Dear Citizens,

Here we are in the beautiful season of spring in Texas. Did you know that Texas has more wildflowers than any other state and blooms come throughout the year. If you pass our highways and byways during the spring months, you will see a variety of wildflowers.

Our parks are a perfect place to visit in the springtime. Well, you all know we are not having our big Arbor Daze Festival this year and that was a really difficult decision for the Council to make, but we always have our citizens to care for and our decisions are based on that formula. However, we will be doing some special activities that are included inside this edition. We all realize that our health means so much to each of us. Our city has initiated a Health Program for our employees and now for our citizens.

We are following the United States Conference of Mayors health initiative as well as our community health initiatives. Our employees started a health plan in January and have followed with a community initiative. We are joining with the Harris Methodist HEB Hospital for a nationwide program called "Stepping Out.” The dates for that walking program will be April 24 through April 30. We will aim to walk 10,000 steps each day for that week and then continue walking to keep fit and healthy.

The city is excited about all the development coming to Euless in the next two years. Construction begins on The Shops at Vineyard Village in early summer. This will be the largest commercial development in Euless in our fifty year history. And there's more to come with the even larger development across the Hwy 121 corridor south of the Target store.

Construction continues on Pipeline Road and hopefully will be completed by fall. Highway 10 is completed and construction begins on Glade Road soon. With the completion of these projects our infrastructure will be completed but we will continue to renovate our residential byways.

The new environmentally pleasing park, The Preserve at McCormick Park, opened this spring. This park has many amenities no other park in our city has. Many of the designs were contributed by our school children. Our Veterans Field is ready for play and it is truly a beauty.

We congratulate Jerry Poteet as our Employee of the Year for 2005. Many of you know Jerry as our Volunteer Coordinator for all the city activities. We congratulate all our employees of the month and special thanks to Jerry.

We welcome our new library administrator, Kate Lyon. Kate worked in our library several years ago and has served on our library board and lives here in Euless. WELCOME Kate!

Do enjoy all the variety of activities provided for you in our parks, recreation centers and city library. Check out our web site for up-to-date information on city activities and sign up for MyEuless if interested.

This is a truly great year for our Euless citizens and we are fortunate to have so many good things coming our way. Watch us grow but enjoy all the great activities available for each of us. Don't forget to volunteer for some of our special events…we need you and depend on our super volunteers. TOGETHER WE ARE BUILDING A BETTER TOMORROW for our community.

Mary Lib Saleh
Mayor