Parks & Recreation Advisory Board - Regular Meeting

To order. First order of business is the pledge of allegiance.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of

The United States Of America and to the republic for which

it stands, one nation under God,

indivisible, and justice for all. And I will take a motion to approve the agenda.

So moved. Second.

Second, please.

Any objections? Hearing none, the minutes pass. And I have signed that copy as well for you. Thank you, sir. So there you go. And the presentation Oh, okay. We get we're reelecting this year now?

Yeah.

Okay. Once a year.

I I thought we usually did it in January. With appointments.

We talked to the clerk's office and they said, Brandon, they said we needed to do the vice chair and chair today. Right?

Okay. We will take nominations

for the chair. I'll nominate Sam Falcone. Which one? Surprise. To be the the chairman.

I'm sorry. Which what? Which

person? Doctor.

A second, please. Any other nominations for chair? Hearing none, I will accept the nomination.

Welcome again, Doctor. Falzon. Appreciate it. Now we need a vice chair.

We'll take nominations for vice chair.

Do you nominate yourself?

I'm not allowed to. No.

Do you nominate yourself?

Not typically. That's not. Yeah. But but I'm hearing somebody

that Oh, sure.

But I am hearing I'm hearing somebody that would maybe want to if somebody else would like to make a motion for possibly Mr. Levin.

I will nominate Mr. Levin.

Thank you. There we go.

No. All right.

Thank you. Any objections or any other nominations?

If so appointed, I'm willing to Alright.

There you go. If you will accept. Alright. Penny sales tax.

Alright, guys. So miss Crickle is not gonna make it. This is our penny sales tax. It was in your guys' packet. You guys should all have a copy of it. Nothing is different than from last time. No additional funds have come in

because So no updates?

No real update on this. Okay. Aquatics is on track and on schedule. That's the big thing that we're working towards right now and everything is still

good there. Thank you very much. Any other questions for staff? Knowing that she isn't here to give us the straight scoop.

No. But just a comment sidebar. When we went to visit the aquatics complex, was quite impressive. Aquatics and sports complex both. Just that I mean all of the project, every bit of the engineering and having to evacuate the water from underneath where the pool's going constantly so it doesn't pop out of the ground. Seeing the layout, the thought, and and and the fire road, every bit of it was was impressive. And the teams really seemed to know their material.

Yeah. Have you drew them by in a while?

Frequently. So now the red stack of girders has been stacked, sticked, stuck, has been erected and painted. And you've got the cinder blocks. Yeah, so I've seen some of the progress, but I haven't been on the site nearby. Yeah,

I don't think it's worth looking at it again in person yet, maybe when the Quadix roof gets on. But if you get a chance to drive by it, recommend it. It's it almost seems like both projects are in competition with each other to finish.

Yep.

These are both going at they're both they're keeping up and they're they're on track and on time. So

It's tough with all the events being in the middle of the week, in the middle of the morning, not early or late.

Sure. Sure.

Is there any update on the anticipated timing for either project or is it still just on track?

They're both still on track to be completed sometime towards the end of this year.

Wow. That's insane. Mhmm. That's great.

And maybe out of sequence, but we're going to visit the South Shore Park?

Yes. I was gonna get to that, but I can get to that now.

No. I'll wait till the property.

No. We'll wait for the right place. Anything else on the penny tax?

I don't have anything unless you guys do.

Then we will go to staff updates, which is probably where South Shore is.

It is. Alright. So I try to do it in timeline order for you so you guys would know what's coming up.

But Okay.

We have a pickleball tournament. Our first pickleball tournament will be this Saturday that we're hosting ourselves at Greenbrier Park, the new six new courts that we have there. That'll take place this Saturday at 08:30. Daryl, myself, and a few of the other staff will be there. We're excited about that. Summer camp begins next week. As you all know, school is ending tomorrow. So summer camp is one of our sought after large programs. It's pretty much sold out for the entire summer. That starts next week, so we look forward to that and having all the kids and all the counselors.

And we just came from the summer camp final orientation prior to with the counselors prior to Monday, so we're looking forward to that. We're our Padel groundbreaking will take place at the tennis Center on June 14. I've talked to you guys about that briefly. We're gonna have that's another public private partnership that we're pursuing. Padel is an up and coming sport.

It's like a combination of racquetball and squash Mhmm. Meets tennis all together in one. That'll be on the north let me say this the Northeast side of the tennis complex and the vacant property in the back. And then below that, we're gonna add six new tennis courts, three hard and three clay to add to our 21 courts we have now. So then we'll have 27 courts.

