Well, I'm not sure.

Hello, hello.

Good afternoon.

If you'll please take your seats.

The meeting can be convened.

Good afternoon.

This is a special meeting of the Al Pasco City Council for Wednesday, June third, twenty twenty six.

Representative Rocha.

Represent Trah.

Representative.

Represent Canales.

I don't know what we're going to do.

Liberty and Justice Crawl.

Mayor Johnson.

Good afternoon.

Good afternoon.

Well, good afternoon.

Bienvenidos, amigos a El Paso.

It is my honor to call to order the special joint meeting of the El Paso City Council and to welcome Mayor Cruz Fedesquear, members of the Ciudad Juarez City Council, and all of our distinguished guests.

Today is a special day because it marks the first time since November 13th, 2019, that elected members of our two communities have come together in this setting.

It has been over six years.

While much has changed over the years, the connection between El Paso and Juarez has remained as strong as ever.

Our communities are united by more than just geography.

We are connected to family, friendship, commerce, culture, and a shared future.

Every day our residents demonstrate that what happens on one side of the border affects the other, and that our greatest success are achieved when we work together.

Recognizing the importance of this relationship, the city of El Paso took a significant step forward on April 14, 2025, when City Council approved the International Policy Agenda.

This action established a framework for how El Paso engages with partners across the border and around the world.

While remaining focused on the relationships that matter most to our region, today's meeting is a reflection of that commitment.

Thank you for being here.

We look forward to a productive and meaningful discussion.

Thank you.

Thank you.

That brings us to item number three, and this is the introduction of members of the El Paso City Council by Mayor Renard Johnson.

Can you hear me now?

There you go.

Hi, good afternoon.

My name is Diana Maldonado Rocha, and I am the District Three Representative for the City of El Paso.

Good afternoon, I'm Cynthia Willard Trejo, City Representative for District 4 in Northeast El Paso.

Thank you, Mayor.

My name is Ivan Ino.

I am the District Five Council Member.

Representative Fiero.

Thank you, Mayor.

Good afternoon.

My name is Art Fiero, City Representative for District 6 and proud to be here.

Representative Limon.

Thank you, Mayor.

Lily Limon, City Representative for District 7.

Representative Canales.

Thank you, Mayor.

Uh City Representative Chris Canales, I represent uh District 8, encompassing downtown El Paso, the south side, parts of central and west sides of El Paso, including multiple uh ports of entry connecting El Paso and Ciudad Juarez.

Thank you.

That brings us to item number four, and this is the introduction of members of the Juarez City Council by Mayor Curos Perez Cuellar.

Well, first of all, thank you for having us here.

We are very glad to be here.

Syndica municipal, Ana Carmen Estrada.

Hi everybody, I am Ana Carmen Estrada Garcia, and soy Syndica del municipio de Juárez.

Thanks for having us.

Regidor Alejandro Daniel Acosta Abina.

Mayra Karina Castillo Tapia Coordinadora de la Regidora Coordinola Commission de Pueblos y Comunidades Indígenas y Desarrollo Rural.

Soy la Regidora Luz Clara Cristo Sosa, Coordinadora de la Comisión de la Juventud.

Muchas gracias por la invitation.

Gracias.

Good afternoon.

Regidora Mireya Porras Armendaris.

Gracias.

Regidora Dina Salgado Sotero.

Regidor José Eduardo Valenzuela Martinez.

Regidora Sandra Valenzuela Martinez.

Thank you, Mayor, for having us here, my friend.

Thank you, my friend.

Ms.

Bryan.

That brings us to item number five, and this is a presentation in a oral proclamation recognizing the strategic partnership between the city of El Paso and Concanaco, Servitur, Mexico, presented by Senior Business Analyst Israel Alvarado from Economic and International Development.

Thank you, Ms.

Prime.

Whereas the City of El Paso is recognized gateway of international trade and commerce and is committed to strengthening the economic relationships and advance prosperity, innovations, opportunity, and whereas the City of El Paso continues to expand its role as a leading center for international economic collaboration, supporting initiatives that promote trade, investment, and business development.

Whereas Canaco Servitur Mexico represents more than 5.2 million businesses throughout the 258 chambers across Mexico and serves as a key voice of the private sector.

And whereas the um memorandum of understanding between the City of El Paso and Canaco Servitude Mexico establishes a framework for cooperation to promote economic development, facilitate business engagement, strengthening cross-border trade investment, and whereas the partnership enhances El Paso's position as a strategic entry point for international business while fostering collaboration between the United States and Mexico.

