1.14: Elevate voices of those most impacted by health disparities and environmental injustice to inform policies, programming, activities and services in parks.

3.6: Mitigate urban heat and climate change in park design, planning, programming and management based on industry best practices, data informed decisions, and innovations.

4.11: Continue to enhance partnerships for emergency operations, climate disaster resiliency planning, and reinforce staffing and partnership standards that consider safety and maintenance needs before, during and after emergencies.

6.9: Reduce greenhouse gas and carbon emissions through data-informed targets, policies, and actions in park operations and facilities including but not limited to MPRB buildings and fleet.

9.10: Develop a comprehensive understanding of the true costs of capital projects including long-term maintenance needs, partnership impacts, long-term infrastructure capacity needs, and environmental impacts including carbon footprints and offsets.

1.5: Identify and remove barriers to park access as a way of fostering economic, psychological, social and cultural resilience for new and current park users.

1.20: Provide meaningful recurring and drop in volunteer opportunities for a variety of abilities, skills, and interests that furthers the work of the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, fosters connections between neighbors, generations and parks, and celebrates the important role that volunteers play in the park system.

4.8: Create system-wide connections to and through parks for pedestrians, cyclists, and transit riders based on master plans and in collaboration with agency partners.

7.8: Improve outreach and access to parks and park offerings through up to date:

• outreach, interpretation, wayfinding, and digital technology for a multilingual audience;
  working with artists on engagement and outreach efforts;
• improving accessibility of print and online communications with the public;
  using up-to-date digital media; and
• offering virtual program offerings

9.2: Develop avenues for community engagement and ownership in Park Board spending.

8.3: Recruit a diversity of staff across all departments and at all levels of leadership that represents the rich racial, cultural and economic diversity of the city.

5.5: Support initiatives of park adjacent communities to address crime while respecting surrounding communities and cultures.

7.13: Collect system-wide park user data to aid in decision-making.

1.11: Cultivate long-term relationships with community members, leaders, artists, and community and cultural organizations to inform design, community engagement, and programming of parks.

1.23: Share narratives and elevate voices beyond dominant cultural context through a public art and memorial collection, creative placemaking and cultural programs that reflect the diverse history and current cultural context of our city and park lands and that educates and employs community to increase public art offerings in our parks.

3.20: Prevent violence and mitigate impacts on public health, perceptions of safety and safety in the park system through multiple models of community safety and harm reduction.

1.4: Provide a wide variety of programs in the parks and activities at events to promote social, multi-generational and cross-cultural interaction and that create shared community experiences to bring diverse residents together in joyful, artful, and playful purpose.

1.8: Prioritize youth and seniors in programming and park projects through ongoing research, proactive engagement, and embedding innovation in our culture and practices.

3.9: Implement programming that sets the standard for all other youth serving organizations in the city, and strategically align youth programming and childcare to fill gaps in city and other partner agency offerings.

8.4: Implement youth programs, mentorship, and training across the agency that support deliberate career pathways towards full-time employment with livable wages and that build relationships between youth and park staff across all departments to foster youth development and safety and to build the next generation of park stewards.

9.1: Research and implement innovative approaches for payment options in order to reduce user costs.

1.19: Create and support activities and welcoming spaces for teens and young adults in the parks for both programmed and unprogrammed activities.

1.16 Grow youth violence prevention efforts, foster collaborative restorative justice, build youth/staff relationships and continue building pathways to foster park safety and keep youth from entering the criminal justice system.

3.12: Increase park staff, safety, programming, operations and design capacity to meet increased demands of park system expansion, including new park acquisition, development, new facilities, increased programs, increased events and to support the implementation of the comprehensive plan.

3.13: Prioritize excellence in daily maintenance of parks including best practices in waste management, winter maintenance, facilities maintenance, and landscaping services to meet the distinct needs of the regional and neighborhood parks.

3.16: Strive to achieve equitable levels of service across the system through
data-driven analysis and alignment with MPRB values.

