agenda i did ask mr lauer about the state legislation changing the way volunteer firefighters are recruited i also asked if he would present a summary comparison of the proposed short october to march we i do lump together a little bit because there are three items that we did every month that we talked about the theater we started with it being in in process and to almost  for playground to get it started with removing the old playground and all the stuff there starting with all the new equipment coming and being partially installed to now we're waiting for the weather to poor the service for the project they were violating the flag policy currently in our profit our program we did send a letter to them we schedule our sports association meeting for november and because i'm doing six months again i say back part and we found that it was taken place in november and in that meeting in november the presidents of the association wanted to see if that was possible that somebody else in the associations other than the president could also not only but also request fields from a shell and as a board we decided to it would be too confusing because we found in the past that others might and i think that probably that they just the president didn't get to it at one point or so and it can be cumbersome there's no doubt about it but we have had issue when the vice president requested a field oh no we didn't want that field and if you watch how the schedule feels it's it's pretty cumbersome so it's just easy to have one person required to do it ok so that was it we did go into our sports workmanship workshop also that was scheduled in november and we were a little disappointed to turn out the speakers were really good but we didn't have a big turnout and it's been that way in last couple years  approve the project and never hear how turned out so we did have one come back and tell us how is turned out it's the library books that he put along the trail and he's noticed that they've been used in there are take a book put a book back and things in it's working so it's going to need to hear we also discussed in november that we found that there were some associations that were giving sponsorships away in lieu of money they were getting donations and we had a long talk about it and decided that we would limit some of those boxes ships but for instance someone might give a refrigerator for a concession stand rather than two hundred fifty dollars they gave us seven hundred fifty dollars refrigerator it's kind you don't want to slap them for not being able to give us two hundred fifty dollar donation and they wouldn't give a seven hundred fifty but they had an extra refrigerator so we played with that and said we're going to limit the amount you can do that but certainly you can officers they handled it in november we didn't have a whole lot of problems that we thought that was going to be very good for that book you planned came to us homeowners association wanted to sign on their property because people seem to be cutting through want to the trail they want to make sure they realized it was private property and so long as the sign was on their property we felt that that was ok we did have another eagle scout coming to us and talk to us about a shelter he's to return to another meeting and formally presented at a later meeting and finally in november we had a long discussion and sent to council our recommendation for the process in the on we kept the same meeting date in time we reviewed our bylaws and didn't make any changes but left it open in case we want to review or again we did have a discussion about a rotary club naming request and talked about it for a while we asked the swim association of the wrestling associations presidents to come to and later meeting because the lack of documentation that we've been receiving we also discussed that softball she wanted to raise money to install lights on the fields eight and ten and had the possibility of a large contributor and wanted us to see if that was possible for them to do and we've talked about that and how they would do it and what was the right course to take at that point in time then the board wanted to recognize the hard work that the staff has done to get the two hundred fifty thousand  awarded to us feb it was easy for everyone got one little thing for us we made some minor changes in the rec center rules and policies to combine forms to make one form and make it consistent all the way  park letting them realize know that it were worried about cross country and be gassed are aware of those issues they told us and intend to be finished but those areas long before either one of those things come up u p i all was not happy with the charge could not swallow the charge so they did not come to the door park we asked the board member to investigate how the w quick announcement i'm sorry i didn't to let you know that i received an e mail this morning or this afternoon from washington county chamber of commerce and we did receive a grant to help fund with in theater we risk i don't know the signs this item was in front of council recently on march thirteenth at that time it was tabled because you're concerned the council said that the agreement was not with the current questions make a motion that we approve the agreement the cost of law the proposed project that involves a playground as well as improvements to shelter numbers do a requirement of the grant is that we employ the services of a professional design company to do that to down to sure hamper road were replaced at the point in time when their construction of softball field was done so they're going to replace that everybody sections so what they're asking for is our assistance in providing them  some place where they can stage from and under this agreement we would be giving them permission in two areas one is actually we're there