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Town presents parks-and-recreation financial analysis showing $3.2M net operating cost for major amenities
Summary
Deputy Finance Director presented a FY24/25 review showing roughly $12.2M in expenditures and just under $9M in revenues for the town's included recreation amenities, yielding a net operating cost of about $3.2M and near $2.9M in capital outlays for those assets.
Town finance staff presented a high-level financial analysis of major parks-and-recreation amenities to the Oro Valley Town Council on April 8, summarizing fiscal-year-24/25 operating revenues, expenditures and capital outlays for the Aquatic Center, Community & Recreation Center (CRC), golf, Steampunk Ranch and several parks.
Deputy Finance Director Ms. Gomez said the analysis focused on current operating costs and excluded long-term items such as depreciation. For the amenities included in the scope, Ms. Gomez reported combined expenditures of roughly $12.2 million and revenues just under $9.0 million, resulting in a net operating cost near $3.2 million for FY24/25; capital outlays for the included assets were reported at just under $2.9 million.
Ms. Gomez walked the council through individual facility results: OVAC (Aquatic Center) had expenditures a bit over $1.6 million and revenues around $516,000; the CRC expenditures were about $2.3 million with revenues near $1.6 million; golf reported a surplus with revenues slightly exceeding expenditures; Steampunk Ranch and several parks operated at net operating costs as expected. She emphasized that allocations required some staff judgment where department-level accounting does not break costs down by individual park or amenity.
Council members asked whether recent fee increases had been incorporated into the report. Ms. Gomez said the report used actuals for FY24/25 and did not include projected impacts of newly adopted fee changes but staff could prepare projections using the town’s five-year forecast. Parks maintenance staff explained they used schedules and rotation assumptions to allocate maintenance hours across parks.
Councilmember Murphy and others stressed that parks and recreation provide critical community value beyond pure cost-recovery metrics. Council discussion touched on how to incorporate capital planning and potential fee revenues into future budget deliberations.
Next steps: staff agreed to provide supplemental analyses on the projected revenue impacts of fee changes if council wants forecasts incorporated into future budget discussions.
