WEBVTT METADATA Video-Count: 1 Video-1: youtube.com/watch?v=gZG-FX_3gqk NOTE MEETING SECTIONS: Part 1 (Video ID: gZG-FX_3gqk): - 00:00:00: Meeting Opening, Park Updates, Musco LED Quote - 00:04:39: Rail Trail Maintenance, Friends Group Disbanding, Book Libraries - 00:07:08: Board Member Resignation, Filling Vacancy Discussions - 00:08:36: Master Plan Implementation and Economic Development Meeting - 00:09:37: Scoreboard Pricing, Installation Concerns, Volunteers Needed - 00:11:08: Acknowledging Cara's Contributions, Field Playability Decisions Part: 1 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:16.800 Okay, we'll open the park and wreck meeting for April 8th. I'm sorry, I got eye drops in my eye and I forgot my glasses. For April 8th at the South Town Hall, um 2 00:00:16.800 --> 00:00:34.559 looks like nobody online that I can see. Um nobody here for public comment. Um, we'll start off. Uh, we don't have any minutes from last month to talk about. Um, first thing up would be the park. 3 00:00:34.559 --> 00:00:53.920 If anybody has anything to bring up on that, um, we do have we did get a light quote. We met with Musco as far as switching everything over to LEDs. U, we haven't gotten a quote back on that. She was more interested in trying to put in a 4 00:00:53.920 --> 00:01:11.119 bid for the pickle ball courts. >> Yeah. >> But we haven't gotten a quote back on switching the lights over to LEDs or she was going to check also uh with Ever Source to see what the demand fee would be roughly >> for LED lights, but haven't heard 5 00:01:11.119 --> 00:01:27.600 anything back on that part of the quote yet. Um parks up and running with baseball. >> Oh, hacked over the weekend. Yeah, I think the Titans had their opening day photos and everything else going on. So, 6 00:01:27.600 --> 00:01:44.159 they had all of their teams up there and there's also batters box and other teams renting the fields for regular games. Uh we have one employee going right now. We're looking to have a second one sometime in April, midappril by the time 7 00:01:44.159 --> 00:02:01.280 grass gets going a lot more. Won't be won't be long. No. So, I've got to check on that tomorrow. >> He's already mowed. >> Yeah, he just started this week. He's been doing leaf cleanup and the fields the last couple of weeks since he's been up there. But 8 00:02:01.280 --> 00:02:17.520 >> is Steve back or he's gone or is he supposed to stay? >> Uh Steve Steve left last year. Okay. >> Uh we had John who started um the beginning of the season last year and wanted to come back. So, he's taking care of everything right now. we have 9 00:02:17.520 --> 00:02:33.360 somebody to interview that would but he's playing baseball now wouldn't be able to start until um the end of the baseball season the beginning of June that hoping to find somebody before then if anybody knows anything. 10 00:02:33.360 --> 00:02:50.879 Um pickle ball bids will be April 14th. Next Tuesday they open them at two o'clock. It's it doesn't get postponed again. So, I have no idea how many people applied. I looked on the website. I guess there was a fair amount of 11 00:02:50.879 --> 00:03:09.440 questions on it and that's why they postponed it for the two more weeks. Um, I don't have anything else on Wall Park. Got anything else? >> What's the date for the big motocross? I 12 00:03:09.440 --> 00:03:26.720 know they had kickoff. >> Um, I believe it's July 8th. It's going to be after the 4th this year. >> Okay. On a Saturday. Again, just a one day thing. So, I don't know. Make sure everybody's 13 00:03:26.720 --> 00:03:48.560 aware of that. You heard any anything else L8? >> I'm pretty sure I know if I go into the arbiter, I put it I think it's it's Saturday the 8th. Oh, no. It's not not the eighth one. I'm 14 00:03:48.560 --> 00:04:03.360 gonna have to double check. >> I know I've got it on my arbiter calendar, so I blocked it out. I can uh I'll send that out. >> Gosh, I'd say the date, too. >> It might be the 11th. Let me let me 15 00:04:03.360 --> 00:04:18.400 double check that. I can let you know. But they fooked it till after the 4th this year because I think last year it was the last week of June, last Saturday of June. 16 00:04:18.400 --> 00:04:39.120 >> Yeah, it was an inconvenient time last year. I remember that. Um, yeah, I've got to bring up also uh board members. I'll bring that up after. Um, so I guess that's it on Wall-E Park. 17 00:04:39.120 --> 00:04:56.479 Um, rail trail. Um, we have the same person that was mowing the second half of the season will be back this year. He's starting last I think believe it's May 1st. >> Oh, good. >> Because the trail doesn't really start growing like the parks do because we don't fertilize it or anything. 