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Regular Council Minutes 11-15-04 Page 6 Recreation Roard Mr. Marrie said we haven't had a meeting since our last Council meeting. The Recreation Board will meet this Wednesday at 7 p.m. Items to be covered include Halloween Party evaluation, upcoming Christmas Party and discussion about the pool and some possible changes for 2005 and any other discussion that inay come up. Mr. Marrie said I need to go on record on behalf of the Village to publicly thank the High School Key Club and the Boy Scouts for their help at the Halloween Party. It would be neat if you could have seen all these teenagers in here with all the children. I want to make sure they are thanked for it because so many times in the paper all you read are the bad things that go on and there are no good ones. This was a perfect example of the good side of it. The Boy Scouts set up a haunted house in the small room back here and the kids just went nuts over it. Mrs. Roman said if you look on the website, you will see a lot of the pictures. SPECIAL COMMITTEE REPORTS: 2020 Vision Committee -Mrs. Mills said we have not had a meeting. Mayor Rinker said this is real preliminary but in keeping with some of the issues that had been raised in 2020, not the least of which is focusing on the Beta Park complex. Just so you are aware, kind of gradually, discussions I have had with Bernie, John and Phil-we have been looking at sort of stepping back and rethinking the way in which Beta Park can be developed. We have addressed some of these things on the fringes and it is kind of hard to say where to start to engage everybody. But it struck me that experience has demonstrated in the past that when we can visualize certain ideas on how something can be accomplished, it really is the proverbial picture speaks 1,000 words. So with that big introduction, what I want to apprise Council, my goal here is to utilize the services--and I have initiated, I have gotten kind of a preliminary from City Architecture, Paul Volpe. City Architecture has had a lot of experience, especially within the City of Cleveland looking at various redevelopment themes, concepts. Sometimes they are very specific, site specific, others a little bit broader. I am hopeful that what we can do that will help all of us really grasp and grapple with some of the ideas of what it takes to redevelop, in a very constructive--literally and figurativelyconstructive way just to see if we can utilize the services of this firm that has had this level of expertise and experience in depicting potential uses, potential architecture, potential layouts. When we addressed with Progressive and with the Goldbergs, our Northwest Quadrant conception; if you recall we had a few not really architectural-really more artist's renderings of how that could look-although we did incorporate some architectural elevation renderings only because Progressive at that time was already looking at some possibilities as was Goldberg for office redevelopment. And we kind of threw those together if you remember; we had a number of boards just to be able to depict what we were trying to do conceptually up in the Northwest Quadrant. With the redevelopment that we are looking at in the Beta Park area, I think it is more of a challenge. It's like how do you look at what has been developed and redevelop it. Where can you change things? How do you go about doing it? How do you start budgeting those things? What is it that you want to accomplish? Really, the questions just keep jumping out but a lot of times to be able to benchmark and really visualize and engage as I say in a constructive way, I think it takes some of that visualization. So what I am hoping we can get do is to get some proposal together where we