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Parks and Spokane Public Schools outline 'Together Spokane' partnership to fund 200+ neighborhood projects
Summary
City parks staff and Spokane Public Schools presented Together Spokane, a paired parks levy and school bond proposal for the November 2025 ballot that aligns more than 200 projects across neighborhoods, reduces the per‑$1,000 tax rate through shared resources, and advances maintenance, new parks, recreation facilities and joint school‑park uses.
Spokane Parks staff presented the Together Spokane partnership on March 13, a coordinated program pairing a parks levy and a Spokane Public Schools bond for the November 2025 ballot that aims to fund more than 200 projects across the city by combining resources and joint planning.
Mr. Jones, presenting the parks component, said the partnership is intended to expand on the parks master plan and to “act on that, rather than just sitting on a plan,” adding that the joint effort touches “every single neighborhood, every single park, every single school.” He said combining the parks levy and the school bond reduces duplicative costs and adds roughly 30 additional projects to what parks could fund on its own.
Staff showed a map and a booklet of project lists (distributed to board members) and described guiding priorities: increasing all‑weather, lit fields to expand evening and off‑season use; doubling field capacity at the Dwight Merkel…
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