Holderness Recreation Board Meeting
October 6, 2008
Board Members Present: Wendy Werner, Director, Tom Stepp (chair), Sid Lovett (Selectman )
Biff Sutcliffe (secretary), Jay Fogarty, Janis Messier Bob Stark, Fawn Ouellette
1) Minutes of 22 September 2008 were approved.
2) Budget Update – through September 2008
Recreation ($31,940) Beach ($7,839)
14,489 3,972.00
($17,451) ($3,867)
3) Programs-
• Golf program is going very well.
• Nordic walking has 2 to 3 participants and we hope to see this grow.
• Archery sign-ups are coming along well.
4) Beach Update-
• Biff has taken in the swim lines, swim area buoy and the swing set.
• FEMA visit is pending and Wendy will ask Walter Johnson to let Tom know so that he may
attend the site visit at the beach.
5) Budget Discussion-
• Since our meeting of 22 September, Wendy has had a few conversations regarding the present
status of the swim team, coaching and use of the Plymouth State University pool. It
seems that the problems that had prompted our discussion of perhaps becoming involved
have been resolved and Holderness Recreation is no longer needed to become associated
with the team in order for it to continue using the PSU facilities. Wendy had a good
discussion with the swim team coach and Tom had one with a representative of PSU and
the outcome of both conversations supported the notion that we need not get involved
at this time.
• Summer Concert Series – after some discussion the Board supported some sort of involvement
with sponsoring a summer concert series at the Town Bandstand and Common. We will
only consider accepting some responsibility for this if we are provided separate funding.
• Town Beach – Wendy presented a draft of a 2009 budget for the beach – this draft reflects a
decrease of $1,660.
• Recreation – Wendy submitted a draft and much discussion followed – especially regarding the
future of Day Camp and how we might increase enrollment, make changes to the
program that might entice more families to consider us, etc. Combining field trips with
another town’s program may be investigated.
6) Correspondence-
None to report
7) Other – Janis reported that we have again offered two Day Camp scholarships to the PTA for
their Holiday Fair.
8) NEXT MEETING: Monday, October 20th at 6:00 PM
Respectfully submitted,
George D. Sutcliffe, Jr. (secretary)
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