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R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, a Subcommittee of the Municipal Services Com-
mittee.of the City Council, under Docket 285-12C-64, has care-
fully evaluated alternative park and recreation organizational
arrangements for the Evanston community; and
WHEREAS, said Subcommittee has now issued its report
in which'it recommends that the three park districts within
the City of Evanston be dissolved and that the park system be
consolidated under the City's Park and Recreation Department;
and
WHEREAS, consolidation of the parks and recreation responsi-
bility under the City of Evanston offers many advantages - - to
wit, simplification of governmental structure by eliminating three
governmental bodies; financial savings to Evanston taxpayers;
a more equal distribution of the cost of running our park
system; closer coordination of park plans with other city pro-
jects; closer coordination of city and school district actions
relating to parks and recreation; and the balancing of park needs
against other municipal needs by one legislative body, the City
Council; and
• WHEREAS, the City of Evanston now operates over 90 per-
cent of the parks in this community and is prepared to accept
the responsibility for operation, maintenance, and further
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development of the parks operated by the three park districts;
and
CWHERSAS, the City Council, particularly through its
adoption of the "General Plan for. Parks" and through its ap-
proval of increased park appropirations in recent years, has
demonstrated that it supports an aggressive park land acquisi-
tion and development program:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the City Council
hereby declares that it favors the dissolution of the three
• park districts within the City of Evanston and the consolida-
tion of the park system under the City's Park and Recreation
Department, and that it solicits the support and cooperation
of the Commissioners of the First Park District, North East Park
District, and Ridgeville Park District in the achievement of
these organizational objectives; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City Clerk be and hereby
is authorized and directed to transmit a certified copy of this
resolution to the President of each of the three above named
park districts.
/s/ John D. Emery
Mayor
• ATTEST:
/s/ Maurice F. Brown
City Clerk
AdopLted January 319 1966