The Board shall be vested with the power to acquire or improve parks, playgrounds or other recreation facilities having an estimated useful life of five (5) years or more funded by the one-half of one mill levy as provided for in Article X, Section 2, of this Charter. The Board shall be an advisory Board that shall make recommendations to the Director of Public Service for the maintenance of the parks, playgrounds, playfields, gymnasiums, public beaches and swimming pools, provided, however, that such Board shall have the power to plan, schedule, govern and direct the operations of all recreational programs it shall sponsor consistent with the appropriations of City Council.
(Amended 11-3-92.)