Sunday, March 16, 2025
SPRINGTOWN — On Monday, Feb. 10, the city of Springtown hosted its annual business luncheon which gives business owners and citizens a chance to network and hear all the latest Springtown news. Springtown City Administrator David Miller led the meeting and gave some updates the city will be implementing in the next few months.
Farmers market
The first big update Miller gave is the Springtown Farmer’s Market will be opening back up in mid-spring.
“We will be bringing back the farmer’s market to the square so different vendors will be able to come in and market their goods,” Miller said.
Citizens Academy
The City of Springtown will host an eight-week class that will inform citizens about how the city government works.
“We’re going to cover all the bases of city government, what goes into the city budget, how your tax dollars work, how your sales taxes work, we are going to do all that,” Miller said. “It's going to serve as good education for those who would consider getting on our planning and zoning commission or city council in the future.”
Online Community Calendar
Miller also announced that the city is currently building an online community calendar that will be on the city’s website. This will keep citizens informed on Springtown activities, events and schedules across the area.
“You’ll be able to click online and see everything going on in the city at the time it's going on,” Miller said. “Monthly newsletters will have schedules about upcoming events. The next one comes out on the 15th of this month.”
Playground updates
Cartwright Pavilion has new shade covers for the summertime. The city also put brand new mulch on the ground. Miller announced that new public restrooms will be built by Newby Pavilion, which will help with events. Miller said the city is working with a local youth sports organization to renovate the baseball fields.
Avenue A and Hilltop Drive updates
Miller informed residents the city will soon begin rebuilding the subgrade on Avenue A from Second St. northward in order to install new sewer and water pipe. Then the city will repave Avenue A all the way o Ninth Street. Miller said work will be performed on one side of the roadway at a time to get traffic in and out.
Hilltop Drive is undergoing the same renovations from State Highway 199 to the police station. Miller said the reason for this construction is the city had some extra funds to allocate which led to the decision to repave city streets.
“We are working really hard to improve our streets and to get them to where they can be driven on without hitting a whole lot of difficulties,” Miller said.
Water Plant improvements
Miller announced that Springtown was awarded $8 million for water treatment improvements.
“It's about a 26-month process but we are going to be adding more pumps, more treatment capacity,” Miller said. “By doing all of that it's going to increase our capacity for water by 50%. It will take us from a million to a million-and-a-half gallons a day.”
Another grant the city applied for is a $6.2 million grant from the Texas Water Development Board to replace a great deal of Springtown’s water transmission line from the booster pump station which is just outside of Reno. The city will announce if Springtown has received this grant in the near future.
For updates and information on Springtown, visit the www.cityofspringtown.com
