04-03-2000 Meeting PARK & RECREATION ADVISORY
COMMITTEE MEETING
7:00 P.M. APRIL 3R0, 2000
CLERMONT, FLORIDA
MINUTES
Basha called the meeting to order The sign in sheet was passed around and initialed by
all attending members
Committee reviewed minutes of March 6th meeting Corrections made were fourth
paragraph Park and Recreation receives$610,000 00 in Grant money from the county not
the State Impact tees Correction County does receive impact fees but no money goes
towards Park & Recreation
The City of Clermont collects impact fees and a portion does go to Park & Recteation
Rails to Trails cot reetion Lake County does not want t' &R involved right now will be
deleted and add that The county and Cities build Rails to Trails the state has to approve it
Curt Hall made a motion to approve minutes as corrected Ben Griffith seconds motion
Passed
Recreation Updates Amy Lesner updated committee on Hancock Park and summer
program The bids have gone out we are waiting for them to come back in 1 he progress
has been slow Curt Hall asked if there was a cut off date for the bids Amy said she was
not sure and that Wayne Sauudcis has been out of town Basha Schlazer asked Cult 1 fail
if they were still clearing the land No Curt said it would be included in bid and the paik
would be cleared at one time. Lost Lake Reserve has been sold to another developer
iaymark is no longer the owners
Summer Programs- 1 am looking for people who are recreation oi tented to do an
activity with the kids I give flee adveitisutg if they give me an hum Sp,,akers will he
need Tuesday Wednesday and Thuisdays We ace doing a safe kid expo May 6'h on
Saturday from 9a m to 12 p m also have a parents time out on April 29'1' limn 12 p io to
4 p m C the highlander hut
Football-Basha Schlazer asked about registration for football Ben said we have two
different leagues Pop Warner and the Groveland Gatois they ate different leagues Jeff
Duke says that groveland went to Pop Warner. Basha wanted to know a telephone
number so when they call the YMCA she can refer them Contacts for registiation is Nino
Gargano 397-8693 or Gieg Waters 394-5187
Old Business- Amy Lesner said that the lake clean up went well 125 volunteers and 3
tons of garbage Ben Griffith mentioned Walk for life at the High School is coming up
we need volunteers or if you just want to walk
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New Business- Basha Schlazer said the YMCA will have a spring camp, summer camp
and that they started registration for swimming lessons Looking for people who want
summer jobs In addition, the YMCA is having a golf touniament and a sports
memorabilia auction
Amy did include m the minutes the City of Clermont Account summary and Code
Ordinance No 293-C page 2 which I have broken down into singlefamily and
multifamily This is what the City gets everytime a home is built Right now impact fees
have brought in 223,310 00 since December Basha said that this 223,310 00 is not just
for Park and Recreation Amy said it goes into a pool and then it is disbursed into
different funds The committee is courious to what percentage goes to P& R Tara
Shaver asked what ate Nye going to do about getting more money from impact fees to go
to Park and Recreation We have to start now Jeff said this is a good question for the
advisory committee to ask where is the $472,27() 86 going
F3asha Schlazer suggested to Amy to ask for a break down of these funds Curt Nall
suggested maybe write a small report Amy said that tight now Park & Recreation is
separate 1 do the Recreation and Preston does the Parks They are two separate
departments
Jeff Diike said that you could not separate program capital and maintenance You have
three basic costs and it should come under one program
Basha asked Jeff how the budding was going and the new pool Jeff said that a new hotel
would be going up by the Kash and Karry
Jeff would like to make a request that we try to bring Park and Recreation together Amy
says they already think that way but still her field is recreation Basha said what they will
probably do is have a P & R director and then a recreation superintendent and a park
superintendent That is how it usually is and then the director will be making the budget
for park and recreation each separate entity David Prcciano asked does The City of
Clermont have two separate departments Park& Recreation Basha said any City you go
to it"s either Department of Parks& recreation or Department of leisure services with a
recreation division and a park division David said that is what Altamonte Springs has is a
department of leisure services Basha said Clennont only had a parks department and no
recreation for the longest time Then the City hired Any Lesner over a year ago and now
they have a recreation department Tara Shaver asked how do we get the P & R together
Basha said that will be up to the city to decide T hat will mean more money Jeff says that
we need to Work on the impact fee and how this money is divided
David asked if anyone has ever addressed the committee about a smaller City, that is now
large and how it started Amy said Bill James built up Altamonte spring They use to be
small Ben said that maybe he could guide us through what mistakes we do not want to
stake Ile must have had volunteers like we have" He is the director of P & R and has a
Recreation Department&a Parks Department This is eventually where we will be going
Amy will ask Bill James to be a speaker
Committee decided to gather information together before we ask Bill James or Bob pool
to address the committee
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