so I've just started the recording um meeting called to order at 4M what they're Sam Hi Sam great okay so I'm just gonna name off the people who are here for the purpose of people who might be listening
to this Barbara Bigalow chair Sam spiac chair um BC riy Christine marglin Christine Robinson elain poo and our guest Christen Burgess now Christine m is about to be extremely
proud of me and here comes Ann because and she knows what I'm gonna do is there a motion to approve the meetings from the LA the minutes of the last meeting oh it's her a second and all in favor
raise your hand okay Kristen the reason that this is such a big deal is I've been sharing this for some years and I think this is only the second time in all those years that I've remembered I love that I I love that for us so okay well thank you everybody for
being here hi Ann I'm glad you're here and U Darwin is not able to be here today so um Kristen I'm just gonna kind of turn this over to you Kristen just the quick introduction Kristen had this really cool idea about
um getting a softball field back up and running behind the um the fire station so go for it uh well first of all I want to thank you all for uh having me on here today and it's exciting to see everybody and I just haven't really been
seeing enough of everybody with the weather we've been having um so and uh and it's really interesting with the weather we're having to think about my crazy idea uh that I have but I'd like to give just a quick um history on why this and how this idea sort of popped up
uh into my brain and that was because um uh we we had responded to a a home for uh a reason that they had called us for and while we were there we were asked to head next door and go check on do a well-being check on on someone and we
were there everything was wonderful the the the gentleman was fine and we just got to talking and he explained that he is in his words an Oldtimer uh in town and remembers the days of when there was a softball field behind the fire
station um and then started talking about how they used to have an ice skating rink and what they used to do with the field and and all of this so I started asking around a little bit more to um a couple of other people in town
and asking you know what they let me mute that so you don't have to hear that um and asking around you know what their memories were and surrounding this and I just thought this could could be a really fun community
policing um project uh if you will uh for me and for the department now um in the history and the stories that they tell me it was a pretty rudimentary field I mean it wasn't anything super amazing or I'm seeing nodding with
Elaine if you remember the field okay yes okay great and um so it wasn't anything like amazing or major but I started um sort of brainstorming myself and thinking of ways that if this is something that we could do if this is something we could approach how I could
get volunteers to help get it up and running what it could be used for it could be very U multi useful um you know I come from the birk shears come from many places but my last stay in the brook Shear we had a lot of a small town
and um we had uh live music on these fields we had a track around one of the fields that people uh felt very safe to be walking on I know I always am delighted to see people out and walking on the major roads but I always am
worried about them as well at well as well at times so in saying I want a softball field I want everybody to sort of broaden their thoughts with me um I see a vision there for a community a place for Community
Gathering um I know we do have a couple other places we are going to soon have a library that is going to be amazing and wonderful yes um I know every time I talk about that everybody smiles and it's like if I need someone to smile I just say that
word I know we have uh Lake wola beautiful wonderful and people come there and uh there is uh the um shoots be letic club that people feel this is just I think something a little different so if you will uh use your imaginations with me my my vision is yes
a softball field that could be used for t-ball that could be used for softball with potentially a dirt track going around it so I'm not talking about anything super fancy to start um a track for people to walk around uh bleachers
that people can watch fun games a a way that we can have the Recreation committee appeal to other folks that might want to do these sort of of things and have events there we could have a um you know we could have co-ed softball
there where people in town sort of play against each other we can open it up to other towns coming and playing shutesbury which I know if I coached it we would win um and and uh if you haven't guessed I used to be on a co-ed
softball team um in the in the past I I see live music there I see an opportunity for Gatherings there I see a you know a way to we have people in town with food trucks um where they could come and
potentially you know U we could support their small business uh I just see so much potential for this um I know it's hard to maybe Express that I see it all done in my head already uh but I also
recognize if this idea were to be taken on we would have we would have our work a ahead of us uh finding out if we can put it there finding out uh about the grounds themselves um you know all of these things which I am prepared to help
tackle um but I'm also I also will need some assistance if the town uh select board allows me to have a working group I will I will need um some some help in that I will need some brains added to
the mix I will need people that are thinking of all the reasons why it won't work so we can get to the reasons why it will um but this is something that I I would like your cooperation um and your assistance with particularly because you
are Recreation and um and this is something that I would like to see be brought for the town and also bring back it was there once it was something that people
