some coaches equipment back get four or five balls and they could put them out on the field somewhere. Um whether we get the contact info for soccer. We did. Um, thank you.
Um, are you looking for like additional activities for the day? Yeah, I mean just to be able to use the space um that that we have and trying to think of all the different ages. So, we get solicitation from the Frisbee
dog guy every year. I don't know if that's something frisbee dog. Yeah, like I guess he does Frisbee dogs. Um, is that one called one right the dog? Is this the one that's out of business?
Is this the one they did the library the other day? I don't know. All that I know is that we get like a gazillion solicitation not worth it. Not working. Uh, uh, very, it was very interesting. Um, it was centered towards little kids.
Um, very interesting. The dogs were did a couple tricks. Um, I wanted to see back flips and stuff like that with the dogs. Yeah. How about frisbee golf?
Oh, did you say there's frisbee golf in the garage? I I I would never commit to it cuz they are down. They are in the garage and they're all I think I think John, you said you know nothing about it. I know nothing about it. I mean, if anything, if we could drag two of them that work out that maybe and get a
couple of frisbes and that would be I believe, and I'm not I'm not positive on this, that they are they were poles that were set in the ground. I don't think they have a base and I think that the poles rotted out the base, but you you find that out by looking at them.
Yeah. And if you had to I I'll go I'll go take a peek. That'd be great. Does Tri have um an ultimate frisbee team? Do you know? I don't think so. That's like a big sport.
It would Yeah, it would be a club if it was anything. Okay. Yeah, I don't off the top of my head. No, we have some teams that people don't know about, but I haven't heard about. Do they have a juggling club? No. That'd be fun. Um,
juggling club would be fun. Yeah, I I know a teacher who would do it. Yeah. And my buddy would absolutely do it as well. And lastly, uh, water balloons that Cindy suggested. I was thinking a water balloon fight or like a not a fight, a toss, a water
balloon toss, right? And you can get, uh, instead of having the smashed balloon pieces all over, you I was saying that you can get these like reusable water balloons. So, you just fill them in a bucket. The reusable ones are fantastic for water balloon fights. Not for a toss. Not for a toss.
And why is that? Because they're magnetic. So, the second you catch them, they break. Seriously? Yeah. They're made to break. Oh, yeah. Well, I just didn't want them to have to I mean, but they also had like balls that were
If you just want people to get wet. Yeah. You just do that. I mean, they're they're amazing. I've had You don't have to tell them. Let them try it. Right. Let them try it. Whoever Whoever goes last wins. They win. No, they're amazing for water balloon fights. I have my kids want to get wet
at a water balloon toss, you know. They do or they don't. They do. Little kids. Is there a slip and slide? Like is there an outdoor hose? No. Um probably not. Uh there is at the the the door to the garage there's a there's a spigot. Uh
there's also a spigot in the ladies room that you When was the last time you you filled balloons with water? Um it's also it's a form of torture. They make they make they make things now that like fill a
hundred at a time. Oh yeah. That you attach on the hose. Yeah. Bunch of balloons I think it's called. Yeah. And then you just remove it and it self I have no idea. It's like I think that's the one that I have.
That must be artificial intelligence. That did that. That's the world getting better. It was Chad GPT. Chad GPT did it? I don't remember. Uh, do we do we want a motion on call? Uh, no, not yet. Do we have a do we have a Tuesday? No, they went out of that business.
So, I'm show I'm showing that they're open like Wednesday 10 to 5 Thursday. This doesn't say like the business is closed. I can't get the website open. Yeah, the website won't work and I see it's like temporary closed and like the website shut down.
That stinks. I tried to get on their Instagram and it was like, all right, let's do Amazon. Um, so what did we say? So are you looking like 200 bucks? I I think we should get the decent ones because then that way we'll have them. What are decent ones costing? I think about 200.
Okay, that's 250. We'll get two of them. No, 500. 500. We'll cover two. Y Instagram says it closed back January of last year. Oh, that stinks. Thank we got nice boards there. Yeah. Um, the owner passed away. Can we throw
weight into the Yeah. owner passed away and I don't know. I don't know if there's anyone else to pick up the All right. So, the cornhole the cornhole family business. All right. So, two cornhole sets.
