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Internal Mark your calendar: The Corridor Council's Transportation Task Force meets Tuesday, July 24, 1:30 pm at the Aquarena Springs Conference Center in San Marcos. We may be doing a joint press event with TxDOT at 1:00 that same day, same place that may interest you. So mark your daytimer and we'll get an agenda and more details to you later. UPCOMING FACILITY TOUR – The Economic Development Committee is planning a tour of the Port of San Antonio on 7/25. Members of the Corridor Council will be escorted on a very informative tour and presentation of the facility. Interested in attending, please contact please contact Jeff Webb at 512-558-7360 or jeffwebb@thecorridor.org. San Antonio businessman (and Corridor Council member) Red McCombs will be the keynote speaker at the Austin Business Journal's Austin-San Antonio Corridor Growth Summit in San Marcos on Friday, September 21 at Texas State University. More details as they emerge. Infrastructure In the wake of the most miserable legislative session in history for transportation issues, leaders from across the state meet in San Antonio tomorrow (7/10) to begin discussing ways to get the Texas legislature to seriously focus on financing badly-needed new mobility infrastructure. Outgoing Chamber of Commerce president Joe Krier called the meeting, which is expected to resurrect a coalition of urban area transportation interests that collapsed over policy differences over the last few years. For a wrap-up of what the Lege actually did to statewide transportation funding see this article from the Express-News this morning. San Marcos has a plan in place to create a high-speed wireless network, and now it needs a private sector partner to build that system. The city contracted with Austin-based consulting firm MetroNetIQ to release a request for proposals. City officials will choose a proposal Nov. 6, and the network is tentatively scheduled to be up and running within a year. According to the Austin-based Wi-Fi Alliance, approximately 350 city wireless projects have been launched across the nation in the past two years. Kyle got its first ever traffic signal last week, located on Center Street (Highway 150) and the IH-35 access road. Officials hope that it will cut down on the backed-up traffic which piles up each morning and afternoon with commuters who live in Kyle and work in Austin. Peter M. Holt of San Antonio was appointed by Gov. Rick Perry last week as chairman of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission. He will replace Joseph Fitzsimons, who has served as chair since 2003. Holt was appointed to a two-year term on the commission in August 2003 and reappointed in 2005 to a six-year term that will expire in February 2011. New Braunfels has launched a cool new Web site with high-tech interactive mapping features that allow users to analyze spatial information from aerial photographs of the city and surrounding areas. The Interactive Mapping System Web site incorporates Geographic Information Systems, a tool used to map and present geographic data so that a better understanding of that data can be reached. Check it out here. Economic Development For the first time, the Toyota Tundra, which is built at facilities in Princeton, Ind., and San Antonio with parts made primarily in American factories, has made it onto Cars.com's American Made Index. Each year, the American Made Index identifies the top 10 models of vehicles that are truly American. Tundra came in at 10th on the list. Solar Power could create 123,000 new jobs in Texas by 2030, according to a study by The University of Texas at Austin and IC2 Institute. Last year, Texas ranked 8th in solar adoption, generating about one percent of the solar energy that California is producing, according to the university. Starting in July, Concordia University at Austin will be known as Concordia University Texas. The Lutheran university's leaders decided that the slight name change would better reflect the school's larger presence in Texas. Concordia University Texas also has regional campuses in Fort Worth, Fredericksburg, Houston and San Antonio. After deciding to step down as chairman and CEO of AT&T Inc. earlier this month, Edward E. Whitacre Jr. has accepted a new teaching position. He has become Texas Lutheran University's first Executive Professor of Business in Residence. Whitacre will be teaching business ethics, marketing and management. The New York Times ran a story out of Bee Cave over the weekend highlighting out-of-control growth in the Texas Hill Country, mentioning in passing that even Willie Nelson - the Red Headed Real Estate mogul - is developing his ranch into a residential subdivision. Read more here. Looking for work? The Alamo WorkSource Career Center will conduct a tri-county job fair tomorrow from 10 am to 2 pm at the New Braunfels Civic Center. More than 50 employers from Guadalupe, Hays and Comal counties will attend. A New Braunfels-based company became the second permitted taxicab service in San Marcos last week, after the city council approved a request from Hayes Taxi Service. The company will initially run two vehicles and charge $10 standard fare for a ride within the city limits. Senior citizens will pay $7; college students $8. Thought for the week: |
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