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From YouTube: This Week in Ames
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Outgoing Parks and Recreation Director Nancy Carroll stops by Studio 16 to discuss her 28 years with the City of Ames.
A
A
This
will
be
your
last
appearance
here
on
this
weekend.
Ames.
We
thank
you
so
much
for
spending
some
time
with
us.
We
thought
we'd
take
a
little
bit
of
time
to
sort
of
look
back
on
your
career.
It's
been
long
and
very
successful.
Maybe
you
would
have
an
opportunity
to
share
with
us
some
of
those
success
stories
over
the
years.
B
B
You
know,
really
up
front
with
the
community
of
ames
that
I
love
my
job
and
I
have
loved
it
for
28
years
and
it
wasn't
a
decision
that
I
made
lightly,
because
I
still
had
a
lot
of
energy
for
the
job
and
was
really
looking
forward
to
a
lot
of
the
exciting
projects
that
are
on
the
horizon
and,
in
addition,
I
love.
The
people
I
work
with
both
internally
in
the
city
of
ames,
as
well
as
the
residents
of
Ames.
B
A
B
Right
spot
on-
and
I
think
that's
where
you
always
have
to
start
in
that
start.
You
know
with
the
this
the
city
leadership
of
steve
shanker,
you
know
as
the
city
manager
he
hired
me
when
I
was
in
my
early
30s
and
I
was
just
so
thankful
that
he
did
and
he
was
taking
a
risk
because
I
hadn't
been
a
director
and
I
was,
you
know,
nervous
stepping
into
a
larger
arena
and
with
his
leadership
and
the
expectations
where
we
always
started
from
day.
One
was:
what
do
the
residents
want?
B
What
do
our
customers
want,
and
so
we
always
tried
to
keep
that
at
the
forefront
of
our
thought
process
each
and
every
day,
and
with
that
being
said,
when
we
first
when
I
first
began,
then
back
in
1991,
that's
what
we
started.
We
started
to
canvass
the
community.
We
had
a
lot
of
focus
group,
we
did
surveys
and
we
really
just
tried
to
get
calibrated
around.
B
What
were
the
most
important
needs
in
the
not
only
the
recreation
side
of
the
the
department,
but
also
on
the
park
side
and
its
then
a
journey
that
took
us
really
through
the
last
few
years
of
facility
improvements
and
adding
parkland,
and
you
know
just
always
having
a
vision
of
where
you're
trying
to
go
and
so
I
think
that's
what
we
really
started
back
in
the
early
90s
and
it's
been
a
great
road
map
being
driven
by
what
the
residents
of
Ames
do
or
don't
want.
You.
A
A
B
That's
right,
so
so
you
spot
on
again
in
1991
when
we
started
really
getting
out
and
talking
to
people
and
trying
to
get
calibrated
or
what
were
the
next.
You
know
15
to
20
years,
really
going
to
look
like
because
it
takes
a
long
time
to
make
significant
changes
with
infrastructure.
If
you
will
a
facility
development
or
park
development,
and
so
we
started
to
understand
pretty
early
on
that.
A
lot
of
the
facilities
we
had
were
hand-me-downs
and
that
might
sound
a
little
strange.
B
But
but
a
lot
of
facilities
that
we
were
operating
back
then
were
things
that
other
people
either
didn't
want
anymore
and
they'd
sold
to
the
city
or
we
had
gone
out
and
pursued
them.
So
a
couple
of
quick
examples:
the
the
pools
you
know,
carpool
was
awesome,
I
learned
to
swim
there
when
I
was
a
small
child,
but
yet
it
was
starting
to
age,
and
we
were
also
back
in
the
early
90s
starting
to
see
a
different
transition
to
these
aquatic
centers
gateway
pool.
B
You
know
it
also
served
as
the
the
Ames
golf
and
country
club.
It
was
built
in
the
early
40s.
The
Homewood
golf
course
it's
awesome
and
it's
a
fabulous
facility,
but
it
was
showing
some
age
to
it
had
been
owned
privately
and
the
city
that
had
acquired
it.
So
it
needed
some
little
TLC.
If
you
will
so
just
a
lot
of
our
facilities
needed
some
oomph
and
we
needed
to
kind
of
turn
a
corner
to
get
some
new
facilities.
B
The
Ames
is
you
I
Serena
that
was
built
because
volunteers
saw
a
need
and
they
they
met,
that
need
in
the
late
70s.
But
yet
the
compressors
were
from
on
Ice
Arena
that
had
closed
in
chicago
and
the
flooring
underneath
the
ice
didn't
have
a
sub
floor
heating
system,
so
the
ice
was
was
starting
to
heave.
So
that
was
another
huge
need
so
again,
kind
of
second
hand,
a
lot
of
used,
major
facilities
that
we
really
started
to
see
we
needed
to
get
after
so.
