Park and public facility upgrades in El Paso County, Texas, may be in the offing depending upon the fate of a proposed $350 million bond in this November’s election.
Currently the subject of a series of public input meetings, the bond could well include funding for upgrades to the county’s Ascarate Park, located at 6900 Delta Drive, which includes an 18-hole golf course.
Other likely projects: improvements to the historic El Paso County Coliseum at 4100 E. Paisano Drive, and facility upgrades to the Sun Bowl on the campus of the University of Texas at El Paso.
The proposal is being referenced as a Quality of Life Bond, similar to the massive $470 million City of El Paso Quality of Life Bond proposals that were overwhelmingly approved by voters in 2012.
That City bond has since been used to fund a wide array of park, library, museum, and cultural center projects.
Earlier reports have indicated that up to 100 individual projects are being considered for the El Paso County Quality of Life bond, with talk of additionally funding a new animal shelter, expanding the county’s office complex, and improving the Juvenile Justice Center at 6400 Delta Drive.
There are expected to be at least half a dozen more public input meetings on the bond question in the weeks to come.
Earlier this year the County hired the firm Barracuda Public Relations of El Paso to spread word of the proposed bond through press releases, social media, radio ads, and direct mail.
By Garry Boulard
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