All right.
» We'll talk about that one day.
» Dallas has had enough. He's gone. >> Yeah.
like to call to order the parks board meeting for August the 24th, 2026.
Open prayer, please, Mr. Ben. >> Okay, you got it. Everybody, please bow
your heads. Uh, heavenly father, we thank you for this glorious and
beautiful day. We ask you that you look out for everybody here in in in this
meeting this evening and do your will each and every day. Uh God, we thank you
so much for everything you give us and in Jesus name we pray. Amen.
» Amen. >> Mr. Pike, will you do the pledge, sir?
» Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the
republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and
justice for all. >> Thank you, sir.
» Jimmy, you be saying that every day. >> I hope so.
All right. >> If you've looked over the agenda, I need
a motion to approve. Mr. Golden was first. Mr. Pike was second.
» All in favor say I. >> I.
» If you've had a chance to look over the meetings from last meeting, I would like
a motion to approve. That would be Mr. Pike again and Mr. Bennett. And all in
favor say I. >> All oppose.
» And I'm going to abstain since I wasn't here.
» You stayain. Do we need a a voicemail? I don't think so.
» Got it. >> I think we're good. All right. Do we
have any public comments, sir? >> No, sir.
» Thank you. >> All right. I think we have a
presentation. Do we not, Mr. Gilly? >> We do.
» Eagle Scout presentation from Miss Emily Holman. She did a great job on her
project. Uh there's some pictures that show before and after of the the project
she did at Drexs Creek Park Field 5. So I'll let Emily take you from here.
» Push your little button up there if you don't mind. Thank you, man.
» I completed the benches about two weeks ago, I think. And um I put it in the
home and visitor side. Two 10-ft benches for each dugout.
» Nice. >> Four total. Uh, it was a lot of fun and
I was a good improvement to the field. So,
» thank you. >> That's awesome.
» Good. >> Looks like you had a lot of help.
» Yes, I did. >> Uh, looks like some of them might have
been sitting while y'all were working, but that's [laughter] all right.
» You want to let everybody know kind of who helped you?
» Uh, yes. So, I had my troop, Troop 4 007, help me. um my brother who is also
a scout and some other scouts from local troops help.
» Fantastic. >> Looks great. Looks great.
» And I I think you also had a little bit left over in your fund. You talked about
uh donating that back. >> Yes, I had about $75 remaining in funds
and I donated it to the Hendersonville Civotton Club softball program for
scholarships or whatever is needed. >> Awesome.
I'm sure proud of you. I sure am. I mean,
» and all the bad things going on in the world, you guys are a light. I can tell
you that. >> We appreciate it.
» Thank you, sir. Thank you, >> Emily. Great job.
» Thank you. They [applause]
» Hey, wait a minute. I'll stand up for a scout. [applause and cheering]
[applause]
» Thank you. Thank you. >> It's hard for an old man to stand up. I
did that though, didn't
» All right. Items for approval. World Cup rug practice site.
» State your name. Tell us what you want. >> Uh Brian Silkwood, head coach, Summit
County Rugby, built the rugby fields. So we've been um approached by World Rugby.
That's the over the international organization that controls the national
teams for rugby worldwide. So coming up in October the 24th to uh both the US
national team, both men and women are going to be in town playing at Gotas
Park and they are looking for practice site for the two international teams to
have for the week leading up. So Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
Um they're wanting to be out there pretty much 8 to 5. they won't be there
all day, but they want the flexibility to come and go kind of as they need. Um,
so really it doesn't impact our, you know, high school, middle schools or
flag or anything in that regard. For the most part, they'll be off the fields.
Um, but we will have both the Italian women's national team and the uh men's
South African Spring Bucks will be here. Actually, we have the Australian team is
actually coming. Sorry, Australian team is coming. Uh, so we'll have both of
them practice out there at the facility. Um the only thing that they ask is we
cannot make this a massive public PR because there's not a lot of way to
control if a lot of people knew about it. So it's kind of more just let let
them use the site, use the field. They love the fields. They've already been
out there. So um I don't think I missed anything. Andy.
