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[0:00] It's 10.05. We'll go ahead and get this international bridge board meeting for September 23 of
[0:05] 2026. Anico, we do roll call, please. Yes, sir. Mayor Álvaro Arriola. Board member Mario Bosquez.
[0:14] Board member Rubeninho. Board member Frank Mendoza. You have a quorum, Mayor. At this time, can we stand
[0:28] for the
[0:44] I don't believe we have any citizens comments?
[0:50] Okay, next item be item number five approval of the minutes meetings meeting minutes for July 28 and August 26.
[0:58] Do I have a motion to approve?
[1:04] Any questions everybody got to review it everything was all right okay all the
[1:09] favorite next
[1:15] item mayor's comment I don't have anything to say other than we
[1:19] had a very good turnout for the ports of plane a plane we had close to 349
[1:28] restaurant it was a very successful three-day event which was great it is shows
[1:35] that actually I-27 route is in existence. It's going to be a reality. It's no
[1:41] longer a vision and a dream. So that is going to be supporting our second
[1:46] international bridge once we get into that. So that's my comment unless any of
[1:51] the board members want to make a comment.
[1:58] Thanks, sir. Next item will be a monthly
[2:01] report for Joe Castillo.
[2:04] Thank you.
[2:05] Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
[2:07] Morning board.
[2:08] Ma'am.
[2:08] Gentlemen.
[2:10] Please go to page 8.
[2:10] We'll get started.
[2:14] This will be the vehicle crossing analysis for the month of August.
[2:18] Autos decreased of 12,790 vehicles.
[2:23] Trucks on increase of 875 vehicles.
[2:26] Just go to page 9.
[2:30] This will be the monthly traffic report.
[2:32] Cars and pickups for the month of August decreased by 8.25%.
[2:36] percent, commercial traffic increase of 15.93%, bikes increase, 24.66% and pedestrian traffic
[2:45] increase of 19.7%.
[2:48] Let's go to page 11.
[2:54] This will be the International Bridge monthly total bank deposits.
[2:58] For the month of August, toll-crossed income, $544,438.12, prepaid in-house, $51,107,
[3:08] dollars. Web payments, $154,639.50. Wire transfers, $16,271. Total bank deposit for the month
[3:18] of August, $766,455.62. Please go to page 12.
[3:28] This will be the Superintendents Operation
[3:29] Report. August 9th, the next item on the bridge near the turnaround on the northbound side
[3:34] of the bridge. The bridge was shut down by Del Rio PD from 1225 p.m. to 1255 p.m. Red Chevy truck struck
[3:42] multiple cars as driver of the red truck as apparently having a stroke, no fatal injuries,
[3:45] no damage to city property. August 11th, federal contractors accompanied by U.S. Border Patrol
[3:51] agents arrived to inspect future work site on the new border fence installation near the tow
[3:55] closet area. Also on the late August 11th, a technician from Lofton Equipment Company arrives
[4:00] to perform a test on the emergency generator by the bridge grounds.
[4:04] August 21st, U.S. Customs shifts the bridge down from 9.54 to 10.14 AM, no explanation
[4:09] given.
[4:10] And on August 27th, TransNet Communication Company, Representative Jorge Mendez arrives
[4:15] to look at the fixed, the fixed, and fixed, excuse me, and fixed security cameras in
[4:19] polls number 41 and 19 on the bridge.
[4:21] That's all I have.
[4:26] Any questions from Mr. Fist?
[4:28] to.
[4:34] Checked as in, first of all, once every two years, the text dot comes and they do
[4:39] a complete inspection. The reason I ask is Monday I went to
[4:43] Acunia and the entire bridge was covered with cars waiting in 18 wheelers and we just sat
[4:50] there for a while. I mean, I'm thinking of myself, my God, with all that weight.
[4:55] Yeah, and that is one of the things that's looked at by text dot. There's a report that's
[4:59] given every two years all right okay thank you I am I guess the last three
[5:08] months we've been increasing on commercial right since July August and
[5:13] now September we had 6369 trucks right across yeah but in May it went down
[5:21] but previous to that one two three four five the six previous months yes they
[5:25] So we're going up.
[5:25] Yeah.
[5:26] So that is awesome.
[5:27] I think that's, you know, helping our revenue there.
[5:30] So that's great.
[5:32] You just got to keep going to the end of the year.
[5:34] And one of the things that's helping also is because of the long waitlines in Eagle Pass,
[5:38] we've noticed that we've had a lot of more companies coming over to open up accounts here
[5:41] with us here in Del Rio.
[5:43] The other thing I want to mention to the Bridgeport Commission is that I think that they're
[5:49] coordinated from the Mexican side is leaving.
[5:51] So there will be a transition there to who comes in, what changes they might occur to.
[5:59] On our side, I think the flow is still between 45 minutes to an hour on traffic coming in.
[6:07] 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.
[6:15] I want to keep well one of the items that I tell every citizen get a century if you're going
[6:20] to be going back and forth get sentry and it'll be easier for all of us and then you
[6:24] won't be you know complaining that you're online for an hour you know so get your
[6:30] century and it helps I mean you're going to pay $145 and $125 but you got it's the
[6:36] asset in and out but thank you Joe and give me other questions from the dies for Mr.
[6:42] Mr. Tokasio? No? If not, we'll go ahead and move on. Next item would be a resource for future
[6:49] bridge. I think my name is Chavez. Mr. Chavez? Yes. Thank you Mayor Bridge Board members.
[6:55] I do want to apologize as we're trying to catch up and now that we have our budget adopted,
[7:02] I don't have the resource for future balance here for the month of August. I'll provide that at
[7:09] the next bridge board meeting and again we're just trying to catch up and we'll provide
[7:15] that for the month of August and the month of September at the October bridge board meeting.
[7:23] Thanks sir. Any questions Mr. Chowza? I know he's been steady at our you know general
[7:29] budget so thank you sir. I think we are financially good at the bridge funds but we have for
[7:38] transparency we just need to bring it back up and make sure things out there.
[7:42] Any other questions or anything from Mr. Chavez?
[7:46] Okay.
[7:47] Next item will be set October meeting for 2026.
[7:51] Mr. Castillo?
[7:53] Yes.
[7:54] Next item will be October 28th.
[7:56] You missed item D.
[7:57] Item what?
[7:59] Oh, I'm sorry.
[7:59] Update on second international bridge Mr. Chavez.
[8:03] Yes.
[8:04] Mayor.
[8:04] there. So there isn't any significant update. I think I mentioned the last time the consultant
[8:15] is probably within a few weeks of finalizing the presidential permit. And I think that
[8:23] timeline is still good. And as soon as that's received by the city, reviewed, approved, then
[8:31] we can officially submit that to the U.S. Coast Guard. And as the mayor mentioned, we did have
[8:40] the Ports to Planes conference. And it was very informative to the point that it does tie in
[8:50] right to our second bridge. And we had several individuals come up and continue to support
[8:59] the efforts and that would definitely go a long way but as soon as we receive
[9:05] that presidential permit from our our peak consultants we'll make the bridge
[9:12] board aware of that so that we can have that as as our review before we we
[9:18] formally submit. Thank you. Any questions Mr. Choweson? Okay. Now we're going to set up
[9:27] October 2026, Mr. Joe Castillo.
[9:30] Yes, sir. Next meeting will be October 28th, Wednesday.
[9:35] I don't know.
[9:36] All right with the 28.
[9:40] That's the ones.
[9:41] Okay.
[9:43] All right.
[9:43] It's at 14. This meeting is adjourned.