SYCAMORE – The Sycamore Park District will conduct a public hearing next month on its short-term strategy.

The 10-goal, short-term plan outlines a strategy for the park district to reduce its budget deficit in the next two years by reducing staff, cutting budgets so each department realizes a 25 percent reserve growth in the next two years, overhauling golf course operations and finding methods to make the Midwest Museum of Natural History cost neutral.

Specific goals include making more golf course employees part time, reducing the clubhouse inventory, reducing parks and pool operation expenses by 10 percent, creating more programs and reaching out to the community with events such as neighborhood cookouts in parks and free event days.