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Boulder parks department outlines $2.2 million reduction target after citywide $10 million shortfall
Summary
City parks staff told the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board that a recent city decision to implement a hiring freeze and identify a roughly $10 million general-fund gap will require the department to identify about $2.2 million in reductions through a mix of personnel, operating and capital adjustments.
Scott Schoenberg, deputy director of Parks and Recreation, told the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board that the city is projecting “about a $10,000,000 shortfall” in general fund operating dollars this year and asked departments to find savings.
That shortfall prompted department staff to present a target of roughly $2,200,000 in reductions for Parks and Recreation — described as a combination of personnel savings from vacancies, operating-line reductions and targeted changes to capital projects — and to brief the board on next steps for July budget approval and CIP alignment.
The proposed reductions come after the city issued a hiring freeze while staff and the city manager’s office work through which positions are critical and which reductions would be recommended to council. Jackson, the department’s business services manager, described the department’s work as a “brainstorming session” and said staff are preparing targeted proposals for the city manager. “We are not the sole decision…
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