» Okay. >> Questions?
» Motion to approve. >> Mr. Rather made a motion to approve.
» Mr. [snorts] head was second. Any more discussion? All in favor say I.
» All oppose. >> Thank you for coming, sir.
» Thanks. >> Kingdom Treasures 5K run walk.
» State your name and what you want. >> Hi. Uh my name is Cyprian Ber. um with
Kingdom Treasures and we're wanting to do a fundraiser for this uh nonprofit
organization. The purpose of the nonprofit is to become a child uh
placement agency uh that takes in uh kids that are in danger of going into
DCS custody and uh placing them with foster parents. And u we've already we
got established last year in July and have done a fundraiser as a silent
auction and dinner in April. and we're wanting to do our second one as a 5K run
to kind of get the community involved, get the word out. So, uh the the date
would be for November 7th, uh through the morning to the 2 o'clock in the
afternoon. So,
» what's the the route for the 5K that certain route over there picked out
or >> um generally the Memorial Park area, but
I don't have the exact route. I'd have to walk it. Um,
» it's about a mile if you stay in the park on that little walkway there.
» They were planning on like a turnaround point.
» Okay. >> Like multiple times within the park.
» You can do that about three times right on your back. You stay in the park
without traffic. >> Yeah. I actually I spoke to him this
morning. >> Yeah.
» Um >> we were he had asked if maybe to change
the route kind of where it goes over into Drake's Creek. Um and I told him
that it would be a a different site map. It would have to hire offduty police um
for traffic purposes and stuff. So we we had decided to stay in the park.
» Yes. Yeah. >> Okay.
Any more questions on that? I have a motion to approve this. Mr.
Perry was first. Mr. Mononttoya was second.
Any more questions? Any more comments? All in favor say I. All oppose.
» Thank you, sir. Thank you. >> Thank you.
» Beach Deca 5K.
» State your name and what you want. >> Good afternoon and thank you for giving
me the opportunity to speak with you today. My name is Ansley Han and I'm a
senior at Beach High School. My partner Blake and I are both members of Beach
DECA and this year we're working on a project called Bravehearts. Our project
is focused on supporting pediatric cancer patients and their families
through fundraising, awareness, and community involvement. We chose to
support the pediatric cancer unit at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital because
we wanted our project to have a real impact on children and families in our
community. Our why
children in hospitals, especially those battling cancer, chronic illness, or
long-term treatments, face challenges that most kids never experience. One of
those being emotional stress and fear. Um, hospitals can seem very scary and
cold to children. Um, it's a really hard experience for them. So, we want to make
sure that they feel as least alone as they possibly can. Um, another one of
those being the loss of normaly. Um, being in the hospital means missing
birthdays, holidays, sports, and school. So, we want to be a comforting face to
them and make them feel a little bit more normal.
Um, also Bravehearts is more than just a fundraising project. Our goal is to
bring our community together around pediatric cancer and create
opportunities to make people feel a difference. Throughout this school year,
we want to involve students, schools, businesses, and families throughout SER
County. We want people to understand that even something as simple as
participating in event, sharing information, or donating can help
support children's going through something um incredibly difficult.
Why Vanderbilt Children's Hospital? Um Vanderbilt Children's Hospital is the
largest pediatric hospital in Tennessee. Um they have patients from 50 states and
international. Um they have 363 beds and 108,000
patients each day. They're the number one children's hospital in Tennessee and
the Southeast. They are also the number one hospital statewide for 10are
admissions. Um me and my partner Blake visited Vanderbilt Children's Hospital.
