Personal Impact
What would a rec center save your family?
Enter what you currently spend on fitness, recreation, and travel sports. See the difference a single membership would make.
Your Current Spending
Your Current Spending
- ✗ Separate gym membership
- ✗ No indoor courts or track
- ✗ Travel required for tournaments
- ✗ No senior programming
- ✗ No child watch
With Twin Falls Rec Center
- ✓ Full fitness center
- ✓ 4 tournament-grade courts
- ✓ Indoor walking/running track
- ✓ Youth & senior programming
- ✓ Water play area
- ✓ Child watch included
Beyond Your Family
What it does for the whole city.
The “money pit” myth
Nampa's rec center returned roughly $485,000 to the city in FY25.
A well-run public recreation center isn't a drain — Nampa's recovered about 112.6% of its operating cost last year and sent money back to city funds. Jerome's fitness center runs above 100% cost recovery, with the whole operation climbing toward break-even. The gym, memberships, and programs carry the building; the pool is cross-subsidized on purpose.
A home for the league that doesn't have one.
Twin Falls' city recreation basketball league has no home of its own — it scrounges court time at school gyms across the district, where school athletics get first priority. The private, youth-only Boot-Check Sports Ranch coming seven miles south of town is a wonderful addition for Magic Valley youth, but it can't serve a public, all-ages league on its own calendar.
Four convertible courts in a public rec center give 57,000 residents of every age reliable, affordable, scheduled access — for leagues, pickup play, volleyball, and pickleball. That's a community-access story first. Out-of-town tournament hosting is real incremental upside on top, not the load-bearing case.
Healthcare savings
Physically active adults cost roughly $1,500 less per year in healthcare than sedentary peers (CDC), and senior fitness participants average 16% lower healthcare costs with 42% fewer hospital stays (SilverSneakers). At scale, that's millions in community health value every year.
Employer recruitment
Chobani, St. Luke's Magic Valley, Glanbia, and Lamb Weston recruit nationally — and compete with cities that already have a public rec center. It's an economic-development asset.
Property values
National research consistently finds proximity to quality recreation facilities lifts nearby residential property values — an asset to surrounding neighborhoods, not a liability.
A community's living room
From the retired farmer on the indoor track to the kid in an after-school program, it's one of the few public places that serves every age at once.
The savings go beyond your family — a rec center prevents far more expensive problems.
See how it saves money & saves lives →The Real Numbers
What three rec centers proved
Jerome, Nampa, and Provo — the verified findings, in plain English.
See the numbers →The Return
It saves money — and saves lives
Every $1 invested can return ~$6.69 by preventing juvenile crime, dropouts, and senior healthcare costs.
See the case →How It's Funded
Minimal Tax Impact — Here's How
See how COP financing works and play with the numbers.
Learn more →FAQ
Tough Questions, Honest Answers
Every objection addressed head-on. Cost, politics, need — we hide nothing.
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