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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 Post-It'"brand fax transmittal memo 7674-- 671 rof pages ■ To , From 77)11,14-- C e J - . • :1' Co is .S7"�Jlc-�J.— Dept Phone 1 ��125-q 3 _ Faxq r� -5L1 4'` 4 4 '.'� Faxd 6,C1f_e`lJ 3 f — ^iii'&. 01 00 03: 12p ANN RHODES 4u r -bn•t-"moo'' 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 2