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Recreation director outlines budget priorities: community center finish, arborist retention and synthetic turf planning
Summary
Recreation and Parks Director Robert Stowers briefed the committee on operating and capital priorities, including a $2.5 million shortfall to finish the new community recreation center (special appropriation pending), a request to retain an arborist beyond grant funding, and planning for replacement of synthetic turf fields.
Robert Stowers, Recreation and Parks Director, presented the departments operating and capital budget priorities and described steps to finish construction of the new community recreation center and to sustain key staff and programs.
Stowers said the department is seeking approximately $2.5 million to complete construction of the recreation community center; that request was being considered through a special appropriation process and had passed three committees ahead of a finance committee review. "We were a little short in terms of the construction money, about 2,500,000," Stowers said when summarizing the facilitys funding gap and value-engineering that reduced about $1.2…
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