ANNUAL REPORT - Onondaga County Parks
ANNUAL REPORT - Onondaga County Parks
ANNUAL REPORT - Onondaga County Parks
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FINANCIAL SUMMARY<br />
Operating Budget as of 1/31/07 (Unaudited)<br />
Expenditures<br />
Personnel_ ___________________ $ 7,464,141<br />
Operations_ __________________ $ 3,066,147<br />
Interdepartmental Services_____ $ 1,166,701<br />
Debt Service____________________ $ 785,070<br />
Preventative Maintenance________ $ 375,000<br />
Total________________________ $ 12,857,059<br />
Revenues<br />
<strong>County</strong> Appropriations________ $ 10,217,284<br />
Park Use_____________________ $ 1,764,958<br />
State and Federal Aid_ ___________ $ 221,604<br />
Cemetery________________________ $ 61,530<br />
Commissions and Rentals__________ $ 71,274<br />
Transfer for Infrastructure_ _______ $ 375,000<br />
Room Occupancy Tax____________ $ 100,000<br />
Other_ __________________________ $ 45,409<br />
Total________________________ $ 12,857,059<br />
supplemental budgets<br />
Capital Expenses_ _______________ $ 562,228<br />
Grant Expenses_________________ $ 238,333<br />
Special Account Expenses________ $ 547,525<br />
How Do We Rate?<br />
Representative surveys from over 1,600 park visitors indicate that friendly,<br />
helpful staff and feeling of being safe and secure in our parks are two major<br />
reasons they give a big thumbs up with an “A+” rating.<br />
Volunteer Park Customer Service Rating<br />
Hours Attendance (1-5 scale, 5=Excellent)<br />
Alliance Bank Stadium 600 362,620 -<br />
Beaver Lake Nature Center 11,000 193,855 4.67<br />
Carpenter’s Brook Fish Hatchery 1,589 40,101 4.73<br />
Highland Forest 5,367 49,873 4.85<br />
Hopkins Road Park 300 130,000 -<br />
Jamesville Beach 1,257 89,790 4.42<br />
Oneida Shores Park 1,332 120,340 4.70<br />
<strong>Onondaga</strong> Lake Park 7,335 1,335,561 4.60<br />
Otisco Lake Park - 4,000 -<br />
Pratt’s Falls Park 170 27,331 4.67<br />
Rosamond Gifford Zoo 29,770 298,757 4.59<br />
Ste. Marie among the Iroquois 12,500 13,482 -<br />
Salt Museum 350 16,023 -<br />
Veterans Memorial Cemetery - 25,000 -<br />
Totals 71,570 2,706,733 4.63<br />
COMMUNITY SUPPORT....<br />
It’s Huge!<br />
<strong>Onondaga</strong> <strong>County</strong> <strong>Parks</strong>’ stature as a<br />
nationally acclaimed leisure service agency<br />
and a treasured community asset is due<br />
in large part to significant investments<br />
of time and money by the organizations,<br />
businesses and volunteers who proudly call<br />
<strong>Onondaga</strong> <strong>County</strong> their home.<br />
Leading the way in assuring quality park<br />
services are Friends organizations from<br />
the Rosamond Gifford Zoo, Beaver Lake<br />
Nature Center, Historic <strong>Onondaga</strong> Lake and<br />
Carpenter’s Brook Fish Hatchery. Working<br />
cooperatively with <strong>Parks</strong> administration, this<br />
quartet invested nearly $2 million directly<br />
into program, facility and promotional support<br />
in 2006. They also serve as powerful advocates for government<br />
Volunteer Tyler Anderson takes a break from<br />
interpreting history at Sainte Marie<br />
investment in and protection of the lands and waters which comprise<br />
and border their favorite venues.<br />
The Jamesville Balloonfest, Inc. focuses on the signature element of the<br />
community’s first big summer event while the Highland Forest Nordic<br />
Ski Patrol strives for optimal and safe cross-country ski experiences at the<br />
“Adirondacks of Central New York.” <strong>Onondaga</strong> <strong>County</strong> <strong>Parks</strong> Emergency<br />
Medical Services team provides coverage at all major events.<br />
Two new groups came on the scene in 2006 - a “watchdog”<br />
group of Wegmans Good Dog Park enthusiasts who are being<br />
empowered to help monitor the facility, and the Fabius Historical<br />
Society, which has taken over operations of what had<br />
been the Highland Forest Pioneer Museum.<br />
Volunteers gave over 70,000 hours of their time to our parks this year,<br />
and are the sole reason Sainte Marie among the Iroquois Living History<br />
Center was able to reopen and continues to thrive. Educational tours at<br />
the Zoo and Beaver Lake would be a microcosm of their current status<br />
if retired teachers and principals were not giving back liberally of their<br />
time and expertise. Fishing in our trout streams and archery at Pratt’s<br />
Falls would be of lower caliber if volunteers were not stocking fish and<br />
maintaining targets.<br />
The Salt Museum, which continues to be a destination for out of town<br />
guests, is viable primarily because of the dedication of a retired elementary<br />
school teacher. In the spring, many parks are spruced up as businesses<br />
donate their work force for a day of community beautification.<br />
And Beaver Lake’s cornerstone special events would cease to happen<br />
without volunteers.<br />
Led by Wegmans, who touts the splendors of <strong>Onondaga</strong> <strong>County</strong> <strong>Parks</strong><br />
in a 250’ wall length mural at the new Liverpool Route 57 store and has<br />
invested significantly in special event and quality of life programs at<br />
<strong>Onondaga</strong> Lake Park, corporate Syracuse is indeed part of the success of<br />
the park system. Galaxy Communications and Citadel Communications<br />
are prime underwriters of Lights on the Lake and the Coors Light Balloon<br />
Fest, respectively, allocating both program sponsorship and major air<br />
time to assure success of events which are produced without direct tax<br />
dollar support. Verizon proclaimed success with marketing initiatives<br />
at <strong>Onondaga</strong> Lake Park which included experimenting with complimentary<br />
FiOS WiFi service in the family activity section. Alliance Bank<br />
has committed long term support via naming rights to the ballpark and<br />
the Rosamond Gifford Foundation has taken a similar path with a major<br />
educational endowment for the Zoo.<br />
<strong>Onondaga</strong> <strong>County</strong> <strong>Parks</strong><br />
106 Lake Dr, Liverpool, NY 13088<br />
(315)451-7275 • www.<strong>Onondaga</strong><strong>County</strong><strong>Parks</strong>.com<br />
Front Cover: Fishing at Oneida, Sainte Marie volunteers, skiing at Highland, biking at Otisco Lake Park.<br />
Photo Credits: Skateboarder photo by Mike Roy, Post-Standard, Heron by Craig Morgan.<br />
Cover and all other photos by Brantley Carroll Photography • 2/07 • 1M