Responsibilities

Responsibilities of this Committee are as follows:

  1. Recommend objectives and goals of the Parks and Recreation System.
  2. Recommend rules and policies governing the Parks and Recreation System.
  3. Recommend annual and long-term financial plans.
  4. Recommend establishing and maintaining an effective public relation program.
  5. Recommend short-term and long-term planning necessary to develop a broad variety of programs, facilities, and services to meet community needs.
  6. Maintain close coordination with other community groups involved in parks and recreation and the Borough Council.
  7. Encourage broad citizen involvement in the park system.
  8. Actively Participate in all the planning and carrying out of Borough Sponsored Events, Such as the July 4th Celebration and National Night Out.
  9. Recommend annually a park fee schedule.
  10. Receive public input on the parks and recreation system.
  11. Create a Carroll Valley Parks and Recreation Plan, and annually review and recommend revisions to the Parks and Recreation Plan.
  12. Annually recommend capital improvement plan.
  13. Review statistics.
  14. Annually tour parks as a Committee to determine goal objectives and to evaluate physical condition of park property.
  15. In addition to the above described duties and responsibilities, three members of the Committee shall be designated as Environmental Advisors to the Borough Council and shall perform all the duties and advisory functions vested in it by law, Act of the General Assembly. No. 148. 1973. (53 P.S. 11501 et. seq).

The Carroll Valley Parks, Recreation, & Environmental Advisory Committee shall follow the rules and policies as set forth by the Carroll Valley Borough Council.