The Alva Parks and Recreation Board held a brief meeting Wednesday afternoon. The only action item on the agenda was the approval of minutes from Oct. 9. In the absence of Chairman Shane Hansen, Gregg Glass opened the meeting with board members Brandon Sherman, Chad Fisher, Matt Tucker, Heath Shelite and Gail Swallow present. Also attending were Parks and Recreation Director Courtney Nesseralla and City Business Manager Steve Ford.
Board members looked over the financial reports, and Nesseralla said they were up to date. She said the Alva Recreation Complex (ARC) had a good weekend that wasn’t on that report with a lot of money turned in for competitive basketball and rec league. The audit cost went up, said Nesseralla, so a budget amendment will need to be made.
In her director’s report, Nesseralla said girls’ competitive basketball kicked off last weekend with about 750 people coming out for the event. There are 20 girls’ teams with a total of 164 players. The boys’ competitive basketball starts this weekend. There are 19 teams with 139 players so far although they may add a few more before the weekend.
She reported there are 62 first and second graders signed up for rec league basketball with 13 teams. Those games will start Dec. 7.
The ARC is getting quotes for LED lighting for all ballfields. They are getting a small grant and hope to get more in the future. She said the LED upgrades will need to be done in phases.
Nesseralla said the swimming pool construction project is “right on track.” It was slowed a little last week due to the rain. They are set to install the slide the first week of December.
“Overall everything is great,” Nesseralla said. “We’re busy in here every day starting at four o’clock seven days a week.”
Following a city council report from Swallow, Nesseralla added, “I will say our grant writer (Dr. Stephanie Widick), she’s doing a great job.”
“She was at a grant workshop today and found us another $100,000,” said Ford. “We didn’t qualify last year because the maximum population was cities under 4,000. They changed it to 10,000 this year so now we qualify for a $100,000 grant for water, waste water infrastructure. Not much, but it helps.”
Nesseralla said the ARC is still working playground equipment grants for the baseball side of the complex. She echoed Ford, “Every little bit helps.”
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