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Minutes of a Meeting of the North Olmsted Parks and Recreation Commission June 2, 2008 month can turn for the better. Now it will start the summer season. We ended up -2,713 in Tennis; however, now the summer is beginning, Gymnastics and Team Sports are going well, too. It’s better indicator per department to see where they are year-to-date. Mr. Dailey asked where Gymnastics was; he had forgotten. Mr. DiSalvo said that in May she finished at 6,613; Chris is at 8,203, while last year was almost minus 10,000 at this time, so Team Sports Programming really picked up. Mr. Groden asked if there were any more questions or comments for the Commissioner. Flooring for Rink Mr. Dailey asked if the Rec Department ever got the flooring for inside the Rink – a flooring surface that would be put inside the Studio Rink so it could be used for other things during the summer. Mr. DiSalvo said the material is like compressed cardboard. The problem is that it could only sit on ice for a maximum of five days, and we need it to sit on it for almost three months. That would cost $10,000; another material would cost $20,000, and Mr. DiSalvo thought it would be too much to spend on a temporary floor for the Studio Rink. The insulation will be done and get the indoor/outdoor grass fixed. Hot Stove Letter Mr. Scarl said that Hot Stove sent a letter to the attention of Mr. DiSalvo about the Parking Lot at Diamond #5; Mr. Scarl wanted to know if the letter was forwarded to the City. Mr. DiSalvo said it was forwarded on to Mr. Dailey, who said that he talked briefly with the consultants who have been doing the inspection of projects throughout the City, seeing where the City is deficient and is waiting for a response from him. At worst, there will be a small layer of asphalt. Mr. Scarl asked if he could bring the Rec Commission up to date on the matter. Mr. Dailey said to go ahead. Mr. Scarl said that, through Hot Stove, through some other cities who have come to play there and some parents of our participants, there has been a real issue with the parking lot over there. It’s torn up around the bottom of the hill. With handicapped accessibility unavailable (in fact, he saw two elderly couple outside the city who had wheelchairs and couldn’t use them while he was umpiring a game with Garfield Heights). There’s a lot of North Olmsted parents or grandparents that can’t come to the game because they can’t get out of a wheelchair or walk – it’s pretty much physically impossible. Naturally, they call us, complaining to us. Hot Stove, in turn, says that it’s not our property, so we sent a letter to the City hoping to get things done. We’ve made suggestions that if we have to bear some of the cost, we will. We’re talking about putting in a six or eight foot stretch of asphalt down and making a loading/unloading area for people with walkers or wheelchairs. One person had a walker with wheels on the front who couldn’t push it; they gave up. That was our recommendation: that if the City doesn’t have enough money to do the entire parking lot, perhaps a patch could be done with a sign up showing it’s handicapped parking. Mr. Groden said that what he would envision would be something like what was being done at Springvale with the cart path. Any long-term improvements, of course, would not be recommended Page 4