 Okay. Webinar is being recorded. Okay, welcome everybody. We have the April meeting here today. We have four members present, and one is absent, and that's Sanjay. I will share anything we cover here today with Sanjay. Certainly he has access to minutes. Matt, you're going to do the minutes again? Okay. Sanjay will have access to the minutes, and I'll get a chance to talk to him about anything we cover here. I will be keeping an eye on the public attendees to see if anybody comes in. We did post the schedule, and there may even be things that people know are coming up that they would check in and try to ask us about or talk about. There have been some little things that have been off our beaten path here. As I said, one person is not here. I can, first of all, make the announcement that Victor has officially stepped down. Victor has officially resigned from the position. He told me with regrets that he just can't handle the scheduling, and so he asked for the process of resignation, which leaves us with two open seats. I did get from town hall. Angela sent me the list. We have four people who have applied. I'm going to reach out to them tomorrow and just check and see what their continuing interest is in applying for the position, Sarah. And remember that I'll be stepping down. We're losing Sarah and Yusuf. Sarah and Yusuf are going to be coming up here also. Hopefully we like all four of them, but we will post again if we need to. Right now, we're filled for two, and with the anticipation, we could actually extend that if we wanted to keep somebody in the loop for when those opening spaces came. When was Victor due to renew? Good question. Maybe one option would be to have somebody fill in his term. And you know what I mean? And then if you have somebody that's kind of on the fence, maybe they can do whatever years he's left, maybe one or two. Oh, if there's somebody that wanted to just take a little bit of time, feel it out or somebody who wanted to commit for a short period of time. If you really want them and only have two spots left, if there's more people applying and we like them, maybe that's one way to move on. We also have the one spot that's been open since I took it, since I took the position. And it's not just whether we like that, it's whether they want it. They like, right. Victor's spot. I don't know. I guess that's a mechanical thing also. If anybody here knows what the protocol is there, but if we hired somebody to fill Victor's space, would that be, would we, would we be filling them as a last couple that's use of question? How long until he's up, if we have somebody filling use of term, do they, do they complete use of term or do they pick up their own full term? Right. Do you mean Victor's? Yes, for Victor's. If Victor's resigning now, do, does the, does the person we hire in Victor's chair end up, end up having a full term? Are we hiring them to a full term or are we hiring to fill? That's what I'm looking at the, I'm looking at the website and use of is doesn't he has another year. So. Okay. You stuck with me. Oh, use of has another year. Sorry. I thought I thought it was only Victor and I who were going on. Okay. So use of good to have you around. I think I'll say one more year. You're not allowed to run away from me. Um, okay. And so, I guess the first item we can cover is approval of the March minutes. I had only one little punctuation thing and I don't recall if I even bothered sending it to Matt. I think under winter fest, maybe at the end of the third bullet. I don't, I can't read my own writing, so I don't know if I was adding a period or taking away something, but. I didn't get that. I didn't get that piece, but okay. Oh. Yeah, it's probably just the way I punctuate. It should have been a calmer instead of a period. Okay. Do we have a motion and move to accept the minutes of the March meeting March 7 meeting. A second. Second. All in favor. Right. The March minutes have been officially confirmed approved. I guess I can move in really quickly into program reports. We opened Cherry Hill. Eight days ago, nine days ago. And so the season is upon us. The weather right now is of course we're in that that cold in the morning and nice in the afternoon sort of time. We have had, every time I've gone out there, there have been people on the course, even during the colder and wetter times that I've been out there. It's been people on the course I guess the flow has been pretty good over there right now. Use of spin out as anybody else here been out to play. We have, we're trying to see how this, how this new season goes for us have been a little couple of little bumps for us, but I think it's been relatively smooth. Questions on Cherry Hill, the golf course. I'm now I now run a golf course I'm happy. Aquatics is lessons have begun. Lessons have begun for the pools. We are actually this is a one because we're I think we might actually have more time and space available for us because I think there's something going on with the Triton rentals right now. There may be more space for us and I have to reach back out somebody. There's somebody who wanted to do some, some extended program, swimming program with us that I said that I would follow up on and see what we could do here. We might have more space to provide more as we start to do that the, the outdoor pools were setting as a target date I believe. June 18, I think is our target date for the outdoor pools. And so we're, we're gearing ourselves up to do that we're trying to, I know that Katie Brown has been busy trying to get her staff together and getting them certified so aquatics is is sort of, they started the lessons they are now into the process of getting their spring summer seasons going Sarah. Is there an opportunity for free sweat for open swim. Yeah, is. Yeah, the open swim I believe is on the weekends right now. Okay, so it's happening. Yes. Right. And I think part of the deal is if we, if there is more space available, we have to find out do we want to do more programmed lessons more program scheduling, or do we want to schedule some more time for open swim and I think that's the conversation I remember this was one that Karen had brought up before. The question is what serves our