a line passes through on the edge of  e road as it goes up towards the park the second area is actually in the park and so if you're going to drive and make a left on the there is an area that we have used for fill in the past and it's going to be and pipe in such a way that it does not interfere with our use of the park so i think this is a good thing from the standpoint that by doing so and making this could be it simply aid them in getting michel but what marcus told you the idea of the land is start in the spring according to our meeting and we had when we were talking about the staging areas because we had talked about our our fall programs that utilize that access on between the two connectors and they said they would be done in time for us to be able to you know regrade that and make it usable for the fall so that was their inten we want to consider that in the future is a policy of demanding that we get the mineral rights for no other reason then i'm not sure that we want that some point someone coming in and drilling underneath township streets you know not that really matters at this point but you know creating a chance are dedicated routes on here but i think in the future we should make that a condition of approval that there will be no reservations are doesn't mean that the developer owns them but to the extent the developer does and if the deed silent obviously homeowners association i mean because most of the plans that are being developed were requiring homeowners associations is this really a transfer from the developer or is there some sort of a homeowner's association that also get any notification as to what's happening with the local share bonds and those that are part of the money that's dedicated to the road program and so with that in mind mark's preference is that we simply do the base  comfortable that they will have the resources we played with them yeah we told you we talked to their management team to go over just kind of what is your capacity here or our deadlines we need this done during the school year you know what what can you do any kind of went over what equipment they have in the camp same will get the time frames we know your schedules with the time frames talking to some other clients that if they had projects within the past they gave no indications of having issues with them not finishing a timely fashion or with any sort of outrageous change orders so it's just kind of a it's a large company but just large in the site development world that is trying to get their feet into the paving world so there was nothing you know no red flags they necessarily said they couldn't do it so kind of where we stand here said well the contract indicate that there are deadlines and they're going to be held accountable no absolutely i  new aerial truck in approach to the fire chief about the possibility of acquiring our existing truck it's its dns opinion that hundred thousand dollars represents a fair value for more than trucks and so the advantage would be that we would we would one receive a fair value we would have a known better and it would be tied to the delivery of the other meeting getting a reasonable bid for that pump or and that we held on to that truck for quite some time before we disposed of it i did the one of beach is the truck stays in washington county but that's up to counsel and if you want we can accept this i would suggest that if we're going to do that we would get some kind of money so that in fact there was some commitment but if you want us to wait and to take  broaching that subject with with dan again but i can tell you at this point your fire chiefs telling you once that piece of equipment until the new piece of equipment arrives well if they're willing to enter into an agreement that they'll take it  this case it's involved representatives from the sensors office susie he representing the township mr makki representing the property owner they are all of the opinion that this represents a pale fair settlement for this it does even after the reduction in assessment it results in a sixty percent increase in property tax for that for that property this is the property so it's my recommendation that we as the settlement for the amount that suggested our council agree to it i don't see any reason to oppose it or make a motion that we approve the settlement agreement were we actually met our minimum on the final snowstorm i would believe that that would be the the final payment but i can't tell you that for sure but  before and after the and then all the signs and markings he believes that what that indicates is that in fact has worked it hasn't completely solved the problem but it probably doesn't warrant any additional attention proposal for concrete pad that's the gameplay we actually have open those are those bids are awarded through the redevelopment authority so with the money the vids came in low we were able to work alternate so this will actually include walkways from the parking lot over to the bleachers there's going to be at least a ten by ten area that is designated strictly for eighty eight for just you know standing or whatever need to go in there there's also called free to go under all of the bleacher areas and seeing as the prices came in lower if we can bump that extra you know two feet around the to live if you if you don't know the extra room in your house or extra place to put them you know would what's the worst a solution to it so these these small houses  but it's a very it's a very important issue as is our society is busy pushing people out of nursing homes into homes and  we almost every other township in this area do not allow akio occupancy of accessory buildings in this would probably be qualified as your century building  i think it's something that we really want to take a look at rather than rejecting it out of hand is something that's just you know