Part III Suicide treatment and prevention
By SARAH DOOLITTLE, Four Points News
In 2011, Michele and Michael O’Rourke were in need of psychiatric services for Michael’s bipolar type II disorder and a profound depressive cycle that had started in January.
Michele was pleased with the psychiatrist she herself was seeing, but that doctor was not taking new patients. Michael was left instead with a clinical psychiatric nurse who proved to be a poor match, recommending a course of treatment that presumed he did not take his medication regularly, although he did.
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Cardinal Point approved by state, Construction to begin Aug. 2016 on affordable housing project
By CASSIE MCKEE, Four Points News
Despite local opposition, the Foundation Communities’ Cardinal Point affordable housing project is expected to break ground in Four Points after the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs in July approved $15 million in state tax credits to help fund the project.
Cardinal Point will be located on an 8.5 acre tract located at 11011 1/2 Four Points Drive. It will include 120 units ranging from one to three bedrooms. The project is expected to break ground in August 2016 and open in late 2017, according to Foundation Communities Communications Coordinator Alyah Khan. She said rents between all the units will average approximately $640/month. Families earning up to 60 percent of the area median family income would be eligible to apply. Continue reading
River Place HOA settles with city over spike in water rates, Refund to exceed $125,000 for River Place
By CASSIE MCKEE, Four Points News
River Place residents will see some relief on their water bills in the form of a one-time credit after the River Place Homeowners Association reached a settlement deal with Austin Water Utility over what the HOA said was an unjust increase in water and wastewater rates by the city of Austin.
In December 2014, the HOA filed a Water Rate Protest with the Public Utility Commission against AWU, after the city imposed a dramatic increase in water and wastewater rates upon the ratepayers of the River Place Water and Wastewater Systems. Residents saw the first increase in October 2014 and then another increase in November 2014.
River Place HOA Board of Directors Cheryl Page, Tim Mattox, Scott Crosby, Rich Coppola, Ivar Rachkind, and attorney Randall Wilburn (standing) go over the terms of the settlement with River Place residents at a community meeting on July 29.
August 12 2015 Issue
