EPISD staff changes

October 6, 2016

Since our former deputy city mangler has moved over to EPISD as deputy superintendent of finance and operations we have seen quite a turnover in the senior operations staff at EPISD.

The deputy director of planning and innovative school construction worked with her before.  We fear that “innovative” will describe the way rules get bent if the bond issue passes.

The position of chief information officer is now vacant.  So is the second level position of director of network services.  Both former employees left a couple of weeks ago.

We need to remember what happened over at the city.

Looks like they are putting together a new team.

We deserve better

Brutus

 

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Who is supervising whom?

October 5, 2016

If you watch a video of an EPISD meeting you will see the superintendent sitting beside the president, right in the center of the group.

This post is not a complaint or criticism of either the superintendent or the board president.

In our view sitting in the center of the board gives the superintendent an image of importance at the meeting that he should not have.

The board’s job is to manage the superintendent and to allow the public to comment without administration influence.  In our opinion the superintendent should be sitting at one side of the board.

The superintendent is not in charge at these meetings.  He is one of many that the board may choose to call on.

Who’s supervising whom here?

We deserve better

Brutus

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Is it impact or a collision?

October 4, 2016

If there is an award for telling the truth about local government, this group should get it.

womenofimpact

Our former city chief financial officer and now deputy superintendent of finance and operations at EPISD certainly has had an impact on us locally.

So would a meteor.

We will get an annual reminder of her impact when we get our tax bills.

We deserve better

Brutus

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A new tax to counteract gravity

October 3, 2016

The local government press agency (AKA El Paso Times) floated a trial balloon the other day.

It seems that some of our county officials are thinking about railing against mother nature and using that as an excuse to raise taxes and increase the size of county government.

The article told us that some county people want to tax us with a stormwater fee.   The immediate problem is that they have no authority to do so.  Their solution is to ask the state legislature to allow the county to assess the fee.

As long as we have the mountain rain water runoff will be a problem.  No amount of money can fix it.

Then again that’s not why they want the money.

We deserve better

Brutus

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As Gomer said, “Suprise, suprise, suprise”

October 2, 2016

How much of the street car project has been done at this point?

Should it bother us that they already have a $4 million overrun on the $97 million project?

It seems that they had problems with utility lines that were not part of the original specification.

Who would have thought that water, sewer, electrical, and communication lines would be buried in the path?

Remarkable, really remarkable.

We deserve better

Brutus

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