06 May 2025 Parks Board Meeting
- Manager
- May 4
- 3 min read
Updated: May 10
• Agenda Items: Recreation Survey; Kings Gate Park Bathroom; Memorial Park; TxDOT Transportation Alternative Application
• Location and Time: El Chico City Hall, 120 El Chico, Suite A, Willow Park, Texas 76087, 6PM
Meeting Page (agenda packet in .pdf and .html, minutes TBD )
Latest Update: updated 11 May 2025; 02 May 2025
Tags: #Parks
Note: Willow Park Civics is about Willow Park but is NOT associated with or managed by the City of Willow Park.
Agenda Items
1. Approval of Parks Board Meeting Minutes: February 4, 2025
2. Recreation Survey
• No Background or Exhibits
3 Kings Gate Park Bathroom
• No Background
• Exhibits: Revit Design.pdf
• Willow Park Civics Research
• AISD Students propose their restroom facility design for Kings Gate Park., Willow Park Civics Blog, posted 22 April 2025
• $1.5M Tax Note approved and 13, Willow Park asphalt roads to be improved by end of Summer 2025. Willow Park Civics Blog, posted 29 April 2025
Summary: During the 22 April 2025 Council Meeting, the City approved a Tax Note with an interest rate of 3.80%, from JP Morgan. The total Tax Note Issuance is $1,560,000 with Construction Fund Deposit of $1,514,250. $1M to be spent on thirteen Willow Park streets for new foundations and three inches of asphalt, by the end of the Summer 2025.[$500,000. for Kings Gate Parks Bathrooms and other improvements]
• City starts $1.5 million Tax Note to fund 13 Street and Kings Gate Park improvements. Willow Park Civics Blog, posted 10 April 202
4. Memorial Park
• No Background or Exhibits
• Willow Park Civics Research
• Parks and Trails. Memorial Park Index, Willow Park Civics Blog
5. TxDOT Transportation Alternative Application
• No Background or Exhibits
• Willow Park Civics Notes:
• Gretchen Vazquez, City Engineer, and Mandy McCarley, Director of Parks and Recreation, working together on two TxDOT grants
• includes
• bike lanes from W. Jockey to I-20 Frontage Road
• continue sidewalk along Meadow Place Drive south side, left and along Kings Gate Road to Kings Gate Park Parking lot and then cross walk.
• #2 ADA compliant cross walks and lights
• crush rock in Park Pit
• will need to submit ordinance to transfer Park Pit to Parks and Rec Dept.
• Willow Park Civics Research
• The Park Pit... and recent activity across from Kings Gate Park in Willow Park. Willow Park Civics Blog, posted 16 April, 2025
The "Park Pit" was the nickname of the hole across from Kings Gate Park, now filled with construction debris. The Park Pit became a City issue in 2016, when the City Council decided to trade the "pocket park Lot 5" in Meadow Place Estates One, for a large hole filled with water, across from the Wilks Development. Michelle Guelker, Assistant City Manager of Operations, continues the Park Pit history of construction debris. Details in linked blog.
• TxDOT >
• 2025 Transportation Alternatives > Brochure
On January 3, 2025, the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT or the department) announced a statewide Call for Projects for the Transportation Alternatives Set-Aside (TA) program (including available and anticipated future funds) for bicyclist and pedestrian infrastructure and planning.
TxDOT’s 2025 TA Call for Projects features a two-step application process described in this program guide.
Deadline to Submit DA: June 20, 2025
Informational
Willow Park Civics Sources and Resources
• Willow Park Trails Master Plan and the Trails Amendment (EPCoT) Master Plan in .pdf
• Ready to Ride. WP Trail Amendment Master Plan Approved. Willow Park Civics Blog, 20 October 2023
• Willow Park Parks and Trails Index, Willow Park Civics Blog. Summary: Willow Park Civics Blogs, Willow Park Parks Board Meetings and Council Meetings, Parks Board
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