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Council Minutes of 8/21/2007 Mayor O'Grady was in attendance and indicated he felt very strongly towards this legislation; he felt it was a good and excellent way to look after our older citizens. There was a presentation by John Dailey who felt very strongly towards it. The committee voted 3-0 to recommend passage to Council. Councilman Barker, chairperson of the Recreation, Public Parks and Buildings Committee: 1) The committee met on Tuesday, August 14. In attendance were Committee members Barker, Gareau and Dailey Jones; Council members Miller, Orlowski and President Kennedy; Law Director Dubelko and Community Life Services Director Dailey. Agenda items included the following: • Ordinance 2007-91, an Ordinance authorizing the Mayor to renew the contract between the city and Karrie Skall Tipton for the provision of professional gymnastics instruction services at the North Olmsted Recreation Center for an additional 2 years and declaring an emergency. This is a renewal with a few verbiage changes. Ms. Tipton has been working with the Recreation Center since about 1999 and her program has been very successful. Everyone is happy with her program and the continuation of this program is not a problem with anyone. Comments by Mr. Miller and Mr. Kennedy were her program is a very good one and Mr. Kennedy's girls participate in the program and love Ms. Tipton. The committee voted 3-0 to recommend approval to Council. • Ordinance 2007-84, an ordinance amending sections 1, 2 and 3 of Ordinance 2003-22, as amended by Ordinance 2004-175, in order to authorize the Springvale Facility manager to charge costs only for City-Sponsored events held at the Springvale Golf course and /or the Ballroom Facility. There was quite a lot of discussion on exactly what "cost" is. Is it just food or are wages, debt service, utilities and maintenance included? If a meal were $24, what would be the actual cost for that meal? Those questions at this time could not be answered. Other comments were if the facility isn't booked solid then to start charging cost wouldn't be a great idea. Over the past years due to bad weather or slow down in the economy, the administration and Council has had to decide to waive administration fees or actually kick in money from the General Fund to take care of business. Members of the committee and other Council members agree that charitable organizations such as DARE, Senior Fest, Mayor's Ball and the Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony are a few examples of organizations that are worthy of receiving a discount. Mr. Miller suggested that, during the budget process, the administration could determine which city-sponsored events should receive discounts and set aside in a line item that would donate funding to those different organizations in the amount of $200 to $500. This way it would help defray the cost of having the event at Springvale. Although it would be a shame to lose these city-sponsored events to other locations, it is the opinion of this committee and the attending members of Council that discounting charges to city- sponsored events is not a good idea at this time. The committee voted 3-0 to not recommend approval to Council.. 14