2003-07-09 Recreation Committee Minutes

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v FAX: (781) 942 - 5441 Town of Reading 16 Lowell Street Reading, MA 01867-2685€Gs SS. t. `5 P 3J.' Z t s RECREATION DIVISION: (781) 942 - 9075 READING RECREATION COMMITTEE MINUTES July 9th . 2003 Attendance: Bernie Winne, Rec. Committee Chair, Claire Bolger, Rec. Committee Member, Vice-Chair, Jack Downing, Recreation Committee Member, Nancy -Linn Swain Rec. Committee Member, Chris Campbell, Rec. Committee Associate Member, Mary Ellen Stolecki, Rec. Committee Member, John Feudo, Recreation Administrator Guest- Mel Suarez Meeting was called to order at 7:43 PM by B. Winne. B. Winne asked the committee to look over the minutes from the June 11th Meeting. J. Downing made a couple of notations of error. He asked to have the word "Chair" omitted next to Alan Beaulieu's name. Also, J Downing asked to change the phase on paragraph 5, page 1 form "abutters issues" to "abutter issues". It was also noted that there were no scores on the votes for Chairman and Vice Chairmen and they needed to reflect in the minutes. J. Downing made a motion to accept the Minutes from the June 11th Recreation Committee meeting as amended. C. Bolger seconded the motion. Motion passes in favor of acceptance of the minutes 5-0-0. B. Winne asked Nancy-Linn Swain to introduce herself. The Recreation Committee welcomed Nancy to the Committee. J. Feudo introduced Mel Suarez from MLSuarez.com. He was appearing before the Recreaiton Committee to do a presentation for a Model Airplane program. Mr. Suarez made a 30-minute PowerPoint presentation. He stated that he has not really worked out any pricing for the program and had a basic curriculum that he had used for past classes. The program would be held inside for building the planes and outside for flying. Locations would need to be determined. Mr. Suarez thought that an 8 class program for flying model airplanes was the direction he was headed in, but asked the Recreation Committee for their thoughts. The committee had many questions. B. Winne asked if there would be a minimum number of participants for the program. Suarez stated that would depend on fees, but there would be a minimum and a maximum. M. Stolecki asked about the issue of inclement weather. Suarez stated because the class length was two hours they could just stay inside, but overall could present a problem. N. Swain stated that she felt if may be difficult to hold a young child's attention for more than an hour.