Recreation Committee Meeting Minutes Wednesday March 26, 2014
In attendance: Jennifer Collard, Kelly Briggs, Jaime L’Heureux, Patrick Fallon, Susan Novak, Mark O’Connor, Kaitlyn Wojnarowicz, Anita Pratt (7:34), Rebecca Pratt (7:39)
Also Present: Gary Kellaher, Sheila Dibb
Place: Town Hall basement
7:02 Meeting Called to Order Susan Novak
Acceptance of Previous Minutes from March 5, 2014 meeting
-Jen makes a motion to accept minutes, Jaime second
-All in favor (5-0)
Open Session:
New Business:
Easter Egg Hunt planning- April 12th 10:30am
-all hunts on the big field, just separated by age groups
-sign ups 9-10 so no reason for kids to cross parking lot
-250 goodie bags when return eggs
-be there at 8 to set up
- up to age 10
Father-Daughter Dance
-May 10th at Glenwood at 6-8pm
-$20 a couple, $5 each additional child
Mother-Son Event
-Minute to win it- Sherry Rotondo
-Friday night in May
Kaitlyn- wants to hire 2 new staff members
-one at Naquag for 8-9 every day
-one as a sub
Future Event Planning
Dodge ball tournament- maybe next fall
Couch to 5k program
Football Clinic in the summer
Field hockey clinic in summer
Dave Garden concert- June 23rd
Shelia- Pan Rutland Challenge for charity through PanMass
Summer Fun Updates
Lori and Brooks hired as co-directors, Kelly White hired to work with CIT’s
Themes have been decided
They’ve been going through applications
July 7th-August 8th
Old Business:
Gary- no expense to redoing the room in the town hall basement
-best option for now
Director Salary adjustment for the remainder of the year
-need to send a letter for the pay raise to be effective immediately
-everyone signed the letter to send
53 E 1/2 acount- needs to be submitted tomorrow
-$200,000 cap right now which may get lowered by the BOS
-wording needs to be fixed to make it a warrant
Pat makes a motion to precede with the 53E1/2, Rebecca second
-all in favor (7-0)
Discussion of increasing Kelly to 30 hours.
Would depend on if 53E1/2 gets approved
Rebecca makes a motion to approve 30 hours for director at $23.52 for FY15 pending the passage of the 53E1/2 account on May 17th, Mark second
-discussion
Rebecca withdraws the previous motion, Mark withdraws his second
Patrick makes a motion to approve the passage of the 53E1/2 account on May 17th
with the corrections of volleyball fixed, $13,500 accounted for for benefits and $5000 accounted for for capital improvements, for a balance of $20,855.17, Rebecca second, all in favor (7-0)
Rebecca makes a motion to improve an increase in the directors hours to 30 hours at $23.52 pending approval of the 53E1/2, Mark second, all in favor (7-0)
Next meeting scheduled April 9, 2014 at 7pm in Community Center
Motion to adjourn meeting by Jaime 9:47 pm, Jen second
All in favor (7-0)
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