Request for Qualifications (RFQ)
Financial Planning and Cost Efficiency
Study of California State Parks
Friday, September 23, 2011
The California State Parks Foundation (“CSPF”), in collaboration with the California Department of Parks and Recreation (“Parks”), is seeking a consultant team to prepare and test with select parks a framework for long-term financial planning that integrates public and non-public-funding of California’s state parks.
As a direct result of a $22 million reduction in the state’s General Fund, 70 of Parks’ park units (“state parks”) are currently slated to be closed, representing 25 percent of the entire state park system. As a result of the volatile nature of public funding for state parks, CSPF and Parks, with the help of a consulting team, seek to develop and test an approach for long-term financial planning. This would involve analyzing current information about activities, expenditures, and revenues, working with a selected group of Parks’ District Superintendents and stakeholders (including nonprofits, concessionaires, and other community leaders), to create and test a set of templates and procedures for use across parks. Results of this project will in turn help district superintendents across the park system identify opportunities for cost-savings and revenue-generation while adding to their toolkit of potential solutions and increasing the chances that they can keep more parks open or avoid additional closures.