Yes. Oh, wait. Including bags. I want the I want the cover over it and I want the bean bags. Yes. Okay. And that will $200ish will cover it. I saw one. Yes. All right. So, uh I make a motion to
appropriate $500 out of our budget to buy two cornhole um set sets. Um a second on that. Second. Any discussion other than that since we have a little time to discuss?
We're all good. All in favor? I I Okay. So, I'll look at that tomorrow and order the rules. than seeing 189 with all those things that you asked for. How heavy is yours, Cindy? What? How heavy is yours?
Oh, it's heavy. I mean, it's amount of wood. Yeah, I'm looking at it now. It's harder to steal. It's that heavy. There's that. Mine also says town of new council and aging on it. I
don't know if you really People aren't going to want to steal that. Well, I mean, you do the same thing with a rack stuff, too. So, yeah. Um, no, mine is like it's like a seal. I put the time seal on. Do just a real quick one. Does the
basketballs are basketballs the small and the larger ones? Are those Do they have Tom Newberry on? It's a new It says Newberry wreck on them, but it's not going to last long. Okay. Sharpie. Yeah, Sharpie. Okay. All right. So, I need a fat Sharpie.
Okay. I know there are a few different types of cornhole boards. One that just like the single hole and there's also some that have multiple different holes and different point variations. Do you want something that has a uh design on it
or you want them to be just plain? I don't know if design matters. If it say Newberry rack that would I can do like plain, right? Kind of cheap. But if we're looking to put our like the town of Newberry on it,
then plain is better. But I mean, if it's like a color or something that I'd want to go like dark green, like newberry green, it would be a little more difficult to write on it. But you could write in white if you did. Yeah. So if they had green, do you
should we vote on that? Like I don't really care. I don't really care. Oh, it's up to me. All right. Leave it in my hands. I know. I trust you. Awesome. All right. Um, so does that cover? I think so.
Awesome. No other activity that you can think of. John will do whatever you need to have done. All right, John. Yep. I feel you've been elected. I could have massage. I was walking around Europe.
So, wait, are you going to do the water balloon toss? I'm going to look into what you guys What What did you guys say? There's a bunch of some sort of I got them from my son years ago. I think it's called Paris and Amsterdam. But that's going to be great.
And did you know Gabe was killed by cars and trucks? But this is going to be everywhere. I rode bikes with a kid on the front. I think I'm so set up for bikes. But you have no understand lane roads with four lanes. I was there
for four to five times. I still haven't seen any. So, look, you attach that to the hose, right? I don't know. Is it tools? I think when you pull it off, they're tied and everything, but it's more than Yeah, I don't know.
I'm guessing the attachment itself is pretty cheap. And then I think it is. I think each look each bunch comes with a little attachment. So, is something There you go. I'm looking at it on Amazon. It's like
16 bucks on Amazon. Do they sell? Yeah, that's it. And I think you filled them in. Thank you so much. Did you see? Yeah. Oh, she pulled them off. You just I'm pretty sure
agent would be But and then they self. So once they when they fill all the way up, then they come off and then it selfseal. Yeah, that that selfseals and by the time it's filled up, I my guess on how
that works is the water pressure just pushes it off. Oh wow. You can't fill it in. I think you're supposed to do it over a bucket so they all fall. Well, yeah. Yeah, you put you put Yeah, they all fall into the bucket, but I'm pretty I'm pretty sure they just left the house tonight. So for sure they fill up enough there's like a little plastic
ring that seals it and then when it fills up and it can't hold anymore the whatever extra water pressure just pushes off. So what is your thought on all those little pieces of water balloon? I'm not a fan of that's why I suggest reusable ones. Yeah, the reusable ones are wonderful
but they're not for a toss. But my fear when I initially mentioned this to her was I I said this the little pieces everywhere is going to be a nightmare. Could you hypothetically say like if you're if you're doing this,
we can just like lay out I this is a possibly just a pipe dream like have like a tarp area. Absolutely. I think and just be like, "Hey, this is where you're doing. This is where you do it." So when we want to clean it up, we just fold it up and bring the dumpster. Bring it to the dumpster.
