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PROPOSED PROJECT TEAM City of Santa Ana, California Parks, Recreation, and Community Services Department Art Thatcher, MPA, CPRP Project Manager Chris Dropinski, CPRE Principal in Charge Danny Hopkins, MBA Project Consultant Art Thatcher, MPA, CPRP, Principal Project Manager Direct: (757) 592-3103 ) Email: ArtT@GreenPlayLLC. com Art is a Certified Parks and Recreation Professional with 30 years of experience in public parks and recreation operations, programming and administration, volunteer board leadership, facility design and operations, and community engagement. Throughout his career, Art has concentrated on strategic planning, youth civic engagement and teen comprehensive planning, operations and facility management planning, and community engagement facilitation. Art will be your Project Manager and primary point of contact. Art will devote 25% of his time to this project. Chris Dropinski, CPRE, Senior Principal and Managing Member I Principal -in -Charge Direct: (303) 870-8674 ) Email: ChrisD@GreenPlayLLC. com Chris is a Certified Parks and Recreation Executive who brings over 40 years of experience in the public parks, trails, recreation, and open space industry to GreenPlay as Senior Principal and Managing Member for the firm. Throughout her career, Chris has worked with large and small-scale organizations, with a focus on strategic and master plans, facility development, and fiscal management and funding alternatives. Her experience includes open space and park planning, public process facilitation, Board/Council relations, organizational needs analysis, public and alternative funding, and policy research and development. Chris, along with her staff in the City of Boulder, was the initial creator for the Pyramid Methodology. She has been speaking at various state, regional, and national associations, training seminars, agencies, and conferences for nearly 40 years. Chris will devote 20% of her time to this project. Danny Hopkins, MBA, Project Consultant Danny is passionate about the Parks and Recreation field and each community in which he has worked. He has tailored his unique governmental experience to that community's specific taste, demographics, expectations and resources. Finding the balance between these competing interests is important for long-term success. The primary ingredient for that success is cultivating quality relationships with the stakeholders. The underpinnings of his management style are based on the beliefs that employees are the most valuable resource to an organization and that open communication and understanding are vital to the success of an organization. Danny will devote 18% of his time to this project. ijv.4: iO4^ e'dvc yne-i pAG 3 25B-39