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ROCKWALL – The Rockwall City Council voted 7-0 Monday night to appoint Interim City Manager Rick Crowley to the permanent position of City Manager for the City of Rockwall. The decision was made conditioned on the basis that both parties agree to the terms of a contract which has not yet been finalized by either [...]
ROCKWALL – Julie Couch started her career with the City of Rockwall in 1979 as an administrative assistant. She was appointed city manager in 1993. Now she is gone. Friday was her last day. The Rockwall City Council voted 5-2 late last Monday night to terminate her contract and have city attorney Pete Eckert prepare [...]
ROCKWALL – Former Rockwall City Council member and attorney Matt Scott last week filed what appears to be a highly unusual Public Information Open Records Request with the City of Rockwall requesting to see what amounts to thousands of emails written and received by City Council members over an as-yet-unknown period of time. According to [...]
(NBC5-TV News) ROCKWALL – Rockwall is trying to reduce the number of animals its shelter euthanizes. The City Council recently passed an ordinance calling for the city’s animal shelter to try to adopt, return to owners or save at least 90 percent of all the animals brought there. Animals that are very sick or extremely [...]
ROCKWALL – The Rockwall City Council voted 7-0 last night to postpone the City’s $60 million planned bond elections and to reconsider them next May. The City had proposed that four items be submitted to voters for approval, including: A $25 million youth sports complex, which supporters say will generate thousands of dollars in revenue [...]
ROCKWALL – A new leadership era will be ushered in this evening for the City of Rockwall when newly-elected Mayor David Sweet and City Council members David White, Bennie Daniels and Michelle Smith will be sworn in at the public portion of the City Council meeting. City Council meetings are held the first and third [...]
ROCKWALL – Nine candidates have filed to run for the three open Rockwall City Council seats by yesterday’s 5 pm deadline. The seats of Mayor Bill Cecil and two-term Council members David Sweet and Glen Farris are open because Cecil must step down after being elected to three two-year terms. Sweet and Farris have announced [...]
Two-term Rockwall City Council Member Glen Farris announced his candidacy for Mayor of the City of Rockwall in a news release yesterday. First elected to the City Council in 2007, the current Mayor Pro Tem said he is excited at the prospect of serving the citizens of Rockwall. “I have prepared myself to be Mayor [...]
Garbage collection in the City of Rockwall will continue twice weekly after all, without an increase in rates, after the Rockwall City Council voted 6-1 not to change the current garbage collection policy at Monday night’s Council meeting. Council’s Environmental Subcommittee members Glen Farris, Mark Russo and Cliff Sevier had proposed an enhanced recycling program [...]
In an effort to increase city-wide recycling, the City of Rockwall is seriously considering providing each household with one lidded, 95-gallon wheeled “single-stream” cart for recycling, plus one lidded, 95-gallon rolling cart for garbage. But, in return, garbage pickup would be reduced to just once per week and recycling pickup to just every other week. [...]
