𝗖𝗜𝗧𝗬 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗠𝗜𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗗𝗜𝗦𝗖𝗨𝗦𝗦𝗘𝗦 𝗟𝗜𝗠𝗜𝗧𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦 𝗢𝗡 𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗥𝗘𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗘𝗨𝗥𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗣 𝗗𝗢𝗪𝗡𝗧𝗢𝗪𝗡~𝗖𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗬, 𝗦𝗢𝗙𝗧 𝗗𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗞𝗦, 𝗦𝗣𝗢𝗡𝗚𝗘 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗕𝗨𝗖𝗞𝗘𝗧 𝗖𝗔𝗥 𝗪𝗔𝗦𝗛𝗘𝗦, 𝗩𝗔𝗣𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗦𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗦

  

Photos courtesy of Jerry Danache

The City Commission meeting focused on various forms of informal selling or entrepreneurship  in Brownsville.

After an initial Executive Session, during which I dozed off, the City Commission considered an ordinance restricting the sale of soft drinks, food items, etc. on the streets of downtown Brownsville.  City Commissioner Pedro Cardenas wanted to add car washing to the prohibited items and that got me daydreaming a bit.  

Car washing with a rag and a bucket filled with soapy water is a downtown tradition.  I've only used the service once as my late wife always waived them off, but my only concern was that the rinse water and the cleaning water were the same.  But, Hell, $3.00 for a car wash.  Where else in the country can you get that?

                       

I picked up some stats from a survey I hope the city didn't pay too much for:  20% of the city's elderly rate Brownsville as an "excellent" place to live.  63% want more exercise classes.  41% rate their own health as good. 

Now, this one confused me from a mathematical standpoint:  60% get their information from television, while 63% get it from social media.  Is that mathematically possible?  I'll ask one of my grandsons.  

Another measure wanted E-cigarettes, vapes, whatever, sold only in establishments 1000 feet away from churches and schools.

                                                      

Sheriff Lucio and the editor

While Commissioner Roy De Los Santos wanted that to be a "direct 1000 feet," the late Sheriff Oscar Lucio explained to me how that's measured years ago. .  . LOL. ("Jim, it's down the sidewalk, cross the street, then down the opposite sidewalk, 1000 feet.")

There was some discussion of rules for downtown parking in vacant lots, driveways, etc., but, to be honest, I didn't hear everything said.  I know that Brownsville's downtown residents are eager to rent out parking spaces during Charro Days and big games at Sam's Stadium.  Again, it's entrepreneurship.