Community

I am happy to announce that I have been appointed to serve on the Citizens Forum Board of the International Boundary and Water Commission. The board was established to open a dialogue between community members and interested parties regarding the concerns and needs between the USIBWC and the communities it serves. With boundary and ...

Recently, I had the pleasure of meeting with two Fort Bliss Soldiers SPC Tyler Rouse and SPC Joshua Martin who both founded and minister “NO D.U.I. El Paso”(NDEP) NDEP was founded in 2012. It is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to drive clients home safely, who feel they have had too much to drink. The organization consists of ...

Commissioner Leon is committed to making county government open to the public.  One of the first concerns he addressed was county travel.  When he took office, this information was not easily available. In order to make it possible, he met with several department heads upon whom the responsibility would fall to make this information ...

Last month Commissioner Leon participated in the grand opening ribbon cutting ceremony for “MY TIME FITNESS” gym. This success story is the culmination of a public/private collaboration between John Ball, the owner, and the Southwest Texas Border Small Business Development Center (SBDC), a program of the U. S. Small Business Administration ...

Commissioner Carlos Leon and his wife Bonnie were honored to participate in the 2013 First Light Federal Credit Union Sun Carnival Parade.  The crowd of people along the parade route on Montana Street was estimated to exceed 300,000.  While somewhat cool in the morning, the temperature was perfect for the rest of the day. This ...

 

During the November 4th session of Commissioners Court, Commissioner Leon presented a resolution declaring November of 2013 as Spice is not Nice Month. Commissioner Leon recognized Ruth Rivas to narrate a PowerPoint presentation. She shared with the public her grief from the death of her son, Adam Robert Hernandez, whose death was attributed to ...

  On October 16, a Union Pacific (UP) freight train derailed several cars just under the Cotton Street overpass by I-10. One of the derailed cars collided with a concrete pillar that supported the freeway. Because of the extensive damage, lanes on the freeway were closed for several days. Ivan Jaime, the public affairs person for the ...