Summary: 10-year prison sentences for gun felonies; package of bills aimed at improving Texas' power grid; taxpayer-funded lobbying bans; bills to increase reporting requirements, bill to revoke eminent domain for high-speed rail projects; New TEXIT Bill; tax credit to couples who stay married and have children; give local governments more options to publish required legal notices; devoting $15 billion to property tax cuts; Texas House's property tax bill calls for $17 billion in cuts, tighter

Agenda Items: rezoning for Standard Services Restaurant; ONCOR response update to wind storm; annual audit report; Interim Chief of Police; terminate computer services; transitioning fire department employees and certain equipment to the ESD No. 1.; agreement to sell the Public Safety Building and Fire Station No. 2 to Parker County ESD No.

Summary: Homeowners in Texas currently pay the sixth-highest property taxes in the U.S., with many seeing double digit increases in their bills in one year. " / "... the best option would be what Abbott said was his goal: to eliminate school property taxes, so Texans can actually own their homes."

Summary: Not in Willow Park or Parker County, but an hour away in Frisco. "Universal Parks & Resorts announces a one-of-a-kind theme park, unlike any other in the world, specifically designed to inspire fun for families with young children."

Summary: Kings Gate Road starting construction 06 March 2023; includes info on Kings Gate Road Bridge. Crown Road almost complete. Most recent city council update. Blog includes full Phase One Street Improvement Project and Long-term Stree Improvement Project, maps and charts / Willow Park Civics will update and repost this Blog as the project develops.

Summary: While not local to Willow Park, vehicle safety is imperative to every Willow Park citizen. This is an easy way to check on Vehicle Safety Recalls, one of the safety points of your automobiles -- the autos that carry your family and you. So why not take five minutes...

Summary: "An educational partnership can only be successful if parents are afforded certain rights. Parents deserve access to scholastic material their children are provided. Parents deserve the ability to meet with teachers and principals about their child. Parents deserve to be heard by local school boards."

Summary: Willow Park sales tax is up 50% from last year, a progression a decade in the making Everything Sales Tax for Willow Park Citizens: *Willow Park sales tax with latest updates and a journal of WP sales taxes, and *Texas Sales Tax with tutorials, articles, research -- all updated and reposted as news develops.

Summary: "This week I gaveled in the first full hearing of the House Committee on Small Business; in the Financial Services Committee we passed two bipartisan bills that I co-authored; I joined Maria Bartiromo on Fox News' Mornings with Maria to talk about... out-of-control spending and over regulation."

Summary: The Willow Park Development Department reported on commercial and residential updates, during the 14 February 2023 Council Meeting. While residential development declined in 2022, there are several new developments planned for the future. Note: New commercial and residential development are grouped around I20, leaving the north half of Willow Park as large lot residential houses, farms and ranches.

Summary: Today is the the 187th anniversary of the fall of the Alamo, ending its 13 day siege, the Battle of the Alamo, February 23 - March 6, 1836. Willow Park Civics honors the ultimate civics involvement and sacrifice. Commit three minutes to Remember the Alamo and consider individual civic responsibilities.

Summary: A compendium of Willow Park Civics weekly news summaries, emailed to WPC Blog subscribers. The week in a glance; the year in a list. Latest Update: Friday, 03 March 2023 Archive of Willow Park Civics Weekly News Summary Week of Friday, 03 March 2023 in .pdf and in .html "Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected."

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