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Bill Rickert

Fort Bend County Treasurer

“The past year has been hectic, with our daughters Katherine and Annelise getting married, my wife Lisa starting up a business and my re-election. While we have been blessed, I am looking forward to 2023 and spending more relaxing and unstructured time with family and friends. I also look forward to spending time in our backyard working on my garden railway, which is my time to decompress from life’s challenges.

As for the County Treasurer’s Office, I am excited to continue our efforts to implement technology and improve processes to increase efficiency and capacity, while improving usability, maintainability and reliability. The great team we have in the Treasurer’s Office makes going to the office a pleasurable experience, and I am honored to work with such a great group of people.

As always, I plan to be active and seek out new ways to be involved in our community as it brings me great pleasure to meet new people and contribute to making our community a better place.

May the New Year bring blessings to all.” Fort Bend County Treasurer’s Office: Natasha McCoy, Lori Pickett, Kelly Johns, Alison Schellberg, Helen Lev, Maria Segura, Estella Aguilar, Sandra Wendt, Yvonne Pacheco, Kristi Elam, Bill Rickert, Kelly McCauley and Joy White.

Madeleine Calcote-Garcia

Executive Director Fort Bend History Association

“One of my goals is to read 50 books in 2023. Another goal is to jump back into the Fort Bend Community! I’ve been gone for about 10 years, and I’m excited to be back!”

Adrienne Gray

Executive Director Lunches of Love

Jeannette Mathews, Ellen Fairfield, Adrienne Gray and Elizabeth Fairfield.

“Lunches of Love is looking forward to serving the community in 2023 as we begin our 14th season of providing free, nutritious lunches to children in need in Fort Bend County. As we look forward to 2023, our main goal is to help end childhood hunger in Fort Bend County. Currently, we service 20 schools in the LCISD area, and as the population of Fort Bend County increases, we want to be able to keep up with the growing demand. One of our goals is to adopt new schools in LCISD that have children who would benefit from our services. Another goal is to reach our 5,000,000th lunch. Doing this takes endless volunteer hours and donations from our community. We continue to strive to make lasting relationships with businesses, organizations and community members in order to continue to provide the needed services to our children. Our final goal this year is to raise enough funds to replace our roof. Our current building is 65 years old, and the roof has seen its very last days. We would like to create a campaign to put on a new roof and continue to be able to service the children of Fort Bend County.”