LA MARQUE, Texas – The City of La Marque is on the brink of going broke and the council is now considering a multitude of options to keep the city and services running.

“We’re down to our last $1.2 million,” interim city manager Barbara Holly told KPRC 2 News on Monday. “We’re down quite a bit.”

In a confidential email obtained by KPRC 2 that Holly sent to the mayor and council last week, she said the $1.2 million “is enough to carry the city for just over two weeks.”

“They did not bring in the revenues that they projected and they spent more than they said they were going to spend,” Holly said.

Holly estimates the city needs up to $5 million to get through the rest of this calendar year, or as little as $3 million if hurricane season doesn’t cause additional financial harm.

She has

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