Bee Cave City Council approved $75,000 in funding to go to the 2027 Special Olympics Texas Winter Games at a July 14 council meeting. 

The overview: The Special Olympics Texas Winter Games is a statewide competition for athletes with intellectual disabilities to compete in floorball, golf, volleyball and power lifting.

Events for the winter games will take place at Bee Cave Middle School, Lake Travis Middle School and HCI Sports and Fitness, among other locations in the area, said Chad Eason, executive director of competitions and sports programming for Special Olympics Texas.

“The Special Olympics bring whole community awareness and engagement,” Eason said. “We want to make the games a destination for global and statewide guests.”

The details: Council approved $75,000 from the city's hotel occupancy tax fund to Special Olympics Texas for the Winter Games.

Hotel occupancy taxes are collected by the city of Bee Cave at a rate of 7%, which has on average garnered the city $550,000 in revenue each fiscal year, per 2025 city documents.

The Travis County Commissioners Court approved a resolution opposing a Texas Land Permit Application submitted by White Rocks Entertainment LLC to the Texas Commission on Environment Equality at a July 14 voting session.

The overview: The White Rocks development is located on a 71-acre plot in unincorporated Travis County near Hwy. 71. The project is expected to include a 10,000-seat outdoor amphitheater, 150 hotel rooms and 600 private residences.

The issue: The permit application states the company would discharge 120,000 gallons of wastewater per day via a new activated sludge treatment plant, referred to as the White Rocks Treatment Facility. However, calculations from the Travis County Transportation and Natural Resources Department have found that amount of daily wastewater may be larger due to the size of the proposed development, according to a press release from Travis County.

What else: The TCEQ approved hearings requested by the Save Our Springs Alliance, The Nature Conservancy and local homeowners.