2009 Annual Report.pdf - Town of Milton

REPORT OF THE BOARD OF PARK COMMISSIONERS
To The Honorable Board of Selectmen: June 30, 2009
The Board of Park Commissioners is pleased to submit the following annual
report for the period ending June 30, 2009.
The Parks and Recreation Department is responsible for maintaining approximately
115 acres of town property, including areas at Flatley Field, Kelly
Field, Andrews Park, Mary C. Lane Playground, Shields Park, Gile Road Athletic
Complex, Crane Park, Turners Pond and Town Landing. Our recreation
programs provide a wide variety of activities year round for both children and
adults. We have continued to add new programs and improve on current ones.
All recreation related programs offered by the Park Department are conducted
through our self-supporting revolving account.
The Parks and Recreation popular Summer Playground Program was held
at Cunningham Park. The Board of Park Commissioners wishes to thank the
Cunningham Foundation for their support and in particular facility manager
Mr. Dave Wahlgren. This program ran for 8 weeks, was staffed with enthusiastic
recreation counselors comprised of Milton teens, and was open daily from
8:30 to 3:00 p.m. Participants, ages 7-13, were able to enjoy organized sports,
games, special events on site, swimming at the park pool, arts and crafts and
weekly field trips. The field trips included: the Museum of Science, Water
Country water park, an all day trip to Canobie Lake Amusement Park, a wet and
wild trip to Water Wizz, a knock down trip to Boston Bowl, an exciting safari
to the Franklin Park Zoo, a trip to the Imax Theatre and an action packed day
at Lazer Zone. Several other special events and activities took place on a daily
and weekly schedule as well. Such as: the Paint Ball Competition Day at P&L
Paintball (Bridgewater), a weekly movie day, Junior Olympic competition,
weekly birthday parties, picture day, the Rain Forest Reptile Show, daily supervised
swimming, a Talent Show, a Pinata Party, whiffle ball tournaments and
much more. Total participation for the summer program was 280 children.
Once again we offered a number of sports clinics throughout the summer.
Weekly clinics were offered on the following sports: boys and girl’s basketball,
two weeks of the Bay State Baseball Academy, softball, Mike Madden Soccer
School, boys and girl’s lacrosse, track and field and two weeks of golf lessons
at Granite Links. Our six-week tennis instruction program for children ages 5
– 12 continued to be one of our most popular sports clinics. We also offered a
tennis program for advanced players through out the summer at the Hardison
Courts (Kelly Field).
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