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Parks funding and visitor‑mitigation language prompt debate over operating vs. CIP spending and new adopt‑a‑park coordinator position
Summary
The Budget Committee debated whether to move $2.5 million earmarked to mitigate visitor impacts out of an operating account and into the CIP; Parks director Laura Thielen urged keeping the money in Maintenance Support Services so the department can use master agreements and operating contracts.
A contested item in the committee’s capital and operating discussions was $2.5 million identified as a provision for mitigation of visitor impacts. Department of Parks and Recreation Director Laura Thielen asked the council to keep the money in operating (Maintenance Support Services) rather than move it to the capital improvement program (CIP), saying the kinds of repairs and contracts the money would pay for are operating expenditures that do not qualify as CIP.
Thielen told the committee that moving the $2.5 million to CIP would leave MSS with very little…
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