This graphic came from the city’s proposed 2020 budget presentation.
The chart shows the number of people allocated to the city manager’s office.
Note that even though the 2019 numbers are different from the 2020 numbers the increase/decrease column still shows zero.
The include the city manager’s budget in the “High Performing Government” category.
We deserve better
Brutus
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The proposed 2020 city budget has been published. You can see it here.
It shows that they plan to charge our own city water company over $19.8 million dollars in franchise fees.
Actually the $19.8 million will get added to our water bills.
They are charging us to use our own roads and other city property.
Next will we see the fire and police departments getting the same treatment since they both generate some revenue.
The franchise fee is nothing but another tax.
We deserve better
Brutus
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Item 6.2 on the Tuesday, July 23, 2019 city council agenda contemplates the award of a bid for insurance brokerage services.
The bid tabulation above evaluated two bidders. One scored 90 points out of a possible 100 (including the lowest cost) while the other scored 80.33 points.
They want to award the bid to the more expensive bidder who also scored lower.
We deserve better
Brutus
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In Getting officers out on the street we presented a slide where our police department told us that they plan to get 60% of their officers out in the field.
Later in the presentation they show this slide:
Five years into the program they plan to have 751 officers in the patrol divisions and 702 non-patrol officers.
That comes to 1,453 officers, which means they want to have 51.6% of their officers out in the field, not the 60% that they want us to believe they will achieve if we give them the $286 million that they want.
We deserve better
Brutus
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The note below was a letter to the editor in the El Paso Times recently:
Why are property owners in El Paso constantly being asked to cough up more money?
Paving streets and operating within allotted budgets seems would be a priority. Costly ballpark, a demolished City Hall, the trolley car debacle, missing millions, new bus terminals and empty buses, and tax abatements for new businesses for years. Guess who is shouldering this cost?
Combine that with our dysfunctional school system, with their bond money, that would choke a donkey. Wages here aren’t in line with our progress. My quality of life doesn’t allow me to water my lawn anymore.
As a taxpayer, wouldn’t it be nice if you could have a bond election every time your checkbook was short?
Greg Allen
West El Paso
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Well said Mr. Allen.
We deserve better
Brutus
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