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4 . 11/13/95 Community Recreation Board Staff Report October/ November 1995 Programming: - Current Activities: Mens VB, Women's VB, Sr. High Intramural VB, Open Gyms, Indoor Walking, Fall Scavenger Hunt, Hayride, Open Weight Room, Special open gyms on non-school days, youth gymnastics. Participation overall is quite good. This fall has been difficult to recruit gymnastic and open gym staff. Planning for Winter and Spring is rapidly approaching. The Winter/Spring brochure goes to print on Dec. 6th. A sampling of activities planned are : skating lessons, gymnastics, open gyms, numerous special events, non school day activities, intramural basketball (for Jr. & Sr. High ), adult volleyball, adult basketball, youth volleyball, cheerleading clinic, youth down hill skiing. We are also working on implementing some new youth recreation programs that have never been offered. We also supervise skating rink warming house staff for the following communities: Otsego, Elk River, and possibly Dayton this winter. Miscellaneous Updates: - Community Recreation & Community Education staff representatives have recently organized a • Marketing Committee to work together with various aspects of marketing related to our organizations programs, etc. - Business Expo '95: is scheduled for Sunday October 29th. from 10 - 4 pm at the Sr. High School. Community Recreation will have a booth. We have an exciting booth planned for this year, with several token "give aways" that promote or program. - Youth Needs: For several months I have been working with Rita Johnson and the Community Youth Task Force at finding solutions to youth related concerns. The CYTF believes that the Community Recreation Board is an important organization to what they believe can be part of the solutions. I would like to invite Rita to attend one of our future meetings. Also related to this same issue is the Mayor of Elk Rivers' interest in supporting initiatives that support youth. There is some support out there and pressure for a youth center. Myself along with the CYTF and numerous others, believe that one day a youth center will be a significant aspect of a Community/ Family Center but at this time there remains to be plenty of opportunity for programming that has never been available and that funding towards more programming efforts would be money better spent thap on brick and mortar. Considering the likelihood of funding for additional programs from the city of Elk River, the Mayor is looking to the Community Recreation office to develop and administer those activities. - Youth Association Co-op: This group involves representatives from Youth Baseball, Youth Soccer, and Girls Youth Softball ( outdoor programs ). JA has been working with this group to assure • coordinated use of fields. The issues are: Additional field needs ( according to past scheduling ) , lack of organized system for practice scheduling ( biggest problem is in the Spring before their regular season begins ), Coordinating and managing these concerns is complicated by different systems within the region.