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<br />Regular Council Meeting <br />March 20, 1995 <br />Page Eleven <br />Mr. Fixler asked if this needs to be part of the actual motion. <br />Mr. Buckholtz disagreed. He thinks in the long-range plan, there may be a time when <br />he does not disagree. He agrees with Mrs. Cinco that in some respects it does not matter <br />as long as it gets done. We have talked about this extensively at the meeting. One of <br />the ways to go is to spend all of Recreation's money on whatever we need to keep <br />Recreation moving in a positive direction, and when it is bankrupt just come to <br />Council. It is reflected in the minutes--one of the members mentioned that it is funded <br />like a committee but expensed like a department. You are talking about right here, <br />right now tracking expenditures--it seems like an arbitrary point in time. Mr. <br />Buckholtz said if the Village can't offer a dry piece of land to the Recreation Department <br />to put a softball field on, then they are really putting a burden on a committee that gets <br />a few thousand dollars a year to work with to try to run a softball program that is <br />becoming very successful and to basically give them a swamp to work with. He thinks <br />they must show good faitli at this point. <br />Mr. Fixler asked how many dollars Recreation has in their coffers now. <br />Mr. Buckholtz said it is around $20,000. <br />Mr. Fixler said there has been a lot of dollars expensed on the diamonds throughout the <br />years. The point is, for tracking purposes it is important that it comes from Recreation. <br />They need to know exactly what their output is so they can adjust fees if they need to be <br />adjusted. Whatever Council chooses to do is fine, but he maintains that the drainage is <br />being done for that program. If Recreation needed extra funds, he is sure this body <br />would be willing to give Recreation that funding. <br />Mr. Basile said a number of years the Recreation Board put in lighting and the Village <br />paid for it. <br />Mr. Brett explained that it wasn't a matter of refusal to pay it on Recreation's part. It <br />was something that happened under a Finance Director two back that he wasn't aware <br />of coming in. Once the matter was researched, then we were able to go back and collect- <br />-$12,000 was transferred back to the General Fund last year. <br />Mayor Rinker said Recreation has grown substantially in the last few years. About the <br />only recreational fac'ility we have is the Wiley Park area. That entire area has bloomed <br />in the last few years. He does not have a problem with tracking the expenditure like <br />the Council President suggests, but he does not think that it is not wrong for us to say <br />these are one-time investments. Something like this is not an operating budget.