2023-2025 KEY MILESTONES

Development and Growth:

• Development Agreements with multiple developers
• Impact Fees to enable cost-effective growth
• Annexations to ensure city tax base will accommodate expanding services
• Recruiting commercial developments
• Transitioned to new inspections company with internal oversight
• Master Drainage Plan

Personnel:

• Pay Scale implementation
• Comprehensive Salary Survey with implementation
• Improved employee health insurance benefits
• Improved retirement benefits
• Active Shooter awareness training for all City Hall employees

Technology Upgrades:

• Finance software (FundView)
• Permit software and online system (iWorq’s)
• CivicClerk to manage agendas and meeting minutes
• MuniCode codification project
• Microsoft Government Cloud software with cybersecurity compliance

Public Safety:

• New Police Station (Tax Improvement Reinvestment Zone Contribution)
• Replaced old police vehicles
• New contract for disaster debris hauling and monitoring
• Standardized school zones at 20mph

Community Events:

• Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony at City Hall (Festival of Lights)
• Fourth of July Celebration at Freedom Field (FourthFest)
• MLK Day Program and Parade
• Birthday Bash (Iowa Colony 50th)
• TxDOT Town Hall
• Family Fun Day (Sterling Lakes) / Block Party (Meridiana) / National Night Out (various)

Other accomplishments:

• Strategic Plan
• Capital Improvement Plan (2023)
• TxDOT Overpass Project underway
• Started a Teen Advisory Council
• Franchise Agreements – Natural Gas, Electricity, and Water/Wastewater

Collaborations:

• Brazoria County Emergency Services District #3
• Iowa Colony Volunteer Fire Department
• Brazoria County Engineering
• Brazoria County Office of Emergency Management
• Brazoria County Judge’s office
• State Reps: Ed Thompson (Jeff Barry) & Cody Vasut
• TxDOT
• Neighboring cities and Regional groups (City Managers, Law Enforcement, Fire Marshals, etc.)
• Chamber of Commerce (Rebranded for inclusivity)