If they had an olympic contest for the highest tax rate in the nation it looks like El Paso would come in at second place in another year or so if the EPISD bond issue passes.
In Climbing to the top we wrote that El Paso taxpayers only had to clmb over an effective property tax of 2.675% in order to be higher than Milwaukee. The report we got our numbers from put us at 2.640%.
The city, county, and hospital district are working hard to get us a silver or gold too.
We deserve better
Brutus
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Our county commissioners are trying to use arithmetic to justify the massive pay raises they just gave themselves.
One of our astute readers gave us a chart showing the Texas counties with large populations and how much their commissioners are paid.
If you take their salary and divide it by the number of people in the county you end up with how much they are paid for each person that they are to represent.
The results:
Bexar (San Antonio) 6 cents
Dallas 5 cents
Harris (Houston) 4 cents
Tarrant (Fort Worth) 8 cents
El Paso 11 cents
We deserve better
Brutus
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This will be a short post because we are literally speechless.
Our county commissioners giving themselves a 42% raise was wrong on many counts.
The county hired a firm to evaluate the wages of all county workers.
These people put themselves before the rank and file and gave themselves pay raises and did nothing for the workers.
We deserve better
Brutus
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What a gig!
An out of town firm was hired by our county commissioners to perform a wage and compensation study of all county jobs.
The got hired by our commissioners and now report that our commissioners are not paid enough. This reminds us of the situation over at EPISD where a former member of the state appointed board of managers ends up as employee of the district on the first day that state law would allow her to be hired.
We took a look at the backup material presented to our commissioners when the contract award came up on the agenda. This document shows the result of the evaluation:
The vendor with the highest rating was Management Advisory Group. They had a score of 450. The second place firm was Public Sector Personnel with a rating of 439.
Those ratings evidently did not give the county what they wanted. How could they get around that?
Simple. They evidently decided to evaluate the two as “finalists”. The evaluation committee changed because the county dropped the two evaluators that had given the second place firm the lowest votes. As a result the ratings changed and the second ranked firm became the top ranked one. Here is the ratings sheet:
The county has reached a new low.
We deserve better
Brutus
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