Deputy City Manager Micah Grau offered options for a future general obligation bond for the city of Buda on April 21. Discussion will continue in May about the need for an election to help fund additional projects in the city.
A bond election calendar listed timelines for a May 2021, November 2021 or May 2022 election, which includes developing preliminary designs, creating a bond committee, city workshops and ordering the election 78 days prior to the election date.
Mayor George Haehn said the city would be “pushing to get it all done” for a May 2021 election.
City residents approved a bond in November 2014 for $55 million that built a new municipal facility, public safety facility, and street, drainage and park improvements.
Grau’s presentation outlined projects that were considered in 2014 and likely need to move forward in 2021.
Grau discussed several projects possibly tagged for the bond election:
- Garrison Park development: $4 million
- Greenbelt improvement downtown plan: $800,000
- Eastside Community Park land acquisition: $3.75 million
- Recreation and aquatic center: $8.08 million
- Public works facility: $6.75 million
- Cabela’s corridor connector: $1.84 million
- Downtown streetscaping improvements on Main Street: $1.23 million
- Old Black Colony Road construction: $5 million
- West Goforth Road reconstruction: $5.18 million
- South Loop 4 sidewalk: $1.3 million
- West Lifschutz area drainage: $1.7 million
- Lifschutz central area drainage: $1.41 million
The proposals are preliminary from the capital improvement projects list. Grau said the next step will be to develop a list of projects and form a bond steering committee, similar to what the city did in 2014.
Grau said the bond issue will be a future agenda item and work session for City Council members.
