Everybody, can you please mute your microphones or speakers if you're here in the the room? All right. Um, Representative Sarah Silva and the master. All right. So, we do have quum, Mr. Chair. We have a um, do we have anyone signed up for open comment period? >> Yes, >> we do. >> We have Mr. Orin. >> All right. As a reminder for those >> comment period, uh, speakers are limited to three minutes each. Um, >> good morning. >> Good morning, chair and members of the transportation policy board. My name is Omar Martinez with the city of El Paso. The city of El Paso is for uh is pleased to formally announce the release of solicitation number 2026 0238R for the letter port of entry feasibility study and master plan. The solicitation is available on the capital improvements uh department procurement website which can be accessed at ww.elaso el paso texas.gov capital-improvementsolicitation. This solicitation initiates a comprehensive evaluation of future capacity needs, operational improvements, and multimmoal connectivity and long range expansion strategies at the Eastleta port of entry. The selected consultant team will assess freight mobility, traffic modeling, environmental considerations, and work towards a revision of the port's presidential permit and infrastructure phasing to ensure the port remains competitive and resilient. work includes identifying and evaluating short-term solutions that can be implemented in using existing facilities infrastructure and operational resources to provide immediate and near near-term improvements to the East LA port of entry while longerterm capital projects and facility expansions are developed and implemented. Completing this study as soon as possible positions the city of El Paso to compete effectively for state and federal infrastructure funding. The deadline for submission of statements of qualifications is March 18, 2026. The city aims to have approved contracts in June of 2026. We look forward to coordinating closely with the MO, regional partners, theat Pueblo, the city of Sukoro, and state and federal agencies as this feasibility study advances. Thank you. Do we have any more uh speakers signed up? Okay, see no additional speakers, the comment period is now closed. Uh we move on to discussion and action items. >> Mr. Chair, if I could uh just as as a reminder uh for those uh board members that are participating by video, the reminder is that in order for you to vote or to make any motions, you must have your your camera on. Um, Nick, you hear the law enforcement here person, do you want to? >> No, we would just respectfully request for the duration of the meeting if they could keep their cameras on. And again, as Mr. Calvo indicated, uh, their votes will only count if their cameras on at the time that they vote. >> All right. So then moving on now to discussion and action. Item number one is to consider approval of the minutes of the January 23, 2026 TPB meeting. We have a motion. >> Motion approved. >> You have a question? >> I do. Chairman, thank you. Um, I was reviewing the the minutes and I think uh there's a discussion I would like to point out on item number four from the previous meeting, nominate elect vice chairperson of the transportation policy board. Um the second part of it where it says amend motion to nominate and elect commissioner Dolin as vice chairperson of the transportation policy board made by mayor Renard Johnson and seconded by representative Alejandra Chaffis. I think that motion was made by Mayor Cruz and I'm not sure who seconded it but I just wanted to correct the record. >> Okay. Um, we know who seconded that person here or >> um, we we're going to go back and check the the recording, but but we'll definitely make that uh the change. >> Okay. Um, do we need to make a motion to amend? >> Um, so we have a motion to amend the minutes. >> We have a second. All in favor say I. >> Any opposed? Motion passes. >> Uh, back to the original item. >> Yeah. to consider approval of of the minutes >> to approve. >> We have a motion to approve. We have [snorts] a second. >> Second. >> We have a second. All in favor say I. >> Any opposed? Motion passes. >> All right. Thank you. All right. Item number two is consider adoption of the El Paso NO's annual financial report performed by the external auditing firm of Masias Gin and Okonnell LLP for the year ended August 31st, 2025. So, I'm not going to steal George's thunder, but uh we have Georgie Nostrosa and and Corbett Nixon from MGO uh that will present the uh have a a short presentation on on the audit and um and then of course they're here to answer any questions. So, George, [snorts] >> hello. Good morning. My name is Georginosa, administrative services manager with the El Paso MPO. Uh, and we have >> Hello everyone. I'm Corbett Nixon. I'm a senior manager from Oscan and Okonnell, your independent auditors. >> Okay. So the El Paso NO's FY25 financial statements were issued as a result of u a single audit which is required for any federal entity that uh expends $1 million or more in federal funds in a given