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From YouTube: PARKS & RECREATION BOARD Thursday, July 18, 2022- 2:30 p.m.100 Ribaut Road,

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1. CALL TO ORDER
2. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
3. INTRODUCTIONS
4. APPROVAL OF AGENDA
5. PUBLIC COMMENT
6. REVIEW AND APPROVAL OF MARCH MINUTES – May 26, 2022 (backup)
7. DIRECTOR’S REPORT
A. LIND BROWN UPDATE
B. DOWNTOWN TENNIS UPDATE
C. BATHROOMS UPDATES
D. BLUFFTON POOL UPDATES
E. SUMMER CAMP/SENIORS
F. MASTER PLAN UPDATE
G. AGE FOR ADULT SOFTBALL
8. DEPUTY DIRECTOR REPORT
A. REGISTRATION NUMBERS
B. TOURNAMENTS
9. AQUATICS
A. PROGRAM UPDATES
10. EMPLOYEE UPDATE
11. ANNOUNCEMENTS
A. NEXT MEETING – SEPTEMBER 1, 2022 - BLUFFTON
12. ADJOURN

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To bring the meeting to order of the parks and recreation board today, monday july 18th um we stand and we have flag do the pledge of allegiance.

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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands. One nation, under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

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So introductions.

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um My name is antoinette. I manage all the swimming.

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Matt watts, deputy director, shannon lopez, chuck.

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Hawkins from beaufort county, I'm morgan, I work for the american council, scott whitehead, sins green will mccullough working abroad, james max helena carlos cave, representing beaufort county schools, eric priester, south lebron.

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And I'm bruce yeager south of the broad as well. um Have someone get a motion here to approve our agenda.

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Second, all in favor pose okay public comment.

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I presume, are you here for public.

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Comment just listening.

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Up today, oh good good, fantastic, all right, so you have no public comment, uh review and approval of the minutes.

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I move that we approve the minutes as presented.

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A second clicking: yes, there are corrections, be made. Let them know.

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All in favor opposed okay, I would before we move on. uh How has the uh I know we talked about increasing, I, I think, uniforming, the fees here, the registration yeah, the.

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um Not one comply, not one complaint, so it was wonderful. Thank very good.

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Okay, we'll start with um lynn brown and given an update.

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I know I've, given you.

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All an update of the opening.

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And then the equipment.

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Coming in so I just thought I'd you know, give.

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A final update, just kind of.

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Show you where our usage has been and to see that it has been increasing, um so we are getting use out of the center um at lynn brown. So I just kind of wanted you to be able to see are.

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Those are those uh just number of visits per month. Those.

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Are check membership check-ins.

A

Okay, so in may, if, if I, if I went there five times, am I reflected once or five times, you're.

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Reflected five times: okay,.

A

That's not a huge room either. Is it.

F

Oh, that that weight, room's, actually probably the same size as the one at burton wells, might be even a little bit bigger than buck walter. It's a good size is.

A

It is it being used to what percent of capacity. At this point I mean 594 in the summer. Is it mostly young people that are coming? You.

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Know I've seen older people too.

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So just just people are just getting more aware of it right, especially pickleball they're.

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Starting to pick up and then you've got the basketball players, the kids playing basketball and stuff so um view for tennis court updates. As you can see, um it's moving along the.

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Rain hasn't helped.

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Anything but they are steady, moving forward with the project, so hopefully, by next meeting we will see some concrete now and some process progress on it. Bathroom updates, they're, waiting on beautiful jasper.

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Once we get the approval through them, the rfp is to be advertised. This.

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Month, it'll go through the end of august and then we'll go to committee for approval september, the 15th. So once that gets done, we will see bathrooms. Hopefully I'm going to say october november, by the time they get everything out there at old burton wells and um wesley felix, of course, bruce sager.

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So those are the two places that were put.

