2018-11-07 Recreation Committee Minutes

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WTown of Reading Meeting Minutes Board - Committee - Commission - Council: 2619 JAN 23 AM 10 55 Recreation Committee Date: 2018-11-07 Time: 7:00 PM Building: Reading Town Hall Location: Conference Room Address: 16 Lowell Street Session: Open Session Purpose: General Version: Final Attendees: Members - Present: Emily Sisson (M), Adam Chase (M), Rich Hand (M), John Parks (M), Chuck Robinson (M), Kate Kaminer (A), Mary Ellen Killion (A), Patrick Sheeran (A) Members - Not Present: Dan Foley (M), Lori Russo (M), Mike DiPietro (M), Eric Gaffen (M), Michael Coltman (A) Others Present: Genevieve Fiorente, Recreation Administrator & Liaison to Recreation Committee Vanessa Alvarado, Select Board Member and Liaison to Recreation Committee Bob Hayes, 739 Pearl Street and representative from RSLL Angela Binda, 10 Orchard Park Drive Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Genevieve Fiorente, Recreation Administrator Topics of Discussion: E. Sisson opens the meeting up at 7:07pm. G. Fiorente asks if anyone needs copy of meeting minutes. Members take some time to review meeting minutes. A. Chase makes a motion to approve the meeting minutes from the September 18`", 2018 meeting. J. Parks seconds. V. Alvarado makes a friendly amendment on a spelling error. G. Fiorente takes note of it. Committee in favor 5-0. E. Sisson thanks the committee for their Flexibility on the date of the meeting to address the gift presented by the Reading Softball Little League (RSLL) to the Town of Reading at Sturges Park. She states that they are in a time crunch for volunteer labor and financing. She references the video clip that was sent out in an email to the committee along with the agenda from Select Board meeting on 10/30/18 of her speaking on the topic of the gift and tells the committee that any questions can be discussed. E. Sisson states that she received a phone call that the gift was going on to the Select Board Agenda on 10/30/18 at 6:47pm the day of so she made sure she attended the meeting to explain how the process has typically worked. E. Sisson continues to give some background information on the Sturges Park project that RSLL would like to gift to the Town of Reading. She explains that it will consist of a replacing the existing backstop and also adding above ground dugouts to the Sturges Park Softball Field. E. Sisson reads the motion from the Select Board at their meeting on 10/30/18 that stated, "V. Alvarado moved that the Board approve the gift from Little League Softball to do improvements to Sturges Park contingent upon approval from the Recreation Committee by Page 1 1