01/26/2023
Check out what's happening in the City of Georgetown
Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023
I-35 & Williams Drive closures canceled
The Texas Department of Transportation has canceled the I-35 and Williams Drive bridge closures originally scheduled for Friday and Saturday (Jan. 27-28). TxDOT will provide an update once it's been rescheduled.
Find out more from TxDOT...
NEXT WEDNESDAY: Join us for State of the City
Curious 🤔about the City’s plans for growth? What about water? Traffic? Development?
Learn about all that & more at the State of the City, starting at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 1.
🕕Open House: 6-7:30 p.m. at City Hall | Learn more + provide feedback on a number of Georgetown projects and plans, including:
✔️Downtown Master Plan
✔️Water conservation
✔️Williams Drive
✔️Austin Avenue
✔️Unified Development Code rewrite
First 100 attendees will get one of these free, red, reusable bags! Savory refreshments will be served, and if you visit enough City booths, you’ll be entered to win a Georgetown-themed 🎁gift basket!
🕢Address + Q&A: 7:30-8:30 p.m. in council chambers | Mayor Josh Schroeder & City Manager David Morgan will provide a look back at 2022 and the plans for 2023, followed by taking questions from the audience. This part of the event will also be streamed at gtv.georgetown.org and on Facebook.
We hope to see you there!
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Curbside bulky-waste pickup date changing
🙌Good news, Georgetown: Starting Feb. 6, scheduled bulky-waste pickups will be your regular trash day, rather than Saturdays. Pickups must be scheduled in advance.
In-city residents get four, free, curbside bulky-waste pickups a year to help dispose of large items that won’t fit into the solid waste carts, items such as:
🗑️Furniture
🗑️Mattresses
🗑️Toilets
🗑️Washers/dryers
🗑️Refrigerators (additional charges apply)
Don’t forget: Items in good condition can be donated🤝!
Schedule your bulky-waste pickup today with Texas Disposal Systems ☎️ 512-930-1715.
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REMINDER, we cannot see who you are or what you are talking about on Nextdoor
The City of Georgetown uses the Nextdoor app to post citywide and neighborhood-specific content to keep you informed about what is happening in Georgetown. Please note that while we can share information with you, we CANNOT see who you are and what you and your neighbors are discussing, though we will receive your replies to our posts and any private messages you send to us.
If you have a question for us or want to get in touch privately, when we post, you can click on our name and then choose “message.”
Looking forward to hearing from you!
Arts and Culture grants awarded
🙌 Congrats to this cycle's 🎨 art grant recipients! The Georgetown Arts & Culture Board approved $7,000 in grants to local arts and culture organizations for the 2023 Round I grant cycle.
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Celebrate Community Engagement Day and get involved with your City!
We know public engagement helps build stronger communities. That's why we want to hear from you, Georgetown! Celebrate Global Community Engagement Day this Saturday with us by signing up or checking out:
📰Georgetown Weekly, our weekly e-newsletter
✔️Monthly (quick!) surveys with FlashVote
📝Agenda notifications
🗣️Our ongoing community engagement opportunities
WilCo breaks ground on CR 245 expansion
Williamson County broke ground on a project to expand CR 245 in Georgetown on Friday, Jan. 20. The project consists of the reconstruction of the existing two-lane CR 245 to a three-lane road with center turn lanes at specific locations.
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Tuesday was National Compliment Day
To celebrate National Compliment Day, we took a moment to enjoy how beautiful our town is, even after the rain.
Keep your house winter weather ready
Don’t let this gorgeous Georgetown ☀️weather fool you – winter isn’t over yet!
Take time to prepare your home now:
🏠Keep out the cold with insulation, caulking, and weather stripping
🚰Learn how to keep pipes from freezing
🔥Install and test smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors with battery backups
🥫Gather supplies in case you need to stay home for several days without power
🔋Have extra batteries for radios and flashlights
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City contractor helping with meter reading
While usage information for most water and electric meters can be read with the utility’s automated system, in some cases, meters must be read manually with a technician in the field. The City has hired Putt Bro’s Meter and Hydrant to provide contract technicians to assist City meter readers when manual meter reads are needed.
Water metering components fail over time as they age. City of Georgetown experiences about 100 – 150 new module failures a month, which is similar to other water utilities. Supply chain shortages have impacted our ability to replace these failed components on a timely basis and thus manual meter usage reads are needed.
Customers may see a Putt Bro’s employee in their neighborhood reading meters, especially for City water customers in areas west and north of Georgetown. Putt Bro’s technicians wear vests and have vehicles indicating they are City of Georgetown contractors.
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Honoring former City Council Member Lorenzo "Shorty" Valdez Jr.
The City remembers and honors Lorenzo "Shorty" Valdez Jr., who passed away last week. Valdez served as the first Hispanic member of the City Council from 1989-93 and served again from 1997-99. He lived with his family in the San Jose neighborhood in Georgetown and represented District 1. Valdez was on the City Council when Del Webb brought Sun City to our community, and he worked to make sure the new development would be positive for the whole city.
Memorial service details and obituary...
Ending Tuesday: Holiday string light recycling
Do you have old or broken 🎄✨holiday string lights you need to get rid of? The City is partnering with Texas Disposal Systems to collect them through this Tuesday, Jan. 31, at various locations in town. Last year the City collected more than 4,800 pounds of lights!
🚫🗑️Please do NOT put string lights in your recycling bin.
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Hill Country Authors' Series: Stephen Harrigan
The Friends of the Georgetown Public Library are hosting author Stephen Harrigan to discuss his latest novel “The Leopard is Loose.”
⏰2 p.m.
