The Winchester City Commission met on September 15, 2026, to consider a range of business including a proposed outdoor fitness court grant, setting trick-or-treating hours, adoption of tax ordinances, appointments to boards, and other routine matters. The meeting included a prayer, approval of several resolutions and ordinances, public comments, and commissioner remarks.
Recreation. Please remain standing. Our city manager, Mike Flynn, will lead us in our invitation. Father, we thank you for this night. We thank you for the opportunity to gather and uh for the beautiful day and week you've given us already. Now bless us as we look at the business of the city, help us to make good decisions that are positive impact to our community and those around us. We love you this evening. Thank you for all that you've done for us. It's in Jesus' name. I make my prayer. Amen. Amen. Please be seated. And we'll officially call the meeting to order. First item on the agenda is a presentation by Mr. Lewis on Healthy Cities Campaign Grant. So Jeff, come on down. Thank you, Mayor. You're welcome. First of all, thank you all for allowing us to be here to give this presentation. There have been a lot of work behind the scenes. And what it is is it's a fitness opportunity fitness court. The way we came about this, there's one in uh in Richmond, they have one of these. And you know, we're we were pretty impressed with it. And then the National Fitness Campaign is a group who does grants for these type of projects, and we were awarded the grants. Now, in saying that, obviously that sounds great, but these projects in there where this usually cost more than what the grant uh can carry. So we appreciate you being here to do this presentation. Uh, an overview basically of what a fitness court is an outdoor area similar to the size of a half-court basketball court in that range. It's uh a pad that's put down, and then the fitness uh apparatuses are attached to that. They're designed to be outdoors, they're designed to be uh dealt with community use, meaning it's pretty pretty hard to tear up. Uh most of the apparatus are made out of metal or stainless steel. Uh, we like we said, we went and actually toward this, and Alicia did at least five, six pull-ups on pull up bar and get causing any trouble. So she did that at 90 degree temperature, so she injured herself. You had regular HRs here, you say it's that. Um so the the project uh in working with the national fitness campaign, they they do a topographical of all of our parts and see where we just possibly fit. Uh the only place that really had the criteria to fit would be College Park. Um restrooms there, parking, uh, an area that's shaded, an area that we own, and as you can see, the with the uh uh slide that she showed you that's generally the size of that's the one side, that is the fitness side. Uh if we did the two sides of what we're put in the grant, there would be a space exactly that same size on the opposite side of or in addition to that that would have an open fitness court to do yoga, Zumba, any outdoor things you want to do. Now, the one that you can see here does not have the cover over it, and I'll tell you the ones at Richmond drastically it's out in the middle of open, there's no shade around. So the one at College Park, there is shade. Uh so if you're looking at College Parker or Daniel Boone's app, if you're familiar with Daniel Boone, if you go up the walking path, it's curves around an area that it would fit perfectly. We've we checked it out on the side, it fits there very well. There is shade, but we did put in the initial uh project the shading because it does because it's not going to be shade all the time. Uh but these are opportunities for us and for the community. Obviously, we know, and Stephen actually made a comment about uh parks and recreation is too expensive for him to get to go to. So this is a free uh project. Excuse me, it's free to use. Um obviously the program's not free, uh, but it's free to use for the community, uh, and it also we use for College Park to provide programming space, and we would actually have classes out there on this on the flip side of that equipment, and even on this side of the equipment, uh you could run the station, and it's built in station, they have a built-in station that you can come up with your phone, and there's an actual QR that you can hit to, and it has an app that shows you all the different options you can do there. And again, the the one that you see a little small square, those are solid and stay there. Some of them are opportunities to use squats and things like that.