{"id":11180,"date":"2019-12-27T20:15:21","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T20:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=11180"},"modified":"2019-12-27T20:15:27","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T20:15:27","slug":"city-celebrates-new-municipal-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=11180","title":{"rendered":"City Celebrates New Municipal Building"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Attendees hear a word from City Manager Mark Milum during the celebration of the new city hall. Photo: Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/p><\/div>\n

by Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The employees with the City of Los Fresnos could not be more proud as they are now in a brand new municipal building that houses the administrative offices as well as the local chamber of commerce.<\/p>\n

Officials predict the $3.2 million facility will prepare the city for the next 70 years or more as the town of some 8,000 residents keeps growing by leaps and bounds.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Dec. 14, a citywide celebration took place to officially let the townspeople know where some of their tax money is going.<\/p>\n

The city had to finance the construction of the 11,000-square-foot building through certificates of obligation and it will take years to pay if off.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, officials said the city is in good financial shape and it will take care of its debt.<\/p>\n

The celebration took place in a festival-like atmosphere with rides and games for children, two concerts, hot dogs, cookies and other amenities.<\/p>\n

The building is now the home of some 20-plus city employees, the two-person staff with Los Fresnos Chamber of Commerce and for the economic advisor, or liaison, for Los Fresnos Community Development Corp.<\/p>\n

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Texas Show Down Band played several tunes during the event. Photo: Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/p><\/div>\n

Mark Milum, the city\u2019s manager, welcomed the crowd saying they are fortunate for having such a brand new facility which he described as a tremendous success for the city.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the sixth city hall location,\u201d he said. \u201cOur growth has been tremendous and we needed a building such as this one.\u201d<\/p>\n

Milum said the old city hall had 4,700 square feet, compared to 11,000-plus square feet the new one has.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis building is a tribute to the past, to present,\u201d he said, \u201cand to future generations.\u201d<\/p>\n

The celebration included presentations by a number of elected officials, area pastors, music provided by Conjunto Halcon with the local school district and the Texas Show Down Band.<\/p>\n

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Walmart and Los Fresnos PRCA were two of several organizations that participated in the event. Photo: Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Tony Vindell\/LFN The employees with the City of Los Fresnos could not be more proud as they are now in a brand new municipal building that houses the administrative offices as well as the local chamber of commerce. Officials predict the $3.2 million facility will prepare the city for the next 70 years or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11190,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11180\/revisions\/11190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}