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Fredericksburg recognizes employees who completed Texas Tech Highland Lakes leadership program
Summary
City employees Amy Burrier, Michael Irwin, Lehi Reinhart and Thomas Rivera were recognized for completing the Texas Tech Highland Lakes Government Leadership Program; each described class projects ranging from tourist-data collection for EMS to an in-house police training program.
Fredericksburg city staff on Jan. 7 recognized four employees who completed the Texas Tech Highland Lakes Government Leadership Program and heard brief descriptions of their class projects.
City Manager Clinton introduced the program and said the nine full-day sessions cover leadership skills, budgeting, organization and communications. The city has participated since 2022 and has sent about 12 employees through the program. City staff said several graduate projects have been implemented in city operations, citing the OpenGov budget-management software and a transition of code enforcement to the police department as prior examples.
Amy Burrier of Fire/EMS said her project focused on identifying new funding for Fire/EMS that would reduce reliance on local residents. Burrier told the council she surveyed neighboring departments and found none collect data on tourists' relationship to call volume; she proposed creating a collaborative data platform to collect tourist-related call information and use that data to pursue additional funding.
Michael Irwin of the building department described a proposal to adapt the Texas Tech program at the city level as a monthly orientation that would rotate new employees through departments to build cross-department knowledge and help employees explore career paths within the city.
Lehi Reinhart of the police department said his class project is an enhanced in-house training program to reduce reliance on outsourced standardized courses and to better meet local policing needs through shared resources with surrounding agencies.
Thomas Rivera of the police department was not present; staff said he will present his project at a later meeting. Staff noted Chief Bizzle will provide a Fire/EMS response update at the end of the month; city staff reported about 17% of overall responses are to visitors to Fredericksburg and Gillespie County.
Council members congratulated the graduates and said the city will continue to support employee participation in leadership programs.
