Council shall provide and allocate in the annual City budget sufficient funds for the operation and maintenance of an adequate system of City parks and recreational facilities and of an adequate recreational program. The Superintendent of Parks and Recreation provided for in this article, shall submit to the City Manager an annual budget request approved by the Board of Park Commissioners in the same manner and form as provided for all other departments of the City. The appropriation as may be provided by Council shall be kept and accounted for in the General Fund of the City in a like manner and form as for all other departments. The superintendent of Parks and Recreation, with the approval of the Board, shall be required to submit monthly, bimonthly or quarterly allotment requests in advance, in the same manner and form as provided for all other departments of the City. No funds shall be drawn therefrom except pursuant to a purchase order authorized by the City Manager or his designate and then only in keeping with the monthly, bimonthly or quarterly allotment so provided; and otherwise all funds so appropriated for the use of the Board shall be in like manner and form and under the supervision of the City Manager and the Director of Finance as all other departments of the City.
(1969 Code §2-96)