Arizona State Parks Board FY 2019 FY 2020 FY 2021 ACTUAL ESTIMATE APPROVED OPERATING BUDGET Full Time Equivalent Positions 163.0 163.0 163.0 1/ Personal Services 4,707,000 5,878,000 5,878,000 Employee Related Expenditures 2,314,000 3,101,900 3,614,700 Professional and Outside Services 232,000 232,900 232,900 Travel - In State 16,000 8,200 8,200 Other Operating Expenditures 4,556,000 4,251,600 4,251,600 Equipment 63,000 46,400 46,400 OPERATING SUBTOTAL 11,888,000 13,519,000 14,031,800 2/ SPECIAL LINE ITEMS Arizona Trail 0 250,000 0 Buckskin Fire District 0 225,000 0 Great Western Trail 0 692,100 0 Kartchner Caverns State Park 2,067,000 2,296,700 2,441,000 AGENCY TOTAL 13,955,000 16,982,800 16,472,800 3/ FUND SOURCES Other Appropriated Funds Off-Highway Vehicle Recreation Fund 0 692,100 0 State Lake Improvement Fund 0 225,000 0 State Parks Revenue Fund 13,955,000 16,065,700 16,472,800 SUBTOTAL - Other Appropriated Funds 13,955,000 16,982,800 16,472,800 SUBTOTAL - Appropriated Funds 13,955,000 16,982,800 16,472,800 Other Non-Appropriated Funds 8,754,500 13,846,100 13,846,100 Federal Funds 2,536,500 5,812,100 5,812,100 TOTAL - ALL SOURCES 25,246,000 36,641,000 36,131,000 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 2021. 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 fiscal year 2020-2021, an additional ten percent of this increase of Fool Hollow receipts is appropriated from the state parks revenue fund established by section 41-511.21, Arizona Revised Statutes, to meet the revenue sharing agreement with the city of Show Low and the United States forest service. (General Appropriation Act footnote) 3/ General Appropriation Act funds are appropriated as an Operating Lump Sum with Special Line Items by Agency. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Operating Budget Statewide Adjustments The budget includes an increase of $512,800 from SPRF in The budget includes $14,031,800 and 127.2 FTE Positions FY 2021 for statewide adjustments. (Please see the from the State Parks Revenue Fund (SPRF) in FY 2021 for Agency Detail and Allocations section.) the operating budget. FY 2021 adjustments are as follows: FY 2021 Appropriations Report 248 Arizona State Parks Board Arizona Trail Kartchner Caverns State Park The budget includes no funding in FY 2021 for the Arizona The budget includes $2,441,000 and 35.8 FTE Positions Trail. FY 2021 adjustments are as follows: from the State Parks Revenue Fund in FY 2021 for Kartchner Caverns State Park. FY 2021 adjustments are as Remove One-Time Funding follows: The budget includes a decrease of $(250,000) from the State Parks Revenue Fund in FY 2021 to remove one-time Statewide Adjustments funding for the Arizona Trail line item. The budget includes an increase of $144,300 from the State Parks Revenue Fund in FY 2021 for statewide Monies in this line item are used to employ Youth adjustments. Conservation Corps members to maintain the Arizona Trail. The 800 mile-long, non-motorized trail begins at the Kartchner Caverns is located in Benson, Arizona and was U.S.-Mexican border and runs north-south through discovered in 1974. The State Parks Board acquired the Arizona into Utah. property in 1988 and opened the caverns to the public in 1999. Buckskin Fire District Other Issues The budget includes no funding in FY 2021 for the Buckskin Fire District line item. FY 2021 adjustments are as follows: Status of Capital Projects Remove One-Time Funding For FY 2017 through FY 2019, ASPB developed capital The budget includes a decrease of $(225,000) from the plans at a cost of $21.3 million, of which $14.8 million has State Lake Improvement Fund in FY 2021 to remove one- received JCCR review. Of the amount reviewed, $11.0 time funding for the Buckskin Fire District line item. million was allocated for major capital projects and the remaining $3.8 million was allocated for smaller projects. Monies in this line item were distributed to the Buckskin In January 2020, ASPB provided an update on unfinished Fire District for the purchase of marine fire suppression capital projects. In the January report, ASPB stated that equipment. as of December 2019, of the $14.8 million, $5.2 million had been expended on major projects, $2.6 million on Great Western Trail small projects, and an additional $800,000 on statewide park maintenance. ASPB is