 First of all, let's start with the approval of the minutes, May. Yes. Did anyone have any changes to the minutes? I had one small typo that I found on page three. In Donna Roy's section. Instead of child that says L I H D. Or H I L D. Like there's just a missing letter. All right. Donna Roy's section now is actually that should be changed. Her last name has changed a word. So. Need to do that. And thank you for pointing that out actually. And I'm sorry. Minutating for essential meetings of other. Oh, child care. Gotcha. Okay. Any other. Comments. I didn't never write. Okay, Meg. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I don't want to. Public comment. You don't have any right. Yep. Oh, sorry. I feel out of practice for some reason. All right. All in favor of approving the minutes as amended. Okay. Oh, actually, was there a second for that? Sorry. Second. Okay. Good. Here. Is there. You're in charge, but I don't see any attendees. Correct. I do not see any attendees, zero attendees. So that would be no public comment. So we'll move to our next agenda item, which is the logo submissions. And. I think. We're going to move to our next agenda item. And then we're going to move to our next agenda item. And then we're going to move to our next agenda item. Mary's going to pull up. The slides. Sure. And then I can chime in and tell you how the voting went. Exciting. From moral, please. Where to go. Okay. Okay. And everybody see. Yep. Okay. All right. So this. Let's go to slide one eight. The one on the right. The one on the left. The one on the right. With five votes, two from staff, three from commission members. It also had. Three number one votes. So I'm what I'm going to do is give you the votes for all of them. So you, if you want to keep a tally, but I do have this and we'll share this document with you. That shows all the voting, but if you want to go ahead and just keep a tally on your own, that's good. Okay. Okay. Okay. So. Two a. Had seven votes and actually that was very close. To our top. Vote getter. Three a. Had two votes. Had zero votes. And I'm sorry, I had one vote. It was rated number two, one vote. Four a. Had one vote. Five a had three votes. Five a. Had four votes. F. F one. Had two votes. F two. Had four votes. F three. Had one vote. F four. Zero. F five. Zero. F six. One. F seven. Two. F nine. One. F 10. One. F 11. Zero. F 12. Two. F 13. One. F 14 zero. F 15 zero. F 16. One. F 17. Four. F 18. Two. F 19. Six. F 17, which is this one, right? It's, I don't see the number by it. Oh yeah. Wait. Yeah. F 17. Oh, we did 17. All right. That had four. F 18. Two. F 19. Six. I'm sorry. That's wrong. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven now. F 20 is, is, looks like it's the big winner. At eight votes. And C one through E two, all the way to D one actually had zero votes. So none of those got any votes. D two though had. Four votes. And D three had one vote. Okay. So our top. Vote getters were to a. Maybe it can bring those back. Yep. Too far. To a yep. With seven votes. One a with five votes. Slip back on that. Then F two. There were three with four votes. So F two had four votes. F 16. No, that's wrong. D two had four votes. I'm sorry. F 19. That's seven votes and F 20. At the eight votes. So by. Are we the ones that are choosing? What, what, what the plan was is that we were going to. The plan was, is that we were going to put a proposed. Putting out the top three to five. To the public. And then we'll do the contest. So based on our selection, rather than giving the public, you know, 25, but how many ever there is here. Narrow it down. And then go for there. The issue is that I have one. Two. Four. We have four that are like five and above. And then I have two at, so we actually have six. Cause we have two at four choice that are the, you know, four votes. Why don't we look at the two that were tied for a fifth and see if we can cash it out. One of those that, that makes sense to me. So let's look at F two. My fan favorite. Yeah. I have to say I don't understand the leaves and the trees. In the, in the context of the recreation department. Conservation. Yes. But I'm really mystified by trees and leaves. Okay. So. All right. Well, it's F two. Okay. So. Yeah. The opinions valued. Yeah. F two and. D two. Oh wait. No, that was the end. Sorry. Another tree. What I like about this tree, I think that was one of mine that I, I picked is that we can take the inside of the tree. So the outside will become the law. Stay the A, but then we can make a graphic on the inside of the tree, like for swimming, it can be a swimmer or for volleyball. You know, I mean, like we can play around with that. Design. And you can always, I know D three was close. So you can use it, you know, as a vertical or horizontal, depending on where you're putting it. So that's kind of why I liked that one. Or that was one of my favorites is because you could edit what's inside the tree can always become an A, you know, we'll also symbolize it. So that was my thing. I felt similar similarly about D two, because we had talked about using images for specific sports or prime time or what have you. And I thought if we were going with that strategy, that this was the most flexible. In terms of being different on different. Things. And I get Sarah's thing about the leaves in the tree. I just thought with the A, you know, it was a little bit different. So I felt a little different. And what I didn't like about the other one was the words about like the unity and like community, unity, all that. Like, I felt like unless they were words from our