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Minutes of a Meeting of The North Olmsted Parks and Recreation Commission August 1, 2005 on West Park; he lives in the area where he drives by it often; he is not personally affected. The woman said that she lives in the area by Bradley Woods and she deals with NOSO, so should we not have NOSO either? Mr. Limpert said he thought the point is that Mr. Baxter, as a Member of this Commission, is making an observation; he is not directly affected; he was asked a question and giving a direct answer, and Mr. Limpert did not think Mr. Baxter should be chastised for volunteering his time to sit on this Commission and being a voting member. (More overlapping conversation, part of which was asking Mr. Limpert’s vote). Mr. Limpert said: “Excuse me, procedure, procedural here. It is not going to be that if we have X numbers on the Commission that we say how many are present and the majority of those present will carry a Motion and that it will still need to go beyond that; this is simply a recommendation from this Commission and to be a positive recommendation, it’s going to take a majority of the membership of this Commission, so whether someone abstains or votes no is not really an issue in the outcome, it will be on the number of people voting. As far as myself, I was asked the question and, since we are short on quorum, I intend on contacting the Ward Councilman and explain to him since he is the one who sits where I sat for many years who will take the praise or the flack on this, and I intend on getting in touch with him to find out what his feelings are.” Mr. Limpert was again asked his opinion, to which he replied that his personal feelings are that he wished we had a better solution. This is a patch, and patches are better than riding out on total flack, but he wished there was a better solution. It’s the School’s dollars involved, and God bless you for it, but it is not the best solution. It’s at least something. Someone asked the Secretary how many Commission members are absent, to which she replied: Mr. Lasko (School Board appointee), Mr. Kelley (City Council appointee), and Ms. Kanis (Mayoral appointee). In regards to the dust, one quick comment by one of the visitors: it is proposed to put special red dirt that doesn’t blow around (diamond dust) to remove the problems at the Park. $75,000 have been spent by Hot Stove in the last seven years on improvements in the parks: Clague Park, North Olmsted Park, wherever. That’s one of the proposals. That will solve a lot of problems. Mr. Carras said he already budgeted for that this year. Another visitor said that there was also a recent discovery of water up at the Park this spring. Mr. Limpert said that Diamond No. 5 needs more attention than ever; the City agrees and is trying to make it a better situation. There will be good decisions made; not just reacting to hysteria. We want to have you all say that it makes sense in the long run so that all of you would say that it makes sense. Once again attention was brought to the matter of the lack of quorum and a special meeting. The Secretary was asked to phone the Commission Members for a special meeting. Mr. Limpert said that, fortunately, the meeting is not being held on this matter in February 2006, when we’d be “up against the wall” to get things done. Ms. Jones said we have 30 days. Mr. Murphy said that Page 14