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City committee backs parks lease and management reforms to boost transparency and accountability
Summary
A Parks & Environment ad hoc committee recommended new lease rules — requiring programming descriptions, quarterly financial reports, a compliance manager and shorter base lease terms — and the council committee agreed to move the recommendations forward for legal review and refinement.
Council members on the Parks & Environment panel praised an ad hoc committee’s year‑long review of century‑old lease and management agreements and voted to forward a resolution accepting its recommendations.
Councilwoman Cooper Sutton, who sponsored the resolution, said the committee reviewed hundreds of pages of long‑running agreements and aimed to create consistent,…
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