 And it will be available on the YouTube channel and the YouTube channel right. Okay, so let's go ahead and if anyone has any additions or changes to the minutes. The last meeting on November 18. I wondered why so much was in yellow. I apologize for that. I should have taken that out. I had to give that to the town manager because that's the part that he approved. And so I had to give him a copy of the minutes. And high, and I highlighted that so he could just zoom in on that part of the, you know, as he read it to the council. So I apologize. That's still in yellow. Okay. I have one little, one little suggestion in that first big paragraph. Meg Rosa made a motion. And that is twice we say to Amherst recreation. The first one should come out on the third second and third lines. You see what I, where I am. Oh, for under the name change official recommendation. Okay. Leisure services and supplemental education to Amherst recreation LSE to Amherst recreation. Oh, you're right. Good. Good catch. Just those three words. So eliminate the first one. The second one. Yeah. All right. Sorry, thank you. You're back. Hey, Meg. Hi, sorry. No problem. We're just looking at the minutes. Do you have any, if you have any changes. We call the meeting to order at 604 p.m. Of the Amherst recreation commission. Thank you. Becky for doing it. In your Steve. Any, any other changes? Anyone caught? No. Okay, then. We'll like to make a. Motion to approve a mission minutes. I'll move that we accept the minutes of no, the meeting of November 18th, 2020 as amended. Second. All in favor. Okay. Proved unanimously as amended. Let's see there aren't any other attendees, which means there are no. There will, there's no public comment at this time. So we can move to our next agenda item, which is the name change. Subcommittee update. Well, there's, there's really not a lot to add. I don't think that we already haven't talked about. We extended the date for submission of a logo from. Artist and high school students. We have gotten some in. So that's good news. Kind of exciting. And that, that date was extended to January 8th. I believe. So we'll, we'll wait and see what we get back. And then we will all look at those and kind of narrow it down to probably five. And from there. We'll, we'll make a selection. So it's, that's exciting. Remember too, that we're still, I was reminded that we are part of the town. So our main logo will always be, and we'll probably be part of our letterhead. I will be prominent part of our letterhead will be the towns. And then we'll also have a, we'll also have a, we'll also have a, a, a crest if you will. And ours is sort of a secondary. Logo. So we've already made. Based on everyone's recommendations, strides in terms of contacting sign. Folks to come out and give us estimates on the signage in front of the building to have that changed. The vehicle, the van. We'll, we're going to have that old. The old. And we're working on our forms right now, many of which, which need to have been updated anyway. So it's a good opportunity to kind of review what we have then. Refresh things if you will. Even without the new logo. So that's good. I know that there were some. There are different parts of the town's website. That for instance, the, the LSEC commission site. The LSEC commission. That's being changed. They were waiting for approval from the town manager, which then I kind of intervened and said, Hey, we have that. You know, we've taken care of it. It's all done. So that and the CPA website listed all the commission members as well. And it's listed as LSEC. So that will be changed. And they're trying to do a search now to make sure that they catch all the LSEC and re. And change that to Amherst recreation. Sarah. I mean, I think I'm the only one not on this committee. So maybe I'm the only one who doesn't know. For example, the Facebook site. Facebook page. If that's, yeah, it's still LSEC. So. Is that something it also has to change? And yeah, let me make a note of that, Sarah. That's a good point. I'm not sure. I just saw that today. I saw a new post today. I think what it does. I'm not 100% sure. So don't quote me on this. But I believe it redirects. If you put in Amherst recreation, but we'll, let me follow up on that. That's a good point. And it would be the same with the YouTube channel. Right. Videos. What it might be more than just changing the name. It might need to be a new page. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. Yeah. So that would be good. Is there a way though to keep it? Like Amherst recreation. Formerly LSEC. So that we have like a transition period for people who might be looking for one thing. I know we've done that on some of it when we try to put out emails and so forth. Let me check on. That's a good point. I'm just writing all this down. I just wonder, I know the whole, the new town's new website, you know, it takes quite a while to make that complete. So do you know at what date it is intended to be finished? Because I won't bother sending, you know, alerting people to things that they know perfectly well. I need are going to be addressed. But if after. January 1st, for example, it's supposed to be all done. But I don't think it's going to be all done. I