City of Morgan Hill Bikeways, Trails, Parks and Recreation Master Plan

BIKEWAYS, TRAILS, PARKS & RECREATION MASTER PLAN |

Morgan Hill Senior Center and contributions from community members. The YMCA operates the

nutrition program at the Senior Center through grant funding from the County of Santa Clara and

fundraising. Other Senior Center partners include the County of Santa Clara, the Institute on Aging,

Sourcewise, the Health Trust, Senior Adult Legal Assistance, and Episcopal Senior Communities.

A range of fitness and recreation programs are offered, including aqua fitness, chair yoga, Pilates,

yoga, functional fitness, tai chi, an outdoor walking group, pickleball, aerobics, Wii bowling, TRX, and

Zumba. Some of these programs are drop-in and some are offered as registration-based classes.

Enrichment programs offered by the Senior Center include creative writing, watercolor, scrapbooking,

photography club, computer skills, and knitting and stitchery and are all drop-in programs. Social

programs include a range of table games, dancing, and movie screenings. Social services offered by

the Senior Center include health screening, hot lunches served Monday through Friday, a produce

market, case management, legal assistance and haircuts. The Senior Center’s unique location at the

Centennial Recreation Center provides for older adults to utilize the health and wellness offerings at

the Centennial Recreation Center, and nearly 2,000 members are over the age of 55.

YOUTH PROGRAMS

Programs for children 3-to-18 years-old include fitness, special interest (dance, tap, cooking, drawing,

and science), sports and active recreation, and a variety of summer camp programs ranging from

sports to science. Kids Club in the CRC provides supervised activities for youth while their parents are

using CRC facilities. An average of 2,427 kids per month used the Kids Club between July 2014 and

June 2015. The 2015 CRC member survey reported that a majority of members (more than 60%)

never use Kids Club. However, there are also regular users of Kids Club, with about 10% of survey

respondents indicating that they use it three or more times per week.

In recent years the City has moved towards the use of contract class instructors to provide sports,

enrichment, and recreation programs for youth. While the City still offers a summer camp program

using its own staff, other fee based youth programs are offered through contracted providers.

The City offers two grant based afterschool programs at two apartment buildings within the City.

These programs provide service for 20-30 students and are funded through grants subsided slightly by

the City’s general fund.