18 00:04:56.479 --> 00:05:12.479 >> So, I was down there this week just to get some of the bigger branches off of it. One of the colder mornings. >> Yeah. And there's a ton of twigs. So, hoping to get out there with the leaf blower on the gator just to blow all 19 00:05:12.479 --> 00:05:28.080 that stuff off before the grass starts coming up. Um, had somebody, one of the friends from Westfield been doing cleaning up the north side of the trail, like along the fence lines and everything else. We have one fence we 20 00:05:28.080 --> 00:05:43.680 better repair. So, I'll have to get that going one of these days. I guess a tree fell down and took out one section. Um, I met with the Friends group last week. I think they're going to disband 21 00:05:43.680 --> 00:06:00.560 in June. They're looking at it. They haven't recruited any new members to take over things and pretty much everybody that's on there is on there from originally and they're just looking to get away from the membership thing. So what they're thinking now is just 22 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:16.319 after that run it informally for like their cleanup days and anything else that has to be done on the trail. >> What's the status of the book libraries out there? >> I don't know. I the Eagle Scout was 23 00:06:16.319 --> 00:06:32.720 supposed to get a hold of me like the week after our last meeting and I haven't heard from him again. So I really don't know what's going on with that. You said they have a different scout that was going to do a book. It's not a scout. There's one. They're putting one 24 00:06:32.720 --> 00:06:49.759 over by the congregational church in the the memorial park over here in the corner. I have a poster there. Uh but they have put it up, but I haven't heard what the it's now. >> High school kids that are part of the Rotary. >> Okay. >> Group had it built and I suppose it's 25 00:06:49.759 --> 00:07:08.160 been built. The post been in for four months. They haven't touched it. So I got to check with Oh, yeah. My parents see. all of them. >> They should get good visibility right there. >> And guess that was it for the rail trail. The portallets went out this week, 26 00:07:08.160 --> 00:07:28.240 so won't get any complaints on those. Um, next thing I I had the I think I sent out an email I for the board members after Rick resigned. We have 30 days to find somebody if any of us know anybody. 27 00:07:28.240 --> 00:07:44.560 >> Uh Jason Terrell said he wanted it supposed to come tonight but then he got invited to something in Westfield. >> Yeah. >> Speak or something. >> He's running for office. So sure he had to take that. >> Yeah. He mentioned that to me also. But >> I guess after the 30 days if we don't 28 00:07:44.560 --> 00:08:03.520 find somebody then we we can find somebody but then it's got to go in front of the select board. >> Yeah. as a joint appointment. Do you know anybody else who's running this year other than you? Well, don't. 29 00:08:03.520 --> 00:08:18.720 I just had to worry about myself. I was in Florida where I supposed to be getting all the signatures. Yeah. So, we won't have too many people running, I'm sure, 30 00:08:18.720 --> 00:08:36.800 like usual for park and wreck. Uh, >> have either the parties had their caucus that that's where they put me. And when I talked to Joe Diddy about >> Did they have the caucus already or >> I don't know. I don't I was just asking if they had >> Yeah, because they're usually sometime in April where they do their their 31 00:08:36.800 --> 00:08:59.839 caucuses. Um, next up is master plan implementation. I haven't done anything new on that. I'm going to go to a meeting with economic development next week for I I think it's a safe streets 32 00:08:59.839 --> 00:09:15.120 program. Um just trying to get the town to enroll in that so they can apply for grants for different things. So we'll see see what happens with that. But other than that, nothing else going on with the master plan thing right at 33 00:09:15.120 --> 00:09:37.120 the moment. Um, any new business? Nope. Dan Avenue before you started on the master plan. Now I can't think what it was. I'll think of it like old probably. 