mission statement, we shouldn't be introducing new words. So that was my, like, I liked the leaf. Yes, Jacob. Sorry. But like, I felt like unless we were able to modify the words to be more in line with our mission statement. That we were adding a vocab, like we were adding vocabulary to our mission without. Like having it part of our mission statement. That's good. That's on it. I agree. I agree. So do you want to just take a quick vote right now on which one you prefer between. The two. F2. No, sorry. F. Not that leaf, right? No. This one. Okay. Are we, can we modify any of them? Or we're just going to put them out to the public. No, we really can't right now because, you know, these different artists admitted them. I don't think we have an ability yet. I don't know. I think that might be a discussion with later. If two has a typo in it. So I think we're going to fix that. Where? Unity. Oh, yeah. Oh dear. Oh my gosh. Nice catch. Good editor. Who's for who also F2. I see no hands. I see no hands. I agree. D2. Yes. I agree. That was pretty, but I think this one's better for us. I do too. I look pretty, but that's. I think I actually prefer the other solutions anyway. So that gives us five. Now the question is, is, is five. You know, a good number. Should we. Consider going. Three or if you think five is okay to put out to the public. Yeah. How are we going to put this out in a newspaper ad or a page? Maybe you can. Good question. Yeah, we were, we were going to put this out on, on our social channels. We were going to make a little. Introduction with the. You know, with the artwork and not necessarily say who did it yet. Just because. You know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you can use our social channels for the most part. Yeah. And then obviously make a news item on our new website. So that people know about the vote. And. I think we could also do a little email blast, but I think print might be a little trickier. Cause. It might just be hard for people to pick it. So the main, the main thing would be on, on Facebook. Yeah. Facebook has really nice voting capability and, and you could do it too on Instagram, but. Okay. So the email blast, everything would have a link sending to the Facebook poll. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I think that's probably the easiest way to do it. And then just set whatever timeline we need. I'm sorry. Before we leave this looking at what's, what's in front of us. Yeah. Yeah. So the next item is. Are we supposed to use certain colors to be part of a town identity program? No, not. Remember that this is sort of an informal logo. The, the town logo supersedes this one. Yeah. That's a good comment that they proud, you know, might be desirable to have them complimentary. Certainly. And my other. I think the town of Amherst mass on the D two. Is the one thing that makes me like it most because I feel like. We don't include it in a lot of these logos, but I think it's important to put it in. And partly even town of Amherst. You know, could be New Hampshire or New York, several places. And I feel like it's important to have town of Amherst mass or something that. Locates us better. I think that would be, I think we could do that with some of the other ones that we voted for. If we can all agree, or if we do all agree, maybe we need to have that changed before we put them out to the public. Well, I think that would be changing what the artists actually. Intended. We can always add that in the letterhead or whatever we're doing too. That can be part of our messaging. Okay. Yeah. So, you know, once, once the public has spoken. Can we go back and discuss with the artists? Like, can you do, can you tweak it in this? Yeah. These ways. Yeah, I would personally want to do that. Like if we go back to the first couple. You know, some of them are really busy to me. But, you know, like, for example, if you. I love the top rated one, right? Right. Yeah, but let's go to the other ones. Okay. So we're on the page on the. So I think we need to have an agreement with some of these guys that we, you know, we may use their, their design, but, you know, we're going to have to adapt it to different things. Okay. So next, next page. Yeah, something. I mean, I love this image recreation. Town of Amherst is very simple, like without the left-hand side, but the left-hand side could be the sport or the event. You know what I mean? Like, use that. But I don't like the four together myself. I love the image recreation part. Yeah, I agree. Similarly to that. I also couldn't figure out what the clock was for. Me too. I couldn't. And we don't have a lot of biking programs. So I like, I couldn't see the types of programs. Like, I'd want the circles to be more representative samples. Of like the kind of services we provide. That's why I liked about the other, the top rated one, because it had the fireworks that had nature. It had like sports. Like. I wanted something that like, when I was looking at it, I wanted something that kind of amplified what we were doing. You know, as opposed to just like, Oh, it's a cute logo kind of thing. We're talking about the one on the right, right? Yeah. I think only the first, the hand drawn one. I think that is the only one to allude to music at all. And I don't see otherwise I don't see music. I don't see the theater. You know, the musical it's, it's very sports heavy. And certainly that's a lot of what the department does. Maybe it's most, but it's definitely not all. It's just, it's a lot of fun. I think it's a lot of fun. I think it's a lot of fun to see. And one reason I like F. 20 is that it does have fireworks in it. It does have. And it does have, you know, dumbbell or whatever. There's a leaf again. I don't know why, but. I would mostly think out the dumbbell and put maybe a musical note in there. I was just going to say that. Yeah, I think, you know, I think that's something that we could discuss later. I mean, the concept of this. I think it's a lot of fun. I think it's a lot of fun. Sort of what we have now, we don't do that very often anymore, but initially the intent was to have it interchangeable. There was a swimmer, which I use in the products one. There was a basketball player in the old, the old LSE logo, but that could certainly be done with that logo. So right now what are like the top three. Then we'll be going out to, to the public. 