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Minutes of a Meeting of the North Olmsted Parks and Recreation Commission November 6, 2006 Page Two include new family-friendly restrooms and also a new playground area for the two to five year old children, plus some additional path access. The City is hoping that these improvements are a catalyst for future vision to the Park being more ADA acceptable and ADA friendly. The City has ADA compliant playground equipment, but it is not always most welcoming to those people with disabilities and their communities. The City’s consultants are here tonight to put together this information and will be presenting the restroom and playground components. This will be introduced in legislation this week at Council and throughout the bid. Any comments or suggestions or modifications need to be incorporated quickly into the plan. The City looks for the Commission’s approval to the Board tonight or any comments or recommendations you might have. There will be a presentation and then a question and answer period. At this point, Mr. Ken Emling, an architect with Richard Bowen & Associates, introduced himself and made his presentation. He said that he has been working on the family restrooms that the company will provide off the back of the Senior Center. He said that after his discussion, he will turn the floor over to Chris Meyer, the Consultant with Meyer Design working on the playground equipment being proposed. He showed a few pictures of the current playground and asked the attendees to keep them in mind for when Chris Meyer made his presentation. Mr. Emling then reviewed the family restrooms under consideration. He showed a representation of the existing Senior Center Building. Along the north wall, directly opposite the kitchen and storage room, there will be a new facility built for ADA compliant family restrooms. The building is very simple. Mr. Emling showed a picture of the back wall of the building. The new restrooms will consist of two rooms, containing a sink and toilet. There are a number of different components that will make them family friendly. The building itself will blend into the existing facility. The brick will be almost an exact match; the eaves will match the pitch of the roof and the shingles, so that when the building is finished and coming off the back it will blend evenly. He presented a view of the brick to be used that is an extremely close match to the existing building. The accessories will make the rooms family- friendly. There will be child seats to restrain a one-year old on the toilet. There will be a diaper- changing station will be on the wall. Directly adjacent to that will be a sanitary material dispenser, and next to that will be the waste receptacle. There will be electric hand dryers; there will be no paper towels for sanitary purposes as well as for someone stealing them or messing up the rooms with the paper. All the accessories will be in stainless steel and built into the wall; a toilet tissue dispenser, stainless steel vandal-resistant and lockable. There will also be a toilet seat cover, again, of stainless steel. There will be a liquid soap dispenser of stainless steel. There will be a framed mirror above the sink of tempered glass (tempered as in you car’s windshield, which, when broken, it breaks into many pieces and not large shards of glass). The floor will be of concrete with a sealer on it; there will be a floor drain in the center to allow the maintenance crew to clean; and the walls will be of concrete block with an epoxy paint. The interior of the rooms is designed to be easy to maintain and to be vandal resistant, as the rooms will be not be attended all the time. The plans are very simple. The company is talking about a couple hundred square feet of building. Outside will Page 2