year. Uh single audit consists of two elements. number one to determine whether uh the El Paso Impeo's financial statement balances uh so that the auditors have reasonable assurance that they're uh stated fairly and number two to determine whether the El Paso MO uh remains in compliance with federal and state granting requirements. The key performance measure in our FY25 financial statements that deserves uh pointing out is that revenues increased 240% from 2.5 million in [clears throat] FY24 to $6 million in FY25. This more than double increase in activity and output is a reflection uh that the El Paso MO keeps operating at a very high level all while maintaining compliance with our FHWA, FTA, TCQ NMDOT and our main granter uh textile that we comply with with the granting requirements. Thank you. I'll go ahead and leave it to next. Thank you. Okay, we can we can move to the next slide. Okay, so it is a a pleasure for me to be here. This is uh actually my first year uh working with the uh metropolitan planning organization um as part of an engagement leader but but had the pleasure of know learning to work with your team and and getting to know them and the MO at large and it's been just a a real pleasure having that experience. Um this is just a brief outline for us um and a little bit of a housekeeping. This is meant to be anformational session. Um, so if there's any questions, any clarity that we can provide or I can provide, um, please feel free to to speak up and interject, um, happy to give any any further context that we can. Uh, next slide. >> As your independent auditors, um, you know, we like to to start out with our responsibilities. Um, essentially why we're here is to provide our audit opinion. that opinion is uh over your financial statements um and whether or not they're material or are free of material misstatement under generally accepted accounting practices or GAP. Um in order to express this opinion, we have to develop an audit approach under generally accepted auditing SA standards as provided by the um AICPA. So in developing that we have to gain an understanding of your organization of your internal controls and and develop that approach under those standards. Our understanding of the internal controls is really meant for the the purpose of developing our audit approach. If there's any findings that we do have in terms of inter internal control weaknesses, those are are reported to yourselves and to management over the course of the audit. Um it's important to note that although we are we do assess your internal controls and gain an understanding of them, we're not uh providing a spec a specific opinion on the design implement implementation and functionality of the internal controls of the NPO. As such um when we say there is no findings, we did not design our approach explicitly to fi have findings um regarded to your internal control structure. On top of the generally accepted auditing standards uh as prescribed by the AICPA, we also are uh applying our audit approach under governmental auditing standards as uh provided by the controller general of the United States. Um these these further standards uh incorporate additional requirements um related to our independence judgment and reporting on internal controls which you'll see as part of our singular single audit um opinions. Next slide. So we've issued the following items um as part of this engagement. the audit report of the basic financial statements um for a the year ended August 31st, 2025 along with the single audit reports um [clears throat] and state and that includes state grants from the states of uh Texas and New Mexico. On top of that, we also provide our report to those charged with governance which is a separate letter provided to to the board. Next slide. So audit timing. So this uh audit timing and plan was uh previously communicated to the board and management. Um and it's all we we are required to review it as part of the uh results of the audit. Um you know we did plan uh to have interim procedures performed during September October final fieldwork occurring October through January. Um and reporting and presentation happening within February. Uh we would like to note that we did not have any changes to our audit plan this year. It was executed as planned um which is a a note to uh management and uh the effectiveness of their ability to to meet the requirements of the audit. Uh the report was dated on January 20 uh 28th uh 2026 which aligned with the the requirements put forth by the city of El Paso. And of course we do provide year-long year round collaboration with management. Next slide. Okay. And opinion. So um kind of the the root of the matter uh is the the opinions apply to our report. So we did have an unmodified opinion on the basic financial statements. Unmodified um is the the highest level of assurance we can provide. It's what you know the norm nomenclature would call a clean audit report. Um so so no concerns related to the financial statements. We also had an unmodified uh opinion on the compliance with