| DEPARTMENT DESCRIPTION
The Recreation Department provides professional services,
programs, and facilities that can be enjoyed safely to promote a higher quality
of life for all residents and visitors of the City of Lake Worth.
OBJECTIVES
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To improve the athletic programs within the City by
establishing rules and procedures given by national governing bodies and
providing officials and supervision in accordance with these
regulations.
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To provide pleasurable and constructive leisure
opportunities for residents of all ages, backgrounds, and socioeconomic
classes.
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To improve and meet national standards of service
for our Leisure Services Department by maintaining a safe, professional,
and competent staff by adding training, supervision and qualified staff to
our departments.
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To improve staff morale by offering support from all
levels of management, maintaining positive two way communications, and empowering
the staff in decision making.
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To maintain, upgrade, and meet national standards on equipment
and facilities by allocating additional funds by setting up a reserve fund,
generating additional revenue and development of preventive maintenance
plans.
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To strengthen neighborhood and community life by providing
residents with the opportunity to work on special projects or programs in
a volunteer service, role, thus promoting civic pride and morale and neighborhood
unity.
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To improve the physical environment, and to make the
community a more attractive place to live, by providing a well designed and
carefully maintained network of programs and services.
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To contribute directly to a positive physical, emotional,
and social growth for the residents of our community through a varied range
of leisure experiences and involvement.
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To prevent or minimize antisocial behavior or destructive
uses of leisure, such as gang behavior, drug and alcohol abuse by providing
appealing and challenging programs under positive leadership that offer young
people desirable and enjoyable alternatives.
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To improve intergroup relations among residents of
different ethnic, religious, or social backgrounds, and to promote desirable
human values, including respect for the dignity and worth of all people,
as well as tolerance for diversity and varying lifestyles.
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To help strengthen and maintain economic health of
our community by stimulating the growth of industry, providing culture, sports
and other attractions that promote spending in the community and enhancing
residential development by improving neighborhoods.
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To promote community safety by offering activities
such as swimming lessons and sports in supervised settings, controlling or
limiting high risk activities & teaching safety principles.
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To provide vocational counseling and workshops for
the socially and economic disadvantage.
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To enrich cultural life by presenting services and
special events in the fine and performing arts: arts and crafts, painting
and music, drama and dance.
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To stimulate full public awareness of the importance
of leisure as a way of benefiting the community and fulfilling human potential;
and to promote education for leisure, as a way of benefiting the community
and fulfilling potential; and to promote education for leisure in cooperation
with other community agencies.
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