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Recreation Commission Meeting October 4, 2004 months). This is free labor to help the Rec Department. The purpose of the internship program is for qualified candidates to gain practical experience toward future endeavors within the recreation profession. The tasks will be daily operations with each department – Service, Staffing, Equipment, Programming and Maintenance – Rink, Aquatics, Gymnastics, Adult Programming and Tennis. The skills include financial administration, employee involvement, marketing and sales, programming and supervisory. The content: as each candidate progresses through this program and completes each skill requirement, the supervisor will sign off to indicate the completion of that skill. The supervisor will provide specific feedback to enhance educational experience. The Commissioner had an interview with one of the Rec’s first candidates who will probably start within the next two weeks. The contact the Commissioner has is with Dr. Scott Armstrong, who would like to assign a project to his majors in sports management to have both a real life experience and a marketing project. Mr. DiSalvo will have the students market the Spring Ice Show. There will be group and individual ticket sales, special event planning and promotion, writing press releases and future stories, designing and/or administering market surveys, general office assistance, home game administrative assistant, website administrative assistant, selling sponsorships, and recruiting new members or identifying new season ticket holders. They will be working with Lorain County Speedway, Cleveland Barons Hockey Team and the North Olmsted Recreation Center. This news was given to Betsy (Drenski), who was very happy about it because of the work that will be done for the Ice Show. There will be a whole work force doing a good job because they are being graded. It’s a great show and the best kept secret in town. Financial Report Mr. DiSalvo reported that the nearest figures he has are from August and are unreliable. It’s hard managing something when the numbers are two months behind and are not to be trusted. The Commissioner said that the Rec Department is on target to make budget. Without naming names, Mr. DiSalvo said that he has three different reports and not one of them match on income numbers. The information is, at best, sixty five percent accurate. He further stated that he will not know until the Finance Department closes out at year end what actually happened. As far as expenses are concerned, any purchase order request or any purchase order is as good as an expense. He reiterated that the best he could give the Commission on income is sixty five percent. Actually, the Finance Department just closed out for June, so the Rec has actual numbers through June. The report says August, but this is what the bookkeeper has kept up to date as far as daily totals, which are then translated into monthlies. Mr. Lasko asked what guarantee the Rec Department has that the money is not walking out the door. If the system or numbers cannot be relied upon, then what guarantee does anyone have that literally half, a third, a quarter of the money is walking away? Mr. DiSalvo replied that the reports are generated from a cash register tape. It’s not in a point of sale system. At the end of each day, the cashiers close out, do a “Z” reading which totals all the sales on the cash register, and the cash register tape is put in a money bag along with the money. The next morning the Page 3