Greenacres reviews FY25 capital improvement plan; fire station, emergency operations center and septic‑to‑sewer work highlighted

GREENACRES, Fla. — City staff presented a fiscal‑year 2025 update to Greenacres’ capital improvement plan during a June 16 special meeting, laying out phased funding for a planned Fire Station 96, a $30 million emergency operations center (EOC) and multi‑phase septic‑to‑sewer projects while flagging shortfalls from delayed impact fees and the impending sunset of an infrastructure surtax.

Miss McHugh, a city staff member, told council members the presentation focuses largely on maintenance and replacing aging infrastructure while reserving major park investments until a parks master plan is complete. “Before we get started, I just want to you know, there's a lot of effort that goes into putting all of this together. I wanna thank our departments for the work that they do in putting together our capital program,” McHugh said.

The presentation prioritized several large projects and described how the city plans to phase work and seek outside funding. The city is budgeting initial work on Fire Station 96 — a joint site the staff proposed at the John I. Leonard High School campus — but said construction depends on approvals from the school board and regulatory clearance for changes to a retention area.

McHugh described a design that would remove part of a retention lake and replace its storage with rain tanks installed under a parking area and a field. She told the council that the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) and the school district have been “amenable,” and said the rain‑tank phase should be…