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- Centre Region Parks and Recreation manages 56 municipal

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rentable, picnic, pavilions, playgrounds, bike

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and walking trails and recreation facilities.

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- I to order the

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September 7th on 26th meeting

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of Centre Region Parks and Recreation.

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Ready? We need a vote. Vote.

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Call the other people online. Yes. Yes. Okay. Mr.

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Gracie Griffin. I am here.

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Ms. Black here.

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Oh, okay. Excuse me.

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Public comments. Members of the public are invited

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to comment on any items not already on the agenda.

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We do have a three minute per person time limit

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comments relating to specific items on the agenda should be

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deferred to that point in the meeting.

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Submitted comments will be read into their record

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by the secretary.

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Does that any, anyone have any agenda items?

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So we do have some announcements regarding Halloween.

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The grade is going to be on Sunday, October 30.

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Line is at 6:30 PM on Treasure Street.

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That's begins at seven

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citing fall news, as is the trick or treat.

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Night announcement.

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Again, Patrick Trick treat will be held on Thursday,

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October 29th, 2026 through sixth o'clock.

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It shall be PM in the Participating Centre Region.

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Municipalities. We do have an an in climate weather date,

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which is Friday, October 30th, 2026.

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Not outstanding as a football or gotta do it early,

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but we're not gonna miss it.

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So, and we're also really pleased to welcome Sarah.

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I'm gonna say this wrong. Yep, we got it.

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I'm Sarah Will welcome.

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She's our newest step assistant at the Active Adult Center.

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You're gonna love it there. That really, really terrific.

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Okay, great. So, so thanks for

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for being with us.

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So we're gonna move on to the Consent Agenda.

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Say an action item. We have two items on the Consent Agenda.

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First one is the one, the approval of the minutes

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of the August 20th, 2026 joint meeting

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that we have with with Board Capital Committee

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and CA two, which is approval

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two says approval meet minutes again,

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but I think we're covered reports, so,

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so we will have those.

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I will entertain a motion

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that the Centre Region Parks Recreation Authority approve

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Consent Agenda as listed

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on the September 17th, 2026 Centre Region Park

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Recreation Authority agenda.

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I'll make the motion. Motion. Second. Second.

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So we're gonna move on to the CRPR authority member reports.

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Let's start with the Proximity library ad hoc committee.

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a general forum established the ad hoc committee

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to determine vis to yes, leading parts

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communications meeting yesterday focused on

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how better communication between elected officials,

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appointees, as well as governance bodies might resolve

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many of the conflicts, concerns that

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permanent standing committee would be meant to address.

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as the library director are working with the eligibility

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documents regarding the review of fiduciary responsibilities

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and as well as calls.

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no report today?

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what we're doing in the Yoder Preserve goes on.

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and I haven't been down walking that area so I can't say

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for certain, but we do have two Penn State professors

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that are in the spring going to take a part the preserve

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and use it for our class.

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local master naturalists working with Eric Oliver

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and cannot run for life base he works for,

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but he's really doing a strategic plan, looking at funds

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that we can get for maintenance, which I know is kind

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of the biggest lift, trying to move base.

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We're pretty excited about the project

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and it continues to, to make forward progress.

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Any questions from Chris? And let's move on to Pat.

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Great. So nothing to record here from the board Supervisors

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on, on this past Tuesday

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had recreation advisory committee.

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as well as to park to see playground equipment.

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as practice review project.

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Let's move on to the state college party school district.

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the school years off to a good start.

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And thank you to Patton Township as we continue to work

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with them and getting the

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Park Forest Middle School construction up and going.

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You're on to Burrow.

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- Nothing new. Wow. Has anything ever happen happened?

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and report from the parks governance liaison.

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and we reviewed the authority bylaws

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and voted to, to send the bylaws to

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which people talk about today.

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we reviewed again the draft numbering agreement

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for maintenance agreement

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and decided to forward that to the comment

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to the director.

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I wanna say I just saw a, an email today that said

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by October 2nd.

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So we're waiting till October. Get comments.

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Yeah, hit the streets this morning. Okay. For the minutes.

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So, okay. We're looking to have October. Okay.

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I just wanna make sure that I, that I have everything right.

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Okay, so that, and that's it for Authority Reports

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and move onto agency reports.

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So we're gonna start ing Hi.

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- So obviously this isn't our typical setup

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but as you can see we are in budget season

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and this is where we have been for the past two weeks.

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So we've been working through budget.

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I'm gonna speak for Melissa. That's basically our report is

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that we've been knee deep in budget presentations,

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running numbers, and trying to get questions answered

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to anything that came up

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during the finance committee meetings.

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They've had four workshops this morning was the last one.

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They were reviewed our request items,

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which I can share a little bit more once we get in into

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the budget discussions.

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I do have one thing to point your attention to.

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In addition to what Jen was saying at Circle Park

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regarding the school, there's a full road closure

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that remains through.

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and this is on Little Lion Drive, which is the,

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- Valley Vista.

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Valley Vista. And the Lion Drive that side

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of the park will be closed for that period of time.

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you've seen that there's construction

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- But - They are staying in touch with us

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and trying to give us updates.

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that people can stay informed about that.

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I also wanted to share, we had some

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questions on long chemicals

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and we've been addressing questions kind of as they've come,

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but right now we'll take them as they come

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and if anybody has questions, we're gonna be posting

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information regarding chemical inspections

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and our requirements.

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'cause we have certified pesticide applicators on staff.

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We're gonna post that information on the website

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so people are concerned or curious about what we do.

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We will have that information available on

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- Mostly that's all I have.

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Okay. Well me chemical information will be interesting.

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I've seen people asking questions.

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That's one of the reasons our parts are as low the,

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we either be overgrown or we have grasp.

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I make the choice. Okay, thank you.

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Any budgets request,

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let's move on to Melissa.

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- Kristy gave our dual dual report today, so thank you.

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I've been assisting

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- Preparing for the, okay.

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Okay, you're off. Okay.

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How about what's going on? On public bars? Yeah,

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- They are very busy.

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Falls Falls with us. The fall forces all started up.

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We fields all cleaned up

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and we maintained some of those field far.

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We use those to compensate us for that.

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We keep busy with that.

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We have had zero slow down on grass mowing, so

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there's actually brushing us.

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Typically we begin to slow down.

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That hasn't,

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we'll help the two larger trail out there to through those.

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Hopefully by the end of this we

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bit a play on right now.

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They have hopeful

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continue busy, still have a

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manager position that we're still working on

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and we are hired seasonals so.

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- Right. Good. Well thank you for all you do.

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We certainly do appreciate that.

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So any questions for Jim?

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Hearing none, let's move on to more active etal.

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Erika, good afternoon. So we are gearing up for fall.

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We have next Sunday we still have some spots open.

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We're having a fall snack of paint on Sunday, September 27th

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of the active adult center.

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I personally will be teaching a class, it's not been

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to adults and for an accompanying child for the age of 12

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that we're working on fundraising efforts

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for our tacular venue events and help Friday, October 16th.

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So to all ages currently have sponsorships from

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complete floor covering of Lemont, house, family services

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and weapons that all.

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So we've got some great prize in cash the way that thing.

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And then we're just working on gearing up

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for some fun activities for October.

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How already going to seek help. Five months.

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busy, which is trying, which is wonderful.

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Hearing none, let's find out what's happening out at Susan.

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with Clearwater Conservancy is offering some free walks

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checking out March, we'd love to see you.

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her Eagle Scout project, which was a four in compost system

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because the original compost was put,

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in 2019 as part for Global Award.

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the advisory committee.

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I haven't over any questions

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for Susan going on?

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- Pool's closed for the season

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last week on September 7th at the end of the day.

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a Palooza dog swim at Park Forest Pool.

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to see all those dogs running around and swimming.

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pools, fall swimming and diving lessons.

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and we are evaluating our facilities, equipment, staff,

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and programs for 2027

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because the pools will open again in 253 days.

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and I'm, I, I'm sure the, the dogs had a wonderful time.

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I know they do every year, so Yeah. Good.

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Tell us how many days?

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253, 2 Oh, I didn't hear.

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that is because I just wrote it down.

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Otherwise I would've, any questions for Todd?

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Okay. Hearing on, let's move on to Beth

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and see what's going on, on in our recreation class.

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- Thank you. Event-wise, we had our

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so long Summer splash on, in, in at the end of August.

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And so we had 88 participants come out

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and watch Sonic the Hedgehog on our inflatable screen at

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Park Forest Pool, which was a great time

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and a good way to, we wrap up this summer.

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We also had our fall feet 5K

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last Saturday on September 12th at Circleville Park.

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We had 156 racers, which was a great turnout for us.

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The weather was wonderful. I'd love

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to thank all the volunteers from the staff

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and also Gamma Sigma Sigma sorority on campus.

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which was Ki Kissinger Bigot Tell

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and Brower Realtors as our gold sponsor in the corner room.

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And Texas Roadhouse also gave us some prizes

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and some cash towards the event.

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So that definitely helped make it a success.

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And we ended up raising a little over a thousand dollars

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for the Youth Scholarship program.

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So that's always a, a good thing.

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We will have our makeup touch a truck on Saturday,

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the 3rd of October at State College Alliance

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Church from 10 to one.

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And then the Halloween parade, as it's been mentioned,

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will be Sunday, October 25th with a six 30 lineup,

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7:00 PM step off.

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And other than that, we have programs up and running

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and we have some new offerings

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for programming as we go through the fall.

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- Okay, sounds great as usual. Thank you.

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- Thank you. - Any questions for Beth? Okay.

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And last but not least, our sports supervisor.

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Jeff, what's going on?

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- Hi, I apologize. My camera's not working.

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We're picking up speed here for our fall programs.

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We have both the youth and adult football programs running.

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The ultimate Frisbee League is also up

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and running, all taking place at Whitehall Road Fall.

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Wood back league just started at Hess,

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since there's no lights at Hess now, we have

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to play on Sundays there.

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And then both the men's

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and women's volleyball leagues will start next week.

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Two more tournaments, weather permitting at Oak Hall.

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If, if we make it happen,

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it'll be the first weekend in October

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and the last weekend in October.

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Other than that, just, it's been a challenging fall trying

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to find space for everyone.

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- Wow. Okay.

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Sounds like you're busy as usual.

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Any, any, any questions for Jeff?

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Right on, we're we're gonna move on to

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annual report.

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Yes, she's online. Okay.

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Stephanie, are you there? Stephanie?

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- I was muted. Can you hear me now? Yeah.

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- Okay, - Sorry about that. That's okay.

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You think I have a better handle on microphones than now?

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Good afternoon everyone.

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I am Stephanie Yeager, the new Executive Director of CNET.

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Cindy Hahn, our previous director of 20 years has retired.

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So I took the position in June 1st,

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but I have been with the organization for over 20 years,

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actually inching toward a quarter

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century with the organization.

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So if anyone in the room feels a little younger

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because of that, you're welcome to.

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So I, From covering your meetings,

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I have been the primary producer on your meetings for,

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since you joined the joined CNET

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and that torch is sort of being passed to some of our,

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our other employees who have moved on to,

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we have, right now we have five of seven

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employees in new positions.

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So Tiffany Brion

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and Jess Mark Kovich are in new positions,

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but they both have long histories with the organization.

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So we have some seasoned people still with us,

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including myself and beyond that.

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So you are in good hands.

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So I will share my PowerPoint presentation

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to wait for permission

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- Here.

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- Are you seeing that request on this end or on your end?

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Scott, let, let me make you a thank.

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Thank you. Sorry, I saw the green button,

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so I thought I was all approved.

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Okay. Okay.

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No, I added her as a co-host, Susan. Just a latter.

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Oh, okay. Stephanie, do you, Stephanie?

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Okay, so lemme, there we go. There. Okay.

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It took a second before, can everyone see this? Yeah. Yep.

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Okay. All right. So now

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it is not moving forward.

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Oh, there we go. Okay. Oops. Now it's too far forward.

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Okay.

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This is your annual report.

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So all the data in this will pretty much reflect

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2025 information.

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I do apologize for being so late in the year

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that you're receiving this, but as I explained

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with our transitions here,

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it got pushed a little bit back toward fall.

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So highlights for Parks

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and Rec, well overall in CNET for 2025

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is we produced 496 programs

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by our small but mighty staff.

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And in addition to the small staff that I mentioned earlier,

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we do have a host of interns who turn over every semester.

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They're, right now we have five, five for the semester

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and we,

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they're from the Penn State College of Communications

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and we train them and they get a lot

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of hands-on experience with us.

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Lowe's, captioning continues with CNET, where we have 15

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of our 17 members now opting in, including Parks and Rec.

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I'm not sure what authorities requirements are for a DA,

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but I know municipalities,

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the requirements recently increased in recent years.

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And so we are certainly hitting some boxes

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for those organizations with our captioning services.

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I do commend parks rec for participating in that

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because even if you're e, even if you're

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not completely deaf, if you have any kind

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of difficulty hearing, it helps.

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And those of us, like myself included,

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I've got some hearing damage.

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It helps to understand what's going on.

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And most people who are hard

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of hearing do not actually know American Sign language,

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much more can read the captioning.

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So as I said, that makes it more accessible for many people,

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even if they aren't particularly,

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or especially hard of hearing.

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One thing that started around in 2025

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was Comcast upgrade

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to the way CNET goes live on TV from remote locations.

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And by remote I mean outside of our studio.

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It includes the COG general forum room where some

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of you are meeting at present.

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And with that upgrade has come

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snowballed a replacement of our broadcast server, which

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really you won't see a lot of impact from that on your end,

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but we are hoping that on our end it'll make things a little

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more streamlined, a little more efficient,

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give us some more options for possibly going

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live from more places.

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And we do hope that maybe it will reveal itself

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to have some more services we can offer in the future.

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That project is about to wrap up.

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The server is being installed the last week of September.

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As for parks and rec programming.

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In 2025, you produced 12.3 programs.

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11 of those were meetings

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and you did 13 bulletin board messages with us,

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which are usually your agendas

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and bulletin board messages are valued

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at a 10th of a program.

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So that's where you get the 11 plus 1.3 is the total

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of 12.3 programs that you see at the top of the slide.

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And that totals, that makes up about 2.3% of all programming

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by CNET members in 2025.

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So this graph shows your usage over the last five years

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with that 12.3 programs in 2025,

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which was up a little bit from the previous year,

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but down, you know, you're, you're on, you have a lot

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of variation to your, your usage in the last few years,

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but typically you're covering meetings

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and I can tell you in 2026 you are producing some new PSAs.

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We're working with Kristy and Melissa on those.

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Tiffany Brian, our operations manager

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has taken the lead on that.

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So she's been running around much

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of the year getting different events at the,

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at the pools, at the parks.

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So you'll see some forthcoming footage

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and advertisements for parks and rec coming up.

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The reason that those five years

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that I just showed you is important is

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because it, our funding formula uses a five year rolling

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average in calculating our member dues.

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This prevents any one year

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of an anomaly in your usage from

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really impacting your budget.

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It makes it a little more predictable for you to know what

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to expect to pay for CNET from year to year.

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And so your usage of six 2.62%

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of all programming in those years will

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determine your percentage of, of what you're, you're owing

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for the next upcoming budget for 2026.

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And our budget is approved in October.

523
00:29:44,033 --> 00:29:46,333
So we will have those final numbers to Kristy

524
00:29:46,333 --> 00:29:50,033
and the gang shortly here in the coming coming weeks.

525
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:54,634
This gives a reference to of of

526
00:29:54,634 --> 00:29:56,634
where your usage is among all our members.

527
00:29:57,500 --> 00:30:01,266
Parks and Rec is right here at six 2.62%.

528
00:30:01,367 --> 00:30:04,133
So you're sort of one of our, our smaller members.

529
00:30:04,066 --> 00:30:07,166
But that falls in with having one meeting a month typically.

530
00:30:07,300 --> 00:30:09,100
And then some bulletin board messages.

531
00:30:09,266 --> 00:30:10,700
Our mega user is the Borough.

532
00:30:11,133 --> 00:30:13,266
They have a lot of meetings covered in a lot

533
00:30:13,266 --> 00:30:15,934
of different departments and that's followed closely

534
00:30:16,567 --> 00:30:19,233
in the second place by the county government,

535
00:30:19,266 --> 00:30:20,700
which has weekly meetings

536
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:23,000
and sponsors a lot of community events.

537
00:30:26,100 --> 00:30:29,066
You can watch us online on demand at our website,

538
00:30:29,100 --> 00:30:31,867
CNET one.org anytime of day or night.

539
00:30:32,266 --> 00:30:34,834
Our programs are typically posted well within

540
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:36,266
48 hours of recording.

541
00:30:37,166 --> 00:30:41,266
There are clickable agenda points so you can easily maneuver

542
00:30:41,266 --> 00:30:43,533
through a meeting to find what interests you

543
00:30:43,667 --> 00:30:47,467
or what you need to, you know, revisit a discussion

544
00:30:47,467 --> 00:30:48,634
or something that's important to you.

545
00:30:49,033 --> 00:30:51,000
As I mentioned before, they're captioned

546
00:30:51,100 --> 00:30:54,033
and we typically keep about 20, 24 months

547
00:30:54,033 --> 00:30:56,467
of programs on our online platform.

548
00:30:56,667 --> 00:30:59,266
So you can go back quite some time beyond that,

549
00:30:59,333 --> 00:31:03,066
we do have archives that are accessible by request.

