The Radnor Township Parks & Recreation Board met on January 8, 2026, at 6:30 PM in the Radnorshire Room of the Township Building. The meeting included a reorganization of board officers, a presentation and public discussion on mountain biking opportunities in the township, updates on the Odorisio Park comprehensive improvement plan and the Fenimore Woods renovation project, and reports on programming, events, and committee activities.
Called order. We start with the Pledge of Allegiance. Good. And I'm new into serving in this temporary role for now as Howard has moved on to uh a new position. But as uh the vice chair of the board right now, I just want to move on to the approval of minutes from November 6th and December 11th. If I can get a motion for that and a second. My motion. Second. Thank you. We do have an agenda tonight. We're gonna change it somewhat because we do have a group of people here tonight that have an interest we want to address. Um, and we'll put reports to after that. Uh but uh first uh under new business, we have a reorganization where we have to define the new chair and vice chair. We had a meeting just before this where we uh uh had a vote. Uh and I don't know if uh would be appropriate to you, Andy want to go through the voting process. Yes, we uh we voted and unanimously um asked that um that Clark serve as the chair, Ms. Bell serve as vice chair. Um I guess so congratulations to them. Look forward to working under your guys' leadership tonight and through the rest of this year. Thank you. That if we have a motion to uh move forward with that decision. I move. And all right. Duly noted. Vice Chair. All right. With that said, uh, we can go on to new business. I know a lot of you have uh a topic tonight that you want to review. Uh we do have a group tonight from the Delco Revolution mountain biking team. Uh they had a uh presentation and proposal they wanted to bring forth. I realize there's a lot of community interest and conversation about that uh afterwards. I would just ask for our group to be able to give our the presentation and give them the time allotted. Uh and afterwards we'll have an opening for public comment. Uh we would ask those who have public comment to uh limit their conversation and and uh time with us, about five minutes of the podium. As we have presenters come up, we ask for your name and where you live, and just let us know uh where our neighbors are. And then after the public commentation uh comments are done, uh we we will have comments on the board uh and then we'll move on hopefully to our next grouping, which would be old business. So that said, I like to just welcome uh the uh group tonight, Delco Revolution mountain biking team, and I believe we have a spokesperson coming forth now if you give us your name. Yes. Hi there. Uh I'm Bess Yates, and I'm gonna speak on behalf of the Delco Revolution mountain biking team. And um I'm also speaking as a parent of a mountain bike team member, a sixth grader. So um, but I also wanted to share uh my many hats that I wear uh as a parent, but then I also um just want to share that have been so struck by what a wonderful sport mountain biking is, and that we were very fortunate to discover the Delco Revolution mountain biking team in this past year through Susie Bruns, uh, who is uh uh a neighbor down the street just within the neighborhood. I'm at 309 West Wayne Avenue, so um live close to Odorisio Park. Um I also wear other hats before joining Temple University's landscape architecture faculty in 2008. Uh I was a community-based planner working on reuse of superfund sites across the Southeast and Northeast and Midwest. Um I've been a certified arborist and currently sit on Radner's Environmental Advisory Council. So um just so you can be get a sense for my background. So really what we would like for us to do tonight. We have really one main priority. Try this is really just to get mountain biking back uh on uh our radars in in Radner Township and making mountain bike mountain biking a priority in Radner.