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Recreation & Parks seeks $64 million in FY26; staffing and forest-conservation funding among council concerns
Summary
Director Nicholas Moonahan presented a roughly $64 million FY26 request for Recreation & Parks, highlighting new facilities (AAPI Cultural Center, North Laurel pool) and PAYGO investments. Council members probed increases in personnel costs, vacant positions, forest conservation fund declines and teen and childcare programming.
Nicholas Moonahan, director of Howard County Recreation & Parks, told the council the department's FY26 operating request totaled about $64 million. Of that, roughly $34 million is proposed from the general fund and $28.7 million from the Recreation & Parks fund; smaller allocations come from the forest-conservation fund and other program grants. Moonahan described new operational efforts that account for the majority of the department's general-fund increase: operation of the AAPI Cultural Center at the Ellicott City Historic Courthouse (opening Nov. 1) and operations for the North Laurel Community Center pool (planned Jan. 1 opening). Those new efforts together represent roughly $537,982 of the general fund increase and will be staffed with a mix…
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