I choose to laugh at this one.
They city is having one of their special city council meetings on Monday, March 19, 2018 at 9:05 AM.
They hold these meetings in a small conference room with very little room for visitors. They don’t make videos of these meetings available to the public so we seldom know what is said.
There is one item on the agenda:
FY 2019 Budget: Council and Public Input
Public input my foot.
We deserve better
Brutus
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It looks like there is going to be another dust-up at the next meeting of the EPISD board.
There is one item on the Wednesday, March 21, 2018 meeting agenda:
Board Members’ Attendance at Citizens’ Bond Advisory Committee Meeting
Are they going to discuss requiring the board members to attend the advisory committee meetings?
Or are they going to try to keep the board members from attending the meetings?
Either way the district is going to look bad.
We deserve better
Brutus
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I heard a radio ad the other day featuring our Texas lieutenant governor.
He said that we should empower individuals not government.
A couple of weeks ago we got an email from our westside city representative with the subject “EMPOWERING CITY GOVERNMENT& I-10 CLOSURES”.
I agree with our lieutenant governor on this one.
If I had to empower our city government it would be to get them to fix our roads and provide the basic services that we are paying them for.
We deserve better
Brutus
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The chart below shows how students at various local high schools did on their state algebra tests last year:
An explanation of the Approaches and Masters columns:
APPROACHES GRADE LEVEL
Performance in this category indicates that students are likely to succeed in the next grade or course
with targeted academic intervention. Students in this category generally demonstrate the ability to
apply the assessed knowledge and skills in familiar contexts.
MASTERS GRADE LEVEL*
Performance in this category indicates that students are expected to succeed in the next grade or course
with little or no academic intervention. Students in this category demonstrate the ability to think
critically and apply the assessed knowledge and skills in varied contexts, both familiar and unfamiliar.
The EPISD students scored far below the YISD and SISD students.
Is it the students? Is it the teachers? Is it the way teaching the subject is administered?
Something is dreadfully wrong here.
We deserve better
Brutus
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They don’t have to tell the truth when they circulate the petition to approve a new public improvement district.
Section 372.019 of the Texas local government code:
After notice and a hearing, the governing body of the municipality or county may make supplemental assessments to correct omissions or mistakes in the assessment relating to the total cost of the improvement.
So go ahead and agree to build what they want.
Remember the $50 million dollar ball park that ended up costing $76 million?
We deserve better
Brutus
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elpasospeak 
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