REPORT TO THE CITY COUNCIL
FROM: AARON A. AGUIRRE, Director
Parks, After School and Recreation and Community Services Department
BY: SHELBY MACNAB, Assistant Director
Parks, After School and Recreation and Community Services Department
JENNIFER SOLIZ, Division Manager
Parks, After School and Recreation and Community Services Department
SUBJECT
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Hearing to consider the adoption of the new definition of highest-need neighborhoods as it pertains to the Fresno Clean and Safe Neighborhoods Parks Transactions and Use Tax, also known as Measure P:
1. RESOLUTION - Adopting the 2025-2027 Highest-Need Neighborhoods definition as required by the Fresno Clean and Safe Neighborhood Parks Transactions and Use Tax (Measure P Ordinance) (Citywide)
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RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends that the City Council adopt the resolution to establish the 2025-2027 highest-need neighborhoods definition as recommended by the Parks, Recreation and Arts Commission (PRAC).
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Following the passage of Measure P in 2018, the City of Fresno adopted the Fresno Clean and Safe Neighborhood Parks Tax Ordinance (Measure P) into the Fresno Municipal Code (FMC). Per the Measure P Ordinance (FMC 7-1508) the City in conjunction with PRAC, shall adopt a new definition of the highest-need neighborhoods definition every three years, after conducting a public process. The resolution presented in this item will establish the highest-need neighborhoods definition for January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2027.
BACKGROUND
Measure P (FMC SEC. 7-1506) includes five expenditure categories that identify how sales-tax revenue generated through the Measure P Ordinance can be expended. Measure P requires that no less than 50 percent of funds in expenditure categories 1 and 2 be allocated to highest-need neighborhoods in the City of Fresno for the purposes of improving and maintaining safe, clean, neighborhood parks and playgrounds, and for new neighborhood parks, senior and youth recrea...
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