Do you have your tickets? Make a date with your daughter and son for Saturday, Feb. 9, for the City's annual Father/Daughter and Mother/Son Valentine Dance at the BRiCk. Dinner, dancing, pictures and corsages are included in the advance ticket price of $16 per couple or $25 per couple at the door. Tickets are available at the BRiCk, 550 N.W. Summercrest Blvd. The fun is slated for 6 p.m.-9 p.m. A DJ will be spinning tunes from across the decades. Games include the ever popular limbo (adults compete against adults and children compete against children) and the three-legged race, which pairs the parent with the child. The parks and recreation staff will take pictures of each couple and those pictures are then emailed to the parents. Read More

What do you think a municipal engineering department's responsibilities entail? The City of Burleson's Engineering Services department coordinates and monitors the development, design, and construction of all subdivisions as the work relates to engineering activities. Floodplain management and drainage activities are coordinated through engineering. The responsibilities also include traffic issues and the design and construction of the City's capital improvement projects. The City department is divided into three divisions: capital improvements, engineering, and gas well development. You can find out more about how the City's Engineering Services department affects your quality of life starting today, when City staff creates an educational display in the case in the front foyer of the Burleson Public Library, 248 S.W. Johnson Ave. The display will be available for viewing 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. on Friday; and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on Saturday.

Residents may take their leaves, brush, yard waste and limbs to the Recycle/Mulch/Compost Center, 620 Memorial Plaza (behind Fire Station # 2) or set them out for once a month collection by the City (see the zone map for your collection week). Yard waste and leaves must be bagged in approved paper lawn bags available at local retailers and left at the center, bag and all. If the yard waste or leaves are in plastic bags, you are responsible for dumping the contents at the center and taking the plastic bags with you. Limbs cut to 6-foot lengths or shorter are collected on a monthly basis. Brush collection truck crews survey the city by zones and collect limbs as they are found. Smaller limb piles may be collected by the solid waste crews when they complete their regular routes, however larger piles must be collected by the brush truck operator. Storm debris and heavy trimming associated with the spring may result in collection delays of up to 30 days. The Recycle/Mulch/Compost center is open Tuesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Do you want to be considered when it comes to doing business with the City? Become a registered vendor! The City of Burleson utilizes Public Purchase, a free web-based automated vendor registration site. Once you have registered as a vendor, if a bid opportunity that matches your commodity becomes available, you will be notified by email. You must become a registered vendor to do business with the City of Burleson.  After registration is approved, you then select the entities in which to do business.  Be sure to select the City of Burleson in order to be notified of bid opportunities. Bid notices are also advertised on the bulletin board located at Burleson City Hall, 141 W. Renfro St. and in the Burleson Star newspaper. If you have registered as a vendor you will be notified by email when the bid is awarded. You may also contact the purchasing division at 817-426-9653.