After attending a public input meeting last year, it seemed like the City of Pflugerville was on the fast-track to implementing a public skatepark. Attendance and enthusiasm was strong. One of the City Council members, Pat McCord, had even toured skateparks in other states and gave a very supportive slideshow presentation. We’re about a year out from that meeting and I thought I’d check into their progress.

For starters, the page they previously had on their City’s website about the skatepark effort has been taken down. Secondly, I checked their City budget for 2005 and no money has been allocated for the skatepark. At most, they have an agenda item of "Develop a plan for a skate park in Pflugerville." This is beaurocrat-speak for, "Drag our feet until the citizens push the issue with us." A couple inches down in their budget, they have this on their to-do list, "Complete Texas Parks and Wildlife grant for hike-and-bike trail around Lake Pflugerville." Clearly, if they were serious about creating a recreational facility that will inspire Pflugerville youth to get off the couch and be active outdoors, they’d be applying that grant money towards a skatepark.

Want to take action? Contact Pflugerville’s city administrators and say, "Where’s the skatepark?!?!"

Pflugerville Parks and Recreation Dept. – parks@cityofpflugerville.com
Councilman Pat McCord – council2@cityofpflugerville.com
Mayor Catherine T. Callen – Mayor@cityofpflugerville.com