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Parks Department reports membership growth, event plans and drought-related maintenance limits
Summary
Parks staff reported membership growth and higher daily-fee use, and outlined program plans and operational challenges including drought-driven limits on volunteer work, vandalism, parking congestion and a planned hire to replace evening cleaning contracts.
Parks and Recreation Director Beverly Nite Tucker told the commission that membership and daily-fee revenue at the city's recreation facility have risen and that staff are revising how memberships are counted to show paying members more accurately.
"It is really an amazing, amazing thing. We're so fortunate, and we're so thankful to the Parks Foundation for funding that," Beverly Nite Tucker said about a recently installed InBodyScan device, which staff reported saw 10 uses the first weekend.
Staff reported they removed Renew Active and employee memberships from the public-facing membership totals to avoid inflating paying-member counts. The department said it recorded 51 additional memberships since the last report and that last fiscal year's total…
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