required to provide an updated report on the status of all capital projects to the The budget includes no funding in FY 2021 for the Great Western Trail. FY 2021 adjustments are as follows: JLBC on January 31 and July 31 of each year. Table 1 provides the status of the agency's major capital projects Remove One-Time Funding as of the most recent ASPB report. The budget includes a decrease of $(692,100) from the Off-Highway Vehicle Recreation Fund in FY 2021 to The FY 2019 budget included $400,000 from SPRF for 6 remove one-time funding for the Great Western Trail line months of operational costs at Rockin' River Ranch State item. Park and at Cattail Cove State Park. The staff were to be hired under the agency's existing FTE authority. The Monies in this line item are used to connect the adjustment funded $200,000 for 5 park rangers, as well as fragmented sections of the Great Western Trail into a utilities, equipment, and repairs at Cattail Cove, and single unified trail. The 4,455 mile-long, motorized trail $200,000 for a park ranger, assistant manager, and 2 begins near the U.S.-Canada border and runs through seasonal staff, utilities, equipment, and repairs at Rockin' Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, and Arizona. The trail could River Ranch. potentially run 800 miles north-south through Arizona if the trail were fully connected, however the current While the Cattail Cove State Park is open to the public, traversable sections of the trail total to only 360 miles. certain sections of the park are still undergoing repairs and remain closed for visitation and therefore does not need the full operating cost. The Rockin' River Ranch State Park is not expected to be operational in FY 2020. The FY 2021 budget retains the 6-month operational costs for Rockin' River Ranch and Cattail Cove. FY 2021 Appropriations Report 249 Arizona State Parks Board State Parks Operations As of June 2020, 29 state parks are open to the public. Twenty-three parks are funded and operated by the state with existing state funds. Six open parks are operated through agreements between the State Parks Board and local governments. (Please see the ASPB Visitation and Revenue Program Summary available on the JLBC website for additional information on the parks, visitation, and operations.) Off-Highway Vehicle Recreation Fund Use The budget continues an FY 2020 increase of $692,100 from the State Parks Revenue Fund (SPRF) for ASPB's operating budget in FY 2021. The FY 2020 increase was part of a fund shift which redirected $692,100 from the Off-Highway Vehicle Recreation Fund (OHVRF) to the Great Western Trail line item and provided a corresponding increase in SPRF funding to ASPB's operating budget. Since the Great Western Trail appropriation was one-time for FY 2020, the overall amount of non-appropriated OHVRF monies distributed to statutory recipients in accordance with A.R.S. § 28-1176 is expected to increase by $692,100 in FY 2021. Table 1 Status of Major Projects as of January 2020 Appropriated/ Total Expenditures Park Projects FY Funded JCCR Review Budgeted Through January 2020 Status Statewide Parks Maintenance '17/'18 9/16 & 9/17 $1,700,000 $1,919,200 1/ Maintenance in progress Cabin Installation '17/'18 9/16 & 9/17 $3,800,000 $1,668,600 2/ Installations Completed 3/ Cattail Cove Renovations '17 9/16 $5,307,500 $3,550,000 Renovations in Progress Rockin' River Ranch Renovations '18 9/17 $4,000,000 $697,200 Renovations in Progress Buckskin Mountain Renovations '19 No 4/ $2,500,000 5/ $3,500 Developing Renovation Plan Oracle Renovations '19 No 4/ $4,000,000 $9,900 Developing Renovation Plan ____________ 1/ ASPB also used a portion of funding from canceled projects which were previously reviewed to supplement statewide health and safety maintenance work. 2/ ASPB also used a portion of its FY 2017 operating budget to supplement funding for the cabin installation project. 3/ ASPB ended the cabin installation project after completion of 25 cabins. 4/ Of the total appropriated amount, $150,000 has been reviewed for the use of developing a master plan for the park. The remaining monies of the appropriation still require JCCR review before expenditure. 5/ Includes $1.0 million from the non-appropriated State Lake Improvement Fund. FY 2021 Appropriations Report 250 Arizona State Parks Board .