CITY COMMITS TO NO TAX INCREASE FOR SECOND YEAR IN A ROW!
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…
CITY ISSUED $300 MILLION IN DEBT IN 2016 WITH ZERO OR LITTLE PRINCIPAL FOR A DECADE
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…
LETTER OF REPRIMAND PRESENTED TO FORMER CITY REP. CLAUDIA LIZETTE RODRIGUEZ
On November 8, the City Ethics Review Commission voted 6-0 to reprimand former City Rep. Claudia Lizette Rodriguez for abusing her gas card privileges, thanks to a complaint filed by…
JUDY GUTIERREZ OPPOSES TAX INCREASES AND NON-VOTER-APPROVED DEBT, WOULD RETURN HER SALARY
City Rep. Alexsandra Annello of District 2 recently resigned her seat on City Council to run for state office, triggering a special election on December 9. Of the four candidates…
CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING ON GAS CARD SCANDAL THIS MORNING AT 10:00AM
Today at 10:00am there will be a special meeting of City Council with only a single item on the agenda: “Discussion and Action on the results of Project P2023-06 City…
VICTORY!!! DURANGUITO ARENA IS TERMINATED
Dear Friends and Media, It took 2,273 days, a half-dozen attorneys, three City Council election cycles, and a full-scale revolt from the community, but I am pleased to report that…
ARENA VOTE SCHEDULED FOR TOMORROW, JANUARY 3: SIGN UP TO SPEAK!
Tomorrow, January 3, at around 9:30am, the City Council will take up agenda items 13 and 14. Agenda item 13 would cancel the arena project in Duranguito and reallocate the…
VOTE TO ABANDON THE “ARENA” SET FOR JANUARY 3, THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
It has been six years and two months since the City Council decided to build an “Arena” in Duranguito, displacing neighborhood residents and condemning 12 historic buildings that are eligible…
ADAM POWELL: “CITY COUNCIL RUNOFF REFERENDUM ON BUSINESS AS USUAL IN EL PASO”
See Adam Powell’s outstanding report on the significance of the election runoff results, published December 22. I would encourage everyone who has not already to subscribe to the El Paso…
ADAM POWELL: “EL PASO CITY COUNCIL PLANS VOTE ON ABANDONING DOWNTOWN ARENA PROJECT”
Rep. Joe Molinar and Alexsandra Annello are co-sponsoring agenda item 13 for the January 3, 2023 City Council meeting, calling for moving the “Arena” project out of Duranguito, preventing the…