FISCAL RESOURCES

The National Recreation and Park Association recognizes that public strategies to enhance park and recreation opportunities must fully consider fiscal resource needs and means to obtain such resources. The Association recognizes that the availability and use of all fiscal resources must relate to other non-fiscal strategies including public planning, regulatory guidelines and requirements, and cooperative activities with private interests.

We believe that all fiscal programs must assure stewardship of both built and undeveloped resources and care of existing systems as well as appropriate and necessary expansion.

We recommend that:

• The Land and Water Conservation Fund and Urban Park and Recreation Recovery Program be merged to form a program to deal comprehensively with park and recreation capital investments.
• The above programs be succeeded by a national trust providing at least $1 billion annually for federal land acquisition, and matching grants and loans for state and local government acquisition, development and rehabilitation.
• The proposed national trust ultimately became an endowed program which, over time, would become self-sustaining.
• That the trust be created from several sources, including public revenues available from natural resource depletion and user-related activities, including the purchase or use of recreation goods and services.

Adopted:
NPPA Trustees Executive Committee
February 24, 1987

Adopted:
Public Policy Committee
May 5, 1988