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In the bathrooms, okay yeah um bluffton pool update, I kind of gone by there snuck in peeked around um it's looking pretty good. um The rusted um beams have been a lot of them have been replaced so that that part of it's looking good. um They got their last delivery of bolts that arrived june. The 27th, of course. We all know how things are to get them.

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um They're painting the purlins, um the last purlins will be installed in the roof, place continued and they're still on schedule to be completed by mid-august, so they're moving along with it. um Like I said, I have been sneaking by there and going by so.

A

When you say purlins are those are the cross.

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Braces the beams, the metal beams from the.

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From the uh that are the side by side versus the yes.

F

They're actually doing yeah they're, the smaller ones that are doing the roof and.

A

What what is that? What are we doing with uh insulation there? Is that just not going to be insulated or how is that going to be insulated?.

F

I don't remember.

A

Because that was an issue I know at one time they talked.

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About the spray insulation, but um they are going to be replacing the hvac systems. So all of that's going to be done.

A

And those that's still a metal roof right, correct.

F

Okay, yeah block and pull your shadiest pool is nothing but surrounded by pine trees, so they're still on schedule.

C

Our senior program senior program started july 1st.

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Started off a little slow, um but quickly we on booker t as an example, we started with five seniors. We're up to 29.. um Bluffton is up to 31 seniors. That was um when counseling on aging had it. It was closed um way before covid. They probably might had 10 seniors.

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um It is up, and we added two more just since friday. um Barton wells is at 27. port royal's a little slow and scott's a little slow with 14, but the saint helena senior center that we're renting from the comprehensive health. If that one's doing.

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Doing well, as you can see, we've kind of taken a different.

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Approach with them, it's not just go.

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In sit down, sing, eat and talk and go home, we have been keeping them active, they do a monthly calendar.

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They send me videos where they created trivia games on the tv um they have got, um they sit down and draw the other day. They were talking about how they drew.

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Out of a basket.

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Tell me about your daughter or tell me about.

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Your son tell me about your aunts, tell me where you've traveled, so they sit down and talk amongst themselves of different things and that's part of the games. They've done plantings, they've been doing baking, they got jewelry, making coming up they're staying very busy, they're extremely happy, and the numbers.

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Are reflecting.

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That so um we're keeping their minds active as.

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Well, as just getting.

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Them there miss rivers, um bluffton center is 104 years old and as soon as I got there, she said honey. I thought I was going to die for you brought this program back, so they are just thrilled to death that we're doing this and um the bluffton.

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Location, um like I said, with the numbers they're growing, so.

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Fast over there, it looks like.

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We're when the voter registration moves out, we're going to move them into the big center room and then turn the senior room into like a sewing room for them so that they have more room over there.

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How many can we accommodate.

F

Welfare, I mean it's large, so I mean we can easily accommodate 100 seniors. If we had them it's a large center. You know because you've got the back room. The side room you've got upstairs with the art room. You've got the big room. um You've got the big front office room, so there's plenty of room there and if we need to add facilities, we'll do it yeah.

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This has been great. It's.

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Just and how have we been letting the community know about this.

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We have been um so the booker t um chris. When he gets off, he has been visiting the churches. um He has been going to the churches on sundays and talking to them um mary bowles same thing with her scot location, but even.

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Our public information officer, he is blasting it out.

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There I just did an interview, for um I think it was whhi one of those, so we've really been getting the word out there. We've got programs matt met with spinnaker. um Is it spinnaker um springer?

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uh Everybody keeps telling me if you go in a nursing home, that's where you want to go, they have the best bar. They are always happy when you walk in there, but they are um they've got our.

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Brochures they're passing the.

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Word around they want to partner with us and get all the seniors together and do events. So um you know, we've we've really been working to get the word out and, and we're super excited about it. It's hopefully going to be a really good program.

F

um The master plan update as of july, the 6th we had 163 surveys complete that went out. The goal is to get at least 300 back, um it's been very slow, so they reached out to us. An ad was placed on facebook and more surveys were mailed out. I'm getting complaints from.