550
00:31:05,834 --> 00:31:09,367
Your meetings are typically broadcast the week

551
00:31:09,367 --> 00:31:11,467
after your meeting at the times you see here.

552
00:31:12,166 --> 00:31:14,000
Those are on Comcast channel seven.

553
00:31:14,867 --> 00:31:17,433
So those are available only to Comcast subscribers,

554
00:31:17,667 --> 00:31:21,467
but anyone anywhere can see the programming online.

555
00:31:22,700 --> 00:31:24,467
So this meeting will start airing next,

556
00:31:24,767 --> 00:31:28,500
next Wednesday at 9:00 AM.

557
00:31:30,533 --> 00:31:33,634
In addition to our website, we have over the top access

558
00:31:34,233 --> 00:31:38,033
with Fire tv, Roku, and Apple tv.

559
00:31:39,033 --> 00:31:40,467
And they can be a little hard

560
00:31:40,500 --> 00:31:43,100
to find our programs like they're buried sort of,

561
00:31:43,634 --> 00:31:45,066
because we're not commercial station,

562
00:31:45,667 --> 00:31:48,467
but we have tutorial tutorials available for you

563
00:31:48,500 --> 00:31:50,066
to watch on our website

564
00:31:50,333 --> 00:31:52,867
to help you find our programming on those, on those sets

565
00:31:54,467 --> 00:31:58,867
over the top platforms.

566
00:32:01,700 --> 00:32:04,500
Your viewer engagement for your online views,

567
00:32:05,567 --> 00:32:08,567
for your meetings in this time period through, through

568
00:32:09,233 --> 00:32:12,700
mid year of this year for programs that took place of all

569
00:32:12,700 --> 00:32:16,500
of 2025 and through, through the first half of this year,

570
00:32:16,934 --> 00:32:20,066
we had a total viewing of 945 views,

571
00:32:20,266 --> 00:32:24,266
which is an average online view per meeting of 55,

572
00:32:24,333 --> 00:32:26,033
which is, is pretty good.

573
00:32:26,133 --> 00:32:29,567
And it's pretty typical for what we're seeing

574
00:32:30,066 --> 00:32:31,867
in my presentations among other members.

575
00:32:32,033 --> 00:32:35,000
I'm finding that number is pretty steady, pretty calming.

576
00:32:37,033 --> 00:32:38,834
So that, you know, I'm sure you're using,

577
00:32:39,333 --> 00:32:41,333
you're reaching people in the, in the community,

578
00:32:41,433 --> 00:32:45,133
but also staff often sometimes uses

579
00:32:45,934 --> 00:32:49,934
the meetings to review, you know, discussions

580
00:32:49,934 --> 00:32:51,934
and make sure they're getting information correct.

581
00:32:54,367 --> 00:32:56,500
That pretty much concludes my presentation

582
00:32:56,867 --> 00:32:58,734
and here's my contact information

583
00:33:00,066 --> 00:33:02,133
and I would be happy to answer any questions if

584
00:33:02,300 --> 00:33:03,567
you have or take any context.

585
00:33:04,266 --> 00:33:05,266
Thank you.

586
00:33:08,767 --> 00:33:11,934
- Excuse me. Thank you Stephanie. We, we appreciate that.

587
00:33:12,300 --> 00:33:15,000
Anybody have any questions? It

588
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:18,533
- Said we, there was a copy of that in our

589
00:33:19,567 --> 00:33:21,500
agenda, which I didn't get a copy of.

590
00:33:23,734 --> 00:33:28,100
Were they out or not the written copy.

591
00:33:29,867 --> 00:33:31,734
- I thought I saw it in the agenda,

592
00:33:31,934 --> 00:33:33,300
but I may be thinking of a different,

593
00:33:34,066 --> 00:33:36,634
I could send it directly to you if you'd like. Tom,

594
00:33:37,033 --> 00:33:38,867
- The presentations in the packet,

595
00:33:41,166 --> 00:33:42,500
the slides were not printed,

596
00:33:43,734 --> 00:33:46,533
but it's in the online packet.

597
00:33:47,266 --> 00:33:51,467
- Oh, so there aren't, it isn't in the agenda. Like, okay.

598
00:33:53,166 --> 00:33:55,233
- No, I I think you're used to getting, we used

599
00:33:55,233 --> 00:33:56,467
to get like a, yeah,

600
00:33:56,467 --> 00:34:00,066
- We used to get a copy of the, you know, each

601
00:34:00,066 --> 00:34:02,100
of the pages and

602
00:34:04,333 --> 00:34:06,100
- Everything is electronic now.

603
00:34:06,333 --> 00:34:10,000
Saves, saves people unreadable. Yeah.

604
00:34:10,500 --> 00:34:15,367
There is that book. But, but yeah, I, I, I remember getting,

605
00:34:15,900 --> 00:34:17,467
- Oh yeah, we got for many years

606
00:34:17,667 --> 00:34:19,266
and that's why I wondered Sure.

607
00:34:19,634 --> 00:34:22,233
Since it said it was included in the agenda,

608
00:34:24,300 --> 00:34:26,133
- It's in the, this was

609
00:34:29,300 --> 00:34:32,066
any other questions or comments for Stephanie?

610
00:34:35,133 --> 00:34:37,266
Okay. Hearing none again, thank you so much

611
00:34:37,433 --> 00:34:38,867
and thank you for what you do

612
00:34:38,867 --> 00:34:43,667
and making, making this available to folks

613
00:34:43,667 --> 00:34:45,300
that can't show up in person

614
00:34:45,634 --> 00:34:48,433
and wanna keep track of what's going on

615
00:34:48,433 --> 00:34:50,133
and find out what we're doing, all the,

616
00:34:50,533 --> 00:34:54,500
all the terrific things that we're doing. Thanks again.

617
00:34:55,133 --> 00:34:59,700
- Thank you very much. - Okay, we're gonna move on

618
00:34:59,700 --> 00:35:04,133
to item number nine, which is review of the proposed revised

619
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:06,266
authority bylaws.

620
00:35:07,133 --> 00:35:10,734
So want me

621
00:35:10,734 --> 00:35:12,533
to speak on paper, right?

622
00:35:12,734 --> 00:35:15,533
Do you wanna kick kick it off and then I'll take it on

623
00:35:15,533 --> 00:35:17,867
and well show you the edits.

624
00:35:18,033 --> 00:35:21,367
Yeah, the only thing that I really have to say, obviously I,

625
00:35:21,433 --> 00:35:25,100
this is something that has needed to, to be done

626
00:35:25,734 --> 00:35:29,033
last time we updated bylaws in 2014.

627
00:35:29,266 --> 00:35:31,700
I I think I was on that committee.

628
00:35:32,066 --> 00:35:34,266
Yeah, long time.

629
00:35:35,100 --> 00:35:37,533
But, so yeah, there were a number, number of items

630
00:35:37,667 --> 00:35:39,033
that needed to be covered

631
00:35:39,233 --> 00:35:44,133
and the Go governance committee has been

632
00:35:44,133 --> 00:35:46,367
working on this for several years.

633
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:50,100
Not, not on this, been working on governance

634
00:35:50,100 --> 00:35:53,233
for several years, but not one of the items that,

635
00:35:55,667 --> 00:35:59,100
for the governance committee to take a look at bylaws

636
00:35:59,033 --> 00:36:03,033
and suggest to us changes,

637
00:36:04,266 --> 00:36:06,900
conditions, improvements, et cetera.

638
00:36:07,033 --> 00:36:09,700
So that's kind of what we're looking at here

639
00:36:10,100 --> 00:36:14,133
and we need to, as a group, discuss

640
00:36:15,100 --> 00:36:17,433
any concerns or questions, anything like that.

641
00:36:18,734 --> 00:36:21,300
- Thank you. I'll, I'll try to walk you through the process

642
00:36:21,634 --> 00:36:25,667
and walk you through some of the, the edits to the 2014

643
00:36:26,500 --> 00:36:28,533
copy, which I see Tom's reading through right now.

644
00:36:28,533 --> 00:36:30,300
That's the 2014 version.

645
00:36:32,667 --> 00:36:35,000
This is kind of funny 'cause this is actually an area

646
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:37,066
of parks and rec that I really enjoy.

647
00:36:37,433 --> 00:36:40,467
I'm kind of nerdy when it comes to bylaws and ordinances.

648
00:36:40,700 --> 00:36:43,567
I like this stuff 'cause I feel like it makes us function

649
00:36:43,567 --> 00:36:45,467
and operate much clearer.

650
00:36:46,934 --> 00:36:50,867
So with that, I walk you through some of the changes, some

651
00:36:50,867 --> 00:36:51,934
of the key highlights

652
00:36:52,133 --> 00:36:53,266
and then we're actually gonna go

653
00:36:53,266 --> 00:36:55,533
through the document if we could.

654
00:36:55,834 --> 00:37:00,734
So it's helpful to you. Happy to make edits live as we go.

655
00:37:01,266 --> 00:37:02,834
We did go through a version

656
00:37:02,834 --> 00:37:04,867
of this at the governance committee level.

657
00:37:05,066 --> 00:37:07,033
So it's been vetted through the Parks governance committee

658
00:37:07,767 --> 00:37:09,700
based on the intergovernmental agreement

659
00:37:09,734 --> 00:37:11,467
that came out of that committee as well.

660
00:37:11,834 --> 00:37:15,333
So we've tried to mirror up that document,

661
00:37:15,333 --> 00:37:17,467
which is a really important guiding document

662
00:37:17,467 --> 00:37:20,934
that clarified the relationships between the municipalities

663
00:37:21,066 --> 00:37:24,033
and the authority and updated

664
00:37:24,767 --> 00:37:28,367
the 20 20 14 bylaws to include a little bit more content

665
00:37:28,734 --> 00:37:32,000
behind how we operate and function and communicate back

666
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:35,734
and forth between called CRPR and the authority.

667
00:37:36,767 --> 00:37:38,033
So some

668
00:37:38,033 --> 00:37:40,867
of the key topics are the roles and responsibilities.

669
00:37:41,100 --> 00:37:44,266
So we more explicitly separated authority, policy

670
00:37:44,634 --> 00:37:48,500
and oversight from agency day-to-day operations

671
00:37:48,667 --> 00:37:49,900
and COG administration.

672
00:37:50,667 --> 00:37:53,767
Since the majority of all that, all of that is handled

673
00:37:53,900 --> 00:37:54,934
by CRPR,

674
00:37:55,767 --> 00:37:59,500
we added explicit provisions addressing borrowing financial

675
00:37:59,500 --> 00:38:02,467
obligations, COG financial controls

676
00:38:02,533 --> 00:38:05,133
and limits on independent spending authority.

677
00:38:06,166 --> 00:38:07,767
I know that's something that's been kind

678
00:38:07,767 --> 00:38:10,300
of a key topic on financial oversight

679
00:38:10,867 --> 00:38:13,934
and reviewing of budgets and setting fees

680
00:38:14,033 --> 00:38:18,133
and things uses such as recommended fees, policy

681
00:38:18,533 --> 00:38:19,533
facility use procedures.

682
00:38:20,066 --> 00:38:22,000
This is also some substantive,

683
00:38:22,266 --> 00:38:24,266
substantive wording differences

684
00:38:24,266 --> 00:38:27,533
that needed reconciled within the governing document.

685
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:32,734
We are allowing remote members to count toward quorum

686
00:38:32,734 --> 00:38:35,667
and votes consistent with applicable law.

687
00:38:36,300 --> 00:38:38,300
Previously, the language in the 2014

688
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:41,100
excluded those remotely being able to vote.

689
00:38:42,100 --> 00:38:46,000
I think that was through the COVID post COVID pre COVID,

690
00:38:46,133 --> 00:38:49,000
I'm not sure where it may have fallen into that

691
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:52,900
minor tweaking, allowing the chair

692
00:38:52,934 --> 00:38:55,133
to notify the appointing municipality

693
00:38:55,300 --> 00:38:58,266
and request clarification about representation

694
00:38:58,567 --> 00:39:02,734
after three consecutive or five annual meeting absences.

695
00:39:02,934 --> 00:39:05,934
So if someone, 'em were absent three times in a row

696
00:39:06,033 --> 00:39:08,033
or five times over the course of the year,

697
00:39:08,266 --> 00:39:10,100
the authority chair could decide whether

698
00:39:10,100 --> 00:39:13,367
or not that appointing member would continue or not.

699
00:39:14,266 --> 00:39:16,333
But that would be communication with municipality

700
00:39:17,500 --> 00:39:20,133
requiring the authority, approval of committee scope,

701
00:39:20,533 --> 00:39:21,834
operating guidelines

702
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:23,834
and member appointments, including

703
00:39:24,333 --> 00:39:27,100
subsequent changes we brought in.

704
00:39:27,333 --> 00:39:30,734
And that's just based on committees brought in coordination

705
00:39:30,834 --> 00:39:34,500
to whichever call committees have relevant financial

706
00:39:34,500 --> 00:39:38,266
or planning responsibilities while expressly preserving the

707
00:39:38,266 --> 00:39:40,000
authorities governing powers.

708
00:39:41,133 --> 00:39:44,700
We also added explicit monthly financial reviews,

709
00:39:44,700 --> 00:39:48,333
which are already doing and approval of annual reports,

710
00:39:48,700 --> 00:39:52,533
onboarding and mentoring provisions of members

711
00:39:52,900 --> 00:39:54,867
of this authority.

712
00:39:56,133 --> 00:39:57,634
We specified a majority

713
00:39:57,734 --> 00:40:00,634
of members present within at least 24 hours, written

714
00:40:00,867 --> 00:40:04,033
and public notice and permits non

715
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:07,100
material appendix updates by resolution.

716
00:40:08,500 --> 00:40:11,266
So now I'd like to kind of just walk you

717
00:40:11,266 --> 00:40:13,066
through a little bit, bit of the history.

718
00:40:13,433 --> 00:40:15,433
I think it's important that we start with the history first

719
00:40:15,467 --> 00:40:16,834
so you kind of understand,

720
00:40:17,500 --> 00:40:20,100
'cause I know we have some new members on the authority

721
00:40:20,133 --> 00:40:21,567
and it would be helpful to kind of look at that.

722
00:40:22,033 --> 00:40:24,066
So Susan, do you mind scrolling down

723
00:40:24,300 --> 00:40:26,133
to the first section there?

724
00:40:27,066 --> 00:40:28,934
There, and we actually,

725
00:40:29,367 --> 00:40:31,834
Melissa's making live edits on her

726
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:33,033
computer, so you can't see them.

727
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:37,634
But the last sentence in this section is not in

728
00:40:37,634 --> 00:40:38,700
chronological order.

729
00:40:38,867 --> 00:40:40,500
It got bumped as I was making edits

730
00:40:41,066 --> 00:40:44,567
and should be the first sentence of that paragraph.

731
00:40:45,433 --> 00:40:49,867
So essentially we look back to 1965 when

732
00:40:50,734 --> 00:40:53,734
this started as a recreation board through the Borough.

733
00:40:54,834 --> 00:40:57,567
The regional program expanded in 1966

734
00:40:58,233 --> 00:41:02,100
and called Assumed Responsibilities for Financing in 1968.

735
00:41:03,333 --> 00:41:07,266
Separately in 1970, COG Ferguson Harris Patent

736
00:41:07,467 --> 00:41:09,133
and Hamoon at the time

737
00:41:09,233 --> 00:41:13,100
and the Borough jointly incorporated the authority under the

738
00:41:13,166 --> 00:41:15,300
Pennsylvania Municipal Authorities Act.

739
00:41:16,100 --> 00:41:19,066
The authority provided a mechanism for financing

740
00:41:19,066 --> 00:41:21,266
and undertaking parks and rec projects.

741
00:41:22,634 --> 00:41:25,266
The Parks and Rec, I'll start with the last sentence, sorry.

742
00:41:25,266 --> 00:41:29,367
The Municipal Authority was created in 1970, continued

743
00:41:29,367 --> 00:41:31,734
as a legal entity under the new name Centre

744
00:41:31,734 --> 00:41:33,033
Region Parks and Rec Authority.

745
00:41:33,100 --> 00:41:36,567
So it went from a board to an authority

746
00:41:37,133 --> 00:41:40,066
and then the basically two things became one.

747
00:41:40,667 --> 00:41:44,100
And so the authority became kind of the final place

748
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:48,367
to review and decide on regional projects

749
00:41:48,700 --> 00:41:51,567
and efforts on a greater scale.

750
00:41:53,066 --> 00:41:55,667
In 1974, the articles of agreement

751
00:41:55,867 --> 00:41:59,567
and called drafted the Resolution and the board

752
00:41:59,934 --> 00:42:02,333
provided professional guidance, coordinated Parks

753
00:42:02,333 --> 00:42:05,133
and Recreation matters and managed facilities.

754
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:07,367
And then in 2014,

755
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:10,433
the governance structure was officially combined.

756
00:42:12,100 --> 00:42:14,700
And Kathy, I know you know some of the history on this,

757
00:42:14,934 --> 00:42:17,166
I know you're seeing this for the first time

758
00:42:17,166 --> 00:42:19,467
because Kathy had asked that we try to put more

759
00:42:19,467 --> 00:42:22,100
of the chronological history in order here so

760
00:42:22,100 --> 00:42:24,700
that we have it in a document that lives there.

761
00:42:25,500 --> 00:42:28,634
So if we want to, if you wanna take a little bit more time

762
00:42:29,066 --> 00:42:32,333
to kind of dive through that, those are the records

763
00:42:32,500 --> 00:42:36,867
that we were able to locate within our s our system.

