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North Olmsted Parks and Recreation Commission April 3, 2006 Page Six in the City Ordinance the family is comprised of five members. Multiply 20 percent to the past cost, there is a fair individual add-on price. That is really the only objective way the Commissioner could come up with the new figures, because there is no range. Mr. DiSalvo is trying to keep the rate increases as simple as possible. Unfortunately, if there is only three in your family, it’s based on five. Mr. Baxter asked if there were a family with four or five children, what would happen. Mr. DiSalvo said there is a family add-on price, per Ordinance. Mr. Baxter thought that a big family should not be penalized. Is that something that should be considered? Mr. DiSalvo said that it will take more work to get family defined from what is in the Ordinance. Mr. Baxter asked what is the typical definition of “family”. Mr. DiSalvo said that, typically, Rec Departments consider four a family. Middleburg Heights has four and, if there was a fifth, there is an add-on fee. Mr. DiSalvo believes the rates reflected benefit larger families than smaller ones. Mr. Baxter asked about a set fee for senior, particularly a senior at 55. This seems to be very generous. Is that in the Ordinance, as well, that a senior is 55? (General discussion among the members about what age defines “senior”.) Mr. Baxter said there is no legal definition of senior. Mr. DiSalvo said that 55 was adopted by the Rec Center. Mr. Baxter said he thought that a discount was given for seniors was because they were a certain age on a fixed income. Just because you’re 55 doesn’t mean your expenses are higher; they may be lower because you don’t have children at home. Mr. Barker said that he thought that 55 might be a key age because many residents who live in North Olmsted and who work for North Olmsted were probably retiring around that age – to give them some type of price break. That was his best guess. Mr. Baxter said that it would be a unique system to have the price break designed around the employees of North Olmsted. He suggested that it ought to be considered if that is appropriate for the rate schedule. Most people are working beyond age 55 now and, in fact, many people are working beyond 65. In the whole scheme of things, if you look at the 2005 report, there are only five annual family memberships, so he did not think it was a significant part of the entire structure, because there apparently aren’t that many families coming in. Mr. Barker said that a family of five or six or seven that are doing a lot of swimming probably have their own pool at home or go to one in their development. Summer month family resident and annual family resident are the lowest numbers on the report. Mr. Kelley repeated that the outdoor pool was closed last summer, and Mr. DiSalvo gave a lot of rebates back, so he expected that the ’05 number to be higher; he couldn’t say how much higher, but it would have been higher. Ms. Jones said that is still a really good deal being proposed. Mr. Kelley would like to find out a clarification on the senior age. Is it 55 or is it 60? Social security is being moved up for everyone. The price of running Rec Centers is getting higher and higher, and it must be reflected in the price of admission. Minutes of a Meeting of the Page 6