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2014-2015 Budget Budget Program Descriptions Stormwater: Organizational Management-Supervise/oversee storm utility staff, training, storm purchases; manage budget, departmental planning of storm utility to maintain services. Parks & Recreation Admin: Personnel Management–Personnel Management includes direct staffing costs to process and track bi-weekly payroll for 25 FTE employees and over 300 part-time seasonal staff. Personnel Management is responsible for the training and development of 25 FTE employees. Personnel Management includes promoting employment opportunities, recruiting qualified candidates, processing needed personnel paperwork, training to insure high level of delivery and responsibility, supervising to assure quality experiences and services and policy and procedure adherence and evaluating to manage professional and community expectations. Admin: Financial Management–preparing, executing and monitoring all aspects of the department budgets including revenues and expenses whereby more than 50% is generated through non-tax dollar revenue. Include: planning and coordinating outside funding, administer financial matters on a continual bases. Financial Management involves intensive monitoring of 68 program budgets, 11 facility budgets and 8 event budgets. Financial Management includes the costs to supervise both expense and revenue budgets, to develop annual budgets and to report budget outcomes. Financial Management also includes staffing costs to process, track and report daily cash receipts and credit transactions. Admin: Planning & Development–Includes: reporting for information and decision making, research, policy development and execution, short term and long term planning, best practice/accreditation maintenance, and special and routine projects and committees. Develop goals and activities, conduct program research and development, legal and legislative work, analyze and plan for program and facility needs, prepare for capital improvements, etc. Planning and Development expenses are connected to department wide and community based policy relations, research and reporting and project management. Often times these projects are at the request of Council, Commission or Administration or involve improved department operations. Admin: Community Services–Parks & Recreation Community Services cover a wide range of community benefits including; staff involvement with community organizations and agencies providing excellent customer service, offering community events year-round, producing communication materials that promote recreational opportunities and facilities, utilizing communication tools to educate and inform and integrating current technology into daily operations for improved service, registration and communication. Community Service also involves extensive community engagement efforts including; working with and supporting more than 20 affiliated groups and consistently involving residents in the planning, reviewing and implementing parks and recreation improvements and projects.