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Rochelle Callis CRPD Therapeutic Recreation Program Final Report and Recommendations September 8, 2017 page 3 Without a doubt, CRPD programs do draw persons who are not residents of the District. However, a disproportionally greater ratio of nonresidents use the Therapeutic Recreation Program than other nonresidents use CRPD programs for people without disabilities. History The residents of the District created the District as a special district authorized by California statutes. Its purpose was to provide recreation and park services for the residents of the Conejo Valley. The CRPD boundary encompassed an area of 50 square miles in 1963. Subsequent annexations in the north, southeast, and adjustments along the western boundary, created a total service area of 65 square miles. CRPD conducts more than 2,500 organized recreation programs each year, including Therapeutic Recreation Programs designed and conducted for people with disabilities. CRPD staff maintains 29 neighborhood parks, five sports playfields, five community parks, and one district -wide park, as well as formal facilities with a variety of recreational amenities. Afive-member board of directors governs the District. The electorate within the District boundaries elected directors to four-year terms. The Directors elect a Chair from amongst themselves annually. The Directors hire and guide a General Manager, and he or she implements the policies of the District, and hires the staff of the District. The City of Thousand Oaks and CRPD formed the Conejo Open Space Conservation Agency (COSCA) by a Joint Powers Agreement (JPA) in 1977. A JPA is an effective way to optimize the human and fiscal resources to provide either more service, or service at less cost. The COSCA agreement enables the combined agency to conserve natural open space lands, and assure the coordination of local land use and resource management decisions that support the goals of the City of Thousand Oaks General Plan and the CRPD Master Plan. Additional agreements between the City of Thousand Oaks, COSCA, and CRPD provide for an extensive equestrian and hiking trail system, and a citywide bicycle trail system. In cooperation with the National Park Service, the Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority (MRCA, another JPA), COSCA, CRPD, and CTO, more than 15,000 acres of open space are available for public enjoyment. COSCA, CRPD, and the City of Thousand Oaks maintain approximately 13,215 acres of this amount and a 140 - mile multi -use trail system. As further evidence of collaboration, the CRPD Master Plan serves as the Recreation Element of the City of Thousand Oaks General Plan. The City and the District share citizens as well as goals. The District also has several cooperative agreements in place. These are excellent approaches to fiscal stewardship. When collaboration can make 1 t 1 = 3, not 2, it should always be preferred. THE W -T GR01 DBA RECREATION ACCESSIBILITY CONSULT C ONE SOURCE. INFINITE SOLUTIONS.