2026-08-10 - Recreation Commission Meeting

0:07All right. Being um August 10th, 2026,

0:11it's 6:06 p.m. like to open the

0:14recreation meeting for August 10th. Uh

0:17call the order. There's some meeting

0:19minutes from July 20th, 2026.

0:24Brad, I know you were here.

0:26>> I was here in spirit, my friend.

0:28>> We know that. I thank I thank you for

0:30keeping me posted, Paty, as well.

0:33>> Good. So, uh, Paty, you

0:35>> I did review I did review the minutes um

0:37>> um earlier today. They look look good

0:39with me. So, make a motion that we um

0:42accept the minutes as written.

0:44>> All right, I second that. All those

0:46approved.

0:47>> I

0:48>> I'm sorry, I didn't say the date in July

0:502026. All right,

0:53>> new business. I had um Loren add old

0:56home day discussion just to it only

0:58because I don't think I don't know if we

0:59have another meeting before old home day

1:01coming up

1:02>> it's on

1:04right

1:05>> yeah so we

1:06>> should have one

1:07>> it'll be September it will be like

1:09September 5th

1:12>> we probably won't

1:13>> I left my phone outside

1:14>> that's fine

1:16>> yeah just for dates

1:21so did we it's more or less just No, no

1:23vehicles on the field and just stuff

1:26like that.

1:26>> And I'm I'm there or now he's there.

1:28He's like on the old building, too. So,

1:31um we

1:32>> we know and we're setting up so no one

1:34goes down there. What there's there's

1:36bouncing houses like there is every

1:38year, but they don't dig holes or

1:40anything. I think the biggest issue is

1:43the um the the the Highland the Highland

1:46games and because

1:48>> they do that on the whole home day too.

1:49>> Yeah. So, but they do, but we're there.

1:52>> Yes.

1:53>> So, it's a little bit um different and

1:55they do um bring the dirt, fill in their

1:58holes and stuff, but I'll make extra

2:01special.

2:02>> I'll pay attention to that.

2:04>> Um and

2:06>> so now that you mentioned that I Mayor

2:08Field, there's one of the coaches

2:09because there's two teams of practice up

2:11there, a U6 team and then a U1 team. I

2:14used six five gallon pills of screen to

2:17fill it to fill in the holes. I don't

2:19even think I got them all. That was only

2:21on the one.

2:21>> Call me if you need help.

2:22>> Yeah. No, I appreciate

2:23>> I appreciate it because I need the

2:24exercise. All right. I really do.

2:27>> But I was just taken back. I I spent

2:29like uh hour and a half, two hours one

2:32morning uh that Monday morning after the

2:34Blueberry Festival. So I tried to do it

2:36that morning,

2:37>> but all the tents are all set up. I'm

2:38like, "Oh, I told my boys, no, we can't

2:40do it today."

2:41>> So you heard that the Highland they left

2:44like in that was like back when they did

2:45it in the spring, right?

2:46>> May I think May was their back? They did

2:48that big event that they they used

2:50Maynard and they just left a lot of

2:52holes. Now

2:53>> the big event I'm sorry

2:54>> um Highland Games.

2:55>> I must have missed that.

2:56>> Um so um so I know that

3:00>> I um

3:02so I know that they put I mean you know

3:05he's a member of the old home day

3:07committee too. So he's I know that they

3:10he puts a lot of effort in. I'm just me

3:12I I'm just not sure if they did a as

3:16complete job as they normally do because

3:18we've like in in the past years like

3:20Diane had like Diane who been there and

3:22they and they've showed up and they like

3:24they have done a really good job fixing

3:26it. So so it's it was just weird when

3:29you said that because I didn't expect

3:30it. It isn't like a normal thing that

3:33we've ever that they've ever like walked

3:35away because this with the time frame.

3:37So I I'll I'll have um uh a conversation

3:42and I will also double check and

3:46>> I may be able to offer you something

3:48along with that conversation. You know

3:50how every year at old home day I use my

3:52high-speed contractor

3:56>> say right?

3:56>> Yeah. Right.

3:57>> Still 20 horse but gearing's different

4:00stuff's taking off. Right.

