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Parks
Funded FY27–31

Bedwell Bayfront Park Entrance Improvements

Project CPP003 · Public Works

Cost & funding
Five-year planned cost
$320,000
Where the money comes from
  • Special Revenue Funds$320,000
Specifically
  • Bayfront Mitigation Fund$320,000

    Fees collected to offset Bayfront-area development impacts. Restricted to mitigation work.

Source: FY 2026–27 CIP, Fund 332 appropriation.

Funding pathway

Funding pathway has not been mapped for this project. The project may be in a study phase, or its scope and cost are not yet defined.

Category
Capital Improvement Plan
Department
Public Works
Spent FY 2023–25
$54,687
Budget labels for this project

Sources: City of Menlo Park OpenGov CIP detail, project code CPP003; resident-facing name shown here is “Bedwell Bayfront Park Entrance Improvements”. Budget worksheet labeled “Bayfront Park”.

$320K
Planned spending, FY 2027–31
The City has not published a total lifetime cost estimate for this project, so there is no funding gap to show. The figure above is what the five-year plan budgets.
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The funding gap is the estimated lifetime cost minus all funding that has not been lost, added up from the funding sources listed below. Year-by-year figures come from the City's adopted five-year capital plan.

Who is paying

Funding sources

Each source carries its own status and citation. Expand a row to see the conditions, dates, and source document. “Ongoing” sources are recurring formula funds; sources still being pursued show no dollar amount.

CA State Coastal Conservancy Priority Conservation Area Grant ProgramAwarded
$520,000
California State Coastal Conservancy (state) · construction

Conditions: Priority Conservation Area Grant

Bedwell Bayfront Park Entrance Improvements — $520,000 from CA State Coastal Conservancy, funding period 2025-27, per June 9, 2026 staff report Attachment D.

Spending

Spending by year

Past years are recorded actuals from the City's general ledger. FY 2026 is the adopted current-year budget. FY 2027 through FY 2031 is what the five-year Capital Improvement Plan proposes to spend.

FY 23$7,660
FY 24$15,071
FY 25$31,955
FY 27$320,000
Spent Current year (adopted) Planned
Where the money went, line by line
YearFundCategoryAmount
FY 23Capital Project FundsServices$7,007
FY 23Capital Project FundsSalaries and Wages$456
FY 23Capital Project FundsFringe Benefits$198
FY 24Capital Project FundsServices$8,533
FY 24Capital Project FundsSalaries and Wages$4,607
FY 24Capital Project FundsFringe Benefits$1,932
FY 25Capital Project FundsServices$22,830
FY 25Capital Project FundsSalaries and Wages$7,309
FY 25Capital Project FundsFringe Benefits$1,816
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Past years are summed from gl_transactions for this project. FY 2026 is the adopted current-year budget for the project. FY 2027 through FY 2031 is what the City's adopted five-year CIP proposes to spend, taken from cip_projects.

How decisions were made

Council actions

No Council actions are linked to CPP003 yet. As decisions tied to this project are added to the database, they will appear here.

Plan history

How this project changed between plans

The City publishes a new five-year capital plan each year. Here is how this project's five-year total moved from the FY 2025-30 Adopted plan to the FY 2026-31 Proposed plan.

FY 2025-30 Adopted
$1,415,745
FY 2026-31 Proposed
$320,000
Change
↓ $1,095,745

“Five-year total” is every expense line for this project in each plan (carryover estimate plus new money). The two plans cover different five-year windows, so part of a change can be the window shifting by a year.

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Each figure is the sum of this project's expense lines in that plan snapshot (view v_cip_plan_comparison, from cip_plan_lines). Flagged questions come from cip_plan_clarifications.