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Regular Council Minutes <br />12-6-04 <br />Page 6 <br />Mr. Thomas said very few families took advantage of it. The Recreation Board was very much in <br />favor in maintaining a student and not so much a family. <br />Mr. Saponaro said you will have students that are kindergartners, first graders, that aren't going <br />to be dropped off with their friends. This makes little sense if we are talking about what 20 <br />families-was it even 20 families? We already did this last year; we've set the precedent. <br />Mr. Thomas said it was a pilot project. Mr. Thomas and Mr. Marrie said the Recreation Board <br />felt strongly about this. <br />Mr. Saponaro said I fail to see why it would make any difference. <br />Mayor Rinker asked, what are the negatives? It would be good if people would state reasons for <br />it because when you start something and then change it, it certainly suggests i~f not says <br />something is wrong-especially if someone is vehement. <br />Mr. Marrie said one of the arguments was that we should invite all the people that go to <br />Hawken. One of the arguments was they felt that it would be too crowded. Mr. Marrie said the <br />pool is not amoney-making proposition. It was not that crowded. Never did we have a place <br />where they were coming out the walls so there was no reason not to do this. Bill will back me up <br />on this-but it was pretty adamant about doing this. It was a personal opinion of many people on <br />the board that didn't want it. <br />Mayor Rinker said I would request that that be reduced to some kind of report where if people <br />could give a more cogent report. I think it would be useful. <br />Mr. Marrie said I don't have a problem with that, Mayor. I will bring it up at the next meeting. <br />Council President Buckholtz said I was going to echo that and go a step further. I sat on the <br />Recreation Board when the'pool was first evolving and there were a lot of differences in opinion <br />but we took it slow but each year we saw how the enrollment went and how crowded the pool <br />got. I remember the big catastrophe from the beginning was that it was going to be overrun by <br />Progressive folks and there would be no where to swim. I don't think that has ever been the case. <br />I was going to make this recommendation anyway. We have a long way until next season. Please <br />review it and if they want to come before Council-- provide a memo and let's discuss it at <br />Caucus or something and have that opportunity--- <br />Mr. Thomas said we will be printing the brochure in February so I would like to -the Recreation <br />Board will meet again on January 19 and I would like to have closure--- <br />Mayor Rinker said what we're suggesting-as a public operation, it is the kind of thing where <br />some of these decisions need to be transparent enough that people can understand them. <br />Mr. Saponaro said I understand we decided against doing the Dog Days and the reason behind it <br />was filtration and health and safety. Those were good reasons even though it was enjoyable <br />event-it was looked at and determined. To me, this kind of just shuts our doors to people in our <br />own district and it does not show goodwill for those whose kids go to school in the District. <br /> <br />~~ <br /> <br />