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Parks director cites a $3.2 million annual maintenance gap and nearly $50 million in high-risk assets
Introducing the "Red-X Initiative" survey, the director told the board that the 2019 Asset Management Plan counted more than $100 million in assets, that the department should spend $3.3 million to $3.8 million a year to maintain them, that actual spending had been $100,000 and dropped to $0 the previous year, and that high-risk assets had grown from $14 million to almost $50 million. In September the board corrected the plan's figures to $48,703,016 in high-risk assets.[1][2]
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Michael Kashuba, Director of Parks and Recreation: The July 14, 2021 minutes record the director saying: "Our asset management plan completed in 2019 we owned over one-hundred million dollars in assets, and as a department we should be spending 3.3-3.8 million each year for maintenance and upkeep of those assets. Over the last couple of years, that number has been $100,000 and dropped to $0 as of last year. We're currently running a 3.2-million-dollar deficit every year." He said high-risk assets, which included Thompson Park pool when the study was done, had gone "from 14 million to almost 50 million dollars." [1]
- Maintenance need low
- $3,300,000
- Maintenance need high
- $3,800,000
- Annual deficit
- $3,200,000
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On September 14, 2021 the board chairman had the master plan's asset management graphic corrected to "High Risk: $48,703,016 - 3,074 Assets; Medium Risk: $41,763,119 - 11,882 Assets; Low Risk: $11,981,764 - 1,000 Assets." [2]
- High risk
- $48,703,016
- Medium risk
- $41,763,119
- Low risk
- $11,981,764
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Michael Kashuba, Director of Parks and Recreation: The director said the purpose of the Red X "is to make the public aware of what could happen in the future, without that funding." In August 2021 the board was told that only 27% of survey respondents responded because of a red X or sign. [1][3]
