EPISD bonds–leaked out

July 18, 2016

We got taken to task recently for language that we used in Rubber stamp?, an article about the facilities advisory committee at EPISD and their work on the upcoming bond issue.

One of the criticisms was over the use of the term “leak out”.

We wrote:

“Worse yet committee members were supposedly told that they should not let word of the $600 million leak out to the public.”

The slide below was one of the last slides in a presentation that was made to the facilities advisory committee at their  June 29, 2016 meeting:

EPISDBondleakout

Proprietary

Many of us would consider the phrase “Keep your work proprietary to the committee” to mean don’t share with people outside of the committee.

We make our share of mistakes writing this blog but rest assured that we exert extra effort to confirm the facts as we know them.

We deserve better

Brutus

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Sad times

July 17, 2016

This came in from one of our astute readers:

http://www.elpasotimes.com/videos/news/local/el-paso/2016/07/15/87158468/

It’s amazing. The Times keeps posting propaganda on its website. I have not seen a single video supporting Allen.
This is “breaking news,” one woman verbally disagreed with the Chief.
Escobar gets 10 minute video to explain herself. They even produce the video to help her address specific complaints against her position.
http://www.elpasotimes.com/media/cinematic/gallery/87115194/photos-el-pasoans-gather-for-police-prayer-vigil/
Only coverage that could be considered to be pro=Allen. Despite tons of social media support the chief got.
Hard to take this paper seriously.
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Brutus

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He gets it

July 16, 2016

DavidK over at refusethejuice recently wrote Shapleigh Camper’s second shot at city fails miserably.

Please take the time to read it carefully.  The article was about the recent flap over a comment that our chief of police made.

To us the important part was at the end of the article where he gave some much needed advice to some of our local politicians:

 You represent people, not lead them.  You’re not a leader, you’re a representative.  When you stop representing, you get fired via the ballot box.  Stop telling people what to do and start doing what you are told.  It’s called “public service” for a reason.   It’s really that simple.

He also observed:

 El Pasoans are Democrats, not liberals.  Those are two totally different things.  El Paso’s Democrats aren’t Democrats because of the social issues.  I’ll just leave it that.

David does not live in El Paso anymore.  If he did we would be tempted to try to get him to run for public office.

Brutus

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EPISD bonds–something for everyone, and a bill for some

July 15, 2016

A statement that is made multiple times in the facilities advisory committee information that was sent to us is:

“No one in this room will get everything they want, but everyone in this room will get something they want.”

Really?

Evidently the strategy of the facilitators is to see to it that everyone will get something and thus everyone will vote to approve the issuance of the bonds.

How about

“This is the money that we need to spend to improve the quality of our children’s education”?

Pandering to the voters is shameful and they should be ashamed.

Why can’t they just ask us for the money that is really necessary, not money to buy votes.

We deserve better

Brutus

 

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EPISD bonds–it’s been a while

July 14, 2016

This slide was part of the June 29, 2016 presentation made to the EPISD facilities advisory committee:

episdtaxratesbyfiscalyear

The chart shows that their tax rates have been stable since 2008 with the exception of a voter approved bump in 2016.

Most of us would call that doing a good job.

During most of that period the district was paralyzed by the administration and board scandals that we feel are past us at this point.

Brutus

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