Parks and Recreation Month V'
CLER ONT
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WHEREAS, parks and recreation programs are an integral part of communities throughout this
country, including 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
1N3TERE.4S, 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 U.S. House of Representatives has designated July as Parks and Recreation Month;
and
1'VHEREAS, the City of Clermont recognizes the benefits derived from parks and recreation
resources;
NO1v, THEREFORE, I, Gail L. Ash, Mayor of the City of Clermont do hereby proclaim the month of
July, 2018 as
PARKS AND RECREATION MONTH
IN WITNESS 1VHEREOF. I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the City of
Clermont to be affixed this 24th day of July, two thousand and eighteen.
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Gail L. Ash, Mayor
ATTEST•/
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Tracy Ackroy. Howe, MMC
City Clerk