Transcription is for SEO purposes only. To find out more about the city of La Crosse please visit their website www.cityoflacrosse.org to find out more about Podcast For Hire please visit PodcastForHire.com

The city vision 2020 podcasts this month featuring Jay oderguard he's got the longest business card in the city of La Crosse is a park rec forestry building and grounds director that I miss anything, to do it with the world as it is not. It's the whole co-fed and all that stuff is a city of La Crosse Park and wrecked department do anything different because of the colder times we try to revolve with recommendation stricture walls are cool. We have been able to keep our part (and we had the playground cold for a while the folder open backup really were just being with all of the culture of the facility were seeing our huge upswing in our and all landing and trail you about the boat landings. Is there some new stuff this year with the bulimics this year we've gone to computerized registration system so people don't have to show up with three but the little yellow and bolts anymore. It's just a lot cleaner people. Bella Vita passes online, which is really helpful for guys that want to go location at 5 o'clock Saturday morning I want to do the annual past year, they can buy that mine done with no said kid per person or per vehicle per vehicle that's a slight change where we used to register the trailer. Now we register the vehicle depending on how you are set up. It can be good and bad but you know technology is constantly moving forward. My staff yell at me all the time because I still like paper calendars and in all stuff like that but they got me convinced on this one for talking thoughts. Let's talk a little bit about life vests in the past, the city has had a loaner program for life fast. Is that something that's continuing this year have a warrant program for life. The and are less Copeland landing and their seventh Street bowl landing, but with everything going on in the pool school. We are actually targeting came program beaches and so that way people can call me next. Don't feel comfortable in the water kid can get a light that has to go swim and it's something that we think will be beneficial to the community and really dealing with the tough situation all around. One of the things that I really enjoy doing the last couple years is kayaking and I know that I got a penny on Park and put my own kayak and thereby noticing as a supplemental's. There are those available for anybody to use RDF to be a city resident to rent the house. Although there are available with anybody, and quite honestly, they're very affordable. Not only do we have kayak was paddleboard and with everything going on. We are sanitizing admin between the different uses and it's just a great way especially for people that don't have a lot of experience they can hop in one, then paddle around in the pool in which is the current free area that really works well for beginners is any special programming because of 19th yeah so our traditional summer programs were all canceled about a month or so ago, but staff has been diligently working to Kino after some of those program logistics so we can match up with recommendations as far as social distancing and whatnot were really looking by the end of June to get going on and offering some programs that we understand parents with kids right now that are really in need of finding different opportunities for those that do participate in order to be offering some of our camp programs. All of our tiny tot program playground type programs we are gonna be looking at getting tennis for kids up and running, along with some of our 12 and under 14 and under. And, number programs, eliminating tournaments, reducing side of the T practice location but I'll let you know again we see the importance of having something for kids and community anticipated in