764
00:42:38,100 --> 00:42:40,333
So I'll turn it back to you if you wanna make comments on,

765
00:42:40,834 --> 00:42:41,834
on the history section.

766
00:42:42,567 --> 00:42:44,100
- No, I mean I, I think I,

767
00:42:44,066 --> 00:42:47,634
I think the history section just right.

768
00:42:47,867 --> 00:42:50,867
I mean I, I was here in the days when we had the

769
00:42:50,867 --> 00:42:52,000
board and the authority.

770
00:42:53,033 --> 00:42:55,867
One met one week and the other met the next week.

771
00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:59,767
And the attend is, I'm saying yeah, it was kind of crazy.

772
00:43:00,066 --> 00:43:03,266
But yeah, so yeah, combining everything seemed

773
00:43:03,266 --> 00:43:05,300
to make sense at the time.

774
00:43:06,033 --> 00:43:09,100
Might only comment was, and,

775
00:43:09,233 --> 00:43:12,233
and this is understanding about contracts first.

776
00:43:12,467 --> 00:43:16,000
So I did this for a long time, you know, their writing

777
00:43:16,133 --> 00:43:17,767
and contracts,

778
00:43:18,500 --> 00:43:22,033
we talked about 1970 College first in first that

779
00:43:22,133 --> 00:43:23,834
and Capital and Borough.

780
00:43:25,133 --> 00:43:27,667
That's the only time Catherine has ever mentioned.

781
00:43:27,834 --> 00:43:30,166
I don't know whether anyone would say,

782
00:43:30,367 --> 00:43:34,033
why aren't they sating now, I don't know whether we want

783
00:43:34,033 --> 00:43:37,100
to clarify that or if it's even necessary that

784
00:43:37,100 --> 00:43:40,500
- It's, we have a date that they, they were no longer apart,

785
00:43:41,634 --> 00:43:42,867
but wasn't sure whether

786
00:43:42,934 --> 00:43:46,367
or not we wanted to call that out in here or not.

787
00:43:46,433 --> 00:43:48,300
But we certainly could add that back in.

788
00:43:49,033 --> 00:43:51,367
I will say a lot of these

789
00:43:52,767 --> 00:43:56,133
key dates mentioned articles, agreement, et cetera,

790
00:43:56,467 --> 00:43:58,133
are also listed in the appendix.

791
00:43:58,734 --> 00:44:02,100
So you can kind of reference the documents that

792
00:44:03,133 --> 00:44:05,300
helped develop the history here in this

793
00:44:05,300 --> 00:44:06,767
section, which should be helpful.

794
00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:10,734
But we can certainly add a note in there of

795
00:44:11,433 --> 00:44:15,100
Hing Township was no longer participating as of such date.

796
00:44:15,634 --> 00:44:18,900
- Yeah, I I'm not sure they ever signed signed the warrant.

797
00:44:18,900 --> 00:44:22,033
Right. I mean, I don't, I don't know. I I don't, I don't

798
00:44:22,166 --> 00:44:23,166
- Remember that.

799
00:44:23,166 --> 00:44:24,433
Yeah, they did. They were a part of it originally.

800
00:44:25,100 --> 00:44:27,867
- Initial, yep. I don't know if it's important.

801
00:44:27,900 --> 00:44:30,333
That's just my OCD, so it's okay.

802
00:44:30,934 --> 00:44:33,000
Yeah, if it's not really relevant,

803
00:44:33,767 --> 00:44:36,000
probably no one else will set me with that. That,

804
00:44:36,033 --> 00:44:37,634
- Yeah, I, I mean that's a minor thing.

805
00:44:37,634 --> 00:44:39,000
We can easily, easily add that

806
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:40,000
- In.

807
00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:42,767
Okay. So, so I,

808
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:46,066
I think the history is good just so that you have people

809
00:44:46,066 --> 00:44:48,033
who have sort of understanding

810
00:44:50,100 --> 00:44:51,867
where this started and Yeah.

811
00:44:51,867 --> 00:44:54,266
Yeah, we've been around for a long time

812
00:44:54,433 --> 00:44:57,934
and been a very important part of, of the,

813
00:44:59,066 --> 00:45:00,900
the agency and their authority.

814
00:45:01,767 --> 00:45:06,266
Everyone associates, you know, we're still a big part. Yeah.

815
00:45:09,033 --> 00:45:13,300
- Okay, so moving on to the next SEC section,

816
00:45:13,567 --> 00:45:14,700
purpose and scope.

817
00:45:15,367 --> 00:45:17,266
That is general language.

818
00:45:17,934 --> 00:45:22,100
There's really not a whole lot meet there besides that.

819
00:45:22,100 --> 00:45:24,033
Just reinstates the purpose of the authority.

820
00:45:24,467 --> 00:45:27,266
And some of this was pulled from the old version as well.

821
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:29,634
And then we added in

822
00:45:29,734 --> 00:45:32,567
what we felt was helpful definitions like we did

823
00:45:32,567 --> 00:45:34,100
with the intergovernmental agreement

824
00:45:34,867 --> 00:45:36,300
to make sure that that was clear.

825
00:45:36,700 --> 00:45:37,834
We did clean up some

826
00:45:37,834 --> 00:45:42,000
of the language Kathy had mentioned about the agency

827
00:45:42,266 --> 00:45:46,066
and just some tweaking of some, some typos

828
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:50,000
and just clarification there on CPR as an agency.

829
00:45:51,166 --> 00:45:52,467
That's all been cleaned up.

830
00:45:52,467 --> 00:45:54,767
So these definitions are pretty straightforward.

831
00:45:56,033 --> 00:45:59,033
I don't know if you wanna ta tackle these one by one,

832
00:45:59,033 --> 00:46:01,300
but I can just keep going Kathy, if that's easier. No,

833
00:46:01,734 --> 00:46:03,500
- I think, I mean the definitions are good.

834
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:05,000
Okay.

835
00:46:06,266 --> 00:46:08,133
- And they, yeah, - They look fine to me.

836
00:46:08,133 --> 00:46:13,033
If anybody has me, that's good. Right.

837
00:46:13,100 --> 00:46:17,033
I have something that I just wanna flag not necessarily

838
00:46:18,033 --> 00:46:21,834
edit, just that last bullet point in

839
00:46:22,567 --> 00:46:26,266
some scope, how that compare to, for example,

840
00:46:26,433 --> 00:46:27,934
definitions in.

841
00:46:32,166 --> 00:46:35,634
So that last bullet point is advise the Centre Region

842
00:46:35,634 --> 00:46:37,000
Council of Governments

843
00:46:38,066 --> 00:46:42,033
and support agency operations through the government.

844
00:46:46,066 --> 00:46:48,300
Just the word what there

845
00:46:50,500 --> 00:46:55,100
should be misconstrued just because the, the following,

846
00:46:55,767 --> 00:46:57,500
and I think it's mentioned elsewhere too,

847
00:46:58,533 --> 00:47:02,567
that the authority, the public discussion

848
00:47:03,900 --> 00:47:08,300
on regional recreation issues offers guidance,

849
00:47:09,066 --> 00:47:11,300
policy and recommendations

850
00:47:11,634 --> 00:47:16,500
to the notes.

851
00:47:18,834 --> 00:47:21,000
- We could potentially strike the words sport

852
00:47:21,567 --> 00:47:24,166
that might be creating some confusion there

853
00:47:24,367 --> 00:47:27,300
and just leave it as Advise Centre Region Council

854
00:47:27,333 --> 00:47:30,000
of Government and Agency Operations through

855
00:47:30,433 --> 00:47:32,567
the intergovernmental framework.

856
00:47:35,133 --> 00:47:36,133
Does everybody,

857
00:47:38,266 --> 00:47:39,266
- I think that makes sense.

858
00:47:41,133 --> 00:47:42,867
It's in more of the definitions. Think

859
00:48:02,900 --> 00:48:05,233
- Well, I, I'm, I'm just, I, I'm, I'm just trying

860
00:48:05,634 --> 00:48:09,700
to think if, is there a different word to use

861
00:48:10,767 --> 00:48:13,900
in support or that just taking it out?

862
00:48:14,100 --> 00:48:18,066
Just taking it out? Or do we need something else?

863
00:48:18,667 --> 00:48:20,467
- I think taking it out makes it bias hit both,

864
00:48:21,133 --> 00:48:22,734
which is kind of what we're looking for.

865
00:48:23,133 --> 00:48:23,467
- Okay.

866
00:48:34,133 --> 00:48:37,867
No, I, I guess I understand

867
00:48:39,367 --> 00:48:43,066
and I, I get advise the Centre Region Council of Governments

868
00:48:43,300 --> 00:48:47,133
and, and, and then it says,

869
00:48:47,133 --> 00:48:50,133
and that it takes Florida and agency operations.

870
00:48:50,367 --> 00:48:52,567
So you're not advising agency operations,

871
00:48:53,834 --> 00:48:55,133
you need something else there.

872
00:48:55,433 --> 00:48:57,667
If you don't want support or we need

873
00:48:57,667 --> 00:49:00,166
- To, it would be probably strength support

874
00:49:00,266 --> 00:49:01,300
and strike operations.

875
00:49:01,333 --> 00:49:03,133
So it's advising the, the CO

876
00:49:03,033 --> 00:49:05,634
and the agency through the intergovernmental framework.

877
00:49:05,734 --> 00:49:07,367
I think that's what we're trying to do. Right,

878
00:49:09,333 --> 00:49:10,333
- That makes sense.

879
00:49:11,834 --> 00:49:14,166
- So it's not two different things. Yes.

880
00:49:16,533 --> 00:49:20,300
- Because you don't want that, want it to be unclear

881
00:49:20,333 --> 00:49:23,066
that you're, you know, directing and guiding operations

882
00:49:23,066 --> 00:49:28,000
because the operations are handled by the agency, which is

883
00:49:29,233 --> 00:49:32,266
down a little bit further in the agency

884
00:49:34,100 --> 00:49:36,233
responsibilities as were defined.

885
00:49:36,333 --> 00:49:38,500
We're responsible for the day-to-day delivery.

886
00:49:39,934 --> 00:49:43,033
So the, the authorities really serving in more

887
00:49:43,033 --> 00:49:45,066
that advisory recommendation.

888
00:49:46,100 --> 00:49:47,233
- Yeah, I get - That of that.

889
00:49:47,367 --> 00:49:50,700
But I think it makes sense to remove support and operations

890
00:49:50,700 --> 00:49:52,333
because that way make that great.

891
00:49:53,066 --> 00:49:57,634
- I, I'm just thinking if you remove support operations

892
00:49:59,033 --> 00:50:01,000
region Council of Governments

893
00:50:01,100 --> 00:50:06,033
and agency, it

894
00:50:06,033 --> 00:50:10,033
just makes more sense to not advising

895
00:50:10,500 --> 00:50:11,734
agency operations.

896
00:50:16,867 --> 00:50:20,166
- Melissa's got that. Yeah. Okay.

897
00:50:20,300 --> 00:50:24,166
Onto the next section, we'll go down to article three,

898
00:50:25,300 --> 00:50:28,467
authorization and organiza organizational structure.

899
00:50:29,834 --> 00:50:30,867
Again, this goes back

900
00:50:30,867 --> 00:50:32,900
to the appointments just further clarifying

901
00:50:32,934 --> 00:50:36,333
how the appointments work, the terms in five years,

902
00:50:37,133 --> 00:50:38,767
which is the current setup now.

903
00:50:38,767 --> 00:50:39,834
So no change to that.

904
00:50:41,533 --> 00:50:44,433
An individual should be, shall be considered a voting member

905
00:50:44,433 --> 00:50:46,867
of the authority only upon formal appointment

906
00:50:46,900 --> 00:50:49,066
by the applicable governing body.

907
00:50:49,033 --> 00:50:51,533
So there does have to be that communication

908
00:50:51,533 --> 00:50:55,133
between the authority and municipality about who's being

909
00:50:55,133 --> 00:50:59,100
appointed to the authority so that there could be some sort

910
00:50:59,100 --> 00:51:00,433
of orientation in place.

911
00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:04,166
And then under attendance

912
00:51:04,533 --> 00:51:07,066
and remote participation, like I said in the beginning,

913
00:51:08,500 --> 00:51:11,033
allowing voting for someone online.

914
00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:15,700
And this is where it talks a little bit more about whether

915
00:51:15,734 --> 00:51:18,100
or not an authority member is not attending

916
00:51:18,667 --> 00:51:20,834
a particular number of meetings for whatever reason

917
00:51:22,033 --> 00:51:26,066
and neglect of duty, I guess for better words

918
00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:29,000
and how to handle that should that happen.

919
00:51:29,567 --> 00:51:31,667
- Can I ask a quick question? I thought you mentioned

920
00:51:31,667 --> 00:51:36,467
that the alternates were granted, I mishear that earlier.

921
00:51:36,867 --> 00:51:41,500
- So that was just, if there online, they can vote. Okay.

922
00:51:41,767 --> 00:51:44,000
- The appointed members - On, yeah. Okay. Yeah,

923
00:51:44,333 --> 00:51:45,333
- Thank you.

924
00:51:47,867 --> 00:51:49,000
- The resignation

925
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:50,734
and vacancies of authority members,

926
00:51:51,066 --> 00:51:53,000
that section is very straightforward.

927
00:51:54,066 --> 00:51:56,634
They may resign at any time providing written notice.

928
00:51:57,634 --> 00:51:59,467
I think that's something that's helpful for staff

929
00:52:00,367 --> 00:52:04,100
and authority members just to officially be able to pass

930
00:52:04,100 --> 00:52:07,634
that information through from the agency to the municipality

931
00:52:08,266 --> 00:52:10,133
so that when a VAC agency becomes available,

932
00:52:10,367 --> 00:52:12,066
we both are helping to recruit

933
00:52:12,066 --> 00:52:14,533
and fill those positions timely.

934
00:52:15,333 --> 00:52:17,033
And then in the event of a resignation

935
00:52:17,033 --> 00:52:19,533
or removal, the appointing municipality

936
00:52:19,634 --> 00:52:22,634
or entity, entity entity shall be responsible

937
00:52:22,634 --> 00:52:25,133
for appointing the replacement to serve the remainder

938
00:52:25,133 --> 00:52:27,033
of the expired term.

939
00:52:27,700 --> 00:52:30,634
So that allows the municipality to decide who is appointed

940
00:52:30,867 --> 00:52:32,500
to the authority

941
00:52:33,133 --> 00:52:35,934
and then vacancy shall not affect the author's ability

942
00:52:35,934 --> 00:52:37,000
to conduct business.

943
00:52:37,133 --> 00:52:39,734
And vacant positions shall not be counted

944
00:52:39,834 --> 00:52:41,634
toward quo requirements.

945
00:52:42,033 --> 00:52:45,000
I think that's helpful. That way if you have a long vacancy

946
00:52:45,700 --> 00:52:48,734
and your forum needs to reduce, that helps you be able

947
00:52:48,734 --> 00:52:50,467
to continue to conduct business

948
00:52:50,867 --> 00:52:54,867
with the agency office and records.

949
00:52:55,433 --> 00:52:58,634
That's just kind of noting the Council

950
00:52:58,767 --> 00:53:00,133
of Governments address

951
00:53:00,266 --> 00:53:02,867
and official records, how they're maintained

952
00:53:03,734 --> 00:53:06,266
for auditing purpose and whatnot.

953
00:53:07,233 --> 00:53:10,066
Under Article four, this is the meeting section.

954
00:53:10,634 --> 00:53:12,100
This talks a little bit about the regular

955
00:53:12,166 --> 00:53:14,233
and the special meetings should they need to occur.

956
00:53:16,433 --> 00:53:19,333
I'll just kind of highlight Special meetings may be called

957
00:53:19,367 --> 00:53:22,834
by the chair, the Executive Director, director

958
00:53:22,934 --> 00:53:26,066
or by written request of two or more authority members.

959
00:53:26,834 --> 00:53:29,934
Notice of special, special meetings shall be

960
00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:31,066
provided to authority members

961
00:53:31,233 --> 00:53:35,567
and the public in accordance with the PA Sunshine Act.

962
00:53:36,934 --> 00:53:39,767
And then emergency meetings can be called in accordance

963
00:53:39,767 --> 00:53:41,634
with the Sunshine Act as well.

964
00:53:42,333 --> 00:53:45,634
That way as things change within law

965
00:53:45,700 --> 00:53:48,000
or the act, we're always abiding by that.

966
00:53:48,734 --> 00:53:51,166
That's something that you don't constantly have to update.

967
00:53:53,033 --> 00:53:54,066
Quorum and rules of order,

968
00:53:54,166 --> 00:53:55,934
that's the same thing we were talking

969
00:53:55,934 --> 00:53:57,000
about a little bit earlier.

970
00:53:57,867 --> 00:54:00,133
Meetings are conducted in accordance

971
00:54:00,133 --> 00:54:01,266
with Robert's Rules of Order.

972
00:54:02,533 --> 00:54:05,900
Authorities don't necessarily have to follow that.

973
00:54:05,900 --> 00:54:08,100
However, through the call structure we have,

974
00:54:09,000 --> 00:54:11,000
which has helped staff tremendously

975
00:54:11,500 --> 00:54:14,867
and being able to understand how those rules work,

976
00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:17,100
how voting works, et cetera.

