## Carlinville Park District Board Meeting Minutes Thursday, August 4, 2016 @ 7:00 p.m.

Members Present: Larry Smith, Michelle Tiburzi, Chris Gibbel, Maintenance Randy Link and Administrator Regie Byots. Guest: George Cerar & Macoupin County Enquirer/Democrat

Smith called meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. 2nd Motion was made by Gibbel and by Duckels to accept the minutes from the regular meeting on July 7, 2016.

Motion Motion was made by Tiburzi and by Chapman to approve the July 2016 Treasurer’s Report. Chris Gibbel has access to QuickBooks and will be cleaning up some data from a previous employee’s child support deductions. Old Business Discussed: The Carlinville Park District needs approval for the opening of the Dennis 2nd Goesmann Memorial Fund Account at UCB. There was a motion by Gibble with a from Duckels to open this account. Duckels spoke regarding the conversation with Rick Bertinetti Rick asked for him to communicate to us and send a letter to the City Council asking for permission to explore the idea of the altering the all- purpose field on CNB. The letter that Duckels will write will not get us any further than we already are. Bertinetti is confident that the City Council will defer to any of our decision making process for Loveless Park. Duckels proposes writing a letter that is different from what Bertinetti wants. There needs to be a better understanding of both groups. Maintenance Report: Randy Link gave a thorough report regarding the work going on. CNB field is still waiting for some attention. The weather has played a factor and the lack of summer help. There are 1st some low spots that need filled in. He will have it ready by the of next Spring. He is repairing bleachers that have been bent and damaged from being moved around so much by the tractor. The grass is growing like crazy. It has been hard to keep up with all of it. We mow around 27 acres of grass every week. Ball fields are doing better. Next Spring the process of getting everything ready will be a lot quicker. Need to fill in low spots on other fields. We have had numerous problems with the baby pool turning green/brown. We thought it was our problem but we found out that it is the city water. Luckily the big pool has sustained itself. Randy was told that the city had changed its water treatment and that is why there has been problems. The dump truck has been broke down. We have a company 16th coming from Indiana to look at the baby pool. They will be here August to test the baby pool to determine what the problem is. We have been working on the walking trail and cleaning it up. The 30th. 21st. first CC meet is August The first home HS soccer game is August Randy would like to fix each end of the walking trail that has eroded. There are ruts. Someone could fall and break an ankle. Randy would like to black top from the top of the hill to the bottom on each end of the trail. Randy would like to put concrete slabs under all the bleachers to prevent the bleachers from being moved all the time and eliminate the damage to them. Randy estimated around 10 sets of bleachers with a pad of 10x15 it would cost around $1800-$2000 for all 10 slabs. We could pour the concrete. Duckels loved the idea. We will move forward with this project this Fall. Randy will get exact figures for September’s meeting. Byots will contact Les Hays and a couple of other contractors to look into getting bids for a parking lot on the East side of Loveless Park. Randy is in the process of replacing all the players benches on the soccer fields. Link talked with Steve Boente about the back stop at Tom