Like cuz cuz you you can get massive tarps. Yeah. Massive. Yeah. Yeah, you can get some pretty big tarps. Just lay one out on the fields or somewhere. Well, we could also an umbrella and a broken up tent. Could use those
fabric. Take some fabric from our broken stuff. So, if if a toss is different than a a fight, right? Because you're you're you're running around with the fight and you're throwing it. You're trying to break. You're Yeah. But you're also running around a lot and you're trying to get
a step back. So it's easier to clean up, right? Like if it breaks, make sure to pick it up, toss it out like But if it's on, but if it's on a tarp, to your point, that's actually probably I think you make that suggestion. I don't think we have to vote on
But I think it may also turn out to be a set. They they seem pretty organized. I I think they split responsibilities and I think um that's just going to be a headache for them if they have to clean up tiny little pieces of balloon. I I you know there's I've done that and
they've done that like it's it's not fun. No, I will suggest to them the tarp. Yeah. Okay. Um that covers that. Uh updates and old business master plan update. Um I have nothing.
Anybody? No. Moving on. Uh pickle ball ping pong update. John, we're moving and grooving. We should pickle balls in good shape until we want to build the indoor facility. Okay. Um they have one coming soon.
Local Ben your local your local. Did you say okay there's one coming? No. There's one in I think they're opening one at the old bed and bath and dam. Ben Bath and Davis is going to be really pickler. It's a it's a chain. That's cool.
Um all right. So the water bubbler athlete. Um I got the DBW got back to me and um they gave me a price of $6,000.
And the reason they said $6,000 was because um it's going to require plumbing and uh carpentry. That's inside. That's that's inside. Um which is I
think what the bottom line is should happen. Um uh so it says right here um we would need to do some construction as well as hire an electrician and plumber. The anticipated cost would be approximately $6,000 if committee has
this in the budget. You could move forward. I think what we have to find out with that 6,000 that that covers the 2,000 for the the unit the device. So yes, that's what this was our thought, right, that this would be great to do.
So for the last 3 years, y folks have been using their either the bubbler as a bubbler or they've been using these and filling them in a
not so wonderful way. So I guess our choice is do we move forward or do we pause it because I don't know my personal feeling is um
I don't know I think the the initial thought was we get this so that we don't have much plastic you know people aren't you know wasting they were refilling containers but I think plastic bottles are less I could be wrong at this but I figured
people are getting the Stanley containers in Everybody has those and you don't see many people carrying the plastic bottles. Yeah. And I think we figure out how to use a bubble if we see a bubbler. So, we can do it or we can
Is this taking out the old bubblers that are there? It would be that if I think the carpentry piece is probably patching around it, which is why I said a couple months ago, let's just start over again. Put one outside and put a pedestal outside. And
is that $5,000? that that would keep people from walking in and trampling the grass with them so Zach has to pick it up on Monday. Uh so when but it would stay nice and clean if it's inside, you know. So So that that begs the question. Do we
is it is it that important? Do people use it that much or are people I think it's a nice thing for you to offer there. Yeah. I mean people are there walking all the time with their dogs. Kids are there. Now the playground is there. We have three, four, five different
events going on. Exercise program inside or outside. Well, she's got four events inside now. There's Tai Chi, there's yoga, there's stretch, ping pong in the winter, pickle ball outside. People get thirsty after ping pong.
Sure. So, um, yeah, I I do. I guess what I'm not saying we should table it. I think we continue the discussion, but I think we shouldn't vote on the $6,000 one, we just want to figure out where our finances are for
the year, but then on top of that to just make sure in that that $6,000 it covers the cost of the machine. Um, and if if that's I I have no problem with that at that point. It's, you know, it's a it's a big purchase, but um
would it be painful to ask for putting a pedestal on side? No, I I have no problem asking, but this has been going on this, you know, we voted on this and then we revoted on this and then we voted on this. Yeah. So, um but I will bring it up and see
what James has to say about it. you know, putting a you know, again, if it's outside, it's going to have to be drained for the Yeah. And you know, what the plumbing cost would be for that, I have no idea. Yeah. So, it would be shut off for the winter. The outside one would be.
