I'll call Park and Cemetery Board to order. Time is now 6:18.
Clerk, please call the roll, please. >> Mr. Price?
» Here. >> Ms. Whitsburger is excused. Mr. Fritz?
» Here. >> Ms. Gibson?
» Here. >> Ms. Dymek?
» Here.
» Okay, we have um someone for public participation, Stephanie Wims, the
Daughters of the American Revolution.
» Yeah, thank you for letting me come to your meeting.
Uh I noticed that the cement slab is out
there. The the bench is ready. We're just
wanting to put them I'm not I'm my question is, who will
put the bench on the slab? >> The city.
» The city? >> I would think so, yes.
» Who do I need Do I need to contact someone?
» I can coordinate that with the service department.
And then I can keep you in the loop as to when it'll go on there.
» Okay, that'd be great. >> Yep.
» And I brought invitations for all of you.
» I'll hand them here and you just pass them out.
» Okay, thank you.
The ceremony will start at 11:00 a.m. on October 11th
or 10th. I'm sorry.
Uh were there any questions?
» I'm just really excited about this. I think it's awesome.
» I think it's I think it's great. >> Well, thank you so much. This is Kate
Wims. >> Thank you.
» With the America 250, we wanted to do something. And also, my chapter will be
130 years old in January. And so, we figured we'd combine the two since
there's three Revolutionary War soldiers buried there.
Um And so, everyone's going to be
recognized on there. >> That's awesome. That is very awesome.
» And I sent you a picture, didn't I? Of the bench?
Or did I send it to you? >> Yeah, you sent it to me.
Um and I can forward it to the rest of them.
» Sure, that would be great. >> Okay. All right.
Any other questions?
» Nope. You said what day again? October 11th?
» October 10th. 10th at 11:00 a.m. >> 11:00 a.m.
» Saturday. >> I'll put it on my calendar.
» Well, thank you for your time. >> Thank you so much, Stephanie. You have a
good You have a good evening.
» Okay, uh do we have any old business?
» Um Ruth, I hate to ask you this,
but if that's I
She gave me Okay. There are
different grants out there, of course. Um if we have um some um verification of
um like different veterans, there's different stuff for that. Um so if I can
kind of get, you know, a snowball, I know like she said, we've got, you know,
veterans in there. Um that is definitely how we can
» Get some grant money? >> Get some grant money. I think that is
our after looking over some of the stuff, um the federal one um
one looks like it might be um the best. With
» I'm going to leave that up to you. I think you know, the way you research
stuff, I'm sure you'll do a great job. >> Yeah, I did I just need like
who's We have a list of who's in the cemetery, correct?
» Yes. >> And who's veterans, correct?
That I could look at and we could just say we have, you know, this many
veterans from this state to this state. >> I would say Emma probably would be the
one with all the veterans that you've dealt
with with the plaques. >> Well, so some of those people are alive
and some of them are deceased and we don't really have a record of who's who.
» Does um
» I think we can I think on the doesn't on the doesn't
the plaques up there What did we call them? The income
plaques? >> They're pavers.
» Pavers, thank you. Um doesn't it have the date of the deceased on there?
» I If they're I mean if they're dead potentially, but it there were no
requirements as far as what somebody wanted to put on there. So, if somebody
didn't want to put the date of death on a paver, they didn't have to put the
date of death on a paver. They could put what they wanted to about somebody's
service. So, there wouldn't be any way for us to know who's alive and who's
deceased from those pavers. >> I have I have a list of what I can what
I can provide. >> talking about the deceased that we can
say we have deceased veterans from here to here.
» Um we have from the Revolutionary War. >> a better chance of of getting like a
federal like you know, cuz >> I'll get I'll get with you.
» Okay. >> Well, I see this
I see this here as Revolutionary War soldiers buried at Norton
Norton Center. >> There's three.
» Yeah, there's three, but we have more buried at Western Star.
» We have more. We we know that. >> I know, but we're going for this one.
» Right, right. I understand. I understand. I just
We have a We have That's probably eight or nine on Western Star.
» Absolutely. But if some plaques want to be done for the other, maybe we can
combine
the two. I'll look into that further, too.
» Okay. >> You know, that we could get funds for
maybe that one to do some things, you know, like pep it all up.
» Spread the wealth. >> Well, we can try.
» Sure, I love it. >> All they can say is no.
» My mother always taught me to she said you
it doesn't ever hurt to ask. All you they can say is yes or no.
