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Minutes of a Meeting of the North Olmsted Parks and Recreation Commission June 2, 2008 residents’ approval. At that point in time, the City will design it and decide what it will or will not be. One-sixth of one percent is looking at something closer to 80,000 than 100,000 square feet. What we know it will include will be some basketball courts, some swimming area, cardio fitness and wellness exercise equipment, lap pool (competitive pool for the high school to continue to use) indoor or perhaps even an outdoor type splash area zero depth entry type pool. It will not include ice. Anything else that we can fit inside the 80,000 square feet will be included. At this point everything else is on the table, but we also know everything that will be in there, which are the things initially stated. Mr. Groden asked the length of the term. Mr. Dailey said the minimum would be 25 years. Mr. Scarl had a question for Mr. Dailey. He questioned if the proposal was going before Council tomorrow. Mr. Dailey said that was correct, for first reading. Mr. Scarl said what about the Rec Commission – we didn’t get a chance to see this new proposal? Mr. Dailey said that no, the Commission hadn’t. In a perfect world, there would be a third meeting scheduled for the month of June – there are meetings rdth scheduled for the 3 and 17. There is an extra two weeks in the month of June. Mr. Dailey knew th that the legislation must be to the Board of Elections by Friday, August 8. Hypothetically, Council could let this conversation continue through the month of July when they are on vacation. Then they will have it on for third meeting in August. Mr. Scarl said that his question was he wasn’t so concerned about Council and when they are getting it; what is this body (the Rec Commission) for if we cannot even see a new proposal? Mr. Scarl knows the Rec Commission doesn’t have the final say, but he believes the Commission should be able to see the new proposal before it goes to Council or see it with them as Council sees it. People are going to be asking about this – they are going to be asking what is going on – and we are going to say to them that we don’t know, Council is getting it before we even saw it. Mr. Scarl doesn’t see why the Rec Commission Meetings were even being held, if we are not going to be included in a huge project that has been 20 or 30 years in the making. He had a problem with that. He is not saying that Council won’t be able to make the right judgment call; he would like to see it as a Rec Commission member on where the tax dollars are going. The second thing is that he understands that the YMCA is out, and he believes in his heart that such backlash that’s happened at the meetings caused the problem, and he did not think the Commission will hear that from the Administration. Mr. Scarl believes they heard loud and clear that Council and the Administration that the people would not pass a joint venture with the Y, which I can say I was one of the first ones to say that. Not that Mr. Scarl was anyone, but a lot of people saw what he saw. His question is going to be, and he knew the City broke off talks now but, could this be a smokescreen by the Administration that build it, get everything approved that you need by the citizens, and then bring them in. Mr. Dailey said it was not a smokescreen. It is a very real possibility that somewhere down the road the City will look to contract out to uncertain areas of it. Mr. Scarl said that the fitness center would be one because that’s a big hassle. Mr. Dailey agreed. Mr. Scarl said that there would be no qualms with the Rec people here agreeing that it might be an asset to the City but building and having everyone on board and then say, now we’re going to bring in the lion; he hoped they don’t do politics and business like that in the City, but since they’ve seen such a bad turn of events with the meetings, and he only missed one of them, he did not see any good come out of them. He is not sure where Council is on any of it. He has talked with some of the Council members and they had some serious issues also. Mr. Dailey said this is as it should be, because the City is looking to doing something so drastically different than what it did in the past. Many of the Page 7