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l o:micnele X441-1'4 ) rrom: I /03 44I t3//U 3r//uu ur.44:I ua rage c or Staff Report Michele Bergh March 2000 • Staffing We are continuing to accept applications for the Programming Assistant positions and the Emporium positions. They are slowly coming in and I will begin interviewing early next week. We are beginning to feel some of the effects of being short handed in the office but we have someone coming in after school every day to help with this. Spring Spring is underway and going very well. Our Elk River gymnastics classes began Monday, March 6 and are full. We are running them at Emporium this session to see how the facility works for this. Emporium is not open on Mondays and we believe this is a good use of the space and will save us expenses if it works out, as we won't need to have a building supervisor like we do at the schools. Participants seemed okay with the arrangement the first night and, especially with the nice weather, they can sit outside at the picnic tables or inside on one of the couches so it's comfortable while they wait. Summer Summer planning is well underway. We are planning to have the usual programs such as T-ball, tennis, golf, SPORT, some pee wee programs, gymnastics, summer strength and conditioning, girls summer basketball league, track and field, entertainment in the park, preschool fun, basketball camps, soccer camps, and Funtastic Fridays. Some new programming ideas we are working on are the Adop .A-Park program and roller hockey. Ice Rinks I apologize but I do not have all the data assembled for these yet. I will have them complete by the April meeting. Intramurals Intramural Basketball is almost over with just two weeks of tournament play left. This continues to be a very popular program with the high school age group. We had 15 teams this year and they were split into a Competitive and a Recreational division. I was excited to see that one of the participants did a write up in the high school newspaper about the program and how much fun it is. Word of mouth is the best advertising you can get. Adult Leagues All the adult leagues are now ending as well. We ran Women's Volleyball, Co Rec Volleyball, and Men's Basketball. We seemed to have done a good job of cleaning up the Men's league as the problems continued to decrease throughout the season. The first few weeks were really rough but after that we saw a lot of support coming from many of the participants to help address conflicts as they came up so they would not get out of hand. We still had some tempers fly, which caused a couple of players to be ejected from the league. The referees and participants have been very complimentary of how we addressed the problems that were occurring. Emporium • We continue to be very busy with concerts. We average about 100 kids a night. These kids really like having a place like this to hang out at. During the week there are kids coming in to hang out after school and we've got a band that has started doing some of their practicing there. We also have a group of kids who play the card game Magic and are looking to start playing at Emporium on Saturdays.