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It's 10.05. We'll go ahead and get this international bridge board meeting for September 23 of
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2026. Anico, we do roll call, please. Yes, sir. Mayor Álvaro Arriola. Board member Mario Bosquez.
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Board member Rubeninho. Board member Frank Mendoza. You have a quorum, Mayor. At this time, can we stand
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for the
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I don't believe we have any citizens comments?
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Okay, next item be item number five approval of the minutes meetings meeting minutes for July 28 and August 26.
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Do I have a motion to approve?
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Any questions everybody got to review it everything was all right okay all the
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favorite next
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item mayor's comment I don't have anything to say other than we
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had a very good turnout for the ports of plane a plane we had close to 349
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restaurant it was a very successful three-day event which was great it is shows
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that actually I-27 route is in existence. It's going to be a reality. It's no
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longer a vision and a dream. So that is going to be supporting our second
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international bridge once we get into that. So that's my comment unless any of
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the board members want to make a comment.
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Thanks, sir. Next item will be a monthly
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report for Joe Castillo.
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Thank you.
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Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
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Morning board.
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Ma'am.
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Gentlemen.
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Please go to page 8.
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We'll get started.
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This will be the vehicle crossing analysis for the month of August.
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Autos decreased of 12,790 vehicles.
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Trucks on increase of 875 vehicles.
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Just go to page 9.
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This will be the monthly traffic report.
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Cars and pickups for the month of August decreased by 8.25%.
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percent, commercial traffic increase of 15.93%, bikes increase, 24.66% and pedestrian traffic
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increase of 19.7%.
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Let's go to page 11.
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This will be the International Bridge monthly total bank deposits.
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For the month of August, toll-crossed income, $544,438.12, prepaid in-house, $51,107,
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dollars. Web payments, $154,639.50. Wire transfers, $16,271. Total bank deposit for the month
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of August, $766,455.62. Please go to page 12.
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This will be the Superintendents Operation
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Report. August 9th, the next item on the bridge near the turnaround on the northbound side
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of the bridge. The bridge was shut down by Del Rio PD from 1225 p.m. to 1255 p.m. Red Chevy truck struck
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multiple cars as driver of the red truck as apparently having a stroke, no fatal injuries,
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no damage to city property. August 11th, federal contractors accompanied by U.S. Border Patrol
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agents arrived to inspect future work site on the new border fence installation near the tow
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closet area. Also on the late August 11th, a technician from Lofton Equipment Company arrives
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to perform a test on the emergency generator by the bridge grounds.
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August 21st, U.S. Customs shifts the bridge down from 9.54 to 10.14 AM, no explanation
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given.
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And on August 27th, TransNet Communication Company, Representative Jorge Mendez arrives
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to look at the fixed, the fixed, and fixed, excuse me, and fixed security cameras in
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polls number 41 and 19 on the bridge.
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That's all I have.
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Any questions from Mr. Fist?
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to.
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Checked as in, first of all, once every two years, the text dot comes and they do
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a complete inspection. The reason I ask is Monday I went to
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Acunia and the entire bridge was covered with cars waiting in 18 wheelers and we just sat
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there for a while. I mean, I'm thinking of myself, my God, with all that weight.
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Yeah, and that is one of the things that's looked at by text dot. There's a report that's
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given every two years all right okay thank you I am I guess the last three
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months we've been increasing on commercial right since July August and
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now September we had 6369 trucks right across yeah but in May it went down
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but previous to that one two three four five the six previous months yes they
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So we're going up.
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Yeah.
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So that is awesome.
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I think that's, you know, helping our revenue there.
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So that's great.
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You just got to keep going to the end of the year.
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And one of the things that's helping also is because of the long waitlines in Eagle Pass,
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we've noticed that we've had a lot of more companies coming over to open up accounts here
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with us here in Del Rio.
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The other thing I want to mention to the Bridgeport Commission is that I think that they're
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coordinated from the Mexican side is leaving.
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So there will be a transition there to who comes in, what changes they might occur to.
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On our side, I think the flow is still between 45 minutes to an hour on traffic coming in.
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When it's heavy, yes, but the main wait line is when you're coming back for customs, that's one of the biggest issues.
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I want to keep well one of the items that I tell every citizen get a century if you're going
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to be going back and forth get sentry and it'll be easier for all of us and then you
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won't be you know complaining that you're online for an hour you know so get your
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century and it helps I mean you're going to pay $145 and $125 but you got it's the
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asset in and out but thank you Joe and give me other questions from the dies for Mr.
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Mr. Tokasio? No? If not, we'll go ahead and move on. Next item would be a resource for future
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bridge. I think my name is Chavez. Mr. Chavez? Yes. Thank you Mayor Bridge Board members.
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I do want to apologize as we're trying to catch up and now that we have our budget adopted,
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I don't have the resource for future balance here for the month of August. I'll provide that at
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the next bridge board meeting and again we're just trying to catch up and we'll provide
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that for the month of August and the month of September at the October bridge board meeting.
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Thanks sir. Any questions Mr. Chowza? I know he's been steady at our you know general
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budget so thank you sir. I think we are financially good at the bridge funds but we have for
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transparency we just need to bring it back up and make sure things out there.
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Any other questions or anything from Mr. Chavez?
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Okay.
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Next item will be set October meeting for 2026.
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Mr. Castillo?
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Yes.
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Next item will be October 28th.
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You missed item D.
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Item what?
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Oh, I'm sorry.
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Update on second international bridge Mr. Chavez.
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Yes.
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Mayor.
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there. So there isn't any significant update. I think I mentioned the last time the consultant
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is probably within a few weeks of finalizing the presidential permit. And I think that
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timeline is still good. And as soon as that's received by the city, reviewed, approved, then
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we can officially submit that to the U.S. Coast Guard. And as the mayor mentioned, we did have
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the Ports to Planes conference. And it was very informative to the point that it does tie in
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right to our second bridge. And we had several individuals come up and continue to support
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the efforts and that would definitely go a long way but as soon as we receive
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that presidential permit from our our peak consultants we'll make the bridge
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board aware of that so that we can have that as as our review before we we
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formally submit. Thank you. Any questions Mr. Choweson? Okay. Now we're going to set up
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October 2026, Mr. Joe Castillo.
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Yes, sir. Next meeting will be October 28th, Wednesday.
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I don't know.
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All right with the 28.
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That's the ones.
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Okay.
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All right.
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It's at 14. This meeting is adjourned.