MINUTES 
                                           
                    SENATE COMMITTEE ON BORDER AFFAIRS - SPECIAL 
                                Friday, May 26, 2000 
                                     8:00 a.m. 
                             Brownsville Public Library 
                                           
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         Pursuant to a notice posted in accordance with Senate Rule  
         11.18, a public hearing of the Senate Committee on Border  
         Affairs - Special was held on Friday, May 26, 2000, in the  
         Brownsville Public Library, Brownsville, Texas. 
          
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         MEMBERS PRESENT:                        MEMBERS ABSENT: 
         Senator Eddie Lucio, Jr.                Senator David Sibley 
         Senator Eliot Shapleigh                 Senator Teel Bivins 
                                                 Senator Robert Duncan 
                                                 Senator Carlos Truan 
                                                 Senator Judith Zaffirini 
                                           
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         The chair called the meeting to order at 8:14 a.m.  The  
         following business was transacted:   
          
         Senator Lucio and Senator Shapiro made opening remarks. 
          
         Senator Brown made opening remarks. 
          
         Commissioner Harry E. McNair, Jr., representing the City of  
         Brownsville, made welcoming remarks. 
          
         Mr. Larry Brown, representing the City of Brownsville, testified  
         on interim charge #1. 
          
         Judge Gilberto Hinojosa, representing Cameron County, gave  
         welcoming remarks. 
          
         Mr. Frank Feild, representing the Brownsville Chamber of  
         Commerce, testified on interim charge #1. 
          
         Mr. Robert Cornelison, representing the Rio Grande Valley  
         Partnership, testified on interim charge #1. 
          
         Mr. Mark Lund, representing the Brownsville Metropolitan  
         Planning Organization, testified on interim charge #1. 
          
         At 9:34 a.m. Senator Lucio assumed the chair.     
          
         Mr. Ed Molitor, representing the Hidalgo County Metropolitan  
  
         Planning Organization, testified on interim charge #1. 
          
         Mr. Roy de los Santos, representing the Port of Brownsville,  
         testified on interim charge #1. 
          
         Mr. Randy Delay, representing the Port of Brownsville, testified  
         on interim charge #1. 
          
         At 10:21 a.m. Senator Shapiro resumed the chair.   
          
         Mr. Robert Cornelison, representing  the City of Port Isabel,  
         testified on interim charge #1. 
          
         Mayor Connie C. de la Garza, representing the City of Harlingen,  
         testified on interim charge #1. 
          
         Mr. Robert Garcia, representing the City of Port Isabel,  
         testified on interim charge #1. 
          
         Ms. Norma H. Zamora, representing the City of Brownsville and  
         the Brownsville Urban System, testified on interim charge #1. 
          
         Mr. Michael Myers, representing the Brownsville Public Utility  
         Board, testified on interim charge #1. 
          
         At 11:39 a.m. Senator Shapiro moved that the Senate State  
         Affairs Committee stand recessed subject to the call of the  
         Chair. 
          
         Commissioner David Laney, representing the Texas Transportation  
         Commission, testified on interim charge #5, SB 913. 
          
         Mr. Amadeo Saenz, representing the Texas Department of  
         Transportation, testified on interim charge #5, SB 913. 
          
         Mr. Ed Wueste, representing the Texas Department of  
         Transportation, testified on interim charge #5, SB 913. 
          
         Mr. Charles Heald, representing the Texas Department of  
         Transportation, testified on interim charge #5, SB 913. 
          
         Mr. Jose A. Escamilla, representing the Border Trade Alliance,  
         testified on interim charge #5, SB 913.   
                
         Chairman Lucio thanked Ms. Amy Henderson, with Senator Kay  
         Bailey Hutchison's office, for attending the hearing. 
         There being no further business, at 12:39 p.m. Chairman Lucio  
         moved that the Committee stand recessed subject to the call of  
         the chair.  Without objection, it was so ordered.   
          
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         Senator Eddie Lucio, Jr., Chair 
          
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         Stephanie R. Hoover, Clerk