Wait, we'll get started on the park and recck meetings for Wednesday se August 13, 2025. Um, those present David Lori, Dan Welsh, Rick Harman, John Wallally on Zoom and absent is Mike Shield
and Car's taking notes again. Figure I'll give you a little intro. Um, first up, public comment. We don't have anybody here. Don't see anybody online. So, I guess that's uh nothing. Um, next up is the minutes uh Cara sent out for
June 11th and July 16th. Did everybody take a look at them or have any comments on them? No comments. Yeah. To the look. I I thought they were fine myself. Yes. Anybody wants to make a motion to accept them?
I'll make a motion to accept the minute meeting. I'll second it. All in favor? David Dari. I Dan Welch. I Rick Harman. I John Wally. I Okay, moving along pretty quick. Next up
is Wall-E Park. Um, Spray Park is moving along pretty good. All the outer fencing's down and all the inner perimeter fencing is down. Also, the the temporary stuff. Um the grass is coming in good on some spots and not too good
on other spots. I think probably from starting it in July. We do soil and yeah, we do have seed down there. We could probably have the maintenance just overseed it once it gets into next month and beginning of October. Y I think it'll take a little bit better,
but seems like the times I've gone through it's been getting plenty of use. Um, I know Rick, you had sent out the QR code. I think we should, yes, work work on getting signs made up for those and getting it posted on the
website just so we have the rules. Anybody try the QR code? No, try it. I did not try it. Just try it. Okay. Yeah. See if it um because I created it and then I forgot about it. So, yeah. Okay. I'll try. Um, if it doesn't work, I'll just I'll
use a different generator. But it worked when I tried it. But just make I want that'll make sure other people try it. Okay. I'll try it again also. Okay. Just then I think we should probably get signs just maybe for the pavilion like we talked about before and the splash pad just so we cover ourselves with the
rules. Yep. Um right now I guess the splash pad's scheduled to go until Labor Day and then it'll be off if that's still good with everybody. Sounded about right. Yeah. And then we got to just double check. I
was going to grab the operator manual to take a look um to see what we've got to do for the winter other than having it blown out. Randy had mentioned something about taking everything down for the winter, which I don't know if that's a thing with anybody else that has splash pads.
I don't really I don't think they take them down. No, that's what he said. I just wanted to see maybe that's something to cover themselves. They recommend it, but it doesn't have to be done. But I'll take a look at the operator's manual. I'll grab that this week. I spoke to um one of the guys from the
park and wreck in Westfield and they said they take the element the the push button element out. I guess the electronics um for the winter so it's not Yeah, they put um sometimes those little plugs on there so you can just attach them later.
The push button too. Peppers and onions. I hope that's I haven't seen ours. Doesn't ours lock and it's away from the weather elements. They said theirs is on that push where you push it and I got you. It's for the operators for
Yeah, they said they take that off every year like the button to turn the whole thing out of Yeah. Ours is on like a stand that's like three feet up. We could probably cover that protected or something. I'll I'll see what the book recommends on that and
do something. But I see people don't know how to use it to the point of they'll keep beating on that. Yeah. Because they want they they want certain thing on keep hitting it. Doesn't hurt it to hit it. I don't know if it resets it or whatever it does if keep hitting it, but they just keep hitting it
because they want this one on or that one and it's not in a cycle. Yeah. It's like hitting the button three in an elevator, right? It's not going to help you to hit it again and again. Get you there quick again. Exactly. Yeah. Oh, good.
But any I know we had a list like a small list of things that has been addressed and yeah, the things that weren't working and the pressure on them. Yeah. Everything's all set and running fine now. Sweet. I know my my daughter took my my grandkid down there and he loved it
until he slipped a bell and then he Yeah, he still loves it. She does not. So, it is what it is. Boys fall. That's what I told her. Is there any plan to put hanging the paper to say it's open officially open? Have Have you talked to
the paper again or Yeah, I talked. You want to tell them? Yeah, he didn't put it in. I Yeah, I didn't see it. I'm not I wasn't looking for it, but I do have a Southwick alert on my news and I didn't see it. Okay. Anything else on splash fence?
