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State of the Division: City Intends to Teach, Not Listen
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Tuesday, August 19, 2014. City Intends to Teach, Not Listen. City Manager Daniel Valenzuela said in his state of the City. Speech: "We are launching several initiatives in an effort to encourage citizens to be more engaged in their city government. Those include the following:". 1 COSA University will be a citizens academy that we hope will spark interest. In serving on City boards and commissions. If you’re already interested, applications are available at cosatx.us/boards. There are many people working...
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State of the Division: City to Pursue Citizen Engagement
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Saturday, August 16, 2014. City to Pursue Citizen Engagement. Item 20 on this Thursday's City Council meeting is a discussion. Of new citizen engagement initiatives, including COSA University. Recent city council meetings have had ample citizen engagement. Crowds gathered to be heard on awarding the city's trash and landfill franchises, as well as several development projects. It used to be. I do hope COSA University offers an ethics class. By PEU Report/State of the Division. Seems to me that COSA Unive...
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State of the Division: City Staff Control Board Appointments
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Saturday, September 06, 2014. City Staff Control Board Appointments. The answer finally came as to why four board applications for the Animal Shelter Advisory Board never received any action, much less a response. City Clerk Alicia Ramirez. I work very closely with the individual board liaisons. To make these appointments.". Whenever I receive applications to serve on these different boards, the criteria, membership criteria says preferred. We don't always get individuals. Alicia Ramirez implied that Cit...
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State of the Division: Mr. Riley: The Spence Conundrum
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Saturday, May 16, 2015. Mr Riley: The Spence Conundrum. San Angelo's Water Advisory Board is new and improved. A far cry from the rubber stamp version under former Water Chief Will Wilde and the non-entity under his replacement Ricky Dickson. The new Water Chief Bill Riley gave an update on the Hickory Aquifer. He deferred to Board members saying:. I know that most of you are more familiar with the Hickory Project than I am.". Riley went on to talk about Lake Iviie and E.V. Spence Reservoir. Two years ag...
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State of the Division: Grindstaff's Street Maintenance Talk Deja Vu
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Thursday, August 06, 2015. Grindstaff's Street Maintenance Talk Deja Vu. San Angelo City Councilwoman Elizabeth Grindstaff echoed points made by former City Engineer Clinton Bailey years ago. The. Her remarks to the West Texas Legislative Summit, which took up the abysmal state of our roads. The cost to maintain a street for 25 years under a five-year maintenance plan. The road base and surface fail, driving the cost to $140 a square yard to repair, she said. That's been San Angelo's past, which included.
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State of the Division: City Seeks Engineering Contractors & Water Master Plan Consultant
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Sunday, August 09, 2015. City Seeks Engineering Contractors and Water Master Plan Consultant. New City Engineer Russell Pehl and recently promoted Water Utilities Assistant Director Allison Strube. While Strube worked as a project engineer before jumping to Water Utilities. The City put out two Request for Qualifications, one for Infrastructure Engineering and Surveying Services. And another for a Water Master Plan. The anticipated scope of services shall include, but not be limited to, the following:.
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State of the Division: Council Planning Image vs. Substance: Street Study
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Saturday, April 04, 2015. Council Planning Image vs. Substance: Street Study. For the second year in a row city officials chose not to record Council's strategic planning session. Last year Public Information Officer gave the following reason. Public Information is equipped to record board, commission and Council meetings in the Council chambers. We are not equipped. To film such a meeting in a remote location. For years the city recorded. Purchasing dates for this project are below:. Operations Director...
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State of the Division: Skeptic Texan Educates on CHL & Campus Carry
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Monday, July 06, 2015. Skeptic Texan Educates on CHL and Campus Carry. I wrote several pieces on the Texas Legislature's passing. Of Campus Carry, which will allow. Concealed handgun license holders to bring their guns on campus. The Skeptic Texan sent me their thoughts on aspects of my pieces. Skeptic educated me on the CHL world, which is vastly occupied by responsible citizens. And responsible gun owners. 8220;A Texas Women's University Sociology professor offered one. Bullying students would use ...
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State of the Division: City Seeks Bids for Mary Lee Park Development
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Monday, March 30, 2015. City Seeks Bids for Mary Lee Park Development. The City's Purchasing Department issued. A Request for Proposals for Lake Nasworthy development. The site is Mary E. Lee Park:. The term of the lease is 60 years. Deeper into the RFP one finds:. In this assortment of small branded mid-market hotels that arrays like common candy bars, a lakefront branded suite hotel property at May Lee Park. Where all of the other properties offer roadside west Texas views. In part because an attractiv...