So, so if we I have yoga and stretch and everything's year round. So, okay. So, that's why I thought the inside. So, just And I'm a non- voting member here, but my vote Yeah. is for inside. But if it went outside, the one inside would still be there. No, no, no, no, no, no. Okay. Well, I'm
thinking we're spending $6,000. We You're taking out the old one. Well, what John's suggesting is leave the one the bubblers and put a different price on putting one outside and for $6,000, can you put one outside without
that would handle so the bubbler inside would stay as is? Yeah. I I will I will ask I'll I'll see if there's such thing as an exterior water bottle filler because it has to be made, you know, if you're spending I don't know how much it costs because I think there's probably electricity
involved in that too. Absolutely. Um that there would be a cost that's involved with that and then the concern would be that someone forgets and the thing freezes early early. You're only going to be able to use it for eight months of the year whereas if
it's inside it's 12 months of the year. You're going to spend $6,000 $1,400 for a standard one outside? Yep. For the for the MC piece. Yep. Not the MC piece. I mean, you still need plumbing. Yeah. Electricity.
Yep. All right. I'll I'll I'll throw that. I'll see if I I'll bring that back up to James. We'll get this done. We'll get this done. In In my opinion, we have We could get a 50ft hose, too, and run it up from down below the garage.
Yeah. And we I in my opinion we have the money. We we did not spend our entire budget this year. Yeah. No. So we certainly we have some reserves and we have I'd love to spend our budget.
Um yeah, I want to spend on a nice walking trail. Yay. But you'd want to have some nice cold water available after you have a nice walk there. Yep. Just saying. All right. So having said that and the and the the walking path would walk by the front
door. I think a pedestal outside right where that post is. Just speaking from my population, they're all going to hit the bathroom. Yeah. So they'll go in, they'll hit the bathroom, they'll wash their hands, they fill their water bottle inside.
I'm not giving up on the walking path or the inside water bottle filler. No. All right. Um, can I talk to you about when I was walking with the engineers on the bike trail? They asked whether you wanted a u a call
box like a police call box, which I I feel like those are pretty standard on No, they're not. In New York, I think they are. Well, no, I don't think I don't remember. The strip that's right behind the brewery might have one. I don't That's what I'm thinking. Nope, I don't think so.
We're there all the time. I I it's it's really and I'm on rail trails all the time and it's just like I don't but the engineer asked me about it. I said I didn't even think about it. Cell phones. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. How many times I leave my house walking my dogs down a trail and don't have my
cell phone. But so I I I'll change that. If we put a walking trail at Central Street, should we put a call box in? Yes. I would say yes because it's a half mile way. It's a half mile run to the uh you
the ad and everything that I have like and they're going to put one up and then they do they have one up there yet in the fieldhouse or is it still just mine? Still yours? Yeah. I don't think anybody's asking for one. We did at one point. No, I thought James was going to put one there. Yeah, we were thinking about appropriating $1,000 for one back, but I
don't think that ever happened. Like a block at Plum Island kind of thing. Like we we all have them. See, but you want to do Plum Island actually cost 911. anything when you open the door cuz you can't or actually they unlock it for they give you a code you call they give you a code
interesting okay and we ought to again if that's on the agenda we ought to stop looking at the gra so you're going back to DPW about the bubbler yes I I I'm I'm torn about the bubbler
because I I like your idea about having outside, but I also think that let's I'm kind of married. Like, why don't we do that? Cuz then we're probably approaching $8,000 $10,000. All right. All right. Well, let me get price 25
grand budget. Yeah. I I'm rounding up. Yeah. So, we certainly, in my opinion, it's just one more nice service you're offering to the residents. Absolutely. And if we want It drives so fast people are outside and 90%
leave them outside and they don't have to come in. They can come in if they want. 90% of the people that are coming that are have their own bottles versus drinking it from the phone. Good for us. It's going to get every single one of those kids that's coming to sports. Absolutely. They have 16 of those at home. Yeah.
