Sienna Plantation officials have a target of next spring for improving their community’s sports park, after voters endorsed $49 million in park and recreation bonds.

The Sienna Plantation Levee Improvement District was the biggest success story out of four Fort Bend County utility and levee districts with multimillion-dollar park, water and sewer bond propositions on the Nov. 3 ballot.

Officials from unsuccessful districts in Cinco Ranch/Seven Meadows and Mission Glen said they will meet later this month to consider whether to try again next May.

Sienna LID officials were relieved their parks bonds passed by 64 percent. The election drew 831 ballots from about 2,500 households. Voters also OK’d a new parks operation and maintenance tax rate of not more than $1.50 per $100 of assessed value.

“For 2010, we’ve committed to fully improving the existing facilities at Camp Sienna,” LID president Ken Beckman said. “Not all the fields are lighted. Not all the fields have bleachers. We’re going to add another concession stand and bathroom facility.”

But North Mission Glen Municipal Utility District officials are at a loss to explain the defeat of $20.295 million in bonds and related taxes to repair aging water wells and sewer lines. The vote was 40 in favor and 49 against.

“We’re not spending money on frivolous things; this is so they can flush their toilets and have a drink of water,” said Melisa Montague, a legal assistant to the district.

The district’s water and sewer infrastructure is more than 20 years old, she said. The bond issue was meant to cover projects identified by the district engineer as necessary over the next 20 years.

The district includes Mission Glen Estates, Eaglewood and Kingsbridge Village.

Montague said, “These rehabilitations have to be done. I’m assuming we will go forward and have another election. We need to figure out how to get the word out to tell the truth about it.”

In the Cinco Ranch/Seven Meadows area, opponents of a $2.5 million parks bond issue for Fort Bend County MUD 35 say a lack of public information and “transparency” was behind a solid defeat there.

In an unofficial count, the vote was 52 to 3 against the park bonds and 54 to 1 against a tax rate of up to 10 cents per $100 property valuation to maintain park facilities. A measure authorizing the district to refinance previous bond issues at current lower rates also failed, 48 to 6.

The election was held at a home in the district, rather than as part of the regular election, because there was no county poll in the district, said attorney Peter Harding, who represents the district.

Meanwhile, Fort Bend County MUD 49 officials say they hope to schedule a bond sale by spring and complete levee and road changes in Missouri City’s Oyster Creek Place area by the first quarter of 2011, if not sooner.

By a 20 to 19 vote, district residents approved $1.9 million in bonds to rebuild the levee and raise road crossings in response to new federal floodplain maps.

Attorney Christopher Richardson, who represents the 187-acre district, said being included in the revised maps could cost residents more for flood insurance.