There is hereby established a City Parks and Recreation Department to be administered under the direction and supervision of the City Manager in accordance with Section 4b of the City Charter. The City Manager, with the approval of Council, may create such positions within the Department, including a City Parks Director, as may be necessary and appropriate to provide for the proper acquisition, development, equipping, maintenance, supervision, and operation of all those City public recreational parks and facilities presently subject to the control and supervision of the Park and Recreation Board heretofore established. The Parks and Recreation Department shall receive at least an annual budget appropriation and be administered and managed in the same manner as other City departments are managed.
(Ord. 86-5. Passed 12-9-86.)