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Minutes of a Meeting of the North Olmsted Parks & Recreation Commission October 3, 2005 that he remembered what the capital projects were and they were prioritized. Duane (Limpert) and Mr. DiSalvo went to the Finance Department at least two times trying to get some other source in case the money would not be here. Fortunately, the Rec has the funds to cover existing emergency repairs, but if anything happens from this day forward, the Rec Center must start looking again. The capital outlay is gone. The balance is zero. Ms. Powell wanted to clarify in the minutes of the last meeting the .7 mil continuous operating levy and where that was reflected, and how much is that per year. Is all that money going to pay for a hockey roof? That’s what the minutes said; so when is the Rec going to be finished paying for the hockey roof and have access to that money for other things? When the people came in and griped about the baseball fields more than one person said that they were tax-paying residents for the Rec Center and why isn’t anything being done with the money already being paid. Mr. DiSalvo said that, from his understanding from the past, property and other taxes mainly go for the operational excess of the Rec Center; it’s not included in capital improvement or major emergency repair. On an average, from every $150,000 home, the people are taxed $30 a year going to the Rec Center. Mr. DiSalvo asked to be corrected if he was wrong. Mr. Limpert said it would be more like $70. Mr. DiSalvo said that, for an entire year, it’s appreciated, but the Rec Center is not receiving that much money in taxes. Ms. Powell said that should be publicized, because she felt that the community feels that they are giving a lot more bucks and they are not getting anything out of it. Are the minutes of the meeting incorrect then where that money is going? Mr. Barker said that, when you’re campaigning door-to-door, you hear from the residents that they are paying all the property tax, and they’re not seeing anything for it. On the property tax, the last number Mr. Barker heard was that about $.20 on every dollar goes to the City; the rest goes to everything else – the schools, county, state, whatever. They don’t know where those tax dollars go. It’s good of you to ask these questions, but the general population has no clue where their tax dollars go. Ms. Powell said they should be informed because they are under a gross misconception of how much they are paying and how much they are not getting; if that’s the case… Mr. Limpert said that he’s not one hundred percent sure, but he thinks that it is not all going for the hockey roof; the hockey roof was just under $500,000; the parking lot improvements which were probably done ten to twelve years ago; the Rec is just finishing up the last four years for the pool roof – it was probably 20-year money; so a lot of the .7 mil has been used for leveraging projects that needed to be accomplished, e.g., the pool roof, the parking lot, the hockey roof, and the Safety Director was sure there were other things that went into it. He remembered that when, with Mayor Boyle, the taxpayers voted to make it a continuing .7 mil, if there are major repairs that needed to be repaired, it’s hard to pay for those big projects with borrowed money if there is three years of a levy left and you’d like to have ten or twenty year money. Some money should be coming leveraged as the past repairs are being finished. Ms. Powell said that the minutes of the meeting mentions the hockey roof specifically, but she thought if the money could be creatively used to leverage and tack into other funds and there is another major repair project again, she felt that things were not being communicated to the community about what a good job is being done on a large scale with that small amount of money coming in. Page 3