Amarillo leaders announced recipients of BBB Excellence in Community Service Award . (Source: kauz) By Tamlyn Cochran | April 22, 2021 at 5:27 PM CDT - Updated April 22 at 5:27 PM
AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) - Several area City leaders and health experts has announced the recipients of the BBB Excellence in Community Service Award.
The awards will be presented at BBB’s NEW BBB Big Blue Bash, on May 21.
The Excellence in Community Service Award is given to individuals who have shown unfailing dedication to serving the community and who bring the core values set forth by the BBB to their everyday practices.
This year’s recipients are:
Last week, the Camarillo City Council in California awarded the Clean Coalition a contract to manage design work for Hybrid Solar Microgrids at five city facilities: City Hall, Police Station, Camarillo Library, Wastewater Treatment Plant, and Corporation Yard. The projects are designed to achieve zero net energy over their anticipated 30-year life and will reduce the cumulative carbon footprint of the five sites by approximately 88 percent. The City previously approved moving forward on the Hybrid Solar Microgrids in November 2020.SMA’s ShadeFix optimization produces more energy than traditional optimizers. ShadeFix also provides greater reliability and less service risk than alternatives.
In Monday s COVID-19 report card, the first report card of the week released by the city of Amarillo s public health department, a total increase of 25 COVID-19 cases in Potter and Randall counties was reported from Friday, bringing the area s total to 33,264 cases since the start of the pandemic.
Of the total, 459 are active, which is a decrease of 67 net active cases from Friday. There have been 32,116 recoveries, an increase of 92 recoveries from Friday, and 689 deaths related to the virus, which is no change from Friday. There have been no reported deaths related to COVID-19 since Thursday.
In a statement given to the Amarillo Globe-News by the city of Amarillo, city officials stated that Monday s report card marks the first time the Amarillo Public Health Department has reported less than 500 active cases of COVID-19 since September 2, 2020.
Amarilloâs cold weather impacts City of Amarillo non-essential services Due to the Amarillo weather conditions, certain non-essential services and/or facilities will be closed or changed temporarily, starting Tuesday, Feb. 16. (Source: Pexels/stock image) By Tamlyn Cochran | February 15, 2021 at 7:08 PM CST - Updated February 15 at 7:08 PM
AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) - Due to the Amarillo weather conditions, certain non-essential services and/or facilities will be closed or changed temporarily, starting Tuesday, Feb. 16.
The majority of city operations will function as normal due to the increase in âwork-at-homeâ capabilities of city staff related to previous COVID-19 protocol.
Facilities closed effective Tuesday include:
EDWIN GREINER
This is an open letter to the membership of the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce (“ACoC”) and by extension to the Citizens of Amarillo and Potter and Randall counties. The Mission Statement of the ACoC is: “The Mission of the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce is to enhance business and industry growth while preserving a high quality of life.” I know that many businesses in the Amarillo area are barely staying alive as we moved from 2020 into 2021. Perhaps the Mission Statement of the ACoC should read: “To ensure the prosperity of its members against all impediments public and private.” Maybe the Chamber should be more oriented towards individual business and not so much the esoteric and general “enhance business” etc.