FY2024 Proposed Budget

Goals, objectives, and performance measures

Strategic Plan Goal: Department Goal:

Invest in Public Infrastructure, Facilities, and Fiscal Reserves

To make the recreation programs as financially self-sufficent as possible and reduce the reliance upon property taxes. (Strategic Goal: Evaluate alternative revenue sources.) Set program fees to recover more of direct program costs in order to rely less on general fund subsidies.

Department Objective:

FY 2023 Projected

FY 2024 Estimate

FY 2020 FY 2021 FY 2022

Performance Measures: Recreation program cost recovery

30%

25%

29%

28%

35%

Cost recovery goal 35% FY21 - Most programs and events were cancelled July 2020 through March 2021. The Robert A Lee Recreation Center and swimming pool was closed during this period as well. Returning programs and events have been smaller scale FY22 Projected - Assumes swimming pool access will gradually return to normal and that patrons begin participating more broadly in late 2021 and throughout 2022. 40% 40% 40% 40%

FY23 Projected - Assumes Covid continues to decline as a factor in program participation. Projected based on adopted revenue and expenditures for budget.

FY24 Estimate - As the division heavily promotes RecAssist enrollment, free swim lesson options and other initiatives to reduce or eliminate barriers to equity in recreation, consideration to reduce the cost recovery goal may be needed.

50%

40%

30%

20%

10%

0%

FY 2020

FY 2021

FY 2022

FY 2023 Projected FY 2024 Estimate

Recreation program cost recovery

Cost recovery goal

Strategic Plan Goal:

Foster Healthy Neighborhoods and Affordable Housing Throughout the City

Department Goal:

Provide and promote gardening throughout the City.

Department Objective:

Provide spaces for community and neighborhood gardens. (Strategic Goal: Grow the local foods economy.)

FY 2023 Projected

FY 2024 Estimate

FY2020 FY 2021 FY 2022

Performance Measures: Number of Rented Garden Plots

273

273

264

273

273

Number of Neighborhood Garden Sites Number of Demonstration Gardens

4

4

4

4

4

0

1

4

4

4

161