Project Overview: 

In 2002 the City of St. Paul retained Brauer & Associates to engage the public and City staff in a broad-based assessment of the Recreation Services Section of the Saint Paul Parks and Recreation.  The system study plan was completed in 2003.

 

Recreation Services System Study

BRAUER & ASSOCIATES, LTD.

LAND USE PLANNING AND DESIGN

City of St. Paul, Minnesota

Key Plan Highlights include:

•  Reorganizing Saint Paul Parks and Recreation to be more effective, efficient, and accountable

•  Improving internal planning capabilities to ensure services, programs, and facilities are in alignment with needs and desired community benefits

•  Instituting stronger management practices and performance measurement standards to be more accountable for how fiscal, human, and physical resources are used

•  Shifting service delivery from a director-based system to a service-based system.  This will allow much greater flexibility to direct human resources where they best meet community needs at any point in time

•  Maintaining the integrity of the current recreation center system in a sustainable manner

•  Providing an improvement in service to citizens.

 

Brauer & Associates, Ltd. Services:

•  Facilitation of public involvement

•  Preparation of assessment of findings

•  Preparation of alternative recreational services options

•  Preparation of recreational services plan for adoption by the City

•  Ongoing consulting on as-needed basis at the direction of the Director of Parks and Recreation