Last month, Dennis Bozeman stepped down from his seat on the Howe City Council due to family health issues that have him spending most of his time in Louisiana.
With the seat vacated, Howe Mayor Jeff Stanley appointed Darren Foster to the seat, which the council fully and unanimously supported with their motion to approve in Tuesday’s city council meeting.
Foster was approached, or recruited, initially by longtime Council Member Sam Haigis. With Haigis’ recommendation to Mayor Stanley and a willingness to serve his community, Foster agreed to fill the seat if the council would support the nomination.
“I was very humbled to be asked by Mr. Haigis.” said Foster.
The council position does require some time and Foster says that he’s able to give some time despite having three children in the Howe ISD school system.
“I thought about that and I’m going to have kids here (in Howe) for a long time.” said Foster. “One time a month is not much to sacrifice.”
Foster said that he sees growth coming to Howe and wants to help with the plans that are in place and to help guide those efforts.
“We were in a meeting today and they mentioned that Collin County has 950,000 people and are about to have two more million.” said Foster. “They have to land somewhere. More than likely they’ll land here. So I want to help this city grow the right way.”
Foster, 46, is a native of Plainview, Texas and is a 1993 graduate of Texas Tech University. He married Howe native, Vanna Tate Foster 22 years ago and they have three kids, Darci (17), Dylan (15) and Dax (9).
Foster is a Texas Farm Bureau agent and was in the education field for 20 years. He’s been a youth pastor and a minister.
“I have a servant heart.” said Foster. “I just want to serve and help people. That’s what I do. I think this feels like a chance to reach out and help people in this community.”
Foster joins Haigis, Debbie Lowery, Georgia Richardson and Bill French on the council.
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