enjoyed um and I want to bring something like that back um and and and give something to the town um and that's why I'd like it to be you know a community policing project in cooperation with everyone
else I want to I want to give something um substantial um so thoughts well first I just want to say I really I love the idea I love your enthusiasm for the idea um you know as you're talking I can kind of picture it I've already got
the colors of the food trucks yes yes um I have a couple questions and a couple comments yes um Eric my husband who you know and I had got married in 1982 and after our wedding everybody went up and played softball on that
field come on yeah pictures of people you know that was sort of the entertainment after I mean we had other things going on too but you know I love that and then Elaine and I had little kids at this uh
you know a few years later and we had there was soccer Sunday morning soccer there were two soccer goals on that field as well um and there was a riding rink out there that people had horses and did you know equestrian like things
I'm not sure what that would have been but um anyway it it there is a history there of people recreating on that field for a long time and I don't know why it sort of dissolved I don't I don't know what happened but um I can't imagine it
would be that hard to bring it back um maybe getting bleachers is another thing but you know the actual the easiest part you know it's it's going to be it's going to take a little work because it's
been dormant for quite a while but I think that this first year excuse me you work on actually making it somewhat of a reality and then in the fall when you're looking at wanting bleachers or some
real development you turn towards uh CPA funding and you ask for CPA funding and have the rec committee sponsor you and that way you could get a good chunk of the funding with that so you know it's
too late for this year right but um after that you could you could do that that's a great idea there was T Aline also about you know I would have to have a
um it's been a long weekend into this week my brain is a little slow and functioning um there would have to be a study uh independent study done to make sure that it was um able to be used for
what we' like to use or these are all things I I know are potential um issues um but anyone that knows me know knows uh I I come up with ideas and then I'm like let's just go
and see what happens um but again I recognize it's a it's a put yeah big task the town um DPW to just start mowing it like if you mowed that field every other week all summer you'd it
would really help just to start to cut down the weeds and just keep mowing it I mean I think yeah I think your biggest issue is going to be parking right and we're going to have to figure out how to do parking we might have to give up the um most northern
part of the field to make it parking there because you don't want to uh do anything that would encumber the the fire trucks because then you'll then Lenny will be you'll be done right oh no I I've sort of thought about that
already um and I have thought about potential um weekends on the weekends you know the DPW is not really there we could do that people could um park at Town Hall they could park uh the common
um things like that um park at the school and walk you know things things like that I've thought about uh those ideas um I've thought about special special parking when an event is happening on the roadway we've done that before um the police department has
allowed that before um so yes I agree that's going to be something that needs to be for sure thought of and so what I'd like to do but I wasn't going to move at all until I got lots of smiles from this group is
I would like to ask the select board if they will uh uh El maybe help me with the legality of it ask them for a working group ask them to to appoint a working group um what's the what's the terminology that would need to happen
yeah have them have them um create a working group and then um it's up to the working group to you know they'll they'll create it they'll appoint members to it people you know will apply for it and they'll appoint the members and then it's up to the members to determine you know who's the chair what
they're going to what their scope of work is going to be um another issue you probably need to think about is um bathroom facilities you're going to have to have a Portage on there I would say Okay um but you know you could you
should check in with um Sunderland School okay it's not it's not the school but but it's the field in front of the Sunderland School so it's something with um the town of Sunderland and I have to say that if you're ever looking you
you're desperate for a Porton the one in in the front of the Sunderland School is the most well-maintained clean we park there often to to bike and it's it it's amazing how nicely they they can keep that and it's just one
Porta John and it's out in the open in the middle of Sunderland and they somehow can maintain that so I think we could do that too with a very minimal cost okay did you have a want to say something um all I was gonna say is in
my poking around the internet on Commit I did find um that T-Mobile has like a a grant for small towns and I was wondering if you'd be okay if I sent that over to you to take a look at yes I was just gonna start jotting things down
Sam uh please oh yeah just I'll just email it to you and then it might even just be a nice framework to be like oh I need these things to apply for a grant funding I need to be like these are the steps I need to take that could be helpful too
yeah yes that would be great be great if you could even have like if you think really big you could have lights because it's dark here for so much of the year like that's thinking really like really my My ultimate Vision that I don't want to scare people with because I see