977
00:54:18,266 --> 00:54:20,667
And then authority members participating remotely,

978
00:54:21,033 --> 00:54:24,133
again in accordance with law shall be considered present

979
00:54:24,467 --> 00:54:27,266
for the purpose of a forum and for voting.

980
00:54:27,867 --> 00:54:30,900
So that was the section I had highlighted there,

981
00:54:32,734 --> 00:54:36,467
election and officers under Article five.

982
00:54:37,133 --> 00:54:39,867
That's annually, as everybody knows, that's in January.

983
00:54:41,333 --> 00:54:42,867
The chair presides over the meeting.

984
00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:45,066
So that gives us some just guidance on

985
00:54:45,100 --> 00:54:47,734
how we conduct those elections.

986
00:54:48,367 --> 00:54:53,333
Article six is Committees authority may establish establish

987
00:54:53,867 --> 00:54:55,333
advisory committees by resolution.

988
00:54:56,000 --> 00:54:58,333
The Millbrook Advisory Committee, as an example

989
00:54:58,634 --> 00:54:59,900
of an advisory group

990
00:54:59,900 --> 00:55:02,266
that was put together under the authority,

991
00:55:03,567 --> 00:55:06,433
they can carry this out through oversight, again

992
00:55:06,433 --> 00:55:08,634
through the PA Municipal Authorities Act

993
00:55:09,867 --> 00:55:11,233
and approve the committee's purpose,

994
00:55:11,367 --> 00:55:13,000
scope, duration, et cetera.

995
00:55:13,834 --> 00:55:16,667
So that is something that if something comes up in the

996
00:55:16,667 --> 00:55:20,033
future, that can be a consideration for the authority

997
00:55:20,133 --> 00:55:24,734
to continue to do non authority representative subject

998
00:55:25,033 --> 00:55:27,734
matter experts and committee members may be appointed

999
00:55:27,767 --> 00:55:31,867
to committees as advisory participants subject to approval

1000
00:55:32,000 --> 00:55:33,867
by the authority, which is the current process.

1001
00:55:36,166 --> 00:55:39,133
Article seven, duties and Responsibilities.

1002
00:55:40,100 --> 00:55:43,100
This was looking at the historical framework,

1003
00:55:43,700 --> 00:55:46,066
talking a little bit about the intergovernmental agreement,

1004
00:55:47,066 --> 00:55:49,233
strategic goals within COG

1005
00:55:49,867 --> 00:55:52,567
and functioning in the advisory capacity

1006
00:55:53,467 --> 00:55:55,066
oversight responsibilities.

1007
00:55:55,433 --> 00:55:58,867
Again, these were kind of listed out on separate documents

1008
00:55:59,867 --> 00:56:03,500
as at the end of an old, I think the old bylaws,

1009
00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:05,367
and I saw it in some other language.

1010
00:56:05,467 --> 00:56:09,100
So this just gets it in here a little bit more clear on

1011
00:56:09,100 --> 00:56:10,667
what the authorities' responsibilities

1012
00:56:10,767 --> 00:56:12,000
as far as oversight are.

1013
00:56:12,033 --> 00:56:13,266
And again, a lot

1014
00:56:13,266 --> 00:56:16,000
of language here came from the intergovernmental agreement

1015
00:56:16,934 --> 00:56:19,133
I think is helpful to have here in the bylaws.

1016
00:56:20,567 --> 00:56:22,533
And then at the last bullet there,

1017
00:56:22,900 --> 00:56:24,734
oversee the authorities charitable giving

1018
00:56:24,834 --> 00:56:27,000
and fundraising activities, including

1019
00:56:27,467 --> 00:56:30,300
maintaining the 5 0 1 C3 tax exempt status.

1020
00:56:31,033 --> 00:56:35,000
That's currently something that is done by K and myself.

1021
00:56:35,934 --> 00:56:39,033
We ensure that that status is always maintained.

1022
00:56:39,033 --> 00:56:42,000
We get the paperwork for it, we help to administer that so

1023
00:56:42,000 --> 00:56:44,000
that we continue to have the charitable

1024
00:56:45,033 --> 00:56:47,000
giving abilities.

1025
00:56:48,467 --> 00:56:51,867
And then coordination with the agency, again, is more

1026
00:56:52,667 --> 00:56:54,834
that back and forth between the day to day

1027
00:56:56,367 --> 00:57:00,700
correspondence on programming, maintenance needs,

1028
00:57:01,066 --> 00:57:02,333
facility improvements, et cetera.

1029
00:57:02,734 --> 00:57:06,266
These are just some areas that like we may propose

1030
00:57:06,266 --> 00:57:08,867
to you all, for example, maintenance needs,

1031
00:57:09,100 --> 00:57:11,033
facility improvements in regional facilities

1032
00:57:11,233 --> 00:57:12,567
or in a municipal park.

1033
00:57:13,767 --> 00:57:17,033
This is where we would bring those requests initially

1034
00:57:17,066 --> 00:57:18,700
to start those discussions.

1035
00:57:18,934 --> 00:57:20,634
And kind of that, that information out.

1036
00:57:22,066 --> 00:57:24,667
Intergovernmental cost sharing, facility usage

1037
00:57:24,734 --> 00:57:27,667
and program accessibility is also an important topic

1038
00:57:27,767 --> 00:57:30,000
and something we'll talk a little bit more about

1039
00:57:30,567 --> 00:57:32,133
in the next agenda item.

1040
00:57:32,867 --> 00:57:34,000
But that's something that we're trying

1041
00:57:34,000 --> 00:57:38,133
to focus on a little bit more as we look at the cost to do

1042
00:57:39,133 --> 00:57:44,000
business in exchange for the revenue that we bring in

1043
00:57:44,066 --> 00:57:45,166
for some of those assets.

1044
00:57:46,333 --> 00:57:50,266
Last section there article, actually close

1045
00:57:50,266 --> 00:57:52,700
to the last section, finances.

1046
00:57:52,834 --> 00:57:55,367
This just talks more about your tax exempt status

1047
00:57:56,033 --> 00:57:58,433
contributions, the ability to Borough

1048
00:57:59,500 --> 00:58:02,433
this is really helpful I think, for a new member coming in

1049
00:58:02,433 --> 00:58:06,567
to understand why an authority, what the purpose is

1050
00:58:06,934 --> 00:58:08,500
and how you function and operate.

1051
00:58:09,100 --> 00:58:10,734
And then budget responsibilities.

1052
00:58:11,533 --> 00:58:13,133
This is an important piece of it

1053
00:58:13,133 --> 00:58:17,567
because as you'll see later in your agenda, there are only

1054
00:58:18,634 --> 00:58:20,033
what we call the R budgets.

1055
00:58:20,033 --> 00:58:22,433
They're the authority budgets within call.

1056
00:58:23,100 --> 00:58:25,700
And those are the budgets under the purview

1057
00:58:25,834 --> 00:58:27,100
of the authority.

1058
00:58:27,934 --> 00:58:32,066
And so there is some oversight on that in addition to

1059
00:58:32,133 --> 00:58:33,567
how we work with Ms.

1060
00:58:33,767 --> 00:58:35,500
Pat and with the authority

1061
00:58:36,934 --> 00:58:41,033
to figure out capital budgets projects a next phase

1062
00:58:41,033 --> 00:58:42,300
of a park, for example.

1063
00:58:43,634 --> 00:58:47,000
And then your role really is recommending funding needs

1064
00:58:47,000 --> 00:58:48,367
to the agency, reviewing

1065
00:58:48,467 --> 00:58:52,266
and endorsing capital budgets, supporting cost recovery,

1066
00:58:53,867 --> 00:58:57,066
reviewing, supporting grants, sponsorships, user fees.

1067
00:58:58,233 --> 00:59:01,667
And those are some items that help the agency to help reduce

1068
00:59:02,133 --> 00:59:03,266
municipal shares.

1069
00:59:04,567 --> 00:59:06,066
Advising the agency on programs

1070
00:59:06,066 --> 00:59:09,066
or projects requiring municipal resources is another area

1071
00:59:09,066 --> 00:59:12,667
where the authorities responsibilities by.

1072
00:59:14,000 --> 00:59:16,367
And then reporting, again, this is more

1073
00:59:16,367 --> 00:59:19,767
of an administrative task and collaboration with committees.

1074
00:59:21,233 --> 00:59:24,500
Another item that it has been pretty transparent, I think

1075
00:59:24,533 --> 00:59:26,233
as we've developed the parks governance,

1076
00:59:26,467 --> 00:59:30,166
the ad hoc parks library committee, budget presentations

1077
00:59:30,233 --> 00:59:31,266
to the finance committee.

1078
00:59:32,033 --> 00:59:34,000
I know the chair has attended general forum

1079
00:59:34,000 --> 00:59:35,233
meetings and such.

1080
00:59:35,333 --> 00:59:38,467
And so that communication is important.

1081
00:59:40,000 --> 00:59:42,100
And so succession planning ensure

1082
00:59:42,734 --> 00:59:44,734
the authority shall promote succession planning

1083
00:59:44,834 --> 00:59:46,834
by supporting onboarding and mentoring.

1084
00:59:46,834 --> 00:59:49,300
This is a new one. Something I feel is really important.

1085
00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:53,300
I know when each of you that came on that were new, we went

1086
00:59:53,300 --> 00:59:55,066
through a little bit of an outline that was new.

1087
00:59:56,033 --> 00:59:58,000
That's something that I wanted to implement so

1088
00:59:58,000 --> 01:00:01,100
that it was really clear you had a good understanding

1089
01:00:01,500 --> 01:00:03,734
or general understanding of how we operate

1090
01:00:04,266 --> 01:00:06,500
and what to expect at an authority meeting.

1091
01:00:06,867 --> 01:00:08,066
So it gives you a little bit more of that.

1092
01:00:08,066 --> 01:00:10,867
Roles and responsibilities, expectations

1093
01:00:10,900 --> 01:00:13,033
and guidelines through the authority.

1094
01:00:14,700 --> 01:00:18,734
And then the last few sections are really just

1095
01:00:20,834 --> 01:00:24,100
basic items, corporate seal and then et cetera.

1096
01:00:24,000 --> 01:00:25,900
And then our appendices.

1097
01:00:26,000 --> 01:00:28,266
So that was lengthy,

1098
01:00:28,367 --> 01:00:31,266
but I hope that was helpful to kind of go

1099
01:00:31,266 --> 01:00:34,066
through each section and better understand some

1100
01:00:34,066 --> 01:00:36,166
of the updates from 2014 version.

1101
01:00:37,567 --> 01:00:42,266
And happy to answer questions, make edits as you see fit.

1102
01:00:42,300 --> 01:00:44,500
Like I said, Melissa is taking notes, so

1103
01:00:45,767 --> 01:00:47,166
I'll turn it back to you, Kathy.

1104
01:00:49,734 --> 01:00:50,100
- Okay.

1105
01:00:55,300 --> 01:00:59,433
Comments from my fellow members, sir? All

1106
01:01:00,133 --> 01:01:03,100
- One more thing I to kind of, he backs up there.

1107
01:01:03,266 --> 01:01:08,133
We just with moving support from the article top being

1108
01:01:08,133 --> 01:01:11,667
at article seven three, coordination of agents.

1109
01:01:12,066 --> 01:01:15,333
I think there's another use of support that's kind

1110
01:01:15,333 --> 01:01:20,000
of in line with what we changed with advise.

1111
01:01:20,266 --> 01:01:22,700
So looking at the, what is it, the

1112
01:01:24,000 --> 01:01:26,000
second line under three coordination.

1113
01:01:26,066 --> 01:01:29,133
The agency supports this work through policy alignment,

1114
01:01:29,700 --> 01:01:30,834
funding strategies.

1115
01:01:30,834 --> 01:01:34,066
Should that be the authority advises this work

1116
01:01:34,100 --> 01:01:36,000
or the authority who oversees this work?

1117
01:01:37,133 --> 01:01:39,033
I'm just looking at kind of what meaning is knowing

1118
01:01:39,033 --> 01:01:40,000
if we cleaned that up earlier.

1119
01:01:43,900 --> 01:01:45,734
Because I know Kristy, you had mentioned, you know,

1120
01:01:46,734 --> 01:01:49,033
the word support was used elsewhere.

1121
01:01:49,133 --> 01:01:51,100
I think this might be the other spot.

1122
01:01:53,767 --> 01:01:58,066
- I'm not too sure. I think think supports might be more

1123
01:01:58,133 --> 01:01:58,567
sense

1124
01:02:02,867 --> 01:02:03,867
as we support

1125
01:02:12,066 --> 01:02:15,500
- Some of the, - The words support

1126
01:02:15,667 --> 01:02:17,500
- The, the word support there where it's, it's kind

1127
01:02:17,500 --> 01:02:19,567
of like instead of of agency

1128
01:02:20,533 --> 01:02:24,266
or sorry, authority overseeing the agency

1129
01:02:24,266 --> 01:02:26,000
and it makes it seem like the authority

1130
01:02:28,533 --> 01:02:31,367
will support no matter what, rather than overseeing advice.

1131
01:02:34,266 --> 01:02:35,867
I know it's very semantic,

1132
01:02:36,000 --> 01:02:39,433
but we're trying to tidy things up

1133
01:02:40,066 --> 01:02:42,133
that it's just one thing that's out.

1134
01:02:48,100 --> 01:02:50,834
I know really the support this problem, right?

1135
01:02:50,834 --> 01:02:54,066
The same way somebody was close the too,

1136
01:02:54,066 --> 01:02:55,166
but that would, yeah.

1137
01:02:55,367 --> 01:02:56,367
Yeah.

1138
01:02:59,000 --> 01:03:00,867
- I think it makes more sense this

1139
01:03:01,500 --> 01:03:05,166
context, but I,

1140
01:03:06,734 --> 01:03:10,100
- I could see advisors kind of being an umbrella that

1141
01:03:11,033 --> 01:03:12,066
encompasses support.

1142
01:03:27,266 --> 01:03:31,066
- I'm struggling with how to revise that. Advises is

1143
01:03:31,333 --> 01:03:34,100
- Not quite the same - In this.

1144
01:03:34,033 --> 01:03:37,100
Yeah, I feel like context like,

1145
01:03:37,567 --> 01:03:41,133
but Clance had said like in this context it kind of sounds

1146
01:03:41,567 --> 01:03:43,266
appropriate because you're,

1147
01:03:43,266 --> 01:03:46,233
we're clarifying the day-to-day operations fall within COG.

1148
01:03:47,033 --> 01:03:50,433
And the authority can support that through the policy piece,

1149
01:03:50,500 --> 01:03:52,166
which is the bigger pieces, the policy

1150
01:03:52,367 --> 01:03:53,834
and funding strategies.

1151
01:03:54,634 --> 01:03:58,500
So it's not really saying that the authority is like kind

1152
01:03:58,500 --> 01:04:03,100
of doing, like pushing that day-to-day operations piece.

1153
01:04:03,066 --> 01:04:05,367
You're really more so pushing the policies

1154
01:04:05,367 --> 01:04:09,033
and the strategies that help really support that day to day

1155
01:04:11,066 --> 01:04:12,066
- Thoughts on that?

1156
01:04:15,500 --> 01:04:18,033
- I think meaningfully it doesn't make, yeah,

1157
01:04:18,100 --> 01:04:19,333
make a massive difference.

1158
01:04:21,000 --> 01:04:25,100
Just wanted to bring, if everyone else is fine, I'm fine.

1159
01:04:33,567 --> 01:04:37,333
- I have a, I don't know, under the role

1160
01:04:38,133 --> 01:04:39,433
in financial reporting,

1161
01:04:42,133 --> 01:04:44,100
this is really not my very

1162
01:04:45,066 --> 01:04:48,066
should there,

1163
01:04:53,433 --> 01:04:56,634
- That is the annual report that you receive

1164
01:04:59,266 --> 01:05:02,567
and that comes through the authority for approval.

1165
01:05:03,767 --> 01:05:06,700
So you do review that, endorse that and approve that.

1166
01:05:07,767 --> 01:05:09,233
We haven't received it yet this year

1167
01:05:09,233 --> 01:05:11,867
because it's, they finished the auditing

1168
01:05:11,867 --> 01:05:14,000
and then we typically get it I think on October

1169
01:05:14,433 --> 01:05:16,734
Novembers when we typically get that document.

1170
01:05:20,367 --> 01:05:23,934
But that's really the, the agency called

1171
01:05:25,133 --> 01:05:26,667
the agency is responsible.

1172
01:05:26,667 --> 01:05:28,367
So that's us for preparing

1173
01:05:28,367 --> 01:05:30,567
and distributing that annual report,

1174
01:05:31,233 --> 01:05:34,300
which includes financial summaries, authority, reviews,

1175
01:05:34,367 --> 01:05:37,100
and approves of report prior to its submission to,

1176
01:05:37,634 --> 01:05:38,767
to state municipalities.

1177
01:05:40,433 --> 01:05:44,066
So the way it's stated there is accurate to how

1178
01:05:44,300 --> 01:05:46,333
that process goes right now.

1179
01:05:50,533 --> 01:05:50,700
- Question,

1180
01:06:08,133 --> 01:06:09,233
other other questions?

1181
01:06:12,266 --> 01:06:15,867
- I just have one. I never heard of the bylaws.

1182
01:06:16,133 --> 01:06:18,934
That can be changed by a majority.

1183
01:06:23,100 --> 01:06:24,734
It's always more than the majority.

1184
01:06:27,767 --> 01:06:29,867
You know, it's usually two third or three four.

1185
01:06:31,667 --> 01:06:36,333
Every organization, not many that I or, or any group.

