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The seven smiling faces above, six salaried staff of the BCIC and one board member, are safely back from a 4 day IEDC conclave in Dallas, where they were given two awards for their spending, actually one gold and one bronze, for their work in dispersing "Quality of Life" funding in Brownsville.
We know this because the BCIC sent us a link to Steve Clark's article today in the Brownsville Herald announcing the awards.
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As much as Brownsville officials, board administrators and members love awards, what they love even more are out-of-town trips to accept those awards with the airfare, hotel accommodations, meals and beverages furnished by Brownsville's hardworking taxpayers.
From experience and previous Public Information Requests, I know that these expensive trips cost the taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars for each trip.
The pictures below go down memory lane chronicling previous award trips.
The best trip: Colombia. Whatever happened to the Colombia networking done by the City of Brownsville officials in Colombia?
ReplyDeleteBrownsville Observer: were you there? Were you invited?
I was certainly not invited, but here's my report from 2012: https://brownsvilleobserver.blogspot.com/2016/07/most-expensive-trip-in-brownsville.html
ReplyDeleteTraveling for an award! What award, BCIC is horrible! They do nothing for quality of life! The irony, let’s give them an award for something they don’t even do! Speaking of quality of life, two meetings ago Burkhart rubtled to Macias “see Linda we do, do quality of life” she then replied “Nathan that’s from 2019, it’s 2023”. BCIC has truly lost their identity for what they claim to be, they’re better off marketing themselves as a loan company with a welfare-assistance program.
ReplyDeleteThey can travel all they want if you ask me just as long as they don’t put out $500k for another Zeke Silva like business in downtown Brownsville. The writing is on the wall for that one, such a horrible investment, a coffee shop? Really? 500k? Just go to Starbucks for that kind of investment. Cap their travel expenses and cap the amount you can get from grants and loans, period!
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