Sep 19 2014
NEWS Staff Report The City of San Benito has approved an $11,348,360 budget for the upcoming fiscal year, down from last year’s $11.6 million. The property tax rate will remain unchanged at $0.728125 per $100 assessed property valuation for the fiscal year. The new budget will take effect Oct. 1. Administrative costs total up to …
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Sep 18 2014
By JACOB LOPEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com The City of San Benito has begun spraying for mosquitoes. Spraying began at 5 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 16, and will continue on until Friday morning. Such action comes after confirmed cases of West Nile in the Rio Grande Valley. An 83-year-old Donna man succumbed to the virus last week. Another …
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Sep 16 2014
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com City of San Benito garbage rates are expected to increase by more than 4 percent, which officials confirmed is a result of contractual obligations with the company conducting waste disposal. Ordinance No. 2409-G, which the City administration was expected to present to members of the San Benito City Commission …
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Sep 16 2014
By JACOB LOPEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com A City of San Benito proposal to budget $25,000 to the San Benito Chamber of Commerce is designed to reestablishing the now-dormant entity. “We want to reinstate an active Chamber of Commerce in San Benito,” said Mayor Celeste Sanchez on Tuesday. The Chamber has been defunct for several years, although …
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Sep 12 2014
By JACOB LOPEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com San Benito’s Assistant City Manager, Hector “Chuck” Jalomo, will be retiring on Oct. 31. Come the day he retires, Jalomo will have worked for the City of San Benito for 47 years and five months. It was 1966 when he began his work with the City at the tender age …
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Sep 09 2014
By JACOB LOPEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com Harlingen-based Cruz-Hogan Consultants, one of several firms named as a defendant in a lawsuit claiming deficiencies associated with a $17 million water treatment plant it was contracted to design, has alleged in a statement that the San Benito City Commission is being “mislead” by City Manager Manuel Lara and City …
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Sep 09 2014
By JACOB LOPEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com During a San Benito CISD Board of Trustees meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 9, district officials discussed the approval of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for an anti-graffiti and community garden project. The MoU is an agreement between two or more parties in which they work in conjunction on a common …
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Sep 09 2014
By JACOB LOPEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com Boys & Girls Club of San Benito Board President Tommy Ramirez recently expressed fear in the possibility of the nonprofit organization closing due to lack of funding. At a San Benito City Commission meeting held Sept. 2, commissioners voted to deny a yearly commitment of $25,000 to the club. The …
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Sep 05 2014
By JOSE F. RODRIGUEZ Special to the NEWS As I was out campaigning during the last municipal election and just attempting to encourage more citizen attendance/participation at the City Commission meetings, the most common citizen complaint, besides when is my street going to be fixed, was the lack of communication between the City and its’ …
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Sep 02 2014
Special to the NEWS Dates for residential garbage collection service will be changed effective Sept. 9. The new collection days will be Tuesday and Friday, according to City Manager Manuel Lara. “The date changes should result in a more efficient collection of garbage,” he said. The new dates do not affect the collection of garbage …
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