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Site Visit Community Center Task Force The gym is inside the barn building. The inner wall is all glass, and allows complete supervision of activities in it. There is a climbing wall at one end (Cost: $12,000). They play volleyball and basketball, have dances and the annual fund raiser. For dances, they have carpets that are rolled out to protect the wood floors. Carpets are inspected annually. There is no air conditioning in the gym, though the big barn doors at either end can open up. The rest of the facility is air conditioned. Interior Tour: Second Floor There are 4 offices on the upper level, and a conference room for private meetings or groups. There is a lounge area with couches and beanbag chairs and a big screen tv. There is also a table with chairs in the back of that space, originally for tutoring /homework, but they find that kids don't come there to do their homework. They are reevaluating this space. The lounge overlooks the basketball court. There is a supervised computer room that has brand new XBox /Playstation equipment. There are 3 gaming units and 10 computers for doing homework. The computer use rules are: no facebook, twitter, email. Gaming or homework are the only permissible activities; infractions get a kid banned from the room, so they don't happen often. Employee liason to schools There is a FT employee (Michelle) who does informal counseling with MS girls. She works very closely with the schools, and next year will spend 75% of her time in the schools. She is a liason to town counseling services. Rick described a "triangle effort" of the Chief of Police, Rick and the Superintendent of Schools. The last room is a "multi- purpose" room with a wood floor and mirrors. There is a Wii and they have zoomba classes and sometimes a band for a dance. This room is sometimes rented out because of its versatility. Rick notes that "kids are fickle" and change their minds a lot about what they want to do. He and his staff meet with them and let them come up with programs they would like. There are 3300 kids serviced winter and summer. In the summer there are 700 kids in the summer program for grades 1 -5.