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Parks and Recreation 06/02/2025
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The future of our community's athletic fields took center stage at this month's Parks and Recreation meeting, where significant investments received approval to address persistent challenges that have plagued our facilities for years.
Water scarcity has long been the enemy of quality playing surfaces, with town water restrictions limiting irrigation options during crucial growing periods. In a remarkable display of community collaboration, local sports organizations presented their plan to jointly fund a well installation project that will provide a consistent, restriction-free water source for the entire sports complex. The technical discussion revealed careful planning around placement, with considerations for minimizing trenching costs while ensuring water reaches all areas of the complex. This forward-thinking solution targets early July installation, strategically avoiding conflicts with summer tournaments while creating lasting infrastructure for generations of athletes.
Equally pressing was the deteriorated condition of the football field's center section, which required immediate attention before fall sports resume. After reviewing multiple repair options, the board approved a rehabilitation package including aeration, soil amendments, fertilizer, loam, and seed. Critical to this plan is temporarily closing the affected area during summer months, allowing proper establishment of the new turf before September's activities. This balanced approach addresses immediate needs while respecting budget constraints.
Beyond these major projects, the meeting showcased our community's vibrant recreational calendar, with permit approvals for bicycle races, youth sports clinics, touch-a-truck events, and summer programming. These diverse activities highlight how integral our shared spaces are to community life and underline the importance of maintaining them properly.
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We're going to start the meeting at 5.59 pm. Did you get a chance to make a comment from the last meeting? Second Motion to approve Second All in favor. Aye, so moved. Organization representatives and town officials.
Speaker 2:Mr Slyker Ryan, can you just do us a favor and just say your name as well as your address? We just have to have that for officials. Mr Slyker Ryan, can you just say your name as well as your address? Ryan Slyker, 303 Boogaloo Drive, rainham.
Speaker 1:And I lead Rainham Dental Physicians Awesome, so I'm gonna. Well, I actually. You technically end up, he's technically in the old business.
Speaker 2:Old business. I just put you under there just to get him on the agenda.
Speaker 1:Alright, so we're gonna move on to old business, old business, I just put you under there just to get him on the agenda. All right, all right, so we're going to move on to old business and I'm going to let you do your speed on that well, so I appreciate um.
Speaker 3:I know jay course. He represented us last. He did yeah, um, he gave me feedback. It was a very productive meeting as for his point of views um, so he was happy with the discussion and the ongoing dialogue.
Speaker 3:Um, so we want to come in front of you today to. He was happy with the discussion and the ongoing dialogue, so we want to come in front of you today to prepare some follow-ups, to show what we've worked on since that meeting and then continue the dialogue. So we do appreciate the openness and willingness to talk to us and I think we all have the same idea of it's for the better of the complex, better of the field and conditions, and with safety still at the core of it all.
Speaker 1:So since we last met there's a couple things that happened.
Speaker 3:Both the GIANTS boards and the Our IVSA boards have met. So I lead our GIANTS board but I'm also a member of our Our IVSA board. So we've met, discussed field options. Both of our boards have aligned that getting consistent water source to the complex is our number one priority. So we hands down agree that we need a well, we need a consistent, more consistent water source that we don't hesitate putting on because of the water man, which we understand that's a restriction. We've been under it, we've been living it and we want to try to find that work around to get water source there. So we've 100% aligned that that's priority and we have agreed to share a cost the two of our organizations on the full install.
Speaker 3:So install of the well, a pump, electric to get there, basically the works to get it up and operated. We don't know exactly what that's going to cost. We have a rough idea based on investments plus some assumptions for electrical which varies depending on where it's located and so on. So clearly he hasn't looked at the electrical panel and there's plenty of availability there, so that's not an issue. So it's really just running to the source and then, ok, there's two possible locations that we initially thought of. Then we've kind of learned something things, since the first is the location of the incoming water.
Speaker 3:so where is it coming through right now through the town?
Speaker 2:which is likely where the existing main sprinkler box is coming through the towards from the road you know down the center, like the island over there, coming and cutting across.
Speaker 3:That's that's the main line. Yes, you know where the main box is located Main box, I feel like we've got about 10 or 12 valves, sub boxes, the main one that we have to turn on and turn off is by that island area.
