 Okay, so pursuant to Governor Baker's March 12, 2020 order suspending certain provisions of the open meeting law, General Law Chapter 30A, Section 18, this meeting of the LSSC Commission is being conducted via remote participation. We're going to do a roll call on them. Some Meg Rosa. Chair. Everybody can go around and introduce themselves. Yusuf Fidel. Sarah Marshall. Carolyn Maylor. Rebecca Demling. Stephanie Jeff. Victor Nunez Ortiz. And Barb Bills, Staff Liaison Director. All righty. Okay. So, do I say the rest? Just so the meeting is being recorded and maybe broadcast on Amherst Media and the town of Amherst YouTube channel. And we can call our meeting to order now at 6.08 PM. Very good. Very good. Great. The next item is public comment. I see no other attendees. So there at this time is in public comment. Should someone come in later, we can add it to the untimed items at the end of the agenda. So we'll skip immediately then to CPA proposals and a quick update. So this came quickly on us, I think, and quite frankly with COVID and everything else going on. We had a meeting of staff just a couple of weeks ago to sort of prioritize what might be the top priorities for. The, um, for recreation and also priorities for the other categories. Um, that, um, that's housing and historical, um, that might come forward, which we, I don't really have any say in or whatnot, but, um, I think the ones that I'll present to you tonight and, um, would like to get your support on are quite obvious ones. So, and they're things that we have talked about before. So the first one, um, which is, I believe, one of the number one priorities is the, where did my little she go? My cheat sheet. The replacement of the pavilion at graph park. And as many of you, the one on the lower, lower, lower area of graph park, it's, it, I took some photographs, um, of that, uh, kind of like a week ago before I did the last week before I turned in the proposal and it is in tough shape. Um, the roof is very decayed bent. Um, it's on a ground, you know, basically ground. There's no cement platform under it or anything. So it's standalone right there. Um, so that looking to replace that and a caught in. So I, I went ahead and submitted that proposal. Um, and that was a $45,000 proposal. So that includes, uh, demolition, uh, installing a new pad. Um, I don't believe there will be much permitting. I believe that was done. And at least that's what Nate told me, um, Nate Maloy from the, um, planning department, um, so that there won't be a permitting involved because it was permitted as part of the original plan, uh, for the restoration and refurbishment of, of the playground and the, um, The spray park area. And it was in that first proposal, it was what we called an alternate project. So it was not, not done because the bids came in at such a, a level that the alternates were not included. So we're looking to finish that project. The second one is, uh, the first, as you know, of it, all of you or some of you who were involved, uh, in the, in the, the master plan for the downtown recreation, uh, site, the fields and so forth. The first phase is going to be a war memorial pool house design, redesign. The building is a night is older than I am, believe it or not. So it's a, it's time to, and it's, uh, it's almost, it's in tough shape. As you know, uh, the, the bricks have become, uh, they've become, uh, they've become, uh, they've become, uh, they've become so decayed that water actually penetrates, um, through them. There are, there's some structural problems. There are, are many, many. So we're going to look at that. So that'll be the first thing to do a design for that. And the third one, another obvious one is the sand for, for you, Carol, and someone who swims there daily. At, uh, Mill River pool of sand blasting the pool and, uh, it's basically a sealing element. Um, so that we don't have to repaint that thing to the tune of almost $5,000 annually. Uh, so it will save us, it's very cost saving. I don't have a price on that. DPW is working on that proposal. And, uh, as well as the war memorial pool house design. So those are three, the three big ones that pop out, all of them fairly not, I don't think there's anything there that's going to be, you know, that's not, we're not talking hundreds of thousands of dollars, probably in no more than 50 for each of those. Um, certainly the price on the pavilion, that's from quotes that we received. And we added because of inflation and so forth, a certain percentage to make sure that we have enough money and we don't have to go back there to ask for more money. So there should be money available to do that, plenty of money. So those are the three. Um, so, uh, let's open that up for some discussion and then when we're through with the discussion on those and questions, we can have Sarah maybe update to us on what's happening with the committee, the latest is. Barb, can you give us a little timeline on each of those? The