Now in its sixth year, the Building Better Communities General Obligation Bond Program is moving into a new phase. The County sold the remaining 2008 Series Bonds in the amount of $203.8 million generating approximately $200.3 million for projects over the next year. Coupled with the bonds sold last year, the County has now sold the entire $350 million in Series 2008 bonds authorized by the Board of County Commissioners. These funds are earmarked to fund a new roster of 270 projects as approved by voters in the 2004 bond referendum. The new Annual Report provides an update on the bond program highlighting both completed projects, and those now underway, at hundreds of worksites throughout the community.
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The Building Better Communities bond program has reached the five-year mark with a long roster of work completed or in various phases of planning, design or construction. Here are some of the projects leaving an imprint on our community.
The YMCA of Greater Miami will open the first new branch facility in Miami- Dade County in 40 years thanks in part to the Building Better Communities (GOB) General Obligation Bond program. 
A dream has come true for the staff and clients of the Sunrise Community George L. Spelios Adult Day Training Center. Thanks in part to a grant from the Building Better Communities Bond Program, a new training facility opened last month for people with developmental disabilities.
In an effort to get work out on the street as quickly as possible, Miami-Dade County has extended and expanded its Economic Stimulus Plan which fast-tracks the process of awarding contracts for County capital projects. This includes those funded by federal dollars under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
The Building Better Communities General Obligation Program (GOB) is providing funds for a number of improvements to healthcare facilities in Miami-Dade County including expansion of hospital units at Jackson Memorial Hospital. The first of these multi-phase projects-a new pediatric unit-was recently completed at the Holtz Children's Hospital at Jackson.
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