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Task force asks staff to track major projects, requests CityWorks and smart-meter briefings
Summary
Members created a standing list of city 'major projects' to monitor milestones and asked staff for presentations on CityWorks integration and the smart water meter rollout, emphasizing milestone-based reporting and percent-complete metrics.
At its Jan. 5 meeting the Fort Lauderdale Infrastructure Task Force directed staff to maintain a persistent list of major capital and infrastructure projects and provide regular status updates so the group can spot slippage and request deeper reviews when needed.
Greg (member) introduced the request for a standing list that would include projected start and finish dates and milestone status for projects such as the Victoria Park stormwater project (phase reported as starting), the new police station (occupancy discussed for spring 2026), the Prospect Lake water treatment plant (projected online Sept. 2026), and City Hall (contract-award and negotiation milestones). Members agreed that percent-complete reporting would be valuable for rolling deployments such as the new water-meter program.
Members asked staff for two focused briefings: a demonstration of CityWorks (the city's asset-management/database referenced in discussion) to explain how roads, sidewalks and other departments will integrate with the system, and a status presentation on the smart water-meter deployment covering roll-out progress and anticipated customer impacts. Patricia Jolley, program manager, summarized the CIP color-coded report and confirmed quarterly bond reporting; members pressed for clearer links between bond funds and specific implementation milestones.
On seawalls and resilience funding, staff explained that most seawalls along the city coastline are privately owned and that city-owned seawalls represent a small portion of the total; members requested staff investigate grant programs or small assistance pilots to help private property owners where feasible. O'Neil Rodriguez cited an example program in another city that offered limited-city-funded grants to assist private adaptation.
The task force asked staff to keep the project list as an appendix to future agendas and to return with the requested CityWorks and smart-meter presentations at the next feasible meeting.
