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| La Casa del Nylon, 1304 Adams Street |
"If they bring a structural engineer into La Casa del Nylon, they will likely find that the so-called second floor is merely a dingy attic without the necessary load capability for offices, furniture and the public," offered one longtime city staffer.
"What the hell is our idiot mayor going to do about parking? They haven't even broken ground on the parking garage, so that's at least eighteen months away," comments another city employee.
Have we even mentioned that the administration for the new dual location university will be in Edinburg, not Brownsville? The new university has no need of City Plaza, but the city does. Mayor Tony Martinez has his priorities so screwed up, he can't even see straight. In the last few months, he went on a wild, speculative real estate spending spree, wasting over $3,500,000 of taxpayer dollars, committing the city's children and grandchildren to a Certificate of Obligation for old, worn out downtown buildings in a feeble, misguided attempt to curry favor with the on-the-way-out UTB President Juliet Garcia.
The University of Texas system, one of the world's richest universities, has absolutely no need for third rate buildings funded by the taxpayers in one of the poorest communities in the United States. UT gleans over 10 billion dollars annually from its so-called P.U.F., income from the mineral, oil and grazing rights on over 2,000,000 acres of Texas land. Those billions represent only 8% of the University of Texas total annual funding. So, do you think Tony made a miscalculation buying the Casa del Nylon and several other building for UT?
Tony himself may now realize the folly of his real estate spending spree and, to cover his ass, is pretending now that it was City Plaza he had in mind for the new university and he was sending city employees into the old, dilapidated downtown buildings. Fortunately for him, he is surrounded by young, naive, easily-fooled city commissioners who so far have been with him in lockstep.
On Tuesday, June 18, the City Commission will hold a special meeting. Before the pledge of allegiance to the United States and Texas, the meeting will go into executive session to discuss real estate. When Tony and the Rubber Stamps come out of executive session they will consider "action to( proceed as advised by legal counsel(Mark Sossi?) in executive session." We're watching Brownsville go to hell in a handbasket under Martinez.
when a servant curries favor it is often in hope of a position with the recipient of the favor. maybe the a prime tit of that UT cash cow has Tony's name on it.
ReplyDeleteJust how much more of Martinez can this city tolerate? Wait until Debbie Portillo (with the wealth of life experiences ) makes it in to the rubberstamp room! That is when the circus starts! .. pitch the tents and sell the tickets under the big top! The laughing stock of the Valley continues on camera the Brownsville City Commission!
ReplyDeleteIf Antonio wants to see a revitalized downtown he has only one choice. Sell the Casa De Nylon to the Instituto TecnolΓ³gico de Matamoros to open a satellite campus. UT at whatever, will not have any students. You can forget about freshman and sophomore, they will all go to TSC. The very few students who make it through two years of TSC will likely go elsewhere to a little more "prestigious" institution.
ReplyDeleteLooks like Antonio and Julieta are joined in their veritable drowning victim grasping at straws dance.