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Page 1 of 2 <br />AGENDA ITEM – 1$ <br />MEMORANDUM <br />DATE: <br />TO: <br />FROM: <br />July 2, 2020 <br />Honorable Mayor and City Councilmembers <br />Dave Perrault, City Administrator <br />Joe Vaughan, Recreation Programmer <br />SUBJECT: Fall Recreation Guide and Adult and Youth Recreations Programs <br />Budgeted Amount: Actual Amount: Funding Sources: <br />$17,250 TBD General Fund - Recreation <br />Council Should Consider <br />City Council direction is requested regarding the development, printing, and mailing of the Fall <br />Recreation Guide and also if staff should be planning and scheduling adult and youth fall programs. <br />Background <br />The City of Arden Hills develops, prints, and mails a Recreation Guide three separate times <br />(spring/summer, fall, and winter) throughout the year. Staff typically begins development of the <br />Fall Recreation Guide in early July. The Fall Recreation Guide is usually sent to the printer <br />around mid-July and is mailed out to residents in late July. The Fall Recreation guide highlights <br />all the adult and youth programs that occur between August and December. Programs include <br />soccer and football leagues, before and after school programs, dance, yoga, tai chi, adult day <br />trips, adult foot care clinics, and more. The printing and mailing of the 2020 Spring/Summer <br />Recreation Guide cost $4,913. The Fall Recreation Guide is smaller so the cost would be a little <br />lower compared to the Spring/Summer Recreation Guide (the 2019 cost was $3,556). A copy of <br />the Fall Recreation Guide from 2019 is provided in Attachment A. <br />Adjacent communities have resumed some limited adult and youth programs this summer and <br />are planning to continue with programs in the fall. The City of Shoreview resumed leagues and <br />camps in June 2020. They are operating around 50% of their usual participation level. Shoreview <br />has a total of 749 participants (347 in leagues and 412 in camps). Shoreview’s adult softball <br />league currently has eight teams (12 participants per team). <br />New Brighton has also resumed leagues this summer and is operating a little under 50% of their <br />usual participation level. New Brighton has 130 youth league participants and 28 total adult <br />softball teams (12-15 participants per team).