City Council Reports

came to $18,000 upfront but would save 65 percent in electricity cost per year which would lower the annual cost of lighting from $10,000 to roughly $3,300. That equates to the investment paying off in three years.

Howe will now join Van Alstyne, Whitewright, Anna and Melissa who had already made the investment with the new improved lighting systems The life expectancy of the new bulbs is 12,000 hours and has a replacement cost of $28 The yearly issue of constantly changing bulbs will be a thing of the past Van Alstyne has yet to replace a bulb and they are seven years into the system

Thurman initially reached out to City Administrator Joe Shephard who got with Mayor Jeff Stanley.

They decided to put the investment opportunity in front of the Howe Community Facilities Development Corporation, otherwise known as the 4B board. The HCFDC has the ability to use their separate funds (which stands at approximately $160,000) towards projects such as improvements and various other projects

On Monday night, HCFDC approved the funding of the lighting, but it still had to be approved by the city council the following night On Tuesday, the city council unanimously voted in favor of the upgraded facilities

Hash Field was originally a softball field built in the 1980s and named in honor of Vincent Hash, who was the longstanding softball commissioner and built the field.

Howe Police Chief Carl Hudman reported that for the month of February, they answered 110 calls for service and made four felony arrests They also made three misdemeanor arrests and generated fourteen reports HPD investigated four accidents and issued 39 citations He also reported that they had a couple of officers that attended training Hudman estimated that they spent easily over 100 hours on the roads during the icy weather

David Wortham reported that the Public Works division had 37 work orders, one leak, three dogs that were captured. He said that the new 12-inch waterline passed all of the tests and that the new sewer lines were being tested but the weather held back the progress

Wortham said that due to the ice, the department now has quite a few potholes to fill

Howe Fire Chief Robert Maniet reported a total of 43 calls in the month of February He also said that they had 23 medical calls and ran four grass fires and two of the four ended up being illegal burns that spread rapidly They had four structure fires with two being out in the county that became total losses due to the ice and the slow response due to the road conditions Maniet reported seven motor vehicle assists and five mutual aid requests from other departments He said the fire department also spent countless hours on the highways assisting the police departments with vehicles

Howe Development Alliance Director Monte Walker reported that they now have a website that can be found at howetexas org Walker told the council that he's met with several real estate owners with high profile properties in Howe. He reported one building permit that has been approved for a home to be built in the Summit Hill division. Another application was pulled late Tuesday afternoon

He gave the council an update on the progress of the new EDC building and recapped the swapping of downtown building ownership from Paris Palacios to Tom and Leslie Defrange

City Administrator Joe Shephard reported that the city has little over $619,000 in cash-on-hand The municipal court generated over $16,000 in February

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Milks was born in 1970 in Millington, Tennessee to David and Virginia Milks His father was a career sailor nd the Milks family settled in North Texas after David Milks' retirement from the US Navy in 1980 Keith Milks and his two older brothers, Bryan nd Kevin graduated from Denison High School

Milks enlisted in the US Marine Corps in 1990 and retired in 2011 at the rank of Master Sergeant His career included tours at stations throughout the United States and multiple overseas deployments. He participated in humanitarian relief efforts in the Horn of Africa, maritime interception operations in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean.and counter-insurgeny and combat operations in both Afghanistan and Iraq

Following his retirement, Milks earned his masters degree in military history and graduated with honors from the Texoma Regionl Police Academy in December, 2014

Mllks lives in Denison with his wife of 22 years, Barbara, and their 18-year-old son David Barbara Milks retired from the US Marine Corps in 2011 also as a Chief Warrant Officer 3 and is currently employed by the Grayson County Sheriff's Office Their son is a college student and works as a waiter and busser at a Denison restaurant

Ozuna was born in 1993 in Tyler, Texas to Kathy Wright and Keith Ozuna he moved to Grayson County in 2008 and was a student at Howe High School, where he graduated in 2012. He then enrolled at Grayson College to study criminal justice. Ozuna graduated from Texoma Regional Police Academy in December of 2014 and is currently working on his associates degree in criminal justice

Ozuna lives in Howe with his fiance Shea Davis and his daughter Paisley

Ironically, Ozuna's uncle is John Grant, who was the part-time officer who recently left for the position in Murphy