Fort Worth Agenda

Where will YOU be August 3rd?  At the Fort Worth City Council meeting.  Something on the agenda for everyone. 

Want to hold a meeting or event in your neighborhood?  Well, Fort Worth doesn't want you to so they are setting up their own roadblocks.   WHO was on the committee?  You would think neighborhood associations?  Nope, just one of those.  Oh and those Fort Worth events?  Yeah, they don't have to comply to the new plan.

Read about it in the FW Weekly here (Special-ly Peeved).  Kudos to Libby Willis for continuing to bring these issues to light.

Willis also complained about how the ordinance was crafted: Only one of 10 members of the council-appointed committee that drew it up represented neighborhood associations; the rest were downtown business and chamber of commerce types.

The ordinance sets up lots of hurdles for those kinds of events: sizable security deposits to be paid, appearances before two city-appointed committees for approval, heightened security, and a requirement for petitions signed by anyone who lives nearby. Of course, events that cause truly major hassles, like the Main Street Arts Festival, the stock show, and anything at the Texas Motor Speedway, would be exempt.

Also, on the agenda - the contract for the Air Quality Study and the vote on taking land by eminent domain for the Trinity River Vision.  Of course, it is not worded that way, it is called the Riverside Park Expansion. Sounds friendlier and less costly/politically connected, doesn't it?
That's the Fort Worth Way!