Past, Present, and Future
Our facility is a facility that creates memories, confidence and life
achievements that will be remembered and talked about for the rest of
their lives. We are a core entity to the Town of Bennett; a community
based commodity for the Youth of the area that not only gains and
meets personal growth and goals, we are the synergy for the town.
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Paul Bambach – President
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Kim Hudson – Vice President
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Stephanie MacClennen – Secretary
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Karen Benesky – Treasurer
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Korri Babi - Trustee
• Separate entity from Town of Bennett
• Physical boundaries
• Taxable boundaries
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Two Mil Levies
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Bond (5.4)
Operational (3.1)
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Estimated operational cost for 2013 - $426,000.00
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Operational dollars received from Mil Levy
Audited
Audited
Audited
Estimated
Budgeted
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
$ 98,081.00
$ 101,661.00
$ 99,278.00
$ 102,240.00
$ 103,471.00
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Shut down most of the Aquatics Center (~$5,500 per month)
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Reduced our staff 77% (50 down to 15 personnel)
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Decreased our payroll by 22% (year to date)
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Decreased our utilities approximately 40% (2013 vs 2014)
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Reduced accounting fees an additional 45%
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Events costs by roughly 20%
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Reduced hours of operations
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Fundraisers
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Super Bowl Party
Silent Auction
Pumpkin Sales
Casino Bus Trip
ARC Truck
Garage Sales
Banner Sales
Grants / Donations
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ADCO – Operations
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YMCA (THI CHI)*
ORICA
Town of Bennett
Individuals
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Increased Fitness classes by three (3)
Project 5% increase in both volleyball (adult and youth) leagues
Administration of Bennett division Coal Creek Midgets for peewee football
Increased Healthway’s (SilverSneakers®) participation
Continue to offer private swim lessons
Will continue to offer group swim lessons in Spring
Have increased our volunteers to include one fitness instructor and one
personal trainer
Facility Rentals
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MadKillz youth volleyball club
Lady Warriors youth softball club
Warrior's Way Karate
Jazzercise®
Elite Driving Academy
Auctioneers
Prairie Stars Square dance group
• Engagement with SBDC for additional resources
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Currently offering
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Free Alzheimer’s information classes
Free Medicare information classes
Two free days offered throughout the year
Participation in the HEAL “Get Mov’in” challenge
Senior Pot Lucks
Eastern Plains Womens Resource Center gathering in June
Free use of facility to local youth hunt club
Soccer sign ups
Baseball sign ups
Red Cross facility
Director participates on Continuity of Operations Plan committee with
Bennett Schools
Teach Fitness classes during intramurals at Bennett Middle school, no cost to
school
Donate facility passes to I-70 corridor elementary schools whenever needed
for raffle prizes.
Scholarships for both memberships and leagues, all ages
Membership offerings
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50 % off to Town of Bennett employees
50% off to Bennett Fire District employees
25% off to Military servicemen & Veterans
25% off to First Responders along I-70 Corridor
25 % off School District employees along I-70 Corridor
Additional community resource's in consideration
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Drug and alcohol programs
Pregnancy support groups
Women support groups
A community art center through Creative Industries
Solar energy
Friends of BPRD – Non Profit organization
With a recreation center located in town we reduce idle time on our children’s
hands thus decreasing crime, drug abuse and bullying.
Under the Juvenile Delinquency Prevention program, it has been noted
“Recreation: One of the immediate benefits of recreational activities is that
they fill unsupervised after-school hours. The Department of Education has
reported that youths are most likely to commit crimes between 2 p.m. and 8
p.m., with crime rates peaking at 3 p.m. Recreation programs allow youths to
connect with other adults and children in the community. Such positive
friendships may assist children in later years.”
(http://www.lawyershop.com/practice-areas/criminal-law/juvenile-law/prevention)
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Phase III
Redevelop our FDP – current plan now impracticable
Town of Bennett Recreation plan calls for multipurpose fields directly
behind our proposed fields
Creates reduction in BPRD’s expected revenue
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Currently when we have an outside little league use the local fields, we rent them
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No collaboration effort between the Town of Bennett and The Rec District
when the town chose to request a grant that puts multipurpose fields
behind our facility
This type of decision making process looks as if we are competing against
each other
Publics opinion is already slanted when speaking about the Town of
Bennett and the Bennett Recreation Center in the same conversation due to
no teamwork
Why not partner on recreation efforts? Why not write grants together to
benefit the Town, Rec Center and the community
We may not always agree, but we have the civil decency to work together and
provide our town with the best facilities possible.
We need to have a untied vision.