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F

The survey was way too long, but we also have it. You know online still, so that people can go online and fill it out online.

F

But you know they gotta, ask the questions and get what they need out of it, so um they, when they didn't get as many back as they thought they took another chunk of a hundred and mailed them out. So.

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How many did they mill out.

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Originally, I think they mailed out 400 with the hope of getting 300 back and um they had only had 163.

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I was going to say that that's pretty aggressive thought that you'd get 75 response rates.

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Well, you know we felt like we advertised it enough to get people involved in it. One of my employees actually got one, and he said it was pretty long, but he did go and get it done. So that's a combination of.

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Mail-Out and online survey correct.

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Yes, so anybody who wants to fill out the survey can go online and do it right.

F

It doesn't weigh as much as the out survey. The online doesn't weigh as much as the mail out, but it does weigh.

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You mean way in terms of how they look at the responses correct. So how many? um How long are we going to continue to do this.

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They're staying on schedule so.

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I think it was october.

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That we were supposed to they're going to have everything complete to report about the council, so we're staying on schedule with it.

E

So who's elected for the mail office, arbitrary or.

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They they hire a company that does that.

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Yeah, you know that was a question that I had as well. I mean it's just it's totally random, though.

F

It is completely random, yeah yeah, it's totally random and that it's a company that that's all they do is mail outs, so yeah.

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Do you know how many were online versus the actual mail out? They.

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Don't tell us anything we're not involved in that that's their job and their process ask. Why do they? Why is that the ones mail out way more than the wants to do online? They explain that in the um some surveys work.

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With them it's their methodology. Yes, they know that anybody can just go on and fill out the online survey 100 times or 200 times and so forth, but the random sent out is just one. One person does that yeah.

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Because I could go out and get 400 tennis players and say give me your name address and let me fill it out for you, because we want more tennis. So they look at that in knowing that that can be done yeah. It may be helpful to say that the comments are not weighed differently, but statistically they're weighed a little differently because of the control, but they look at all of the comments.

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Yeah everything's looked at okay, and so when these are mailed out, we don't know what percentage are going out to what area you don't you just are just going out to beaufort county. I I think that they, they knew their areas of interest and they sent so many to each area. So it's up to the citizens to to ultimately respond.

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Like I said, I can tell you.

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um I had a lady call me one that last week- and she said you know she was not filling out the survey. It was way too long and here's what she wanted to see built, and I just forwarded it to the consultant well.

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The survey was generated from all of the meetings and everything else, so I mean you, everyone was able to come out and that wanted to and was able to interact and then based on that. So this is and.

F

Throughout the whole process, they were still able to go online and interact right.

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Well, this is this company that was hired, it's a scientific method, that's being that's being done, so um we.

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Should be, I mean this is, but we can't we can't.

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Help that people don't fill things out if it's a little too long.

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Right, yeah yeah, exactly people who fill out surveys is less than that.

F

And adult softball, so um recently we discovered that um during our current church softball league, um we had a guy that went and changed his child's birth date so that his child could play in the church league. So we've always had the current bluffton open league has been age 18 to be able.

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Play with the adult softball because you do have people out there, 40 50 years old, somehow the current church league age rules still stated 16., so he was upset. He changed his child's birth date to 16, even though his child was 15..

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One of the things that we are slowly discovering with the church league is it's not a true church league. The way that it used to be used to be you had to be a member of the church to play in the league or play on the team um now they're out kind of recruiting people to play on their church themes. Those.

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Methodists they're crazy about that stuff. Well,.

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I'm just kidding so one of the things that we have been talking about is just um next summer, just doing an open league for softball um over here in beaufort and doing away with having to have the church if they want to get their church group to you, know to put in a team and then join others, but it doesn't have to be labeled as a church.

