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To: Mayor and City Council ofCenterville From: Centerville Park and Recreation Committee Date: AprilS, 2001 Re: Draft Goal Directives Proposal The Centerville Park and Recreation Committee would like to thank Mayor Swedberg for taking the initiative to put a draft of goals together. The members of the Park and Recreation Committee feel goal planning is an essential part oflong-term success of Centerville parks and recreation programs. The Park and Recreation Committee wanted to address a couple of issues with this method of communication. First, the committee feels we should have had an opportunity to give feedback to the Goal Directive Proposal before it was sent out to the public. The Committee is always open to suggestions; however, the Goal Directive Proposal seemed to take it one step further by laying out very specific objectives and notifying the public of those objectives before Park and Recreation had an opportunity to provide feedback. Second, the Park and Recreation Committee has spent many hours coordinating and discussing the trails plans within the City of Centerville now we understand there is going to be a public hearing/op~n house at the Council Meeting regarding trail plans. If a public hearing/open house is warranted and the issue deals specifically with a park and recreation issue, the public hearing should be put on by the Park and Recreation Committee. The information from the public hearing would then be communicated to City Council. The Committee's understanding 'of its responsibilities is to research and recommend ideas to Council relating to improving Centerville's parks and recreation programs to help reduce the amount of time Council needs to spend researching and discussing specific issues or ideas. It is the general consensus of the Park and Recreation Committee that the goals of providing activities for a variety of age groups within Centerville is beneficial to the community. In addition for summer of2001, Park and Recreation is planning programs with the YMCA and Wargo Nature Center. The committee will continue to make suggestions to City Council on other ideas or programs as they are discussed in our meetings. We look forward to refining the goals and working whatever issues lay ahead.