District of Columbia Parks and Recreation Department and the National Park Service: Parks, Open Space and Recreation Areas Roundtable

District of Columbia Parks & Recreation Department and the National Park Service: Parks, Open Space and Recreation Areas Roundtable

April 21, 2003

Goals:

Improve efficiency and quality of management of our operations through interagency collaboration, cooperative projects, and joint ventures.

Improve quality of services to the residents/ visitors we serve.

Improve communication.

Demonstrate the seamless system approach to parks, open space and recreation areas through experimental sharing of personnel, programs, facilities, and public parklands through the city wherever proximity, similarity of function, or achieving efficiencies or economies of scale make sense.

Identifying and implementing opportunities around the city for the active engagement of public involvement in park operations and maintenance through cooperative agreements, public-private partnerships, public-private cost-sharing, community-based shared management, and operational partnerships between the two public agencies and community-based organizations such as Washington Parks & People.

Initial Actions:

Use Watts Branch to advance the seamless system idea.
Move forward to see if it is possible to erase boundary-lines.

Present at the 2004 National Partnership Conference
Submit a proposal for a panel on green infrastructure at the LA Conference. Include DC, Washington Parks & People, NPS. Consider Casey Trees, COG, and others.

3. Secure Cultural Landscape Report copies for Steve Coleman and Neil Albert.

4. Work with NPS-NCR to use GIS information to overlay DC and NPS parks to assess opportunities for collaboration.

Meet to discuss Casey Trees inventory.

6. Agree on ways to communicate