public the best with those if we have more space and we aren't working as much in a tight window around Triton's rentals, then we want to make sure that we are, we are providing if we need open swims. We need open swim sessions, because we don't have a sufficient number of sufficient time we don't have access for people if we have people getting cut off the list they aren't able to get in. And I think that would be feedback that Katie would need to hear from the public from the commission, and we could, we could plan that accordingly. That would be good. I think she has a pretty good feel for, you know, where the needs are over there. She's about aquatics and then spring sports and feeders and the revolving, the revolving programs spring sports and feeders we have Sanchez out doing baseball we and recreation have adopted the baseball program. We have adopted a middle school baseball program is a suburban program which Sanchez and MRS youth baseball are running right now. It's sort of a trial period because we do have a bubble between little league and the high school that we're trying to see if recreation can fill that right now. We don't need here if it hurts the high school then it's not something that will do long term, but we did want to get a chance to have a nice number of kids to get a chance to get out there and play for the Amherst baseball right now and keep themselves in the in the mix. We picked up lacrosse this year, which was important for us to to have the middle school essentially didn't have space for it, and the way that they've done it before. The girls seventh eighth graders got got waved up to the high school so we're not running girls middle school team, they're being used as JV players in the high school but boys seventh eighth, and then the middle school age the I mean fifth and sixth graders are are all right now playing it's just out watching for the first time I got a chance to watch the boys fifth and sixth grade play for a little bit out in the field here so we've we've arranged space for them we've arranged. You know we worked with Amherst lacrosse to get coaches and get them out there. I couldn't go in there and sub today we have UMass has volunteered to coach our fifth and sixth grade girls are the UMass program head coaches offered up a couple of her players. And there's a little bit of an issue where they're they they aren't able to do the whole schedule and they're going to have to have to be flexible with them through through the month of May. It's two or three practices a week, and but they were really gracious to step in when we're looking for coaches. I didn't want to end up having to coach step in a coach I didn't think it was going to be fair because I would have had conflicts also. So they stepped in the girls I coached the first practice before we got UMass aboard, and they liked me, they really like UMass, they really, they really, they really like having UMass come in and coach them their athletes, I love it because they're women, and you know I think they do a really nice way to coach them and so the girls are, you know, I think I think they're ready they got a chance to go and see them play at UMass last week, I think they're going to go and watch them play on Saturday also. Matt. So how many teams have you adopted. We have, we have one, two, we have three teams, three age levels I think the boys seventh eighth grade has two teams as an A and a B team. We have boys seventh eighth boys fifth and sixth girls fifth and sixth. And then we also have many mites so we have like an instructional instructional lead for young kids. With these teams that used to just be run by Amherst lacrosse Amherst lacrosse used to run them at the middle school so you adopted all of it. We took them Amherst lacrosse is now operating in cooperation with us as opposed to with like the middle schools worked with the school department before. The school department used to at the, at the seventh eighth grade level the school department used to try and program that. Amherst lacrosse I think that was scheduling a scheduling overload for them. And so we volunteered, I guess the reason why I'm going through these as spring sports and feeders is one of our, one of our goals here and this is to try and look at how we do feeders and to allow the allow Amherst recreation to take as much of this feeder system for the high school sports on not just to put people on this on on the fields to sort of have teams but also to try and get them into the funnel for the high schools. Healthy. The competition healthy and body and mind trying to get them working with each other trying to get them thinking about the merger of athletics student athletics, we aren't there yet but but showing up a feeder program is going to be a major part of our second or second year's goals. And right now we're trying to take as many of those opportunities as we can we're trying to take as many of these without overextending ourselves and overburden ourselves we want to try and get as much of that sense of of we can help you we can schedule you we can put you into the spaces here. And then if it works then we can start to move them in a direction that is unified for the town of Amherst. That's great. I'm wondering about. I forget the girls that the UMass players are coaching. Well that program and early because UMass students will just in May. In May. The bigger the bigger issue. Yeah, I might be going in I'm a I'm a safety on Friday in case they can't be there to make up for the fact that they didn't they couldn't make it today. So I am a safety and and all those opportunities to go out there and work with them. The issue isn't as much the end of the season and when UMass goes away the issue is more in May. When, because they actually are around a little bit after the after I think they're done with school I believe, but they have NCA tournament to get ready for and so. In May, they're preparing for and I think they have their own schedule, they have their own schedule, they're able to do their practice and then come over and and coach like the couple women that are are working with us. They are balancing a bunch of a bunch of opportunities here. I think we're really lucky despite the