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Garland mayor touts bond-funded libraries, rec center, fire stations and new tennis complex
Summary
Mayor Dylan Hendrick told the Garland Youth Council that projects from the 2019 bond program — including a new Holford Recreation and Aquatic Center, renovated libraries, multiple fire‑station projects and a 12‑court tennis center — are advancing and tied to long-term planning and voter-approved bonds.
Mayor Dylan Hendrick visited the Garland Youth Council to deliver an abbreviated "state of the city," focusing on capital projects funded through the city’s 2019 bond program. "All of the construction that has been going on in Garland ... as a result of our 2019 bond program," Hendrick said, listing the Holford Recreation and Aquatic Center (with an indoor walking track and expanded aquatic features), new and renovated libraries with podcast and makerspace facilities, and a recently opened tennis complex at the Bob Day Tennis Center.
Hendrick described how the projects move from a citizen bond-study committee to voter approval and then through multi-year design and construction phases, saying it can take "five to six years from the time you actually start thinking about a project to when it's finally opened." He also noted public-safety investments: Fire Station 6 has opened, and the central station and Station 7 are under construction. Hendrick tied the work to the city's capital improvement budget and urged residents to provide input on future bond choices.
