Published: April 25, 2008 02:12 pm            

Ellason wants roads fixed, more for students to do

Chris Ellason believes there needs to be some changes made in Commerce and he wants to help make those changes by being on the City Council.

Ellason is running for the Place 2 seat against Billie Biggerstaff and Elmer Hall.

“I guess my main goal is to fix the roads around here,” Ellason said. “You can’t drive down these roads without getting a front end alignment. The roads are horrible and it doesn’t seem like the Council really wants to do anything about them.”

Ellason would also like to try and help the city grow, bring more businesses in and attract more things for the university students to do.

“The students make up a lot of the population of this town, but there’s really nothing for them to do here,” he said. “They have to go to Greenville or to Paris or to Rockwall to actually do something.”

Ellason would also like to see the city government more responsive to the student population in the city.

“A bunch of us students attended a City Council meeting a while back,” he said, “and it seemed like the attitude of the City Council was that they really didn’t care what we thought.”

Ellason got his bachelor’s at Texas A&M University-Commerce and finished his master’s in the summer of 2007. He now teaches agriculture at the university. He believes he could be a voice for the students.

“I may not be able to make much of a difference, but if my voice is heard, I’ve tried,” he said.

He grew up in Tom Bean, Texas, and started his bachelor’s at A&M-Commerce in 1999. Ellason immediately started his master’s after finishing his undergraduate degree, but took a break in the middle to work at a purebred cattle ranch for two years.

        

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