Speaker 2:Okay, because we did run into a problem when it was a lacrosse game. There was a pool of water I'm not sure if you saw that that was there. They had to turn that water off to fix that little area. But that's where the main shutoff is, okay, so before the driveway to turn around, yeah, so basically you turn in, you go by the basketball court, that kind of like area, before you loop back around. That's where the main area is Okay.
Speaker 3:So we didn't ask the question specifically. So I think they would drill where we asked them to drill, but from what I've heard, it's better to put it closer to where the main box is, because you're going to want to enter it there and tie it into that main box so that everything can be. Uh, you're gonna want to enter it there and tie it into that main box so that everything it can be utilized across the complex. So we're initially thinking about putting it out back behind the football field, which is closer to field four, closer to field five and also accessible to the football field.
Speaker 3:But it sounds like that's somewhat less relevant, because you need to tie it into the main main line and I can double check that with norman, the water department.
Speaker 2:That's where we had our issue there earlier this year. We had to turn. We have to turn that off and on.
Speaker 3:So yeah, but I'll double check in a moment so right, main question I had is well, I just have a question. You know that is one legal, that's what we've agreed to and, um, hopefully that's acceptable, and I want to understand if it's irregardless of location or if there's questions on it depending on the location, it's okay or not I have no real issue with it on my end.
Speaker 2:I don't want to speak for you guys as well. You know it's as long as you know everybody's on board. Yeah that's.
Speaker 1:I think that's that's great.
Speaker 2:I would like to, you know, definitely get the water department and highway department just uh, their feedback. I don't see it being an issue and if that's what the experts the well experts say, that's where it should go, because if we're going to spend this money, we want to make sure it's done correctly.
Speaker 4:And cost effectively, like Brian was saying. Ideally, yeah, you'd want it out of the way, but if they're going to add another $ 20 000 just to tie into, yes, the current system and that doesn't make sense. The trenching is where your money that's, that's your labor, yeah, so the minimal amount of trenching you can do, the better and when they do put the.
Speaker 2:Well then, when they put some rocks around, it's a bigger. Well, yeah, so.
Speaker 3:So I looked into this and there's there's various around. It's a bigger well the gut, yes. So I looked into this and there's various extensive finished product, but there's the one that we're looking at would be a this big box, so it's up like a sub-surface box. Okay, so it's not. Actually, I was envisioning larger well-off about blocks, so maybe that was an option, but I think we're okay with trying to get as distributed as possible so that doesn't affect the quality of the grounds.
Speaker 4:So instead of it coming off, it'll just be like a metal grate on top, basically, yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, mm-hmm. I mean it might be some requirement for access, so we can talk about blocking that to make sure there's no issues with that. But it's all part of it, ok. So what do you need from?
Speaker 2:your. I'm going to just double check with the water department, make sure that exactly. I'm not lying to you. I'm pretty sure that's where it is. But overall we really don't want to get that going. The earliest would be is once get school out, you know, because just traffic going back and forth, so we'll probably be looking at I don't know. It all depends on what their timeline is, where they can come and do it. They're looking at early July, early July. Okay, that wouldn't be an issue on our end and in school or with camp, in terms of if it's early July, what are the tournaments? I want to say July 10th is the softball tournament and Monty is last weekend in July. Yeah, so I don't see that being an issue, especially with Friday, saturday, sunday kind of stuff.
Speaker 3:We're all on board on that, so we will work around those.
Speaker 4:I will make sure that's not a conflict. And it would seem like the bigger, more construction-related, more of a obstruction would be the well truck. Everything else would be manpower.
Speaker 3:Basically, we don't know everything right now, so it's kind of like piecemeal. In a little bit We've got to get water to the source and then we have to understand and make sure that it ties in correctly with the irrigation and the pressure and there's other stuff that's involved. But, um, we gotta do one thing at a time. Yeah, we pretty much said like we're doing this and then there's other pieces and there's budgets that we don't have planned for right now. We just have to then build it into next year and have a fundraising board.
Speaker 4:We have to figure it out, um, the goal is just to get the ball rolling, otherwise it'll become too big of a project. We'll never do it.
