Parks and park engineering . ssion. If the work involvesseveral municipalities, as it usually does, a bill for the crea-tion of a park commission with delegated powers can beintroduced into the State Legislature. 3. How the Necessary Funds are Provided. These areusually obtained from the sale of bonds, whose issue isauthorized by the State Government, the indebtednessbeing incurred by the county or district benefited. THE ORGANIZATION FOR WORK The working organization is made up about as follows: 1. A Counsel and perhaps assistants to give legal ad-vice, to attend to claims and to examine cont
Parks and park engineering . ssion. If the work involvesseveral municipalities, as it usually does, a bill for the crea-tion of a park commission with delegated powers can beintroduced into the State Legislature. 3. How the Necessary Funds are Provided. These areusually obtained from the sale of bonds, whose issue isauthorized by the State Government, the indebtednessbeing incurred by the county or district benefited. THE ORGANIZATION FOR WORK The working organization is made up about as follows: 1. A Counsel and perhaps assistants to give legal ad-vice, to attend to claims and to examine contracts andagreements. 2. A Landscape Architect to make selection of lands forparks, parkways, reservations and playgrounds. It is thefunction of the landscape architect to prepare all gradingand planting plans and to outline for the Architect (see 5)the general features of buildings, gateways, walls, stepsand bridges. 3. A Purchasing Department to obtain options on prop-erties likely to be acquired and to arrange for the pur-. THE ORGANIZATION FOR WORK 17 chase of properties already embodied in the scheme of thelandscape architect. 4. An Engineering Department consisting of a chiefengineer, assistant engineers, instrumentmen, chainmen,rodmen, inspectors and a chief gardener and his police department as long as the engineering depart-ment is in existence is a part of it. When the work of landpurchase and heavy construction is completed, it passesover to the Superintendents Department (see 6). Thework of the engineering department can be dividedthus: a. Property surveys of lands to be acquired with theaccompanying searches in the office of the recorder of deeds,and the preparation of property descriptions to be incor-porated in deeds of conveyance prepared by the counselor his assistants. 6. Topographical surveys prepared for the use of thelandscape architect in the preparation of his plans. c. Designs of sewer, drainage, water-supply and lightingsystems, together w
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