Election Results: How Did the Bonds Do?

Update: AISD, Travis County bonds break 70% support

"...There's over $1 billion in bonds before Austin voters today, plus seven statewide constitutional amendments...."

Nov. 7, 2017 News Post by Richard Whittaker

County Bonds Set for November

$93.4 million for transportation, $91.5 million for parks

"...less costly bond package asks for $91.5 million for parks and open spaces to help the county's "overall acreage..."

Aug. 18, 2017 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Standing on Opposite Sides of the Road Bonds

"...seriousness of the folks pushing the massive road and parks bond package, just one look at their latest financial..."

Nov. 2, 2001 News Feature by Amy Smith

Travis Bonds: Roadways & Park Ways

Road and pedestrian proposals draw no opposition so far

"...dense proposed state constitutional amendments (see "November Props & Bonds," Oct. 14). If county residents manage to drag themselves..."

Oct. 21, 2011 News Feature by Mike Kanin

November Props & Bonds

Roads and parks are on the November ballot

"...Travis County bond props: 1) $132.8 million in road bonds to cover some 28 projects across the county –..."

Oct. 14, 2011 News Feature by Michael King

Chamber Balks on Bonds

"...spending make up 50% of the total general obligation bonds. As for the other two-thirds of the bond package,..."

Aug. 7, 1998 News Column

Point Austin: Breaking Down the Bonds

Affordable housing headlines, but there's plenty in the package

"...rejected by the voters in 2014. The other six bonds would underwrite expanded health care services, parks and recreation..."

Sept. 7, 2018 News Column by Michael King

County Gets Bonded: Roads and Parks and Jail, Oh My!

Local voters easily pass county bond package

"...The numbers supported them. Prop. 1, the road/drainage bonds, dropped a couple of points but held strong at..."

Nov. 11, 2005 News Feature by Michael King

Austin Municipal Bonds: The 'CliffsNotes' version

It's real simple:'yes' seven times

"...attention all along – beginning last year, when the bonds as now balloted were only a vague gleam in..."

Nov. 3, 2006 News Feature

City Eyes $400 Million “Caps” to Build Parks Over the New I-35

Some Council members think they’ve found funding for it

"...will foot the bill for decades to come. The parks can’t be built until the 2040s, at the earliest..."

May 16, 2025 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Bell Blasts Perry for Underfunded Parks

Crisis predates current administration, but Dem says guv could have prodded Lege

"...sought to highlight Gov. Rick Perry's lackluster record on parks during a campaign stop Monday at McKinney Falls, one..."

Aug. 4, 2006 News Feature by Amy Smith

Salvaging Our Parks

Texas State Parks Advisory Committee releases list of recommendations for saving long-neglected state park system

"...bill that would have shored up funding for state parks drew little notice and died quietly in a House..."

Sept. 1, 2006 News Feature by Amy Smith

Downtown Puzzle: Waller Creek’s Chain of Parks

What’s happened already with the ambitious park and trail project, and what might happen next

"...$230 million. Funds already accrued include $13 million in Parks & Recreation bonds approved by voters in 2012, some..."

Sept. 22, 2017 News Feature by Robyn Ross

City Hall Hustle: Budget, Bonds, and Big Plans

Hard times and planned projects to collide at city forums

"...over 197.5 new jobs. Those jobs include add-backs to parks and pools maintenance, police positions, implementing council's "four-person staffing"..."

June 18, 2010 News Column by Wells Dunbar

City Hall Hustle: How Many Bonds to a Season?

Rumblings at the council that not everyone's on board for November bond election

"...idea about the impact on other needs, such as parks, libraries, and affordable housing. ... Essentially what this resolution..."

May 14, 2010 News Column by Wells Dunbar

The Battle of the Bonds – Take Your Turn

With two public input meetings left, it's a good time to review the ups and downs, the winners and losers in the city's bond package so far

"...$21.5 million, however, because it butted against rock solid Parks and Recreation funding and aquifer protection – still expected..."

Dec. 9, 2005 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Greenbacks for Green Space

City moves to make development pay more for parks

"...the weekend finally comes, Austinites head to their neighborhood parks for a green respite. On a sunny spring Saturday,..."

May 4, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

A Day of Dickering

Bonds Take Center Stage Over Budget

"...on the last-minute political arm-twisting and hand-wringing over the bonds. We'll have more details on both fronts next week,..."

Aug. 7, 1998 News Column

Naked City

Council members' feuding bond proposals are sure to set off a major tectonic event at this week's council meeting.

"...could get plugged, soccer fields could sprout up, and parks, roads, and sidewalks could appear where there were none..."

Aug. 18, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Postmarks

Our own little Gaza Strip, and the Halloween (Gas) Mask is taken to task.

"...Thank you for your endorsement of the Travis County parks bonds, Proposition 2 [Oct. 26]. These bonds will support..."

Nov. 2, 2001 Column

Naked City

Despite the many good arguments in their favor, Beverly Griffith's parks bonds and Raul Alvarez's housing bonds get shot down at council; meanwhile, Kirk Watson's $150 million transportation proposal glides through with nary a hitch.

"...Council Watch: Parks Pogrom..."

Aug. 25, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Bond Election Cliffs Notes

General Obligation Bonds

"...Propositions 1-5 authorize the city to sell GO bonds, which are paid back out of the city's property..."

Oct. 23, 1998 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Election Results: Travis Props Win Handily

Local voters respond more favorably to roads than open space

"...is simple. Travis County voters are still okay with bonds, which may put them at odds with the rest..."

Nov. 11, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Wild, Wild Wildlife

Texas Parks & Wildlife's Andy Sansom

"...when he became the executive director of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD), Sansom has overseen a turbulent..."

May 9, 1997 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Election Night Results

By the numbers: What passed, what failed

"...is simple. Travis County voters are still OK with bonds, which may put them at odds with the rest..."

Nov. 9, 2011 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Election Results: Meat and Potatoes

Travis County, Austin ISD come up big on bond projects

"...on Tuesday night with overwhelming support for public investment bonds...."

Nov. 10, 2017 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

We Are What We Are

This effectively creepy horror story gives new meaning to the family film.

"...Julia Garner, Kassie DePaiva, Jack Gore, Kelly McGillis, Michael Parks and Wyatt Russell...."

Oct. 11, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Green Queen

Beverly Griffith's populist ideas, once held by a majority of the council, are finding few friends as Mayor Watson turns the council's agenda toward transportation.

"...When Griffith sprung her parks bond package on an unsuspecting council in August, proposing..."

Sept. 29, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Get on the Bus

"...Starring: Ossie Davis, Charles S. Dutton, Richard Belzer, Deaundre Bonds, Andre Braugher, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Gabriel Casseus, Albert Hall,..."

Oct. 18, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Then There's This: Giving Props to Austin

There's more to the bonds than meets the jerky knee

"...There's no organized opposition to the bonds, but local Repub­lican groups have come out against them,..."

Oct. 19, 2012 News Column by Amy Smith

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