don't think it's going to be all done. I don't think it's going to be all done. That might want to pass any. Yeah. Yeah. I don't have a definitive. I think it's sort of a work in progress, but I think they're doing their best to keep, you know, to make the changes. But I, you know, I would hope by January 1st or at least the fourth or whatever. We get back after the holidays that most of that's complete. But today I heard from Marion that. You know, I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. And I have honestly, I've been straight out all day and I have had a chance to get on my computer and look at it. So I'll do that tomorrow, though. Okay. Any other comments, questions? All right. Good. The Cherry Hill advisory committee update. Unfortunately, I don't have in too much to update you on. I know that. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that. But I did ask and my update to him will be the update. I give to you that it's sitting right now with the town manager. So I'm waiting for him to evaluate the charge that I. Provided him. And I am hopeful that we can start. At least. You know, have him go through the process of selecting members for that committee. In January. And then hopefully start meeting as early as February. And then we'll have a quick update on that. And then we'll have a quick update and. You know, I'll keep trying to get that process. To move forward. Any questions on that? I can give you just a real brief. Quick update about Cherry Hill and snowmaking. No, this is. Pretty. Not snowmaking. Skiing opportunities. Snowmakings on my mind. That was another meeting I had today. But. So. I may not know John is out on extent John Coelho, who's our superintendent who takes care of the grooming is out on some extended medical leave for some surgery he had done. And everything went very well. So he's in good shape, but he won't be able to do any of the grooming. I just want to say that. We have two volunteers who have stepped up from the Nordic ski association. And they have some experience. They have a lot of experience with them. They have a lot of experience with them. And I think that's also to do some training with him. With them. And so they'll be taking that responsibility over. And this snowstorm will be our first. Venture out for them. So they're, they're really excited. DPW is going to make sure that. The lots of cloud I've ordered a porta pot. He should have been delivered today. To make sure that happened. Actually, Nick ordered it. So we're ready to go now. We're ready to go. We're ready to go. We're ready to go. Some opportunities to get out and enjoy. Just nature and being outside because there's no showing. That just opens up all kinds of opportunities besides skiing. That's kind of cool. Any questions on any of that? This probably will be a very brief meetings. I just looked at. I'm not sure if it's just an update sort of meeting, but please, if you have any questions. Let's chime in. Or comments. Winner aquatics program. So it looks like we're going to try to do in a winner. We've got permission to use the middle school pool. And at this, you know, but this is today. As. Right. You know, my tomorrow we don't know, but for today. We're going to start the process of recruiting. Our lifeguards and see who wants to come back. Our managers and so forth. And it won't be lessons again. It'll be very similar to what the kinds of programs that we offered. In the summer. So we'll try to do maybe three evenings of lap swim. Which would be cool. And then Saturday and Sunday lap swim and open swim for the kids. So yes. Would those also be by reservation? Most likely. Very similar to how we managed it in the summer, because there's really such a high demand right now. And then also a charge presumably per visit. Yeah, it would be the same as we had. Yeah. Had done in the, in the summer. We'll think about memberships. I'm kind of on the fence about that. We'll see. We're going to try to get away from. Handling money. So actually memberships is an easier way. To kind of deal with that. As little money as possible. So yeah, so we'll wait and see. Like, you know, it would be. Most likely. You know, they, they, the schools thought we could be in their mid-January. I think that's over optimistic. Just based on. Trying. I think one of my biggest challenges right now is recruiting staff. Part time staff to work, for instance, the childcare center. And I'm not sure how it'll go for that being inside the, the indoor swimming pool. So we'll see. So I'm thinking more like February 1st. Yep. Becky. There is a way to make it when you do the reservation that they pay upfront. And they get charged afterward. That might be like to get away from the money component. To make sure. And that way if people don't show up, they've still kind of paid. So you're not like wasting the staff time. Like. There's definitely ways to do that. Yeah. You know, you're absolutely right. We could probably manage it like we do at Cherry Hill. Where they prepaid. We did get burned a little bit in the summer. For, you know, there were people that didn't show up. And I felt bad for other people who unfortunately didn't have an opportunity to swim because someone didn't show up. So