Mayor Gordon Guided Duncanville Through Challenges
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Duncanville Mayor Barry Gordon helped guide his city through some challenging times, especially during his second term of office. First elected in 2018, Mayor Gordon was re-elected for a second term from May of 2020 to May of 2022. During the past 16 months, Duncanville-experienced several unusual, extremely difficult challenges. The challenges started with the Covid-19 Pandemic and resulting shutdowns. Then the Uri Blizzard blanketed most of Texas earlier this year.
Mayor Gordon recalled, “The pandemic was well underway, and in the middle of that came Uri and all the power outages. Then we had the threat of possibly losing water supplies, caused by a major fire in the city. This brought on a water crisis by taking over 50% of our available supply. We had to go into water reserves, but thankfully the crisis didn’t last that long. We made public announcements asking everyone to restrict their water use. After we iden
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Steve Martin, President of the Duncanville Chamber of Commerce, says the Chamber and its members are ready and eager to emerge from their pandemic hibernation. Even better, Martin says the future looks bright for the Chamber and the City of Duncanville, and our community is ready to return to “normal” in better shape than expected.
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“We only saw one of our restaurants close, when the Luby’s Cafeteria on I-67 closed last year,” Martin said. “All of our Chamber members renewed again this year. Last year we were very proactive, with our biggest effort to Keep Dollars in Duncanville. We sent regular newsletters and posted on our Facebook page about the importance of supporting local businesses. We took photos of business owners with our signs saying ‘We Are Open,’ informing the community about who was open for take-out service or curbside pickup,” he added.