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Stewardship committee reviews draft 2025 budget as revenue rises after fee changes
Summary
The Sand Flats Recreation Area director told the stewardship committee the fund is roughly 14% ahead of 2023 in revenue after recent fee increases. The draft 2025 budget preserves a roughly $60,000 capital-improvement line, budgets vehicle leases and surveillance cameras, and holds a proposed $15,000–$20,000 media budget for outreach videos.
The Sand Flats Recreation Area stewardship committee met Sept. 12 to review a draft 2025 budget that the director said currently shows about 14% more revenue than 2023, a gain the director attributed primarily to recent fee increases and changes to the day/week pass structure.
The director told the committee the increase is encouraging but added that visitation figures remain unclear because Sand Flats replaced daily passes with week passes and the site needs a targeted visitor survey to determine repeat visits and true visitor counts. "Today, we are 14% over 2023 in revenue," the director said, adding staff will meet with BLM statistics staff to reconcile visitation numbers.
Why it matters: the revenue uptick and the commission-approved fee increase for campsite reservations (moving a $60 rate toward $80 for 2025) underpin draft allocations for capital work and outreach. The director reported roughly $600,000 in combined cash/savings available and said those funds…
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