And for pediatric cancer specifically, they have a room, a playroom in each
floor where they have games, uh Xbox, they have coloring books, um things to
make them feel a little bit more normal. The first event um we want to host is
the Every Color Counts Color Run, which will take place on September 5th at 9:00
a.m. at Memorial Park. Registration is $10 and our goal is to create an event
that is fun and welcoming for families, students, and community members while
raising money for our cause. The idea behind the event is that every color
represents a different person, family, or story affected by cancer. When all
those colors come together, they create something much bigger than any one
individual. That represents exactly why we want Bravehearts to be a community
coming together to support children and families.
We chose Memorial Park because it gives us an ideal community setting for an
event like this. The park already has several features that make it
appropriate for an active community event, including a walking track,
multi-purpose athletic field, restrooms, picnic areas, and other recreational
amenities. We also want to be respectful of the park and the people who use it
regularly. Our goal is not to disrupt the community, but to create an
organized event that fits naturally within the park.
We understand that hosting an event in the park in the city park comes with a
lot of responsibility. We plan to have designated areas for registration, the
start and finish of the run, and our color stations. We also will be using
biodegradable colors so that it'll get washed out in the rain. We also will
have a plan for cleanup and making sure that we leave the park in the same
condition or better than we found it. Safety is also extremely important to
us. We will make sure participants know where they need to be. Volunteers.
Volunteers understand the responsibilities and we follow the
city's requirements for special events. We know that Henderson Parks has
specific guidelines and procedures for special events and we want to make sure
we work with the parks department through the process rather than assuming
we know everything ourselves. One of our biggest goals is getting Sar
County involved. We've already reached out to schools through the county and
asked them to help us spread the word through emails, uh, Sumner chat, social
media, and other school communication. We want this to be something that the
students and families from all over Sar County and Henderson can participate in.
Although this color run is the first event, it is not only it is not the
beginning of Bravehearts. Throughout this be throughout this year, we want we
can we plan to continue finding ways to raise money, spread awareness, and
involve our community in supporting pediatric pediatric cancer. We want to
build something that continues through the entire school year rather than one
event and stopping there. Today we are here because we would love
to have your support and guidance as we walk toward making every color counts
colorant a successful event at Memorial Park. We're both high school students,
so we know we have a lot to learn about organizing an event of this size. And
that's why we're excited to work with you guys. We want to make sure we are
following the proper procedures, respecting the park, keeping
participants safe, and creating an event that the Hendersville community can be a
part of. At the end of the day, Henderson will or sorry, at the end of
the day, Brave Hearts isn't about showing children and families facing
pediatric cancer that they aren't alone. We believe that the one small event can
bring a community together and we're hoping that the every color counts color
run could be the first step in making that happen. Thank you for your time and
considering our project. We're really excited about the opportunity to work
with the city of Hendersonville and the parks board and we'd be happy to answer
any questions you might have. >> That was just well done.
» Thank you. >> That was really well done. What type of
advertisement are you doing for this? >> So, um, me and my partner Blake went all
across, um, all the Sumar County or all the surrounding, um, middle schools and
elementary schools and dropped flyers and then got contacts of their assistant
principles and principles and sent them all emails of um, if they could send it
out to parents. Um, we don't have Remind anymore, but we have I think it's called
Sumner Chat and they sent it out there. They also sent it on emails. Um, we've
also give it to our school. So, we've posted it on our beta account. We have
an Instagram ourselves. We also created a Facebook account and it also has been
shared on the Sear County Facebook account and the Beach High School
Facebook account. >> Um, we also plan on we have a sign
outside our school. It's electronic sign. We actually have um a design that
we're putting onto that sign for the week of and then we also plan on using
school announcements as well. >> Well, we call my house. I'm good.
[laughter] Where where do you go to sign up?
» Um so we have a link. It's um through it's called like every dance marathon.
It's a link. Um I actually have the QR code if anybody wants to sign up. Um but
yeah, we have a website and it's you can either make a donation or sign up. Um
and it asks for all your information. >> Can you make sure and and get that to
us? >> Yeah.
