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Parks board approves $12.2 million 2025 general fund budget, highlights master plan and rising security costs
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The Bloomington Board of Park Commissioners approved a $12.2 million 2025 general fund request after a presentation by Parks Director Tim Street that emphasized a new master plan, activation of Hopewell Commons and growing security expenditures.
The Bloomington Board of Park Commissioners on Tuesday approved the department's 2025 general fund budget request of $12.2 million, following a presentation from Parks Director Tim Street that outlined department priorities, capital needs and rising security costs.
Street told commissioners the proposed budget reflects two tracks — the general fund and a separately managed nonreverting fund — and emphasized a push toward outcome-based budgeting. "We have 2 budgets. We have our general fund budget...and then we have our nonreverting budget," he said, noting the department is bringing some 400-level capital items into a separate capital bond process to reduce the parks general fund impact. The budget request accounts for a…
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