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Parks staff says budget hearings support a full-time maintenance position
Summary
Parks staff told the board that budget hearings included a proposal to combine parks and cemetery 'extra help' budgets to create a full-time maintenance position (50% cemetery, 50% parks); staff said the city-council budget is expected to be adopted in June and fiscal year starts in July.
Staff reported that the city's budget hearings considered a parks proposal to combine two 'extra help' budgets (parks and cemetery) to fund a full-time maintenance position. The proposal would split funding 50% from cemetery administration and 50% from parks maintenance; staff said this change is intended to sustain increasing maintenance capacity that has grown over the last four years.
Staff also noted that the budget committee's motion moved the parks proposal forward and that the final budget is expected to be adopted by city council in June with the fiscal year beginning in July. "A component of that budget process from parks was the idea of where we want to use our extra help budget... to combine those 2 funds and create a full time maintenance position," the staff member said. The board will watch revenue and expenses over the coming months before staff executes any hires.
