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515 Little Canada Road, Little Canada, MN 55117-1600 <br />(651) 766-4029 / FAX: (651) 766-4048 <br />www.ci.little-canada.nm.us <br />MEMORANDUM <br />TO: Mayor Keis & Members of the City Council <br />Parks & Recreation Commission <br />Jon Joriman, LC Recreation Association <br />Parks & Recreation Staff <br />FROM: Joel Hanson, City Administrator <br />DATE: October 9, 2015 <br />RE: Parks & Recreation Committee — 1St NIeeting <br />MAYOR <br />John Keis <br />COUNCIL <br />Rick Montour <br />Michael McGraw <br />Tom Fischer <br />Christian Torkelson <br />ADMINISTRATOR <br />Joel R. Hanson <br />The first meeting of the Park & Recreation Committee consisting of the entire City Council, the <br />entire Parks & Recreation Commission, Jon Joriman, President of LCRA and possibly another <br />member of LCRA, and our Parks &. Recreation Staff is scheduled to meet at 6:00 p.m. <br />Wednesday, October 14t1i at City Hall. <br />Attached is the outline of the Committee Make-up, Information to be provided, and Committee <br />Focus (Attachment A). From my discussions with the City Council, it would seem we have <br />two areas to focus on. The first is staffing decisions for 2016. The Council is dealing with some <br />budget pressure and a reduction in Recreation Staff is one of the options they are considering. <br />Here were the levy reduction options provided to the Council for their consideration: <br />• Reduce administrative costs in the Parks & Recreation Department. The Parks & <br />Recreation Director has indicated hours could be reduced for the Assistants <br />position, maybe as much as a'h time equivalent. If we were to do that, the <br />savings would be about $30,750. Effectively, this eliminates one assistant <br />position (keep in mind one is an employee and one is a contractor). The reduction <br />amount is based on the assistants being budgeted at about 18.5 hours per week. <br />• Another option would be to reduce the full-time director's position to t/ time. <br />The rationale for doing so relates to the fact that the Assistants are the primary <br />deliverers of programming services. When you consider that registrations have <br />dropped by over by over 45% from 2006 through 2014 and that the Director has <br />indicated he "won't be here much longer" given his ability to retire, it would seem <br />that for the long tern benefit of the program, cutting the assistants' position <br />