Parks and Recreation Month CHER ONT
-hoice of Champio`
WHEREAS parks and recreation programs are an integral part of communities
throughout this country, including the City of Clermont; and
WHEREAS our parks and recreation are vitally important to establishing and
maintaining the quality of life in our communities, ensuring the health of all citizens, and
contributing to the economic and environmental well-being of a community and region; and
WHEREAS parks and recreation programs build healthy, active communities that aid in
the prevention of chronic disease, provide therapeutic recreation services for those who are
mentally or physically disabled, and also improve the mental and emotional health of all citizens;
and
WHEREAS parks and recreation programs increase a community's economic prosperity
through increased property values, expansion of the local tax base, increased tourism, the
attraction and retention of businesses, and crime reduction; and
WHEREAS parks and recreation areas are fundamental to the environmental well-being
of our community; and
WHEREAS parks and natural recreation areas improve water quality, protect
groundwater, prevent flooding, improve the quality of the air we breathe, provide vegetative
buffers to development, and produce habitat for wildlife; and
WHEREAS our parks and natural recreation areas ensure the ecological beauty of our
community and provide a place for children and adults to connect with nature and recreate
outdoors; and
WHEREAS the City of Clermont recognizes the benefits derived from parks and
recreation resources;
NOW THEREFORE, I, Gail L. Ash, Mayor of the City of Clermont, Lake County,
Florida, do hereby proclaim the month of July as
PARKS AND RECREATION MONTH
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the City
of Clermont to be affixed this 28th day of June, two thousand and sixteen.
Gail L. Ash, Mayor
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Tracy Ackroyd Howe, MMC
City Clerk