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Parks bond update: Prop C about 84% committed, aquatics nearly finished, staff flags Zilker delays
Summary
City staff told the Bond Oversight Commission that the $149 million Prop C parks bond is roughly 84% committed with $23.8 million remaining; aquatics work is nearly complete and construction on the delayed Zilker maintenance barn has resumed after contractor and permitting setbacks.
Rachel Morris, the Capital Improvement Program Manager, told the Bond Oversight Commission that Proposition C — the $149 million parks and recreation bond from 2018 — is roughly six and a half years into an eight-year delivery window and that the program has funded about 130 projects and 44 parkland acquisitions. Morris said the program has 100 percent appropriated, with $113.4 million spent and an additional $11.7 million encumbered, leaving $23.8 million in balance and about $10.1 million intentionally unassigned as contingency for ongoing projects.
Morris said the aquatics program is nearly finished: two pools remain in construction — the Beverly…
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