EXECUTIVE ORGANIZATION OF A PARK DEPARTMENT 527 



Section 10. The auditor shall: (a) Audit all ac- regular officers shall be fixed at the annual meeting of 

 counts of fixed charges against the commissioners, and the commissioners each year, and of all additional offi- 

 perform such other duties as to audits as may be cers, agents or employees, at the time of their employ- 

 assigned him by ordinances of the commissioners. ment, and shall be payable semi-monthly. 



Section n. Additional Officers or Agents in addition Section 13. Removal of Officers. Any officer or agent 



to the foregoing list of Officers. The commissioners may elected or appointed by the commissioners may be sus- 



appoint such other officers and agents from time to time pended or removed by the president at any time, and 



and for such periods of time, consistent with the law, as all vacancies caused thereby shall be filled by the presi- 



they may deem advisable. Such additional officers and dent for the unexpired term, or the office abolished at 



agents shall be appointed at the annual meeting of the any regular or special meeting of the commissioners, 

 commissioners or at such other times as they may deem Section 14. All books of record required to be kept 



necessary, and the appointees shall hold office until their by any officer, agent or employee of the commissioners, 



successors are elected and qualified, or until the position in which any West Chicago Park District records are 



is abolished by order of the commissioners. kept, shall be the property of the commissioners. 



Section 12. Salaries of Officers. The salaries of all 



The organization chart on page 528 is an example of a park and recrea- 

 tion organization under a Federal plan governed city. The director of 

 public welfare is appointed by the mayor. The director in turn appoints 

 the commissioner of parks and recreation, who has general executive control 

 over all the divisions of the department. The zoological garden is under 

 a separate board of control, of which the commissioner of parks and recrea- 

 tion is a member. The garden is likewise separately financed by special 

 millage tax. Municipal opera presented in the municipal theatre in Forest 

 Park is under the control of a private organization. Tower Grove Park, 

 a park adjunct to the Shaw Botanical Garden, and partially financed from 

 the budget of the park and recreation department, is under the control of 

 a special board or commission. These features do not appear on organization 

 chart, although very important assets in the recreational life of the city. 



The chart on page 531 is an example of an executive organization of 

 a park department under a complete council-city manager form of govern- 

 mental control. An extensive organized recreation program is not carried 

 on for the reason that most of the organized recreation service in Pasadena 

 is provided by a private-public organization known as the Playground 

 Community Service of Pasadena. This organization is jointly supported 

 by the city government and the board of education, each contributing half 

 of the annual budget. 



In Sacramento, California, another city manager governed city, there 

 is a department of parks and department of recreation each in charge of a 

 superintendent appointed by the city manager. In Fort Worth, Texas, 

 there is a board of park commissioners and a board of recreation commis- 

 sioners, each in charge of a department. In each case the commissioners 

 are responsible for the setting up and supervision of executive organizations 

 independent of the city manager. 



The organization of the Department of Parks and Boulevards in Detroit 

 is an example of such an organization in a Federal plan governed city. The 



