Community Stewardship Award Recipients Announced!
The recipients of the 2009 Envision Central Texas Community Stewardship Awards were announced at a luncheon at the Hyatt Regency Austin on Friday, May 8.

The Community Stewardship Award Recipients included: new development - Capital MetroRail Red Line, Austin to Leander; redevelopment - The Alley Flats Initiative, Austin - Austin Community Design and Development Center, the Guadalupe Neighborhood Development Corporation and the University of Texas Center for Sustainable Development; Pioneer - Sustainable Food Center, Austin; Public Planning and Policy - City of Hutto ; and Raising Public Awareness - Katherine Gregor, Austin Chronicle.

In addition, the W. Neal Kocurek Legacy Award was presented to respected attorney and civic entrepreneur Pike Powers of Fulbright & Jaworski LLP. Envision Central Texas created the W. Neal Kocurek Legacy Award to honor Dr. Kocurek, the founding chairman of Envision Central Texas, and to recognize and celebrate the qualities of civic leadership that he admired most.

See the keynote presentation from Rob Puentes of The Brookings Institute here. Shown above are representatives from the City of Hutto and their consultants. For more pictures from the event click here. (Photos by Shauna Mora).

See the Vision! Envision Central Texas was founded in 2001 to address the tremendous growth pressures on our five-county region. Regional leaders realized the need for a common vision that would help us take steps to shape growth in a positive way. The two-year ECT visioning process was unprecedented, with thousands of people throughout the region discussing future growth as a connected community. See all the Vision materials by clicking on the picture.

Green Doors (formerly Community Partnership for the Homeless) has launched their "Tex S. Taxpayer" series, a homelessness education outreach project designed to encourage the public to take constructive, positive action on the issue of homelessness. click here. to learn more or you can also view a short video created by Green Doors that highlights the issue.