yeah. No, that's a good point, Becky. And I would say that, that might be preferable to memberships because. What are you going to charge? I mean, you know, who, who knows how long the season will be. It could be canceled at any moment. Right. So. But it, but let's say. It gets started February 1st. What is the longest it might run? Probably through May. Normally we'd run our programs through May. Oh, okay. And when we turn over. To probably the beginning. It's usually the beginning of May. Then we take a break because we have to recruit and train our summer staff. Right. That's worthwhile, but I like that idea of maybe we just don't deal with memberships and have them pay as they go. And do it through the square. With an online reservation system. Good. Good comments. Good. Good input. Anything else. All right. I assume the locker again, the locker. People have to leave in their soaking wet suits. To go out in the. Frigidaire, but that's. Yeah. Does anyone here. I just have a question. Does anyone here belong to Hampshire fitness or swimming other places? Caroline, are you swimming somewhere? How are they managing that? I belong to Hampshire fitness. I'm not going there. So I can't say. I've heard. I can find out if you'd like me to, but. I assume the locker again, the locker. People have to leave in their soaking wet suits to go out in the. Frigidaire, but that's. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I understand that you don't. You can go in the locker room. We have to be really quick. I just thought I would like run in, swim and run out to my car and, you know, take what I get. Yeah. You that answer right now, Justin just came from there. Okay. Yeah. It might be nice to have an option, but I think it would also be nice for us to kind of try to make sure that we have. You know, different, different needs for people. I just as soon avoid. Any potential bumping into people hanging out anywhere. Run in, run out park as close as possible. You know, just let's make it easy. Yeah. Just put a layer of your sweats and just, yeah. I kind of agree with you. Inform people inform people really well what they're getting into. Yeah. Yeah. So they come in their suits. And he doesn't see anybody leaving in suits. He hasn't, he doesn't go down to the locker room, but he thinks that they change really quick. They can be in the locker rooms for just like a minute or two. And then they leave. So no showers. Then that's shower. Yeah. Yeah. So I have to do some more research on this. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I just want to make it so people just want to exit through the pool door. And just throw their sweats on and things, bundle up and head to their car. They can do it that they don't even have to go in the locker room. They choose not to. I mean, Swimmers are different for kids. Well, right. I don't, I mean, swim team kids are totally used to that. No, I totally get something. Kids are. They leave. They don't have to go in the locker room. They're not used to it. That's for sure. All right. Well, thank you. Any other comments or questions? Those are good. Do you know what a schedule might be like? I know I don't right now. We probably, I'm sure the Tritons are, you know, fighting at the bit to, to get in as well. So I have to talk to them and see what, you know, they, they have as plans in their courses, the high school schedule. So that's going to impact us as well. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think swimming meets. I'm not sure. Again, don't quote me on that. You know, I don't think they're swimming's an approved. Certainly not winter. Becky. Did you. I think they are. Really? I remember Nordic. Going to the source. I remember Nordic and hockey and. Becky's checking. Yeah. Something was approved. Yeah. So that's, we were approved. I mean, otherwise we probably. With masks on. Knuckles. Why not? Yeah. One way once. Oh my goodness. Okay. Good. All right. So that's, well, that's good. So it's, yeah, we'll see. I know I don't have. So the answer to your question is no, I don't have a schedule yet. Well, three of us. The three entities that will work that out. I'm sure it. Probably right after the first of the year. So childcare remote learning assistance program. Wow. Is that thing taken off? Who knew? Oh, I do. Oh, Oh, in the nick of time. Oh my God. So I just say, I had to give a huge shout out to my staff. They have just been amazing. I've been like, okay, I think it's just a real, a real safe thing to do. You know, if you're stepping up and, and they help make this happen. On, you know, just. It's, it's really, I feel you're not on woods. It's a, it's a very safe we're, we're compliant to every COVID rule plus more. That we can possibly be out there. We're lucky we are completely full. We have 20. That's our capacity to know where. to 24 children and there might be a third program opening up at Crocker Farm. So we've become the childcare remote learning assistance center I think for Amherst which is good. I mean the kids that we are serving are just really their kids that normally would fall through the cracks and they are the most needy and we I think we are just providing an incredible service and so far so good. The kids have been great. The