Special to El Rrun-Rrun
With two Cameron County commissioners absent, the majority (3) voted to grant Saronic Technologies a 19-year tax abatement that could save the company up to $100 million in waived property taxes.
The proposal was deeply controversial, sparking fierce debate.
Despite that, Precinct 1 Brownsville commissioners Sofia Benavides and Joey Lopez Pct. 2 with Cameron County Judge Edie Treviño – a bare majority – voted to pass the abatement and try to entice Saronic to bring the plant and create 10,000 permanent jobs within the first 10 years of operation and bring an estimated $3.2 billion in capital improvement cost for the project.
Absent from the meeting were San Benito Pct. 3 commissioner David Garza and Pct. 4 Harlingen Gus Ruiz, a fact not lost on Treviño, who pointedly told myRGV.com that the decision had ben tabled several times before to give all commissioners an opportunity to voice their opposition if they so desired.
Instead, they stayed away to distance themselves from the public decision.
Project Details
Proposed Break: 95 percent waiver on property taxes.Project Value: Estimated at $2.7 billion in tax property value over four phases.
Term: 19 years, expiring in 2048.
Promises: Up to 10,000 direct jobs over time, with nearly 2,000 created in the first phase. The county was considering a tax break for tha technology company that wants to build military and commercial ships at the Port of Brownsville.
Saronic Technologies is looking at the port as a possible site for the shipyard. The company is also considering a location in Virginia.
The county was scheduled to hold a public meeting in late May to discuss the proposal but rescheduled it for June 2. But it was until today that the item was placed on the agenda.
15 comments:
Always with the Creating Jobs
never
to Happen. . .
Everything is greed.
American Greed!!
The sky's the limit!!
No rent control
Affordable my ass!!!!
Social injustice
And the cost of living makes my blood boil
Juan, have you ever heard of a fallen pelvic floor in women? My wife suffered it and it changed everything, vato. The doctor said her pelvic muscles and tissues gave way. It meant her vagina fell outward and the sight of that took everything out of me.
Have you ever seen a woman with a fallen pussy?
You don't want to.
A deal, they are saying. But not really.
It's going to cost $300 billion we will give them to repair their country. The war cost even more and we the people suffered. We lost 14 men and many more injured Kids killed For what...We had an open Strait of Hormuz before the first bomb dropped.
They have a younger more powerful regime then before They can say they won't build a nuclear, but did they not stop with Obamas treaty until Trump tore it up.
It's Trump's fault. All of it.
5:48 This chapter of the aggression against Iran is Trump's fault. I agree. But American policies wielded by both GOP and Democrats in the past have been unproductive and hostile. We demand that Iran not obtain a nuclear weapon. Why is Israel given a free pass? Iran allowed monitoring by the IAEA. Israel has never signed the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. The double standard is very evident. Instead of economic sanctions, freezing assets and military strikes, we reward Israel with 3.8 billion annually
in military aide. Another 500 million for missile defense. Many folks are
convinced that America can do no wrong and follow our leaders, blindly.
How can we forget that our country used nuclear bombs on Japanese civilians? They are nobody to pass judgement.
Eddie Trevino and Joey Lopez taking revenge because Cameron County residents did not vote for them.
Steve would have done the same thing! Don’t act like your new narco county judge would have done any different!
Big win for Brownsville and the Port !!!! This is going to be monumental change for Brownsville! Great news!
- Not a Republican
The agreement should have contained language that promotes
wages comparable to similar facilities in other geographic regions.
Stop throwing RGV workers a bone.
This is about Cameron County not Iran BABOSO!
Republicans have ownership of these companies, my friend. We introduced SpaceX. The highest-paid employees are not from this region. The average jobs are supported by local Democrats. Elon Musk owns Boca Chica! Now, another company is set to arrive and replicate this model. They will take control of the port. Our local infrastructure is overwhelmed. You consider this a victory. This merely translates to increased property taxes for the working class, enriching the wealthy further. This is a typical display of the Democrats' foolishness.
And this is a typical dooms-day statement of a hypothetical worst-case-scenario situation by a Republican. Your Republican state governor gave Boca Chica to Musk! That’s the truth! Republican foolishness once again!
To Anonymouse at June 17, 2026 at 7:26 AM
It is called “The First Amendment” aka Freedom of Expression.
Chelsea Cline :
From the famed economist MJK: in the long run, we are all dead. People will Never go to Mars and even if they did, they would die immediately from the corrupt atmosphere. It is all a scam. Also, fuck trump too, he is not a god and there is no god, so just be happy before we get nuked. It is coming.
-Chells
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