B
We
started
go
out
again:
we've
always
tried
to
keep
the
residents
engaged
in
the
conversation,
and
a
lot
of
the
leadership
was
through
back
then
in
the
mid-90s,
through
the
Parks
and
Recreation
Commission,
and
specifically,
they
started
to
go
out
and
say
well,
will
you
pass
a
bond
issue
or
will
you
support?
You
know
your
property
tax
is
going
up
because
when
we
start
talking
about
a
new
Ice
Arena
an
aquatic
center,
you
know
those
costs.
As
you
know,
millions
of
dollars.
B
So
you
have
to
make
sure
people
are
going
to
vote
YES,
or
at
least
sixty
percent
plus
are
going
to
vote.
Yes,
so
the
Parks
and
Recreation
Commission
went
out
and
did
a
great
job
in
the
mid
90s
to
really
canvas
the
community.
In
addition,
we
always
have
been
big
in
this
community,
and
this
is
leadership
that
starts
with
the
mayor
in
the
City
Council
and
administration,
Iowa,
State,
University
and
administration
in
the
school
board.
B
Those
three
within
this
within
Ames
Iowa
have
always
had
a
collaborative
spirit,
and
that
has
just
been
paramount
to
the
success.
We've
we've
realized
for
the
residents
because,
let's
just
use
the
Ames
is
you
Ice
Arena,
we
needed
a
new
one,
and
yet
if
the
city
would
try
to
do
one
on
their
own
and
the
university
would
have
tried
to
do
one
on
their
own,
neither
of
us
would
have
done
it
very
well
because
there
are
very
expensive
operation
but
doing
it
together
and
literally
we
co-own
the
ice
arena
with
the
university.
B
We
start
with
public
programming
at
five
a.m.
until
about
nine
a.m.
the
university
comes
in
with
some
programs
during
the
day
Ames.
My
hockey
comes
in
for
iOS
8
early
evening,
Ames
minor
hockey
and
that's
college
student
to
get
until
2am.
That
really
makes
an
efficient
operation
when
you're
doing
that.
So
we
then
again
could
sell
that
to
the
public
and
they
voted.
Yes,
we
got
a
new
beautiful.
It's
now,
11
years
old,
Ice
Arena
the
same
moving
forward,
then
for
ada
hayden.
B
That
was
another
huge
addition
to
this
community
and
it
started
because
a
lot
of
environmentalists
understood
in
particular
from
iowa
state
university
that
water
quality
in
that
Lake
was
everything
to
our
secondary
water
supply
during
droughts
and
so
with
again
Iowa
State
expertise
and
being
able
to
educate
the
public
about
that
aims.
Residents,
as
you
well
know,
they're
there
they
want
to
be
proactive
and
they
want
to
manage
resources.
Well.
That
bond
issue
was
tremendously
successful.
B
I
think
it
was
in
the
eighty
percent
tile
that
we
passed
that
and
we
also
went
out
and
got
of
1.5
million
dollar
vision,
iowa
grant.
That
was
huge
to
help
kind
of
lower
some
of
the
the
cost
of
the
ames
resident.
So
that's
that's
kind
of
again
what
we
started
to
do,
but
you
can
kind
of
hear
the
red
thread
and
all
of
that.
B
A
B
B
She
was
a
naturalist
in,
and
so
now
the
new
director
in
the
parks,
recreation,
commission
they
ultimately
the
City
Council
and
the
resident
will
get
to
figure
out
how
to
to
wisely
invest
that
that
tremendous
gift
and
I
I
use
that
as
another
example
of
relationships
and
people
seeing
a
need
and
having
vision
that
was
gatel
again
and
wanting
to
make
a
difference
in
this
community
long
term.
You
know
there's
been
conversation
that
there
could
be
a
private
property
owner
in
far
west
ames.
B
It
has
an
80
acre
parcel
that
we
might
be
able
to
to
connect
giggles
bequest
with
with
that
land.
That's
still
going
to
take
a
few
more
months
to
unfold,
so
I
won't
be
in
the
position
of
influence
in
that
per
se.
But
I
know
again
a
lot
of
good
people
are
involved
in
and
and
that
money
will
still
be
be
put
to
wise
use.
So.
A
In
your
career,
you've
seen
the
success
of
Manning
projects
and
really
bolstered
this
community
and
adding
to
the
humanities,
keeping
people
here
to
enjoy
those
things
and
allowing
them
not
to
have
to
travel
miles
to
go
for
something
else.
As
you
move
into
the
next
chapter
of
your
life,
it
seems
like
a
lot
of
those
skills
that
you've
developed
here
will
help
you
in
your
next
step.
Yeah.
B
I
sure
hope
so
on
that
that
is
my
goal.
