CM Krishnan questions OMB on Parks Department funding and PEP officers
Krishnan asks about increasing parks funding toward a proportionate budget and supporting PEP officer lines expiring June 30th. Solomon highlights $15 million baselined for parks covering rangers, forestry, and maintenance workers, and looks forward to discussing PEP officers.
And switching gears for a minute, I know we share the same vision for increasing our Parks Department funding and how crucial that is too.
There are still PEP officers, for example, about a third, that don't have the funding in place yet once their funding expires on June 30th.
And there's a larger question of making sure our parks overall get more funding to ultimately get to a place where they have a proportionate city budget, proportionate to the overall city budget, and to other cities across America.
So how do you all see increasing the parks budget in this budget and specifically supporting worker lines that are expiring on June 30th?
Sure.
So we were proud to put forward $15 million and be able to baseline that for parks.
And we identified some titles that it would cover.
We know urban park rangers, forestry management, parks maintenance workers.
We know that there's been highlight on...
on PEP officers.
We look forward to having that discussion with you and with the council in the next few weeks.
Great.
Thank you very much.
Thank you, Chair.
Thank you.
Councilmember Narcisse, followed by Banks.