BEAUTIFY LAGOS

LAGOS PARK AND RECREATION

TARGET:
a. Potential landlords or home owners b. Potential employees c. Kids, neighbor and community as a whole

SERVICES: teach and provide the services, labour and materials

The services, labour and materials such as; a. Construction materials to be efficient and durable b. Material cost and labour c. Lighting and maintenance lighting

PARK AND RECRETION PLANNINIG PROCESS

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Field requirement Maintenance User schedule and frequency Event mix Parking Spectators Seating and restroom

THE REQUIREMENT
a. b. c. d. e. f. g. h. Field layout Parking Pedestrian access Landscaping Site lines Graphics Access for emergencies and maintenance vehicles Major consideration should be towards its openness to disables and must be 2%slope down for drainage

Various workshops: Building workshops around, may help accomplish; a. Its proximity may be the advantage of easy linkage between two roads and two event places

b. Good for festival due to its safety, and may call for mass use Training seminars a. may allow for parks, bowling club, hotspots b). provide high activity sport field, recreation, community facilities and Tons of fun c). baseball field, playfield and play ground d) Perimeter walking trail that will be geographically located in major populated cities and all Lagos building to have front of them or garden flowers and trees

IT IS YOU EITHER BEAUTIFY YOUR PREMISES OR GO TO JAIL

WHAT WE WILL PROVIDE?
CONSTITUTION:
1. Establish Recreation and park Commission (Self Neighbor Park Act) Handled by recreation and park commission department on 1. Knowledge about new law 2. How to keep landscape clean, well-kept throughout the year 3. Providing the necessary resources e.g. location, size and dimension, unit/population size 4. Providing the 4ms of money, material man and machine 2. Outsourcing to other companies 3. Building an up to date website (www) a. Making reservations online b. sending of bulky messages

ESTABLISHING LANDSCAPING COMPANIES (In house)

This will help in providing the following; a. Creating of job opportunities b. Strengthen of economy

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Beautifying Lagos

And some other benefits to be derived by the following group of individual, community, environment and everyone INDIVIDUAL: a. Improve academic performances b. Improve health benefits e.g participation in sports, fitness centres, sanitation c. Positive change in self concept COMMUNITY: a. Reduce juvenile crime b. Increase community pride by cleaning up vacant plots, plant garden, reduce in burglary and theft c. Increase productivity in area of rail road d. Stimulus for tourism[nationwide) ENVIRONMENT: a. Pollution control as it mitigate air, water and noise pollution How? It helps conserve plants and trees provide valuable contribution to the economy b. Air water and soil quality How? One tree help in controlling air pollution, soil erosion, soil fertility and humidity is worth c. Community support for improved quality of life EVERYONE: a. During training, dozens of product will be purchased such as T-shirts, shoes, caps, textbooks and stationeries b. The responsibility to help change the way we perceive ourselves and change the way public perceive our values

HOW DO WE PROMOTE PARK AND RECREATION?

The use of NEWSPAPER: This will cover an instruction to care for lawn Demonstrating positive impacts of services can win media coverage for parks and recreation agencies THE USEFULNES OF NEWSPAPER a. PROVIDE RECREATION EXPERINCE: because it will expand youth and family activities b. FOSTER HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: it will partner with public health department to offer parenting classes to local teens c. STRENGHTEN SAFETY AND SECURITY: since youth age of 12 17 are highest risk of violence between an after school hours of 3 7 p.m., it will be a safe place to be after school

d. SUPPORTING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Real Estate Association show quality of life rank in the top 5 most important factor in deciding to purchase a house, for its efforts in attracting shoppers to local community e. PROTECT ENVIRONMENTAL RESOUCES f. FACILITATE COMMUNITY PROBLEM SOLVING: Due to its proximity to schools and Lagos buses( BRT stations) or public buses

WHY CHOOSE NEWSPAPER?

a. By attracting those looking for ideal combination of small town friendliness with urban amenities b. It will include past, present and coming events and joining for festivities on sports and cultural facilities c. RANGER SERVICE: to deal with open access land and public rights, appropriate laws and bye law to support the work d. INFORMATION SERVICES: the more the public understand and appreciate the area, the more likely they are to behave in more sensitive way and support park e. Management with recreational interest group

TIPS ABOUT MEDIA Bear in mind that generally, the larger the readership, the more difficult it is to get the attention of newspaper, newsletter publication. Local community newspaper, television or radio stations are more likely to cover local parks and recreation events than regional publication
The use of newspaper will go a long way in promoting park and recreation other than any other media or new media in starting with after which new media may then turn out to be the option after the commencement.

A TIP ON PRINT MEDIA

Another way you can get some press coverage is to ask local paper if it want to partner with you on community survey to access local needs for park and recreational services A growing number of papers have an interest in civic journalism in which they dont just sell papers but also provide community services. This is the only way they can show their commitment to creating community and demonstrate corporate responsibility. PURPOSES OF PARK AND RECREATION
a. To conserve and enhance natural beauty, wildlife, cultural heritage of park(lago) b. To provide many jobs and range in services c. It can bring problem of erosion and specifically traffic congestion to end so as to allow visitors appreciate the quality d. To seek to foster the economic and social wellbeing of local communities e. To promote opportunities for understanding and enjoyment of special qualities by the public

EXPECTATIONS/USES/ADVANTAGES
Firstly, People needs sense of belonging and feeling of satisfaction with their lives as it help people to find and have good quality of life Secondly, it will help them get decent Housing Meaningful employment Education Health care Social support Foster self determination

THE CHALLENGES
The expected challenges remain; a. Drainage

b. Irrigation c. Grading as the largest financial investment.

A LETTER TO BE SENT

TODAYS SESSION
KEEPING THE DATABASE OF LAGOS TREES: since it is all under the control of park and recreation, then there will be an indiscriminate falling of trees and if there will be need for afforestation in any part of the city, they can keep track HAVING HOTSPOT BUILT AROUND THE PARK: this is another way we could attract the general public to the park PARTNERING WITH FUNCITY: funcity would be the entity to provide the games and rooms for people patronizing the park and recreation, people coming into park who sees it as places to relax their muscles or to say, comfort zone can always have maintain with the token coming from the people patronizing which can as well be used as a mean of paying salaries/ wages BUIDING OF KIOSK: Having people or way of bringing people who have adopted garden as a place of get together thing (Family fun place). Though th e garden are different in places, depending on locations, but we will be considering a thing like BOTANICAL GARDEN BUILDING FOR ESCURSION: it is another mean of generating money which tends to attract people rather than going to zoos which are down and collapse. We will be maximizing what we have to gain maximum return INTERACTIVE EVENT PLACE OR BOOKING SYSTEM: which will cover for when activities and getting people away from the beach due to the disaster and bringing them to park. It will only be encouraging when pools are available for people to play with. The pools of different sizes, the youth, adult, expert in swimming e.t.c maximizing what

RELATIONSHIP WITH OTHER AGENCIES THE RELATIONSHIP WITH ZOOLOGIST: RELATIONSHIP WITH BOTANY:

THE RELATIOSHIP WITH BOTANICAL DEPARTMENT: it will have aquariums, sound like waterfall that is cool and calm. Instance like dentist offices will reduce the pressure in you when carrying out operations in human, naming the different plants and separating trees SURVEILANCE: e.g CCTV THE ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE OF PARK: considering the admin structure,the I.T dept and others