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Volume 40, Number 1 January/February 2009 ! Conference Guide Inside Take this Issue to Chicago! PLUS: Referenda Results ·· Tips on Professionalism Trends · 2009 Legal Calendar IN THIS ISSUE C1 12 29 FEATURES SPECIAL FOCUS DEPARTMENTS 12 Referenda Results C1-C64 2009 Conference Program 4 From the Editor November 4, 2008 Use this insert to plan your perfect conference experience, and take this issue with you to Chicago on January 6 Get on Board 14 Legal Calendar 2009 29-31. prepared by Peter M. Murphy, IAPD The Four Basics of Board Service General Counsel 8 Eye on the Profession 18 Maximizing Your Work Smarter and Harder in 2009 Professionalism Potential by Nancy Aldrich, CPRP, MA 10 Statehouse Insider 29 Web Xtra: 2008 Legislative Election Results Future Influences and Trends Offer New Opportunities for 33 People and Places Parks and Recreation by Stacy Turner 31 Kite Months for Kite Plates ! Take this Issue to Chicago! ILLINOIS PARKS AND RECREATION illinois FROM THE EDITOR She … PR PARKS AND RECREATION is having … fun (fun is the one thing that money can’t buy) – Paul McCartney and John Lennon “She’s Leaving Home,” Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, 1967 OFFICES IPRA Representatives MICKEY MACHOLL CARRIE HAUPERT, CPRP 217.523.4554 Hanover Park Park District Bloomingdale Park District There was that LAURA BARRON, CPRP impressionable period, FAX Oakbrook Terrace Park District NATE MARTIN JOHN McGOVERN Rockford Park District NSSRA between the ages of 13 and 217.523.4273 ARNIE BIONDO 17, when voices recorded on Carol Stream Park District LOIS NICKSON CAROLYN NAGLE, CTRS, CPRP E-MAIL Macomb Park District Fox Valley SRA vinyl shaped my thinking rwhelpley@ILparks.org CHERYL CRISMAN, CPRP more than teachers or preachers or my mother and father. Plainfield Park District JOSEPH PETRY RON OESTREICH, CPRP And it has taken me all the years since to verify or disabuse WORLD WIDE WEB Champaign Park District Bollingbrook Park District www.ILparks.org MIKE DOTY, CPRP myself of notions that all those charming and troubled www.ILipra.org Sun City, Huntley D. DEWEY PIEROTTI JR. ROBERT ORSI, CPRP young men with guitars (mostly the Beatles) poured into my Forest Preserve District Geneseo Community Park District MAIL ELSA FISCHER, CPRP of DuPage County head. LORIKAY PADEN, CPRP 211 East Monroe Street Northbrook Park District ROBERT SMITH University of Illinois At my house this past holiday season, we decided to put Springfield, Illinois 62701-1186 all our Christmas gift money into a fund to see if it was JAMES ROGERS, CPRP Arlington Heights Park District RON SALSKI, CPRP Managing Editor Elmhurst Park District enough to pay for season passes to the local waterpark. Wheeling Park District TED FLICKINGER, IAPD HEADQUARTERS That sounds like paying for fun. Well, it is and it isn’t. President and Chief ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF 211 East Monroe Street MIKE TOOHEY, CPRP Executive Officer, IAPD Fundamentally, I still believe that fun something money PARK DISTRICTS Springfield, IL 62701-1186 Wheaton Park District 217.523.4554 can’t buy. But I like to hedge that bet because I’ve been Editor MIKE KROST www.ILparks.org RODD WHELPLEY, IPRA HEADQUARTERS around long enough to know that money sure does help Chairman Publications Director, IAPD 1815 S. Meyers Rd., Suite 400 afford the opportunity for fun, especially during the hot, hot Chillicothe Park District TED FLICKINGER, Ph.D., CPRP, CAE Oakbrook Terrrace, IL 60181 days of July and August. President and Chief Executive Officer Graphic Design COLETTE M. KUBIESA 630.376.1911 GOSS GRAPHIC DESIGN Of course last year we didn’t think twice. We got Chairman Elect CINDY DEITERS www.ILipra.org 217.423.4739 Elmhurst Park District ourselves to the waterpark in February, plunked down our www.gossgrfx.com Marketing Director money and left with ID tags in hand. (All summer long we BOBBIE JO HILL WILLIAM J. M. WALD, CAE, CPRP SCOTT TRIPHAHN Public Relations Director Chief Executive Officer flashed passes that featured photos of us in our winter Advertising Sales Immediate Past Chairman Representative Hoffman Estates Park District jackets.) BETH SALTZ ALAN HOWARD MATT BARBER, CPRP, MS Finance Director Research and Resources Manager You don’t need me to tell you about the economic Arlington Publishers Representatives WALLY FRASIER P.O. Box 1555 Vice Chairman SHERRI KHILE NANCY BOYK climate change that has blown in since February 2008. Arlington Heights, Illinois 60006 Mundelein Park and Recreation District You’re experiencing that already (both in your roles as 847.509.9810 Executive Secretary Office Assistant FAX: 847.509.9816 LINDA JOHNSON consumers and as service providers). As Bill Wald points PETER M. MURPHY, CAE DOROTHY BRINK bsaltz@arlpub.com Vice Chairman General Counsel Executive Assistant out in his column on page 8, when even the most fun- Crete Park District loving families are hunkered down, bracing against tough JOINT EDITORIAL SHANNON SARTAIN DEAN COMBER GEORGE LONGMEYER Legal Secretary times, you’ll be working extra hard this