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Minutes of a Meeting of the North Olmsted Parks and Recreation Commission December 5, 2005 one tennis court, they might recommend four; let them complete the study, and the Rec Department will see what develops. Mr. Kelley said that the only other $5,000 allocation might have been magnetic strip reading cards. Mr. DiSalvo said that was it and thanked Mr. Kelley. Mr. DiSalvo said that a main component of the Master Plan is to reach out to the residents and ask them what they want. Park things will be easier to get done this coming year than implementing putting new things into the physical Rec Center, because the Commissioner does not know where the study will take the Rec Center. Ms. Powell said she has a concern in that she got the feeling that in developing a Master Plan, it’s a way in shutting down or holding off or discouraging that there is any attempt to make improvements in what currently exists. As a resident and participant at the Rec Center, Ms. Powell, she sees a great deal of potential in what can be improved or made better, and she did not feel it necessary to wait for a year or two years for a Master Plan to be developed in order to make smaller scale improvements. She has a fear that everyone has a mind-set now that they will hold off until the Master Plan comes through and then something will be done. Ms. Powell thought that if that position is taken, inherently, things will continue to deteriorate and worsen at the Rec Center. Mr. DiSalvo said that everything will be continued to be maintained at the Rec Center – pool, rink, tennis, programs. The Rec Center will not let these things go until they are inoperable. What the Commissioner is saying is that a large amount of money will not be spent for purchases or improvements. Mr. Miller said that the Master Plan will recommend different things. If you talk in extremes, they may say something like clear down the tennis courts; rebuild them; reconfigure them so they can also be basketball courts. Tear them down. It will take tax dollars. Now there is a decision making process that at best will get it on the ballot in November of 2007. Then plans will be put in place. 2008 will be a planning year. In the best case scenario, in 2009 the Rec Department will be up and running. The Councilman said that what he is hearing at this meeting is an ongoing maintenance program that can’t wait until this Plan is done because even if this Plan says tear it all down, it will still be 2009. In the interim, why can’t there be ballasts that aren’t distractedly noisy. Is the maintenance program going to start now? Some of those noisy and hard to locate ballasts should be taken out and replaced. Mr. DiSalvo said that the situation the Rec Department is in right now will depend on how much capital outlay money is appropriated. The Rec Department must look at what pool is going to need, and rink, and tennis. That is why there is no specific answer right now. There will be money to replace the ballasts. Mr. Miller asked how much it cost to replace them. Mr. DiSalvo said about $300. Mr. Miller asked how many were making noise. Mr. DiSalvo asked Ms. Powell how many she would guess were making noise. Ms. Powell said three to five. Mr. Miller said to think about a six- pack, or $1,800; does the Rec Department have that now? Mr. DiSalvo said no, he is down to absolutely nothing right now. Mr. DiSalvo said that every department has similar problems with operational items. Mr. Miller asked if there were a few low-use periods of the year where the ballasts could be replaced, would that be possible to keep the frustration level a lot less, knowing that in January or July the Page 8