fact that they can't be there for a full schedule it's not a it's not a huge schedule we have there there are some days where they where they have told us. And then in May, we got to figure out what our schedule allows us to do. And so we're giving them that opportunity we had a good friend of mine is the head coach at Northville Mount Herman, and she came over to watch and help and I'm trying to get her connected with UMass because that's a pipeline for her. And so there's some ways that we're trying to get other people to come in and help us awesome, potentially volunteer. One of the big things that we think is going to help us in the, and our goal of getting girls into sports is having women, women athletes and competitors and coaches, coaches, they're there to model and guide and give them a good experience. Girls must love that. I mean, they're, they're heroes there. They don't know their heroes that they don't they don't have posters them on the wall but these are, these are UMass competitive athletes and they had a chance to go and watch and one of them scored like four goals in the game that they went to watch and so it was a. It really was a cool experience for them that I can't give them that piece of it I can coach them, but I can't give them that experience so I grace graciously step aside. And so, in our long term vision, we have, we have some, some ability to create a feeder machine here for amour the town of Amherst that does more than sports and also starts to do things to engage that that that funnel the mental and physical health, the competitive cooperation you're competing with people to be competing against the student athlete piece we want to try and turn that into something that, that makes sense. Yes. Yeah, I think part of the strategic plan we were thinking we would at least start by, you know, helping with the scheduling for all these organization and to become, you know, and it would be a benefit to the parents that don't have to go to 14 different places to register because to different sports so it looks like you're there and even further ahead of that. So, in a way that's good I know it's probably overwhelming but I think it will process we just met this week with with the town bunch of different parts of the town and we're going to follow up on that in the next couple days but talking about trying to streamline the scheduling even more. But the more we have the more it's us talking about scheduling and taking on the scheduling as opposed to parents going to us and coaches coming to us and then going to facilities and then facilities saying I don't know who's who has priority over these fields, we're trying to we're trying to streamline it to make it a little bit easier for users coaches departments to understand where the where that flow is Matt. I imagine having it a little bit more centralized is going to help with kids who do multiple sports or you know they try one sport they don't like it. It's easier for them to try another sport and things like that. It is down the line, but, but the potential for a turf also makes it makes scheduling a little bit easier because then you have turf field, and you have the their priorities, and then you also have town fields you have the other fields that you can set up basically tiers there, the turf field, a multi per having a multi purpose field would be really useful for schedule purposes, other than creating a demand that which I'm sure probably would make it a little bit more hectic, but as long as you have. I wasn't I wasn't talking about that I was just talking about from the what kind of what you said that for the for the families in Amherst and the kids in Amherst. Having it more centralized makes it easier for them to transition from one sport to another sport or try multiple sports or and also find out what sports are available because right now. I'm sure a lot of families don't even realize that there is such a thing as Amherst lacrosse. We're being the bushes hard for it. We're trying to get anybody that this is our first time through it and we were really trying to get as many people into it, but it was a new thing. And a lot of kids are like look it's not basketball we were trying to focus on basketball or it's not. It's not the stuff that we want to do. Just point us to the gym point us to the things that we do. So a little bit of this promotion also Sarah. Well, I'm just thinking that if you could get a whole bunch of UMass athletes from different sports to come and not to know do some demonstrations or talk, you know and show the kids what, what the options are and what, you know. Yes, absolutely. I mean that word, we would like to make this. It's not that dad coaches aren't useful, and we would like it not to be us always running programs and saying all right we have the kids are ready to go which one of you parents wants to wants to step up and coach. We want to get away from that model of of programming say listen somebody's got a coach or we don't have a season we want to try and have some level of obviously expertise of commitment number one expertise number two, and maybe even you talk about UMass or something like somebody who is actively involved and can, it can be a sense of, of sort of, you know, whacker inspiration and sort of person that that the role modeling sort of sort of thing that you can say look at that person say that person is a Hall of Famer that is a competing athlete that person has been has been playing professionally or that person made varsity and is giving back somebody who, who can engage with them in ways that I think a feeder program is really successful in doing we want order we want structure and we want some sense of I want to step in that person's shoes. With that UMass situation we have right now, I think that's a really strong. I think it's a really strong model for them, a bunch of girls girls sometimes they come in in in pockets here where we like it was pretty good numbers for that group I think they're about 15 girls on the team. So running that's not something you usually see and sometimes with girls, especially at that age, what we find is that they, it's, it's a social the friends say hey let's do lacrosse. And so that's the best way