CITY COUNCIL FORMS PANEL TO OVERSEE PARK SPACE; PLAN CREATES FUNDING TO BUY, KEEP UP SITES.Byline: Lisa Mascaro Daily News Staff Writer On an unused lot on Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. Boulevard where there was once a service station, new Councilman Dennis Gillette envisions a pretty patch of green to offer refuge from the city landscape. A dusty parkland full of tumbleweeds could be a working park. And various plots of land could be kept free from development as open space. These are some of the ideas behind his plan to create a park endowment for the city - a savings account Savings Account A deposit account intended for funds that are expected to stay in for the short term. A savings account offers lower returns than the market rates. Notes: of sorts - that could buy and maintain land in the city. ``You would have this fund to draw on to do that,'' said Gillette. ``This would provide caretaker funds for open space.'' Drawing on his years of service as city parks and recreation commissioner, Gillette introduced the plan at the council meeting Tuesday where it was unanimously approved. The proposal calls for creating a committee made up of members from the City Council and the Conejo Recreation and Parks District to research the concept. The council appointed Gillette and colleague Dan Del Campo as the city's two representatives to the committee. ``I'm looking forward to the outcome of that committee's recommendation,'' said Mayor Linda Parks For the DC Comics character, see . Linda Park (born July 9, 1978) is a Korean American actress who is best known for her portrayal of communications officer character Hoshi Sato in the television series . , who is supportive of the plan. At issue is more than 330 acres of city land at 15 different sites that could be turned into working parks, and various pieces of property that could be preserved as open-space and maintenance properties. Funds would also be used for maintaining parks, helping to supply services from ranger Ranger Any of a series of unmanned probes launched from 1961 to 1965 by NASA. The project was NASA's earliest attempt to explore the Moon's surface. Ranger 4 (1962) became the first U.S. spacecraft to hit the Moon, crash-landing on its surface as planned. patrols to weed weed, common term for any wild plant, particularly an undesired plant, growing in cultivated ground, where it competes with crop plants for soil nutrients and water. abatement A reduction, a decrease, or a diminution. The suspension or cessation, in whole or in part, of a continuing charge, such as rent. With respect to estates, an abatement is a proportional diminution or reduction of the monetary legacies, a disposition of property by will, when . Gillette said there has been no fund-raising goal set, and the committee will hammer out details such as costs involved and ways to raise money. So far, a city sales tax sales tax, levy on the sale of goods or services, generally calculated as a percentage of the selling price, and sometimes called a purchase tax. It is usually collected in the form of an extra charge by the retailer, who remits the tax to the government. and corporate or individual contributions have been suggested as possible funding tools. The committee hopes to report back to the City Council in spring. |
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