2014 Colleyville City Council

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Terms and compensation

The mayor and council serve three-year terms with no term limits and without compensation.

TV coverage

Meetings are broadcast live on Verizon Channel 16 and Time Warner Channel 15. Replays air at 6 p.m. on the Thursdays and Sundays of meeting weeks. Webcasts also are available at www.colleyville.com.

Hot topics in 2013

Economic development

• Whole Foods Market will occupy the long-empty former Albertsons building on Colleyville Boulevard. The incentive: $2.25 million in grants from the city to the developer.

Infrastructure

• The City Council and staff took a hard look this year at solutions to crumbling roads and other needs, and approved the city's first-ever five-year Comprehensive capital improvements program, which has a budget of $27 million for various projects.

Sidewalks

• The council listened as residents attended regular meetings in 2013 to protest having to either construct sidewalks or pay into an escrow fund for later sidewalk construction in their area. In response, a joint City Council/Sidewalks Committee meeting was conducted and changes to the policy were discussed. The council should see a new policy for its consideration in 2014.

A look at 2014

Whole Foods Market opening

• The natural foods store expects to open this year in the former Albertsons at 4801 Colleyville Blvd. City leaders expect it to attract more retail to the center, now called Colleyville Downs.

SH 26 construction

• Work on the city's main thoroughfare, which has been under construction since summer as part of a state resurfacing project, is supposed to be completed in 2014. The council submitted an amendment to the Regional Transportation Council in December 2013 that includes creating a four-lane, landscaped boulevard "to improve the aesthetics of the City's primary commercial corridor," said city spokeswoman Mona Gandy.

Glade Road expansion

• Project designer TranSystems has conducted two public meetings and taken a survey to get resident input on expanding the road. Residents turned out in force to voice concerns about expansion, fearing it will eliminate the many large trees alongside portions of Glade Road. Construction could start in 2014.