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Parks and Recreation Month V' SER O C NT Chace of Champions 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 '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 U.S. House of Representatives has designated July as Parks and Recreation Month; and 'W3-1ERE.AS, the City of Clermont recognizes the benefits derived from parks and recreation resources; N0'W, THEREFORE, I, Gail L. Ash, Mayor of the City of Clermont, Lake County, Florida, do hereby proclaim the month of July as PARKS AND RECRE. DON 4ON73-1 IN WITNESS 'WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the City of Clermont to be affixed this 9th day of July, two thousand and nineteen. Gail L. Ash, Mayor ATTE•T: Tracy Ackroy• Howe, MMC City Clerk