The Parks and Recreation Board met on June 3, 2026, at 10:45 AM. Due to the absence of a quorum (members present: Jennifer Foster and Michael Griggs; absent: Chrissy, Sean, and Dan Pollock), the board tabled the approval of the May minutes and took no official votes. The meeting focused on staff resignations, park maintenance issues, vandalism, and a proposal to reduce meeting frequency.
We could arm wrestle, I suppose. Right. Good evening. Um, I would like to call to order the June third, twenty twenty six Parks and Rec board meeting. Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. Pledge allegiance to the flag, the United States of America. One nation under God, individual liberty and justice for all. Jennifer Foster here. Michael Griggs. Chrissy had to work late. Um, Sean had to work late, and Dan Pollock is out of town. Um, we have the minutes from May in front of us, but since we don't have a quorum, um, we will table that until the August meeting. Um, do we have any citizen comments? None. Okay. Oh, okay. Okay. Sure. Um, thank you, guys. In the in the report, I did uh talk about Mike's resignation. Um, no hard feelings. He took a new position at North Canton. Um, it's actually very similar to what he was doing here. Um, if you don't know a whole lot about North Canton, my understanding from what Mike has told me, there was a forty-five year employee that was handling parks in the water department. He retired. So now they're splitting the water and parks department. So Mike will be handling um kind of building the parks department up similar to what he did here in green. So um, we're happy for him. We wish him well. Um I wanted you to have his official letter just so that you had that. Uh, we are evaluating his position um right now. I don't know quite where we're heading with it. Obviously, a lot has changed over the years. I'm gonna talk about the charter commission a little bit here tonight. Um we don't have any really big projects on the horizon. Like we've caught talked about a little bit how we're moving a little bit more into some maintenance mode. So we're we're gonna be just looking at everything in general. My staff has changed a lot actually. Um last month or two months ago, maybe I told you Scott Robbins retired, so Brian Klinger has been put put in that position. Um he's actually doing really well. Um I'm going to have a new highway supervisor pretty soon because Jerry Britton retires at the end of this month. Um, so there's just a lot of changes. Uh we're looking at some changes here internally at City Hall that I I can't really talk about quite yet. Um, but I I think we're we're just putting it all in a blender and we're gonna review everything. So um I do think I will say this though, over the years, I do think Mike's Mike's role changed, but I do think it was an important role, especially as we were getting the master plan kicked off. I think the good thing is we're on a good path. Um, and so we have some of that rolling already, and um we're gonna figure it out, and it's all good. And as you all know, there is a lot of money going towards the core right now, so that's gonna limit on some of the things we do anyway. So I think we'll be fine, whatever the decision is. But if you have any questions later on that, please let me know.