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Recreation and Parks budget level‑funded; department highlights grant‑funded youth programs and biennial goose management plan
Summary
The Parks Department presented a level FY26 budget and said programs remain largely grant‑funded, enabling free or reduced‑fee youth programming. Director Mary Raposa described new and returning programs, partnerships, geese management costs through US Department of Agriculture contractors and current staffing vacancies.
Mary Raposa, director of Recreation and Parks, told the City Council on May 21 that the department’s FY26 budget is level funded and that a biennial enhancement would continue funding a contracted geese‑management program.
Raposa described a portfolio of longstanding and new programs — summer food, Kennedy Summer Day, arts in the park, weekday rec center hours, the Ricketson Nature Center, and programming at the Ashley Community Center — and said more than half of programs are grant‑funded so they can be…
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