Elect Michael McClellan for Little Elm Town Council

To my friends, family, and the residents of Little Elm, I am running for Town Council, Place 1, the position I have held for the past 3 years.
It has been an honor and a privilege to serve you in the role of councilman for the Little Elm Town Council, Place 1, and I hope you will allow me to represent you for a second term. Serving in this way has been one of the most rewarding achievements of my life, and one that brings a great deal of joy, personal pride, and continues the example of servant leadership that I learned from my parents and hope to pass down to my children.

My family and I moved to Little Elm in 1970 and have seen a lot of changes over the years. I Graduated from LEHS 1979 with 19 classmates. My wife, Lisa, of 20 years is an Art Teacher at Powell, 6th Grade Campus. We have two sons, Mitchell, a Freshman at Texas Tech, and Sean a Junior at LEHS, plus our dog, Rusty, and we enjoy staying active as a family.

I am dedicated to protecting the small town feel and community of Little Elm, and promise to manage its growth responsibly.

Servant Leadership and being active in the community came naturally to me, and I followed in the family footsteps. My Dad, Jesse McClellan, was past School Board President when the first High School was constructed, helped assemble the original Log Cabin in Beard Park, High School Library is dedicated to him, and my Mom, Audrey, also a past School Board President, Library Board, Planning & Zoning Commission, Charter Committee, Election Judge, and Active Senior Volunteer.

I began my public service as a member of the Park Board approximately 1995 for almost 4 years before moving to the Planning and Zoning Commission for the Town of Little Elm where I served for18+ years, and now a member of the Town Council. I also serve as the Charter Organization Representative for Button Memorial United Methodist Church supporting Pack 367 and Troop 45, past Committee Chair for Boy Scout Troop 45, past Church Council Chairman of Button Memorial United Methodist Church, Library Design Advisory Committee, member of the Economic Development Corporation Board for the Town of Little Elm, and Comprehensive Planning committee 2008 and 2017 to name a few of the things I am involved in here in Little Elm.

I have had the honor to serve as Mayor Pro Tem for the last year.

Accomplishments during my Tenure as a council member of the Town of little elm:
• Town of Little Elm Awarded the Certificate of Distinction for the Town of Little Elm Investment Policy Government Treasurers’ Organization of Texas (GTOT); second award for 2 year period.
• Town of Little Elm received a second bond rating upgrade in the past four years.
• Received Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting by Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada for sixth year in a row.
• Won the Achievement in Excellence in Procurement by the National Procurement Institute for the second year in a row.
• Received the 2014 and 2015 Presidential Award of Merit from the National Procurement Institute.
• A finalist for Dallas Business Journal’s Best Real Estate Deals award program for Town/Economic Development/Hula Hut partnership.
• Beard Park renovation.
• Little Elm Beach expansion.
• Historic cabin restoration and post office restoration.
•Securing the King site and Bus Barn for future development by the Town as part of the Lakefront district.
•Service on the Parks Master Plan Committee
•Expansion of the LE Recreation Center.

Served as a liaison to the Little Elm area Ministerial Alliance to ensure they have members present to say the opening prayer for every council meeting, which was not been in place for approximately 1½ yrs. Watch the video here. https://www.electmichaelmcclellan.com

I proudly served on the Town of Little Elm Planning and Zoning Commission for 18 plus years. During my tenure, Little Elm changed significantly from a very small Town to the growing and great place it is today.

- Eliminated lowest residential district that allowed asphalt streets in order to ensure developers put in concrete streets and curbs in new developments.
- Sunset Point PD that required homes of 2600 square feet (min) in 25% of the development area.
-Changed apartment standards to an extremely high standard in order to ensure only the absolute best quality builders could meet standards, and thus ensure no substandard apartment complexes.
-Developed Architectural Standards.
-Developed Development Standards
-Instituted a Lighting Ordinance, modeled after Dark Sky Ordinance, in order to maintain small town aspects as much as possible.
-Worked on the Town Center Zoning District, and protection of the area for future Town Center Development, now known as The Lakefront.
-Increased Little Elm's boundary along Lake Lewisville.
-Elimination of Heavy Industrial Zoning districts in order to protect large tracts of land near residential developments and potential commercial developments.
-Lowes PD as the first large commercial development at a key intersection and future gateway to Little Elm.
-Encouraged Town staff to proactively make mandatory for any property developed on FM 720 (now El Dorado) dedication of right of way to ease the future expansion to 6 lanes, saving substantial tax dollars.

I am a member of the Economic Development Committee, and am tasked with attracting new businesses to the Town of Little Elm: Hula Hut, Phase 2, Sunset Storage, First Choice ER, Fossil Creek Liquor, Holt CAT,T-Mobile, Meineke, Icebox (Stripes Fueling Station),Hollywood Feed, Towers Taphouse, Starbucks@ 2170 FM 423,Elite Chiropractic, Enterprise Rent-a-Car, Little Caesar’s, Pet Supermarket, La Azteca Meat Market, Smoothie Bar, Farm, Fast Lane Express Car Wash, Outlaw Bootcamp, Wash Zone, Anytime Fitness, Donut Box, Jack in the Box, Margarita Hut, Wing Daddy’s, Little Elm Crafthouse, Farrell’s Xtreme Bodyshaping,The Draft House, Recycle 2 Support, Precision Family Dental, Los Mangos, Smoothie King, All Lube Center & Auto Repair, It’s A Burger, Cadillac Art & Frame, Arby’s, Schlotzsky’s, Pollo Regio, Maya Restaurant, Domino’s Pizza @ 1000 E. El Dorado Parkway

Planning commissioner of the year

I received an award for planning excellence in 2012 at the Texas American Planning Association
Conference in Fort Worth for Planning Commissioner of the Year. I was humbled to be selected for this award.

Parks and Recreation Board

I began my service to Little Elm in 1995 as part of the LE Parks and Recreation Board. Although Little Elm was much smaller back then, our work helped to set the stage for our first class parks and amenities.

Comprehensive Planning Advisory Committee 2017

I am currently serving as a member of the Comprehensive Plan Advisory Committee, in which we craft how the Town should look and function over the next decade. I served on the 2008 CPAC, as well.

Early voting starts April 24th and ends May 2nd. Election Day is May 6th

Thank you for your continued support. I look forward to serving Little Elm once again.

Michael McClellan