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Council reviews draft bond package emphasizing trails, parks and community activity center; turf field discussed for youth football
Summary
Flower Mound staff and council revisited a potential bond package that would fund trails, parks and a new community activity center; staff emphasized high-level ballot language and flexibility, and discussed including a synthetic turf field that youth football organizers requested.
Flower Mound town staff on Wednesday laid out a proposed capital bond package aimed at funding trails, parks improvements and a new Community Activity Center (CAC), and answered council questions about priorities, connectivity and how specific projects — including a possible turf field — would be selected if voters approve funding.
At a work-session-style presentation, town finance and parks staff described a multi-proposition approach. John (town finance staff) said the ballot language will be high-level to preserve flexibility: "As the statute is written and as we're putting out the voters, yes, we are keeping high level language that gives us the ultimate flexibility there." The preliminary, planning-stage numbers presented included roughly $17 million for parks, $15 million for trails and about $50 million toward a CAC as part of an approximately $112 million, five-year program.
The proposal includes five major trail segments across town and specific…
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