City of Norton, Ohio Parks and Cematary Board, 16 Feb 2022

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02-16-2022 Park & Cemetery Board

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On facebook, yeah.

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I'm not talking.

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I wonder who she copied, I don't know who else is on.

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Well, on the circle.

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Oh, that's I mean.

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So we are live, so you know.

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Is there a camera yeah, but you can't really see your face below. Don't worry, okay, if you're worried.

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About your hair or your ass, I'm going to put my hair back on. Okay, all right.

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Well, we can't really start.

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I did basically was, I have all the labels printed. I have all the letters printed and we need to with that letter goes that slip right. There.

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We have to put one of them in each letter up top.

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Gotcha, so those get stuck together, somebody.

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I need to find a home for a kitty. It's a really nice kitty. Look.

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My mom has homes for five of her kitties.

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That she took hey okay,.

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Okay, so this is our little work session as soon as katelyn gets here, we're just going to stuff some envelopes tonight and go over some things that mayor and I have- and I don't maybe you want to go over the stuff first.

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Ruth is not going to be here, and neither is that.

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I read all that no.

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Or do you want.

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To start, is there multiple levels you want it multiple papers going in? Are you just folding them multiple and then what.

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I do is I do this. Okay, I got it, I got it. I see. I see.

C

uh Well, we don't have a quorum yet all right, we need three, we need three. Let's wait. We gotta try and wait for three so that we can actually have a quorum so.

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Caitlyn's supposed to be caleb is supposed to be coming. Yeah.

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See that that's why I did it this way, this time. Excuse me.

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Get a bottle of water you're good! You know I always folded. Was I whispered boom boom? Is that hopeful? That's how.

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I've always folded. It is that you want me.

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To do that, I just do it that way, because when I'm like, when somebody's getting their mail, I always like it to be like if somebody else opened it. You know what I mean.

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I always fold my letters, my own personal letters like.

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That yeah, yes, I.

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It doesn't matter.

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Because we still got to put that in between it too. Yes did you already put some in here.

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These are in those two okay, you.

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Give me a stack of those I'll start. These.

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I know I couldn't get them to work this morning. There's, like my arthritis, is really acting up all.

C

Right and then the last time we were here, though, we talked about uh earth week and cleanup bay and that and then realized. The dates were wrong when.

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I got home so I.

C

Sent a thing out there: okay, but what are the? What are the new dates? I.

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Need money I need to make sure I have.

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The right date april, 23rd.

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And I think it was the following saturday: was the 30th correct.

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And yes, I lost a whole bunch.

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April 23rd and april 30th I have in my minutes, so that's right so.

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April 23rd is what clean up norton did yes on saturday.

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Did you hear that down there april 23rd.

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Yeah, that was, you got that we were a week off yeah.

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Yeah, it was my fault, I looked it up and I seen earth day, but it wasn't actually what time.

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I started the flyer, but I haven't got our stuff all done yet. Okay,.

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Yeah yeah is birthday 22nd, so the april 23rd, you know we said yeah and then our what is the third, the 30th, the rain date.

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Are they doing they're not.

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Even talking about anything they're stuffing, all the boats did you. Yes, she's almost she's. I think.

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She's pulling in okay.

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Almost 100. awesome.

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Then the mayor will go into all the details that we come up with.

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Letter, sound okay, it says till the they have until the 30th to send in their sponsorship, which is good.

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Get them in the mail tonight.

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Hi, hey hello,.

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You're all down here today, wherever you want, though I just put you down here, so we can all talk, but if you need to move go for it.

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Just started stuffing: okay, we didn't talk about anything yet mayor was.

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Waiting on you yeah well we're waiting. We figured we'd wait until we at least had three. So we have a quorum and uh just have some discussion. That's all.

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Impossible to get from hudson to norton tuesday, so.

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Not at all, are they still working on the expressway, or is that about them.

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Okay, let's call the meeting to order, it is 609 and could you do the roll call please? Oh.

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Yes, neva, I'm.

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Caitlyn here and rick.

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Okay, old business do we have any old business? I had some old business, but ruth is not here so.

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We're gonna move on. I have a little old business.

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Okay, go for it. Yeah.

