Category Archives: Government News

New Board Elected During Annual Meeting

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A new board was elected for the 2016/2017 term at the Annual Membership Meeting held on October 5 at the new City Hall building.  By unanimous consent, members returned Shana Nalls to her post as President, Brad Peters as Vice President, Rhonda Smith as Treasurer, and Casey Berley as Secretary.  All three members of the ARC, David Hoye, Ken Daulong, and David Fuller, where Ken Daulong received the most votes, which, by rule, makes him the Chair.

While the agenda had no other ballot items, members received updates about street repairs in the neighborhood, the HOA’s ongoing fight with the state & county assessor’s office regarding the disproportionately high property values.

Councilman Robert Steinhagen, who lives in Quail Creek, shared updates about the City Council’s adoption of city’s tax rate, which did not change from last year, and about the adoption of the city’s property tax cap option for seniors, where the property tax will be capped at the current rate that a property owner over 65 applies with the county assessor’s office (both the school district and the county taxes are capped too).

Quail Creek’s Robert Steinhagen Elected to City Council!

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Tonight, Quail Creek Homeowner & former HOA President, Robert Steinhagen, was elected to the Mclendon-Chisholm City Council!

In an email sent to supporters, Councilman-elect Robert Steinhagen, who defeated a twelve-year incumbent by more than 63% of the vote, wrote; “Victory came because “We The People” demand the right to first give consent to decisions that may raise our taxes, put us into debt, take away our personal liberty about what we can do on our own property, and/or violate the standards of our city that are supposed to protect our wide-open spaces & more rural lifestyle!”

New Planned Route for 549 to & from 1139

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View the engineering drawings  showing the new route of 549 at the curve where it intersects FM 1139.  The change is significant and will dramatically impact our route into Rockwall.  Crossing this 4 lane intersection will become much more dangerous as traffic volume on 549 increases.  Many are concerned about the safety issues.

The ingress & egress points to and from 1139 from and to 549 is most alarming, as it will become necessary to zig zag as shown on the attached markup.
The original TxDOT map (unmarked) and a larger view showing the new alignment on 549 are also attached.
Click on images to enlarge:
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Turn Lanes to be Added at 205 & 549; Shoulders Added to FM 1139

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ROCKWALL COUNTY – In an ongoing effort to enhance state roadways and improve safety, the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) approved a contract to add additional pavement width and resurface 9.2 miles of various roadways including FM 549, FM 1139, SH 205 and SH 276 in Rockwall County.

Funding has been approved to add turn lanes at both intersections of FM 549 & SH 205.  According to MC City Manager, David Butler, this project will be completed by August of this year!

Shoulders will be added to FM 1139, however no date has been set for the project’s completion.

SH 205 will be expanded from SH 78 in Lavon to Terrell, however there is no funding for this project.

The contract for $989,766.87 was awarded to O. Trevino Construction, LLC.

Construction dates will be established in upcoming meetings between TxDOT and the contractor.

Smart 911 Service Comes to Rockwall

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The Rockwall Police Department is pleased to announce today that it has implemented Smart911 and it is now available to all citizens. The Smart 911 system allows citizens to create a Safety Profile for their household, which will display vital information to 911 Dispatchers and will assist first responders when responding to an emergency; including police, fire and emergency medical personnel. The profile provides critical information to emergency services, which otherwise might not be relayed to 911 Dispatchers by someone who is having a crisis and may be struggling to provide the most basic information.  “Having this system in place allows first responders the opportunity to provide customers with a faster and more precise response to their emergency, based upon the profile they have built” said Sergeant Welch.

Smart911 is currently available in 36 states and more than 1000 municipalities across the country.  It is a national service and your profile will travel with you across the country to any other locations that may have the system in place.  Citizens are encouraged to create their Smart911 Safety Profile, which is secure and will only be available to the 9-1-1 system during times of an emergency call.  The Smart911 Profile does not contain mandatory fields and citizens will only input information in the profile they feel is important or critical for emergency situations.  This may include medical conditions or allergies, the bedroom location of a disabled person or photographs of a child with special needs that will provide real time information that will greatly assist police officers, firefighters and Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs).

You can set up your Smart911 Profile by registering at www.smart911.com. Your secure profile can be tied to both a home and cell phone number.  For questions on the Smart911 System please visit the Smart911 website or contact the Rockwall Police Department at 972-771-7717

New City Hall

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By a 4 to 1 margin, the City Council of McLendon Chisholm voted to approve the purchase of a municipal bond in the amount of $1.5 million to fund construction of a new City Hall.  Council-member Gary Lovell objected because he believes that the people should be allowed to vote on the measure, since it puts the city in debt for the first time and will result in a 6% increase in annual property taxes, which will become effective in 2016.

The completion date for the new facility is for late 2015.  The new city hall will also have meeting space available for our HOA to hold ourAnnual Meeting.  Below are pictures of the architectural renderings for the proposed plan that were taken by Robert Steinhagen from posters set up on easels at the meeting.  Click the image to enlarge.

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