Wallingford Recreation Committee
Minutes*
February 25, 2009
*These are
unofficial until approved at the next meeting
Attendance: Sue
Duskiewicz, Keith Shelvey,
Lisa Marchinkoski, Tom Phillips, Jim Osmer
Guests: Paul
DiIonno,
Rodney Ward,
Charlie
Angel
Meeting called to order at
6:30.
Summer Recreation Program:
The committee has met with the school and will be able to use the trailer
and the gym for the summer recreation program.
The school will be willing to make this work though the duration of our
program. Cheryl would like to put
out a memo now that we will be offering this program.
The RSSU camp has changed and is running one week later than last year.
That camp will run the weeks of July 6, 13, and 20.
This will allow us to run the two weeks before this camp and three after,
which would be the weeks of June 22, 29, July 27, August 3, and 10.
Regarding payment, salaries will be based on the number of
participants that sign up. The
summer recreation program has been level funded.
Keith asked about how much money could be spent on field trips.
We would like to know the cost for different trips and what they would be
before we determined how much they would earmark.
Charlie
shared that it would be Joyce’s idea to give the summer recreation program
the salary money so that they don’t have to deal with it.
It was discussed that if we give Cheryl the money to pay the summer
recreation programs then she would really be like a subcontractor and will not
be covered under our insurance. The
money in our budget is set aside for the summer recreation program using the
town funds. This program is run as a
town program and should be run through the town.
Discussed our budget and what money from the Elfin
Lake
budget could be used for. We asked
Charlie
about the budget vs. income, and asked what happened to the money that comes in
as income.
Charlie
indicated he could not give us an answer. We
have always used our budgeted funds, but we have not used our revenue for our
improvements.
We will get on the agenda for the next Selectboard meeting
after town meeting.
Fencing at the recreation field:
A quote has been received from Pratico’s which was the cheapest quote.
Julie has received three quotes as well.
Keith made a motion to give this job to Practico’s.
Lisa seconded the motion as long as the cost is not above the amount in
the playground fund. The motion
passed unanimously. This money will
come from the playground fund.
Charlie asked about the lifeguards down at the beach and if
they are wearing their shirts. He
also asked about the lifeguards using cell phones.
Keith shared a typical list for lifeguards from White’s Pool.
One option would be to have one of the summer recreation program
counselors to be certified as a lifeguard so that they could cover down at the
lake in the afternoon. Another
option might be to hang a ‘no lifeguard on duty’ sign.
Began discussion of how the lake will be run this year.
Sue Duskiewicz left at this time.
We need to put out applications to hire lifeguards.
Next
meeting:
March
11, 2009
.
Meeting adjourned at
8:40. |