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Michele Bergh Community Recreation Staff Report April 2000 Staffing We have hired a new staff person to replace Dan in the office. Her name is Darci Stiff. She is new to the area and has many years of office experience as well as experience dealing with the public. She started on Monday, April 10 and is working 5 hours a day, 4 days a week and will be working programs for us as well. She is doing wonderfully and we are happy to have her here. We have also filled both positions at Emporium and I am confident that we have hired two very good people for the positions. Summer Programs Summer programming is just about complete. The brochure is at the printer now and we are working on a flyer for the schools. We have also included a 1-page insert into the Elk River Current about our upcoming programs. We are looking at possible adding another basketball camp for elementary age kids as well as the cheerleading program. We' ve had wonderful feedback about the cheerleading program but are having difficulty finding someone to run it. We are going to keep trying and see if we can't get something set up before school is out so we can do some special marketing. Emporium We have concerts booked every weekend, except the holiday weekends, between now and the end of July. We try to keep them on Fridays as it is easier to staff and twice a week would be too much if we did it all the time but they are starting to ask about Saturdays since the Fridays are filled. As the weather becomes warmer, we are having more kids hang out outside which is a challenge to deal with. They are generally well behaved but it does get louder when more of them are hanging around outside. Web Site We are almost done putting our summer programs on our web site. I would encourage you to visit it if you haven't recently. We have completely redone the appearance of it and I think it looks really nice. People will be able to view all of our programs, print out registration forms, and get other information about Community Recreation and youth associations. Since November, when we started our web site; we have had over 300 people look at it. We've had about 30 people look at it in the last two weeks so I believe it will be well used this summer. Youth Associations We are very busy working with the youth associations to coordinate field needs. We will be scheduling practices and games for softball, baseball and soccer. This will be somewhere around 200 coaches that we will need to schedule fields for. Our office is working with the associations to figure out the best procedure to follow for the practices so that it is easy for everyone to follow. We are planning to issue permits to each coach so that they will have documentation showing that they have the field reserved. Skate Park There has been some renewed interest in the skate park here in Elk River so we are working on getting that up and running again. There are some ramps that have been completed that some students are interested in placing on the site but we need to wait for information from our insurance carrier. Lutheran Brotherhood has also contacted us about possibly donating $500 to help develop the park.