[0:06] I'll call Park and Cemetery Board to order. Time is now 6:18.

[0:11] Clerk, please call the roll, please. >> Mr. Price?

[0:15] » Here. >> Ms. Whitsburger is excused. Mr. Fritz?

[0:20] » Here. >> Ms. Gibson?

[0:21] » Here. >> Ms. Dymek?

[0:23] » Here.

[0:25] » Okay, we have um someone for public participation, Stephanie Wims, the

[0:30] Daughters of the American Revolution.

[0:38] » Yeah, thank you for letting me come to your meeting.

[0:41] Uh I noticed that the cement slab is out

[0:44] there. The the bench is ready. We're just

[0:47] wanting to put them I'm not I'm my question is, who will

[0:52] put the bench on the slab? >> The city.

[0:56] » The city? >> I would think so, yes.

[0:58] » Who do I need Do I need to contact someone?

[1:02] » I can coordinate that with the service department.

[1:05] And then I can keep you in the loop as to when it'll go on there.

[1:08] » Okay, that'd be great. >> Yep.

[1:09] » And I brought invitations for all of you.

[1:13] » I'll hand them here and you just pass them out.

[1:15] » Okay, thank you.

[1:20] The ceremony will start at 11:00 a.m. on October 11th

[1:26] or 10th. I'm sorry.

[1:29] Uh were there any questions?

[1:33] » I'm just really excited about this. I think it's awesome.

[1:37] » I think it's I think it's great. >> Well, thank you so much. This is Kate

[1:41] Wims. >> Thank you.

[1:41] » With the America 250, we wanted to do something. And also, my chapter will be

[1:46] 130 years old in January. And so, we figured we'd combine the two since

[1:51] there's three Revolutionary War soldiers buried there.

[1:55] Um And so, everyone's going to be

[1:59] recognized on there. >> That's awesome. That is very awesome.

[2:02] » And I sent you a picture, didn't I? Of the bench?

[2:06] Or did I send it to you? >> Yeah, you sent it to me.

[2:09] Um and I can forward it to the rest of them.

[2:11] » Sure, that would be great. >> Okay. All right.

[2:15] Any other questions?

[2:17] » Nope. You said what day again? October 11th?

[2:20] » October 10th. 10th at 11:00 a.m. >> 11:00 a.m.

[2:23] » Saturday. >> I'll put it on my calendar.

[2:26] » Well, thank you for your time. >> Thank you so much, Stephanie. You have a

[2:29] good You have a good evening.

[2:34] » Okay, uh do we have any old business?

[2:39] » Um Ruth, I hate to ask you this,

[2:43] but if that's I

[2:46] She gave me Okay. There are

[2:50] different grants out there, of course. Um if we have um some um verification of

[2:57] um like different veterans, there's different stuff for that. Um so if I can

[3:03] kind of get, you know, a snowball, I know like she said, we've got, you know,

[3:08] veterans in there. Um that is definitely how we can

[3:14] » Get some grant money? >> Get some grant money. I think that is

[3:17] our after looking over some of the stuff, um the federal one um

[3:25] one looks like it might be um the best. With

[3:31] » I'm going to leave that up to you. I think you know, the way you research

[3:34] stuff, I'm sure you'll do a great job. >> Yeah, I did I just need like

[3:39] who's We have a list of who's in the cemetery, correct?

[3:43] » Yes. >> And who's veterans, correct?

[3:46] That I could look at and we could just say we have, you know, this many

[3:50] veterans from this state to this state. >> I would say Emma probably would be the

[3:55] one with all the veterans that you've dealt

[3:58] with with the plaques. >> Well, so some of those people are alive

[4:03] and some of them are deceased and we don't really have a record of who's who.

[4:08] » Does um

[4:13] » I think we can I think on the doesn't on the doesn't

[4:17] the plaques up there What did we call them? The income

[4:20] plaques? >> They're pavers.

[4:22] » Pavers, thank you. Um doesn't it have the date of the deceased on there?

[4:27] » I If they're I mean if they're dead potentially, but it there were no

[4:31] requirements as far as what somebody wanted to put on there. So, if somebody

[4:36] didn't want to put the date of death on a paver, they didn't have to put the

[4:39] date of death on a paver. They could put what they wanted to about somebody's

[4:43] service. So, there wouldn't be any way for us to know who's alive and who's

[4:48] deceased from those pavers. >> I have I have a list of what I can what

[4:52] I can provide. >> talking about the deceased that we can

[4:56] say we have deceased veterans from here to here.

[5:01] » Um we have from the Revolutionary War. >> a better chance of of getting like a

[5:06] federal like you know, cuz >> I'll get I'll get with you.

[5:10] » Okay. >> Well, I see this

[5:12] I see this here as Revolutionary War soldiers buried at Norton

[5:16] Norton Center. >> There's three.

[5:19] » Yeah, there's three, but we have more buried at Western Star.

[5:22] » We have more. We we know that. >> I know, but we're going for this one.

[5:26] » Right, right. I understand. I understand. I just

[5:29] We have a We have That's probably eight or nine on Western Star.

[5:32] » Absolutely. But if some plaques want to be done for the other, maybe we can

[5:36] combine

[5:40] the two. I'll look into that further, too.

[5:43] » Okay. >> You know, that we could get funds for

[5:46] maybe that one to do some things, you know, like pep it all up.

[5:51] » Spread the wealth. >> Well, we can try.

[5:54] » Sure, I love it. >> All they can say is no.

[5:57] » My mother always taught me to she said you

[6:00] it doesn't ever hurt to ask. All you they can say is yes or no.

