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To:Michele McPherson(441-7425) From:1 612 2741842 6/14/00 11:38:14a Page 2 of 3 Staff Report • June 2000 Michele Bergh Summer Programs & Registration Registration and preparations for summer programs are going very well. We have 1,517 participants signed up so far. Our biggest program is T-ball. This will be run completely with parent volunteers this year and no staff person on site every week. Our staff will do site visits periodically through the season. We have offered a coaches training this year for all the coaches who were interested and we also offered them first aid certification training if they were interested. We have done background checks on all the volunteers as well. A program we have seen a good increase in is the tennis program. We have about 100 kids signed up this year, which is about a 15-20% increase over past years. We had to add classes in Rogers and Elk River as well as a second coach to some of the classes to accommodate the numbers as well as we could. We are in the process of calling people on the waiting lists to add them into classes if they want. Another program that we are seeing a good response to is the Wacky Wednesdays in Rogers. This program features a different theme each week for 6 weeks similar to the Funtastic Fridays in Elk River. This is the first year and we have about 30 kids registered so far. They can register for all 6 at once or week by week and I anticipate that we will get additional kids for various weeks throughout the program. Safety Camp Once again this event is a success. We were worried about the weather as they predicted rain and • thunderstorms each day but the rain seemed to just miss us. The feedback so far has been good. Some people are disappointed at not being able to attend but we only allow 128 kids in the program at this time. The program filled up on May 15th when it opened to residents outside of Elk River. Staff/Intern We are in full force with staff getting ready for the summer programs. Our intern has been very helpful and Ben Dwyer is back again this summer and he's been very helpful with all of the summer preparation and bringing Darci up to speed. Things are going very smoothly and everyone is really pulling together. Fun Packs We have put together"Fun Packs". The information is on a 5 1/2 by 8 1/2 sheet of paper which I have enclosed a copy of in your packet. Anyone in the communities we serve can rent out equipment for a special event they are having. We have the equipment here at our office and if anyone would like copies of the flyers for their office and/or assistance in putting equipment together for their office, we would be happy to help with this. As of right now, it is given out to people reserving park shelters in Elk River and will be advertised in future brochures. We had people asking so we put this together just a couple of weeks ago. The policy was modeled after another community who also offers equipment to their residents on a rental basis. I believe this is a nice service to provide for our communities. Field Scheduling Field scheduling is going smoothly now. We have had requests by youth association members and coaches to add the Rogers area into our scheduling process. They would like to be able to call one • office for everything.