City Of Fort Worth: TMS Site Wins Regional Cooperation Award

Press release from City of Fort Worth:

June 10, 2021

The North Central Texas Council of Governments presented its Regional Cooperation Award to the Denton County Vaccination Clinic at Texas Motor Speedway. The award was created in 1996 and jointly recognizes two or more local governments for outstanding acts of cooperation.

Denton County, in cooperation with Texas Motor Speedway and 42 other regional partners, including the City of Fort Worth and other local jurisdictions, state and federal agencies, private-sector organizations and thousands of volunteers, represented the concept of reaching across jurisdictional boundaries as they responded to COVID-19 with a massive vaccination site at the speedway in far north Fort Worth.

The site was able to accommodate 1,250 residents an hour and was recognized nationally and internationally. The White House requested footage of the process and a detailed operation plan to review before setting up federal drive-thru clinics across the country.

The Denton County Mass Vaccination Cooperation was nominated by Denton County Judge Andy Eads.

Photo: After administering over 350,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses, the Texas Motor Speedway clinic concluded its widely acclaimed operations in May.

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