Next up is um Have they put in the fence yet, Dave? The gate? No, they haven't. I met with them uh last week and explained to them where the gate was supposed to be and they were they marked
it out and everything. Okay. Maybe they're getting somebody to do that and and the uh playscape needs uh chips badly. Yes, we got an email about that.
I uh um we got an email about that and I also I was in Grampby um last fall or in the springtime and on one of the playscapes in one of the schools I just happened to be going by there was a truck that
actually sprayed in wood chips like they have the trucks that will spray in mulch. They were spraying the wood chips around that and I did talk to the Graanby DPW director a while ago and kind of forgot about it. So, I'll send him another call to see if I can get
that contractor's number in and out. Yeah. Just I think for the little bit extra money, it probably be worth it instead of having our maintenance guys spend two weeks shoveling wood chips. Yes. I don't think that's going to be
something we're ever going to hear the end of or get it completely done. So, I'll make a note the call about that. Um, next up is pickle ball. We have the the courts down here that are basically finished for pickle ball. Um when
maintenance took over and decided to put the basketball court on it, a shuffle ball court on it. Those are the two things that aren't done. But basically pickle ball's done. Um maintenance didn't want to open it because the the painter was waiting for the hoop to go
in which was supposed to be this week and that's still not in. I don't know if we should get the pickle ball part and let them start playing or if we pick a date to actually actually get the pickle ball part open
and when they get the basketball hoop in um just to let them paint that and then go from there and close it for those couple of days. I think we should get it open and the reason is is I actually went to go play on it and it's locked and it was locked. So, I went in and
talked to my cat. I I don't have your cell phone. So, anyway, I was trying to find you in the building. Um, I went and talked to them. They said, "Oh, well, the basketball is supposed to be set up on Monday, and so we've locked it until then." That was the Mon, not this past Monday, but the
Monday before that, 10 days ago, five Mondays ago. Well, any anyways, I don't know if you know, the maintenance guys both quit and then one came back and got hired as an interim. So, I think if we don't open it, it's going to drag on. If we wait, it could be next spring,
right? Okay. Because I know I know people have been turned away from the lock. I also know some people played on it before they put the lock on. That's why they put the lock on. Yeah, I've heard all that, too. I I get texts all the time. When's it going to open? Well, it's a parking wreck thing. I
think we have the decision on it instead of maintenance at this point. So, if we think it should be open, we can I don't know that was a maintenance call. The the woman at the Council of Aging is the one that said she I don't they didn't get her name. She was the one that made the call on, you know,
just keeping it locked down until they got the basketball hoop up, but they were going to open it right after that. I was like, "Okay, it's fine." And then to find out it's still locked is kind of a little crazy. Well, it is a park and wreck thing, so I think we've got the call on it. And I
How do How do you guys feel about it? Open it up. Yeah, I would say open it. Open Get it open. Yeah, we could shut it down for those maintenance periods so that you know if they need paint to dry or whatever to, you know, so people aren't ruining. Yeah.
One day to install the thing and another day to paint and then overnight to dry. So I I think it can be locked up for that and they just post it when that happens. But so what's the priority of you? Basketball and somebody playing basketball then pickle ball can't go.
So I think that's a good conversation because we got into that conversation with them and the priority Monday through Friday 9 through 4 is that aging. This is what she said that what is it? The aging council on council
on aging has priority to it. If no one's using it, if they're not using it, meaning then anyone from town can use it. Um, but if they are using it, then it's it's theirs to use. I just heard it. I'm repeating it.
I I think that's generally true, but I don't think they they don't have enough people that are going to be playing Monday through Friday 9 to 4. Correct. Um, and so if it's if it appears to be open, it should be open. But if they want to use it, they can actually tell people, "Hey, we're we're
going to use it." Now, the question is, if someone's using it for basketball and then they want to use it for pickle ball, um, I think it's first come, first serve outside of that council of aging, council on aging issues.
