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PUD narrows parks and recreation cost‑recovery framework and asks staff to finalize policy
Summary
After staff recapped a 'pyramid' cost‑recovery framework and financial templates, the board gave final direction to continue refining the district's parks and recreation cost‑recovery policy, removing property‑tax allocations from the decision worksheet to avoid confusion.
District staff presented a refined methodology for parks and recreation cost recovery — a pyramid framework to categorize programming and business operations, with templates to estimate direct and overhead cost‑recovery percentages. The board reviewed changes staff made to clarify analysis and remove property‑tax allocation from the decision worksheet to avoid mixing accounting allocations with policy analysis.
Staff said the templates are intended as an analytical tool to inform pricing and program decisions rather than as year‑end accounting. "This will really become the backdrop of how we operate," the parks director said, noting the templates will be revisited annually during budget development. Board members asked for final edits and confirmed the staff should proceed to develop a formal policy to be brought back for adoption later this summer.
