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Minutes of a Meeting of the North Olmsted Parks and Recreation Commission June 1, 2009 going to do but in fact they did much better. Mr. DiSalvo said that the counters are involved; they want to know why expenses are high, and they want to know why income is high. Mr. Scarl asked, because of the $381,459 spent in April for Building and Property Maintenance out of a total appropriation of $1,170,739 (revised); what is expected to be done for the rest of the year: do things, fix things, what? Mr. Dailey said that the Rec doesn’t know for sure. Mr. Scarl asked if the pool area has already been taken out of these figures – Mr. DiSalvo said yes, it was: for example, we have specific account lines as well, and if some account lines aren’t being used, we can transfer it over. Mr. Dailey said we’re looking at a preventative maintenance agreement shortly, which will help us reduce some out-of-pocket expenses as well. Mr. Scarl said his real question is: is there a big ticket item that needs to be done. Mr. Dailey said: not that can be foreseen. Mr. DiSalvo said that the Ice Show generated close to $15,000. Remember the big Munter Unit: the unit that controls the humidity needs a new main wheel. We can take that out of the Ice Show generation, and that will cover the main wheel. Note that we aren’t going to take down all the ice; no entire meltdown – probably an area as big as this table. Mr. Groden said that, at the last meeting, we were talking about purchasing an automatic scrubber and leaf vacuum…Mr. DiSalvo said that, on the priority list, he can wait for that. It also depends upon how much we’re going to spend on the Grant project. Mr. Dailey said we’ll have to wait for that to happen to see where we will be able to go from there. So, to repeat, as far as the expenses go, Mr. DiSalvo said, we’re right on target. Income Two departments behind are coming from the pool, which is $11,000 behind the prior year, and the ice rink is $20,000 behind the prior year. The main reason is that the pool is not being rented like it was last year. Last year, Fairview rented a fair amount from the Rec Department; they had their swim team this year, so from January to date that probably played a major role. For the rink, it’s daily admissions, lessons and, of course, rentals. Those are the prime factors why those two areas are down. Tennis is down about $4,000 from the prior year; with Individual and Team Sports – April is a slow month – he knows with Chris’s summer activity, in April he was down $2,500 from the prior year; Mr. DiSalvo is anxious to see what May brought because that was his primary registration month for his summer activities. $2,500 will be pretty easy to make up; and Mr. DiSalvo is not too worried about Tennis with the $4,000. However, the $20,000 and $11,000 have him a little concerned because the Rec is in prime rental and lesson mode right now for both of those departments. Again, we’ll see what summer swim lessons bring which will be reflected in May. Mr. DiSalvo is thinking the reopening of Winterhurst is having an adverse affect on Betsy’s rental with the ice rink. On the second page, Revenue Detail for April 2009, that’s just for the month; it does not compare to the prior month or the prior year. There will be a little bit of a hiccup as far as income. Gymnastics is having a great year. Mr. DiSalvo thinks that Pool and Rec are going to have a tough year; Tennis and Page 8