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QUESTION

What are the major changes that led to the significant decrease in the parks budget?

3:17:13

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Commissioner Sue Donoghue explains that the significant decrease in the parks budget was due to changes announced in the November and January plans.

  • In the November plan, there was a one-year delay in new needs and reductions from vacancy savings and attrition hiring, totaling $29.6 million.
  • In the January plan, new needs were eliminated ($10 million), funding for tree stump removal was reduced ($600,000), and additional attrition hiring reductions led to $8.6 million in savings.
  • The total reduction across both plans was approximately $38.8 million.
Justin L. Brannan
3:17:13
Since adoption, there's been a decrease of 55 point $3,000,000 in the parks budget.
3:17:19
Can you walk us through a little bit more granularly through the major changes that have taken place to cause such a significant decrease?
Sue Donoghue
3:17:29
Yes.
3:17:29
Absolutely.
3:17:30
There were two pegs that were announced, one that was part of the November plan, and one that was part of the January plan.
3:17:37
And so the as part of the November plan, we had for So 1 year delay in new needs, and we took vacancy savings and an attrition hiring reduction.
3:17:48
Those two Pegg reductions were $10,900,000 and then $18,700,000 respectively.
3:17:56
And then in the January plan, We needed to eliminate those new needs, which was 10,000,000.
3:18:04
We took down tree stump removal 600,000 and then the attrition hiring reductions creating a savings of 8,600,000.
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