parents have been super so it's just working really really really well. Grace Marschuk who is our director has done an outstanding job of supervising that program. Nikki Belly will supervise the second program so we're going to break those into two different age groups and our inspector site inspection is scheduled for January 6 so we're looking to open that program probably the following week and we have a waiting list of at least I want to say 20 to 30 kids still. Yeah and these aren't you know these these kids you know they're just they they just need the help they're just not they're not connecting in in ways that kids with more support systems can so this we're going to you know we're basically their support system which is good and you know everyone's kind of anyway I think you get it so yes Sarah. So I'm I'm confused I also listen to the school committee meetings and I can't tell if every every child who is in one of our schools right now is in this program run by Amherst Wreck although I gather there's a Mark's Meadow thing also or is there also some other program that is is are they all students doing distance learning under you know with supervision or is there what we traditionally think of as childcare like you know preschoolers or toddlers all right remember this is what we're dealing with is we for our program and for Mark's Meadow's program we are taking care of kids K through 6 grade so this is in preschool it's K through 6 the program there is another program at the high school and Becky could probably speak more to this but that deals with kids with more severe needs that we couldn't have you know that we just don't have the ability to handle so you know with specific IEPs and so far so good and that I think you saw that in the paper so there are there are you know two different things happening now the Mark's Meadow program very similar to ours they also are at capacity but they are not interested in expanding to my knowledge but we are so we're going to fill that void does that answer your question yes but then it leaves me wondering but this is not an Amherst wreck I mean maybe Becky knows there are no kids there are no students in seventh grade or higher unless they're unless they're they have IEPs or in this other group there are no middle or high schoolers in the building doing supervised distance learning not through LSSE or Mark's Meadow no do you know if it's through any other is there any program I know this is off topic but this is why I can connect with you okay outside of that but yes okay I will say too that our program accepts up to you know we say K through 6 but up to 13 year olds so we do have one individual who's in seventh grade and who we're assisting okay thank you yeah Becky are all are all the people and not people are all the kids in the program right now town employees children no no very few are maybe uh five to six families we're serving from the town employees the rest have been referrals from the school okay so now it's open to it's open to everyone now because I remember the beginning it was right it was originally going to you know do things like I say change change by the minute originally we were set up to assist town employees but I think we kind of knew that once we kind of reached everyone we needed to we would have extra spaces so we collaborated with the schools and so the schools now get act as a referral uh agent if you will to place children in our program gotcha all right so and they went another thing I don't know if you're aware but we all the children receive free breakfast free lunch and transportation if they need it so we do have a bus that comes in comes to school and comes to our assistant learning program and leaves them it's great any other questions comments all right so I covered a lot of what's in the direct in the director's report but let's see there's some some new things happening though okay so for the sports and you who I receive this the sports program um we're we're offering a skills development basketball kind of clinic program that will be held at Palamele elementary school so we're fortunate to have that space it's a small space um but uh I think it's going to be adequate for what we're going to offer and we've had incredible response already as you can imagine uh it will serve up to eighth grade so we've got I think it's second through eighth grade and um um it will be able to serve between 100 and 125 kids in that but you know that's sort of a usually we serve almost four or five hundred kids four or five hundred kids so it's it's not you know it's not our normal kind of basketball program but I think it will provide kids with an opportunity not only you know just to do some ball handling skills and so forth but more socialization which I think is is a huge need for for kids um right now oh see we do have to we are going to charge for this basically because the school is charging us so we have to offset our expenses but we run mostly with volunteer coaches I think almost a hundred percent actually volunteer coaches who have kind of stepped up and said yeah help so it's great uh that's going to registration like I said is already started and then the program will run through March 8th so it's a good