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Recreation Commission Meeting January 6, 2003 conversation. He will continue to work on the matter through the Recreation Commission and City Council, especially Mr. Miller. Mr. Dial brought up the fact that handicapped parking spaces are used by people without handicap stickers on their vehicles, and the cars aren’t being ticketed. The police told him that the spaces were not legally marked as handicapped spots. The matter was written up. Either mark the spots properly or take the handicapped signs down or, worse yet, be hauled into Court, where the judge will throw such cases out. The former Commissioner said the problem would be solved. Three months later it hadn’t happened. It’s not fair for the cops to be put in the middle. The last point Mr. Stotz spoke of was the fact that various employees at City Hall are afraid to complain at City Hall because the top people at City Hall feel that the customer is always right no matter how crazy the situation is. To have good morale, you must back your subordinates when they are at least half way right. It’s counterproductive for the people in charge to criticize their employees. It’s not the way you treat people, and you surely don’t do it in front of the public. As a resident, Mr. Stotz sees this happen at City Hall, and it saddens him. Mr. Jesse said he’s met with the Chief, who’s in the process of a complete security review and that he’s also meeting with Rae Ann Thomas about the security concerns at the skate park. He got a copy of all the incident reports for this past year. As far as auxiliary police are concerned, the City is looking into what they can and cannot do. Mr. Jesse discussed security issues with Tom Stein and Betsy Drenski, among many other things. There is a meeting scheduled this week with the provider for the point of purchase system at Springvale. Mr. Jesse wanted to find out from that provider a similar system to be used at the Recreation Center’s Pro Shop (scanned in and out) and meld with Rec Ware Software, which is a very good recreation program. He also wants to deal with the issue of who is in the building and who is out. The whole idea in the beginning was public access; now, securitywise, there can be no open access. There are many ways to get in and out of the Recreation Center building. There can be any point in time when the City doesn’t know who is in the building, so it’s been a major concern with North Olmsted’s safety forces to keep the Recreation Center and the entire community secure. Suggestions have been made by the staff and, with the new Recreation Commissioner, the Safety Director asked him to accomplish 12 goals his first year, one a month, beginning with cleanliness. Mr. DiSalvo knows what the City needs at this point. The City has a lot of needs, and the Commission will have a definite role in all these matters. Chairman Hayes thanked the visitors for coming to the meeting and they, in turn, thanked the Commission for the Members’ time and effort put back into the community. SUBCOMMITTEE REPORT None. OLD BUSINESS ?Criminal Background Checks Exhibit “D” attached Page 10