The City of Austin Bond Advisory Committee will be taking public input for the last time this evening. This input is intended to help guide them towards identifying the projects to be included in a spring bond election. Since these bonds only come along once every five to seven years, this is a critical opportunity to get more skateparks, skate plazas, and BMX parks sooner rather than later. Even if you don’t feel comfortable speaking in public, your presence at this meeting is extraordinarily valuable. You can scribble your thoughts down on a form and hand it in and you can also contribute your 3:00 minutes of speaking time to other skatepark advocates to use. We had a decent turnout at the last meeting, but we really need to blow this one out if we’re going to get the Bond Committee to prioritize support for skateboarding in this city bond package. This bond is entirely separate from the Travis County Bond input process where skaters lobbied earlier this year. Our strong turnout at those meetings is rumored to have convinced the county bond committee to include somewhere around $600k for a public skatepark to be built near Manor.

Time: 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: 5801 Ainez Drive
Directions: South on I35 to William Cannon. Go East on Wm. Cannon until you reach Pleasant Valley. Go north on Pleasant Valley (aka Nuckols). Take first right– should be Escuelita Drive, which will turn into Ainez Drive. The meeting is in the Dove Springs Recreation Center in front of the park.

Progress on the Mabel Davis Public Skatepark in Southeast Austin is cranking along. The street section is almost finished and the Grindline crew is pouring the bowl transitions at a rapid pace. Officials from San Marcos came by the worksite today to check it out and hinted that they may have as much as $300,000 set aside for their skatepark project.

Chris Carrasquillo wrote in with this wrapup of the game of S.K.A.T.E. that was held this past Friday…

here are some pics of the game of skate. it was a tale of the underdog.we moved it
from the slab to a empty building behind m&m skatepark.it use to be a boxing
gym.fletcher didnt defend the title casuse he broke his kingpin.early favorite cody
mcentire got knocked off by the old school skills of short bus.but could not get the
fakie double flip that eric fietz threw down. a true story of a major underdog
becoming victorious! nov. 4th we will try the slab again for the next game of
skate.more prizes for the next one.

skate money