I haven't been out to can you use one pickle ball court and well on the other way. Well, they haven't set up the basketball court yet, but my understanding is that so there's two courts. It's not going to be a full basketball court. It's basically going to be a threepoint area and in
Yeah, it's only on one side, right? Someone could be shooting and then someone else could be playing pickle ball, but I don't know what the the what is it? Shuffle board. Yeah, I have no idea where that's going. That's that's going to be at the other end. They I think they
I understand. I think ideally the two pickle ball courts should have been at one half and the basketball court at the other half, but the pickle ball courts ended up being centered. I wasn't involved in that. That was the the maintenance or prior maintenance that
decided that or ended up telling the paint guy to do this. But I think it should be a priority of pickle ball since that's what the CBC application was for. It didn't have any mention of basketball on the application. Why didn't they keep the basketball over there? It's still there.
It's still there, but the the actual court there is pretty bad. I mean, it's it's wavy and it's crack filled and it's it's not exactly smooth. I mean, they can still play on it, but it's built for wrestlers. What? It's built for wrestlers.
Okay. I think we should, if it's agreed, we'll tell them we should get it open for pickle ball and they've got to shut it down a couple days for basketball. Yeah, they can do that and post it then. Who's responsible for posting the signs
that says it's 9 to4 aging has priority? I guess uh it's a park and wreck project and we're going to be overseeing it. So I think it would be our priority to do that. Again, I think we should probably
go the QR code route if we can do that. I I don't know if we need to have it 9 to4 for see for the council on Asian people because I don't know if there's that many people there would be that many hours in a day.
No, it I think the issue is like I went to play on a Friday at 1:00 in the afternoon. If I had gone there and there were people from the council on aging in there, they would have had priority. Or if I had gotten there and I started playing and
they said, "Oh, we're here because it's before four o'clock." They could have kicked me off and then if there's nothing posted, we're going to have a debate. Absolutely. Yeah. That's why my point is Yeah. You have no authority to kick them off unless it's right posted
specifically there. I think Well, that's right. I hate signs just like John, but I also hate escalation emails. So, do you know how many people were playing roughly when they did lessons?
So, when they did lessons, that's when Randy was doing the Yeah. Randy said there was only one of them and ended up being a pickle ball player. Well, when he was doing the lessons, we probably had about 20 seniors.
True. when he was doing the lessons after the lessons were done probably had like 10 but it was outside and it was the makeshift playing like after the lesson.
Oh, so it was in the basketball the current basketball. So the lessons were in the auditorium. They did the whole auditorium with tape to make it like pickle ball court and then they had the removable netting and we would put that out there.
It was once a week and then the seniors would come between one and three and play. So I mean probably had 10 that did that. But again, it was like a makeshift. It was on the basketball courts. There's, you know, not sustainable. Yeah. Yeah. Those courts are nice.
They're very nice. Yeah. It would be nice if they would publish in their newsletter that a watch they had heard already. Yeah. Monday, Wednesday, Friday. It's 5 days a week, 9 to 4. I'm pretty sure Lisa is going to do that. She'll post it. So the seniors now
Yeah. And wherever they post online, that's what I'll do the QR code to. We'll have that. I I don't think we really have to reserve five days a week, 9 to4 for them. I think they I don't think they're going to be using it that much. me maybe two days a week or three days a week. I
think that's something I don't know if you want to talk to her or I could talk to her about it just so we could kind of get some kind of rules going before. No, I think she she just made it sound like they have dibs from that time frame. I'm like that sounds right to me. Yeah, I know that we were doing the both
of these with the explicit reason of this was mostly theirs to use and if that's their hours, great. If it's not being used, then anybody can use it. Right. Yeah. I'd hate to reserve it for Council on Aging for that many hours and then have nobody use it because that's
kind of a waste at that point. I mean, or you just post it for those hours and then like you said, you go there and they're not there, then you can use it anyway. You know, I doubt it's going to be kind of like the It's kind of like the
track in town, right? you're not supposed to use it while the kids are in school, but people use it all the time when the kids are in school, but they can't use it for is when they're doing track practice and when they're having PE and stuff like that. People get out of there, right? So, they don't use that track all day. They they don't use it Monday through Friday um during school
year 8 to 3 or whatever they're in. They just they simply don't. So, people use it, right? It's it's kind of the same concept. Yeah. Just like you say, I don't want to have like people from town coming to use it and then have seniors say, "Well,
it's our time." And then like getting Yeah. people kicked off in the middle and then that's just going to be coming back to us and making us look stupid. So, I think we talk to the Council on Aging director and see what she's realistically looking
for. Call All right. She was very friendly. Yeah. She signed up a senior because the guy I was going with was 60 and he's like, "Put me on your list." So, she got an approved.