to try and keep kids in lacrosse to try and keep that lacrosse program moving the high school starts to see it we can start to do. I guess the high school is to spend one practice day and come down and work like a clinic with with the youth. Take an hour out of your practice time to come over and work with the kids. You know that's that becomes a way of trying to get kids to see. You know what, where there's investment in us more than just do you like this do you not like this I think I mentioned to this group before that I want to get away from the model of we're teaching kids how to be consumers. And, and, and the way we program we're teaching kids how to, we basically put programs out there and they say yeah I like that I don't like that. We teach them how to sample and move on. We don't teach people how to invest or to create or guide those that's, that's philosophically where I want the feeder programs to move into. Not that we own the kids not that we want them not to ever leave you sign in we want should be lacrosse for life, but we don't want it to just be constantly sampling in and saying, I don't like this well what can we do to make it more enjoyable or do we just have to. Are we asking our coaches and our, and our programs to serve you and you're not a star yet. Okay, well, maybe you can try something else next year. We want to try and try and coach some of that commitment into them. Questions on sports and the feeders. Okay. For these. We don't have, Nick and Noah were unable to come we had our first major July 4 meeting family fun for us meeting at UMass today. These are upcoming projects that I wanted to just let you all know what was going on because it's a little bit off the beaten path. I won't cover the use center right now we aren't, I don't think I have a major update here for us there. Middle school transition I don't need to cover because there's that's still in the process here we had a meeting today about about some of the planning that's going into the physical plan and that sort of thing and I don't have new information on the middle school transition, but both of those obviously long term are are the factors in what we do. I can look at those at the first three and just briefly mentioned the Crest partnership for, you know, Crest is here they're active and rolling community response. We are director and I have sat down and talked a couple times. They are working directly with our outreach group which I think is a great partnership for us to try and try. We're trying to help them normalize in the community to help them not have to come out there and like beg people for their attention and whatever we're trying to. We have some of those sorts of community events that people are coming in and checking in and like rooting for people they want to be a part of that part of the community so they can show up and and and watch kids group kids on and to interact with kids where they're doing things they want to do. Down the line Crest will be involved in some things where it's less sort of fun, but but one of the major things and making that work for the town for us for the people in the town. The major things to make that work is to help to familiarize it to help normalize it and make it so that so that people respond to them as people who are involved in the community and will be there. To make it something where they get a chance to steer their own, their own relationship to town by coming to our events outreach events, sporting events. By seeing them interact with our, our professionals, our staff, our coaches. I think we go a long way towards legitimizing them in the eyes of people without them even knowing that that's what's going on, Sarah. I know the director has been hired. Are you saying that there are already some. They're in the process of making some higher still they're they're filling their ranks but Crest is like they're they're already moving budget they're already. I'm already talking about programming. I don't, I'm pretty sure that they're not complete they aren't, they aren't all in stride right now, but they are actively coming up with a scheduling they are, they are working budget they're they're looking for budget. They are, you know, they're, they're, they're moving money right now. I was wondering though about, like, so if there are responders who can come to events, like, do they have a uniform, are they going to wear like a pinny that says Crest so people can connect, you know, I think there's going to be some ways to identify but there is no uniform, there is no, I think that's out of design, they have no interest in doing uniform by something that indicates they're going to do some. The plan is also to to have them basically to introduce them, hey Crest, Crest director, you know, have them come we talked about doing like half court shots at basketball games. We're not doing basketball season right now, but just having them come out and basically, basically, you know, staff and event, put on an event that that on the sidelines, or to do a meet and greet with parents on the sidelines or whatever just to just to again say we're here this is this is what we're doing. Yeah, I would just say that to, to kids, adults all look alike. So that I think it would be really useful for them to have something, you know, to be wearing something, not a uniform, because that's, that's the wrong direction. But just something that distinguishes them. They won't, they won't recognize. They won't look hey. That's a different adult. That's a different total random adult. Yeah. So we are, we are working with Crest to try and to try and help them in their first steps to try and aid in any whichever ways we can, because of our role in the community, we're really convenient spot for them, because of what outreach, where outreach is the facing of the events that they're looking at. It's also another major partnership for them and, like I said, Nikki and Earl have already started to, to, you know, share some planning. Matt. Yeah, just so I understand. So you're talking about them participating in like the Fourth of July type of events. And not just standing on the side but actually, you know, running a booth or something like that. And then also