Bullritos opened its third franchised location at 3355 Highway 6 in Sugar Land. Bullritos serves burritos (Bullritos), tacos and bowls (bullritos without tortillas). Bullritos was founded by Russell Ybarra, president and founder of Gringo’s Mexican Kitchen. Motivated by his personal experience of running with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, Ybarra extended his culinary palette into a Spanish-inspired, hip burrito joint complete with high-quality ingredients, frozen margaritas and talented “burristas” (burrito rollers). Stafford Municipal School District received the Government Finance Officers Association’s Distinguished Budget Presentation Award for its 2009-10 budget. The award from the Chicago-based organization represents a significant achievement of a process involving Stafford MSD administration, Stafford MSD Board of Trustees and the Stafford City Council, and reflects the commitment of meeting the highest principles of governmental budgeting.   To receive the award, nationally-recognized guidelines for effective budget creation and presentation had to be met. These guidelines are designed to assess how well the budget serves as a policy document, a financial plan, an operations guide and a communications device.

Gil Saenz, a senior vice president – financial consultant in RBC Wealth Management’s Sugar Land office, was selected to be a member of the firm’s Consulting Group, an exclusive group of consultants recognized for their success in building consultative, fee-based businesses. To qualify for the group, Saenz demonstrated a commitment to a consultant-based investment practice, helped clients build investment portfolios and maintained an excellent record of customer service. 1905 Pizza Bar opened in Sugar Land Town Square next door to Escalante’s at 2228 Texas Drive. The restaurant offers authentic New York- style pizza, salads and beer and wine, and will maintain late-night hours to accommodate Sugar Land Town Square ’s growing evening crowd.   The eatery utilizes its 1,456 square feet of retail space by featuring a bar of pizzas where visitors can choose individual slices. Pizzas will be sold whole as well. Pizza Bar owner Christopher Reyes also owns Olive’s Martini Bar in Town Square.

business owners to acquire or sell commercial property. Breaux is a partner with the firm of Null Lairson, P.C. In this role, he provides auditing and consulting solutions to a variety of governmental, nonprofit and private sector clients in the greater Fort Bend and Texas Gulf Coast areas. Additionally, he conducts technical training for both accountants and non-accountants at regional and state-wide conferences in the governmental sector. Breaux has served as past president of the Sugar Land Exchange Club, chairman of the Missouri City Parks Board as well as a board member and volunteer of various other businesses, professional and civic organizations. Asthana, a 2007 graduate of the Fort Bend Leadership Forum, is the owner and president of Verum Solutions, an IT and security services company based out of Fort Bend County. Himesh Gandhi has been elected to serve as legal counsel for the Fort Bend Chamber of Commerce. The term is for one year and began in January.   As an associate attorney at Hrbacek & Associates, P.C., Himesh represents local individuals and entities in a wide variety of business transactions and commercial litigation. His primary focus is in the areas of entity formation, acquisitions, collections, litigation, construction, real estate, finance and general business. Himesh graduated from Houston Baptist University in 1999 and South Texas College of Law in 2002. In addition to practicing law, Himesh is active in community affairs. Himesh is also a member of numerous legal and professional organizations and also serves as a board member for the North American South Asian Bar Association. James M. Levermann has been appointed as the new chief executive officer of St. Luke’s Sugar Land Hospital and vice president of St. Luke’s Episcopal Health System. Levermann is responsible for all aspects of hospital operations at SLSLH. “His extensive experience in the Houston health care market, understanding of community hospital operations, and financial background solidified Mr. Levermann as the clear choice to lead St. Luke ’s Sugar Land Hospital into the next decade,” said David Koontz, senior vice president, SLEHS. Levermann was most recently the chief financial officer for Methodist Willowbrook Hospital, where he served in a broad capacity, leading business development and operational initiatives, in addition to directing all of the financial functions at the hospital. Before Methodist Willowbrook, Levermann served in several senior management positions at Texas Children ’s Hospital, including president of Texas Children’s International and vice president of Texas Children’s Ambulatory Services. Levermann, a certified public accountant, completed his Master of Business Administration and Master of Health Care Administration at the University of Houston. He received his Bachelor of Business Administration from Trinity University in San Antonio. Steve Smelley, a Missouri City resident for over 17 years, filed for the Republican nomination for Fort Bend County Commissioner Precinct 4. “I firmly believe my calling is to be a community service leader, and my previous years of dedicated service to the people of Fort Bend County demonstrate my passion to

help my fellow man.  The position I am seeking is an extension and an elevation to the people of Fort Bend County and Precinct 4 in particular. I look forward to working for and listening to the residents of Precinct 4 to find ways to reduce our taxes and the intrusion of government in our daily lives, ” said Smelley. Service is second nature to Smelley as he has volunteered in his community for 17 years, and is past president of Sugar Land Rotary Club (1999-2000), and was the President of the Year for District 5890 the same year. He served on the board of directors for Sugar Land Rotary numerous times and was the Sugar Land Rotary Shrimpfest chairman for 2006-07. He also served as a past assistant district governor of Rotary District 5890. Other service to the community includes volunteering with the Fort Bend Education Foundation Gala and Bike Ride, the Fort Bend Child Protective Services ’ Rainbow Room, Clements High School Interact Club, Austin Parkway Elementary Walk-a-thon, University of Houston Fort Bend Alumni Chapter, and currently serves as president of the University of Houston Sigma Chi House Corporation. Smelley is a former soccer and football coach. Trevor White has been named the head football coach and campus athletics coordinator for George Ranch High School. George Ranch will open in August 2010. White began his duties with Lamar CISD on Jan. 4. White is a 1997 graduate from Stephen F. Austin State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Kinesiology. He has 13 years teaching and coaching experience in Garrison, Tidehaven, Del Rio, Rains and Alief ISDs. Since 2007 he has been serving as the campus athletic coordinator/head coach at Alief Taylor High School, which plays in 18-5A. Taking over a 3-7 team, White led Taylor High to the playoffs the last two years. The 2009 team reached the third round of the playoffs. George Ranch will not have varsity football until the 2012 season. The school will have varsity cross country, track, tennis, golf and swimming in its first year. The school ’s athletes will add all other varsity sports—except football—for the 2011-12 school year. Cinco Ranch and Telfair’s new-home sales increased by double digits in 2009 at two Fort Bend County master-planned communities being developed by Newland Communities. Cinco Ranch, a 7,600-acre community developed by Newland Communities in Katy, posted a 15 percent sales increase, with homebuilder's selling 892 homes in 2009, compared to 773 in the previous year. Last year was the best year for new-home sales in Cinco Ranch since 2006, and the third-best year in the history of the community, which opened in 1991. At Telfair, a 2,018-acre community in Sugar Land, sales were up 10 percent, with homebuilder's selling 449 homes in 2009, up from 408 in 2008. It was the best year for new-home sales in Telfair since the community opened in 2006. Strong relocation and local move-up sales, new homebuilder's and added amenities helped Cinco Ranch and Telfair post double-digit sales gains in a year where Houston area new-home sales were significantly down from their peak two years ago, said Heather Gould, marketing director for Newland Communities.