» After this gets approved here in a minute.
» Of course. >> And um we'll we'll share the stuff.
» I do have it. >> Oh, you do have it. Okay.
» I just was waiting for this. to share it. [laughter]
Perfect. I've worked um a lot with this group. Over in the side is Miss Lrod.
She is their teacher. Um their DECA student, their DECA teacher. She So,
this is a school event. It won't I mean it is a school approved event and their
representative of their school is here. >> Yes.
» How many color stations? Are you going to ask some folk just slinging it on
everybody? I've done one of these. It's great.
» Yes. Um, we haven't set a set number of stations, but we're about to order the
color. So, I'm going to I think there's nine bags of color, so probably nine
color stations. Also, I forgot to include this, but um we have ambassadors
from Vanderbilt Children's Hospital, kids actually going through cancer that
are going to be coming in throwing the colors uh for the color run. So, yes,
» orange would be a nice color. >> Yes,
» orange would be great. >> Crimson would be bad.
» No, it would not. [laughter] >> No, it would not. No,
» I would like to motion uh for approval for this, but only if you get principal
Kenny Pal out there to run as well. >> Okay. I
» Okay. [laughter] >> All right.
» Mr. Bennett made the motion. Mr. Rather was second.
» Any more discussion? All in favor say I. >> All in favor say I.
» All oppose. >> Good job.
» You just Thank you. You just did good. You did good. If I got up there, I would
not do good. So, you did [laughter] great.
» Thank you so so much for coming. >> Memorial Park statue concept plan. Uh
Rachel Collins.
[clears throat]
» Go ahead and state your name and tell us what you want.
» I'm Rachel Collins. I'm the alderman, one of the aldermen for W 5 and I'm the
liazison for the Hendersonville Arts Council. And um with me tonight I have
Renee Shepard who's the chairman of the council and Bill Clifford who is doing a
lot of the heavy lifting on this particular project for the council. So
if you have questions they are probably going to be your people. Um but this is
uh I it is my fault not theirs. I did it backwards. I went to Bulma first. I got
the project sanctioned and now I'm here. um which is completely backwards. My
apologies, but this will just sanction the project so that we can begin
fundraising. The city has an RFP going out here in the next week probably
and so it'll probably be another couple months before we select an artist and
even know how much it's going to cost. But we can't raise money without
permission to do the project. >> Okay,
questions.
I have a question. Do you have to get permission from the artist?
» Yes. And that's actually part of the contract with the artist is um
» that's one, let me step in on that. That's one reason why you don't see a
picture in this packet because we didn't want to put anything in a packet or
anything until we had an exact um exact image that was approved by the families.
» Okay. >> Um and the families are supportive of
the idea. They definitely will want to approve the image.
» We're just voting on the plan itself. >> Yeah. You're voting tonight on allowing
them to construct this in the park and the location that it's going to go there
and that their plan is to put it in the um grass island of Memorial Park. Um
you're you're not getting into you're not getting into the the weeds on
the details of exactly what it looks like, but you you're your job as a parks
board anytime something's going to be constructed in the park is to approve
that location for something like this. >> Okay. [snorts]
um [clears throat] funding for that is that
» we're going to raise the money for it. Um
» so you won't be coming back for for a permit to do that or is that something
totally separate? >> I we have we do have permitting that we
will need to do through the core of engineers. I director Gilly I'm not
aware that we need a permit through the parks department.
» No, there'll be no other Okay. >> There's there's no they wouldn't have to
come back here for any kind of >> Oh, got it. Yeah.
» funding permission or anything. That's >> so this is just two.
» This is strictly hey they are building something requesting to build something
in the park. You're you're putting your blessing on the project and the
location. [snorts] >> I I make a motion that we approve that.
Hendersonville is a great place to have that and we owe that to these these
former or these artists that have done so much and are from here. We need to
represent. >> Mr. Mtoya made the motion. Mr. Head will
second. Any more discussion? >> All in favor say I.
