2020 City of Shakopee Budget

117

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 2019 and are expected to continue growing in 2020. 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. In the years ahead, Shakopee will have opportunities to build on it's strong reputation in the field of parks and recreation by implementing key ideas proposed in the recently approved Parks, Recreation, and Trails Master Plan. Through additional partnerships and sponsorships like those that proven critical to serving our residents, Shakopee will further grow Shakopee’s sense of public pride and cohesion in our community.

EMPLOYEES

PERCENT OF GENERAL FUND EXPENDITURES

16

16

14

12

Recreation 14.4%

Actual 2017 Actual 2018 Budget 2019 Budget 2020

Number of Employees (FTEs)