uh federal audits and with uniform guidance. Uh so the single audit also had an unmodified or clean audit opinion. also would like to note that uh reporting on internal controls um as part of the single audit procedures performed we did not have any material weaknesses and did not identify any significant deficiencies um and and something that uh we noted uh with executive committee previously uh a note or a change that occurred this year in this year's audit is just due to the the large increase in revenues and expenditures that the NPO had over fiscal year 2025 we we effectively had to double the amount procedures performed as part of the single audit. Um we we actually had to audit an entirely separate federal program on top of the the program we had previously done. So with that in in mind with the the doubling of those level of procedures, I think it's commendable that we we did not have those issues um noted. Next slide. required communications to those charged with governance. So, this is uh the third deliverable that was provided uh which is the letter to yourselves um and should have been previously distributed. It it's really containing the required communications um under the standards that that we need to provide to you all related to matters of the audit. Um and and this is kind of listing out those items where there might be something of note to you all. Um, I typically uh consider this like our screen of nose because we really didn't have um any any major significant issues um over the course of the audit or or issues with management and next slide. And then um we always finish off with just the Gazsby pronouncements um that are implement two separate uh new gazsby standards. Um compensated absences uh which is you know related to the the acrruals of said compensated absences and then uh gazsby 102 certain risks and disclosures. Uh neither of these had a material impact on the financial statements of the no and then upcoming uh Gazsby pronouncements effective in the future. uh Gazsby 103, financial reporting model and improvements, Gazsby 104, disclosure of certain capital assets, and Gazby 105, subsequent events. Um although I don't think that they'll have material impacts, Gazsby 103 will probably have some impact on the the nature and content of the management's discussion and analysis of the financial statements going forward. um is it's meant to to make that a essentially a more effective uh communication tool going forward and formalizing some of the the communications that are included there. Um disclosure of certain capital assets I don't believe will have an impact on no but it's it's not effective for the next year. And then um as 105 is new, but it's really just a formalization of of the assessment of subsequent events for any financial statements being issued and what is required to be disclosed upon. And next slide. [snorts] And to finish off our prepared remarks, are there are there any questions that that I could answer at this time? >> Thank you. Um just wanted to understand there there's no corrective actions. This was a clean audit, but the prior year there were there was one corrective action. So can you tell me a little bit more about the methodology that you use to come back and kind of report if that corrective action was implemented correctly? >> Yeah, certainly. So and and if you look at the very end of the the financial statements, there is some uh communication regarding the prior year findings. Um and what essentially because it was part of the actual financial reporting um that the the finding was on for last year was a significant deficiency. Um our basic audit procedures that identified that last year would have identified it this year. It was uh essentially acrruels um not not necessarily being entirely properly recorded. Um, so we did not identify any similar issues and consider it to be a mitigated control issue. >> There's any other questions? >> Great. Thank you so much. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> So, Mr. Chair, if I could just add a couple of things. The uh this is the second time that that we do our standalone audit. Uh before this uh we the the El Paso audit was part of the city of El Paso audit. So we were just pretty much like a line item in in the city's audit. But as a result of the conversations that we had a few years ago, it was agreed upon and I think it's a really good thing that that we are now doing our own audits and and that's why we you know this is the second year that that we that we do this. Um, you know, I really want to give a shout out to uh to George and and u and and Odette uh that are take care of all the administrative stuff for here for the no especially the last couple of years because we as you will see later we will I mean we have increased the activity of of the no with additional grants. you know, we're doing some really cool things, but that requires a lot more work. And um and so, you know, the fact that we're working well and the fact that there are no no major findings, it's a it's it's a relief. It's