6:30 we'll open the meeting for the park and wreck February 12th 2025 um I'm David Dori in attendance we have brick heran Dan Welsh uh we'll start off with public comment I don't think we have anybody
online tonight or in the audience so we'll move to the minutes anybody have a chance to take a look at the minutes I did you notice anything out of work I thought they look pretty good yeah
okay pass Mor rounds make a motion accept a minutes yeah I'll make a motion to accept minutes second all in favor I um next up we have the master plan implementation um we had Dave Spina from
the master plan implementation committee was going to try to get down here and talk to us tonight and let us know what they're all about he's not basically um that's John click on uh that say admit
yeah there you go you can ask him to unmute too if you want since you want to hear his voice hello John I don't know if it's John I'm pretty sure it's John but I'm not sure
posi all right did somebody else join been outside person yeah it's fine okay so the master plan implementation committee is looking to um from the master plan that was done up the last couple years looking to have different
departments um do different things that are on it yeah and we have some things I I'll have to get that forwarded to you um Dave spena was going to come in and talk a little bit about what they're looking for us out of it but since he's not here I'll wait till the email goes
out and we hear from him if he does show up I'll come back to it after um next thing on the agenda is Wally Park um we have some spray pad updates I had talked to Nicole um last month I
guess she talked to Rob LEC and Rob's gonna have his firm oversee the the construction of the splash pad and hopefully get started in the spring that's the last update I got and she said she would any information Rob would
reach out to Nicole and Cara to keep us updated on things I don't know if you've heard anything I have not not yet um so that's it for the the splash pad or the spray park um pickle ball I
guess Rick if you got any information on that yeah I think the only update is that we're taking it to the CPC next week okay um did we ever get an answer back between us and as to whether we thought
that um it needed to be reviewed by so I had sent that email um she didn't respond and then she put you guys on the agenda so I think it's okay I think it's okay and we'll figure it out next week and if it's not okay we tend to have at least one selectman attend that
sometimes two and we'll figure it out from there obviously we're not in a hurry right now because we got to put it to the town vote and that's not happening till spring right yeah so that's what we're trying to get it ready for is for May but I know the Selectmen are aware of it oh
they are absolutely aware of it yes 100% um but that's the only update is I think we're I think we're in final package mode we just got to get it moving forward yep okay um any other Wally Park
business have you seen an application yet for spring softball no okay I will I will get on Stacy about that okay because I did look at the um schedule for the Titans and it looks like there would be no conflicts because they weren't going to use it on
Sundays the softball field was if I read it correctly yeah my head like this they don't have their game schedule yet they weren't going to do games on Sundays okay yeah as far as any other maybe rain makeup so Sall needs to put it in so that we can make sure that they get their times
locked down yes definitely they've been using it on Sundays forever so they have been so long as they get something in for us yeah well I can tell you this as sort of a leader of that I know Stacy and Brian um run it but then we have
Team captains that do the team meetings and stuff there is an intent to play for sure we just got to get them to put in the schedule okay or schedule request or get an email out just yeah okay get it on record absolutely got it okay
I thought there was something else about oh no nothing about Wally Park just in new business remind me to talk to you about Zoom okay might make your job easier okay there was a note in the last me
minutes I think about needing a lawnmower sometime does that have to go before the finance committee yeah that's going to go I think it we've got it put in our budget so when we meet for the budget beginning of March that's in
there we had looked at a bunch of different ones but the the Toro one the replacement for the one that's up there I think you came up it was pushing $90,000 for yeah so that's probably not worth it they gave us a option for that then RNR
and East Grampy gave us a couple options too on different ones which I think for the money getting something a little smaller would probably be a lot easier so yes that's
90,000 I'm I'm in the market for one myself and I don't want a commercial one but that if it was 90,000 I'd be Outsourcing that yeah my budget is 5,000 well there's some nice ones for
5,000 there are yeah like the ones that the smaller ones that are up there for the rail trail yeah and they've been pretty durable over the years but the Toro has seen a lot of use over the years of course it has a lot of