things complete to to fruition and 10 years from now what it looks like and I see a a beautiful rubberized track for people to feel safe and walk on and I see these really well-maintained bleachers and potentially gazebo and I
uh the lights uh for for a nighttime Gathering um you know yeah I see I my vision is pretty broad I just didn't want to scare you all with how far down the road I've I've seen well don't worry we go down those roads yeah
so Kristen another another place I when I was teaching at the school I got a lot of Grants from the New Salem Academy okay and they give grants that are just um for Community projects that are
permanent so you can't write a grant for a artist to come in and you know perform but you like if you go in the elementary school that wall that tile wall we got that was a threeyear we got money from them for three years from that wow I
love that too so there and I a lot of the murals and things in the school I got money from them so the person who knows a lot about it is our interim Town manager um because she used to be on the board of the New Salem Academy so if you
talk to her about it see if there's I don't even know if it's still up but it was money left in a trust fund from when they closed that school and it was for Franklin County projects just like what you're talking about so C just keeps up coming up with more and more Tools in
that toolbox Gabe uh she's I'm a fan for life I I I am too you know she's awesome so she'd be the person while we still have her in town yes go over and ask her about that to see what she yes so another source um one of the first
things that somebody said to me when I came on this committee or came on as chair is that there needed to be more things for um Elders senior citizens to be able to do and one of them was to sponsor walks or have some place where people could walk safely and there really isn't a place and so that might be another
source of funding because a a track um even a dirt track would provide a a level safe place for somebody who may have some mobile some mobility issues to be able to walk and that opens up a whole other um opport lots of other
opportunities for funding so wonderful because that is that is a thought uh that that I had it wouldn't it would need to be well I would want it to be multifunctional um but because there are people that have said to me I used to
walk all the time I'm you know and as much as we're trying to combat the speeding that happens through town it's just not we can't always we need to create places for people to be able to yeah feel safe and still get their mood
and also um just as a form of exercise not necessarily you know heavy duty Recreation but the track could be a place where you would do cross country ski lapping and and just get out there for for exercise instead of uh you know
if you don't have the time to go up to anywhere else to to ski that it could be a a place in the winter that you could ski and one of the uh my husband and I just got back from Mexico and um we did a tour of different
uh areas of Mexico and in one of the tours we were going through a um Mayan community and in the middle of the community they had this beautiful little um sort of recreational
um pod of equipment uh so people were able to do pull-ups there they were able to sit on this metal seat and do uh biking and it was all permanent stuff that was there and it was almost like a playground for adults I I dug it I was I
was like we need that I would like that where I live too so well Kristen I want to thank you so much for coming I would say that all the nodding heads and smiles speaks volumes so so you know keep us informed about what you're doing and feel free to come
back so we can talk about ways in which we might be able to to help great so I I'm gonna my next step then is going to be to request to be on an agenda upcoming agenda for the select board to request a working group and then when that happens I'm very hopeful that um
you uh you will just have some people from the recreation committee apply to be on that um because I think it's important for us to have that input um from all of you so um and um and then
when the other thing is that if anyone has any input on who we should have in a working group and maybe how many people we should have in a working group if you could email me some thoughts on that too okay great um I would really appreciate it so um here's here's to bring in cool
things to the Future yeah thank you so much yeah great thanks than thank you all so much if you don't need me I'm gonna excuse myself and get ready meeting all right okay okay thanks for coming bye you all bye
bye bye okay so our next agenda item is the um DCR proposal so I I can let's see I don't ever share things let me just see if I'm going to be able to share there I want to
share there is the letter up no no yeah it says I'm sh it says oh good oh good okay so um basically um we just need to go through this for Content um I can make any editing as we go and
then sending it to commissioner Aro and then on to um CF Saunders and Healey is that right I think that good so DC this is kind of I'll just hand this over to you at this point okay well um I'm
curious who did the red uh added the red was that you Barbara yeah okay why don't you just um I don't have my classes right oh okay well the first was just I wasn't sure how biking was affected that's all so I
I'm not I mean I think if they go through with what they're planning to do you mountain biking will be definitely um okay affected I don't think Road biking because they're not going to um you know log on the roads that are
here okay so I'll just put in mountain biking it's pretty minor this is not and then the other one wait a minute wait a minute um is mountain biking um allowed on DCR property I don't think it is oh thank you I don't know you know you