1186
01:06:39,700 --> 01:06:41,467
You know, these are important things

1187
01:06:43,667 --> 01:06:43,934
and

1188
01:06:48,900 --> 01:06:50,033
it doesn't say,

1189
01:07:00,133 --> 01:07:01,100
see it's authority.

1190
01:07:02,100 --> 01:07:07,000
Majority of the authority members present at a meeting.

1191
01:07:08,033 --> 01:07:10,433
I thought, I think it should say majority

1192
01:07:10,934 --> 01:07:13,734
of the membership of the authority.

1193
01:07:15,667 --> 01:07:18,266
So that would be four for it or? Yeah, four.

1194
01:07:19,333 --> 01:07:23,934
Not, there were only four present, then it would be three.

1195
01:07:25,867 --> 01:07:28,033
- So Susan's gonna scroll through. I mean

1196
01:07:28,033 --> 01:07:29,867
- I, I'm not gonna push this, but Yeah,

1197
01:07:29,867 --> 01:07:31,500
- No, I wanna make sure that everybody can read

1198
01:07:31,500 --> 01:07:32,834
what you're referencing.

1199
01:07:34,000 --> 01:07:36,300
She's gonna scroll, if we wanna just read on the screen,

1200
01:07:37,367 --> 01:07:40,767
it's the, it says these bylaws were duly adopted

1201
01:07:41,000 --> 01:07:43,000
by the Centre Region Parks

1202
01:07:43,000 --> 01:07:45,634
and Recreation Authority by majority vote at

1203
01:07:46,000 --> 01:07:47,100
duly advertised.

1204
01:07:47,734 --> 01:07:49,000
A duly advertised meeting.

1205
01:07:52,066 --> 01:07:55,767
So to Tom's question, you know, does it make sense

1206
01:07:55,767 --> 01:08:00,233
that it says majority or should that be unanimous?

1207
01:08:00,734 --> 01:08:02,066
Is that what you're asking Tom?

1208
01:08:04,100 --> 01:08:05,667
Should it be a unanimous vote?

1209
01:08:05,734 --> 01:08:07,634
Is that what you're suggesting? No, I

1210
01:08:07,634 --> 01:08:09,533
- Would think it should be a majority of the authority.

1211
01:08:09,567 --> 01:08:12,266
But nobody else thinks though I've not been agree.

1212
01:08:14,066 --> 01:08:16,033
I think that's what it's, I think it should take at least

1213
01:08:16,033 --> 01:08:17,934
four votes is what I'm saying.

1214
01:08:20,000 --> 01:08:21,667
Not less than that.

1215
01:08:23,367 --> 01:08:25,166
- That's true. - I mean, you're changing something

1216
01:08:25,166 --> 01:08:27,500
that's important that you don't change very often.

1217
01:08:27,867 --> 01:08:32,033
- Right. - And you know, you, I'm looking for the future,

1218
01:08:32,066 --> 01:08:34,033
not the members of the authority right now,

1219
01:08:34,767 --> 01:08:37,333
but what it would be,

1220
01:08:40,333 --> 01:08:42,634
because you know, if there are only four here,

1221
01:08:43,233 --> 01:08:44,467
right at a meeting

1222
01:08:45,266 --> 01:08:48,133
and you have, so you have a quorum, right?

1223
01:08:48,367 --> 01:08:51,133
You can have the meeting, it would take all four

1224
01:08:51,133 --> 01:08:54,533
of those people to approve it.

1225
01:08:55,000 --> 01:08:57,100
A change in the constitute your ballot.

1226
01:08:57,266 --> 01:08:58,667
Now today, everybody's here.

1227
01:08:59,734 --> 01:09:02,467
It's not necessarily here or there too. Okay.

1228
01:09:03,066 --> 01:09:05,100
So I don't know, I don't want anybody

1229
01:09:05,100 --> 01:09:06,100
else thinks that way or not.

1230
01:09:06,734 --> 01:09:08,367
- Well I think that's what it currently says.

1231
01:09:10,834 --> 01:09:14,066
It says the authority by majority vote.

1232
01:09:17,500 --> 01:09:19,500
- So like what, three of the four?

1233
01:09:20,333 --> 01:09:21,333
Is that what you're asking?

1234
01:09:22,500 --> 01:09:24,834
- I think he's just looking at a majority versus

1235
01:09:24,834 --> 01:09:26,033
like a two thirds or,

1236
01:09:26,867 --> 01:09:28,266
- Yeah, right now it says a majority.

1237
01:09:28,467 --> 01:09:29,467
Yeah,

1238
01:09:30,000 --> 01:09:33,667
- No, I'm just saying a majority of the memberships,

1239
01:09:33,667 --> 01:09:36,867
since it has, it's such a low membership, six

1240
01:09:39,300 --> 01:09:42,367
for three to change, it means

1241
01:09:42,433 --> 01:09:45,834
that you really don't even have a majority of membership

1242
01:09:46,834 --> 01:09:48,100
to proof.

1243
01:09:48,100 --> 01:09:48,233
Again,

1244
01:09:53,100 --> 01:09:55,166
I leave it go, but I, I,

1245
01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:01,533
- Yeah, I, I, I, I don't,

1246
01:10:01,700 --> 01:10:04,867
I don't know enough about best practices on

1247
01:10:04,867 --> 01:10:06,066
that kind of Thank you, Jeff.

1248
01:10:06,133 --> 01:10:07,133
What was

1249
01:10:08,066 --> 01:10:09,066
- Three, three tie?

1250
01:10:09,700 --> 01:10:12,734
- I think we can just wordsmith this for you

1251
01:10:12,934 --> 01:10:14,300
and make some more sense of that.

1252
01:10:15,166 --> 01:10:19,000
To address that by saying,

1253
01:10:20,066 --> 01:10:22,300
by majority vote of the authority membership

1254
01:10:23,066 --> 01:10:24,767
at a duly advertised meeting.

1255
01:10:26,133 --> 01:10:29,333
That way it's more, more clear it's a majority

1256
01:10:29,500 --> 01:10:30,934
vote of the membership.

1257
01:10:31,834 --> 01:10:36,000
- Yeah, that seems, that seems that makes sense to me. Yeah.

1258
01:10:36,000 --> 01:10:37,000
Yeah.

1259
01:10:37,467 --> 01:10:39,567
- It is so small, right? - Right.

1260
01:10:40,433 --> 01:10:43,100
- The, the three doesn't seem like enough

1261
01:10:43,133 --> 01:10:44,734
to change something like that.

1262
01:10:45,500 --> 01:10:47,500
It would be three, that would always be four.

1263
01:10:48,266 --> 01:10:50,900
Three's not a majority, three's high three, four.

1264
01:10:51,300 --> 01:10:54,100
But the way it says here is by the people vote

1265
01:10:54,834 --> 01:10:59,166
president the meeting, what I'm saying is perhaps you say

1266
01:10:59,667 --> 01:11:02,667
of the membership of the authority.

1267
01:11:03,100 --> 01:11:04,500
- Yeah, yeah, that makes sense.

1268
01:11:05,033 --> 01:11:08,333
So that if we're gonna change this, everybody needs

1269
01:11:08,333 --> 01:11:10,834
to show up at that meeting so that they put,

1270
01:11:11,500 --> 01:11:14,467
we have a majority of, of the membership

1271
01:11:14,567 --> 01:11:16,934
- And you know, if you only had five members here

1272
01:11:17,567 --> 01:11:20,033
and it would take four to,

1273
01:11:21,467 --> 01:11:23,634
or if you had six, it would take four.

1274
01:11:25,300 --> 01:11:29,333
But if you have only four, I don't think you should be able

1275
01:11:29,333 --> 01:11:31,367
to do it unless it's unanimous by those.

1276
01:11:32,834 --> 01:11:37,066
- Okay. - Always at least four.

1277
01:11:37,767 --> 01:11:39,734
- Okay. - So does

1278
01:11:39,734 --> 01:11:40,767
- That make sense to - Everyone?

1279
01:11:41,133 --> 01:11:42,066
Can we also remove,

1280
01:11:42,133 --> 01:11:44,867
we'll just strike at a duly advertised meeting

1281
01:11:45,000 --> 01:11:48,500
and state these bylaws were duly adopted by Centre Region,

1282
01:11:48,500 --> 01:11:49,500
parks of America authority

1283
01:11:50,033 --> 01:11:52,734
by majority vote of the authority.

1284
01:11:52,734 --> 01:11:54,033
Membership period.

1285
01:11:58,300 --> 01:11:59,367
Because you can't vote

1286
01:11:59,367 --> 01:12:01,233
unless you're at a public meeting regardless.

1287
01:12:01,433 --> 01:12:03,033
So it's just against Samantha.

1288
01:12:03,166 --> 01:12:04,934
- We hope that the authority members show up

1289
01:12:04,934 --> 01:12:07,166
for an advertised meeting on the agenda,

1290
01:12:10,500 --> 01:12:12,567
- But the word at is confusing

1291
01:12:12,567 --> 01:12:15,133
because we're allowing voting online as well.

1292
01:12:15,033 --> 01:12:16,166
So they don't necessarily have

1293
01:12:16,166 --> 01:12:20,333
to be at the meeting presently.

1294
01:12:21,000 --> 01:12:22,934
I think it's semantics again,

1295
01:12:23,934 --> 01:12:27,734
but if that makes more sense, we can just simplify that.

1296
01:12:29,300 --> 01:12:31,467
That sounds okay. I George,

1297
01:12:34,433 --> 01:12:37,834
- Or maybe say in attendance, I don't know.

1298
01:12:37,934 --> 01:12:38,934
Instead of at,

1299
01:12:44,433 --> 01:12:47,634
- Well, interestingly enough, under Forum

1300
01:12:47,767 --> 01:12:50,667
and Rules water, it does say a forum shall consist

1301
01:12:50,667 --> 01:12:55,100
of a majority of the authority members currently appointed.

1302
01:12:56,000 --> 01:12:58,500
So I mean, we're already defining a

1303
01:12:58,634 --> 01:12:59,634
- Majority.

1304
01:12:59,634 --> 01:13:00,100
It's defined.

1305
01:13:28,667 --> 01:13:32,900
- So if we reached a consensus on Promise on this,

1306
01:13:39,166 --> 01:13:43,467
seems like are folks online?

1307
01:13:44,033 --> 01:13:46,033
Yeah. Forward. Yep. Any comments?

1308
01:13:49,133 --> 01:13:51,300
- No, nothing else than what's already been said.

1309
01:13:51,767 --> 01:13:55,900
- Looks okay. - I'm good. I'm

1310
01:14:05,900 --> 01:14:06,900
- Makes more sense?

1311
01:14:07,066 --> 01:14:08,066
Yeah.

1312
01:14:10,033 --> 01:14:11,700
- Okay. All right.

1313
01:14:12,033 --> 01:14:15,667
So I will

1314
01:14:17,100 --> 01:14:20,100
entertain a motion that the Centre Region Parks Recreation

1315
01:14:20,100 --> 01:14:25,000
Authority approve the bylaws as prevented subject

1316
01:14:25,033 --> 01:14:29,567
to final review by the co solicitor with any substantive

1317
01:14:30,100 --> 01:14:33,100
revisions resulting from that review return

1318
01:14:33,100 --> 01:14:35,133
to the authority consideration.

1319
01:14:37,533 --> 01:14:40,634
Okay, thank you. Exactly. Okay.

1320
01:14:40,734 --> 01:14:44,066
We that that, any additional concerns, comments?

1321
01:14:45,166 --> 01:14:48,867
- Kathy, do you wanna add any kind of caveat in addition

1322
01:14:48,867 --> 01:14:50,367
to the minor changes

1323
01:14:50,367 --> 01:14:53,467
that we just made today? Oh, through this,

1324
01:14:54,000 --> 01:14:55,000
- Right?

1325
01:14:55,000 --> 01:14:58,066
Just, is that okay? Yeah. Including the changes. Yeah.

1326
01:14:58,100 --> 01:15:01,734
As vised what, whatever the Yeah. Language is Okay.

1327
01:15:02,066 --> 01:15:04,834
To acknowledge that. Thank you. Yeah, appreciate that. Okay.

1328
01:15:05,133 --> 01:15:07,533
All the question all say aye aye.

1329
01:15:09,000 --> 01:15:12,867
Aye, aye. Aye. Okay.

1330
01:15:13,767 --> 01:15:16,300
Alright. Pass. We're good. Thank you. Great.

1331
01:15:19,734 --> 01:15:24,700
Okay, let's move on to the revenue and enhancement plan.

1332
01:15:25,133 --> 01:15:26,266
- Yes. More fun stuff.

1333
01:15:29,667 --> 01:15:34,000
Another area that I get kind about, so

1334
01:15:34,700 --> 01:15:36,934
in previous previous agendas,

1335
01:15:36,934 --> 01:15:38,867
we called it the program value framework.

1336
01:15:39,266 --> 01:15:41,667
And so we kind of took it one step further to show

1337
01:15:41,667 --> 01:15:44,100
that there's more than just a program value to it.

1338
01:15:44,100 --> 01:15:48,433
There's a little bit more structure behind how we define

1339
01:15:48,467 --> 01:15:51,133
and strategize on enhancing fees

1340
01:15:52,333 --> 01:15:57,133
based on cost recovery tiers that you spoke extensively on.

1341
01:15:57,266 --> 01:15:58,834
We talked about the fee policy.

1342
01:15:59,367 --> 01:16:01,133
So this document really kinda

1343
01:16:01,934 --> 01:16:04,667
digs your heels a little bit more into the meat of the

1344
01:16:06,000 --> 01:16:10,133
strategy behind how we take what's been asked

1345
01:16:10,066 --> 01:16:11,867
of us from elected officials

1346
01:16:12,767 --> 01:16:16,567
and from the authority to look a little bit more closely at

1347
01:16:17,166 --> 01:16:20,033
costs and fees to offset expenses.

1348
01:16:21,000 --> 01:16:24,700
And so staff has done a really extensive job

1349
01:16:25,000 --> 01:16:27,433
and kudos to everybody behind me

1350
01:16:27,433 --> 01:16:31,133
and online for, you know, kind of diving in deeply

1351
01:16:31,367 --> 01:16:33,700
to cost recovery spreadsheets.

1352
01:16:34,533 --> 01:16:37,433
This takes those spreadsheets that are very lengthy

1353
01:16:38,000 --> 01:16:41,433
and combines it into one document as more of that

1354
01:16:42,066 --> 01:16:44,100
strategic plan so that you can kind

1355
01:16:44,100 --> 01:16:46,367
of see our thought process behind it

1356
01:16:47,000 --> 01:16:50,700
and why we did it, how, how it works.

1357
01:16:51,333 --> 01:16:54,433
And then if you get through to the document,

1358
01:16:54,567 --> 01:16:57,900
and we'll bring it up on the screen if you wanna scroll down

1359
01:16:59,300 --> 01:17:01,900
A little bit, I'll kind of show you the meat of it

1360
01:17:02,033 --> 01:17:04,033
that you might be most interested in.

1361
01:17:04,133 --> 01:17:04,500
- Okay.

1362
01:17:10,333 --> 01:17:12,066
- Susan, if you wanna just go ahead

1363
01:17:12,066 --> 01:17:13,900
through each page for me,

1364
01:17:21,533 --> 01:17:24,634
- What has changed since the last time we went through this?

1365
01:17:25,133 --> 01:17:26,634
- This is new. You've never seen this.

1366
01:17:29,000 --> 01:17:32,233
- See parts - You saw we saw, yeah, you saw a small part

1367
01:17:32,233 --> 01:17:34,634
of it, which was just the program value framework

1368
01:17:34,634 --> 01:17:37,300
with empty charts, if you kind of remember that.

1369
01:17:38,500 --> 01:17:41,734
So what's changed is what I just gave a summary of

1370
01:17:42,367 --> 01:17:44,266
with developing a little bit more of the plan.

1371
01:17:45,000 --> 01:17:47,033
And I wanna go through kind of page by page

1372
01:17:47,033 --> 01:17:48,500
and kind of tell you a little bit about

1373
01:17:49,634 --> 01:17:50,734
the information behind the numbers.

1374
01:17:51,834 --> 01:17:54,266
And so this really explains those numbers

1375
01:17:54,567 --> 01:17:57,033
and how they correlate the cost recovery tiers.

1376
01:17:58,333 --> 01:18:01,033
So again, the executive summary talks about the context

1377
01:18:01,166 --> 01:18:02,934
behind it, where it came from,

1378
01:18:03,433 --> 01:18:06,533
and then if you scroll down to the objectives,

1379
01:18:08,033 --> 01:18:09,033
- Well - Go up a little

1380
01:18:09,033 --> 01:18:10,100
- Bit.

1381
01:18:11,500 --> 01:18:14,300
- The objectives

1382
01:18:14,300 --> 01:18:17,100
of the enhancement plan apply the fee policy

1383
01:18:17,133 --> 01:18:18,734
and cost recovery tiers.

1384
01:18:18,734 --> 01:18:21,367
Consistently, we evaluated direct

1385
01:18:21,367 --> 01:18:24,066
and indirect costs alongside community value.

1386
01:18:25,133 --> 01:18:28,767
We improve. This gives us the the backing

1387
01:18:28,767 --> 01:18:31,333
to improve our pricing, our scheduling, our capacity

1388
01:18:32,133 --> 01:18:35,000
and documents, how our decisions are made

1389
01:18:35,133 --> 01:18:39,567
and provides you with results to have more of a portfolio

1390
01:18:39,900 --> 01:18:41,767
of what our programming is feel.

