Fort Worth officials want to spend about $79 million in taxpayer dollars next year to maintain and develop the city’s park system.
The dollars would be used to fund Fort Worth’s park and recreation department, which oversees about 13,500 acres of land across more than 300 city-owned parks.
The funding, yet to be finalized, would be carved out of the city’s roughly $3 billion budget for the fiscal year 2026, which starts Oct. 1 and ends Sept. 30, 2026. The 2026 funding would be an increase of about 3.7% over the department’s 2025 funds, according to the city’s budget proposal…