City of Gonzales
PARKS & RECREATIONDEPARTMENT
ACTIVITY REPORT
TO: Honorable Mayor Rios and City Council
DATE: September 19, 2022
FROM: Patrick Dobbins, Acting City Manager
THROUGH: Carmen Gil, Interim City Manager
SUBJECT: Recreation Department Activity Report
Current Activities
1. The City of Gonzales approved a special event permit to host Circus Royal Spectacular Corporation at Centennial Park. The event took place August 11th- 14th. The Circus hosted a free showing on Saturday, August 13th for City staff, and we decided to follow up the event by hosting a BBQ at Central Park as an appreciation to our City employees.
2. Our Recreation Pool staff held their last Swim Session on August 5th. We slowly began to close the remaining programs, including night swim and water aerobics. The only programming that will remain past August is the reserved Pool Parties, which were also very popular this summer.
3. City of Gonzales Sports Recreation Department has wrapped up a successful summer season.
Youth flag football was a success along with the adult co-ed softball league.
4. Youth soccer registration ended on Aug 31st. Our overall numbers are looking great. This year, we were able to have 4 divisions. Our age divisions are age 2 ½ - 3 ½; ages 4-5; ages 6-8; and ages 9-12. Our ages 6-8 division was very popular this season. We have exceeded our maximum number of registrations in this division. This season we will have a larger number for our 6-8 division which is fantastic. We were able to register all interested players so that no one was left out. This season we have a total of 158 registered participants for soccer. We have 23 volunteers that consists of 12 head coaches, 4 assistant coaches and 7 team parents. Our first games start September 16th and 17
th. Our League will run for 6 weeks ending on October 21st and 22nd .
5. Our All-girls flag football powderpuff league was unsuccessful. We were not able to get the numbers needed to continue with the program.
AGENDA
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14 6. We are offering Open Gym once again for youth and adults. We have advertised during this month the days and times the Fairview gym will be open.
7. We had our last week of summer camp, and we ended the summer with 70 kids. On the last day of camp, we held a BBQ for the kids along with the pool staff.
8. We had a water day where the kids got to dunk staff in the dunking tank, they really loved that.
9. Kid Power after school is up and running. We opened August 15th and we had 45 children signed up.
Activities in Planning Phase
The City of Gonzales Recreation Department is working on putting together a free Halloween Movie Night for Saturday, October 29th. We will be showing Nightmare Before Christmas followed by Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. We are also collaborating with Gonzales Little League as they will be selling snacks to attendees.