HomeMy WebLinkAboutProclamation Parks and Rec Month 2016 _ _
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Proclamation Designating July as
Park and Recreation Month
WHEREAS parks and recreation programs are an integral part of communities throughout this
country, including Central Point, Oregon; and
WHEREAS our parks and recreation are vitally important to establishing and maintaining the
quality of life in our communities, ensuring the health of all citizens, and contributing to the
economic and environmental well-being of a community and region; and
WHEREAS parks and recreation programs build healthy, active communities that aid in the
prevention of chronic disease, provide therapeutic recreation services for those who are mental-
ly or physically disabled, and also improve the mental and emotional health of all citizens; and
WHEREAS parks and recreation programs increase a community's economic prosperity
through increased property values, expansion of the local tax base, increased tourism, the at-
traction and retention of businesses, and crime reduction; and
WHEREAS parks and recreation areas are fundamental to the environmental well-being of our
community; and
WHEREAS parks and natural recreation areas improve water quality, protect groundwater,
prevent flooding, improve the quality of the air we breathe, provide vegetative buffers to devel-
opment, and produce habitat for wildlife; and
WHEREAS our parks and natural recreation areas ensure the ecological beauty of our commu-
nity and provide a place for children and adults to connect with nature and recreate outdoors;
and
WHEREAS the U.S. House of Representatives has designated July as Parks and Recreation
Month; and
WHEREAS Central Point, Oregon recognizes the benefits derived from parks and recreation
resources
NOW THEREFORE, I, Hank Williams, Mayor of Central Point,do hereby declare July 2016,as
"Park and Recreation Month"
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I hereby set my hand this tx'k,day of ,2016.
Mayor Hank Williams
City of Central Point