"I've seen Eagle Pass grow and grow and grow, but I've never seen it grow as fast as it's growing now," stated Groves, who has been the engineer in charge for many of the largest projects in the city such as International Bridge II and the new water filtration plant among many others, "One thing that is necessary in most communities is to have a municipal airport."

Groves informed the gathering that CC Winn has donated land on his 10,000 acre ranch to the project.

"They have an airstrip which recently had to be re-done, however, there's a strip of land which would accommodate a 6,000 foot air strip which would be cheaper because it would've taken a longer road to get to the original strip."

He added that utilities were not available and work would be required to clear out the road at the existing airport.

"In the case of this new project, Bob Rodgers Road would just need to be extended to get to the new airport."

Winn has donated $3-4 million worth of land to the project which would essentially be adjacent to the EPISD Sports Complex and the Fort Duncan Regional Medical Center on the other side of Loop 480. "It will probably be built in phases which are depicted in different colors on this map, the first phase will include a 4-5,000 foot airstrip and it will expand," concluded Groves.

"This study was authorized by the City of Eagle Pass after the Winn Family, who have been generous with not only the city, but with the school district, the hospital and Southwest Texas Junior College, made an offer to donate the necessary land adjacent to it for a municipal airport," stated Gonzalez. "Overwhelmingly, everybody has endorsed this project in writing, the maquiladora industry, the business community at the local level and the banking industry at the local level."

"It is only a study at this point, but Uvalde which is not even a third of the population of Eagle Pass, half of the aircraft housed at the Uvalde Airport, large aircraft such as jets, were from Queretaro, Veracruz, San Luis Potosí.  They all land in Uvalde and from Uvalde they transport all across the state.  The same data was gathered at the maquiladoras."

He went on to say that the US Border Patrol and the Department of Public Safety have aircraft housed in Uvalde and pay monthly rent for them to use the hangars and the facility and that all of the details of their data gathering would be presented at Tuesday's City Council Meeting.