The El Paso Independent School District has been losing hundreds of students each year recently.
Their proposed budget for next year shows a drop in average daily attendance from 50,393 students per day in 2019-20 to 48,666 students in attendance per day in 2020-21.
That is a drop of 1,721 students in attendance each day.
Yet we don’t see the district’s budget getting smaller.
We deserve better
Brutus
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EPISD is preparing to sock it to us in the next tax year.
Their tax rate for interest and principal payments (I&S) on debt was 24 cents per hundred dollars of valuation for the 2017-18 fiscal year.
They then asked the voters to move 10 cents of that over to their maintenance and operations tax rate for the 2018-19 year while promising to keep their total rate the same. The voters agreed. The district kept their promise that year and left taxes flat.
Then for 2019-20 they raised the I&S rate to 20 cents per hundred.
Now for 2020-21 they are proposing an I&S rate of 26 cents per hundred.
So much for trust.
We deserve better
Brutus
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This came from a recent Forbes article:
A recent Harvard Business Review article offering leadership advice to CEOs and executives recommended, “If you are doing cutbacks to save job losses, you must lead by example and do cutbacks that impact your own day-to-day as well. If you don’t, there is a danger that your staff will feel like saps, doing sacrifices while the C-suite continues unaffected. Get a commitment for a pay cut from your senior leaders. As CEO, you should take the largest salary cut yourself.” This sounds so obvious, but it rarely—if ever—happens.
We deserve better
Brutus
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When did it become our responsibility to feed our neighbor’s children?
The kids aren’t even in school.
EPISD is not unusual–it seems that all of our local school districts are doing this.
In the case of EPISD they are distributing 33,000 meals a day that are free to their students.
Yes the feral government is reimbursing them.
We all know who reimburses the feds.
We deserve better
Brutus
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Here it comes:
It looks like EPISD will have to raise 11 million more dollars next year to service their debt. That will still leave them 1.3 million dollars short.
Where will the money come from?
The chart tells you. Local revenue is their answer. Doesn’t that mean property tax increases?
If so the penny swap was a trick.
We deserve better
Brutus
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