1391
01:18:41,767 --> 01:18:46,166
Scroll to the next page again,

1392
01:18:46,233 --> 01:18:47,367
why this work began.

1393
01:18:47,934 --> 01:18:49,734
It was designed to prevent offering

1394
01:18:51,033 --> 01:18:53,867
basically programs without reviewing demand

1395
01:18:53,867 --> 01:18:55,000
and cost of results.

1396
01:18:55,867 --> 01:18:59,634
We treated every, treating every deficit as a failure

1397
01:18:59,900 --> 01:19:01,500
or an overall surplus as proof

1398
01:19:01,500 --> 01:19:03,166
that every offering is successful.

1399
01:19:03,734 --> 01:19:06,066
Those are some things that we tried to prevent.

1400
01:19:06,900 --> 01:19:09,567
And then if you go down to what this provides,

1401
01:19:11,066 --> 01:19:14,266
there's a layout here

1402
01:19:14,266 --> 01:19:16,066
that talks a little bit more build

1403
01:19:16,066 --> 01:19:17,533
about building the foundations.

1404
01:19:18,834 --> 01:19:21,000
Sorry, this is hard for me. Working off two screens.

1405
01:19:21,000 --> 01:19:24,033
Gimme one second. I need to bring this up on

1406
01:19:25,533 --> 01:19:25,533
- Screen.Me.

1407
01:19:38,066 --> 01:19:38,634
Here we go.

1408
01:19:39,433 --> 01:19:42,233
- So the first year of this

1409
01:19:42,900 --> 01:19:44,767
is 2025.

1410
01:19:45,100 --> 01:19:47,100
When we really looked at that's the baseline,

1411
01:19:47,133 --> 01:19:50,634
that's when we had a full view of costs

1412
01:19:51,266 --> 01:19:53,667
and that's when we added in indirect costs

1413
01:19:53,834 --> 01:19:56,634
and direct costs to give a better picture

1414
01:19:56,667 --> 01:19:59,934
of which programs weren't meeting their cost recovery tier.

1415
01:20:01,433 --> 01:20:04,367
And so 2025 is really that baseline of data,

1416
01:20:04,367 --> 01:20:06,233
which is in your document right now.

1417
01:20:07,233 --> 01:20:10,934
And then 2026 we worked a little bit more on defining that.

1418
01:20:11,066 --> 01:20:13,533
We expanded our cost recovery sheets to include

1419
01:20:14,000 --> 01:20:17,467
which tier they fell into, which programs were canceled,

1420
01:20:17,734 --> 01:20:19,066
how many programs were canceled

1421
01:20:19,233 --> 01:20:21,100
as a whole, that kind of thing.

1422
01:20:21,500 --> 01:20:25,934
And then 2027 is when we're gonna

1423
01:20:26,300 --> 01:20:27,667
analyze this more.

1424
01:20:27,867 --> 01:20:30,000
So we're gonna look a little bit more deeply at,

1425
01:20:30,900 --> 01:20:33,667
did a program fall into the right cost recovery tier?

1426
01:20:34,567 --> 01:20:39,000
How are programs being defined by tiers across

1427
01:20:39,667 --> 01:20:42,166
sports programs, special events camps,

1428
01:20:42,667 --> 01:20:46,133
and making sure that Supervisors have the time to sit down

1429
01:20:46,133 --> 01:20:49,367
with each other, go through how they define their tiers.

1430
01:20:50,033 --> 01:20:53,166
And then we'll be looking a little bit more closely at the

1431
01:20:53,266 --> 01:20:55,433
formulas, the numbers that were put in there.

1432
01:20:56,266 --> 01:21:00,166
But that work has not been done yet. So that's a 2027 task.

1433
01:21:00,900 --> 01:21:05,133
And then in 28, the hope is that we would also add in

1434
01:21:05,867 --> 01:21:08,066
rentals, concessions, things like that.

1435
01:21:08,300 --> 01:21:10,166
Because this is just programs.

1436
01:21:10,834 --> 01:21:13,166
So this is just straight programs we were asked

1437
01:21:13,166 --> 01:21:14,867
to look at cost recovery for.

1438
01:21:15,533 --> 01:21:17,133
But we do wanna take it a step further

1439
01:21:17,133 --> 01:21:21,100
and look at more costs when it comes to setting rates

1440
01:21:21,066 --> 01:21:25,166
for pavilions and concessions, full admissions, et cetera.

1441
01:21:25,934 --> 01:21:28,100
But we're not there yet. We're trying to get there.

1442
01:21:28,333 --> 01:21:29,667
This is the starting point.

1443
01:21:30,433 --> 01:21:32,867
'cause right now we have nothing. So this is the first

1444
01:21:33,266 --> 01:21:35,467
step I think, in that direction.

1445
01:21:35,467 --> 01:21:36,700
So if you look at the next section,

1446
01:21:36,734 --> 01:21:38,533
it talks about the cost recovery tiers.

1447
01:21:39,233 --> 01:21:41,000
I won't go over those, you already know them.

1448
01:21:42,467 --> 01:21:47,100
The evaluation framework is more for our single measure

1449
01:21:47,266 --> 01:21:49,834
to kind of say when we eliminate a program

1450
01:21:49,934 --> 01:21:52,533
or we keep a program, you know, what is the benefit,

1451
01:21:52,634 --> 01:21:54,266
what is the value of offering that program?

1452
01:21:54,567 --> 01:21:57,333
Something might not fill or something might be in the red,

1453
01:21:58,867 --> 01:22:01,767
but in order to cancel it may be a little bit more tricky

1454
01:22:02,333 --> 01:22:04,533
than is seen in the documents.

1455
01:22:04,567 --> 01:22:07,367
That's something that we work through at a staff level.

1456
01:22:08,900 --> 01:22:11,100
And then the cycle process is pretty simple.

1457
01:22:11,634 --> 01:22:13,734
Again, you've seen this in prior presentations

1458
01:22:14,533 --> 01:22:17,166
and shows kind of where we're at in a cycle

1459
01:22:17,266 --> 01:22:18,300
of how this works.

1460
01:22:20,500 --> 01:22:23,500
CRPR at a glance, so this is when we get into the meat

1461
01:22:23,634 --> 01:22:24,634
of the information.

1462
01:22:25,533 --> 01:22:29,166
In 2025, we delivered 559 programs,

1463
01:22:30,133 --> 01:22:32,033
62 programs were canceled.

1464
01:22:32,100 --> 01:22:33,700
So that was roughly about 10%.

1465
01:22:36,166 --> 01:22:39,500
NRPA gives some national standards of like

1466
01:22:39,634 --> 01:22:41,166
how many annual programs

1467
01:22:41,300 --> 01:22:45,300
and agents agency should provide based on population.

1468
01:22:46,100 --> 01:22:48,100
And that number was 4 68.

1469
01:22:48,066 --> 01:22:52,033
So we're well above what a typical agency would provide.

1470
01:22:53,100 --> 01:22:58,033
We have 6,621 program offerings, sorry,

1471
01:22:58,567 --> 01:22:59,667
the screen's too small.

1472
01:23:01,300 --> 01:23:04,767
559, delivered 90% delivery rate.

1473
01:23:05,734 --> 01:23:08,700
And we are 33% above the peer medium.

1474
01:23:10,166 --> 01:23:12,867
You look at our financial portfolio, again,

1475
01:23:12,867 --> 01:23:16,100
this is just looking at what's in these spreadsheets

1476
01:23:17,000 --> 01:23:20,266
for cost recovery and we are looking at 118% weighted full

1477
01:23:20,266 --> 01:23:24,266
cost recovery across the board, which is a net

1478
01:23:24,367 --> 01:23:26,734
of roughly $89,000.

1479
01:23:27,834 --> 01:23:31,834
So that just gives you kind of a high level view of

1480
01:23:32,133 --> 01:23:35,367
what these cost recovery sheets do for staff for us

1481
01:23:35,367 --> 01:23:38,100
to be able to look at them holistically across the board.

1482
01:23:38,467 --> 01:23:41,867
Then on the next page is more of the detail

1483
01:23:42,433 --> 01:23:43,433
that breaks down.

1484
01:23:44,000 --> 01:23:46,266
For example, nature center programs, events

1485
01:23:46,367 --> 01:23:49,000
and camps, how many programs were offered,

1486
01:23:49,300 --> 01:23:51,066
how many were delivered canceled,

1487
01:23:52,033 --> 01:23:53,333
how many people participated.

1488
01:23:54,033 --> 01:23:56,166
Again, this is just programs, events, and camps.

1489
01:23:57,100 --> 01:24:00,233
The net result of that and then the cost recovery as

1490
01:24:00,233 --> 01:24:02,233
that area of an an agency.

1491
01:24:03,266 --> 01:24:05,467
And then down below is

1492
01:24:05,467 --> 01:24:08,934
where you get the 118% net cost recovery

1493
01:24:09,700 --> 01:24:11,066
for CRPR as a whole.

1494
01:24:11,700 --> 01:24:14,734
You can kind of see how each of those areas are performing.

1495
01:24:15,734 --> 01:24:20,100
I will point out the active adult center, while

1496
01:24:20,066 --> 01:24:24,500
that is negative, Erika also cannot charge fees

1497
01:24:24,700 --> 01:24:25,767
for various things.

1498
01:24:26,300 --> 01:24:29,634
And so she has the biggest challenge I think

1499
01:24:29,634 --> 01:24:33,033
of all Supervisors to try to recover her costs.

1500
01:24:33,667 --> 01:24:35,266
A lot of things we do subsidize.

1501
01:24:35,767 --> 01:24:39,634
So from my perspective, directing this agency, I think

1502
01:24:39,634 --> 01:24:40,634
that seems appropriate.

1503
01:24:41,333 --> 01:24:44,000
There's only so much she can do to be able to charge

1504
01:24:44,033 --> 01:24:46,133
for programs, especially if it's offered

1505
01:24:46,233 --> 01:24:47,900
by another senior center.

1506
01:24:49,734 --> 01:24:52,700
Any questions on that baseline information?

1507
01:24:52,700 --> 01:24:55,834
Right now, again, this is just our first stab at this,

1508
01:24:56,433 --> 01:24:58,433
taking our cost recovery sheets

1509
01:24:59,166 --> 01:25:00,734
and extracting the information

1510
01:25:00,734 --> 01:25:03,133
that we think you may wanna see.

1511
01:25:04,300 --> 01:25:07,667
And then this gives us guidance to say, where do we need

1512
01:25:07,667 --> 01:25:09,100
to reprice next year?

1513
01:25:10,100 --> 01:25:12,133
How does our fee policy relate to that?

1514
01:25:13,000 --> 01:25:16,734
And then it gives you a little bit more backing

1515
01:25:16,934 --> 01:25:20,367
to say why certain things should be increased or or not.

1516
01:25:27,066 --> 01:25:29,533
And there's an action plan on the next page,

1517
01:25:29,634 --> 01:25:32,734
which gives staff a little bit more of an idea of

1518
01:25:32,900 --> 01:25:34,133
what we need to do next.

1519
01:25:35,433 --> 01:25:38,634
And we would like this to be an annual report

1520
01:25:38,634 --> 01:25:39,700
that we provide to you.

1521
01:25:40,000 --> 01:25:41,266
So you would see this every year

1522
01:25:41,367 --> 01:25:43,767
for our programs in the previous year.

1523
01:25:45,100 --> 01:25:47,900
And then again, like I said, we will try

1524
01:25:47,900 --> 01:25:50,500
to expand this in the future to include those other areas.

1525
01:25:54,066 --> 01:25:56,033
Happy to answer any questions.

1526
01:25:56,033 --> 01:25:58,834
There are some reference links within the document as well.

1527
01:25:59,000 --> 01:26:03,100
Some resources that we used for benchmarking information et

1528
01:26:06,934 --> 01:26:08,233
- Back up to the percentage chart.

1529
01:26:11,667 --> 01:26:13,133
So I think the thing that really stands out

1530
01:26:13,133 --> 01:26:15,500
to me is it seems the way it was accounted for here,

1531
01:26:15,500 --> 01:26:18,700
the programs are all pretty wildly successful.

1532
01:26:18,700 --> 01:26:21,867
Would you attribute that to,

1533
01:26:23,867 --> 01:26:25,100
you know, I'm just kinda wondering like,

1534
01:26:25,500 --> 01:26:26,734
I know you said all direct and

1535
01:26:26,767 --> 01:26:29,667
and indirect costs were accounted for.

1536
01:26:29,667 --> 01:26:32,767
Do you think that is a truly like an accurate capture

1537
01:26:32,934 --> 01:26:37,033
of overall staff time complete before these programs?

1538
01:26:37,333 --> 01:26:39,300
- Like I said, Melissa and I have not been able

1539
01:26:39,300 --> 01:26:42,900
to analyze all of that data one by one

1540
01:26:42,900 --> 01:26:44,433
because it's a lot of information.

1541
01:26:44,700 --> 01:26:47,333
So what you're seeing is what the Supervisors prepared

1542
01:26:47,433 --> 01:26:50,100
for us based on their salary

1543
01:26:50,066 --> 01:26:51,834
and benefits, their estimate

1544
01:26:51,867 --> 01:26:54,133
of the time it took to run the program.

1545
01:26:55,033 --> 01:26:56,166
We just need to back check

1546
01:26:56,266 --> 01:26:58,133
and see how everybody's doing that.

1547
01:26:58,133 --> 01:27:01,066
Because some Supervisors could be going

1548
01:27:01,066 --> 01:27:03,066
through a different process than others.

1549
01:27:03,934 --> 01:27:07,000
So we have a annual staff retreat that we do in November

1550
01:27:07,700 --> 01:27:08,834
where they're gonna sit down

1551
01:27:08,834 --> 01:27:11,700
and actually work through those spreadsheets again

1552
01:27:11,734 --> 01:27:14,934
to look more deeply at comparing to each others.

1553
01:27:15,000 --> 01:27:17,834
And I know some of them did, you guys can feel free

1554
01:27:17,834 --> 01:27:21,367
to speak up, did work with each other through trying

1555
01:27:21,533 --> 01:27:23,367
to figure out your indirect and your direct costs.

1556
01:27:25,667 --> 01:27:27,867
- I would just add onto that, I agree.

1557
01:27:28,266 --> 01:27:31,367
I think that, at least for me personally speaking for me,

1558
01:27:31,467 --> 01:27:33,667
I feel confident in our direct costs,

1559
01:27:33,867 --> 01:27:36,033
but I do not feel confident in our indirect costs

1560
01:27:36,033 --> 01:27:38,467
because we're not accounting for,

1561
01:27:38,934 --> 01:27:41,000
and as you said, this is a future expansion,

1562
01:27:41,233 --> 01:27:44,066
but things like facilities, what does it take

1563
01:27:44,000 --> 01:27:46,467
to operate the electricity, the water,

1564
01:27:46,467 --> 01:27:48,133
everything like that, that's not here.

1565
01:27:48,133 --> 01:27:51,367
Whereas for someone like Beth who's using a different

1566
01:27:51,433 --> 01:27:54,500
facilities are very, she has a number she could plug in for

1567
01:27:54,500 --> 01:27:56,000
how much it costs to that space.

1568
01:27:56,634 --> 01:27:59,867
So again, I think the direct costs

1569
01:28:00,500 --> 01:28:03,333
we feel pretty confident on, on direct staff time

1570
01:28:03,333 --> 01:28:06,700
for leading programs, but indirect for facilities

1571
01:28:06,700 --> 01:28:10,567
and also for our full-time staff support of those programs,

1572
01:28:11,834 --> 01:28:14,333
we kind of all have to get our heads together I think,

1573
01:28:14,333 --> 01:28:16,934
to get on the same page of how we're calculating

1574
01:28:17,000 --> 01:28:18,000
- That.

1575
01:28:18,000 --> 01:28:18,667
Yeah, because I think it, it's,

1576
01:28:19,000 --> 01:28:21,266
I I understand it's incredibly flexible.

1577
01:28:21,367 --> 01:28:24,934
I applaud the work that you've done with it so far.

1578
01:28:25,266 --> 01:28:26,266
I think there's a lot, you know,

1579
01:28:26,266 --> 01:28:27,333
looking at maintenance time.

1580
01:28:27,500 --> 01:28:31,367
Yes. You said you know, staff time outside of the direct.

1581
01:28:31,533 --> 01:28:35,266
Yes. And I think this is a great place to

1582
01:28:37,100 --> 01:28:39,700
start, but I think there's, yeah, there's so much,

1583
01:28:39,834 --> 01:28:41,100
so much more yes.

1584
01:28:41,266 --> 01:28:43,066
To account for. And I guess the other thing I'm looking at

1585
01:28:43,066 --> 01:28:44,867
too is the sports programs

1586
01:28:44,867 --> 01:28:48,066
and sport tournaments with almost 20%

1587
01:28:49,100 --> 01:28:53,900
missing the, that seems kind of like a kind of like,

1588
01:28:53,900 --> 01:28:55,667
you know, the programs

1589
01:28:55,767 --> 01:28:58,367
and tournaments should be covering there

1590
01:28:58,734 --> 01:29:01,734
and I know overall they do hit their full cost

1591
01:29:02,266 --> 01:29:04,367
by quite a bit, but that seems like one where

1592
01:29:05,133 --> 01:29:07,066
they should probably all be meeting there

1593
01:29:07,166 --> 01:29:12,100
and tier recovery. I'm sure you

1594
01:29:12,734 --> 01:29:13,734
- Yeah, like I said,

1595
01:29:13,734 --> 01:29:16,567
there are some areas within there based on weather

1596
01:29:16,767 --> 01:29:18,433
and things like that, that we're trying

1597
01:29:18,433 --> 01:29:20,367
to get better at making assumptions.

