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Minutes of a Meeting of the North Olmsted Parks and Recreation Commission June 2, 2008 back to the late Joe Hyland – his work with Ted had it all set up that it would come down when it did, and they followed up on their word. REPORT OF THE COMMUNITY LIFE SERVICES DIRECTOR Mr. Dailey had two things to discuss: Skateboard Competition June 28, 2008, there is a not-city sponsored skateboarding competition going on at the Skate Park. Rae Anne Thomas is going to put together the next event for the kids to use for their fundraiser to put in the extra ramps that they had received donated this past year. There will be good sponsors; lots of things donated, so it should be a nice event for the kids. Relay for Life There will be a Relay for Life at North Olmsted High School for the American Cancer Society. Currently there are over 28 or 29 teams walking 20 hours, some people the entire time. Mr. Dailey recommends that the Commission go to the School to support it; it’s a great community event for stnd those who stopped out last year. It starts June 21 at Noon and goes through Sunday, June 22 at 8:00 a.m. The Illuminating Ceremonies are very nice at nightfall with the bags lit up; Terry Groden will be doing the MC’ing for that. Bring your names along with someone else. If you or know of a st cancer survivor there’s a free lunch put on right about 12:00 Noon on the 21. Last year North Olmsted partnered with Fairview Park and raised just under $70,000. This year Fairview is going back to holding their event, so we’ll be on our own. North Olmsted has about twice the amount of teams that we had last year that are involved. There is entertainment the entire time with bands. Bring some dollars and support the people as they run around the track. There will be luminaries sold. Terry will have coffee. Mr. Groden said he would be assisted by Linda Dawson, who does on-air work for WDOK. He said the whole event is a lot of fun – he and his wife took their kids last year, and they did not want to go home. Mr. Dailey said there will constantly be things going on. Recreation Plan Mr. Dailey said that the Recreation Plan, as he was sure everyone read in the papers the last couple weeks that North Olmsted broke off conversation with the Greater Cleveland YMCA. The more the City talked with them, the less they did not like some of the things they did not hear, so it’s best the City broke it off before going further down the path with them. It was neither fault of the YMCA nor fault of the City; it was decided to go in different directions. With that in mind, there is currently on th the ballot for tomorrow evening’s council meeting that initially went from 1/8 of one percent tax th increase to 1/6 of one percent. He did not know whether the City is talking about 20 years or 30 years or what the term is at this point in time; the legislation has not yet been prepared in its entirety yet to present to the Commission. The City is looking to go out for the tax increase with the Page 6