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CITY OF ARDEN HILLS, MINNESOTA 2025 BUDGET <br />Function: Parks and Recreation Fund # 101 <br />Activity: Park Maintenance Activity # 45200 <br />Activity Scope <br />Responsible for maintenance of City parks and trails as well as administration of the diseased tree/forestry <br />program. This includes maintaining and improving playground and picnic facilities, fertilizing and mowing of grass, <br />maintaining athletic fields, flooding and maintenance of outdoor ice rinks, snow and ice removal, and tree <br />preservation within the parks system of the City. These assets of the City are extensively used by the residents, <br />and improvements must be made to uphold the safety, functionality and beauty the City represents. <br />Objectives <br />1. Continue pathway maintenance. <br />2. Continue implementing City's Comprehensive Park and Trails plan. <br />Issues <br />1. Other maintenance concerns coming up and not allowing completion of existing projects. <br />2. Budget constraints for future and existing projects. <br />Budget Commentary <br />The 2025 operating budget is an increase of 9.7% from the previous year's budget. This is mainly due to <br />allocation, step, COLA, temp wages, and insurance benefit increases. <br />Budaet Summary <br />Personnel Services <br />Commodities <br />Contractual Services <br />Total <br />Percent Change <br />Full -Time Equivalent positions <br />Expenditures by Classification <br />2022 2023 2024 2025 <br />$ 347,218 $ 349,403 $ 402,170 $ 479,457 <br />33,578 77,978 44,900 51,750 <br />106,174 117,252 140,960 147,020 <br />11.8% 8.0% 15.3% <br />2.98 3.09 <br />a Personnel Services <br />22% <br />13Commodities <br />Contractual Services <br />7% <br />71% <br />