DILLEY AGUAS

The city council avoids voting on hot issue items such as the new city council room and the $800,000 loan.

With the election looming, city council approves non-controversial items such as renewing the little league playing field agreement and pay raises for the police department.

Councilwoman Esther Davalos hit with surprise remodel permit fee.

Mayor Mary Ann Obregon addresses the coverage of the March 14^th meeting…

Continue reading “ELECTION COUNTDOWN: 5 WEEKS
March 28th, 2017 Dilley City Council Meeting Roundup”

MARCH 14th Dilley City Council Meeting Roundup:

Someone forgets to build a city council meeting room in the nearly complete $4 million city hall convention center.

A mayoral candidate accuses city council of political retribution.

The city administrator advises Dilley that they need a loan that may amount to “bonded indebtedness.”

4^th of July festivities were scaled back.

All in one meeting. Less than two months from Election Day. Continue reading “ELECTION COUNTDOWN 
Someone Forgot to Put a City Council Meeting Room in the 
new $4 Million City Hall/ 
Convention Center”

Fresh on the heels of a victory in an election in which she defeated a twelve year incumbent, District Attorney Audrey Gossett-Louis of the 81st Judicial District addressed and attended Dilley’s March 14, 2017 city council meeting, where she outlined the duties and goals of her office.

District Attorney Audrey Gossett-Louis stood in front of the residents of Dilley, TX- a crowd that included city contractors, a city council challenger and two challengers for the mayoral office.

“I am your new District Attorney,” she said. “I am here for the community of Dilley. We cover five counties.  We handle all of the felonies for five counties: Frio, LaSalle, Atascosa, Wilson, and Karnes. We handle all felony crimes in our district and crimes that are committed by public officials. Continue reading “District Attorney
Audrey Gossett Louis
Visits Dilley City Council Meeting – March 14, 2017″

 

On the night of March 3rd, the Frio County Sheriff’s Office led a multi-agency drug bust, assisted by the United States Border Patrol and the Pearsall Police Department.

As the task force approached the house located on a dark county road outside Dilley, the team of officers watched in disbelief as two vehicles pulled up to the driveway. The residence, long suspected of drug activity, just received a few unlucky customers. Continue reading “Frio Sheriff’s Office Weekend Bust yields 3 arrests, drugs, cash, weapons”

Dilley held their drawing-of-the-names procedural to determine the order the candidates will appear on the ballot for the 2017 election. The results were: Continue reading “Dilley Ballot Name Order”

Today, February 17, was the candidate filing deadline for Dilley’s 2017 municipal election. For the first time in years, there will be at least one challenger for every open seat: Continue reading “Dilley Will Have a Real Election This May!!”

Sergeant Jerry Reyna from the Frio County Sheriff’s Department will take over the Dilley police department in less than two weeks.

The city of Dilley interviewed four police chief applicants on the evening of December 20^th, 2016 and unanimously voted to hire Sergeant Jerry Reyna of the Frio County Sheriff’s Department. Reyna will replace Sheriff-elect Albert DeLeon who takes office at the county at midnight January 1^st, 2017. Continue reading “Dilley Hires New Police Chief”

 

 

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”