all right we'll open the park and rec meeting for uh June 12 2024 it's live and on on zoom and introduce yourselves introduce myself on David D Lori uh Rick Herman Dan Welsh John Wally and Mike's not online no one online no okay we start off with public comments nobody online public okay approved bills and minutes do we have any we have minutes do we have any bills are maintenance been sented anything make a motion to accept the minutes no we do not have second spread them they're fresh in my mind yep second the motion they're very detailed all in favor hi hi David Dori i r i John W i Iain I was not at the meeting so he should was sign us can I suggest they to be our permanent chairman not just tonight anyone have a problem with that one second I make a motion to Dave's the chair all in favor all right hi and I guess we need a CPC reference representative also for the board we do do I would I would rather not do that I would make a motion for Rick what does it even mean the community preservation no I know what that is but what what do you do I um John could probably tell you a little more since he's regular member on that well you should do it then I'm on it he's on it we also sorry another committee you and I are on do you accept sir yeah I'm fine with that I make the motion that Rick be our rep to CPC I'll second time all in favor I hi thank you Rick that's unanimous in case you didn't know thank you just trying to help here trying to keep trying to keep your notes tight very helpful next thing on the agenda is Wally Park so I guess spray park we could start off hand that one familiar Dan we're putting a spray park yo I talked to uh John jingy today they're having Arrow concrete put together that uh have to have a box underground has all the controller stuff in there they're building that he's coming over either tomorrow or Friday to gaze at the equipment and hopefully take at least the underground stuff and they're going to start he hopes next week wow do they have a like a forecasted timeline like when it will be potentially complete I didn't ask him that okay that'll be the next question whenever I go down to the park people are like oh he's on the parks of Rex they ask me all kinds of questions about spray park about everything I got questions lat dur something old business you get for going there I know I'm going to stop I know I get the same thing probably be about a month worth of work for him I would think I say maximum yeah probably can do I always estimate on the high side yeah oh yeah stamps in my office sorry so that's it for the spray par yeah I think so okay and do we have any pickle ball updates not that I'm aware of okay the subcommittee has not yet met um I don't know if we can put this under Wally Park but we have Motocross on the June 29th yeah so if we could talk about that we need volunteers and Kathy and I and a few of the grandkids will be there I will definitely be there I'll see if I can bring at least one of the kids no grandkids I'll be there um last year I know when when we got going the early part of the day when all the cars started coming in 7 o'clock or so we could really use a little bit more help then Kell Kelly magy He he'll definitely be there yes yeah he does a great job parking but I we could probably use I I would say at least other than you and Kathy collected money probably four or five other people other than Kelly in the park reach out to the beach staff yeah because we um one of the things that we do is it it's kind of odd because you you need to almost be able to see the next person in line like I I I primarily did the last two years like maybe not even whatever um I I could see them and then I could almost see Dave and then I would lose track of Dave so I couldn't figure out am I sending cars deep or you know what were we doing so it it'd be nice if we had like maybe two more people at least so we could at least see each other so we could use some kind of hand signals you know do whatever Plus you were at the beginning and you're always you'll be there Dan yes I will be you're in for a treat but I I know you were trying to park people at the beginning and then sending them down but people tend to do what they want to do so you kind to cover yeah you kind of have to cover everything yeah yeah um so I I think I think we might have some good candidates for this year we have okay a variety of kids any repeats yep okay good because I think some of them were a little shell shot because it was moving by the time they got there it was moving and they were a little shelf shocked so and to Dave's point um they weren't listening to some people many weren't listening anyway want to park where they want to park and the kids had a hard time with that so they just need to um get a hold of one of us so we can be the bad guys I don't want them to be the bad guys yep okay what time do it what time do we start to we usually get there around 6 right yeah six to get set up but probably 7 o' or so just to get parking so I mean you could probably get there then I'll go up sometime during the week just to clear the path and get the cone set up the night before there's no Shades address appropriately you have signs they're still in the garage there okay so I'll get those and the cones out the night before and I'll clear couple of paths through the woods okay inocent don't anything else on yeah soft um where did we just they're inquiring first of all a thank you for the dirt was the feedback that was it's it it's been great they want to know where we got it because different they some people play in different leagues and they need dirt and they're like where'd you get this dirt that came from Dunning Sand and Gravel in Farmington okay how do you spell that D is in David yeah u n m i gunning in you get a bill for that by the way I do yeah where was that in Farmington Farmington okay yeah there's only so many places around you get baseball dirt so they like it yeah they yes yeah it's a nice mix that that's where we need to continue to get it from yeah it was perfect yeah the last batch came from um Sheffield I believe but the cement the stuff at dun yeah stuff at Dunning was a little more expensive but I didn't want to go through the same thing again especially having that when you did uh baseball in Westfield Dan do you know where you got the John strucking and a provided the it's a mixture of clay and sand okay I'll tell them that's another option too it's probably a little heavy on Clay it doesn't drain real well but it doesn't also doesn't blow away so do you know where he got it from or they make it right they mixx right okay and then um there was there's been more damage to the little shed it's basically unusable at this point door's been ripped completely off um so I don't know if they're going to use that and I believe there is no Speedy dry not that we've needed it we they canceled last weekend all together but they've been on track right so I I think I mean you don't know what the weather's going to do but we'll finish in the next three weeks two weeks if possible so