4:02>> But it does have a trailer. So, what I'm

4:05thinking is since I'm elected to be one

4:07of the golf cardies this year,

4:11maybe what I could do is

4:14I'm not sure. I'd have to stash it

4:17somewhere the night before or just bring

4:19it down early on day, but I could leave

4:23my tractor

4:25and

4:27>> a trailer full of dirt.

4:30Well, see what they because it's on a

4:32responsibility to repair.

4:34>> I'm not letting them do it. They're

4:35going to make it worth it to me.

4:36>> No, no, it's their responsibility. But

4:39I'm going to make all the ingredients

4:41there if you'd like. I have no problem

4:43with this.

4:45>> Dirt tractor starts every time.

4:49>> Yeah.

4:50>> And we'll make it easy for them to

4:51repair any damage because that's

4:52unacceptable.

4:53>> And we'll we'll talk to Rob. We'll we'll

4:55we'll talk to them and um and you and I

5:00can talk and see. And

5:02>> it's great entertainment. I enjoy it. I

5:04I would like to keep coming back, but I

5:06don't want to cast a I don't want to

5:07cast a,

5:10you know,

5:12bad light on.

5:13>> Yeah.

5:15No, we want them. They're a good

5:16addition. We just got to We have to just

5:18make sure that all the, you know, all

5:20the tees are crossed and eyes are dotted

5:21with the fields and everything. And

5:23>> I'm just going to plan on putting the

5:25tractor and trailer down there. We'll

5:26get the dirt either from my house or

5:28yours. Yeah,

5:28>> find dirt. We'll put the trailer and uh

5:32I'm scared if I leave it, somebody will

5:33steal it because everybody knows how to

5:35steal a lawn tractor in Chelton. But

5:37>> it's got no mowing deck, no nothing on

5:39it. It just it's a it's goes like a

5:41tractor.

5:41>> Yeah.

5:42>> Well, we we'll um

5:43>> that's the end of that for me. Thank

5:44you.

5:45>> No, perfect. That's Well, and you and I

5:46will talk about that. We'll figure it

5:48out in

5:50>> All right. Perfect. All right. Um, I

5:52don't have any action items

5:56at this time.

5:58And then I printed out well bills. We

6:01did uh we double paid the uh slims since

6:04we had a late meeting last month. So we

6:05paid for August already in July at our

6:08last meeting.

6:09>> Then finance here is just I printed this

6:11out so everyone can see what the current

6:14budget is, what we've used, what's

6:16ahead.

6:23No, that

6:25>> no one actually watches the videos or

6:26anything. Um, so

6:28>> they shouldn't watch.

6:29>> No, they they don't release the minutes.

6:31We get We release paper minutes, I

6:33think.

6:33>> Yeah.

6:34>> Um, if they wanted to and maybe somebody

6:37wanted

6:37>> Please keep talking.

6:39>> So, is this before the the um the AED

6:43money?

6:44is

6:45>> I don't know if

6:47>> it's I don't think that that's after

6:49anything from any of the league would

6:51grow and

6:53>> that's still fine more than a great

6:55amount very comfortable

6:58kids a good time with that

7:00>> I know nobody listens to this but we're

7:02going to give some kids a good time with

7:04that

7:04>> yeah doubt

7:06>> and it'll be much easier I'll make sure

7:08that when we when we go and do that and

7:11and we have finally have a master

7:14um meeting one that everybody's actually

7:16invited to.

7:18>> Um we mention the lights. I'll like

7:21specifically put the lights as

7:22discussion as a as a goal on the master

7:25plan which because you know things are

7:27never fast but we master plan should you

7:30know a year or so year

7:33goes in line with the light. So we make

7:35kind of that

7:36>> it all you know all the little you know

7:39all the little box you know check it

7:41should be there. So with the development

7:42of the fields and

7:44>> Right. All right. Perfect. All right. Uh

7:47next up, phone calls, emails, and

7:49requests. Um no phone calls, no emails.

7:53Well, just the email was for the um

7:56couple of the football coaches were

7:57mentioning about the length of the Mayor

7:59Field football field. Um it was long. So

8:03I'd emailed main last week to have Nick

8:05check.

8:06>> Which field?

