Coronado reconstruction

January 8, 2017

Elrichboy over at elchuqueno.com recently posted this piece.

According to an EPISD spokesman the renovations of Coronado High School will not include the football stadium.

That would be good news and would be contrary to what we have been hearing on the street.

This is a google maps view of the campus:

coronado

When they start construction they will have to put the portables somewhere.  Will they put them on the football field (after replacing the artificial turf)?

This will be interesting.

We deserve better

Brutus

 

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Deja vu?

January 7, 2017

We are hearing more and more frequently that EPISD teachers and administrators are working in an environment where they feel that speaking up for what they feel is right will result in punishment and/or termination.

Also disturbing are reports from business and community leaders that the EPISD superintendent is an educational light-weight and that he does not think out his ideas.

Wasn’t it this kind of environment that led to the “cheating” scandal?

We deserve better

Brutus

 

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CRIME DOES NOT PAY! (Yeah Right!)

January 5, 2017
 

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EPISD bonds–story changes again

December 30, 2016

Back in EPISD bonds–the story changes we pointed out that EPISD officials were saying one thing to the newspaper and another to the bond advisory committee.

Using the same slide and reading the December 20, 2016 bond order we can see yet another instance where they have failed to tell the whole story.

The chart below shows their plan to issue bonds in 2017 at 3.9%.

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According to the December 20, 2016 bond order “the maximum true interest cost of the Bonds shall not exceed 5.00%”.

Further, the chart shows numbers assuming a “AAA” interest rating.  According to a recent article in the Times, Standard and Poors has the district at an “AA-” rating and Fitch just upgraded the district to “AA”.

The district authorized both the superintendent and the deputy superintendent of finance and operations (aka “fuzzy math lady from the city”) to sell the bonds.

If the bonds are sold with an interest rate of 4.5%, over the 25 year life we will pay $189 million in interest on the original $200 million to be sold in this issuance.

We deserve better

Brutus

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Children second

December 28, 2016

Well it appears that the downtown cabal has won another one.

EPISD had to submit its most recent plan to vacate the city owned facilities that EPISD uses for its central office to the city’s director of aviation.

From the plan:

It should be noted that the 2015 Implementation Plan focused on the idea that the new administration offices be in Northeast El Paso.  Subsequent to the EPISD submitting the 2015 Implementation Plan, the Board of Trustees, in an effort to contribute to the revitalization of the city’s downtown, revisited this approach and examined the opportunity of relocating the administration office to downtown El Paso.

They evidently have so much of our money that to “contribute to the revitalization of the city’s downtown” is more important than locating the administrative offices to a place that makes most sense from an operating expense, efficiency, and capital cost perspective.

In other words, “children second”.

Done deal

Further from the plan:

On December 20, 2016 the EPISD Board of Trustees selected a parcel in downtown El Paso to relocate the administrative office.

We deserve better

Brutus

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