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Q <br />• Build trails and connect open spaces; <br />• Improve access and incorporate healthy lifestyle design into parks and open spaces; <br />• Look at new program needs, identify partnerships; <br />• Examine the role of community centers in providing public recreation. <br />Several issues for further study are identified in the final chapter (Chapter 11). <br />Upon completion of the public hearing, staff recommends that the draft Master Plan be <br />transmitted to several advisory boards for review and comment (as noted in the <br />recommendation below), before coming back to the Parks and Recreation Council for a formal <br />recommendation and thence review and consideration by the Board of Commissioners <br />(anticipated for September 2014). <br />FINANCIAL IMPACT: There is no financial impact associated with the public hearing for the <br />draft Master Plan. The plan includes many current and new proposed capital investments for <br />parks and recreation facilities — most of which are included within the adopted Capital <br />Investment Plan (CIP), as well as likely renovations, repairs and replacement costs, which will <br />be evaluated and considered as part of future CIP and budget approval processes each year. <br />RECOMMENDATION(S): The Manager recommends that the Board open the public hearing <br />for resident comment, close the hearing and after providing any initial direction, refer the Master <br />Plan to the Board of Health, Economic Development Commission, Planning Board, Orange <br />United Transportation Board, Commission for the Environment, Board on Aging, and Historic <br />Preservation Commission for review and comment (and any other advisory boards as deemed <br />warranted), and that all such comments be forwarded by August 31, 2014 to the Parks and <br />Recreation Council for use in developing a recommendation to the Board of Commissioners, as <br />noted above. <br />