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Staff detail district finances, contracts and maintenance responsibilities
Summary
Parks and streetscapes staff described how 27 districts and multiple funding vehicles sustain maintenance, why some legacy Landscaping & Lighting Districts have constrained assessments, and why the city split landscape contracts among multiple vendors to improve competition and service.
Parks and open-space superintendents Eric Dexter and Jana Repetti briefed the commission on district maintenance, contract compliance and the city’s approach to streetscape and park maintenance funding.
Staff said the department manages 27 districts, which include Lighting and Landscaping Districts (LLDs) formed in earlier decades and newer Community Facilities Districts (CFDs). They told the commission the districts vary widely in acreage and authorized services and that CFD documents tend to include annual hearing reports and escalators while some older LLDs still carry assessments set decades ago.
Eric said the combined operational budget for the districts is approximately $11.7 million, with roughly $3.2 million dedicated to routine park and landscape contract maintenance; staff manage 38 individual budgets and three contract-compliance technicians. Jana said Roseville oversees about 91 parks in total: 57 funded through the general fund (approximately 770 acres total) and 34 funded through district assessments (about 210 acres). She said 24 parks are maintained in house and 67 are maintained under contract; the city recently brought 22 parks back in house (January) prioritizing high-use facilities and sports fields.
Staff described differences between the Westpark CFD (formed in 2004, allows up to 4% annual tax increases) and the older Northwest LLD (formed in 1989) whose assessment remained $100 per parcel per year and has led to reduced service levels and failed ballot measures to increase assessments. The commission discussed exploring creative funding approaches, including grants, donations and volunteer projects, while staff noted constraints for streetscape areas and owner approval requirements for assessment changes.
Staff also described contract-management changes: the city split a single large landscape contract into three vendors in the most recent procurement to increase competition and provide redundancy. They said contract compliance work includes responding to resident service requests (‘‘My Roseville’’ requests), underground service alerts (USAs), leak alerts and nonroutine projects such as vandalism repair and utility strikes. Jana noted the city manages roughly $3.2 million in streetscape contracts and about $800,000 in parks maintenance contracts and oversees nonroutine projects totaling about $4.5 million.
The item was informational; commissioners asked about alternate funding options for legacy districts and staff said they continue to investigate grants, donations and community partnerships.