Speaker 4:Yeah, and like, like you're saying, like pat looked into it yep so ideally, my only concern would be obviously the well truck, as it's digging, you know, taking out half the parking lot. Yeah, so you bang that out. Everything else is not in the way. Like brian was saying, if the well comes in, bangs it out in a day and two, three weeks later, you know, you get Pat to do it or somebody else to do the electrical part. That's not taking up anything other than his physical body being there wiring it up. You know you might have him. You know, maybe a little bit of a trenching to do tie in power, but I would say the only huge obstruction would be the well chuck.
Speaker 3:Thank you. So where I mean right now that the well itself is anywhere from 15 to 20? That's not including electrical tie-in and anything else that does not come up, which I know what they give you for a depth up to 400 in that in that in that estimate up to 440, 400 drill. Sorry, steel casing was up to 40, yeah, and the six inch drilling was 300. So and they said that, that and it's only for irrigation Right, correct?
Speaker 3:They said that should be on the very the concern side, but they wanted to quote that, so they also. They costed by a per foot.
Speaker 4:So no mention though. Yeah, I was having a slight issue with my well a couple years ago. Luckily, I got it resolved without having to re-drill, but I was looking at about $20,000 just for the well that's not including anything else and I want to say they were at like a 400 feet, so if they had to go past that mark, the price would go up. Yeah, yeah this.
Speaker 2:They saw the 400 for for probably reasons.
Speaker 4:That's sad.
Speaker 4:Investigation is scaring me personally I could be wrong, but irrigation isn't the same as a well for your house. It's two completely separate things. You have to go deeper for the welfare house, right? Or sanitation, yes, correct, correct. The water health has to get involved. Like that could be wrong for irrigation. But I know people that have drilled shallow wells just for irrigation, like they've literally hand dug it just to get water, just to water their cracks. So that's why I can only hope that the estimate you got is so overblown that when they drill it's half that cost. Yeah, we did a diligence.
Speaker 3:A couple people in town have looked at others in the area and they said 20 to 22 feet is probably the average and that's about half of that. So that's our goal, but we need the board to approve something. And's our goal. But we need to approve something and if we approve under we're screwed when they don't. So if he doesn't, we have to approve it.
Speaker 1:Okay so with all that.
Speaker 3:So we're committed to the sort of I'll call it the future state. In my idea that's the future state that's getting water to the source for the next decade. So our ask is for some assistance on the current state, which is the current state of the complex and specifically Bencourt To some extent the baseball field as well, but I'm speaking for football today. So we looked at some options for fixing Bencourt, so the existing issues that we have on the sidelines but mainly in that center field, and we've got a couple options just to throw out there to you to have a discussion. So there's an option for $7,000, which is recommended for the fall. I can go through what it kind of entails in a minute but there's an option for $8,000, which is basically pretty immediate, probably the next 30 days or so, and then there's a full replacement option of full turf. It's just the kind of the 40 to 40 or 30 to 30, replacing it, digging it out and replacing it with sawing.
Speaker 3:So that's more of a. That would be a fall, fall or spring. I think it was a fall recommendation. So our thoughts and our recommendation would be to go with the immediate to fix what it is. So that would be option three, which is aerating the field. Supplying and installing carbon pro G soils amendment. Supplying and installing two applications of screaming green fertilizer. Supplying and installing up to 10 yards of loam for all the bare areas needed. And supplying and installing 10 bags of seed. So that's your quick fix now, is that too?
Speaker 2:I know you mentioned the sidelines that, because the problem with the sideline, it doesn't matter. You know what's going on. Yeah, is that just? This is that's just for the inside. Like the 40 to 40 yards, this was full yeah, I mean unless those, unless within those 10 yards we have some left over because, unfortunately, you know, as you guys know, when you have those games all day long, no matter what you do, it's just going to wear it away so no, this was not, this was okay, that was just for the inside.
Speaker 3:This is an estimate for what is going to be needed in that kind of 30 to 30 center. Um, the other two just refer just for reference. The option one which we've done in fall is aerating the field, supplying and installing 10 yards of loam, supplying and installing 10 bags of seed and then a hydro seed in any remaining bare spots. So it's not time to hydro seed. Now I guess we're past that. So that's why the recommendation is if you do that, in fall.