F

uh I had committed to uh check into some of the parks uh I bad time of the year to do it. Yes,.

C

That's why I suggested we wait because our service department, like I said right now, their primary focus is snow removal and snow control and so forth or snow patrol. So let's wait. Let's give them an opportunity to get out in the park when the weather clears and gets nicer, and then let them kind of go through and do what they feel they need to do. And then, at that point you guys.

C

Can you know if you want to take a walk through whatever and go that route, but your list might be 20 things and 15 of those 20. Things are stuff that they'll do every year once the weather breaks and so forth. So we get to that. One.

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Only comment would be that I'm glad I didn't get out of my car, because the rottweiler to the north was running loose and.

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Is this at a helmet park called hill nick park? Okay, yeah, okay, yeah! It's a little scary, really.

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So other than that yeah, so I I'm pursuing that uh and uh certainly waiting for better better weather.

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Okay, plus, you know, you'd have been uh up to your knees in snow.

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Yeah, I don't mind that okay.

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Is that right? Okay, all right! Moving on um parkinson's cemetery session work session union, we are stuffing letters uh to go out to sponsors and caretakers right now.

C

Yeah, I have a few just a few updates, and I said basically, we've got uh before us this evening. Letters to go out to uh sponsors is pretty much what that is right now, um caretakers could sign up, but these are more the sponsorships so that uh if anybody wants to sponsor a location, we're doing things a little bit different this year and I know in the past last year things got kicked off a little late. Some signs got put out.

C

Some didn't and part of the problem was the signage that we had last year was from the you know, previous years, and it's like each year. You almost have to reinvent the wheel on the signs that we had because they had a caretaker and they had a sponsor. Well then, some as stuff changed, then the signs needed updated, so it was kind of late to get it started. So some of the signs didn't get put out. However, this year we are on the ball and we are going to make that happen.

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uh The same company that provided that provides us the benches for the park uh is also going to take care of signage. For us, so what we're going to do we're hoping our goal is to have 20 um contributors for sponsorships, so we're going to get 20 signs made and, along with the signs, we're going to get 20 posts so and from the same company and basically, rather than a you know, four or five foot sign. That's it's hank! No we're going to get low profile, they're going to be professional.

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Looking um you've got papers in front of you and it says butterfly garden. That's just an example.

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um I wanted to say: norton adopt a spot and then the idea is we're going to put one post in the center and put it in the ground and what and then we'll have two like slots on both sides, one for a caretaker one for the sponsorship, it'll say sponsor caretaker and then, as the sponsorships get purchased, then we'll get those signed and we'll get those pieces and we'll slide it in and if we slide it in stick a screw whatever.

C

However, that part there gets designed that's fine, but from year to year, then as sponsorships may change and so forth, but the sign will be put in here, like by the end end of march early april, we're not going to wait to the latin, because then there's signs that need up, there's stuff that needs done and all this so it's like now, let's get them done early and then once we start planting, then a caretakers name will get slid in place and the donator will get slid in place and it'll be set for the year and I have a question.

C

Yes, what is this made of? What are the signs made of? um It is a like a plastic board, um a good.

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Poly yeah bench like the bench yeah.

C

Yeah, it's a decent, I mean it, it it'll hold up, I mean it'll, be good it'll, be a quality piece of signage, um but, like I said, the idea is that we can.

C

You know at the end of the year we take the the the pieces that slide in we remove those and we can leave the sign up or whatever. If they decide to take the sign down, we leave the post up so that next year then we're that much further ahead.

C

um I will say, though, that my hope then is this year is to we'll have the spots and in some of the spots now because of the type of flower that we plant each year in the fall once they die off, they're done, and now it's it's bare in soil until we plant some more flowers, so my hope is to put hostas or something in there in addition to what we normally plant. As far as impatience, uh petunias, I mean just to name a few um amerigo.

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I don't you know it just different flowers, but those.

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Like out in front and around the hostas, but something there that will stay.

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Summer, all summer, long, okay, where are we getting the hostage?

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Because cindy and I were talking about doing hostas.

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At the sign, uh the one that we did, okay.

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One in the center of the city, okay, so if cindy and I have done that for many years.

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Well, that's fine! So.

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But you don't care what if we put in some perennials like hostas and things like that? No.

