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Minutes of a Meeting of The North Olmsted Parks and Recreation Commission August 1, 2005 the Park. Ms. Jones mentioned Homecoming; the School replied that they are finished by that time-a month or so before that. By the start of the third week of July, the Athletic Department would like to be done. It was suggested that NOSO find another field and put the ball field there. Mr. Limpert was asked how many fields were set up for NOSO. Mr. Limpert replied that he believed there were only two; or is there three? Mr. DiSalvo said that they don’t necessarily use all the fields. Mr. Miller asked if the City could not contact The City of Westlake and inquire about four fields at Porter and Center Ridge. It’s not terribly far from the Park, so we would not be relocating people from one end of the City to the other; we’d be basically moving down Porter Road. Perhaps the City of North Olmsted could get Westlake’s cooperation. Their big soccer tournament is early, so we should possibly be able to work it out with them. However, we should involve NOSO in the conversation. Mr. DiSalvo agreed. One of the residents (Mrs. Callahan) asked why everything is taking precedence over the boys and their baseball. She said that everyone was talking soccer, boy scouts…. these kids don’t have a home field. What’s so hard to understand? We deserve a home field. (Overlapping conversation…Mr. DiSalvo said, “Excuse me, excuse me, one at a time, please. Sir?” The gentleman had a question: “Why haven’t we talked about making a permanent field at the north end and putting it the right way? All this talk about temporary stuff; people want permanently, and then everyone can enjoy it, you can still put up fences and not have to take them down. The field that is put at the south end is facing the wrong way to begin with, and then you got the plans about taking out the fences and when the fences can be used because Hot Stove wants to use it, the high school wants to use it and the other things going in between. I can’t see why we just can’t have a permanent; once you make it, it’s made, the capital cost is done with. You don’t have to make anything more, and you can build it solid, and you don’t have to worry about moving things around later on. I don’t have a cost or anything, but I think that the kids deserve that, and I think the City deserves it because absolutely, we’ve been a laughingstock the last couple of years now that we don’t play at home.” (Short, soft conversation.) Mr. Limpert said that’s why it’s easy to just stand in a field and say, “Wait – no problem – deal done.” When you start getting into details and you get conflicts, then five or seven years later you say what idiot did it this way when we should have done it like, perhaps, what you just said or the various options. This is an important decision, and there will be hard-earned dollars expended by the schools’ tax dollars, perhaps some of ours, etcetera. It shouldn’t be a patch and say it’s on our way. We had an opportunity years ago to purchase some property to go in and put in a quad ball diamond. If money weren’t an object when we were just out there today, we set a great bar as far as the amount of real estate available, and if you forget what we have all ready expended in the capital costs of doing things, the North Olmsted Park probably should be primarily the soccer fields, and the Bradley Soccer Fields would lay out very nicely to be a very good quad or more diamond complex out there. Then you have the hundreds of thousands of dollars invested in backstops by NOSO and NOSA and Hot Stove and all these different things. Page 7