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Parks and facilities present budgets, list zoo repairs and community programming among priorities
Summary
Parks and Facilities leaders described a FY26 parks budget that funds recreation, after‑school programs and infrastructure work; they proposed a $366,000 wishlist for zoo roofing/heating/window repairs and noted 3 current vacancies in parts/facilities.
Director Thomas Ash and facilities staff presented the parks, recreation and facilities budgets, reporting a proposed parks budget of $13,356,571 for FY26 and noting increases driven principally by labor contracts and golf course management costs. Ash said the parks division planned to plant about 1,000 trees, remove and stump‑grind roughly 500, and maintain about 50 parks and 160 traffic islands.
Ash outlined program funding for after‑school sites, evening gym programs, pools, concerts and movies in the…
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