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Minutes of a Meeting of The North Olmsted Parks and Recreation Commission August 1, 2005 pointed out to Mr. Baxter that he doesn’t want a quality diamond put in there; that he just wanted the one the way it is because he lives there. Mr. Baxter said, “No, not because I live there, because I think it’s the best thing for the people who live in the area and perhaps in the City. I really think that if we have to have a first class diamond, if that’s what the school deserves, and they probably do, they ought to find a field and find land to build on. It’s not incumbent upon the City to have a first class diamond for the High School.” Mr. Carras said, “No it’s not, but you understand, sir, that the City and the Schools cooperatively work together…” Mr. Baxter said, “Often they do, I understand.” Mr. Carras said, “No, not often, they do. But it’s a cooperative effort. It’s an agreement that they have. You use our gyms; we use your pool; we use this building; there’s a lot of activity that goes on.” Mr. Baxter said, “I understand, but that area is really not designed well to put that field in there. I still maintain that.” Mr. Carras said, “It’s there already, so why not make it good?” Mr. Baxter said, “You just make it worse in terms of the congestion that you bring to the Park” (much overlapping, loud conversation). Mr. DiSalvo said, “Excuse me, please, for one moment. The first hand I saw: Sir?” Mr. Baxter said that he was asked for his feelings; those were his. It did not mean that Mr. Carras was wrong. Mr. Carras said that he guessed he knew the field is there, and he understood that Mr. Baxter lives there and all, but his point is that they (the Athletic Department) is still going to play there, and they’d like to play there if they get the fence, so why not make the field as good as you can make it if it’s still our field. It’s not going to change the traffic there. You’re not going to get any more cars there, so why not make it a top-notch facility instead of a half-baked facility? Mr. Baxter said, “You’re right. If you’re going to be there, it should be good.” He suggested that he rather see it be somewhere else. Mr. Carras said, “O.K., but we don’t have that option right now.” Mr. Baxter said that he would like to see a better playground; we have a half-baked playground; we have no tennis courts (loud overlapping conversation). Mr. Carras said that we have a chance here tonight to upgrade one facility. He understood we need a lot of things in this town, but we’re addressing one tonight. After seven years, we finally addressed the basketball one. We got one, and it’s great. Now we can address this one. Maybe next year we can do the playgrounds and the next year…but we’ve got a chance here now. He understood Mr. Baxter’s concerns. We got one: Mr. Baxter said if we’re going to have it, let’s make it a good one. Mr. Baxter said, “I agree.” One woman stood up and said to Mr. Baxter that she resented that Mr. Baxter was making a personal decision about something that is something close to his home and thought that his vote should not be included at all. She said that she can go and canvass the people who live in the Bradley Park area who had to put up a fence because they are furious and, I’m sure if they were on the Commission they would say no more NOSO because they don’t want all the traffic either. She sees the traffic at the time the games are going on; she resents the fact that Mr. Baxter is making a personal decision...Mr. Baxter replied forcefully that if she would survey the people on West Park and ask them what they think about the dust coming off the fields blowing in their homes…(again, loud overlapping conversation). Mr. Limpert said that Mr. Baxter does not live Page 13