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Fort Worth considers shifting Z Boaz mini golf course rent to park improvements

UPDATE: The City Council approved this at its Tuesday meeting.

The Fort Worth City Council on Tuesday will consider shifting the rents paid by a Putt-Putt mini golf complex on Z Boaz park property to help pay for future improvements at the park.

The Putt-Putt has operated since 1990 on part of the park property that was the city-owned Z Boaz Golf Course until last September, when the city closed the golf course and re-opened it as a park. Putt-Putt lease revenue, $45,000 for the current fiscal year, has been used as general revenue in the city's golf enterprise fund.

The city is trying to squeeze parks projects into the upcoming 2014 bond package, but funding for improvements at Z Boaz may on the outside looking in. Here's a full list of unfunded parks projects on Fort Worth's five-year wish list.  Here's what's in the Z Boaz park master plan.

- Scott Nisnimura, Star-Telegram Fort Worth City Hall reporter

Twitter: @JScottNishimura

Actors getting in on the Obama act at UTA

Who isn't rallying around here? UTA's public affairs office just sent out a release saying that TV stars ors Sophia Bush of One Tree Hill and Adam Rodriguez of CSI Miami are scheduled to be on campus this Friday to turn out the vote for Barack Obama. See them at 5:30 p.m. in the Palo Duro Lounge of the E.H. Hereford University Center, 300 W. First St.  The event is being sponsored by the student organization University Democrats and is open to the public. 

- Kristin Sullivan