Following the city’s decision to not purchase the REC Center, city leaders began to pare down recreation offerings, citing lack of space.
This week Yorkville residents can expect to find slimmer winter/ spring recreation catalogues in their mailboxes. Following the city’s decision to not purchase the REC Center, city leaders began to pare down recreation offerings, citing lack of space. Laura Schraw, interim parks and recreation director for Yorkville, said the new catalogue does not include fitness classes, REC Center memberships, swim lessons or open gym activities. “…as these are a part of the REC Center budget and will no longer be offered when we leave the facility. All of those items can still be found online at the REC Center website and will be available as long as we are in the facility, just no longer marketed,” Schraw said in an email. Regular recreation …
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Mayor asks Parks and Recreation Board members to plan new recreation options during a special joint meeting of the board and aldermen.
Yorkville Mayor Gary Golinski charged members of the Parks and Recreation Board to consider new options for city-offered recreation without including the REC Center in its plans in the wake of voter opposition to a plan to purchase the building. “The park board is going to have to look at new options and move forward … I consider the purchase agreement dead,” Golinski said in a special meeting of the city council and board members. Golinski called the meeting before Thanksgiving so city officials could explore future recreation offerings and options. However, much of Tuesday’s meeting included continued support for the purchase of the REC Center by members of the Parks Board. Parks representatives touted the fiscal sense of the purchase. …
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Kibitzer
1:17 pm on Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Well, Dan wants me to "shut up". Let's take a poll: those who like to make points against unnecessary spending, and those who really think it's their right to spend other peoples' money on what they want. I suspect the latter would overwhelm the poll, since that mindset overwhelmingly elected a President who firmly agees with spending tons of cash on horribly awful programs such as abortion. I … more ›