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Canyon introduces new planning director; clerk named state association president
Summary
The commission introduced Dustin Meyer as the city's new director of planning and development and announced that city staffer Gretchen Mercer was elected president of the Texas Municipal Clerks Association effective Jan. 1, 2026.
The Canyon City Commission on Sept. 16 introduced Dustin Meyer as the city’s new director of planning and development and announced that Gretchen Mercer has been named president of the Texas Municipal Clerks Association, with her term beginning Jan. 1, 2026.
Dustin Meyer, described by meeting participants as having worked about 10 years for the Panhandle Regional Planning Commission (PRPC) and living locally for a decade, said he is "super excited to come in and and hopefully jump on" the community’s development efforts. Meyer told commissioners he planned to reach out to them individually as he begins his work for the city.
Separately, a meeting speaker announced that "our very own Gretchen Mercer has been named Texas Municipal Clerks Association president, and her term will begin 01/01/2026." The announcement was made as an item of news during the meeting; no formal personnel action or vote was recorded on the matter in the transcript.
Those announcements were made during the meeting’s general announcements and public-comment segments; no formal resolutions or employment votes related to these items were recorded in the transcript.
