Recreation

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Recreation

• Valleywide Facilities Services

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Create a Valleywide Recreation District

• Enables voters to approve a tax for new
  facilities and facility maintenance by majority
  vote
• Enables better coordination and shared use of
  facilities

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Actions Steps for a Recreation District

• ID stakeholders
• Research options for organizing a District
• Develop a grassroots group to support the effort.
• Ultimately plan on an election

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Sports Fields

• Improve existing fields at parks and schools to
  league specifications
• Increase the number of fields
• Enhance amenities, lights, bleachers etc.

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Action Steps for Sports Fields

• Coordinate With School District or Parks
  Department
• Line-up volunteers or new revenue source
• Address long term maintenance and operation
  funding responsibility

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Expand Recreational ProgramsParticularly for
Youth

• Facilities and programs to serve youth,
  particularly underserved areas and
  income-challenged families

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Action Steps for Youth Program Expansion

• Identify new revenue source and stake holders to
  plan programs.
• Perform needs survey and rank options
• Perform a study of possible locations for
  programs.
• Address long term operation responsibility

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Implement a Specific Suggestion

• Improve Soccer fields
• Replace bleachers at Libby Park
• Supervision at Skate Park
• Girls Softball at Meiners Oaks School
• Soccer Fields in Oak View
• Roller Blading Rink
• Bowling Alley
• Public Pool
• Public Gym

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Common Action Steps

• Identify Volunteers to carry out construction and
  maintenance.
• Identify a new source of funding for both
  construction and long-term maintenance/operation.
• Determines who take responsibility for facilities
  and services.

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Rank these Subtopics

• Create a valley-wide recreation district
• Improve existing sports fields and expand the
  number of fields available
• Expand recreational programs particularly for
  youth
• Implement one of the miscellaneous specific
  suggestions after the group ranks them.

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A) Create a valley-wide recreation district

• ) Lowest
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• ) Highest

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B) Improve existing sports fields and expand the
number of fields available

• ) Lowest
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• ) Highest

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C) Expand recreational programs particularly for
youth

• ) Lowest
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• ) Highest

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D) Implement one of the miscellaneous specific
suggestions after the group ranks them

• ) Lowest
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• ) Highest

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