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August 2024 Nixa Newsletter

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City of Nixa Earns Awards for Financial Reporting and Procurement Practices

January 28, 2025

The City of Nixa has recently earned three different awards related to financial reporting and professional procurement practices. The Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) announced that it has awarded the Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting to the City of Nixa for its Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR)…

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New Traffic Pattern at U.S. Route 160 & Christian County Route CC

July 22, 2024

When: 8 p.m. Monday Night, July 29th Details: Contractor crews to turn on new signals and open new Continuous Flow Intersection at U.S. Route 160 and Christian County Route CC in Nixa. A Continuous Flow Intersection has traffic turning left placed to the left of oncoming traffic, opposite where it is normally.…

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City of Nixa Hires New Director of Communications

July 22, 2024

The City of Nixa is announcing the hiring of Summer Rascoll-Jones as the new Director of Communications. Rascoll-Jones will begin her role with Nixa on August 5th. She will be tasked with leading Nixa’s Communications Department through public information, media relations, community engagement, and marketing. A New Orleans native, Rascoll-Jones…

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Nixa Newsletter OCT 2022

This month, Mayor Steele writes about the numbers behind Nixa Police needs.

Employee Recognitions

Employee Spotlight: Josh Barton

Sergeant Josh Barton has been a law enforcement professional since 2007 and has performed the duties of an Investigator and Corporal. He was most recently promoted to Sergeant at the Nixa Police Department in 2021 and has completed the FBI LEEDA Supervisor and Command Leadership Institute courses. With his training,…

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City of Nixa Awarded for Sensory Path

Congratulations to the Nixa Parks Department on helping the City of Nixa earn another Missouri Municipal League Innovation Award in the large city category (population 15,000 – 30,000) for implementing a sensory path at the Gardens At Woodfield. This is the fifth time Nixa has won the award honoring innovation…

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Doug Colvin Receives Award for Hometown Utilities

Congratulations to Doug Colvin, Nixa Assistant City Administrator and Director of Nixa Utilities & Public Works, for receiving the Duncan Kincheloe Value of Hometown Utilities Award! The Missouri Public Utility Alliance presents this award to an employee or official of an MPUA member utility "who has exemplified the benefits of…

Letter from the Mayor

Letter from the Mayor: October 2022

October 1, 2022

I have had several people ask me over the past couple of months what exactly it takes to put a new Nixa Police officer on the road. Along with the numbers below, there are also hours of recruitment time, interview and testing time, FTO (field training officer) time, along with…

Employee Recognitions

Employee Spotlight: Craig Donaldson

October 2, 2022

Craig Donaldson started working for the city in 2000 as a dispatcher for the Police Department. He then moved over to our Utility Billing Department as a meter reader. He was promoted to lead meter reader where he trained new meter readers on their various tasks and responsibilities. He then…