1598
01:29:20,467 --> 01:29:22,834
Like this past year's budget, we tried to

1599
01:29:24,367 --> 01:29:25,900
understate the revenues,

1600
01:29:26,133 --> 01:29:29,100
anticipating potential weather delays, things like that.

1601
01:29:29,300 --> 01:29:32,100
And be realistic in what the expenses would be.

1602
01:29:32,433 --> 01:29:34,066
We're gonna be breaking out some

1603
01:29:34,066 --> 01:29:36,266
of those spreadsheets a little bit more to also look at

1604
01:29:37,300 --> 01:29:41,000
Jim's true costs on lining fields, staff time.

1605
01:29:41,233 --> 01:29:42,667
We have incorporated a lot of

1606
01:29:42,667 --> 01:29:45,500
that in the cost recovery sheets right now.

1607
01:29:46,834 --> 01:29:49,900
But this is giving us like a real bird's eye view of

1608
01:29:49,900 --> 01:29:52,734
how things are functioning now so we can figure out

1609
01:29:52,734 --> 01:29:53,900
where we need to make tweaks

1610
01:29:54,100 --> 01:29:56,000
and if we need to be adjusting fees,

1611
01:29:57,700 --> 01:30:00,133
this gives you more justification to do that.

1612
01:30:01,033 --> 01:30:02,734
- Yeah, I think this is an excellent first step.

1613
01:30:02,934 --> 01:30:06,433
I know, you know, some of my fellow Supervisors

1614
01:30:07,834 --> 01:30:09,667
didn't see yeah, these numbers.

1615
01:30:09,734 --> 01:30:12,100
So I think this is a really good, a really good start.

1616
01:30:12,000 --> 01:30:15,233
I think I would emphasize that this is legitimately a start

1617
01:30:15,233 --> 01:30:18,634
because I, I would hate for people to look at this, be like,

1618
01:30:18,634 --> 01:30:20,133
oh well we're crushing it.

1619
01:30:20,667 --> 01:30:21,934
I think this is, this is the first

1620
01:30:21,934 --> 01:30:23,100
step in a, a long process.

1621
01:30:23,266 --> 01:30:26,133
But I applaud the effort that's gone into it, the effort

1622
01:30:26,133 --> 01:30:29,133
that has yet to, has yet to go into it

1623
01:30:29,133 --> 01:30:30,467
because it seems very daunting.

1624
01:30:33,500 --> 01:30:35,300
- Yeah, I agree with the,

1625
01:30:36,100 --> 01:30:38,533
just the usefulness of this data.

1626
01:30:39,433 --> 01:30:42,467
I'm curious to know, so the, the documents

1627
01:30:42,467 --> 01:30:46,133
that we're providing, the individual at the budgets,

1628
01:30:46,233 --> 01:30:50,166
those capital budgets operating Michelle Parks budget,

1629
01:30:51,000 --> 01:30:53,767
those long documents, I'm just curious

1630
01:30:54,066 --> 01:30:59,000
who those are currently vailable to or like full consent to.

1631
01:30:59,734 --> 01:31:02,266
- Those documents go directly to the municipalities

1632
01:31:02,734 --> 01:31:04,000
and are distributed here

1633
01:31:04,000 --> 01:31:07,300
through the finance committee exec and the general form.

1634
01:31:07,867 --> 01:31:09,500
So it goes through a full vetting process

1635
01:31:09,634 --> 01:31:12,533
between municipalities that support CRPR.

1636
01:31:23,033 --> 01:31:25,033
- Any other need

1637
01:31:25,133 --> 01:31:28,000
clarification on anything?

1638
01:31:28,233 --> 01:31:32,533
I I, I'm really encouraged by just these help

1639
01:31:34,333 --> 01:31:37,867
data and that's annually when we,

1640
01:31:38,867 --> 01:31:43,066
when we do the, the fee policy, things like that.

1641
01:31:43,567 --> 01:31:48,100
It's like I, you know, sometimes I feel like I wait, I,

1642
01:31:48,333 --> 01:31:51,834
I know what the right number is, you know, I mean we,

1643
01:31:51,834 --> 01:31:54,333
you know, we get a lot of information from staff

1644
01:31:54,500 --> 01:31:58,066
and everyone does their due diligence looking

1645
01:31:59,133 --> 01:32:02,033
at other agencies, other, other facilities.

1646
01:32:02,333 --> 01:32:05,100
But, but having like our own

1647
01:32:06,734 --> 01:32:08,367
data's just, yeah, so much

1648
01:32:09,133 --> 01:32:11,100
just makes you feel better about understanding

1649
01:32:11,333 --> 01:32:13,233
how everything works and what,

1650
01:32:13,433 --> 01:32:16,934
what direction you need take in terms of fees or

1651
01:32:17,500 --> 01:32:21,066
or eliminating something or or enhancing it.

1652
01:32:21,133 --> 01:32:24,300
Yeah, the numbers always matter.

1653
01:32:25,033 --> 01:32:27,033
- So that's our goal is to try

1654
01:32:27,033 --> 01:32:29,533
to make it a little bit more transparent to each of you of

1655
01:32:29,533 --> 01:32:31,033
what our real costs are so

1656
01:32:31,033 --> 01:32:32,767
that you understand when we set fees,

1657
01:32:33,066 --> 01:32:35,934
if we propose an increase, you understand why.

1658
01:32:36,734 --> 01:32:39,300
Or if we say, okay, this fee doesn't need to increase,

1659
01:32:39,333 --> 01:32:41,300
but you look at the spreadsheet we provided you

1660
01:32:41,300 --> 01:32:44,467
and say, well this document's showing that you're under,

1661
01:32:44,567 --> 01:32:46,066
you're not meeting your tiers.

1662
01:32:46,033 --> 01:32:47,734
You can come back and kind of question us

1663
01:32:47,734 --> 01:32:50,066
and say, okay, explain that to me.

1664
01:32:50,634 --> 01:32:54,166
I think that transparency is important in our roles.

1665
01:32:54,367 --> 01:32:57,333
Our positions, our goal is to be transparent so

1666
01:32:57,333 --> 01:32:58,567
that you can make good decisions.

1667
01:33:00,166 --> 01:33:03,066
- I guess I do have a follow up then looking at the 60

1668
01:33:03,100 --> 01:33:05,033
requests and the new software.

1669
01:33:05,300 --> 01:33:07,266
How much do you feel like that is gonna be able

1670
01:33:07,266 --> 01:33:09,266
to help drive the collection of this data?

1671
01:33:10,000 --> 01:33:11,033
- It should help tremendously.

1672
01:33:11,266 --> 01:33:14,834
There is a function within there

1673
01:33:14,834 --> 01:33:16,133
where you can put your costs.

1674
01:33:17,000 --> 01:33:19,100
We just need to find out can you put in direct

1675
01:33:19,100 --> 01:33:21,567
and direct costs in separate, you know, categories so

1676
01:33:21,567 --> 01:33:23,133
that when we extract it we can see that.

1677
01:33:25,000 --> 01:33:27,133
But I, I don't know what that backend looks like,

1678
01:33:27,133 --> 01:33:29,100
but we do know that you can put expenses

1679
01:33:29,100 --> 01:33:32,133
for every individual program into the new software

1680
01:33:33,033 --> 01:33:35,233
and it will come out into a report.

1681
01:33:35,533 --> 01:33:39,700
That would be a huge time savings for staff to be able

1682
01:33:39,700 --> 01:33:40,867
to just do that right away.

1683
01:33:41,300 --> 01:33:44,066
Right now we've gotten I think into maybe a good rhythm

1684
01:33:44,066 --> 01:33:46,900
where those Excel sheets are just being used

1685
01:33:46,900 --> 01:33:50,133
as they develop programs, they figure out

1686
01:33:50,133 --> 01:33:51,734
what their costs are, set their fees

1687
01:33:51,834 --> 01:33:53,233
and they're using that as they go.

1688
01:33:53,333 --> 01:33:55,567
So it's kind of a, a similar process now

1689
01:33:56,133 --> 01:33:58,700
as they would use inputting into the new software.

1690
01:33:59,100 --> 01:34:04,000
So at least it would be an easier export for a municipality

1691
01:34:04,000 --> 01:34:07,333
that's asking for information to be able to print that out

1692
01:34:07,734 --> 01:34:11,000
and send it along to provide more information on that.

1693
01:34:12,266 --> 01:34:16,000
- And I guess Jim, I'll ask you with your staff, you know,

1694
01:34:16,000 --> 01:34:19,433
how do you necessarily track time going towards say like

1695
01:34:22,033 --> 01:34:24,133
mowing the Yoda Preserve roads

1696
01:34:25,700 --> 01:34:28,066
low call versus being out of Whitehall.

1697
01:34:28,100 --> 01:34:30,100
How granular are you tracking that?

1698
01:34:30,300 --> 01:34:32,266
How will that be able to interface

1699
01:34:32,266 --> 01:34:33,900
to help them track their times?

1700
01:34:35,066 --> 01:34:37,667
- It's actually, excuse me, it's actually gonna be much

1701
01:34:39,066 --> 01:34:40,567
program coming on this year.

1702
01:34:41,667 --> 01:34:43,066
Hope is hope.

1703
01:34:43,133 --> 01:34:45,166
We'll make sure it's ready Go January,

1704
01:34:46,266 --> 01:34:49,300
we started it this year getting everything loaded up guys

1705
01:34:49,300 --> 01:34:50,667
will be input everything.

1706
01:34:51,166 --> 01:34:56,033
Now we're doing that paper. So what down

1707
01:34:57,100 --> 01:34:58,634
- Hopeful weeks is going keep

1708
01:34:59,066 --> 01:35:01,133
that we'll get true actual numbers,

1709
01:35:02,066 --> 01:35:03,700
what we're spending happen on every day.

1710
01:35:04,900 --> 01:35:08,066
- We now have tablets for each of the crew

1711
01:35:08,066 --> 01:35:12,000
that we just received two weeks ago that we're setting up.

1712
01:35:12,100 --> 01:35:14,934
And so they'll actually have their own tablet in the field

1713
01:35:15,000 --> 01:35:17,533
to be able to enter information into the software,

1714
01:35:18,033 --> 01:35:19,867
which then does the same thing.

1715
01:35:19,867 --> 01:35:23,000
Prints out a report for us to show us okay,

1716
01:35:23,000 --> 01:35:25,500
what are some true costs for O Call for example,

1717
01:35:25,934 --> 01:35:29,033
or what is it for a sports Forman?

1718
01:35:29,734 --> 01:35:32,066
Again, we'll be discovering that software a little bit more

1719
01:35:32,066 --> 01:35:34,834
to see like what capabilities we have so

1720
01:35:34,834 --> 01:35:36,066
that you can kind of see the recording.

1721
01:35:36,100 --> 01:35:38,033
But we'll be sharing that as we go,

1722
01:35:38,667 --> 01:35:40,033
as we get more comfortable with it

1723
01:35:40,033 --> 01:35:42,233
because I think that does help provide

1724
01:35:42,333 --> 01:35:45,467
and we're one of the very few rec departments

1725
01:35:45,533 --> 01:35:47,533
that will have maintenance software

1726
01:35:47,900 --> 01:35:51,367
and so we're fortunate that we're gonna be able to provide

1727
01:35:51,367 --> 01:35:53,634
that information to everybody so you can see

1728
01:35:53,634 --> 01:35:54,634
- It.

1729
01:35:54,634 --> 01:35:56,100
Yeah, I think it's important that people know that

1730
01:35:56,567 --> 01:35:59,266
being able to automatically generate those rather than have

1731
01:35:59,500 --> 01:36:01,900
them from yeah, pencil and paper

1732
01:36:02,100 --> 01:36:07,000
and guess work will save a shocking amount of time

1733
01:36:07,000 --> 01:36:08,033
to generating these reports.

1734
01:36:08,266 --> 01:36:11,133
So glad that we're moving this direction.

1735
01:36:11,133 --> 01:36:13,667
I hope that we can generate, like use those efficiencies.

1736
01:36:13,867 --> 01:36:16,767
Yeah. To drive some cost savings as well. Yeah.

1737
01:36:21,367 --> 01:36:25,000
- Okay. So I'll entertain a motion that Centre Region Parks

1738
01:36:25,000 --> 01:36:28,133
and Recreation Authority approved the revenue enhancement

1739
01:36:28,066 --> 01:36:32,000
plan as an additional financial oversight measures

1740
01:36:32,166 --> 01:36:34,367
for future CR PR budget.

1741
01:36:38,700 --> 01:36:41,133
Second. Second. Okay. Thank you.

1742
01:36:42,033 --> 01:36:44,767
Okay, additional comments, questions, concerns?

1743
01:36:45,100 --> 01:36:46,100
- I have one concern

1744
01:36:47,133 --> 01:36:51,066
and that is I hope that this thing would not be

1745
01:36:51,867 --> 01:36:54,100
such that somebody comes up with a new idea

1746
01:36:54,100 --> 01:36:56,066
that I fit in a plan.

1747
01:36:56,133 --> 01:36:58,233
Can't do it because you have this plan

1748
01:37:00,500 --> 01:37:01,500
- Right now.

1749
01:37:01,500 --> 01:37:05,000
- That's what I, that that's what bothers me about it's

1750
01:37:05,000 --> 01:37:06,033
so rigid.

1751
01:37:10,734 --> 01:37:13,667
I don't know, but that I I I don't expect an answer to that.

1752
01:37:14,100 --> 01:37:17,634
- Yeah, think until we encounter until, until we get

1753
01:37:17,634 --> 01:37:20,667
through, you know, continued work on cost recovery,

1754
01:37:21,066 --> 01:37:23,266
we'll probably identify whether there's anything

1755
01:37:23,266 --> 01:37:24,934
that doesn't fit within that plan.

1756
01:37:25,066 --> 01:37:29,000
But we're following national standards on cost recoveries

1757
01:37:29,000 --> 01:37:30,900
here as a general guideline

1758
01:37:31,734 --> 01:37:35,100
and not getting too super specific on things.

1759
01:37:35,100 --> 01:37:37,233
I mean the cost recoveries are ranges,

1760
01:37:38,066 --> 01:37:41,000
so it may range from 75% to a hundred percent.

1761
01:37:41,066 --> 01:37:44,133
So there is flexibility within those tiers

1762
01:37:44,300 --> 01:37:46,500
that allow programs to kind of,

1763
01:37:47,000 --> 01:37:49,066
some may be stronger than other programs,

1764
01:37:49,066 --> 01:37:51,634
it's just when they dip below certain thresholds,

1765
01:37:52,367 --> 01:37:55,567
that's when it impacts municipal shares

1766
01:37:55,567 --> 01:37:58,100
because we have to rely more on municipal shares

1767
01:37:58,266 --> 01:38:00,066
than the revenues.

1768
01:38:00,233 --> 01:38:03,367
We don't wanna double tax people on our programs

1769
01:38:03,700 --> 01:38:04,700
'cause they're already paying taxes.

1770
01:38:05,700 --> 01:38:09,066
But being reasonable without being, you know,

1771
01:38:09,133 --> 01:38:10,500
too overly unreasonable.

1772
01:38:11,166 --> 01:38:13,300
Makes sense and

1773
01:38:13,634 --> 01:38:15,834
and our perspective, this is better than

1774
01:38:16,033 --> 01:38:17,567
what we have now, which is nothing

1775
01:38:19,266 --> 01:38:20,266
- But yeah.

1776
01:38:21,433 --> 01:38:26,033
Operating. But yeah, rather than true numbers,

1777
01:38:28,333 --> 01:38:32,066
- Well I think it helps Supervisors as well kind of know how

1778
01:38:32,066 --> 01:38:35,233
to be on the same playing field with their programs

1779
01:38:35,900 --> 01:38:38,367
and like what to set as targets

1780
01:38:38,834 --> 01:38:40,667
and we haven't really had a lot of that.

1781
01:38:41,133 --> 01:38:42,433
We've been pretty separate

1782
01:38:42,667 --> 01:38:44,433
and individual in how we've done that.

1783
01:38:44,533 --> 01:38:47,367
So as an agency, I think providing some kind

1784
01:38:47,367 --> 01:38:50,233
of general like tool to say here's a tool,

1785
01:38:50,533 --> 01:38:53,166
here's a benchmark is helpful.

1786
01:38:59,433 --> 01:39:01,100
- I think also with the size of the program,

1787
01:39:01,500 --> 01:39:05,834
like just the sheer number of programs there,

1788
01:39:06,166 --> 01:39:09,100
this is be incredibly helpful.

1789
01:39:09,266 --> 01:39:09,634
Yeah.

1790
01:39:15,000 --> 01:39:18,767
A question first to me, if you have something new

1791
01:39:18,934 --> 01:39:23,900
that you're, you know, you're trying, how long would,

1792
01:39:24,233 --> 01:39:28,533
would you give that program sort of up to speed

1793
01:39:29,533 --> 01:39:31,767
meet the numbers that like to see,

1794
01:39:33,734 --> 01:39:37,734
- Like we have used I think in the past three sessions.