within the existing programs like in the afterschool programs and in the some of the sports programs, having them show up for like some kind of sessions and things. I should say, I think it speaks to Sarah's point about, about making sure that they have a presence that's not just sort of being there. It's something elevated above just being there. I think the goal is to give them branding space at our events to give them a chance to brand if it's tabling if it's, if it is a, you know, sort of wearing t-shirts to say Crest or, or maybe a skid at halftime, whatever it is, we want to give them a chance to brand in ways that make sense for them at our events. That means outreach events. That means that means the sporting events that probably means after school. We haven't talked specifically about that but to have them sort of go and introduce themselves and, and, and work their way into the communities that we're, that we're serving when street hockey. We will be, we'll be making a big push here the next couple of days but we have a, we have a one day free clinic that the Boston Bruins are putting on on Thursday of vacation week at Mill River on the basketball courts. They, they're going to donate a full set of street hockey equipment for us for after, after it's over we're going to use it for the, for the clinic and then they're going to leave the equipment with us. So, if we ever want to use this I might even talk to the school department about, about, you know, loaning it to them if they want to, they want to try and use it in curriculum. But, you know, are going to be doing some branding there also they're going to. I said, if I'm not a huge hockey guy but I love Patrice Bergeron I'm like if Bergeron comes out here then I'll just shave my face and I'll pretend like I'm a kid and sit there in the front row. In the middle of a standing cut push. So, so the players won't be here but next Thursday we have the Bruins team, the Bruins team is sending a group out here to run an hour long clinic, which we teased out on social media earlier in the week. We just gave specific information register, register for the free clinic so we can get a sense for numbers and next, next Thursday we're going to have people. We will have people out there, sort of sort of on their on their vacation week. Getting a little bit of attention. And so that's pretty exciting for me. I have an idea. Yusuf. So once we have the equipment we can do crest versus fire department crest versus. You know, that's how that's awesome. And take a look and see how many people are really, really good at this yeah we that's a that's a great idea. What's better if they're not good because it'll be more fun. Yes. You know, but it'll be one way to kind of introduce that you know like, oh what is this crest thing you know what I mean like, just a thought. I think Nicky could have fun with that. Well, I will bring that to Earl's attention, bring it to crest attention and say hey we got treat hockey coming up here. You can either be there or hear me out. We can have you sort of watch so you learn get some pointers for when we put you in gear and say game to 15. So that's exciting. This is since I made this this is another piece that goes in here and Matt Kane I hope you get I hope you get excited about this one. I we just also posted on on social media I went to the musical on Friday. I am a huge fan of musical. I like I'm huge fan of like that's, I, it's like I know when they run a musical over in Amherst I'm going to be there every night I almost went there on Saturday but I heard that would have been a that would have been a mistake. I went on Friday. I went on Friday and it blew my mind was this is a really good performance I don't know all these kids which makes a different experience for me. But I said you know what, I hate the fact I don't know all these kids and so I came back on Monday, and I had Nicky's my social media master. I had, I, we posted a, basically a, an invitation for all cast and crew of the of the of the of the musical to come by. Basically, the director harp came and saw he he loved it was a great performance come by recreation on Thursday or Friday 335 I blocked off time that I didn't know I'll be here and said, come by chat with us sign my program will give you $5 off of any, any summer program, any summer programming we will do a free swim pass for like a guest pass for a swimming pools if you choose that instead I would like to try and get them to come even if they don't come I want them to hear that that hey, you know great job recreation says we put up a little, a little hair themed. No, congratulations to the to the to the musical. And so, maybe five people come by, maybe 27 people come by maybe everybody says, hey, I heard all about that Ray Harker I want to go over and sign his program. I don't know how many people show up. So it may be a great sort of thing but it does start I'm excited because it's a chance to for me to get some face time with kids which I haven't had a lot of. So I came on, especially with the high school age kids. It was a great show. I, I hope to get an opportunity to tell some of them that. And, you know, maybe I even try and send word through people. You know, just check that, you know, head on over there. They're, they're offering even if they don't want to take the, even if they don't have interest in the rec programming the little and the little small incentives were giving. Yeah, I would love to get that opportunity. Oh, yes. I'm most likely going to do another performance after the break. Great. Great. The 29th, then maybe, maybe I do a follow up. Ruby, did you hear about my, my pitch. She can't hear. Okay, I'll ask, I'll ask her. Did you hear that the rec program director invited people to come and science program. No, she didn't hear that. Okay. Well, then maybe I follow up and say I'll be there. And I'll come by backstage. I may just go back and try and get people to sign at that point or something. Yeah. That's awesome. No, they got to do that the rehearse again for more get to spend more time. I don't think so. Okay. So it might be a little sloppy, but whatever. Yeah, we haven't heard anything about rehearsing anymore. I will be, you got, they got three