Political:
In the City of Edinburg, politics split into three parts, 68.920% Democratic, 30.290% Republican, and 0.796% independent. Economic:
Edinburg Economic Development Corporation’s Executive Director, Ramiro Garza Jr., Reports that Edinburg has generated over $1.14 million in local sales taxes for the month of April 2009. This figure is up 11% compared to $1,033,765.77 produced in the same month in 2008. The local sales taxes generated by the city’s one and a half cent local sales tax and the half-cent economic development sales tax that is administered by the EEDC. Edinburg has escaped the slowdown that has stymied the nation 's economic recovery and has seen double-digit economic growth over the last three months. The retail …show more content…
Highway 281 and State Highway 107 in the south-central part of the county. The townsite was named after Dennis B. Chapin, another of its promoters. Chapin 's involvement in a homicide caused a change of name in 1911 to Edinburg, in honor of the birthplace in Scotland of John Young. The town grew slowly to some 800 inhabitants by 1915 and remained unincorporated until 1919. During its early years, it served a ranching community, but the arrival of irrigation in 1915 initiated an agricultural economy. Edinburg quickly became a center for buying and processing cotton, grain, and citrus produce. Other economic developments before World War II included vegetable, sorghum, corn, sugarcane, and poultry (eggs) industries. After the war, the economy diversified further to include peach and melon production, food-processing plants, cabinetry, oilfield equipment, concrete products, agricultural chemicals, and corrugated boxes. In the 1970s tourism increased …show more content…
This report provides the city accounts by funds and account groups, which each considers a separate accounting entity. These bases on the accounting reference to the time at which revenues and expenditures or expenses recognized in the accounts and reports within the city’s financial statement. The budget is prepared by the departments and is then reviewed by the City Council since these resources are developed on the ground of priorities and set forth on the department’s budget
In the City of Edinburg, politics split into three parts, 68.920% Democratic, 30.290% Republican, and 0.796% independent. Economic:
Edinburg Economic Development Corporation’s Executive Director, Ramiro Garza Jr., Reports that Edinburg has generated over $1.14 million in local sales taxes for the month of April 2009. This figure is up 11% compared to $1,033,765.77 produced in the same month in 2008. The local sales taxes generated by the city’s one and a half cent local sales tax and the half-cent economic development sales tax that is administered by the EEDC. Edinburg has escaped the slowdown that has stymied the nation 's economic recovery and has seen double-digit economic growth over the last three months. The retail …show more content…
Highway 281 and State Highway 107 in the south-central part of the county. The townsite was named after Dennis B. Chapin, another of its promoters. Chapin 's involvement in a homicide caused a change of name in 1911 to Edinburg, in honor of the birthplace in Scotland of John Young. The town grew slowly to some 800 inhabitants by 1915 and remained unincorporated until 1919. During its early years, it served a ranching community, but the arrival of irrigation in 1915 initiated an agricultural economy. Edinburg quickly became a center for buying and processing cotton, grain, and citrus produce. Other economic developments before World War II included vegetable, sorghum, corn, sugarcane, and poultry (eggs) industries. After the war, the economy diversified further to include peach and melon production, food-processing plants, cabinetry, oilfield equipment, concrete products, agricultural chemicals, and corrugated boxes. In the 1970s tourism increased …show more content…
This report provides the city accounts by funds and account groups, which each considers a separate accounting entity. These bases on the accounting reference to the time at which revenues and expenditures or expenses recognized in the accounts and reports within the city’s financial statement. The budget is prepared by the departments and is then reviewed by the City Council since these resources are developed on the ground of priorities and set forth on the department’s budget