Enough already

October 31, 2017

The arena folks at the city and elsewhere have lost another battle.  Read about it at Sign of Zorro.

The judge in Austin has ruled that the city cannot host sports events in the facility, without regard to what they call the building.

The judge also has prohibited the city from spending any money in addition to the bond money to add the capability of hosting sports events.

The city continues to spend our money fighting the legal battle.

We have to wonder if the multipurpose performing arts center can possibly operate at a profit if there cannot be sporting events in the facility.

Isn’t it time to regroup?  The facility should not be built unless unbiased studies can show that it can be operated profitably.

Our tax bills are too high already, especially when we consider that there are essentials not being taken care of.

We deserve better

Brutus

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EPISD–proposed change to educational philosophy

October 30, 2017

The EPISD board of trustees has scheduled a meeting on Wednesday, November 1, 2017.

They will be considering changes to existing board policies.

This is from the backup for one of the proposals:

We deserve better

Brutus

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Guest posts welcomed

October 29, 2017

A valued commentator recently wrote that it would be of value to see some tips about how to write open records requests.

He also suggested that we might invite other people to write posts about how they are dealing with our local governments.

We welcome guest posts.  Please keep them clean, civil, and not personal.  Email them to brutusep@yahoo.com with an indication of whether you wish to remain anonymous or the post can be published with your name.

Relative to the open records requests, please see this post from January 11, 2015.

We deserve better

Brutus

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A lover of liberty

October 28, 2017

This quote has been attributed to Beethoven:

“To help wherever one can, love liberty above all things; never deny the truth, even at the foot of the throne.”

We deserve better

Brutus

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Future citywide priorities and goals

October 27, 2017

In this case citywide does not include the voters, just the politicians.

Once again city council has gone out of its way to see to it that the citizens are not informed.

This special meeting was held Thursday, October 26, 2017:

Do you think that some of the citizens would have liked to attend that meeting?

Council could have had the discussion during a normal council meeting but then we would have seen who said what.  Moving the meeting to the zoo was a special effort to avoid the citizens.

One of the things that makes special city council meetings special is that video recordings of the special meetings are not posted on the city’s web site.

Don’t we all feel special?

We deserve better

Brutus

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