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Home My WebLink About07/15/1997, C-7 - PARK NAMING f r EAcouncil Juice 15 1997 ac Enda REpont e-7 C ITY OF SAN LUIS O B I S P O FROM: Paul LeSage,Director of Parks and Recreation SUBJECT: PARK NAMING CAO RECOMMENDATION By motion, name the.City park site, located between 860 and 910 Vista del Collados Drive, PRIOLO-MARTIN PARK DISCUSSION Background The City Council recently adopted a policy for the naming of City parks. This policy authorizes the Parks and Recreation Commission to make appropriate recommendations to the City Council for the naming of parks. The proposed naming of the Vista del Collados park site comes to the Council with the enthusiastic support of the Commission. In 1994, the Parks and Recreation Department staff and the Parks and Recreation Commission began taking public input for the purpose of updating the Parks and Recreation Element. At the first meeting, held in May, two fifth-grade students from Teach School, Vincent Priolo and Drew Martin, called attention to the need for a park in their neighborhood located around Vista del Collados Drive. They brought with them a petition signed by over 50 neighborhood residents in support of the park The boys also made a presentation of a possible park design. Vincent and Drew subsequently attended every public hearing and study session concerning the Element until it was approved by the Commission in November of 1994. As a result of their efforts, a park site for that neighborhood was in the final version of the Element update approved by the City Council in May of 1995. Funding for the project was included in the 1995-97 City budget. The park itself was completed earlier this year. CONCURRENCES Members of the Parks and Recreation Commission feel strongly that the efforts of Vincent and Drew are worthy of recognition, and the appropriate recognition is the naming of the park site in their honor. FISCAL EM PACT The recognition for a park naming is an appropriate park sign. Funding for a PRIOLO-MARTIN PARK sign is available through the projects fund balance.