And whereas the City of El Paso recognizes the leadership of Dr.

De La Torre in Canaco Cervitur, Mexico in advancing the binational economic collaboration and strengthening business ties, and whereas the City of El Paso values partnerships that support and uh entrepreneurship, strengthening supply chains, collaborating to the long-term economic growth.

Now therefore it be proclaimed by the Mayor and Council of the City of El Paso that June third, 2026 be known as El Paso Canaco Servitú Binational Partnership Day.

Signed the Honorable Mayor Renard Johnson.

Good afternoon, Mayor, City Council members, Maestardes, President of Municipal, Sindica, Regidoras and Regidores.

Today's gathering reflects the importance of international collaboration.

Thanks to the city's leadership, we have developed strong relationships that continue to connect El Paso with strategic partners throughout Mexico.

One important example of this collaboration is the memorandum of understanding established between the City of El Paso and Conaco Servitur Mexico.

Although the agreement was formally executed in December, today presents an opportunity to recognize the significance of this partnership and the shared commitment behind it.

El Paso has long served as a gateway for international commerce, advanced manufacturing, logistics, and cross-border economic activity.

Initiatives such as the city's international policy agenda reflect our commitment to strengthening international partnerships, promoting economic development, and expanding opportunities for collaboration.

Our partner, Concanaco Servitur, is Mexico's official national network of chambers of commerce, services, and tourism.

It represents 258 chambers and more than 5.2 million businesses nationwide.

Covering about 60% of Mexico's formal employment and about 64% of its uh its GDP.

It is a public interest institution established by law and serves as an advisory body to the Mexican federal government in these sectors.

Its presence extends far beyond the border region, creating connections with business communities, entrepreneurs, and institutions across Mexico.

For El Paso, partnerships like this create opportunities to strengthen relationships with stakeholders throughout Mexico and reinforces El Paso's role as a trusted international partner.

We appreciate the willingness of Conaco Servitur and its leadership to engage in meaningful collaboration that supports business connectivity, entrepreneurship, and international engagement.

Today we are honored to welcome Maestra Daniela Martinez Rodriguez, Vice President of Foreign Trade for Concanaco Servitur Mexico.

Maestra Martinez Rodriguez has more than 20 years of experience in international trade and has worked extensively in areas related to customs, supply chain security, and international business collaboration.

I will now ask Maestra Daniela Martinez Rodriguez to come up to the podium and give us her remarks.

Thank you.

Good afternoon.

Mayor Reynolds Johnson, thank you.

President of Municipal Cruz, members of Cabildo del Paso and the Ciudad Juarez.

It's a privilege to be used in representation of the president of our organization, Octavio de la Torre de Stefano, and the Confederation of Cameras National, Commercial, Services and Tourism of Mexico with Canaco Servitur Mexico, is an organization that represents 5.2 million and negotiated families, which all the years construct prosperity from the community.

The firma of this memorandum of the money is also an act of protocol.

It's a declaration of vision compared.

It's a platform that we connect.

You are the frontier and see that millions of kilometers of front, but there are millions of families and employers of those who have been sustained the relationship between Mexico and States.

During decades, the PASO and the Mexican of the region have demonstrated that the cooperation economics, the intercambious cultural, and the confiance mutual generate prosperity of those lots of the front.

In Mexico, the 90% of the empresas have origin or structure familiarity.

Divers studies of the United States, International Trade Commission, and the TEMEC demon that the regional North American, incorporated in the manufacturers mexican exports to create.

For 2024, 74 centavos of that dollar export from Mexico to be part of the value of the America deliver.

This demonstration that our economy is not competent in sea.

The TEMECA permitted precisely this, constructing a platform economic regional integrated, more resilient and more competitive.

But we can recognize that the decisive revision of the TEMEC and the debates that actually are in terms of the original regional, commercial, energy, and subministrate, and the rumbo economic of America of North via the 2030.

The tendency is clear.

But we have an objective common, that the prosperity economics are communities, to the empresas and the families that all the years are the ports of our negotiations, that all the years are services and generate economy.

We firm an accord institutional, but more importantly, renovate compromises of confiance.

This that is in an important desert between the Cerro Bola, the Montagna Franklin, and a river that at the same time is grande and brave.

We are part of a terror in which the historians rather than a whole lot, because we are and funding for construct, cooperation and the encounters have a significant very special in this region.

