1993-02-10 Recreation Committee Minutes

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Minutes The meeting of-:the Recreation Committee came to order at 7:35 pm in the, Conference Room of Town Hall on February 10, 1993. Pre8:ent3at the meeting were members Kate Kaminer, John Pacino, Gordon Richards, Fred Conover, Ed Hanley, Lorraine Salter, Gary Roberts and Tom Zaya. In addition were staff Ruth Cogan, and guests Paul Lucerto, Dom Orosco, Dave Blanchard, Arthur Kramer, Marlene Foley and Jerry Pothier. The minutes of January 13, 1993 were approved as presented 5:0:0. Paul Lucerto came to speak to the Committee about a Summer League for Youth Baseball. It would be for 8 - 12 year old boys and girls on weekdays 6 - dusk. The cost would be $40 for the first child, $25 for the second. The program would begin the week of July 4th and go to the week before Labor Day. There will be 8 teams, 2 games a week. The teams would be different from the spring teams. Conover asked whether the games could be played during the day. Hanley asked how many games would be played per night and how would excess registrants be handled. Salter arrived. Kaminer gave a brief synopsis of the meeting last year concerning Hunt Park. It was noted that if there were any early start re- quests that neighbors would be notified. Lucerto noted that no Sunday games were scheduled for this summer, however, because they planned to play on Friday nights Sundays would be held in reserve for rain dates. They also planned a fifth game for Satur- days that would begin at 5:30 pm. Mrs. Foley said that she had no opposition to a 9 am game start time on Saturday mornings nor people being on the field at 8:30 am. Three members of the Recreation Committee remembered that at the meeting last year it was said there would only be one All Star day of games. Lucerto noted that the request for that day would be to start at 11 am in order to get in three games and trophy ceremonies. Foley said that she did not mind the one hour early start. Kramer noted that he would rather have the games played over 2 Sundays with noon starts than one Sunday with an 11 am start. He later changed his mind and said that the one 11 am start was ok. Han- ley asked how the neighbors felt about the 5:30 pm Saturday game. The neighbors were not pleased with this. Conover asked how long the season was; 17 game schedule. Conover noted that he felt that it was too many games in light of field availability and that in the past one team did not play on Saturdays. Kaminer asked why they could not stretch out the time; Lucerto noted that the season was already extended one week to eliminate the Sunday games. Salter asked if Lucerto had any feedback from the par- ticipants; he noted they want to play as many games as possible. He noted that the season is only eight weeks long, that the neighbors have the field the rest of the year and weekdays. Con- over asked if they could play on other fields; Lucerto noted that Hunt was the only regulations field. The Committe thanked Lucerto for his input.