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um Some of our concerns- and I think we only had like four kids in there that I wanted to bring forward to the board- is to get the thoughts and what you think about the age, um because you know we explained to him that a 16 year old, even a 15 year old out there playing ball with you, know a 30 year old 35 year old, and the safety of it was not something that we thought was a great idea.

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Well, I mean my just flying over at 30 000 feet. 16 seems okay to me. If it's, this is just the open league. This is not the gold league silver league, or is this open? Any talent level can be in this league. Okay, because there's some extremely talented people. um So how many we're talking? Four people that were in the church league.

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That's the church league and and what you're recommending is we eliminate the church league.

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We're we're gonna, that's one of the things that we're gonna look at and do next year is just do away with the name church league and just do open, softball league. um Hopefully we can recruit a few more teams by doing it that way, um but the churches can still bring in their own group and join up because.

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Adult softball as a team, so no matter how they do it, they can still join it as a team. They can still have their church represented as the team you know, but um it we it's kind of slowly and so that they've they've started allowing other people to join just besides church members.

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So if we do it as an open league, we're hoping it'll kind of build the lead back.

A

How many, how many teams do we have in each of those leagues right now.

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It's only one league, the bluff, I mean bluffton we're.

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Gonna, have we have you know nearly 40 teams on for the church league every year with around five to six teams every year.

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And then they just play each other correct.

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So we're hoping if we do it as an openly than more people.

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Do you think you'll lose the churches? If you do that, there's some churches that play in the bronze league and bluffton they just sign up.

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You know to me: I mean 16 to me it's more of a liability issue than anything else and if, if someone's under 18, then I would presume that they would have to have parental. You know parental waiver signed and whatever else I mean so, what does what I mean? We we don't have insurance for this. Do we so I mean it's not like little league baseball or not little league dixie or whatever, where we we actually have an insurance policy right. So I don't what are feelings from everybody else?.

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So is 16 legally an adult 18 18, that's what I'm saying 18.!

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You still have the waiver as uh they get injured, then they're responsible for their own health. Everybody.

C

Feels like the sports is close.

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It's just I mean we've seen some. I could show you some pictures. We've seen some pretty bad accidents out there and talking.

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About kids, getting hit by balls traveling at very high rates of speed and.

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You've got a 16 year old out there that um that is hit by a ball from a 30 year old. That's in their prime. You know a line drive well, I played both. I played trump, but I think that if we had 16 games yeah, I'm sorry.

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Yeah so so uh we appreciate you being here, um but uh there was a point for public comment. So when we're we're talking here, it's it's really just the uh the group, the board. Okay, I didn't know this was that's fine, cage verification how we check drivers.

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They should have addressed that.

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As well, we do we check driver's license and that's how we discovered that the job was 15.

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yeah, because we do see that yeah adults can be and what age does your your uh business in beaufort right? So what age.

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Does your view for baseball go up to baseball, goes up to 16., so he has an opportunity to play as there's not a criteria for like a 16 and under team. Anything like that softball.

F

No- and we honestly, like I said out of five teams and and some of the teams have um 30 players on the team- we have four of them, but that age from the 16 to 18. You just don't see a lot of participation anyway.

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We've offered it in.

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Basketball we've offered it in plenty of.

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Could offer a 16.

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To 18 year old, softball league- and I guarantee you, we wouldn't get one team you'd have.

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Yeah we'd have four guys.

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Well, do we do we have initial uh an issue then with legal? I guess that's the question I mean you.

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Because there are people that are people are making these decisions to go out and play regardless of their skill level. So you could have someone out there, that's 25 and not be a very good softball player and he could get hit in the middle of forehead with line drive. So.

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And we can ask I mean we we have to on our end, look at the safety side of it right. That's why you know what we're seeing is like this guy he's, like my kid, turns 16 10 days from the cut off. Why can't he play as a 15 year old and then you.

