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Minutes of a Meeting of The North Olmsted Parks and Recreation Commission October 2, 2006 Page Four Expenses Mr. DiSalvo reported on the financials. To spare 21 pages, e.g., under Salaries, there are at least 20 other lines, and for practical purposes this Report is three pages instead of 21 which gives the base numbers; where all the expenses are coming from and, on the last page the Recreation Department is running at 72% of its appropriations. Again, that’s a good number, and the Rec is looking to break even again this year. There really isn’t anything that is obvious (like the pool last year); things seem to be appropriated pretty well and, as long as there is money to transfer, the Department will be fine. Mr. DiSalvo said this concluded his report on the Financials and asked Mr. Baxter if these reports would be what he wanted. Mr. Baxter replied it was good and gave a summary of the Financials. The Commissioner then asked if the rest of the Commission members concurred; they did. REPORT OF THE COMMUNITY LIFE SERVICES DIRECTOR Facility Cleaning Services RFP Mr. Dailey reported that the City is currently working on the Contract to go back out to bid for the janitorial services for the Parks and Recreation Department. The City is looking at different ways to exclude Parks; just having the focus on the Recreation Center and perhaps bring it back in-house. The City will discern the best way to do it and move on from there. Ms. Jones asked if Mr. Dailey meant separating the Parks from the Rec Center. Mr. Dailey said yes, because currently the contract with Jani-ing has to clean the parks. By parks, all they do is clean the bathrooms. They also clean the Recreation Center. One of the members of Council thought that if it was separated, there would be more people bidding to do the job at the Rec Center. Mr. DiSalvo said there should be at least three companies bidding to this end, because he has already given one company a tour, another company has been in touch, and the Commissioner knows that Jani-King will turn in a bid as well; whereas the last time, Jani-King was the only company that submitted. Mr. Dailey said they wanted to get as many people bidding the job as possible, and proposed to the Commission members that if they knew of anyone in the janitorial services business, to get them on the list. Mr. Dailey reported to the Commission that the City has been getting a weekly report from Maintenance on what they are scheduled to be doing and what they are actually doing – trying to hold them more accountable to make sure that they are working up to the best of their ability. Of course, Page 4