Well, they can sneak you in there if that's it. That's Oh, so you actually came to play pickle ball? Yeah. With my neighbor who's 60 years old. He's like, "What? What is the age?" She goes, "60." He's like, "Sign me up." Yeah. Yeah. Excited to tell his wife that he gave his phone number to some other lady.
That's your infinite course. You don't have priority. That's it. I'm in. Well, did you want to talk to her? I don't I don't have a problem talking to her just to see what she wants to do. Just so we get I have something going. I can go talk to her. Yeah. Okay. I will
I will do that. I'd like to see you talk her down to less than eight hours a day, five days a week. Yeah. Maybe if she takes Tuesday, Thursday, or Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Figure out. Yeah, because we we're going to post that and it's not now things change.
Yeah, but I mean seniors can still go any other hours they want, but these will be specific. Specific where no one Yeah. where they are reserved. I kind of hate to book it like eight hours a day and then have them like use it one hour every day. Then we're turning people away. But
yeah, to get as much use out of it now that we have it kind of thing. Yep. I will back to get down there tomorrow. And I'll I'll talk to Dan. Dan's still here or did he leave?
Oh, yeah. He's here I think another eight days. Okay. because he said he'd keep me updated on it, but I don't know if that's a high priority for him, but eight days to go. Okay. But last week he told me it would be
this week. So yeah, Lisa Lisa. That sounds right. Sounds like Okay. and more pickle ball news. We moved to pickle ball down at the park. Yeah, let's move to that.
I I know we had the discussions last month about that. I ended up talking to Nicole um after our meeting. I finally caught her last week and talked to her about that. Um, if we're putting it out to bid, the ideal way to do it would be
for her to post it on the town website and then it goes into a state, I guess, directory or log of jobs and then anybody can bid on it at that point. So, we could get three bids, we could get 23 bids once it's out
there. But that's the way according to her that it should be done. Um, I explained what we decided having Rob Lec oversee it and I had mentioned what you had said, John, about that he
would do it as a courtesy to us. She was kind of skeptical about that and would rather we have a regular general contractor to oversee the project, but she didn't offer up anybody. And I think that might be up for us to find somebody once the
bids get going. I told her that we were going to talk to Rob and Nicole was going to be here tonight, but I guess something came up. She had to cancel. So, I don't have a lot of other information on that. So, we're basically um kind of at the starting point again.
I guess she'll be out a little bit, a couple of weeks, and won't be able to get this stuff on the town website until after Labor Day. So, I got a um I got a text from Rob. It says I asked him to be here tonight. He said, "Uh, I can't be there, but I spoke
with Nicole Parker this morning about getting her the bid spec." She explained that she would have to go out. It would have to go out to bid. I am preparing that. I was wondering why they needed it if Cresview was going to do it. Hopefully, Cresview will get the job
either way. Who knows? If you let Park and Recreck know that I told Nicole about getting specs out in early September, she's going away for a vacation to Europe. So, we are going to get the bid out when she comes back,
which is in September. Okay. Well, I guess that's what we're looking at at this point. We're not going to move things any forward. So I once it does go out for September, I think we should know definitely by the September meeting what we're looking at
with dates and everything. I don't think we're going to get anything before that like any bids. So realistically it's probably going to be October's meeting before we've opened bids at this point it looks like. Yeah. Unless anybody thinks
it'll move along any faster. But that's that's my thinking on the whole thing going through this process. I think you're right on that. I think we should get a few prices for lining the parking lot and getting that done though. Well, we do have that already, John. And
uh I think the hold up on that was because uh Karen and I had talked to the the crack seal guy back in April and he just finished up. When was that? Couple weeks ago. A couple of weeks ago. Yeah, I was there when he did it.
