{"id":628280,"date":"2017-06-18T15:12:38","date_gmt":"2017-06-18T20:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=628280"},"modified":"2017-06-20T01:29:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T06:29:42","slug":"tyler-council-recognizes-employee-with-exceptional-service-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=628280","title":{"rendered":"Tyler Council Recognizes Employee with Exceptional Service Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/06\/image002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/06\/image002-150x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-628281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/06\/image002-150x200.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/06\/image002.jpg 331w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; At the Tyler City Council meeting on Wednesday, June 14, Solid Waste employee Galen Billington was recognized as the City of Tyler Blueprint Blue Ribbon Award winner. This award is reserved for employees who place the highest premium of responsiveness to citizens\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 needs, according to a city news release. City officials say after a large downtown festival, contracted cleanup crews failed to fulfill their duties, leaving downtown in a state of extreme clutter with piles of debris scattered in the area. Galen Billington received a call for help around 6:00 the following morning, which was a Sunday. <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153He could have easily said, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcThis isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t my job,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 but he didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t; he said, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll get right on it,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said ReNissa Wade, Managing Director of Administration and Human Resources at the Council presentation. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153He answered the call quickly and saved the City from being embarrassed over a very messy downtown.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d By enlisting the help of several others, Billington was able to get downtown cleaned up before normal Sunday morning traffic began to flow through the area.<\/p>\n<p>Billington (pictured with City Manager Ed Broussard) has been with Tyler Solid Waste since August of 1997, working his way up through the ranks from residential equipment operator to residential superintendent. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153He loves taking care of his customers and exemplifies Solid Waste\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s motto of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcCustomer Service is whatever it takes,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Russ Jackson, Solid Waste manager. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Galen does whatever it takes to get the job done. He also actively participates and supports City of Tyler events.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Tyler City Council and staff say they were pleased to surprise and honor him with a personal plaque and a name plate on a plaque with other Blueprint Blue Ribbon Award winners. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This was a surprise,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Billington said at the presentation. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153They just told me to be here.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; At the Tyler City Council meeting on Wednesday, June 14, Solid Waste employee Galen Billington was recognized as the City of Tyler Blueprint Blue Ribbon Award winner. This award is reserved for employees who place the highest premium of responsiveness to citizens\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 needs, according to a city news release. City officials say after &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=628280\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tyler Council Recognizes Employee with Exceptional Service Award<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":628281,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-628280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 13:39:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=628280"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":628284,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628280\/revisions\/628284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/628281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=628280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=628280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=628280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}