we have a vandalism account um if there's money left over in that account because we whatever we don't use we lose by June 30th would you want to replace it I think we should if we get something maybe a little same size but maybe sturdier something that you can't pull the doors off yeah something that yeah it could survive a drunk attack I mean a bear attack more stting okay yeah I can see what I can find in s to thank you yeah and that's it for sop off well um the I got to validate but I don't think it's been done the fence is still curled up um around the back stop okay that was in the notes from last meeting they need to zip tie that down or something does got it I'll do Hero's request oh yeah yeah we learned we learned right speaking of that on the the playscape issues has anything been done on that I saw Russ um and he mentioned he was going to start working on that and communicating with us what to work on okay sounds good get started okay anything else on Wally Park no okay we'll move on to the rail trail um nothing too much just um the friends have been giving us updates on different things we' had the otties ended up going in different areas and getting vandalized so they those are taken care of and no trees down and the grass Tyler's been keeping up on it but with the WEA he had a slower start so it's some areas a little higher but I think he's getting there but no no major issues okay oh um I got a call from a resident both the locks on those porta potties were damaged so I was going to check with um the Porta they used to fix them Ricky's portapotty but he sold his company to a bigger company so I'm not sure if they will still do it if not I can see if maintenance can yeah if you can ask them first I don't know what happened to both of the locks but I don't know probably getting tipped over didn't help probably was there account done sometime in May I thought I saw old they were G do account at some point the friends I'm just curious kind of use as you gets um I'm I was away that weekend so I'm not sure but usually they send us an update within a couple of weeks numb yes I'm I'm not sure if it was a rainy weekend I know last year both weekends that they were going to do it and ended up raining so I'll have to check with Christie and see um next item old business we have the dog park I guess Sarah's not here tonight give us an update yeah I haven't received an update I know Diane had texted me a week or two ago John I guess she was trying to catch up with you yeah about the dog park I don't know anything's going on with that or you're still working with her um people like the logo it's really cool it's really sharp they did a great job um next thing T-Mobile Grant guess Mike was working on that are still working on that and he's not here so we'll move by that anything else under old business we'll move on to new business um before we get going I just want i' like to make a note just to thank jeie for her time on Park and wreck and Sharon the last half a dozen years and thank her for that absolutely I will miss her I thought she was still G to show up it's weird no offense she it's like she filled the room it was awesome yeah um yes should be missed M yes sir and other new business our new member Dan Welsh I know we didn't really get into asking them much if you want to just tell us a little bit about yourself or if not you don't have to yeah we welcome to uh I appreciate the opportunity to get the election to behind us to to serve and help uh I've lived in southw now for five years I live off Lori drive or on Lori Drive South longard uh my baseball not I ran a b league in Westfield for 21 years and little Le before that so I've been involved doing sports in Westfield for years and Cindy Solin has kept asking me before to say can you come can you come and I said you I'll try sometime so and Joe de's on the on the video he also I've known Joe for five or six years and said when you find something appropriate I'll let you know and he call me for this so looking forward to contributing to we love living here and it's been a great great move for us we lived in West for 33 years before that so awesome welcome welcome I'm sure we'll find plenty of things to put you we'll keep you busy we've been the last couple of years it's been all kinds of different projects and things people are wanting to do so I'm also a member of the RO so I helped them a lot to do things as well so you involved in the concerts or you going to be going anything that yeah that's going to come in handy oh oh yeah no we just with the stages for the concert it's been like an ongoing thing for years like storing them and moving them around so I've heard that on the rooty side too so yeah if he doesn't show up we'll know why have nothing bad um other new business not to delay this right this might be the fastest me I've ever been to but we need to start thinking about Rugged Maniac if we're going to do anything I don't know because we haven't I right I think they canel it this year is it yeah I think it's done Joe is on mute and he's nodding his head behem are you on mute on your side or my side uh that's not a there's only one side not a bad he he can unmute himself you can remute him there you go there is no more Rugged Maniac ever ever ever it went bankrupt unless John Wally's buying it there's no rugged Mania wow I ain't buying it that's too bad that was fun I don't know how bankrupt though I know me either used to pay $100 to do it and they give him a little plastic trophy a ribbon around their neck the end I got a t-shirt and three beers right I mean there I was like never better at the end never doing this again yeah the numbers tapered off like every year it's to be fewer and fewer people all right so so no uh no new business there all right motion to en chair not not quite yet one more new business we the we have more new business just a little bit town beach is going opening yeah so um for that again discussed that last week did we it's okay it's my first week lead well we had just posted the jobs so now the beach staff is all hired and we're going to be opening for the season on June 21st Friday um we got a great big full staff a lot of great people so looking forward to a good season but yeah they'll be start stting on the 21st and Mass Live had an article on it week did that yeah that's how I knew it was opening my neighbors my neighbors did not tell me I two of my neighbors got hired for the the thing oh oh that's cool well that's good oh they're they're your neighbors yeah okay yeah there's some really yeah really great people that's good well hopefully they can wave flags and things too oh they can and there their father's a policeman so I'm see if I can recruit him as well because he knows what he's doing well that would good yeah I not know that any other would that have affected their hire just not at all I don't know anybody in town that's a good thing about being from a different town nice I have no background I want you people just all right John it's still out there I'll second that motion all in favor I