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| Oscar Garcia, Jr., Project Manager for Jacobs Engineering, San Antonio |
Only one firm, Jacob's Engineering, replied to the Request for Quotation, RFQ, on the project, initially bidding $750,000 to implement the project in 3 phases.
Jason Hilts, BEDC Director, introduced to the GBIC Board, represented by 3 actual board members along with Finance Director Pete Gonzalez and legal representative Mark Sossi, to Jacob's Engineering's Project Manager, Oscar Garcia, Jr. Garcia, the son of outgoing UTB President Juliet Garcia, was also Project Manager for Su Clinica Familar, the Carlos Marin-owned medical clinic on Alton Gloor.
Hilts explained to the board that Jacob's Engineering, the only firm responding to their RFQ, had agreed to work for only $185,000 by breaking their initial bid up into 3 phases. Phase 1 will find "funding" for the industrial corridor project and also locate investors during a 4 month timetable.
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| Mean Mister Brownsville with McCaffrey |
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| Carlos Marin |
That comment proved to be prophetic as the GBIC has now hired Jacob's Engineering to "implement" McCaffrey's half-million dollar document and Jacob's Engineering has hired Oscar Garcia, Jr. to be their Project Manager.
It's all about control of the development of the industrial corridor.
Other developments mentioned by Hilts at the board meeting:
The FAA will release the final results of their Evironmental Impact Study July 7 with SpaceX' decision on the launch pad location soon to follow. Magic Valley has agreed to provide electricity to the Boca Chica site.
TDF funding has been applied for "Project Sizzle," the concept to bring a Finnish Foundry and Italian Machinist firm to the Port of Brownsville.
Hilts also mentioned a "Project Mandarin" and "Project Luca."
Carlos Marin, Fred Rusteberg, Mayor Tony Martinez, Rose Gowen, Jessica T, Juliet Garcia are good for Brownsville. It has been proven, Pat Ahumada was an obstacle for progress. Thank you voters for giving us Tony Martinez and the anti Ahumada supporters for making it possible.
ReplyDeleteLittle Oscarito is such a crook. There's so many stories out there of him taking and giving bribes.
ReplyDeleteNO! OSCAR GARCIA, CARLOS MARIN AND THE MAYOR KNOW WHAT IS BEST FOR BROWNSVILLE. YOU ARE JUST ENVIOUS.
ReplyDeleteJust settle down little people, We do not need to hear from you ----we already know what is good for you ----- your loving Overlords
ReplyDeleteLooks like the city and the port have adopted Juliet's kids. She has used her influence and contacts to guarantee her kids jobs for which they aren't qualified. Juliet's kids are blessed with a community that will "carry" her kids for free. What a bunch of freeloaders on our community.....we can only blame ourselves for letting her dictatorship at UTB go without oversight and scrutiny.
ReplyDeleteYou do not understand, this is what the Caste System is all about. This is why grassroots cannot govern. Grassroots eats their own, while the noble lineage protect theirs. Don't complain, this is what we thrive on. After all, issues like removing public comments is more important to us than over all transparency and good government. The behind the scenes political gains for control of the masses to enrich nobility is what we go along with, as long as they throw us a bone once in awhile.
ReplyDeleteLets not forget the other project developer for the city Calvin Walker of Walker and Perez. Walker is another crook.
ReplyDeleteI do not know why people trash other people so easily, just because you do not like them by calling them crooks and everything else. Calvin is a good man who like everyone else tries to make a living. Oscar Garcia is also a good man, who happens to be connected and gets the jobs others seek or wish they had. Don't blame them for using their position to get the jobs. We cannot blame anyone but ourselves, because we allow it and we put them in the position that they can benefit from. You vote the elite in and they reap the spoils. You vote grassroots in and you devour them. So, why blame them. The elite is united, grassroots is always busy with the crab syndrome. You have the elite getting the jobs at the port, university, pub, city, BISD and that is the reality, while we argue about giving the crazies 3 minutes of fame on the public comments. LOL! Blame yourself!
ReplyDeleteYou're not crazy, Pat, and even if you were, a broken clock is right a couple of times a day. On this one, you are absolutely right all day long.
DeleteIsn't a "connection" a pay for play tactic? Calvin Walker is a good man for the bad man.
DeleteLOL! You made my day! LOL! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteThe ironic thing about the elites stuffing their ill-breed offspring into positions of power and responsibility that they are woefully unqualified to fill is that it always ends up destroying their fragile psyches. It is the worst thing a parent can do.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, Anonymous 1:43 pm, you are right. I have seen where positions are created specifically for a specific person who is not needed or qualified, but is connected. The powers that be are influenced to do the bidding based on the Caste system, if they want to survive in their positions that pays very well. But, can you blame them? I, personally do not blame them, but blame ourselves. We allow it by not being better at governing. They throw us a bone and we fight over the bone and lose sight of good governance. Remember when the developers were getting huge subsidies (over $91 million) to build their subdivisions through higher utility rates? Or, when the city was paying time and a half to BPD Officers to patrol the Gateway Bridge, when it was not our bridge, costing us over a $500 a year? Remember when the City gave away 90 acres of prime undeveloped land to the college and university by Los Tomates Bridge and the Riverview Golf Course, when the city was too broke with no reserves and a projected deficit of over $2.0 million? I say give away, because they got an appraisal to say the land was worth 700,000 and paid us the 700K. The bogus land sale was subject to the city moving the IBWC Levee. which coincidentally cost us $700K to move. This land was worth millions, but the powers that be had to have their way and got it. This was a planned give away with a bogus appraisal, Dejavu! The same with the Jacob Brown Auditorium with a bogus appraisal that depreciated the building by 70% and did not take into account the $200K parking fees that it generated and it cost us millions to replace on Paredes LIne Road. You probably do not remember when certain property owners and organizations were getting free electricity, which was allowed under the good old boy system of entitlement. Then you have land that was given to the city for a park, but first we had to provide 600,000 of infrastructure for the developer. Then, on a technicality, the land was reclaimed by the developer and we were out 600K for the infrastructure provided. Then you have the developers who got away without paying millions for infrastructure development by disputing the previous subsidy that gained them over $91 million and by paying in advance $250 per lot during the dispute, resulting on the waiver of the $2,000 plus impact fees for those certain few developers due to PUB's poor decision making. Remember when taxpayers were paying for the mayor and commissioners health insurance, car allowance and other expenses not covered by charter and they all got away with it. Lucrative contacts that has cost taxpayers based on the Caste System has cost citizens millions and millions of dollars. WE now have other similar issues that will cost citizens, like the Tanaska deal that in my opinion is not good with ratepayers footing the bill. The Nylon Building and other real estate deals that benefit a certain few. The Imaging Brownsville defacto government we fund and enrich others. NONE of this can be blamed on those who promote the snake oil. WE, must blame ourselves for going along to get along. We elect people who we know do not have the will to stand up for what is right. We punish those who do speak out or stand up for what is right. Then we whine as to the state of affairs. Good government is attainable, but citizens need to educate themselves on the issues and not easily be swayed by the compadre or comadre, or a PR Campaign that promises the moon, but has no substance. The apathy and the eagerness for acceptance is our down fall.
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