8:07>> Main football field. The lower one where

8:09the kids play football. way down below.

8:11>> Right.

8:11>> Yep. So, I did have Nick check what the

8:16contract said for the length and they

8:18mow every Friday and I checked on

8:20Saturday and it was to the correct. So,

8:23just because kids have already started

8:26scrimmages

8:27part of the field is lined so that was

8:31just one thing that got taken care of

8:33which is great. Uh safety check of

8:35playground and fields. I know I've been

8:38lacking on it. Um I don't see any issues

8:40with that. I went down check the pickle

8:42ball court this afternoon see fine but

8:44anything there's just been trash I've

8:46had to pick up.

8:47>> Yeah it's the same thing whenever we go

8:48there's just I mean and and um and if I

8:51did go like every once in a while you go

8:53and the the trash is like now then I'll

8:55make a call but

8:56>> correct

8:56>> there isn't if if I go to pick a couple

8:58of bottles of the kids that kids left.

9:00>> Yeah. And also just keep an eye on the

9:04the toilet condition. I know some of the

9:07the stench has been kind of heavy

9:10>> and the heat the heat adds to it

9:12>> the heat or

9:14>> but it's just it's always something

9:16>> is always good about taking care of it

9:18as soon as they're called but they they

9:20I mean

9:21>> yeah schedule

9:24>> no correct

9:24>> it's hard to call ahead of time but

9:27>> I know I' I've been down and every time

9:30I because I get on I have a cigarette

9:32with my mother my cousin y

9:34>> right down back.

9:36>> Yep.

9:38>> They're both dead.

9:41>> I try to swim through all of those.

9:44>> Yeah.

9:44>> Just see what's going on. Pick up trash.

9:47I see.

9:48>> I don't know if there's way to get more

9:50trash cans. I don't know if that's the

9:52solution. Maybe the solution is to

9:54relocate the trash cans to where

9:56somebody is

10:01>> more heavily tempted to mess around with

10:02them. Don't know if that's an election.

10:05Don't know enough about it.

10:05>> I think that is people like I think like

10:07all the M like the risers, right? So

10:09kids there's always trash under the

10:11risers and yeah and and people can sit

10:13there and there's a place just oh trash

10:17>> um there's a there's like risers again

10:20there's it's there's trash where

10:21typically trash gets like in front of

10:24the fence because people

10:27Yeah. I I don't

10:28>> they should take out what they bring in

10:31the

10:31>> or just throw it in the trash.

10:33>> How do we encourage that?

10:34>> I mean, I'm just happy there's no

10:35graffiti issues or anything. So, I mean,

10:37whatever. A little bit of trash. I'm

10:38good. So, um

10:40>> very welcome.

10:41>> But yeah, the big thing is like, yeah,

10:42if all if if we notice it, we I mean, we

10:46if if the toilets do need to be done,

10:48should we like

10:51and then we just shoot an email?

10:53>> Okay.

10:53>> Just those that's the protocol and she's

10:58I I'm as Pat will tell you when this

11:01you're finding out.

11:03>> Um I'm not

11:06>> I didn't grow up in the 90s, so

11:09>> No, no, I have I have email, but

11:11>> just text me if you notice something.

11:13Just text me if you trouble.

11:15>> Well, I know you

11:17>> you got plenty to do, too. I'm wondering

11:20if I could use you.

11:21>> Yeah,

11:22>> absolutely. I mean, you work for you got

11:25a good boss. I was like,

11:26>> I work for yourself.

11:27>> Yeah, I worked for That's what I'm

11:29saying. You're the best boss on earth.

11:31>> I don't know about that.

11:32>> Um, well, I work for the federal

11:33government. Look at where I'm sitting.

11:35>> Yeah.

11:35>> The um

11:37>> if you wouldn't mind if I notice

11:38something out of line down there.

11:40>> I'd love to be able to text you. Not

11:44text.

11:45>> All right.

11:46>> Do what?

11:47>> This is the This is what I've noticed

11:49most down here. Now, we did do an

11:52inspection down there, Paty and I and

11:55Steve.

11:55>> Yep.

11:56>> And you know, we

11:59actually what happened since you and I

12:01have spoken last is is plenty.

12:05P's been good enough to go around with

12:06me.