parents here on the committee with people in it. Oh, really? You said where that give me your connection. So my son is Christian. He's the one, he was in the quartet. Okay. Excellent. What it looks like shaggy with the, with the funky jacket. Okay. Okay. The one that looks shaggy. That's a, that knows it down for me. No, it looks like shaggy from. Oh, it looks like, got it. Got it. I daughter was going to go see it on Saturday. So she's a disappointed audience member. I was, I was tired. And so I almost just said, I don't need to watch it tonight. I'll go to tomorrow night. I would have been really upset with myself. I did. I was going to go twice. Cool. Excellent. So one of the chain, I know obviously we canceled the theater this year, right? Is that something that's slated for next year? Like the. I also on Saturday I went over and watched Missoula's Children's Theater. The Missoula, they, the Missoula Children's Theater comes around Missoula, Montana has a traveling tour that comes in. And, and basically one week they were out here working with, with middle school age kids, middle school elementary school age kids. And teaching them Rumpelstiltskin. They had them, they had them for one week. They was really amazing that they had everything down. It was well a machine for a week. I thought that was amazing. It was fun. It was about a little more than an hour. And, and the kids look like they were having a great time. It was a nice size. There were two shows on Saturday. I went to see one of those that was run in cooperation with obviously Amherst Community Theater. They also have Broadway melodies coming up, which is their own show. It's a smaller show here than their big time musical. We are planning on bringing them back next year. They're geared up and ready to, you know, not the wood to, to have the opportunity to do a full musical performance next year. And I can't wait. Yeah, I think it's the only thing that's good about them not doing it is that I don't have the commotion here about ticket sales. That I'm going, I'm spending my first year here without dealing with that and, and everything else we're doing. So that's the one thing that is convenient about them not being there, but I would rather have them obviously doing a musical. I love the performance. I love, I love seeing it. So I look forward to obviously seeing the, I probably will go by. If I'm free, I probably will go by and see the musical again. And now I'm a big fan of the little kids theater stuff so I'm going to be looking for, for any information the elementary schools can give me on those July 4. The information I can give you on July 4 is that it is July 1 this year. It was made that official that earlier this week and in the meeting today it was. We had partners with UMass and first responders and everybody's going to be involved in this all the stakeholders in this in this process we're sitting down to go over how this is going to run this year. It's July 1 because right now the, a lot of the, the, the companies that set off the fireworks are limited in their, in their shooters. North Hampton's running their, their fourth celebration the 25th, I believe. Same reason because there's an availability closer to the fourth. We had, we had the choice of going July 1, which is a Friday, or July 8, which is a Friday. Those dates given to us and we certainly decided that July 1 was going to be much more appropriate. Tough thing to say is a Friday and it's not a holiday. And so there's some issue about, well, there's going to be people coming in. It's a, it's a, it's a work day it's a, it's a, you know, it may be a different sort of a field to it if it's not, it's not a full holiday. We have access to have summer camp workers come over there and, and staff it certainly is limited but not, but not removed. We have some things are adjusted I don't think we have the full because we can't guarantee that that summer camp staff, I think we are modifying heavily what we did with kids carnival there. I believe we're still doing a tethered hot air balloon. But that was also something we were talking about whether or not that makes sense to keep on. The activities there are, you know, I think we still expect to see a large number of people we have vendors it'll be there for the sort of fair thing that the vendors have their own sort of sort of vendor carnival opportunities there we have music we have, we have, it'll be July 4. Maybe downgrade a little bit but especially after Winterfest, it was our goal to make sure that we didn't that we didn't lose the opportunity to, to, you know, sort of put ourselves out there and to put on a good show. At first, our rain date would be the eighth. It would take rain to for us to move it. Sarah. Did you say maybe I didn't hear did you say the hours that will be after school or it is after school I believe we start around five will be setting up all day, but I believe the event starts for 30 or five or so. So up until I think the fireworks start at nine, the beer garden closes at like right before the fireworks starts I think the beer garden closes at 830 fireworks close at nine fireworks start at nine. A lot of the music plays right they have the entertainment that goes right up until the fireworks. Matt. Sounds like a good way to kick off the holiday weekend. We're going to try and I was I was telling them that I don't like the idea of doing a July 1, but if we do it July 1 we will sell the heck out of it. I said even more I don't like the idea of you can go you can go to multiple celebrations now. You're not you're not stuck at any going to one. Unfortunately, I think Greenfield is the same night. I think Greenfield celebration is the same night and a couple people told me yeah I think Greenfield does a pretty nice job with it also said okay well we just got an anti we have an anti up here. I don't think we lose too many people that say I'd rather just rather drive way up the road there. But, but, but I think we are the same night as green fields. If we had to do it the week after it's even less desirable to do it after July 4 ends and it's like I don't want to do fireworks now who who. Who was that but we could certainly sell that if we needed to. I think July 1 is the