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<br />Option 3: Unified entity--Muriicipalitiesltownships and School District <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Goal: <br />Provide a single jointly sponsored public agency which provides coordinated educational, <br />recreational, social and cultural programming for residents of all ages in the most cost effective <br />way while avoiding/reducing duplication. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Details: <br />-School District continues as fiscal agent. Providing Community Education services since <br />1976. <br />-History of successful collaborative projects. <br />-Qualified professional staff. <br />-CE Administrator provides administrative functions for the joint program. Administrative fee to <br />be negotiated (flexible). <br />-Retain current Community Recreation staff and add another programming staff. Staff report <br />to CE Administrator. <br />-Municipal/township partners pay costs of programmer and clerical salary and annual admin. <br />fee. <br />-Revenues and expenses for program activities are all handled through the fiscal agent <br />(school district). Revenues create fund balance--a factor in subsequent year's financial <br />participation. <br />Governance: <br />-Administration rep. from each community together with CE Director and recreation staff <br />develop annual budget/plan. <br />-Each member community appoints representatives to the CE Advisory Council to provide <br />program planning input and direction (membership could come from current park and <br />recreation commissions or from general citizenry or from elected council members). <br />Outcomes: <br />-Unified sense of department--all member communities are joint partners in all that appears in <br />the brochure---Community Education, ECFE and Recreation programs. <br />-Duplication is eliminated. <br />-All partners get credit and visibility for providing good, solid, quality programs in the joint <br />brochure. <br />-A seamless system for customers--they want quality programs and tend not to care who <br />provides what. Easier for customers. <br />-Very cost effective--potentially less costly than current arrangement. <br />-Turf issues disappear. <br />-Volunteer youth athletic programs benefit by participation of several cities, townships and the <br />school district in the same organization--fewer contacts needed for field maintenance issues, <br />etc. <br />-Opportunity for comparable fee structure among all youth programs--recreation and <br />community education. <br /> <br />. <br />