hear one thing and then you hear another like well but the signs there say I know but the signs say no dog walking but then there is a a letter that's been circulating around from one of the commissioners of the DCR saying that you
can walk on the west side of the Quin which is shutesbury um and you can walk with a dog so I don't know what you know you know what my suggestion on this one would be is that it could potentially be
problematic to include biking and it's not going to hurt it to exclude biking just take it out yeah and then the other question was just about um it's the logging project violates this Mission by making the quab Quin
Reservoir unusable and inaccessible which suggests that the whole thing is now unusable no no no it's not doesn't make it all inaccessible um by making um a major portion ofing
okay of and it should say the quab and res resir Watershed I think because we're not we're not walking in the right resir okay great and so they were pretty minor things so now I will turn it over to you and to others who may have other
editing things that they might want to do looks good to me okay all right now I had I couldn't find my um the email because I had sent sent you an email or maybe I didn't sometimes I write things and don't send them because um when I
was going through the um uh conflict of interest stuff I came across something that I thought is that we're not allowed to make political statements but this isn't really a political statement No this is related
to Recreation see yeah okay great I just want to make sure I'm dotting the eyes and crossing the te we're not we're not saying you know no trumpsters can walk there we're just saying not oops this is taped never mind none of that just occurred um no you know
we're not we're not saying that groups can't all right yeah I what I go ahead sorry I just had a couple of really minor Tech editorial things yeah go for it um really minor that's why between
and the third line between activities and such you need a comma okay do that wait a second I'm not seeing where third line first paragraph third line first par inter activities comma okay and then after hunting you need a
comma and then I just wonder and then barbar you deleted all by mistake so you need to what did I just do just write the word all there all of which thank you um and then just I wonder if it would be helpful to put the URL of the
um website or the web page that that that quote comes from beey just to uh add that like citation I don't know where that I would I don't remember where I found that you know what we could just say the the if this is the
mission statement then we just have to say the mission statement of DCR States okay that sounds good oh yeah we don't have to say where it's from it's their mission statement yeah oh yeah well if it's the statement it needs meent at the end of State yeah I was going to say
that there was another little right thank you yeah this is good you guys are good this is why I'm I found I found this the um the statement where the DCR manages state parks and blah blah health and happiness
of people blah blah blah I found it on their website you want to just put the page or does it have a um it's it's the top it's it's their it's the top of their website I think we need to yeah
org Department of Conservation Recreation it's their it's their first line yeah and we don't need to reference that it's okay okay and then I just I have a Demo's Advocate question yep um so when it says that that it will make a
major part of the Guam Reservoir unusable and inaccessible what if they say no it won't like it's only going to take three months and then afterwards people can walk in this lovely logged barren you're not going to be able to walk in it for
years okay um you will maybe eventually maybe our grandchildren will be able to walk do you know beey do have you got information on how long that logging logging project is supposed to take because that would be re like if we
could say proposing a multi-year pro project yeah it is a multi-year project so let me tell you what happened today this morning six people from the DCR came out here and met with Eric and
Donald Fletcher and uh Joe cumerford and Joe comerford's assistant and they walked around what they're gonna do and um I was not invited to be part of that but um they didn't want to have too many residents I
think showing up but you know they defend what they're going to do they say this is going to be we're not going to we're not going to get on the trail we're not going to touch the trails but they are going to touch the trails but you know um and we're not doing this to
make money which I find really amusing because obviously they're making some money off the lumber but anyway you know they're very defensive about what they're doing we're going to help this is going to help the quality of the forest this is going to make but here's the reality if you know we on 202
there's a big pulloff between um coyville Road and the main road that goes up to Town the you know Prescott Road um that leads to where they're going to do the logging they have to put in a large Bridge they
put in a metal Bridge they replace the old wooden bridge they put in this very large wooden bridge but they didn't do it right so now they have to go back and you can see in that pull out they huge three big piles of stones that they're going to Road building equipment so the
first step is they have to build the road because we know what logging trucks how heavy they are how big they are they can't go down Cornwell Road it's a tiny little road so they have to rebuild a road so let's just say this isn't going
to happen tomorrow but if they build that road and if they fix that bridge they're going to have access to all of shutesbury to Lake wyola to Wendell down if you just keep going down New Boston Road you end up at