» All oppose. >> Thank you.
» Years ago, uh my mother uh actually played music with Johnny Cash and June
Carter one time rocked me to sleep. So I if y'all want my autograph, uh it's 4850
with a picture. Uh so that's that's good.
» Maybe they can add a fifth statue >> free without a picture. [laughter]
That would be on the kickball field.
» Eddie Robinson, memorial bench, Mr. Gilly.
» Uh, thank you, sir. Little clarification, it's not. Uh, Alderman
Robertson is alive and well, so uh, sorry it says memorial on here. Should
should be honorary bench. [laughter] Um, >> I have questions.
» Yeah, me too. Um but Alderman Robertson and his wife have um graciously
donated the funds for uh us to purchase a bench. Uh he wanted to place this on
the Sanders Fairy Greenway to commemorate his uh service the last
eight years to the city. He's been very supportive of the parks. I think I have
an email in here, but um very helpful with the golf commission and with the
parks department and and everything that we've tried to do during his tenure. So,
I would ask your uh approval for this bench to be placed along the Sanders
Fairy Green Ray. >> I make a motion we approve that.
» Was made the motion. Mr. Golden was second.
» I'm sorry. I'll [snorts] get to you. Don't worry.
» Any more questions? >> All in favor to say I. All oppose.
» Thank you, Mr. Gilly. Raymond, listen to this. Raymond A. for
devilla [snorts] memorial bench. I have some I'll teach you on that later. Uh
Mr. Gilly. >> Uh thank you sir. This is another this
one is a memorial bench that this uh family of this longtime resident of the
community and a person who loved to fish at Malard Point um would like to place
there. It's on page 47 through 49 in your packet showing the uh what they'd
like to say on it and the location. Uh this is just another in a series. I
think we have about six more of these that we've gotten emails about in the
last couple weeks. So that's cool that people want to recognize their family in
in this way. Um but we just ask your approval for this bench to be placed at
Mard Point.
» Mr. Pac made the motion to approve. Miss Helman made the motion to second. Any
more questions? All in favor say I. >> All oppose.
» Thank you. [snorts] >> Micah Aliser memorial bench. Mr. Gilly.
» Uh yes sir. Micah Altiser was a u student of mine actually at
Hendersonville High School. Her brother played baseball for us at
Hendersonville. >> She loved coming to the park. She loved
watching people play baseball. and she tragically passed away not too long ago
at a very young age with a young family and her brother Eric reached out to us
to ask the parks board to approve placing a bench. You can see on page 51
» um where he would like that bench to go. That's kind of a spot where she used to
sit and watch us play baseball games. Um but our our prayers continue to be with
the Altiser family. >> Perfect. Um,
» perfect. >> Mr. Pike made the motion to approve.
Miss Helman made the second. >> Who was the second?
» Miss Helman. >> Thank you.
» All of us. >> All any question? All in favor say I.
All oppose. Uh, if I don't know if anybody knew Micah's mother, but she is
one of the most wonderful human beings in this world. And uh,
» uh, her pray we she needs our prayers on this. much like any mom would that lost
the young one like that. So, Parksport Committee, Mr. Gilly.
» Yes, sir. Um, in your packet on page 52, I believe,
is um a list of our current committee. So, we have some updating that might
need to occur here. Um,
down at the >> Yeah, or won't be on.
» Down at the bottom, we have the Honor the Game Sportsmanship
committee. Uh, Mr. Fugate is no longer here as an employee, so we probably
[clears throat] need to um um replace that name.
The person who took his place was Jasmine
Bigger Staff. So if y'all want to make a >> make a motion we replace or replace or
Jasmine. >> Okay. Is that a motion?
» Motion, Mr. Rather. >> Second, Mr. Perry. All in favor say I.
» I. >> All oppose.
