CITY & COUNTY
News from Bexar County, Hill Country Village, Hollywood Park and San Antonio
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Bexar County Commissioners Court meets Sept. 5 and 12 at 9 a.m. at the Bexar County Courthouse, 100 Dolorosa St., Ste. 2.01, San Antonio. 210-335-2011. www.bexar.org Hill Country Village City Council meets Sept. 21 at 5 p.m. at 116 Aspen Lane, Hill Country Village. 210-494-3671 • www.hcv.org Hollywood Park City Council MEETINGS WE COVER HIGHLIGHTS SAN ANTONIO The city on July 10 announced the start of a bicycle network plan designed to improve bike infrastructure, promote safer biking conditions and support a more connected community. City o cials said they will collaborate with various stakeholders and community members over two years as part of larger, ongoing e orts to enhance the local multimodal transportation network through new design concepts, expanding and improving bike spaces, and promoting bike education. Visit www.sabikenetwork.com for details. BEXAR COUNTY Board members for Trinity Glen Rose Groundwater Conservation District, which monitors Trinity Glen Rose Aquifer water levels and quality in north Bexar County, named Amanda Maloukis to general manager e ective July 1. She joined TGRGCD as assistant general manager in March 2020 and was previously an environmental specialist for the San Antonio Water System. Maloukis succeeds George Wissmann, who plans to retire in March 2024. NUMBER TO KNOW $9.6 million pay hike approved by Bexar County Commissioners Court on Aug. 1 for county sheri ’s deputies. Prior to the vote, 95% of the Deputy Sheri ’s Association of Bexar County membership voted in late July to ratify a contract amendment that provides deputies with the raises. Because the deputies are covered by a collective bargaining agreement, they had to formally amend their current contract, which runs through Sept. 30, 2025.
Hill Country Village eyes November City Hall vote
HILL COUNTRY VILLAGE City Council was due to meet Aug. 17 and set special Nov. 7 elections where voters will be asked to approve or reject two funding mechanisms to support construction of a new City Hall. The speci cs: City Council voted July 20 to discuss placing three measures on a Nov. 7 election ballot. • One measure would ask voters to repurpose $3 million left over from the city’s 2019 street improvement bond to use on a planned City Hall remake. • A second measure would ask voters to repurpose undeveloped, city-owned property at Bitters Road and Tower Drive so that land sales proceeds could go toward the City Hall project. • A third ballot measure would ask voters to reauthorize a portion of Hill Country Village’s sales tax to fund street maintenance. More background: Council on July 20 also approved a conceptual schematic for a new City Hall as presented by LPA Design Studios. Project designer Michelyn Smith said the concept site plan calls for city sta to temporarily relocate while the existing municipal facility is razed and a new, larger one is built in its place. • The conceptual schematic includes a new wider entrance to the City Hall campus next to the pond, more
A conceptual design of a new Hill Country Village City Hall complex at 116 Aspen Lane. (Courtesy LPA Design Studios)
ENVISIONING A NEW CITY HALL Hill Country Village o cials are weighing potential funding sources for a City Hall replacement building. $3M left over from 2019 street upgrade bond $4.72M estimated total cost for new City Hall 11,512 proposed square footage for new City Hall
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o ce, conference and storage space for city sta , and exibility in the council chambers/lobby/courtroom area that could accommodate community events and group gatherings. • Smith said the new City Hall/police station/public works complex would measure 11,512 square feet total and cost an estimated $4.72 million.
SA airport wins 4 federal grants for improvements SAN ANTONIO City o cials said the San Antonio International Airport was recently awarded four federal grants totaling $39.2 million. The impact: Local o cials said July 21 two Federal Aviation Admin- istration Airport Improvement Program grants totaling more than $17 million will fund reconstruction of the airport’s runways, improve safety on one taxiway and enhance
AIRPORT FUNDS San Antonio International Airport received more than $39.2 million in federal funds in 2023 for upgrades.
$20M Phase I ground load facility
$2.46M to also enhance taxiways/runways $14.5M rebuild taxiways/runways
$39.2M total in grants
$2.2M Terminal A roof upgrades
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a second taxiway to accommodate a planned third terminal. • On July 14, city o cials announced a third FAA award, totaling $2.2 million, which will support renovations to the roof of Terminal A. • The roof renovation project began in July 2023 and is slated for
completion by March 2024, city o cials said.
More background: In February 2023, the city received $20 million to fund Phase I construction of a Terminal A ground load facility, a project that will add ve new gates, hold rooms and other passenger facilities.
meets Sept. 19 at 6 p.m. at 2 Mecca Drive, Hollywood Park. 210-494-2023. www.hollywoodpark-tx.gov San Antonio City Council
Hollywood Park forms parks board
The impact: City o cials said four board positions would have formal rep- resentation of the public works department, the Hammerheads swim team the Hollywood Park Community Association and one other local civic group that regularly use facilities across Hollywood
Park’s three parks. A fth board seat will be an at-large position. All board spots will have staggered two-year terms. • City attorney Ryan Henry said a new board will just be an advisory panel, and council is not obligated to accept or reject any board recommendation.
HOLLYWOOD PARK City Council voted Aug. 15 to create a parks and recre- ation advisory board. The background: Council Member Dale Randol said he initially thought the
city would bene t from having an advisory board of appointed residents who could hash out parks and recreation-related issues before forwarding recommendations to the full council.
meets Sept. 7 and 14 at 9 a.m. at 114 W. Commerce St., San Antonio. 210-207-7040 • www.sanantonio.gov Shavano Park City Council meets Sept. 11 and 18 at 900 Saddletree Court, Shavano
Park. 210-493-3478. www.shavanopark.org
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NORTH SAN ANTONIO EDITION • AUGUST 2023
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