Colorado Springs parks funding backlog nearly $270M, a crisis level gazette.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gazette.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Colorado Springs Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services Department is facing an almost $270 million backlog after years of insufficient funding. To me it’s at that crisis level we still have a good park system, a really great one that people love but we are using it to death, said City Council President Richard Skorman, who is leading an effort to restore funding to the parks department.
City officials knew the park s department had been underfunded for years since the recession, when the budget was cut from $19 million a year to $6 million, he said. But no one knew the total backlog was going to be quite so large, he said.