Graham, Donna
From: Laurie Ortolan
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2022 9:12 AM
To: Board of Aldermen
Ce: Fauteux, Lisa; Graham, Donna; Legal Dept; Mayors Office Email; Schoneman, Shannon
(BPW); Deshaies, Jennifer; Pappas, Tracy (BPW)
Subject: Disc golf
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Ms Graham,
Can you make this part of the packet.
These comments are in response to a citizen who provided public input at the board of alderman meeting on
April 26 as an a butter to the new disc golf course going in down in Roby Park.
These concerns addressed by several members of the public and former DPW Commissioner Pappas were
ignored by the board majority. Safety, liability, and risk management for a park and it’s users were never
addressed. And when Ms Pappas asked if they could do the walk-through and mark the areas where the baskets
were going to go in relationship to the walking path in the neighborhood she lost the vote I believe 3-1. The
mayor, Frank Teas and Moriarity all supported just putting it in without any type of walk-through. I think She
also addressed alerting the neighbors. Frankly, they ignored Ms. Pappas and her concerns and considered both
of us the wet blanket ladies for trying to address them.
I think it’s interesting that this municipality actually had an ordinance that no form of golf could be played in a
public park. I wonder why we don’t have that type of ordinance. And I’d like to see how some of your board
members would react to putting a disc golf course in up in Greeley Park and cutting down all the trees and
affecting the wildlife the way you opined about it up there when the development was trying to go in. It
would’ve been the right thing for Greeley Park and I can tell you it’s not the right thing for Roby Park.
Additionally I’ve never seen a meeting where public works has addressed signage and how public awareness is
going to be developed. What is the responsibility of those firing the disks to alerting people and people now in
the public have to be trained to beware of a safety issue for their pets, their children and themselves.
The placement of that course in the development of that course should be a rethink.
https://clubandresortbusiness.com/woman-awarded-3m-in-disc-golf-iniury-…
Laurie Ortolano
41 Berkeley St.
