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• Police department personnel participated in several training events with Citizen’s Police
Academy Alumni and Northwest Tarrant County CERT

• Completed residential water meter replacements with cellular technology and continuing
to replace commercial businesses

• Recreation Center continues to see increases in Memberships and Day Passes

• Implemented Darktrace email monitoring system for added security

• Construction to be completed by end of summer for Phase 1 of Knowles

• Implemented new City web site

• Saginaw Public Library was fully accredited by the Texas State Library and Archives
Comission

• Completion of new sidewalks on Thompson Street funded by Community Development
Block Grant Program

• City Council approved a professional recommendation to join the Northeast Tarrant
Chamber of Commerce

• Economic Development staff created a new section on the Economic Development web
site dedicated to small businesses

• Awarded the Economic Excellence Recognition and Community Economic from the
Texas Economic Development Council

• Hosted three Local Business Forums

• Welcomed 50+ new businesses to the City of Saginaw

• Saginaw Public Library joined MetroShare Community of Libraries for resource sharing
and collaboration. It has expanded the collection available to patrons, as well as
providing better software/catalog experience

• The Library received the Achievement of Excellence in Libraries Award from the TMLDA

• The Children’s Librarians have fully resumed the Early Childhood Outreach Program
(post-covid) and have interacted with 4,458 children to date in FY23 in that specific
program alone

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