Recreation through Community Partnerships

About this measure: Since 2002 Parks has been empowered to engage in 'good-government' initiatives and embrace non-traditional ways of doing business. This transformation from a centrally funded service provider to an entrepreneurial, performance-driven organization ensures that parks serve to enhance communities and our regional quality of life, even during tight fiscal times. This measure tracks the Division's success in developing, programming, and/or maintaining new public recreational opportunities through community-based partnerships using grants and land-use agreements under the Community Partnerships and Grant Programs.

Recreation Partnership sub-measures:

1. Number of users benefiting from structured recreational opportunities provided by community-base partners
2. Number of users benefiting from non-structured recreational opportunities provided by community-based partners
3. Financial match leveraged through community-base partners

2006 results: This measure was not developed in time to collect 2006 data

Influencing factors: The primary factors affecting the growth of new recreational opportunities provided by community-based partners are the availability of facilities and/or easily developable park land that is suitable for any given recreation activity and the amount of capital investment made via the Community Partnerships and Grants (CPG) Program for any given project.

The financial match leveraged through community based partners is primarily influenced by amount of the CPG grant and the wherewithal of the partner to fundraise, seek in-kind donations, develop volunteers, as well as, identify and apply the related professional skills of its members or stakeholders. The overall potential for matching resources is also dependent on the type of facility being developed, constructed, or operated, as well as the related programming's revenue-generating capacity.

Strategy going forward: King County Parks will continue to identify and/or create recreation opportunity development opportunities and match those opportunities with community-based partners through grants and land use agreements under the Community Partnerships and Grants (CPG) Program. King County Parks will also continue to identify community partnership opportunities within the annual capital budget prioritizing process.

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