time, I can give you a timeline on the, well, these are for FY 22, 22, right. So yeah, and you know how the fiscal year. Start. So we're talking at least a year out. For completion. All three on kind of the same start and finish kind of schedule. Okay. Yes. If they're approved. Or if they're recommended by CPA committee. And then if town council. You know, so if they're not able to do the plan, if they're still in the commission to fund them, then the funds don't become available till July 1st next year. So they can't do anything. Nobody can do anything. Until then. So we've looked at, I hoped to start once, for instance, you're talking about remember Miller river pool. I would hope that would start in the fall after we close, which I am kind of overseeing. That's, you know, it's basically, we have a vendor who's on the state contract list. So there's no, I don't believe we're going, it's going to have to go out to bid. So that should be very quick to implement and the building itself is pre-pavocated. So it's the same pavilion that's on the upper level. Yes, Sarah. Would it have any picnic tables or any kind of furnishings fixed in place or it's just a slab and a pavilion? Just the slab and the pavilion and then we'll get the amenities. I'm sorry. Which will be picnic tables and such. Right, movable. Will it be accessible? Is there going to be a path or something or grading? There won't be a path that I, I believe this is just the pavilion. So there's no, there won't be an accessible path down to that as part of this project. All right. Any of these possibly going to go forward without having CPA for me? Probably not. No, I mean that we remember last year, none of our capital projects were moved forward because of the situation. Obviously we are budgetary wise. So we're at a point where we really rely heavily on the CPA funding to make improvements to use areas in the recreation field. We can talk about the capital, probably we'll talk about that next month, but it'll be the same items that were on last year's, last fiscal year's ask, if you will. Becky. My question is, will the design of the new bath house be in line with kind of the tiered proposals from the field working group? Yes. The reposition to the other side, like. I believe so. Yeah, I think it's going to go out. Yes. So that was a lot of public input involved in that. And there'll be public input for this design as well. You know, it's sort of the processes that we had when we did the design for graph park where the people come, you know, you hire the designer, the diner, he comes out and we all kind of, we have a community meetings, we talk about it, let's do this. And what do you think about that? He comes up back with some sketches and we go from there. But yeah, I would, I mean, a lot of that work has already been done. And we have a pretty solid foundation in terms of what everyone wanted and community input that we had, especially related to where it's situated. I think that's really important. Good point. So can I follow up on that? Just sort of off topic, that same. Has there been any discussion with the school about going forward with any of the plans? Perhaps or anything? I mean, I know this seems like everything's blown out of the water. I didn't know if there was any fundraising conversations. Like I haven't heard anything. I think it really got stalled with. Yeah. It's March, yeah. Sarah. Oh, Sarah, you're muted. Sorry. Sorry, I thought I unmuted. The region came to CPA, is my understanding, went to the CPA committees of all the towns to ask for some money for the first phase of continuing the design whatever for repositioning the track in the football field. And I believe that our town council approved our recommendation for a portion of that funding. I don't know whatever happened with, Palom and Leverett and Schuetsbury. They weren't even able to have town meetings for so long. I have no idea if they're gonna contribute money. So, but they did ask. They were trying to move it along and Amherst did authorize some, but I don't think they will use it if the other communities aren't also contributing. Okay. So Doug Slaughter would know. Was that last year that they asked for the money? In the last round, yeah. Last round, I mean, yeah. Right. That's right. So the funding is available, but I don't know if they can proceed. So, okay. Thank you. Any other questions or comments? All right. So, Meg, we don't really have to have a formal approval, but certainly I like to see that we have support for these projects. If anyone has another project that they feel, wait a minute, we should do this. Even though the deadline's passed and we can certainly do what we can do to try to make that happen. Okay. So not hearing anything, I'm taking that as maybe Meg, you could get some support to move this forward. All right. Should I do all three at once? Yeah, I think that's fine. Okay. So, I knew that we, what is the word I'm looking for? Recommend? Yeah, there