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Minutes of a Meeting of the North Olmsted Parks and Recreation Commission June 1, 2009 to purchase $500 racing lane lines, and the community swim team has used that equipment at no charge to the high school simply because they want the sport to become well-known on the web site. Right now inside swimming is all you hear: Solon, Hawken, Hudson. About the only power we have on the west side is Westlake, and when they go over and swim against those teams, they get blown out of the water. No pun intended. Anyway, the Rec team has used that equipment. We let them use the racing lane lines; we haul those pads or Westlake comes and gets those pads for the championship meets because they use the pads. Also, they bring their pads over here when we host a meet because Westlake and North Olmsted are the two hosts of the NCSL championship. There’s always been that spirit of cooperation. Right now we’re raising money to put a record board over here. If you want this sport to succeed… Mr. Lasko said he understands the question of the economics and he understands that we have tried to treat each program independently, but he has a real concern right now on the basis of whether or not adequate notice was given the folks based upon what appears to have been a tradition or, Mark (Mahoney) would understand, “detrimental reliance” in terms of what has happened in the past and not having any advance notice or publicity as to the change that was going to occur now through this year. Mr. Lasko understands Ted’s point in terms of the change in people and this may not have existed in the past, but the reality of it is that whether or not this existed in the past, it practice it did exist in the past so, as a reality we formed a course of dealing and, in effect, an avenue that people could rely on or count on in absence of some sort of notice that there was going to be a change in the procedure, at least for this year, pending further review and determination of what the cost structure would be, that Mr. Lasko did not think it fair that someone pull the rug out from under folks and treat them differently this year without having had the chance for them to come in and say, you’ve given notice in advance, and say, hey, the program’s going to be different because if we had known years ago we would have done it differently but rather than put you behind the eight ball this year we’re going to at least let you know that this is something that we are going to take a look at in the future. He personally did not think it fair to pull the rug out from under folks and say that they are now subject to paying the full freight. He also thought that he doesn’t know if we’re really giving people a discount – he thought that it’s just that if you’re involved in the swimming meets, not utilizing the coaching or the pool time – you’re saying for an incremental amount which has, in the past, been $20 – you can also then swim in this additional sequence of meets. He did not know that it was a discount. He thought that what would be set would be an incremental fee to be able to participate, not in additional pool time per se in terms of practices in coaching and training, but only just the opportunity to be with the kids in the Rec program and swim in those additional programs. I would like to see this thing rolled back for the current year for sure and then give some thought as to how this thing should be structured going forward. Mark Mahoney echoed what Mr. Lasko indicated that there has been a pattern established in the past, and that there is not a reason to believe Mrs. Troyer has a pattern established. There is no reason, either, to believe that Ted and Chris are not doing their jobs as well looking out for the citizens and the financial crunch and budget we’re in. Mr. Mahoney’s question was: what is the timing now; when th does the program start, and when does the decision have to be made? Ms. Troyer said that June 18 is the first meet and practice on Saturdays has already begun, but our kids (most of them) will not be th practicing anyway. The first time would be for the high schoolers on June 18. Mr. Mahoney said Page 5