The Nampa City Council met on April 29, 2026, to receive the annual department update from the Parks and Recreation Department. The presentation covered the department’s master plan goals, organizational efficiencies, division-by-division accomplishments and challenges, and capital requests for fiscal year 2027. The meeting included discussion of staffing, budget, proposed projects, and revenue models. No public comments were received. The meeting adjourned unanimously.
Which one I rather do. No, I know I rather hear the work. I got two more days that I can go through if I can get the final three time. I wouldn't want the math sale for I'm ready for it. And then we couldn't get the one girls. I'm glad you let me know because the email is what I need to fix on my laptop this morning. Good morning. We're gonna get started with uh our department update uh meeting this morning. And uh so I'm calling the meeting to order and Councilman Reynolds will give the imitation and lead us in the pledge. Dear God, thank you for today. Thank you for watching over us. Uh watch over us and how we treat others as we go through the rest of our week. Thank you for everything you give us. Jesus' name we pray. Amen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. So clerk will call the roll. So today is uh another annual department update and we're gonna hear from Cody to begin with and his team, and we appreciate uh parks and I know the community appreciates uh the efforts of the parks department. So rather than in with good comments, I'm gonna start off and say it's greatly appreciated as far as what goes on throughout the city on the parks and the activity, the maintenance, the upkeep from there, the pre-planning, the dealing with new construction dealing with uh flip-flop of policy from now on from off and on, all those good things. Cody, appreciate it. Thank you, Sweden. It's yours. Councilman uh Bills and City Council, thank you for uh time this morning to give the presentation for our annual update for Napa Parks and Recreation Department. Cody Swander, director of the facility of the department um in this role now just at a year point. So it's been a great year for me. I'm excited to uh have such a great team to work with. Um I have my management team with me here today as we kind of go through the slides. Um we'll kind of introduce those. If you want to go ahead and flip ahead, Jennifer. Um we have uh representation from our recreation outdoor pools um with uh Courtney Mills. Courtney is our new recreation manager. Um she replaced Beech Johnson in February of this year. Uh she might look like a new face to some, but she has been with the City of NAMPA in previous roles in the past. We're serving as the manager of the Harwood Recreation Center, and prior to that in recreation department with programming and uh some of the youth programs. We also have um Tony Blazius, he is our golf manager with us today. He oversees for the four golf divisions. Um Burkey is the current uh Harwood Recreation Center manager. Um Jennifer Ayala Vanderpool is the our business manager for our our department. And Tim Zofrin is our parks and grounds manager, and he's fairly new in his role. He backfilled my previous position overseeing the maintenance teams with uh parks, forestry, and cemetery. All right. Um today's topics, we're gonna go over. We're gonna go over several things. Um part of that is gonna be discussion of our master plan goals. Um we're gonna talk about how those from our 2024 master plan planning exercise our department underwent and how we're working to implement those. Um we're gonna talk about who we are and what we do and our de and how our department is taking a conscious look at the services we provide, how we're doing and whether we're doing the right things. We're gonna look at efficiencies, and that section is going to look at our how our department is doing the most work we can within our budgets and looking at how much tax subsidy is needed to provide our services. We're gonna highlight each of the divisions' responsibilities and accomplishments as we go through each of them. We're also gonna look at our department's future planning for each division's areas, both long and short term. And then we're gonna go through our fiscal year 27 um capital requests.