MINUTES SENATE COMMITTEE ON INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT AND SECURITY Thursday, October 28, 2004 1:00 p.m. City Commission Chambers located at 1300 West Houston Avenue, 3rd Floor, McAllen, Texas ***** Pursuant to a notice posted in accordance with Senate Rule 11.18, a public hearing of the Senate Committee on Infrastructure Development and Security was held on Thursday, October 28, 2004, in the City Commission Chambers located at 1300 West Houston Avenue, 3rd Floor, McAllen, Texas. ***** MEMBERS PRESENT: MEMBERS ABSENT: Senator Todd Staples Senator Gonzalo Barrientos Senator Jon Lindsay Senator Kim Brimer Senator Jeff Wentworth Senator Rodney Ellis Senator Frank Madla Senator Florence Shapiro Senator Eliot Shapleigh ***** The Chairman called the meeting to order at 1:06 p.m. The following business was transacted: At 1:11 p.m., the Chairman laid out Infrastructure Development and Security Interim Charges 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7. He then opened them to invited as well as public testimony. Witnesses registering and/or testifying are shown on the attached list. Senator Hinojosa, representing Texas Senate District 20, present at 1:25 p.m. At 3:40 p.m. Senator Wentworth assumed the chair. At 3:42 p.m. Chairman Staples resumed the chair. At 4:20 p.m. the Chairman asked if anyone present wished to register and/or testify, none being heard, invited as well as public testimony on interim charges 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 was closed. There being no further business, at 4:22 p.m. Chairman Staples moved that the Committee stand recessed subject to the call of the chair. Without objection, it was so ordered. ______________________ Senator Todd Staples, Chair ______________________ Patricia Gajda, Clerk