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 ...

Here is a round-up of the coverage of the election information press conference held yesterday in San Elizario, ...

Now that one of Texas' oldest communities is now its newest city, San Elizario must take the next step forward - elect leadership. A mayor and 5 members of council will be up for grabs in the election that will be held: ***May 10th, 2014 In order to be eligible to run for one of the positions you must meet the following ...

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 ...

Its something we take for granted every day. We turn on the tap in the morning to take a shower or brush our teeth and we expect two things: water to come out and for that water to be clean and drinkable. While that is something we all expect, the reality is that for many in our community, clean potable water is not something they take for ...

Technorati Tags: Commissioner Perez,El Paso,County Commissioner,Breakfast Meeting,Commmunity Meeting,Northeast El Paso County Commissioner Vince Perez (PCT 3) was the featured speaker at a breakfast meeting for County Commissioner Patrick Abeln yesterday morning at the Denny’s Restaurant on Transmountain.   Commissioner Perez spoke ...

Well the holiday season is upon us! There was a delivery yesterday of about 800 toys to Alarcon Elementary in San Elizario. The toys were from the Salvation Army and Toys for Tots program that is spearheaded by the Marine Corps Reserve and other charities. This was just one of 44 deliveries going out across Precinct 3 and the County! A big ...

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 ...

Here is a round-up of stories relating to the County and Precinct 3 over the month of November along with a brief description of the stories.   November 27th, 2013 KVIA There are many challenges to managing the budget at the County. Some of the concerns of Commissioner Perez relating to the way process works under our current system are ...