CERTIFIED PARKS AND RECREATION CPRP
STUDY 2026 GUIDE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
SURE A+
✔✔Most common areas of emerencies - ✔✔Weather-Related
Plants and Animals
Societal Theats
✔✔Hazardous Materials - ✔✔Develop and adhere to policies and procedures for safe
storage, handling and application of hazardous materials
✔✔Releases, Waivers, and agreement - ✔✔Statements of facts describing the roles
and responsiblities of the parks
✔✔Accident Reports - ✔✔to be filed on all accidents, and are to be completed
immediately after an accident occurs.
✔✔Incident Reports - ✔✔Required for all incidents, other than accidents, that occur at
given venue
✔✔Partnership written agreement should include - ✔✔Outline of each agency's
responsibility
,Legal responsibility and liability
Staff and program supervision
Quality control
Partnership dissolution and review process
✔✔Partnerships fail by - ✔✔Lack of communication
Lack of evaluation of the partnership agreement and partnership itself
Lost of control of resources by one agency
Lack of trust by the partners
✔✔Differential Pricing - ✔✔Approach to pricing means the agencies change different
prices for the same activity based on the desirability of the facility used; its location,
prime or non-prime time hours of service, and customer characteristics such as age or
the ability to pay
✔✔Fees and charges are routinely set to - ✔✔recover cost
create new resources for other programs
establish the value of program offered
to influence behavior (late fees, replacement costs, promoting off-peak usage)
✔✔Grants - ✔✔Come from state and federal government programs as well as private
foundations
✔✔Matching -fund grant - ✔✔granting agency will give money if the agency can match
the grant dollar for dollar
✔✔To obtain a grant, the agency must complete three stepts - ✔✔1. Planning the
project
2. Searching for funding opportunities
3. Writing and submitting the grant proposal
✔✔List of items on a grant application - ✔✔Cover letter
Executive Summary
Problem statement/need description
Work schedule
Budget
Qualifications
Appendices
✔✔Planned giving, donations, and gifts often include - ✔✔Funds and items received
through individual wills
Life insurance policies
Donation of land, stocks, and personal property
Cash prior to or upon a person's death
, ✔✔Sponsership - ✔✔obtained in the form of in-kind services whereby companies
donate needed supplies, equipment, or staff time and skills
✔✔3 levels of sponsership - ✔✔Local Business
Regional Business
National Companies
✔✔Sponsorship proposal should include - ✔✔History of event
Logistics
Benefits of event
Est. Sponsorship packages
✔✔Budget process is - ✔✔cyclical
✔✔To - ✔✔
✔✔To - ✔✔...
✔✔Compulsory Income - ✔✔a significant portion of the revenue used to support public
parks and recreation organizations are generated from compulsory income or taxes
✔✔Real property taxes - ✔✔a tax assessed on land and anything that is built or
growing on it
✔✔Personal Property tax - ✔✔tax household and business tangible properties (such as
cars and furniture) and intangiable properties such as (stocks and bonds).
✔✔Sales Tax - ✔✔assessed on the sale of many tangible goods
✔✔Excise Taxes - ✔✔imposed on specific goods and services such as hotel-motels
taxes car rental taxes and sin taxes for cigarettes and alcohol
✔✔Income taxes - ✔✔assessed on income earned
✔✔Contractual receipts - ✔✔Major source of income. contract with private agencies
and individuals to sell merchandise or provide services for them.
✔✔Gratuitous income - ✔✔revenue received without expectation of return, including
grants, gifts, donations, planned giving and sponsorship
✔✔Earned income - ✔✔generated through fees and charges. (includes admission,
entrance fees, rental fees, user fees such as surcharges, and licences and permit fees
STUDY 2026 GUIDE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
SURE A+
✔✔Most common areas of emerencies - ✔✔Weather-Related
Plants and Animals
Societal Theats
✔✔Hazardous Materials - ✔✔Develop and adhere to policies and procedures for safe
storage, handling and application of hazardous materials
✔✔Releases, Waivers, and agreement - ✔✔Statements of facts describing the roles
and responsiblities of the parks
✔✔Accident Reports - ✔✔to be filed on all accidents, and are to be completed
immediately after an accident occurs.
✔✔Incident Reports - ✔✔Required for all incidents, other than accidents, that occur at
given venue
✔✔Partnership written agreement should include - ✔✔Outline of each agency's
responsibility
,Legal responsibility and liability
Staff and program supervision
Quality control
Partnership dissolution and review process
✔✔Partnerships fail by - ✔✔Lack of communication
Lack of evaluation of the partnership agreement and partnership itself
Lost of control of resources by one agency
Lack of trust by the partners
✔✔Differential Pricing - ✔✔Approach to pricing means the agencies change different
prices for the same activity based on the desirability of the facility used; its location,
prime or non-prime time hours of service, and customer characteristics such as age or
the ability to pay
✔✔Fees and charges are routinely set to - ✔✔recover cost
create new resources for other programs
establish the value of program offered
to influence behavior (late fees, replacement costs, promoting off-peak usage)
✔✔Grants - ✔✔Come from state and federal government programs as well as private
foundations
✔✔Matching -fund grant - ✔✔granting agency will give money if the agency can match
the grant dollar for dollar
✔✔To obtain a grant, the agency must complete three stepts - ✔✔1. Planning the
project
2. Searching for funding opportunities
3. Writing and submitting the grant proposal
✔✔List of items on a grant application - ✔✔Cover letter
Executive Summary
Problem statement/need description
Work schedule
Budget
Qualifications
Appendices
✔✔Planned giving, donations, and gifts often include - ✔✔Funds and items received
through individual wills
Life insurance policies
Donation of land, stocks, and personal property
Cash prior to or upon a person's death
, ✔✔Sponsership - ✔✔obtained in the form of in-kind services whereby companies
donate needed supplies, equipment, or staff time and skills
✔✔3 levels of sponsership - ✔✔Local Business
Regional Business
National Companies
✔✔Sponsorship proposal should include - ✔✔History of event
Logistics
Benefits of event
Est. Sponsorship packages
✔✔Budget process is - ✔✔cyclical
✔✔To - ✔✔
✔✔To - ✔✔...
✔✔Compulsory Income - ✔✔a significant portion of the revenue used to support public
parks and recreation organizations are generated from compulsory income or taxes
✔✔Real property taxes - ✔✔a tax assessed on land and anything that is built or
growing on it
✔✔Personal Property tax - ✔✔tax household and business tangible properties (such as
cars and furniture) and intangiable properties such as (stocks and bonds).
✔✔Sales Tax - ✔✔assessed on the sale of many tangible goods
✔✔Excise Taxes - ✔✔imposed on specific goods and services such as hotel-motels
taxes car rental taxes and sin taxes for cigarettes and alcohol
✔✔Income taxes - ✔✔assessed on income earned
✔✔Contractual receipts - ✔✔Major source of income. contract with private agencies
and individuals to sell merchandise or provide services for them.
✔✔Gratuitous income - ✔✔revenue received without expectation of return, including
grants, gifts, donations, planned giving and sponsorship
✔✔Earned income - ✔✔generated through fees and charges. (includes admission,
entrance fees, rental fees, user fees such as surcharges, and licences and permit fees
