GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE CONTROL OF PARKS 



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ment, support and improvement of the public parks of 

 the city. 



Section 5. Forestry division shall be established by said 

 board. The said board shall create a forestry division 

 in said department, to be in charge of a college trained 

 arborist, with two or more years practical experience, 

 who shall direct the said division subject to the control 

 of the park board. 



Section 6. Appointment of employees rules and regu- 

 lations for government of same organization of board. 

 The park board shall have power to appoint and employ 

 a superintendent and such other officers and assistants 

 and laborers as it may deem necessary for the efficient 

 administration of the affairs of said department; pre- 

 scribe and fix their duties, authority, compensation and 

 qualifications as to residence or otherwise. It shall have 

 the management and disposal of all funds legally appor- 

 tioned or received from any source for support and 

 maintenance of the said. public parks and grounds. It 

 shall have power to establish rules and regulations for 

 the conduct of its officers and employees, and may 

 require adequate bonds from any or all of them, except 

 laborers, for the faithful performance of their duties, 

 in such amounts as may be fixed by it; such bonds to 

 be approved by the city council and filed in the office 

 of the city secretary. It shall have the power to formu- 

 late and adopt rules and regulations for the govern- 

 ment of said parks and other grounds under its juris- 

 diction. The park board shall organize by electing one 

 of its members president, one vice-president and one 

 secretary. The board shall have authority to elect a 

 secretary who is not a member of the board. The 

 officers shall hold office for one year and until their 

 successors are elected and qualified. The park board 

 shall hold regular meetings at least once in every two 

 weeks, and shall establish rules and regulations for its 

 government and for the performance of its duties. 



Section 7. Funds for maintenance of department to 

 consist of not less than nine cents annual ad valorem tax, 

 receipts from operations of department, and such other 

 sums as may be allowed in the annual budget depart- 

 ment to assume and pay of certain outstanding indebted- 

 ness created by former park board. The city council, 

 when levying the taxes for each fiscal year, shall levy an 

 annual ad valorem tax of not less than nine cents on 

 each one hundred dollars of assessed value of all real 

 and personal property in the city not exempt from taxa- 

 tion by the constitution and laws of the state, for the 

 use and benefit of all departments. In addition thereto, 

 said department shall be allowed all the receipts and 

 revenues arising from the operation of the various 

 public parks and grounds within its jurisdiction, save 

 and except the revenues arising from the swimming 

 pools and from other forms of recreational activities 

 set apart by this charter for the use and benefit of the 

 recreation board; and the said ad valorem tax and said 

 receipts, together with whatever further amount, if 



any, the city council may in its discretion set apart in 

 the annual budget for the use and benefit of this depart- 

 ment, shall constitute the appropriation to be annually 

 set apart in the said budget for the operation, mainte- 

 nance and upkeep of this department. The said tax 

 when collected, together with the sums appropriated by 

 the city council for this department, or received from 

 other sources, to the credit of the public park fund, 

 subject to the order and disbursement of the park 

 board for the purposes and in accordance with the 

 purposes of this chapter; the same to be paid out only 

 upon warrants issued by the said board, signed by the 

 president or vice-president, and countersigned by the 

 commissioner of accounts and by the secretary of said 

 board. All debts and liabilities created heretofore by 

 the previous park board operating under the previous 

 charter, save and except those debts incurred for swim- 

 ming pools and other recreational activities taken over 

 by the department of public recreation, shall be assumed 

 by the park board here, created, and the funds arising 

 to the said board from the sources hereinbefore specified 

 or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be used 

 in the payment and discharge of the said debts and 

 liabilities. 



Section 8. Conflicts between park board and other 

 boards to be determined by city council. In the event of 

 any conflict of jurisdiction arising between this depart- 

 ment and any other department of the city govern- 

 ment, or in regard to any administrative detail thereof, 

 the same shall be referred to the city council and its 

 decision thereon shall be final. 



Section 9. Commissioner of accounts to prescribe forms 

 and methods of accounting to be used by said board. The 

 commissioner of accounts shall prescribe and provide 

 for the use of said board all forms for the keeping of 

 its accounts and vouchers necessary to be used in the 

 conduct of its business, which said forms and methods 

 of accounting shall be employed by said board in con- 

 ducting the business of said department, so as to con- 

 form as nearly as possible to the method of accounting 

 instituted and enforced in the Department of Finance. 



Section 10. Providing for monthly audit of department. 

 The park board shall at the end of each month render 

 to the commission of accounts a full and detailed 

 itemized statement of all expenditures incurred or 

 moneys paid out during said month, and the purposes of 

 which the said expenditures were incurred or money 

 paid out, and the accounts of the said board shall be 

 submitted to a monthly audit by the said commissioner 

 of accounts and checked against the appropriation set 

 apart in the annual budget for the operation of this 

 department. 



Section 1 1. Providing for annual audit of said depart- 

 ment. At the end of each fiscal year, the Department of 

 Finance shall make a full and complete audit in dupli- 

 cate of the accounts and business of this department 

 for the year then ending, one copy of which shall be 



