City of Morgan Hill Bikeways, Trails, Parks and Recreation Master Plan

PROGRAM ANALYSIS

Populations Served The City’s programs and events serve a wide range of age groups and interests. There is a depth of program offerings for preschool-age children, youth, adults, teens and seniors. The City provides programs geared towards families and groups, including social events and special activities. There are no classes targeted toward people with disabilities. However, there are adaptive open swim times and an adaptive dance event. The City does not currently offer bilingual programs, although it promotes some programs with ads in Spanish. ADULT PROGRAMS The City offers adult sports, active recreation and special interest programs. Registration-based sports and active recreation classes include dance, ballet, tennis (private and group lessons), golf, karate, personal training, smart start body composition analysis, and mind and meditation. The City offers adult sports leagues at recreational and competitive levels, including men’s basketball, co-ed volleyball and co-ed and men’s softball. Registration-based special interest programs include parenting classes and, film class. Group Fitness Classes offered through the CRC membership are drop-in classes and include Les Mills Body Pump, Les Mills RPM, Boot Camp, Functional Fitness, Group Cycling, High Intensity Training (H.I.T), Kick Boxing, Pilates, Yoga TRX, TRX RIP Fusion, Yoga and Zumba. In 2015, among CRC members, the most popular group exercise classes included Yoga, Group Cycle, Zumba and TRX, according to the Member Use Survey Report. Adults regularly visited the CRC and Aquatics Center on a drop in basis to use the fitness center cardio and weight equipment, participate in personal training, swim laps, and participate in drop in sports (badminton, pickleball, volleyball, and basketball). Regular use of the Aquatics Center was at record high, with 24% of survey members who participated in the 2015 membership survey indicating that they had used the Aquatic Center at least once per week. SENIOR PROGRAMS The Centennial Recreation Senior Center served adults 50-years-old and older in the Morgan Hill, San Martin, and Gilroy communities. In 2015, the City developed the Senior Programs and Support Strategy to provide program guidance for Senior Center programming and sustainability. The Senior Center’s collaborative funding model supports its broad service area. The Senior Center is operated by the City with funding support from the City’s General Fund, program fees, support from the Friends of

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