right day for a lot of reasons. And also was just come up in the last week, I can, I can mention here as essentially new business. And I will find out attendees. Oh, that's Carolyn. Okay, never mind. I got excited there's there's one attendee in there. We have, we're working right now in the early stages of trying to bring in a fitness court a sport court to Amherst. I'm trying to work it out I'll I'll share with you all the link. I'm making a note for myself right now I will share with you a link so you can look at, like the advertisement and the sort of a glimpse of what it is. You might have seen them before I think it's one of those things that might end up being a wave of the future in terms of public records and outdoor station it's sort of a compact seven stations on a about a half of a tennis court size size facility. But that, that, you know, gives a lot of public access to health and fitness. Our ideal, it's, it's important for me to say that that's not necessarily aren't committed to this being the site is to put it over at war would be to try and look at the possibility of the war, and connecting it with with number one the future plans for for renovating the war Memorial pools, and the pool house over there, and whatever we need to do. And whatever we need to do with that space over there with the crepit basketball court and the sort of sort of beneath the softball hill the space that we just, you know, nobody should use right now. There, we do need to start planning on that. And, and this is a way for us to make sure that we have that we're steering some of that conversation. And then tie it into the renovation with the pool house. My ideal is to have it over there, we are looking at other options also. It also potentially it's not the same project, but, but because of the access to it. It also sort of speaks in concert with the track project and wherever that is, because it's right across the road that crossing that road is a significant cross because you're no longer in war property. You're on regional school property and that's that that that makes it so they're different projects with different pools of investment and what have you, it's relatively it's relatively inexpensive, the sport quarters. So if we can find the funding and cannot block other plans over there, then we're, we're trying to find a way to make that work. I figured I'd introduce it to you. I'll link you all to the to some of the information that we have here so you can look through it at your own leisure and share any feedback you have about it. Sarah. Yeah, you won't forget about pickleball, right. And pickle, yes, pickleball pickleball is very much. That would be a location so. That was that was also another one of those, one of those conversations here. I spoke to Paul a little bit about it I spoke to Sean about it. And I think, you know, a little bit about it in finance. That is, and Dave. Dave Zomek and I have to sit down and sort of figure out what the next steps is to find that space war is one of the places that we looked at as being a potential site for it. I don't think they're, they're exclusive to each other, I think the space is the space could be. Could be co use. Actually, we mapped out, there's still plenty of space. Oh no, I forgot the dimensions of the pickleball court. I did meant I did ask when we sized out on Google maps we sized out how much space we would need for the for the sport court. There's those sizable piece in the back and I said well that would be that we need to take a look at that that might be enough space for us to put another project like pickleball back there. Remember they want to court or the project is for at least two courts. I suppose they could be at different locations but it's probably more expensive to do it. Okay, no, we wouldn't want it to different locations. Definitely would that would be kind of productive to do it to two locations. But the pickleball was going to be in North Amist at Mill River. That is still our hope that still, that still is some of our hope. I think that the engine when it got pushed through it was pushed through under the understanding that that it was presented as an option for Mill River. But it would be accepted without the caveat that we don't wet ourselves to making it Mill River that we at the next stages for us to as a town, go in and decide what, what's the best place for it. We okayed pickleball, but now the town is it may be that that Mill River is the right place for it. And we will investigate that and look at the, look at the finances and look at the access and looking at all those pieces that made that that committee made that petitioning group that made them energized about that space. But if it doesn't make sense, then we have been tasked with the, with the, with the responsibility of finding where it does make sense. Carolyn. What's the timeline for that right for the pickleball. Yeah, for making a decision on pickleball. I haven't had a deadline. I, my goal and I talked to Dave about it, my goal is to make sure that it doesn't get lost in the right. Oh, thumbs up. Now let's just wait for somebody to do something about it. That's, I think that's happened with other projects that we that we've seen the town. I'm a new guy I don't please I know this is recorded please don't take that as, as, as a matter of fact, but I think that sometimes happens. Sarah. Yeah, no money can be spent. I don't know if it's before July 1, but if staff doesn't charge time against, you know, what, poking around and thinking about what sites are, are best suited that's, that's fine. Yeah, so I hope the war memorial pool repair. What happened this year at the end of the end of the season. That is a hope they're also for our funding. No, no, it's already got a CPAC. Sorry, CPAC, sorry, see, oh, oh, I see the pool, the repair, the cracks. That's that's been a, I didn't mean to, to segue directly into that when I said projects that have been paid for that have been that have been accepted and haven't really happened yet. But that was what I was thinking of when I, when I mentioned that. So again, I don't need the middle school transition I don't have new information for you in middle school transition they're still