a good thing, but it's a relief as well. But, um but yeah, there is a lot of activity going on with the uh with the MO as we will explain later. All right. So, with that, um, I think we we do need a a motion to adopt. >> Do we have a motion to adopt the MO's annual financial report? >> Second. >> A second. All in favor say I. >> Item three. >> All right. Item three, consider authorizing the executive director to execute an amendment to the agreement between El Paso NO and MGO for auditing services to increase compensation by $7,500 to cover additional work required to audit a second major federal program for the fiscal year 2025 audit. So as a result of the additional activity and um and you know given that when we brought in MGO to to provide the auditing services the the quote that we got was assuming that there was you know going to be more of the standard operation of of the MO the standard you know um as far as having about in the ballpark of about $2.5 million worth of revenues and but not only that but it was limited to a certain amount of of of grants given that the increase in the activity and given that that I think cor mentioned there they needed to do a a sort of like a second set of of tests and so on um they requested uh the this additional fund to cover the additional work and uh and in the agreement there's also a provision that that for the third year which of of their contract or the the agreement that we have with them if we have to do the same thing then the fee would be would increase by 7,500 as well. Uh we had a discussion with them. Uh we negotiated. So they they're taking a little bit of a they're eating some of the additional costs as well, but I think we it's a fair it's a fair deal. So uh so we the staff recommends approval of this. >> So just to be clear, you said the fee will increase by 7 7,500 or it will remain 7,500. >> No. So yeah. So the the original agreement was for uh a flat fee of 37,500 I believe. So in addition to the 7 37500 we would be increasing that for for this year uh 7,500 members any questions >> then if you have any difficult questions will answer them. >> Uh do we have a motion? >> We have a motion. Do we have a second? Second. All in favor say I. >> Any opposed? >> Item four. >> All right. Item four is consider adoption of the safety performance measure PM1 2026 targets. A for the state of New Mexico PM1 targets and B the state of Texas PM1 targets. And we have Jennifer Moreno from El Paso MP with a presentation. >> Good morning chair and members. So today we're going to present the updates on the trend lines for Texas as well as for New Mexico and report the targets for the 2026 um safety targets. Next slide please. So here on slid it's just a introduction of how targets are established for the MO. These targets uh safety targets are uh five measure performance. So we need to report targets for those five measuring performance annually. We have the option to choose uh to support the Texas and well the state targets or to do our regional um targets. Considering that for regional we'll have to consider both uh sites Texas and New Mexico as a NO planning area. Next slide. Next slide please. Uh here's uh just a background on how uh we if we decide to to support the targets of the states or if we choose to uh to report our regional targets those are the measures that have to be um followed. So on this slide you'll see the number of fatalities that trends for the Texas and New Mexico compared to the regional um numbers for each Texas and New Mexico. These are the fatalities of numbers. You'll see some differences on the data reported. For Texas, we only have we have up to 2024. For New Mexico, we only have up to 2023 since the moment that uh these numbers were reported. Uh we only have available up to 2023, but we already make action to request the numbers since New Mexico already uh published the 2024 targets. I mean the 2024 numbers. Next slide. So here on screen you'll see the trends for the numbers of serious injuries. Uh similar to the previous slide numbers are uh presented by state and on the left right you'll see the number of serious injuries on the Texas compared to the original numbers for El Paso. Uh and on the right side you'll see the numbers of New Mexico compared to our portion of New Mexico. Um the numbers that are reported. Next slide please. So here on screen you'll see some information that was reported on our uh safety plan. Those are the numbers of regional fatal injury crashes compared to the number of fatalities uh reported of from 2019 to 2023. So those are the numbers uh based on the Chris and the New Mexico reporting um portal. Next slide please. As you all know, back in November of last year, we adopted our safety uh plan. Uh regionally, those are the numbers and the targets that we reported to followed on that plan. Uh we we continue tracking all the process. We um collecting data to see the reportings and uh follow the trends lines to keep track of the prog of the progress. Next slide please. So now on the following slides you'll see the numbers uh presented for the New Mexico site for the statewide targets. Next slide please. Uh here on screen you'll see the number of fatalities reported for New Mexico. Uh for this time New Mexico it's following a 2020 number of fatalities of that it's on screen. You'll see the number of fatalities is four 445 number. Next slide please. The number of serious injuries in New Mexico is stating to go with a,0 of 2026 target. Next slide. The rate of fatalities uh the target for 2026 is stayed at 1.64. 