November 2021 - Parks & Recreation - 14

WE ARE PARKS AND RECREATION
Meet the 2021-2022 NRPA Board of
Directors' Executive Committee
E
ach year, during the 2021
NRPA Annual Conference,
the NRPA Board of Directors
meets not only to welcome its incoming
class of board members,
but also to inaugurate a new group
of Executive Committee members.
We are excited to introduce
the 2021-2022 NRPA Board of
Directors officers.
Chair-Elect
Carolyn McKnight-Fredd, CPRP,
has been named chair-elect.
McKnight-Fredd retired from her
role as superintendent for recreation
and park commission for the Parish
of East Baton Rouge (BREC) in
2019 and has since founded Eagle
Methods Management Consulting
in Dallas. She has served as a board
member since 2017.
Treasurer
Xavier D. Urrutia, chief of staff
to the chancellor for the Alamo
Colleges
District
in San Antonio,
Texas, will serve as treasurer
during the 2021-2022 term. Urrutia
has been a board member
since 2017.
Secretary
Dr.
Joshua Medeiros, Ed.D.,
CPRE, superintendent of parks,
recreation, youth and communiJack
Kardys Leaves NRPA Board After
Seven Years of Service
A
fter seven years of dedicated
service, Jack Kardys has finished
his tenure as a member of the
NRPA Board of Directors.
Kardys' time as a board member
is marked with numerous commitments
and accomplishments,
including service on the executive
committee as secretary from 2016
to 2017, chair-elect from 2017 to
2018, chair from 2018 to 2020,
and past chair from 2020 to 2021.
Kardys also served on the Governance
Committee; Public Policy
Committee, including
ty services for the City of Bristol,
Connecticut, has been elected
to the position of secretary. Medeiros
has served as a board member
since 2018.
At-Large
Nonet T. Sykes, chief equity and
inclusion officer for the Atlanta
BeltLine, Inc., and Mike Abbaté,
FASLA, LEED AP, principal of
Abbaté Designs based in Portland,
Oregon, have both been appointed
to at-large positions on
the Executive Committee. Sykes
and Abbaté have both served on
the NRPA board since 2017.
To learn more about the individuals
joining the 2021-2022 NRPA
Board of Directors'
Executive
Committee, visit tinyurl.com/
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tion from which he retired in 2017.
Under his leadership, MDPROS
earned
two Florida Governor's
Sterling Awards and the Florida
Recreation and Park Association
(FRPA) Agency Excellence Award.
Today, he serves as president of J.
as chair
Jack Kardys
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from 2016 to 2017; Diversity Committee;
and was involved in Park
Champions™.
For nearly four decades, Kardys
dedicated his career to public service,
including 35 years with MiamiDade
Parks, Recreation and Open
Spaces (MDPROS), a Commission
for Accreditation of Park and
Recreation Agencies-accredited
and Gold Medal Award-winning
agency. In 2007, Kardys became
the director of MDPROS, a posi|
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Kardys Strategies. Throughout his career,
Kardys has received several notable
accolades, including the NRPA
R.O.S.E., FRPA Distinguished Service
and American Society for Public
Administration Administrator of the
Year awards.
In a February 2020 column for
Parks & Recreation magazine (tinyurl.com/4jj8684u),
Kardys
wrote, " Early in our careers as park
and rec leaders, we learn the distinction
between managing, or doing
things right, and leadership, which
implies doing the right things. "
NRPA thanks Kardys for being a
true leader and advancing the field
of parks and recreation.
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