12:07>> Mhm.

12:09>> And we went every place.

12:13>> Yeah.

12:14>> Three of us have any jurisdiction at

12:16all.

12:16>> Yeah. And you know,

12:18I'm very grateful for that. I learned an

12:20awful lot that day. I had really I mean,

12:23Charleton has a lot to offer, but now I

12:25really know why people move here. Okay,

12:27one darn good reason why people move

12:30here. We do have and the uh I mean I

12:34have I there are certain places I'd like

12:37to discuss. Maybe it's not for here now.

12:39But um the the trash thing if if there's

12:44a way we can encourage people to be more

12:48more in the spirit of scouting.

12:51I wasn't a scout, but even I know well

12:54enough to take out what I bring in.

12:55>> Oh yeah.

12:56>> Or just kind citizens in general. That's

12:57it. I mean just being a normal decent

13:00person. A decent person.

13:02>> You know, it's little stuff makes a

13:03difference. Like if a place is open like

13:06here or town hall, you know what I've

13:09seen a lot of towns in New Hampshire do?

13:10They'll put a sign with right and a

13:14thing on top says open underneath. I'm

13:17looking right at you, New Boston, New

13:20Hampshire with their brand new Morton

13:24>> firehouse

13:25>> and police. It's safety complex.

13:27>> Yes,

13:27>> it's Morton and it's wonderful, right?

13:30>> Uh they also have bunk space in there.

13:33Yeah. Wonder how they did that. It's not

13:36a New Hampshire thing.

13:37>> Right.

13:38>> But sign says open. Come on in.

13:43>> Yeah.

13:44>> Okay. And that spirit is that I've had

13:49way too much coffee and way too many

13:50cigarettes. I apologize for water in my

13:52mouth.

13:54But if we can make it so that somehow,

13:57and I know we can make it so people

14:00almost feel like they're rewarding

14:01themselves by not being slobless,

14:04you know, don't throw your rib, you

14:06know, don't throw your chicken, don't

14:08throw your wings.

14:09>> Well, there's the there's the um invite

14:10like the uh the Earth Day people that

14:12really do.

14:15So, it's

14:15>> I mean, I'm not on the committee, but I

14:17mean, I do it every week,

14:19>> but they they promote throughout the

14:21year. So, maybe we maybe Maybe there's

14:24just a campaign in general, but but for

14:26the playgrounds for the playground

14:28purpose purpose, um it's, you know, I I

14:31don't think that the the parents are

14:33bringing their little kids in their own

14:34trash. It's the teenagers that go and

14:36they hang out there and they throw their

14:37trash and and that and it is and I think

14:40that's a problem like everywhere in the

14:42whole entire country, not even like the

14:45country. It's just an issue.

14:46>> Oh, it's certainly a problem. But

14:48there's stuff that like adds

14:49information.

14:50>> And we don't have a lot of hangers, you

14:52know, we have a couple of people that

14:54will stop, you know, in your field, use

14:55it a lot. Sometimes during the day, I've

14:58seen guys that work construction meet

14:59their lives. There's a lot of this stuff

15:01going on. Right.

15:01>> Right.

15:02>> But I go anywhere I want, anytime I

15:05want. And I don't see a lot of, you

15:08know,

15:12I don't see a lot of teenagers slash I

15:15don't know what generation they have,

15:17but you know, say folks from 18 to 25. I

15:22don't see a lot of them hanging around.

15:24>> Yeah.

15:25>> So, this is just kids that got habits

15:27that it's better if we could break them

15:29now somehow. But it's not nighttime

15:31people hanging around. I don't think

15:34along with what you think it's not the

15:35coaches. I don't think any coach in his

15:38right mind would promote or allow

15:41kids to leave litter behind.

15:43>> Right.

15:43>> This is

15:44>> just regular just regular

15:47empty thing. Yeah. It's

15:48>> it's just an old age.

