Taxpayer-funded improvements valued at $1.3 million are being removed from Grimes Park. This action follows the end of a lease between the Houston Independent School District and the city. The lease termination prompted the city to take this step.

The city is undertaking the removal of these improvements, which were funded by taxpayers. The total value of the improvements being removed is approximately $1.3 million.

Further details about this situation are available from the source, providing more information about the removal of the improvements and the lease termination.