Austinites have the option to contribute to the Parks & Libraries Fund through their city of Austin utility bill stub. You can easily add any dollar amount to your utility bill to make a donation supporting programming in our cherished parks and library system. Donations are considered tax-deductible to the extent that the law allows. How will your Parks & …
The City of Austin Online Poll for Unmet Service Demands closes Friday, July 9th and if you haven’t yet, you can vote for Additional staffing for Downtown Parks, Parks and Pools Maintenance and Neighborhood Park Maintenance. You’ll need to create an account and sign in which gives you 25 votes – up to 3 can be used to for each …
There is some good news for Trail (@ Lady Bird Lake) users: Completing the Trail with the Riverside Boardwalk is now on the project list for the planned November 2010 bond election. Please email the Task Force members now at ctf@austinstrategicmobility.com and let them know: It is time to Complete the Trail. The transportation bond package as a whole will reduce …
Representatives from Impact Austin, led by Rebecca Powers, founder and CEO as well as Hill Country Conservancy, American Youthworks Environmental Corps, the City of Austin Parks and Recreation Dept and even a several groups of hikers, joined us to accept our grant for the Barton Creek Trail Corps project. We’ll officially kick-off the project in January 2011, but planning will …
6-9 pm tonight (Tuesday, June 15th 2010) – Austin Convention Center. Wear your 2010 It’s My Park Day t-shirt – if you don’t have one (or its dirty, etc.) Charlie have a stack of extras and will be waiting outside the door of the room that we are meeting in…. Here’s the format: 1 – Short presentation/overview on City Budget 2 …
As we announced a month or so back, we feel lucky being able to work with the organizers of the Keep Austin Weird 5K and Festival. It’s coming up on June 26th and when you register, you can make a donation to the Austin Parks Foundation as well. We’ll have some great prizes donated by our friends at REI for …
Well, we couldn’t be more excited! We won an Impact Austin Grant Tuesday Night! We’ll receive $105,000 toward a project of $215,000 in 2011 for Barton Creek Greenbelt working with Austin Parks Dept, Hill Country Conservancy, American Youthworks E-Corps, Greenbelt Guardians and a host of many volunteer groups. We’re very excited! We’ll begin the project officially in January 2011 and …
Thanks to donors to our Wooldridge Square Fund, including Page Sutherland Page and a number of local residents, the historic gazebo is looking good as new!
We’re pleased to announce that we’ve been selected as the benefiting organization for the Keep Austin Weird Festival & 5K on June 26th. Our thanks to Michelle and Kate at Bounce Events • Marketing • PR for working with this to offer participants a chance to donate to the Austin Parks Foundation when they register for the 5k and festival. …
From News 8 Austin’s website: Central Texans ran, biked and swam through Zilker Park in the Barton Springs Pool Treeathlon Saturday morning to support Barton Springs and the trees surrounding it. “Altogether we raised about $10,000 from people’s registrations and business sponsorships, so that was a great outcome for the trees. All this money will be transferred to Austin Park …
