Antrim Parks and Recreation Commission Meeting
April 4, 2019 7:03–8:59 pm
Present: Isaac Lombard, Celeste Lunetta, Joan Gorga, Christine Morris, Robert Wood
Minutes: February and March minutes accepted as written.
Shea Field
Ice rink. Rink to be taken up next week. Celeste could use help and will notify commission members of timing.
Maintenance. Celeste meeting with someone from Tom Irwin about turf fungus and other concerns after the wet fall. Air2G2 aeration/deep tining scheduled for April vacation. Looking for some outside contractors to do some of the tractor work. Talking with Jim Plourde. Field generally in good shape after winter. Irrigation flags still in. Erosion from playground to diamond needs to be addressed this year—rocks exposed. Field House door needs repair.
Memorial Park
Cleanup/Maintenance. Bridge being pulled and will be gone for some time. We will look into saving the bridge intact and using it elsewhere. Celeste and Joan have removed garbage and branches, cleaned out and pruned around bandstand.
Egg hunt. Scouts, led by Mike Redmond, Sr., will be running egg hunt on April 20, recycling plastic eggs and using donated candy.
Arbor Day Tree Program. Bartlett Tree outreach program Sunday, April 28 (11-1?), with discussions about eco-friendly picnic ideas, diversity in planting, emerald ash borer. May work with Grapevine program to document cleanup of a place with before and after photos to earn ~20” sapling. Hilary may make seed balls.
Youth Fishing Derby. May 4. Again organized by Bob Bethel. Complicated by bridge removal, but may be less poaching. More brook trout, fewer rainbow this year—less expensive. Set-up to be behind Town Hall.
Tennis Camp. A go—already enough signed up. June 25–27.
Antrim In The Evening. No NEST grant this year. Couple of bands identified. One Thursday program.
Gagaball pit. Selectboard approved. Insurance advised not to accept it until it is completed, but otherwise not an issue.
Other. More seating needed. Teens looking for places to sit stress bandstand. Celeste to look into benches.
Gregg Lake
Lake Host program. Celeste put in grant, nothing heard yet. To cover more hours, will have two hired Lake Hosts. Need volunteer Lake Hosts.
Beach. Monica organizing community cleanup April 13, 10 am. Shed doors need to be replaced. Staffing beach is going to be hard. Will offer reimbursement for Lifeguard training and increased hourly rates. Need adult beach attendants.
Watershed Management Plan. Water Quality Summary completed and printing donated by Savron Graphics. Top erosion hotspot areas identified and ranked according to amounts of sediment, phosphorus and nitrogen contributed to lake. Estimates of remediation costs made. Sites sorted into project areas. Ground-penetrating radar studies indicate areas of sediment deposit. Forming Water Quality Advisory Committee tasked with setting pollution goals.
Walking Trail
Marshall Gale not able to join walk of Fire Station property. Need to follow up with him before making further plans. Celeste will invite him to next Commission meeting. Could Peace Bridge be stored at AFD temporarily?
Town Gym
Gym Floor Plans. Consult with Matt Danaher was instructive. Moisture readings were acceptable (between 6 and 10%) at all locations except for a 12.9% reading against the outer wall near the Rec Office, where the foundation was not dug out and sealed last fall due to the location of electrical wires. Mr. Danaher has constructed gym floors for many area private schools and colleges, and has replaced many that failed due to insufficient moisture barriers. Recommendation was to fully sand and repaint with water-based finish—current condition dangerous. Said water-based finishes have surpassed oil-based finishes in quality, do not give off VOCs and are the product of choice. Can schedule job in August and will provide quote. Donna will contact ConVal, as agreement still in place requires joint
approval. We will want to continue to use water-based finishes for future buff-and-recoats.
Rec Dept.
Update. Baseball signups vary by age group, with few 9 & 10 year-olds registering, but more 11 & 12s and younger ages. Enough have registered to run the June tennis camp.
Next meeting Thursday, May 9, 7 pm.
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