Backup Documents 06/25/2024 Item # 4APROCLAMATION
WHEREAS, parks and recreation programs are an integral part of communities throughout this
country, including Collier County; and
WHEREAS, parks and recreation programs 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,
attraction and retention of businesses, and crime reduction; and
WHEREAS, parks and recreation areas are fundamental to the environmental well-being of our
community. They 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
WHEREAS, Collier County recognizes the benefits derived from parks and recreation
resources;
NOW THEREFORE, be it proclaimed by the Board of County Commissioners of Collier County,
Florida, that July 2024 be designated as
PARKS AND RECREATION MONTH IN COLLIER COUNTY
DONE AND ORDERED THIS 25' Day of June 2024.
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
COLLIER COUNTY, %FLORIDA
CHRIS HALL, CHAIRMAN