Yeah. Cuz there's 12 in laying on the field on Monday morning. Yeah. Yeah. They get lost in backpacks, right? All right. Left in school. I got kids. I understand this game. my guy. I'm sorry that I am suddenly feeling cheap, but cuz I've never been to that
way before, but ask them. You're kind of like, I don't know where to spend any money. But yes, um I'll find out. I I'll put that out to him and that will be a whole I see if I can talk to James directly or I'll talk to I I'll go and have a face to face
with that and I'll let her know what I my thoughts are with you guys and hopefully this will work out. Cool beats. Um all right. Uh, book exchange up. Can't do it. Mark's not here. Fiscal 25 spending plan includes water.
Yeah. Which is fiscal 26. All right. So, um, so part of our 25 plan, we we really didn't have any major items that we wanted. Well, we had major items, but we
didn't really One of the things we had talked about was the shade. I called a few places. They never called me back. Wow. So, I again I that was on one of my notes to DPW today and I have to say that they
sent me back an Outlook uh Outlook form and my iPhone doesn't like it. And then I went home and tried to do it on my home computer and it didn't like it. So, I have no idea how they responded except that they sent me that second note about
the uh so don't know don't know what's going on. Um so on the Google sheets we created um that took all of our expenditures and our income
just for like an idea. But we we only spent about I want to say 20 we're round up to say 25. So half of our budget. So we still have some money that we can spend. So in
my opinion, we can spend two without I mean, let me rephrase. We could get both. Yeah. And would still be under budget. Maximize our budget. Okay. But if if the six grand could go to
walking trail then But you still have all that other money. Yeah. I don't have money that we have not spent over the course of time. Yeah, we have to that's a whole thing we'd have to go through. We're going to have to so let's just say we wanted the walking trail. Y
my understanding and you can correct me, but my understanding is that we would that money has now moved into uh the archives if you will and in order to tap into that money to move it up to be spent, we would have to have um I
think a town vote town vote so that we could take money out of our savings, the basement fund if you will, and move it in to be spent. Is it a revolving account?
There's not a lot of money going in. That's my understanding. Mary said seems to be right. Yeah, it's a revolving account and so whatever money we don't spend goes into that and it's been building up. So it's up to I don't know $150,000 or something like that. But we have to came up for the the top
lot. Did we tap that? No, no, no, not at all. Not at all. Um, so that requires us to there's four counts and just they never Yeah. I again Tracy I'm sure could explain in 5
minutes but so anyways so the money that we take in doesn't actually hit us if that makes sense. So that goes somewhere else. Yeah. We get 50 every year. we spend 25 and
then the extra goes into I'm calling it like the basement fund. So that's why I'm using this visual. So it goes into I think it's a revolving fun and it keeps growing. So we do have but in order to move that money up we need
top which is good. I mean and that's fine. Yeah. So, if we're going to go that direction, we have to go through the whole process of either getting Chris Huntress to design it or talk to
um the possibility, and I brought this up a while ago at DVW about letting them take on a project, but I don't know what they have going forward. you know, if that's something that, you know, I could say to James, hey, is this something you guys and I don't even know if it's if
it's the proper thing to do, but if it costs, you know,5 or $10,000 worth of um, you know, some kind of fill and we do it that way or we go the other route and have um Chris put
I think that number was four sub 400 something. Yeah. Yeah. I don't I don't I don't see us getting getting that. Especially if if town's going to look for money for something else, schools, anything else. I don't see us getting $400,000.