5.1: Increase safety at parks through multiple strategies, specifically:

• master planning and design;
• activation, including by partners;
• lighting that balances safety and light pollution;
• security cameras, with consideration of the balance between safety and identity protection;
• enhanced technology for crime prevention, intervention and investigation;
• data-informed decision-making;
• culturally sensitive safety practices;
• staff visibility at parks; and
• response and intervention plans for mental health crises in parks.

9.6. Diversify funding streams to leverage existing funding with grants, site-specific revenue generations, sponsorship, and public/private partnerships through an equity lens.

4.1: Establish well-defined programmatic, facilities, and events-based partnerships with clear goals, evaluated through an equity lens, to increase the MPRB’s level of service that support a wide range of partnership types including individuals, businesses, organizations large and small, and other government agencies.

3.7: Design, evolve, and maintain high quality athletic facilities including fields, diamonds, skateparks, ice rinks, courts, and tracks to support a range of multigenerational sports balancing tradition and emerging trends.

1.22: Strengthen racial equity as a funding approach across the agency.

2.4: Create, interpret and program nature-based experiences, including but not limited to environmental education, community gardens, and bird watching, across the city, especially in parts of the city that don’t have access to regional parks, to foster stewardship of nature, joy, and to introduce new users to the park system.

4.7: Partner and improve communications and coordination with other government agencies and non-profits to maintain and improve water quality, manage regional and park stormwater, achieve required Clean Water Act standards, understand future hydrologic conditions, manage natural resources, and restore natural systems.

6.1: Support a healthy urban ecosystem through monitoring and improving air, soil, water, and habitat quality.

6.7: Develop a city-wide, equity-driven tree canopy preservation and enhancement program to mitigate urban heat island effects, foster biodiversity, improve air quality, ecological connections, habitat, the pedestrian experience, and evaluate for pollen impacts on human health.

6.2: Grow expertise toward long-term stewardship of natural areas and stormwater infrastructure in our parks to enhance protection, restoration, maintenance, and management practices.

6.11: Reduce the acreage of mown turfgrass and impervious surfaces in the system to improve water quality and habitat.

1.4: Provide a wide variety of programs in the parks and activities at events to promote social, multi-generational and cross-cultural interaction and that create shared community experiences to bring diverse residents together in joyful, artful, and playful purpose.

1.5: Identify and remove barriers to park access as a way of fostering economic, psychological, social and cultural resilience for new and current park users.

1.8: Prioritize youth and seniors in programming and park projects through ongoing research, proactive engagement, and embedding innovation in our culture and practices.

1.11: Cultivate long-term relationships with community members, leaders, artists, and community and cultural organizations to inform design, community engagement, and programming of parks.

1.14: Elevate voices of those most impacted by health disparities and environmental injustice to inform policies, programming, activities and services in parks.

1.16 Grow youth violence prevention efforts, foster collaborative restorative justice, build youth/staff relationships and continue building pathways to foster park safety and keep youth from entering the criminal justice system.

1.19: Create and support activities and welcoming spaces for teens and young adults in the parks for both programmed and unprogrammed activities.

1.20: Provide meaningful recurring and drop in volunteer opportunities for a variety of abilities, skills, and interests that furthers the work of the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, fosters connections between neighbors, generations and parks, and celebrates the important role that volunteers play in the park system.

1.22: Strengthen racial equity as a funding approach across the agency.

1.23: Share narratives and elevate voices beyond dominant cultural context through a public art and memorial collection, creative placemaking and cultural programs that reflect the diverse history and current cultural context of our city and park lands and that educates and employs community to increase public art offerings in our parks.

2.4: Create, interpret and program nature-based experiences, including but not limited to environmental education, community gardens, and bird watching, across the city, especially in parts of the city that don’t have access to regional parks, to foster stewardship of nature, joy, and to introduce new users to the park system.

3.6: Mitigate urban heat and climate change in park design, planning, programming and management based on industry best practices, data informed decisions, and innovations.

3.7: Design, evolve, and maintain high quality athletic facilities including fields, diamonds, skateparks, ice rinks, courts, and tracks to support a range of multigenerational sports balancing tradition and emerging trends.

