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Parks and Preserve leaders outline operating budgets, staffing and how Prop 4.90 proceeds will be spent
Summary
Parks and Recreation and McDowell Sonoran Preserve staff presented the operating budgets, explained major cost drivers and detailed how the voter-approved 0.15% parks and preserve sales tax (Prop 4.90) would be allocated across maintenance, improvements and program needs.
Nick Molinari, senior director for the Parks, Recreation and Preserve Department, presented high-level operating budgets for the department’s Parks & Recreation and Preserve divisions and explained how the new parks-and-preserve sales tax adopted as Proposition 4.90 shaped the requests.
The presentation matters because the council will use the commission’s recommendations to finalize the city’s budget and because Prop 4.90 revenue is earmarked by voters for specific categories — improvements, preserve maintenance, park maintenance, rangers and other set uses — that constrain spending decisions.
Mol inari said the combined department accounts for about 249 full‑time equivalent positions and gave the following FY 2025‑26 operating totals for the department as a whole: personnel services roughly $19.1 million, contractual services about $14.4 million, commodities $3.4 million and capital outlay about $500,000. He said the Parks & Recreation division alone accounts for roughly 239.47 FTEs and roughly $18.1 million in personnel…
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