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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2011-07-05 ProclamationCity of Iowa City PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, parks and recreation programs are an integral part of coi throughout this country, including Iowa City; and WHEREAS, our parks and recreation programs 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 mentally 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 attraction 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 development, and produce habitat for wildlife; and WHEREAS, our parks and natural recreation areas ensure the ecological beauty of our community 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, Iowa City recognizes the benefits derived from parks and recreation resources NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY the City of Iowa City that July is recognized as Park and Recreation Month. Mayor Signed in Iowa City, Iowa, this 5 `h day of July, 2011. City of Iowa City PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, parks and recreation programs are an integral throughout this country, including Iowa City; and 2a of communities WHEREAS, our parks and recreation programs are /itally important to establishing and maintaining the quality of life in our ommunities, ensuring the health of all citizens, and contributing to the eco mic and environmental well -being of a community and region; and IEREAA, parks and recreation programs build hea hy, active communities that aid in thy, prevention of chronic disease, provide erapeutic recreation services for those who are mentally or physically disabl , and also improve the mental and emotiouial health of all citizens; and WHEREAS, parks and recreation programs increase a community's economic prosperity through increased property va es, expansion of the local tax base, increased tourism, the attraction an retention of businesses, and crime reduction; and WHEREAS, parks and recreation ar s are fundamental to the ' environmental well -being of our community; and WHEREAS, parks and natu *al r creation areas improve water quality, protect groundwater, prevent flood , improve the quality of the air we breathe, provide vegetative buffers to velopment, and produce habitat for wildlife; and WHEREAS, our parks and n ural creation areas ensure the ecological beauty of our community and pro de a pl e for children and adults to connect with nature and recreate out oors; and WHEREAS, the U.S. H use of Representatives has designated July as Parks and Recreation Month; aAd WHEREAS, Iowa City recognizes the benefits avrived from parks and recreation resources NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY the City of Iowa City that July is recognized a Park and Recreation Month. Mayor Signed in Iowa City, Iowa, this 5t" day of July, 2011.