Speaker 2:My question is if we did the immediate fix, will it be ready football season at that point in time? Will it be ready for you guys when your games are coming? Because we don't want it to be halfway fixed and then just get torn up in games.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think we have to verify the timeline, where we did assume that we were going to be on the field until end of June the earliest, knowing that school was controlled. So that was assumed here. So the option includes that timing and that depends on. The good news is we have our first three games are away this year, which doesn't happen often. That said, we have JV games. That could be that first weekend, but we could request some shifting. This table hasn't been released yet so we might be able to buy ourselves an extra week or two Our Mighty my games.
Speaker 3:We do host Mighty my games and that's an important thing for our program, so I hesitate to go past. We have a big jimery that first weekend in September, so I'd love to plan for that if possible. So I can verify that. But it would require that to be closed for the summer though, or at least severely blocked off, like if we somehow block off the large area in the middle.
Speaker 2:That blocking off the large area in the middle, that's being built up that blocking off the large area in the middle isn't going to be an issue. Overall I can move most of camp. You know there would be some pushback. You know, because we do certain events, I could put them at one end of the field, away from it. You know block off that area with. You know snow fence. You know with signs, keep off. You know off that area. You know snow fence. You know a science keep off. You know this.
Speaker 2:And that the other thing that I would recommend that we look at is putting irrigation like heads, in the middle left field. That's the one thing we do not have in the middle field, why we put it in years ago that this way on the outside there's nothing in the middle and that is the one thing when it, if we don't have it, it doesn't get to all the areas. So that would be which I believe we brought that up last night and obviously where they're looking to do an irrigation. Well, I know Sod, if we do have to go that road, bastop needs to drink some serious water. So we definitely want to put irrigation in the middle of the field so it's drinking.
Speaker 2:Other than that, it should be throwing good money at the bat and besides that you know, like I can keep everything closed, except if we have to run some things to camp off that field. We can just chain everything up and say I can let Heather and Bethany have a key to get in there and say that would be the area. But overall we have other fields we can use. But just during tournament time. I mean, all the big don't want to tear up their stuff on those kids either for baseball. Yeah, I have no issue with that on my end.
Speaker 2:I don't have any issues with it. I've always stood by keeping that 50. If we're going to repair, it, keep it in shutdown.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I mean, I know we can't keep the whole field shut down, but at least we're being cautious yeah.
Speaker 2:And one thing again we mentioned at last meeting is we also ask help from the leagues is if we do have a shutdown and we have signs out there. You see kids coming to you know and hopping the fence, come on guys. You know there's a reason why it's like that, because unfortunately we can't monitor any less 20 or seven. But without signs it's hard to get faces. We have the signs in town, you know. Yeah, to close them. It just it's really interesting. You get there and you find the signs. They're in the ground next thing. You know they're against the fence or on the ground upside down saying you know, I think it's minimal, I mean there's a half dozen entrances there so we can put them on the gates, like for the most part.
Speaker 3:Kids aren't hopping the fences often if they're going through the gates, so at least you're in the right spot.
Speaker 2:You'll find that, though, once you lock them, that's when they hop. We had to lock the basketball courts during COVID. The amount of kids that hop that fence, no way. Yeah, oh, a big fear once it falls, and you know.
Speaker 1:Well then, that's the liability issue. Yeah, so.
Speaker 3:So my question is would Park and Rec fund that replacement?
Speaker 2:for that fix and that's $8,000?
Speaker 4:Because I can't do both. We can't do both, you can't do both the well and the repair.
Speaker 2:Yes, I'm just going through things in my mind. Just give me one second. You need an abacus. Yeah, with Shelton Cooper, when I get a big bang, yes, we can take that out of the volume. Okay, a purchase like that, though, would need. Is that something you have to make a motion on? You would have to make that motion, ryan, if you could get me that information on who you got that. I have a pretty good idea who it's from to do that job. And if you can get me that information on who you got that, I have a pretty good idea who it's from to do that job. And then we can get them started really the week after school, because we are scheduled to have the fields fertilized, you know, the week before well, between school and Camp Stuyler, because all the fields across town, it's supposed to be like our summer application. You saw her in the journal, what just before that stock. So we can, we can do that. So then I would definitely.
