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Home My WebLink AboutO-0222 - Board of park commissioners (Repealed by 1369)-----_.--; 119 ORDINANC~NO.222 PARK COMMISSIO:NERS and FUND: AnORD~NM1CEproviding for the creation of a Board of parkcCQ~_ missioners for the 'I'own of Marysville,Washington,defining their duties and powers and establishing a special fund,to be known as the Park Fund.. BE IT ORDAINED BY,'I'BE.TOWN COUNCIL OF TBE TO'IIN OF ])JT,ARYSVILLE, as follows:-' SECTION I.How created:That there be and is hereby created a board of Park Commissioners,consisting of three(3)persons, to beappbinted by the Mayor and to serve during his pleasure. One member of said board shall be a member of the Town Council. The members of Said board shall receive'no salary or other compensation. SECTION 2.Term of officers.:The term of office of the members of said board shall be three years;provided,that the first board appointed under the provisions of this ordinance shall at thei:r!first meeting so classify themselves by lat as that one of their number shall go out of office on the second Tue_ sday in Tanuarf'I92~rand one on the second Tuesday in JaIlu.ary,~;I1"";1f ~,,&0,,".-If i1I.1'1 ,J;'t\lIa"1"'ilZ4-,•I92a:,~and shal "hol~'ol'flce :for then respective terms and until their successors are duly elected and qua~ified,subject to removal at 'the pleasure of the mayor.." SEC'I'ION:5:3.Organization:(a)Imrilediately upon their appointment and qualification after this ordinance shall go into effect, and thereafter on the second Tuesday in January of each year, the board shall elect a President and Vice President from its members,and a Secretary who mayor may not be armember-of the board. (b )Two members of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of 'bv,siness.,Two affirmative votes shall be necessary to adopt or carry any measure.The board shall have regular public meetings at least'once a month at their r egular.place of meeting. (c):The board shall have power to make by*laws and rules for the conduct of its business. :". SECTION 4•.Annual Report:The Park Board shall,at the ciose of-each year,make a report to the council,stating the condit_ ion of it's trust,with such statistics and information as the board may deem of importance. SECTION 5.Compensation:No member of the board,unless he or she be Secrets.ry,shall receive any compensation.The comperia., ation of the Secretary shall be fixed by the board,subject to the ratification and approval of the council. SECTION ,6.Office:Whenever there shall be suitable accom_ modationsin the town bUilding the office of the park board shall bemairita:ined therein. SECTION 7.Powers:The park board shall have power;(a)to purchase ,or procure or accept real estate,with consent of the council;to layout,establish and have the care,management control and iJ,llprovement of,allboulevar.ds connecting parks ' and struc'turesthereon,and all parkways,now or hereafter owned.or.cohtrolled by>'ihe town,whether within or without the t!llliln limits,and may'des~gnatethem by name. (b) The council upon the request of the board of park commissioners,shall have authority to h~y out;establish and improve parkways,parkf:drives and boulevards,and to designate 120 such streets or avenges,or'parts thereof,as they may see fit,as parkways,park drives and,boul.evar-d s j vand-rto transfer the care,maintainance andimproveinent of the surface of all or any part of such parkways,park drives and boulevard:sto the board of park commissioners,as t hey may dElemexpedien~L.. (c)To exercise supervision over,and.to remove or to replant shade trees,shrubs,and piants of all kinds on or in the streElts and publicplacEls Of the town,and.over all resting places,water stations,play grounds and Parade grounds; (d)To make.rules and regulations for the use,of parks and town cemeteriesaild provide for the enforcment of such r ul.es and regulations by the police department of the town .