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<br /> A PUBLICATION OF THE NATIONAL RECREATION AND PARK ASSOCIATION (5 f'i
<br /> January 1983 3101 Park Center Drive,Alexandria, Virginia 22302 Volume VI, Number 1
<br /> Volunteers Perform 7:- "' 97th Congress Ends;
<br /> Small Miracle in � , f $75 Million Outlay
<br /> Virginia Community ,.,,,e
<br /> ,' l 1 Granted to States
<br /> What can 300 volunteers do over the ' ! 11 �i.l i titi '
<br /> .. ,, In the last days of its arduous lama
<br /> course of four days on a 184-foot by . t ( duck session, the 97th Congress approved
<br /> 84-foot deteriorating playground? ' 1 Ili i a $7.5 billion Interior Department ap-
<br /> Rebuild it as a children's creative play + '�ltlC propriations bill which includes $75
<br /> arca--with a castle maze made of 111 rr' , million for the state assistance portion
<br /> telephone poles, rocket ships, cubed tires of the Land and Water Conservation
<br /> for climbing and a cable bridge—by using ' ' _, Fund.
<br /> $14,000 in donated funds and $40,000 ti • ;, `- President Reagan was expected to sign
<br /> in donated time and materials. � the stopgap measure sent to him Dec. 21.
<br /> That's what volunteers accomplished 3 The catchall spending bill will fund all
<br /> in Waynesboro, Va., Nov. 4-7 as they •
<br /> I z federal activities through next September.
<br /> came with hammers, aprons, and deter- ;' ' In all, the Interior bill—H.R. 7356—
<br /> mination in what Parks and Recreation ,4-1"•Y a ' ' w_ o earmarked $226 million for the Land and
<br /> Director Joseph M. Hickson, Jr. called •, ,l ' , Water Conservation Fund, with the
<br /> "the greatest experience of community , ', "c,Ir 3. majority of it to fund federal projects.
<br /> spirit"he's seen. /' I 0 While the $75 million outlay for state
<br /> "We got the best cross section of the - '<.i1t► o and local parks falls short of the $100
<br /> Sommunity
<br /> working on the creative play t million recommended by the National
<br /> rea," said Hickson. "And when the work a Recreation and Park Association, it will
<br /> was finished Sunday night, the corn- volunteer v orkers in Waynesboro, Va.,put rhe nevertheless be viewed a victory for state
<br /> munity just didn't want to let the spirit finishing touches on the Emily M. Spilman and local park and recreation administra-
<br /> Creative Play Area.
<br /> die. I went to the play area at 6 a.m- tors across the country.
<br /> Monday morning and ran into 15 guys who built it in this community of 15,800 In fiscal 1982, LWCF dollars for state
<br /> who were just admiring what had been are still bursting with pride. and local park and recreation projects
<br /> accomplished." The play area was named for a de- were halted—for the first time since the
<br /> The Emily M. Spilman Creative Play ceased community activist, but her Fund's creation in 1965—with a "one-
<br /> Area will be formally dedicated in the husband, the local newspaper publisher, year moratorium."
<br /> spring, but the children for whom it was was not asked to contribute funding. In its fiscal 1983 budget proposal—
<br /> built are already using it and the adults See AREA, Page 5 released last February—the Reagan ad-
<br /> ministration again proposed that no state
<br /> assth
<br /> Park and Recreation Issues Feel Brunt Landance andmonies Waterbe Conserytionallocatedom Fu de
<br /> inistration's
<br /> of Fiscal Conservatism in Nov. Polls cameh nea pite of Interior Department p on
<br /> A conservative fiscal attitude demon- tion and the remainder for construction jections that a record $18 billion in
<br /> strated itself in some November ballot of four indoor pool complexes, two ex- royalty revenues from Outer Continental
<br /> returns as three bond referenda on parks panded recreation centers, expansion of Shelf leases—the source for nearly 90
<br /> and recreation failed Nov. 2 while one golf courses, and energy conservation percent of LWCF dollars—would be raised
<br /> major issue was adopted by a narrow retrofitting projects, among others. in 1983.
<br /> margin. But the victory was narrow, with Appearing before the Senate Commit-
<br /> The big winner last November ap- 85,000 voters or 51 percent voting in tee on Energy and Natural Resources last
<br /> peared to be Fairfax County, Va., favor of the spending package. The last Feb. 15, Interior Secretary James G.
<br /> where the Fairfax County Park Au- parks and recreation bond issue in North- Watt said that "these programs primarily
<br /> thority and the Northern Virginia Park ern Virginia was a $39-million proposal in produce local benefits and should, there-
<br /> thority—serving somewhat overlapping
<br /> ug 1977 which passed by a wide margin. fore, be the responsibility of local
<br /> pulations—won a $58 million bond While Louis Cable, deputy director governments."
<br /> erendum- of the Fairfax County Park Authority, Of the $75 million appropriated for
<br /> Of the total, $50 million was ear didn't consider the 1982 winning margin the state assistance portion of the LWCF
<br /> marked for a seven-year program for the truly narrow, the park authority is never-
<br /> for fiscal year 1983, $4.3 million will
<br /> Fairfax County Park Authority, with 10 theless working with a local university cover administrative expenses associated
<br /> percent to be used for parkland acquisi- See REFERENDA,Page 4 See LWCF, Page 12
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