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rm,mm� 40 LICJ7 NATIONAL RESEARCH C E N T E R INC. October 12, 2010 Ms. Jill Anfang, Assistant Director Parks and Recreation Department City of Roseville Submitted by e-mail to j ill.anfang(�ci.roseville.mn.us Dear Jill, Thank you for the opportunity to propose services to assist the Roseville community with the development and investment implementation phase of the Roseville Parks and Recreation Master Plan. We recognize the effort that you and members of the Citizen Implementation Team have put forth over the last 15 months and we are eager to help you validate the community findings and gauge support for an August 2011 Parks and Recreation Referendum. Attached please find information about the services and tools that we provide, along with costing information. We have put it into the form of a proposal that can easily be adapted to your actual needs. For this approach, the National Research Center(NRC) is teaming with GreenPlay to bring you a wealth of experience from across the country as well as in Minnesota, along with the technical expertise necessary to provide outstanding results and information that you can count on. We look forward to meeting with you at the National Recreation and Park Association Annual Congress during the week of October 25 in Minneapolis to discuss this proposal with you. Both of us, Tom Miller (NRC) and Chris Dropinski (GreenPlay) will be available to meet with you. In reviewing our schedules and commitments, it appears that, if you have not already set your schedules, anytime on Wednesday would be very workable, but we could also be flexible and carve out some time that might work on Thursday morning. Please feel welcome to attend Tom's presentation, "How to Conduct a Parks and Recreation Needs Assessment the Right Way," (session#155, 3:30-4:45pm, room 208D). In the attached information we have provided information about various approaches to completing a citizen survey, the pros and cons of different options, project experience, our national database, our firms and ourselves. We will gladly provide additional explanation and answer any questions when we meet. In reviewing you draft Master Plan, we noted several experiences and findings. We want to continue the high level of engagement you have had with the community by bringing a statistically valid component of findings to the table. As this community survey is both an educational opportunity and an information gathering tool, we want to help you discover ways in which the community will support the connectedness and "taking care of what you have" that is desired, while considering new service delivery methods and striving to meet other identified needs. We want to allow citizens to weigh in on what's important and ways in which the investment into the community can be made. We look forward to hearing from you and seeing you in Minneapolis! Sincerely, w iel 4 w Ir BOO a'uN� �a9p Nth f Tom Miller, PhD Chris Dropinski, CPRP National Research Center GreenPlay, LLC • 3005 30th Street• Boulder, Colorado 80301• phone: 303-444-7863• fax: 303-444-1145• www.n-r-c.com •