EPISD–Bowie press conference

March 11, 2017

It looks like the Bowie bears have decided to fight:


Escalating debt

March 10, 2017

This slide from a city presentation sums up our financial situation pretty well:

citydebt2018

Remember that our current situation does not include the debt that we will take on when the arena and other quality of life projects are started.

We deserve better

Brutus


2018 budget shortfall

March 9, 2017

This slide from a city presentation gives us a look at the problem city council will have to deal with in next year’s budget:

city2018earlyoutlook

A previous group moved the costs associated with street drainage over to our water bills so those amounts don’t show up in our taxes.

Then a later city council voted to charge our water utility a multi-million dollar franchise fee that was subsequently added to our water bills.

What will they do this time?

We deserve better

Brutus


Sales tax receipts falling

March 8, 2017

The city and county have another budget problem to contend with:

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The Mexican peso dropped in value during that period.

Now Mexican shoppers have less money to spend in El Paso shops.

Will our local elected officials compensate for the revenue loss by spending more money?

We deserve better

Brutus


One man’s classification of others

March 7, 2017

“Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas.”

Henry Thomas Buckle