ITEM TITLE:
Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services Operational Report
SUBMITTED BY: Nicholas Farline, PRCS Director
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RECOMMENDATION:
Receive and file
SUMMARY STATEMENT:
The Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services (PR&CS) Department has a new Director that started August 20th, 2018. In addition to the new hire of a director there has been several operational changes. The former Teen Center has been reopened as a Community Center. This changed the layout of the center, hours of operations, age group accessing the community center and the program offering. PR&CS has also re-organized staff under the Recreation Department in an attempt to address staff strengths, new programming opportunities identified through the commission and the community. Please see attachment (1).
The re-organization of the Events Coordinator from PR&CS to under Economic development has effected in-part the operational priorities of PR&CS. PR&CS will continue to be supportive to community events and CSO’s, but will now primarily focus on addressing high quality, safe, meaningful, educational and FUN programming for the citizens of Valdez.
In an attempt to maintain transparency to council and the community about PR&CS, suggested by way of the director, a quarterly report about programming results including participation counts, outcome based data results, and selective qualitative responses from participants will be presented. If council has input on what they would like to hear during these reports please let Nicholas Farline know at either nfarline@valdezak.gov <mailto:nfarline@valdezak.gov> or 835-2531.