Madison City Parks Commission outlines repayment plan, elects officers and approves contracts

The Madison City Parks Commission on an unspecified date voted to pursue a three-part temporary repayment plan to retire a year-end deficit and approved several routine motions including officer elections and contract renewals.

The repayment approach presented by Tanya Burnett, operations lead, would draw from three sources: the city general fund (including unfilled salaries and reverted special grant funds), the parks department (including two eliminated positions and sale/trade-ins), and “other sources,” including interest from a $1,000,000 set‑aside for a water department project. Burnett said the parks department applied $50,000 of campground revenue toward the deficit and that the city identified roughly $20,000 from closed special funds. “In January and the first week of… February, we’ve…