The City is looking to create new proposals to improve El Paso and they want your input

EL PASO, Texas -- Through several community meetings, the City of El Paso wants your input on new capital planning and bond projects.

The City is looking to create new proposals to improve roads, public spaces and quality of life projects.

As organizers begin the planning process they are asking residents for their thoughts.

Selected projects will be presented to City Council. They then can call for a referendum in Nov. 2022 to give voters the chance to decide if the City should fund the projects.

The first meeting was held Wednesday evening, it is the first of five.

The main concern from residents at the meeting was why the City is wanting to take on new bond projects when old ones haven't been completed.

"We need to step back and look at what we're dealing with before we charge ahead on other bond projects," Debbie Torres an El Pasoan said.

"Even as we have a lot of ongoing bond projects that are still yet to be completed, the reality of the situation is that we have significant needs in our community," Alex Hoffman, assistant director of capital planning for the City of El Paso said. "We're really trying to keep up with those things so that later on we don't have to spend more money and invest in facilities that could have been maintained if we invest in them like we should."

If you want to give your input, here's when and where the next meetings will be:

• Wednesday, March 2, 2022 at 5:30 p.m. at Esperanza Acosta Moreno Library
• Thursday, March 3, 2022 at 6 p.m. at Northgate Transfer Center
• Tuesday, March 8, 2022 at 6 p.m. at City Hall
• Tuesday, March 22, 2022 at 6 p.m at Westside Police Regional Command

If you can't attend a meeting you can take a survey online at elev8ep.com. There you can also look at live results.