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Recroitment Profile City of Hays City Manager Page 2 Sternberg Museum of Natural History - An internationally renowned collection of natu- ral history and paleontology, including the "Fish-within-a-Fish", a prehistoric diorama featuring life-size animated dinosaurs and its Discovery Room for children. Traveling exhibits include the famous T-Rex "Sue" and Stephen Spielberg's "Dinosaurs of Jurassic Park" . . Ellis County Historical Society Museum with over 24,000 artifacts related to Ellis County history, . Buffalo Herd - The City owns a herd of buffalo that roams Frontier Park, near Old Fort Hays. . Boot Hill Cemetery - The first cemetery in Kansas with the famous name. . Old Fort Hays - The original blockhouse, guardhouse and officers' quarters provide a glimpse of early mili- tary life, Hays Medical Center - A 200 bed not-I'm-profit Northwest Kansas regional referral cen- ter, HMC was created through a 1991 hospital merger and currently has over 1000 em- ployees. In 1999, HMC established the Michael E, DeBakey Heart Institute of Kansas at Hays Medical Center. In addition to its two cardiovascular laboratories, HMC also offers centers of excellence focused on cancer, physical medicine and rehabilitation, pain man- agement, behavioral health, industrial rehabilitation and telemedicine, Additional assets include airplane and helicopter transport and state-of-the-art advanced medical technol- ogy. In early 2002, HMC will open the Center for Health Improvement. Hays offers its residents a regional shopping mall, a 350-acre park system, a City owned golf course, an airport with passenger service from United Express and US Airways Express and a public library. The University adds to the cultural offerings within the community with lecture, . Wildlife and Outdoors - Two nearby lakes offer out- door recreation and Western Kansas is renowned as a "hunters' haven," . Hays Aquatic Park - The $4,2 million Hays Aquatic Park was built with sales tax proceeds and serves as a recreational attraction for the entire region. The park, which opened in May 2000, combines a modern Olympic size swimming pool, 2 water slides, a "lazy river" water ride and a zero depth leisure pooL The entryway into the park is the original WP A built bath- house. The City received a historic preservation award for the bathhouse renovation. The Park is owned by the City of Hays and operated by the Hays Recreation Commission, .