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<\/a>There were 546 responses and 65 percent of those participating in the survey indicated a desire for an outdoor pool or water park, when asked what new or additional outdoor parks and recreation facility should be developed or improved.<\/p>\nThe survey results showed that participants said Two Rivers Activity Center\u00a0 (TRAC) \u00a0is the greatest strength of the Parks and Recreation department.<\/p>\n
Two Rivers Activity Center is working on fundraising for an outdoor water feature, Meidinger Splash Park, to be located outside of the TRAC building.<\/p>\n
Parks in the area have the greatest opportunity for improvement.<\/p>\n
On the value of public parks, recreation programs, trails and facilities in Jamestown, 82 percent of the respondents, 447 answered three stars or better.<\/p>\n
Asked to rate the level of satisfaction with the Parks and Rec district’s efforts in communicating with the community, 74- percent or 404 answered three stars or lower.<\/p>\n
At this month\u2019s Park Board meeting, Stevens said, “This board needs to get a cohesive agreement as a group moving forward. We asked the community questions and these are the answers.”<\/p>\n
Jamestown Parks and Recreation Commission, Chairperson, Mindi Schmitz said, “We owe it to the public to move forward with some kind of strategic plan.”<\/p>\n
It was pointed out at the meeting that the installation of bleachers on the first base side of Jack Brown Stadium, has been delayed.<\/p>\n
Originally set to begin construction on September, 25, this year the demolition and paving of concrete are now on a conditional schedule to begin October, 7 with the arrangement with a Fargo architect.\u00a0 The project costs about $200,000.<\/p>\n
It was pointed out that TRAC will receive the prestigious Golden Egg Award from the North Dakota Recreation and Park Association at a ceremony next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 Jamestown Parks and Recreation has released the results of a June 2019 public, ten question survey, created by \u00a0University of Jamestown student, Leslie Stevens. Participants were asked to rate several aspects of the department on a scale of one to five stars, with five being the highest. There […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":177786,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177704"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177787,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177704\/revisions\/177787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/177786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}