things been repaired on it they get beat up I mean if they if they were just mowing the grass which is what they're supposed to do with no things they could accidentally hit yeah exactly it would be fine it be easy to maintain but they
get around those fences and then they get the deck caught up and they get yeah it's it's explainable we have a professional crew it's kind of year to year it's like who do you get last year it worked out good we had two really good guys and it went well absolutely
yeah prior to that I think that's been the exception I think prior to that is when it probably got a lot of damage yep um the only other things at Wally Park we had met with somebody as far as doing the the Asphalt ceiling before it
gets this year so we're still planning on doing that I haven't talked to anybody for the fences because after that last meeting is pretty much when all the snow started and not able to get up there and look at everything but still going to be doing that and still
looking at the other things okay to get done this year yeah he said once once the snow clear he'd go up there and get a quote get us a quote for asho right yeah but unfortunately it just keeps going yeah right now so hopefully in a couple of
weeks um any anybody else have anything on Wally Park we're all set dog is dead they're not coming um the last that I had talked to them they were looking at not this year but 26
they're working on getting a definite parcel of land they had one and that didn't work out for different reasons and they're looking at some something else and it should be connected up to the rail trail also
so but I can't say where it is or what they're looking at exactly no not the dog I wasn't talking about the dog par I'm thinking that the dog people that came into dogil oh the dog sh trial yeah they haven't she was urgent at that point she
was here need to get into the something so okay must be dead they'll be in a har when it gets close the time that she wants to do it um on the rail trail um got the same thing we're trying to get stripes on
that this year and the crack repair but the same thing with the the weather so we haven't gotten an estimate on that yet I'm going to meet with somebody tomorrow they're looking to where the new condos are going off the Depot Street um talking to the developer to
run have him put a little ax from the rail trail going through that property and hooking into the Lutheran Church one at the top of the hill that's the right the CC through through their parking lot so people would be able to access College Highway on bicycles from
there I mean that's the main goal with the rail trail to try to get it to access different parts of town and the long-term plan for it so that's where we are with that and also so they're willing to let anybody to go on the rail trail go through their
condo complex um well he had spoke with the person who's going to be building the condos and he was receptive to the idea I think we've got to explain a little more what it's going to be but I think it would be beneficial to people that live at the condos too that have an
access people may go up there to go e go someplace yeah that's that's the kind of the longterm thing from the rail trail to get it there to the schools and down by the Lakes eventually um I don't think we have anything else definite for the rail trail yet anything
on that fly or no the the sign I mean sign from that oh yeah the economic development committee yeah oh they want to do a sign they want to put like a metal sign on the kios I think two or three of the kiosk which that's the person I'm meeting with
tomorrow so I'll get a little more of an idea to have the QR code so you can scan it with your phone it'll give local sites restaurants and everything else when you're on the trail let you know where you are on the trail very cool so those
he was looking to put up sometime in March or early April okay um I didn't have anything anybody else have anything on the rail trail or any questions got any questions on how Stuff runs or anything else Dan yeah
there's no major like there's no like trees down this this time of year or any major cracks because I know that they come and go I mean I use it up with my bike a lot and most of the cracks are just from root damage which we have dug
up or I have some help get that stuff out here and there but usually I make a ride through in the truck like soon as the snow starts breaking and just get the off of the sides yeah and anything bigger will call somebody in but once the trail opens up we'll see
but haven't had any calls on anything for trees down lately okay but soon as the snow melts that's when everybody calls true true okay um next up is the children's
Easter egg hunt yeah I know I love that I love it so Easter is April 20th um we usually do it the weekend before so that would be April 13th okay so right it on your schedule do have the seniors stuff the
eggs it's been working out so well very get a senior volunteer to get into the Easter you just got to feed them a little bit of candy it a little candy bring some uh Dunkin Donuts yeah okay then we'll get some um National Honor
Society kids from the high school yeah to be the Easter yeah to help scatter the eggs and stuff sounds good hopefully we'll get a hope we have better weather than the last two years I was looking through my pictures because