📅 Feb. 9
📍 Georgetown Public Library
🎟️Tickets are $17 in advance and $20 at the door.
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Cupid’s Chase 5K Run/Walk
💘Lace up your 👟sneakers and get ready to chase Cupid at the 28th annual Cupid's Chase 5K & Kids Fun Run!
Registration is now open for this fun-filled family event coming up on Saturday, Feb. 11, in San Gabriel Park.
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Filing period open for City Council candidates
📮Candidate filing period for Mayor and City Council Districts 2 and 6 now through Feb. 17
🗺️Council District maps: maps.georgetown.org
🏠12-month residency requirement
📆Last day to register to vote for the May election: April 6
🗳️Early-voting: April 24-May 2
🗳️Election day: May 6
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Save the date: Feb. 25 Conservation Expo
Join us for the Georgetown Water Conservation Team’s first annual Water Conservation Expo 💧 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Feb. 25 at the Hewlett room located upstairs in the Georgetown Public Library.
This fun come-and-go event will feature local groups and originations to provide conservation resources and tips, guest speakers, door prizes, (and snacks 🍪 🍿🧁) !
Featured Guests:
🔵 Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service
🔵 Texas Water Development Board
🔵 Brazos River Authority
🔵 Sun City Water Matters
🔵 Native Plant Society
🔵 Environmental Services
🔵 and more!
☑️ RSVP here
Jan. 24 City Council meeting highlights
The Georgetown City Council met for about 5.5 hours Tuesday. Watch the full recordings on gtv.georgetown.org and Facebook. The next regularly scheduled Council meeting is Feb. 14💝. Presentations + documents here.
Some highlights from the meetings:
During workshop, the council discussed…
☎️Survey results + next steps for the 311-like system, which will include adding staffing to the Customer Care call center & identifying a system
🚨Updates from police and fire, including how we are working to address staffing and enforcement challenges
During the meeting, the council approved…
📐Engineering services contracts
💧1st reading & public hearing to increase water and wastewater impact fees, which are charges assessed on new development to pay for the construction or expansion of infrastructure that is necessitated by and benefit that new development (in short, ensuring growth helps pay for growth); as presented, impact fees would increase effective Oct. 1, 2023; the increases will have a second public hearing at the Feb. 13 meeting.
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📷: Promotion of Georgetown Police Sgt. Kathryn Gibson
Lane closures and street maintenance
Bootys Crossing lane closure at Lakeway
👷 Left turn lane closed on Bootys Crossing Road at Williams Drive 7 a.m.-2 p.m. Friday, Jan. 27
🚧 Median work to help turning movements from Williams Drive to Bootys Crossing
🚙 Two northeast-bound lanes remain open on Bootys Crossing Road
Shell Road lane closures Jan. 30-31
🚧 Moving single lane closures on Shell Road will now be Jan. 30-31; the schedule has been delayed one week due to weather
🔶 Look for flaggers between Williams Drive and Sycamore Street
👷 Contractor taking core samples for future construction project
🚙 2015 and 2021 City mobility bond project
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Crack sealant on streets underway
👷Public Works will apply crack sealant on streets in several neighborhoods through April
🏘️Neighborhoods include Pinnacle, LaConterra, Westhaven, Hutto Road area, and Sun City neighborhoods along Cattleman Drive and Pedernales Falls Drive (see maps)
🔸Look for posts on the Nextdoor app prior to work in each neighborhood
🚗Moving vehicles off the street prior to work will allow for more complete application of sealant
⏳Crack sealant dries minutes after application
🚚Work is a moving process that will affect traffic, but not close streets
💲Street resurfacing work funded by 1/4-cent sales tax
Sun City Boulevard lane closure
👷 Sun City Boulevard: Outside southbound rolling lane closures from Cattleman Drive to Sundance Lane/Rio Grande Loop
🚧 Rolling lane closure through April; work started Nov. 3
💻 Communication fiber installation work
Sign up for FlashVote and let your voice be heard
⏰Do you have one minute a month to help make Georgetown better?
👫 Make your voice heard through text, email, or voice surveys.
📝Look for an upcoming survey about the development code rewrite project
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Learn about new developments
👀Check out the Planning Department's public notice map showing projects that require public notice, such as rezonings, certificates of appropriateness, demolitions, annexations, special use permits, + more. If the project can be built without a zoning change or one of these other changes, it would not appear on this map.
📅 The map is updated with new public notices for Planning and Zoning, Historic and Architectural Review Commission, + City Council
📝Information includes when meetings will be held with links to the agenda website, a project description, and contact information for the staff member working on the project.
✍️ Sign up for alerts when agendas are posted
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Half-price Tuesdays at Garey Park
Enjoy Garey Park for half price 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Tuesdays through the end of March.
Come check out the park's amenities:
🧒playground
🐕dog park
🐎equestrian arena
🎣fishing ponds
🥪pavilions & picnic shelters
🚶♀️7+ miles of hiking trails
Find out more...
Pet of the Week
Karl Barx, 1, has the best jowls in town. He is a happy, goofy guy, always on the move and ready to go 🏃! He loves toys, and he has learned how to open the toy box 🔓 to get them all out. It’s his special talent. Karl also loves people, and he gets along with other dogs and children, though he may knock over the small ones accidentally.
This happy-go-lucky dog has been waiting and trying to catch the eye 🙏 of an adopter for too long, but we have faith that his furever human is out there 💞. Come meet him and see if he is the one for you!
To adopt Karl Barx, email [email protected] or call 512-930-3592. Walk-ins are welcome during the shelter’s business hours.
🕛Hours: Noon to 4 p.m. Saturdays; 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays and Fridays; and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Check out all the adoptable pets at pets.georgetown.org.