Yeah, he was there. Kind of broke it up over a bunch of different days, but we do have that lined up. Uh we're getting the trail line either Friday or Monday, depending how that goes. And the parking lot's going to be going after that,
but we do have scheduled and we had that set up for a while. Okay, John, any feedback from Crest View as they they've had the plans for a while. They looked at them to say what they what they might be in the range of a bid range before it gets
okay. I don't I don't think he should really or if you know John, I don't think you should like we shouldn't be discussing that on our meeting if we're going to be getting other bids. I mean, just to be fair to press view and anybody else that's bidding on it. Yeah.
Well, realistically, I mean, we're probably looking at October to Well, let's confirm that. So, from a from a strongman perspective, the first thing we need to do is get the requirements for what needs to be put into a bid package for I call it RFP,
right? Yeah. That's what Rob is working on. Okay. And that's going to be posted on on the town website. website and which gets pulled in from state and it gets posted onto a state. Yep. And then once it's posted, I guess
we need to have a we can set up like a a 30-day limit, which I think is reasonable for doing bids, but if we do that and it's posted the beginning of September, realistically, we're not going to be opening anything till beginning of October. Yeah, I get that. We also need a period
once that closes down to do evaluation on that, right? just to make sure that they're legitimate legitimate and can postponed and Yep. get down to our final three and then make make a decision. Yeah. So, no groundbreaking is going to be
done this calendar year. Probably not. But I mean, if the weather stays decent through the end of the year, I mean, they could break ground. I mean, I don't know. I didn't see any of this, but you saw this, so maybe. Right. I'm I don't know what it tastes.
Yeah. Well, the plans look like, but I don't know what it takes to do it. Um, basically, leave that up to the contractor. Oh, yeah. Stripping up all the sod in the first like 10 12 inches down, bringing in fill. But the only difference between this and the park, we're going to have all the
underground, right? Electrical conduits. Um, there's not going to be any water setups or anything. So, it's just the electrical conduits and concrete posts for all of that. But I mean, that's something if the weather stays decent, they could start that this year. How long did this one take?
Um, not a lot. It was probably about two weeks to do the not even maybe a week to excavate, bring in the compact it spring, right? Yeah, they did they did that last fall and then they paved it in April
and then it had to sit 45 days before it was painted. Oh, yeah. The concrete has to set. Yeah. Yeah. or the the asphalt so it's not bleeding in through the paint. So if we could get that started this fall then we could finish it earlier in the spring. Okay. Yeah. If we could do the same thing as
this one. I mean we did get the paving done in April and the painting should be we're running out of clock. But yeah. Okay. Early June. Okay. But I mean that's where we are with stuff. I don't see us being able to stay
there and move any faster. I mean, I tried I discussed this stuff with her and I actually don't have an issue with the process. I think if that's the way that that's the way I'm used to seeing things done. I know that we're smaller and you
know, we can maybe be more nimble, but if that's the way she wants to do it. Okay, fair. Let's go. Okay. Well, that's where we are. Yeah. I mean, I don't know if we can even fight that, but I don't even know if we should. You know what I mean? But
we'll just be do it. All right. What else? Um well, we got the wood chips for the playscape. Anything else at Wall-E Park? Uh scoreboard scoreboard. Uh don't have anything to report except Fair Play has
changed their whole sales model. They used to have a company salesperson. They fired him two weeks ago. And I got a call yesterday from New York Times up in Lemonster who's now the sales agent. So he's just going to review the work that
that they gave me to be sure it's legitimate. He also does the installation. So he will have a complete package for us, but I don't have it for tonight. But they just they're going through a transition. Okay. Yeah. The other thing that uh I'd like to have the commission consider is I'm
representing here in my comments Rotary Club is we'd like to have a light bar of some kind home shining down on the stage. So when the concerts are going on the eight weeks of concerts they could light it up with red, yellow, blue lights.