The tennis center will be expanded to the east and north of that is the Paddell Court?

Yes. The Paddell will consist of the court's change room, restroom. It should be very nice. It'll add to our repertoire that we currently have. And the groundbreaking ceremony for that will take place on June 14 at nine a. M.

And I'm sorry to keep breaking in. But just to be clear, the private government partnerships, this is not new. We've done this at tennis. We're doing this at sports complex, few other places. So WCFL.

Welling so no. So WCFL would be a sports provider. That's a provider. Provider? Wellington athletics, the project that we were just discussing adjacent to Aquatics Complex, that was our first endeavor into the PPP public private partnership world. Padel is our second. Meaning we're taking private funds, putting it on our lands, provide a product to the to the residents. What

what company is involved with it?

I don't remember the name off the top of my head. Actually, I do have it. Ten by twenty, I think.

Might be a

I think it's ten ten by twenty is the name of the company.

And it's only for that portion of it, not the tennis complex. That's still under the tennis contract, right? Yeah. It'll all

be in the

same grounds but it's a separate activity. So the memberships or how it is that they're going to do it will be separate from from tennis. But I think they run a different model. I think it's memberships where you can pay as you go, but it's a little bit different model.

If you haven't had a chance, Google Padel and watch YouTube videos on it. It's it's pretty it's it's a cool upcoming sport. We're we're happy to

get ahead of it.

It's like highlight highlight untamed.

Yes. It's not a bad way to look

at it. Very good.

And I'm assuming this company is doing it at other places? Yes. Like, We'll have to look into it.

Eric, how's the pickleball tournament run? Is that sponsored? I know it's through the record, so it's just sign ups and a fee and they just play?

Yeah. We're doing it ourselves. We have some of the pickleball ambassadors that were there for the grand opening that are helping assist with the tournament itself, but internal parks and rec staff are helping run it. We advertised it was, $25 a person. It's a one day tournament. We'll probably be done, you know, 05:00 early evening. And we got

Pretty casual tournament.

They're doing

There's not levels or anything. It's open.

No. They have just just beginners, intermediate, and advanced, but you kinda place yourself and just do that in shootout form.

Okay. Got it.

Yeah. So it's just kind of a casual thing or I don't think we have the kind of facility to run the super competitive stuff. I don't think we have enough courts for that anyway.

So yes. Cool.

And I'm assuming this will go well and we'll do one and we'll do more and Mhmm. Keep adding to it. Our Juneteenth Red Teeth event is at the amphitheater on June 14 from four to 8PM. We've done that for the last several years. As mister Levin asked a few minutes ago, our South Shore Park grand opening will be on June 24 at 10AM. June 24 at 10AM. You

guys

are all invited, obviously. And we sent you an email on that. July 4, our giant July fourth event, that's our number one highest attended event we offer to the residents. That'll be obviously July 4 from six to ten with the fireworks going off at 09:10PM. Our back to school party in the park will be August 1 at the amphitheater from five to 8PM. And our murder mystery dinner that we do every year, we're gonna continue to do it at the community center, but we're doing an additional one this year, July 19 at the mall, at the Wellington Green Mall from 05:30 to 08:30. And that is $50 a person and tickets are on sale now for that.

Interesting. That could be fun. Wow. Mhmm.

Whodunit?

What

Whodunit? Yes. Do we know?

I don't I I don't know yet. Who's that? No one's been murdered yet.

Well, we have to come to find out.

We have to come to find out. And that's what I have for you guys. Awesome.

Questions? Would it be appropriate at some point to have the Padel people come and give us a little bit about the sport and how they're doing? One of the other meetings maybe?

I think we could certainly do that.

I mean, it it sounds like it might be two meetings away, but it might be something They love talking about it, so I'm sure they would. Because I'm I'm still trying to figure out how it looks like Haili on Hinge. Trying to

get a follow-up.

Yeah. Carlos. I could talk to Carlos and

see. Yeah. Certainly.

Yeah. We could probably set that up.

But if we're trying to get get it off to a good start, it might be something worth It's a good idea. Any other questions on any of this? Alright. We don't have any old or new business, correct?

No. And

so we are board comments.

