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Parks department lays out Measure P-funded programs, seeks FY27 budget motions
Summary
Parks staff described Measure P–supported recreation, aquatics, after-school, senior and workforce programs and asked commissioners to make budget motions ahead of the Nov. 17 deadline; staff said an FY24 performance report and program-level participation data will be provided soon.
Chair McCoy convened the Parks, Recreation and Arts Commission meeting on Nov. 3, where Assistant Director Shelby McNabb presented a year-long overview of the parks department’s Measure P–funded programs and identified needs and opportunities to inform the fiscal year 2027 budget.
McNabb said Measure P “has created a more stable operating structure” that allowed staff to leverage state, federal and local grants. She listed 12 structured program areas citywide, and gave program-level metrics: after-school programming serves youth ages 5–17 at 19 locations and provided more than 40,000 snacks and meals last year; aquatics recorded over 22,000 recreational swim visits and more than 2,000 swim-lesson participants, and the department hired 79 Fresno Unified students as…
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