THIRD READING 

Bill No: ACR 69

Author: Eduardo Garcia (D)

Introduced: 4/9/19

Vote: 21

ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 74-0, 5/16/19 (Consent) - See last page for vote

SUBJECT: “Parks Make Life Better!” Month

SOURCE: Author

DIGEST:

This resolution recognizes the importance of access to local parks, trails, open space, and facilities for the health, wellness, development, inspiration, and safety of all Californians and declares the month of July 2019 as “Parks Make Life Better!”® Month.

ANALYSIS: This resolution makes the following legislative findings:

1. Parks and recreation promote physical, emotional, and mental health and wellness through organized and self-directed fitness, play, and activity.
2. Parks support the economic vitality of communities by attracting new businesses, promoting community revitalization, increasing tourism, providing jobs, and generating revenue.
3. The creation and maintenance of parks sustain and steward natural resources by protecting habitats and open space, connecting people to nature, and promoting the ecological function of parkland.
4. Parks strengthen community identity by providing facilities and services that can reflect and celebrate community character, heritage, culture, history, aesthetics, and landscape.
5. Access to parks, the coast, and public lands is fundamental to healthy, vibrant communities.
6. Parks and outdoor programs not only provide a space for communities of color to strengthen their understanding and relationship with nature, but also provide opportunities for families and communities to connect with each other.
7. The California Park & Recreation Society has released a statewide public awareness campaign called “Parks Make Life Better!”® to inform the public of the many benefits of utilizing parks and related facilities, programs, and services.

This resolution:

1. Recognizes the importance of access to local parks, trails, open space, and facilities for the health, wellness, development, inspiration, and safety of all Californians.
2. Declares the month of July 2019 as “Parks Make Life Better!”® Month.

Related/Prior Legislation

ACR 248 (Eduardo Garcia, Resolution Chapter 140, Statutes of 2018) declared the month of July 2018 as “Parks Make Life Better!” Month.

ACR 85 (Eduardo Garcia, Resolution Chapter 112, Statutes of 2017) declared the month of July 2017 as “Parks Make Life Better!” Month.

FISCAL EFFECT: Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: No Local: No

SUPPORT: (Verified 5/24/19)

None received

OPPOSITION: (Verified 5/24/19)

None received

ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 74-0, 5/16/19

AYES: Aguiar-Curry, Bauer-Kahan, Berman, Bigelow, Bloom, Boerner Horvath, Bonta, Brough, Calderon, Carrillo, Cervantes, Chau, Chen, Chiu, Choi, Chu, Cooper, Cunningham, Dahle, Daly, Diep, Eggman, Flora, Fong, Frazier, Gabriel, Gallagher, Eduardo Garcia, Gipson, Gloria, Gonzalez, Gray, Grayson, Holden, Irwin, Jones-Sawyer, Kalra, Kamlager-Dove, Kiley, Lackey, Levine, Limón, Low, Maienschein, Mathis, Mayes, McCarty, Medina, Melendez, Mullin, Muratsuchi, Nazarian, Obernolte, O'Donnell, Patterson, Petrie-Norris, Quirk, Quirk-Silva, Ramos, Reyes, Luz Rivas, Robert Rivas, Rodriguez, Blanca Rubio, Salas, Santiago, Smith, Mark Stone, Voepel, Waldron, Weber, Wicks, Wood, Rendon

NO VOTE RECORDED: Arambula, Burke, Cooley, Friedman, Cristina Garcia, Ting

Prepared by: Karen Chow / SFA / (916) 651-1520

5/29/19 16:52:55

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Date of Hearing: May 9, 2019

ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON RULES

Ken Cooley, Chair

ABPCA Bill Id:ACR 69 (

Author:Eduardo Garcia) – As Introduced Ver:April 9, 2019

SUBJECT: “Parks Make Life Better!” Month.

SUMMARY: Declares the month of July 2019 as “Parks Make Life Better!” Month and recognizes the importance of access to local parks, trails, open space, and facilities for the health, wellness, development, inspiration, and safety of all Californians. Specifically, this resolution makes the following legislative findings:

1. Parks and recreation promote physical, emotional, and mental health and wellness through organized and self-directed fitness, play, and activity.
2. Parks support the economic vitality of communities by attracting new businesses, promoting community revitalization, increasing tourism, providing jobs, and generating revenue; and, parks foster the creation of memorable experiences through engaged programs, dynamic events, and new opportunities designed to get people involved in their communities.
3. Parks strengthen community identity by providing facilities and services that can reflect and celebrate community character, heritage, culture, history, aesthetics, and landscape.
4. California’s rich and diverse park landscapes, from urban settings, such as Oakland and Los Angeles, to rural areas, such as the Eastern Coachella Valley, share transformative qualities that invite all ages, ethnicities, and demographics to share experiential moments in a physical space.
5. Parks and recreation facilitate the resolution of community challenges and issues as demonstrated through the skills deployed by park professionals through after school programming, including informal play and youth athletic activities, which often results in reductions in juvenile crime.
6. Parks and recreation support safe, vibrant, attractive, and progressive communities that make life better through positive alternatives offered in their recreational opportunities.
7. The California Park and Recreation Society has released a statewide public awareness campaign called “Parks Make Life Better!” to inform the public of the many benefits of utilizing parks and related facilities, programs, and services.

FISCAL EFFECT: None

REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION:

Support

None on file

Opposition

None on file

Analysis Prepared by: Nicole Willis / RLS. / (916) 319-2800