Garland Voters Approve Third Term for Mayor Scott LeMay

Two Newcomers Join City Council

Garland Mayor Scott LeMay started his third term in office and welcomed newcomers Carissa Dutton of District 6 and Chris Ott of District 8 to the City Council on Tuesday, May 16.

District 3 Council Member Ed Moore and District 7 Council Member Dylan Hedrick were also reelected to twoyear terms on May 6.

Dutton is a 30-year resident of Garland. Her love of community service began as a teenager with Garland Parks & Recreation as a VolunTeen. While this program initially acted as a reprieve in her life, it became so much more. She learned the value of helping others and taking pride and ownership of the city she lived in. In 2000 she won VolunTeen of the year with well over 2,000 volunteer hours.

Her volunteer work has continued in many ways, including tornado cleanup during the Christmas 2015 tornado and the October 2019 tornado. In 2020, she was honored with Garland’s first-ever Make Your Mark Award for her work after the 2019 tornado.

Chris Ott is an advocate of the business community, open spaces, the arts and Garland history causes. His involvement in City governance grew from participating in the Chamber of Commerce Leadership Garland program in 2007. From this he served on a variety of boards, including the City of Garland’s Plan Commission on which he served for 13 years.

Chris has been a small business owner, having founded his business Rotary Performance in Garland in 1988. This company, a specialty Mazda rotary engine company, operates to this day. Chris moved to the Garland area from Lubbock in 1984, graduating from Berkner High School in 1986. Chris attended Texas Tech University for computer science and is a graduate of Richland College.