Administrative Office
320 Hospital Drive, Suite 6
(basement entrance)
Warrenton, VA 20186
Open weekdays 8:00 am to 4:30 pm

Phone: 540-422-8550
Fax: 540-422-8559

Select from the following list for more information:

Staff

Administrative Staff
Larry W. Miller, Director
Liz Watkins, Administrative Associate

Support Staff
Niki Barwick, Administrative Manager
Johanna Spadafora, Administrative Specialist
Don Itnyre, Systems Technician

Parks and Recreation Board
Meetings normally are held at 7pm on the 1st Wednesday of each month.
See the Public Meetings Calendar for details.

Goals

The Department's goals include focusing on meeting recreational needs, stimulating health & fitness, increasing communication between government, citizens, and neighbors, protecting the environment, fostering community pride, promoting quality management, and encouraging tourism.

Satisfy the RECREATION NEEDS of Fauquier County Citizens

• Foster leisure skill development and leisure education
• Cultivate volunteerism
• Improve convenience in service provision
• Meet facility and open space standards
• Provide technical assistance as needed
• Encourage recreational self-sufficiency
• Improve accessibility to programs and facilities
• Expose citizens to a variety/wide range of opportunities

Stimulate HEALTH and FITNESS within all County citizens

• Provide healthy lifestyle choices
• Promote strong families
• Promote safety in recreational activities and facilities

Protect the ENVIRONMENTAL heritage of the County

• Advance appreciation and preservation of environment
• Advance appreciation and preservation of county history

Foster community PRIDE

• Promote community enrichment
• Foster more community based events by civic groups

Increase COMMUNICATION between government and citizens

• Promote benefits of recreation
• Increase community input to Department
• Serve as recreation information clearinghouse
• Increase awareness of services
• Boost image of department

Promote quality in MANAGEMENT

• Nurture professionalism and achievement
• Maintain sound financial base
• Utilize sound planning practices
• Improve efficiency and effectiveness
• Emphasize quality/accountability/safety
• Strive for growth needs to be funded by that growth
• Encourage partnership efforts with citizens, organizations, and businesses
• Establish and maintain quality customer service systems

Support and encourage TOURISM

• Work with the community in tourism promotion
• Actively promote Parks and Recreation services as tourism attraction

Adopted 9/2/98