You
know
to
make
sure
and
keep
relationships
at
the
forefront
and-
and
you
know-
and
we
didn't
talk
about-
but
I
really
do
want
to
speak
to
just
quickly
that
that
we
talked
a
lot
about
the
capital
improvements
that
we
made,
but
we
also
within
Parks
and
Recreation,
and
this
is
attributed
to
the
22
full-time
employees.
B
So
I
want
to
make
sure
we
touch
upon
that,
because
I
have
been
blessed
to
be
encircled
with
great
painful
doing
great
stuff.
For
all
of
that
time,
it
was
huge.
So
now
transitioning
video
I
have
a
tag
line
and
it's
it
in
my
mind,
lots
of
times
it's
great
results
through
great
relationships
and
I.
Just
believe
that
if
you
have
that
as
kind
of
a
mantra,
you
will
have
good
things
happen
because
it's
all
usually
based
out
of
what
someone's
relationship
and
they're
working
dynamics.
B
And
then,
if
you
have
a
vision
and
you
try
to
go
somewhere,
you
put
people
around
that.
Hopefully
good
things
will
happen
and
my
next
position
will
be
with
the
ministry.
I've
been
going
to
the
same
church
since
1989
and
we
have
an
outreach
called
build
international
and
the
essence
of
what
I'll
be
trying
to
do
is
help
fund
higher
education
degrees
and
we're
within
the
states.
We
do
it
and
then
also
globally
and
as
an
example,
the
paradigm
of
when
people
used
to
try
to
come
to
seminaries
and
they
would
leave
their
their
home.
B
We
tried
we
take
it
to
them
where
they're
at,
and
so
we
go
through
the
local
church
throughout
the
throughout
the
world,
and
we
can
do
it
pretty
economically,
but
yet
it
still
costs
about
five
thousand
dollars
to
get
someone
a
degree
but
a
bachelor's,
a
masters,
a
doctorate
in
their
local
church.
We
go
to
them,
but
one
of
my
roles
as
director
of
fun
development
will
be
trying
to
find
resources,
because
you
know
some
of
the
the
India
in
particular.
B
B
I'm
very
excited
about
that
build
international
is
located
out
of
our
church,
which
is
out
on
Oakwood
Road
and
aims.
So,
though,
I'll
have
maybe
some
travel
which
I'm
excited
about.
That
would
be
a
new
venture
for
me,
generally
speaking,
I'll
be
here
and
and
trying
to
work
that
that
new
new
role
and
responsibility
so.
B
Well,
thank
you,
and,
and
again
it
didn't
come
easy
to
make
the
decision,
as
you
well
know
and
I
want
to
thank
you,
know
the
residents
of
Ames,
first
and
foremost
for
their
support
over
all
these
years,
and
there
have
been
so
many
people
have
been
instrumental
in
making
the
success
that
we've
realized
within
the
community
of
aim.
So
thank
you
to
a
lot
of
you,
folks
that
have
worked
with
me
directly
and
then
provided
wise
counsel
and
insight.
You
know
I.
I
also
want
to
speak
to
that.
B
We
have
had
the
best
leadership
in
this
in
this
community.
People
don't
know
it,
but
we
for
again
the
28
years
I've
been
here.
It
started
for
me
personally
with
the
city
manager.
Steve
has
been
just
instrumental
to
me.
There's
no
one
I
would
have
wanted
to
work
for
or
with
more
than
Steve
shanker
he's
awesome
and
his
leadership
and
wisdom
in
my
life
professionally
has
been
just
just
amazing,
and
then
it
goes
of
course
to
the
mayor's
and
the
City
Council's
that
we've
had
and
the
park's
new
creation
commissions.
B
The
leadership
at
those
levels
is
why
we
get
good
stuff
to
happen
and
then,
of
course,
the
residents
support
it
so
and
then
again
all
the
500
employees
that
the
city
of
aliens
as
you
well
know,
they're
awesome
people
doing
awesome
stuff.
So
it's
it's
that
whole
package,
so
I'm
very
appreciative
to
so
many
people
and
again
it's
hard
to
leave.
But
I
do
look
forward
to
my
new
ventures
and
and
I'll
be
here
so
I'll
be
watching
and
I'm
excited
for
how
Ames
is
going
to
continue
to
do
great
stuff
moving
forward.
A
A
Well,
it's
still
awfully
cold
out,
but
it's
not
too
soon
to
start
thinking
about
the
firm
and
Aquatic
Center
you
can
get
season
passes
and
discounted
season
passes
right
now.
Ten
percent
discount
for
early
purchase
and
if
you
renew
your
2012
season,
pass
before
May
fifteenth
you'll
get
a
20-percent
discount.
Also
remember,
as
we
get
into
early
februari
budget
hearings
are
being
held.
You
want
to
check
the
schedule
on
our
website.
That's
at
city
of
ames
org.
Well,
that's
our
show
for
today,
thanks
for
watching
and
tune
in
next
week
for
this
week
in
Ames.