• (e) To prohibit,or determine the place and manner of making excavations,and of placing or maintaining'wires, pipes,poles,posts,masts,and supports in parks,town cemeteries,or boulevards,and to compel the alteration or r removal thereof at any time; "(f)TO'improve and adorn parks,city cemeteries,' boulevards and other park property and do all things necessaryoor proper to re!].der them OfV!?lue t9 thep~blic; (g) To lease anypr;operty under t ts control,not needed for immdidia te'improvement,for aterm not to exceed three years,and to receive the rent and place the same in the park fund,to be used fo.r park purposes;" OM)In no case shall the expenditures of the park board exceed the amount donated and appropriated.for park purposes; (i)PerSOnal property may be given or bequeathed,to the town and accepted .by the paak board,for park or . ~emeterypurposes,or for the 'establishment or maintain., ande in parks,of muse1lills,zoological or other gardens, collections of natural history,observatticiB;bUildings, fountains,monuments,statues or other works of art,upon the trust and conditions prescribed by ,the donors thereof; and all such property,together with,the income and profits thereof,shall be under the exclusive control of the park board,except as otherwise pr ov i ded bylaw.All property acquired by the park board shall be in the name Of the town; (j~If any mortgage or other obligations be given in payment of land for park purposes,it shall not be a general liabili ty against the town,but the same shall be and.remain a liability against the property so acqUired only;. (k) The park board shall not"in anyone year,expend upon acquired land or lands a sum exceeding ten per centum of the cost of the land,until the town possesses a Clear and unemcumbered title to SUch land;and further,it sh~ll not erect upon encumbered property any l?ermanent structures; (1) To acquire by purchase or otheI1wise,la,nd fQr public parks within or without the limi tS";;f s\lchtowri;arid to improve the'same;prOVided however,that ,n~,sumshall be approprIated for that.purpose until the sanieis.author- izedby a vote of two_thirds of the iualified voters re.sid ... ing in such town,at trhe annual munici:mt;l election,ora' at a special election held for the purp6se,which election shall be held as other special elections; 1 ORDINANCE NO.222 (Cont'd) (m)The park board may,with the oonsent of the oounoil, oause unimproved or negleoted parking stips to be improved and oared for at the oost of the abutting property,and the oounoil shall have the same power to provide for making suoh leoal improvements,and to levy and oolleot speoial assessments on the property benefitted thereby,as in the oase of the other looal improvements. 1SECTION 8.Condemnation forvPark Purposes:(a)If the board shall be unable to purohase at a satisfaotory prioe, with and by the oonsent of the oounoil,any lands or other property for park 'purposes,or be unable to make a satis_ faotory arrangement as to oompensation there~Br,the town may oop.demn the ,same at the expense of the park fund. (b) Any property desired for park or oemetery purposes in whioh any number ·of the park board or oounoil may be interested,shall be aoquired by oondemnation prooeedings. The petition for oondemnation shall set forth the interest of the member or members;but donations of land from members of the park board or members of the counoil may be acoepted in the usual manner. SECTION 9.Annual levy for support of Parks:In order to maintain,and improve the parks and park system,and to provide for the expenses authorized by this ordinance,the 'Town Council may levy each year and cause to be collected a tax not to exoeed one mill on all taxable property;That the prooeeds of suoh levy shall be paid into a speoial fund, to be known as the "Park Fund". SECTION 10.Disbursements of Park Funds:All taxes levied for park purposes,as provided for in this ordinanoe;all moneys realized from the sale of park bonds,all moneys appropriated by the Counoil for park purposes or reoeived by the park board from any other souroe shall be turned into and kept in a fund designated the "Park Fund"and be deemed appropriated to,and shall be used exolusively for the pur- poses set ,forth in this ordinanoe,and shall be expended upon the order of suoh offioer or offioers of the Park Board as may be seleotedby it for that purpose by resolution. Copies of suoh resolution dUly oertified,shall be filed with the Town Clerk.The Park Board shall eertify all expendituTes made by it to the Town Clerk,and the same shall be audited and paid in the same manner as other olai~s against the Towm.Said money shall be paid out by the ~reasurer upon warrants signed by the Mayor and Town Clerk,and not otherwise. §ECTION II.All ordinances,or parts of ordinanoes,in confliot with the provisions of this ordinanoe be and they .are hereby repealed.' SECTION 12:This ordinanoe shall take effeot from and after it's passage,approval and publication according to law. Passed April,4,1921. Approved April 4,1921. .John Hilton Mayor Attest: W.S.Meyers Town Clerk. Date of Publication:April 8th,1921. 121