Frequently Asked Question (FAQ)
Why Are Parks Important?
In any growing city, parks and open space are essential for recreation and the quality of life. The green space in Medford provides not only common space for free play, sports, concerts, swimming, and other public events, but also sanctuaries for quiet relaxation and the preservation and enjoyment of nature. Our parks and green spaces are vital to the continued growth of Medford. The benefits of parks are endless - to individuals, communities, the economy and the environment.
How do Parks and Recreation Programs Benefit Individuals and the Community?
Parks offer opportunities to enrich the quality of life for persons of all ages and abilities. Children who participate in the many programs through Medford Parks and Recreation benefit from a safe and enriching environment. Adults who participate in a variety of social and recreational opportunities benefit from the social connections and interactions that are fundamental to their well-being.
Parks and recreation programs offer a multitude of opportunities to engage in arts, music and sports. A park can be a symbol of vitality and character and add to the overall quality of life within a community. Parks are more than places to recreate and relate to nature. Strong, established parks are the focal point of communities. They are places for social and cultural exchange.
Why is the Medford Parks Foundation working to acquire land when it is a challenge for the city to maintain current properties?
Maintaining public land whether it is open space, or a developed park area is always an issue in growing cities.The Parks Foundation and Parks staff are looking at creative ways to ensure that all of Medford Parks facilities are clean, safe and well-maintained. One example of this is establishing an Endowment Fund that would help defray maintenance costs for all new projects and revisiting past projects to implement maintenance endowments for these as well. These endowments will help span the gap with private dollars when there is a shortfall in city budgets. On the other side of this issue is the quickly disappearing greenspace in Medford.
What is the Medford Parks & Recreation Foundation's Privacy Policy
The Medford Parks and Recreation Foundation recognizes that your privacy and the protection of your personal information are important. This statement discloses how The Medford Parks and Recreation Foundation helps protect your personal information while using this website. This document was last updated June 2007.
Information Collected About You
The Medford Parks and Recreation Foundation may collect personal information about you that you specifically and voluntarily provide. This information includes information that can identify you as a specific individual, such as your name, phone number, or e-mail address. On all such pages that collect this information, we specifically describe what informationis required in order to provide you with the service or information that you have requested.
Use of Your Information
The Medford Parks and Recreation Foundation will use your information for one of several purposes:
1. To store your information for you and deliver it to you when you request it.
2. To answer questions or to respond to requests for further information.
3. To help us create and deliver content most relevant to you.
Sharing Your Information
Medford Parks and Recreation Foundation does not sell or rent your personal information to anyone. Except as otherwise described in this Privacy Statement, personal information you provide on this site will not be shared outside of Medford Parks and Recreation Foundation and its affiliates without your permission.
Our Legal Obligations
Medford Parks and Recreation Foundation may disclose personal information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Medford Parks and Recreation Foundation or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Medford Parks and Recreation Foundation and other Web sites hosted by Medford Parks and Recreation Foundation, or (c) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Medford Parks and Recreation Foundation, its hosted Web sites, or the public.
Other Web Sites
There may be places throughout the Medford Parks and Recreation Foundation site that may link you to other Web sites that do not operate under Medford Parks and Recreation Foundation's information privacy practices. We encourage you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use, and share information. Medford Parks and Recreation Foundation is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the medfordparksfoundation.org domain.
Contact Information
Medford Parks and Recreation Foundation welcomes your comments regarding this Privacy Statement. If you believe that Medford Parks and Recreation Foundation has not adhered to this Privacy Statement, please contact us by e-mail or postal mail and we will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.
Medford Parks and Recreation Foundation
P.O. Box 124
Medford, OR 97501
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