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The idea is, I would like to see stuff mixed in there um and and.

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Again, a number of them.

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I believe dayton nursery will work will help us with some of that. But and if he has to provide him, then he I mean that there is fine, but my hope is that we have something there that will long last, the flowery stuff that may be there for a couple of months. It dies off, but the hostas are there up until the snow flies so um and then like I said they should be they're already coming up through the ground and as soon as it starts to warm up, they'll be up.

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So but anyway, that's my thought process on that. I like it so but, uh like I said, I want to go ahead and get the signs ordered and so forth. So we're gonna we're gonna get 20 of those taken care of so that um we'll be that much further ahead. Okay,.

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And then, when that people ask it's like where's the location and it's like, if you go down to the park, there's a sign out there that says adopt a spot program or whatever, and so that was you know. That is a that's your spot or whatever it just kind of um it gives them a a spot.

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Essentially so anyhow, um that's kind of where we are with the adopt a spot to this point but, like I said it's important that we get this the uh the letters out so that we can see who's interested in becoming sponsorships this year and go from there and.

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I want to just put a plug in for this company: it's a really nice company and they they do quality, work, right ideas, bright idea, shops and they're located in. Is it yes? Yes, this gentleman is very, very nice.

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I said in the in the in the brochure that you have in front of you um there's some custom signage, and I said I don't know that we we want to we're going to go real, real fancy. I think the more fancier we get.

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It's probably will increase the cost, and I just want a nice sign that looks professional and that we don't spend a lot of money on, but something that will say norton adopt a spot and then have the slots available to put names, so that's kind of where, where we are there, but I also I wanted to get some of this stuff out to you guys, and I asked shannon to put stuff together.

C

Okay, so we've got that going on the green up day. Like I said, process of the itinerary for the day, we haven't we're still working on that, but it is set for april 23rd and then we do have in case of inclimate weather and it's just downright nasty. um We can we'll push it to the following saturday, but, like I said, our goal is to kick it off on the 23rd and we're hoping that we can get people interested in joining us. For that particular day.

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um I can get flyers to the high school key club as well as some of the other groups of the high school yeah.

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I'm definitely print like I do. Every time.

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Yes, because one of the guidance counselors is in charge of keeping our.

C

Well, I said basically at this point if we can get um if we need flyers the sooner the better at this point, because if we wait till next month to hand them out the meeting, that will be the month of march and it'll be like third week of march, and this will be the third week april. So it's about 30 days. So if we send them out here here between now and the next meeting and send them off to the schools and so forth.

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But I will start announcing that every meeting at every city council meeting as well and uh we'll get something out there on our website and on on facebook.

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Meeting we talked about on the green day, doing some other locations and maybe having a city worker lead. A team uh is, is that still in consideration.

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We're still working on that as of right now, it's just basically we're trying to get the word out so that people will set aside that day and see the commitment and trying to get some commitment that from from residents and so forth, and then we're gonna, we'll work on additional spots and the idea is I'd like to have more spots than than people, but I'm hoping for a bunch of people. So I mean yeah.

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Mean that's kind of where we are so a.

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Few years ago, before covet yeah, we had so many people.

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The community center was packed, I mean it was packed. Standing room only wasn't.

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That a case where there was a lot of pickup and cleanup and trash around the city or was it? What was the focus when we had all those people? Did we have multiple locations, yeah.

C

Yeah well in in the past, what we've done is if we have- and it depends a lot on this- the age of the kids. If we get someone's and I'm not going to, I don't want to box anybody in. But if we get teams sports teams, which you know whether the junior high school middle school, high school kids or we get whether it's sports teams or groups, boy scouts, whatever like, for instance, boy scouts boy scouts, always came in and they took 585 the ramp to 585 and 21 and and hit that spot yeah.

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And what we did. We sent a police officer in a police car.

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Sat there at the ramp with the lights on wow, so just to kind of give some motorists. The heads up heads up that we had to get workers out there working mm-hmm.

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They were invests and so.

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Forth so we actually had people.

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Out on the highway, we I mean we can. We can do that if we have kids old enough to do. I don't want to send first and second graders out to pick trash up.

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You know what I'm saying that yeah, so we're.

