North County Recreation District

Board Meeting Scheduled for February 16

peternunn — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:12:57 +0000

Here is the agenda for the monthly Board meeting scheduled for 7.00 pm on Thursday 16th February.

NCRD Board Meeting

February 16, 2012

NCRD Gallery Room – 7.00 pm

Agenda

1. Call to Order

2. Approval of Minutes

2.1. January 19 Board Meeting

2.2. February 2 Funding Plan Workshop

3. Operations Reports.

3.1. General Manager

3.2. Departments

4. Financial Report.

5. Old Business

5.1. Ethics training – revised date to March 13.

5.2. Partnering with Rinehart Clinic

5.3. New pool planning update

5.3.1. Estimate validation results

6. New Business

6.1. FY 2012/13 Budget Committee status

6.2. Authorization to purchase ADA pool lift

6.3. Authorization to purchase fitness equipment

7. Correspondence

7.1. Letter from Jean Hemingway

8. Board Comments

9. Announcements/Calendar.

9.1. CIP Committee Meeting March 1, 2012 6.00 pm

9.2. Board Meeting March 8, 2012 7.00 pm

9.3. Enterprise Plan release for public comment TBD

10. Adjournment

Crayola Workshop

Deborah — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:43:40 +0000

A special Crayola Workshop, for adults 18 and older, is being held in conjunction with the upcoming Crayola Art Competition. For those interested in entering the NCRD Crayola Art Competition, Doreen Lindstedt, last year’s Grand Prize winner, is conducting a workshop on how to use crayola to make art. Doreen is a respected watercolor teacher and a signature member of both the Watercolor Society of Oregon and the Northwest Watercolor Society. Additionally, she has worked in sales with the Portland Art Museum.

The workshop will be held Wednesday, February 8, from 1pm-4pm at NCRD with a fee of $20. Doreen will explain how crayons work on different surfaces and do a demonstration. The students will then work on their own pieces with help and direction from Doreen. Bring your own crayons (a box of 96 crayons comes with your entry fee for the competition) and some drawing paper scraps. Doreen will provide the type of paper she used.

To register, call Jane at 368-3901 or email knappgj@yahoo.com.

Notice of Public Meetings

Deborah — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:23:41 +0000

NCRD Capital Improvement Plan Committee

February 9, 2012*

NCRD Riverbend Room – 6.00 pm

Agenda

Call to Order
Approval of minutes from January 5 meeting
Review proposed purchase of ADA pool access lift
Review proposed purchase of fitness equipment
Review final draft of prioritized list of capital projects for FY 2012/13
Agree next meeting date: proposed March 1
Adjournment

*Note:

This is a date change. This meeting was originally planned for February 2, 2012.

Board Meeting

The regular monthly Board meeting has been postponed to February 16, 2012. (NOT 19TH AS ORIGINALLY POSTED!)

Special Board Workshop results in Community Discussion

admin — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:11:17 +0000

The starting gun for the long journey of replacing the North County Recreation District’s swimming pool was fired on Thursday 12 January at a special meeting of the NCRD Board. Although the purpose of the meeting was to have a workshop to discuss how a new pool might be funded, an already high level of public interest and participation diverted the workshop into an opportunity for those present to express their views. Good contributions were made which will be addressed in the planning documents and we expect a lot more participation as this process moves ahead. Whatever we do will need community support as NCRD is, after all, a community facility.

NCRD’s existing swimming pool was built in 1930 as a response to the drowning of two local 14 year-olds. The community wanted to provide a learn-to-swim program for all local children so that this tragedy would not be repeated and, thankfully, in the last 81 years it has not. NCRD’s learn-to-swim program is still a vibrant component of the aquatics programs, and in fact this year the elementary school has incorporated it into the official physical education curriculum.

But, like most of us, the old pool is showing its age. While the mechanical components like pumps and the chemical dosing system can be replaced as needed, the design of the pool itself cannot. It does not meet the current code requirements for deck size and skimmer system capacity, and sooner or later we will lose the grandfather rights for non-compliance and have to close. Also, we’ve simply outgrown it! The changing rooms are not big enough, and the pool itself gets too crowded during peak open-swim times and popular aqua-aerobics classes.

Today we have nearly $600k saved from the local option tax and are working hard to increase this to $1M in a couple of years. So now it’s time to stop dreaming and start serious planning. Based on advice from USA Swimming, we are preparing an “Enterprise Plan” that describes why we need a new pool, what we will do in it, what size it will be, how much it will cost and how we will pay for it. A formal draft of this document is planned for completion by the end of March, at which time it will be ready for public review and comment. The big questions to be answered are how much will it cost, and can we afford it? We will validate the preliminary numbers from USA Swimming against actual costs to build other pools before releasing the draft. And we will also include whether it is feasible to simply fix up our existing pool. Whatever we do, it must be something that we as a community can afford.

All public comments will be addressed in the final version of the Enterprise Plan, which will then be used as the brief for a qualified pool designer to develop a design and a more accurate cost estimate. There will be further opportunities for public input before this design is finalized. Then it will be time to go to the voters to, hopefully, get your approval. We’d like to get that done by November 2013.

There will be more public meetings before the draft Enterprise Plan is ready – look for notices in the post offices and on our web site www.ncrdnehalem.org.

Special Board Workshop on Thursday 12 January

admin — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 00:59:24 +0000

NCRD Special Board Workshop

January 12, 2012

NCRD Riverbend Room – 6.00 pm

The purpose of this Special Board Workshop is to develop a funding plan for a new aquatics facility, covering capital and operating costs. The plan will likely involve a tax measure, which would be proposed to the electorate at some point in the future.

This is a public meeting, and members of the public will be invited to give testimony.

Agenda

Call to Order
Timeline of events
Capital cost funding plan
Operating costs funding plan
Operating costs contingency plan
Establish follow-on actions
Adjournment

Note:

The regular monthly Board meeting for January has been postponed to Thursday January 19 at 7.00 pm.