Speaker 3:obviously we're fronting that money, putting it up, enforcing shut that 50 yard line down and keeping it shut down. Okay, all right. How about the irrigation piece of it? Is that something we moved off on for the center of irrigation?
Speaker 2:that wasn't part of this I can ask what the cost would be. But you know, if we do turn turn up with the wells and we do turn up the irrigation, we can hit it. It's just not going to be as consistent the irrigation, but if we can, I know what you're saying. Yeah, I just want to make sure I agree. I'm asking you guys to spend a large chunk of money.
Speaker 3:We're spending a lot of chunk of money to get the water there and if it's not going to hit the spots, it's really useless.
Speaker 2:I think let me see what the extra cost is, but for now let's start with the eight, and if it's not too much we can add a separate bill while we're doing it, Because it's two separate jobs.
Speaker 4:And we're looking for another month until this evening. Yes, so sure we get time to.
Speaker 3:Yeah, look into irrigation and yeah, and I'm actually going to, I do think I do ask, though I suggest that we have to schedule a student later, because I'm guessing there's a working out right, they're working out for timelines, yeah, and then because we're trying to get onto the fields by september. I mean there's a, there's a date in mind.
Speaker 2:I mean they could probably get on the fields you know it's not doing that as early as june 30th, june 30th, and that will give two months of quiet on the field, except for a certain end of the field with the parking rack maybe out there. But we'll limit what we're actually up to. If you have those, what do you call them? The snow hat, the snow gates? I'll talk to Norm and put that up.
Speaker 3:Yeah, those are very. I think those are effective, like I've seen those yellow cautions and they just fly away and wind and then you've got people running. Yeah, like the orange. Yeah, no, we had them.
Speaker 2:We had to reseed up at the clark field, that runway from the driveway all the way in. We had a snow fence up and does a great job as long as nobody goes and messes with it. But we also had it out here as well for a while and we had to re-loan and re-seed out here. So it is effective. You see anything with dogs? Make sure they don't go out there either and Burn the. Yeah, those. I see the plan, yeah. Yeah, we're gonna need that here. Okay, so you'll take the I'll, as long as you just got the graduates might make a motion just to get that done.
Speaker 4:All right, Do I have a motion? Yes, you have to say the motion and I second Mr Chair. So motion to approve $8,000 budget for repair.
Speaker 1:I will second that. All in favor. Aye, so moved. Second, you're very welcome. Can you just send that?
Speaker 3:estimate to Tim so he can send it to us. Yep, so it's an estimate to you. You're open to that plus and?
Speaker 2:I'm going to talk to Norm. Norm is on vacation this week, okay, and I'm leaving. I think I told you I'm leaving. I think I told you I'm on vacation until next Monday, but I'll talk to him when I get back and just go from there.
Speaker 3:I'll talk to him either next Monday afternoon or Tuesday when I get back from my trip Awesome, I really appreciate it.
Speaker 1:I thank you for your time and for listening and partnering it's really important and we thank you for taking this seriously.
Speaker 2:Thank you Ryan.
Speaker 3:Good seeing you. Off to the ball field, I'm going to Vegas.
Speaker 2:I'm going to see Kenny Chesney and do some other shows. Is he dead? He's doing the Spirit.
Speaker 4:Yeah, we're going to that show Sweet.
Speaker 2:Yeah, my wife's birthday is and she wanted to go and we've never been, so that's where I'm going. Have fun, thank you, thanks, appreciate it.
Speaker 1:Appreciate it. Okay, alrighty, very good Under the Sun Farm.
Speaker 2:Under the Sun Farm. Just want to let you know. We approved their permit last month, right, and they reached out to me asking if they could start a little earlier. We have nobody out there. I had no problem. I told them they could. They want to take advantage of strawberry season, which they haven't done in the past.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah, that's about now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so they're gonna start getting set up next week. So a couple weeks early Wasn't a big deal when I rented Awesome, and just want to give you a quick update on the rental property after the last meeting. I have posted on our website and various town locations yeah, Rental property just went out. Haven't heard back from anybody yet, but it's out there finally and we're going to.
