PSB Chair to Meet with Rodriguez Environmental Committee

Elpasonaturally has learned that PSB Chairman, Mr. Ed Escudero, has accepted an invitation to meet with Senator José Rodriguez's Environmental Committee on August 9 at 2 p.m. at 100 North Ochoa Street.


Here's the email chain which should be read from top to bottom:

From: "Teschner, Richard" 

Date: July 30, 2012 4:38:30 PM MDT

Subject: Ed Escudero accepts the invitation to attend our Thurs., Aug. 9 meeting

Good afternoon, all.

I’m pleased to announce that Ed Escudero, current Chair of the Public Service Board, has accepted the invitation (see below) to meet with us this coming Thursday, August 9^th and discuss the decision by the majority of the members of the recently-convened ‘Blue Ribbon’ committee regarding the role the PSB should play in recommending which parcels of City of El Paso land should be sold. From meetings of other committees (the UTEP “Campus Transformation Project” committee) I know Mr. Escudero personally and I think that you will enjoy getting to know him as well. And as you’re aware from the piece in the Times (see the attachment’s first item), members of City Council have declared themselves to be in favor of accelerating the sale of City-owned land, including land that adjoins the Franklin Mountains State Park.

See you Thursday, August 9^th at 2 p.m. at 100 N. Ochoa Street!

Richard

From: Ed Escudero
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 3:54 PM
To: Teschner, Richard
Subject: RE: An invitation to engage in committee conversation

Richard,

I gladly accept your invitation to attend this meeting.  Please let me know if anything changes regarding time or place.

Thank you for the invitation,  See you on August 9^th.

Regards,

Ed Escudero   

From: Teschner, Richard 
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 10:20 AM
To: Ed Escudero
Subject: An invitation to engage in committee conversation

Good morning, Mr. Escudero.

I am wondering whether you’d be interested in dropping by the next (monthly) meeting of State Senator José Rodríguez’s Environmental Committee, which I chair. This committee, up and running since September 2011, provides the senator with ideas and texts for bills he might wish to consider introducing in Austin; we also discussion local environmental issues but take no public stand on them. To date we’ve written five drafts of bills, all of which are currently being vetted by the senator’s Austin staff and two of which stand a very good chance of being introduced in the next legislative session. Our committee meets in a small conference room at the senator’s offices at 100 N. Ochoa Street, 79901. The next meeting is Thursday, August 9, at 2 p.m. Our meetings typically last 75-90 minutes. Of great interest to our committee at the present time (and of course to the El Paso community at large) is the decision by the majority of the members of the recently-convened “Blue Ribbon” committee regarding the role the PSB should play in recommending which parcels of City of El Paso land should be sold. I personally commend your own minoritarian stance on this issue (and I’ve said so in the letter to the editor I e-submitted yesterday afternoon; let’s see if it gets published!). The other members of the Environmental Committee are the senator’s administrative assistant Mrs. Ceci Rodríguez (no relation), Mark Benítez, Chico Domínguez (a long-time Lower Valley alcalde), Kevin von Finger, Judy Ackerman, Rick Provencio and Pat White.

Sincerely,

Richard Teschner

Chair, Senator José Rodríguez’s Environmental Committee