C

Have a parent that has a 14 year old that loves adult softball? I don't want to play any other sport. Why can't he play too it's kind of like? When? Does it stop so yeah? It's an adult league softball. Our eyes is just happening and.

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Plus the fact that you know, like matt, said he was 10 days before turning 16 and you know he went into this whole spill about how you know his kid's very athletic, but he just bought his kid brand new glove and a brand new cleats. Well, you know so.

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What's your all's recommendation.

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We've got we've stuck to the 18. how the 16 ever got in there.

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So so so 18 is 18 is our. Is our existing regulation as right now right? So you don't need us to reaffirm that you just need to just continue on. With your I mean you, don't need a motion from us to continue on with what you have.

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No, I just wanted to bring it yeah.

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Like I said, because it is an.

C

Adult leak I mean an 18 is an adult: do you need anything on the change from a church to an open league.

F

You know I mean if y'all wanted to vote on it, but I mean.

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Well, my thought in a church league is I I think that if, if you know if, if there was a church league and and it was handled and when the rules were, you need to, you know be going to the church, not that you need to show a membership card or something else. If that's something that the churches want to. Do I mean yeah, but I I like the approach that she's presented uh of doing the openly, because I think it opens the opportunity for more.

H

Teams to participate okay, because right now it's closed off for beaufort to just being church. Oh, this is strictly beaufort yeah, oh okay, yeah.

F

We played which to me a church, can.

C

Still sign up in an open leader like they do in bluffton sure that's.

A

Sure but we're gonna have the church league by by virtue of you, consolidating the church league into a beaufort, open league or whatever, then at that point the church league goes away, it becomes adult we don't have to deal with 16, because you're eliminated correct okay, so we have to vote to eliminate the league. I'm sorry! I.

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Was going to ask, is there cross-breaking with this league like north and south abroad,.

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So um in the bluffton, open league happens spring and fall and the beaufort league happens summer. So there's.

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Three different leagues, basically for the adults, so.

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And they can any of them join in. Yes, I think you might get some teams from the bluffton league that plays in that one.

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Okay, so you don't need any action bias. Okay,.

C

Good to see everyone uh just break down some of the registration information of you know. Last time we met summer, basketball was ending and we were still in the late registration period. We ended up with 160 kids in beaufort uh summer basketball, which is almost double what we had the year before um big increase of numbers. I don't baseball as well. We, uh as you all know, we started off baseball about four years ago, we've had literally four teams about 44 players.

C

Ever since we started they almost doubled this year for the summer league they played during the summer and the fall we're up to you know seven teams now and 79 players. So it's uh it's really grown uh adult church softball is uh shannon was just speaking about. um We have five teams.

C

This year, we've been five or six teams ever since I've been here since in five years, so 117 participants for adult church league softball in buford um for bluffton a huge increase as well have 383 summer basketball players, which um I think that's increasing, like 120 players from the year before or 140. I believe so. It's really summer basketball um took off this year. I think, as you all have seen, everybody's ready to get out how to get their kids active again.

C

Some numbers have uh skyrocketed over the last couple seasons, um especially in the spring and now into the summer, uh just about to start adult koa kickball we have 17 signed up 86 participants, so it's been um pretty good leagues that it's been consistent around six or seven teams.

C

Since we started a couple years ago, we're playing that you know in the summer, it's gotten so large that we played in the winter too now and on in bluffton we were trying, as y'all probably remember from last uh last meeting to get um a dope dodge ball. That kind of we didn't have. I think we had three people sign up so, and uh it was kind of surprising because a lot of people talked about it.

C

I think it's just you we're we're having a lot of options now, adult baseball, softball, kickball, there's not so many many that are that age bracket. You know it's more of a you know, 20 to 35 kind of age, probably there's a lot for them to do now. Besides, you know the normal going out to the beach things of that nature, so we just can't get it off the ground this summer, so we'll see if we might try some other season and then uh fall use.

C

Sports registration ends friday august 5th, with late registration the next week and.

