{"id":8988,"date":"2018-08-24T18:38:40","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T18:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=8988"},"modified":"2018-08-24T18:38:40","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T18:38:40","slug":"los-fresnos-council-approves-bid-for-new-city-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=8988","title":{"rendered":"Los Fresnos Council Approves Bid for New City Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8126\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8126\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8126\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Rendering-Title-Page-with-Logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Rendering-Title-Page-with-Logo.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Rendering-Title-Page-with-Logo-300x148.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8126\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy Brown Reynolds Watford Architects<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>by Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A project to build a new city hall took a big step last week after the city council approved a bid submitted by a company that will construct the complex.<\/p>\n<p>D. Wilson Construction was chosen out of a list of seven companies with a bid submitted of $3,369,000 \u2013 nearly $1 million over what city officials had anticipated.<\/p>\n<p>The McAllen-based company submitted the lowest bid and it also received the highest rating by a committee in charge in reviewing the qualifications of each company.<\/p>\n<p>The council also approved a source of financing for the multi-million-dollar city hall.<\/p>\n<p>Under it, the city will use money from its utility services, from the Community Development Corp., the street and drainage department and from deducting money from the low bid for a total of $602,629.<\/p>\n<p>City Manager Mark Milum said the city\u2019s general fund has a surplus of some $160,000 and it can pump money into some capital projects this year instead of doing it next year.<\/p>\n<p>By doing so, he said the city will free up the money and invest it into the new city hall.<\/p>\n<p>The council also approved during Tuesday\u2019s meeting a recommendation to set the property taxes at 71.5 cents per every $100 of assessed valuation.<\/p>\n<p>As an example of that, a house assessed at $100,000 will pay $700.15 in city taxes.<\/p>\n<p>However, there will be two public hearings to get input from the taxpayers before the council officially adopts the rate. The meeting were set for this Thursday, Aug.23 and Aug. 28.<\/p>\n<p>In another related issue, the council was informed that the net taxable value for Los Fresnos stands at $274 million, gaining an increase of more than $21 million from 2017 as 12 new properties valued at $6.3 million resulted in an increase of more than 31 percent in the taxable value.<\/p>\n<p>In another matter, the council denied a request from developer Roberto Delgado to repeal a CDC item to deny him a permit to build a duplex in a residential area of the city.<\/p>\n<p>However, the council was receptive to the idea of building two houses on the large lot Delgado owns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Tony Vindell\/LFN A project to build a new city hall took a big step last week after the city council approved a bid submitted by a company that will construct the complex. D. Wilson Construction was chosen out of a list of seven companies with a bid submitted of $3,369,000 \u2013 nearly $1 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8988","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\/8988","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=8988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8989,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8988\/revisions\/8989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}