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Members of the Texas A&M Eternal Band march in formation from the mer Corps of Cadets band members, marched in celebration of the
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Zoo budgets, prices
vary across Texas
FORT WORTH (AP) — Zoo patrons here pay
nearly twice the state average to watch snakes
slither, ferrets frolic and cheetahs chase each
other, according to an Associated Press study of
Texas’ accredited zoos.
Fort Worth Zoo officials, citing a growing
budget and a lack of city funding, raised admis
sion prices last year to $8.50 per adult, the highest
in the state. The average adult ticket price for the
1 1 American Zoo and Aquarium Association-
accredited zoos in Texas is $4.27.
Fort Worth’s zoo had a $17 million budget —
the second-largest among AZA-accredited Texas
zoos — less than 19 percent of which came from
the city in 2000-2001. The city funded 19.4 per
cent of the zoo’s budget the previous year and
22.3 percent in 1998-1999, according to records.
Some visitors say the rising ticket prices won’t
keep them from coming to see the animals.
“We don’t mind paying more as long as it’s a
good zoo and the kids enjoy it,” said Jeff Rosso of
Dallas, who visited the Fort Worth Zoo recently
with his wife and two children. “This is a nice
one, so it’s worth it.”
Most zoos charging admission less than the
state average — Abilene, El Paso, Lufkin’s Ellen
Trout, Houston and Waco’s Cameron Park — get
more than half of their budgets from the city,
which own those zoos.
The exception is the 95-acre city-owned Dallas
Zoo, which charges $7 per adult. The city funded
nearly 82 percent of the Dallas Zoo’s $1 1 million
budget for 2000-2001, records show.
“We’re operating a big facility with a relative
ly small operating budget,” said Dallas Zoo
Director Rich Buickerood, who compares his
prices to admission rates of area museums, attrac
tions and sporting events and large zoos outside
Texas. “We’re still darn near the cheapest in
Dallas, and as a public entity, we’re held account
able.”
Other Texas zoos with above-average ticket
prices are run by nonprofit zoo societies and get a
small percentage of their budgets from govern
ment sources.
The San Antonio Zoo received only 7 percent
of its $9 million budget from the city in 2000-
2001. The zoo raised its adult rate in 1999 to $7,
the second-costliest zoo ticket in the state.
Brownsville’s Gladys Porter Zoo, charging
$6.50 per adult after a rate increase in 2000,
received nearly 8 percent of its $3.5 million budg
et from the city last year.
Tyler’s Caldwell Zoo offers free admission but
gets no city money to operate. The zoo is owned,
operated and funded entirely by the nonprofit
Caldwell Family Foundation.
Ticket prices are among the lowest in the
state at Victoria’s Texas Zoo, although it
received 33.7 percent of its $341,000 budget
from the city last year.
“We’re not fat and happy,” said Texas Zoo’s act
ing director Bill Farnsworth. “It’s a constant chal
lenge to raise the money we need to operate. But
with about a third from the city, it’s a good start."
Most zoos across the country charge from $8 to
$10 per adult ticket, and larger zoos charge much
more, said AZA spokeswoman Jane Ballentine.
Zoo Atlanta charges $15; San Diego Zoo, $18;
San Diego Wild Animal Park, $23.95; and Tampa,
Fla.’s Busch Gardens, which includes an amuse
ment park, $56.95. Fifteen U.S. zoos are free.
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Raul Amaya Rios, 20, of Missic
and Leonardo Garcia Lazo, 18;
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about 11:30 p.m. Friday,
considered armed and extreiffij
dangerous.
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murder and was sentenced to (j
years, said Hidalgo County
spokeswoman Priscilla Lops'
Sunday. Lazo, who is chargediq
robbery and possession of
juana, was awaiting trial.
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