Eagle Pass City Council Approves “Bluebonnet Skate Park” Name at May 2nd Regular Meeting

By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2018

The City of Eagle Pass, Texas City Council unanimously approved to name the newly completed City Skate Park as the “Bluebonnet Skate Park” upon the recommendation of the City of Eagle Pass Youth City Council at their regular meeting held on Tuesday, May 2, 2018, instead of the “Free Tail Skate Park” name recommended by the City’s skaters at the park.

The Eagle Pass City Council hosted the City of Eagle Pass Youth City Council, composed of Mayor Nadiyah E. Ledesma and Council Members Marc A. Flores, Fatima E. Aguilar, Zuhailey Diaz, and Valeria Duenez, at their May 2nd meeting and allowed them to sit and participate in a live regular City Council meeting, including an official swearing-in ceremony and administration of oath of office to each Youth City Council member, discussion and a vote on each Agenda item, and allowing them to ask questions of each City Department activities and plans for future activities.

Interim City Manager Ivan Morua advised the City Council that he had been working with Jessie Medina and the skate park users in coming up with a name for the newly built City Skate Park located underneath the Veterans Boulevard Overpass near Flowers Street and the skaters had recommended the name of “Free Tail Skate Park” in honor of the Mexican Free Tail Bat that are seen flying underneath the Overpass Bridge. 

The City Council decided to take the naming of the skate park into Executive Session for discussion and upon returning into Open Session, Eagle Pass Youth Council member Fatima E. Aguilar recommended that the City Skate Park be named in honor of the beautiful state flower-Bluebonnet. Eagle Pass Youth City Council members Valeria Duenez, Zuhailey Diaz, Marc A. Flores, and Youth Mayor Nadiyah E. Ledesma concurred and expressed their opinions that “Bluebonnet Skate Park” would be an appropriate name for the new City Skate Park due to the beauty of the state flower Bluebonnet.

The Eagle Pass City Council took to heart the recommendation of the Youth Council and unaimously approved to name the new City Skate Park as “Bluebonnet Skate Park.” 

In other Agenda items, the City Council approved to name Javier Libson, Jose M. “Chema” De Luna, Reynaldo Trevino, Dora Elia S. Sanchez, and Ricardo Medina to the Building Codes Council of the City of Eagle Pass; denied the rate increase requested by AEP Texas, Inc. for distribution recovery factors and rates within the City of Eagle Pass; and approved to accept the Management Letter, Single Audit Supplement, and Report on Conduct of Audit from Martinez, Rosario, LLP.