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Minutes of a Meeting of the <br />North Olmsted Parks and Recreation Commission <br />April 7, 2008 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />in lockup as collateral. They quit paying us, so we have turned this over to the Law Department to <br />start pursuing legal action to get remedied. They owe us about $11,000, Mr. Dailey believed; Mr. <br />DiSalvo said he knew it started off at about $17,000. Mr. Dailey said they made one payment of <br />$5,000 or $6,000. We have been selling our supplies out of Parma, Mr. Dailey continued, if he <br />remembered correctly – on Tiedemann Road. <br /> <br />Mr. Scarl asked when the money is collected, where is it going: the General Fund? Mr. Dailey said it <br />should come back into the Rec as revenue. Mr. Baxter asked if there was a collection agency used <br />before legal action was started. Mr. Dailey said that Mr. O’Malley, as the Law Director, is pretty <br />good at that, and when that doesn’t work, legal action is pursued. <br /> <br />Mr. DiSalvo said that there was over $42,000 in Pro Shop stock; the Pro Shop bought it for fifty cents <br />on the dollar. When they leased the Pro Shop from the Rec Center, it was in the terms of their lease <br />not only to pay rent but also to make monthly payments of the inventory. They just did not pay for the <br />inventory. Then they said that at the end of the lease they would have the money, and it’s one of those <br />things that just never happened. The Commissioner reported that the Rec Center started pursuing this <br />matter before the Legal Department got involved. Mr. Dailey said it’s up to the Law Department <br />now. <br /> <br />Skate Park <br /> <br />Mr. Dailey reported that at the last meeting Rae Anne Thomas brought up hosting some sort of Skate <br />Park event. What the Rec Department has learned is that the City will not be a sponsor of it, but if she <br />wants to get other sponsors for it, we have no problem with her hosting an event at the Park. So far, <br />she’s had a great response so far, so she expects to get it off without a hitch. <br /> <br />Rec Staff Meeting <br /> <br />Mr. Dailey had a meeting with the Recreation Department Staff about two weeks ago Thursday <br />discussing a lot of the articles that have been in the papers. As you can imagine, there has been a lot <br />st <br />of concern and a lot of rumors. People thought they were going to be out of jobs as of April 1; that <br />st <br />Ted would be gone April 1. We heard that the “Y” would be running programs by summer. The <br />concerns were calmed and let them know that this was just not the case. We did, however, let them <br />know that if the Rec Master Plan passes in November of this year, that whenever this new facility is <br />built an open, all the non-bargaining people would be gone from the payroll with the exception of <br />maybe one person who would run the Parks Division, whoever that turned out to be, and all the <br />bargaining people would be rolled into City Hall someplace: the maintenance and service people, that <br />sort of thing. Then there would be loss through attrition. Since then, the City has had a meeting with <br />the YMCA this past Friday and, currently, if everything goes as expected and the issue passes in <br />November, they will maintain the West Shore facility and then open up to anyone here in North <br />Olmsted. At that point in time, they would look to evaluate, hire, and train the staff here and put <br />Page 5 <br /> <br />