MARIETTA - The Marietta City Council approved a list Wednesday of where money would be spent should voters approve a $25 million bond on Nov. 3 for park improvements. The council also banned smoking in all city parks.

Since the November ballot will just have a general question about whether Marietta residents want to approve a parks bond, council members approved a list the city can present to the public in brochure form before the election.

The list is the same one Councilwoman Holly Walquist, who has spearheaded the parks bond, unveiled last month. It breaks down into $5 million for land acquisition; $11 million for improvements to existing parks and facilities; $5 million for the development of new and existing parks, facilities and trails; and $4 million for planning and design costs. The list further breaks down the $11 million for improvements to existing parks and facilities, listing, for example, $1.75 million for Hickory Hills Park. The Elizabeth Porter Recreation Center is earmarked to receive the most amount of money - $3.75 million.

The list drastically decreases funding for the controversial 28-acre Wildwood Park on Barclay Circle and the nearby 45.6-acre Burruss Nature Park on South Cobb Drive - two parks that have been popular destination points for illicit activities for decades. Funding for Burruss was slashed from the council's June draft amount of $1.2 million to $250,000. Wildwood funding from the June draft amount of $1.8 million is cut to $300,000.

Voting against the list were Council members Philip Goldstein and Annette Lewis.

Goldstein was upset that money was not set aside for an active use park in the Franklin Road area, which he said has the highest concentration of people and is among the "least wealthy" areas. He said that is the area where a park is most needed.

"This council has chosen to discriminate against that area," Goldstein said.

The council voted 4-3 on Aug. 12 with Goldstein, Lewis and the Rev. Anthony Coleman opposed, to put the $25 million parks bond on the Nov. 3 ballot.

Also Wednesday, the council voted to ban smoking in all 19 city parks.

The ban started with Marietta Square's Glover Park in July. Walquist and Councilwoman Annette Lewis spearheaded the ban in Glover in reaction to complaints from residents about smoking at Friday concerts on the Square.

The policy allows the city to designate smoking areas in parks if staff find places that would be suitable, Parks Director Rich Buss said.

"To date, we have not identified any such areas," he said. "If we find some good locations in the future that meet all the requirements, we may establish some."

Council voted unanimously to ban smoking at parks.

Two residents spoke in opposition to the ban. Samuel Elliott said the citizens should've had the right to vote on the issue.