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Cover letter information: Master Plan Purpose The members of the Roseville City Council, City Manager's office, Parks and Recreation Commission, Parks and Recreation Staff, Imagine Roseville 2025 visioning process have recognized the need to evaluate the parks and recreation department's facilities and programs and prepare a comprehensive master plan for parks and recreation through the year 2020. The City will consider hiring a professional park planning firm to assist with preparing a new comprehensive system plan to forecast the recreation and park needs thorough 2020. The task will be to evaluate the existing programs and facilities offered through the Roseville Parks and Recreation Department and develop new strategies in meeting future recreation needs. A key objective in preparing the plan is to extensively involve the public in helping identify both current and future recreation needs. Residents of the Roseville area must actively participate in the planning effort by attending workshops at various locations in the city. The main purpose of this master plan is to provide the City with an accurate and usable plan to guide its actions and decisions concerning: Facilities and programming Open space and land acquisition and management Partnerships Major maintenance concerns for current and proposed facilities The Master plan is anticipated to be organized into categories such as: 1- Update or create individual park master plans for selected parks 2- review of demographic and physical information 3- inventory and analysis of existing park and recreation facilities 4- inventory and analysis of existing recreation programs 5- recreation standards and community needs assessment 6- master plan a proposal and recommendation 7- action plan implementation The anticipated next step: 1- finalize and Issue RFP 2- select planning firm 3- identify team 4- start process 5- ............. Page 1 of 18