we go. I knew that we recommend three proposals to the CPA committee for fiscal year 2022. Replacement of the lower pavilion at Groth Park, War Memorial Pool of the House, Blasting the River Pool. Is there a second? Okay. I'm sorry. Seconded was, there was a few seconds. I saw Becky's hand, so. All right, that's all. All in favor? Aye. Okay. You're unanimous. Aye. Next one. Meg. Alrighty. Okay. So the next item is the strategic plan and the name change subcommittee. So I would like to thank everyone for their input. And I feel now confident that we can move ahead with the four identified areas or the goals that we want to accomplish before the end of the year, at least in some capacity, but certainly I think the number one and probably the largest or the most daunting is the name change. So I'd like your input on how you want to proceed. We talked about a subcommittee. Generally a subcommittee is not necessarily everybody, but if you feel strongly that we want, you all want to be part of it, I'm fine with that. But I know that UCF is agreed to kind of help lead and shepherd this process with Marion, who is on our staff, our marketing person. So we have a staff person and we have UCF. So how, let me know what you all are feeling at this point in time. I know Sarah has opted out. Obviously she has enough on her plate with CPAC. So what are we thinking around this? I would like to be involved. I mean, are you, I mean, go ahead. Who would like to be just by show of hands? Okay, so wait, that's for Victor. It's all of you, okay. Except for Sarah, okay. Well, let's do it. Which means another meeting, just so you know. So we'll, we probably, and then at this point, I'd like to have our meeting, I'm just looking over at my calendar, not trying to leave the screen. I was hoping for maybe the last week of October, if we want to get, if we want to roll this out by the first of the year, either the last week of October, the first week at the latest of November, how does that sit with everyone? And flexible. That works. Yeah. All right. Yeah. Can you give me a quick idea of what you think this will entail? Is this a one meeting thing or is this like a every day for two weeks? Or what do you see? I think it's gonna be more than one meeting. Probably two. I mean, we basically have to identify what our process is going to be. We have to develop some sort of a budget, I'm sure. And then we have to develop a timeline and how we're gonna roll this out between now and January 1st, let's say. So probably at least two meetings. In the name that I've seen used in our materials for this meeting, is that? It's the town of Amherst Recreation Department. That's, what is that? Is that it? That's it. That's very in line with the rest of the world. Have you thought about the initials, the acronym? T-A-R-D. T-A-R-D. TARD? I think it's just gonna be Amherst Recreation. Yeah, I think Amherst Recreation. I think we both shortened that to that. I mean, that's something we can discuss. Okay. TARD is, you know, L-S-S-C because it was such a mouthful, leisure services and supplemental education department. That was easy, too. But it's like Northampton Rec, Wilburham Rec, that'll be what people will shorten it to. Yes, Sarah. So I'm not on the subcommittee, but I'm curious, does the town have in-house graphic design or will you need to go to an outside consultant for that kind of thing, you know? Well, I think that's something that we can discuss as a committee. I mean, we did talk some around the edges about maybe even making a contest out of this, get community involvement. We certainly have quite an arts-related community here. So I think that there is potential there. So I'm not saying I'm saying no. The logo that we had though is from the 70s. It's very, if you really look at the graphics, it's, I don't know if you remember the 1972 Olympics, some of you probably weren't even born, but that was the style of graphic that they used in those Olympics. So hopefully, and it does, you know, we haven't changed it because there was a lot of pushback on the name to begin with. So we weren't gonna do that without changing the, you know, anyways, so now we can. And we can approach it in a lot of different ways. I'm kind of relying on you, Seth, to present some ideas and if that sounds good, like if we put it out there, as a community or perhaps there's a graphic arts class at UMass that might be interested in taking this on as a project, that could be a possibility. A high school has a graphic start. So it is nice. So that could be fun. Yeah. You, Seth. So if we look at the 27, 28, and 29, is there a date that can't work for anybody? The trivia be is the 29th. Hmm, okay. Oh, yeah. I should know that. What time of day are we looking at? I don't know what's good for people. I was thinking evening, but unless people would, I can do morning of people to the morning, but. I go to work for 8 a.m. So unless we're talking seven. Yeah. Yeah. 6, 6, 30, bring your favorite beverage and we'll talk. Yeah. Six o'clock is the work for people. So Tuesday or Wednesday? Wednesday tends to be easier for me. Wednesday's work for me too. Can anybody do Wednesday? 