by Clay Dafoe
August 26, 2013
Tuesday morning, a coalition of 30 parks related groups called Great Austin Parks will be demonstrating at the Austin City Hall Plaza demanding an increase in funding for park maintenance by an amount of $4,750,000.00. The cries for increased funding come amid a weekend accident at the Town Lake Hike and Bike Trail in which a dead tree fell, landing on a jogger and breaking his leg.
In November 2012, the City of Austin passed a Parks and Recreation bond in the amount of $77,000,000.00. That bond money is purported to be used on citywide park projects, facility improvements and cemetery renovations.
While some are calling for increase Parks and Recreation Department spending Tuesday morning, ironically a proposal will be heard by the department committee that night to sell the historic Hancock Golf Course park land to a mediation firm for corporate development of the park into an $8,000,000.00 condominium project.
http://www.kvue.com/news/local/City-Park-Advocates-call-for-additional-maintenance-funding--221232161.html
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