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Glades County moves forward on Crescent Avenue rollover, playground funds and grant management
Summary
At its May 13 meeting the Glades County Board of County Commissioners advanced a $1.54 million rollover for the Crescent Avenue project, considered a $41,487 grant-funded playground budget amendment and addressed a required fix to a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission grant management resolution.
Glades County commissioners on May 13 advanced a $1,539,990.91 project rollover for the Crescent Avenue project and considered a separate budget amendment to add $41,487.12 in Department of Health funding for playground equipment.
The Crescent Avenue budget amendment (24-25-20) and corresponding resolution were approved with recorded “yes” responses from Commissioners Barnes, South and Patterson. County staff also presented a separate budget amendment (24-25-19) and corresponding resolution (2025-12) to increase the general fund by $41,487.12 for playground equipment; a commissioner moved and another seconded approval during the meeting record. The transcript does not include a roll-call vote for the playground amendment in the portions provided.
Commissioners also discussed a technical fix to an earlier resolution related to a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) grant. Staff said FWC had notified the county that the previously passed resolution (25-11) did not include an explicit provision authorizing a county official to manage the grant agreement; the board was asked to approve a new resolution (25-15) amending 25-11 to provide that authority so the county manager could administer the grant and execute required assurances and documents.
County staff emphasized that the Crescent Avenue amount represents a project rollover and that the playground funds come from a Department of Health award; exact procurement or construction schedules were not specified on the record. The FWC item was presented as a paperwork correction to allow the county manager to be the official grant manager, in response to FWC’s letter noting the omission.
The board’s discussion also included routine references to publishing statutory public-notice dates for upcoming budget hearings and the county’s need to align its calendar with school-board and other statutory deadlines before setting final public-hearing dates.
