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Rec & Park reports 2000--2012 bond progress, outlines planning for a $255 million 2020 bond
Summary
Recreation and Parks staff told the oversight committee that the 2000 bond is closed, 2008 work is nearly complete, and 2012 projects continue; staff previewed a $255,000,000 allocation in planning documents for a 2020 bond and described an asset-management database showing roughly $950 million in deferred maintenance needs.
Toxi Chike, director of capital planning for the Recreation and Parks Department, told the committee that the city's long-running park bond programs are moving toward completion and that staff are preparing for a new bond cycle. "The 2000 bond is officially closed. Final reconciliation is complete," Chike said, and she noted about 87 projects came out of that earlier program.
Chike said the 2008 bond is "substantially complete" with a small remaining set of projects being finished by leveraging 2012 bond funds; the department expects the last major neighborhood park projects and pools to open by spring 2020. The department has implemented an asset-management…
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