2001-06-13 Recreation Committee Minutes

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Town of Reading 16 Lowell Street Reading, MA 01867-2685 _ rr CLER etc rl ) u, 1 1 ASS. FAX: (781) 942-9071 RECREATION "&1(781) ~44~-9%75 RECREATION COMMITTEE MINUTES 6/13/01 MEETING In Attendance - Alan Beaulieu, Jack Downing, Dave Bryant, Chris Campbell, Kate Kaminer, Sudie Fay, Mark Hyson, Peter Hechenbleikner The meeting was started at 7:40 p.m. by Alan Beaulieu Everyone read through the May 9, 2001 minutes. There was a brief discussion on the minutes. Motion was made by Jack Downing to accept the May 9, 2001 Minutes/Seconded by Sudie Fay. The vote passed to accept the minutes 5 - 0. Clair Bolger came in at 7:44 p.m. Sudie Fay mentioned that Mark Hyson should call Pop Warner to make sure they play away on - Saturday, October 28 due to the Rotary Road Race and the Halloween Parade. Mark Hyson stated that he would take care of this. Town Manager, Peter Hechenbleikner spoke on the Symonds Way Scoreboard. He stated that the right field line changed and was modified. The landscape of the cul-de-sac area has changed. The field is in basically good shape. There is a streetlight going to go in at the end of Symonds Way. The field was laid out for lighting, but there is no capital money yet to put in lights. The soccer/baseball scoreboard was donated by the Friends of Reading Athletics and the Reading Municipal Light Department. The scoreboard is hardwired and the town will do the maintenance on the scoreboard. The area underneath the benches is going to be redone, maybe with asphalt. There was some discussion by the committee of their concerns on how the committee found out about the implementation of the scoreboard. The committee asked Mr. Hechenbleikner about the procedures. Mr. Hechenbleikner responded by letting the committee know that is was not intentional that they were not notified earlier in the process. Mr. Hechenbleikner stated he was going on the premise that this was part of the original plan for the field that the Recreation Committee was involved with in the beginning stages and that the scoreboard was just an amenity that was going to be put in like the fence. The Recreation Committee has no opposition to the scoreboard, just that we make sure it is high enough and bleachers are high enough to see everything.