A park is a place that impacts communities, has government funding, and the support of the communities around it. This place of beauty is built all over cities, rural areas, and even established up in the mountains. A park is built to preserve a monument, historical event, or to increase beauty, however, these parks could have positive or negative impacts on the communities around them. Parks are built to help communities so they have more positive impact than negative.
Parks are funded by the people with taxpayers’ money. The funds are distributed in 3 different categories: governmental, proprietary, and fiduciary funds. The funds that relate to the parks and recreation fall under the category of governmental. These funds …show more content…
People that live in the surround will usually go to the parks around them for many events; they rely heavily on the maintenance and the funding of the park to continue going there. The people that don’t care about the park usually don’t go to the parks as well as advocate for them to be taken down. Many parks need the cooperation and funding from the people for them to be successful. In this pdf for Denver’s budget, “The number of youth participating in free out-of-school activities in recreation centers and the percentage of Denver youth enrolled with access to the My Denver card measures success in attracting Denver’s young people to recreation centers.” (City and County of Denver Mayor’s 2016 Budget pg 574). This statement is meant to tell the people that they need more kids to go out and play at these parks. This has to do with having communities helping the park because if more people went to parks there would be more investments in trying to keep the parks clean. When the people are pushed to use the parks themselves, also having people volunteering and donating. Parks are also great ways for communities to come together in open areas to have