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Public Works warns county parks and trails face near‑term funding cliff
Summary
Public Works Director Tom Madsen told the board park maintenance funding has shrunk and the department expects to exhaust parks trust balances within a year; staff proposed an ad hoc finance review to evaluate operations, relinquishments and use of deferred maintenance funds.
Public Works Director Tom Madsen told the Board of Supervisors that the county’s parks and trails program is facing a near‑term funding crisis and that existing trust funds and earmarked revenues will be largely exhausted by the end of the next fiscal year.
Madsen said several revenue sources that had supported parks — including a local TDA allocation historically used for park maintenance — have been redirected to transit. He said that, without a new financing strategy, the department will have to rely on the county’s deferred maintenance trust or consider transferring some parks to other operators.
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