Professional Documents
Culture Documents
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Real assets need Real investment
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Investment boosts over the years, not enough
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Investment boosts over the years, not enough
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Denver is growing & Parks need to grow with it…
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Real economic benefits = real value
July 2010
5/17/2018 8
Benefits of Parks…Health
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Denver Parks & Recreation Game Plan
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So, how do we stack up to comparable cities?
City 2017 ParkScore® Rank
Minneapolis 1
St. Paul 2
San Francisco 3
Washington 4
Portland 5
Arlington 6
Irvine 7
New York 7
Madison 9
Cincinnati 10
Chicago 11
Seattle 11
Boston 13
San Diego 14
Aurora 15
St. Petersburg 16
Albuquerque 17
Plano 17
St. Louis 17
Denver 20 11
How has Denver’s ParkScore® been trending?
2014 7
2015 16
2016 20
2017 20
2018 26
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Minneapolis, MN – 411,000 residents
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Portland, OR – 633,000 residents
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Boston, MA – 667,000 residents
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Seattle, WA – 684,000 residents
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So, how fares Denver on 10-minute walk?
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So, how fares Denver on spending/resident?
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So, how fares Denver on parkland % of city?
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So, how fares Denver on acres/1,000 residents?
Source: 2017 City Park Facts, The Trust for Public Land
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Denver’s key challenges…
• Growth
• Deferred Maintenance
• Trajectory
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BILL 18-0777
Funding for Denver Parks
Sponsored by:
Councilman Jolon Clark
Councilwoman Kendra Black
Councilman Paul Kashmann
Councilwoman Mary Beth Susan
Councilman Wayne New
Councilwoman Stacie Gilmore
Councilman Rafael Espinoza
Councilman Paul Lopez
Councilwoman Robin Kniech
2018 PARKS AND RECREATION
The Need
FUNDING
Administratio Parks & The total request
Recreation
n Planning for Parks and
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The
THENeed
PROPOSAL
Council will refer a ● Expand the sales and use tax by .25%
● Two and a half cents for every ten
measure to the dollars spent
voters ● Dedicated funding for Denver’s parks
● Acquiring additional land
All money derived ● Developing, improving, and maintaining
from the increased parks
● Mountain parks
sales and use tax ● Restoring and protecting waterways
must be expended ● Purchasing, planting, and caring for
trees
solely for: ● Operating and maintaining new parks
● Specifically excludes expending
The ballot measure derived revenues from that fund
will create a special towards offsetting any current of future
expenditures from the general fund
Parks fund. towards P&R
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ACQUIRE ADDITIONAL LAND
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DEVELOP
The Need & IMPROVE PARKS, TRAILS, MOUNTAIN
PARKS, OPEN SPACES
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RESTORE
The Need & PROTECT RIVERS,
WATERWAYS, STREAMS
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PURCHASE, PLANT, & CARE FOR
The Need
TREES
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OPERATE
The Need & MAINTAIN PARKS, TRAILS,
OPENSPACES
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Impact
IMPACT
.25%
The additional .25%
The total projected funds (in
tax will result in an 2018 dollars) for P&R (general
additional $45.94 fund and Parks fund) would
million for the
dedicated parks total $118.69 million
fund in 2019.
$45.94
million
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The NeedTAX STATISTICS
SALES
**Assumes 25 percent of household income is spent on taxable items; median household income = $56,258 (US Census QuickFacts).
***Total revenue from resident spending based on average household spending multiplied by number of households (281,072, US Census QuickFacts). The remaining revenue comes from
purchases of taxable items by businesses and visitors.
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Impact
The Need
IMPACT
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Other
Impact
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Impact
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NEXT Steps
STEPS
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Other
Impact
OTHER
BILL Counties
18-0641 Slide
COUNTIES
Funding
Questions? for Denver Parks
QUESTIONS?
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