19 and F. 19 and 20. I'm sorry. F 19 and 20. These two. Right. Yeah. Two a. Two a. Is that a cricket thing now? That or a bottle of wine. I don't know. Yeah. I didn't. I kind of think five options is a little. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know much like. Yeah. Putting it on Facebook, people would have to scroll. You know, through each picture, like you kind of lose interest. And you're like, how, how many. I don't know. People would just vote on the first three in the last two. Don't really get as many. Many views. I don't know. I like that the three top ones are so different from each other from one another. It's not like, oh, close enough. Yeah. I think going with top three would be work out. Yeah. Cause they're not a similar. Right. Yeah. I think five is too many. Yeah, I think you're, I would agree with that. My suggestion too is to be sure that they're all blown up to the exact same size. This two ways, a nice size. You can really see the definition and right. Makes it easier for people to see it. Is everybody in agreement with that? Then you want to go three. Yeah. There you go. Can we compromise with four? I think because it's preliminary, I don't see a problem with having more like we're not. You know, we're not voting on the final final. You know what I mean? We're still going to add into, you know, and I don't know. I think five support actually, I think. I like five. Can we see the last two then? Five. So. And Stephanie, I think part of the confusion is we have so many right now that five still sounds like a lot, but I think if you only have five on one page, I think it might be. It may not seem as crowded. And I think maybe when we presented on Facebook, they'll be nice. The first picture will be showing all five. Right. And then as you click, you know, the next picture will show each individually. And then people can go back to the first. I think so. And I think we should, yeah, and we should say that these are not the final designs, but these are the conceptual designs at the moment. Nobody gets upset with us. Okay. Well, I guess so then the way we present it to the public and on Facebook. That's what I would really care if we're going to do five over three, just how we present it. So, you know, they don't feel overwhelmed. Right. Yeah, I like your idea of having everything on one page and then having them go to each one individually. Yeah. Does that work Marion since you're going to be doing the. Yeah, that's, that should work. I can definitely make that happen. Yep. And what do you think our timeline should be. So. I mean. The website's already up and right now we're just kind of living with nice text and sort of. General fonts, but they all kind of are woven through all three of the main sites, our site. Police and the town of Amherst site. So they're all like on the same font family. So I think when we do this. It might, it might need a little bit more work on our website to still make it integrated and look like the rest of the. Town site. So it doesn't look so crazy different. If we go, if the one that we vote on looks a lot different, you know. So it could, it could just be a little bit of time that we have to work through and get the style sheet worked out. And so. I don't know. Two weeks. What do we think? I think that sounds good to me. Let's, what's everybody else think though. There's a school vacation. You know, in February. So you might want to close the voting. Before hand. I mean, maybe nobody goes anywhere. But it's three weeks before February break. So. I think that's plenty of time to. Okay. Not more than that. The shorter the better, I think, you know, like somewhere 10 days of two weeks of my opinion. So are we saying put this out and allow people to vote for two weeks? Or are we saying we want to have our answer in two weeks? Allow people to vote for two weeks. Okay. So we could put it out February one. That's a Monday. Uh-huh. And then have it do the 15th or something. Uh-huh. Will it get, will it take. I mean, it's 10 days, 11 days till February. Is it. Is there a lot to do that long? So if we want to wrap it like, I would probably have it ready next week. It's Wednesday now. So yeah, I could probably have it ready on the 25th. Yeah. Why not? Why wait? Sure. Yeah. And then if it gets out, we could also put it out in the superintendent's newsletter. If it was sent to their office, it could go out in their email blast. To families. You could also ask principals send it out in their weekly communications. But it's still what the polling still be open around winterfest time. Yeah, we could make it until February, February 8th or. Kind of like a last, a last push. Yeah, that's a great idea. About 20th, 25th through the, through February 8th. Okay. Yeah. It's a little longer than two weeks, but