But at the end of the time, Juárez and El Paso have demonstrated that the relationship between the people have sustained in the local, in the government that essentially and in the people who are to generate.

And more quality of it.

A present that we are.

A future can invite to construct the past.

Strengthen our present and build our future together.

Thank you.

Salute with the President Municipal, Cruz Pérez Cuellar, Secretary of the Ayunta, Syndica Municipal, Regidor, Regidor of Ciudad Juárez.

In one manner, salute with much gusto and major Johnson, thank you for your hospitality.

Comparing economy, culture, talent, infrastructure, designers and opportunities.

For ello, we have an agenda structural in three grandfases of the integral and design economic, mediocre, resilience, salute, culture, deport, seguridad, services publics, and urban.

In matters economic, we can consolidate a coordination permanent between Ciudad Juárez and El Paso for the attraction of inversion extraneous directories and sectors strategically manufacture avancada, logistical and energy limpia.

Impulsar missions commercial visits of promotion economics and mechanisms of permit fortalectors of sumministroom regionals.

Adaptation on the phenomenon extremes projects conjunct to permit to communities preparation to the effects of cambio climatic.

In salute public, we will have the coordination institutional entrepreneurs of the front of the creation of mechanisms permanent of cooperation, intercambies of information and problematic communes as the salute.

Particular attention prevention of addictions, the attention to hoven and immigrants, as well as the fortalecing of programs of salute mentality with an enfoque and access to bilingual.

In matter of culture, as we are to consolidate a verdict ecosystem cultural binacional to fortalecing artistic, the exhibitions, the production editorial and design of the public.

We will consolidate one of the regional dynamics and competitiveness of our front.

Three states, those pays, one region.

Here today is President Municipal Perez Cuellar, Sindica, and Trust, to the Regidores de Ciudad Juárez que stand, celebrando este momento historico que tenemos aquí todos juntos.

Thank you, ma'am.

I'm truly honored to speak on our 2026 international policy agenda and to continue the new history that we started after April 14th of last year, where we've all come together and decided to purposely take a new step in our binational relationship, being purposeful about how we move forward and give a new direction full of prosperity to our region.

I'd like to take the opportunity to thank all of the teams that were a part of this, particularly strategic and legislative affairs, who guided us through a lot of this process, and the deputy director Robert Cortinas, who gave us direction, and we'll be able to illustrate that more through these next slides.

Our objectives remain the same.

We have three big areas that we've all been developing together and will continue to do so with this new strengthened resolved and teamwork that we're determining today.

We're continuing to work together to strengthen our relationship with the three levels of government in Mexico that are represented here today, and thank you all for being here.

We're working together to improve border infrastructure, to plan for the future, and to do our best for our communities for growing families and businesses, and working towards facilitating a trade and foreign direct investment, making ourselves the true gateway for the North American market.

This is a special agenda in our community, because through the work of everyone here, we've managed to elevate the international policy agenda to the same point as our state and federal legislative agenda.

We have the team and the resources now to be able to advance in a more purposeful and meaningful way, and to address our binational community in a way that is starting history across the border.

And we are proud to say that we have taken this first step.

We have made this decision together, and other communities are taking notice and are following suit.

So we are very much making border history together.

For February of last year, when we started meeting with all of the city departments that work with Mexico in any sort of way.

This is not new.

There's always been challenges for binational trade for international markets, but we're now addressing them together with a plan with strategy and with strength and resolved in relationships that will help us make a difference for all of our business owners going forward.

We're looking together at new strategic and international engagements.

We're integrating sustainability and resilience into everything that we do, a new common purpose that we have and priority that we're seeing going forward, and looking together towards binational tourism.

Because we know that when someone looks at one of our cities, they look at both.

So it's an opportunity for us to take ownership of that story, really dictate what that narrative is and tell the world who we are when we are together.

Thank you very much, Mr.

Juana Sereto, Tanya Maldonado, and all of you here today that were a part of that construction process, a part of that design.

Thank you very much.

Frontier, someone who compared historians, desafios and a future community.

Sigamos fortalecing this relation of amistad and cooperation in beneficio de nuestras communities.

Muchas gracias, regidor Alejandro Jiménez.

Salud with much respect to the authorities of the City of El Paso, Texas, and my company and companies integrantes of the Auntie and all the people who accompany.

Comparing history, families, commercial, education, culture, retos and much people cruising from one city to other is also extraordinary.