A

Numbers are looking pretty good right now, so I expect us to have a good fall season as well. Are we uh obviously, over the last two years it's been way up, but how are we vers we're pre-coveted numbers? Are we.

C

Way above those yeah yeah way above them, I think I think spring. I think almost every sport in both bluffton and beaufort were larger than pre-kobe. I think what tune out 2019, especially soccer summer basketball, keeps you know going I mean you know we have roughly 800 kids in the in the fall. I mean in the winter that play summer basketball, but we've barely been. I don't even think in boston.

C

We've been over 200, maybe a little over 200 um since, uh since we started summer basketball and those numbers are huge and beaufort um has really grown. I remember when we first started summer basketball. We might have 30, kids and now we're up to 160..

C

What's the age.

A

Distribution is it equally amongst them, or is it more younger kids or it's.

C

Not we in for summer, we don't even have the younger age groups, we start at seven. We have had some talk, maybe next year, since the numbers are so big to include younger kids, we've had some parents that want us to maybe start at five or even four like we normally do, but right now we're just doing seven to twelve. So we have a pretty condensed it's only. You know five years of ages. So for those numbers it's pretty solid. I think.

C

If we did go even younger, um it could be it almost be too big um for staffing-wise. Then then we probably would want, but uh you know, if that's what the people want, we'll give it to them. I think that I think it'll be good all right and then for the dixie junior boys, boys, state tournament. uh That was last. You know last week july, 9th through the 14th. It was a good tournament.

C

It was really wet, as you can kind of see in the picture down here with that jeremy or somebody took, and uh we were out there and as y'all know, it's not just the maintenance, guys or athletes guys. We all get on the field, shannon uh to help out on to uh get the fields ready. So it was a. It was a trying tournament. I mean there was multiple there's multiple days, we're out there twice.

C

You know we get out there and get the fields ready because of rain, and then it rain again we get back out there and get the fields ready again. So I think everybody was pretty tired. County definitely got their money's worth out of us last week um and the junior boys central clemson, were the champions and our beaufort county uh 13 year olds were the runner-ups and that's uh that's them pictured below here. um They. They did really well that central clemson team was just really good um and the dixie boys hilton head one.

C

They have had a great team as well uh for the 13 and 14 year olds and casey. West columbia was the runner-ups and just to give everybody idea on the county challenge guys do a great job along. You know coming out there and broadcasting games for us. Scott gave us some stats over 32 000 people watch the games, basically 32 000 clicks views and then over 4 700 hours of view time.

C

So that's pretty impressive for a state tournament, um as scott said, I think you know, for the world series we usually have upwards of 50 000, but for a state tournament. um You know where you know it is still virtually local. A lot of our teams are local, so they're able to come, but there is a lot of views um on the county channel, but definitely it definitely worked out really well. We enjoyed hosting, as always.

C

All right any questions. Okay, all right! Thank you.

B

Hello, so this is our information about our battery creek pool our battery creek hours are until our welcome pool opens back up monday through friday. We are from 8 00 a.m, to 12 p.m and then from 1 pm to 7 p.m, and then on saturdays we have our inflatables from 10 30 to 4 30.

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um for our boga classes. They are tuesdays and thursdays 6 15 to 6 45, and then we have our different swim teams. We have our finn, swim team, monday, wednesdays and fridays from 4, 30 to 7, 30 and then high school is about to start up for their season and they will be on tuesdays and thursdays. 4 30 to 7 30 as well.

A

So the fins have been traveling over to battery creek, yes, and and that relationship is going just fine, yeah good good.

G

With the high school practice times, they're only a lot of two days or those are the two competition days, tuesday, tuesday and thursday.

B

No they're allowed more days, but the thing is is that the coach, he coaches, both finn's and the high school, so to make it easier scheduling wise, that's the time frame that he came out, because this is also bluffton high school. Coming over to that side, because the bluffton pool is closed and the may river high school is coming over as well to the battery creeple wow.

