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Fort Lauderdale staff say parks bond moving but school projects lag behind budget
Summary
City staff told the Parks & Recreation Advisory Board the $200 million 2019 parks bond is under way, with $80 million in the first tranche and roughly $50 million of that spent as of February 2025, but joint-use school projects face funding shortfalls and procurement delays.
Parks staff told the Fort Lauderdale Parks & Recreation Advisory Board that the city’s $200 million parks bond, approved in 2019, is advancing but that school joint‑use projects face budget shortfalls and slower procurement than planners expected.
The update on the parks bond, presented by Ben Rogers and Alex Torres, laid out the program’s history and current status and emphasized tradeoffs the department is using to stretch limited dollars.
Ben Rogers, acting assistant city manager, summarized the program and introduced Alex Torres to walk through project-level details. Rogers said the bond “was approved September and March 12, 2019” and the city began implementing the master plan that followed. Torres said, “Phase 1 was approved with 60 projects and then phase 2,” and described how school projects were added and later reprioritized.
City documents and the presentation provided to the board show the bond…
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