Keep texarkana beautiful

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Keep texarkana beautiful

• City of Texarkana, Texas

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Keep Texarkana Beautiful

• Mission
• To educate and engage Texans to take
• responsibility for improving
• their community environment.

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Keep texarkana beautiful

• Focus Areas
• Litter Prevention
• Beautification
• Waste Reduction
• Guiding Principles
• Individual Responsibility
• Education
• Partnerships
• Volunteerism

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Recent projects

• Community Education Beautification
• Arbor Day Tree Give-away 650 trees
• Trees provided by Texarkana Water Utilities
• Containers provided by BWI, Inc.

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Recent projects

• Student Education Beautification
• Save the Earth, Plant a Tree

All Texarkana, Texas fourth grade students
participated
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Save the earth, plant a tree

• Study included
• Classroom study of the environmental, economic,
  and social value of trees
• Reading of The Giving Tree by guest community
  leaders
• Planting of classroom trees on campuses and in
  parks
• Each student received a seedling to plant at home
  or in one of the parks

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CURRICULUM GUIDE

• Developed under the direction of Dr. Rosanne
  Stripling
• by Lori Ables, Curriculum Coordinator for TISD,
  and her team.

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Save the earth, plant a tree
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Save the Earth, Plant a tree

• Art Contest
• 100 entries
• Contest Winner
• Tessa Adams
• C.K. Bender Elementary
• LEISD

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Keep texarkana beautiful

• Sponsors
• Christus St. Michael Health System
• Collom Carney Clinic
• Guaranty Bond Bank
• McDonalds (Texamac, Inc.)
• Sports Magic

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conference

• FIRST IMPRESSIONS COUNT!

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Keep Texarkana beautiful

• An economic development and quality of life issue
• Remove Litter
• Trash promotes crime
• Trash promotes drugs
• Trash influences community self-image
• Trash decreases property values
• Landscape and maintain entrances to city
• Reflects PRIDE in our city
• Makes businesses want to be a part of our
  community
• Trees and Landscape
• Greenery 48 fewer property crimes/56 fewer
  violent crimes
• Landscaped stores have increased sales by 11
• Streets with trees have a higher revenue by 12

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Broken windows theory

• Physical and social disorder in a neighborhood
  lead to increased crime.
• If one broken window is allowed to remain in a
  neighborhood, bigger acts of disorderly behavior
  will follow.

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Opportunities for positive change

• Education
• Technology
• Ordinances
• Litter
• Tree Preservation
• Illegal Dumping
• Enforcement

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Proposed Future projects

• Beautification
• Be proactive in working with Texas Department of
  Transportation to insure that landscape budgets
  for I-30 are used to our Citys greatest benefit
• Litter Prevention
• Teach litter prevention to our school children
• Hold community clean-up days
• Provide more attractive public waste/recycling
  containers
• Waste Reduction Recycling
• Partner with Waste Management to increase public
  awareness regarding recycling

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