A

So what happens when we reopen bluffton, then battery crinkles be at battery.

B

It will just be the battery creek high school team. There.

A

Yeah and then bluffton and may river will be at the bluffton pool correct along with finns, correct.

B

Yes, but the swim team season for the high school is such a short time frame, so it just depends on when the block and pull reopens to when they go back.

A

Does well branch you have a team.

B

Branch and battery.

G

No combination.

B

So our beaufort pool the hours are monday wednesdays and fridays 8 a.m to 12 and then one to seven as well. And then we have our boga classes, 6 15 to 6, 45, mondays and wednesdays, and we also offer our water working classes, mondays and wednesdays. 1 30 to 2.

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30., I have a question but the people pool. Could you explain your registration and sign up uh procedures? I got a call from smalls and I direct her back to to to the parks.

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Evacuation to the staff and then she runs a daycare and she wanted to bring all her kids, so many kids to the pool- and she got some drawback about. She could only sign up one or two, uh uh her participants in the class and I wouldn't privy didn't hand the data on the information. So I just reverted her back to you. I'm pretty sure you all got a phone call.

F

Yeah, so I took that bag to legal, and it's not legal for um kenny to come in and sign my child up and say it's okay for my child to swim. So we explained to her over the phone. Annie did um as she hung up on her and refused to speak to her um that she needed to get each parent to go online and create an account and to have the parents assign those waivers for their kids.

F

um She didn't want to hear it. She didn't understand why she couldn't sign up all those kits- and I explained to her that I had already been back to legal with it had already spoken with legal about it and um legal. Did the waivers, approve the waivers and said? No that absolutely not? You cannot sign up anybody else's child. The parent is legally the one that's responsible and has to legally sign the waiver that.

E

Makes sense I just didn't know so. Yeah thank.

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B

um Our outdoor pool lynn brown, the hours are tuesdays through saturdays 10, to 12 and then one to seven and then on sundays. We are open one to seven.

A

How's how's the participation at lynn, brown, lin.

B

Brown's pretty good, it's pretty.

A

Popular very popular.

B

um So a lot of people are just wanting to know when the slide's opening, but that's the only complaint that they've ever had for that pool.

A

When is the slide open.

F

That's in engineering and a little bit illegal, so um you may have to replace it all.

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A

Classes that we offer all of our pools, we offer group.

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And private swim lessons year-round.

B

um We also offer a stroke improvement class, that's year-round normally, the stroke improvement is for adults, and then we offer cpr classes by appointment and then our next life grading class is at our beaufort pool, which is august 5th through the 12th. We've had a lot of people interested in the class, so hopefully we'll have a big turnout. What's the minimum age for.

G

The lifeguard classes.

B

um 15 to take the class, the 16 to work for the county.

B

Any other questions for the polls.

F

So employee update um admin, uh we are we've been full-time staff. We were fortunate enough with one of our um part-time staff. That's worked for me for 15 years that decided that she was going to give up the school system and come full time. So we were super thrilled about that. um She is now full-time at burton wells and um we're just we're delighted to have her over there.

F

um The two full-time positions that we're seeking are so that we can open um up later in the evenings and on saturdays and sundays, again to the public. So that's what we're looking for at this point. That was a july first budget approval is that for us here.

A

In burton wells for beaufort and bluffton, yes, okay, so so you're looking for people to work evenings and weekends. Is that specifically.

F

They'll work like the afternoon, starting from 12 days, yeah and weekends um lifeguards, it's been a major struggle um and, of course, if you go on good morning in america, you hear all about it.

F

So we're still five full-time, open um and four part-time, but, as annie just said, hopefully, with the class signing up we'll get some more people. We kind of started this program a few years ago, where we'll pay for the class. If you come to workforce and you sign a contract that you'll be there a year and we'll prorate it if you leave so that kind of helps get people recruited to come work.

