2004-11-10 Recreation Committee Minutes

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Town of Reading 16 Lowell Street Reading, MA 01867-2685 1-.~ 6 _CL IV ED J N CLERK D!NG, MASS. 2004 ULC Z2 P2: 50 FAX: (781) 942 - 5441 RECREATION DIVISION: (781) 942 - 9075 READING RECREATION COMMITTEE MINUTES November 10, 2004 Town Hall Conference Room Attendance: Patrick Fennelly, Rec. Committee Chair, Nancy Linn Swain, Rec. Committee Vice- Chair, Frank Driscoll, Rec. Committee Member, Bernie Winne, Rec. Committee Member, Steve Meehan, Rec. Committee Member, Rick Shaffer, Rec. Committee Member, Mary Ann Kozlowski, School Rep., Mike DiPietro, Associate Member, Gail Wood, Board of Selectmen, John Feudo, Recreation Administrator Guest: Daniel DiCenso P. Fennelly called the meeting to order at 7:31 PM. B. Winne made a motion to accept the minutes from Octoberl3, 2004. N. L Swain, seconded the motion. Motion passes in favor of acceptance of the minutes 6-0-0. New Business J. Feudo introduced Daniel DiCenso as a proposed programmer for the Winter/Spring season. Daniel is a cartoonist that specializes in Anime and Manga Japanese cartooning similar to the popular Pokemon characters on TV. Mr. DiCenso is looking to hold his classes in Reading for elementary school age children. Mr. DiCenso described "anime" as a "trend of America". His proposal stated that the classes would run 6 weeks for 1.5 - 2 hrs per week. His target age group would be 8 -12 years and even into middle school if the Recreation Division so desired. Mr. DiCenso worked for the Pike School in Andover as well as The Art Center of Chelmsford. He has good experience working with Children and enjoys it very much. The cost of per student would be approximately $65 including all the supplies that the kids would need. Due to the fact that this program is a small classroom program, Mr. Dicenso would need to fill out the Town's indemnification in lieu of having formal insurance. The Recreation Division would mark the program up approximately 20% to cover rental and administrative fees. R. Shaffer made a motion to have the Recreation Division work with the Mr. Dicenso to come up with a program and offer a pricing strategy that is consistent to other used by the Recreation Division. M. Kozlowski seconded the motion. Motion passes in favor of the motion 6-0-0. J. Feudo proposed a new program developed by Program Coordinator Dan McGrath. The program is an after school activity. It would include study time as well as a gym type activity or "life skills" section once a week where the student will be able to learn CPR, eating healthy or study skills. The program would be run every Tuesday and Thursday and would run from Mid February to the end of the school year. The idea of the program is to give the student a safe place to go after school to ' work on homework and learn discipline and good habits.