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Why Go to Meetings out of Town? <br />it's the easiest way to get new ideas and <br />thoughts for your own community, ideas that <br />(have worked for <br />others. You build a <br />,program the residentst-�- <br />love by being <br />innovative and <br />creative. Most Park <br />Rec ideas do not <br />cost money — just brains. lt! <br />Your State Organization <br />i <br />holds meetings. The NRPA <br />runs Regional meetings, . <br />workshops, etc. all the time. <br />Try one = you'll like it — and your residents <br />will benefit. <br />Steal Ideas and Improve Park Rec <br />If you steal an idea from a person, it is not <br />very nice. If .you steal a thousand, it is called <br />research. <br />At the many regional, state, and national <br />Park Rec meetings is where most of us do <br />research. <br />The Park Rec Boards that seem to win all <br />the Gold Medal Awards each year, and all the <br />other Awards also, seem to be ones who have <br />a CBM representative at the meetings. <br />Be sure one of your Board members attend. <br />Take turns or have one CBM designated as the <br />Board representative. <br />After meeting otner CBMs rroim other towns, <br />you start getting ideas of what can be done in <br />your community. Bring some back home and <br />try them out and the residents will love the new <br />ideas. <br />This is the best shortcut to improving a <br />.program that you will ever find. <br />34 <br />1111V IYIC11 V -g WS-1— <br />Eventually <br />w ..Eventually that fateful day will arrive. The ' <br />day you have to get out of the chair and let <br />your successor sit down. <br />How you feel at that <br />time depends on what <br />you have accomplish <br />during your term. <br />Like most, you wal <br />away with pride and <br />satisfaction that you <br />did the best job you <br />knew how to do for <br />your community. <br />They will rarely thank you in any formal or <br />informal way as residents assume that <br />municipal government goes on and on. <br />You have been exposed to local government <br />and know what you have accomplished and <br />you smile inwardly; as no one can take that <br />experience away from you, ever. <br />35 <br />