Thoughts on Lewisville’s 2013 City Council Retreat

The annual retreat basically sets the strategic agenda for the coming year for the city. Much of what we do is operational in nature, budgets, large purchases, contracts. The retreat brings into focus the meatier, long-term goals for the city, which is contentious at times. This year was no different. There was excellent discussion, incredible [...]

Thoughts on May 21st Lewisville Council Meeting

Council had budgetary approvals and housekeeping reviews this week as well as declaring the re-election of Councilman Ferguson and Mayor Ueckert. Prayer and facts I did want to start out with the invocation on this month’s meeting however.  Councilman Gorena mentioned that he’ll be reading ‘Presidential Prayers’ and proceeded to recite a very moving Episcopal prayer [...]

Thoughts on Lewisville Council April 2nd and April 17th

Things at Council have been quiet and I’ve fallen behind in my posts so here’s finally a catch up post. April 2nd Capital Improvements The council approved funding for design and community branding on the I-35 corridor over and under passes in the amount of $110,000.  These are the embellishment you see in other communities [...]

Thoughts on Lewisville Council March 19th

This weeks council meeting dealt primarily with basic contracts and a couple of variances, however, we did have an interesting discussion on I-35′s continuing reconstruction saga. I-35: The Project that Never Ends the state has come back to stakeholders in the SB 1420 committee and basically stated they have 1/4 of the funds they originally had [...]

9/12/11 Meeting Recap

Last week’s Council meeting was fairly uneventful.  We held our second hearing on the proposed 2011-2012 Budget.  We managed to keep the tax rate the same and have set aside funding for one of my personal goals which is a new strategic plan for the City.  It’s being tentatively called the ’2025 plan’ and will [...]