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Minutes of a Meeting of <br />The North Olmsted Parks and Recreation Commission <br />October 2, 2006 <br />Page Six <br /> <br /> <br />NEW BUSINESS <br /> <br />Rink Ice <br /> <br />Mr. Garrity introduced himself as a resident and the President of the North Olmsted Hockey Club, one <br />of the major tenants at the North Olmsted Recreation Center. Within the past few years, the Club has <br />. <br />helped the Rink with various projects, including work on the Boards; $4,500 for a compressorAlso, <br />the Hockey Club bought the logo for center ice. Last year the Hockey Club purchased new nets, new <br />posts, which benefit the Club and benefits the School. This year the Club started a new program <br />whereby we’re going to the Schools, especially the four, five and six year-olds, with flyers, trying to <br />promote our Mighty Mite Program, which is the Club’s base program. The Club will give them free <br />ice for a month and then try to get them in our program. After that, the Club got some unsettling <br />news: one being the Westlake Rink coming and the other being the ice situation over the past <br />weekend. If the Club had a regular season game here, it probably would have been cancelled. It was <br />deplorable. It was wet. Three coaches expressed their concern to Mr. Garrity on Monday. Note that <br />the Club is about 65% non-resident and 35% resident. Mr. Garrity expressed his concern that the <br />Club is an unwanted tenant. With the Master Plan coming about, a number of our parents and board <br />members went to the Master Plan meeting and felt that the Rink, as a whole, was not overlooked, but <br />put on a back burner. Now with Westlake coming forward, there is a lot of concern about the Club’s <br />membership and what is happening with the Rink. <br /> <br />Mind you, Mr. Garrity continued, this is not to disparage Ted (DiSalvo) or Betsy (Drenski). Mr. <br />Garrity knows that they have done everything they can do within their means. They can’t control the <br />compressor breaking or the fund situation, but the Club has long preached for a maintenance fee. The <br />Club asked for volunteers to come in to the Rec Center and paint the bleachers because, for those of <br />you who don’t attend (Mr. Garrity knew Anna Kanis comes to the High School games), the bleachers <br />are deplorable. Mr. Garrity will not have the kids playing underneath the bleachers because he doesn’t <br />know what’s underneath there. After volunteering to paint the bleachers, the Club was told it must be <br />done by Union members. The Westlake Rink is coming up; the players show up (at North Olmsted) <br />on Saturday, and the ice is terrible, and many people are getting very nervous. Mr. Garrity wanted to <br />know – and he isn’t an ice cutter – but do the North Olmsted workers know how to adjust the <br />situation when they cut the ice, or do they just throw the ice down, and the water doesn’t freeze? It’s <br />an art. We’re all in the business, and someone has to know how to cut the ice, and if it’s not done <br />right, it doesn’t dry, and if it doesn’t dry, the puck doesn’t move. And if the puck doesn’t move, there <br />is not a playable surface. <br /> <br />Mr. DiSalvo said that the first he and Betsy heard of it was through Jeff Marshall today. Mr. Garrity <br />said there seems to be a grave concern now about what is happening here at the Rec Center and what <br />is happening in the surrounding area. <br />Page 6 <br /> <br />