Speaker 1:Hopefully we can get somebody in there sooner rather than later.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so, and once that's done, whoever comes, we get multiple people, we'll get everybody checked out and we'll do some sort of lottery here. We'll just call the name and go from there Gotcha All righty.
Speaker 1:New business, new business Scholarship requests.
Speaker 2:All right, we have two scholarship requests, guys, All righty. The first one is a scholarship for the after-school program in the fall for three afternoons a week. We have helped this family in the past and they are very grateful. They did send all the required documentation that we need and I would recommend another 100% scholarship for this family for the next school year.
Speaker 1:All righty all right motion to approve the scholarship first, culture.
Speaker 2:Second, all in favor, aye, alright. And the next one is a family that reached out to me for the summer playground program and the summer tadpole program. They're looking for two or three weeks in the summer. The only thing we available in the full day program and the I'm sorry, the summer playground program is half day, yeah, for the kids, and the tagpole program is only half day anyway, yeah. So I would recommend for this family a 100% scholarship for the children that are going to be attending the playground program and the other child that's going to be attending the playground program and the other child that's going to be attending the tadpole program, all right motion to approve.
Speaker 1:Second all favor. Aye, so loaded, all righty. We are on to uh summerfield permit applications applications.
Speaker 2:okay, uh, so the first one we have is for the Swansea Velo Club, who they are. They're taking over for Rock Hard Racing that ran the bicycle race around here last November. I did get a chance to speak to Jonathan, very nice man, and Mike O'Connell, who was was in charge of Lockhart Racing, also reached out in support of him. Again, they're looking at taking over that one race on November 22nd up in the Clark Softball Field Grove area and also looking for our recommendation for a letter to the selectmen to get an out-call permit, which we have done in the past. Okay, last year we charged them $315. This year we're looking for a few extra hours, so I would recommend a fee of $420 with a letter from us to the selectmen.
Speaker 1:Do. They usually have details too, especially if there's alcohol involved.
Speaker 2:The select board. Excuse me, I know, yeah, it's's gonna take a little while they have, but I would definitely recommend and I did tell him okay, that's my yeah, I can let them know that as well.
Speaker 1:All right motion to approve. I will second that motion. All in favor, aye, so voted.
Speaker 2:The next one we have is from the Rayham Giants. They're looking for a permit for the Legion field for four Saturdays in June, from 7 to 9, for a football skills and conditioning clinic. They're not charging. I have spoken to Jay about this. The only day that's not available is June 21st because the Legion does have an event that day, so it will really be just the 7th. The 14th and the 28th will be available for them and no fee. Motion to approve. I will second that motion. Aye, double it. Second that motion, I. And the next one is rain him you. Soccer is reaching out for their annual summer permit, starting June 20th till August 22nd, monday through Friday they're looking for four to about eight o'clock on the breakfast field and they also have two full day camps that they run, uh, the week of the july 28th and the week of august 4th. We have approved in the past on both of these with no fee motion to approve.
Speaker 1:I will second that motion. All in favor, aye, so voted.
Speaker 2:The next one we have is for the Rainham Lions Club. They're looking at a tentative date and the reason I say tentative is I haven't gotten the community day calendar yet, but it's somewhere around there Looking for September 20th, with September 27th as a rain date, from 11 to 3 using the gazebo parking lot and the lions club parking lot for their touch. A truck could be a second annual, which was a fun event last year.
Speaker 1:So do we know what day 9 20 is?
Speaker 2:but 9 20 is on a saturday okay, because usually community is on sunday it is on a sunday but we really don't want to put both events on that weekend because they'll be setting up a community day. They're willing to move their date but this is the tentative date we have. I'm going by last year's calendar, which is always like the second Sunday is like the main day that we put for community day. Try to get it as early in September before the weather starts to possibly go downhill. Community.
Speaker 2:Try to get as early in September before the weather starts to possibly go downhill, yeah, but, and we approved with no fee. In the Lions Club they do a wonderful job with that motion to approve second all in favor.
Speaker 2:Aye so voted and the last one we have, guys, is for Rainham youth lacrosse. They're looking at doing a clinic as well this year. They're changing things up though. They want to do Monday mornings from 9 to 11 inside the track at the RMS football soccer field. There is no conflicts. School is over and we approved it last year with no fee.
