Max Grossman: Guest columnist, Published 7:01 a.m. MT Aug. 15, 2024 Our city and county have adopted opposite approaches to borrowing and taxation. While the mayor and majority of City…
Thanks to the financial acumen and wizardry of CFO Robert Cortinas and Interim City Manager Cary Westin, yesterday our City Council was presented with a budget for FY 2024-25 that…
Interim City Manager Cary Westin is the best thing to happen to the City administration since the invention of mashed potatoes. Not only did he and CFO Robert Cortinas prevent…
This past March 25, City CFO Robert Cortinas gave a PowerPoint presentation before City Council in which he discussed his 5-Year Financial Forecast. On page 71, he cited $300 million…
Interim City Manager Cary Westin has announced that he will not seek a permanent position. This is sad news for our community, as he has been a very effective administrator…
Item 32 of the City Council Agenda for October 24 deletes Section 20.20.080.A.1 of the City’s Historic Preservation Ordinance, which purports to regulate properties that are on the National Register…
18 Duranguito properties within the former “Arena Footprint” will soon be sold to investors who will restore them and put them back into productive use. The aim is to establish…
At today’s Special Meeting, our City Council voted unanimously to cap the City tax rate at the no-new-revenue rate of $0.832001 for each $100 of property valuation. That means that…
Kerry Mannix of KVIA is reporting that Interim City Manager Cary Westin has unilaterally terminated the City gas card program in the wake of the scandalous abuse of this privilege…
Cindy Ramirez of El Paso Matters published a substantive report on the ongoing budget talks in City Council. To summarize, Interim City Manager Cary Westin and CFO Robert Cortinas proposed…
