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Minutes of a Meeting of the North Olmsted Parks and Recreation Commission June 1, 2009 The visitors then thanked the Commission for its time and left. APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF APRIL 6, 2009 (MAY MEETING CANCELED) There was one change to the Minutes on Page Two: when Mr. DiSalvo was discussing the Financial Report in the paragraph under “Income” “Mr. Groden wondered if this could be a function of the ‘accounting’ should be a function of the ‘economy’ and was duly noted and changed in the original Minutes as initialed and signed by Mr. Groden on June 1, 2009. Mr. Lasko moved to approve the Minutes of April 6, 2009 as corrected by Mr. Groden; after seconded by Mr. Dailey and approved unanimously, the April 6, 2009 Minutes passed as corrected. SUB COMMITTEE REPORTS None REPORT OF THE RECREATION COMMISSIONER Financial Report Expenses Essentially, our target for April expense is 33%, so we’re on a steady course for our expenses. I will tell you in Maintenance we are spending a significant amount of money on repairs for existing equipment. This should come as no great shock to anyone. Everyone knew this going into this year. We are not over budget, but we are spending quite a bit on repairs. Aside from Gymnastics at 53.2%, that’s actually commissions being paid out, probably in August we will readjust the Gymnastics for the good. She will definitely exceed her income projections, so in order to have the ordinance right, we’ll resubmit a new budget for Gymnastics. With regard to expense, everything else is going well. Mr. Baxter asked what Mr. DiSalvo meant by resubmitting budget. Mr. DiSalvo said that, since the computers were down today, he doesn’t have the reports he normally has. He thinks that Gymnastics was budgeted for about $141,000 this year. Karrie Tipton will probably go to $160,000; that affects the amount we budget for her commissions as well; so I have to budget more money in her income and more in her expense. It will be an equal offset, but the Finance Department must get more accurate numbers from us. It’s actually a good problem to have. Mr. Dailey said she is expanding her programs on Saturdays. Mr. DiSalvo said Ms. Tipton will probably bring in another $20,000, so we might have to do that twice this year; does that make sense, Norm? Mr. Baxter said that yes, he heard him. His experience has been that when you set a budget for the year you stick with that so-called budget. As you describe it, it would be hard for someone to ever really excel because you keep on increasing the target so that at the end of the year they not only did what they said what they were Page 7