DILLEY AGUAS

 

 

In an effort to fill a gap in local reporting of the 81^st District Attorney election, I sat down for conversations with both candidates. This race takes on a personal dimension: Audrey Gossett-Louis, the challenger, worked as an Assistant District Attorney for the incumbent René Peña. On the day she announced her candidacy, she was fired. I had the opportunity to speak to both candidates about that.

Both are established attorneys, so it was not my goal to debate, but to provoke enough discussion to color their approaches and platforms. Continue reading “81st District Attorney Interviews – 2016”

“If you left your dog without water, you would get reported for animal cruelty.” Sylvia San Miguel, Derby resident.

Frio County people and South Texas friends, can we find a way to help our Derby family out?

They’ve had intermittent water for a week with no end in sight-  a years long recurring problem. The residents have reached out for help only to be ignored or avoided. Anyone have any contacts at the Texas Commission of Environmental Quality, the Texas Water Development Board, or someone with ideas on how to motivate Dario Guerra, owner of Derby Ing Utility?

A source close to utility reported that the Utility has no plans to provide water to Derby on weekends, and has been sporadically filling the tank that does not last the residents a full day. The source of the temporary water? A well in the city of Dilley. It is unclear if the city council knows about this, but the rate payers have definitely not been informed.

-written by José Asunción

10/25/16

The pool, the convention center, Family Dollar and the power of a question. The City of Dilley sees progress.

Before the end of summer 2015, Dilley’s pool was closed due to a leak. The City of Dilley raised the issue of repair in March 2016, leaving them a few months to fix the pool by the upcoming Memorial Day weekend.

Memorial day passed, as did May and June. The pool remained empty and dry. As Dilley approached the hottest days of summer, the city manager could only say that she was waiting for an updated quote from the pool company and that the quote would have to be approved by city council. City council meetings passed without any pool repair items on the agenda. Nearly a year had elapsed since the initial damage.

At a July 14th meeting, the City of Dilley heard a challenge about their financial management and answered with declaration of “tremendous revenue.”  Anyone who heard the story had the same thought… where is it? A reporter (not me) from the Frio-Nueces Current asked the city directly, why has the pool been broken for a year? Continue reading “Dilley Project Updates – September 7”