it gets us through that weekend. Right. Any more comments, questions about the logo search. Great. Hey, Mary, and why I have you on. On the screen. Yeah. Maybe could you give an update about the website and. What's happening with registration with the wreck track. Sorry, you got a little broken up. Yeah, I seem to be breaking up tonight. I'm sorry. Could you give that track? Quick update. Yeah. About the website and Rick track. Yeah. So the website is up. We've been kind of continuously auditing it and finding. And all the time we've been doing it. So we've been working on it. In the last few weeks. So if you're in there and there. So if you ever poke through and see something. Let us know. But I'm catching them and, and really just kind of. Doing a little whack-a-mole with it. As we catch it, we fix it. So. That's going really well. I think it's really pretty. My favorite feature that we now have is this like. News and announcement section. So like something that's coming up. And so then you can read on or read more, I think it says, and it takes you to another page where then you see more of our sort of upcoming things. And we also have a recreation calendar which we can use more as well I put our commission meeting on there and I put the ice sculpture events. If more and more starts happening, that'll be easy for us to keep up with, and people can subscribe to that calendar so they can get little push notifications if we put up a new, a new calendar event or news item. So that's kind of nice. And then as far as our registration system the rec track migration is going on right now it's taking a while but it doesn't require a lot of cleanup it's an old program that's been running for 20 years bar maybe. Oh, at least yeah, at least okay so there's just like a ton of data and so fixing what we can in the old system, and then once the new system is up. I think I'm going to have both some cleanup to do and training so that we're able to utilize our beautiful new interface and it's going to look a lot more aesthetically pleasing and you'll be able to look on it on your phone because right now our site is not mobile friendly. Well the site is but the registration site is not. So that that soon will happen and that'll be really nice so people can not feel frustrated using our registration site. More to come yeah I think it'll be hoping everyone all the you know the leadership staff of ours will all be like embracing the change because I think it'll, I think it's going to look more similar to like what current platforms we work in won't be so like our kayak looking so ugly. So that's it. That's great. Anyone have any questions on that about what's going on there. Great. Thank you Mary and so if you want, you're welcome to leave or sure I am just going to make sure you're the turn it out. I'm going to make you the host. Very good. Thank you so much. Alright, absolutely. Bye everybody. Alright, the next item is cherry Hill. And just to give you an update on where we're at with the, the subcommittee. Again it's Paul has now committed to making that happen. I had a meeting with him and Dave Zomek last week. And he so he's moving this up on his priority list. And he's also sort of the importance the urgency. And so we're probably looking at within the next few weeks you'll be hearing something I believe he said on January 25 at a meeting that he'll announce that this committee is forming and be looking for folks to go ahead and apply for that appointment. So we're going to start with the winner aquatics programming. So our winner aquatics programming. I'm sorry, were there any questions about cherry Hill. Sorry. Yeah. Did you work out whether it's a subcommittee of this body or who to whom it's reporting. I'm leading that up to the town clerk and Paul. Okay, I have no idea. Yeah, they'll they'll they'll come up with the proper. I see. Okay. Whatever. They'll be announcing it to council. They don't they need to be announcing at the council and then we'll go from there. Great. And they'll put it out officially. Let's see, winner aquatics program we've hit a snake. The middle school pools filters are broken. So they're looking to repair those. So it won't be probably, I want to say probably until March if we can start up a program because you know they have to. Do you first find the money then go through the procurement process. And that all takes time and then the actual work. So those filters apparently have to be replaced. So that that's on hold indefinitely at this point it's it's unfortunate because you know I did have the coordinator had agreed to return this year to help us out. And we had some, some staff who were interested in returning so it you know with it with the limited program we were, you know, initially trying to project to offer. We were ready to go but it doesn't look like that's in the near future, but fingers crossed that gets done and we can maybe get a couple of months of lap swimming open swimming at the end of the spring. So, I wonder, Becky this is just a side question, do you know what this what's happening with the swim team, kind of chance. So, I watch every school committee meeting I know. So, at the last school committee meeting and the last update I got from Victoria for the high school newsletter is that they were going to. They had arrangements to use the belcher town high school pool and rent it from belcher town high school so they were going to be using that in the morning, like early morning for practices, but belcher town hit red for covert numbers and so that put a pause on like you can't use the school