At its April 9 meeting, Bee Cave City Council approved an expenditure of $9,935, plus an extra designated $1,000 from the city's maintenance budget, to create the Bee Cave Sculpture Park on city land next to the Bee Cave Police Department headquarters.

The park project is spearheaded by former City Councilman Chad Bockius and the Bee Cave Arts Foundation which he founded in 2009.

"We spent so much time on the infrastructure, but not enough on the soul of the city," said Bockius of his tenure on the Bee Cave City Council.

At the meeting Bockius presented a video, timeline and cost analysis of the park to support his funding request. Council members voted unanimously to approve the sculpture park, earmarking money from the city's hotel occupancy tax funds, city beautification funds and maintenance funds to bring the project to fruition. However, City Council reserved approval of an additional $6,690 for entry beds at the front of the park until a later date. The Bee Cave Arts Foundation will contribute an additional $8,850 to the project.

Bockius said that the park features 10 sculpture pad sites with a mixture of permanent and rotating exhibits along a granite pathway established in the natural setting. The Foundation is schedule to put out a call to artists May 1 with a projected park opening date of Oct. 12, 2013, Bockius said.

The Bee Cave Arts Foundation has scheduled a sculpture park volunteer day April 20 from 8:30–11:30 a.m. to clear the underbrush from the park area.