28th. Yep. Wednesday 28, 6, 30. How about six o'clock? Yep. Okay. All right. That's it then. That's good. Does anyone else have any questions? I know that, did you all receive what Marianne had sent out? I, okay. So that will, I haven't had a lot of time to absorb that involved in some other things. Look at the kitty. Sorry. So let me, you know, present it. Yes. Is it the PowerPoint she said? That's okay. Yeah, I did get that. So you might want to review that and we'll go from there and then on the 28th. Okay. So I forgot about the approval of the minutes. Whoopsie. So let's back up on the agenda a little bit. There were two sets of the minutes I sent out, one from September 9th and the other one from September 24th. And I apologize, I skipped it. Were there any, let's start with September 9th, which was our regular meeting. Were there any changes that anyone caught to those minutes? Okay. So we probably should do these separately. Go ahead Meg, do you want to make- I'm all in favor of approving the minutes from the September, what was the date? September 9th. Okay. September 9th meeting. All in favor. All right, unanimously approved. Good. And September 24th was, and I sent you some amended minutes from the 24th, I did catch some things that weren't correct. That was from the strategic planning meeting, which was a public meeting that we did have minutes. Were there any changes to those? Okay, Meg. All in favor of approving the, what are we on September 24th minutes? With one abstention from Caroline because- Well, I wasn't really on the board. That's fine. I'm abstaining, I wasn't there. Okay, who's that? Oh yeah, Becky. You can vote anyway. I'll vote for it. I don't like to validate if I'm not. Sounds good. I listened in. Thank you. All right then, that little bit of business is taking care of, all right. So I still see no attendees. So I'll move on to my director's report and I'll open it up for comments as I go through this. So our fall sports programs are in progress. Most of them are gonna run until November, whether permitting, but been very well received. I would say all of them are at capacity, which is great. So clearly the need is being met and I wish of course we could do more, but we're limited in terms of numbers that we can take and space and so forth and instructors, but it's actually more sports programs in the fall than we previously run, but of course, aren't able to handle the numbers and that we could potentially do, but at least we're providing a service to a lot of kids who need it. So it's good. We talked about CPA, so I'll skip that. Our aquatics program, as you know, the Mill River Pool closed on September 27th and as of today, we've had no reports of any COVID related illnesses, which is great. So as far as I can tell, it was a really successful summer. We had fantastic feedback and support from the community and just really proud of my staff. They really stepped up. They did a great job in keeping everyone safe and just being courteous and very attentive to our folks that use the pools, both pools. So it was a good season. We're still looking at ways, and it's probably a little bit premature now, but looking at ways that we might possibly be able to get back into the middle school pool, I don't really think that will happen this fall, but if we can continue and we don't see a huge, another spike, there's a possibility that we might get in during the winter. So we'll see. The swim lessons, however, it would just, I think they're still off the table, unfortunately, which is a little bit disheartening for me. Someone who just, I think that's such an important thing that we do at LSSC is to provide really low-cost swim lessons to anyone who wants to learn to swim. You know, it's just, we're losing a lot of ground during this pandemic, which is unfortunate. Yes, Sarah. So if we are able to use the pool, then it would be lap swim only? Lap swim and open swim. So we'd have free swimming. It's like we did at the other pools, the outdoor pools. So it'd be a weekend, probably openings, but at least it would be something, yes, ma'am. I know that UMAMA, which is the master's program at UMass, they started training at Hampshire, I think it was today or yesterday. Is there any chance that we could use Hampshire's pool? Yeah. Hampshire College, sorry. Yeah, I know what you're saying. We looked into that before when the pool was down. They are pretty well booked and the Tritons are in there, some other USA swim teams are in there. Now UMAMA, that's new. I didn't know they were there. Yeah, they just started. I mean, there's possibility and we should look into that's a good suggestion. I can, maybe there's time on the weekends or Sundays. Thank you, that's a good suggestion. Yeah, Becky. Actually, I'm wondering about Amherst