Balancing worries about affordability for taxpayers against the idea of eroding public confidence with more delays, Salt Lake City is readying another wave of bond money to improve its parks.

The City Council has put in motion borrowing and spending another $49.3 million this spring as a further installment from the $85 million park bond approved overwhelmingly by voters in 2022.

Council members could OK pulling a second wave of money by January, in time to pay for park work in April or May. Still a third layer of bond debt — for around $11 million — could follow in 2028 or 2029.

Earlier bond spending centered on design and preparations, but Mayor Erin Mendenhall says she is resolute the city is now poised for construction on an array of bond-funded projects after a robust round of pl

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