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DEPARTMENT of PARKS Office of General Manager Atlanta, Georgia 30303 March 29, 1968 JACK C. DELIUS MEMORANDUM GENERAL MANAGER TO: Honorable Ivan Allen, Jr. Advisory Committee on Civil Disorders FROM: Jack c. Delius, General Manager of Parks and Recreation~ In response to your request of March 19, 1968 we wish to supply the following information. I have carefully read Chapter 10, "The Community Response," contained in the Report of The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders and have compared the cont ents with your recommended 1968 City Services Program. I believe that the Administrative Organization, responsibilities, and recommended direct action, carefully reflects what the City of Atlanta should do in responding to the suggestions and conclusions on Civil Disorders. I certainly hope that we can obtain this swnmer City Services Coordinators. Last year I urged they be reconsidered for 1968 and they served a real purpose by taking a load off the operating departments in regards to screening certain complaints, some of which were unf0nnded , and passing on with proper emphasis those compla:i.nts which were fully justified. I am quite impressed with the staffing suggested for the Neighborhood Task Force. I am concerned and somewhat in a quandary about recomme ndations for bhe City-Wide Resources Task Force. On Page 3, Paragraph f., it is stated that each City d epartment will make themselves available to each of the six Neighborhood Task Forces on a "a s needed" basis. However , · the second and following paragraph states that each representatj ve wi ll be s erving . full time , etc. I don't believe the Parks Department has enough administrative people to loan out and staff si x Neighborhood Task Forces. We might use our six Recreation Superv i sors , but one of them h as been lo aned to Model City, and each of th e other five is responsible for a Recreation District as wel l as supervision of this summer's School/Park Recreation Program. Last summe r it was a pleasure working with the City Services Coordinator in that many unfounded complaints never reached our office but were analyzed and handled at the City Services Coordinator l evel. Those complaints that did get to this office were legitimate in nature and we att empted to handle them e xpe ditiously. If the City Services ·... �2 - Honorable Ivan Allen, Jr. Advisory Committee On Civil Disorders March 29, 1968 Coordinator is not familiar with City Government he could in fact put an undue strain on the operating departments by agreeing with the neighbors to make certain requests and see that they were in fact complied with when, in truth, the department would be unable to comply. JCD:jw �