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Updated: AISD Students propose their restroom facility design for Kings Gate Park.


Update: To the Aledo ISD Architecture II class design, the Willow Park design employees added details they have learned from their work on Cross Timber Park, like lighting and cameras, and they added professional engineering details, like the location and technical specifications. The Community News offers details about the Aledo ISD Architecture II class members who designed the Willow Park Kings Gate Park Pavilion and Backrooms. / Summary: The Aledo ISD Architecture II class presented their solutions to bathrooms, pavilion, and storage for Willow Park's Kings Gate Park, during the 22 April 2025 Council Meeting. The new Kings Gate Park Pavilion will be funded for about a third of the $1,500,000 Tax Note, approved during the same council meeting.

• Latest Update: reposted 08 May 2025 / posted 22 April 2025

• Note: Willow Park Civics is about Willow Park but is NOT associated with or managed by the City of Willow Park.






Updated: AISD Students propose their restroom facility design for Kings Gate Park.


During the 06 May 2025 Parks Board Meeting [1], the Board was updated on the Aledo ISD Architecture II class presentation of their design for the Kings Gate Park Pavilion and Backrooms [2] during the 22 April 2025 Council Meeting. [3]


The Willow Park design employees added details they have learned from their work on Cross Timber Park, like lighting and cameras, and they added professional engineering details, like the location and technical specifications.




With the design from Aledo ISD and additional engineering by Willow Park employees, the City saved the cost of outside, professional engineering.







The Community News offers details about the Aledo ISD Architecture II class members who designed the Willow Park Kings Gate Park Pavilion and Backrooms. Practical Applications, AHS students design facility for King’s Gate Park, The Community News, 03 May 2025

[Tim Rogers, Career and Technical Education (CTE) Coordinator at Aledo High School] said his group is already working on another project — an ADA-compliant wheelchair bridge for Cross Timbers Park.


“Our engineering students are going to do a fabrication build up and do a stress test on it and then we’re going to come back with materials so we’re going to have two different groups working on the bridge. If the (City of Willow Park) decide they like it then they can use it. If not, it’s just a good project for students to do for the resume for sure.

 

Willow Park City Manager Bryan Grimes said that it is not only possible, but likely that the students’ work [on the Kings Gate Park Pavilion and Backrooms] will be used.



Willow Park Civics Sources and Resources

[1] 06 May 2025 Parks Board Meeting, Willow Park Civics Blog, posted 02 May 2025, Agenda Item 3. Kings Gate Park Bathroom • Exhibits: Revit Design.pdf




[2] AISD Students propose their restroom facility design for Kings Gate Park, Willow Park Civics Blog, posted 22 April 2025

The Aledo ISD Architecture II class, of Faith Bartlett, Samuel Ghent, Amelia Buck, and Matthew Dominick, presented their solutions to bathrooms, pavilion, and storage for Willow Park's Kings Gate Park, during the 22 April 2025 Council Meeting. [1, Kings Gate Park Presentation.pdf  and 13 min mark in the FB video]



The students' goals were to "create a pavilion that fits right into the park, balancing the needs and preferences of the park’s guests with practical and aesthetic features. For example, our design is practical through the incorporation of ADA guidelines, while still remaining aesthetically pleasing."


Based on their color palate of Celestial Blue, Commercial White, and Gray Concrete, the Architecture students designed a single structure with two (2) bathrooms, a storage room, and a covered pergola, accented by a colorful mural. The outside of the structure will be cinder block with a stucco finish, the foundation will be concrete, the roofing is proposed as aluminum panels that can be changed out for different panels. The mural is a placeholder for changeable designs.

The new Kings Gate Park Pavilion will be funded -- along with the foundation and top coat for thirteen asphalt streets -- for a third of the $1,500,000 Tax Note, approved during the same council meeting.

Willow Park Civics Sources and Resources

[1] 22 April 2025 Council Meeting, Willow Park Civics Blog, posted

• Agenda Item 3. Presentation from AISD Students on Restroom Facility at Kings Gate Park



• Agenda Item 4. Consideration & Action: all matters incident and related to the issuance and sale of “City of Willow Park, Texas, Single Tax Note*, Series 2025”, including the adoption of an ordinance authorizing the issuance of such tax note. [* Willow Park Civics Glossary Plus]

• Background:

Council had been briefed previously on a financial instrument known as a Tax Note. Such an instrument funds projects similar to GO [General Obligation] or CO [Certificate of Obligation] bonds. As Council has been advised, Tax Notes do not have any recall provisions, nor advertisement requirements. However, the maximum maturity of a Tax Note cannot exceed seven years.

City Financial Advisor Erick Macha, with Hilltop Securities, has prepared various Repayment Schedules for an issuance of $1,500,000 ($1,560,000 PAR*) that would result in construction funding for various street improvement projects and park system improvements. [* Willow Park Civics Glossary Plus]

Upon passage by Council, the proceeds of the Tax Notes could be received by June.

On 14 April, the Parker County Commissioners Court approved an Interlocal Agreement with the City of Willow Park to perform street improvements on 13 asphalt roads in Willow Park. The listed streets were chosen because they are “shovel ready” and will not require any additional engineering or high level drainage work.

  Willow Park Council has authorized staff to prepare a Tax Note in an amount not to exceed $1.5 million to fund Street and Park system improvements. Foundation and asphalt topping for thirteen Willow Park Streets will be a joint effort with Parker County. And Kings Gate Park bathrooms will be a joint project with Aledo ISD Architecture II class. Both projects should be completed by Summer 2025.

• 08 April 2025 Council Meeting, Willow Park Civics Blog, posted 04 April 2025, Agenda Item 5. Discussion/Action: Discussion of Street improvements and park system improvements and following the discussion, Council may consider authorizing staff to prepare a Tax Note in an amount not to exceed $1.5 million to fund street and park system improvements.

• 11 March 2025 Council Meeting, Willow Park Civics Blog, Agenda Item 6. Discussion & Action: for Capital Improvement Projects including funding options.


[3] 22 April 2025 Council Meeting, Willow Park Civics Blog, posted

• Agenda Item 3. Presentation from AISD Students on Restroom Facility at Kings Gate Park

• Willow Park Parks and Trails Index, Willow Park Civics Blog




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