The City of Coppell was honored by Keep Texas Beautiful as the winner of the 2012 Governor's Community Achievement Award for outstanding community improvement in their population category. The award was given out on June 27 at the Keep Texas Beautiful annual conference in San Antonio.

The Governor's Community Achievement Award is one of the most coveted annual environmental and community improvement honors in the state. Earning this award demonstrates the effort and hard work put forth by the Keep Coppell Beautiful organization in their mission to promote education and activities that encourage waste reduction, litter prevention and beautification.

Along with receiving this award, the city will receive an aesthetic landscape project on a highway state right-of-way by the Texas Department of Transportation that is worth $210,000.

All the winning communities were chosen for their achievements in community leadership and coordination, education, public awareness, litter prevention/clean up, litter law and illegal dumping enforcement, beautification, community improvement and solid waste management.

Keep Coppell Beautiful (KCB) was established in 1993 and is an affiliate of Keep Texas Beautiful and Keep America Beautiful. KCB annual receives Gold Star Recognition from Keep Texas Beautiful and President's Circle Recognition from Keep America Beautiful. The organization annually hosts Clean Coppell, EcoCoppell Earthfest and many environmental education programs and classes throughout the year.

Photo from City of Coppell website