proof it's not good it does have a serious purpose in and to mr paul's point this is something that people are looking for and it probably should not be provided you see it should be something that they are potentially asked for in a situation where you have three acres that might not be a problem for well yeah and quite honestly when people went on the property unless we monitor it there's no way you can be sure that when grandma passed away or grandpa passes away that that the husband when he has a fight with his wife doesn't just move back there or so we've been approached by a developer who's interested in in developing this property one of the challenges on the property is that there's excess oil a tremendous amount of excess water and what he's is by separate or from the home we would be driving the park traffic through the neighborhood it would actually be on the outside of the neighborhood what he what he's asking is whether or not we would entertain allowing him it when it was designed i i indicated my concerns about the connection from the park to sugar camp it's primarily just because of safety concerns this would be a public roadway that would go from the two lane road into a parking lot that goes to the parking lot is a very expensive parking lot it goes from the park expansion all the way around field five and up through to meredith and most of that is over all of that is parking so this roadway would m d m into a parking lot that people are backing out of with vehicles onto what would be considered a two lane road and children crossing everywhere there's not like pedestrian crossing accesses and if there were is wouldn't follow that anyway because they're in a park so the biggest concern is just having those vehicles with iran and the residents from sugar camp being able to use that as a cut through to get to be bout in other areas on that side of the township it would be a convenience for them but a security concern on our part the sports associations are very concerned about the concept of this turning into a roadway what i had said i don't think that it would be a problem if we created a road there it being what would be considered a public roadway into a park was one that had concerns about bruni that we ended up putting speed comes down in that location because people are crossing through there all the time and cars just fly through there even even now without a connection and just putting that any more vehicles through there and that necessary is just concerning my prospective this is so circuitous that this is hardly advantageous for someone to save time by cutting through the park the other  personally rather than make it one way i would think that township would be better served by reeky that two way of determining whether or not it works for every day access if it doesn't you close it off and you reserve it to be able to get people out of that park when you have more grants well and that i think the discussion for another day i mean i throw question right now is whether or not we're willing to let him dump dirt there i don't see any reason not to and there's no requirement that we put the road in today tomorrow five years from now but bay has offered to take over the administration of that i think that would be a good thing we should there should be shared responsibility for where these kind of join activities in the county are so cheap crimes as asking whether council has any objection to being able to transfer that to them for the upcoming year or so they would they would prepare the grant application for as a minister  have a game plan for how they're going to and it had to do with access to the site they think they now have a game plan emplaced is going all out of them to get access to the drilling pad so now once again they're actively out attending the release want to have a discussion with council about you know we know we're working towards getting the agreement signed with back engineered for the master plan for the for one of the things that he's to be in place really quickly i looking for direction from counsel is how many council members if you thing are going to be on that committee not who but how many because i think it has it i think it is something to do with that whenever there masterfully is regardless of how many members of council or on a committee it's representative of something it's going to be supported by the majority parents so i don't know how many members of council it takes the only thing that would probably disagree with you is that if i were to do this i'd probably have a nine member board and i would probably have four members of the park rec board on it because they have a you know a a particular interest in this area and that's what they've devoted discussion with the with michelle and i think one of the good things about the parker report right now is that you have a fairly diverse membership on that board it isn't just individuals representing athletic associations and i think what we would charge  with is ensure that we get for people who have a diverse opinion as to what recreation represents and also for people with the understanding that we have ever been disarmed her to have a come property and i'm fairly convinced that they key and the one thing that they are suggesting is that they need an additional piece of equipment which is a growing attachment to an existing tractor that the cost of that piece of equipment is seventeen thousand dollars we have in the budget thirty thousand dollars that we were intending on using to contract out to do the mowing higher i would think that we ought to have heard that piece of equipment you're going to need that kind of equipment to mow that property whether it's tomorrow or when the park is done you need a motion to that effect because i can as long as i have a consensus from council more we're going to come back to you with