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Regular Council Minutes 11 /20/06 Page 10 the children. They do a very good job. The Christmas and Winter Holiday Party will be on December 9th from 1:30-3:00. It will be in the Civic Center. With regard to the fall programs, the MBA program has 260 children playing in the recreational league and 35 more playing in travel leagues. 6th-8th grade girls have three leagues. Their games will start in January. The bowling for 6th -8th grade has started. They have about 25 participants. Last year they had about 40, so it is down a little bit. The Adult Fall Men's 18 and Over and 35 and Over did not finish their season this year because of the lousy weather. They just called it quits. The Men's Basketball, both 18 and 35 and over have started. They have 7 teams in each league. It is successful. Howard Sonenstein, Councilman for Mayfield Heights approached Bill and our Rec Board about teaming up with Mayfield Heights and Highland Heights to offer a so-called universal pass for school district students to use at any of the pools. Bill put it before the Board members. The Committee voted by a strong unanimous no. They do not support this idea whatsoever. If they want to bring a student from another area, they can, they can pay a guest fee plus they have pools of their own. Also, another individual from the Village approached us about changing one of our softball fields to a boy's hardball. The Committee unanimously voted no. This would entail extending the fields. It would interfere with the drainage. This was not intended to be hardball. This is a softball field and will remain a softball field. SPECIAL COMMITTEE REPORTS: 2020 Vision Committee - Dr. Parker reported that 2020 met with City Architecture and discussed the Master Plan. There was a presentation by City Architecture and Mayor Rinker. It was very well received and informative. The presentation was nice. The overall response is good. Mayor Rinker added that we have had up on the wall in Civic Hall a composite that was put together by City Architecture which really represents probably the most ambitious aspects of implementing a lot of the 2020 Vision ideas. We had this meeting, initially inviting P&Z and 2020 members because we felt that they are the ones who have been most directly connected with the work product that was the foundation for a lot of City Architecture's work over the last year. More recently we had another meeting. This was a stakeholder's meeting consisting of the property owners whose properties lie within this quarter mile/half mile radius of the center of town to sound them out and get them thinking in very tangible ways how we might be able to start down the path of making some real physical changes in the heart of the Village. Mayor Rinker is looking at promoting 2020's reinsertion into this process in a way that they really have not been as active for quite a while. 2020 was convened for this purpose. This will be put into a little bit more concrete form over the next two months. As a preview it would be one, having 2020 coordinate with us convening a town meeting. This is something we are not trying to keep out of the public eye. On the contrary we want this to be something that the Village as a whole embraces, that we really look at a very three-dimensional idea of how we might start changing the center of town for a variety of reasons. We have had some very good feedback from some meetings with Heinen's, Muscas, Shibleys and Deacons. They are very excited. We have been courting the regional library and looking at the library's ability to expand not on its current site which poses real logistics for them but somewhere toward the center of town either on our side of the street south or our side of the street north or in conjunction with some of the other property