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Editor’s Note: This column, “LBWA” (Leadership By Wandering Around), is based on the premise that, in order to find out what’s going on in the field, a parks and rec leader has to leave his or her desk and “wander around” the area of operations, talk to people, ask questions, and kick around ideas with the individuals in the thick of delivering services to the public. So the author will bring up issues and ask the leaders among the readership to share their knowledge and experiences.
As I write this missive, the calendar tells me it is December 30, a day away from New Year’s Eve, two days away from the first day of 2010. PRB works on a three-month lead-time on material, meaning that by the time you read this column, it will probably be around March 2010.
So I should have been thinking about writing this particular message in September 2009. Well, that didn’t happen; as the saying goes, it’s hard to remember you came to drain the swamp when you’re up to your, uh, posterior, in alligators. In September I was too busy trying to survive 2009 to think about this column in 2010.
So forgive me for being a bit tardy in my thinking, but let me tell you what I’d like to see for LBWA in 2010.