City of Ottawa Playground & Recreation Board met June 9.
Here are the minutes provided by the board:
Recreation Board Members Present: Phil McNally, Ryan Cantlin, Brent Roalson, Steve Brenbarger, Kari Hilton, (Dave Marvin, Director of Ottawa Recreation).
Others attending the meeting: Steve Kuhn, Recreation Board Members
Absent: NONE
Guests: NONE
1. Phil moved to approve May Recreation minutes. Brent second. Motion passed.
2. Phil moved to accept the May Recreation and Pool Financial Reports. Randy second. Motion passed.
3. Commissioner’s Report: Marla absent (Given by Steve Kuhn)
a. Thornton Park had damage
b. Disc Golf work held up /Parts are ordered
4. President’s Report –
a. Alex met with Phil discussed thoughts on Rec Money / Maintenance
b. Alex position large committed money should be spent in areas that will benefit the most people (Example: tennis courts share by everyone in Ottawa) compared to Individual Donations, Ex Travel Team….Here today gone tomorrow.
c. Discussion on maintenance money and its uses, discussed field prep work and hours spent at the Lincoln Douglass fields.
5. Director’s Report –
a. Website -
i. Dave reported Website is coming along nicely, Starting to have staff learn to add and edit the site.
b. Summer – Parks and Programs
i. Walk up Registration was on June 8 as of the date of the meeting tonight, we have 606 Participants enrolled into 1135 different camps.
ii. Parks Opened today (10 total parks during the day), everything went well.
iii. Adult Softball – Dave reported that the leagues are into week 3 of the Summer schedule.
iv. 8 men’s teams 4 women’s teams.
6. Old Business:
a. Board discussed outstanding expenditures.
i. Dave indicated last 2 bills paid down from Planted trees and Mowing bill.
ii. Reduced to $78,103
iii. Waiting on playground surfacing (big chunk of the bill)
7. Long Range Planning and Board Goals
a. Construction in Progress – Thornton close to done
i. Stripping? Waiting?
b. Park Inspections – None
c. Long Range Plans – Lincoln / Douglass Basketball Courts
d. Bike Paths – None
8. Committee Reports
a. By-laws (Maribeth) – None
b. Financial (Ryan) – None
c. Parks (Randy B., Steve B.) – Disc golf Delayed (COVID) related
d. Programs – (Phil and Maribeth) –
i. Phil reported several teams now using Whitney. Phil would like to start infrastructure for a New Scoreboard. Bid $9000
1. Phil discussed the city pay half $4500 and OBB half $45500
2. Phil asked for a motion to Approve the bid and proceed with the Score board infrastructure Project with the City paying half ($4500) and recreation paying half $4500
3. Phil discussed additional maintenance money ($600) for OBB that he felt was miscalculated from the last meeting during the approval of $2000 per field policy at the board last month.
A. Brent made a made the motion to give OBB $600 for Maintenance on fields. Josh Seconded Motion passed
e. Pool (Maribeth, Steve, Randy B.) – Dave reported Still getting phone bill
9. New Business –
NONE
10. Meeting adjourned.
a. Steve made a motion to adjourn the meeting. Seconded Maribeth. Motion passed
Alerts Sign-up