3.9: Implement programming that sets the standard for all other youth serving organizations in the city, and strategically align youth programming and childcare to fill gaps in city and other partner agency offerings.

3.12: Increase park staff, safety, programming, operations and design capacity to meet increased demands of park system expansion, including new park acquisition, development, new facilities, increased programs, increased events and to support the implementation of the comprehensive plan.

3.13: Prioritize excellence in daily maintenance of parks including best practices in waste management, winter maintenance, facilities maintenance, and landscaping services to meet the distinct needs of the regional and neighborhood parks.

3.16: Strive to achieve equitable levels of service across the system through
data-driven analysis and alignment with MPRB values.

3.20: Prevent violence and mitigate impacts on public health, perceptions of safety and safety in the park system through multiple models of community safety and harm reduction.

4.1: Establish well-defined programmatic, facilities, and events-based partnerships with clear goals, evaluated through an equity lens, to increase the MPRB’s level of service that support a wide range of partnership types including individuals, businesses, organizations large and small, and other government agencies.

4.7: Partner and improve communications and coordination with other government agencies and non-profits to maintain and improve water quality, manage regional and park stormwater, achieve required Clean Water Act standards, understand future hydrologic conditions, manage natural resources, and restore natural systems.

4.8: Create system-wide connections to and through parks for pedestrians, cyclists, and transit riders based on master plans and in collaboration with agency partners.

4.11: Continue to enhance partnerships for emergency operations, climate disaster resiliency planning, and reinforce staffing and partnership standards that consider safety and maintenance needs before, during and after emergencies.

5.1: Increase safety at parks through multiple strategies, specifically:

• master planning and design;
• activation, including by partners;
• lighting that balances safety and light pollution;
• security cameras, with consideration of the balance between safety and identity protection;
• enhanced technology for crime prevention, intervention and investigation;
• data-informed decision-making;
• culturally sensitive safety practices;
• staff visibility at parks; and
• response and intervention plans for mental health crises in parks.

5.5: Support initiatives of park adjacent communities to address crime while respecting surrounding communities and cultures.

6.1: Support a healthy urban ecosystem through monitoring and improving air, soil, water, and habitat quality.

6.2: Grow expertise toward long-term stewardship of natural areas and stormwater infrastructure in our parks to enhance protection, restoration, maintenance, and management practices.

6.7: Develop a city-wide, equity-driven tree canopy preservation and enhancement program to mitigate urban heat island effects, foster biodiversity, improve air quality, ecological connections, habitat, the pedestrian experience, and evaluate for pollen impacts on human health.

6.9: Reduce greenhouse gas and carbon emissions through data-informed targets, policies, and actions in park operations and facilities including but not limited to MPRB buildings and fleet.

6.11: Reduce the acreage of mown turfgrass and impervious surfaces in the system to improve water quality and habitat.

7.8: Improve outreach and access to parks and park offerings through up to date:
outreach, interpretation, wayfinding, and digital technology for a multilingual audience;
working with artists on engagement and outreach efforts;
improving accessibility of print and online communications with the public;
using up-to-date digital media; and
offering virtual program offerings

7.13: Collect system-wide park user data to aid in decision-making.

8.3: Recruit a diversity of staff across all departments and at all levels of leadership that represents the rich racial, cultural and economic diversity of the city.

8.4: Implement youth programs, mentorship, and training across the agency that support deliberate career pathways towards full-time employment with livable wages and that build relationships between youth and park staff across all departments to foster youth development and safety and to build the next generation of park stewards.

9.1: Research and implement innovative approaches for payment options in order to reduce user costs.

9.2: Develop avenues for community engagement and ownership in Park Board spending.

9.6. Diversify funding streams to leverage existing funding with grants, site-specific revenue generations, sponsorship, and public/private partnerships through an equity lens.

9.10: Develop a comprehensive understanding of the true costs of capital projects including long-term maintenance needs, partnership impacts, long-term infrastructure capacity needs, and environmental impacts including carbon footprints and offsets.