issouri City councilmember Eunice Reiter closed her two decades of service to the city with words of hope and gratitude at the May 4 council meeting.

“We have changed the face of Missouri City over the past 15 years, and it’s been good,” Reiter said at her last meeting as the council representative for District A. “There’s more change to come, and I shall watch from the sidelines with great pride as the future happens. ”

A Missouri City resident for more than four decades, Reiter was a city planning and zoning commissioner from 1989- 94. In June 1994, she was appointed to an unexpired term for District A, the northern section of the city that extends
from Independence Boulevard to the City limits north of US 90A and includes both Fort Bend and Harris County territory.

She was elected as District A councilmember in 1995 and has held the position ever since. Reiter served as mayor pro tem for two terms: once in 1998 and again in 2008.

Reiter has also served on a myriad of council sub-committees, including the budget, finance, compensation and benefits, ethics, communications, community college and comprehensive plan committees. She has been a member of the board of directors for the Houston-Galveston Area Council of Governments since 1999. In 2002, she was president of Region 14 of the Texas Municipal League and served on its board of directors in 2003 and 2004.

“In all of my years in serving the city, I have never seen a more dedicated councilperson than Eunice, ” Mayor Allen Owen said as he presented Reiter with

Turning to Reiter, the mayor said, “Your constituents can always hold their heads up and say, ‘We had the best.’”

Reiter has been a steadfast advocate for economic development in her district and around Missouri City. A majority of the recent new construction in the city has occurred in District A, from the Beltway Crossing Business Park on Gessner Drive to Lakeview Business Park, a 168-acre industrial business complex off Buffalo Run Boulevard.

During Reiter’s tenure, Global Geophysical Services, a high technology oil field service company, began constructing its worldwide headquarters in the northern section of the city. Ben E. Keith Foods, the nation ’s ninth largest full line food service distributor, will start building a distribution center in Reiter ’s district later this year. Both facilities are expected to bring hundreds of jobs to the city.

District A has seen other progress during Reiter’s term in office. Fire Station No. 2 on McLain was opened in 2008, replacing a 30-year-old temporary facility. The new, 8000-square-foot station serves Colony Crossing, Cravens Village, Fondren Park and the Fonmeadow subdivisions. Buffalo Run Park, 95 acres of green space next to Thurgood Marshall High School, opened during Reiter ’s service and is now a central gathering place for major city events like the annual Fourth of July celebration. And from the opening of the new Municipal Court and Emergency Operations Center on Cartwright Road to the acquisition of the Quail Valley Golf Course, Reiter expressed deep satisfaction at being part of Missouri City ’s momentum of progress over the last 20 years.

“I leave you,” Reiter said during her goodbye remarks at the Council meeting, “but I bear the marks of years well spent.”