Please vote today.
This is an important election if you consider the district attorney’s office to be an important part of the community.
The Times has again endorsed our district attorney.
Let’s see what the public thinks about their choice.
We deserve better
Brutus
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It should concern us that our newest city representative failed to object to the introduction of an amendment to our outdoor lighting code.
Mr. Tolbert publishes elpasonaturally.com, a worthwhile environmental blog. In the past he has written in favor of supporting the so called “dark skies” initiative.
Yet in his very first meeting it appears as though he allowed a proposed change to our outdoor lighting code that would exempt the city from its requirements.
Watching the video, the first reading of the proposed ordinance change was passed unanimously and without comment.
What happened here?
Let’s hope that he just wasn’t up to speed yet and that he has not been compromised already.
We deserve better
Brutus
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The Daytona Beach News-Journal printed confirmation of what we saw happening to one of our former deputy city managers but were never able to prove.
From their Saturday, April 25, 2015 edition:
Shang explained she had gotten into a clash with her boss, the city manager, when she answered a City Council question about the cost of a ballpark.
“I was asked a question during a council meeting. I answered honestly, and it contradicted her and it embarrassed her,” Shang said.
She was placed on administrative leave, given a severance package and ultimately the manager left and Shang’s position was eliminated.
Shame on our former city manager and city council.
We deserve better
Brutus
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Item 13.2 on city council’s Tuesday, May 17, 2016 introduces an ordinance that would exempt the city from obeying their outdoor lighting code on city properties.
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Brutus
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EPISD just lost some votes for their upcoming $400 million bond election.
The former chief financial officer of the City of El Paso has just joined EPISD as deputy superintendent of finance and operations.
Our new deputy superintendent was intricately involved in providing the financial analyses for the ball park and the demolition and moving of city hall. The projects have been completed and her numbers were grossly wrong.
Now EPISD has put her in a position to mishandle bond funds if the district can convince the voters to approve them.
There is also an ethics problem here in my opinion. She was on the state-appointed board of managers of the district up until May of last year. Now she is becoming an employee. Did she make decisions while on the board that facilitated her hiring? I don’t know but many people have different standards than her and believe that she should avoid even the appearance of impropriety.
From the Texas Education Code:
Sec. A11.063.AA ELIGIBILITY FOR EMPLOYMENT. A trustee of an independent school district may not accept employment with that school district until the first anniversary of the date the trustee ’s membership on the board ends.
The state-appointed board of managers stepped down May 18, 2015. She started at the district May 18, 2016 according to the Times. Couldn’t she have waited one more day?
This does not bode well for the bond project.
We deserve better
Brutus
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