building like they could they can't rent out the pool when their communities in the red which is belcher towns perimeters. And they were investigating whether or not as an outside agency not affiliated with belcher town whether that was still the case for the swim team and school committee meeting tomorrow night. So, I can let you know after that but Victoria has not in her last announcement there was nothing about swimming. Oh, that's unfortunate I was concerned about that. I'm not sure I think the tritons may still be at Hampshire College. Hack, I believe. Wow. Yeah. Yeah, it's a shallow. That's a real shallow. All right. Yeah, yeah. Well, yeah it's limited, limited water space. I'm not sure right now. All right, moving down to the next item, childcare remote learning assistance program. We are this close to getting approval for that's that expansion. We have our program is completely full right now so this would give us an additional 1820 slots. There's just some minutiae that we're working out with the state. They had some issues with some records that we have and so I think that'll be resolved, probably by tomorrow. So we'll be looking we're working with the schools they will be giving us the referrals, as I have, we have done in the past. We're working with the school department. Not separately so everybody's working together to get their kids referred into this into our program. And in addition we're also still serving town employee children. So we should end up between 38 and 40 children in the program. It's been running. Oh, that's good. Free breakfast free lunch snacks for all the kids transportation that they're, if they need it so it's a really great program and I have to give my props to the staff who have done just an outstanding job of pulling this off safely in this kind of environment so it's good. Winterfest. Winterfest presents so obviously a very skilled down winterfest not not our usual winterfest, you know week long, but it's alright. We're focusing on one event this year. One very safe hope it unfriendly event called winterfest presents ice sculptures on the common drive through event or experience. I don't know, maybe I'll put you on the spot. You said you want to a little bit about it so I don't do all the talking all the time. So, this was an idea that was brought to us by Gabriella, the bid and it was just kind of mimicking some other events that happened a couple different places so the idea is to have 11 or so huge, like 11 foot maybe or really large I forget the size. of these sculptures and they would be on what's the street where the Jeff is the number one. Yeah, so and then they'll be like lighting that's going to come from North Hampton event, you know so they have these big pedestals with the top that you can light up the whole thing. And we're trying to get sponsors to promote it. And so it'll be a one way street we're going to block the street it's going to be one way we're going to have a bunch of different mascots from, you know like hopefully the you mask guy we have the caterpillar will be able to come but they'll be like the caterpillar car with a caterpillar in it. And I think we're going to get like the charter hoodie, you know their owl, you know so we're going to try to get different mascots from the area to be, because to catch people while they're driving through. So it's still kind of in the middle of, you know, we're right at the point now where we're putting it together but we're actually getting a bunch of sponsors at the moment. Um, two things my son would love to be flaky. Okay. That's good to know. He really loved doing that so. It gets on. And as you're looking for sponsorships is there a way we can tie a little more with the bid for like pickup locations or something drive by pickup. Kind of thing where people are going through because I'm assuming parking will be difficult with the cars like I'm just trying to think like we have businesses downtown for like sponsorships and all this all the time I would love to do something where we're like. And you know, like these restaurants will have like drive up pickup kind of just something where it makes it a little easier to get for people to get pick up your food drive by see the light so it feels more partnership be because I know small businesses have been like so hurt by the pandemic so I would just want to make sure that we were. We were really working with the bid and if that's something. It's a joint venture between us the bid and the chamber. Totally in it there the ones who brought the idea and I'm hoping that they're going to incorporate some of the stuff because we're trying to get people not to get out of the car there. So I think they're going to find out, find ways for them to go and, you know, somehow do some, you know, dinner or whatever. But that's a good point I'll make sure that we tell her to, you know, to maybe build that into it or somehow figure out a way to do Italian. Like a route where you like pick up your food on the like I know it adds like a complication but if you like this section of restaurants pick up here this section of restaurants pick up here, like something where we're like, these businesses support almost every activity that we're going to be able to do is to make sure that we're doing what we can back and promoting our event with, you know, dinner and drive kind of thing, I don't know. The bid I would just like to add on the bid is very cognizant of that if you will. And that's, you know, pretty much the driving force between really having it downtown to bring people downtown to do that kind of thing