I would like say something. I've had an interesting six months, eight months and I thank you for putting up with me not being involved. But everything seems to be going in the right direction now. With my medical issues. I don't longer have a prostate. A lot of people say, what does that mean? I say, I have no idea what that means. I just don't have it. Anyways, thank God. I know a lot of people called me and was concerned, but thank you very much for putting up with my absence.

I also wanna say something. If you guys ever saw the gentleman that walks during season from the tiger shark all the way down to Palm Beach, Palm Beach Point. I mean, guys might have seen him walking. Anyone? Then he walks on Pier Pearson.

Does he have a longer hair?

No. He's he's a gentleman. He wears the same clothes. He A lot of people stop me over by a tiger shark there in in the in the deputy station and say, is that a charity case? Because he always has the same clothes on and he's just walking. And I'm behind him just making sure nothing happens. And the funny thing is that he's worth about $17,000,000,000 and he just walks 20,000 steps a day. And from December 19 to March 31, I'd not have one day off, at least eight hours a day of just following him around. And the only time we would get in the car is we went to Flagler's Steakhouse twice a week. And that's and he's a great man.

He has his grandchildren, two grandsons and one granddaughter doing very well in the equestrian field. And then he has a guy who trains his grandchildren. His name is Kian O'Connor He's ranked like third or fourth in the world. And actually that that was it's like I complain every now and then. My family say, you do nothing. You just follow him in the car. And then he's got the he's got the only the only farm at the end of Pearson has has his own entrance. And I think he paid 39,000,000 for it. So he's got a nice little lounge for me there during the day so I could do all my other work. So whenever I would complain to my wife, she would say, I don't wanna hear about any complaints.

And he paid me rather well. Anyway, I thought maybe mean, you guys never seen it because a lot of people say, yeah. And you know, he's he's a character. And by the way, he wears the same clothes every day. And I remember asking him about five years around, I'm with him about six years. And I said, so he goes, you make three major decisions every day in your life. And the first major decision you make in the morning is what clothes you're gonna wear that day, but what kind of day you're have. I have 25 of these shirts. I have 25 of these pants, 25 of these sneakers. He goes, so I don't have to make a decision.

It's the same clothes every day. So he's a great man. I'm blessed to to have him in my family's life. And you you I'll I'll point him out during the season next time, and I'll I'll take some videos. And he's a great man. He's been very good to myself and my family.

I got one question.

Does he

he order a medium rare steak at Flagler Steakhouse? No.

Is that what you like?

I'll bring don't

if I can answer that because when I come home, I have my two sons that live with me at at my home, and they always look at So I ordered the Tomahawk or this one and that. It's like a $189. And I don't eat that much of the steak. So I remember every now and then, but they don't believe it anymore.

Go in

the house and Nico will come home. He's a police officer now and Gianni works at the Breakers. And they'll say, where's your steak, dad? I said, oh, shit. Oh, whatever. I forgot it. Oh, my god. Really? And he said, dad. I said, it's in the car, Meatball. Go and get it. But anyway, sorry about that.

Yeah. It's okay. Anyway, yes. I they I'm sure he hasn't had that button back there.

Gonna give you a piece of that. Yeah. No. He's Thank you very much. But I wanna say thank you for putting up with me.

Thanks. You lost me when you said Flagler Steakhouse. That's right.

It's good stuff. Thank you for sharing, sir, and welcome back. We Yes. It's

great. Great. It's

It's not the same without you.

Any other questions?

When when they opened

their Burlington athletics, are you gonna do another just go over how it's gonna run again just to kinda refresh us and what what it looks like? If there are any changes, I'm sure it's probably still the same.

It's pretty much everything's the same. We we can give you an update closer to or as it opens. But, yeah, we'll I would there'll be a grand opening too that we'll invite you to, and there'll be people discussing items and stuff at that actual event. So we can

we'll let you

guys know about that as well.

Yeah. I mean, when we have our next meeting, is there yeah. I'm sure. Yeah. I'm sure there's a lot going on with that. It's gonna be nice.

Questions or comments? Our next meeting, is it what date do we have? Because I'm afraid it lands on That's why I was asking. Alright. So we'll pencil in nine eight to save. But not set?

It's a I'll I'll reach

out to you guys to talk to you about

Alright. So that

day works We'll

come from the the week after

The week after Labor Day.

That's the week after Labor Day.

I'm very

It should be said I have it in my calendar already, so we should be good for September 8. Yeah.

And with that, I will take a motion to adjourn.

So moved.

Second.

Alright. Any objections? Thank you, everyone. Thank you all.