Government
BY JOEL VALLEY
Bastrop Chamber hosts State of the City dinner Hundreds led into the Bastrop Convention and Exhibit Center on Sept. 8 for the State of the City dinner—an event where City Manager Sylvia Carrillo-Trevino discussed key milestones and future goals for the community. Zooming in With those focus areas in mind, she cited several projects she is hopeful will come to fruition, including Bastrop West—a development that would be located at the intersection of Hwy. 20 and Hwy. 71. “It will have an area for a medical mall, which is a hospital and clinics,” Carrillo-Trevino said. “It will have an area for a hotel and convention center. It will have an area for outdoor entertain- ment. It will have an area for outdoor concerts and youth elds.” The mixed-use development, she highlighted,
New dates for Bastrop council meetings Bastrop City Council will soon operate under a new schedule after amending its rules of procedures during a meeting Aug. 26—a change made after House Bill 1522 took e ect Sept. 1. Long story short Although regular meetings have been held on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month, they will be held on the rst and third Tuesday of each month beginning in October, according to city documents. “The requirement is Wednesday, so agen- das will be out to the public on Wednesday of the week,” Place 4 council member Kerry Fossler said during the meeting. “I just want the people to know because those are some pretty signi cant changes.”
City Manager Sylvia Carrillo-Trevino focused on seven areas during her presentation, including:
Stewardship of public nance Heritage and history
Managing growth
Resident engagement and transparency Infrastructure improvements
Quality of life
Attracting quality employers
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would be situated on about 400 acres. Also of note
When a new convention center does come online, the long-term plan is for the Bastrop Convention and Exhibit Center to be repurposed into a recreation center. “But I want to make sure that it is in good condition rst,” Carrillo-Trevino said. “The last thing I want to do is turn over a building that is in disrepair that we’ve not managed to upkeep well.”
Commissioners to consider county opposition to ASR
Groundwater Conservation District—an agency the Texas Legislature created to protect the water supply for residents in Bastrop and Lee counties. “His comment was that he would like to see the groundwater districts have some kind of permitting authority as it relates to these projects,” Beckett said. “The legislature charged groundwa- ter districts and charged them with a number of things—one being protection of the aquifers.”
Bastrop County o cials will continue to discuss a potential resolution stating commissioners’ opposition to Austin’s planned Aquifer Storage and Recovery project at a future meeting after tabling the item Sept. 8. The details Precinct 2 Commissioner Clara Beckett noted a recent conversation she had with the Lost Pines
Emily Ra erty, an Austin Water sta member, discusses Austin’s planned Aquifer Storage and Recovery project.
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