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Residents press Harlingen commissioners on data-center plans as debate over travel-invitation policy continues
Summary
During public comment residents raised infrastructure, annexation and transparency concerns about proposed AI/data-center expansion; commissioners then debated a possible policy to notify all commissioners of outside-invitation events but legal counsel said a written policy must be drafted before a vote.
Public commenters used the Harlingen City Commission’s citizen-communication period to press officials on proposed data-center expansion near Valley International Airport and to question staff transparency around event invitations.
Robert Leftwich (District 2) criticized changes in meeting sign-in procedures and security and raised multiple concerns about local projects and staffing. He questioned a federal grant for Commerce Street, said an interim Waterworks director does not live in Harlingen and is “approaching $480,000 in salary” in the way he characterized compensation arrangements, and warned that a proposal to expand a data center could amount to…
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