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OUR NEXT NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING....December 4th

When

Tuesday, Dec. 4th, 6:30pm

Where

2500 Exposition Boulevard

Austin, TX

More information

Please join us at the Howson Library

(the first Tuesday of each month!)

To get an item on the Agenda, send email to President@WestAustinNG.com

Optional RSVP below if you would like to let us know you are planning to attend and receive an agenda as it becomes available (usually the day of the meeting)

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Contact your City Council Representatives:

(click on name to send email)

Mayor: Steve Adler 512-978-2100
District 1: Ora Houston 512-978-2101
District 2: Delia Garza 512-978-2102
District 3: Sabino Renteria 512-978-2103
District 4: Gregorio Casar 512-978-2104
District 5: Ann Kitchen 512-978-2105
District 6: Jimmy Flanigan 512-978-2106
District 7: Leslie Pool 512-978-2107
District 8: Ellen Troxclair 512-978-2108
District 9: Kathie Tovo 512-978-2109
District 10: Alison Alter 512-978-2110

Email All of the Council: Entire Council and Mayor

W.A.N.G. NEIGHBORHOOD ANNUAL MEETING

When

Sunday, Oct. 21st, 11am-1pm

Where

Lions Municipal Golf Course Clubhouse, Enfield Road, Austin, TX, USA

More information

This year's Annual Neighborhood Meeting - Burgers provided by COW BELLS Burgers & Catering, with soft drinks available, ...neighborhood hot topics....and participate in re-electing the Board of Directors!

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The fight to Save Muny is not over.

Fellow Citizens of Austin,

Please watch and share this important video below...

The fight to Save Muny is not over. As the expiration of the lease for Lions Municipal Golf Course approaches, we urgently ask everyone to remember that moment in Civil Rights History that occurred at Lions in 1950.

Volma Overton, Jr. grew up in the Jim Crow South, and remembers vividly how difficult it was during that time. Lions is an asset not only to our entire community but also to the State of Texas and the United States of America. It should remain intact as an 18 hole golf course for everyone to play. Please fight to preserve Lions Municipal Golf Course by emailing the Mayor and Austin City Council immediately!

http://www.austintexas.gov/email/all-council-members

Brackenridge TRACT: WHAT WILL HAPPEN ON MAY 25TH 2019

Brackenridge Tract Background

1924: The Lions Club got a 25 year deal in 1924 and built the first public golf course in Austin.

1936: The City of Austin took over the Lion’s lease in 1936, and got a 50 year deal - til 1987.

1973: In 1972-73, UT Regents tried to cancel the lease, and got the city to make another deal, just to keep the lease until 1987. (Deal = City pay to move and repave Red River near UT)

1987: The deal in 1987 was not worked out until 1989, and another 30 years was secured, with lease payments totaling $9,929,920, plus development approvals on the rest of the Brackenridge Tract, except the Field Lab.

2009: In 2009 a Texas Historical Marker was approved for Lions Muny for its early Desegregation (1951), and in 2016 Lions was listed in the National Register of Historic Places, important for that early, quiet desegregation.

2011: In Feb. 2011, the UT Board of Regents voted to let the golf course lease expire at the end of its 30 yr. term, which is May 25, 2019.

Here we are in 2018 — Will we finally get the green, historic golf course FOREVER this time????
Owned by the City of Austin , or a Conservancy, and NOT by UT??

WHAT WOULD IT TAKE TO DO THAT DEAL?

1) Approval by Austin City Council as well as UT Board of Regents

2) Providing something that UT wants

3) Passage of Austin Park Bonds in November could help as Council voted some of those bonds could help pay UT for the Lions Municipal Golf Course tract.

4) UT will still want some non-UT development approved for the rest of the Brackenridge Tract - particularly fronting Lady Bird Lake. - How much?

5) AND ????