Business View Civil & Municipal Apr-2023

44 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 4, ISSUE 4 them for life after high school. As that begins to take off, I’m sure we’ll find creative ways of partnering with the city. I know that PBTISD will be one of the first school districts in Texas to offer an oil and gas trade opportunity. We’re building a lab for that as part of this new CTE facility, we’ll have vet tech, agricultural, culinary, auto mechanics, and construction. That last one fits along with our kids being able to transition into building the very homes that the city has worked so hard on seeing developed.” On the infrastructure front, the city has two monumental projects coming down the pipeline this year, including a $52M wastewater treatment plant upgrade and $ 42 M worth of water wells. “These will address the anticipated growth for our area for the next 30 to 50 years,” Lino announces. “Water is a scarce commodity out in West Texas, but we’ve secured some space south of town where we’re going to drill those new wells. We’ve got the preliminary results back and it’s going to be higher-quality water than we’ve even got now.