We'd want it something permanent up towards the ceiling so it's out of the way of kids and people probably turned on by remote control. We haven't done any specking yet to see what it would cost. The Rotary Club is would be willing to pay a considerable cost, but
depending what the cost is, I don't know if it's 3,000 and 30,000 or something between maybe 30,000. Uh, and then possibly adding four more outlets down the post down the side. We plug in TVs and so forth. And there's
only one outlet on each end. It's the only outlets that are on the you have to run a cord inside to the power of the bank, but you know, TVs and so forth. I'd like to put together a package to bring it back to the to our group on behalf of Rotary uh to see
costs and then say okay we can pay this month whether we go to CBC for money and get involved with prevailing wages and that kind of stuff or if there's other money that we have from parking or something else we being now back here with our park and rec commission to
share the cost but Rotary is willing to share it. You're going to look into that? We're going to go to electrician and just say what's available in the market. Well, I know the the uh council on not council meeting but the cultural council
had put some lights up and but the guy's out of business. So, we got to start over with but those are indoor lights. So, we got something that's weatherproof and it would be a permanent setup hung up so nobody can get at it and has to be wired into the power and
stuff. Okay. It'll be helpful for the page. Keep us updated on that. Yeah, I will. Ball is going to be starting up next month. Have you received anything from Stacy?
Okay, I will I will ping her. What do we need? We um certificate of insurance or do we get that from the spring? Yeah. So, I have that because that's for the full year. Yep. So, um probably just the dates cuz I
think her application she had done for spring and fall. So, just the dates of start and end dates. I can Okay, I can email it. Okay. And if I don't get a response, I'll email you. Okay, fair enough.
Okay. I think she wants to start 97. And I think one of the um teams is trying to do a um tournament fundraiser
for high school softball. So, okay, they should be reaching out about that as well. I'll remind them. Okay. Yeah. Perfect. And I'm trying to retire from softball. Really?
Yeah. And that was caught on owl. Yeah. I'm trying. We're still your softball friends here, right? For all the three people that watch this. I'm trying. But my daughter, my son-in-law, and my niec's husband are going to be starting on my team, so I can't leave this year. I have to pull
them in and then I can um That's it. Do we have the same grounds crew from the spring for the fall? Yes. Okay. So, they won't move the clippings to the space side. No, they forget.
It's the only complaint I ever get down there. Everything else is great. Those guys Yeah, those guys do a great job when the weather lets them. Yeah, they really do. Yeah, they're a good crew. So, I got something funny. So, um the fire department is
going to use the I think the softball field for a Friday night game in October, I believe. as a fundraiser. Um, and they wanted to use the lights. They usually do it during the day because of the light fee, right? So, I tell them how much the
light fee is. They went to Eversource and asked for a donation and I believe a couple of the departments are going to get together and donate the light fee. Wow. Departments from Eversource. Really?
Somebody knows somebody. Yeah. We This is New England. That's how it works. Yeah. If that works for them. Yeah. It's crazy. We're gonna get a bill. So, yeah, I know. Yeah. They know they're responsible for
paying. So, whether Eversource goes through with it or not. Thought that was interesting. Interesting. It is. See, they couldn't do anything for us. Well, guess we didn't know anybody. We didn't know anything.
So, as far as people renting the fields, we have the Titans renting quite a bit in the fall. Yes. I think we should ask them for a check again, like we did in the Yep. spring season. Prep mixed up on my seasons.
Yep. And um high school has been contacting me about the boys and girls soccer under the lights at the park. Two games each usually they do. Okay. So, talking about different dates for that and the guys are going to line the fields. Our guys are Yeah, our guys are
I guess they have the pens around the field. Hopefully they're still there. They should be there. It's just a matter of finding them and getting everything laid out. Yeah. Getting the paint ordered, getting ready for all that. Where did this year go?
Right. That's when in September or October? The high school's October. Yeah. Give us a little time to find tens. Yeah, I can probably have Rick show John how to find them or where they are roughly
just in case. Yeah. Okay. Anything else on Wally Park while we're at it? Okay. Rail trails up next. We do have the stripes going. Like I mentioned before, we had a couple trees down in
the last few weeks. Again, had to call in a tree guy for one of them. the way it fell across a couple of BMS and it was eight feet off of the ground. So, there wasn't anything I was touching or the maintenance guys were touching. So, tree guy came in for that. I don't
know if Ryan sent you a bill or not. Yep, he did. Yes, he did. I think it was 500. That's sounds about right. He had to come down with one of his machines to card everything off. Plus, he had the flu the day he came
down. So, I didn't stay too close to him when I was down there flat. Summertime food. That's wonderful. Nice. But he got it taken care of again. Um, he's great. That's about it. Comes to our rescue. I know. I called him. He was down there
within two hours. That's awesome. Work out pit because of course it happened on a Friday later morning so couldn't leave it. No. Um, next up is master plan implementation.
