{"id":12606,"date":"2026-08-05T06:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T10:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=12606"},"modified":"2026-08-05T06:59:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T10:59:13","slug":"recreation-commission-meeting-7-13-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=12606","title":{"rendered":"Recreation Commission Meeting, 7\/13\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">7\/13\/2026 Recreation Commission meeting\u00a0focused on various town\u00a0infrastructure improvements\u00a0and upcoming community events. Members discussed several\u00a0Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) projects, including the potential installation of\u00a0synthetic turf fields, new pickleball courts, and the renovation of local skate parks. The committee reviewed the progress of\u00a0summer youth camps\u00a0and finalized details for\u00a0Old Home Day\u00a0activities, such as a color run and a charitable softball game between police and fire departments. Significant attention was given to a proposed\u00a0new fee schedule\u00a0intended to offset maintenance costs through facility rentals and program charges. Additionally, the group addressed\u00a0urgent repairs\u00a0needed for the irrigation system at West Road and the challenges of filling a full-time\u00a0maintenance staff position. The meeting concluded with an emphasis on creating formal\u00a0bylaws and agreements\u00a0to ensure long-term cooperation between the town, schools, and local sports leagues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"RC 07 13 2026\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R5Bxmyj6CAE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7\/13\/2026 Recreation Commission meeting\u00a0focused on various town\u00a0infrastructure improvements\u00a0and upcoming community events. Members discussed several\u00a0Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) projects, including the potential installation of\u00a0synthetic turf fields, new pickleball courts, and the renovation of local skate parks. The committee reviewed the progress of\u00a0summer youth camps\u00a0and finalized details for\u00a0Old Home Day\u00a0activities, such as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12607,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12606\/revisions\/12607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}