wola so I this is our thinking is that they're going to do this first here in coyville and then they're going to keep going you know once they get the road in they're just going to keep going down and until they hit you know they
they're not in the DCR Forest anymore which is at uh Jenis Road I think and in Wendell so they they could go they could do a lot of logging now they say they're going to do it in this sort of checkerboard way where they don't take
it's like a one acre they destroy everything in one acre and then they move on they don't do it right next to the road they don't do it right you know um but it is if you you could go and see what they've done down by this pull out
on 202 they did logging there I think two or three years ago and it looks like a nuclear bomb went off still that was two or three years ago um everything's just trashed now eventually the Earth
will you know will win out and with things are starting to grow up between all the you know in 10 years maybe there'll be something green there I don't know um as things rot and but it it's not going to look good for a while
so I just edited that little bit to capture this so it'll be unusable and inaccessible for many years to come yes that's good that's that's sort of accurate yeah I also just want to say someone joined um the Michael do you w to just say hello and say your name for
the recording um hello Michael hootstein I I just uh was checking out my zoom connection and and um but I live uh right where wendle dirt wendle road
comes on to main wendle road so I I walk Boston a road in that area I didn't know this was happening so yeah well you know what they didn't even tell the abutters it was happening this is one of the things yeah so they they they had this whole plan
they had like a period of time where the a Butters could make a comment or you could have public comment it closed and then we found out about it the next week only because somebody we know is a retired Forester for DCR who came to us
and said do you know that they're going to be logging all these woods and that's the way we found out so that was one of the things we said to Joe cerer today you know was like well you know you did not even it's not really legal what they did that they had they should have told
the abutters that they were doing it and then they said oh we'll make an exception we'll put your letters in um the file even though it was after the period of time that you were supposed to be able to comment I was like well if we didn't know was happening how could we
comment well uh I'm uh is it all right if I say something oh please absolutely yeah so as you might know my name I've been respectfully challenging the state and now the town of shutesbury for 30 years and there's a a respectful right
way that you can challenge things that are wrong um and uh and if you don't stand up to things that are wrong they happen every time but I have found that uh if you make a good argument based on
the facts and the regulations and the laws you can succeed more often than not to to uh move your uh Mission forward so uh if I can ever be helpful because obviously this is my community it's very
concerning for me um that uh you know any way I can be helpful and I know my wife Kathy feels the thank you Michael thank you so much yeah um yeah it is very concerning I think they this is what I think happens these decisions are made in Boston where they look out to
the western part of the state and they say oh nobody lives out there and look at this map there are all these trees there there's all this Forest what if we just logged you know uh a tenth of it or you know 20th of it nobody will notice
nobody will care I mean I don't think they realized they were going to meet up with some opposition about this I think they were surprised so anyway we'll do what we can do you know and um anyway we'll see I
mean it it will sort of change the feeling of shutesbury in a big way now DC you had raised another question about this and that was whether or not our names should be listed yeah I'm not sure if we can put if we just leave it as the shsb recreation
committee or do we put all of our names in there I don't know what do people think I think you you really should have the membership there okay and Elaine It could only be people who are here right I mean we
couldn't or we you'd have to get Darwin's you have to get Darwin's approval of it yeah yeah that I can ask her she the only one not here today yeah yes okay I'm sure she wouldn't care okay um bu um did every body this
is the first time everybody's seeing it in its new form uh yeah it's yeah it's basically just edited what you had originally sent and I took the edits that others had offered okay um so I think we need to um move to accept the
content of the letter and to send the letter is that correct so could um so I move that we accept this letter um with the caveat that we will add all the names which is not currently on this and send it to the um commissioner as well
as the other people listed at the bottom of the letter is there a second to that second and um any discussion further discussion all those in favor just raise your hand and I'm actually going to
close this so I can see because I just realized I can't see everybody okay so raise your hands great all right so that is unanimous and also Michael's um jumping in there with this too good timing you know can I say one thing about that um when you do add our names
can do it in such a way so it stays one page yes it's all gonna be one page okay good yeah no I'll make sure if you add it everybody would it then go on to another page no it'll all be one page I want people to know in Wendell I'm in touch with my friends who challenged a
large clear cutting by the state they got 10 citizens together they sued the state my friend Glenn ears um and uh they did a wonderful job so he is an expert on the legality of how they uh
