Grapevine - Colleyville - Southlake | March 2024

Government

BY CODY THORN

Colleyville recreation center survey to be placed on ballot

to the ordinance approved by council. “It is an opportunity to get true citizen feed- back,” Colleyville City Secretary Christine Loven said. City Manager Jerry Ducay said the question will not result in any action from the city on a nancial level. It is more to see if there is interest from citi- zens on adding it to the ballot in late 2024 or 2025. “This is just us saying, ‘Hey, we’d like to hear from you,’ and if you think that’s a great idea or you don’t want to do it,” Mayor Bobby Lindamood said. What else? Loven announced City Hall and the library will no longer be spots for elections. The new location will be at The Colleyville Recreation Center, start- ing with the upcoming primary election March 5. Lindamood said the location change would benet residents. “Everything’s going to be on one level,” he said.

Colleyville ocials are interested in residents’ opinions on a possible referendum in future elections. During the Jan. 16 meeting, council approved placing a question on the May 4 ballot asking if the city should place a proposition on a future election for expansion of the Colleyville Recreation Center. The backstory Colleyville City Council members voted to purchase Covenant Church at 3508 Glade Road for $8.5 million on Sept. 6, 2022. The city planned to spend $1.5 million to renovate the church. Part of the purchase also included 15 acres surrounding the property, according to previous Community Impact reporting. The question that will be placed on the ballot would ask if ad valorem tax bonds should be used for the expansion of the Colleyville Recreation Center, which may “include a tness center, locker room, indoor track and multiuse eld,” according

The Colleyville Recreation Center was formerly Covenant Church, but the property was purchased in 2022.

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