This came in from a loyal reader:
https://www.scribd.com/document/457654574/Golf-Course-Documents
Brutus,
I see this as another Great Wolf Lodge deal where we pay this developer to open up the Butterfield Gold Course. He wants the city to pay him $2 Million a year plus extras to do it. Read the link to see the proposal. Made me sick to even think the city would even consider it.
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We deserve better
Brutus
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Posted by Brutus
Our COVID-19 situation is not good.
Media reporting on the issue is not good either.
This headline is from a local news broadcast on April 18, 2019:
The story contained this:
In addition to the man’s death, officials are reporting 23 new positive cases of the virus, bringing the total in the county to 505. There are now 25 hospitalized patients and ten who are in the ICU. Seven of the ten ICU patients are on ventilators, according to the City. The number of hospitalized patients is an improvement from Friday when 38 patients were hospitalized.
I have not found a source that has published a day-by-day accounting of the number of new cases so I had to look up each day individually. Here is what I found:
Let’s hope that the trend continues. For the benefit of our local media dictionary.com defines soar this way: increase rapidly above the usual level.
We deserve better
Brutus
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This item was on the Tuesday, April 14, 2020 EPISD board of trustees agenda:
| SUMMARY: |
| Administration is recommending an Interlocal Agreement with the City of El Paso for an existing ball field located at Washington Park (Hugo Meyer). The District would commit to improving a baseball field, improve/construct parking, and related facilities. The District will coordinate use with the City, but at a minimum will have exclusive use for baseball games and practices.
The District would be responsible for the design and construction. Maintenance will be shared with the City, and each entity will provide general daily baseball field maintenance during their respective periods of use. EPISD will be responsible for the baseball netting. The City of El Paso will be responsible for the care of the turf, irrigation, fencing, lighting, and all structural baseball components.
The initial term would be for 30 years, with two 10-year automatic extensions. |
What they are talking about doing is sharing a city owned ball field with the school district.
This is better
Brutus
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Posted by Brutus
The $100 million give away to the proposed water park seems to be dead.
The city has been negotiating with the company for over five years.
The company recently announced that they would not build the project.
They seem to be blaming the COVID-19 situation.
We were committed to giving them over $100 million to help finance a $150 million project.
Do they think that our economy will not recover? Or is the reason they have not moved forward after five years of negotiating that they were never convinced that the deal made sense?
How much money have we spent getting this deal set up?
Will the land transfer still take place?
We deserve better
Brutus
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Two city representative had this item on the Monday, April 13, 2020 special city council agenda:
Discussion on renovating the Abraham Chavez Theater and/or the civic center with funds authorized by the
“Museum, Cultural, Performing Arts, and Library Facilities” ballot proposition of the 2012 Quality of Life bond
election rather than building a new multipurpose performing arts and entertainment facility in the Union Plaza
neighborhood.
If you read the emails between the city’s bond counsel and various state officials this is pretty much what the original idea was.
The project morphed into an “arena” with an unknown cost.
Isn’t it time that we stop all city spending except what is absolutely necessary?
We deserve better
Brutus
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elpasospeak 
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