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� �- t ° a . . L _ �. <:s. 4 ' } TO: Honorable Mayor & City Council Members FROM: Kim Stephan DATE: February 16, 2011 SUBJECT: YMCA Park Programs The following motion was made at the February 5, 2011 Parks & Recreation Committee meeting: Motion was made by Committee Member Amundsen, seconded by Committee Member Selander, to recommend to City Council that the $1500 budgeted for Centerville Park Play Days not be allocated to YMCA programs and to instead be made available for other City of Centerville Parks & Recreation uses. All in favor. Motion carried unanimously. Ms. Liz Guimont, Ms. Katie Lowe and Ms. Sharna Braucks were present from the Chain of Lakes YMCA to discuss summer park programs with the committee. Representatives from the YMCA discussed the Park Play Day Program the committee has supported the last yeazs at Laurie LaMotte Memorial Park and introduced the new Day Camp at Heritage Lab. This will be the 2 year of Camp Heritage. It is a 12 week program with participants (ages 4 through 15) able to attend one week or anywhere up to all 12 weeks. This program is partnered with Anoka County. Handouts of a11 activities, transportation and registration fees were supplied to the committee, as well as a presentation from daycampheritage.org. The YMCA proposes eliminating Centerville Play Days and consolidating into the new Day Camp. In 2010 there were 22 children in session 1 and only 4 in session 2 of Park Play Days (15 from Centerville). The YMCA offers a Personal Pricing Plan for families in need with $300,000 in scholarships given last year. Of that amount $58,500 was expended for the Day Camp program. Scholarships are on a sliding scale based on income and the number of people in the family and can pay for up to 50% of program cost. This program is non-profit, so balance comes from other programs or memberships. It was suggested vouchers specific for Centerville residents are possible and adding a bus stop in Centerville would benefit residents. How to use a Centerville donation would need to be discussed further, but it was suggested if a family qualifies, then they would get a YMCA Scholarship and the Centerville donation could be over and above the YMCA scholarship. Committee Member Peterson stated that it appeared to be a good program; however, Centerville does have a very tight budget and he would prefer to see an amount smaller than $1 S00 allocated for the YMCA Heritage Camp and a time limit after which unspent money would no longer be available for this program. Committee Member Seeley also stated that the program sounds good; but Wargo Nature Center has more affordable programming. Committee Member Haiden pointed out that the YMCA Scholarship Program was still available for Centerville residents. The following is email input from Chairperson Branch: 42