More parkland, resurfaced streets and water conservation projects are planned for Rancho Cucamonga in the coming year.

The spending was outlined in the 2019-20 budget approved June 27 by the city council.

Rancho Cucamonga officials anticipate $88.2 million in general fund revenue in the new fiscal year, up $1 million from the year before. That’s down $2 million in growth from the year before.

“This slowing of revenue growth reflects the generally built out nature of the city where it will, over the years become increasingly more of a challenge to balance costs versus revenue, particularly given growth in certain cost areas,” City Manager John R. Gillison wrote in a budget summary.

He pointed to the growth of medical benefits and pension costs as a particular concern.

City officials expect to spend $88.2 million in general fund expenditures. The general fund covers mostly salaries and immediate needs. Other projects, such as improvements to infrastructure, pull from different city funds.

In the coming year, Rancho Cucamonga plans $400,000 in water-conservation projects, including removing turf and replacing it with drought-tolerant landscaping.

The city plans to spend $575,000 on the design of interactive children’s exhibits at the library, a multi-year project that won’t be completed until at least 2021.

A second phase of Etiwanda Park will be designed, at an estimated cost of $450,000. LED lighting will be added to Garcia Park’s fields, at a cost of about $500,000. City officials expect to spend $832,000 to upgrade the deteriorated rubber playground surfaces at 12 parks.

They also intend to spend $57 million on road resurfacing and repaving, with $52 million of that on the Etiwanda grade-separation and road-widening project. Officials plan $4 million in upgrades to the traffic management system so traffic lights can better adapt to changing traffic conditions.

Another $2.8 million will go toward better coordinating traffic signals elsewhere in the city. Flashing yellow turn lights will be installed on Day Creek Boulevard, between Church and Banyan Streets, at an expected cost of $329,000.

Gillison also forecast clouds on the horizon locally.

“I see the likelihood of an economic contraction/correction as modest over the next 12 months but growing significantly in the 18-24 month time frame,” he wrote, adding that adjustments would likely be needed in the fiscal year that starts July 1, 2020.

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to clarify that $52 million of the $57 million to be spent on road resurfacing and repaving is for the Etiwanda grade-separation and road-widening project.