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Pillar 4: Organizational Stability

Ensuring the benefits of Parks and Recreation and its services are available to our community in
perpetuity.

Objective 4.1: Recruit and retain qualified employees.

Strategy 4.1a: Ensure employee success by creating a comprehensive employee development
plan to include, but not limited to, on-boarding, continuing education, and workforce
advancement models. Develop and implement a succession plan
Strategy 4.1b: Use new and innovative recruitment method

Strategy 4.1c: Enhance opportunities to reward employee performance with the goals to
increase employee morale, create ownership in the organization’s success, engage employees
and increase retention rates
Strategy 4.1d: Engage staff on a regular basis on how the working environment could be
adjusted to positively impact employee performance and create a feedback loop to determine if
appropriate impact is achieve

Objective 4.2: Focus on capturing the maximizing funding possible for all Departmental
assets
Strategy 4.2a: Strategically allocate equitable funding for museums and other not-for-profit
partners with building governance boards and fundraising tools specifically including, but not
limited to, The Black Archives of Mid-America and the Bruce R. Watkins Cultural Heritage Center
and Museum
Strategy 4.2b: Align programming with annual leisure trends to increase cost recovery potential
including the most popular activities from the 2022 leisure trend analysis for the Kansas City
metropolitan area of exercise walking, exercise with equipment, hiking, aerobic exercise, and
swimming
Strategy 4.2c: Increase Parks & Recreation sales tax with a focus on capturing online use tax

Strategy 4.2d: Decrease and eventually eliminate Parks & Recreation funding appropriated to
items not directly associated with the Department of Parks and Recreation
Strategy 4.2e: Pursue and support existing “Friends Of” groups and Conservancies for large
Regional Parks including Swope Park, Penn Valley Park, Blue Valley Park, Roanoke Park, Mark
McHenry Park, Hodge Park, Anne Garney Park, James A. Reed Park, Indian Creek Greenway,
Buckeye Greenway, or others
Strategy 4.2f: Strategically pursue grants that align with the four pillars of this plan: Social Equity,
Health and Wellness, Conservation, and Organizational Stability

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