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Parks and fair operations face tight budget choices; fair manager conversion and McBee campground project highlighted
Summary
Natural Areas, Parks and Events (NAEP) staff presented a multi‑fund budget (about $12.9 million in materials) that relies heavily on enterprise and transient‑lodging revenues, asked to make a limited‑duration fair manager position permanent, and described capital and maintenance needs including a state‑funded McBee campground rehabilitation.
Natural Areas, Parks and Events Director Jesse Ott presented the department's multi‑fund budget and emphasized that much of his portfolio is funded outside the general fund and depends on user fees, transient lodging tax (TLT) allocations and enterprise revenues.
Ott said the NAEP package totals approximately $12,900,000 in proposed spending (figure stated in the presentation) and that material and capital expenses account for a majority of the department's outlays because of the nature of parks, campgrounds and fairgrounds operations. He asked the budget committee to consider making the department's limited‑duration fair manager position permanent to stabilize operations and bookings.
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