EPISD–winter stipend

February 4, 2020

It looks like someone over at EPISD is proposing that the winter stipend not be paid next year:

My recollection is that the district offered the teachers a one-time stipend as part of the penny swap election.

We would appreciate hearing from someone who knows what the situation is here.

We deserve better

Brutus

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Another hidden tax

February 3, 2020

There is an item on the Tuesday, February 4, 2020 city council agenda that would formalize an agreement between the company buying the electric company and the city.

In it the new company agrees to pay $100 million dollars at the rate of $5 million per year for 20 years to the city for economic development.

They also agree to pay $750 thousand a year for 10 years directly into the city’s general fund.

According to documents filed with the Texas public utilities commission the new electric company will not be able to recover the $100 million dollars through their electric rates.

How can that be?

If somehow the electric company can pay this without a rate increase, wouldn’t we rather have a rate decrease instead of giving the money to the city?

This is a tax.

We deserve better

Brutus

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A case of coercion

February 2, 2020

This came in from Dan Wever:

Students were told earlier in the year that they HAD to apply to three institutions of higher learning for admittance to their facility.
Many times these applications require fees to even apply.
The announcement today at Franklin High School in the EPISD said that all graduating senior students that do not turn in their proof of complying with this directive will not be allowed to WALK with their graduating class.
I would hope some smarter people (if there are any left) would make sure that this does not happen.
Thank you
Dan Wever
We deserve better
Brutus

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Open line Saturday

February 1, 2020

It’s Saturday!

What’s on your mind?

We deserve better

Brutus

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Still true

January 31, 2020

I ran across this the other day:

We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We deserve better

Brutus

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