The voters passed the Quality of Life Bond on November 6, 2012, authorizing the issuance of $473,250,000 in general obligation bonds for dozens of projects, and only 37 days later…
The Socorro Independent School District is in a deep financial hole and under the conservatorship of the Texas Education Agency. In November they had to take out a $25.1 million…
Like greedy pigs at the trough, our County Commissioners Court just voted 4-1 under agenda item 9C to issue a certificate of obligation in the amount of $54 million. Commissioner…
The City’s current Vehicle Allowance Program Policy was implemented under City Manager Tommy Gonzalez on August 31, 2015 and has never been updated. Chief City Auditor Edmundo Calderon published his…
“I have always felt that we should limit the use of certificates of obligation to emergency projects where we maybe don’t have the time to wait for the time that…
Here is a list of El Paso County employee salaries, dated March 2025. 382 of them are paid over $100,000 per year plus benefits.
We are pleased to report that (Ret) Col. Cary Westin has signed a contract with El Paso Independent School District to serve as a business consultant, starting April 2. We…
Today the County Commissioners Court was set to vote on posting notice for a $54M certificate of obligation but then postponed the vote for one week after members of the…
New statistics show that El Paso County grew by only 948 people between 2023 and 2024, an increase of only 0.1%. That means that El Paso County had the slowest…
Yesterday the El Paso County Commissioners Court voted 5-0 in support item 13A, “to allow the County Judge to accept any donations for the purpose of travel to Taiwan to…
