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Minutes of a Meeting of the North Olmsted Parks and Recreation Commission September 14, 2009 Recycling Ms. Rudolph asked what it would take to get some plastic recycling going at the Rec Center. Mr. Dailey said that it was recently instituted at City Hall. It works out well; it is something we’re looking to do here at the Rec Center. Ms. Nader asked if it could be rolled in with the Coke contract. Mr. Dailey said that it’s amazing what can be done – yes, it can be done. OLD BUSINESS Summer Swim Team Report st Mr. DiSalvo said that, going back to the last meeting we had on June 1, when all the angry parents were here at the meeting, essentially, a breakdown from the swim report is as follows: there were 77 participants; 22 were non-residents; 43 were residents; 12 received the discounted rate. With that discounted rate, although the number was only 12, that would have contributed to an actual $840 to this program. The program netted $6,805. While we’re on this subject, the Commissioner did not know why since employees don’t get any discounts, other athletes on any associated school teams don’t get any discounts; for some reason, this pool activity slid under the radar, without my knowledge and without Chris’s (Wetmore), other people that weren’t authorized to do so were allowed it. Chris and Mr. DiSalvo caught it this past season to enforce what the Commissioner thought was the right thing to do because, as he said, people that work here don’t get discounts on any programming. Hockey Club, Hockey, everyone else pays full rates except for this group of swimmers on the High School Swim Team. That’s where the Commissioner would like to leave it. He was not too pleased with that meeting because the parents more or less took over, thinking they had the right to manage the entire matter. They do not. The Commissioner and the Program Supervisors manage the programming at the Rec Center. That’s the bottom line. We were not told otherwise. We ended up looking like the bad guys. That’s my report though, and as you can see, that’s significant income; that’s $840 less in the Pool Department now because they got this discount of $25. The other part that is an issue is that if you’re only swimming in the Meets, the Commissioner does not know how that makes a swimmer part of the Team. The whole thing about being on the Team is practicing and going through everything together. To give them a free pass to swim in the Meets is not really a team concept, but we’ll leave that up for discussion. We’re ready to move forward with this for next season. Mr. Dailey said that, the other part of it is that at that meeting, there were seven young ladies and one young man that were part of the program, which only may have been eight children; anyway, the Rec got the twelve, so they got us four additional people at the discounted rate. Again, one of the concerns may be the rate adjustment was given to us at the last minute. We are going to slowly look at those fees to where they may be in 2010 with everyone else. If we can’t give the discounts to everyone we shouldn’t give discounts to anyone. We’ll slowly bring it back to where they should be with the other people. Page 7