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Minutes <br />Ci of Falcon Hei hts <br />ty 9 <br />Parks and Recreation Commission <br />March 25, 1996, 7:00 p.m. <br />Members Present: Greg Schaefer, Carol Weisberg, Nancy Wickham, Carol Kriegier <br />{Parks Director), John Hustad (Council Liaison). <br />Absent: Morris Nicholson, Steve Schugel. <br />Guests: Margaret Barrett, Matthew Kriegier {student), and three male elementary <br />students accompanying Nancy Wickham. <br />The purpose of this meeting was to obtain community input on summer programs <br />far youth with a special emphasis on activities for older elementary school youth and <br />middle school students. <br />Carol Kriegier reported that she obtained input from elementary students by <br />holding a focus group at Falcon Heights Elementary School. Ten students from <br />grades 4-6 attended, with at least one male and one female from each of grade. She <br />started by having the students fill out a brief survey, and used this information as a <br />• basis for generating discussion. A summary of the focus group discussion is attached. <br />Open gym is an important feature of our summer program. The Lion's Club has <br />offered to pay far four hours of open gym time per week, including staff salaries. <br />Optimal scheduling would be one and a half hour sessions, two to four days per week. <br />The Time-In program is very popular but seems to be shaped by the people who staff <br />it. One year it was staffed by a male who loved baseball and was happy to play ball <br />everyday and shoot baskets now and then; that year no girls showed up for Time-In. <br />Staff changes the next year resulted in the program attracting more little kids. Future <br />staffing decisions will take into account the importance of offering awell-rounded <br />program that attracts both girls and boys. <br />Suggestions: <br />• Try to find people with special skills in the community who would be willing to <br />share these skills, such as boat building. <br />• Offer activities with a nature focus. <br />• Offer all sorts of sports on Tuesday and Thursday mornings at Curtis Field. <br />• Include volleyball and badminton. <br />• Offer track and field club at Community Park. <br />• Put chemical toilet at Grove Park so that programs may be offered there also. <br />• See list of ideas generated by focus group {attached). <br />Submitted by Carol Weisberg <br />