Most recently, as the City Manager for the City of Midland, Rick Menchaca’s notable accomplishments were:

• Development and strategically positioning the City to meet future challenges and opportunities
• Development, implementation and management of 4a and 4b Economic Development programs
• Development and integration of economic development with community priorities
• Long Term Water Resource planning and acquisition
• Transportation planning and funding, including surface and air
• Established an Entrepreneurial and cost competitive environment
• Redeveloped matured Residential and Commercial neighborhoods
• Growth management of the 35^th fastest growing city with the 15^th highest income per capita in the U.S.
• Reducing the property tax rate by over 10% while doubling the city’s reserve to 44%

Midland is governed by an elected mayor and city council. Michael Canon is mayor, ending a three-year term this May. He is expected to run again. The mayor and the Midland City Council appoint the holders of the four top positions in the city hierarchy: the city manager, the city attorney, the two municipal judges, and the city secretary. The City Council has six members elected by the citizens: four from designated geographical districts and two at-large for the whole city. These elected officials set the policies that Rick Menchaca executes. Rick is the “boss man” for the whole panoply of city departments and services. He and his two assistants, Tommy Hudson and Marcus Johnston, are responsible for: Police; Fire; Airport; Community Services (Health and Senior Services, two senior centers, and the city’s parks and golf courses); Development Services (construction and repair of streets and traffic); Utilities (water, electric, sewer, solid waste, landfill); Support Services (finance); Administrative services; Communications and Information Services (the city’s computers; City and Midland County 911 Dispatch Center); Internal Services (a fleet of about 800 items of rolling stock, the city’s purchasing office, and the construction and maintenance of buildings). Lots of work to do.

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The year 2000 was a big one for Rick Menchaca. He became city manager at the age of 34. And he married. His bride was Kristin Torgeson, who had three youngsters by a previous marriage. Since marrying, Rick and Kristin have had two more children, so now they have a family of five, all at home: Elodie 10, Savannah 8, Hayden 6, Gabriella, who will be 3 in April of this year, and Breiten Augustus, 15 months. (Breiten, Rick’s maternal grandmother’s maiden name, is pronounced Britten.) Rick and Kristin and their children attend the Episcopal Church of the Holy Trinity in Midland. Rick and Kristin make a special point of family dinner together (sans TV). And they travel as a family, mostly in Texas, and to visit grandparents and other relatives. Their kids especially like San Antonio for the River Walk and the big entertainment parks—Sea World and Six Flags—and the family has been once to Florida, to Fort Lauderdale.  (Disneyworld is being postponed for a few years.) In summer the older children participate in many organized community activities for youngsters.

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