Town hall set for Oct. 29

The City of Willow Park is hosting a town hall at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 29, immediately following the parks board meeting at 6 p.m. 

The town hall will feature a discussion on concept planning for the city parks and invite community feedback on future ideas for the parks system. The public is encouraged to attend and participate.

“We have been given a fantastic ‘wish list’ from the planners who work with us on parks, but before we make any moves forward, it’s important to both council and staff that we seek input from our stakeholders,” said Willow Park Communications and Marketing Director Rose Hoffman.

“Realistically, we are going have to make some choices about what’s most important on the wish list, and we don’t want to make that decision in a silo.”

Possible plans for Kings Gate Park include multi-purpose courts, a dog park, trail expansion, and/or pavilions. The city hopes to identify priorities through the town hall and public surveys.

The City of Willow Park is working with FlashVote to engage the community and gather valuable input from residents to inform their decisions.

The city encourages residents to sign up at www.flashvote.com/willowparktx or call 775-235-2240 to participate by phone or text only. Signing up takes less than one minute and your input is always kept anonymous. 

Personal or demographic information collected by FlashVote is never shared with the city or anyone else. 

When residents sign up, they can determine how surveys are received – whether by email, text or phone call. They will receive a notification whenever there is a new survey, and they will have 48 hours to participate before voting closes. 

Once a survey is closed, everyone who participated will automatically receive a summary of the overall results and be able to see how their responses compare to the group.

“This process allows us to gain a scientific sampling of public sentiment by surveying the many, not just the noisy,” Hoffman said. “We want to try to gain as full an understanding as possible of what our community really wants and needs from their city.”