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Board - Committee Commission - Council:
2010 MAR 21 AM 10: 57
Recreation Committee
Date: 2018-01-09 Time: 7:00 PM
Building: Reading Town Hall Location: Conference Room
Address: 16 Lowell Street
Purpose: Monthly Meeting Session: General Session
Attendees: Members.- Present:
Emily Sisson, Jeanne Borawski, Rich Hand, Gil Congdon(associate), Mike
DiPietro, Lorl:Russo
Members Not Present:
Frank Driscoll, Dan Foley, Adam Chase,•Mary Ellen Stolecki
Others Present:
Minutes'Respectfully Submitted By: ;Genevieve Fiorente
'Topics of Discussion:
E: Sisson opens up meeting at 7:10pm..E. Sisson makes a motion to accept the November
meeting minutes. J. Borawski seconds. No discussion and all in favor 5-0.
G. Fiorente brings up Reading Little League inquiring casually about taking over T-Ball. The. .
committee has a very brief conversation and agrees that T-Ball.should .remain a recreational
sport overseen by Recreation. G. Fiorente says she will discuss with Director of Reading.
Little League if the topic gets brought up again. G. Fiorente.also says that there is.always an
option to collaborate more with Reading Little League and Reading Softball Little League and
that perhaps they would like to run a clinic once a year for the program.
L. Russo asks if there have been,any developments about the pickleball lines going down at
Memorial Park. G. Fiorente saysthat there have been no developments due to theongoing
process with legal to determine what.can and cannot be done at the park. Committee has a-.
short conversation about the long-term goals for an outdoor pickleball area discussed in the
prior meeting.
G. Fiorente discusses upcoming projects. She says the dugouts will be taken down by the
DPW and Reading Little League will .present final plan and start construction once winter is
over. She goes on to talk about the small playground improvement project at•barrows and
the potential project proposed.by some interested parties in regard to dugouts at the
softball fields.
G: Fiorente gives a report on programming, highlighting the over 100 kids signed up for the
Ski program thisyear._She talks about•travel basketball, the new magazine that is just
released, and the upcoming camp early bird registrations. ,
G. Fiorente states that the'Birch Meadow Master Planning_ Committee will be meeting,in a
couple weeks and did not meet the month of December.
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E. Sisson makes a motion to adjourn at 8:15pm. J. Borawski seconds. All in favor.
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