College pool when they closed at Thanksgiving and they're not coming back till late January if there's a possibility since their students are all going home of trying to run some swimming lessons out of their pool. Yeah, it wouldn't be swim lessons. I would say right now the COVID regs because of the close contact that you have with the children. So we're really probably, I hate to say this but it may be through this next coming summer looking at just open swim and laps one. But that is an interesting thought about Amherst College. I know they're being very, very protective about their space right now. I don't know if that holds true when the students aren't there. Okay. So we'll move on to Cherry Hill. Cherry Hill is done again instead had a record breaking month in revenues. We were for the month of September we brought in $37,709 which is the best September I can remember ever since I've worked here. If you compare it to FY20, I think we're around 20,000 or something. So it's just remarkable. Our overall revenues for the quarter are up 28%. So that's over the previous year. So that's pretty amazing. And as far back for instance, so the total revenue to date for the first quarter is 104,000 roughly and FY19, we only brought in 59,000. So it's almost doubled, which is pretty crazy. Which is great. And the conditions have been, I have to say, you know, been up at the course and it's because of the drought. It's not as beautiful as it has been in other years, but because let's face it, irrigation doesn't hit everything. And there's some brown spots and so forth. But overall, I think it's very playable. We get, the greens have come back very well after being aerated and they are in good shape. I'll let Yusuf who plays there more often than I do chime in. Yeah, it's in great shape, you know, like you said, based on the, you know, the drought we had, you know, there wasn't much staff in the beginning of the season. So it wasn't as maintained as it is now. So you're seeing, there's definitely a lot of improvement now. And it's just, you know, it's beautiful now with the trees and, you know, the foliage and all that. So it's definitely a show place. And I think we need to make more, take more advantage of that. And one of the things I was going to mention after I might as well say, no, so we're trying to put together a group of people after the season closes to work, you know, to come up with ideas and maybe do some proposals to the town and maybe justify being able to spend a little bit more money because it's actually something that's actually making money for the town right now. You know, and we're thinking about who we would put on that committee or, you know, it's kind of like a part of, I think there's gonna be like an unofficial committee, right? Like not a... It's an advisory committee. Yeah, an advisory committee. So maybe some of the regulars, members, players, some of the LSSE staff and or, well, we only have one full-time full staff now, but, you know, maybe John Cuello, I think I can convince him to be on it. Maybe like somebody from the different leagues, somebody who has to play like on the women's leagues and maybe somebody from the women's league. So just the different things and try to think of different things that we could do to justify, maybe if we spend a little bit more money, I think we can make a lot more money than in what we've been seeing. Sarah, I think you're gonna see them. Yeah, do you have any idea how many new users have come this year? I mean, in a part, you know, between the closing of Hickory Ridge. You'll be able to tell. Because we're doing now tea times and it's all done on the computer, we'll have a better idea how many people, you know, come from different towns, come from Amherst and so forth. So this is a good thing that we really didn't have the ability to do before. So we'll be able to provide that report at the end of the season, right? I also would maybe suggest someone else or it doesn't have somebody from maybe the university, maybe the Eisenberg school management, sports, you know, management. There's a faculty member that might be interested. I know there was a gentleman who did give a presentation a couple of years ago about the clubhouse. He came and talked to the commission. He also might be someone who might be interested in being on the committee. So I can provide with this. Is there a turf program too? Pardon me? I mean, somebody from the turf program at UMass. