2019 City of Shakopee Budget

113

Budget Impact: Shakopee’s parks, trails, and recreation facilities improve the local tax base and increase property values. National studies cite quality parks and recreation as key factors that businesses and prospective homeowners consider when making relocation decisions. Consequently, Shakopee’s parks, trails, and recreation facilities are a tangible reflection of the high quality of life available to citizens in the community. Shakopee is a community that affords residents access to programs and places which can help reduce stress, lower health care costs, and deepen connections with others, as well as opportunities and spaces to explore the community and recreate outdoors in nature. The trending growth in Community Center and Ice Arena key measures reflect the positive return on investment in these critical facilities. Memberships and rental hours translate to increased revenues for both facilities in 2018 and are expected to continue growing in 2019. Parks and Recreation Staff constantly strive to ensure that customers have a great experience every time they step into a facility, participate in a program, or attend an event in a Shakopee park. Some staffing positions have a tremendous amount of turnover and filling those vacancies is very difficult with such a competitive market in today’s economy. Staffing will remain a constant challenge because it is the key to quality customer service and to maintaining quality programs and facilities. Shakopee has a strong reputation in the field of parks and recreation having been featured in magazines and recognized with awards at the local and state level in the past few years. The amazing partnerships and sponsors that have proven critical to serving our residents and building that reputation will continue to be key players as we move forward with the new master plan. Incredible opportunities await to add new partnerships and further grow Shakopee’s sense of public pride and cohesion in our community.

EMPLOYEES

PERCENT OF GENERAL FUND EXPENDITURES

14

14

12

9

Recreation 14.4%

Actual 2016 Actual 2017 Budget 2018 Budget 2019

Number of Employees (FTEs)