Lottery Process

During priority resident registration, all residents of Whitefish Bay have equal opportunity to make it into our programs.  The Recreation Department will "over-enroll" programs during this time period.  All "over-filled" programs will go to the lottery on the "Processing Date" and participants will be randomly selected and will be bumped in order to keep the maximum registration numbers in place.

Summer 2010
Non-residents are not allowed to register until after the lottery is held.  For summer programming, the lottery date is set for Thursday, April 1st and non-residents may begin to register on Monday, April 5th.  Residents may begin to register as soon as March 15th.

The reason this policy is in place is to give all residents the same chance of getting into the Rec Department programs.  Some residents get their bulletins delivered right away, while others do not receive them from their mail carriers until later on.  Also, online registration is available when the bulletin comes out.

It might seem confusing, but if you have further questions, please let us know.