EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — After 60 days in office, El Paso Mayor Renard Johnson took the stage for his first State of the City address on Thursday, March 6.
Mayor Johnson updated the community on his plans for the Borderland. A big goal being addressing the city’s infrastructure needs.
“Our infrastructure is in bad shape. So, we need to find funding sources to fix our roads, whether it’s from the state or it’s from the federal government. So, we’re going to look at funding all sources of money to try to get our roads in better shape,” Johnson said.
Another point the mayor addressed was some of the recent narratives surrounding the Borderland nationally. Johnson adds that it’s impacting economic development, something he hopes to change.
“I met with a company that’s going to be relocating some warehouse space here to El Paso. They were from Dallas. I think what we’re going to do is we’re going to bring them here. We’re going to show them how credible we are as a community. We’re going to show them our workforce, our labor, and we’re going to do that. And I’m going to meet with anyone that wants to come and put their business here, El Paso,” he said.
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