You may have seen these on Airway Boulevard:
Hmmm. If you wonder how much we spent take a look at this:
How very unfortunate.
We deserve better
Brutus
Thinking that money grows on trees
January 21, 2020
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Did they do this purposefully?
January 19, 2020This chart is part of an upcoming presentation to city council:
What is the funding source of the green 53%?
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Brutus
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Taxing our food
January 17, 2020The city has hired a concessionaire for the four new water parks.
Take a look at this:
Yes, now the city will get to tax you on the food you eat at a city park.
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Brutus
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No need to tell the truth
January 16, 2020Elrichboy over at elchuqueno.com wrote an illuminating post about changes in our city manager’s employment contract.
You can read it here.
He points out that the city manager’s original employment agreement (May 20, 2014) listed 14 reasons why the city manager could be fired for cause. City council can fire the city manager at any time but without good cause the city would have to pay the manager an extra year of pay.
When the contract was renewed on December 11, 2018 the list of specific causes shrank to seven.
Read elrichboy’s post to see all seven of them.
One that got my attention was:
Conscious misrepresentation of material facts to the Council or other City Officials in the conduct of the City’s business.
That explains a lot.
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Brutus
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Hurry up and wait.
January 12, 2020I went to pick up someone from the airport around 8 PM the other night.
The lighting and holiday decorations were beyond nice–they were impressive.
Unfortunately my passenger and his fellow travelers had to wait 55 minutes to receive their luggage. When he asked why he was told that the airport had only one baggage crew on duty that night.
There was a time when your bags would be on the conveyor before you could walk from the gate to the luggage area.
That left a favorable impression on people about El Paso.
I don’t know who the baggage handlers work for. If they work for the airlines the airport should require them to staff adequately. If they work for the airport then the airport managers should see to it that passengers get their bags quickly.
Airplanes arrive on a schedule. This should not be hard to figure out.
It is hard enough for us to get out of town business people to come to El Paso.
This would be a step that would help.
We deserve better
Brutus
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elpasospeak 
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