By Fernando Del Valle
myRGV.com
In an appeal filed with the Texas Supreme Court, Julian Rios is arguing the 13th Court of Appeals incorrectly overturned Cameron County visiting Judge’s Michael Garcia’s Nov. 4 ruling finding commissioners violated the Texas Open Meetings Act by failing to give residents proper notice of the election.
“The lawsuit moving forward to the Supreme Court requests they review the case in its entirety as it pertains to the City Charter violations because the appeals court looked only at the Texas Open Meetings Act and the case was more than the Open Meetings Act,” Rios said Tuesday in an interview.
(LEFT: Mayor Ricardo “Rick” Guerra is seen Saturday, May 6, 2023, at Pappasito’s Smokehouse in San Benito. RIGHT: Julian Rios, former president of the San Benito Economic Development Corporation, is seen Saturday, Oct. 23, 2021, in San Benito. (Denise Cathey/The Brownsville Herald)
In the appeal filed by Houston-based attorney Jeff Diamant, Rios argues the appeals court incorrectly overturned Garcia’s decision granting a temporary restraining order to halt the Nov. 5 special election, whose ballot included five proposed amendments to the City Charter, including a proposal asking voters if they would allow City Manager Fred Sandoval to live outside the city limits.
Rios argues in the appeal that case law shows commissioners violated the Open Meetings Act by failing to give residents proper notice in calling the election while failing to provide them with detailed information describing the ballot’s five propositions.
The appeal claims commissioners placed the order calling for the election on a consent agenda to “obscure” the matter.
During a hearing, City Manager Fred Sandoval stressed the election’s importance, the appeal states.
“Consent agenda items, as noted by the testimony of City Manager Fred Sandoval, whom one of these amendments is specifically targeted to benefit – that is, that the city manager can live outside the city– are for items that are ‘routine and ordinary in nature,’” the appeal states.
On Tuesday, Guerra could not be reached for comment.
In the appeal filed by Houston-based attorney Jeff Diamant, Rios argues the appeals court incorrectly overturned Garcia’s decision granting a temporary restraining order to halt the Nov. 5 special election, whose ballot included five proposed amendments to the City Charter, including a proposal asking voters if they would allow City Manager Fred Sandoval to live outside the city limits.
Rios argues in the appeal that case law shows commissioners violated the Open Meetings Act by failing to give residents proper notice in calling the election while failing to provide them with detailed information describing the ballot’s five propositions.
The appeal claims commissioners placed the order calling for the election on a consent agenda to “obscure” the matter.
During a hearing, City Manager Fred Sandoval stressed the election’s importance, the appeal states.
“Consent agenda items, as noted by the testimony of City Manager Fred Sandoval, whom one of these amendments is specifically targeted to benefit – that is, that the city manager can live outside the city– are for items that are ‘routine and ordinary in nature,’” the appeal states.
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16 comments:
Trump anuncia arancel (tariff) del 50% para la importación de cobre y otro de hasta 200% para fármacos
La noticia disparó la cotización del metal en los mercados
I hope Musk tells everything about Trump.
Two narcissists cannot play in the same sandbox for very long.
Este VATO is still at it. Well hopefully the Texas Supreme Court doesn’t entertain your nonsense.
When you are given a job, you are selected because you are a good fit. You will not rock the boat. This guy rocked the boat, took the water with him and now the people that put him in power are going to pay. FOREVER.
Putting troops on the streets of Los Angeles is a training exercise for the army, a form of reorientation. Soldiers are being retrained for loyalty to the president rather than the Constitution.
Crabs in a bucket!
Little games for little minds. . . .
Juan, I ask readers:
Which would rather have: . . . .
More Money or More Pussy?
The history book on the shelf
Is always repeating itself
Waterloo
I was defeated, you won the war
San Bene. . . . only town where Dust is King.
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the caldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg and howlet's wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Cool it with a baboon's blood,
Then the charm is firm and good.
Si quieres compartir tus noticias has tu propio blog.
The Mayor, Fred Sandoval, and Jose Morales are corrupt AF. Pinche ratas.
When Jose morales was in the EDC and wasn’t elected President of EDC, he resigned. He is a wussy.
Panochon.
Looks odd that Mr.Rios El Crusader de San Bene is represented by the Houston Guy attorneys in basically all the cases he has submitted again the Mayor and city. Ya Rios the 13th court of appeals basically said your case had no substance and you want the Texas Supreme Court to look at it again. Someone must really need the SAN BENITO TAXPAYERS MONEY. VIVA LAS VEGAS.
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