This article was updated to correct an error in the numbers of signatures requires for the recall. The number of signatures is 4,232.
Yesterday, an intent to recall District 4 City Representative Cynthia Trejo Boyer was filed with the City Clerk’s Office. The Notice of Intent was filed by Joshua Dagda as the “principal organizer” a little afternoon yesterday. According to the notice, the organizers cite Trejo Boyer’s META datacenter vote on June 9th as the reason they are recalling her.
A Notice to Recall is the first step for recalling a city representative. Organizers behind the recall now have 60 days to gather signatures of 20% of the total number of votes last cast in the election where Trejo Boyer won. Boyer Trejo forced incumbent Joe Molinar into a runoff election in 2024. In the November 5, 2025, election, Boyer Trejo received 5,939 votes. She received 2,137 votes in the December 14, 2024 runoff election to win the seat. Based on the total number of ballots cast, 21,162 in the November ballot, the 20% threshold for the signatures required to recall her is 4,232 valid signatures that the organizers need to collect within the next 60 days.
Should the organizers collect the necessary signatures, Cynthia Trejo Boyer can choose to resign. If she does not resign, the city council must then order an election for her seat to be held during the next available election window. The upcoming November 3rd election would be the likely date selected by the city council. Trejo Boyer can run in the election to keep her seat.
There are four city representatives facing reelection in November. They are Chris Canales, Alejandra Chávez, Art Fierro and Ivan Niño. Should Trejo Boyer be recalled, she would be the fifth city representative to run for reelection assuming she does not resign and chooses to run to keep her seat.
On June 9, 2026, the city council voted on a measure to open negotiations with META about the Northeast datacenter it is constructing after concerns over the stress it would put on the city’s electrical and water resources. The city council voted three to five not to open negotiations with META and allow the construction to continue. Among the five votes not to open negotiations with META was Boyer Trejo.
Trejo, who represents the district where META is building its datacenter, explained that she voted no to the proposal because the city cannot “legally” break the contract with META, adding that she heard the “real concerns” that the speakers talked about. Trejo added that because of the concerns, she had drafted a draft policy on future datacenters that the city council will be considering later this month.
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Some of the speakers who were dissatisfied with the vote said after the vote that they will mobilize to vote out the city council members who voted against the measure while others urged a recall of the city council. Many of the speakers were members of Amanecer People’s Project and Sembrando Esperanza. Neither of the two organizations are involved with the recall of Trejo Boyer according to a member of the group recalling her that El Paso News spoke to today.
Although Joshua Dagda is listed as the “principal organizer,” the individual leading the “community effort” is Jonathan Zayan. El Paso News left a message requesting comment from Zayan, but we did not hear back from him before we published our story. Should Zayan respond to our request for comment, we will follow up this story with any new information.
There has never been a successful recall in El Paso for a city representative going back to 2002.
In 2023, a recall was filed against Cassandra Hernandez over her controversial use of a gasoline card issued by the city. It failed after the organizers were unable to collect the required signatures to recall Hernandez.
Stay with us for the latest developments to this devloping story.