GOVERNMENT AGENCY EXPENDITURES

Colorado Parks and Recreation Association. December 1993. The Economic Impact of Recreation, Parks and Leisure Services.

This study used the county level IMPLAN Input-Output Models for impact analysis "to perform small-area non-survey studies of expenditures by both private businesses and public agencies."

"Operating budgets ... cannot be considered to be new spending unless these operating funds are transfers into the region from some outside source, i.e., from the state or federal government or from grants. Otherwise, programs are supported by local tax dollars which are not available for consumers to spend. Therefore, agency expenditures are a reallocation of spending, not new spending."

"Expenditures from visitors and tourists are new spending ... supporting jobs and income which would not exist without the visitors and their expenditures. ...expenditures by residents on parks and recreation programs outside the local economy are lost monies."

"The Foothills Park and Recreation District reported 1990 expenditures of $8,926,749...

More than $4.5 million, nearly 51 percent of Foothills total expenditures, was paid in the form of wages and salaries and fringe benefits to their employees.

"Total direct and indirect job creation is 350-380 jobs. The Foothills District is creating a job for approximately each $23,000 of expenditures.

"Direct total income effects of Foothills District expenditures in Jefferson County were about $3.9 million in 1990 dollars. ...each dollar of total income directly created by Foothills expenditures generates another $1.01 of direct and induced total income. There was about $7.8 million of total income created in Jefferson County as a result of Foothills District expenditures in 1990."

"The City of Fort Collins Department of Parks and Recreation reported 1990 expenditures ... totaling $7,764,807.

The total of direct and indirect job creation is about 286 jobs. The Fort Collins Department of Parks and Recreation is creating a job for approximately each $27,000 of expenditures.

"Direct total income effects of Fort Collins Department of Parks and Recreation expenditures in Larimer County was about $3.2 million in 1990. ...each dollar of total income directly created by Fort Collins expenditures generates another $0.855 of direct and induced total income. Thus, Fort Collins Parks and Recreation expenditures in 1990 generated about $4.6 million of total income in Larimer County."

"The Town of Windsor Division of Recreation reported 1990 expenditures of $453,323

"The total of the direct and indirect job creation is 11 jobs. The Windsor Division of Recreation is creating one job for each $41,000 of expenditures.

"Direct total income impact of Windsor Division of Recreation expenditures in Weld County were about $225,000 in 1990. ...each dollar of total income directly created by Windsor expenditures generates another $0.46 of indirect and induced total income. There was about $256,000 of total income created in Weld County as a result of Windsor Division of Recreation expenditures in 1990."

Soderberg, Pete. 1994. "The Wheel of Service- Parks and the Public: A Powerful Partnership." Monterey County Parks Department, Monterey County, California.

"As a major provider of visitor-serving facilities and programs, the park system plays a significant role in the local tourism economy. During fiscal year 1994 the economic activity generated by the Parks Department's programs and all of the lessees, concessionaires, and nonprofit corporations that are associated with the parks added $148,413,407 to the local economy. Additionally, these same programs are responsible for providing 291 jobs to local residents as well as generating $3,019,568 in sales taxes and $839,850 in transient occupancy taxes. In total, over $150 million in benefit to the local economy was generated through the park system's 1994 activity for an investment of only $1,280,000 from the County general fund. This subsidy to the department's basic operations is the foundation upon which the larger "wheel of service" depends to provide extended services to the public and expediential financial stimulation to the economy of Monterey County."

Bradle, Tim A. "1993/ 1994 Florida State Park System Economic Impact Assessment", Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Recreation and Parks, 1994.

"the Florida state park system had an overall direct economic impact of $125.5 million on local economies throughout the state. Of that, nearly $8.7 million was generated in the form of state sales taxes over 3,700 jobs were generated as a result of the state parks' operations."

"if the state park system increased its attendance by ten percent during the next fiscal year, it would impact the local economy by an additional $9.4 million. Similarly, if instead the state park system had a loss of five percent in attendance, local economies would be impacted by a loss of $4.7 million. If an average state park were closed for one year, it would mean an average loss of just over one million dollars to the local economy."

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