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Saturday's Internet Edition, July 31, 2010.
New council member joins Wilton Parks & Rec
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Photo by Fran Soto
Wilton resident Jayme Pechan joins the Wilton-Cosumnes Parks and Recreation Advisory Council as its newest council member. The addition of Pechan means the council will have a quorum and be able to vote on pressing matters.
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By Fran Soto
River Valley Times Staff
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Wilton-Cosumnes Parks and Recreation Advisory Council (Parks & Rec) met Wednesday, April 28 and welcomed newest council member Jayme Pechan.
Pechan is a Wilton resident and joins current council members Mary Morgan, chair of the council, and Heidi Konecki. With three of the five positions now filled, the council has reached a quorum and is again able to vote as an advisory council. The council has been meeting as a committee since December when three positions became vacant. “This is our first official meeting of 2010,” Morgan said. “We have three members - so we are back in business.”
Morgan, who has served as chair for two consecutive one-year terms, also announced that a member can only serve as chair for two years according to the council’s bylaws. “Our bylaws prevent me from serving another term,” Morgan said. “At this first meeting of the year, Jayme has consented to be our new council chair.” Pechan will serve in this position through December 2010.
Foremost on the council’s agenda at the April 28 meeting was discussion of the status of the Wilton Park project on Clay Station Road. Jill Ritzman, director of the Sacramento County Regional Parks Department, attended the meeting to give a status update of the project as well as to give new member Pechan a brief outline of phase one of the project. “Phase one includes a gravel parking lot, curb and gutter, grading, well with pump and piping for irrigation for one ball field,” she said.
According to Ritzman, estimates for phase one range between $416,125 and $387,375. “We will know the actual cost once we bid the project,” Ritzman said. “If bids are too high, we won’t do anything. If low, we will go forward.” Parks and Rec currently has $389,358 as potential funding sources for the park project.
Ritzman said that she had been in contact with Sacramento County Supervisor Don Nottoli who has some reservations about putting all of Parks and Rec financial resources into phase one of the project. “I want to get the project going. You are going to need a well, and you are going to need a gravel parking lot,” Ritzman said. “If you want to go forward and go out to bid, I can take that back to Supervisor Nottoli.”
Ritzman also said that $25,000 of the funding sources would come from Prop. 40, with a stipulation that construction must start by March 2011.
After some discussion, the council agreed to proceed with the project after Konecki made the motion that the council send the project out to bid with irrigation for one ball field and also a bid without irrigation. “Let’s build it; let’s get it done,” Konecki said. “I am excited that, as a community, we can get it done.”
In other business, Wilton resident Gene Rose attended the meeting to update members on replacing the information/events board, which was destroyed when the Wilton Feed Store at the corner of Wilton and Green roads burned. “It was very successful because we kept it current,” he said. “And it is the perfect location.”
Rose told the members that the owner of the building and the prospective tenant of the new building at the site, which is almost completed, have both agreed to allow replacing of the board. “Cost to the council is $897, which includes the labor to hang and some replacement letters that burned in the fire,” Rose said. “The board is available to all non-profits.” Rose also said that he would resume keeping the board updated with community events.
The council also agreed to begin planning the second annual winter festival, which includes a tree lighting ceremony.
The next meeting of Parks and Rec will be Wednesday, June 2 at 6:30 p.m. at Dillard Elementary School.
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