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g. Volunteer personnel;
cl Lawrence is particularly fortunate in its potential and
now active supply of volunteer workers in recreation, Chairmen of
the sub-committees and the committee personnel have been chosen on
the same basis as have the members of the mayorts committee, and
their excellent work to date has furnished an outstanding example
of the possibilities for efficient volunteer leadership, One of
the major planning committees is headed by the director of the AAUW
Children's Theater and also a member of the executive committee of
the reereation councils another is the wife of the secretary of the
chamber of commerce, a woman of marked ability and many civic duties;
another is the mother of three sons, all of whom are in the United
States Navy; another is the wife of an administrative officer of the
university, whose work with the younger women has been exceptional;
another is a young business man who gives his time most generously
to many civic duties, All have given endless hours of devoted service,
and will continue to do sos3 but they are civic-minded citizens who
serve in many capacities and can not be expeeted to surrender all
other avenues of usefullness to recreation; these volunteer "admin-
istrators" deserve an efficient paid personnel to execute their plans.

The supply of leaders for supervisory work is problematical,
The ordnance plant is already employing many of the people who, under
normal conditions, would be available, Provision of nursery school
facilities for children of employed mothers must have its quota of
able volunteerss Red Cross rightly uses the available hours of many
women; and both men and women are giving generously of their time to
the rationing boards, Recreation can count on the consistent and
full—time volunteer service of only a relatively few people ander
existing conditions, .

h,. Funds now available;

The only city funds now available for recreation expenditures
are those for maintenance of the parks and Community building, The
sum of $1,000 is allocated specifically for recreation, but even its
use is legally limited to items of maintenance and the purchase of
permanent or "capital" equipment. If special enabling legislation
can be secured during the 1943 session of the legislature (Kansas),

a tax levy of one mili would produce approximately $16,500 under the
present valuation,

All expendable equipment, program supplies, and incidental |
expense have been met from gifts and loans of indivisuals and organi-
zations in the citys; much of the expendable equipment now in use is
the property of WPA, As a result of this type of financing, long-
range planning has been eee an undue amount of interest and
energy has been expended on solicitation of funds for the current
weekly or monthly need, and budget control and planning have been
lacking, Such an insecure financial system can, and undoubtedly
will, lessen the effectiveness of the recreation program and finally
alienate the able volunteer planners now functioning,