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Staff Report <br />June 2000 <br />Michele Bergh <br /> <br />Summer Programs & Registration <br />Registration and preparations for summer programs are going very well. We have 1,517 participants <br />signed up so far. Our biggest program is T-ball. This will be run completely with parent volunteers this <br />year and no staff person on site every week. Our staff will do site visits periodically through the season. <br />We have offered a coaches training this year for all the coaches who were interested and we also offered <br />them first aid certification training if they were interested. We have done background checks on all the <br />volunteers as well. A program we have seen a good increase in is the tennis program. We have about <br />100 kids signed up this year, which is about a 15-20% increase over past years. We had to add classes <br />in Rogers and Elk River as well as a second coach to some of the classes to accommodate the numbers <br />as well as we could. We are in the process of calling people on the waiting lists to add them into classes <br />if they want. Another program that we are seeing a good response to is the Wacky Wednesdays in <br />Rogers. This program features a different theme each week for 6 weeks similar to the Funtastic Fridays <br />in Elk River. This is the first year and we have about 30 kids registered so far. They can register for all <br />6 at once or week by week and I anticipate that we will get additional kids for various weeks throughout <br />the program. <br /> <br />Safety Camp <br />Once again this event is a success. We were worded about the weather as they predicted rain and <br />thunderstorms each day but the rain seemed to just miss us. The feedback so far has been good. Some <br />people are disappointed at not being able to attend but we only allow 128 kids in the program at this <br />time. The program filled up on May 15th when it opened to residents outside of Elk River. <br /> <br />Staff/Intern <br />We are in full force with staff getting ready for the summer programs. Our intern has been very helpful <br />and Ben Dwyer is back again this summer and he's been very helpful with all of the summer preparation <br />and bringing Darci up to speed. Things are going very smoothly and everyone is really pulling together. <br /> <br />Fun Packs <br />We have put together "Fun Packs". The information is on a 5 V2 by 8 V2 sheet of paper which I have <br />enclosed a copy of in your packet. Anyone in the communities we serve can rent out equipment for a <br />special event they are having. We have the equipment here at our office and if anyone would like copies <br />of the flyers for their office and/or assistance in putting equipment together for their office, we would be <br />happy to help with this. As of right now, it is given out to people reserving park shelters in Elk River <br />and will be advertised in future brochures. We had people asking so we put this together just a couple of <br />weeks ago. The policy was modeled after another community who also offers equipment to their <br />residents on a rental basis. I believe this is a nice service to provide for our communities. <br /> <br />Field Scheduling <br />Field scheduling is going smoothly now. We have had requests by youth association members and <br />coaches to add the Rogers area into our scheduling process. They would like to be able to call one <br />office for everything. <br /> <br /> <br />