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Open Space committee recommends FY2026 budget to Board; explains funding sources and undesignated account

2341334 · February 18, 2025
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After a staff presentation, the Open Space Advisory Committee voted unanimously to recommend the draft fiscal-year 2026 open space budget to the Carson City Board of Supervisors. Staff outlined the Question 18 sales-tax funding split, existing grant-backed projects and the city’s undesignated open-space savings account.

The Carson City Open Space Advisory Committee voted unanimously to recommend the draft fiscal-year 2026 open space budget to the Board of Supervisors.

Lindsay Boyer, open space manager, provided a budget overview that tied the draft FY2026 spending plan to the previously approved “Question 18” quality-of-life sales tax. “We are funded by the quality of life, sales tax initiative, question 18,” Boyer said, explaining the split: open space receives 40 percent, parks capital 40 percent and parks maintenance 20 percent of that revenue stream.

Boyer described how…

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