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mayor appoints a commissioner of parks and boulevards who is in fact the 

 chief executive of a principal department of the city government. In all 

 matters pertaining to general plans and policies, appropriations, bond 

 issues, etc., the city council acts in the capacity of a board of park and 

 boulevard commissioners. Note that of two general divisions of the execu- 

 tive organization, the service of one, the police division, is wholly supplied 

 by a general department of the city, and another, the engineering and con- 

 struction division, the service is partially provided by the city engineers' 

 office. This is an example of cooperative service between park and recrea- 

 tion departments and general city departments, especially in these two 

 fields of activity, that is quite common throughout the country. In fact 

 this is more or less the established custom in all Federal plan governed 

 cities, commission, and city manager governed cities. It is a practice that 

 is frequently found in cities where parks and recreation are under a park 

 board or park and recreation board, or a park board and a recreation board. 

 Another situation in Detroit which requires a high degree of coopera- 

 tion arises from the fact that there is a recreation department coordinate 

 in rank with the department of parks and boulevards. This department, 

 in addition to using properties and facilities which it directly controls, must 

 of necessity use many properties and facilities controlled directly by the 

 department of parks and boulevards, as well as properties and facilities 

 controlled by other public and private agencies. 



ORGANIZATION CHART, DIVISION OF PARKS AND RECREATION, ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI 



Director of Public Welfare 



Commissioner of Parks and Recreation 



Superintendent 

 Recreation 



Architect Superintendent 

 Maintenance 



Chief Clerk Superintendent Secretary City Forester 



Construction 



Forestry 



and 

 Office 



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Street 



Tree 



Planting 



Maintenance 



Playgrounds 



Policing 



Parks and 



Playgrounds 



Operation 



Park Busses, Transport 



Carpenter, Blacksmith 



and Paint Shop 



Concrete Work 