they they take some the state takes a lot of shortcuts and nobody stands up to them right so it's not impossible for us to call in your legislators they won't get involved with these matters but 10
citizens with the leadership of the recreation committee um it it we can challenge things in a respectful way how do you spell his last name Michael Glenn SS a y ERS but erss Glenn's in
Greenfield now but they uh people actually felt so strongly about the cair county and Wendell bunch of people got arrested um so um um Wendell as you know has been uh a Hut bed of activism for
quite a few years um but they did in a real peaceful nonviolent way um they were not able to Prevail but Glenn was in conversations with our attorney general now our governor um so um you
know just by discussing what they learn a a group of people from the committee you you folks with us backing you up can be very very powerful um but it's not asking for somebody to help you do it you've got to decide this is what I want
to do and um and then people like me will help bring you the information uh and support you in your Endeavor but we're not powerless right in this day and age it's nice to know that
yeah and Bey I want to thank you so much for bringing this to the committee and drafting this letter thank you okay no problem okay you know we're rallying rallying the troops yep okay okay good on to the
next um let's see I put everything in a neat file so it would all be in order and it actually stayed in a neat file one last can you just send um you will send us all a copy of this oh yeah
yeah yeah yeah you'll all get a copy then I can forward it to Donald Fletcher who's sort of spearheading that so he knows that the rec committee um has supported the you know yeah and I want to thank Sam for
our logo because I that on the top yeah I was able to put our logo at the top of the letter and it really does look nice thanks Sam yay okay all right so now I got something else to share and just a few things to say about it um before we get
going let's see I want to share this and I'm going to share and that should be sharing and there we go any moment okay so um I just wanted to um kind of
figure out how much money we have left um given the number of projects that we're potentially doing and to look at what we have already spent money on so the budget update up at the top the night sky that was in August the
townwide birthday party was in September then there's a thousand that we give to the library for the fitness classes and for the Good Neighbor Day um we bought some some soccer balls for the Youth Soccer um there was the Brightwater bog
walk and then on the Improv Workshop which was this last weekend and thank you to Christine M for um organizing that and uh getting Henry to come and Lead that it was it was a lot of fun um um it was a whole lot of fun if anyone
ever needs a reason to laugh do some improv and you will be you will definitely be laughing how many people showed up it was a small group there were nine people there were two there were two other people who had signed up and then they um ended up cancelling out
so it was not you know we it wasn't like the walks we didn't have 20 people plus a 15 minut 15 people on a waiting list but it was it was it was a good it was a good number of people and a lot of fun
so um so then but looking forward now to the other uh things that we have talked about and I don't think we have to make all these decisions today but um we've sponsored the Open Studios in the past I'm making the Assumption we'll want to
be a sponsor again with that we helped them with marketing expenses the bike repair event we talked about last time um one of the things we'll need to talk about and I'll turn it over to Sam for this is the logistics of it um we talked about having an early morning Bird walk
during migration and then my personal favorite rocks of the area um with a very funny geologist um how to start an orchard um the farm visit to and I'm forgetting the name of the farm in
Hatfield um a spring Brightwater bog walk and another night sky so we don't have enough money for all of those things um if we're paying people as much as we have been so um couple of things and then I'll stop talking and hand it over
at least for the bike repair bent to Sam and we don't have enough money for each of them but there are things that we can do the night sky would probably not be till August so that's our next fiscal year um how to start an orchard we could
probably put into another fiscal year um some of the option is we could offer all the remaining events and then pay them just divide the balance by the number of events we could offer three events and PID 250 each and leaves the remainder for something um
cliff and Graham and Helen all said they really didn't want an honorarium and they gave it to the library which is really nice so we could also ask people how they would feel about not getting an honorarium this time and we could also
decide not to do this many so that's I just said a whole mouthful of stuff but basically we have lots of ideas of things to do um we don't have as much money as we would like um and so we may have to make some decisions the
bike repair event was one that I I think I got the sense from our last meeting we definitely want to do that and Sam you had talked to some people um about the event so I wonder if you could say a bit more about it sure yeah um I talked to
my friend Stu he lives over on Schoolhouse Road and let me this up um and he has a connection at Laughing Dog bikes in ammer and um the questions that they had for us was date
and time and how long um how much we could afford to pay them and then they were kind of thinking of doing it as just like a mini bike tuning Clinic where you just come and they just kind of quickly I would guess spend 10 or 15 minutes on a bike and tune it up and
then they would also want um an indoor space if we could provide it as well that's as far as we have gotten on that okay um I had said that we typically one second honey we set typically have about
