Rowan says the additional $1 million in revenue a year will increase the zoo's bottom line of about $42 million by nearly 4 percent and will go mostly toward maintenance those costs have increased 100 percent since 2014. "We also found that the Foundation did not regularly submit its budget documentation in the past to DPR’s Executive Director as required by the Agreement." "Furthermore, we found that the City is appropriating monies for the purposes of Zoo utility payments into a City controlled special revenue fund, but is utilizing the money for CSA employees’ payroll and benefits expenses, a practice that is inconsistent with the Agreement," the report concluded. (It falls under the Denver Department of Parks and Recreation.) According to the audit, the foundation was not reimbursing the city for costs associated with Career Service Authority employees - essentially HR employees - working at the zoo. We thought it'd be prudent to wait."Ī January 2017 audit by the City and County of Denver found that the zoo's manager, the Denver Zoological Foundation, and the city had not been complying with certain financial arrangements laid out in the Cooperative Agreement between the foundation and the city, which owns the zoo. "We didn't want to cloud the message with price increases for those years. "There were other things going on around the city the last couple of years," Rowan says, including the 2016 re-authorization effort for the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District and last year's GO Bond initiative. Andrew Rowan, senior director of external relations for the zoo, says it last petitioned city council for a ticket-price increase four years ago, and it usually asks for price increases every three years.
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Prices will soon increase to $20 for those twelve and older, $14 for children over three, and free for younger kids.
Denver City Council unanimously approved a ticket-price increase for the Denver Zoo that's expected to net an additional $1 million in revenue a year.
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