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Face-to-face interviews with selected stakeholders such as key City personnel, community leaders, school district personnel, etc., provide the opportunity to gain valuable perspective. These interviews seek insight into the City's values, strengths, weaknesses, unique attributes, distinctive competencies and initiatives as well as identify any private sector and/or non-profit organizations and their capabilities to compete or collaborate with the City in delivery of recreation services. This process lays the ground work for an engaging and active Public Involvement Process. Consultants will work with Staff to identify and schedule interviewees, with a maxiumum of eight (8) interviews to be scheduled over the course of one day. SPORTS ORGANIZATIONS QUESTIONNAIRE Soliciting the attitudes and perceived needs of recreation facilities user groups in the City is an essential element in the process. This questionnaire can achieve the objective of outreach to these community groups and it further provides valuable information regarding facility usage, team size, recreation seasonality, and player volume that is most important in an understanding of facility demand. The Consultants will provide a questionnaire form containing information relevant to the usage of recreation facilities in the City. The City will be responsible for encouraging sports organizations active in the City to complete and return the questionnaires in a timely fashion. The responses would then be tabulated and analyzed by the Consultants. COMMUNITY-WIDE TELEPHONE SURVEY The resident survey is a critical public planning tool due to its ability to statistically represent the community as a whole rather than only those stakeholders or interested citizens who choose to participate in venues such as public workshops or other survey methods (online or mail.) As such, the results of a statistically-reliable survey constitute the benchmarking tool known in the industry as recreation activity Participation Rates, as well as resident opinions and attitudes regarding recreation program and facility use and needs, giving reliable context to input received from all other forms of public participation. The scope of the community-wide telephone survey will be approximately 12 minutes in length and will garner 300 completed interviews to achieve statistical reliability of +/- 7.1% margin of error with a 95% confidence level. PUBLIC WORKSHOPS An integral component in the development of the Park and Recreation Master Plan update is our public workshop process. Our philosophy is that workshops should be facilitated by the consultant team and driven by the participants and City Staff. The goals of the workshops are three-fold: 1) To provide opportunities for the community to participate,share issues and concerns,and learn about the Master Plan Update process, 2) To foster synergistic public dialogue regarding expectations, solutions and vision, and 3) To create a pathway for the community to author recommendations regarding priorities, through consensus-building and community support development. The results of the Community-wide Survey would be presented in the course of the workshop presentations and additional program or facility needs could be solicited and catalogued. The outcome of these workshops would provide important input to prioritization of future recreation program or facility improvements in the City. The workshop process will clarify and augment the identified desires of the community developed through other public planning methods. Most importantly,the workshop process is designed to arrive at consensus regarding the priorities perceived by the public far improvements to the recreation programs and facilities system. Each of the proposed three (3) workshops as further described below includes up to a 3-hour session, inclusive, for up to 100 participants. We propose to work closely with City Staff to organize and further