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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2011-06-22DRC 06- 22 -201 i Page 1 of 2 Dryden Recreation Commission Meeting Minutes June 22, 2011 Present: Wendy Martin (chair), exp 11; Sharon Todd (secretary), exp 13; Larry Hinkle, exp 13; Jeff Humphrey, exp 13; Vicki Wilkins, exp 11; Steve Meyer, exp 12; Elsie Gutchess, exp 12; Town Rec Director, Melissa Bianconi, Dryden CSD Liaison, Billie Downs. Absent: Monica Knight, exp 11; Steve Stelick, Jr., & Jason Leifer 1. The meeting was called to order at 7:04 p.m. 2. Approval of April Minutes. V Wilkins made a motion to accept the minutes as is. W Martin 2"d the motion. All were in favor with one abstention. Motion carried. 3. Approval of May Minutes W Martin made a motion to accept the minutes as is. B. Downs 2nd the motion. All were in favor with one abstention. Motion carried. 4. Dryden Central School Liaison — B Downs a) Winding down the year. b) Is the school doing anything for the fireworks? No, The Fire Department is doing them. 5. Old business: a) Community Center Grant Programs Updates — the Town Board approved the grants as recommended by the DRC. The Town Attorney is reviewing the contracts and the awards will be going out in the next few days. Dawn Potter has now taken over as President of the Varna Community Association Board. b) Potential merger with Youth Commission — this was discussed briefly at a previous meeting. The ideas at the moment, rather than a merger, would be for the DRC to take on the tasks the DYC currently performs. Members asked M Bianconi to clarify the differences in goals amongst the DYC, DRC and Recreation Department. M Bianconi has been asked to research what the steps would need to be taken to do a merger. • What duties specifically would need to be taken over by the DRC? The DRC might be interested but would like more information on what the duties would be. Is the DYOF part of this? No. That is a private group of individuals who have a pot of money that they give grants out of each year. c) Youth Development Task Force - L Hinkle spoke about the task force at the school that is winding up its work — its focus was Youth Development. A website with information that people would be able to find services and programs they need would be very useful to the community. L Hinkle is going to send an email with a list they have compiled and we're going to add them to the Town of Dryden Local Information page. d) Town Board liaisons — need to have contact with the Town Board members. They are missed. e) Creating Healthy Places Grant Update — The Site Concept Design the Town Recreation Department has been working on will be funded by part of this money. We received the funding for the Jim Schug Trail signs. The next step will be the brochure development for Dryden Parks & Trails. f) Must Have Play Meeting — Melissa, Wendy and other Town Staff had a meeting with the Must Have Play staff, They did a presentation and did a mock -up for a potential build -out of the proposed recreation area at the town hall property. The drawings were very rough. Now that they have met with the Planning and Recreation Departments and Town Supervisor, they are going to work on a set of drawings_ i) After the presentation, those present discussed the 'satellite" parks in the town Le, Freeville parks, Etna playground, Ellis Hollow, Montgomery Park, Willowbrook Field. They've given a quote of $2000 per site for the °satellite" parks design. g) Inclusion U Training — $95 — M Bianconi has been able to get approval to pay for this training. Those interested will contact Melissa and coordinate days so that everyone is not going on the same day. i) Friday, September 9, SUNY Cortland, 12:30 — 9:00 ii) Tuesday, September 13, TC31 8:00 — 4:30 h) Dryden Trail Assessment i) V Wilkins — they've gotten a mile of the Jim Schug Trail assessed. There is a need for signage; specifically at the trailhead at Agway and a more obvious, maybe even paved area, entering the trailhead between the Monument Store and Agway. It looks as though the entrance is the property of the Monument Store and that may be keeping people from getting close enough to realize this is one of the trail entrances. A person who uses a wheelchair would have a difficult time to getting to the kiosk at the trailhead. Paving would help this access. The first road that crosses it (Mill St) needs pedestrian crossing signage tike at Webber and where you cross Route 38. The signage at the kiosks need to be updated. It is old and faded. There are some places on both bridges in the first mile that are dangerous. I i i DRL 06 -22 -2011 Page 2 of 2 The railroad ties are rotten and need to be replaced. The second one, there are two boards end to end that sink but the ties are good. The trail is 4.2 miles long. We'll see if D Kwasnowski, Planning Director, will allow Cody (GIS Intern) to go to the site and take some pictures to give to DPW. This may already be on J Bush's work plan for the summer. M Bianconi will touch base with him. There are some serious safety concerns. There was a bid opening recently for railroad lies, This may have been for that site. M Bianconi will have A Pierce work on the task of getting the keys to the kiosks and updating the information in them. V Wilkins would love to include information at each of the half mile benches that tells you what to expect in the next half mile. This is one of the best accessible trails V Wilkins has seen. The information they have worked up will be on the State Parks and Trails website. i) Trainer for events - Job Description for trainer to cover medical at events. i) S Meyers brought one as requested and gave to M Bianconi. She is going to speak to some other Recreation Directors, get some background on the processes they went through if they have a similar position on how they were able to obtain this position, Is it possible to come up with different possibilities from Full -time to contractual? There are a couple of organizations in the area that offer this type of person on a contractual basis. 6. Next Meeting a) Wednesday, August 3'd @ 5 pm at the Dryden Lake Park. It will be a dish to pass picnic, Wendy will reserve the pavilion with DPW_ Then we will walk the Jim Schug Trail that day_ 7. Adjournment— On a motion made by W Marlin and seconded by L Hinkle, the meeting was adjourned unanimously at 8,40 pm. Respectfully submitted, Patty Millard