Rick Preciado
Director - Position 1
International Paint
richard.preciado@akzonobel.com |
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Rick Preciado is the Site Director and Plant Manager for International Paint, one of the District's oldest businesses. He serves as a a member of the Employee Development Committee. |
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Director-Position 2, Chairman of the Board
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Director-Position 3
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Heidi Sheesley
Director-Position 4
Treesearch Farms, Inc., Owner
heidi@treesearchfarms.net
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Heidi Sheesley has been the owner of Treesearch Farms since 1982. Ms. Sheesley is a wholesale grower of trees and plants. She is actively involved with Urban Harvest and has donated many of the trees planted along District thouroughfares. Ms. Sheesley is working with the District to enhance the liveabillity of our area though beautification of our environment and educating the community to grow and care for plants. |
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Mike Carpenter
Director-Position 5
Carpenter Asset Management, Chairman, CEO
mike@carpenterassetmgmt.com |
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Mike Carpenter is the Chairman & CEO of Carpenter Asset Management which develops, owns and operates numerous properties throughout southeast Texas. He is also the owner of several commercial properties and is involved in commercial property management and development in the District. Mr. Carpenter serves on the Board’s Security and Economic Development committees as well as being instrumental in starting SuperBlock One and Two. Additionally, he serves as president of the Southeast Texas Apartment Association, director of the Texas Apartment Association and as a director on the National Affordable Housing Management Association. |
James Kilpatrick
Director-Position 6, Vice Chair
carolejim@comcast.net |
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(Retired)
Jim Kilpatrick served as a Senior Vice President of WPA Group who provides collateral reviews and appraisals of equipment and personal property to banks and other lenders. Mr. Kilpatrick has been a home owner in the District since 1973 and serves on the Board’s Budget and Economic Development Committees. He was president of the Inwood Forest Community Improvement Association for 12 years and has also been active with the Houston PBS affiliate. Mr. Kilpatrick was appointed as an Admiral in the Texas Navy by the State of Texas in the mid 80s. |
Ron Richardson
Director-Position 7
Claude's Pharmacy
claudespharmacy@hotmail.com |
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Ron Richardson is the owner of Claude's Pharmacy, which has served the White Oak area for more than 50 years. Ron represents local small businesses and is committed to serving the community. Her has been active in working with the Weed & Seed Grant on commuity initiatives. |
Chantell Hines
Director-Position 8
Lone Star College
chantell.w.hines@lonestar.edu |
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Dr. Chantell Hines, formerly the dean of academic services at Lone Star College-North Harris, serves as the associate vice president of the college’s two satellite centers. In her role, Dr. Hines oversees LSC-Greenspoint Center and LSC-Victory Center, which now serve more than 3,000 students in the Greenspoint and Acres Homes neighborhoods of Houston.
Part of Dr. Hines’ responsibilities are to help to manage the incredible growth that LSC-North Harris has experienced recently. The number of students taking classes at the college’s centers has grown by more than 30 percent in the last year. LSC-Victory Center, which opened in the fall of 2011, now serves more than 1,300 credit students each semester.
Prior to joining the Lone Star College System in 2008, Dr. Hines served as the director of student and career services for American Intercontinental University. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Prairie View A&M University and earned a doctoral degree in psychology from Capella University. |
Robert Burchfield
Director-Position 9
Burchfield Companies, Owner
rob@burchfieldcompanies.com |
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Rob Burchfield has more than thirty-five years of experience in brokerage, management, development and counseling in industrial, commercial and residential real estate. Mr. Burchfield serves on the Board’s Security and Economic Development Committees and has lived in the District for more than 30 years. Mr. Burchfield has managed his own family’s firm since 1972 and has brokered more than $250 million dollars of commercial properties from retail to heavy industrial and has developed and built apartment projects, retail projects, light industrial buildings, subdivisions and a golf course, warehouse complexes and residential constructions. |
Fred Rust
Director-Position 10
Kreher Steele
frust@kreher.com |
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Fred Rust is General Manager of Kreher Steel Co, one of the largest distributors of a full range of carbon, alloy, and stainless steel bar products, and cold heading quality carbon and alloy rod and wire products. Fred represents the Industrial segment of our business community and has been active in mobilizing commercial business owners and managers to work together to improve the business climate of the area. |