New City Website Play Lodi! Activity Guide • Winter/Spring 2019 & Measure L Update
Say “Hello” to our new website! You asked. We got busy. Now go Play Lodi! We invite you to get friendly with the City’s new website, and our new website too, on Friday, January 18, 2019! The new website will provide a vastly improved online Lodi Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services experience for our residents and customers. department boasts 334 acres of parkland, 26 parks including features such as: playgrounds, picnic Whether you’re looking for information on local shelters, athletic fields and courts, community centers, parks and amenities, upcoming events, classes and performing arts theater, lake with river access, nature programs, registration information, facilities and park preserve, off-leash dog parks, swimming beach and rentals, volunteer opportunities, or FAQs, you’ll find swimming pools, skate park, boat launch, cricket it quickly with a few visually appealing clicks. The site pitch, and open spaces. With exciting programs for all was designed to provide our customers with ease of ages offered throughout the year, there are endless use and navigation, so your online experience is fast, opportunities to learn something new, refine skills, or easy, and without frustration. Requesting notifications meet new friends. Whether you play tennis or pickle on important city announcements, as well as providing ball, paddle on the lake and river, walk, run or enjoy a customer feedback, will also be fast and easy. picnic in a park, we hope you’ll take time to stay active, get outdoors, and connect with family, friends and So mark your calendar and come say “Hello” to our new nature in your favorite neighborhood park! website – we look forward to your visit!
Measure L Update November 6 was an historic day for Lodi Parks and Rec and it wasn’t because we opened a new park or began a new program. It was because you, the voters of Lodi, went to the polls and decided that our parks and recreation programs were worth supporting. By passing Measure L, you chose to live in a community in which the Parks & Rec Department will still offer arts and other enrichment classes at Hutchins Street Square, will continue summer camp and after-school programs, and will still coordinate year-round special events and recreational sports for athletes of all ages.
years, we’ve shrunk full-time staffing back to the level we had in 1968 in order to pay for overdue repairs and replace aging facilities. Our employees have been asked to do more with fewer resources at their disposal. New funding from Measure L has the potential to take off some of that burden. Although the City Council ultimately decides how to direct those dollars, the additional funding may allow us to accelerate repairing and replacing aging or missing playgrounds and make significant repairs to Lodi Lake Park. In that case, Parks & Rec can deliver improved recreation programs and services the community deserves.
November 6 lifted a dark cloud for Parks & Rec. The days are brighter. In addition to funding other essential city services, There will be a tomorrow. The you chose to live in a community that values and men and women who have chosen maintains parks, one that appreciates the role playgrounds and pools have in a child’s development, parks and recreation as a career, and those part-time employees and one that cherishes the unique natural resource who help make our programs and known as Lodi Lake Park and Nature Area. parks safe, clean and enjoyable, Preserving essential services in the face of escalating extend their sincere thanks and costs was the primary goal of Measure L, followed by deepest appreciation. Thank you, Lodi! improving those services when funding allows. For Parks and Rec, this has exciting prospects. In recent
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By Jeff Hood, PRCS Director
City of Lodi Parks, Recreation & Cultural Services
