City of Gonzales
PARKS & RECREATIONDEPARTMENT
ACTIVITY REPORT
TO: Honorable Mayor Rios and City Council
DATE: July 18, 2022
FROM: Carmen Gil, Community Engagement & Strat. Partnership Dir.
THROUGH: Carmen Gil, Interim City Manager
SUBJECT: Activity Report
Current Activities
1. June was a busy month for the Aquatics Team as we prepared for a soft launch opening day on June 6, 2022, and then transitioned into a regular schedule on June 13, 2022. Our Pool staff includes 1 Pool Manager, 2 Assistant Pool Managers, 5 Lifeguards, and 8 Recreational Leaders.
2. Currently, our most popular program for Aquatics is our Swimming Lessons, which are offered weekdays and Saturday Mornings. Our Weekday Swim Lessons have an average enrollment size that ranges between 40-50 students, with each session lasting 2 weeks. Our Saturday Morning Swim Lessons are 4 weeks long and enrollment size is about 10-12 students. We just initiated our 2nd Weekday Swim Lesson Session, on June 28th.
3. We ended Kid Power after school on June 9
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. We had a pizza and ice cream party to end the year. We had 51 children for the June after school program. We then hired and trained our summer camp team.
Summer camp has a team of 18 staff; they went through a weeklong training, so they were ready to kick off summer camp. Summer camp is a seven weeklong program. It opens at 7:30am and closes at 5:30pm every day. It is $75 per week. Camp includes arts and crafts in La Gloria classroom, some park time at Central Park, big group games at the Fairview gym and of course our Gonzales swimming pool.
4. Our theme for the first week of Summer Camp was “Around the World and Personal Hygiene.” The staff did arts and crafts with the children that focused on around the world and did activities teaching the children the importance of hygiene. For our field trip for week one, the children enjoyed the movie Matilda and enjoyed some yummy snacks. Week one had 64 campers.
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11 5. Our second week theme was “Gardening and Bully free zone.” They did many arts and crafts while also learning about how things grow. They learned how to be nice to their friends and about bullying.
For our fun day, we had a bounce house come and the kids had a blast. We had 77 campers for week two. We have 5 more weeks of fun left!
6. City of Gonzales has started our Summer Adult Co-ed Softball League. This season we have 4 new teams that registered. Our 2022 season has 11 teams. We were able to have 2 divisions, a higher and lower bracket. We have approximately 160 participants in the league.
7. For the month of June, we have also started our Summer Youth Flag Football League. We have ages 5-14. We have 1 combined team in our 5-7 age group and 3 teams in our 8 to 10 age group, and 3 teams in our 11 to 14 age group. Our 5-7 division was able to collaborate with Soledad and have play two games against their 8U teams. We have a total of 61 participants, 6 coaches, 4 assistant coaches and 2 officials.
8. This summer we offered Youth and Adult Open gym. Both are two days a week. Participation is slowly picking up.
Activities in Planning Phase
1. The City of Gonzales is currently reviewing a special event permit to host Circus Royal Spectacular Corporation. The expected dates for the event are August 11th- 15th and they will be arriving to Centennial Park on August 8th, and leaving town by August 16th.
2. Gonzales has also collaborated with Soledad Recreation to introduce a new sport. South County Girls Powderpuff Flag Football League. We are hoping to have a league this Fall. Registration will begin in July.
3. Gonzales Youth Flag Football is collaborating with South County and will be participating in a Flag Football tournament on Saturday July 9th. Greenfield will be hosting the event. Four of our teams, 2 from our 8-10 division and 2 from our 11-14 division will be participating in the tournament.