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Diboll, Texas

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Sunsational Craft Show and Car Show

 

Saturday, June 27th, 2009, 9am till 6pm.  FREE admission!  Perfect for the couple's weekend outing...the men should stop and check out the awesome car show in the parking lot of Diboll Civic Center; the women could come on in for a fashionable, crafty shopping experience FULL of summer fun!
 
Both the car show and craft show are still accepting vendors.  Hurry and sign up today!  Click here for the craft show vendor application.  Individuals interested in displaying cars should contact the Diboll Police department.
The City of Diboll is now webcasting council meetings and we are broadcasting them on Suddenlink cable channel 15.  The Diboll council meetings will rotate with City of Lufkin council meetings and other content.  These meetings are also broadcast on Consolidated digital TV system.

 

Tune into channel 15 and watch your City government in action. 

Jessica Savage/The Lufkin Daily NewsAfter months of construction, the recently renovated and expanded T.L.L. Temple Memorial Library in Diboll officially opened to the public Monday.

The $2.5 million project doubled the size of the library to a 14,000 square foot facility, which now includes the Ellen and Buddy Temple Community Center for public after hours use and the Judge John Hannah Jr. Reading Room, named in honor of the late federal judge and former Texas secretary of state who died of a heart attack in 2003 at the age of 64. In addition, the library will house its current circulation of 32,000 books and plans on acquiring additional collections through a $50,000 grant it recently obtained, Russell said.

During a ribbon-cutting ceremony held Monday morning, library director Brenda Russell thanked those who contributed to the expansion, namely the T.L.L. Temple Foundation and the Temple-Inland Foundation as well as several private donors. Goodwin-Lasiter architect Malcolm McKinley, who designed the library expansion, and J.E. Kingham Construction Company also received thanks at the ceremony. Construction on the Apine-built facility began December 2007, wrapping up at the end of 2008.  Read more about it in the Lufkin Daily News.
McDuffie brings experience

Dennis McDuffie comes to Diboll with a host of city management experience, much of it in economic development.

That expertise will come in handy as Diboll looks at a future where Temple-Inland's role in the city's sustenance begins to decrease.

McDuffie, a native of Nacogdoches, has been in city management since 1980, when he left the Air Force. He started in California, as an assistant city manager in Delano, Calif. He became manager there in 1982 before moving Rancho Palos Verde in 1986, where he stayed until 1990.

He said he went to law school for two years until his daughters reached college age

and he quit school to finance their educations. He spent some time lobbying for the California Farm Bureau before in 1993 becoming city manager of San Juan Bautista, a town in central California near Monterrey. He calls that a "unique experience"

because the town was nearly bankrupt when he took over. All city employees except the librarian and a public works employee had been let go. He welcomed the experience because it gave him the chance to basically rebuild the city structure from scratch. He stayed there until 1998, when he decided to return to Texas.

His first stop here was in Jamaica Beach, on the coast near Houston. After a year there, he went to Glenn Heights in Dallas County for another year before landing in McGregor, a town near Diboll's size just west of Waco. He's been there since 2002.

He has a 60-day notice clause in his contract with McGregor, which is why it could be Jan. 15 next year before he can start work here, unless he can talk the city fathers into letting him go early. He expressed eagerness to get here and get to work. By the way, his new contract with Diboll has the same clause requiring a 60-day notice.

McDuffie is an only child and his 82-year-old mother, who still lives in Nacogdoches, is beside herself to have her son 35 miles away after all these years. His wife Kathy has two daughters in rural Jefferson County and one in Woodville, so they are more than pleased to have so much family within a two-hour drive of Diboll. The McDuffies are a blended family, with seven adult children between them (she has four, he has three). McDuffie's kids are in Ohio, California and Fort Worth.

Sandra Pouland of Pouland Real Estate already is busy searching out possible homes for them in the city limits.

McDuffie, 61, clearly is proud of what he accomplished in McGregor. The town had a naval weapons center that was closed, given to the city and turned into an industrial park. The former base had utilities and rail service, which helped, but McDuffie's efforts have attracted call center, an irrigation pipe company, a national security training center and on the way is a wind tower construction company. Of the 1,400 jobs lost when the Navy pulled out, 1,200 have been replaced, he said. And a new, updated rail line is being put in.

He also managed to end a lawsuit with Waco over the big city's attempt to annex the McGregor Executive Airport. The settlement allowed the airport to develop commercial businesses and light industry.

He has a comprehensive "to do" list when it comes to economic development and a firm grasp on the things that are needed. Such as, industry before housing. "Residential development will be a drain on services including water, sewer and electricity. Industrial development, "that's your gravy" for successful growth, he said.

He didn't necessarily believe all his work was done in McGregor, but when he saw the listing for Diboll city manager, "it seemed like a natural fit," he said. "I see a lot of potential."

He said he enjoys a challenge and this job "took us where we wanted to be."

"Mainly, Diboll brought us home."  Article from the Diboll Free Press.
 

City of Diboll adopted a tax rate that will raise more taxes for maintenance and operations than last years tax rate.

Notice of tax revenue increase.
New!  Our 2007 Drinking Water Quality Report is available for download in PDF.

The City of Diboll occasionally receives inquiries regarding the method of calculating water consumption, waste water and late fees.  We have a public information notice in PDF format that is intended to clarify these questions.
Welcome to the City of Diboll's new website.  We have upgraded our website to provide more online services and information to the citizens of Diboll.  You can read bios of our Mayor and council, read about the various departments and use new on-line services such as reporting problems and requesting services.  We hope you enjoy the new website.