HomeMy WebLinkAboutRESOLUTIONS - 10172007 - RES-268 IN THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
OF
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, STATE OF CALIFORNIA
In the Matter of Bond issue
proposal for park and recre- RESOLUTION No. 268
ation funds .
The following persons appear before this Board in the
interest of bond issue proposal for park and recreation funds :
Mr. Duane Mattison, County Park Director, who recom-
mended that the Board refer to the Park and Recreation
Commission, any action or final and more specific plan-
ning concerning the bond issue proposal;
Mr. Dave Wharton, representing the Contra Costa Park
and Recreation Council, who made the following three
proposals :
1. An $8,200,000 Bond Issue for Parks .
2. The park areas as recommended by Dr. Mattison,
Park Director, with the exception -of the Briones
Park being, purchased by the County under con-
tract, be accepted as the sites for purchase
or lease.
3. An adequate sum of money be used within a ten-
year period for the minimum development of each
area procured.
Mr. D. H. Winslow, Trustee of Pleasant Hill Recreation
and Park Council, who referred to a letter from the
District containing certain proposals;
Mr. Jim Wells, representing the Diablo Pageant of Arts,
who referred to the 180 acre park site near the Diablo
Valley Junior College as not only a site for a park
but as a cultural center also, and who proposed that
an auditorium could be built with workshops for each
and every one of the arts;
NOW., THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that said proposals are
referred to the Park..and Recreation Commission for study.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 22nd day of August, 1961, by the
following vote of the Board:
AYES: Supervisors James P. Kenny, Mel F. Nielsen,
Thomas John Coll, Edmund A. Linscheid,
Joseph S. Silva.
NOES: None .
ABSENT: None .
RESOLUTION NO. 268