Business View Civil and Municipal | May/June 2022

97 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 3, ISSUE 5 much more.” With Manor celebrating its sesquicentennial this year, Charbonneau notes how amazing it’s been to see the city come together. “We’re hosting an event each month, small or large,” she elaborates. “I also run three ‘shop local’ campaigns every year, and I’d love to see more businesses get involved with that. We’ve worked with the National League of Cities in the past and we’ve got our own website called Biz 101, which helps businesses that are interested in Manor to get set up with what they need to grow here.” A tighter partnership between City Council and Manor’s Chamber of Commerce is being explored in addition to incubator models for accelerating small business growth and success. Having experienced first-hand the link between arctic warming and unusual cold snaps, Manor is also looking at mainstreaming climate considerations with significant infrastructure changes. In this regard, 2021 was a watershed year defined by huge accomplishments, including a major overhaul of Manor’s wastewater lines. “We’ve recently upgraded one of our main treatment plants – the Wilbarger Creek Regional Wastewater Treatment Facility,” Dunlop says. “We did an $18M bond to expand it and it’s now a 1.3M gallon a day facility. In another subdivision, we’ve built a new treatment plant which is our Cottonwood Creek facility. It’s smaller – about a half-million gallons – and it’s on the east side of town. As soon as the first 200,000 gallons came online, development said ‘We want in on that’.” Engineers are now working with the Texas Water Development Board to get more financing for their regional plant, which would hopefully secure them another 1.5M gallon plant for the southeast portion. “In the city’s extraterritorial jurisdictions, we MANOR , TEXAS 512-282-3508 o | 512-280-1099 f www.wasteconnections.com