Commissioner Garcia and her colleagues welcomed Dr. José Octavio Tripp Villanueva, the new Consul General of Mexico, as a visitor to Dallas County Commissioners Court yesterday. Consul General Tripp, a member of the Mexican Foreign Service since 1994, also served as Director General of the Scientific and Technical Cooperation at the Mexican Agency for International Development (AMEXCID) at the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs as of May 2013.
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Saving $175k per year through innovative case management system and a Truancy Court system that has become a national model
[Dallas, TX] — Dallas County Commissioner Dr. Theresa Daniel honored members of the Dallas County Clerk and I.T offices as well as Truancy staff for a job well done and receiving the Tyler Technology Excellence Award. This award is given each year to a county who has used Tyler’s case management system, Odyssey, to implement additional best practices outside of the case management systems normal functionality.
Lots of laughs, handshaking and teamwork expressed at Groundbreaking today!
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PIC #1: (L-R) Eugene Lowe, Former Mayor, Wilmer; Alberta Blair, Dir. Public Works Dallas County; County Commissioner John Wiley Price | PIC #2: (L-R) Bill Hale District Engineer, TxDOT; Alberta Blair, PWorks DC; County Judge Clay Jenkins; Desoto Mayor Carl Sherman; County Commissioners Theresa Daniel and John Wiley Price; Michael Morris, Dir. Transportation, NCTCOG; Hector Pena, Mayor Pro Tem, City of Wilmer
Dallas County, the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) and the City of Wilmer celebrated the groundbreaking of the $12.6 million Pleasant Run Overpass this morning. The project is the second phase of a commitment that includes the recently constructed Wintergreen Overpass just to the north and will be virtually identical. Both projects represent critical links to the Inland Port, providing safer crossings at Millers Ferry and the railroad for the traveling public.
Officials at the event expressed great pride in the incredible teamwork, leadership and vision this took to get done, emphasizing that leadership on the part of Commissioner Price. Price thanked partners, the City of Wilmer and Michael Morris, Director of Transportation at the North Texas Council of Governments (NTCOG) for “always being mindful of Southern Dallas when it comes to development…”
The new bridge over Union Pacific tracks and Millers Ferry Road will enable continuous traffic flow from Interstate 45 to areas west of Millers Ferry Road in the City of Wilmer and into Hutchins and Lancaster. This major project transforms Pleasant Run Road which currently consists of a two-lane asphalt road with a railroad crossing and no sidewalks. When completed next summer, it will feature sidewalks and a four-lane continuous concrete overpass that will take vehicles and pedestrians over both Millers Ferry Road and a multiple set of busy railroad tracks without interruption.
Maria Arita Chief PIO Dallas County
Commissioner Price called the work of nurses a “calling that can be undertaken only by the most gifted and dedicated of individuals–people who can be strong in the most extreme and emotional of situations; people who can make instantaneous decisions that can save a life; and people who can make an injured child smile and a dying person feel safe.” He pointed specifically to the heavily utilized Parkland Hospital, with over 130,000 emergency room visits, 18,500 surgeries, their many community clinics, deliveries and nearly eight (8) million prescriptions filled per year, as a hallmark of the important nature of the work of nurses. The Commissioner said they are on the frontlines every day and are the foundation of the Hospital … “the foundation, its heart, its face and the bonding agent.” But, he said “the most significant contribution (of nurses) to Dallas County is their compassion and professionalism…they consistently display.”
Dallas County Commissioners Court gratefully extends its sincere appreciation to the 3,020 nurses of Parkland Hospital for the life-saving and life-giving role that they perform every hour of every day and for the example that they set for each of us and designates the period of May 6 through May 12, 2013 as “National Nurses’ Week.”