Well, that's for a complete That would be the the rubberized surface, too. Correct. this thing you I again this whole thing with the bubble that came up that we were at the arboritum for Mother's Day and they had those little pedestals all over the place like it wasn't they were building and but they
also have uh the equivalent of stone dust with like the little metal Yeah. uh edging edging. Yeah. And it was just like that's perfect. Yeah. It's perfect. But I just I
like like eight inch I mean you wouldn't put like two inches down. No, but I just don't know. So it would be a a a good path for to me it's a senior walking path like moms with baby carriages or Yeah. toddlers on their on their bikes behind
them. Yeah. Yeah. But I just want to I I want to make sure that if we if the right proper way to go about doing this so that when it's done and if there's another May uh Mother's
Day storm with 15 in of rain, part of it doesn't wash away and then people say, "Well, the reccomitt." Yeah. So that's why um I think we should we should if we're going to do it I think it's something we should put you know sort of maybe do a subcommittee
setup where someone takes you know two or three people take on that that project and comes up with okay we talked to this and then then I don't have to do it. Someone comes to me and say Dave we did this. Do you want to just make a motion? We'll start a subcommittee and
I'll look into it. I mean, just someone wants to help, that's good. Yeah, absolutely. Um, I make a motion to set up a subcommittee on uh the walking path. Um, anyone want to second that?
I second. Uh, discussion. Uh, who would you like to be on or who would like to be part of that group? I'm in. Dan, you in? We can walk. I did walk it one day. It's like a half
a mile. Yeah, it is half so long. I I've done this. So So been my baby or your baby. Um they would use it. I'll tell you that. Yep. That's what I figure. Um could you like ask around
different council on aging and do they have a walking club? And so I know I think Amesberry has a trail right behind there. I think the Cole River there's actually a rail trail there um right downtown. How close to
is that trail coming? 2027 to how close to Central? Not okay. No, right now the 20 the the the Boston border rail trail. John knows more about it than I do, but I think it ends at Church Street.
Yeah, Church Street. So main and church or central Maine basically does it all the way it goes through church street. So it you know view in general terms it's the center of bfield sort of and then a little bit further and that the that RFP for the new report
connection is how do we get to new report it's not and that'll be by the time probably not yeah in my lifetime hopefully not down main street Scotland road's probably out and the ideal option would be actually continue
from church street to 95 five and then run through the woods like cut a trail straight up alongside the highway and at least get to Hail Street to cut over to get over the end side of 95. So you're looking to connect it to
you want to get to the you want to get to the train station would be the ultimate goal. Yeah. And the easiest way to do that would be follow the power lines. That's a whole thing. Well, then you have to go through the hunting area. That's that's That's a big
Yeah, it could be a problem. Well, it's on the con side. You have to go through the Martin, but the ultimate I do have to if that cow path is there supposed to be a cow tunnel under 95. Haven't found it yet.
We will. And if if you can get into the cow tunnel, get to the other side of 95 and then ride your bike through that great pasture, it would like the coolest thing I could imagine. And and you wind up, guess what? You're at the window. Actually, that's his holy grail.
It is my holy grail. It's my window. Is there like a broom pup? I mean, the cow tunnel view is at the windmill. All right. All right. So, we're we're second John and Dan do the subcommittee. Um, we had
a little talk about it. All in favor? I. No opposed. All right. I'll I'll just put it on the agenda for next time. I'll give a report of what cuz I I'm curious about surfaces and what I I don't know like the Wenom rail trail is stone dust. Yep. Middleton is
and you get chipmunk holes and stuff like that, but I don't think there's any I don't think there's any drainage. I know Middleton lives. Yeah. I don't know anything about it to be honest with it. Yeah. and the the the subcommittee is is
will just report back or I'll report back and then we can figure out whether we need a committee or we're going to Okay. Um I have possibility for u yoga. Um
I'm sorry. Just lost my train of thought there. Where are we at, folks? Um, uh, book exchange, water plugler, spending plan, DBW, maintenance schedule, no idea because it's on the outlet form. Um, not a concern. Uh,
shading for courts. Um, I also sent that on my outlet form and I'll find out about that, too. So, I'll try to reup Yeah. some of the people that Yeah. I I just saw, you know, it's three posts to the ground and a giant giant thing. So, if I could talk them into if
we buy it, $6,000, but if we buy it, that's your magic number. Well, I don't know. I don't know what it is, but if we buy it and the question would be if DBW has a backhoe to put in the ground and seem um that would be wonderful.