working out here there they're still working out the Fort River. Versus while would question youth center where we're in the middle of that, that needs assessment and no new information there to talk to you I have been talking to the family center about some of the opportunities that they provide. I will put, you know, everything that I, when we put together a needs assessment we start to, we start to assemble that data will make sure that I get it to you all in that process also. Yeah, and I think since our last meeting, the school committee approved the, in principle, the track real realignment and the turf field. Wait, since we started meeting tonight. No, no. Oh, since we've met last okay. What they approved. Is that what they approved was they approved here Ruby. Thank you. They approved $1.5 million to go towards that and you have a year to fundraise to get it all and then they'll be both January. I see. So you got to raise $2.5 million. And they're trying to get that from ARPA and some other correct. Correct. So that might be sold with that. Please let her know since she's standing right there please let her know that I've heard good things about her and I'm a big fan. At some point. Yeah. So I did know I should have included this with the fear conversation. I'm also talking with Victoria Stewart and Mike Morris about about doing some field research to try and find towns that merge recreation and, and high school athletics in a way that's that this feeds my feeder vision. We're looking at trying to find ways to make our program work work cohesively so that we can do what I think is is a mission for us. And we can be basically can serve that that next level and work with the school department. In that process we we looked at some of that. In the process of trying to figure out what we're doing we did look at that. It's like this. Any new business. Okay, I've got nobody in the, in the waiting room other than Caroline. So, if there are no other information we should probably pick our next meeting date. Should we go back to the first Monday. Or do you want to take another Monday after the first Monday because it'll be right on top of where we are right now. I guess depends on how much is going on you feel like you have enough to fill another meeting in two or three weeks or in the next couple weeks. I mean, what do I anticipate seeing in three weeks. We will have might have more information. I think we're trying to move pretty quickly in the direction of that sport court so I might have more information with you we can have the conversation about that then. Be in the middle of the July 4 planning summer, I think we'll have summer, I think, I think we'll be posting some of our summer programs have already been posted. Signing up and registering for summer programs. I think we might have a conversation about summer programs in our next commission meeting. I don't know if there's any other big stuff coming up between now and then. So, I think it would make sense for us to go for us to wait another week, then maybe push back to the first week again after that Sarah. Do we have might there be news or an update about a youth center at the next meeting or I mean I don't know. There could be the, our goal is to have, we were going to try and do our data collection our surveys and we're trying to do a series of basically forum discussions and bringing people in select select folks in parents kids to come in like on a Saturday or whatever and feed them pizza and have a conversation about about recreation here so we. I think three weeks would give us time to sort of start those also. We won't have, we won't have anything. We won't have anything formalized at that time but I might have more information about where we are with it. I keep on putting youth youth center on the agenda, thinking that there's going to be something specific about that that we just haven't. If anything new or pizzazz for you, I'd have an opportunity to bring in some members might have an opportunity to recruit some a couple people to fill a couple places on the commission. What's a good day in May. Okay this at the calendar right now. First Monday is the second. That is not a holiday that is free. I can do the second. Okay. I think, again, I think ninth would be. Oh, I can't go on the second. So, so I think I'm at the same, the same event is probably. There's a chance I'm out of town on the ninth, I might be going to surprise my mother with a visit for Mother's Day. Well if she watches these recordings is not a surprise. It'll be the next best thing. Well we could. This is a Wednesday. I think, I think, I think it's impossible for Sanjay to be on Wednesdays I think I think Tuesday Wednesday Thursdays are really difficult for Sanjay. We could just, we can make a move to try and move them to the end of the month now. And until we need to move it if we want to go to the 23rd of May. That is a little bit of distance between now and then, and I can just send you all briefings if there's information that comes up. I'll be away but I can do the week before. I'm sorry I didn't mean I didn't mean the 23rd I meant the 16th. Oh yeah. I can't make that 16th. Okay. You know what I could actually do. I might actually be back here on the ninth. Let's play on the ninth. Give me a chance I could sneak to my mother's basement and just hide from her. That's a complete joke I'm joking I would never. As much time as I can. I think that's my travel back day because I need to be here for something on Tuesday so I might be whatever I let's plan on on Tuesday the ninth if I need to postpone it we can figure out from there. Monday the ninth. Monday the ninth. Okay. Awesome. That's it. That is it. Then in that case motion to close. Yeah, we'll have a wonderful day. I will. I'll send you the sport court information I will send you any updates on any of the projects that we see. And maybe even I get my three connected. Okay. So I'm going to send you a copy of our Amherst theater folks I may even put in your hands to a copy of our social media posting just so you, if you, if your kids have friends want to send them over our way, we'd love to, we'd love to host. That's cool. All right. All right. Thanks everybody. Good night. Yeah.