15:50>> It is and it isn't and it isn't that

15:52bad. The only time it's ever bad is when

15:54the trash is like they something happens

15:56down there the trashes are overflow and

15:57the wind blows it. Correct. like there

15:58isn't really I mean or or it's been you

16:01know a couple of weeks like I I know if

16:03I if I constantly go it's it's not as

16:05bad in and um and everybody else like

16:07like I even tell myself when it drives

16:09by the soft right so it is I think

16:11that's a a discussion that's not that's

16:14not quite recreation it's more of a a

16:16town culture thing you know we people

16:18throw trash in the road and stuff I

16:20think that's just a um a and then every

16:23day at Earth Day it gets really hot

16:25everybody starts talking about the trash

16:26in the road

16:27>> yes and then it kind of goes away and

16:29then it comes back. It's just one of

16:30those things. We we're not going to

16:32solve that's like solving world hunger

16:34and peace, you know, like um we're not

16:36gonna we're not going to solve that. We

16:38can try. You can try.

16:39>> Oh, yeah. I I'll do what I'll do

16:42whatever I can. I mean, I'm open to any

16:44suggestions from anybody, not just you

16:45two. I do my street and my street's

16:48long. It lines around. kind of goes

16:50through a couple of dissections, you

16:51know,

16:52>> three guests you told Wheelock and then

16:57there's a bunch, but

17:00>> I did a week ago and it looks like an

17:02explosion in a fast food factory up

17:04there.

17:05>> Yeah.

17:05>> I mean, tonight on the way here, there's

17:07stuff that wasn't there when I left at

17:101:00 to go to the grocery store that

17:12ballooned into this big thing with

17:14animal control and some sightings of my

17:16dog.

17:19I was like, who is coming by here? And

17:21you can tell it's the same people. You

17:24know

17:25>> what the trash is.

17:27>> Yeah, that's I mean that's something

17:29that's a talent.

17:30>> I'm just trying.

17:31>> You know what that's you should go talk

17:33to.

17:34>> Oh, no. I do. Well, see the thing is I

17:37don't like to bother him. And you know,

17:38today he was being the gentleman. They

17:40were giving out traffic. Kick us like

17:42free McDonald's burgers up on Stafford

17:44Street. I'm all about it. Yeah. I drive

17:46my square bodies. I drive 30 and you

17:48know where you can go if you don't like

17:49it.

17:50>> Yeah.

17:50>> Try to hit me. I'll win.

17:51>> Right.

17:52>> But my thing is I'm not fortunate enough

17:55to have children.

17:56>> Yes. So I think and the reason why I

17:59wanted to get involved with this

18:00committee is we got to provide the best

18:02experience possible for those kids. As I

18:04know when I was in we moved from New

18:08York City

18:12up to Grafton

18:14in 1966

18:16and then 1969

18:1968 fall of 68 I think it was we moved to

18:22Milbury

18:24Prospect Street and

18:28Two and a half years later,

18:30we moved to Westboro.

18:35So between

18:37halfway through fourth grade, the time I

18:40graduated, I lived in three towns.

18:43>> And they were very different then, not

18:45like they are now,

18:45>> right? But

18:48you can see the trend through the years

18:50about which towns did what for the kids,

18:53how the kids ended up, what they had to

18:55do, the choices they made along the way.

18:58You know, I I every time somebody says

19:00library to me, you know what pops into

19:02my mind? Not Dexter Hall. I love Dexter

19:05Hall. I think it's great. I really do.

19:07Especially Well, just I think it's

19:09great. But when I think of a library, I

19:12think of grafting.

19:14Graph is never filled. Yeah,

19:16>> there's a place out in New York that

19:20has has a good library, too. Little town

19:23thing. They have a library. They have a

19:26good place. They lost stuff.

19:28The whole thing with Earth Day, this is

19:30I guess what I'm getting at is

19:34I remember the first Earth Day really

19:35well. We all rode our bikes to school,

19:38>> you know, and and that was our way of

19:40saying green. I have solar panels on my

19:42roof. From that day, I said somehow

19:45somewhere I'm gonna be like that. I'm

19:49gonna do the right thing and I'm gonna

19:50put solar. It was great, man. I got

19:52electric. There's only two of us.

19:54There's no kids.

19:56>> But setting a good example for the kids

19:59going forward

20:01is

20:03totally where I'm at. Totally where I'm

20:05at. So, I guess I said all this about

20:11trash. I got no tolerance for

20:13>> people have mistreated animals.