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Trying to are we going to focus on the mulch thing again uh around the city building and all that.

C

That's a part of it. Yes, okay, that'll be yeah. Normally we do that. um That's a part of it! It's it's nice that if they want to do mulch, they can do mulch if they would rather just not do mulch and pick up trash, then we'll have locations to do that. But, um like I said with after and I know from year to year, like last year, it didn't seem like we had a whole lot of snow, so I mean this year. You start when the snow starts to melt, we'll start seeing trash everywhere.

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But um hopefully we'll get we'll get people out here and interested folks that will come out and help us. So I plan on being here.

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Just as a comparison like, we have a brownie troop, very young kids. We we just pretty much, tell them to do columbia, woods park, so it's away from all traffic away from the road you know and if they're all you know and when they're done they can plan the playground yeah. So.

C

I mean it's age appropriate, I mean we try to kind of keep trying to make it. I won't say fun, but enjoyable for everyone and.

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We don't want to send.

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Big kids out and have them clean up columbia with partners.

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Well, communities. Excuse me community service hours for the high school kids. um Excuse me, you you suggested you were going to talk to the school and and try to get some interest. Oh yeah, they come. I I think promoting it from that standpoint.

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Community service hours um is a good thing that the kids can, um you know, can be attracted to right right.

C

Well now, my understanding is it's required for graduation.

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Used to be and right, but I'm just saying but again it never used to be, and we always seem to have a good turnout. Yeah know so hopefully we can. We can get back on track and- and I know with covid kobe kind of gave us a you- know a little downfall for a year or two, but I'm thinking that things are starting to kind of knock on some wood but move forward. And hopefully we get beyond that and go that route.

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I can't remember.

C

Anything else, oh, that is all I have this evening- okay, well one more thing I would just throw out there and before I'm sorry, to interrupt one more thing. As far as the parks master plan, um I told council on monday night here this week, we're we're beginning to get some information in here so probably by by next month for sure we'll.

C

Their recommendations and a packet together, um I still I I got one I just haven't- looked at it yet so I didn't even talk to console on monday night. We just got it on monday, okay, so I haven't even had a chance to really go through it. So I would like to before I start talking about it regarding the master.

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Was that surveys that denise mullins brought up at the last parksberg meeting was that taken down yeah it expired, so they uh automatically came down. Okay, yep, that's what happened! Okay, and I did tell her that what I was gonna ask- and I forgot split my mind- but are we doing pizza that you know like we did.

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Our plan it right now we're putting together a program for that particular day.

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And what we do rick is: are we doing like, like donuts in the morning? Well,.

C

We're doing some sort of a breakfast and whether it's inside I'm not we're not going to commit to that as of yet but we're going to do some sort of a breakfast and then we'll wall gather, we'll get paperwork and all our materials we'll get a small breakfast and then we'll send everybody out when they're done they come back and come back in and and like I said, we may shorten the time a little bit, but um then we'll have to try and have pizza or something here for lunch. Oh.

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Will sponsor green update and they'll give us pizza at each place, we'll usually give us pizza? Oh.

F

Wow, because last year I don't even know whether we, I don't recall, having any I mean.

C

I know it's covered, it was all different yeah and we tried to stay out and we tried to stay out of the building and so forth and then, as far as that, as far as putting boxes and stuff out, I think we just stayed away from it but time to move forward a little bit and see.

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I think we should do some kind of prize again, like we did that one year with the with the most unusual piece of trash, that kind of stuff yeah. It was kind of.

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You know I mean if it's a trash picking up yeah.

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Oh absolutely I mean.

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That might leave other people doing other functions out of the contest. At that point they may not care. Maybe it's more for the kids.

E

Well, I I mean we've done it both ways, you know, and I just think it's fun. It is.

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A good time so.

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Okay, very good. Thank you mayor all.

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Right you're welcome.

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uh Moving on new business, anybody have any business.

E

I do not. You do not. No at this time.

F

Did everybody have a chance to read the minutes? Is that shannon submarine? uh Yes? Okay?.

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I did you read them. Do I have a motion to accept the minutes as written in a second a.

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Yes, yes, thank you very much.

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Short and sweet and we're almost done stuffing wow yeah, I thought we'd be here. Are you licking those ammo.