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CPG History and Overview

The Community Partnership and Grant (CPG) Program is a key partnership tool that allows the Division to continue to provide new and exciting recreation experiences for the citizen’s of King County despite dramatic limitations in O&M funding. It is designed to match the sweat equity, recreation programming, and creative resources of sports associations, community organizations, and other non-profits with the land and capital resources of the Division.

The CPG Program was designed to be an accessible process that awards a partnership and/or grants to any organization that can demonstrate the merits of their proposal.

The CPG concept was originally recommended in 2002 by the Active Sports and Youth Recreation Commission ("ASpYRe"), a 19 member citizens advisory board appointed by the King County Executive and the King County Council. Under Executive and Council direction, the Parks Division developed the CPG program and Council approved it in 2003. It is now a key component of the Parks Business Plan.

The CPG Program is a public/private partnership program for sports associations, community organizations, and other non-profits to develop, program, and help maintain new and/or enhanced public recreation facilities on County-owned land in a manner that does not create new King County O&M costs.
Capital improvement grants are available up to $100,000 each for approved partnerships. The program is funded by the levy ($300,000 per year) and CIP funds ($300,000 per year) for a total of $600,000 per year.
Recommended in 2002 by the Active Sports and Youth Recreation Commission and the Metropolitan Parks Task Force. CPG was adopted by Council in April 2003 as a tool for the creation of new or enhanced sports and recreation facilities to meet identified regional recreation facility needs.

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The CPG Program has 3 goals:

Address unmet regional/rural public parks, sports, and recreation facility needs by creating new or enhanced facilities without adding new tax-funded operations and maintenance costs. The program allows the Division to continue to maintain its relevance in addressing present and future unmet recreation facility needs. This is especially true for adventure, destination, and emerging types of sports and recreation
Empower user groups, sports associations, and other community-based organizations to leverage their commitment, passion, and resources into new long-term, high quality, self-sustaining County parks, sports, and recreation facilities. The program provides a consistent, easily accessible platform for organizations and individuals to turn their passion for parks into on-the-ground improvements.
Develop a region-wide network of partners consisting of user groups, sports organizations, and citizens, in general, whose success is interconnected with the political, financial, and operational success of the County parks, sports, and recreation system. A network that fully embraces the Division’s mission and takes the message to their constituents and the public at large.

For questions about the Parks and Recreation Division, please contact Kathy Nygard, Assistant to the Director

For questions about the Web site for the Parks and Recreation Division, please contact Eli Brownell.

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