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GreenPlay, LLC
Statement of Qualifications
Our
Mission
We help organizations dedicated to parks, recreation, and
open space achieve community goals. Our hallmark is creating great
relationships with our clients, staff, and consortium members by working
as a team with a unified vision. We build and maintain a reputation for
high quality, dynamic, creative, and functional solutions to challenges,
we provide personalized services and products, we operate efficiently,
and we balance the needs and the resources of our clients. We are
experienced, recognized leaders and we are committed to consistent and
reliable performance.
When you work with GreenPlay, you have
the confidence of knowing you are working with professionals who
address every issue of every project and help you realize your
goals. The personal attention we give, combined with the peace of
mind you receive by working with familiar faces you can trust,
allows us to build strong, long-term relationships with our clients.
Our Pledge
We will evaluate your situation, design a strategy, system or product that will work for your organization, and help you to implement it quickly and smoothly. We work with all levels of staff, senior management, and
elected and appointed officials. We have a broad, objective view to help your organization operate in the most innovative, efficient, and revenue-enhancing way possible.
GreenPlay, LLC operates as a consortium of experts, acting as a management tool for agencies by organizing consultant teams that are responsive and understand the needs of administrators and their communities to provide services for park, recreation, open space and related agencies.
GreenPlay was established in Broomfield, Colorado in 1999, when Teresa Penbrooke, an experienced public parks and recreation professional, identified certain needs in the industry that were not being fully satisfied. She noticed that although many consultants serviced this industry, most focused primarily on narrow niches and specific services. This reality forced organizations to troll the landscape for a myriad of firms to complete separate tasks as well as to take on the burden of organizing these specialists into one cohesive team. In 2002, Chris Dropinski became a partner in the firm and now performs as Senior Principal and handles lead office administration.
We Are a 100% Women Owned Business
GreenPlay works nationwide with full-time employees who are experienced parks, recreation, and open space professionals who know what it takes to provide the services and fund, build, and operate the types of facilities and services you manage now and may manage in the future. We are first, and foremost, managers and leaders.
Over 140 Years of Combined Experience
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Teresa Penbrooke, CPRP, CEO & Founding Managing Member
Teresa brings substantial career experience and planning expertise to projects for large and small communities on a national level. She founded GreenPlay in 1999, and has been integral in the research, quality, recommendations, and implementation of the innovations that GreenPlay contributes to the field. In addition to leading projects and the firm, Teresa teaches and researches best practices in agency administration and planning at national and state conferences, associations, universities, and for individual agencies. Teresa is on the Board of Regents and is the curriculum chair for the Reitz Marketing and Revenue School Planning and Management Institute. She is also an Official Visitor for the Commission on Accreditation for Parks and Recreation Agencies (CAPRA). For your project, she will be responsible for team development, integration, contracting, and quality control. Teresa will work with your team to assist with project oversight, process management, stakeholder involvement and consensus building, administration and facility-planning expertise, alternative funding opportunities, and review of deliverables. Teresa’s goal for your organization is to ensure that all information is valid and useful from an operational and administrative standpoint.
Chris Dropinski, CPRP, Senior Principal & Managing Member
Chris Dropinski has over 30 years of experience in the public parks, recreation, and open space industry, currently as a management consultant. She served as the Director for the City of Boulder Parks, Recreation, and Mountain Parks Department from 1990 – 2001 where she was responsible for the leadership and operation of the Department. Over her career Chris has focused on large and small-scale management, strategic, and master plans; and facility development and funding. This experience includes open space and park planning; public process facilitation; Board/Council relations; analysis of organizational needs; public and alternative funding, and policy research and development. Chris brings extensive expertise in managing a parks, recreation, and open space agency within a sustainable and controlled-growth environment. Chris is a Fellow of the prestigious American Academy for Park and Recreation Administration and currently serves as Chair of the Rocky Mountain Revenue Management School. Chris has been speaking at various state, regional and national associations, training seminars, agencies, and conferences for almost three decades. Topics vary widely, and include master and strategic planning, pricing philosophies, and facility development for parks, open space, recreation facilities and related programs and organizations.
