Reprint from the Progress Times - June 29, 2007
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Mission City Council okays MCISD building permit

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In a regular meeting of the Mission City Council on Monday, June 25, the council unanimously voted to grant the Mission Consolidated Independent School District (MCISD) a building permit for a future elementary school at the two and a quarter mile juncture of north Trosper (Holland) Road.

The site is currently out of the city limits however the City had received a letter of "no objection" from the County on the issue. The staff recommendation to the council was to approve of the request, made by Javier Hinojosa of Javier Hinojosa Engineering on behalf of MCISD, as long as a pre-construction conference of related utilities prior to permit issuance was held and that there would be no occupancy prior to approved utilities.

In a letter to Planning Director Sergio Zavala, Hinojosa assured the City that the school district would be seeking assistance from Hidalgo County Precinct 3 for paving and drainage improvements to Trosper Road and that the building permit is being requested in order to expedite construct ion on the facility due to the short time frame that the district has to build the school.

The council also voted unanimously to approve of a resolution in support of a Veterans Hospital in the Rio Grande Valley. The resolution came at the request of the South Texas Veterans Alliance.

The resolution expressed the City of Mission’s concern with the lack of services for veterans in South Texas. The resolution states that Far South Texas currently lacks adequate health care resources for veterans and that the outpatient clinic in the 24 county area at the southern tip of Texas have limited hours of operation and must refer patients to other facilities for special tests or treatments and the nearest veterans hospital to this 24 county region with in-patient acute medical and surgical care and extended care is in San Antonio, Texas.

Currently, there are approximately 114,000 veterans in Far South Texas.