Today’s (Tuesday, October 14, 2014) agenda for city council indicates that the mayor will not be present.
Item 16.5 should prove to be interesting. The agenda lists the topic this way:
Discussion and action to set protocol, procedure and communication between the City Attorney’s office and the Mayor & City Council.
Three council members have their names listed with the posting.
Are we going to see them gang up on the city attorney since the mayor will not be there to defend her?
Last week’s city council meeting included a rather heated exchange between a council member and the mayor. The council member was upset with the city attorney. The mayor felt that she was berating the city attorney in public. The exchanged words seemed to go beyond disagreement. The confrontation looked like an open split between the mayor and the council member.
If this turns out to be a public dressing down of the city attorney the council members should be ashamed. If they have legitimate grievances with the city attorney they should address them when the mayor is present, not behind his back. Our city charter has the city attorney reporting to the mayor. He should be part of any discussion relating to her.
One city representative said during last week’s city council meeting that the city attorney had “offended” a major developer. Are our three city representatives doing whatever they are going to do in order to help their major campaign contributors?
Does “Open for Business” mean contribute to my campaign and I can help you get a sweet deal at the expense of the taxpayers?
We deserve better
Brutus
elpasospeak 
The is no excuse for the Mayor being absent. (except extreme sickness)
I understand he is going out of town to talk to various companies to move to El Paso (even though El Paso does not have the water available for US to water our lawns.)
So, by tricking companies to move to El Paso, that creates more demand for water and other services that El Paso does not have.
We are in the DESSERT. We are out of water !
This is like a pyramid scheme.
We do not have a river that provides any water.
Underground water is almost gone.
WHY does El Paso need a million more people here?
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Mmm, dessert.
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LoL. Chocolate works for me!
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Free empañadas for everyone!
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El Paso has water. Ft Bliss would not have expanded if the city couldn’t guarantee a future supply of water. The water is underground and needs desalinization. It is both here under us and to the east under “water ranches” owned by EPWU. There is plenty of water.
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I just tried to look at the agenda online and it has no action items of any kind. Just the “call to the public.” ??
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Politics, n. strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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Meanwhile, back to the dramatic case of musical chairs, we’re going to spend more than $6,000 to move yet a second rep who doesn’t like her seating position. That’s about 20% to 25% of the annual salary of a city rep. I’m still trying to figure out why this move requires a new computer and desk set-up, when the current one could simply be moved. And we wonder why El Paso is perceived badly by the outside world?
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Wait a minute. Isn’t this the same town that spent 25k on a “Christmas display” that only consisted of a Bonsai tree and two ‘Family Dollar’ miniature flashlights taped to it? l’m grateful that we ONLY spent six grand to play a round of “musical chairs.” And let’s not blame Leeser, he’s busy on vacat…..err, l mean finding oodles of jobs for us. He’s so happy that just in the last 12 months, that we now have (drum roll) 3000 MORE JOBS! Never mind the fact that the population has grown a lot more than that. And Oscar was so pleased that we even gained 300 extra jobs from a copper wire manufactoring plant. Oh wait a minute, that was Santa Teresa that got those jobs. But please don’t inform the “Good Boy” that Santa Teresa is a different city in a differnt state, that might make him sad. l don’t want to mess up his concentration on finding us all of these jobs. Do you realize that by the time l’m done typing, that he would already be 20% closer to finding us an extra job? Maybe when Oscar is done with his sight-seeing tour, he could recommend a nice town for us to live in. You know, one with lower taxes, lower fees, and a lower debt.
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