Staff provided updates on Eagle Landing Park and Primrose Phase 2 and 3, reporting visible progress at both sites and identifying outstanding items that would require additional funding.

Why it matters: Eagle Landing is the city’s near-term sports and recreation asset. Primrose phase 2 will expand multi‑field sports facilities but several expected amenities were value‑engineered out of the base bid and may require additional funding to complete.

Eagle Landing: Staff said playground installation and the concession/restroom building interiors are near completion. The project remains primarily delayed by one outstanding permanent electrical connection from CenterPoint; once that power is available crews can clear weeds, complete irrigation hookups and begin turf establishment. HTX, a soccer organization, requested lighting modifications for the main field; staff said HTX will pay the incremental cost for those requested lighting changes and that two light poles on site will be relocated to serve other fields.

Primrose Phase 2 & 3: Staff showed drone footage and reported storm sewer and some sanitary installation in progress. Phase 2 will have conduit run to multiple fields, but staff said only one field will have permanent electrical, lights and a scoreboard at this time; the other three fields will have conduit only (no pulled electrical), no scoreboards, no spectator bleachers and no shade structures in the current package. One field will include a warm‑up bullpen; the others will not. Staff said foul/netting is included but windscreen and some other spectator amenities were cut to meet budget.

Commissioners asked whether bond funds (the May bond package) allowed dollars to be used to complete Phase 2 items. Staff said bond language lists “additional amenities for sports fields” among possible future uses and that the administration would confirm exact wording so commissioners can inform voters accurately. Commissioners suggested fundraising and sponsorship options for items such as bleachers and scoreboards; staff noted community fundraising efforts are already planned.

No formal action was taken; staff will obtain quotes for scoreboards and provide an itemized list of items omitted from Phase 2 along with estimated costs for commission review at a future meeting.

Staff said substantial completion for Eagle Landing remains targeted for May, with playable turf and field use occurring several months later after grass establishment. Primrose Phase 2 substantial completion timing is weather‑dependent but staff reported favorable progress.