Discuss: BexarMet GM Gets Hefty Raise, Customers Get Rate Hike | WOAI.COM: San Antonio News
Not everyone is struggling during these tough economic times. The head of the BexarMet Water District got a hefty $31,000 raise.
In a few weeks, BexarMet customers will see also a raise. They’ll be paying 14% more per month on their water […]
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Connolly Indicted For Illegal Contributions To City Councilman | WOAI.COM: San Antonio News
T. J. Connolly has been indicted again for illegal campaign contributions.
The indictment, which is against Connolly and his company, alleges he gave illegal campaign contributions to City Councilman Philip Cortez.
This week’s indictment comes just four months after Connolly was indicted for funneling […]
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MySA.com: Metro | State
To those who think the media reports only bad news, here’s something good for the more than 80,000 area customers of the Bexar Metropolitan Water District:
For the first time since … ever … a majority of the district’s board members stood up to General Manager Gil Olivares.
Olivares has long made an […]
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MySA.com: Jaime Castillo | Politics
For most of BexarMet’s 82,000 customers, let this be your first warning that your water bill is going up.
And when it does, don’t let Olivares and the BexarMet board blame it on the rain.
After pushing through a rate reduction and hiding behind a consultant last April, Olivares and company are […]
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MySA.com: Commentary
Comment: BexarMet plan another waste of money
Web Posted: 12/17/2007 05:21 PM CST
Lesley Wenger
As it turns out, a merger is not what T.J. Connolly is talking about in his commentary “Time to consider water service merger” (Dec. 11).
No time right now to write much but I saw the commentary T.J. Connolly wrote for the […]
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MySA.com: Metro | State
The board of the Bexar Metropolitan Water District
declared several properties surplus Monday and authorized its general manager to negotiate sales agreements to bring back to the board.
It also abandoned an 18-month-old effort to get fees raised for service to new developments through application to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. It decided […]
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MySA.com: Columnists
UPDATE: Jaime Castillo: BexarMet may be withholding information on sidewalk pacts
San Antonio Express-News
The question comes up from time to time about the Bexar Metropolitan Water District:
Why does such a relatively small agency engender so many negative headlines?
Part of the answer is obvious. State prosecutors are in the midst of an ongoing criminal investigation […]
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MySA.com: Metro | State
Even casual watchers of the Bexar Metropolitan Water District were aware of how fast a bond developed between General Manager Gil Olivares and his handpicked contract mouthpiece, T.J. Connolly.
Whether it was business or public relations, both men in recent months relished a take-no-prisoners approach to defending the water agency from foes that […]
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San Antonio Current - Bexar Met’s secret soldiers
Guerra then quoted LULAC National Legal Advisor Luis Vera, who threatened to sue the state if the bill passed. A week later Vera put that threat on paper, two pages of his LULAC letterhead with the signatures of LULAC’s National President Rosa Rosales and Texas State Director […]
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MySA.com: Columnists
As with many things that happen at the Bexar Metropolitan Water District, there’s a certain “you-can’t-make-this-stuff-up” quality to it.
For starters, BexarMet employees got a little something extra with their paychecks a week ago Friday.
At the behest of General Manager Gil Olivares, all 300-plus workers were offered a celebratory T-shirt emblazoned with the message: “BexarMet […]
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