so but you know we haven't I don't formalized what how that process could work out. So I will definitely and you said I'm sure well to you know kind of put that bug in Gabriel grab your ear and see how we can enhance that a little bit more. It's a great suggestion though. I have a little idea just so you know, or one of the ideas that was kicked around is to have different things around town like in different places and people go like almost like a scavenger hunt, you know, but then it just got to be like you know how do you make sure you monitor it make sure the stuff doesn't get all trashed and things like that. And it just becomes, I think more complicated to explain, but that was kind of one of the ideas was to do that for that purpose to try to get people around. I'm just wondering about, excuse me, yeah the people who don't have cars. There's no sidewalk, if I understand where if these are going to be put at the bottom edge of the, the Commons to parts of the Commons. So how are people who travel by bus or whatever are they. How are they going to be able to. It's a good question and you know it's not it's something I've thought about to, you know we have the same issue with Halloween how to keep people safe as per star is our number one priority. Certainly they'd be viewable during the day, anytime it's not like they're, you know, shut off they're going to be exhibited as until they melt basically. So the fifth and six are sort of the formal part two hours five, five to seven, they'll be lit. They'll, they'll have the mascots there that sort of the showcasing of it, but people are welcome to come anytime and walk around on their own, you know, well, yeah, thank you. Okay, and will there be no parking along. There's no parking on right opposite town hall, but further along the parking is on the common side, so she's going to Gabrielle is working with the town and and I'm helping to to get that blocked off so that that'll all be open and there'll be like a, it'll be a designated group. Thank you. I can't wait I love I still. I do. Sorry, as Sarah said that I was thinking I wonder if there's a way to make sure that at least one is visible from that bus stop area that's right at the top of the spring street parking lot area down near boltwood. So that people going by on buses could have access like a taste. You know, like not that it would be the whole experience but that way we're at least like acknowledging, you know that some people might only view it. You know, it's just, I'll let you know, Gabrielle's kind of handling the placement of these. And, you know, I'm trying to work on some of the logistics like the electrical and so forth. So we'll have different pieces and fundraising. So far we've, we had two sponsors come to us and I know there's more that have already verbally committed but we've already raised $1,000, which we're LSC was only raised. Our responsibility was about 1500. So we're hoping even raise more. So we can put more into advertising and some other areas. Yeah, Sarah. I think we need bar bills one and bars bills two. I saw that when I was doing like the roll call is like wait there's two bar and totally. As these melt. Well, they're just they're just not secured right and I'm concerned if people are going to come and try to climb on them or push them over or what, you know, they, if they become unstable at some point. Is somebody just going to be checking on them every few hours and knock them down if they're getting hazardous. We've had these the we had what two or three last year didn't we do set. And they, and they were pretty good size and they melted down and they kind of do it a gradual thing or and we've also had a couple years where the college kids kind of knocked them down but it is. Yeah, I don't, we, you know, they're right in the center of town. So, you know, we can ask the, maybe if he needed, you know, just keep an eye on them but you said they were very large, I think I don't think this is like eight feet tall or probably eight feet would be the max. Okay. I'm assuming yes, 70 feet, you know, yeah. All right. Good, good, good. Okay, so just a director's report. December was, you know, the holidays and so forth was a little on the lighter side in terms of what's going on. We did start the skills development basketball program at Telemann Elementary and that's going right on right now. And it's going well. We postponed it a week. There were some folks who had some concerns so we address those concerns with them. I think they felt a lot better once we, we had some time to explain our protocols and so forth. And we have some really good things in place as far as safety and the kids are loving it. So it's good. We also started a park engagement program and I have to commend Mrs. Marion's idea. So it's Winter Walks with Amherst Recreation and it's a new program that activates Mill River Recreation Area and Groth Park with multiple kind of winter friendly activities. So what we've done we put some signs in the ground and then you can end there and there's, you know, the codes where you can take your phone and QRV, whatever that is and boom, it explains things. It's really cool. So if you get a chance if you have kids bring them up there. Good stuff. So we put the Groth Park signs up and we should have the Mill ones up this week as well. And how long will they be up? It's just like. Just probably the rest, probably the rest of the year. I mean till summer. Yeah, great. Becky. So typically they put the chain across Groth Park parking lot anyway, in the winter. Is that not the case this year? No, it's