2006-07-12 Recreation Committee Minutes

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VW11 V1 rwouIllu 16 Lowell Street Reading, MA 01867-2685 RECEIVED TOWN CLERK READING. MASS. FAX: (781) 942 - 5441 RECREATION DIVISIfffl: M)(9f2 pq2f 02 READING RECREATION COMMITTEE MINUTES July 12th, 2006 Police Community Room Attendance: Jack Downing, Rec. Committee Chair, Nancy-Linn Swain, Rec. Committee Member, Kate Kaminer, Rec. Committee Member, Bernie Winne, Rec. Committee Member, Rick Shaffer, Rec. Committee Member, Mary Ann Kozlowski, School Committee Rep., Frank Driscoll, Rec. Committee Member, Chris Campbell, Rec. Committee Member, Mary Ellen Stolecki, Rec. Committee Member, Michael DiPietro, Associate Member, Beth Claroni, Associate Member, John Feudo, Recreation Administrator Guests: Barry Sheehan, Phil Kluge J. Downing called the meeting to order at 7:10 PM. The Committee was asked to review the minutes from the July meeting. B. Winne made a motion to accept the minutes from the June 14th Recreation Committee meeting. N. Swain seconded the motion. The motion passed in favor of acceptance of the minutes 7-0-0. M.E. Stolecki entered the meeting at 7:22 PM. Basketball Presentation J. Feudo introduced Barry Sheehan from the O'Brien Basketball Program and Phil Kluge from the Girls River Valley Basketball Program. J. Feudo stated that over the past several months, he had met with Mr. Kluge, Mr. Sheehan, Mike O'Brien, D. McGrath and the YMCA's representative Jen Cotton to discuss merging all programs under the Recreation Division (except 5th grade travel- YMCA). In the past, differences in the programs included the playing time distribution, amount of games being played and competition level. As discussions ensued, it was found that a lot of the philosophies that were different were now more in line with each other. The proposal is for the Recreation Administrator to oversee both Division I and Division II travel basketball with Mr. Sheehan serving as the Boys Coordinator and Mr. Kluge serving as the Girls coordinator. The programs will basically run the same as in the past. The major difference will be all players will participate in one tryout and will be placed on both a travel team and in-town team. The in-town program will be included in the cost of Travel Basketball. This will ensure that there is a program available for all abilities. Travel teams will be developed based on interest and available volunteer coaches and then placed in the appropriate division of the program. One of the other major changes will be allowing 2nd grade players to participate in Sunday Basketball. The Recreation Division receives many inquiries each year about allowing 2nd graders to play. It also begins to help build the program from the ground up. Small biddy basketballs would be used.