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HomeMy WebLinkAbout03-20-1991 Regular MeetingThe Recreation Board of the City of Fairhope met Wednesday, March 20, 1991 at 6:00 p.m. at the City Administration Building, 161 N. Section Street Fairhope, Al. Present: Al Johnson, Chairman; Rae Jackson, Charlie Langham, Larry Thomas Mike Cushing of the Dixie Youth Baseball organization was present tonight to discuss with the board the program for the upcoming year. He said their enrollment is up 25% over last year, they have 41 teams and over 511 children playing. That they will be holding a clinic April 6 and opening day is 4/27, he invited everyone to come out and they will be having a picnic dinner. He thanked the board for the work they had done on the fields but mentioned that they also needed help on working on the restrooms. Phil said he saw them out there today working on them. He said that they were going to have a work day this Saturday. He said that in the future he would like the board to think about at least 2 new fields long range. He said the program would finish June 7th. Al Johnson told Mr. Cushing that space is limited and discussed with him places where we had talked about putting new fields but no answers were given. He thanked the Board for all they had done. The minutes of the February meeting were duly approved as written. The bills were considered and on motion by Larry Thomas, seconded by Charles Langham were unanimously approved. Under new business, Rae passed around pictures that she had taken of the Arts Resource Team's production Beauty and the Beast that was held last weekend and for the school children Monday and Tuesday. She said she felt they were really doing a real good job of reaching the children in the schools and that she would like to see us• be able to fund the arts program this summer. She was told that it was budgeted, she further put in a motion giving the budgeted money to the Arts Resource Team this year(2,000) Charlie Langham seconded and motion carried unanimously. Under old business, RicK Cleveland was here to talk to the Board about putting on a tennis program. He said that Richard Bass had talked to him about puttir a program on and he is still interested in doing this. He was asked what he would do and he said he would offer lessons, clinics for children and adults. The Board discussed with him how many children he would be handling and how long the lessons would be. That we did not want a group of children monopolizing the time. He further said he would set up a tennis league, tennis ladder. He was asked when he could do the program in conjunction with his duties at school. Further discussion led to Charlie Langham making a motion to hire Rick Cleveland at $100 a week for 10 weeks for period June, July, 2 weeks in August with us furnishing up to 500 balls with him teaching clinics in the morning in groups of 4 five days a week and teaching after that time at a fee he sets and receives. He is to also police the area and set up a tennis league and ladder. Rae Jackson seconded motion and it carried unani- mously. Rick Cleveland brought to the board's attention that he had been approached about enclosing the batting cage by Rodney Crocker who had offered to do the labor free on this at a cost of about $4,000. He was told we would take it under consideration. Permission was given for the High School Key Club to use Stimpson Field on April 20th at no charge for a kickball game to benefit Boys & Glrls Ranches. Phil reported he had talked to Beard equipment of lease purchase of mower and figures quoted were 0-25,000 - 920, 25,000-100,000 - 7 3/4%. Brooks had talked to Tieco about Jacobsen and they quoted 9% on 5 gang. Al said he had talked to Richard and he recommended lease purchase agreement. The board agreed that Phil should go out on bids for mower under lease purchase agreement. There being no further business, meeting was duly adjourned.