Alligators ‘n Roadkill has an interesting post about the border situation.
You can read them here.
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Call for articles
June 13, 2019From time to time I like to remind the readers that the blog is open to posts from contributors.
Feel free to email me at brutusep@yahoo.com
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Open meetings violations
June 12, 2019If the following two documents are correctly done our city council and our city attorney are in flagrant violation of the Texas Open Meetings Act.
They held a special city council meeting on Monday, May 13, 2019. They posted an agenda that told us that they would be considering seven items.
The agenda for the special city council meeting on Monday, May 13, 2019 can be read here.
The minutes of the meeting reflect an entirely different story. From the minutes:
“The agenda items for the Regular City Council [meeting] of May 13, 2019 were reviewed.”
According to their minutes they reviewed items from a future city council meeting. They have the right to do that but it has to be on the agenda of the meeting where they do it. In this case it was not.
According to their records they did not have a regular city council meeting on May 13, 2019 but they did have one on May 14, 2019.
The May 13, 2019 meeting was a special city council meeting that had a publicly posted agenda. That agenda did not include the items that were to be considered in the meeting the day after.
However the minutes of the May 13 meeting indicate that they did consider items that were going to be part of the May 14, 2019 meeting.
According to the Texas supreme court “The notice [agenda] must be sufficient to apprise the general public of the subjects to be considered during the meeting. ”
The minutes of that meeting can be read here.
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City code of conduct
June 11, 2019The Monday, June 10, 2019 agenda for the special city council meeting has this item on it:
Discussion and action on a Resolution to approve a Code of Conduct for Elected Officials.
You can read it here: http://agenda.elpasotexas.gov/sirepub/cache/2/bczq5g2bmlqzmh1opsjoyo4y/32527806072019073224662.PDF
One can only hope.
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City budget growing faster than our population
June 10, 2019elrichboy over at El Chuqueno posted this the other day:
He points out that our population has only grown by 1.1% over the last six years.
Yet our city budget grows every year.
Max Grossman pointed out that the city general fund budget has grown 24% over the last five years.
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