i guess so all right i'd like to call the March 27th 2025 Newport Park meeting to order roll call chairperson Ferrer here vice Chairperson White here here
here here all right thank you do we have Has everybody had a chance to look over our agenda and if they have is there a motion to approve so move seconded all
All in favor i opposed motion carries all right um parkboard minutes from October 24th um I looked over anybody else have any questions or anything on them any
additions corrections if I'll move the park board minutes from October 24th 2024 i'll second all in favor i I opposed all right motion carries
executive director's report all right uh just an update for the hockey rink this season we had 653 skaters at Lovelin Rink and 98 sets of skates grand opening for the dog park is
Thursday April 17th at 3M south Washington County School District is planning on having students planting seedlings on April 25th May 9th at the Beta School what are they
doing i'm sorry planting seedlings i get to go one of those days and construction on a lever breach has begun down at the Cedar Lane part that's all I had all right perfect thank you
all right um reports i'm going to just start out briefly and if there's anybody that wants to add anything on the family fund night please go ahead um I just wanted to express a real sincere thank you to all the members in the community that came out and joined us that evening
um luckily weather was cooperative and we had an excellent turnout and it was really great to see all the folks um thanks to the firemen for showing up for the tug of war one of these years the firemen maybe win the tug award but it didn't happen again this year um also
wanted to shout out a thank you to Pauline thank you for her time to put games together and organize things to help with the help with the kids have fun with games and things special thank you to Derek for getting equipment up there that we needed and stuff and to park
board members for all your participation and wanted to be sure to say thank you to Rachel for getting supplies there and Oh Rachel brought my supplies yeah your supplies and Saurin for pitching in and helping out with it stuff so yeah it was a it was a wonderful evening and hope to see um everybody at another event like
that again soon so anybody else have anything they want to add well I just want to add um Pauline SH Miller has helped with this for several years and her background is in um in um yeah outdoor activity kind of things and um
she sent an email to me today with some um they weren't criticisms at all they were just suggestions and just some critiquing kind of things i'm going to forward that to everybody on the board so that and I'll uh forward it to you as well Derek um just a couple of the
things that we should probably um reserve both rinks so that we have access to the hockey rink and the pleasure rink um and there may be a time when we just have one or the other depending on the ice um because then you
know games could be done in a in a better way um but she had she had one game that we we did not do that would have been fun but it couldn't be done with um what we had access to she also suggested too and of course we've talked about this we've never really been able
to get the music to work up there um no matter how smart somebody is with the ID it and somebody bringing a cord and those kind of things so we need to try and figure that out figure out something whether it be just to get I don't know and it's not my my era at all to figure
that out um but I do want to I'm going to forward that to everybody so that we can have those things in mind for next year um and there was some very good suggestions that I'm sure we all probably would think of too um but a big thanks to her for doing that again and
um you know she's the one her and her husband well her husband is the one that made those little um out of PVC pipe the little trainers for kids to skate and um he's also the one that has sharpened skates for us every year um that are up there and I know how did the skates go
as far as could we have still used more skates i would say most of the evening we were down to probably maybe just a couple pairs of skates left um but no it was it was a really good turnout so we probably could still use more skates if
we see them someplace um especially little ones for kids you know younger ones so um I know that's been you know something so and then she also suggested there needs to be more than one person doing the games so and that kind of makes sense too so but thanks to her for
doing that again this year yes she did a excellent job all right anybody else have anything to add on winter family fun night okay all right um we'll go ahead and move on to Pioneer Days emmy you want to fill us in please yes so more
information to follow however the big change is that it'll be on Saturday August 9th this year um and there are other activities that will be kind of incorporated in Pioneer Day uh until they get kind of confirmed I'll just
hold off but more information to follow but um there is a blurb on the website I believe already and it's in the little rotating um TV in the entryway as well um it will also be in the next newsletter that gets sent out so just
save the date for now super thanks for your work on that committee you know something we might might want to mention about that too um and keep on our radar is um you know in the past um the board has had a table there under a tent um with display and we did not do that last
year um just because it didn't happen so we may want to think if we want to continue to do that or if we want to go back to doing it again or not so we shared space with the library last right yeah well No one was at that table uh no the
library took over the whole table because we didn't have anything with us um so do we still want to do that i don't know so and I don't know what your plans are for for groups doing it you know between the I it would be really hard to share with the library the library really needs their own tent okay
because they did use the whole space and it was very very well done so it's just something for us to think about this summer jill is going to send out letters to those that have participated in years past so I guess I'm not really sure how that would maybe be for the board
i mean pretty much what we've had is um we we've handed out brochures on Buckthornne um if we know when we're doing our Buckthornne cleanup kind of thing we've had a flyer on that and then we've had a poster that shows all of our pocket parks and parks for cleanup who's
who's um doing them um Anita has had that board before where we show if we've got open spaces for people to volunteer to clean up a park so that's pretty much what we've done so we don't need a whole table we need a whole table but we don't need a whole tent let's put it that way