So, shade is a real problem there because we've had a pop-up tent break. We've had a regular umbrella that I bought a stand, put in the picnic table. It's inverted. Yeah, it's just it's very windy there, but you
need some kind of shade. Okay. Cuz people are melting. I I received like a I think I brought it in. Yeah. Yeah. We have a catalog from Florida and I called them and then they gave me 15 different people. But
I I'll try again. Okay. Maybe call Andress. Yeah. All right. Yeah. cuz I think he had that in some of his drawings and he did have Yeah. All right. I I'll leave it right there.
All right. Um Okay. Uh consolidation of playing fields, fieldhouse um and facilities policies. We need to chat about the policies and try to Yeah. get those. Okay. So, that's still in the works. Excellent.
I put a draft together and sent out for feedback for Mark. So yeah, take a look at um another thing we have to bring up uh the bulletin board funded approved for
banner for field water bubblers others. Not until we can't do that until we have um some solid numbers. Um new business bulletin board for fieldhouse location size accessories restrictions recreation committee could
post approved permits. Um, I talked to Sydney about this and uh, Mark had mentioned something about having it outside and Sydney and I think probably the best thing would be probably inside because of weather and uh, people coming
in to look at it. U, basically it would be a board that gives what activities are going on. Yeah. So like the Newbury Town Day flyer could be posted in there. Right now I have something up that I taped outside the bathroom. It's about we're looking for volunteers.
Um I think the open space committee had put a few things there cuz they were looking for people to fill out a survey form. So they have something just they actually tacked it I think. Do you have do you have size and you know what you want and so you No, but my thought was it would be glass
that would lock so that people aren't just throwing anything up on the bulleten board. Okay. You know what I mean? I'm I'm good with that. You just have to get us. So, let me let's I'll look at those locks. Throwing it up or taking things down,
right? So, do you want it to be in the right between the bathrooms? I think so. I think so, too. Because that's the most spot. Yeah. Yeah. If we change the bubbler, just put it right over where the bubble was. But if if it's glass then um
two birds of open spaces type of functionality where they're looking for feedback and signing up they can't nobody Yeah. whoever you I'm there every day if they hand me a a flyer to put up it's town or I don't know if you guys want
the survey I think had a QR code but they had a flyer and then they had flyer for them to access which is now it's over I think June 30th was the deadline but that would have been a great population of people to respond to that survey so
if they had it in the bulletin board but you knew it was a community bulletin board in the sense that it's town news, but I can if it's locked, I can people can give stuff to me. Town departments can give things to me. I can go over there and
principles do that. They post notices, do they notices? All right. So, I say that um we if it's okay with Cindy, we let her figure out cost and um size and location
cuz you're there all the time. Okay. And then if you come back with that or we can again that's another thing that I could talk to DPW about well that will affect
the indoor water bubbler. the endor job bubbler. This is gonna be a good vote. Oh yeah, I gave up taking notes, too, by the way. You're going have to watch the video. This is going to be a good vote when it comes to that water bubbler. Going to be
a long decision. And then Mark's going to talk about it. Well, not going to be very nice. You can collect rain water up the roof. Yep. You got to put a rain barrel outside. Yep. No. Dig a well.
It'd be a drink. It' be a water pump. A community garden. Oh, well then don't go there now. Now you're treading on the holy grail again. All right. Um Oh, guess what? This is the easy part. Establish a date and time of the next
meeting through January 26. I don't know. This was this was great for everyone through January. Yeah, that's what he put on the uh the minutes through January. It's actually kind of nice to know like my committee meetings are the third Monday of every know.
