Title:
Title
Renaming Mesa Grande Park as William Caston Park
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FileID
File ID: 2018-01516
Location
Location: District 7
Recommendation:
Recommendation
Adopt a Resolution: 1) approving renaming of Mesa Grande Park as William Caston Park; and 2) increasing the Youth, Parks, & Community Enrichment Department's FY2018/19 Operating Budget by $18,200 (Park Development Impact Fee Fund, Fund 3204) from the Fund 3204 Available Fund Balance.
Contact: Brianna Moland, Assistant Planner, (916) 808-6188; Raymond Costantino, Park Planning and Development Services Division Manager, (916) 808-1941, Department of Youth, Parks, & Community Enrichment
Body
Presenter: None
Attachments:
1-Description/Analysis
2-Parks Location Map
3-Resolution
Description/Analysis
Issue Detail: The Department of Youth, Parks, & Community Enrichment (Department) recommends approving the renaming of Mesa Grande Park as William Caston Park. Mesa Grande Park is a 6.27-acre neighborhood park located at 4325 Valley Hi Drive in South Area (Council District 7).
William "Willie" Caston was an active member of the Deerfield Mesa Grande community and worked tirelessly to keep it safe. He helped patrol his neighborhood as one of the first "Volunteers in Police Services" (VIPS), an initiative started by former Police Chief Rick Braziel and the Deerfield Mesa Grande Neighborhood Association. The VIPS program urges members of the Deerfield Mesa Grande community to be the eyes and ears of the local police.
Willie was born in 1942 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He moved to Sacramento in 1987, where he soon began working at MaryAnn's Baking Company as the Sanitation Department Manager. During this move, he and his wife, Charlene Stewart, bought their home in the new development known as Deerfield Mesa Grande. Willie and Charlene quickly became part of the community, and Willie joined the VIPS program to help build bridges between the public and the local police. Before Willie passed peacefully in ...
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