Did everybody bring in their homework or don't have their homework? I don't have it. I started doing it and then when my family crashed, I lost it. One of the grandkids do it. I know, but I don't I don't even have it. I've been looking for it. Well, we'll tell if Dorm sends out an
email. I'll just tell them we'll have it for the next meeting. I And I'll need a Can we send that electronically? Um, we could probably email it back to him. That would be if I get it electronically always know where it is, but I'll even do it electronically.
Yeah, I think I did have something on one of my emails from him or Dave. I check and I'll email that. Cool. Thank you. You want me to email it to you guys, too? Yes. Okay.
I know I have that somewhere. Okay, next up is old business. Any old business? I think we covered most of it under the the parks. Oh, um the beach. Oh, yeah. How's that doing? Is it still closed? Yeah, I thought it was closed. Yeah.
For good or no idea? Epic epic amount of days closed this year. It's um water condition, right? Yeah. The bacteria count is high. So it's high, it goes down a little bit, goes back up, goes down. Is it getting like down at all or is it
still saying that the point now where it would need to go down? So counts 400 to 350. Right now it needs to be 250, but it's not going to go down. So it's been teetering back and forth, but I guess you have so many tests that
are high that you have to now go into the single digits to get back up and running. Yeah. So, I've been talking to Karen about just having the kids go in and just closing up because I think at this point it's just not even going to go down. It's not going down. We haven't
What day do we close up? Usually the 25th because everybody goes back to college and fall sports start. So, yeah. What day? Two weeks. This year we've had we had a fantastic staff. Yeah. But
I think it needs to be shut down. Yeah. It's always a bummer. Do they have enough work to keep the kids busy on things or Yeah. So, we had them going to do different projects. Uh we had one kid that saw the power washer in the back room and he just was very excited about
using it. That's good. And then the tables. So, I thought we were going to be doing like a community day or something at the beach to kind of promote the beach and, you know, have some live music, Japanese guitar and stuff. Um, and the table, picnic tables have sap on them because the trees are
right over it. So, they power washed all the tables. There's a retaining wall that was half chipped and half not chipped. So, they painted that and did a little mural on that. Um, landscaping stuff. So, just to get get them in here and there and get some hours because I really like this this group of kids day.
Would you want to have something maybe up at the park and tie it in with the splash pad? Yeah. So, I know you probably thought of that already. Yeah, actually, yes. Um, I asked Jack and his guitar when he's available. Um, I asked maintenance if
they could, you know, put chairs under the pavilion, do like a little daytime concert thing um up there. I I was hoping to have at the beach to promote the beach and drill them up business there because I mean, everybody loves Wally Park and goes there for all the great things we have there anyway.
So next year earlier in the season before the bacteria gets up. May May. So yeah, I think what So I'll look at a date. I'll email you guys. I got to get with um the music. Then we're going to do that little petting zoo, too. Have
her there and, you know, have some little snacks and stuff. That was amazing. That was a big hit at the Easter egg, huh? Yeah, they love it. They love it. That was That was a big hit. That was a hit. That would be something you'd be able to do before the kids leave. Yeah.
Yeah. And I could have them Yeah. Have them do that. Maybe have that written up in the paper at the same time with the splash pad. Okay. I mean, if we can tie it all together. Yeah. Okay. The last concert's the 27th of August.
So sometime shortly after that, we'll take the stage down and get it put away. Okay. The last official concert is August 27th. Wow. close. No one wants August to be able
to order a part for my snow or my snow machine. Yeah, I got to get that done. Got to do it now. Wait till November. And the supply chain will be Yeah, now's the time. Now we're just kidding.
was going to say something about my wife that I probably shouldn't. With the snow blow, you're on the uh That's what I Any new business? Nothing. Okay. I know John's itching to say something. You have something to say,
John? You going to make a motion, John? I make a motion to adjurnn. I second the motion. I've got my supper right here waiting for me. Yum. All of paper.