Arizona State Parks Board FY 2018 FY 2019 FY 2020 ACTUAL ESTIMATE APPROVED OPERATING BUDGET Full Time Equivalent Positions 163.0 163.0 163.0 1/ Personal Services 4,466,700 5,422,000 5,437,400 Employee Related Expenditures 2,284,500 2,864,900 3,105,700 Professional and Outside Services 563,600 18,900 18,900 Travel - In State 2,800 8,200 8,200 Travel - Out of State 400 0 0 Other Operating Expenditures 3,655,400 3,915,600 4,652,700 Equipment 769,500 296,100 296,100 OPERATING SUBTOTAL 11,742,900 12,525,700 13,519,000 2/ SPECIAL LINE ITEMS Arizona Trail 0 0 250,000 3/ Buckskin Fire District 0 0 225,000 Great Western Trail 0 0 692,100 Kartchner Caverns State Park 1,878,400 2,245,700 2,296,700 AGENCY TOTAL 13,621,300 14,771,400 16,982,800 4/ FUND SOURCES Other Appropriated Funds Off-Highway Vehicle Recreation Fund 0 0 692,100 State Lake Improvement Fund 0 0 225,000 State Parks Revenue Fund 13,621,300 14,771,400 16,065,700 SUBTOTAL - Other Appropriated Funds 13,621,300 14,771,400 16,982,800 SUBTOTAL - Appropriated Funds 13,621,300 14,771,400 16,982,800 Other Non-Appropriated Funds 16,052,300 15,066,400 15,066,400 Federal Funds 2,141,200 6,078,600 6,078,600 TOTAL - ALL SOURCES 31,814,800 35,916,400 38,127,800 AGENCY DESCRIPTION — The Arizona State Parks Board (ASPB) is responsible for managing the state parks system, which includes recreational parks, historical parks, and natural areas. The Parks Board consists of 7 members appointed by the Governor. Major functions of the Parks Board, through its staff, include the maintenance and development of existing parks, new parks acquisitions, statewide recreational planning, and historic preservation. FOOTNOTES 1/ Includes 35.8 OF FTE Positions funded from Special Line Items in FY 2020. 2/ All Other Operating Expenditures include $26,000 from the State Parks Revenue Fund for Fool Hollow State Park revenue sharing. If receipts to Fool Hollow exceed $260,000 in FY 2020, an additional 10% of this increase of Fool Hollow receipts is appropriated from the State Parks Revenue Fund established by A.R.S. § 41-511.21 to meet the revenue sharing agreement with the City of Show Low and the United States Forest Service. (General Appropriation Act footnote) 3/ The appropriation for the Arizona Trail line item shall be used to employ Youth Conservation Corps members to maintain the Arizona Trail. Before spending any monies appropriated in FY 2020 for the Arizona Trail line item, the board shall submit an expenditure plan for review by the Joint Legislative Budget Committee. (General Appropriation Act footnote) 4/ General Appropriation Act funds are appropriated as an Operating Lump Sum with Special Line Items by Agency. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Operating Budget the operating budget. FY 2020 adjustments are as follows: The budget includes $13,519,000 and 127.2 FTE Positions from the State Parks Revenue Fund (SPRF) in FY 2020 for FY 2020 Appropriations Report 277 Arizona State Parks Board Fund Shift and Offset Monies in this line item will be used to employ Youth The budget includes an increase of $692,100 from SPRF to Conservation Corps members to maintain the Arizona replace $692,100 in non-appropriated funding from the Trail. The Arizona Trail is a 800 mile-long, non-motorized Off-Highway Vehicle Recreation Fund that ASPB was trail beginning at the U.S.-Mexican border and running previously allowed to use for the agency's operating north-south through the state into Utah. budget. The shift results in no change in the agency's overall operating resources. Buckskin Fire District Salary Increase The budget includes $225,000 from the State Lake The budget includes an increase of $75,300 from SPRF in Improvement Fund (SLIF) in FY 2020 for the Buckskin Fire FY 2020 for an employee salary increase. The budget District line item. FY 2020 adjustments are as follows: requires that the increase be allocated for Park Ranger - Law Enforcement Officers but does not specify a Fire Suppression Equipment percentage amount. The budget includes a one-time increase of $225,000 from SLIF in FY 2020 for the purchase of marine fire Statewide Adjustments suppression equipment. The budget includes an increase of $225,900 from SPRF in FY 2020 for statewide adjustments. (Please see the Monies in this line item will be distributed to the Buckskin Agency Detail and Allocations section.) Fire district for the purchase of fire suppression equipment. In 2018, Arizona State Parks Board (ASPB) discussed completing 2 major projects in mid-2019 and included an Great Western Trail adjustment of $400,000 from SPRF for 6 months of operational costs at Rockin' River Ranch State Park and a Cattail Cove