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Adopted Budget 2025 City of McAllen, Texas

Strategic Business Plan

Goal 1: Promote an unsurpassed quality of life in McAllen. (continued)

Department / Total Project Estimated Budget
No. Objective Time-line Status - Rationale
Agency Cost FY 23-24 FY 24-25
Increase visibility
and stature of Quinta Convention Quinta Mazatlán will continue
1�4�01 Mazatlán as the Ongoing Ongoing Program Program to expand green education
“Green” leader in the Center project�
Region
Add multiple commercial
Increase commercial routes by adding 30 new
1�4�02 Public Works Ongoing Ongoing Program Program Accounts to recycling
recycling to increase commercial
recycling�
Continue “Recycle Program to increase revenue
Right” initiatives to to Solid Waste program and
1�4�03 dramatically reduce Public Works Ongoing Net Savings Net Savings Net Savings reduce costs in recycling
contamination and program with major
heavy labor costs improvement in compliance
by 40%�
Educate Community through
Continue Bin Inspections� Reduce
implementation of recycle workload related to
non-compliant bins, objective
1�4�04 Sanitation Ordinance Public Works Ongoing Net Savings Net Savings Net Savings is to reduce costs & waste
which requires
enforcement of proper to landfill over time. This
bin use also includes planning for
multifamily collection during
the development process�
Continual efforts to increase
1�4�05 Enhance compost Public Works Ongoing Ongoing Program Program sales of composting and
promote composting/
marketing
recycling at City Events�
Keep McAllen Beautiful
sustainability programs
include Project Clean
Neighborhoods, City Led
Clean-up Projects, Adopt-
Keep McAllen Beautiful Keep McAllen A-Park program, and Paint
1�4�06 Ongoing Ongoing Program Program McAllen Beautiful� Program
Programs Beautiful fundraising through the
Annual Arbor Day Celebration-
Walk, Run, and Ride Event�
Annual Events include Great
American Cleanup & Don’t
Mess with Texas Trash-Off�
McAllen Nature Center-4101
W� Business 83- boasts
over 200 species of birds,
80 species of butterflies,
and 20 species of reptiles
and amphibians� The site
Parks &
1�4�07 McAllen Nature Center- Recreation Ongoing Ongoing Program Program features two miles of trails,
traversing 33 acres of
Native Habitat
native Tamaulipan Thorn
scrub habitat� The public
is encouraged to walk, run,
watch and photograph
wildlife, and picnic at this city-
operated nature preserve�
McAllen Recycling
Center-4101 N. Bentsen
Road-This includes recycling
October center upgrades such as
Recycling Center
1�4�08 Public Works 2024-December $6,950,000 $0 $2,890,000 purchase of automated
Upgrade
2025 recycling equipment to
increase efficiency and to
increase recovery rate of
recycled commodities�

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