A

How much is class 175.

F

Maintenance, we have four positions left to fill. um It's been, it's been a little difficult but um chuck, and I worked through um a program and um got some of our staff with some training to be able to retrain retain them. So we ended up with a great person um that came to work for us that had a landscape company he's been amazing. He just started as a crew leader and we were able to fill his position too. So we're doing pretty good as far as that goes athletic um in the new.

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Assistant athletic manager approved.

F

So then, we'll have one north and one south um to help us out, so that position will be we're actually interviewing tomorrow, so hope to fill that position this week and then we'll have. We still have one athletic supervisor and we hope to get that filled this week and then our records. We have four positions to fill. Fortunately, with our senior programs, we did great it.

F

We did really well with those those filled up quickly and I think we ended up with a great group of people that um you know kind of, like I said with chris and.

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The booker t area.

F

He kind of lives out there, so he's been recruiting through that um marissa lives in the port royal area. um Tilly lives in the bluffton area, mary lives in the saint helena area, and then we were able to keep the one lady at st helena that was already working. So it's worked out really well for us.

F

Next meeting thursday september, the 1st in bluffton.

A

That's labor day weekend tonight.

F

A

You you, you just have a gift holidays, listen, you live in the paradise man, you don't have to go anywhere.

A

All right: well, okay, all right any questions. um Everybody shannon forded uh that information about that pump track. Yes, and it seems to me after mr stefanik came last time, didn't we indicate that? That's isn't that in the master plan.

F

So there is a there is a bmx type track in the burton wells. Master plan. Yes, okay, yes, I think they want one in bluffton, but we want baseball fields and we want a lot of things, but we got to figure out where there's land.

A

And I know this isn't on the record, but we we had had a few other potential donations of land. Those have gone by the wayside. Is that correct.

F

They're gone so if y'all know anyone that wants to donate some land we'll take it.

F

A

All right anything else for the good of the order. I know you came in later. Sir. Do you want to identify yourself.

H

Hello, everyone, if you don't mind uh about to sit, stay down, yeah sure well, thank you. um Janae hayes, my children participate in the rec program in football. Softball and they'll be playing um this fall in uh football and softball again, I'm sorry uh bask, um maybe they'll be playing sports. Okay, um I am you know, I'm a I'm an advocate for my community.

H

I feel like uh there's a uh I'm a part of the solution, so my and as we do a problem in my area and so uh the solution I feel like this to get is to get rec involved and, of course, to be a part of that. I feel like I need to work emily inside see what I can do to get some things going on now.

A

Were you were you coming today to be part of public.

H

Comment today I was coming today to understand. You see it. Oh.

A

Okay, all right, I just want to give you an opportunity. If you I mean I more than anyone can understand, getting hung up in traffic coming from south abroad to get here. So I just want to make sure that you had an opportunity sure well my.

H

Comment would be that I I um I appreciate so far everything that uh all right.

H

Parks and rec is doing uh with my uh especially my children. I appreciate some of the new programs that uh we have going up and I appreciate uh being able to allow the community to take to be involved with uh the future.

H

So um you know my uh goal is where I'm living is trying to get a lot of those youth involved uh in parks and risk. Because I appreciate- and I love everything that I saw with the uh that tournament and I s and I um I actually um put a comment in that- I would love to see more teams out here and they comment came back to hey, let's, let's get them involved. So uh someone replied.

A

Good, let them know so that's what I'm gonna. That's what I'm here for and uh we're good well you're welcome any time, thank you and thursday and thursday september. What about you? You know all right, just point of clarification on the survey, how many surveys are needed to be returned in order for it to be statistically bad? I didn't ask them that yeah, I don't know they said their goal was 300. that was 300 they're good yeah.

A

Thank you. Okay.

A

Can I have a motion to adjourn second, second, all in favor all right boom. Okay, all right! Thank you.

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