It trying to recognize that our relationship has camped and that our society has created and that the exige a cooperation is cercana, more ordinary and more utterly.

Permit that the cooperation notes solely in buying intentions, sino conden, responsibility and continuity.

Celebrate because actually, a relation institutional, but often because reconozco una verdad that we conocemos.

Ciudad Juárez andas are una regional, humana anda connected.

Ciudad Juárez andas, Texas somos ciudades forever.

Thank you, muchas gracias.

The Cuenca Unicorn Atmospheric Paso del Norte nos recuerda que as allá of the fronteras compartimos el mismo area.

Celebro que esta agenda impulse actions that we are in Ciudad Juarez and El Pas para fortalecer la sustentability and resiliencia de nuestra regional mediante una more gestion of the quality of a lot of recursos naturales.

The contamination no reconoce fronts, and for ello, construction accuracy and mechanisms of cooperation that we protect the salute of the present and future generations.

Muchas gracias.

Saludos con profundo respect to the President of the Ciudad del Paso, Renard Johnson, and the integrantes of the ayuntamiento, as well as our president municipality, Cruz Pérez Cuellar and my compañers of the Honorable Court of Regidores.

In one look, the actual dead Juárez del Paso.

In second one, responding firmly the agenda binacional, the cooperation international and desarroll regional.

Servitur de Mexico and the gestion of the Gerente de Desarrollo Economic International Adriana Pules.

It's an honor to be part of this encounter binacional that fortalece the laws between Ciudad Juarez and El Paso.

And Solidaria.

We reaffirmed that the frontas no nos divide.

Al contrario, nos unen através de la cooperation, elles are vision compared to construct opportunities for our communities.

Representative.

Thank you, Mayor.

It only makes sense that we be we would be sitting here today.

Once again commemorating a sister city partnership.

Because that's what we are.

It's one region, and it is incredibly powerful that we sit here and can recognize the value, the culture, the history that embarks this complete arena that we live in.

It's firmando este reconocimiento, realmente si somos ciudades hermanas.

Somos hermanos and we have in this region and collaboration, in the culture, in our history, and look.

Representative Canales.

Thank you, Mira.

Um I'm not naturally a person of the border.

I don't think anybody is naturally a person of the border.

Because borders are not natural.

Borders are political and they've been defined over time.

But we here in El Paso and Juarez have, I think, a deeper understanding of what a border is.

And so many of them are shocked that they're able to stand in downtown El Paso and look across the border into Ciudad Juarez.

And they don't realize that our downtowns are united right up against one another.

That our city halls are about a mile apart as the crowflies.

And so I think there are people all across the country who have an understanding of what a border is that is flawed.

They think that there is a hard divide between the United States and Mexico, between El Paso and Ciudad Juarez.

And when I tell some of these people that very frequently I walk across the bridge and eat lunch in Juarez or visit a museum, that completely breaks their understanding of the situation.

And that's not always an accurate representation.

Because we understand each other in a way that's very different from the way that that understanding is portrayed in other places.

And so we welcome our neighbors and friends from Ciudad Juarez always to El Paso, and I think we understand very much how fluid the border is in places like El Paso and Juarez.

We rely on people from Juarez to work every day in El Paso, and people from Juarez rely on people from El Paso every day as their co-workers, as their friends, as people who they need in order for their lives to exist in the way that they exist.

And so I want to be exceptionally clear that in a time when there is a difficult political context sometimes between the relationship between the United States and Mexico that here in the border region.

While those problems can sometimes leak into relationships here, they don't define us.

We are resolute in maintaining a much stronger relationship with our neighbors.

And there's nothing that can happen in other parts of the world, in other parts of our respective countries that can change that special relationship that our two cities have.

So one more time we welcome everyone from Sud Juarez to El Paso all the time, just as we do every day.

Thank you to everyone who joined us today.

In signing this agreement, we confirm, affirm our commitment to this region, to binational trade, international economic development, and tourism as well as our communities and our families that tie us together.

We not only need to maintain these commitments, but we also need to continue to grow them as we prosper through this mutual agreement.

Welcome everyone.

We share a history, a culture, and a future.

For those of us raised in this region, crossing between two countries was simply a part of life.

We visited families, celebrated traditions, built friendships, and learned that our community extends beyond any line on a map.

People from elsewhere often see two countries, we see one region.

They see a border, we see connection, opportunity and community.

Desde nuestras montagnes y desierto hasta nuestra gente trabajadora y resilience.

