[0:01] okay we'll call this May 27th work session to order could join me in the [0:06] moment of silence and the pledge of [0:19] allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic [0:25] for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for [0:32] all All right moving on to citizens comments We have any today unless is [0:39] there anybody online We'll roll right into the recreation and [0:44] heritage center strategic plan overview and Mr Macin te that up I believe Yep [0:49] And actually I'm going to be handing it off to Susan our rec manager So I'll just chime in when I All right It's [0:56] welcome Thank you Thank you for having us Um so the recreation department and [1:03] the senior center did uh hadn't had a strategic plan done for about 20 years Joe Um so it was time uh way past time [1:10] to get that done and try to figure out where where we're going and how we're doing and where we want what we want to look like in 5 to 10 years So we took [1:18] some time um there were about 15 16 of us that went over to the art center for [1:24] a couple days in February Um Aurora Consulting um worked with us They had also done the art center strategic plan [1:31] a few years ago Um and Joe spoke very highly of them and it was a really great experience Um really interesting I had [1:38] never gone through the process before So he did a really good job of asking questions that didn't feel like you were really working too much but he was [1:45] really getting good information out So um the group consisted of recreation and heritage center staff um advisory the [1:52] park and recck natural resource committee members um and two two members of the active adults Um so it was a nice [1:59] it was a nice good group Um a couple environmental resources staff also attended They switched off to Aan and [2:05] Mac so they were there too Um so day one um we kind of just talked about our current reality where we are um and kind [2:12] of talked about where we wanted to go in the next five years And then a couple weeks later on day two we identified [2:18] barriers Um why can't what do we need to get to the next level What do we what don't we have What do we need kind of a [2:24] thing So what did we need to overcome to get to the next level Um so again current reality um [2:32] these are all things you all are very aware of but our our the membership over at the Heritage Center is going crazy We [2:38] got lots of seniors over there which is awesome We have about 67 facilities We have a almost 500 sessions in our um [2:46] summer brochure Um our programming over at the ELC out at Ritter is is expanding [2:51] and of course our population is growing So all things that you guys are very well aware of Um current reality um [2:59] we're growing obviously out at Ritter Farm Park with a new facility out there Um we have a beautiful new facility out [3:05] at Antlers Park that we're doing some programming out of Um we're wor…