Recreation

Director of Administrative Services: Juan Fuentes Recreation Manager: Marcus Gallegos

Recreation Facilities Sports Facilities Full-Time Employees Part-time Annual Revenue 2 9 14 2 $ 297,236.50

2019 was year of enormous accomplishments and changes for the City of Roswell Recreation Department. The most notable accomplishment came with the opening of the brand-new Roswell Recreation & Aquatic Center. Some of the changes include the hiring of Marcus Gallegos as the Recreation Manager. The Parks & Recreation department was also separated into two separate divisions in August 2019, and a department organizational restructure was completed in December 2019. The Roswell Recreation Department staff accepted the challenge of opening a new facility and accepted the many new changes without hesitation and ensured that the citizens of Roswell expectations were fulfilled.

Roswell Recreation & Aquatic Center The Roswell Recreation & Aquatic Center celebrated the opening on June 29th 2019 with a tremendous turnout that featured over 1100 citizens partaking in the opening ceremonies, tours, gym and pool admissions. Mayor Kintigh spoke to the importance and impact the new facility would have for the citizens. The Mayor and several city council members participated in the first free-throws, first pool slides and first pool jump ins to inaugurate the new facility. Since opening day, the Roswell Recreation & Aquatic Center has accommodated over 40,000 guests in the facility for many different activities and events and has truly become a gem for the City of Roswell. The recreation department began selling annual and seasonal memberships in June and by years end had sold 502 memberships.

The Aquatic Center features an indoor 8 lane 25-meter lap pool. The indoor pool has many innovative features such as 20-meter handicap ramp, an electric handicap lift, a rock-climbing wall, basketball hoop and a state-of-the-art pool mechanical room that is unsurpassed. The outdoor recreation pool features two exciting water slides for those 48” or taller, several water features, a basketball hoop, and a kiddie play area with a zero-entry pool entrance. The indoor and outdoor pools combined can hold 455 guests, with 200 additional guests on the decks. The Aquatic Center offers many aquatic programs such as water aerobics, swimming lessons for babies, toddlers, children and adults and exclusive lap swimming times. There have also been many events such as Family swim days, Dive in movie nights, Pumpkin swims and Parents’ Day out.

The Recreation center features two full size and four youth size basketball courts and two volleyball courts. The gym was utilized for

several different events and games. There were three summer sports camps held inside the gym area that included basketball, volleyball and cheer. An independent indoor soccer league held their first season inside our gym that brought many new people in and the Roswell Independent Schools held their annual Healthy Kids’ night in our gym that brought over 600 children and their parents to visit our facility. The Recreation center also features a state-of-the-art group fitness room for live fitness instruction and virtual fitness featuring Fitness Direct®, which has the capability to show over 800 different exercise routines on our two 80” monitors. Two multipurpose room has held many meetings, classes and parties since July.

Roswell Adult & Recreation Center The Roswell Adult and Recreation Center is a unique community center that has served the citizens of Roswell for over 40 years and with the past four years being Roswell’s only recreation center until this past July. There were 53,398 guests for 2019. The Roswell Adult and Recreation Center held over eighty city sponsored classes for Art & Education, Dance & Music & Fitness that served 994 students of all ages. The Roswell Adult Center Foundation and The Roswell Recreation Department worked together to purchase 4 brand new pool tables to replace the old dilapidated tables. In February 2019 there were two successful dances, the second annual Father/Daughter Dance that drew 250 guests and a Valentines day dance that hosted 180 guests. The Roswell Adult & Recreation Center held several other community events such as yard sales, craft fairs, free legal advice and health screenings. We booked 970 room rentals throughout the year for a large variety of functions such as birthday parties, memorials, private classes, clubs, meetings and performances.

Sports The Roswell Recreation Department sponsored three youth sports leagues, two adult sports leagues, six sports camps, five city running/ marathon events and spring break, summer and winter vacation fun programs for youth. The recreation youth volleyball season was held this past fall that saw the program grow to over 130 kids and the co-ed adult volleyball season featured a record 13 teams for the fall season. The youth basketball season began this winter with a tremendous turnout. Over 770 boys and girls ages 5-12 registered to compete on 78 teams that has packed the gym nearly every night since the beginning of December. The summer youth soccer program drew 170 kids in 2019. Our summer football, basketball, cheer, tennis, and volleyball camps drew a combined 160 kids and our vacation fun program hosted 78 kids. The recreation department works with twelve different sports associations and schools that use nine different cities facilities to host their games.

Recreation

These leagues are self-managed but rely on our facilities to be successful programs. The city is responsible for general maintenance to each sports complex to include but not limited to lights, water and mowing.

Director of Administrative Services: Juan Fuentes Recreation Manager: Marcus Gallegos

Events The Roswell Recreation Department contributed substantial amounts of time and equipment for setup, tear down and working over 32 events and meeting for 2019. The recreation department regularly set up tents, stages, tables, chairs, and sound systems for city special events such as 4th of July and Fall Festival as well as other events such as Hike it and Spike it, UFO Festival and the Eastern NM State Fair. The recreation department is regularly called to set up for public forums, city meetings and other city department events. The Recreation department utilized their chip timing system for the first time during the Turtle Marathon which drew huge praise amongst the runners. The system was utilized again for the Reindeer Run and is enjoyed by all participants. The recreation department in partnership with RISD held their annual Roswell Games on October 22, 2019. The games were hosted at the Wool Bowl and attracted 572 participants from 18 schools from around the city. We held 68 events and metals were awarded for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place. Team awards were also awarded to the top 3 teams. Hundreds of fans gathered to watch their kids compete in the citywide event.