WEBINAR: Private Sector Funding for Parks & Recreation (.1 CEUs)

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Date: Oct. 17 - 10 AM
Location: online
Contact: Heather Weishaar
Contact Phone: 630-376-1911

This is a plan to provide facilities and services without significantly increasing, or even reducing, general fund budget support.

The Alternative Fund Development Program has many components including:

1. Establishment of a Parks and Recreation Foundation.
2. Memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the city and the Parks and Recreation Foundation.
3. City Council approved legacy naming and corporate naming policies.
4. Presentation sponsorships allows the city to retain a historical or otherwise significant name of a property while allowing a company or organization to provide name recognition associated with the venue.
5. Corporate program sponsorships strategy.
6. Cellular antennae lease on existing parks and recreation structures.
7. Exclusive vendor/official sponsor contracts.
8. Sale or lease of remnant parcels of land.
9. A "Wall of Fame" to allow for recognition of individuals who have given personal time and sacrificed for the betterment of the community.

Speaker: Barry Weiss is the interim assistant city manager for the City of Galt, Calif. His main assignment is to assist the Parks and Recreation Department in achieving excellent service to the community and enhance their revenue and return on investment. He retired as director of parks and recreation for the city of San Carlos, Calif., a community of 28,000 located on the San Francisco Peninsula, where he administered the award-winning parks and recreation department for eight years through 2008. Barry has been in the parks and recreation profession since 1983, working his way up from recreation supervisor for the city of Alameda, general supervisor for the city of Oakland, and recreation superintendent for the city of Palo Alto.

Registration deadline is a week prior to webinar (10/10). Webinar access codes and instructions will be emailed a week prior to event.

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