CITY, COUNTY, AND UMC TO INCREASE TAX ON AVERAGE HOME BY $336!
The City is increasing its property tax on the average home value ($221,726) by $83, with no resistance from Mayor Johnson, who had promised to lower our tax. UMC just…
CITY AUDITOR CALDERON TO RETIRE
Edmundo Calderon has served as Chief Internal Auditor of the City of El Paso for more than 20 years and in that time has not only worked hard to keep…
CITY IS SHORT-CHANGING RETIRED FIREFIGHTERS
The City’s Strategic Communications Director, Laura Cruz-Acosta, has a long record of stonewalling the media and sharing deceptive or false information. Ask any local journalist assigned to City business. She…
CITY BUDGET FOR FY 2026 INCLUDES 6.5% PROPERTY TAX INCREASE!
City Manager Dionne Mack and CFO Robert Cortinas presented their preliminary budget for FY 2026 and it comes with a 6.5% property tax increase. That works out to $1,701 for…
GROSSMAN TO EL PASO TIMES: CITY COUNCIL VOTES TO RESTRICT PUBLIC COMMENT
On April 29, the El Paso City Council voted 7-1 to amend the Rules of Order such that public comment on agenda items will be confined to a 60-minute period…
CITY LEASES, APRIL 2025
We wrote to the City of El Paso requesting “all current property leases for City offices, including for the Anson Mills Building.” The City replied April 28, 2025 and sent…
CITY TO FACE $29.2M IN BUDGET DEFICITS THROUGH FY 2029
City CFO Robert Cortinas made a presentation at the March 17 Work Session under item 2, indicating the City is projecting a total budget deficit of $29.2 million over the…
SALARIES OF CITY EMPLOYEES, MAR 2025
We have attached here our latest list of the salaries of City employees. 420 are paid more than $100,000 per year plus benefits. The two highest paid employees are City…
CITY TO EXPAND CONVENTION CENTER INTO UNION PLAZA
Yesterday we learned that the City of El Paso is planning to expand the Convention Center across San Antonio Avenue, right up to the edge of the former Arena Footprint.…
DID NICOLE FERRINI FALSIFY HER RESUME IN HER APPLICATION FOR CITY MANAGER?
Nicole Ferrini is the Climate and Sustainability Officer of the City of El Paso and is paid $176,428, the 18th highest salary of about 6,000 employees. Until last month, she…