In May 2007, Todd Meier won a seat on the Addison City
Council, earning the most votes by a wide margin over two incumbents.
Excited to make a difference in
the town where he has lived almost all his life, Todd
played a key role in:
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Worked with Staff and Councilmember Greg
Hirsh
to develop our Sustainability Philosophy, which was
ultimately approved by a unanimous vote of council.
The Philosophy includes a serious commitment to
recycling, energy conservation, and water
conservation as well as the development of
guidelines to encourage sustainability in new
developments like the UDR project, Vitruvian.
Helped council and staff focus on the service
deficiencies of our wireless internet provider, Red
Moon. We held Red Moon accountable for service
improvements by requiring monthly appearances and
updates to council.
Helped Council and staff focus and bring a sense
of urgency to dealing with the increasing law
enforcement challenges brought to us by one of our
extended stay hotels.
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Proposed and Council adopted a
practice of having Quarterly public brainstorming
idea and policy sessions, where ideas and issues
could be openly debated. The practice was followed
for all of 2008.
Worked with Councilmember Jimmy Niemann to develop
a 90 day model for business retention that lead to
the unanimous Council endorsement of our present
business retention efforts. As a Councilmember I
have personally made over 40 visits with a key staff
person to visit Addison businesses to thank them for
being customers of Addison and open the lines of
communication as well as resolve any issues they may
have with us.
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Organized and facilitated a Saturday
morning economic development workshop attended by
council, staff and local stakeholders to begin a
dialog and process for developing our economic
development strategy.
Voted against the tax increase of 2008/2009.
Voted in favor of strict enforcement of our sign
ordinances.
Voted in favor of private development at our
airport.
Worked with a dedicated group of Town employees
and Councilmember Jimmy Niemann to suggest revisions
to our Town's employee retirement plan to
significantly reduce the Town's unfunded liability. The Council subsequently enacted those revisions.
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Worked with staff at our Service Center to develop
and implement a fleet technician productivity and
efficiency tracking system.
