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represent about 52% of the current total park
maintenance costs. SPDC Fund
Expenditure Highlights
Personnel: SPDC funds two Maintenance
Technicians, a Parks Supervisor, and staff to run Personnel
the pickleball facility. In addition, a portion of the Item Expenditure
salary and benefits for the City’s Project Manager All Employees -
is funded by SPDC. All compensation and benefit 2% - 4%
adjustments previously mentioned will be funded Pay Adjustment - Merit Performance-Based
by SPDC for these employees. Adjustment
Health Insurance 5% rate increase
Operations: Expenses include annual costs
Budget Overview
associated with maintenance and operations of Operations
parks and park improvements. 2 Autonomous Mowers
for use in SPDC parks $95,000
Capital: The operating budget includes funding for Facility assessment
equipment necessary to maintain the park system. funding for parks $50,000
buildings and structures.
Indirect charge/transfers: A transfer of $480,357
Solar Powered LED
to the General Fund is planned for the indirect Security Lights - Bob $30,000
charge. We are also planning to transfer Jones
$2,269,022 to debt service and $6,000,000 to Bob Jones Nature
the CIP for cash funding of capital park projects. Center Electricity $5,470
The Southlake Parks Development Corporation is Parks Equipment
also responsible for paying principal and interest Maintenance $66,000
on outstanding debt. The SPDC debt service fund
will cover total expenditures of $2,275,022 for this Near Map and Pro $9,500
Contractor Studio
purpose. Software

Fund balance. The adopted ending fund balance Bob Jones Park CCTV $768,000
for the SPDC operating fund will be $13,433,665, (Turf Fields & Dog Park)
a 1.19% decrease from the prior year adopted Bob Jones Nature
budget. The ending fund balance for the SPDC Center - Air Conditioning $50,000
debt service fund is projected to be $2,291,556, a Replacement
4.75% increase from the prior adopted budget. Network Replacement
- Bicentennial
Maintenance & $77,500
Crime Control and Concessions, Tennis
Center
Prevention District Fund

The half-cent sales tax collection to fund the Crime Control and Prevention District (CCPD) began in
April 1998, with the first sales tax check received in June 1998. State law provides that a district’s life is
limited to five years unless voters continue the district by approval of a referendum. In February 2002,
Southlake voters approved the continuation of the CCPD for 15 years, and the district was set to sunset
in 2018 unless reauthorized by the voters.

In May 2015, Southlake voters chose to reallocate a three-eighths cent portion from the CCPD to the
formation of a sales tax district to fund recreational and economic development projects. This left

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