644. Next slide. For serious injuries, 2026 target reported at 3 8. Next slide, please. And for the number of nonaries, fatalities, and serious injuries, 2026 target for New Mexico is data 200. Next slide, please. So here on screen you'll see a summary of comparing the 2025 targets to the 2026 and you'll see New Mexico and this case uh decides to go stay steady on the targets reported for this new year. Uh so um to follow the the the vision area that they're trying to aim to not increase the targets in major reduction or stay steady on the reporting. Next slide please. Now you'll see the numbers for Texas. Next slide please. So on the state of Texas, there was a bit of an adjustment on the targets reported for the 2026 targets. Uh so now they're following a a recommendation from FHWA to change to update the methology to follow um to to establish targets based on data uh not much of aspirational target. So previously there was reporting following a line downward for the targets uh following the vision serial uh implementation but for these 2026 targets there were there were some adjustments on the mixology follow. So now they're following uh calculating it by um uh the five data points from historical crash data instead of following a downward turn. Next slide please. On number of serious injuries, the target uh was established at 18,84. Next slide, please. For serious for rate of fatalities, targets stay at 1.44. Next slide, please. For serious injuries, Texas is reporting a total of 6.3. Next slide. And for nonmotorized fatalities and serious injuries, here is a train and the target state at 2,82. Next slide, please. So, here is a summary of the Texas targets uh compared to the 2025 targets established back uh last year to the 2026 targets are established this year. So as you'll see there's some adjustment by following the that methodology recommended by FHWA to make the targets established by using historical data. Next slide please. Right now uh we take back recommendation we're following to establish the state targets for New Mexico and Texas. If you have any questions, I'm open to >> any questions. >> Thank you so much. >> So, Mr. Mr. If I if I could add a little bit uh when it comes to safety, uh these are the we are required to adopt either the state uh targets or we can come up with our own which is you know pretty complicated and and honorous. But I think the the the philosophical question really is when it comes to safety as opposed to when we the other targets that we have to to get like to report like you like pavement scores and bridge uh condition and stuff like that. But when it comes to safety when we're talking about fatalities and serious injuries, you know, there there's changes in the methodology and and and so on and and you know, we have to to adopt uh something, right, to check the box for the for the requirement that we need to to fulfill from from the federal uh agencies, right? But at the end of the day, you know, I think what really is important is what we do locally. what are the actions that we're going to take to reduce and and ultimately I know it's an aspirational goal but to eliminate uh fatalities and serious injuries right so I think the the uh the the focus at least what we are doing at the MO the focus is not so much on on you know running numbers and and all that but it's more like what are we what are some of the actions that we can take to really really reduce fatalities and and accidents right not crashes, accidents, right? Um and and you know that's going to be the the focus going on with our vision zero uh committee in in terms of you know we don't want to have more more plans and more meetings and more uh committees and so on. I mean what are some of the actions that we can make uh whether it's you know regionally build sidewalks uh you know improve sidewalks uh you know safety lighting projects and so on. But um anyway, so I'm I'm going a little bit on a tangent there, but just wanted to make sure that that that you know that even though we we adopt the statewide uh targets for New Mexico DOT and and Texot, uh we've got to do something here locally and and we're trying to to do that. >> Any questions? Do we have a motion to adopt the safety performance measures uh PM1 2026 targets? A motion. [clears throat] We have a second. All in favor say I. >> Any opposed? >> Motion passes. >> All right. Now we move on to reports and discussion. Item five is discuss the El Paso MO's cash flow outlook for fiscal years 2026 and 2029. If we can bring it up on the screen. So this this item