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Minutes of a Meeting of The Parks and Recreation Commission May 2, 2005 the facility, as well as Brook Park and other facilities. Notwithstanding that the operating agreement might be required and that’s what should be done, maybe there are other sources. Has City Council talked about decreasing the amount of the income tax credit allowed; perhaps it should be visited at this time. This could be another source of revenue; it’s a Council-only action, rather than tie up the schools with the Rec facilities. Ms. Kanis agreed with Mr. Baxter and questioned what we need to do with this. Mr. Kelley said that, going back to the previous meeting or even the meeting before, Dr. Stanic asked the price to fix the rink and pool, and the schools can take care of it out of its operating budget. It doesn’t have to be put public at all. He needed the facts and the figures. Mr. Kelley thought that Tom Stein was going to confer with Mr. DiSalvo and Gaber & Associates to give them a price. The Commission talked specifically about the pool and the hockey rink, and the Superintendent of Schools said they could do it; just give them a price, and the price is not here. Mr. Kelley asked Mr. DiSalvo why the price was not here. Mr. DiSalvo did not recall Dr. Stanic saying they would cover that cost. Mr. Lasko said that it is a question of the request for information, from whatever source it would come from. The schools can’t come up with what the operating agreement should be until they see what the utilization and the costs are. If that can be quantified, then there can be good faith discussions about the method and manner in which we can move forward to implement them. Clearly, it appeared to Mr. Lasko, there needs to be a discussion about what is the equitable cost- sharing arrangement that exists right now between the city and the schools in terms of who should be bearing what costs. Given the trade off – city use of school facilities and school use of city facilities – if the pendulum has swung too far one way or the other, we need to swing it back. There is a commitment by Dr. Stanic for this, and this is something that could be and should be fixed right now. In terms of major renovations to the pool or hockey rink, part of it clearly would be predicated on what the result of the proposal would be, but at the same time, it would be discussed at a later date. The kids in the district will be affected the same way as any other citizen of the community. Mr. Miller asked Ms. Wenger if the proposal went forward and implemented, nothing would be physically changed and up and operating for at least three years. She said that the plan would not recommend new; it would recommend maintenance and priorities. That would happen before three years. Based on the fact that nothing new would be up and running in three years, Mr. Miller asked, why can’t the city propose a percentage of the cost of any major repair to the schools, e.g., twenty percent? Then, if the study goes through and it’s recommend that there be a tear out of pipes under the ice and the pool is replaced because it’s leaking and there’s a sink hole beneath it, then the city will look to the schools for twenty percent of the costs. The costs are to be determined, and go from there. That way both entities are on notice just to go the status quo. Mr. Jesse said that, on a small scale, what happened with NOSO last year was an example of what could go wrong by starting out with a good concept: it turned out that a water line was bought that the city may or may not need. There was an enormous amount of time involved with this, and this was on a small scale. This is what has caused Mr. Jesse to have the views he has on the hockey rink and the pool: if we go ahead and do propose to them as far as the short term Page 10