Title
Receive a report on the current operations at Lake San Antonio.
Report
RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Parks Commission:
a. Receive a report on the operations at Lake San Antonio; and
b. Provide recommendations to the Board of Supervisors regarding the current operations at Lake San Antonio.
SUMMARY:
The Resource Management Agency (RMA), now successor Public Works, Facilities, & Parks (PWFP) Department was assigned responsibility for County Parks in 2016. The Board received reports on the conditions of the Lakes, which generated a request for a business plan for lake operations (Plan). In developing that Plan, it was determined that Lake San Antonio (LSA) was set up to operate more like a County Park where Lake Nacimiento was designed to operate more like a resort. County parks tend to have expenses exceed revenues where the resort has potential to make a profit in a good water year.
Based on this information, ahead of having a final Plan, the Board approved the removal of LSA from the Enterprise Fund when presented that it could not operate as a business-type activity and would be better suited to operate in a similar fashion to a regional County park under the General Fund. With LSA removed from the Lakes Enterprise Fund, negotiations between Basecamp and the County focused on developing a facilities management agreement for resort and recreational areas at Lake Nacimiento. This was the context used during the preparation of the initial Draft Reservoir Recreational Area Plan (Draft Plan) for LSA, which was released to the public on March 20, 2019, and shortly after presented to the Community of Lockwood, Parks Commission, Parks Ad Hoc Committee, Capital Improvement Committee and Budget Committee.
Staff has been working on an Operations Plan based on Board direction. Meanwhile, a new Management Agreement with Basecamp for the operation and maintenance of the resort and recreation area of Lake Nacimiento went into effect August 1, 2019, inclu...
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