“We need your help,” Friends of the Katy Trail president Wayne Smith told the Park and Recreation Board on Thursday. And from the sound of it, he might just get it.
Smith is hoping to raise millions for a major Katy Trail makeover — anywhere between $40 million and $50 million for bridges over Knox Street and Harvard Avenue, overlooks, an amphitheater behind the Kalita Humphreys Theater, concrete benches and prairie grasslands and wider lanes for hikers and bikers. He’s hoping the park board will kick in a few million from the 2017 bond package, as much as it can spare. In exchange, Smith told the board, the Friends will raise the rest, at least $20 million to $30 million over the next three to five years.
Smith knows squeezing funds out of the park board is a long shot given an ever-growing list of needs.
Nevertheless, Smith said, “I’m not gonna be afraid to ask.”
His plea did not fall on deaf ears. … [visit site to read more]
Reposted via City Hall Blog
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