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Park District Director Julie Kurczewski reported that the Village of Manhattan and Chamber of Commerce were working on Fun Day activities and asked board members to start rounding up volunteers. ''We need someone to head up the horseshoe tournament,'' Kurczewski said. ''Any volunteers would be great.'' Kurczewski added that the park took on the responsibility of vendors and was in the process of contacting outside vendors and local restaurants. ''We are also heading up children's games,'' Kurczewski said. Fun Day this year will be Saturday, September 7, and it has been brought down to one day rather than two as in the past.
Kurczewski asked the board for a representative to attend meetings with the community events council to get area events coordinated. ''Our merchants are being bombarded for donations,'' Kurczewski said. ''We want to work together now so we can get a list out to our sponsors so they can have a choice of what they want to support.'' ''We ask one board member to represent to do the final view to try and stop everyone from going to 100 meetings to get approval,'' Kurczewski said. ''Meetings are very rare. It would just be the last meeting to review what we have worked out with everyone.'' ''If you come in at the very end, it would be hard to review this thing and make suggestions if you don't know how it came to get to that point,'' Board President Bob Surdey commented. ''It would be tough to be objective about it.'' ''We try to get a lot of basic leg work done instead of taking all of your time,'' Kurczewski said. ''And then we bring you guys in to discuss the details.'' ''I would like to see the application before I decide,'' Surdey told Kurczewski. ''I would like to see the community events we are talking about..is there one or 50?'' In committee reports, Commissioner Bridgett Forsythe reported on Lincoln-Way Special Recreation. ''They are in need of expansion,'' Forsythe reported. ''They have a financial advisor to help look into grants to obtain a facility.'' She added that a member of Lincoln-Way Special Recreation planned to speak at the board's next meeting to talk about what they offer. Surdey reported on his meeting with the village. ''They are considering a different kind of health care plan,'' Surdey said. ''They are considering a different kind of plan. Our employees piggyback on the village's plan.'' Surdey also added that he attended a four hour meeting with Mayor Bill Borgo. ''Basically, he wanted to make sure we were going to have the same working relationship,'' Surdey said. ''He was trying to give me a vision of what the village has planned.'' Surdey also added that plans for the town square governmental complex on Sweedler/Brown road by the Metra station has a road coming through the ball field in Central Park. In the board meetings visitors-to-be-heard segment, Brandon Lipke presented a check for $5,800 on behalf of Irish Fest. The board also decided that this year's hay crop at the Round Barn Farm would be sold by the bale after it was cut and gathered to create the summer's parking lots. Anyone interested in purchasing baled hay from the district can call the district offices at 815-478-3324. Mary Bernhard is a reporter for Russell Publications.
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