1795
01:39:37,934 --> 01:39:40,567
So if after three sessions something hasn't gone,

1796
01:39:41,500 --> 01:39:44,133
then you really need to visit either retitle the program,

1797
01:39:44,867 --> 01:39:48,166
reprice the program, rebrand it and title entirely

1798
01:39:49,066 --> 01:39:50,100
or eliminate it.

1799
01:39:51,033 --> 01:39:53,000
It's usually when you get to the third time

1800
01:39:53,000 --> 01:39:55,033
where you've attempted and you look at your costs

1801
01:39:55,634 --> 01:39:58,333
'cause there is a cost to try to market, advertise,

1802
01:39:58,367 --> 01:40:00,734
put the program together, coordinate with the instructor.

1803
01:40:01,533 --> 01:40:04,166
Those decisions I think reside with the Supervisors.

1804
01:40:04,300 --> 01:40:06,033
Not something I wanted to put in a document,

1805
01:40:06,233 --> 01:40:09,000
but I think in general we talk with each other about,

1806
01:40:09,734 --> 01:40:12,166
you know, what is an appropriate threshold And

1807
01:40:12,467 --> 01:40:14,100
that's something that will continue

1808
01:40:14,634 --> 01:40:16,133
as we look at cost recovery

1809
01:40:16,700 --> 01:40:18,700
and the programs that didn't hit the threshold.

1810
01:40:19,266 --> 01:40:21,333
How do we manage those going forward?

1811
01:40:21,634 --> 01:40:24,033
Do we keep trying three times?

1812
01:40:25,100 --> 01:40:27,667
If it doesn't go then we, you know, we eliminate it

1813
01:40:27,667 --> 01:40:30,133
or we reprice it, rebrand it.

1814
01:40:31,433 --> 01:40:34,433
And some of those tools are in the program portfolio

1815
01:40:34,867 --> 01:40:38,467
appendix, which helps guide them on repricing,

1816
01:40:39,100 --> 01:40:40,667
redesigning and stuff like that.

1817
01:40:45,100 --> 01:40:48,066
- Additional comments, questions, concerns,

1818
01:40:50,266 --> 01:40:51,667
all say aye.

1819
01:40:52,767 --> 01:40:56,500
Aye. Aye. Aye. All the same sign.

1820
01:40:58,133 --> 01:41:02,333
Okay. Next we have an informational

1821
01:41:03,100 --> 01:41:05,233
presentation about 2027.

1822
01:41:09,033 --> 01:41:11,500
- Okay. So hang on. So I know this is a lot of information

1823
01:41:13,667 --> 01:41:15,367
as we've gone through a lot of documents.

1824
01:41:15,500 --> 01:41:18,066
I'll try to be somewhat brief

1825
01:41:18,066 --> 01:41:20,567
and I wanna be able to answer any questions

1826
01:41:20,567 --> 01:41:24,533
that you all have because I know the budget process doesn't

1827
01:41:24,533 --> 01:41:26,700
always align with authority meetings

1828
01:41:27,133 --> 01:41:28,100
and how we review things.

1829
01:41:28,266 --> 01:41:30,367
So trying to play catch up

1830
01:41:30,367 --> 01:41:34,867
because this morning the finance committee approved

1831
01:41:34,867 --> 01:41:37,300
to move forward the budget documents

1832
01:41:38,033 --> 01:41:39,567
based on those discussions

1833
01:41:40,166 --> 01:41:42,533
and some sig sig e items were approved.

1834
01:41:42,567 --> 01:41:44,533
Some were not Parks and rec.

1835
01:41:44,567 --> 01:41:48,066
We only had one item originally

1836
01:41:48,066 --> 01:41:50,367
that wasn't supported.

1837
01:41:50,433 --> 01:41:54,266
But then Jim and I were able to explain it a little bit more

1838
01:41:54,266 --> 01:41:56,367
and the item did get put back in.

1839
01:41:56,367 --> 01:41:58,233
It was the park specialist one position.

1840
01:41:58,667 --> 01:42:03,033
So that is getting passed through again, not approved yet.

1841
01:42:03,100 --> 01:42:04,033
It's gotta go through its process,

1842
01:42:04,233 --> 01:42:08,333
but we are looking at the savings from the seasonal

1843
01:42:08,333 --> 01:42:11,100
maintenance staff that were not being able

1844
01:42:11,100 --> 01:42:15,834
to fill those positions to try to help recoup that cost

1845
01:42:15,867 --> 01:42:19,500
and reduce the municipal share impact on that.

1846
01:42:20,467 --> 01:42:24,100
So essentially each budget had

1847
01:42:24,934 --> 01:42:26,467
some changes for 2027.

1848
01:42:26,767 --> 01:42:31,100
You had municipal contributions did increase,

1849
01:42:31,100 --> 01:42:33,867
however our expenditures decreased.

1850
01:42:35,367 --> 01:42:37,133
And some of the nuances

1851
01:42:37,133 --> 01:42:39,367
of our budget are the use of fund balance.

1852
01:42:40,233 --> 01:42:44,634
So if we don't, if we, we have an excess if amount of funds

1853
01:42:44,634 --> 01:42:47,133
that go into the fund balance at the end of the year

1854
01:42:47,166 --> 01:42:49,000
that are not assigned to a project.

1855
01:42:49,867 --> 01:42:51,133
Basically we did really well

1856
01:42:51,333 --> 01:42:53,000
and we may have something that goes down

1857
01:42:53,300 --> 01:42:56,333
or we have a project that's well under budget,

1858
01:42:56,767 --> 01:42:58,634
that extra money goes into fund balance.

1859
01:42:59,300 --> 01:43:01,033
And so we can't just use those funds.

1860
01:43:01,033 --> 01:43:03,900
There's a process in place through call that we would have

1861
01:43:03,900 --> 01:43:05,233
to go through to use those funds.

1862
01:43:06,333 --> 01:43:08,100
But one of the nuances that's hard

1863
01:43:08,100 --> 01:43:12,033
to see in the documents is why municipal shares appear

1864
01:43:12,033 --> 01:43:15,000
to maybe spike from one year to the next.

1865
01:43:15,233 --> 01:43:18,834
Part of that is we'll use fund balance in the prior budget

1866
01:43:19,333 --> 01:43:22,133
to offset the expenses to reduce the shares.

1867
01:43:22,767 --> 01:43:26,066
So because of that you may have a reduction in shares

1868
01:43:26,066 --> 01:43:27,266
because we used fund balance.

1869
01:43:28,100 --> 01:43:31,266
So the comparison of contributions from one year

1870
01:43:31,266 --> 01:43:34,433
to the next looks significant, significantly different.

1871
01:43:34,634 --> 01:43:36,033
We did the same thing this year.

1872
01:43:37,000 --> 01:43:40,100
Ben, through this process helped to reduce some

1873
01:43:40,100 --> 01:43:42,500
of the expenses of municipal shares

1874
01:43:42,533 --> 01:43:44,100
through use of fund balance.

1875
01:43:44,834 --> 01:43:47,634
I think we ended up using a little over 200,000

1876
01:43:48,700 --> 01:43:50,033
for certain particular projects.

1877
01:43:50,533 --> 01:43:53,000
We had some funds that were unassigned

1878
01:43:53,000 --> 01:43:54,867
or restricted within a certain budget

1879
01:43:54,867 --> 01:43:56,300
that we were able to kind of use.

1880
01:43:58,066 --> 01:44:00,834
And I think it worked out in our favor

1881
01:44:01,000 --> 01:44:03,700
and we were able to get things put through

1882
01:44:03,700 --> 01:44:06,100
and approved some of the items we deferred.

1883
01:44:07,033 --> 01:44:09,233
There were a few things that, the pools that got deferred

1884
01:44:09,233 --> 01:44:11,700
because we had a note in there

1885
01:44:11,700 --> 01:44:13,333
that they were a potential deferral.

1886
01:44:13,867 --> 01:44:17,000
We wanted to look at the items for the end of the season

1887
01:44:17,567 --> 01:44:19,266
to see what the condition of the item was

1888
01:44:19,467 --> 01:44:22,700
before we said yes, let's fund this.

1889
01:44:22,834 --> 01:44:27,500
And so, because some items are operating well,

1890
01:44:27,734 --> 01:44:31,033
like pool pumps, water heaters, things like that, as long

1891
01:44:31,033 --> 01:44:32,133
as they operated well,

1892
01:44:32,433 --> 01:44:34,767
we felt comfortable pushing those out.

1893
01:44:35,433 --> 01:44:38,934
So there were a total of four items, I believe, right,

1894
01:44:39,066 --> 01:44:42,567
that were struck from Cxi, which was a savings

1895
01:44:42,667 --> 01:44:44,333
of a little over a hundred thousand dollars.

1896
01:44:45,266 --> 01:44:48,333
So last year we put forward over 20,

1897
01:44:48,900 --> 01:44:51,000
around 25 60 requests.

1898
01:44:51,000 --> 01:44:55,634
This year we ended up with roughly six or seven requests.

1899
01:44:56,900 --> 01:44:59,133
So we've cut that back significantly

1900
01:44:59,433 --> 01:45:02,900
and all the items we put forward are repairs, replacements,

1901
01:45:04,100 --> 01:45:06,367
taking care of essentially what what we have.

1902
01:45:08,266 --> 01:45:11,734
But I know each budget sheet is different than

1903
01:45:11,734 --> 01:45:13,000
what you're used to seeing

1904
01:45:13,000 --> 01:45:16,834
because this is the new financial system called clear gov

1905
01:45:17,533 --> 01:45:19,500
and that's how the information was extracted.

1906
01:45:20,233 --> 01:45:23,100
So you can kind of see couple different

1907
01:45:23,100 --> 01:45:24,367
versions of each budget.

1908
01:45:24,834 --> 01:45:29,166
You'll see by department, by fund,

1909
01:45:30,033 --> 01:45:31,567
there's different categories.

1910
01:45:31,634 --> 01:45:33,266
So essentially all the same information,

1911
01:45:33,500 --> 01:45:34,734
it is just grouped differently

1912
01:45:34,867 --> 01:45:36,567
so you can see the information differently.

1913
01:45:37,634 --> 01:45:41,333
So any specific questions on those

1914
01:45:42,100 --> 01:45:45,834
budget items that were in the packet that you want

1915
01:45:45,834 --> 01:45:47,133
to go through specifically?

1916
01:45:48,000 --> 01:45:51,266
We're happy to answer any questions you might have.

1917
01:45:56,133 --> 01:45:56,667
One second

1918
01:45:57,433 --> 01:45:58,033
- Missing

1919
01:46:03,000 --> 01:46:03,634
actually, I have my hand.

1920
01:46:07,867 --> 01:46:09,367
- We had pumps

1921
01:46:09,367 --> 01:46:11,934
and associated systems for the, the pools

1922
01:46:12,166 --> 01:46:13,533
that was noted as a pen.

1923
01:46:13,567 --> 01:46:14,700
Potential deferral,

1924
01:46:15,133 --> 01:46:17,500
replacing aging programmatic water features.

1925
01:46:18,000 --> 01:46:19,533
We have been replacing those.

1926
01:46:20,367 --> 01:46:23,100
We have some carry forward funds from prior years

1927
01:46:23,100 --> 01:46:24,000
that we're using as well.

1928
01:46:25,066 --> 01:46:27,300
So Todd's been able to replace some of those this year.

1929
01:46:28,767 --> 01:46:29,834
Domestic water heaters,

1930
01:46:30,066 --> 01:46:32,033
Todd said those are functioning really well.

1931
01:46:32,634 --> 01:46:34,266
We should be able to get another year out of them.

1932
01:46:35,433 --> 01:46:38,000
And then the replacing the picnic table slots,

1933
01:46:38,734 --> 01:46:40,300
we purchased those this year.

1934
01:46:40,500 --> 01:46:42,533
Todd has a skid of those

1935
01:46:42,700 --> 01:46:45,066
and he's per replacing those as needed.

1936
01:46:46,133 --> 01:46:49,333
So I don't think that was something that was so crucial.

1937
01:46:49,467 --> 01:46:51,767
We needed to give them another pallet to kind

1938
01:46:51,767 --> 01:46:53,066
of wait until something breaks.

1939
01:46:54,000 --> 01:46:57,934
So that savings again was around a hundred thousand dollars.

1940
01:46:58,033 --> 01:47:00,767
Just over a hundred thousand dollars in those

1941
01:47:00,767 --> 01:47:01,767
- Items.

1942
01:47:05,033 --> 01:47:06,300
- So everything else, yeah, I was just curious

1943
01:47:06,300 --> 01:47:08,133
- What, what the floor works. Yeah,

1944
01:47:08,266 --> 01:47:10,033
- Everything else got approved.

1945
01:47:10,133 --> 01:47:14,867
The revenue for the boardwalk campaign, the resurfacing

1946
01:47:14,900 --> 01:47:17,000
of the splash pad at Welch Pool,

1947
01:47:17,000 --> 01:47:18,634
because that's a safety issue.

1948
01:47:19,634 --> 01:47:22,066
The park specialist one janitorial for gym,

1949
01:47:22,734 --> 01:47:26,000
which would serve multiple purposes in addition

1950
01:47:26,000 --> 01:47:27,667
to janitorial work

1951
01:47:28,233 --> 01:47:30,367
that would eliminate the janitorial contract

1952
01:47:31,000 --> 01:47:33,066
they would take over cleaning

1953
01:47:33,533 --> 01:47:37,266
and upkeep of our facilities in addition to using

1954
01:47:37,266 --> 01:47:39,300
that person for mowing,

1955
01:47:39,700 --> 01:47:41,133
facility maintenance, things like that.

1956
01:47:42,033 --> 01:47:46,900
Equipment lift for maintenance, replacing netting at Hess,

1957
01:47:47,300 --> 01:47:50,867
replacement of a 2012 truck

1958
01:47:52,266 --> 01:47:53,634
and the software.

1959
01:47:54,033 --> 01:47:56,433
So those moved through the process.

1960
01:47:57,567 --> 01:48:00,233
- So - That's where we're at right now.

1961
01:48:00,700 --> 01:48:01,767
Those are the major items.

1962
01:48:08,634 --> 01:48:12,066
- Progress. Yeah. Didn't take too bigger. No.

1963
01:48:13,367 --> 01:48:15,734
Yeah. Any additional thought?

1964
01:48:19,233 --> 01:48:22,100
Okay. Take note.

1965
01:48:22,100 --> 01:48:26,133
Your our, our other business items or next meeting

1966
01:48:26,367 --> 01:48:27,734
after first 15.

1967
01:48:28,634 --> 01:48:31,767
Is there anything else that point out to us

1968
01:48:31,834 --> 01:48:33,266
that we need to pay attention to?

1969
01:48:36,500 --> 01:48:37,700
Nope. I don't believe so.

1970
01:48:41,266 --> 01:48:43,533
Motion Adjourn. So moved. Aye.

1971
01:49:15,934 --> 01:49:18,066
- The Centre Region Active Adult Center is a vibrant,

1972
01:49:18,100 --> 01:49:20,033
inclusive, and happening location designed

1973
01:49:20,033 --> 01:49:23,100
for active adults 55 years and over to be social

1974
01:49:23,066 --> 01:49:25,066
and participate in new experiences while

1975
01:49:25,133 --> 01:49:26,266
also staying close to home.

1976
01:49:26,834 --> 01:49:29,033
We promote healthy aging through our many activities

1977
01:49:29,033 --> 01:49:31,333
and health forums as well as lifelong learning

1978
01:49:31,333 --> 01:49:33,100
through classes and social interaction

1979
01:49:33,233 --> 01:49:34,934
that suit almost any lifestyle.

1980
01:49:35,133 --> 01:49:37,667
Whether you prefer line dancing followed by a walk

1981
01:49:37,867 --> 01:49:39,133
or a game of bridge and a meal,

1982
01:49:39,467 --> 01:49:41,133
the center is sure to have something for you.

1983
01:49:41,333 --> 01:49:44,100
Visit crpr.org for more info.

1984
01:49:50,100 --> 01:49:52,867
- The League of Women Voters was founded almost a hundred

1985
01:49:52,867 --> 01:49:55,467
years ago with the right to vote for women.

1986
01:49:57,100 --> 01:49:59,767
Not only the right to vote, but an informed vote.

1987
01:50:00,634 --> 01:50:04,033
- You need to know everything about that candidate.

1988
01:50:04,700 --> 01:50:07,533
You need to be able to ask that candidate questions.

1989
01:50:09,000 --> 01:50:12,000
- I think that the organization is going to continue

1990
01:50:12,033 --> 01:50:14,467
to attract a diverse membership

1991
01:50:14,634 --> 01:50:18,000
and I think that that will help us in working toward the

1992
01:50:18,000 --> 01:50:21,066
goal of better representation for everybody. There's

1993
01:50:21,066 --> 01:50:23,767
- A wonderful opportunity here for people who are younger

1994
01:50:24,033 --> 01:50:26,100
to come and learn from women who have been part

1995
01:50:26,100 --> 01:50:29,066
of social movements for years and years.

1996
01:50:29,867 --> 01:50:33,500
- It's our job to be a mentor to the newer members

1997
01:50:33,500 --> 01:50:35,000
because they're the ones

1998
01:50:35,000 --> 01:50:37,300
after all that are going to be carrying the banner

1999
01:50:37,333 --> 01:50:39,467
of the league into the next hundred years.

2000
01:50:40,367 --> 01:50:44,300
We stand for the nonpartisanship that we should all have

2001
01:50:44,433 --> 01:50:46,767
as leaders in our democracy today.