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City Council Regular Meeting

Meeting Date:

02/20/2024

BACKGROUND

Schertz Neighborhood Services was presented the Wes Castolenia Community Service Award from the Code Enforcement Association of Texas which recognizes collaborative community projects that make a positive impact.

An excerpt from the submission:

The City of Schertz hosted the inaugural Give Where You Live - Clean the Creek event on February 25, 2023 in the Cibolo Creek watershed. The Neighborhood Services team took the lead in organizing the community creek clean up by working with a variety of internal City departments and creating a public awareness campaign to recruit support from volunteers and service organizations.

With just over 100 community volunteers, alongside city departments including boots on the ground teams from Public Works and Parks and Recreation as well as additional support from our community partners including Bexar County Commissioner Precinct 4 Tommy Calvert’s office, Bexar County Environmental Services, Bexar County Sheriff SCORE unit, Cibolo Creek Municipal Authority, Republic Services and San Antonio River Authority to clean up debris in the creek. Together the team worked for 2 days removing approximately 31,000 pounds of trash, debris and discarded materials from the Cibolo Creek watershed. The impact of the clean-up was evident immediately with the reappearance of green space.

Neighborhood Services would like to invite volunteers to join in the 2^nd Annual Give Where You Live – Clean the Creek Event on February 24, 2024 from 8:30 am to 11:30 am.

Attachments
CEAT Service Award