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From YouTube: MADISON ON THE MOVE: Parks and Recreation
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Check out the latest video highlighting the great things happening in our parks!
A
Madison
is
a
very
blessed
community.
We
have
such
a
comprehensive
park
system
spanning
220
acres,
that
includes
27
different
parks
and
facilities
and
within
that
span,
you've
got
municipal
golf
course,
campground
with
over
34
sites,
a
multi-sports
complex
dog
park,
and
then
your
entire
riverfront
essentially
is
a
park
in
our
backyard
here.
A
So
we've
got
a
very
good
system
in
place
for
all
of
our
citizens
and
the
hundreds
of
thousands
of
people
that
visit
each
year
at
the
end
of
2020
did
some
analysis
and
found
that
the
parks
was
losing
and
leaking
money
through
a
couple
different
areas.
So
the
main
biggest
one
that
we
found
was
with
the
golf
course.
A
We
realized
that
the
golf
course
was
losing
upwards
of
400
000
a
year
span
that
out
over
a
couple
of
decades,
there's
a
couple
million
dollars
that
was
just
being
leaked
out
from
our
entire
park
system.
One
of
our
big
endeavors
was
just
creating
fiscally
responsible
facilities
with
the
campground.
We
were
able
to
double
our
profits
within
one
year
and
with
the
golf
course
we're
able
to
reduce
the
deficit,
we're
trying
to
continue
that
trajectory
and
that
trend
so
that
we
can
create
more
capital
and
revenue
to
reinvest
into
our
park
system.
Mayor.
B
Courtney
has
been
fantastic
to
give
me
the
liberties
to
try
some
of
the
online
items
that
I've
I've
used
in
my
past
experiences
to
help
bring
our
golf
course
forward,
made
significant
investments
on
the
inside
renovations
to
the
golf
shop
to
spruce
it
up
and
improve
our
pro
shop
inside
and
just
the
experience
the
customer
has
when
they
come
off.
The
golf
course
to
make
it
a
whole
golf
experience.
B
The
golf
course
should
be
the
breadwinner
of
all
the
park
systems
and
we
want
to
help
develop
other
parks
in
the
area,
the
dog
park
and
and
the
riverfront
and
the
campground
and
crystal
beach
and
and
all
of
that
and
the
tools
that
the
mayor's
given
me
to
to
advance
this.
This
is
a
business
is
going
to
pay
off
in.
A
The
future
for
us
parks
and
recreation
is
essential
to
the
overall
quality
of
life
for
the
city
of
madison.
We
did
a
survey
earlier
in
the
year
leading
up
to
our
five
year
master
plan,
and
the
overwhelming
result
from
that
survey
was
that
people
placed
a
very
high
emphasis
on
outdoor
recreation,
especially
on
the
heels
of
covid
you're.
Seeing
more
and
more
emphasis
put
on
that
on
outdoor
recreation
on
the
benefits
that
has
mentally
and
physically
for
those
of
all
ages.
A
And
that's
what
I
think
mayor
courtney
in
this
administration
has
really
tried
to
focus
on
with
madison,
creating
investment
bringing
in
outside
business,
doing
things
a
little
bit
differently
and
being
business
minded
that
is
going
to
help
improve
the
quality
of
life,
so
that
people
want
to
not
just
visit
here.
They
want
to
stay
here.
This.
C
Year,
we've
expanded
our
baseball
and
softball
down
to
the
t-ball
level,
which
is
something
that
the
parks
department
of
madison
hasn't
done
in
20-plus
years.
We're
looking
at
more
avenues
to
attract
kids
and
adults
and
seniors
to
all
of
our
programming.
Our
goal
at
the
start
of
2022
was
to
increase
all
programming
by
20
percent,
with
participation
numbers
and
with
the
basketball
season
that
we
had
in
the
beginning
of
the
year
and
into
our
baseball,
softball
and
t
wall.
We've
already
expanded
our
programming
20
with
participation.
A
Numbers
something
else
that
we've
been
working
on
throughout
the
park
system
is
the
upgrade.
So
I've
talked
about
the
years
of
deferred
maintenance
and
stuff
we're
working
on
upgrading
the
neighborhood
parks,
as
well
as
all
of
our
recreational
outdoor
activities.
Just
trying
to
give
back
to
the
community
trying
to
make
that
investment
a
priority
working
towards
keeping
madison
clean,
safe
and
beautiful.