Mayor's tie-breaking vote blocks funding for El Paso Welcome Center

Mayor's tie-breaking vote blocks funding for El Paso Welcome Center

Rising tensions on El Paso’s City Council came to a head last week when representatives and Mayor Renard Johnson took the rare step of reversing a decision made an hour earlier.  One council member said the reversal was vengeance over unsuccessful efforts by three city representatives to reopen the city’s decision awarding incentives to Meta Platforms Inc. for a data center in Northeast El Paso.  Caught in the middle of the vote reversal is fund…