again is related to uh to the item that we present at the the audit. just to show the the board on on a cash flow perspective. This is not a a a you know a perfect P&L uh statement, but it's more the cash flow to show where we are and um and you know to give you all the the um an idea of how the revenue side of the equation has increased through uh other grants that we have been you know pursuing and and receiving. And that it is important to to state that the the basic revenues that we receive from planning funds coming in from the Federal Highway Administration and the Federal Transit Administration, we get a piece most of most of the funds that we receive come from the Texas side through text, but we also receive some from the New Mexico side through New Mexico DOT. Right? So those are the ones that you see here at the top and you know the ballpark it varies a little bit by year but we receive in the ballpark of about $2 million per year right those are funds that are distributed to to NPOS's based on the formula mostly uh considering population so all 24 NPOS's in in the state of Texas receive planning funds and and was it the five six nos in in central New Mexico as well. Those funds are pretty much to cover the core activities of the FTO to do our our UPWP to do the long range plan to to maintain the transportation program etc. All the work that is that is u um you know spelled out in the federal transportation law that NOS have to do. But but I think is really cool and we're really really excited and proud of that is that in addition to the core activities that the MO does per law, we are looking for other grants to do additional work. Uh and you see those pretty much on the top the the grants, you know, the colorcoded. Uh we've come here before you several times to request action on on TCQ, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Writer 7. um you know that that's a that's a program to look at at pollutants. Um I guess they like us because they keep giving us money year after year after year. So that that's a really cool thing. So we've been using that those funds to uh to develop some of the tools for measuring emissions and and so on. Um one SPR those are federal planning funds that that are assigned to to uh to the the state DOS. So we have applied for those funds and we've been successful [clears throat] in receiving funds to do several things. Uh New Mexico DOT uh I think it's been this is the third time that we received funds to help us improve our travel demand model and in this case the international travel demand model that we're using for our strategic plan for the border crossings. Um, and then this one, the safe streets for all, that's a grant that we applied and received precisely to do our safety action plan, $750,000. Uh, we completed that and [clears throat] we came here to the board next for the IBC strategic plan, $2 million to develop the strategic plan for our our border crossings and help us uh understand, you know, better the operation of our border crossings. And then finally with the New Mexico Border Authority, another $2 million to to do the analysis of the impacts of the implementation of their border highway connector project in that would connect Santa Teresa to McNut in the vicinity of the city of Son Park. But as we know all that traffic going, >> not all but a good chunk of that traffic is going to go into Texas. So we need to evaluate those. So, I mean, all that is good work that that is important for for the MO to to be leading, but if you see now the the you know, if you add up all the revenues, so the [snorts] $2 million that we get on on planning funds plus the the the additional grants that we have been receiving, that's a that's a good chunk. And u so just to explain the table, you need to scroll down a little bit. So these are colorcoded so that uh you can see for example the top one the TCQ which is in that orange color those that grant corresponds or pays for the task orders that that we have issued to TTI and UTP to cover that. Right? So the the good thing about these grants is that you know we may and some of them we may keep a little bit for administration that helps you know for our our payroll and and so on but it's pretty much so we cannot spend more than the total amount of the grant um and so on. So that that that explains all the the additional uh or all of the activity here and task orders for UT TTI for UT urban sim which is another big improvement for when we got the urban sim to develop a land use model for us that helps with the development of our long range plan and and then the the general planning consultant WSB that's helping us with a a bunch of of things but that's how the task orders the grants. Um can you scroll down to the bottom to the bottom line? So the bottom part here of the of the table are the miscellaneous or these are more like the operation you know the the lease the websites you know coffee and so on. So the the bottom line think of I mean the bottom line here is this is at the end of the of the year well 2024 which