State Park. The staff were to be hired under The budget includes $692,100 from the Off-Highway the agency's existing FTE authority. The adjustment Vehicle Recreation Fund in FY 2020 for funding for the funded $200,000 for 5 park rangers, as well as utilities, Great Western Trail. FY 2020 adjustments are as follows: equipment, and repairs at Cattail Cove, and $200,000 for a park ranger, assistant manager, and 2 seasonal staff, Great Western Trail Unification Work utilities, equipment, and repairs at Rockin' River Ranch. The budget includes a one-time increase of $692,100 from the Off-Highway Vehicle Recreation in FY 2020 to provide The 2 parks are not expected to be operational in FY 2019. funding to connect segments of the GWT. The FY 2020 budget retains the 6-months operational costs for Rockin' River Ranch and Cattail Cove. (For Monies in this line item will be used to connect the additional details, please see Status of Capital Projects in fragmented sections of the GWT into a single unified trail. the Other Issues section.) The GWT is a 4,455 mile-long motorized trail beginning near the U.S.-Canada border and running through Idaho, As of June 2019, 30 state parks are open to the public. Wyoming, Utah, and Arizona. The GWT could potentially Twenty-three parks are funded and operated by the state run 800 miles north-south through Arizona if the trail with existing state funds. Six open parks are funded and were fully connected, however the current traversable operated through agreements between the State Parks sections of the trail total to only 360 miles. Board and Local Governments. (Please see Table 3 at the end of the narrative for more information on the parks, Kartchner Caverns State Park visitation, and operations.) The budget includes $2,296,700 and 35.8 FTE Positions Arizona Trail from the State Parks Revenue Fund in FY 2020 for Kartchner Caverns State Park. FY 2020 adjustments are as The budget includes $250,000 from SPRF in FY 2020 for follows: funding for the Arizona Trail. FY 2020 adjustments are as follows: Statewide Adjustments The budget includes an increase of $51,000 from SPRF in Arizona Trail Maintenance FY 2020 for statewide adjustments. The budget includes a one-time increase of $250,000 from SPRF in FY 2020 to fund maintenance of the Arizona Trail. Kartchner Caverns is located in Benson, Arizona and was discovered in 1974. The State Parks Board acquired the FY 2020 Appropriations Report 278 Arizona State Parks Board property in 1988 and opened the caverns to the public in The use of the 2 funds for capital projects requires review 1999. by the Joint Committee on Capital Review (JCCR). At times, ASPB also utilizes federal matching funds; this update does not detail those expenditures. Other Issues In July 2018, JCCR provided a favorable review for $2.0 Statutory Changes million appropriated in the FY 2019 Capital Outlay Bill for ASPB with the following provisions: The Environment Budget Reconciliation Bill makes the following statutory changes: • Report on the status of all incomplete projects on November 30 and May 31 of each year. In a later • As session law, require ASPB to allocate $692,100 JCCR meeting, these dates were changed to January from the Off-Highway Vehicle Recreation Fund for the 31 and July 31 of each year to conform with the Great Western Trail instead of the agency's operating standard semi-annual reporting dates used for other budget. capital agencies. • JCCR declined to review $6.5 million proposed by State Parks Heritage Fund ASPB to renovate 2 parks. The proposed plan included $4.0 million for Oracle State Park near the Santa Catalina Mountains in Pinal County, and $2.5 Laws 2019, Chapter 304 makes the following statutory million for Buckskin Mountain State Park near Parker. changes: JCCR directed ASPB to return for review upon completion of the parks' master plans. At the April • As permanent law, re-establishes the Arizona State 2019 JCCR meeting, the Committee approved the use Parks Heritage Fund (Heritage Fund), as well as a of a total of $300,000 from the $6.5 million amount grant application program for distributing monies in to develop master plans for both Buckskin Mountain the fund, and provides criteria for how monies in the and Oracle State Park. The remaining $6.2 million still fund shall be used. requires JCCR review before expenditure. • As permanent law, requires ASPB to submit an annual report to the President of the Senate, the Speaker of The ASPB report for the April 24, 2019 JCCR meeting and the House, and various legislative committees subsequent updates included the following information: detailing expenditures and projects funded by the Heritage Fund.