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SBStat
City of South Bend
SBStat Post Meeting Notes
1/3/2019
Venues, Parks & Arts
Urgent Issues Review During Meeting:
• No urgent issues
Performance Management Memo V1 Revised: 8/16/2016
Decisions and Key Takeaways
Highlights
• My SB Parks & Trails—$60 million planned investment, $38 million invested to date
• Marketing Structure—Restructuring of Experience Division to better serve the marketing needs of the
• Chief Development Officer
• Restructuring of Deputy Director role, has yielded over $3mil in new grants & private contributions
• Boomer
• Boomer has made 25 appearances, spending around 98 hours in the community with an attendance of at least
16,000 people
• Surveys were conducted at two events—NPS = 61, 69% of respondents agreed “a great deal” or “a lot” with the
statement “Today’s event improved how I feel about my neighborhood.”
Current Projects
• Park Health Dashboard
• Updates to visualization of scoring method, additional context
• Plan to launch 1.0 public version in spring
• Recreation Surveys
• Utilizing online and SMS surveys to get feedback on classes, events, and programs.
Potential Projects
• Economic Impact Study
• Measure short-term impacts of events and construction—Chamber of Commerce has a formula
• Long-term impacts on property values and small businesses of investment in parks—would require partner-
ship with an academic institution for study
• Youth Programming Coordinator
• VPA Youth Employment—focusing on high potential, potentially at risk youth
• Potential impact study of VPA youth job program with SBCSC
Potential Topics to Discuss Next Meeting:
• Park Health Dashboard
• Recreation Survey Structure
• Continued Boomer analysis
• Economic Impact Study
• Youth Programming Coordinator strategy