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Town Hall questions, answers

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  • By 51st Fighter Wing Public Affairs
OSAN AIR BASE, Republic of Korea --  Brig. Gen. Joe Reynes, 51st Fighter Wing commander, hosted a quarterly town hall meeting Monday, giving all members of Team Osan a chance to directly ask questions of him. The following are some of the questions that were not answered at the meeting due to time constraints. 

When will the skateboard park next to the Pac House be reopened? If it's a safety or money issue, how can the Osan community get involved to speed up the process so that our children and the Airmen at Osan can utilize the park? 

Last year, we took a hard look at our infrastructure and we identified $49,000 worth of issues that need to be fixed at the skate park like the asphalt, existing rubberized roller rink, jump rails and ramps. We are also looking at possibly opening several self help projects to get the park back in working order. If we decide it's feasible to do this, we will send out requests for volunteers to work on repairing this as a self-help project. 

There are a lot of spouses that would like to volunteer with the Officers' Spouses' Club, but daycare has always been an issue. Last year we made more than $1 million from volunteering. I have heard that other bases have home daycare programs so parents with younger children can volunteer. 

Volunteering is definitely an important part of the Osan community, and as it stands right now, there are two options for parents if they want to volunteer. The first is our Child Development Center Part-Day Enrichment Center, which offers part-time contracts for childcare. The CDC also offers full-day child care. 

We are currently trying to provide people with a third option: the Family Child Care program, which is the program you have heard about at other bases. Unfortunately, the only place on base that is going to be large enough to host this program is the new towers that are being built. Once construction is finished, we will start the FCC program as long as the building can meet the DOD requirements for the program. 

Last summer, dorm HVAC units in Bldg. 746 failed, resulting in internal temperatures in the 90s. Due to non-availability of replacement parts (circuit panels), shift workers were unable to rest adequately under those conditions for at least a month. Do we have a plan in place to prevent or minimize the impact this summer? 

Our Mongrels are continually doing preventative maintenance on the systems. If this HVAC system should fail during the summer, we have spare parts on hand to get everything back up and running as soon as possible.