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. All right. So we'll put our heads together. This will happen after we close. There's just a lot going on right now with some of our other programs. So not quite end with the name change. So it'll happen over the winter. And it won't be, I'm hoping that will just take place over a few months and we'll be able to put some recommendations together and present those to town council and the town manager, obviously. All right. Like we'll talk a little bit about the primetime childcare program at the middle school. So the staff and I have been working on this now for a number of weeks. There's two things that had to happen. Our license had to be, we had to put in a license application for the transfer of the location because we were originally at Crocker Farm. And then the type of program has changed. So we're going to be at full day. We'll have a full day license and we will be doing childcare as well as slash remote assisted learning so that we can assist children with their remote learning. Now, right now, we're opening it up to sort of as a trial to staff member employees or employee town employees, children. So we're going to start small and then open it up to the community after about two weeks. So our timeline got pushed out because of the late opening of the school. So we are hoping now to open on October 26th. Tomorrow we have our site inspection, which means the state comes in, looks at all our documents, make sure everything is where it needs to be and looks at our site. So we are located upstairs in one of the, I believe it's called the girls exercise room, which is adjacent to the gym, gymnasium up there. So it's to the left. Probably some people don't even know there's two large, large rooms that attach there. So that's where you're initially going to be. That may change. We may move to classroom space at the end of the other end of the building actually at some date, talk to the superintendent. And it looks like winter sports are coming back at this point. But, you know, change happens all the time. So my thought was, let's get established here first and see what happens rather. And we had already put our application together, put a lot of wheels in motion that were related to this specific space. So it was too late really to change, you know, this was Thursday or Friday that we found this out. So they're coming, the state's coming around. It's sort of a big deal. So fingers crossed everything goes well and we're able to do a trial run with employee staff on the 26th. So, yes, Sarah. So what will be the hours of operation and the ages of children? Let's see, only school age children's, K through sixth grade. And the hours of operation would be 730 a.m. to 5 p.m. Becky. How many deaf people have signed up? We have five returning staff plus Grace is going to direct. And then we're also utilizing our own full-time staff. So Marion, Donna, Nick, and Nikki will all be taking shifts, much like we did at the golf course. We're hoping that COVID funds will, the CARES, from the CARES Act will pay, help to pay a supplement, some of this. But at this point, we're going to try to make this program free to everyone. We're looking at it right now, a maximum of 20 slots. And again, that could be increased later. Sarah. Just curious, do families have to enroll for five days a week or is there flexibility in it? There's flexibility. There's definitely flexibility. We would hope though, if they come to realize that there are hybrid models out there and some of the kids won't be in our district, but we're hopeful that they'll have, I'm definitely, the kid, the child will be there if it's Tuesday, Thursday, or it's not that they're just, they're not going to come and go, hopefully, because that would make it very difficult to plan. And we'll work with their teachers, coordinate their, make sure we're coordinating curriculum and so forth. It's a big, big project, but it's going to make a lot of parents happy, which is great. And I'm merely anxious to open it up to the community. The other two programs, there are two other after-school programs, and this sounds kind of strange, but they're also located at the middle school. They're in the cafeterias, but they're only open to, at this point, to school employees, children. Sarah. So you said you hoped you'd be able to open it up as time goes on. So what is the capacity? Or, I'm sorry? The capacity right now is 20. We only have seven families that are shown interest that are town employee families. So there's definitely. You think it might grow to be more than 20 or you just hope to get between? We're going to start with 20 as a max, so. May. So are they, are each kid going to be following along with what their regular school day, regular remote school day would be? Yes. So. Hopefully. I don't know how that goes. I mean, well, yeah, we're going to try. So it's like, we need a lot of staff. We do have, actually. That's why we're pulling in the full-time staff. So our ratio will probably be better than one to five. And they're going to be like set up desks in there for each of the kids? It's, it's, it's amazing. And I, maybe I can take some photos and share them with you. How we have it set it up is, you know, the desk or obviously have to be a certain amount. So a distance apart, each child is allowed 42 square feet. That is all on the, on the floor in those rooms is, is taped off. Pathways are taped off with arrows. There's quite a bit of