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BEAUTIFY LAGOSLAGOS PARK AND RECREATION

TARGET:a. Potential landlords or home ownersb. Potential employeesc. Kids, neighbor and community as a whole

SERVICES: teach and provide the services, labour and materials

The services, labour and materials such as;

a. Construction materials to be efficient and durableb. Material cost and labourc. Lighting and maintenance lighting

PARK AND RECRETION PLANNINIG PROCESS

1. Field requirement2. Maintenance3. User schedule and frequency4. Event mix5. Parking6. Spectators7. Seating and restroom

THE REQUIREMENT

a. Field layoutb. Parkingc. Pedestrian accessd. Landscapinge. Site linesf. Graphicsg. Access for emergencies and maintenance vehiclesh. Major consideration should be towards its openness to disables and must be 2%slope down for drainage

Various workshops: Building workshops around, may help accomplish;a. Its proximity may be the advantage of easy linkage between two roads and two event places


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b. Good for festival due to its safety, and may call for mass use

Training seminarsa. may allow for parks, bowling club, hotspots

b). provide high activity sport field, recreation, community facilities and

Tons of fun

c). baseball field, playfield and play ground

d) Perimeter walking trail that will be geographically located in major populated cities and all Lagos

building to have front of them or garden flowers and trees

IT IS YOU EITHER BEAUTIFYYOUR PREMISES OR GO TO JAILWHAT WE WILL PROVIDE?

CONSTITUTION:1. Establish Recreation and park Commission (Self Neighbor Park Act)

Handled by recreation and park commission department on1. Knowledge about new law2. How to keep landscape clean, well-kept throughout the year3. Providing the necessary resources e.g. location, size and dimension, unit/population size4. Providing the 4ms of money, material man and machine

2. Outsourcing to other companies

3. Building an up to date website (www)

a. Making reservations online

b. sending of bulky messages

ESTABLISHING LANDSCAPING COMPANIES (In house)

This will help in providing the following;

a. Creating of job opportunitiesb. Strengthen of economy


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c. Beautifying LagosAnd some other benefits to be derived by the following group of individual, community, environment and

everyone

INDIVIDUAL:a. Improve academic performancesb. Improve health benefits e.g participation in sports, fitness centres, sanitationc. Positive change in self concept

COMMUNITY:a. Reduce juvenile crimeb. Increase community pride by cleaning up vacant plots, plant garden, reduce in burglary and

theft

c. Increase productivity in area of rail roadd. Stimulus for tourism[nationwide)

ENVIRONMENT:a. Pollution control as it mitigate air, water and noise pollution

How?

It helps conserve plants and trees provide valuable contribution to the economy

b. Air water and soil qualityHow?

One tree help in controlling air pollution, soil erosion, soil fertility and humidity is worth

c. Community support for improved quality of lifeEVERYONE:

a. During training, dozens of product will be purchased such as T-shirts, shoes, caps, textbooksand stationeries

b. The responsibility to help change the way we perceive ourselves and change the way publicperceive our values

HOW DO WE PROMOTE PARK AND RECREATION?The use of NEWSPAPER: This will cover an instruction to care for lawn

Demonstrating positive impacts of services can win media coverage for parks and recreation agencies

THE USEFULNES OF NEWSPAPERa. PROVIDE RECREATION EXPERINCE: because it will expand youth and family activitiesb. FOSTER HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: it will partner with public health department to offer

parenting classes to local teens

c. STRENGHTEN SAFETY AND SECURITY: since youth age of 12 17 are highest risk of violencebetween an after school hours of 3 7 p.m., it will be a safe place to be after school


