Welcome to the Future!

On May 5 you’ll have a chance to send Wichita Falls leap years ahead. This site will provide all the details you need to make your decisions. The 7 propositions have been combined into groups based upon the issue.

Here’s what you’ll find:

Recreation
Proposition A
(Parks & Trails)
Proposition B
(Lake Wichita)

Streets
Proposition C
(Maplewood Extension)
(Taft Widening)

Downtown
Proposition D
(Municipal Center)
Proposition G
(Downtown Streetscapes)

Entertainment
Proposition E
(MPEC Upgrades)
Proposition F
(Auditorium Upgrades)

If you can’t find something you’re looking for, click “contact us” in the top right corner of the screen and send us a note.

Thanks for helping us build a better community!

News

Voice of Wichita Falls, EP. 5

This week on the show, Trey Sralla, Owner of Eddie Hills Fun Cycles in Downtown Wichita Falls, joins Mike Hendren and Henry Florsheim to discuss how the proposed location of the new city municipal center will strengthen our...

Municipal Center EP. 4

If you're new, Subscribe! → http://bit.ly/NewsTalkSubscribe This week on the show, Henry and Mike discuss a new Makerspaces in Downtown Wichita Falls, the controversy surrounding the location of the proposed downtown city...

Improving the Quality of Life EP.3

On the 3rd episode of The Voice of Wichita Falls, Henry and Mike discuss improving the quality of life in Wichita Falls and how to draw more tourism to the city. The seven Wichita Falls bond propositions will be on the May 5th ballot. The...

Harsh Realities

The population of Wichita Falls is stable, right? Hasn’t changed much in 50 years.

Yep, you guessed it. We’re the orange line at the bottom. Well, at least we’re not losing population, right?

Think again. The only group that’s growing in Wichita Falls is 55 and up. We’re losing population in every other age range. This will create a huge problem is we don’t address it; as people retire out of the workforce, who will take their place? With an unemployment rate well below 4% and our key employers already struggling to find skilled workers, our economy will begin to shrink if we don’t take bold steps to change this trajectory.

Last fall thousands of you responded to a survey that asked all sorts of questions about Wichita Falls. One of them asked “If you left for ten years and then came back, where would you want to see the most improvement?” Here’s what you said:

Recreation

Streets

Downtown

Entertainment