A project by Laura Melahn, Candidate for Menlo Park District 4 City Council
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.