Parks & Recreation Director Mickey Vittardi annually begins the year updating rec fees and programming options.
PARMA , Ohio -- Parks & Recreation Director Mickey Vittardi annually begins the year updating rec fees and programming options.“Because of the hourly minimum wage increase on Jan. 1 from $10.70 to $11, that puts us toward the maximum on the end of some payroll ranges without giving us any flexibility,” he said.
“In order to be competitive with other communities, what we’ve done is first-year employees may start at minimum wage, but if you’re a returning employee, there’s value to that for us as a city and as an employer to pay those individual seasonal employees a slightly higher rate.” City Council is expected to increase, for example, lifeguard pay ranges up to $19 with Vittardi noting he doesn’t expect any hire to receive the max amount. “But it does give us the flexibility to go where we need to go within that range when it comes time to hire those lifeguards,” he said.Some sports allowed youth from Parma Heights and Seven Hills to participate in Parma.“We’re now allowing other non-residents as well,” he said. “For example, girls youth volleyball we utilize the Constellation School gymnasium. “A lot of the kids who are students at that school want to participate in our program, but if they weren’t residents of Parma, Parma Heights or Seven Hills, they weren’t able to. So now we’ll allow other non-residents beyond just school district residents.”“Non-residents being able to come play with their Parma friends, that broadens our footprint for our programming offered to Parma and our surrounding communities,” he said. Other programming tweaks include the elimination of Michael A Ries Ice Arena season passes, which the rec director said haven’t been purchased in years, as well as increasing public session ice access by a $1.“That’s just to remain competitive with other ice rinks in the area,” Vittardi said. Not all prices are going up with the city’s preschool soccer program Tikes-N-Spikes reduced by $10 with residents paying $50 and non-residents $60. “The reason it’s less costly is that it’s a shorter season and more of an instructional league,” he said.
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