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Everett Parks and Recreation Parks <br />Capital Improvement Program <br />Introduction <br />Planning, maintaining and creating great parks is dependent <br />on a process that balances the ideas and values of our <br />community towards public spaces with the impact of park <br />development cost to supply recreation programs, to build new <br />facilities and to maintain them. <br />The 2009 - 2014 Capital Improvements Plan is an in-depth <br />analysis of the Everett Parks and Recreation Department and <br />its relationship with the community and various public and <br />private agencies. It looks at where the department has been, <br />where it is, and where it needs to go in order to both meet <br />current demands and to make plans for the future. It includes <br />recommendations for maintaining existing parks, facilities, <br />services, and programs, as well as for adding new ones where <br />appropriate. Each of these recommendations are based on <br />community surveys, the goals and objectives of the Parks <br />Department as identified in the Strategic Master Plan, and the <br />state of current parks and facilities, illustrating the <br />department's sensitivity to the needs of our constantly <br />changing city. <br />Upon formal adoption by the City Council, it will become an <br />official document and be included as an element in the City's <br />Comprehensive Plan. It will also enable the Parks Department <br />to maintain eligibility for federal and state grants, administered <br />by the Washington State Recreation and Conservation office. <br />Legal Requirements <br />This document serves as the six-year Capital Improvement <br />Program (CIP) for Everett Parks and Recreation which is <br />required under the Revised Code of Washington, RCW <br />79A.25.120 <br />00 RCW 79A.25.120 <br />Plans for public outdoor recreation land acquisition or <br />improvement <br />Any public body or any agency of state government authorized <br />to acquire or improve public outdoor recreation land which <br />desires funds from the outdoor recreation account, the <br />recreation resource account, or the non -highway and off-road <br />vehicle activities program account shall submit to the board a <br />long-range plan for developing outdoor recreation facilities <br />within its authority and detailed plans for the projects sought to <br />be financed from these accounts, including estimated cost and <br />such other information as the board may require. The board <br />shall analyze all proposed plans and projects, and shall <br />recommend to the governor for inclusion in the budget such <br />projects as it may approve and find to be consistent with an <br />orderly plan for the acquisition and improvement of outdoor <br />recreation lands in the state. <br />Vision, Relationship to Strategic Diaster <br />Plan, Purpose and Process <br />Our Vision <br />"Our Vision is to be viewed as a best -in -class Parks and <br />Recreation provider that is centered on meeting the <br />community values that support Everett citizens' and visitors' <br />needs and desires for cost effective and accessible parks, <br />recreation facilities and programs for people of all ages." <br />Relationship to Strategic Master Plan (SMP) <br />The six year plan for capital improvements described in this <br />document is based on the goals, direction, inventory, public <br />involvement process and demands and needs analysis <br />developed in the City of Everett's Parks and Recreation <br />Strategic Master Plan adopted by the Everett City Council on <br />March 21, 2007. The Strategic Master Plan is available for <br />view at the Everett Parks Department Website, Everett Public <br />2 Everett Parks and Recreation <br />