City Council Meeting 9/29/2026

The City of El Paso City Council meeting on September 29, 2026 included several capital-financing and property actions. Council unanimously approved two State Infrastructure Bank loan agreements totaling $4,401,000: $2,547,000 for Buffalo Soldier reconstruction and the Brown Street shared-use path, and $1,854,000 for downtown bicycle improvements and the McRae Boulevard shared-use path. The loans carry a 3.56% interest rate and a repayment term of no more than 25 years. Related resolutions rescinding prior plans to use capital-asset sale proceeds for project local matches also passed unanimously. Council also unanimously approved selling a 0.5-acre surplus industrial parcel to Double H Contracting, Inc. for $29,228, above its $27,000 appraised value, and approved a cleanup of an older Texas Department of Transportation agreement for Lincoln Park. The consent agenda passed with revisions postponing item 26 and deleting item 27; the transcript does not identify those items’ details. An award action on solicitation item 25 is referenced, but the solicitation, vendor, amount, and result are not reliably captured in the transcript.

Council considered a proposed application for up to $4 million from Meta’s Future Is for Everyone fund, with no city match, for public-safety lighting, water-efficient park irrigation, and Vision Zero/Safe Routes to School improvements. The project sites were described as tentative, and council members called for attention to geographic equity and further community engagement; the transcript ends before the vote or final outcome is recorded. A proposed exception allowing Mojo’s Good Vibes LLC to sell alcohol within 300 feet of a childcare center failed, 3–5. The meeting also included proclamations and public comments on digital inclusion, infrastructure conditions, and other community concerns.