All right. So, uh how do people feel about Wednesday night verse Monday night? They're the same. Monday kind of like Monday better kind of Monday better as well
because it's like okay it's the beginning of the week I I hate to say it this way but you know you get it out the way right you shouldn't feel that way about the you you meet you get it that was recordless and then you get your marching orders
for the week how's that I I really like this group and just the fact you don't you want to get it out with kind of hurts my feeling I might have to step down. Sometimes I have to Okay, let me put it this way. Sometimes I have to travel.
So, during the week it makes it. So, I already know in my calendar that you we've already established August 4th. Yeah. Is that correct? I think so. Let me just I I just know that during the school year I know I have stuff going on on Wednesdays. I don't know for sure what I
got going on on Mondays. Okay. Mondays today. We can't lose Dan. I'm sure. I'm sure you can I'm sure I can make something be the next one if we're dealing with So August 4th
August 4th September 1st is Labor Day. So September 8th 8th October 6th October 6th cuz I think October 13th is a holiday a holiday close to November
November 3rd 10th interesting so what did we decide in October 3rd 6th the sixth I'm not coming on a Friday Mary can't go October 6th October 6th
October 6th and September 8th. Yeah. Right. Tomorrow. Wow. Date on cake. November. Did someone say November 3rd? November 3rd. Monday.
December 1st. Yep. December 1st. January 5th. I'm going December 1st, but that's fine cuz we'll go to the ETH. You No, no, no. It's okay. I won't be here on the ETH either.
Good for you. So, you know what? Don't we have someone that if we established a uh a new pecking order? Someone's taking You guys have to vote on that. Someone that I think we should Oh, we did. We did. Yeah. And is there a uh someone else
that's taken in for you? I think that you're vice chair. Yes. Oh, good. So you're running the meeting on So you have to be there. And what would we say for January? January 5th. So we've just done the entire
121. Yeah, pretty much everything. Now, can that just be posted on the agenda on the calendar? Yes. For town meeting. I mean, are you the one that was commenting on Do you know how to do it or is Mark the only one? What's that? We have I have
access to do it. I've never done it. So I can't. So it's what? Setting the setting the meeting night. Yeah. Um Joy did it for me. She didn't know if she had access and then she just did it. She goes, "Oh, I have access." Yeah, I have access. So I'll play Yeah. Yeah. Play with it and find out if
that's the case. Yeah. And um cuz then at least it'll have that that locked away for us. Uh I don't know about booking rooms. That's different. But I think Joy can do that and it may be the same his same uh venue because I know that
I mean I can setting the calendar Yeah. is on Tom's site. Yeah. So booking the room is maybe that way. I don't know. Well, I can do it if you No, you can't. I can't. We could also meet in her snacks there.
Snacks. So I So I just send in my email. I just send a new meeting and I reserve this room. I just put in the date and the time and it goes to Are you doing that for us? Do you want me to do it? I would love that. Okay. So, I'm booking this room for these dates for 6:30.
6:30. Yes. 6:30. And that makes sense because she's a town employee. So, she can add that meeting to to the town calendar. So, am I doing 6:30 to 7:30? Are you adding it to the calendar? Yeah. 7:30.
7:30. I'm going to put it on the town calendar. 6:30 to 8:00. I 8:00. I was going to try to get us out of here an hour and I'm Yeah, you close. So, but I'm over by 15 minutes. Hey, listen. This is
a We have a guest. We We still have a guest. We've gone longer than an hour until But let's try to keep it to an hour. Keep I like that agenda. So, I'll put it at 6:30. Yeah.
3 hours. Yeah, I think it's good for you to have a Yeah. And if it goes over, it goes over. All right. So, I'm going to reserve this room and put it on the town calendar for these dates, 6:30 to 7:30. Excellent. Okay. Thank you.
I have three boxes on my list. Okay. I have And I'm going to try to do this tomorrow. I'm going to try to do this tomorrow so I don't um I don't forget. Same. Oh, I'm sorry. I move to uh close the
meeting of the recreation committee. Um even though Mary doesn't like it Wednesday nights, she's not a fan of Wednesday night meetings. And I uh uh to end it for July 9th at 7:48 p.m. All in
favor? Second. Second. And I All in favor? All right.