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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, March 21, 2016 Page 4 Ronald Wynne (Finance) - The auditors have pulled out of the field. They are working on their report in their office. It's now in the hands of the State for final review. Once they are completed, the audit report will be made available to the public. Chief Eugene Carcioppolo (Fire) - We offered a position to an individual to fill the spot of our retiring fireman who will be leaving in the next few months. He has accepted and should be starting by tlie end of the month. I would like to get him officially sworn in at the next Council meeting. Mark Guidetti (Legal) - There was no report. William Thomas (Parks and Recreation) - Everyone should be aware of our exciting opportunity that we are moving Cruise Night and the Fourth of July down to Progressive Campus II and our soccer fields. Hopefully everyone saw the front cover of our brochure reminding you that we are moving down there. It is an opportunity for us to take advantage of the new construction going on at the new Community Room. We lost a lot of land there where we have the DJ and about 300-400 people actively involved in that area. We are moving it down and will firy it out and see how it goes. We also had our annual Easter Party and Egg Hunt this past Saturday. For the first time in 18 years, I have never seen anything like it, we had approximately 145 children participate. That's probably three times more than what we normally get. Add that to grandparents and parents that were there and we are probably talking over 350 people in the Community Room. It was nice because we had the fire tntck there to set off the siren for all of the hunts we had. We had four hunts, 2 and under, 3 and 4 year old, 5-7 and 8-11. If we had had the Fire Deparhnent come into the Community Room, we would have closed down. We thank Gino for staying outside with the Fire Truck. It was a wonderful event. I give credit to our Rec Board who put in a lot of time in planning and everything. The thing that was unbelievable about it was we had no rain. I don't think we had any rain last week because the grass was bone dry. It was just a wonderful event to have on our front grass, the little grass that we have. It was just a wonderful event. We will discuss our evaluation with the Rec Board at our next April meeting. - Senior Services - In your packet everyone should have received the very comprehensive senior survey that was put together by Mayor Bodnar, Diane and Donna. ' Council President Saponazo stated, I do have to say 50 and over, those of us who are fairly 50 and over. I never consider myself a senior, but I appreciate it. I am not really sure how 50 equals senior. 50 is the new 30. Mr. Thomas stated, we wanted to send that to everybody because you may have a parent. You may be 40-50 years of age but have a parent that may need some of these services. We are reaching out. Council President Saponaro stated, well played Bill, well played. Mr. Thomas stated, so the survey is not only intended for our seniors, but children of our seniors who may need services. In addition, we are also bringing back our Senior Fair that we did about 2 years ago. I do want to remind you. I thought it was good on Mayor