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Recreation Commission Meeting April 5, 2004 NOSO The Commissioner and Mr. Jesse met with Mr. Saunders of NOSO almost a week and a half ago. A status report from NOSO was due to Mr. Jesse and the Commissioner on Friday, April 2, 2004. This report was to include timelines and detailed assigned responsibilities for the Barton/Bradley field improvement project. To date, the Commissioner has received no such report. A number of E-mails have gone back and forth, and Mr. Saunders is trying to package this matter up. Mr. DiSalvo is not quite sure what role the State of Ohio is playing in this matter; they did run the soil sample. Mr. Jesse said they are not dependent on the water line to do their job. Brad Friedel is in Poland at the present time at a soccer tournament right now. Mr. Jesse said that the time frame is the concern. The preliminary schedule is 10 days behind. Two quotes have been given on the city water line, $50,000 above what Council wanted it done for. $40,000 was authorized, hoping it was closer to $25,000. Some creative engineering will be done; it will still happen. The plan is important. Mr. Lasko stated that commitments were made as to what would be provided, what would be done and what improvements would be made in terms of improving the quality of the fields. To the extent that they are already ten days behind in doing that, then one wonders if they are going to have time to make good on all the commitments put forth. Mr. Miller said that he hoped that the water installation contract is not signed until the City is more comfortable that NOSO is going to be able to hold its end of the deal. DJ Skates Mr. DiSalvo asked Ms. Drenski to review some of the figures regarding the DJ Skates. Numberwise, Ms. Drenski noted that the Rec Center is already ahead of last year's entire season with seven more skates to go, being ahead $536.50. The year to date variance is over $7,000. The Rec Department is making sure that the money is collected, improving the supervision, and making the skates more family oriented. Mr. DiSalvo said there was an increase in family participation, which was the goal, rather than just a teen gang type of thing. Mr. Kelley asked if it being prepaid helped. Ms. Drenski said that not too many are taking advantage of that, but that the families are coming in earlier, at 7:00 rather than 7:45. The pass covers skate rental as well. Arcade Games Mr. Kelley asked if there were any more questions for the Commissioner. Ms. Kanis asked how the arcade games were doing. Mr. DiSalvo said they were doing excellently. Ms. Drenski said that $195 collected for the week was for the games. The games have been up over $200 most every week since the Rec Center started the games. Just received for the month of February was $632 for the vending. It's basically doubled. The kids love the games. The kids are all over the claw machine with the prizes in it. This concluded the Report of the Recreation Commissioner, accepted by the Commission members unanimously. Page 8