is actual this is our balance right that carries over to the to the following year. So we've been you know we we still have even spending and doing a lot of really good things. We feel comfortable with the projections in terms of the expenditures that that we have. So that, you know, we always carry a a safe amount of of dollars, you know, of carryover, especially now when, you know, there's so much more uncertainty than than the past uh in the past years with government shutdowns and now the transportation bill that's up for reauthorization in in the fall of this year. And so it's a good thing to have some cash there um for emergencies, for unforeseen circumstances. So we we feel pretty pretty confident about that. If anything changes in terms of the outlook or planning funds or whatever that that uh that could affect our revenues then of course we will adjust the expenditures to make sure that we are always in in the in the black never in the red. So um again the the uh the table is in your your backup. happy to answer any questions, any comments now or later on if if you have any thoughts in this. But uh but this is what we use pretty much to help us plan our our expenditures for the next four years. >> Thank you. >> Okay. All right. So then uh the last item is the executive director's report. Uh a couple of really important things with the Texas Transportation Committee meeting. So, I attended the meeting and and spoke uh on a couple of items. The first one was supporting the city of El Paso's application for a civ loan uh that they're using to provide the match for several projects that are that's that's a really good thing. But related to that, another uh an announcement that was made uh last week was the appointment of um of Pat Gordon to the Texas Transportation Commission. So as you know the uh the chairman of the commission chairman Bug passed away unfortunately last year. So so the there was one vacancy in the commission. So uh Pat Gordon was appointed by the governor. It was made official last week. So so that's a that's an exciting piece of news for for us here in the region. uh and we we as the MO we look forward to to working with Commissioner Gordon and and uh we we really hope that that he does a good job there as a member of the commission. Um >> just to note though this is the first time in the in the trans Texas transportation commission's history two border members uh serving. So our hope is that uh they can combine their efforts and bring home the the bacon. I guess it's the if it's the border, right? Uh we're really excited about it and really excited about Pat Gordon's uh uh appointment. >> Absolutely. All right. So the next one, the joint meeting of a Texas border transportation master plan and El Paso NO international border crossing strategic plan that that was held uh on February the 3rd. So again, this is a a we were able to to combine uh the two efforts that are similar in nature. Texas is doing the border master plan that covers the entire border from El Paso all the way to Brownsville and and of course we're doing our strategic plan that covers our region here. So, uh there's a lot of, you know, there's overlap between the two. Uh clearly some uh some uh differences, but we're trying to do this to to try to reduce or minimize the amount of meetings uh you know where stakeholders like many of you participated. Uh we want to avoid stakeholder fatigue and make sure that uh that these meetings are productive and and and helpful. So that that was a a very uh good meeting. Uh related to that, item C is a border trade advisory committee meeting that was held in Eagle Pass February the the on February the 10th. Again, BTAC is a statewide committee that is uh created by state law and it's chaired by the secretary of state for the state of Texas. This case um Madam Nelson and um so the meeting was an Eagle Pass. It was a a big success. It was a really big deal there in Eagle Pass. Uh we had uh not only members from from BTAC but the local participation was great. Uh the mayor, the county judge, um uh state rep morales and a lot of people were there in attendance and some presentations and and so on. So we are looking to bring uh BTE uh to El Paso so we can host it again in the sometime in the near future. So, so hopefully we can make a a good show of u in support of of BTE and all the trade activities that that are going on. Uh that's all I have as far as a report. Uh um happy to answer any questions or comments, thoughts. >> Members, any questions? >> All right. >> Uh no items for executive session. >> Mr. here be before we adjourn a couple more just comments. Um as I said earlier the the next meeting the March meeting uh there's no more training. Uh hopefully everybody is trained enough and you have your your hours. Um so the the the board meeting will start the official meeting starts at 9:00. We're back to the the the uh the usual starting time of 9:00 a.m. here in this in this room. >> Um that's all I have. Thank you very much. Uh, do we have a motion to adjourn? >> EPB March 20th, 2026.