Pat O’Toole, Principal
Pat
brings over twenty-five years of management planning for parks and
recreation agencies and has been leading projects for GreenPlay since
2003. Prior to joining GreenPlay, Pat was President of OATS LLC, a
private consulting firm. Before that he worked for many years as a
Principal for Leon Younger and PROS, and previously was a director and
assistant director for several agencies in four different states. Pat
has extensive expertise in budgeting, operational pro-formas, cost
recovery and activity-based costing, efficiencies, public process, and
all other facets of leading agencies. He is skilled at leading forward
focused projects and teams, specifically related to creating vision and
implementation.
Karon brings over nineteen years senior management experience in recreation, parks, planning, marketing, operations, maintenance and construction development and project management. She conducts the public process, data collection, inventory, assessment, analysis, and preparation of park and recreation master plans, strategic work plans, and various conceptual, operational and business plans. She can bridge the gap between the Client’s needs and “Designer/Contractor speak” while understanding design, plans and specifications for functionality. Karon focuses on visioning and comprehensive strategic planning to ensure that client objectives are met. She excels at program and needs assessment, market analysis and strategies, revenue planning and cost recovery, preventative and predictive maintenance analysis, facility management and operational planning.
John
Barnholt, Senior Project Consultant
John assists with
the demographics, trends analysis, and writing of documents. John has
over 20 years experience in private business management with a focus on
human resources management, cost analysis, fiscal planning and
manpower/capacity planning. John has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in
Leisure Services Management from Metropolitan State College in Denver,
Colorado. John also brings two years of recreation administration and
four years of parks and recreation consulting experience. He has been
working with GreenPlay since 2001 and often completes the needs
assessment, inventories, public process, and trends analysis for our
projects, along with other specialties.
Anne has nineteen years of experience in parks and recreation and community development, including nine years of project management experience with the Chicago Park District leading organization and staff development and park planning and design projects. Her strengths are group facilitation and community process, project management, planning, research and organizational development. Anne has a Master of Urban Planning and Policy degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners.
Jamie Sabbach, CPRP, Senior Project Consultant
Jamie has more than 20 years of experience in the parks and recreation industry. Prior to consulting, she worked for notable public agencies such as the Champaign, IL, Park District; the Bloomington, IN, Parks and Recreation Department; and the Boulder, CO, Parks and Recreation Department in a variety of capacities, including as a programmer, facility manager, superintendent and director. She has managed significant operations with multi-million dollar budgets, led cutting edge initiatives, and successfully facilitated model partnerships and community efforts. In addition to a variety of practical experiences, Jamie has been an Assistant Professor at Illinois State University, providing her with a unique perspective of the theories and philosophies that apply to successful parks and recreations practices. Jamie’s extensive experiences in program and facility development, strategic planning, financial management, collaborative efforts, and community engagement, along with her knowledge of the field, allow her to direct dynamic processes with an energy and creativity that leads to impressive results.
Stacy Turner, Project Consultant
Stacy has over 20 years of experience in public parks and recreation administration and planning, having worked with the communities of Blue Ash, OH, Carlsbad, CA, and the City of Lakewood, CO. Stacy received her Bachelor’s Degree of Arts in Recreation Administration from San Diego State University. Her diverse experience includes program and resource development, project and operational management, research, and public relations. Stacy also brings strong skills in creative funding, collaborative programming and needs assessment.
Anna Kimbrell, Project Assistant
Anna brings her training in print journalism to GreenPlay to assist with project document writing, editing, formatting, and research. Anna holds a Bachelor's degree from American University and has worked in the clinical exercise and fitness management industries in Washington, D.C. Her educational background combined with her passion for health and wellness provides ideal quality project support to the GreenPlay project team personnel.
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