20:16>> The third one is totally outside this

20:18committee scope but it's has to do with

20:21abuse of woman

20:22>> abuse of a woman.

20:24>> Yep.

20:25>> Something else I don't have anything

20:26I'll say that to anybody but we want to

20:29make sure that those kids when they go

20:31to the playground that we can do what we

20:34can do just our little group here no

20:36bullying clean equipment swings that

20:40aren't broken. I don't know if they even

20:41allow seesaws anymore. They're probably

20:43out,

20:44>> but

20:46everything we can do.

20:48>> We do the details. I I know. I I just

20:51want to amplify it. I can't if I can.

20:55I'm talking way too much, man. I've had

20:57>> We We don't have We don't have that many

21:00facilities

21:01>> that like It's not like we're It's not

21:02like we're in the city where we have a

21:04thousand facilities and we're we have

21:06eight playgrounds,

21:07>> right?

21:07>> So, it it stays pretty clean.

21:09>> Yes, we have. We have surprises like

21:12show.

21:14>> Yeah. like and and again that's why

21:16we're we're like a potentially a

21:18potential playground of that health like

21:20a simple one like like that like but

21:23that but we're

21:24>> that's that's master kind of master plan

21:27stuff once we get in the master plan

21:29then we can

21:31>> and that's how we forgive me represented

21:34on master where does this

21:37>> I'm chair of the committee and I'm on

21:38this I'm on this board

21:41>> I'm on this commission and I'm also the

21:42chair of the master plan committ And you

21:44know, so we're pretty well

21:46representative.

21:48>> We're very well.

21:49>> Do not call.

21:51>> That's right.

21:53>> Thank you.

21:54>> We're we're strongly represent.

21:58>> All right.

21:58>> Myself some more coffee. Sorry.

22:00>> That's all right. You're good. Moving on

22:02to old business. A healthy city c city's

22:05wellness grant. Just a followup. Um I

22:08know Pat you threw something on Facebook

22:11to try and get a public

22:13uh feel for it and I'll let you

22:16elaborate on

22:17>> Yeah. So, so I I did the research and

22:19it's it's a little it's a little um

22:21different than what we normally see

22:22here. It's like a really like a um I say

22:26futuristic uh

22:30more like a a fixed

22:34anybody who's listening to this can go

22:35on Facebook and see the um that the

22:37healthy city they have images. It's it's

22:40really um to get people out to exercise

22:43just because we're not a city and the

22:45way for someone to come out to do that

22:49at one of the I just can't imagine it be

22:51a being a hit here in Charleston. Um

22:54it's very expensive the grant itself

22:58because of I mean even if we got 50,000

23:01we would still have to probably come up

23:02with you know another $100,000 to be

23:06able to make it. only need a few million

23:07to make it possible should I desire for

23:11me to be able to walk from my house to

23:15here.

23:15>> Yeah.

23:15>> Which isn't an unreal. You know where I

23:17live. It isn't an it's not

23:21>> we don't have any way to get across

23:22Route 20.

23:23>> Yeah.

23:24>> Fit here. I agree completely with this

23:25particular green. It just it just

23:26doesn't it just doesn't seem like it's a

23:28fit and there wasn't a bunch of

23:29excitement out on it like on on social

23:32media.

23:32>> Um so, you know, pass on that. But we

23:36definitely um need to just keep our eyes

23:39and ears out for um grants now that we

23:42have we have that recreation and open

23:44space plan that um that that other

23:47people in Charleston kind of created um

23:49for that the need um it was a committee

23:52formed. There's open space and

23:54recreation committee formed. I didn't

23:56even know about it. It was a surprise.

23:57Um and there's so now that we have an

24:00actual plan, we're more eligible for

24:02grants.

24:03So we so if we do hear one um and I keep

24:07my eyes open but um just because of the

24:10kind of town we are higher income

24:13>> um like uh um not as diverse to be

24:16attractive to get grants. Um but we

24:20still keep eye or keep eyes other ones

24:22but yeah that

24:24>> what if we what if we applied for the

24:25grant set up that we sit on it and say

24:28well we'll act on it you know after uh

24:31you know We have time frame.