» Glad you didn't try to put me on it. I can't get along with Keith Bruce for
anything.
All right. Updates. Miss Hamlin. Does anyone have
her report? >> I have her report. Mr. Chairman,
I won't read it as good as she does, but uh Saturday, August 15th, we had the
special needs expo at First Baptist Church. They had a great turnout. We
were able to share lots of information about special needs programming in the
parks. Uh se several people came out with the help of Chris and Elizabeth,
her employees. We shared information to the special needs community. Next up
will be the preschool track meet Sunday, October 18th for ages 3, four, and 5y
olds. Your age is determined by how old you are on October 31st, 2026.
So don't try to sneak a 5-year-old in the four year olds just to win a ribbon.
uh read in Dallas, especially Dallas. Registration is now open uh on our parks
website and in the office through October 1st. Three-year-olds will be at
1:00 p.m., fouryear-olds at 2 p.m., 5-year-olds at 3 p.m. Check-in begins 30
minutes prior to your age start time. The location is the Drakes Creek Park
football field. If it rains, we've secured Hendersonville High School's gym
as a backup, so it will go on rain or rain or shine. The fee is $20. It's a
one-day event held each fall that consists of a 25 yard dash, many
hurdles, tennis ball throw, and again, it's children ages 3 to 5 as
of October 31st, 2026. All children must pre-register in order
to participate. Everyone that pre-registers by October 1st will
receive a t-shirt and ribbons. Thank you. Oh, wait. One more thing.
Breakfast with Santa is scheduled for Saturday, December 5th. That will sell
out as soon as it goes live. >> So, everybody get ready for that. I'm
not sure when registration starts for that, but
probably after at least trick-or- treat, >> I hope.
» All right. Thank you, Miss Mr. Ham. Thank you. Recreation, Miss Bigger
Stout. >> I'll take care of hers. Um, fall
baseball is underway with about with about a month left in the season. We're
also excited to have the Nashville Stars joining us for our final games of the
season. They'll be out there with the booth um giving out treats and prizes to
all the kids to help celebrate the season. Um, also our fall adult men's
and co-ed softball leagues and kickball leagues are ongoing and those have been
going great. And our fall pickle ball league is uh full with 10 teams and
they'll begin playing September 14th. And then um starting next week, we'll
start shifting our focus towards basketball season with registration
opening for our high school and adult leagues. That's it for Miss Jasmine.
» Thank you. Questions? All right, special [snorts] events. Miss Langster.
» Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Um, I have a few things to update on. Um, I believe
you'll see the month of September's um, special event list in the back of your
packet. Um, a couple things on on there to note. Um, [clears throat] the Middle
Tennessee Highland Games, September 12th and 13th out at Sanders Ferry. Um, the
Hometown Heroes Day, September 19th at Drake's Creek, the World War II ship
that came back a while ago for approval. Um, on here it shows the 21st. That is
the day that they get here. The first day of um, that'll be open and running
is the 23rd.
And then a couple other things um, to update on. Nerf night has been set for
the fall. Um, it will be October 1st. It's $10 per child. There's three age
divisions. There's uh 4:30 to 5:30. There are 9 to 12 year olds. Those are
typically for the kids that have sports later in the evening. Um 6 to8 year olds
5:30 to 6:30. And then another 9 to 12, 6:30 to 7:30. Um Power Wheels is set for
November 8th. Uh registration for Oh, registration for Nerf Night has already
started and it's filling up pretty quickly. It's a popular one. Um Power
Wheels is set for November 8th. Uh registration for that will begin
midepptember. Um, and that is there's three age divisions, 3 to four, then 3
to five, then six to seven, and that is $25 per car. Um, and then our trick-or-
treat has been set for October 30th. That is a Friday night. Um, that is
different than in the past. Um, but also Beach and Hendersonville play football
on that Thursday. So, we're not going to try to do that the same night. So, that
is going to be a Friday. The park is going to be packed. It'll be fun,
though. Uh, registration is now live for that as well. Um, for vendor booths and
they are $25 as well. Um, I believe that is all I have right now.