$250 per event and um one second and um that we could possibly do it in the basement of town hall great comments ideas I think it's good it's something different we haven't done it before I
like doing some things that we haven't done before yeah I think that's good I mean not that the other things aren't good but you know we have done some of them before I think it's nice to keep you know appealing to maybe people who haven't come before to one of our things
and you know exactly the only thing that I would suggest is that we uh use the gym and not the basement of town hall because it has the parking lot and so they could actually ride their bikes on the parking lot I think our only concern
is that we don't love the responsibility for opening up the school ourselves is that right Barbara I don't like doing it um I don't currently have a key so it's a moot
point um but I'm sure we would be able to figure it out figure that out that I think that's the only constraint there yeah yes yeah we have yeah there's members of the community that that work at the school that would definitely do it yeah yeah I'm not I think we would be
able to as long as I don't have to I think the school would be my preference as well for the same reason we could do we could really do a lot and don't we didn't we also buy a tent last year as well we did buy we bought yes we did we bought a tent so we could do that too
yeah how big 10 10 by 10 oh my goodness I don't remember how I think probably was 10 by 10 yeah [Music] Christin I agree that um this is a good idea for
the bike repair as well as pursuing some different things and um I really like the idea about the rocks and um starting an
orchard I I I I I just really think we should pursue new things thank you thank you and maybe the farm visit is something that we could say you know tell people about the potentials for
Farm visits and maybe not do a farm visit this year maybe you know have have a list of farms and you know that they could visit themselves oh that's a nice idea yeah there are a lot of farms all over I me you can just go to UMass to
the the barns there that's really fun that's like you you don't have to plan anything just right yeah I think that um that's a good let's just make a list of farm animal but I I agree with with Christine that you know doing something
different each year you know we did the um uh what was the event at the school the um kid familyi day like three years in a
row we don't need to do that no you know if they want to do it again you know they have the the capability to do that so I like switching it up and having things that other age groups would be interested in the idea of the comedy and
rocks too I mean oh no I know doesn't that sound intriguing that sounds and Barbara you know one thing you didn't mention about the improv group is even though it was a small group there were people that hadn't been at other Recreation committee events so that was
really nice I didn't know any of those people yeah except for Diane but yeah an an was a particularly um talented um or knowledgeable U professor of Art
was her role in of oh was she good it was a lot of fun but yeah there was there were new people that I have never people I'd never met before which is really cool um hey thank you all so much I've got a head out okay thanks for
coming it was it was a real pleasure uh thank you for letting me be with you and thank you so much for your great work than I can't tell you how much you know I I had perfect timing uh but uh but thank you I I know you're all I feel so
blessed to live in this town so I just want to let you know how much I appreciate you all right thank you thank you very much bye Everybody by bye well so for right now I think what we want to do is find a date for the P bike repair event I think we should
start moving forward with that one I remembered from the minutes if I'm recalling that we had basically just left it we didn't want it we wanted to make sure that it didn't conflict with town meeting and but I can't remember when town meeting was um April 26 April
26th yep oh okay there's one more thing we forgot on the list is kites but it should cost us yeah we love kites $40 I think it cost us last year so it's not thank you
I'm not gonna break the bank and in the library will join with us they'll do a or something okay fantastic okay so the big I'm sorry so the I'm sorry say again when the April
for the town meeting April 26 26 okay and would we want to so have it sometime in May early May of what may I'm gonna get rid of the sharing at this point the bike repair do
it sometime early May what are your people's thoughts on that well there's International Kite Day Japanese festival in Japan and oh when is that it's always in early May oh
anyway um this isn't like broadcast yet but the PTO auction is going to be May 9th okay I gotta get on on that
marketing yeah I mean one of the things that was said at our last meeting around the bikes is keep it simple because I know we have had all kinds of you know decorating things there's so many things one can do but I think keeping it simple especially the first year would be a
good idea um and international kite day is January 14th by the way oh oh okay we're not doing that Japanese that could be interesting out on the lake it'll be on the frozen
lake in our bathing suits yeah no we we'll we'll pass on that one okay well we'll January we'll figure out a date um and get that nailed down at our next meeting because that'll still give us plenty of
time because that's the end of March in May why don't I offer like May 17th 18th is that a Saturday Sunday yeah I'll ask for those like two last weekend uh the 24th is Memorial Day
weekend is good people think about their bikes in the spring yeah yeah yeah I think that's great I'll try to do okay I'll send a couple dates in May and then we'll just see what they say okay okay and another thing it's someone had mentioned that there are a lot of
