Off the Agenda - City of Taylor, Texas
Sep 29, 2026 · 42 min · 9 segments
This week on Off the Agenda, City Engineer Jacob Walker with HDR drops by to talk about his career, how Taylor has grown in the nine years he's been with the City and why he enjoys his work. This…
Daniel SeguinHost
Jerrod KingeryHostSo the engineer's role is to help protect the health, safety, and welfare of the general public.
And so for municipalities, that means your water, your sewer, your drainage systems, your transportation systems.
No, but we are, as a city engineer, supposed to be the one to help alleviate those type of issues or at least have a plan to do so.
I remember the first year here, I had my toddler kids on my shoulders for the Christmas parade, and now I'm going to watch middle school football next week.
yeah i came in a few months after public works director jim gray and jim and then and then uh me it's been yeah it's fun it's been a good journey and seen taylor change a lot and you know we came in to look at one park project and we've grown from there into most technical aspects of the city so that was the skate park and pierce well pierce park and then uh heritage right here 2018.
So the engineer's role is to help protect the health, safety, and welfare of the general public.
And so for municipalities, that means your water, your sewer, your drainage systems, your transportation systems.
No, but we are, as a city engineer, supposed to be the one to help alleviate those type of issues or at least have a plan to do so.
I remember the first year here, I had my toddler kids on my shoulders for the Christmas parade, and now I'm going to watch middle school football next week.
yeah i came in a few months after public works director jim gray and jim and then and then uh me it's been yeah it's fun it's been a good journey and seen taylor change a lot and you know we came in to look at one park project and we've grown from there into most technical aspects of the city so that was the skate park and pierce well pierce park and then uh heritage right here 2018.
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