Este lugar is un ejemplo de lo que se puede lograr quando collaboramos y avanzamos juntos.

Today we celebrate the strengthening of our sister cities relationship.

Este Accordo reconoce algo que nuestros residents and saved for generations.

Together we support economic growth, education, culture, tourism, and the relationships that make this region unique.

Our greatest strength is our people.

Gracias por su collaboration, su amistad is a compromise on esta extraordinary regional.

Bienvenidos construyendo juntos un futuro para nuestras communidades.

Gracias y gracias a todos for startui.

Ms.

Bryan, that concludes the comments from the El Paso City Council.

Thank you, Mayor.

We continue with item number eight, and this is discussion and action on the updated sister cities agreement between the city of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, presented by International Business and Trade Development Manager Adriana Pulesio from Economic and International Development, and Martha Vela, Honorary Council General of Spain and board member of Sister Cities International.

Okay.

Thank you, ma'am.

And we've reached the most anticipated part of our agenda, the renewal of our sister cities agreement.

So this is not an opportunity for us to thank City Manager Dion Mack.

I'm gonna try this one again, Deputy City Manager Robert Cortinas for making these exchanges and initiatives possible.

And thank you to the Director of Economic and International Development, Karina Brazgala, for her vision and support of our binational efforts.

Now I would finally like to thank Congresswoman Escobar for her support in securing funding for these Letas Aragosa Port of Entry.

And I missed that one again.

Thank you, ma'am.

For her support in securing funding for these Leta Saragoza Port of Entry, our region's most important port.

Thank you again to Maestro Juan Acereto and all of his effort in putting this initiative together.

Before we start with the presentation, I would like to bring forward and to invite to join me here at the podium, Miss Marta Vera, who has been a strong proponent and an enthusiastic member of Sister Cities International that will tell us more.

The Sister Cities partnership between El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez Chihuahua.

Mr.

Juana Cereto and I have been part of this of creating this signing since 2018, and it makes me so happy to finally see this happen.

Today is not simply about signing an agreement.

It's about recognizing a shared history, culture, economy, and most importantly, a shared people.

Much of what we've said today.

Since 1598 and later with the creation of borders between El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, the border has never really divided us.

It has continued to connect us, families, friendships, commerce, education, art, faith, and tradition flow across this region every single day.

Today we form one of the largest and most dynamic binational communities in the world.

Founded in 1956 by President Dwight D.

Eisenhower, Sister Cities International was created with a simple but powerful belief that peace is built person by person, city by city, community by community.

Its mission is to promote peace through mutual respect, understanding, cooperation, and citizen diplomacy.

Few places embody that mission more authentically than El Paso and Ciudad Juarez.

Our communities demonstrate every day that borders do not limit cooperation.

Instead, they create opportunities for sustainable partnerships.

We work together in business, trade, health care, education, culture, environmental protection, and public safety.

We celebrate together, we grieve together.

We continue building a future together.

The sister cities relationship between El Paso and Ciudad Juarez stands as a model of international cooperation.

It reminds the world that this region is not divided by division, but by resilience, unity, and hope.

Today's signing is more than a ceremonial one.

It is a renewed commitment to collaboration and to future generations.

It is a promise that we will continue strengthening economic development, cultural exchange, educational opportunities, tourism, and mutual understanding between our communities.

At a time when the world often focuses on what separates people, El Paso and Ciudad Juarez continue to show us what is possible when communities choose partnership over isolation and friendship over fear.

We are stronger because of one another.

We are richer because of our shared heritage, and we are more hopeful because we continue to believe in the power of cooperation.

To the leaders, advocates, educators, artists, business leaders, and citizens who have helped sustain this relationship over the years.

Thank you.

Your dedication has helped transform the idea of sister cities into a living example of diplomacy and humanity.

As we move forward, may this agreement continue to inspire collaboration, innovation, and friendship across borders.

Durante generations and 15098, the front of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez nunca nos dividido.

Funded in 1956 by the President Dwight D.

Eisenhower, Sister Cities International was created with a creencia, simple, button that the pace is constructed persona persona, ciudad for ciudad, community for communidad.

Create opportunities for the collaboration.

Celebration, suffering, and continuous construction.

The relation of Ciudades entre El Paso and Ciudad Juarez is an example of cooperation international.

The firma de hoy is much more than an act ceremonial.

It's a compromiso, renovado con la collaboration and the future generations.

