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Outstanding Achievements in Service

Alliance for Innovation, an international network of government
professionals, presented the Arlington Urban Design Center its 2011
Outstanding Achievement in Innovation Award. The Urban
Design Center is a place for graduate students and professors from
UT Arlington’s School of Architecture and School of Urban & Public
Affairs to work with City planning staff on development projects.
Among many of its projects was the design of building facades for
new development along West Abram Street in downtown.

The International City/County Management Association’s Center
for Performance Measurement awarded Arlington a Certificate of
Excellence, the highest award ICMA-CPM gives out, for the City’s
superior performance management.
With ten International Municipal Lawyers Association Fellows,
Arlington’s City Attorney’s office now holds the distinction of having
the highest number of IMLA Fellow designees of any municipality
in the U.S. and Canada. Ursula Patterson was designated a fellow last
year, and Ivan Bland and David Barber renewed their designations.

Arlington Housing Authority executive director David Zappasodi
was presented a Hall of Fame Award from the Texas Chapter of
the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials
for his exceptional work. Some of his largest contributions are the
development of a 10-year plan to end chronic homelessness and the
successful implementation of a program that rehabilitates vacant,
foreclosed singled-family homes in Arlington.

Assistant City Attorney Linda Frank received the Galen Sparks
Award for Outstanding Public Service by an Assistant City
Attorney from the Texas City Attorneys Association after her work on
an animal cruelty case involving more than 26,000 exotic animals.
For the third year in a r