RESOLUTION NO. _____________

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, COUNTY OF SAN MATEO, STATE OF CALIFORNIA

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RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE COUNTY’S ACCEPTANCE OF A DONATION IN THE AMOUNT OF $267,981 AND IN-KIND GIFTS IN THE AMOUNT OF $211,700 FROM THE SAN MATEO COUNTY PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION

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RESOLVED, by the Board of Supervisors of the County of San Mateo, State of California, that

WHEREAS, the San Mateo County Parks Foundation (Foundation) has raised $267,981 in donations for the Environmental Services Agency Parks and Recreation Division’s Volunteer Program, Bicycle Sunday, various costs for Edgewood Interpretive Center parking lot improvements, Serpentine restoration mowing at Edgewood Park and Preserve, landscape improvements, promenade engineering study and improvements to windsurfing staging area at Coyote Point Park; and

WHEREAS, the Foundation has made in-kind gifts in the amount of $211,700 for Serpentine habitat research and progress on parking lot and interpretive center design at Edgewood Park and Preserve, Parks for the Future research and education, grants management activities, design of Fitzgerald Marine Reserve interpretive signs, Teacher’s Guide distribution, and miscellaneous support of park programs.

NOW THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY DETERMINED AND ORDERED that the

San Mateo County Board of Supervisors by adoption of this resolution hereby approves the acceptance of the San Mateo County Parks and Recreation Foundation donations in the amount of $267,981 and in-kind gifts of $211,700.

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