Business View Civil and Municipal | June 2022

54 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 3, ISSUE 6 acted as a regional infusion center, adapting to fill a need for Seguin and the surrounding communities. “They’re very good about looking at what we need in our community and providing for that. We also have an indigent care program, and an indigent medicine program, so that those folks don’t have to go to the ER to get the care they need,” Dodgen asserts. Seguin is working with internet providers such as GVEC to increase fiber access throughout the community and ensure access for all homes and businesses. In other infrastructure projects, Seguin has implemented a stormwater drainage utility fee, which will help to address drainage issues throughout the city. Partnering with Guadalupe County, Seguin has secured federal funding for two road expansion projects, through the Metropolitan Planning Organization in San Antonio. These include expanding Rudeloff Road, a connection between Highway 46 and Highway 123, to 5 lanes, keeping up with the two days a week in a classroom, and three days on site, training with the company who has sponsored them. Students receive a living wage during the program, with many companies also covering the additional costs of tuition and books. Guadalupe Regional Medical Center (GRMC) is the only city/county owned hospital in the Southwestern United States, and is a major resource for the local Seguin community, employing more than 600 people. As a non-profit community hospital which does not depend on tax support, GRMC is continuously upgrading and increasing its service offerings. “We service a large range of very rural areas,” says Mayor Dodgen, adding that the goal is to provide the same quality of care that patients would receive in San Antonio or Houston. Currently the hospital is upgrading the cardiac area, and considering a new ICU to replace the 15-year-old one, which is in need of updating. During COVID the facility For more than 75 years, CMC Steel Texas has proudly been making the steel that builds America. cmc.com Seguin’s Steelmakers since 1947.