01-25-10 La Porte City Facilities Naming Committee Meeting (Pond to Park)

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J+ern -t tt01 ~ cR APPLICATION FOR NAMING A CITY OF LA PORTE FACILITY Please provide the information requested and return this application to the City Secretary's Office. ADoI"ICaI1t Information Name: ~tephen Barr, Director of Parks & Recreation, City of La Porte, Texas Address: Phone: 1322 S. Broadway, La Porte, TX 77571 81.470.5136 Facility Infonnation Location: Current Name: Function or Facility: Proposed Name: 3800 Driftwood Pond to Park City Pa rk Cypress Falls Park c Contributions In the spaces provided below, briefly explain how the proposed individual, family, organization, or entity has contributed to La Porte. You may use any combination of categories, as is appropriate to the nomination, to describe the contributions made. For further assistance, please refer to the Procedures and Guidelines for the Naming of Public Facilities. trhis park was acquired from the Fairmont Park East Homeowner's Association in 2000 as a detention basin. The City of La Porte, working with the association, developed a plan to turn the detention basin into a park while keeping the functionality of the detention basin, hence the Iworking name "Pond to Park". Now that the park is completed, we are recommending the selection of a permanent name for the park. Financial Contribution The City of La Porte partnered with the Fairmont Park East Homeowner's Association to fund the project. The Association contributed a total of $75,000 toward the development and construction of the park, in three phases. Civic Contribution The Fairmont Park East Homeowner's Association was given the opportunity to assist with choosing the new park name. They made several suggestions and the recommendation includes a portion of their final suggestion of "Wood Falls". Staff felt that, since we have planted over 50 Bald Cypress trees around the pond, that "Cypress Falls" sounded better and was more fitting when considering the park setting and intended purpose.