MAYOR

Donna Arp
(817) 540-3119
Darp7@aol.com

• Continue Preserving Colleyville's Quality of Life

• Implement Well-Planned Economic Development

• Guide Hwy. 26 Safety and Beautification Project     

• Complete Justice Center

• Complete City Hall

• Complete Library

• Keep Building Projects on Time/Under Budget

• Demand Value for Dollars Spent

• Enforce No Tax Increase

• Broaden Senior and Youth Programs

• Expand Parks, Sidewalks, Hike and Bike Trails

Mike Taylor
(817) 377-9966
MichaelTaylor@home.com

• Restore Common Sense Leadership in the Mayor’s Office

• Restore Fairness and Equality to All Citizens and Applicants with Business Before City Hall

• Stop Special Treatment and $$$ Incentives to Favored Developers

• Protect Our Property Rights and Property Values

• Restore the Conservative Fiscal Policy that Built Colleyville’s Excellent Bond Rating and Provide Conservative Fiscal Leadership That Will Protect Us from Future Tax Increases.

• Get Control of the Runaway Costs the City Hall and Library Projects, Establish Budgets and Keep Them on Schedule to Prevent Further, Costly Delays.

• Establish A Contingency Plan To Protect The Taxpayer’s Investment if the Village at Colleyville Fails to Meet Its Projections

• Restore the Citizen’s Trust by Opening Up the Decision Making Process and Honor Our Master Plan Which is the Citizen’s Contract with Their Elected Officials

• Maintain and Repair Our Existing Road Surfaces and Relieve Congestion with Improved Intersections and Turn Lanes Where Needed.

• Honor Our Contractual Obligations to Protect the City’s Integrity.

• Maintain Our Parks and Recreation Investment, Develop Open Space Parks, Enhance Our Senior Citizen Programs and Plan for the Needs of Future Generations of Our Youth and Young at Heart

• Maintain Competitive Pay Scales for Our City Employees and Men and Women in Uniform.

PLACE 1

Joe Hocutt
(817)  577-2151

•  No response received to date.

Jody Short
(817) 281-9776
Jshort@lee-eng.com

• Restore Fiscal Responsibility - We should not initiate projects until we have the tax base to support the project.  If that means waiting a few years for a City Hall, so be it.

• Improve SH 26 - work with TxDOT as the design of the roadway is developed.  The final desing will add a third lane in each direction and a landscaped median to enhance the appearance and improve safety and efficiency of traffic movement.

• Improve parks and access to parks for all citizens - provide sidewalks for access to parks and provide amenities such as walking trails and play equipment.

• Encourage Quality Commercial Development - build upon and expand existing businesses and recruit new businesses that will enhance the quality of life in Colleyville.  

• Improve Safety of Streets - Establish program to identity and remove roadside hazards.  Provide sidewalks and strictly enforce traffic regulations (stop signs and speed limits).  Avoid developing new streets that will encourage speeding in residential areas.

• Improve Infrastructure - Provide water, drainage and sewer infrastructure to meet the needs of existing citizens as well as new development.

• Library for the Citizens of Colleyville - Develop a facility that will serve the diverse needs of our young children, teenagers, young adults and adults with out breaking the bank.  Our neighboring cities spend between 3 and 5 percent of their budgets on library services.  This equates to about $400k per year for Colleyville.  We should not exceed this figure until our tax base will allow us to.

• Police Station and Courts Facility - Complete the police station that will allow the police department to better serve the citizens of Colleyville, hire and retain the best officers, and be an integral part of the community.

• Participate in Regional decision making processes to solve local problems such as traffic congestion and fire protection.

• I will seek and listen to input, consider the facts of each case, and act in the best interest of all citizens of Colleyville.  

PLACE 2

 Rich Hendler
(817) 421-8165
ElectRichHendler@home.com

• Preserve Open Space
  * Build consensus on City Council -
   I will work with everyone
  * Put the "City" back in City council
  * Protect your home investment
   through conservative leadership and
  * fiscal responsibility
  * Maintain our low taxes
  * Include old and new 
  residents in the vision of "Our Town"
  * Build the library!
  * No highways through our neighborhoods
  * Appropriate commercial development
  * Build our sales tax base
  

Brad Rice
(817) 571-5353
Brice@deckerjones.com

• BUILD THE LIBRARY - The time for talking is over. Many people have donated countless hours to the construction of a library. It is time we reward their efforts.  We need to build our library without any further delay or excuses.
• OPPOSE WIDER ROADS - Wider roads will not benefit our citizens, but will only create more traffic by creating an avenue for people to cut through our city. We can widen intersections where necessary to accommodate "rush hour" traffic without diminishing our property values.
• EXPAND OUR PARK SYSTEM - We are quickly reaching a point in our development where all the land will be taken. If we do not acquire sufficient park land, it will be gone forever. Our citizens and our youth sports associations need additional park land. The solution is not to take space from one youth association and dedicate it to another. As a city we need to acquire land sufficient for all associations. In addition, we need to acquire sufficient land and right-of-ways to allow us to broaden our hike and bike trails.
• OPPOSE BIG BOX BUSINESSES - We have limited commercial space. As a city, we need to insure the businesses which come to our city enhance our tax base and are quality businesses which are desired by the majority of our citizens.
• OPPOSE ANY TAX INCREASE - We have not had a tax increase in the last 4 years. If we continue to develop our city wisely, through upscale residential projects and appropriate commercial developments, we will be able to maintain our current tax rate without any increases.
• EXPAND OUR SENIOR PROGRAMS - As our city population matures, it is necessary to look to expanding our city programs for seniors. I will seek input from our seniors in order to pursue expansion of programs which they deem desirable.
• DEVELOP A MASTER PLAN TO PRESERVE OUR RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY - As the availability of land decreases, we are faced with increasing efforts to diminish the rural atmosphere of our city. I support the development of a Master Residential Plan, to preserve those areas of the city which currently maintain our rural atmosphere. I further support a plan to develop an adequate buffer between existing residential property and future commercial development.