Subject:
Title
Resolution acknowledging July 2025 as Parks and Recreation Month and Friday, July 18, 2025 as Parks and Recreation Professionals Day (District 4)
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Fiscal Impact:
There will be no impact to the General Fund
Dept/Office:
Parks and Recreation Department
Requested Action:
Recommendation
It is requested that the Board of County Commissioners approve a Resolution recognizing July 2025 as Parks and Recreation Month and Friday, July 18, 2025 as Parks and Recreation Professionals Day.
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Summary Explanation and Background:
Per the National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA), 2025 marks the 40th annual Parks and Recreation Month. According to their 2024 Engagement With Parks Report, people place a high value on the programs and services that park and recreation agencies deliver to their local communities every day, and strongly support their mission. The report states that ninety-three percent of U.S. adults say their mental health is improved by these services and local park and recreation agencies provide spaces, programs, and services that are essential to a community’s vitality. They also serve as key factors in advancing health equity, improving individual and community-level health outcomes, and enhancing quality of life.
In Brevard, for Fiscal Year 2024 (October 1, 2023 - September 30, 2024):
• More than 1.4 million people (duplicated) attended programs, activities, or educational opportunities sponsored by the Parks and Recreation Department (P&R) including at the Environmentally Endangered Lands sanctuaries,
• Recreation Partners and Instructors registered 95,966 individuals (duplicated) for their programs in P&R facilities and reported more than 1.1 million in attendance,
• 1,946 children participated in youth camps and accounted for 43,606 attendance days,
• 20,599 reservations were made across three campgrounds (Manatee Hammock, Wickham Park, and Long Point Campgrounds) totaling 54,795 stays,
• The Adaptive Recreation Program served 949 individuals, and
• 9,953 reservations were made for facility rentals.
Staff representing the Parks and Recreation Department will accept the Resolution.
Clerk to the Board Instructions:
Please frame 1 Resolution