2020 Forest Preserve District of Cook County, Illinois Executive Budget Recommendation Honorable Toni Preckwinkle, President Forest Preserve District Board of Commissioners For the programs and services of the Forest Preserve District of Cook County as submitted to the Finance Committee of the Forest Preserve District Board of Commissioners fpdcc.com Forest Preserve District of Cook County, Illinois Executive Budget Recommendation 2020 Honorable Toni Preckwinkle, President Forest Preserve District Board of Commissioners and Board of Forest Preserve District Commissioners Alma E. Anaya Donna Miller Luis Arroyo, Jr. Stanley Moore Scott R. Britton Kevin B. Morrison John P. Daley Sean M. Morrison Dennis Deer Peter N. Silvestri Bridget Degnen Deborah Sims Bridget Gainer Larry Suffredin Brandon Johnson Jeffrey R. Tobolski Bill Lowry Arnold Randall General Superintendent Stephen Hughes Chief Financial Officer This document was printed on recycled paper 2020 EXECUTIVE BUDGET RECOMMENDATION Table of Contents INTRODUCTION . 1 Our Mission Statement . 1 The Forest Preserve District of Cook County Organizational Chart . 2 Accounting & Budgetary Practices . 3 The Budget Development Process . 4 FY 2020 Proposed Budget Calendar . 5 Reader’s Guide . 6 Forest Preserves of Cook County Profile . 7 Forest Preserves of Cook County Map . 8 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY & EXECUTIVE BUDGET RECOMMENDATION....................................................... 9 Executive Summary . 10 Forest Preserve District Of Cook County, Illinois Annual Appropriation Ordinance . 14 Attachment A . 16 Attachment B - Corporate Fund Balance Policy . 17 Position Summary . 18 CORPORATE FUND . 19 Estimated Revenues and Available Sources . 19 Budgeted Expenditures and Other Uses . 20 Office of the General Superintendent . 21 Finance & Administration . 27 Human Resources . 35 Resource Management . 41 Conservation & Experiential Programming . 49 Permits, Rentals And Concessions . 55 II FOREST PRESERVE DISTRICT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS 2020 EXECUTIVE BUDGET RECOMMENDATION Landscape Maintenance . 61 Facilities & Fleet Maintenance . 67 Legal ..................................................................................................................... 75 Law Enforcement . 81 Planning & Development ................................................................................................. 87 District Wide Services . 93 CAPITAL AND RELATED FUNDING SOURCES . 97 Construction & Development Fund . 98 Capital Improvement Fund . 99 Real Estate Acquisition Fund . 100 Resident Watchmen Fund . 101 Bond & Interest Fund . 102 FIDUCIARY, AGENCY AND COMPONENT UNIT FUNDS . 103 Employee Annuity And Benefit Fund . 104 Self-Insurance Fund . 105 Chicago Zoological Society Fund . 106 Chicago Horticultural Fund . 107 Chicago Zoological Society & Brookfield Zoo . 108 Chicago Botanic Garden . 121 SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION .......................................................................................... 135 Chart of Accounts . 136 Budgetary Accounts . 136 Glossary . 144 Revenue Glossary . 146 Major Funds Glossary . 148 FOREST PRESERVE DISTRICT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS III 2020 EXECUTIVE BUDGET RECOMMENDATION Supplementary Schedules. .149 Schedule 1 – Non-Union Salary Schedule . 149 Schedule 2 – Teamsters Local 700 Salary Schedule . 150 Schedule 3 – Police Salary Schedule . 151 Schedule 4 – “X” Grade Salary Schedule . 152 Schedule 5 – Non-Union Hourly Rate Schedule . 152 Schedule 6 – Tax Rates for Real Property . 153 Schedule 7 – Property Tax Rates Comparison – City of Chicago . 154 Schedule 8 – Property Tax Rates Comparison – Suburban Snapshot . 154 Schedule 9 – Property Tax Distribution Net of Uncollectible / Refunds . 157 Schedule 10 – Total Operating and Debt Service . 158 Schedule 11 – Annual Appropriation Comparative Summary . 159 Schedule 12 – Staffing History . 160 Schedule 13 – Property Tax Levy Summary from 2012 - 2019 . 161 Schedule 14 – Property Tax Levies and Collections . 162 Schedule 15 – Direct and Overlapping Governmental Activities Debt . 163 Schedule 16 – Legal Debt Margin Information . 164 Schedule 17 – Picnic Permit Fee Schedule . 165 Schedule 18 – Pool Fees and Other License and Permits . 168 Schedule 19 – Pavilions and Facilities Fee Schedule . 169 Schedule 20 – Golf Fee Schedule . 