chunk of time and keep kids active which is great CPA um I think we've already touched on this the um in addition to groth parks lower level pavilion which the prosel that I presented we also have the sandblasting and of the mill river pool and the resealing they'll put a new uh ceiling that'll be a nice project unfortunately it doesn't happen because the funding can't be spent I am you know better than I do on this Sarah but until July 1st did the funding funds aren't released correct so it'll be next year but it is much needed has that water you know the pool is kind of losing a little bit of water and uh so and it'll look much better which is great Barb yeah questions on once town council assuming town council approves these they have to they have the final say of course yeah and they have not scheduled their votes or hearings um is it so so you would want to do that resealing like in May right before the season it's not going to be possible to just do it on July 1st because because that will have water in the pool right yeah we usually open up around June 20th so it's not so it's not so bad that you would want to delay opening that no I think we could get we definitely get by another year it's just you know it's the expense of the pain every year it's um you know the little bit of leakage that happens the cresting of the kerala nose you can kind of see where the the cement peels away in the deep end and but uh yeah okay it'll it'll last another year uh and then in addition to that the north common renovation uh that was also approved by cpa and again like you said sarah all this still needs to be approved by town council uh aquatics we've talked about the golf course good another great year for a great month of revenues for the month of November we're only open till November 15th yet we brought in almost $10,500 um we generally if we have a good November I I think the best November we've ever had is like $4,500 so that's just crazy um again you know it's just people wanting to be outdoors doing something active and happy to provide that for them and if you look at your comparisons in terms of revenues you know all the way back I did three years FY19 86000 and change FY2111689 and this year 143 424 so that's revenue comparisons from July 1st to November 30 essentially because that's over so that's good uh talked about the advisory committee a little still waiting to hear on that and the child care program and adult youth education a little thin obviously just just several classes um that are that are going to happen but and or just a couple for adults and and one for children but we also have been open to and have gotten some inquiries from potential instructors so we're sort of fluid in this we're not really cutting our you know saying oh no that's it you know if there's something comes along or someone presents a proposal to us we are open to certainly you know looking at it and trying to make it work if it's you know viable so that's good um winterfest winterfest will not be like winterfest in past that's for sure unfortunately but we're we're working with a bid it did meet with bid in the chamber we had a good meeting it looks like we're going to do some sort of a drive-by ice sculpture event we're going to have at least 10 ice sculptures around various parts of either downtown and maybe the mill district we're not sure possibly one day where we would have some carriage rides for families family units not too sure about how that will all work out the bids handling that but definitely there may be a parade involved where it may be a free you know free I don't say free for all but you know you can just go to the various spots and we'd have maps and so forth for people to to vote on the sculptures so that's in the works we're meeting again next next week I believe or right after after Christmas to kind of firm up that we start we you know we're trying to figure out how we're going to fund all this of course that's all interesting this is a terrible time to ask businesses for money so we will reach out though to some of the the businesses obviously that are doing well during this this pandemic and ask for their support so hoping to fund it that way and and we don't know yet we were able to fund some of our special events expenses for Halloween for instance with the carers money and you know we don't know yet what's going to happen in the next couple months in terms of assistance to towns and cities so we're hopefully there'll be another package like that coming coming down the pike so fingers crossed will do i think i've updated you oh outreach there's a nick he's working on a holiday in-person outreach program as we speak at various housing areas that will happen next week and then strategic planning lots of upgrades take a look at the website i'd love to get anyone's input i haven't as i said i haven't had time it's supposed to have been mostly done by today as i said but i think it's still a work in progress so if you want to take a look and check it out i'm just email me your comments i'd love to hear what you think the upgrades to rec track are still in process so we still have some issues related to registrations and so forth but they're working on that and i think that