not. It's open and there were a lot of kids playing when I was up here last week. It's getting, getting a lot of years. See, aquatics we've already talked about golf course talked about prime time we've talked about pretty much adult youth education sort of limited. Yeah, I will say you may have read in the paper and I don't know if this is on here or not, about our van, the recess van. The program that really Amherst, the Amherst booster club got the grant for that approached us about helping so we have one of our instructors Cedric, who's been working with us for years and he's doing some programs with them and then the recess van which is the food truck, and has been they have a couple of college kids that use our van, basically and provide recreational program for kids just recess stuff so it's it's great. It's gotten a lot of good press that's good. Very good. We've talked about the name change already. The logo I should say, the website upgrades. I think that pretty much does it I did include just the different areas that our staff is working. Donna Roy also will be helping in the finance department for the next few weeks. They need their, they need some help with some of the carers money and documentation and so forth tracking whatnot so she's going to help the finance department with that. We're just sort of beginning the process of sort of being vetted with the town manager. I do have concerns that we may lose a program director position that Stacy had so well, I will keep you posted about that. You know next year is going to be a tough year. I kind of see that most of our programs in the summer will be up and running, pretty much full strength. So, we'll see how we do minus one, you know, minus another person. It is what it is. I don't think there were, there were other cuts that were made last year that I was under the understanding that they were, you know, because of COVID, and that they would be reinstated. It appears now we have to ask for them to be reinstated for the FY 22 budget so interesting times will do all right though. If we do what we can with what we have, and we do a pretty good job so all good. But otherwise I think that's pretty much it. Does anyone have any questions on the report. I just had a quick question about the summer pools. Is it possible that they could open earlier. I mean I don't know if it'd be warm enough but you know somebody issue there is just there we have to get the staff back from wherever they go to get them back into Amherst, get them trained and get them up again and the pools. You know, I don't know. That's a good question. We tend to open the last day or the weekend after the last day of school. It's been historical. But I think it seems like September is warmer than June. I know. So, you know, last year we stayed open till the 27th of September at Mill River. And it was darn cold. I'm, you know, you can speak to that, Carolyn, but toward that last week. I don't think we do it that way. But maybe two weeks into September. Yeah, the guards stopped wearing their suits, I believe. They were bundled up all day. Yeah, a little, little leppy, but we have good attendance. There's two of us out there. You know, I always thought that starting before schools closed would be really nice to give adults a little head start on quieter time. So I think that's a great idea if you, if it's at all possible to even start around Memorial Day or maybe the weekend after. I know we'd be there. A lot of people bought warmer suits for last September. So we just wear them early this year. School also gets out much later this year than years past. Yeah, there's something we could, we could investigate that, especially if we can't get the spring season off the ground. I think that's a, it's a, it's a good thing thing to think about. Maybe it's even just weekends or I know a lap swimmer is one of a regular schedule though so, but it's just a question of staff but if we could get it, you know, maybe we did a five to seven in the evening or, I don't know, let me think about it. Even if it was just one of the pools. Yeah, I couldn't step to that early. Right. Yeah. Isn't there going to be work at Mill River though with the same or is that delayed till after July one with the CPA funding. Now the work actually is, it won't involve the pool. It's, it's the basketball court. It's all the monies that we have. There's like three or four different pots of monies that we're doing to redo the basketball court. And repair of the pool. Yeah. Oh, no, no, no, that won't happen. That won't happen in the spring. That's at the end of the season. It couldn't happen before July 1 and then there's water in the pool. So, correct. I just wanted to make sure. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, make. All right, so I guess we're scheduling your next meeting. I'm just throwing us out Wednesday the 24. I don't know if people have plans for February vacation. So I didn't want to schedule. It works for me. 24 this good for me with me. I'm not going anywhere. I'll cancel my trip then. Oh, you can participate from anywhere. We know you're just going to chick a piece. I've never been to chick a piece. There you go. Okay. Wednesday, the 24, 6pm. Good. Okay, so you want to. So we move to intern. Yeah. Back at. All in favor. I. All right. Thank you, everyone. Have a wonderful night. In a great day. Yes. It's a wonderful day, man. We can all sleep a little better to me. Anyone else wake up in the middle of the night and check their phone just to make sure like nothing catastrophic happened overnight. No, I let that to you, Becky.