04/07/2022
Way to go! I love this win-win for the City of Grapevine and TxDOT. We are so fortunate to live in such a beautiful place. Thank you to everyone who works to maintain and enhance that beauty.
Keep Grapevine Beautiful Receives Prestigious Governor’s Community Achievement Award -
Keep Texas Beautiful (KTB) has recognized Keep Grapevine Beautiful (KGVB) as one of ten winners of the 2022 Governor’s Community Achievement Awards (GCAA) for outstanding community improvement. KTB, in partnership with the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), has awarded the GCAA to Texas communities for more than 50 years. This year, the ten winning communities will share $2 million in landscape funding from TxDOT. Keep Grapevine Beautiful was awarded $250,000 for landscape enhancements along state highway rights-of-ways.
The award is one of the most coveted annual environmental and community improvement honors in Texas. A community’s environmental program is judged by a group of diverse, multi-sector judges on achievements in seven environmental and community improvement areas: public awareness and outreach, environmental education, beautification and community improvement, litter prevention and cleanup, and solid waste management, litter law, and illegal dumping enforcement.
Mayor Pro Tem Darlene Freed stated, “I have seen first-hand the impact of this dynamic organization from beautification projects throughout the City to the facilitation of the Adopt-An-Area Program, where businesses, groups, and individuals participate. We know that this commitment to beautification projects benefits Grapevine's economic development goals as well as our bottom line. In 2021, the Keep Grapevine Beautiful cost-avoidance contributions totaled more than $131,780. Their significant contributions allow our City to be more beautiful, cleaner, and more environmentally conscious.”
Keep Grapevine Beautiful will proudly receive this award at the KTB annual conference in June.