okay so um but that would be you know up to whoever to decide that we want to still do that okay i think something we could kind of table for now and then discuss further at our next meeting and there might be other
things in the parks that we might want to talk about too especially with the new park opening up and we're in process and the dog park yeah so I think it's something definitely to have some further discussion on all right anybody
else have anything else for Pioneer Day all right hearing nothing i'm going to move on to the next um so Emily and I have been chair co-chair and so we just wanted to um talk with you guys about uh filling
in those positions we'll still be here on the board but um just wanted to give everybody a chance to chair and co-chair the committee so wondering who's interested in acting as chair and co-chair i nominate Wayne for chair second that
all right do we have a co-chair that's fine okay i'll Emily all right all right thanks okay um all in favor i I opposed motion carries
um I had thought in one of our last meetings I went back and double checked my calendar i thought we had picked a date in June for the f uh summer family fun night but I don't think we did did we well I did too but then when I looked on my calendar it's not there i don't see anything and I usually put it on
right away so school is out on June 4th correct yes so do we think the 2nd or do we want to put it after school is out i think we you usually do it when school is still in right i think last year Well last year it rained out but we did it the
night before so you know this year it would have been the third if we stay with that same you know that same timeline okay suggestions critiques you're the teacher so what do you think you think that would work
i don't want to keep them out too late so they're crabby on their last day of school yeah would it be fun or do you think more um exciting to have it i I feel like last day of school you know a little party celebration or maybe less attended
i don't know i think you'd have more attendance on that day the Tuesday before the last day than you would if you go the last day and if you go the next week I think there'll be less okay and we've had a really good turnout um mainly because we've had the ice
cream truck now that is in which park loveland loveland loveland okay um so June 3rd um 6 to 8 o'clock time frame that's what we've done does that sound right
okay it was 6 to 8 last year that we didn't do it all right so June 3rd um 6 to 8 and do we have to vote on this no okay all right so we've got that on the calendar um anybody have anything else
they'd like to add i think we probably need Well we probably got time to talk about it but do we want to still have the ice cream truck because I think I would call and that's something that reserves really fast especially that last week of school and I mean I can do that i could
call McMart again and see if that's something they can provide i want to try and do two trucks again i think you're planning on doing that last summer yeah I Well and I think that's what we should do if or at least two people yeah well two people is all we really would need two people in the one truck would be
fine okay all right so you will call and arrange that with them on the 3rd of June then yep i'll call right away and then All right perfect anybody else have anything they'd like to add and we could probably in uh our next meeting go ahead
and start planning more things for that yeah and but maybe in the newsletter when does the next newsletter come out Derek do you know they're quarterly right we could get on the little revolving sign that would be great yeah and and maybe on the website as well yeah i'll
let you know i mean any place that we can get it maybe find out when the newsletter comes out do we make flyers at all yes and we've made up flyers and I have the
master sheet okay drive yeah and we could make copies of that and then we've done the half sheets that we've passed out at the school so if you got Do you have the master half sheet Anita i do you do
i think I have the winter family fun one okay yeah I've got that one too i say both of them on our drive okay yeah so if we could What would we send them home the week before then um Anita yeah probably the Thursday okay thursday
before okay so that would be Memorial Day is the week before that yeah the Thursday before yeah because Memorial Day is the 26th so we would send them home on the 29th of
May we could talk about that later too if you get Derek can get the copies made and if you need somebody to pick them up I can pick them up and get them to school or whatever just drops them off on my doorstep yeah because that's what really makes a
difference when the school kids know especially the elementary and then they So then that whole week or at least Monday I'll have it in the announcements Monday and Tuesday y All right any other items
i have one thing to comment um on my way out the door my wife caught me on the Newport page someone was complaining about uh Pioneer Park the equipment the rubber starting to peel and crack and there's some other signs of deterioration i don't have a lot of details and I haven't been over there u
might be something worth looking into i don't know if because the equipment's relatively new if there's any kind of warranty on it or if it was vandalism rubber on the base you mean i don't have any specifics she just caught me as I was heading out the door u so it's on uh
it's on one of the Facebook pages okay someone had noted that i guess it would be your guys to check that out okay and that busy Beaver Park oh my gosh is busy oh my goodness is it
ever there i very rarely no matter what time of the day um we even have adults um there's a a woman that is down there every single day swinging on the swing but very rarely do I go by that there aren't kids in that park that's wonderful so it has been a wonderful
addition and oh by the way we do have the um little library the library on a stick is operational again thanks to Tom Gagliardi for repairing the glass on the window again and we kept it open we kept it blank um all winter the the the uh
cover was off the door and now I saw that he's repaired it again and the books are back in there so hopefully we won't have any more damage there but that's back and up and running all right perfect i just thought about one thing with summer coming up and stuff like
that um I know that she came last year and stuff like that and I just thought maybe one of us could just check in with the librarian Emory to see if she has any potential summer programs going for the kids too oh she does okay i I'll maybe reach out or I'll stop by and got stuff going all the time i will stop by
and chat with her and just make sure that she comes in and before schools out and shares it at one of our meetings good idea all right any other items do you think we should make a motion to adjurnn i'll make a motion to adjurnn
i'll second all right all in favor opposed motion carries thanks