Measure PRK: City Department of Recreation and Parks Budget

For the last year, there has been a large effort to reform LA’s Charter, which is the guiding document for the City. Streets for All weighed (https://charter.streetsforall.org) in with a handful of proposals to improve project delivery for safe street infrastructure.

Although not everything we advocated for was included, Measure LA and Measure PRK are both strong steps towards building a more resilient City with people first streets and parks.

Measure LA will reform Public Works delivery in LA. In LA, our streets are falling apart, and we have multiple bureaus and board members in a strange inefficient web of oversight. Measure LA formalizes a CIP process (Capital Improvement Plan) to put all infrastructure projects in the same pipeline, and it puts a single director in charge of the Department of Public Works instead of the current fragmented governance. This will massively help with transparency, efficiency, and accountability.

Measure PRK will double the minimum amount allocated to LA parks annually. LA has significantly underfunded parks over the last few decades, and it means we have one of the worst park scores in the nation. Measure PRK will address this long term funding gap.

Source (https://www.streetsforall.org/2026)

To double city budget allocation to repair city parks; NOT a new tax.

Source (https://www.eapd.la/endorsements)

The measure would gradually double the minimum funding the City is required to provide its Department of Recreation and Parks over the next 10 years. It does not create a new tax or source of revenue; instead, it increases the share of existing City revenues guaranteed to parks under the charter. Public parks are a basic public good that every Angeleno should be able to enjoy, and LA has underfunded ours for far too long. It’s unfortunate and structurally poor governance that the method by which we’re funding them is a charter reform for guaranteed funding - it would be far better if our elected councilmembers had the political courage and principles to prioritize them instead of giving LAPD a 20th helicopter. Vote YES on Charter Amendment PRK.