34 00:09:37.120 --> 00:09:58.320 Um, any old business? I guess that's pretty much it. that kind of a quiet month. Did they ever give a price on the uh scoreboard? >> No, I just finished taxes this week, so not this next couple of weeks. >> I just wonder see if I can get something together. 35 00:09:58.320 --> 00:10:12.560 >> Discussion with people that don't think it's a good idea for the scoreboard. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, my only concern of that I like to have a scoreboard up for a ball game if you're even if you're up in the game. It's not nice to watch see what the score is and so forth, but 36 00:10:12.560 --> 00:10:28.880 how do you keep the controller secure and somebody knows how to run it cuz it's usually pretty simple, but somebody's going to have to take get that controller >> for the game and then >> and be willing to operate and turn it. >> Yes. Yeah. >> But they must do that like at Westfield 37 00:10:28.880 --> 00:10:45.519 for >> the games up there. >> Yeah. A lot of high school does their own stuff, but for Babe Ruth games, they a parent goes up and does it. They they recover on a pre-season training just takes 10 minutes to learn how to do it. >> Yeah. >> But they tend to come back. It's a nice place to sit and watch the game up there 38 00:10:45.519 --> 00:11:08.399 in the press boxes up here >> on a cold cold day. It's nice and warm in there. Warmer than being outside. But uh I used to be on top of that filming the game. Well, I just wanted to acknowledge thank Cara for all her time and effort she put 39 00:11:08.399 --> 00:11:27.360 into it and it'll be a little bit of a transition period right now. So, we'll see see where it goes from here. >> Who makes the call now that she's not here during the day to say the fields are unplayable to let the Titans know? >> Um, >> don't come or don't do miraculous things 40 00:11:27.360 --> 00:11:44.560 to get the fields. I think it's probably going to be John the maintenance guy. I probably have Margaret talk to him if things go on and he doesn't think they're going to be playable so he can let him know. But he's he's only there until 12:30. So 41 00:11:44.560 --> 00:12:02.000 >> he'd have to make the call by then. >> Yeah. Because I know one one game last year they were the batter box were working on the field over at the at the municipal or whatever they call it legion field or something on the park at recside or the park side 42 00:12:02.000 --> 00:12:18.320 >> the rec center field >> rec center field and doing trying to do heroic things to play and they pulled out there with their pickup and a shop back and a generator to do stuff on the little on the 5070 diamond and I said well I couldn't tell them no but I don't 43 00:12:18.320 --> 00:12:35.120 think they heard it any I've seen people do horrendous things to ball fields. >> Yeah, I think we've talked to the teams enough over the years so they know not to go out there with machines or dig trenches and >> yeah, >> everything else or throw the mud off on the grass. 44 00:12:35.120 --> 00:12:50.000 So, I think I'll probably end up having John phone in if there's questions, >> but the titans need to know to get a hold of here. So, they >> Yeah. Yeah. car sent everybody, all the coaches emails 45 00:12:50.000 --> 00:13:06.639 to let them know that she'd be gone and but >> somebody would still be answering the phone here. >> So, haven't gotten any any bad yet, but we haven't had any rains at >> noon time either yet. So, we'll see what 46 00:13:06.639 --> 00:13:19.680 happens sooner or later. >> It'll be a work in progress. >> Motion to adjurnn. Second. All in favor?