[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.