2008-04-09 Recreation Committee Minutes

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Town of Reading 16 Lowell Street ECL.IVEO Reading, MA 01867-268 Ot" GL,J 4 2poq mg 114 A 11- 5b FAX: (781) 942 - 5441 RECREATION DIVISION: (781) 942 - 9075 READING RECREATION COMMITTEE MINUTES April 9, 2008 -Town Hall Berger Room Attendance: Nancy Swain, Rec. Committee Chair; Mary Ann Kozlowski, School Committee Rep, John Downing, Rec. Committee Member, Frank Driscoll, Rec. Committee Member, Mary Ellen Stolecki, Rec. Committee Member, Kate Kaminer, Rec. Committee Member, Beth Claroni, Associate Member, John Feudo, Recreation Administrator, Guest, Eric Hughes N. Swain called the meeting to order at 7:10 PM. N. Swain asked the Recreation Committee to review the minutes from the February 20th meeting. F. Driscoll made a motion to accept the minutes for the February 20th meeting. M. Stolecki seconded the motion. Motion passes in favor of accepting the minutes 6-0-0. New Business J. Feudo introduced Charlie Hardy and Rick Zaccardo from Reading Youth Lacrosse. Hardy-stated-that-the-Reading Youth- Lacrosse-program-was-here-to-petition fora-greater allocation of field space in the spring. In addition, they are requesting greater allocation to include increased access to field turf. He stated they are a spring sport only. Mr. Hardy and Mr. Zaccardo were also acting on behalf of their organization requesting that youth sports in Reading mirror the high school seasons as far as priority goes in the distribution of field space. An example would be to make lacrosse a tier one sport along with baseball and softball in the spring. Soccer would be a tier two sport. In the fall football and soccer would be tier one sports. They stated at this time Reading Lacrosse has no plans to add a fall season but a tier system would allow for this. Mr. Hardy also asked for the recreation committee to look at venue systems and whether or not the Town would continue to allow two non-Reading teams to compete on Reading fields. M. Stolecki explained that the fields are a finite resource. Organizations can continue to grow, however they can't expect field space to increase with it. A long discussion ensued. N. Swain said the committee would need to do overall research of field allocation before any type of changes would be made. - The Rec. committee decided that they would create a field allocation sub-committee. B. Winne, C. Campbell and F. Driscoll were recommended to serve on that committee.