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Minutes of a Meeting of the North Olmsted Parks and Recreation Commission June 1, 2009 Mr. DiSalvo said that, as far as NOSO is concerned, NOSO may have utilized the entire park maybe two years out of the Cup; the other time they were on the north end, so it depends. It’s really difficult to accommodate all of the groups, and Mr. DiSalvo said it’s almost not worth it, to be quite honest with you, and he knew the situation was going to blow up in our faces. Mr. Scarl asked about the legislation that was presented to Council in 2006; did Council rescind that. The legislation did not call for a date to come down; it only called for a date to go up. What you heard was conversation and rumor. Mr. Lasko said this came up a couple months ago, in Mr. Baxter’s absence. He is here as the school board’s representative, and he remembers very well also the discussions that were had those number of years ago, and the compromise that was made in relation to how long the fence would stay up, and Mr. Dailey’s got the legislation. Mr. Lasko made reference to the fact that earlier he made note that Mr. Mahoney being an attorney would understand the concept of “detrimental reliance” as it pertained to the swimming people earlier, but it’s also pretty well standard that when there’s uncertainty or when you are looking for clarification in terms of interpretation of legislation that you go back and take a look at the Committee notes of the speaker as to what in fact was the background or philosophy as to how it got where it was and he could not help but believe that whether or not it occurred at the City Council level, but it certainly occurred at this Commission level at the time of making the recommendation to Council that, in fact, the understanding was that the fence would come down at the end of the high school baseball season. The legislation even talks about the high school baseball. Whatever is being played any day now is probably not even being coached by Mr. Murphy. He’s prohibited by law not to coach any summer time baseball players that he would otherwise coach during the high school season, and I hold him in very high regard. Whatever’s going on out there is not going on under the auspices of the City School District, which is in fact what that legislation refers to is in order to assist and have a field for the city’s school district high school teams can play on, the fence will stay in place. Whatever’s going on in June and July may be high school kids, but it’s not North Olmsted City School District sponsored teams. Again, that enabling legislation calls for the school district to place and remove that fence. That’s gone by the boards. Mr. Lasko said he’s here as the school’s designee and that he agrees with Mr. Baxter that it lies in the face of the intent of the time to allow the period of June and July to the detriment of the Boy and Girl Scouts, and the residents who are allowed to have green space. We all have our ideas of the beauty of baseball fields and fences and the yellow trim. Trust me, it’s already been said that everyone has their ideas about the beauty or lack thereof of windmills as well…Mr. Dailey said that both Mr. Baxter’s and Mr. Lasko’s comments are very well taken and, again, for this year the decision’s been made. We’re going to let the fences stay up for this season. Next year, if we decide we don’t want to do it again or we don’t want to afford the same opportunity to the school or the players, we won’t do it next year. Once again, the decision’s already been made. As Ted said, we make a decision and we’re darned if we do and darned if we don’t and other proverbial pundits, and we’re trying to make the most of our people happy as we can. There will be no effect on the Scouts. It will be fine for the kids playing ball; there will be no effect on them. The only thing that could be adversely affected would be for the kids that are using soccer for maybe one or two days compared to an extra month of baseball. Again, we’ll take into consideration what’s going on with the residents in the area. For this year, we’re set. We’ve already made commitments to these kids and for 2010 we will be more than happy to revisit it. Mr. Baxter asked Mr. Dailey who the “we” were. He replied it would be himself, Ted DiSalvo. Mr. Baxter asked if Mr. DiSalvo was in on the night we had all that Page 11