A reader asked about the information Texas Tribune has published.
Follow this link https://schools.texastribune.org/
They provide data at the campus, district and state levels.
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School data
June 30, 2018
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Another tax burden
June 29, 2018Back in May of 2017 our city council approved the City of El Paso Transit Oriented Development Incentive Policy.
The policy allows for property tax and sales tax rebates on new construction and remodeling in eight designated areas of the city:
Streetcar corridor
Downtown
Airport
Northgate
Five Points
Mission Valley
El Dorado
Medical Center of the Americas
The rebates:
These rebates are money that will not be paid into the general fund thus making the burden on the ordinary homeowner higher.
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Brutus
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Another problem for the teachers
June 28, 2018A loyal reader who is employed at EPISD just informed us that her health insurance premium rate went up $101.00 a month.
The teachers are not getting a pay raise to help them afford the increase.
Things are not going well at EPISD.
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Brutus
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Pay raises for city council
June 27, 2018Our city council is planning to call for a special election on Tuesday, November 8, 2018 asking if the voters want to give city council and the mayor pay raises as follows:
For council members the pay would increase to $45,300 per year from the current rate of $29,000. That comes to about a 56% increase if my math is correct.
If approved the pay rates would also be indexed so that they would not have to trouble us in the future.
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Brutus
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Different information
June 26, 2018This is a portion of a note that Dan Wever sent in:
When the EPISD had a major problem this week and had meetings with the public for input Cabrera was nowhere to be found. EPISD Board President Trent Hatch told the public he was meeting with the State Commissioner of Education trying to secure possible millions of dollars in grants.
While this may have been true, Mr. Hatch should have also known that he and Dr. Brown had both gone to Austin to speak at the Texas CTO Clinic.
President Hatch should have known this as the superintendent is supposed to get his permission for events such as this. However, in the usual performance of public information and Transparency, we were led down the primrose path knowing that our absent superintendent was working hard to help the district.
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