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Jump to full article: Savage (MN) Pacer, 2009-10-17
Author: Nancy Huddleston, Editor
Intro: If you got ‘em, don’t smoke ‘em – in city parks that is.
Although the Savage City Council hasn’t formally updated the city’s tobacco use policy in parks, the consensus at Monday night’s (Oct. 12) work session was to extend the policy to ban smoking in the city’s 20 parks.
The City Council is scheduled to formally update the policy at its next meeting on Monday, Oct. 19.
The policy shift was initiated by members of the Savage Parks, Recreation and Natural Resources Commission, who listened to a presentation about extending the no smoking policy by Tobacco-Free Youth Recreation in April and approved the change in July.
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