In 2018 local voters approved a “penny swap” program for EPISD that transferred money from the debt service budget into the operations and maintenance budget.
What would happen if we implemented a “penny plan” with our city budget?
Such a plan would cut real spending by one penny out of every dollar that our city government spent the year before.
We deserve better
Brutus
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In Thinking that money grows on trees we saw that the city spent $750,000 on those things that have sprouted up on Airways.
They call it public art.
Without getting into a discussion about whether we should spend money on public art, or another discussion about how much we should spend (currently 2% of city capital spending), maybe we should talk about how we spend the money that we have allocated for public art.
Wouldn’t our community have been better off if the $750,000 had been broken apart into smaller projects commissioned with local artists?
Let’s say they had broken the money up into ten $75,000 projects.
We would have public art in more places and we would have supported ten locals.
We deserve better
Brutus
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In the past readers have sent us articles that they feel deserve the attention of the followers of this blog.
We take this opportunity to remind everyone that we would enjoy posting guest articles as long as they are civil and are not personal attacks on individuals.
We deserve better
Brutus
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I was listening to a presentation the other day where two economists were interviewed about the short term future of our economy.
Each was an adviser in a presidential administration, one democrat and the other republican.
I heard both of these economists, who might properly be categorized as one liberal and the other conservative, refer to tax cuts as “incentives”.
When did government not taking money from us become an incentive to us?
We deserve better
Brutus
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It looks like EPISD is going to sell that last of the 2016 bonds.
Note that they expect to have them paid off in the year 2048.
Today’s 17 year old high school senior will be 45 years old.
We deserve better
Brutus
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