Lost dog proposal

October 14, 2019

The slide below is what city staff is recommending that the city do relative to the “Lost Dog Trail” and other land where we voted with the following language to create an ordinance:

Shall an ordinance be approved to preserve in its natural state, for all time, the 1,107 acres
owned by the City of El Paso and referred to as “Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone Number
Twelve,” which includes the “Lost Dog Trail,” and to prohibit, for all time, any private development and
any major public roadways on said 1,107 acres?

This seems reasonable to me.  I think it says that the city would not have to buy the land and that after the restrictive covenants are created the land will be preserved.

I assume that changing the covenants would require city council action and supposedly the public would have an opportunity to weigh in at that time.

What do y’all think?

We deserve better

Brutus

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Not Brio, Adagio actually

October 10, 2019

In November of 2018 we wrote about the Alameda Brio being late.

We were originally told that it would start running in early 2018.

The Sun Metro web site contained this notice in December of 2018:

The other day we saw this on the Sun Metro site:

It’s getting late in 2019 so they better hurry.

We deserve better

Brutus

 

 

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Trust us

October 9, 2019

This is what the bond issue will look like on the ballot:

Do they know what they are going to build?

They have a list of facilities but they put this footnote on each slide:

Amounts listed are preliminary estimates subject to change. Actual use of any approved bond funds
will be determined by subsequent action by City Council.

Do they know how much each building will cost?

No, they have not gone out to bid–they are just guessing.  Many of us can remember how that worked out with the ballpark/city hall move.

Can someone send us a graphic of a blank check?

We deserve better

Brutus

 

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Guilty because we say so

October 7, 2019

Take a look at this press release from the city:

New efficiency

We don’t know if Dr. Morgan is guilty or not.  We do know that the city’s press release says “The officers arrived and through the investigation found that Morgan had assaulted his wife”.

Didn’t it use to take a jury trial to make that kind of statement?

Someone needs to teach these people what fair is.

Maybe they don’t want to be fair.

We deserve better

Brutus

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Mushrooms

October 6, 2019

Somehow members of our city council have gotten the mistaken impression that they are not allowed to talk with people  that are involved in litigation with the city.

Actually the ones that have restrictions on whom they may talk with are the attorneys involved in the case.  Those attorneys may only deal with their opponents through the opponent’s attorneys.

The actual people involved are allowed to deal with each other as they please.

The very idea that anyone cannot speak with their elected representatives is absurd, but this is another way that city staff keeps council in the dark.

We deserve better

Brutus

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