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Minutes of a Meeting of the North Olmsted Parks and Recreation Commission April 7, 2008 to be used by the High School, Hot Stove, and all the Rec Programs as well. The partners are also looking at building tennis courts at Springvale Golf Course adjacent to the parking lot, making it a more country club feel to it and enjoying the clubhouse afterwards. Minor renovations will be made at Clague Park, since it is not highly used like the other parks, but is also included in the Plan. Mr. Garrity said that when the Rec Master Plan was presented to the Rec Commission at City Hall, the Master Plan was accepted, and he did not know if any of the scenarios were actually accepted, so we did not have a scenario presented to us of what the Master Plan entails as far as what’s in the Rec Center and what’s happening at this time. Mr. Dailey said that Kim Wenger will address the Plan about the Parks, but at this point we cannot definitively say what’s going to be at the Rec Center at this point until we get the money and see what construction costs are and everything else - whether there will be an indoor pool and outdoor pool; whether there will be an indoor splash area and an outdoor splash area. Everything will come up as we go through the process. Mr. Garrity said that before it’s voted on in November, it will be a hard scenario. When we go to vote on it in November, there’s going to be an indoor pool, an outdoor pool and there’s going to be whatever. Mr. Dailey said that there might be some wiggle room in there. Mr. Garrity said things are up in the air and asked if everything isn’t all set in stone yet as to what is going to be inside? Mr. Dailey said that was correct. Mr. Mahoney wanted to point out that the meeting on Thursday is a presentation of the Rec Plan by the Administration to the Rec Committee and City Council. It’s just like every other committee meeting, whether it’s the Finance Committee, BZA, any other Committee of Council and, because it’s a committee meeting, it’s open to the public. Because we expect an overflow of people, it’s going to be not in the caucus room but in the large city council chambers. As John has said, the Administration is envisioning a situation where the presentation is going to be toward the front of the room, so the first rows of the council chambers will be reserved for Council itself and then Boards and Commission members. Then the general public will probably fill in every available spot. Because it is a committee meeting, it is going to be run just like a committee meeting where the presentation will be made by the Administration, Committee members – I’m on the Committee myself, Nicole Dailey Jones, Mr. Ryan will have the first opportunity to ask questions of the presenters; then all of Council will have an opportunity to present questions; and then we’ll open it up to the general public, with some moderate time restrictions and some pointers for addressing. We won’t have ten people coming up asking the same question time and again, so, depending on how many people are there, there might be a time limit in terms of how many minutes they will be able to speak. Typically, in Council meetings, you are given five, so it might get whittled away to three minutes. The meeting starts at 7:00, and a little bit will depend upon how long the presentation lasts. Mr. Mahoney did not anticipate the meeting going past a certain time period in the evening. Mr. Scarl asked, “Midnight?” Mr. Mahoney said that he could assure him that there would be no chance that it would go to midnight, and bear in mind that everyone attending will know that this is the first of three, four, five meetings; however many meetings it takes to get it done. So that everyone knows, Thursday is not the first and only opportunity to ask questions of Council or the Administration; there will be follow-up meetings. Mr. Mahoney believes it will be held in Committee for some time, and then ultimately go to Council for a vote. Page 10