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Michele Bergh • Community Recreation Staff Report September 2000 Summer Final Information The grand total for summer registration is 1,955 + 2,168 who attended the Entertainment in the Park and did the craft following the entertainment for a total of 4,123. Last year's total was 3,846. Fall The brochure was delivered on August 30th with everyone's local paper. All our information is on our website. This brochure had a new twist with the flip style. We were hoping this would help people tell that Community Recreation is different from Community Education. We have not had many comments made about the new style and it's too early to tell if it's had much of an impact. Adult Leagues We had the organizational meeting for the three volleyball leagues we offer on Monday, September 11. There was a really good turnout for this meeting and it looks like the Co Rec league and the Women's league will go. Men's league has struggle for a few years now and it didn't run last year and doesn't look like it will this year. We have implemented the non-resident fee on these leagues for the first time and response was mixed. There are some teams this will affect and they were unhappy about it. They were, however, understanding of the reason and not upset with us but with their cities. These participants are from Zimmerman/Livonia area and from Ramsey. Fiscal Agent Change Lori Johnson and I will be working on this change that will officially take place January 1. We will be reviewing past years' accounting information to make sure everything is correct and complete. 'There is a potential deficit that we are exploring at this time. Fall Soccer We have experienced some issues this fall with the school soccer programs again. They seem to be escalating some as the growth in the communities continues. The Oak Knoll fields in Elk River are used by 9th grade soccer from the school district as well as by Alliance Christian Academy. Zimmerman and Rogers do not apparently have enough participants to form their own teams and play at their sites so these students are bussed to Elk River to be combined with the Elk River students. So the sites at Zimmerman and Rogers are not used and we are short fields in Elk River. Alliance has nowhere else to play and there aren't enough fields at the junior highs in Elk River for the 7-9th grade program within the school district. We worked it out so that Alliance would be using the Meadowvale field a couple of times this year but when it came time for the first game, the field had not been maintained and the school district said they couldn't do it for Alliance's use. We ended up having to move that game at the last minute and the school district helped find a different field at Salk that was already maintained. I think we have worked this out for this season but anticipate a larger problem next year and believe we will need to look at doing something different next year. • Staff We are currently running ads for a few positions we have open. Response has been slow. We'll continue to work on this until the positions are filled.