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d. SUPPORTING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Real Estate Association show quality of life rank inthe top 5 most important factor in deciding to purchase a house, for its efforts in attracting

shoppers to local community

e. PROTECT ENVIRONMENTAL RESOUCESf. FACILITATE COMMUNITY PROBLEM SOLVING: Due to its proximity to schools and Lagos

buses( BRT stations) or public buses

WHY CHOOSE NEWSPAPER?a. By attracting those looking for ideal combination of small town friendliness with urban amenitiesb. It will include past, present and coming events and joining for festivities on sports and cultural facilitiesc. RANGER SERVICE: to deal with open access land and public rights, appropriate laws and bye law to

support the work

d. INFORMATION SERVICES: the more the public understand and appreciate the area, the more likely theyare to behave in more sensitive way and support park

e. Management with recreational interest group

TIPS ABOUT MEDIA

Bear in mind that generally, the larger the readership, themore difficult it is to get the attention of newspaper,

newsletter publication.

Local community newspaper, television or radio stations are

more likely to cover local parks and recreation events

than regional publication

The use of newspaper will go a long way in promoting park and recreation other than any other media or

new media in starting with after which new media may then turn out to be the option after the

commencement.

A TIP ON PRINT MEDIA


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Another way you can get some press coverage is to ask local paper if

it want to partner with you on community survey to access local

needs for park and recreational services

A growing number of papers have an interest in civic journalism in

which they dont just sell papers but also provide community

services. This is the only way they can show their commitment to

creating community and demonstrate corporate responsibility.

PURPOSES OF PARK AND RECREATIONa. To conserve and enhance natural beauty, wildlife, cultural heritage of park(lago)b. To provide many jobs and range in servicesc. It can bring problem of erosion and specifically traffic congestion to end so as to allow visitors appreciate

the quality

d. To seek to foster the economic and social wellbeing of local communitiese. To promote opportunities for understanding and enjoyment of special qualities by the public

EXPECTATIONS/USES/ADVANTAGES

Firstly, People needs sense of belonging and feeling of satisfaction with their lives as it help people to findand have good quality of life

Secondly, it will help them get decent

Housing

Meaningful employment

Education

Health care

Social support

Foster self determination

THE CHALLENGES

The expected challenges remain;

a. Drainage


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b. Irrigationc. Grading as the largest financial investment.

A LETTER TO BE SENT

TODAYS SESSION

KEEPING THE DATABASE OF LAGOS TREES: since it is all under the control of park and recreation,then there will be an indiscriminate falling of trees and if there will be need for afforestation in any part

of the city, they can keep track

HAVING HOTSPOT BUILT AROUND THE PARK: this is another way we could attract the general publicto the parkPARTNERING WITH FUNCITY: funcity would be the entity to provide the games and rooms for peoplepatronizing the park and recreation, people coming into park who sees it as places to relax their muscles

or to say, comfort zone can always have maintain with the token coming from the people patronizingwhich can as well be used as a mean of paying salaries/ wages

BUIDING OF KIOSK: Having people or way of bringing people who have adopted garden as a place of

get together thing (Family fun place). Though th e garden are different in places, depending on locations,

but we will be considering a thing like BOTANICAL GARDEN

BUILDING FOR ESCURSION: it is another mean of generating money which tends to attract people

rather than going to zoos which are down and collapse. We will be maximizing what we have to gain

maximum return

INTERACTIVE EVENT PLACE OR BOOKING SYSTEM: which will cover for when activities and getting

people away from the beach due to the disaster and bringing them to park. It will only be encouraging

when pools are available for people to play with. The pools of different sizes, the youth, adult, expert in

swimming e.t.c maximizing what

RELATIONSHIP WITH OTHER AGENCIES

THE RELATIONSHIP WITH ZOOLOGIST:

RELATIONSHIP WITH BOTANY:


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THE RELATIOSHIP WITH BOTANICAL DEPARTMENT: it will have aquariums, sound like waterfall that

is cool and calm. Instance like dentist offices will reduce the pressure in you when carrying out

operations in human, naming the different plants and separating trees

SURVEILANCE: e.g CCTV

THE ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE OF PARK: considering the admin structure,the I.T dept andothers

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