Parks and Recreation Funding Mechanisms Study

Abstract

The County of St. Joseph, the City of South Bend, and the City of Mishawaka need to find long-term sustainable funding solutions by creating funding mechanisms that directly support the parks and recreation department budgets. The objective of this report is to provide an overview of several successfully implemented funding mechanisms, review relevant sections of Indiana State Code, and suggest several options that the St. Joseph County Parks Department, the City of South Bend Parks and Recreation Department and the City of Mishawaka Parks and Recreation Department can possibly implement.