people well I there are a lot of people in shutesbury who do a lot of biking and are pretty good at bike repair so in addition to somebody from the um the bike shop in ammer could also have other people there who can help with with various repairs um so that it's not just
one person dealing with everybody right be good on that okay good all right Elaine you've been recruited to come up with some names then oh easy yeah exactly there you go my husband would do it happily
too I just um Mark Mark PR is really good Cliff Reed is really good great um Dan lass is very good John airstock oh wow okay tons of people
yeah good so actually then the question is do we want to bring someone in who we hiring or just have local people there doing this let's ask the locals first if they're interested Sam what do you
what's your feeling about that okay I agree oh okay all right I think that sounds great yep oh fantastic good because it would be that would be kind of nice too just um all right so much
enthusiasm yeah like this is the most positive I felt you know since Trump went into office this is like awesome yeah coming together things you know they can't take you guys want ask for
them sorry you're breaking up ask sorry May 17th do we want to try for that sure can you hear me sorry will you ask about May 17th okay I'll check in with
the the bike people I know and it would be like a morning yeah I think morning would be I think so yeah okay great and my bet is we'll get lots of people for that okay so right now
then the bike repair thing we are tentatively doing it on May 17 um the kites needed to get added and then the um the priority will be to plan other events at that are new events that we haven't done
before yeah okay and uh Christine M could you could you ask your husband when a good time would be for Orchards yeah I did and oh great happy to do this um I guess he was just
concerned if people are trying to work on an orchard or start an orchard this year than it needs to be kind of earlier like I'd been thinking it could be later but anyway if people are really interested in doing this then probably
like April at the latest I mean to do in March so um I I don't even know if you can do it in April you know would he would he ever do a tree pruning you know um because people have trees that always
need to be pruned in the spring winter late winter early spring would he ever do that you know like help like talk about I mean that's one of the things he would talk about it right I mean he could demonstrate on a tree you know what I mean like yeah yeah yeah and he
doesn't you know he's not going to take money so you don't have to factor that into the oh okay would be I would think that would be interesting for a lot of people how to prun trees um because starting an orchard that that's a really a whole
another level of yeah commitment and money but pruning everybody's got trees yeah I think it's more about like maintaining a lot of people just have a tree or two that's a goodidea yeah how do you keep it healthy you know what do you yeah it shouldn't be built as just like
starting your a whole Orchard it's like just taking care of any fruit trees really may have or that you may want to get oh maybe we could we could build it as that as fruit tree preservation or something like that and pruning I think put pruning in there yeah Christine you
have a you're you're muted right now Kristen you're muted yeah say oh thank you so you're saying what I'm thinking which is like how do you fertilize fruit trees and you know
that's like things I would like to know as well like that's all maybe healthy fruit trees is the way we build it and healthy fruit trees healthy fruit trees I'm being very aware of the time we've never gone over oh yeah and it is currently
457 okay I I quit this committee then this over 15 minutes we haven't gone over yet um but uh we we have action plan so we have an action plan for the bikes we have an action plan for the
Orchards and then it's just when when he pick a weekend in April that it would make sense to do this yeah I think yeah okay and so we're good with that yeah Christine and and again you need to unmute the how about the rocks
um I would could we hold off on the rocks for the moment just because of our timing and I think that it that doesn't have to happen in April or May because rocks are always just there they don't have a season that sounds like a song If you if you haven't heard it on Friday
the um fabulous 413 had a little blurb about Jurassic armored mud balls which are are only
found in Turner Falls and in the waters of Franklin County and they're trying to get this as a state I don't know what um but but they're mud balls and and and they are
from the Jurassic era and they live in the waters up in Turner Falls and I mentioned that to Al and he knows the guy who actually found them who was a um a professor in at Greenfield Community
College and he he knows all about them too and so that could be one of the field trips that he would take us on which would be hysterical but sign up for that all right great well that sounds
wonderful be there what they'll be there in in the summer it would be more fun actually yeah that's the thing about the Rocks they don't like I said they don't have a season so I think then we're all set this was a wonderful meeting as
always um I must say I'm very glad Michael came and I'm very glad Michael said that we can we can have an impact because I lose sight of that these days that it's possible to have an impact and to have someone come in and say there's something you can do and it will make a
difference was really perked me up so I'm appreciative of that so um could someone move to adjourn the meeting so moved and second and all those in favor great the meeting ended
at 5 o'clock pm.