Travis County Commissioners Court
December 13, 2005
Item 18
18. I did get from joe additional information yesterday. Let me give that some thought, what we need to get done, I mean, I think it would help us next week to know who has taken -- who has taken advantage of our invitation. Who has accepted it and appeared next week. Then I値l know better where to go from here. >> I知 not sure I know how to answer it.
>> we know who people have, people --
>> we have been doing them, right.
>> we had 90 people show up Saturday. We are getting people there, I don't know what cross-sections of the population, no census or anything.
>> give me as much as you have.
>> all right.
>> that will be back on.
>> just.
>> 18.
>> the thing that I discussed with joe was whether there are some talk shows that are sports, say more hunting, fishing oriented rather than we think it's a statesman metro state thing, to concentrate on some of the specialized reporters that do the hunting, the fishing, the cycling, the sports thing. It isn't a metro city state thing.
>> got it. Instead of a -- within 30 day sort of strategy, it may well be that we ought to try to have more of a permanent approach. Forget about the free opportunity and just advertise that these are county-owned parks now, they are new. That would be groups that would be interested, folks who appreciate open space, boy scouts, girl scouts, do they still do that stuff? That kind of stuff, you see what I知 saying? I don't know -- because my idea was that I knew some would take advantage of the opportunity because they could know about it. But others would not necessarily know, number one. Number two, live in other parts of the county and are seldom over there anyway. But if they know it's there, that it's county-owned, may well want to take advantage of the opportunity to look at it. Everybody knows about the pedernales river, but when I saw it from the hogue tract, looked a whole lot different.
>> there's some call-in radio shows as well, hunting and fishing oriented. Quite frankly rumor control out there of people misinterpreting our purchase of the park, thinking they are kicked out, nothing could be further from the truth. We need to get on those a.m. Talk shows.
>> fisherman's paradise, you need to know exactly where to go to fish because of the huge acreage. You could get lost if you don't have a pretty good idea of where you are going. You need to know exactly where to go to fish. If you are boy scouts, want to see open space, nature, environment, pristine, see what I知 saying. Maybe we can get that to youth groups when they start taking tours, I assume they would be in the spring and summer when the weather is a whole lot better. This at least will be on the radar. So that's more of a permanent nature than trying to take advantage of the 30 day opportunity. More than anything else, it's the kind of burning desire to let others who typically would not spend much time in southwest Travis County see these public parks they have been recently acquired and I知 thinking they will be as thrilled as I was, the -- the one time that I was here. Okay?
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