» and and if we're acknowledging these people and and putting a plaque that is
readable versus some of the stuff that is not, I would think that they might
give some consideration to that. >> Okay, always heard always that's sounds
good. Thank you. Thank you for checking into that.
» Okay, um Now we're on a new business, the toddler
swings at Columbia Woods Park. >> I have been approached by several people
and not just Columbia Woods, but that's the main park in the Norton and that's
where they usually go cuz there's a nice playground there and they all they have
older kids, too. They're requesting to see if we can put some toddler swings
down there or baby swings because um
I mean mostly toddler. But you know, the what kinds
the kind that they can sit in. >> They did have
like something there, I think. >> I thought they did, too.
» But it was broken. >> Okay, if they could replace it with a
toddler swing, it's very very much requested by several
people that I know that go there often. So
May you go there. >> Yeah, [laughter] yeah.
» So okay, and James also wants one. >> Yeah.
» So anyway >> You know, it was a little busted.
» Okay, [laughter] so can you check on that, Emma?
» Can you send me an email request and then I can forward that to the
appropriate department? >> Absolutely.
» Okay, thank you.
» Okay, um fall community events.
» Yes.
Fall the the cider the cider festival. Yes,
the cider festival parade. I think it's When is that? October?
It's October >> It's October 3rd because when that's
when they originally wanted to do the bench dedication.
» Right. And I had called her and told her that she had to pick another date. So,
um we do have the cider festival. They
start the festivities usually on Friday. It goes through Sunday. So, that's
that's a biggie. Um Do you Emma, do you know if they have
the uh applications online yet for the cider festival parade?
» Uh I'm not usually in touch with the cider festival committee, so I can't say
what they typically do there. >> Okay. I'll I'll I'll look into that.
I don't know of any other >> Does anyone have any I mean an interest
of us participating in some form or fashion with
this It's something we can think about, you
know, if we want to participate. >> talking about the parade or the cider
festival? >> just interested
» be riding a horse in the parade. So, >> All right.
I'll piggyback on your room. >> [laughter]
» I did last year. It was fun. >> We're not cleaning up after you. That I
won't agree to. >> No, we we have to provide our own uh
pooper scoopers. So, >> But, I didn't know if we wanted to, so I
just thought I'd ask. >> Yeah, that's that would be nice,
actually. I can uh check with the chair. >> I think one of the best kept secrets in
Norton >> [laughter]
» are our little board here. >> I will I will check with Vicky Wallace
and we will let us >> goes wrong.
» See if if there's something that we could
maybe man for a while, you know, cover a shift somewhere. That would be
okay. Sure. I'll do that. >> Or or even just have some type of
we wanted to develop some type of little flyer of you know
our our dreams and aspirations for the park
you know what we'd like just to get maybe an interest I mean
you know they come and they ask yeah we want toddler swings okay you know
a lot of these things are on that the the wish list that we kind of made so do
we want to put something like you know that out there
what do you you know >> Yeah I kind of like the idea.
» I know they've done certain things what do you want to see in your parks but
maybe it's something more intimate as flyer fest
» like a booth? We set up a booth with a you know like
suggestion uh
» suggestion box? >> A suggestion box or something we could
do that. Just you know
we could I mean we got some really nice parks.
Nice to be able to develop that a little bit.
» Our radio radio station got a bunch of >> And maybe if we got enough
citizen backing and might be able to do something.
» Okay that sounds like a plan. >> Okay.
» Thanks for bringing it up. Okay.
» Okay any other business? >> I had something but I can't remember
what it was now I've lost my train of thought.
Um
I can't remember.
It's gone. >> Okay well
uh do we approve the minutes of July 15th?
» You need a motion you need a motion. >> Can I get a motion to approve the
minutes of July 15th 2026?
» I approve. >> Can I get a second?
» We need a second? >> Mhm.
» I wasn't here. >> Oh that's right I'll second.
» Okay. >> You can actually even second if you need
to. >> Okay. Well,
thank you. >> Um I'm going to call the roll. Mr.
Fritz. >> Here.
» Ms. Gibson. >> Here.
Or yes. >> Um Mr. Price.
» Yes. >> Ms. Witzberger's absent. Ms. Dimech.
» Abstain.
» Okay. And um can I get a motion to adjourn?
» I'll make a motion. >> I can make that.
» Okay. >> And I'll I'll second that.
» All right. And then I get the hammer. >> [laughter]
» Okay. Meeting is adjourned at 6:30 p.m.
» All right. >> All right.