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Impact of budget cuts on trail formalization program
1:05:26
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Council Member Krishnan inquires about the impact of budget cuts on the trail formalization program. Parks Department staff clarify the difference between the trail formalization expansion and the forest management framework funding.
- Trail formalization program was a proposed expansion of existing efforts
- The expansion was not able to move forward due to lack of funding
- Clarification provided on the difference between trail formalization and forest management framework funding
- Neither the council nor the administration funded the forest management framework work in the most recent fiscal year
Shekar Krishnan
1:05:26
The trail formalization program, I know there was a lot of back and forth with the council and city hall.
1:05:32
This is something that the city that city hall has funded in the past.
1:05:35
They did not do so.
1:05:37
The council picked it up.
1:05:39
And we expected also that city hall would continue funding it.
1:05:42
They did not do so.
1:05:44
How did Parks address the fact that that funding for the trail formalization program was not there in the budget?
1:05:50
What happened to the staff?
1:05:51
What was the impact of that?
UNKNOWN
1:05:53
So council member, I just you're conflating, I think, two quite slightly different topics, I'll just quickly clarify.
1:05:58
So the, trail formalization, as you noted, similar to the tree risk management item, was an expansion of our existing.
1:06:05
So we have staff that are doing trail formalization.
1:06:07
This was a proposed expansion that didn't was not able to move forward.
1:06:11
So there's that.
1:06:11
What I believe you're referring to is a funding item that we've also referred to as the one shot funding, which had been funded in various ways over the last several years, some led by council initiatives, other times by the administration at the behest of the council and various but was not funded by either the council nor the administration in this most recent fiscal year.
1:06:35
That's the forest management framework work.