Remarks by Susan W. Krebs
180 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 5 of 8
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“What I'm trying to figure out is if, this just came to my attention, that certain schools have daycare, I guess, are they for-profit daycares, that they actually get the space and they”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 3, 2026
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“So obviously, we need the schools for these practices. And if they're not available at different times, let's say one's available at 6, but this one has a contract till 630. Is there any way that we can make sure that there is similarity between schools when they're doing the, I don't know if the school system does the contract or if the actual school does it, because from what I'm understanding, it shortens the time, the amount of practice time that they have available to school because they're different. So this elementary school might stay at 6.30, this might stay at 6, because they want…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 3, 2026
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“Especially in the wintertime when they're doing basketball, whatever the schedules are. Right. But I just think. there should be an opportunity to have a discussion with them about they're holding up the whole gym for a handful of kids because they haven't been picked up yet and they can't schedule a practice. So then you can only get two teams in one hour and then If you do it too late for elementary school kids, it's past their bedtime. So you have a very short window. And that's a concern that I've heard that it seems to be different. And maybe they're not aware of it. And if the school…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 3, 2026
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“They would just be cognizant of that. And if it's possible, if it's just a handful of kids in there, that they could ask them to go to the cafeteria or go just sit in the lobby for the last 15 minutes so that they could actually have their full allotment of time.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 3, 2026
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“Any other questions on that slide? The only reason I'm asking that is because I found out, and I've been out of the rec leagues for many, many years, but when I hear some of these costs that these parents are paying to play basketball because we have to rent space. I go to church, $185 for registration. I used to be like 15, but I'm dating myself. But $185 seemed like a lot. And if you have two kids, that's a lot of money because they have to rent space. For rec, we should be able to provide space. And if we can free up some of the, I'm not sure how much it is, but if we can free up some of…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 3, 2026
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“How does it work when it's a school-owned field and a lot of these school-owned fields look like they're in poor shape? So how do we deal with that when it's a school-owned field?”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 3, 2026
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“Do they allow the rec councils to improve the fields?”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 3, 2026
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“I just didn't know. So that was a choice, and there's none that are in excellent shape. Well, I'm just saying, from their point of view.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 3, 2026
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“all right um the other question on the well this might come later but i know in the high schools that some of them have limited fields and depending on playoffs and stuff sometimes it goes into their season so how do you adjust for that like if you're playing in a lacrosse season and you've got to have a certain field but you can't get it until halfway through the season. How do you count that for a high school field? Because sometimes their seasons go longer because they don't know. Basketball is the same, I guess.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 3, 2026
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“But how do they plan for that in the rec councils if the county has first choice, but it's unanticipated? What do they do?”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 3, 2026
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“Sometimes it's unanticipated. Is that an issue of the overlap, or do they just not use those fields?”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 3, 2026
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“Well, it could be. Or do they, I think it was, I'm trying to remember what school it was, I think maybe it was Century, that they can't get onto a certain time. I don't know if the school system holds it out for that time in case, or do they just wait till it happens? You know what I'm saying? How do you plan for that? Or do they just keep their own use of facilities until through their possible length of season? Is it an issue?”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 3, 2026
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“And I'm trying to remember, it seemed to me there was a reason that they couldn't use it, because they couldn't get it till the middle of the season. So in other words, it's sort of, I don't know how it counts in here, but it sort of counted as, hey, this is available, but it really wasn't because they used it longer into the season.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 3, 2026
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“We just need to keep that in consideration as to what we really have available and what's not. You know what I'm saying? It's not so simple as you know. Right. You definitely know. We're trying to figure out what that looks like. 100%.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 3, 2026
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“Coordinators? Paid staff. Yes. Where are they located? Where are they housed?”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 3, 2026
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“I don't know if there's any opportunities. I know in Baltimore County, where I came from a long time ago, I think that they have staff, I don't know if they still do it, that is a joint staff in the school. So that same person, I mean, now that we're doing away with that, I used to think it was a shame for the athletic directors that are scheduling things because they were good teachers, too, and you had to take them out of the classroom and put them in an administrative position, losing their teaching talent. But is there any way to have that person help coordinate at the school and be…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 3, 2026
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“It just seemed like it worked very well.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 3, 2026
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“I was just thinking more of the high schools. But just to have someone that would be, I'm not saying putting extra people in, but it's how that person would be used if it would be more efficient. That they were there sort of with hands on with the high school stuff. So they were, I don't know if it's shared. I'm not sure how Baltimore County does it. I don't know if they need extra staff. But if we've got people in each of these areas, I mean, we have five of these coordinators and we have, what, six high schools? It's just a thought to see how we could coordinate and help them and help us…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 3, 2026
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“Is that because they have the ability or they want that ability?”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 3, 2026
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“So how do we know what their needs are versus what? So this means, if I looked at a one and looked at a three, do I assume they all want three or do I assume some might just want one?”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 3, 2026
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“I guess what I'm trying to absorb from all this, what are the needs? Maybe you can come up with that later. Are we satisfying the needs of what each uniformly? If the younger kids practice once a week, are they all getting there once a week? If the older kids practice three times a week, do they all get the opportunity for three times a week? I'm just trying to make sure. We're looking at apples and apples for... whatever it may be. Because you're right, it might be once a week for a younger kid, but it's hard to tell that.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 3, 2026
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“But if I were to, somehow through all this, we're going to gleam what the needs are in an equitable way. And I want to make sure that the way we claim it is going to be that they see it that way because they agree with our analysis of it.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 3, 2026
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“Hopefully they've all seen this and they've given you the data. This came straight from them. So when we're looking at it, we're just trying to look at it with an equal kind of eye of what their needs are. And if somebody thinks they need five times more, that's unreasonable. If it's all level, you know. Okay.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 3, 2026
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“And does it change based on who's got lights and not? Because it starts getting dark. Does that have an impact?”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 3, 2026
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“Yeah, I'm just trying to figure out so that there's somewhere equitably that there's lights. If you have a rec council, you've got this many teams, that they can, when it gets dark at 5 o'clock, I guess that's pretty late now. It's November. That might not be an impact for football and fall sports. It's just something to consider, that they all have that same opportunity.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 3, 2026