signage, but this is all part of the COVID environment we're in. But yes, so it's all, it's all set up with the different protocols that EEC has put out there. And they're going to use the locker rooms on that floor for bathrooms? No, they use the, actually, they're going to use the downstairs. There are two bathrooms that they'll be using, which are, I don't know, see what side of the building would that be? A back floor? I guess the west side of the building. And is that, so the door that, that they blocked off for between the school and LSSC, that's got, you know, you have the key card to get through now. Oh, right. Yeah. Is that going to stay locked? That will, that will be, that will be locked during, yeah, once everyone arrives. So we'll be meeting people at their cars, basically, then a health check, they have a series of questions, then the child has a temperature check, and then they're escorted into the, to the room. Nice. Becky. What would be the process for opening it up to the community? Will it go be based on needs, like working with the family centers and the schools to determine like greatest need? I think there's going to be some of that. I think also we feel that we sort of have an obligation to our children who were in the Crocker farm after school program. So we haven't established like a priority system yet, but I think I'll work with the town manager on that, kind of determine how that's going to, but there are, I hear what you're saying, and that will be difficult. That certainly it will be Amherst residents as the first priority. Okay. Let me move on then. There are no more questions about that. We're having, we have our challenges around adult and youth education. I just want to put that out there. We're not a out loud yet to use the schools for those programs or the, any town buildings. So we're trying to do what we can right now, that they're being held outdoors, but that won't be possible in the winter. So most of those programs will be done remotely during the winter. So just a quick report on that. Halloween, we're having actually a lot of fun with this. This is sort of a, I love Halloween so it's good. We have three different programs that we'll be providing. I think we've talked about that at the last meeting, but it's the first one is the how do you mass contest? So if you may have already seen some Facebook postings or if you go online, but basically we're providing masks to a lot of the different housing area, the kids that live in these areas, housing areas and then anyone else who wants to be part of it. So they're the, they're masking the kids can decorate them, essentially. And then they'll be on, we'll post the winners and, we'll post to everybody's probably and put them up. So sort of a fun, easy activity for kids to get involved in and we're getting a good response. And the other one is the downtown window painting. We're working closely with the chamber and the bid on this. We are already full in terms of families who are participating. The signups have been really well received and we've had good response from the businesses. So we'll have more windows I think than we've had in previous years being decorated, which will give it a nice festive kind of feeling downtown. And that starts, I believe this Sunday, Saturday or Sunday. And the final one is the trick or treat my ride Halloween parade. This is pretty cool. So they'll meet at the high school. Basically they take that left as you come out of the high school toward Main Street, go down Main Street, come down North Pleasant, come down Triangle, back to the high school. And again, this is, we're working with the bid and the chamber on this. We've got embedded in this program, which basically is families decorate their cars and decorate themselves in costumes. And then they participate by driving in the parade. The police and the fire department are on board. We have a scavenger hunt embedded in this, which it's just blow ups at various different locations along the routes that the kids can get involved in. And then the community businesses have been very supportive. We have, I don't know how many people will get, but we have a hundred bags and they'll have pumpkins and decorating kits for the pumpkins, as well as coupons from local businesses. For instance, what's the cookie company? I'm just- Somnia is donating a cup of coupons. You can go ahead and get cookies for the kids. So just trying to generate some enthusiasm around. After the parade, go visit, maybe get a bite to eat or stay social editions, all that good stuff, but a way for at least the kids to have something to look forward to if families don't feel comfortable trick-or-treating. Yes, Sarah. Is that on Halloween? That is on Halloween at three o'clock. And probably three to four. So good, it's a weekend day. Saturday, yeah. And let's see. We also, on that just rest assured, we've worked with Rob Mora, who is the head of inspection services and oversees the health