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Eagle Ford Shale Community Development Program/UTSA assists EP in preparedness

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A.D. Ibarra

-Sul Ross Univ.

 Rio Grande College

 

A group of UTSA representatives from the Institute for Economic Development met with community leaders, elected officials, school district, city and law enforcement personnel have been coming together to be briefed on ways to cope with sudden economic growth such as that which has been seen in the Dimmit and Zavala County area the past two years. 

Assistant Director of the Eagle Ford Shale Community Development Program, John Facey, was on hand to conduct the presentation which brought out the amazing statistic that in 2012, Eagle Ford Shale activity generated over $61 billion in economic impact and supported 116,000 jobs in a 20 county area.

"Our goal is to use effective strategic planning to diversify the economic base of the region to create vibrant, resilient and sustainable economic activities," stated Facey, "How a community such as Eagle Pass is prepared to deal with a natural energy boom of its own will be based on how proactive they are in their approach to readiness in terms of housing, medical facilities and just adapting to unpredictable change."

The workshop allows community leaders to analyze infrastructure issues such as railways, air strips and airports, housing stock to attract teachers and other professionals, transportation and streets, amenities such as new stores at the mall for domestic and international consumers and other integration ideas to capture more revenue from international shopping.

This is the type of economic explosion which communities such as Carrizo Springs and Crystal City have been dealing with and the question looms if their infrastructure was ready for the growing pains it steals deals with to this day.

Project Manager Jason Clark was gracious enough to provide us a copy of workshop literature which outlined the various themes ranging from people and culture, health care, changing people's attitudes, physical safety and infrastructure.

Mario Neira, a Business Economics Research Associate, informed The News Gram that the fourth workshop entitled "Synthesis" which in fact will tie all of the first three workshops together, will be held on October 10th from 11:00 A.M.-3:00 P.M. at the Sul Ross State University/Rio Grande College Conference Room, articulated the basis of the fourth installment of the program, "This is an interesting phase of the program because this is where projects begin to start to develop based on grant opportunities as well as a business analysis to see if the projects are feasible."

The Eagle Pass News Gram salutes the assistance these gentlemen are providing for our community and its leaders as well as for their vision in guiding us on the pathway to preparedness in terms of the impending process which will soon begin to transform our fair city into the next Laredo which embodies the words of inspiration read at Workshop 3, "the real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes," -Marcel Proust and, "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." -Alan Kay.

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