Box 15, Folder 11, Document 16

Box 15, Folder 11, Document 16

PARKS DEPARTMENT

The City Parks Department will operate approximately 134 centers,
schools, playgrounds and parks, Heavy emphasis will be placed on
teenage activities, such as social dances, civic councils, field trips

to our Lake Allatoona property, and work experiences, Every
neighborhood has been carefully inventoried from the viewpoint of

the availability of either a school or a park and recreation facility.

It is anticipated that not all of the currently existing forty odd playlots
will be staffed; however, those not staffed will-:be adjacent to operational
schools,

Heavy emphasis will be placed on employment using in-school and
out-of-school Neighborhood Youth Corps enrollees, as well as additional
young people who come from disadvantaged areas.

The entire summer program will be heavily publicized, using all news
media and, if necessary, paid advertisements in the press,

The Parks Department will attempt to have a comprehensive program
going some twelve hours a day, six days a week that will provide
recreation and cultural enrichment, as well as education in every
identifiable neighborhood within the target areas.

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