September 4, 2015

Upcoming Events

Sept 7 Labor Day

Sept 11 All Staff Tailgate Training Day at All People’s

Sept 25 All Staff Training Day at All People’s

Sep 27-Oct 16 Senior Games

Nov 6 All Staff Training Day at All People’s

Nov 13 All Staff Training Day at All People’s

Nov 14 Back to the Springs Skate Contest at NW Skate Park

Dec 11 All Staff Training Day at All People’s

Kudos Corner

“Good Afternoon, My name is Anthony Mull and I'm sending this email regarding the staff at the Teen Summer Camp at Country Place

Park. This summer was my son's second summer at the camp while visiting from Atlanta. It is rare that I've seen a teenager who was reluctant about participating, make total transition and become fully involved with the staff and his peers. I have personally watched Coach Kim along with Coach Moore and the rest of the staff embrace my son, encourage, and motivate him to the best that he can be for himself. Staff members like Coach Kim are a value to the community and I just wanted to take the time to make sure that she is acknowledged for her good work. I'm sure my son is not the only person who has had the privilege of being under her leadership.” — Anthony Mull Sr.

“I received [the above email] from a parent whose child attended the country place summer teen camp. He was really impressed with

the program and the job Coach Kim did. I would like to congratulate her on a job well done an let her know that she will be missed at Northdale.” — Pat Cullina

“Awesome job Kim! Thanks for everything you do for the community we all serve.” — Adrienne Rouse

“I received a call from Doug Zizzy, whose son attends the Camp Sparks program managed by Melinda Wheatley. Doug wanted to

take time to call and compliment the dedicated staff and program that is in place for special needs children. He expressed gratitude and amazement over the dedication shown by the staff members, and the improvements that he has seen in his child’s participation of the program. He wished to express his thanks to higher management and asked that accolades be shared with staff. I told him that I would be happy to pass along the message, and also insure that we have something posted to our employee blog highlighting the staff there.” — Michelle Sekouri, Executive Assistant to Michael S. Merrill, County Administrator

Thank you to everyone that attended the FRPA Conference this week. You all did an outstanding job representing Hillsborough

County Parks and Recreation Department. A special THANK YOU to Doc for all of your support in getting our team to Orlando and representing the county with pride.— Rick Valdez

Skip Denham’s

Retirement Luncheon

When: Wednesday, September 23,

2015

Where: Upper Tampa Bay Park

Time: 11 am – 1 pm

Please R.S.V.P. to Kathy Stone or Jason

Chilson by Friday September 11, 2015

for a proper headcount. Donations are

still being accepted.

ADMINISTRATION ARENA:

ID BADGES— Please go through Tiffany Lerch or Linda Haynes to request a new or upgraded ID Badge.

RECREATION: LUNCH LETTERS — Just a reminder that ALL lunch letters are set to expire on 10/01/15. If you are receiving lunch letters for this school year, please re-member to change the expiration date to 10/01/16. After the pass is issued, this is when the expi-ration date needs to be changed. If this date is not change, it will expire and the child will be billed at the full rate. After October 01, 2015, the date will automatically default to 10/01/16 and you will not need to change it. For families that need an updated copy, they have to call Student Nutrition Services at 813-840-7066 to make this request (only applies to those that attend Hills-borough County School District School).

For those that attended FRPA, please submit your travel documents to Linda Haynes.

RecTrac Ralley

Any RecTrac installation requests must be routed to Edith by creating an ITS STATS ticket. Please utilize the “HOW TO” document in the share folder “How to create RecTrac trouble ticket in STATS.pdf”.

“How To” Document of the week: “RecTrac HOW to print a roster with details for Rec2Six”. This document gives details of registered participants with Household Account info, emergency contacts, activity questions and pass de-tails that you can run for you location and save or print at any time.

Remember to properly exit from your RecTrac session each time you log in and exit from the system. Be sure you are pressing the “Exit” button versus clicking on the “X” to close the session.

Please refrain from having multiple RecTrac Sessions open at one time as this can cause the system to malfunction.

How To’s are available on the G:Drive here: G:\RecTrac Docs\HOW TO documents.

We had

some big

winners at

FRPA this

week!!!

Congrats

to Joe and

Kim!!