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Galveston City Council has scheduled a special meeting at 2 p.m. on Thursday to consider issuance of Wharves and Terminal Revenue Refunding Bonds and a "bridge loan" to the Galveston Port Facilities Corporation to refinance the outstanding balance of the corporation's note payable to Royal Caribbean, to provide funds for Phase 3 improvements at Terminal 2. The special meeting also will deal with three issues related to paid parking on Seawall Boulevard. The city council's actions will follow today's special meeting of the Galveston Planning Commission. The planning commission agenda includes a proposal to remove all properties north of Seawall Boulevard from the Seawall Urban Park and to expand the eastern and western boundaries of the park. A second item would establish an $8 beach user fee for the park, including Seawall Boulevard. Those two items, plus authorization for the city manager to execute a permit with Galveston County to install the parking meters on the Seawall, are on the special city council agenda. Council Member Joe Jaworski said that he will try again to get the city council to call an election on the issue. "Even
if a majority of council members approve the plan without a
public vote, whether the plan actually gets implemented in
its council-approved form will not be immediately
clear," Jaworski said in an email message distributed
in the San Jacinto neighborhood. "After the plan
leaves council chambers, city Jaworski
notes that Park Board CEO Langley told council he "Assuming the plan is immediately sent to Austin after council’s approval, the GLO comment stage plus the park board’s thirty-day period to erect the meters puts us into May," Jaworski said. "So we know that holding a May election on this matter as thousands have asked us to do would not delay the plan’s implementation if the voters approve it."
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