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 County Park Funds Need Fair Disbursement The Orange County Board of Supervisors has $14 million in annual state park bond money. Each year, we vote to determine how these precious park funds will be allocated. Supervisor Smith and I support an equal division of the funds among the five supervisorial districts. With each district having about 600,000 people, this will assure all county residents will benefit equally from the fund. This is how the money was divided last fiscal year, when Supervisors Smith, Spitzer and Coad voted to provide equal park funding throughout the entire county. This established a precedent to try to equalize the extreme imbalance of parkland between North and South Orange County. Now, however, county staff proposes to allocate all of the $14 million strictly into the county park system. Proponents say this is county money that needs to attend to deteriorating county parks. This would make sense if county parklands were distributed equally throughout Orange County. They are not. Wealthy coastal and southern Orange County have the bulk of county recreational acreage. Urbanized and older north county has very little. Compare below our unbalanced system:
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