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Hours after Gov. Greg Abbott announced on Tuesday a new executive order banning public schools from requiring face coverings effective June 4, the Bastrop school board voted unanimously to keep its mask mandate in place until June 1, when mask wearing will become optional in district facilities.
The board s vote came after about 30 minutes of public comments, many from school parents who demanded the district lift its mask requirement effectively immediately. The 10 speakers all favored lifting the requirement, which the district implemented in the fall to help curb the spread of COVID-19.
District Superintendent Barry Edwards recommended to the school board that it lift the face covering requirement effective June 1, on the first day of summer school, according to the academic calendar.
Construction on Bastrop s $395,000 planned skate park in Fisherman s Park is about 30% complete, Assistant City Manager Rebecca Gleason told the council at its May 11 meeting as part of an update on public infrastructure projects.
The first phase of the skate park s construction process features about 5,000 square feet of poured concrete in Fisherman’s Park.
The city awarded the skate park s construction project to Artisan Concrete Services last year. Construction began in March and is scheduled to be finished this summer, according to city documents.
The City Council opted in October to move forward with plans for the skate park despite a construction cost increase of about $100,000. The cost increase came after a geo-tech report performed as part of the design process determined the need for remediation to existing soils at the project site, inflating the project s cost from $289,000 to about $395,000, with all skate park features included.
After unofficial election results showed Jimmy Crouch narrowly defeating Cheryl Lee for the open Place 4 Bastrop City Council seat by just four votes, an official recount in the election will occur Monday.
According to results released by the Bastrop County elections office on May 1, Crouch received 616 votes, or 50.2% of the vote, compared to Lee s 612 votes, or 49.8%.
A statement released by the city on Friday said the city received a petition on Thursday requesting a recount of the votes in the Place 4 election.
The statement said a recount, a process of verifying the number of votes in an election, was requested by Lee.
The Bastrop City Council last week decided to pass on making Juneteenth a city holiday, opting instead to add a floating holiday to its roster of employee benefits. The move sparked debate and discussion among council members, residents and people who want the city to formally recognize Juneteenth an annual holiday that celebrates the end of slavery in the U.S.
The council’s discussion on April 27 centered around how Bastrop could provide city employees with an additional holiday, after the council was presented two weeks earlier with the results of an employee classification and compensation study.
The study revealed that Bastrop lagged behind neighboring city governments, the county and the state in how many holidays it observed.