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Council names new hike-and-bike route the Cynthia El Muniz Monarch Trail; ribbon cutting set for June 16
Summary
Council voted unanimously to name the nearly completed City of Eagle Pass Hike and Bike Trail the Cynthia El Muniz Monarch Trail; the city cited a monarch butterfly station funded in part by a Texas Parks and Wildlife grant and scheduled a ribbon-cutting for June 16.
The Eagle Pass City Council unanimously approved naming the nearly completed hike-and-bike corridor the Cynthia El Muniz Monarch Trail on June 3, and staff announced a ribbon-cutting scheduled for Monday, June 16.
Planning staff explained the trail includes a monarch butterfly station and signage as part of a Texas Parks and Wildlife grant; staff noted the monarch features are unique to the corridor and urged incorporating the monarch theme into the name. "We did dedicate one section of the trail. It's gonna have a monarch in our monarch butterfly station there," Mr. Gutierrez said during the presentation.
Mayor Pro Tem Davis moved to name the trail for Cynthia El Muniz and to include the monarch theme; Councilman Garcia seconded the motion and the council approved it unanimously. Mayor Salinas and other council members praised the project as a multi-department effort and said the trail is intended as a community asset. "This will be a part of a bigger network of trail," staff said, explaining future grant work to connect the trail to other corridors.
City staff asked the council for latitude on the final name formatting; the motion approved by council named the facility the Cynthia El Muniz Monarch Trail. Staff added that landscape plantings to encourage monarch habitat would be considered as part of the trail's ongoing development.
The city encouraged the public to attend the ribbon-cutting ceremony on Monday, June 16.
