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Rick Menchaca <RickM942>

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	Rick Menchaca, changing the face of Midland	649 días hace
	By extension, the man whose executive duty it is to keep one of these cityships on a smooth course is a kind of social warrior, a captain of a big ship, who, like the captain of “Big John,” must maintain himself and his crew at a high level of alertness and efficiency. The specifics of how that works in an individual case come clear in a review of the work, life, and career of Ricardo (Rick) Menchaca, city manager of Midland, a man who, as the jargon of our time puts it, “has his act together.” Midland’s official web site notes that the city’s manager is “the chief executive officer of the government carries out policy and administers city programs.” That’s the whole story in a sentence. Rick’s days split rather neatly into two areas: one is “routine management” (not always so routine), which includes supervising 865 city employees—98% of everybody who works for the city—and the other is “special projects,” individual undertakings to implement city policy, of which a couple of stand-out examples are the new Scharbauer Sports Complex and the Midland International Airport. Now semi-retired, Arnold is also an ordained non-denominational Christian minister. Tracing roots back: Rick’s father, Arnold, was born in Crystal City. His father, Rick’s paternal grandfather, was Martin Menchaca, who was born in Eagle Pass; and Rick’s grandmother was Maria Varela Menchaca, who came to the U.S. from Mexico in 1914, when she was 13, in the years Pancho Villa was a big name on the border. Rick’s mother, Aurora Diaz was born in Uvalde. Her father, Fred Diaz, Rick’s maternal grandfather, was from Eagle Pass. He married Maria Breiten, from the German community of the Hill Country. She was born in D’Hanis. Rick went to pre-kindergarten thru first grade in an Eagle Pass school, then finished off elementary, junior high, and high school in Del Rio. Rick’s next stop after high school was Angelo State University in San Angelo, where, in 1986, he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in government, with a finance minor. You are perhaps already getting the sense of a good student, with a firm intention to “master the books.” For a year and a half of the three years he was attending Angelo State, Rick was president of the University Center Program Council, a post (unpaid) he speaks of with considerable nostalgia and enthusiasm.
	escrito por Rick Menchaca