170 Schedule 21 – Campground Fee Schedule . 171 Schedule 22 – Bicycle Fee Schedule . 173 Schedule 23 – Boat Fee Schedule . 173 Schedule 24 – Aerial Adventure Course Fee Schedule . 174 Schedule 25 – Stable Fees . 174 Schedule 26 – Special Access/Construction Permit Fees . 175 Photography Credits ......................................................................................................176 IV FOREST PRESERVE DISTRICT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS OurMission Statement 2020 Our Mission Statement To acquire, restore and manage lands for the purpose of protecting and preserving public open space with its natural wonders, significant prairies, forests, wetlands, rivers, streams, and other landscapes with all of its associated wildlife, in a natural state for the education, pleasure and recreation of the public now and in the future. 2020 EXECUTIVE BUDGET RECOMMENDATION The Forest Preserve District of Cook County Organizational Chart The Forest Preserve District of Cook County Organizational Chart Residents of Cook County President & Board of Commissioners General Superintendent Compliance Legal Department Deputy Superintendent Office of Finance Conservation Permits, Facilities Planning Human Resource Landscape Law General & & Experiential Rentals & & Fleet & Resources Management Maintenance Enforcement Superintendent Administration Programming Concessions Maintenance Development 2 FOREST PRESERVE DISTRICT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS 2020 EXECUTIVE BUDGET RECOMMENDATION Accounting & Budgetary Practices The accounts of the District are organized on a basis of funds The District’s budget is developed in accordance with and an account group to present the financial position and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) as applied results of operations of each fund . The accounting system of to government units . With respect to government-wide funds, the District is also designed to provide budgetary control over expendable trust funds and agency funds, the District follows the revenues and expenditures of each fund . The accounting the modified accrual basis of accounting in which revenues are principles of the District conform to accounting principles recognized when they become both measurable and available generally accepted in the United States of America as appli- as net current assets . Available means collectible within cable to governmental units or, in the case of the discretely the current period or 60 days thereafter to pay liabilities of presented component units, the Chicago Horticultural Society the current period . Taxpayer assessed taxes, gross receipts (“Chicago Botanic Garden”) and Chicago Zoological Society and personal property replacement taxes are considered (“Brookfield Zoo”), as applicable to not-for-profits. The accepted “measurable” when they are in the hands of intermediary standard-setting body for establishing governmental account- collecting governments and are recognized as revenue at ing and financial reporting principles is the Governmental that time . Anticipated refunds of such taxes are recorded as Accounting Standards Board (GASB) and for establishing liabilities and reductions of revenue when they are measurable not- for-profit accounting and financial reporting principles is and their validity seems certain . Revenues considered to be the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) . susceptible to accrual are: real estate taxes, personal property replacement taxes, land sale proceeds, concession receivables and interest receivables . FOREST PRESERVE DISTRICT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS 3 2020 EXECUTIVE BUDGET RECOMMENDATION The Budget Development Process The Forest Preserve District of Cook County Board of The Board must hold at least one public hearing on the budget Commissioners must adopt the annual operating budget prior to legally enacting it through the passage of the Annual before or within sixty (60) days after the commencement of any Appropriation Ordinance . fiscal year, which begins January 1. The Annual Appropriation Ordinance includes proposed expenditures and the means of The Chief Financial Officer is authorized to transfer budgeted financing them. amounts between various line items within any fund . The Board must approve any revisions increasing the total expenditures The budget development process begins with each of any fund. The budget information.