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Midyear budget adjustments include Bonsall Community Park

San Diego County’s mid-year budget adjustments were approved by the county Board of Supervisors, March 16, including appropriating $227,000 for Bonsall Community Park.

The supervisors’ 5-0 vote appropriated the funding for what is listed as the Moosa Downs Active Recreation Node of the San Luis Rey River Park, but what the county’s Department of Parks and Recreation is calling Bonsall Community Park. The mid-year budget adjustments funded the Bonsall Community Park expenditure with $190,000 from the budget of the Dulin Road Active Recreation Node, which is being called Rio Prado Park, and $37,000 of Park Land Dedication Ordinance funding provided by developers to fund park facilities.

The budget adjustments add $4,859,824 to 2020-2021 general fund spending and $11,082,499 to all other funds.

“It is critical that we are investing in these programs and these services,” Supervisor Nora Vargas said.

Additional funding is needed to complete the construction documents for Bonsall Community Park. The site analyses for Bonsall Community Park and Rio Prado Park were prepared concurrently, and the Department of Parks and Recreation decided to add more active recreation features to Bonsall Community Park than to Rio Prado Park. The additional features for Bonsall Community Park increased the cost of the construction documents.

PLDO funding, which must be spent in the park planning area where it is collected, cannot be used for a feasibility study but can be used for the design phase as well as construction of active recreation park improvements.

The total expected expenditures for Bonsall Community Park are $25 million. The construction of the park is scheduled to be completed in fall 2023.

Joe Naiman can be reached by email at [email protected].

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Joe Naiman, Writer

Joe Naiman has been writing for the Village News since 2001

 

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