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MCC Advisory Board Minutes 12-15-2005COMMUNITY CENTER ADVISORY BOARD REGULAR MEETING MINUTES THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2005 Board Members Present: Harvey Kendall -Chair, Richard Quick -Vice Chair, Sandra Theros and Bob Grabinski Board Members Absent: Clint Herbst Staff Members Present: Kitty Baltos-Director Meeting called to order by Harvey Kendall, Chair at 4:30 pm. 2. Consideration of adding items to the agenda: Item 5; Skate with Santa and ice skate rental, Item 6; the Blue Cross Blue Shield program, Item 7; Proposal from Albertville, Item 8; Life Guard law changes and Item 9; Little Mountain Chapel. 3. Consideration of approving the minutes from the November 17, 2005 regular meeting. MOTION by Bob Grabinski to approve the minutes as submitted, SECOND by Richard Quick, MOTION PASSED unanimously. 4. Update Items: a. Facility usage through November 2005 - Kitty Baltos reported that the usage numbers were back up to normal. They did exceed the previous year but not by much. However, after three months of lower numbers it is good to see them back up again. b. Financial Summary through October 2005 - Kitty presented the information to the Board. They questioned the line item under revenue for rental revenue internal use. Kitty explained that was the room rentals used by City Hall, the Senior Center and the National Guard. Richard indicated that he would like to see the monthly change reflected on the report. C. Wheel Park Site Review: Kitty reported that she had contacted a recreational architect firm to talk about what options were possible on a 12,300 square foot site. They asked questions about the site, but it was fairly clear that to go further would require hiring them. Kitty felt that it would be good to poll the public as to what they would like to see, giving options for them to select from, however, this would mean that the Community Center would have to commit to closing the parks. Harvey Kendall said that the MCC should plan to open the parks this summer. Richard Quick felt that if we did this we needed to really push and advertise. Kitty suggested that we lower the admission rate to really encourage attendance since that is the biggest complaint to park use, since there are so many free parks around. Added Item: Skate with Santa, and Ice Skate rental skates. Kitty reported that the Skate with Santa event went very well, except that not a lot of people took advantage of the Santa picture time after the skate time. The rental skates were just ordered a couple of days prior to the Skate with Santa event. Brandon need to get Board and the Schools approval before ordering. The school will pay for the skates initially and then the Community Center will pay back the school. Kitty will push Brandon hard to get them in before the next public skate. 6. Added Item: Blue Cross Blue Shield Program. Kitty reported that she hadn't gotten all the required software as yet from APEX and so has been doing a soft sell on the program. She did say that MCC had an ad coming out the upcoming weekend promoting the program and it would be highlighted in the next brochure sent out in the utility billing in January. Kitty felt that they were doing well on sign up with the limited advertisement. 7. Added Item: Proposal from Albertville. Kitty had been contacted by the Albertville City Administrator, he is a member of the community center. He was interested in exploring the option of the City of Albertville paying something to the community center to get its City residents a better rate at the community center. Kitty felt that Albertville probably wouldn't do anything more with it since they have two fitness facilities in Albertville already, but it was a very intriguing idea that could possibly be used with another community or corporation in Monticello. 8. Added Item: Life Guard Law Changes. Kitty reported that there was a law change in the legislature that now allows the community center to offer adult lap swim, swim at your own risk, with no life guards on duty. The Board wanted Kitty to check with the Department of Health to make sure that MCC could do this and then poll the users in the early morning who would be affected and determine if this would make them not want to come during that time. The Board particularly felt that it would be important to rope off the zero depth area so that no children could mistakenly get in. 9. Added Item: Little Mountain Chapel. Kitty reported that for the most part things were going well, just a couple of cleaning glitches. She feels very confident that they will get worked out. Currently the MCC is spending a lot of time preparing for rentals in the facility and she hopes that this will change or the MCC may have to give up the rental reservations for the Chapel. The Board adjourned the meeting to tour the Chapel. 10. Meeting adjourned to tour the Chapel at 5:50 p.m.