I wanted to put a picture in the annual report you have to go three years back to get pictures yeah yeah it's rained the last two years Dan so we had a thousand Easter eggs underneath the Pavilion up there kids that were there 30 seconds I like it's 30 seconds even
on the lawn though maybe a minute a little more exercise but the kids that were there it wasn't a huge turnout last year so the baskets were full and the shirts were full but the last two years it was out
full in March I think we have a better April 13th yeah that's true so we'll do that okay I think we're all set with that I know it's going so fast um any old
business bring my old notes but I think Dan's been pretty good about asking questions about what's what's going on on some of the things so I can't think of anything else come to mind how's the wireless stuff going have we heard anything on that um I haven't heard
anything lately I know we had met up there one time and a representative from not T-Mobile but a company that does all the wireless hookup was supposed to get something back to Jason on it I'm not sure if he ever did with a proposal I think we're
waiting on Jason's Grant too yeah oh there's John I think you're right I think you're right we're waiting on Jason and is there an I probably should have thought about this when we're talking about Wally Park how about the
locks the bathrooms did we do anything with that that yeah that was like right at the end of the season so never never had them put them in okay maybe we could make arrangements to have them do it
sometime yeah definitely spring early spring yeah okay hi hi how we doing John we are John had a lot of trouble getting this on
tonight well you shouldn't have to stay around too long I don't think we're on to on to new business oh boy if you have anything or anybody else has anything I do I I don't but when do we
start talking about the lifeguards see how I'm starting to get into the swing of the seasons yeah yeah when do we start doing that will that be like marchish yeah okay so next meeting maybe posting and yeah okay do you need a
job um I maybe but I don't being recorded so I won't say what it's gonna say but I don't want that job hopefully we have a lot of people returning we had a decent amount of lifeguards last year so and also I got
to start we got to start thinking about maintenance guys the park guys I'm hoping they're coming back yeah but I don't know so I'll reach out and ask them and I was thinking if they don't give me a definite answer I might have to still post so we get applications
because I can't wait till right March 15th right so that's what I was kind of thinking let's hope they come back they were great I'm but I heard mixed things last the end of last season I'm hoping so if you see them beg
them well if they're in Porta I'll talk to him is that where you are now I know why you had trouble yeah no whoever puts it on the uh posts
it doesn't put a linkable uh thing for the zoom oh so you had to type out all that stuff no I had a I kept pulling up Park and wreck things and uh it's giving me a lot of
CPC stuff and then I finally went on the town calendar there you go and got it from there so if I can remember I'll text it to you from now on you're the best thank
you I second that let's vote on it thanks I appreciate it um yeah so when it gets a little bit closer we'll start talk about that okay send something to maintenance guys fairly soon yeah well
it's already February right right that's so I'll reach out this week or early next week see what they're thinking um and then post if they give me a maybe I'm not sure I'll post um if they say I'm definitely coming back then no need
to post yeah yeah okay you think posting by like March 1st or so I'm thinking earlier than that yeah yeah so now is the time to reach out to them figure and the funny thing is the sign in front of the Town Hall got me more applications than posting anywhere else so I might go
back to the good old fashion sign in the we are that kind of town yeah yeah I like it okay where's our newspaper right no other new business nope I'm gon to save Motocross for two meetings from now okay I'm prepared I guess they're
going to try to not do a Rugged Maniac this year but they're going to put on their own like Rugged Maniac Motocross people are going to be doing that September in the paper okay but I don't know I don't think they're expecting it to be as big and
as voluminous and yeah the need for parking obstacles and everything else for parking outside of at the uh BFW yeah I don't think we'll need the parking at the park it sounds like it'll just speak for that kind of thing okay
so they'll park it while they Park on their own if they want to but I mean they'll be more than enough parking at Motocross there plenty of us charges over there too if they're going to park that way right if it's in front of the
BFW yeah they hand but they got they got so much space up in there par cars okay all right that's good to know I think that's it I will make a motion to adjourn the
meeting second second okay all in favor I I all right boy what a short meeting okay nice to see you again John when you stop this just you can take the yach back out now that you're done on
the recording don't stop it down down there all right thanks everybody thanks