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Goals and Objectives

11 Town Manager’s Office

The Town Manager guides, coordinates, and facilitates recommendations to the Town Council on
strategic planning initiatives and policies as well as their implementation.
Administration is also responsible for attracting, retaining, and developing a municipal and
educational work force in order to deliver exceptional municipal and academic services.

Program Trends

Current residential growth remains consistent with the past few year’s permit requests.
This past year, the Town approved Spencer Ranch, a residential development consisting of 38 new
home sites on Pearson Lane; the development is designed to be a single source delivery system
with the developer/builder being responsible for the site. The project is also planned to have a
consistent architectural type.
Centurion American continues to develop the 85-acre tract on Hwy 114 as a mixed-use
development site. CVS, Primrose Child Care facility, and Sendera Title are now in operation and the
commercial corner is anticipated to open in 2020. In addition, the service road project which will
enhance accessibility from the highway is scheduled to begin next year.
Capital Improvement Projects (CIP) have been approved by the Council for the coming fiscal year
with $2,385,749 in expenditures for improvements in roads, parks and trails, cemetery, facilities
and grounds.
Enrollment requests and lottery applications at Westlake Academy continue to remain strong, with
approximately 2,250 students on the waiting list.

2018-2019 Highlights

Development related activities continued with Charles Schwab working to construct Phase 2 of
their corporate facility. Phase 1 progressed to the stage of partial use of the facility by their staff
teams with a grand opening scheduled for the first part of 2020.
Began discussions with TXDoT to evaluate a recommendation to close the Roanoke Road and SH
170 intersection.
Graduated our tenth cohort of seniors from the Academy; with projected enrollment for
2019/2020 school year expected to be approximately 910 students (K-12);
Worked with staff to create a set of building standards that support our Comprehensive Plan and
will help with future development in the community.
Restructured our administration department to provide for a broader base of support to the
community and our department teams.

2019-2020 Goals and Objectives

Continue organizational development of the municipal and academic teams into a cohesive, unified
entity with a focus on providing responsive, accessible, and efficient public services.
Streamline development processes and procedures; create a modeling software review option for a
multi-dimensional look at proposed development and site layout.

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