» We least question. All right. Anybody have Mr. Cole's
maintenance report? >> Yes, sir. Um, the you will see the park
staff out this week uh mulching all the playgrounds that have mulch as a
surface. Uh, for those of you who may not be aware, we had a lightning strike.
I know Mr. Head is aware. Uh, we had a lightning strike in the park a couple
weeks ago. It knocked out several things involving our network and um IT related
issues, security cameras in certain places and some irrigation issues as
well as lights on some of the fields. So, they've changed about 25 of the 50
light bulbs at this time. They were in the park today working. Uh the soccer
irrigation is back working. We think um and then we are continuing to work
through the IT issues. Um I can't say enough about our IT department. And
Jason's sitting back in the back. I think he's back there. He's got his hand
up. Not only does he make those nice little
intro videos for our meetings, but they we have to work with them constantly um
to get things back up and running or adding things or trying to make things
better. They do a great job. So, I want to thank them for their quick work on
this to especially get our concession stands operating where they could take
cards and and things in a quick turnaround.
Um the maintenance staff's also we're going
to shut down a couple of fields for maintenance purposes. Fields 12 and
field two. Field two we're doing a total infield renovation and then field 12
we're installing irrigation in the outfield. So that'll make a big
difference on both those baseball softball fields.
» Okay. Thank you Mr. Gilly. >> Assistant director Mr. Long.
» Thank you. Uh, Rex Soccer started up their season this past Saturday and um,
Tennessee United will be hosting their Labor Day tournament next weekend and
then their big annual fall tournament in about one month from now. Adult soccer
registration has begun and they'll start playing in September. Rugby practices
uh, started up last week. Um, tackle football held their first games of the
season this past Saturday here in Drake's Creek and they'll host again
this coming Saturday. And flag football is still um working on getting started.
They're hoping to start practice up later this week or beginning of next
week. That's it. >> Thank you, Mr. Long.
» Uh Mr. Gilly, do you have Mr. Bruce's? >> I do.
» Thank you, sir. >> Uh fast pitch softball has started
practicing. Games will start in September. The Fast Pitch League added a
high school open division this fall. I think they have four teams. So, that's a
that's a good thing that we haven't had in a while. Um, senior men's softball,
the league that never ends, is ongoing and their fall league is now started.
Their spring league ended last week and their fall league started this week. Uh,
senior women's softball, new new league, uh, well, an old league that's come
back, has six teams, I believe, and they have had a first three good weeks to
start out with. Uh the hockey league is in process of drafting teams and then
we'll start practices. Full count, fall baseball, high school league is in the
second week of games. Um we we've had to do a lot of shifting around due to the
heat as some of you all may have noticed. Uh we had to reschedule a few
things. The Nashville Predators Iron Man hockey event is this weekend at
Volunteer Park. You all approved that a few weeks ago.
uh UTSA baseball which uh came to us earlier this summer is having their
first tournament as a tournament director and they will be this weekend.
They have about 30 teams coming in from all over. And the senior men's uh Twitty
tournament earlier this month went well according to uh all reports on Mr.
Perry's AI generated social media page. >> Very nice. Thank you, sir.
» That's [snorts] all for Mr. Bruce. >> Thank you, sir.
» Uh, director, do you have your report? Mr.
» I'll be brief, Mr. Chairman. >> Just to let everybody know, we will be
breaking ground at Heritage Park within the next couple of weeks as soon as we
have an exact date and a groundbreaking event. We will let you all know that,
but that is um they was the construction company was sent the notice to proceed
today. So, we've got to clean out some stuff from the house and then we will
get started out there on that new park. Um you probably have seen paving um
going on at the rugby fields. They're still working on that and they will
begin paving the lot between the baseball and soccer fields this week
also. So that should you should start see that to start take place tomorrow.
