Bill Cecil
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Phone: 972-771-7700, 972-771-3362
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Campaign contributions
| Donor | Date | Amount | In-Kind details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bruce R. Paton | February 7, 2005 | $300.00 | |
| Carol Crow | June 21, 2005 | $250.00 | |
| Carolyn Holt | April 5, 2005 | $50.00 | |
| Greg McGee | April 30, 2005 | $100.00 | |
| Griffin & Barbara Jones | April 10, 2005 | $100.00 | |
| Home Builders Association of Greater Dallas | Unknown | $250.00 | |
| Leonard D. Lowry | April 4, 2005 | $200.00 | |
| Lynn M. Niemi | April 1, 2005 | $75.00 | |
| Mac H. Perkins | April 1, 2005 | $250.00 | |
| Mary Cushman North | May 1, 2005 | $300.00 | |
| Mr. & Mrs. Harold Solomon | April 10, 2005 | $100.00 | |
| Pel Pannell Smith | April 4, 2005 | $100.00 | |
| Robert E. Edwards | April 1, 2005 | $100.00 | |
| Robert L. Amick | April 10, 2005 | $300.00 | |
| Ronald & Barbara Coleson | April 26, 2005 | $50.00 | |
| Ross Ramsey | April 6, 2005 | $300.00 | |
| Samuel E. Noel | April 1, 2005 | $500.00 | |
| Taylor McClure | April 16, 2005 | $100.00 | |
| Total: $3,425.00 | |||
Pegasus News campaign survey (March 31, 2007)
What is the one greatest thing that the Rockwall City Council has achieved in the past year?
There have been a number of outstanding accomplishments over the past year. Among those are a large number of road improvement initiatives, the start of work on the drainage improvements that were identified over five years ago, the finalization of engineering design on the Animal Adoption Center and two Fire Stations, and the beginning of change in the governmental process. Of these, I would rank the change in governmental process as the greatest achievement. Rockwall has grown very rapidly over the past five years and it has been difficult to keep pace. One of the biggest obstacles to overcome has been the governmental process … doing business the same way we’ve always done it. Given my experience with the Customer Centered Culture (C3) while working with the Department of Defense, I introduced and the Council adopted a philosophy that the City’s government process would transition to being more customer centered and oriented. We are well on our way to achieving this objective, now one of the City’s Seven Focus Areas, of becoming a government that is first and foremost concerned about its customers … the citizens of Rockwall. This, in my opinion, is our greatest achievement of the past year.
What is the single biggest improvement that the Rockwall City Council needs?
Rockwall’s City Council has in the past and continues to be an outstanding government body. Individually we all bring experience, knowledge, passion, and a love for our community to the table. If there is any major improvement that it is needed it would be operational efficiency. Our Council is dealing with some of the most complex issues ever to face a City Council. The very nature of these issues and the complexity of all the elements surrounding these issues consume considerable time and effort. Our typical ‘formal’ meetings each month begin at 2 PM and rarely conclude before midnight. In addition to the two formal meetings, we are often faced with additional subcommittee, work session, and other ad hoc meetings during the month. These all take a lot of personal time and effort from members who have primary paying jobs. The operational efficiency with which we conduct our meetings, if streamlined, could yield a big and most valuable improvement for all of us.
What is the toughest problem that you have ever solved?
I presume that since this is a political forum addressing issues that typically face members of the City Council that the question lends itself to a Council solution. The City of Rockwall, as previously stated, faces numerous issues and problems in its day-to-day operations. One of the more complex issues was the one that involved litigation over annexation proceedings coupled with development of the land that had been subject of the annexation process. Given that this matter was tied up in litigation one would have presumed that the matter would just sit idly by while Justices of the Supreme Court of Texas took whatever action they deemed necessary. But, such was not the case. There were two sets of developers who sought opportunities to bring development to an area within the city limits that was tied by ownership to the property in the land that was subject of the litigation. Our City Staff and the entire Council worked tirelessly to bring about a development that would yield the quality and amenities that our citizens on the north side of town deserve. This work took many hours, by many people, spread over a three-year time span, finally coming to conclusion in March 2007. This, by far, was the toughest problem we ever faced and one that I am proud to say we solved.
If you are elected and can only achieve ONE quantifiable thing in your term, what would you want it to be?
First, there is no candidate for any political office who would ever be willing to accept the fact that he or she could only achieve one quantifiable thing. There is rarely one single item that can be viewed more important than another. The one quantifiable thing that every candidate for office can cling to is the campaign promise. Each of us make commitments or promises of things we’ll do “if elected.” When I campaigned for the office of Mayor of the City of Rockwall in 2005, I did make a campaign promise. That promise was to work hard to solve the traffic congestion problems in Rockwall. I have lived up to that promise during my first term as Mayor and will continue to do so when re-elected in 2007. The road has not been easy because too many of the major traffic-carrying roadways in Rockwall are owned and controlled by the Texas Department of Transportation (TXDoT). Through diligent work and close coordination with State and Local TXDoT Officials I have been successful in expediting long overdue road improvement projects. Efforts to begin the reconstruction project State Highway 205 (SH205) is now underway, extensive work projects on other state highways (FM549, FM276, and FM3097) are in various stages of work, and TXDoT has assigned a Project Number to begin looking at SG66 as it winds through downtown Rockwall to the East. In addition, through an extensive Bond Proposition, the construction of the SH205 Bypass project has begun. Finally, for those roads that the City does control, reconstruction projects for major thoroughfares are in various stages of work – all the way from engineering design on some to completion on others. If there is a single quantifiable thing that I could achieve it would be to CONTINUE to live up to my 2005 Campaign Promise – improve the traffic congestion problem in Rockwall.
