Travis County Commssioners Court
March 30, 2004
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Item 5
Number 5 is to consider and take appropriate action on a resolution declaring April as keep Austin beautiful month, co-sponsoring the annual clean sweep program on April 6, 2004, and other county cleanups throughout April. And the proclamation reads: whereas keep Austin beautiful incorporated, a nonprofit corporation, strives to empower individuals to take greater responsibility for enhancing their community environments, whereas keep Austin beautiful incorporated in partnership with Travis County and the city of Austin, many other sponsors, has established the clean sweep program, which is the largest grassroots efforts in Travis County to organize volunteers and bring attention to community improvement activities performed by participating organizations. Whereas the caring citizen volunteers of Travis County and keep Austin beautiful incorporated are committed and trying to do their part to sustain and improve the quality of life in Travis County, and whereas Travis County and keep Austin beautiful incorporated wish to support the nation's largest organized beautification and community improvement programs, the great american cleanup and the don't mess with Texas trashoff, which is built on the foundation of civic pride and individual responsibility. Now therefore be it resolved that we the Travis County Commissioners court commit to officially participate in keep Austin beautiful incorporated's clean sweep 2004 and declare April as keep Austin beautiful month. And witness therefore, we have -- and I move approval.
>> Commissioner Davis seconds. Good morning.
>> morning. Linda with the natural resources program at Travis County. And I’m here to introduce jeff campbell today. He is the project coordinator for keep Austin beautiful. And he's here to tell you about the month coming up and some of the events they have with clean sweep.
>> thank you.
>> I promise to keep my remarks shorter than the resolution itself.
>> you will be hang thanked for that.
>> for several years Travis County has supported keep Austin beautiful in a number of ways, and this report is critical to our mission. I'd like to take just a moment to recap who we are and what we do. Keep Austin beautiful's mission is to enpower as you mentioned earlier, the citizens across the greater Austin area to take personal responsibility for their environment. We focus on three goals. Litter abatement, community beautification and waste stream reduction. And we pursue these three goals through education and community activities through the continued support of Travis County, keep Austin beautiful is able to organize events such as clean sweep across Austin, 2004, which will kick off keep Austin beautiful month, the month of April 2004. Clean sweep across Austin will consist of more than 65 individual cleanup activities all across the greater Austin area. Groups of volunteers are participating in the north, south, east and west parts of greater Austin. And then after the morning cleanup on Saturday, April 3rd, the volunteers are invited to festival beach on town lake for a thank you party, free lunch, free t-shirts, bands and rock climbing wall and lots of fun events, festivities for families. The continued support of Travis County allows us to deliver on our mission, and I thank you for your time this morning.
>> and where is festival beach located?
>> festival beach is just on the north side of town lake near downtown Austin, just east of i-35. And there's actually map for you if you'd like to join us in the packet that you just received. Saturday, April 3rd.
>> okay.
>> all in favor? That passes by unanimous vote. Keep up the good work.
>> thank you very much.
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