Uh maintenance shop we've gone back and forth public works working with Rogers
Group to get us down to a a number. I want to thank the public works
department who took a second, third, and fourth look at the plans and got it down
to where we saved a couple hundred,000 off of what the engineers had drawn up.
So, after Rogers Group sends us some updated numbers, we'll begin moving dirt
on our maintenance shop finally. So, that's a good thing. Um, and then also
just a reminder at this point all the all of the ticketed events for upcoming
Pigfest are on sale and a live Saturday of of the Pigfest is free to everyone
Thursday and Friday night. You got to have a ticket. That's all I have. Sir,
» question. Mr. Goody, you remember a guy named
Bruce me? >> Name's familiar.
» Remember him? He was in one of the first Twitty tournaments.
» Okay. >> And the only autograph I've ever gotten
in my whole life [snorts] I got from him cuz he hit a ball from all the way up
near the concession stand almost to field number one down there.
» And I got that and I put it away in a safe place and I decided to look at it
to the Dwayne and it's all faded out. So >> if you see Bruce or know Bruce, I need
him to resign that ball. So >> Mr. Perry might know him. You would have
to get pulled over by the Florida Highway Patrol to catch him.
» Is he? [laughter] >> So, just speed through there. You'll see
him. >> I think he hit that home run with one
hand, too. It was It was amaze. Mr. Head, you got anything to say down
there? >> Uh, just thank you to the IT department
for saving the day in the concession stands with the credit cards. That was a
big help. >> Miss Mononttoya,
» I'd like to do another shout out to the youngsters this evening and to all the
youngsters that come across this committee and
» to help make Hendersonville a better place than what it is. And it is just
amazing to see see that enthusiasm in our youth as well as our adults and
everything that's being done in this community and a giant thank you to you
guys. Keep up the good work. >> You'll make the place the world a better
place. You certainly do. Mr. Bike, >> I want to second what Mr. MTO said. I
want to thank Emily for doing what we asked you to do, which was come back and
give us an update on this. I don't know what the response has been down there,
but I can't imagine that it's been I can imagine that everybody's excited about
it on that softball field, man. Venches. Thank you very much. This is Perry.
» Yeah. Uh Matt Barnes, the one that gentleman that puts on the senior
Twitty, uh wanted to make sure that we he thanked all of you all for helping
him through the whole weekend. Those those it was over 100 degrees of those
guys. 150 degrees and then the storm came on Saturday afternoon and he was
thanking you for getting those fields ready right after and they didn't miss a
beat because of y'all. He just want to make sure he said he promises it'll be
bigger next year. So, thank y'all. >> Mr. building.
» Yeah. Nothing that hasn't already been said. Thank you both for for being here
and for for committing to uh to make your communities better. So, thank you,
» Miss Helman. >> Yes. Thank you to our young people that
is making this place better. And then to our parks board committee, our parks
committee for everything you do because there's so many events that happen and
they all seem to run so smoothly. >> So, that's thanks to you,
» M. I I stand by it. Get Kenny Pal out there
to run in your 5K. Okay. But also want to um acknowledge the Carter family that
lost their daughter tragically in station camp softball player. So I'm
very glad that you did the softball benches for future girls like mine to go
out there and go sit on in the future. So again, sorry for the Carter family.
» I don't have anything. >> Mr. Gordon,
» I think you all did some great items tonight. And thank you Emily for sharing
an update with us. You did a great job there and I'm really looking forward to
» Yipp.
» All right. I see our mayor is with her. You have anything you want to say, Mr.
Mayor? >> I appreciate that opportunity, but I'll
pass. >> It's all right. I don't blame you. All
right. I need a motion [laughter] to dismiss. That would be Miss Rather and
Mr. Bennett and and Miss >> Everybody. All in favor say I. All
oppose. Out of here. [music]