Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 123, No. 27, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 3, 2005 Page: 2 of 50
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PAGE 2A - POLK COUNTY ENTERPRISE, SUNDAY, APRIL 3,2005
City manager credits staff, council
ENTERPRISE PHOTO BY EMILY BANKS
RETIREMENT RECOGNIZED - Livingston Mayor Ben R.
Ogletree Jr. presents a plaque to City Manager Sam Gordon
in honor of Gordon’s retirement
city manager of Livingston.
during a reception Thursday
after serving 20 years as city i
Mailboxes damaged
LIVINGSTON A driver report-
edly blacked out while driving
through the Totem Pole Lodge
parking lot and struck several mail
boxes, one of which damaged a
mail delivery vehicle, according to
the Texas Highway Patrol.
Burice Baxley, 80, of Livingston
was driving a 1986 Toyota pickup
truck when the incident occurred, at
approximately 1:45 p.m. Tuesday.
The United States Postal Service
mailboxes struck were just north of
the parking lot, according to
Trooper Robert Akers.
Baxley, listed with possible inju-
ries, was transported by private
vehicle to a personal physician. No
charges were filed.
Producers vote to continue
weevil eradication program
j^tjgfFlN-r- The Texas Depart-
mehtgjp!&,.Agriculture announced
todaf that cotton producers in the
Southern Blacklands Boll Weevil
Eradication Zone have voted to
continue program operations. Final
results were 522 voting “for” and
14 voting “against” continuation.
TDA issued 962 ballots to cotton
producers who were eligible to vote
in the referendum. A total of 536
valid ballots were postmarked by
the March 15 deadline and counted.
In addition to deciding that the
program be continued in the zone
with a maximum annual assessment
of S27 per land acre of irrigated
cotton and SI2 per land acre of
dryland cotton, voters elected
Wilburn Beckhusen of Milam
County to represent the Zone on the
statewide board of directors for the
Texas Boll Weevil Eradication
Foundation Inc.
The Southern Blacklands Boll
Weevil Eradication Zone consists
of approximately 113,000 acres of
cotton in all of Anderson, Ange-
lina, Bastrop, Bell, Blanco, Brazos,
Burleson, Burnet, Caldwell, Camp,
Chambers, Cherokee, Comal,
Coryell, Falls, Fayette, Freestone,
Galveston, Gillespie, Gonzales,
Gregg, Grimes, Guadalupe, Hardin,
Harris, Harrison, Hays, Houston,
Jasper, Jefferson, Kendall, Lampa-
sas, Lee, Leon, Liberty, Llano,
Madison, Marion, Milam, Mills,
Montgomery, Nacogdoches, New-
ton, Orange, Panola, Polk, Robert-
son, Rusk, Sabine,i&m^ugustine,
San Jacinto, Sai^a^-- Shelby,
Smith, Travis, Trinity, Tyler,-. Up-
shur, Walker, Washington* Wil-
liamson and Wood counties as well
as portions of Limestone, McLen-
nan and Waller counties.
from page 1
not to change jobs was a little
tougher decision this time. I was
vested in the Teacher Retirement
System, my position with the
school district was fairly stable and
I had two youngsters that would be
in college in a few years. Margie
and I thoroughly discussed the
change and based on my faith in
Tom’s honesty, forthrightness and
advice, we accepted the offer.
Luckily, when Tom did retire, I
was offered the job of city manager
and gladly accepted.
‘To all three of these kindly gen-
tlemen, I offer my utmost thanks
and gratitude for your faith in my
abilities. I assure you, I have not
and will not forget your thought-
fulness,” Gordon said.
“For my entire city career, I have
had the good fortune to work for
only one mayor. Not many city
managers can brag about that, but I
am here to tell you that Mayor
Ogletree and I formed a partnership
many years ago. For better or
worse, I feel our partnership has
been very successful. I could not
have asked for a more rewarding
experience than to have served as
city manager for Mayor Ogletree
for the last 20 years,” Gordon said.
“Over the last 20 years, I have
had the opportunity to work with
several different members of the
community who happened to be
elected to the council. During all
those years, and without exception,
I have been gratified in the quality
of people elected to serve as aider-
men. From each member I was able
to glean some valuable lessons and
experience,” Gordon said. “To all
the various members of the council
for whom I have served during the
last 20 years, I thank you for being
the kinds of members that other
cities admire and try to emulate.
Your support and encouragement
during all the trying times and all
the good times was indeed a bless-
ing to me and I gratefully appreci-
ate it.
“The true strength of any man-
ager’s job is the personnel doing
the actual work. Any successes I
may have had during the last 20
years is directly attributable to the
very fine staff I have had the pleas-
ure of working with over the
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years,” Gordon said. “With few
exceptions, I believe Livingston
has had the benefit of some of the
most skilled, able and trained su-
pervisors and line employees of
any city in the state. It has been a
most rewarding experience to
watch as the supervisors grew into
their jobs and developed as top
notch administrators. My job has
been so much easier by having their
expertise immediately available to
administer the everyday activities
of the city. Thank you very much,
supervisors, for your cooperation,
dedication, loyalty and your com-
mitment to serving the citizens of
Livingston.
“Lastly, I don’t know that I have
words to describe my gratitude to
my friend, associate, companion,
foil, advisor, sounding board and
right hand person, Marilyn Sutton.
Since day one when I was first ap-
pointed to this position, she has
been the one constant in an ever
changing environment. Marilyn
was the first person to offer her
congratulations and the first to of-
fer ahy help to me during the tran-
sition to a new position,” Gordon
said. “It is difficult to express how
much our relationship has meant to
me during the last 20 years. From
the very beginning after my ap-
pointment, I have depended on
Marilyn’s advice, wisdom, com-
mon sense and knowledge of peo-
ple to guide me in some of the
tougher decisions that needed to be
made. Livingston is very fortunate
Jo have a person of her caliber ap-
pointed to fill the position of city
manager. I can assure all of you the
business of the city will be con-
ducted by a scrupulously honest
and professional public servant.
Marilyn, thank you so much for
being my friend and helper during
my career at city hall.
“Thanks to all of you for coming
out today. It is gratifying to see that
I still have some friends left who
have taken the time to help me
celebrate,” Gordon said. “I often
joked to the council during the last
ENTERPRISE
Administrative
Professionals
Section
few years that 1 needed to retire
pretty soon oi I would be faced
with the prospect of having to hire
pall bearers for my own funeral.
Several times during my stay here,
I have wondered if I would have
enough friends left to, do the duty.
“Thanks to everyone for every-
thing. It has been a wonderful ex-
perience serving as your city man-
ager and I hope that in some small
way, I have cbntributed to the
wellbeing and continued prosperity
of Livingston,” Gordon said.
Others taking the opportunity to
express well wishes to Gordon and
present him with plaques or certifi-
cates of appreciation were: Corky
Cochran, chief of the Livingston
Volunteer Fire Department, and
several LVFD firefighters; Dr
Carol Ann Bonds, USD superin-
tendent, and two USD trustees,
Corky Evans and. Henry Ager;
Nancy Stovall, president of the
Livingston-Polk County Chamber
of Commerce; and Polk County
Judge John P. Thompson.
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White, Barbara. Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 123, No. 27, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 3, 2005, newspaper, April 3, 2005; Livingston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth821084/m1/2/?q=j+w+gardner: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Livingston Municipal Library.