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6 | June 28, 2018 | The Mokena Messenger news mokenamessenger.com Park District to roll out community-wide survey Megan Schuller Freelance Reporter A public input meeting held June 14 by the Mokena Community Park District was the first step in making a long-term master plan for the park district. Input will be taken both from the meeting and a community-wide randomized survey that is scheduled to roll out the second week of July. It will be sent out in three formats: a mailed written survey, phone survey and an email survey. After the data comes back from that, the survey will be posted publicly for anyone to take. Executive Director of the Mokena Community Park District Mike Selep said that the park district will set priorities for the master plan based on the information they receive. “We’re really looking for community feedback from this survey,” Selep said. “The more people that participate, the more rich the results are to us so we can make sure we’re serving everyone in the community.” The reason for the randomized survey before the open survey — which, according to Selep, will be the same survey — is so that the results can be compared. This ensures that the results are not skewed and that it represents the community as a whole, instead of just those who are actively involved. The survey will look to find out the community’s familiarity and satisfaction with the facilities, how they learned about the park district, recreation programs, possible parks spaces and priorities for future projects. The park district contracted Design Perspectives, Inc to conduct the survey. The firm worked with Frankfort Park District in the spring of 2017 to do a site plan and design for a playground replacement that is scheduled to be constructed in August. “Given our small staff, we’re not able to do the work. We don’t have a landscape architect or designer on site,” said Frankfort Park District Executive Director Gina Hassett. “They’ve helped move park projects forward that we don’t have in-house staff for. They provide a lot of personalized attention.” President of Design Perspectives Consulting Firm Tod Stanton said the process of coming up with a master plan is typically eight months from start to finish. “The last step is creating objectives based on the community input and evaluation of the data on physical ammenidities of the park system,” Stanton said. “We’ll take that and give them direction on where they should be in the next several years.” The master plan is meant to map out the next five to seven years utilizing the resources the park district has and plans to have in the future to improve the parks. “Part of the survey is looking at how we can utilize different parts of land that still need to be developed,” Selep said. “The one piece of property, The Yunker Farm Property, we’ll be working closely with the Village to see how we can utilize that particular project to enhance Yunker Farm Park and turn that into a way to further develop downtown Mokena.” The cost for the consulting firm is $50,000 to conduct the research, planning and development phases. Selep said that there are clear advantages in using the firm because of their expertise of more than 15 years in the field and unbiased, statistically significant data. “This can show us in a quantifiable way what the community wants,” Selep said. The park district’s total opportunity budgets is around $2.5 million a year according to Selep. Depending on the results of the survey of what the community wants of the parks, they can either stay within their allocated budget on capital projects, or try a referendum to possibly borrow money for larger projects. Selep said while it will be on the survey, they are not advocating for a referendum for any projects. “The projects we’re gearing for we’ll be able to complete with the dollars we bring in through the tax dollars collected and fees charged for services,” Selep said. “If the community really identifies a project that they want the park district to do, that is a strategy that can be done. We’d have to figure out a way to do it that works for the taxpayer.” Community members, elected officials and program participants banded together to create a focus group called The Delphi Group, which will study the park district independently of Design Perspectives and will partake in discussions from their findings. Another public meeting will be held at the end of July or early August when the firm will present preliminary findings. ANNIVERSARY SALE 2 DAYS ONLY Fri., June 29 & Sat., June 30 THURSDAYS IN JULY! Throwback Thursday Delivery Prices start 7/5 Mention TBT1998. See our website for details SAME DAY DELIVERY! • 6 & 12 MONTH FINANCING OPTIONS AVAILABLE 10 % OFF All Material Retail orders only. Not valid on clearance or financing orders. Can’t be applied to previous orders, taxes, deposits, or delivery. Can’t combine offers. MENTION CODE: 2018ANNIVERSARY Valid 6/29 & 6/30/18 Only. 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