The Hampton National Historic Site budget for fiscal year 2002 has been completed, and includes funding from the federal government as well as from a number of public and private sources, according to Superintendent Laurie Coughlan.

Financial resources available to achieve the park’s goals in FY 2002 include a base operating budget of approximately $664,000, which funds a work force of one permanent part-time and six permanent full-time positions and up to four seasonal positions. This work force will be supplemented by approximately 15,000 hours of Volunteers-in-Parks service, assistance from the park cooperating association and friends group Historic Hampton, Inc., and special project and program funds distributed by the National Park Service regional and Washington offices. Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine provides significant support for administrative services and park preservation and maintenance.

Highlights of the park’s budget, which funds specific goals in the park annual performance plan, include:

$360,000 for resource preservation and management. Projects include resource protection, museum services, cultural landscape restoration and maintenance, and repairs and preservation work on historic structures.

$139,000 to address visitor services, including mansion tours, grounds tours, signs, brochures, exhibits, walkways, and restrooms. An estimated $12,000 in fee revenues will fund repairs to walkways and visitor use areas within the Hampton Mansion.

$90,000 for facility operations and maintenance, which covers telephone, water, sewer, electricity, natural gas, heating oil, vehicle maintenance, and routine maintenance of the park, and $75,000 for park administration, including information technology, administrative supplies, and staff time.

In addition, the park will complete a $600,000 project jointly funded by a donation from park partner Historic Hampton, Inc., a grant from the Department of the Interior Save America’s Treasures program, and a bond from the State of Maryland. The project includes historic preservation work on the farm house and slave quarters, and improved accessibility to the farm complex. Other grants from Preservation Maryland will fund continued work on an archival finding aid, archaeology, and oral history research. Additional grants will contribute to research and implementation of historic furnished room exhibits.