BEND, OR -- Bend-La Pine Schools announced last week the school year will expand by two days in June, to make up time lost during January snow storms. Julie Brown, with Bend Parks and Rec, says that schedule change impacts more than just family vacation plans, "We’re having to get a little bit more information about what that’s going to mean for us and our summer camps because schools have to be cleaned, and when are they going to be available for us? And where do some of those spaces fall in the priority?"

Brown tells KBND News the two districts have partnered for more than 30 years to share facilities, "School district doesn’t have pools, but we have pools. We don’t own any gyms, but their schools have gyms. So we have a really great relationship that shares a lot of those spaces. And then, of course, we both have athletic fields outdoors and we make use of those spaces for summer camps." 

But with school now extended through Tuesday, June 18, Brown says the parks district is going back, "Especially for that very first week of summer, and determine, for some of those camps, are they now going to be three-day camps instead of five-day camps? Might some of them just bump to the next week? And some of that is just for us to figure out, as far as availability for instructors."

Registration for those programs is scheduled for March 18 through 20, " We still have a few weeks to get all of those details ironed out. I don’t expect, at this point, that it’s going to effect our registration dates. But it is something that I think a lot of people don’t necessarily think of some of those additional impacts that might happen."