Committee reorganizes subcommittee membership and moves to recommend a parks-and-recs budget subcommittee to the board

The committee voted to remove Riley Holland from the July 4 subcommittee and temporarily add Tasha Bochesne as a third member; the motion passed by roll call.

Separately, members discussed forming a parks-and-recs budget subcommittee to review allocation of parks and recreation funds and to improve transparency for constituents who have asked how money is being spent. Committee members said the subcommittee would need clear objectives, board authorization and potentially limited data access (timesheets) to accurately ascribe labor and costs to specific program areas.

A member proposed that the committee draft a recommendation for the district board to authorize a budget subcommittee and to outline its scope (which years to review, specific items to examine). Committee members suggested the first task would be a high-level review of the last two to three years of budgets and then narrower work to track labor and maintenance costs by program area. The committee will prepare a recommendation to the district board and a packet describing objectives and scope for approval.

The meeting concluded with staff updates from arts and ecotourism and public comments.