24:35>> So, it's a a lot of work to put the

24:37application together for the whole

24:39proposal and for something that I just

24:41can't see even if it was given to us. I

24:45can't see it being I think I was

24:46thinking it's going to be a lot. We're

24:48going to have to hire people to maintain

24:50it. Like, we're going to have to it's

24:51one more thing to maintain. I I just

24:52don't think

24:53>> What is it? 50 gram of something.

24:56>> No, it's probably like 30 or 40. It

24:58could be more. I'll show it to you

25:00after. It's not I I'll find out.

25:03>> Yeah, I'll show it to you after what it

25:04is. It is It's It's um It's a It's a

25:07futuristic adult playground kind of

25:09thing.

25:11>> I live in an adult playground, man. My

25:13amplifier is crowns.

25:16>> Yeah. Okay. All right. Thank you.

25:18>> All right. Follow up on New England Se

25:20for pickle ball court. I think they're

25:21just calling to do a check in

25:23>> more than anything. Yeah.

25:25>> Aren't they doing some other business in

25:26town while we're at it?

25:28>> Newland Seal Co. I haven't seen that

25:29truck. I

25:30>> I'm not sure. But I

25:31>> doing driveway stuff. Who knows?

25:32>> No, I've seen that, but I I just recall

25:34seeing something in one of the um in

25:37fact, I think it's a tomorrow's uh Isn't

25:39it a line item in tomorrow's board

25:41meeting?

25:42>> Or maybe it was a I saw it in somebody's

25:44line item that uh somebody is going to

25:47use that new uh beautiful acrylic way to

25:51seal cracks in our roads.

25:54>> It's great. Flexes in the winter time.

25:56doesn't

25:57must be with what Nick has presented

26:00something.

26:00>> I'm just wondering is there a way if if

26:03and I know that there were dates

26:05scheduled for this. It's got to be on

26:07the board of select.

26:08>> Oh, all right. Doing select roads in

26:10town.

26:11>> There were seems to be five or six roads

26:13that were scheduled to be done.

26:14>> Must be chips still then as well.

26:16>> It could be. Yeah. Yeah.

26:18>> Could Yeah, could be because it's the

26:19same ones that did it last time they did

26:21my street. They're doing my street

26:22again. Lord knows why. But um I guess

26:25I'm not a road engineer. I'm a railroad

26:27engineer. So I guess that's why they

26:29decided to do it again.

26:31>> So maybe there's a way we can use them.

26:32Great. I didn't take any exception

26:35court. It seems to me that it's

26:36>> holding up. I think so.

26:38>> Yeah. For alternative purposes that are

26:40working out just fine for those kids

26:42that are down there using it.

26:43>> Yeah.

26:44>> It's pretty busy. It's good good going

26:47on down there.

26:48>> All right. Then follow up on the wish

26:49list. Uh no no one's has got uh exact

26:54cost.

26:56softball,

26:58um, soccer or little league. So,

27:00>> it's hard with summer, too. Every busy

27:03>> these guys softball and little league,

27:05they're starting up fall, too. So,

27:08>> I know the signups have been come out

27:10>> and it will be good, too. Um, we keep

27:14the wish list open and so then every

27:16year we ask for a little bit like when

27:18we go to we do our budgets, we never we

27:19our budget's always the exact same every

27:21year. So, you know, if if there's

27:23something, you know, it's it's 10,000

27:25and it's going to be a rate, we can add

27:27it when we go and we we can meet with

27:29the budget committee and we can the

27:31finance committee and say, you know,

27:33we're going to we're this is our capital

27:35plan. Yeah. This year we want to do a

27:37little bit every year and and ask for

27:38that and and when we get a bigger list

27:41in numbers, we'll be able to have a

27:43meeting and really focus on

27:46what's the best way to to get through

27:48those expenses a little bit at a time,

27:50you know, in in the town.

27:52>> Exactly. Exactly. I want And plus I want

27:54to utilize that wish list for these

27:57leagues, too.

27:58>> Yeah. I want Yeah, absolutely.

28:00>> Without a doubt. Sure. So, all right. If

28:04no one has anything else for the next

28:07meeting date,

28:11September because maybe the 7th.

