The Glendale City Council has approved hiring two consultants to measure public attitudes toward a possible new General Obligation bond request for the November 2025 election.
Areas of focus for the request would consist of libraries, government facilities, parks and recreation, and flood control.
Parks and recreation could be the largest component of a GO bond request, as the City has no bond funds remaining for projects under that heading. Major projects include a $44M-plus Heroes Regional Park aquatic and recreation center, which had been planned for bond funding but no longer has money in place.
Libraries have almost $6.2M left in bond authorization funding. Government facilities have $3.7M, and flood control has $1.88M.
Projects in Glendale’s 10-year capital improvement projects forecast that do not have a dedicated funding source currently total approximately $168M.
Glendale has a policy to not raise its secondary property tax rate as a funding source. Glendale was successful in its 2023 GO bond request as voters approved $82M, primarily for public safety and street improvement projects.
The City hired Highground as its public relations consultant for the 2023 election and will use them again for the current exploration. Nonprofit Trust for Public Lands has offered free bond modeling for the parks and recreation projects, along with free polling.
While Glendale is not required to create a resident bond committee, it has not yet decided if it will do so or not. Officials have said citizen input is important, and expectations for a potential bond committee may be discussed in a future workshop. (Source)