Recreation Center Advisory Committee
3-19-14 - Minutes
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Committee Members Present a. Kathleen Mooney, Assistant Director, Campus Support Services i. Wendy Densmore, Operations Coordinator, Campus Support Services b. Greg Ross, Director Campus Recreation Services c. Nick Froelich, Associate Director of Facilities and Operations -­‐ Campus Recreation Services d. Ken Sparks, Faculty HPERD Representative e. Claire Robinson May, Faculty Senate Representative f. Fred Misichia, Community Member Representative g. Emily Halasah, Student Government Association Representative h. Hazem Jadallah, Student Government Association Representative Committee Members Absent: a. Clare Rahm, Assistant Vice President for Campus Support Services b. Eliza Dorsey, Student Representative c. Katie Scherry, Student Employee Representative (Graduate Supervisor of Fitness and Wellness) Director’s Report (Greg Ross) a. Highlights – What Happened i. Staff Changes – two active searches 1. Collette Cosby, Fitness and Wellness – YMCA Texas Have done phone interviews and will be bringing three candidates to campus in the next couple of weeks. 2. John Krehnovi, Competitive Sports and Camps – moving Have already posted internally and will post externally on Friday, March 21, 2014. Questiong/comment from Claire Robinson-­‐May (faculty representative) regarding the summer campus programs—her kids have been involved for many years and believe it is a good program but did not have the best experience last summer. Greg thanked her for her comments and assured her that they have people in place to run this summer’s program and stated that he is always available for any issues that may arise. b. FREE Student All Class Pass to Students in tuition band Greg gave background on how the first year that the Center was open graduate students had to be carrying 9 credit hours and undergraduates had to carry 12 credit hours to use the facility—if they had fewer credit hours they needed to pay a fee. The Recreation Center worked with the University over a couple of year time span to get it to the point where 1 credit would get anyone in. Now, to make it more equitable to those who do carry a full-­‐load i. 8,808 eligible for Fall 1. 772 issued ($57,900 value) ii. 8,329 eligible for Spring 1. 741 issued – to date($55,575 value) Campus Recreation Services
Greg Ross, Director
2121 Euclid Ave. ! Recreation Center ! Cleveland, Ohio 44115-2214
(216) 802-3252 ! Fax: (216) 802-3203 ! E-mail: g.s.ross@csuohio.edu
Website: www.csuohio.edu/recreation_center
c. What’s going on i. Facility Shutdown 1. Saturday, May 10 through Sunday, May 18 a. Refinish/Re-­‐stripe Gym Floor—this will be an intensive project this year as they will go down to the wood and then paint and reseal. Basketball court will be off-­‐
line for probably two weeks (through May 26) to allow the varnish to dry. May try and use Woodling for the 2nd week. ii. Facility Projects 1. Natatorium Improvements a. Aqua Offices Completed and this allows for better supervision of pool activities. b. Pool Painting in May Facilities at CSU is putting out the bid for the repainting of the pool. Greg explained that the Rec Center does not actually manage the maintenance of the pool—CSU manages that. The hope is to shut the pool down May 1st to get the painting done before summer camps and a June swim meet. Other maintenance that may be done during this time or throughout the year but would not necessitate shutting down the pool would be upgrading the pumps, filter sand etc. Facilities will also be commissioning and engineering study to see exactly what needs to be done for compliance and maintenance. 2. Green Roof Looking to identify funding for the project. There are two options for the project—one would be to make it “just a roof” which would be the lesser expensive option and the second would be to replace the green roof which could have a $1,000,000 price tag. Questions were asked at the meeting about the usability of the space and if there were options for making it a sports area—i.e., tennis court, basketball court, volleyball court…and still be able to do other programming. So perhaps not necessarily a green roof but rather an outside activity area. 3. 2nd Floor Fitness Area – rubberized flooring a. Finished—makes it less noisy in the conference room and protects the equipment. 4. Shower Stalls a. Summer Project—This project cannot get done during shutdown because of timing issues but would like to be able to get it done over the summer. It would be a complete gutting and replacement of current shower stalls. During the shutdown of the locker rooms, access would be provided to the PE locker rooms. Question was asked about adding shower stalls—they will look into it but there isn’t much room to expand. Other Discussion—SGA representative asked about adding more countertops in the women’s locker room. Greg stated that he would look into it. Also was a question about having more lockers and how it is difficult to get a locker during the peak times. Maybe adding more coat racks in the locker room for hanging of coats etc. so that people wouldn’t need as many lockers for their stuff. Campus Recreation Services
Greg Ross, Director
2121 Euclid Ave. ! Recreation Center ! Cleveland, Ohio 44115-2214
(216) 802-3252 ! Fax: (216) 802-3203 ! E-mail: g.s.ross@csuohio.edu
Website: www.csuohio.edu/recreation_center
5. Climbing Wall a. Potential FY15 project—Stated that this was a potential project in FY15. This met with an enthusiastic response from the SGA representatives. This was an item that was in the original plans but not added because of lack of finances. This would expand the Outdoor Recreation programming. iii. Summer – National Gay Games 1. August 10 – August 16 – basketball courts a. 26 registered (as of 2/18/14) – est 400 2. August 10 – August 16 -­‐ Natatorium a. 254 swimmers registered (as of 2/18/14) – est 900 b. Also diving and synchronized swimming iv. Program of Innovation – internal review 1. Working with Centers colleagues on review of best practices 2. Developing new processes where needed d. Statistics i. Revenue 1. Up 4% in FY13 2. January #1 revenue month in our history e. Daily Visits i. Daily visits up by 8% 1. February – #1 Month All Time (only 28 days) a. One day affected by weather b. 2 days in Top 10 2. January -­‐ #8 (and only half a month of school) a. 4 days affected by weather b. 5 days in the Top 10 overall Campus Support Services Report (Kathleen Mooney) a. Kathleen noted that there will be am impact on the monies that the Rec Center receives with the hit to the University budget of the change from 4 to 3 credit hours. Do not know what the impact will be yet. b. This is a renewal year of the Centers LLC contract. Centers will be having their executive team come to campus and meet the new administrators at CSU and just have a discussion on what Centers brings to CSU in terms of their expertise etc. 3.
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Questions, Comments, Observations (Committee) a. Rec Parking Garage: still an issue of traffic going the wrong direction. Is it possible to get more signage to possibly help with this issue? Greg will talk to Parking & Transportation. b. Greg and Fred have an upcoming meeting with Positively Cleveland to see about getting more involvement from them in regards to events at the Rec Center. c. Final design has been completed for the YMCA to move into the Galleria. No one knew if funds had been identified for that project. Campus Recreation Services
Greg Ross, Director
2121 Euclid Ave. ! Recreation Center ! Cleveland, Ohio 44115-2214
(216) 802-3252 ! Fax: (216) 802-3203 ! E-mail: g.s.ross@csuohio.edu
Website: www.csuohio.edu/recreation_center
Campus Recreation Services
Greg Ross, Director
2121 Euclid Ave. ! Recreation Center ! Cleveland, Ohio 44115-2214
(216) 802-3252 ! Fax: (216) 802-3203 ! E-mail: g.s.ross@csuohio.edu
Website: www.csuohio.edu/recreation_center