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Minutes of a Meeting of The North Olmsted Parks and Recreation Commission August 1, 2005 money; we’re dusted off. Well, we’ve got the money now, and there would have been no problem getting money last year. We could have sold fence signs all over the place. We could have bought that thing (clicks his fingers) like that. And there has never been a time we didn’t want to enclose that field out there. There never has, in 15 years.” Mr. Limpert said, “Well, you’re quite the communicator with me.” Mr. Murphy said, “Why would I communicate with you? The last person I talked to was Mr. Jesse, and this was getting done…two weeks ago I find out all of a sudden there’s concerns. What are these concerns all of a sudden after it was all ready decided?” Mr. Carras said, “What would be the problem if we’re footing the bill, we’re installing the fence, we’re putting the fence up, we’re taking the fence down, we’re storing the fence. Where’s the problem?” Mr. Miller asked who’s chairing the meeting. Mr. Limpert said he’s not. If he was out of order, that’s fine. Mr. Miller asked Mr. DiSalvo if he would chair the meeting. Mr. DiSalvo said, “I will.” Mr. Miller had a question. It sounds like, going down the road, we’re possibly looking at a temporary idea. Is it your strong objection to a temporary or do you want a sole field just for… Mr. Carras said he would like what the softball people have, because they bought a temporary fence that wasn’t good enough this year. They had to send it back because they were worried about vandalism. Mr. Miller asked if he had a disagreement with the plan that was just presented. He said he liked it. It’s not perfect. Mr. Miller continued by saying he wasn’t sure whether the schools wanted a field totally and solely dedicated for use only for varsity level hardball. (The school personnel said that would be nice; that would be great.) Mr. Miller said that, as Mr. Limpert said, the City has a multi-use field, so the option is temporary. Mr. Miller thinks that what needs to be done is to take a look at a timeline and simply draw who’s on that field at what time and see if the temporary arrangement can work. It sounds like there’s not a lot of high demand in the three months we’re talking about. The school personnel said that there are the summer leagues, and the schools would like to use the field, too. There are Hot Stove kids who play also with that fence, but we (the school) want to use it. It’s a complex problem. Mr. Miller said it sounds like there is Hot Stove overlapping April through July, All Scouts….someone mentioned that All Scouts could modify with their tents (he had been involved with All Scouts as a leader for nine years)…the question is: why can’t they modify how they set their tents? Maybe they won’t be in a perfect row like it has been, but there is no issue that they can’t modify. Mr. Miller asked if Chris Wetmore was involved with All Scouts. Mr. Wetmore said that they set up in rows. The former scout leader said, “Again, why can’t that be set up on the outfield inside the ball field. We give up the use of the field when All Scouts is up there.” (short, Page 5