Coffee with the Mayor next Monday

NEXT "COFFEE WITH THE MAYOR" TO BE HELD AT NTEC, INC. JUNE 8

(June 3, 2009) Learn more about Frisco's emerging med-tech industry while you enjoy a cup of 'Coffee with the Mayor". On June 8 at 8 a.m., Mayor Maher Maso's "Coffee with the Mayor" moves to the North Texas Enterprise Center for Medical Technology (NTEC), located at 6170 Research Rd.

NTEC is a non-profit, medical technology incubator program financed through the Frisco Economic Development Corporation (FEDC) and other private partners. NTEC's 50,000 square foot headquarters opened in November 2008 at the northeast corner of Research Road and Frisco Street.
The EDC, in conjunction with the City of Frisco, issued $10.8 million bond in 2007 to build the facility. The two-story, state-of-the-art facility, includes 80 offices, 30 cubes, 10,000 square feet of highly flexible bio-labs, device labs and prototyping labs. The building can house as many as 25 entrepreneurial medical device and medical technology businesses.

It's been a year since Mayor Maso launched "Coffee with the Mayor" as one of his communication initiatives. The program centers around coffee and casual conversation and is held the second Monday of each month from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. "Coffee with the Mayor" is usually held on the fifth floor of City Hall, inside the George A. Purefoy Municipal Center, 6101 Frisco Square Blvd.

"Coffee with the Mayor" will not be held in July. "Coffee with the Mayor"
resumes on August 10 at City Hall. For more information, go to http://www.friscotexas.gov, click on 'Communication' and then find 'Coffee with the Mayor".

Like to Garden?

To commemorate National Garden Week, this Friday (June 5th), the City and the Frisco Garden Club are joining together around 8 AM to begin the replanting of the Main Street planters. Since this effort takes a lot of volunteer labor we’d love to have as many of the Downtown Merchants, Residents and Frisco Community Members join us to help if possible. We will meet out at the Gazebo around 8 AM and split up in teams and go from there. At 10:00 we will regroup at the Gazebo on Main Street in Old Town for lemonade and cookies and for a reading of a proclamation for the Garden Week celebration. Please join us on Friday if you can!

Sprinklers

Now is the time to make sure your sprinklers are off. Yes, we have plenty of water in our lakes, but over-use is still very important. The City builds infrastructure to handle peak loads. in other words, that water tank, the water lines, the pumps and everything that goes along with it is designed to handle peak loads. Of course, this costs money. Your money and my money. Using the water you only need goes a long ways in saving all of us money. Directly, through your water bill and indirectly through the infrastructure we have to build.
Also, the state mandates water conservation. Frisco has one of the highest water usage, measured in gallons used per person per day. A majority of that is irrigation. We had storms last night and it is raining right now. Every sprinkler system in Frisco should be turned off for at least the next few days.
Check this link out: http://www.friscotexas.gov/departments/publicworks/water/Pages/default.aspx and you will find lots of info on the subject.