Absent: Commissioner Cooney

Commissioner Powers excused himself from the meeting at 6:30pm.

Commissioner Schauer made a motion to approve the minutes of the Finance Committee Meeting, April 11, 2011. Seconded by Commissioner Gramann. Voice vote. Motion passes 6-0-0.

• Amount was less than what was projected
• Would be a series of underground lines with above ground transformers

Voice vote. Motion passes 6-0-0.

Committee.

• Current parking lot off Illini Drive will remain.  It will be raised approximately 12-18”.
• Staff to do a cost analysis of placing bathrooms in the baseball hub area versus where they are shown on the current plan.
• The Storm Water Committee to complete IGA initiating agreement to work together to get the project completed. Will be presented to the DuPage County Board at their May 3 meeting. Presented, tentatively, to the Park District Board at the May 9 meeting.
• Projected construction to begin in 2012.

Commissioner Powers excused himself from the meeting at 6:30pm.

Program

Board discussion ensued regarding the in-house baseball program.

• Commissioner Ullman attended three meetings with a group of 17-20 parents interested in starting an affiliate group to take the District’s current in-house baseball program.
  • The group feels an affiliate association would allow the baseball leagues to be more competitive and allow for better retention of children from year to year
  • Targeted start of an affiliate association would be spring 2013
  • Past few years, requests for changes have gone unheeded. (e.g. allow for grades to overlap – 5^th -7^th; 6^th -8^th)
  • Interested parents are not after a “cut-throat” competition level
• Commissioner Schauer stated the Park District run program is unbiased when resolving differences of opinions with parents.
  • Feels that this is a recreational program and that it should stay in-house
  • Up to now (past six years) there have been no real problems or complaints with baseball
  • Park Board should make final decision
• Commissioner Sokolowski:
  • Would like to hear more about “competitiveness”, or lack of, in the program
  • Remember that Board planned to spin-off the baseball program eventually
• Staff will discuss and prepare an outline of a plan for future discussions.