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Minutes of a Meeting of the North Olmsted Parks & Recreation Commission October 3, 2005 He would like it to match the way everything else looked, but it was hard enough finding $22,000 and the time frame. Mr. Kelley asked if, when the work will be done, the pool would be drained. st Mr. Limpert said that it’s expected to be drained. If it’s done by November 1, there will be time to refill the pool for swim team practice. This concluded the Report of the Safety Director OLD BUSINESS Fence at Ball Park Mr. Baxter said that, at the end of the last meeting, Randi (Jones) asked the question about how we erected the fence that’s on Diamond #2 when the Commission never discussed it. How did that happen? Mr. Limpert said that it was his recollection that the first part of the fence on Diamond #2 was not discussed by Council, but he believed was discussed in a Rec Commission meeting, if that rings any bells. Mr. Kelley said that he made a statement in the last meeting where Mr. Murphy asked him a question about how that happened. Mr. Kelley said that he believed that they did come here to the Commission and asked that they encapsulate the whole diamond. The Chairman went back home, checked the record, and found that they did NOT come to the Commission. They came when Claire Hayes was still Chair of this Commission and asked to put a fence up east to west just for safety. That’s all that came here. Nothing was talked about past that point. Go down there now, and it’s completely enclosed in. Mr. Limpert said it was brought to his attention the first week in his job as Safety Director, asking what it was to take to get it done. The Safety Director tried in that brief meeting to let them know that they were going to have to run it through the Rec Commission; they would have to get it through Council if it were necessary. There was not enough due diligence done on the prior fence; that is why Mr. Limpert wanted to throw in as much as possible on this one. Mr. Baxter said that the softball association, comprised mostly of non-residents, just went ahead and did it. Mr. Limpert said that the decision was made by the Rec Department when the money was donated to move forward, and he did not think it went through all that it should have gone through. Not that it was prescribed what had to be done; he thought more should have been done. Mr. DiSalvo said that he knows it’s necessary to have a fence permitted, so the Building Department must have some record of it, and it had to go through Safety. There is no way to build a fence without it being permitted. The Commissioner said he checked the minutes as well and did not find anything regarding it for the last three years. Mr. Kelley asked if the City can take the fence down now. (Overlapping conversation). Mr. Miller was asked his recollection. He said that the Rec Department should talk to the people who erected the fence; where did they get their authority to put it in and their position on the matter. After the high school fence, Mr. Miller felt that the issue should be run through the Law Department to see whether there is a need for corresponding legislation or not; whether they need to simply go through the Building Department. This has been a touchy issue that has been left unanswered, and maybe unanswered implies that there is some consent for advertising. If the Law Department says it’s fine, this Commission has the authority; it needs to go no further. He asked that Mr. Barker keep Council informed re status of Page 8