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Parks commission urges engineering survey for McKnight, recommends CIP change
Summary
After reviewing a council workshop that ranked parks lower in priorities and raising concerns about possible use of park funds for non-park purposes, commissioners voted to recommend the 2026 CIP include the Casey Lake open-air shelter and fund up to $300,000 for engineering/design work for McKnight to inform phasing and costs.
The Parks Commission spent the bulk of the meeting on McKnight next steps, budget trade-offs and a pending HUD land-use restriction that staff said may limit the site to public recreation-field uses.
Staff outlined the background: the commission has worked toward an open-space master plan since 2020; recent council workshops on the tax levy and CIP placed streets and infrastructure above parks in priority, and staff reported the parks fund balance at roughly $1.0–1.4 million. Ken, a staff attendee at the council workshop, summarized the council exercise and said the city finance director…
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