Title:
Title
Renaming Richfield Park as LeVar Burton Park
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FileID
File ID: 2019-00116
Location
Location: District 8
Recommendation:
Recommendation
Adopt a Resolution: 1) approving renaming of Richfield Park as LeVar Burton Park; and 2) appropriating $20,000 from Park Impact Fee Available Fund Balance (Fund 3204) to Richfield Park Playground L19154100.
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
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Presenter: None
Attachments:
1-Description/Analysis
2-Park Location Map
3-Resolution
Description/Analysis
Issue Detail: The Department of Youth, Parks, & Community Enrichment (Department) recommends approving the renaming of Richfield Park as LeVar Burton Park.
Richfield Park is an existing 3.14-acre neighborhood park located at 1900 Expedition Way in South Area (District 8). Existing park amenities include basic landscaping, a group picnic area with a shade shelter, seating areas, open turf, a turf amphitheater, a volleyball court and a basketball court. This existing park name was based on name of a nearby street, Richfield Way. A new sign and plaque will be installed to reflect the renaming to LeVar Burton Park.
LeVar Burton was born Levardis Robert Martyn Burton, Jr. in Landstuhl, West Germany in 1957. His father was a photographer for the U.S. Army Signal Corps and was stationed in Europe for a tour of duty. At three years old, when his parents divorced, his mother moved him and his two sisters to Glen Elder in Sacramento.
His mother Erma was an English teacher who wanted her children to value their education and be raised Catholic. She supported LeVar when he decided to study at a Catholic seminary in Galt, California to become a priest. However, the seminary had a strong theater tradition, and LeVar was subsequently bitten by the acting bug.
After attending Christian B...
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