Thoughts on July 2nd Council Meeting

July 2nd was just odd. I’ll get to the changes to the smoking ordinance in a moment, but first, we did cover one other item of import. Parks and Recreation Toyota of Lewisville Railroad Park uses untreated water from the Trinity for irrigation.  We were able to get a certificate from the Texas Commission on [...]

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 [...]

6/21/11 Meeting Preview

Last night Council was asked to review the City’s Rodeo Grounds.  Since this facility holds public events it must meet American With Disability Act standards including accessible parking, handicapped accessible routes to facilities, concession and ticket accessibility, seating, and assistive listening devices.  All told, a refit could run anywhere from $150,000 to $285,000, not counting [...]

6/7/11 Meeting Recap

Pardon the website not being reworked, I’m looking into upgrading the engine that drives this and adding more interaction. It’s been just over two weeks since I was sworn in and it’s been a bit of a whirlwind.  There are of course assumptions made both by city staff and myself on what I know and [...]

5/2/11 Meeting Liveblog

Welcome to the Liveblog!  Lots on the agenda tonight. Workshop, no comments on items 1-6. Item 7- Thornhill mentions he received an email regarding the creek stabilization from an owner on the creek.  King states that the improvements may or may not help every property and there’s no money set aside for actual construction- this item [...]