It's a promise of continuing the design economic, the intercambio cultural and historical, the opportunity educatives, the tourism and the entertainment mutual entrepreneurs.

In a moment in which the person, the Paso and Ciudad Juarez continue demonstration that is possible when the community elected the collaboration of the amistad over the most fuckers, we are rich for the most esperanza because we are creating in the cooperation.

Today we ask the mayor and city council to approve the updated sister cities agreement between the city of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez.

Okay.

We have a motion and a second to approve the sister cities agreement.

Ms.

Prime.

Yes, Mayor.

The motion was made by Representative Limon.

Seconded by Representative Nino, and this is to approve the updated sister cities agreement on that motion.

Representative Madonna de Rocha.

Aye.

Nino.

Aye.

Pierre.

Aye.

Limon.

Canales.

Aye.

And that motion passes unanimously.

Thank you very much.

Okay.

That brings us to item nine, which is where Mayor Renard Johnson and President Municipal Cruz Perez Queer sign the sister city agreement, followed by witnesses.

Yes, sir, that is correct.

Okay.

Again, on behalf of the city of El Paso, we want to thank our friends from Ciudad Juarez for joining us today on this historic ceremony.

As already mentioned, there here in El Paso, it's a very, very special place.

We do not see borders, we see family, we see friends.

We see hands that reach across to welcome one another.

This agreement in the MOU that we signed today will only strengthen our communities.

We are so proud that we had the opportunity to sign the agreement here today, this historic agreement.

Thank you very much for having us here.

Eric Mayor de las Cruces.

Pero primero agradecerles y reconocerles todo este trabajo para llegar a este momento.

Todos sabemos que las cosas cuando no se les da seguimiento, wey, following, right?

In English is following.

He's making a nice presentation.

So we have to deliver some uh reconocimiento.

Recognition.

So, one of the people who are possible that Mario Porras for the realization of the 2015 a la fecha de una carrera única.

Miss Brooke Underwood.

The new President and CEO.

Sergio Carrion, for sure and valuable appointment for the realization of this tercer cabildo binacional.

Marisio Ibara Ponce de Leon.

And finally, Robin Busing.

Mayor, prior to closing, we have Mr.

John Beckham that signed up to speak.

Mr.

Beca.

Good afternoon.

Good afternoon.

Thank you.

Good afternoon.

I believe I may be in between this meeting and a reception.

So it's a dangerous position.

But one okay, I got this co de qualquer manera.

Good afternoon, Mayor Johnson and El Paso City Council members.

Thank you for permitting me to speak before you today.

It really is an honor and uh to be in front of leaders like you two of this most vital communities on the US Mexico border.

Today's meeting in which you just signed is a shining example of a successful productive financial relationship.

The El Paso, the Paso del Norte region is one of the strongest examples of binational integration in the world.

El Paso and Ciudad Juarez not only share a border, they share an economy, natural resources, infrastructure, a vibrant future, and most importantly, family and culture.

It is also placed NADBank considers home.

Meetings like this reinforce something fundamental that is important for the NADBank coordination.

Coordination is the key to investing in the infrastructure and future required to assure the prosperity of our communities and to surmount the shared challenges of water stress, air quality, pressure on urban infrastructure, and the rapid growth taking place in this region.

As an institution owned by the US and Mexican federal governments, with a specific mission of helping communities and the private sector on both sides of the border, we under we understand and live the need for coordination, compassion, and communication between regional, state, and federal partners.

Since 94, NADBank has developed and financed wastewater, air quality, solid waste, potable water, energy, and international bridge projects from Matamoras, Brownsville to Tijuana, San Diego, and right here in El Paso and Ciudad Juarez.

In this region, the bank has supported the development and implementation of 31 projects for with more than 240 million dollars catalyzing investment at 640 million.

The bank has also provided some workforce training on both sides of the border through our skills for sustainability to prepare young people to manage the infrastructure needed for their future.

To date, we've qualified 430 employees for El Paso Water and the Junta Municipal de Juarez.

These projects help preserve protect and enhance the environment and advance the well being of the people of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez.

And then we can see an alien circano a establish.

There's a motion in a second to adjourn the special meeting.

All in favor?

Anyone opposed.

Thank you, Mayor.

There's a motion and a second to adjourn.

All in favor.

Anyone opposed?

And the special Binational City Council meeting for Wednesday, June 3rd, 2026, is adjourned at four o'clock PM.

Thank you.