OUR PROGRAMS & SERVICES

The Parks and Recreation Department offers over 240 programs and services from athletics to aquatics, summer camps to teen programs and therapeutic recreation.

Our professional staff are responsible for managing all recreation programs and special community-wide events, and operating multiple facilities. We also partner with other organizations on shared initiatives. All of this requires year-round planning and coordination as well as evaluation of all programming and activities.

Getting The Mix Right

Our mission is to ensure access to outstanding programs, services and community amenities that contribute to the quality of life in Tracy. To realize this vision, it is important to identify and understand our Core Program Areas. This provides a way to focus on the activities and outcomes of greatest importance to the community as informed by current and future needs.

Today, what we offer in our core program areas of after-school programs, aquatics, athletics, camps, community events, enrichment classes, and health and wellness meet many of the recreation needs of community. Our program mix must be evaluated on a regular and recurring basis to ensure that the offerings align with changing leisure and recreation trends, demographics, and the needs and wants of residents.

Program Lifecycle

A lifecycle analysis involves reviewing every program to determine the stage of growth or decline for each as a way of informing strategic decisions about the overall recreation program portfolio. The various stages of program lifecycles are as follows:

> Introduction - New program; modest participation

> Take-Off - Rapid participation growth

> Growth - Moderate, but consistent participation growth

> Mature - Slow participation growth

> Saturated - Minimal to no participation growth; extreme competition

> Decline - Declining participation

We find that today nearly a quarter of our programs fall into the Saturated and Decline categories, where we would aim to have fewer progams.

It is important to have a stable core of programs in the Mature stage. Currently, about a quarter of programs fall in this category significantly lower than the recommended 40%.

A little over half our programs are in the Introduction, Take-Off and Growth stages, which is in line with the recommended distribution of 5060%. Allowing these programs one to two years to reach the maturation stage will prevent the City from canceling programs too soon after introducing them to the community.

AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS

Provide a safe and fun environment for participants during after-school hours on school campuses. Providing affordable enrichment opportunities that include homework help, arts and crafts, and recreational activities.

AQUATICS

ATHLETICS

CAMPS

COMMUNITY EVENTS

ENRICHMENT

HEALTH AND WELLNESS

Provide aquatics classes, water exercise, camps, and programs for youth and adults ages 6 months and up. Provide life saving water safety skills though aquatic classes, for youth, teens, and adults.

Provide physical activities and fitness related to sports, competition, and physical activity for youth and adults ages 5 and up.

Provide enrichment, health, and wellness and specialty courses for children, youth, and teens.

Provide events to engage the community and local vendors and businesses.

Provide enrichment classes and programs for children, youth, teens, adults, and older adults.

Provide health and wellness classes and programs for children, youth, teens, adults, and older adults.