The Tumwater City Council, acting as the board members of the Tumwater Metropolitan Park District Board, adopted the park district’s 2025-26 budget on Tuesday, November 19.
Tumwater Metropolitan Park District is a junior taxing district approved by voters in 2018 and established in 2019 to create a dedicated funding source for the city's parks and recreational programs.
For the next biennium, the district expects to spend around $5.9 million on its projects and earn around $4.3 million in tax revenue.
Parks and Recreation Manager Chuck Denney presented the council with a list of continuing projects for which the budget would be used.
Denney said the budget allocates around $230,000 to acquire land near Black Hills High School to build a park. He explained that a neighborhood park near the school is one of the four parks the city aims to build as part of a park district plan.
The other parks identified in the plan were Kindred Park at The Preserve, which has been completed, the Trails End Park, which is still being developed, and a southwest neighborhood park near Tumwater Middle School.
Other major projects that the budget would fund are the design of a community center and the continuation of the Deschutes Valley Trail project.
Denney added the budget would also fund the replacement of old logos in various city parks as the city updated its logo in 2023.
Other projects include trail and stair improvements and vegetation management along the fence of Tumwater Hill Park, the repair of a 50-year-old gazebo on Historical Park, drainage replacement at Pioneer Park, landscaping improvements around two houses in the Historic District, asphalt repairs, and the resurfacing of various tennis courts.
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