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Parks and Recreation Commission Meeting March 7, 2005 Mr. DiSalvo said that current tennis courts could in-house either volleyball or basketball programs as well – year round instead of limiting it through the schools. Mr. Stein asked if there were any questions. General discussion among the participants of the meeting ensued: Mr. Stein was asked if this would take care of space needs. Mr. Stein said this would take care of no renovations as far as new pool, new ice rinks or new equipment. Mr. Stein was then asked how much this addition would be; he replied he would have to do some figures on the matter. Mr. DiSalvo said that the new addition could be about 96,000 square feet. Essentially, the entire building needs to be renovated. Then it gets to a point where an evaluation needs to be made if that’s the best way to spend the dollar vs. doing something new at this location, or at the Middle School site. Mr. Stein said that what would be fantastic would be to put all of his plan together while running so the facility would not shut down. The location is ideal if the Rec could go behind the building and make the space where the current building is a parking lot. This building does have its problems. However, there is a lot of property behind it. There was a thought that the public has the perception that the ice rink is a money pit. Mr. Limpert said that part of the reason the ice rink is a plus is that it is depreciated. If you would be looking at making bond payments on an ice rink that would be a totally different financial picture. It’s a little bit like the schools. When you say you haven’t had any bricks and mortar for so long…the cost is not assigned to the rink, so that what is left is the gross profit. Mr. DiSalvo said that the rink uses probably 60% of the utilities at the Rec Center, based on a percentage because there is no way to get an accurate without specific meters going to the rink. Mr. Stanic said that Mr. Lasko will share the survey results with the Rec Commission. It sounded to Mr. Stanic that the Commission has an idea of what it wants to do. He asked that priorities be established and affix some costs. Mr. Lasko said that the Board is certainly willing to talk about the day to day working relationship and the utilization of the facilities and the costs associated with that. The Board is more than willing to talk about utilization and costs benefit. At the same time, long range must be discussed. Mr. Stanic said the Board and the City needs to be successful the first time; people will not give it a second try. He continued that he wanted to be part of something to be proud of; he did not want to be part of anything that’s not. Mr. Miller asked if any of the facilities or subject matters discussed appear to overlap any efforts in the School Board’s proposal. Mr. Stanic said he did not see anything overlapping, but that he did see a lot of things he would be interested in hearing. Mr. Lasko said that the largest overlapping item which came up before the Commission before, and it came up from a conceptual standpoint of long- range planning and trying to determine what the needs of the community will be, is the placement of a fitness center. This is one significant overlap in what has been conceptually presented here at the Rec Commission and what has been in fact advanced in the proposal as formulated by the schools to date. Mr. DiSalvo said that fitness isn’t proposed, so when you say they overlap, are you talking about the interest or the actual fitness center. Mr. Lasko said he was talking about the space as a potential weight room. Mr. DiSalvo said that when Mr. Stein says gym he means gymnastics. Mr. Lasko meant was that, in addition to how that would be built out, Page 10