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Parks and Recreation requests ongoing staffing and $3M for deferred maintenance after Eaton fire damage
Summary
Director Norma Garcia Gonzalez told the board L.A. County Parks needs ongoing funding to maintain reopened services, including continuing prevention and youth programming, restoring aquatic staffing, tree removal and deferred maintenance after the Eaton fire destroyed facilities in Altadena.
Norma E. Garcia Gonzalez, director of Los Angeles County Parks and Recreation, told supervisors the department's FY 2025–26 budget requests focus on staff safety, prevention programs for youth, restoring aquatics staffing and addressing a growing structural deficit driven by utility and contract cost increases. The department asked the board for multiple items of ongoing net county cost including $4,500,000 for homeless initiatives and quality of life activities, $1,700,000 to continue subsidized youth sports and prevention programming, $1,660,000 to backfill lifeguard positions and $3,000,000 in funding to address priority deferred maintenance and theft/vandalism repairs.
The Eaton and Hughes wildfires damaged multiple Altadena parks, Garcia Gonzalez said: 21 park structures were fully lost and seven were damaged; the department lost animal ambassadors from Eaton Canyon Nature Center, more than 200 acres of habitat, hundreds of trees and many…
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