[6:03] » and and if we're acknowledging these people and and putting a plaque that is

[6:09] readable versus some of the stuff that is not, I would think that they might

[6:15] give some consideration to that. >> Okay, always heard always that's sounds

[6:21] good. Thank you. Thank you for checking into that.

[6:26] » Okay, um Now we're on a new business, the toddler

[6:31] swings at Columbia Woods Park. >> I have been approached by several people

[6:35] and not just Columbia Woods, but that's the main park in the Norton and that's

[6:39] where they usually go cuz there's a nice playground there and they all they have

[6:42] older kids, too. They're requesting to see if we can put some toddler swings

[6:48] down there or baby swings because um

[6:51] I mean mostly toddler. But you know, the what kinds

[6:56] the kind that they can sit in. >> They did have

[6:59] like something there, I think. >> I thought they did, too.

[7:02] » But it was broken. >> Okay, if they could replace it with a

[7:05] toddler swing, it's very very much requested by several

[7:09] people that I know that go there often. So

[7:13] May you go there. >> Yeah, [laughter] yeah.

[7:15] » So okay, and James also wants one. >> Yeah.

[7:17] » So anyway >> You know, it was a little busted.

[7:20] » Okay, [laughter] so can you check on that, Emma?

[7:23] » Can you send me an email request and then I can forward that to the

[7:26] appropriate department? >> Absolutely.

[7:28] » Okay, thank you.

[7:31] » Okay, um fall community events.

[7:38] » Yes.

[7:42] Fall the the cider the cider festival. Yes,

[7:47] the cider festival parade. I think it's When is that? October?

[7:51] It's October >> It's October 3rd because when that's

[7:53] when they originally wanted to do the bench dedication.

[7:56] » Right. And I had called her and told her that she had to pick another date. So,

[8:01] um we do have the cider festival. They

[8:04] start the festivities usually on Friday. It goes through Sunday. So, that's

[8:08] that's a biggie. Um Do you Emma, do you know if they have

[8:13] the uh applications online yet for the cider festival parade?

[8:17] » Uh I'm not usually in touch with the cider festival committee, so I can't say

[8:21] what they typically do there. >> Okay. I'll I'll I'll look into that.

[8:29] I don't know of any other >> Does anyone have any I mean an interest

[8:34] of us participating in some form or fashion with

[8:40] this It's something we can think about, you

[8:42] know, if we want to participate. >> talking about the parade or the cider

[8:45] festival? >> just interested

[8:47] » be riding a horse in the parade. So, >> All right.

[8:51] I'll piggyback on your room. >> [laughter]

[8:54] » I did last year. It was fun. >> We're not cleaning up after you. That I

[8:58] won't agree to. >> No, we we have to provide our own uh

[9:01] pooper scoopers. So, >> But, I didn't know if we wanted to, so I

[9:05] just thought I'd ask. >> Yeah, that's that would be nice,

[9:06] actually. I can uh check with the chair. >> I think one of the best kept secrets in

[9:11] Norton >> [laughter]

[9:13] » are our little board here. >> I will I will check with Vicky Wallace

[9:17] and we will let us >> goes wrong.

[9:21] » See if if there's something that we could

[9:25] maybe man for a while, you know, cover a shift somewhere. That would be

[9:30] okay. Sure. I'll do that. >> Or or even just have some type of

[9:37] we wanted to develop some type of little flyer of you know

[9:42] our our dreams and aspirations for the park

[9:46] you know what we'd like just to get maybe an interest I mean

[9:51] you know they come and they ask yeah we want toddler swings okay you know

[9:58] a lot of these things are on that the the wish list that we kind of made so do

[10:04] we want to put something like you know that out there

[10:08] what do you you know >> Yeah I kind of like the idea.

[10:10] » I know they've done certain things what do you want to see in your parks but

[10:14] maybe it's something more intimate as flyer fest

[10:18] » like a booth? We set up a booth with a you know like

[10:23] suggestion uh

[10:25] » suggestion box? >> A suggestion box or something we could

[10:28] do that. Just you know

[10:32] we could I mean we got some really nice parks.

[10:35] Nice to be able to develop that a little bit.

[10:37] » Our radio radio station got a bunch of >> And maybe if we got enough

[10:41] citizen backing and might be able to do something.

[10:46] » Okay that sounds like a plan. >> Okay.

[10:51] » Thanks for bringing it up. Okay.

[10:54] » Okay any other business? >> I had something but I can't remember

[10:57] what it was now I've lost my train of thought.

[11:00] Um

[11:03] I can't remember.

[11:08] It's gone. >> Okay well

[11:10] uh do we approve the minutes of July 15th?

[11:15] » You need a motion you need a motion. >> Can I get a motion to approve the

[11:19] minutes of July 15th 2026?

[11:22] » I approve. >> Can I get a second?

[11:26] » We need a second? >> Mhm.

[11:29] » I wasn't here. >> Oh that's right I'll second.

[11:31] » Okay. >> You can actually even second if you need

[11:34] to. >> Okay. Well,

[11:35] thank you. >> Um I'm going to call the roll. Mr.

[11:38] Fritz. >> Here.

[11:40] » Ms. Gibson. >> Here.

[11:42] Or yes. >> Um Mr. Price.

[11:45] » Yes. >> Ms. Witzberger's absent. Ms. Dimech.

[11:49] » Abstain.

[11:54] » Okay. And um can I get a motion to adjourn?

[11:58] » I'll make a motion. >> I can make that.

[12:00] » Okay. >> And I'll I'll second that.

[12:02] » All right. And then I get the hammer. >> [laughter]

[12:06] » Okay. Meeting is adjourned at 6:30 p.m.

[12:11] » All right. >> All right.

8/19/2026 Parks & Cemetery Meeting

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