Tru Mark's Trail Blazing Blog

I ran across an interesting article from the Park and Recreation Business Magazine, Joining Forces, Community effort matches uses to needs. http://tinyurl.com/JoiningForces

This particular article focused on the Yuma, AZ school district and city working out an arrangement on installing a new aquatic facility in an under served area of the community. This concept has an interesting application for our community, Norfolk, NE.

Connecting the operations portion of the concept to our local YMCA may also be helpful for an aquatic facility.

Our Memorial Park, both football field and pool, is an obvious opportunity for this type of joining forces effort.

While living in Colorado Springs, CO, there was an arrangement on a high school pool that the school district paid for yet allowed the City Rec department operate during non school hours for community use.

How can we include the NECC (community college) into the mix? They seem to have
a large enough tax base to increase their infrastructure investments. What
instruction program, e.g., nursing college, sports services, etc., would be
enhanced through access to a community structure? Would Faith Regional Hospital
be an important partner associated with aquatic rehabilitation services?

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