8-25-25 Recreation Committee — Minutes

•102 North Rutland Avenue • P.O. Box 189 Brooklyn, Wisconsin 53521-0189 (608) 455-4201 • Fax: (608) 455-1385 E-mail: clerk@brooklynwi.gov Recreation Committee Agenda Monday, August 25th, 2025 @ 5:30 pm Brooklyn Community Building - Meeting Room Meeting was called to order at 5:33pm. Hardy, Schulz, Bachim, Thompson, Gehrmann, Hawkey were in attendance. Absent from meeting were Mikkelson & Klah. Thompson made a motion to approve the June 2nd meeting minutes. Schulz seconded. All voted Aye. Motion carried. Hawkey made a motion to approve the July 28 th meeting minutes with the attendance updated. Thompson seconded. All voted Aye. Motion carried. Get Fit is on break until September – Yoga will return to Wednesday nights with interim instructor until Mikkelson returns in January. Hakwey has paddles and balls for when pickleball returns to the community building. Hakwey will contact public works for taping of the floor and installing curtains. It was brought up that the tennis courts at Legion Park should be redone – we should reach out to public works and get costs for that. It was also mentioned that we should look into changing all the sand at the park into grass – it would help with the ground bees. Food Truck nights are almost over – only one left for the season. The August Food Truck night only had 3 trucks. Aloha Wagon had trouble with electrical access not working were told they could move down to the next hook up - but, they just pulled out. Culinary Nirvana drove through the park – but, then left – heard they went to another event. Thanks to board member Klahn for all the help trying to troubleshoot the electrical issue and for helping pick up the trash at the end of the event. Hawkey sugge sted that we get a packet together for next years Food Truck night and give to the current vendors so they can sign up early. Hawkey will reach out to the clerks office for help with this. Summer Youth Recreation went well this year. We had a small group and they met for 5 weeks and had 3 field trips. We should send out the registration/sign up earlier next year – send out early spring. Fall Arts & Crafts Fair is Saturday – we will open up Friday afternoon for setup to begin. Doors will open at 6:30am for setup Saturday morning. Hakwey will open the building Friday night and Saturday morning. Thompson said she will be available from 9am-12pm to help out. Hardy will reach out to Klahn and see what her availability is. Ballet will return in the Fall – running October 1 st through December 11th. They will have off the week of Thanksgiving (11/26 & 11/27). Classes will be held on Wednesday (2 classes) & Thursday (1 class) nights. The instructor reached out requesting a helper/volunteer – Gehrmann stated that maybe his daughter would be able to help out. Hawkey made a motion to accept the resignation of Chair/Committee member Hardy . Thompson seconded. All voted Aye. Motion carried. Hawkey thanked Hardy for all her years of service. Hardy stated that she is still willing to help out and will miss being on the Recreation Committee. Hawkey made a motion to adjourn the meeting. Schulz seconded. All voted Aye. Motion carried – meeting adjourned at 6:09pm