Parks and Recreation Meeting Minutes of Monday, February 27, 2012
Room 5, Town Hall at 7:00pm
Attendance:
Committee Members: Billie Luker (BL), Rita Mullin (RM), Mike Fitzpatrick (MF), Sergio Coviello (SC), Patricia Fillmore (PF), Ron Kern (RK), Heidi Cushing-Candelario (HC)
Staff: Lynne Clemens (LC); Marty Tilton (MT), Sheila Sturdevant (SS)
Tardy:
Absent: Maureen Stevens (MS)
Call to order: 7:06pm; Quorum, called by Billie Luker
Audience of Citizens:
Acceptance of Minutes: 1/18/12 and 2/6/12
(PF) Pat Fillmore made a motion to accept the meeting minutes of 1/18/12 as is.
(SC) Sergio Coviello seconds the motion.
No discussion had.
Approved: 6 Opposed: 0 Abstained: 0
Motion passed
(RM) Rita Mullin made a motion to accept the meeting minutes of 2/6/12 as is.
(PF) Pat Fillmore seconds the motion.
No discussion had.
Approved: 6 Opposed: 0 Abstained: 0
Motion passed
New Business
• Martins Pond Association Annual Report (PF)
Pat Distributed and summarized the Martin’s Pond Annual Report.
Old Business
• Wine and Food
o Banner (MT): Marty informed the committee that CR Signed donated a new W&F banner to us because the old one was in terrible condition. The banner is on display on the HS fence.
o Maria has received 17 confirmed Restaurants.
o NuImage DJ will be donating their time for the event.
o Mike will be ordering wined from OneStop Liquors. It will be about $2000 total. They will deliver to the Hillview. They will buy back left over wines. OneStop will be making wine brochures for tables.
o Wines will be deliver to HCC on 3/23 we need to have someone there to inventory the received wines.
o Mike will be ordering the lagers from NE Redemption.
o Lynne has plenty of volunteers
o An Ad will be going in the Transcript this Thursday.
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• Parks Director Updates (MT)
o Skate Park at IRP: Marty received quote for card access gate and is would cost about $5000 to $6000 to install and Marty thinks the kids would just destroy it.
o Camera’s at IRP: Marty went back to Rich G. this past Friday and they tried to bounce a signal from shack to barn for cameras and it didn’t work. May be back to the drawing board. Still waiting for 3rd quote to come in. Sergio has the name of another person who does camera’s he will forward it to Marty.
o Ice Rink: Marty spoke with NRSA and they will be taking down the ice rink this coming weekend. Marty has agreed to store the supplies for the ice rink and they will try again next year.
o Open Space Plan: The town agreed on a contractor for the updating of the Open Space Plan, Brown Walker Contractors.
• Recreation Director Updates (LC)
o Winter Session: Vacation programs the numbers were low. Ran a scavenger hunt which was a free program and we had many families participate. Received wonderful feedback. There was 1st , 2nd and Third place winners who received prizes.
o Town Hall Gym Floor: the floor in the gym was professionally cleaned recently.
o Summerscape Director: Conducted interviews all this past week. Have not made a decision yet.
o Summerscape location: Superintendent has called to discuss location of this years Summerscape program. Will be speaking with her this week.
• Operations Director Updates (MS)
• LUC Updates (RM):
o Meditation Garden (MT): Granite benches are all installed.
o Smith Property: (RM): LUC is concerned about the condition of the bridges on the property. They are looking for opinion on what we would like to see happen with the property. The Selectman would like for us to come up with a name for the land. Property is about 50 acres. Billy would love to do a walk through. Rita informed the committee that Brad Jones had acquired $250,000 from the state for the property to repair the bridges, but before the work is done LUC would like to know what everyone would like to do with the property to see what kind of work needs to be done.
(SC) Sergio Coviello made a motion to do a site inspection on the Smith property to investigate what the land can be used for, for recreation or park uses and be funded from the $250,000 received for the repairs of the bridges and land.
(RM) Rita Mullin seconds the motion.
Approved: 6 Opposed: 0 Abstained: 0
Motion Passed.
• FONRPRC, Inc Updates-(SS):
Other Business
• Soccer Liaison Meeting (MF): Mike will be attending the NR Youth Soccer meeting on 3/5/12 as a Liaison. Maureen will forward the liaison questionnaire to Mike.
• Next Meeting date (SS)
o Cancel 3/5/12 meeting, book next meeting 3/12/12 in Room 5 at Town Hall, 7pm. Also schedule 1 hour before special meeting at NRHS on 3/19/12.
• Agenda Items for next meeting (SS)
• Adjournment
(PF) Pat Fillmore made a motion to adjourn meeting at 9:40 pm.
(SC) Sergio Coviello seconds the motion.
Approved: 4 Opposed: 0 Abstained: 0 No Discussion-Motion Passed
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