Speaker 2:Second, all favor, aye, so voted, and that is it for permits, guys. Alrighty, commissioners, report. Do you not have anything to report? Do you have anything? No, I don't believe so. All right On to you, sir. Just a couple of quick things on my end and then we can call it a night.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the new fence at the Clark softball field is scheduled to go up as of now, the week of July 14th. Okay, I have reached out to the men's softball league. They're going to be just kind of moving around their schedule for a week, maybe two. We're taking the fence down and they're going to come in and get that all set and look wonderful up there once it's done. We do have some broken gates and poles on the BERT slash multipurpose field. I have some guys come in and give me some quotes just to get those fixed. We have to leave locks because it doesn't close correctly. We don't want somebody flying into that just to get those fixed. So we can, we wouldn't get. We have to leave locked if it doesn't close correctly. We don't want somebody from flying into that just to get that fixed.
Speaker 2:Our summer concert series starts on July 15th. We're gonna have five concerts this year oh awesome. Yep, I'm meeting with Taunton Siding tomorrow. They're gonna be putting a bolt lock on the door at the Rainham baseball concession stand to get that fixed. After the incident that happened a couple weeks ago, unfortunately, but luckily, there was no major damage, just cash was taken. Also, I had to order a new crawl tube for the Merrill playground.
Speaker 4:Yeah, what happened with that?
Speaker 2:Somebody went in there and put a nice big crack right down the middle of it, so I was there last last week of the week before.
Speaker 4:The little guy waiting for baseball and saw one side was covered.
Speaker 2:Yeah, somebody took the other side off. We did have it on, but yeah, just a, we have it closed off just to get that new piece in. It's about $1,400, but equipment. I went into the wrong business.
Speaker 4:I don't know why we should look into some cameras out there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it could just be just wear and tear because those parts are so old and the sun's getting beaten down on them. Yeah, those playgrounds are probably going to be about 20 years old, I guess, but I'm not inside. You want to do some serious damage. That's just wear and tear If it's not on the slides. That's where they're throwing rocks and stamping their feet when they're nice and hot and they'll break down. We need to bring back the wooden box those things with outlasted nuclear blasts?
Speaker 1:Oh yes, they would there used to be a wooden playground.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and actually one summer, after camp ended, they brought us all in to restain and redo the entire playground. I won't forget that. I just remember being three years old at preschool, banging my head on it.
Speaker 2:And finally, I did alert all the leagues and the schools that I will be away from this Wednesday afternoon till next Tuesday morning. So I got back into the office. So they're all aware. I told them if they need anything to let me know. Know and we'll be good to go and you guys know how to reach me if I'm there and I'll have my work phone on me if anything pops up.
Speaker 1:All right.
Speaker 2:And that's it for me.
Speaker 4:What are they doing for the door in that concession? Is it just another lock or are we doing like an actual, like pull down?
Speaker 2:What we are going to do is I brought taunton siding in the door. It was in great shape, just how they did it just and went through. So they're gonna go in there and have like an old like knob area for a lock to go in. Yep, there's gonna do a little cutting. They already have the trim is already on the panel on the wall. They're just gonna put that lock in and leave the other bolt lock on the outside so it has two different keys to get in and that'll protect it, because they also have that kind of door on the back as well.
Speaker 4:So Nothing to the windows.
Speaker 2:Nothing to the windows at this time, but those windows on the inside you can walk, so you have to smash the windows to get through, unlike the old.
Speaker 4:Yeah, and when I heard about it I was talking with the individual because he told me what had happened and, unfortunately, with the amount of people that go in and out of there, you're only breaking into that thing if you know there's something there and it's not like they walked out with a package of sneakers. No, they walked out with cash.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know and then, but we're just lucky they didn't do any other damage, Right, like some of the electronics in there were all off because they went out and got a lot of new equipment for cooking and it looks great, you know, but when I was there you had to go through a trap door to get to the second floor. So, yeah, but that is uh, that's all I have for this meeting and our next meeting set for Tuesday, july 1st you make the motion to adjourn.
Speaker 1:Motion to adjourn. I'll second that motion.