pretty much wraps it up are there any questions comments from you well at some point i i will have a question about the spring but that's maybe not yet um did he didn't think i could help you with now well i'm wondering uh high schoolers need more things to do also and i wonder if there's been any thought you know because the sports programs are somewhat restricted and they're expensive um i don't know if the private sports organizations plan to be as active in the spring but i just you know traditionally we haven't done a lot i think for high school or you know something for middle school sorry no that's a good point i'm glad you're high school and in middle school thank oh yeah i'll bring that up that's a very good point i'm not you know we've always been we had a really strong um basketball program for high school kids and create participation now that just is not going to work at the Pellum gym i don't know it's it's like a postage stamp and stretching it to eighth grade is even stretching it but uh yeah we'd love to do something for high school so let me talk to mike about that and see if he has some um and and there and victoria i mean just like club sports you know even just to you know learn to run or yoga or something but or at home conditioning or something like that kind of thing that kids could log on to and get in shape like at home kind of thing that would be something like that's something the school usually does offer in the winter the conditioning yeah a conditioning class but they're not doing it so that could be something that would be really popular with with kids who want to stay active um i know we do offer that active beast and that that was popular we're trying to get that going again and now it's been popular with middle school and high school kids cedric uh has gone on has done that for us and uh does good job the i don't know something that just came across our radar is another program that the booster club has um approached us with and it's called the recess band but it wouldn't it would go to the different housing areas and follow the baby burk around but yeah and so we do like 30 minutes of you know recess kind of activities for kids but again that's younger kids so um yeah maybe it could precede the baby burk i know i was just thinking that exercise first good point good point good point right any other um comments questions i feel like i was sort of just all reporting out tonight but i say december's a little thin for us especially without um winter fast happening to the degree we normally do yeah can you um send me the business sponsorship stuff absolutely okay thank you i have i haven't developed it yet but when i do it'll be after the first of the year okay barb is there any chance they'll do things like painting holiday windows or scenes on windows on storefronts downtown like some different ways for like i know there's more empty storefronts downtown so i'm trying to think of some way to bring a little color people can still paint outside on windows kind of thing that might be that's an interesting winter fist kind of activity where we like we did for halloween i mean they're family units they're all household you know units so it's a good good good idea thanks becky you know our biggest concern because we all know that probably the end of january is going to be the big peak with the virus and we sort of scheduled this around the availabilities of the um the sculptors because they're also committed to north hampton um so the weekend we have target is uh february and seventh i guess so hopefully that you know fingers cross things it works out but we certainly we just don't want to bring you know like we couldn't do the laminaria we thought about how we could do it and it just there would be it just be almost impossible to kind of control uh groups we just don't have enough volunteers i don't think right anything else make um we need to schedule our next meeting right okay yep is that so wednesday again fine with me what day the 13th uh the 20th i'm good yeah works for me okay victor how's that for you um it works i guess okay my schedule is all over the place so yeah especially with the spike in coven yeah i know i'm yeah i wish you the best and stay healthy yeah thank you all right um so that's good january 20th in um so i just like to close by thanking everyone you know i know it has not been a normal year for any anyone here and i just appreciate all the support that you've given us and um you know let's hope for for better days ahead in 2021 but thank you so much just so appreciate it well thank you for doing everything you're doing yeah we're a great job well appreciate it thanks to your staff like you guys have been so responsive to like the needs of the community throughout the pandemic yeah it's fantastic i i just i i can't say enough about them they're just done such a great job amazingly creative yeah energetic super appreciate that i'll definitely pass on that to them okay well happy holidays to everybody yes happy holidays yeah all right on that note then we will in our meeting do we need a motion to adjourn yeah i think we do i make a motion to i'll second that one all in favor happy new year everybody have a great evening take care bye bye