inspectors. Just making him aware of what we're doing feels very comfortable for following all the protocols. And we've developed the letters that go out to everyone that registers. So explaining what the different protocols are and what the expectations are. So there's no one getting out of cars. It's basically an in-car kind of event. We looked at trying to involve people who didn't have cars and it just, we just couldn't figure it out. And maybe next year, if we do this again, if it happens again, then this continues, I should say that we need to think about how we can get other kids who don't have transportation involved because that was a frustration. And I know, I remember, I think it was Stephanie who brought that up. And I agree that it is something that's lacking in this program. Yes, Sarah. Sarah, have there ever been any thought about painting windows in other parts of town? I mean, they're not as many businesses, but there's a growing number up in, you know, North Amherst and Milford Strait, or? Don't I, you know, that's a good question. It's always been down to. Okay. I know that, but I take that back because I remember at one point down where the hangar is, there was a bit, I think at the time there was a dental or an optitrition or someone who did, we did painting down there once. So I don't think we just, we don't necessarily limit it. I know we send out to just about, I think we send it to the chamber. So there may be some that aren't, that I'm not aware of. I'm sorry, yeah. Why not Atkins? They got a lot of windows. They do, they do. I can find out, we may branch out if we get more families that want to get involved. I think. Oh, so I'm gonna skip past their schedule planning since we talked about, you know, that and our next meeting and so forth. Obviously I sent you out those minutes. I don't think we need to go much further with that as far as an explanation. I will say that we are updating our rec track to a more current version. I know that last time we discussed, we saw a lot of discussion about the website and so forth. But the first thing we need to do is upgrade that version that we have. It won't be, it won't be able to be serviced and we won't have support. So it was sort of, we didn't have a choice. And so that we brought it to the town manager via IT, the IT support and we're able to make that happen. So it'll be a much easier community, customer service and customer interspace allowing, for instance, well, there'll be a cart much like you see on any website. So it's, it'll be mobile responsive, which means you can do it on your phone. That's great. And then we can customize reports in ways we can't now as well. So just much better security all the way around. This is a really good thing. And we got a huge discount, which is even better. Then finally, I just, you know, I think it's always good to make you aware whether where the staff is working right now. We have staff working still at the senior center. They're poll workers. They're still working at Cherry Hill and they're working at the childcare program. So pretty spread out. We now, Marian will be setting up Zoom meetings for various departments in town. She's also working with the town on the COVID-19 website that the town has. So lots of different areas. Donna's working at the clerk's office two days a week right now. So we're pretty maxed out. And so just to make you aware that I think they're just doing an outstanding job just helping out where they need to be and where they're needed, which is great. And I appreciate it. So shout out to them, to everyone. So that's it for my report. Any other questions or comments? All right. Just checking to see if we had anybody. Nope, no, no other attendees. So unless anyone else has anything to add, I'll turn it back over to Meg. Well, should we skip to a regular meeting? Yeah, I think probably we should. So we have the one on the 28th. So now we're looking into November. I'm away from the 11th to the 15th. So any other days, but nice that by the, any of those. Yeah. I cannot meet any Thursday. Yeah, Thursdays are out for you, right? I'm pretty flexible. So I don't know if other people have, for people are busy with me. How about the 18th? Got a Wednesday? Yeah. Yep. It's okay with me. 18th at six o'clock? Yeah, that works with me too. Yeah, I think they're. Yeah. Yeah. Wednesdays are perfect. All right, how good. Good. All right then. There we go. And I'll put that in the minutes. Okay, so that I will move to adjourn. Excellent. Hey, adjourned at six, 59 p.m. I love these one hour meetings. All right, thank you everyone. I appreciate you, all you do. Great to see everyone. Thanks for stay safe this evening. Bye. See you next time. Thank you guys. Bye. Thanks for letting me in. Yeah, we'll get you as a, instead of a, for some reason they didn't put you on as a panelist. That's crazy. Oh well, we fixed it. As long as I can get in eventually, that's good. All right, see you later. Take care.