28:13>> Are y'all in a rush to exit the

28:15premises?

28:16>> No, not yet. I just want to stick to

28:18that.

28:18>> I I just need a little help with

28:19something outside.

28:20>> No problem.

28:21>> Okay.

28:21>> Without a doubt.

28:22>> Next meeting.

28:23>> Yeah. So, Labor Day is the 7th.

28:26>> When's old home?

28:28>> That's the fifth the fifth will be old

28:29home day. That

28:30>> having that on Saturday night?

28:31>> I'm sorry. You're right.

28:37Yes.

28:39>> And so wise

28:49>> the 21st is is fine for me if it works

28:52for although 14 late is

28:54>> probably fine too. So whatever works

28:56better.

28:57>> It's monthly. Okay.

28:59>> Yeah.

28:59>> Yeah. We should do one.

29:02>> I don't want to skip that. Oh, no. I

29:03don't think my my point was

29:05>> I'm new.

29:06>> Yeah.

29:07>> I don't want to make it of myself. So,

29:11um would I benefit by asking you all? Is

29:15there anything that I can learn at these

29:17meetings that I can't learn by um

29:20getting together perhaps with you,

29:22perhaps with Paty walking around

29:24somewhere?

29:25>> No, I I mean I think I just learned from

29:27as as I as I went. Um we and after we

29:31can we can talk about all like our our

29:34responsibilities and like they're

29:36they're um they're very specific like

29:39the the grounds to portaotties and

29:42handling issues. So if there is an issue

29:45we would schedule another meeting. If

29:46all of a sudden there was a big war down

29:49at the down

29:52there was a huge issue we would have a

29:54we would just have a meeting and

29:55>> do an emergency meeting. the way we're

29:57planning it's not there's not there's

29:59it's not like we have applicants coming

30:01in you know or anything like that um so

30:05it doesn't make any sense to just meet

30:07to meet if if there's a reason to meet

30:09we'll schedule them to meet

30:10>> correct

30:11>> and if you have questions then reach out

30:12to one of us we I mean not that not that

30:14I know everything

30:16>> I'm very grateful for that I just didn't

30:17know that's why I was asking

30:19>> I think just to keep up with stuff is

30:21good to just do once a month but if like

30:23nothing

30:23>> because we have bills that I do once a

30:25month and that kind of stuff So, um and

30:27in in for planning, I think we might

30:29have two before the um before the um

30:34>> we have two in the spring. I forget.

30:36There was two one month that we had two

30:38because we're scheduling all the were

30:41team schedule.

30:42>> Yes.

30:42>> When we were trying to figure out the

30:44team schedule, right? So we had to do

30:45two because we had a meeting with with

30:47like one set of um sports and then the

30:49other set of sports and they were long

30:51meetings that and that might have been

30:52last year too but

30:54>> but that's the only time

30:55>> that coming again this year

30:57>> usually it's time consuming with the

30:58with the all presidents meeting of the

31:00league we're not

31:02>> and that's again I think that's

31:05spring

31:06>> I'll hear about it

31:07>> yeah without a doubt

31:08>> y

31:09>> so do we like the 14th to the 21st

31:11better

31:12way at all or anything Brad you coming

31:14up.

31:15>> My idea in a way book

31:16>> Yeah.

31:17>> is competitive eating.

31:18>> Okay.

31:18>> I like my own dining room.

31:20>> I'll just do the 14th.

31:22>> Okay.

31:22>> All right. September 14th at 6:00.

31:26>> May we have it here any chance?

31:28September 14th

31:30at 1800.

31:33>> You want to do another in person?

31:37>> So cool.

31:40Is this out of the way?

31:41>> Yeah, we'll do it in person again. No

31:44problem. I have no problem. I can

31:46possibly say

31:47>> I I love seeing you guys and I you

31:50slippery as an eel to see you're doing

31:52so much and you have a great boss and he

31:56he works your butt off

31:58>> and and that great.

32:02>> So I make a motion that we adjourn the

32:05meeting.

32:06>> We gonna have your next time.

32:07>> Yep.

32:09>> All right. I second that. All those in

32:11favor?

32:11>> I

32:12>> I I Right. 6:38 the ending of the

32:16meeting.