McAllen City Commissioner Jim Darling is DHR’s legal counsel. McAllen construction magnate Alonzo Cantú is a leader of the board of directors at DHR. Without any comment during the meeting by the elected leadership, the Edinburg City Council on Wednesday, August 5, unanimously approved giving Doctors Hospital at Renaissance up to $2.25 million from a special city fund that will go towards helping build the planned $14 million Edinburg Medical Conference Center.Īlthough the planned 54,000-square-foot structure showcase Edinburg in its official name, it will be owned by DHR, which is one of a growing number of hospitals nationwide whose principal owners are physicians. See the lead story on the Edinburg Medical Conference Center later in this posting.ĭoctors Hospital at Renaissance lands $2.25 million from Edinburg to help build key $14 million center The site for the medical school, which is scheduled to begin construction in 2015, will be determined by the UT System Board of Regents. Cantú, who is a leader of the DHR Board of Directors, says the state-of-the-art medical facility will have many benefits for the region and the city, including creating almost 300 new jobs, and could help bring to Hidalgo County a planned University of Texas medical school authorized by legislation co-authored last spring by Hinojosa. Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa, D-McAllen, was successful in helping convince the Edinburg City Council to invest more than $2 million towards the construction of a planned $14 million Edinburg Medical Conference Center, which will be owned by Doctors Hospital at Renaissance. McAllen construction magnate Alonzo Cantú, featured right with Sen. Ismael "Kino" Flores, D-Palmview, are also scheduled to participate. For more information on the Legislative Dinner and/or to buy tickets, call the McAllen Hispanic Chamber at 928/0060. All sponsors will get to sit with an elected official. There is a fee to attend, however: sponsorships for the event include the following rates: Presidential $3,000 Governor $2,000 Statesman $1,000 and Civic Leader, $500. Armando "Mando" Martínez, D-Weslaco, will have the opportunity to mingle and talk with members of the community and give a report on the recently concluded legislative session and plans for the legislative interim and next session. State legislators, including (from left) Rep. The McAllen Hispanic Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday, August 12, will host its Legislative “Report Card” Dinner beginning at enter time at the McAllen Country Club. Featured standing, back row, from left: Juan Mejia, STC Vice President for Academic Affairs Jerry Inmon, Lions Club Member Mike Shannon, STC Dean of Student Life and Armando Ponce, STC Coordinator of Student Activities. Featured standing, middle row, from left: William Serrata, STC Vice President for Student Affairs and Enrollment Management Joe Guerra, Lions Club member Mark Alvarado, Second Vice District Governor Raúl Leal, Lions Club member and Jesús Rodriguez, McAllen Palm City Lions Club President. Featured, seated from left: Lions Club member Salvador Claflin, who is a STC assistant professor of government Joe Treviño, Lions Club District 2-A3 Governor STC President Shirley A. Lions Club leaders and members recently finalized an agreement with South Texas College administrators to set up new student chapters at three campus locations in McAllen, Weslaco and Rio Grande City. Senate Bill 297, sponsored by Flores, which lowers tuition and fees for many veterans and their families, is the latest round in a series of major laws authored or sponsored by Flores last spring that will help many of Texas’ estimated 1.7 million veterans. On November 3, Texans will participate in a statewide election regarding Proposition 8 – another measure passed last spring by Flores – which is designed to speed up the state’s involvement in bringing a Veterans Administration Hospital to South Texas. In this portrait, taken in Houston with Flores featured second from left, Perry signs into law a related measure that contains language drafted by Flores which will give up to a 100 percent exemption from all home property taxes for Texas veterans who are disabled as a result of physical and mental wounds suffered as a direct result of their U.S. Ismael "Kino" Flores, D-Palmview, who served as a sponsor of the law. military families who come the Lone Star State will no longer have to pay the more expensive out-of-state tuition and fees to attend any of Texas’ public colleges and universities, and any student whose parent is deployed into a combat zone will pay no tuition and fees while the parent serves in harm’s way, according to Rep.
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