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Parks board recommends midyear budget amendments, including part‑time staffing and bridge replacements
Summary
The board recommended BOMA approve a midyear budget amendment that moves donations into appropriate accounts, adds funds for part‑time salaries tied to expanded gym usage and youth programming, and includes capital items such as two pedestrian-bridge replacements and a field groomer purchase.
The Parks Board reviewed and recommended that BOMA approve a midyear parks budget amendment that reallocates donations, funds additional part‑time salaries, and adds capital items the department said are needed.
Parks staff said several donations — including proceeds from Pig Fest and an anonymous $50,000 donor who has given repeatedly — require appropriation into park accounts. The packet highlighted salary increases for part‑time positions driven by expanded gym usage: staff said the parks department added multiple new gym sites this season and that basketball, school partnerships and maintenance needs have increased part‑time staffing demands.
The midyear request also includes capital items: replacement of two wooden pedestrian bridges at Drakes Creek Park damaged by flooding, a new field groomer for turf maintenance and additional part‑time wages tied to expanded programming. Staff said the bridges are in need of replacement following repeated flood damage and that finance recommended the salary adjustments.
Board members reviewed the line items and voted unanimously to recommend BOMA approve the parks items of the midyear budget amendment. The vote does not appropriate citywide funds; BOMA action is required to change appropriations.