year to earn your COMMITTEE Vice Chairman Information Technology/ Schaumburg Park District Project Management Director program registration fees. SUE TRIPHAHN, CMP IAPD Representatives Luckily, you have some advantages. WILLIS “BILL” LOGAN Educational Services Director DIANE FRANDSEN First, Illinois agencies have an unmatched track record Treasurer Education & Conference Assistant ANN AUSTIN Springfield Park District RODD WHELPLEY of providing opportunities for fun. (Look at all those national Rock Island Park and Publications Director DINA KARTCH Gold Medals.) By this time, you are likely well branded in Recreation Department CHRIS RILEY Education & Conference Director your community as the place to go for fun. Sergeant at Arms ILLINOIS PARK AND RHONDA BROWNE Decatur Park District RECREATION ASSOCIATION NICK LAU Second, when times are hard, and work – if there’s Hazel Crest Park District IT Specialist much of it – fails to satisfy, then people are likely to crave DONALD V. ANDERSEN MARY ANN CHAMBERS Oak Lawn Park District TRACEY M. CRAWFORD, CPRP, CTRS MIKE SELEP, CPRP escapist entertainment. (Think of those stories of the Great Northbook Park District Chairman Professional Services Director Depression. People were always managing to scrape MARY ANN CHAMBERS NSSRA WALLY FRASIER Northbrook Park District HEATHER WEISHAAR together a buck or two for the movies.) Your agencies Mundelein Park and AMY CHARLESWORTH, CPRP Development & Project Director provide active entertainment. Recreation District CARL FLOWERS Immediate Past Chairman Third, you are in line with people’s values. I’m not just Carbondale Park District Rolling Meadows Park District ROBERT GELWICKS talking ‘value’ in the “bang for the buck” sense of the word. Downers Grove Park District DAVID HANSON CHERYL CRISMAN, CPRP I’m talking about people’s core values, one of the most Itasca Park District Plainfield Park District MIKE KROST prominent of which is family. In 2009, I predict that Chillicothe Park District JERRI-LYNN KEINA households will part with their remaining discretionary Alsip Park District funds as long as you show them that your agencies are the places where the whole family can come for opportunities to have fun together. Illinois Parks and Recreation As Bill Wald points out, your job is to remind the (ISSN 0019-2155) is published bimonthly at 211 E. Monroe Street, Springfield, Illinois, by the Illinois Association of Park Districts and the Illinois Park and Recreation Association. Annual subscription rates: $6 for IAPD/IPRA members; $25 for non-members; $30 foreign; $20 educational community of these things. Contrary to what the Beatles institutions. Single copies: $2 members; $5 nonmembers. Periodicals postage paid at Springfield, Illinois and additional post offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Illinois Parks & Recreation, 211 E. Monroe Street, Springfield, IL 62701-1186. Opinions expressed in told me, fun (or at least the opportunity for fun) is this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily express the official views of the IAPD/IPRA. Likewise, the publication of any advertisement is not to be construed as an endorsement of the product or services offered. Members of the IAPD and the IPRA and other something that can be bought – and bought well – at your interested persons are encouraged to submit articles and illustrative photos for possible publication in the magazine. Send for manuscript guidelines and deadline dates: Editor, Illinois Parks & Recreation, 211 E. Monroe Street, Springfield, IL 62701-1186, 217.523.4554, agencies. rwhelpley@ILparks.org, www.ILparks.org. By submitting articles for publication, authors are assigning the copyright to the Illinois Association of — RODD WHELPLEY Park Districts. Copyright© by the Illinois Association of Park Districts and the Editor Illinois Park and Recreation Association. All rights reserved. Reprints of articles in whole or in part without prior written permission are prohibited. 4 Illinois Parks & Recreation www.IPRAonline.com GET ON BOARD Dr. Ted Flickinger The Four Basics of Board Service IAPD President and Chief Executive Officer It’s hard to believe, but in a few weeks pitchers and catchers will 2. Teamwork report to Florida and Arizona for spring training. Even though many of Most board members are leaders in their communities. When the guys lacing up the spikes will be high-paid veterans, no doubt the outstanding community leaders serve on an agency board, the potential managers and coaches will take the first few days getting back to for great things happening is always there. Bringing diverse personalities basics. together on a board, though, raises some questions about the nature of Good managers know that you can’t review the fundamentals board service. enough. So, as we turn from 2008 to 2009, now is a good time for The key question is: How do you create an effective board with so board members to review their own set of fundamentals. many strong personalities? The answer is that each board member has to g understand that the board is not a collection of individuals, but a team.