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Parks
Funded FY27–31

Belle Haven Park Improvements

Project CPP021 · Public Works

Cost & funding
Five-year planned cost
$4,000,000
Where the money comes from
  • Special Revenue Funds$4,000,000
Specifically
  • In-lieu Payment for Community Amenities$4,000,000

    In-lieu payments from developers toward community amenities. Restricted to community-amenity purposes.

Source: FY 2026–27 CIP, Fund 369 appropriation.

Funding pathway
Restricted local revenueMechanism in place

Belle Haven Park Improvements. $4M secured through San Mateo County Measure K, Measure A parks funding, and Belle Haven Community Campus Fund.

Category
Capital Improvement Plan
Department
Public Works
Estimated lifetime cost
$4,000,000
Budget labels for this project

Sources: City of Menlo Park OpenGov CIP detail, project code CPP021; resident-facing name shown here is “Belle Haven Park Improvements”.

Fully funded
No remaining gap
Estimated lifetime cost $4,000,000
Estimated lifetime cost
$4,000,000
Secured (awarded, received, allocated)
$4,000,000
Committed, not yet executed
$0
Pending application
$0
Anticipated (not yet applied for)
$0
Funding gap (not yet covered)
$0
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The lifetime cost estimate is $4,000,000, from 5-year CIP plan: $1M annually FY27-FY31 from Fund 369 (In-lieu Payment for Community Amenities) (May 30, 2026). Source: https://www.menlopark.gov/files/sharedassets/public/v/1/agendas-and-minutes/city-council/2024-meetings/agendas/20240611/h1-20240611-cc-fy-2024-25-budget.pdf. 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.

In-lieu Payment for Community AmenitiesAllocated
$4,000,000
City of Menlo Park (Fund 369) (city) · construction

Conditions: Developer fees paid in lieu of providing community amenities directly; restricted to community benefit projects.

Belle Haven Park is the largest single allocation from Fund 369 in the 5-year CIP. No grants tied to this specific project as of the CIP plan.

Source: FY 2024-25 budget; CIP plan FY 2026-31
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 28$1,000,000
FY 29$1,000,000
FY 30$1,000,000
FY 31$1,000,000
Spent Current year (adopted) Planned
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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 CPP021 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
$5,300,000
FY 2026-31 Proposed
$4,000,000
Change
↓ $1,300,000

“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.