This slide is part of a future EPISD finance and administration committee meeting:
It looks like the city is leading the way on tax increases.
We deserve better
Brutus
EPISD not the biggest hogs
December 2, 2019
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Please vote today
November 5, 2019If you have not already voted please do so today.
This is the last day you can vote on the proposed bond issue.
My property taxes increased $800 dollars this year.
A large part of the quality of life bonds have yet to be sold. When they are sold our taxes will go up further.
Those of us that live in the EPISD district are now paying more than $3.07 per hundred dollars of valuation in property taxes.
That’s three percent of your property’s value every year.
That puts us at the highest property tax rate among the 50 largest cities in the United States.
What the city is asking for is a blank check.
If they need new buildings the should figure out how much they will cost and then ask us for the money.
We deserve better
Brutus
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Overpaid?
September 13, 2019Our county commissioners evidently want to raise their pay to $115,000 per year each.
For what?
We deserve better
Brutus
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A student who seems to care
July 21, 2019Johnathan Michael Muniz Becerra, aTerry Scholar at UTEP sent us an email that contained this:
Furthermore, I’m currently conducting a quality of life study for the city of El Paso to see what worthwhile investments are needed to really improve the quality of life within the city. I’m investigating various industries within the city from healthcare to education.
In my honest opinion, I believe El Paso suffers from the following:
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- Brain drain
- Low wages
- Questionable municipal management
- Poor investments that do little to enhance the quality of life and continuously bring low-skill, low-wage jobs (e.g. the subsidized ball park, enormous incentives to bring the Great Wolf Lodge)
From the observations I’ve been able to make, it seems El Paso leaders and investors take advantage of citizen’s ignorance regarding city management and the impact the decisions of El Paso leaders will have on them.
Link to survey
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/RX3XL8N
A request from Brutus
Please keep your comments respectful. We could help him by pointing out other deficiencies.
We deserve better
Brutus
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No way to avoid high property taxes in El Paso
July 5, 2019If a commercial or industrial firm was considering opening a facility in El Paso and the managers/owners did not want to move to El Paso they would probably rent apartments.
El Paso had the second highest property tax rate applied to apartments of the 50 largest cities in the United States during 2018.
Those property taxes get passed through to the renters.
For those who cannot afford to buy a house that means high taxes. For those that want to continue to live out of town but need a place to stay while they are here it means high taxes.
We deserve better
Brutus
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