COMMISSIONER HOLGUIN ON CERTIFICATES OF OBLIGATION
“I have always felt that we should limit the use of certificates of obligation to emergency projects where we maybe don’t have the time to wait for the time that…
GROSSMAN TELLS COUNTY TO VOTE AGAINST ISSUING $54 MILLION CERTIFICATE OF OBLIGATION, VOTE POSTPONED FOR ONE WEEK
Today the County Commissioners Court was set to vote on posting notice for a $54M certificate of obligation but then postponed the vote for one week after members of the…
EL PASO COUNTY POPULATION GROWS BY ONLY 0.1% IN 2023-2024
New statistics show that El Paso County grew by only 948 people between 2023 and 2024, an increase of only 0.1%. That means that El Paso County had the slowest…
COUNTY PROPOSAL TO PLACE $105M COLISEUM BOND ON BALLOT FAILS
Yesterday the County Commissioners Court debated Commissioner David Stout’s proposal to place a $105 million Coliseum bond proposition on the May 3 ballot even though the same proposition was rejected…
TOTAL DEBT OF EL PASO TAXING ENTITIES TO SURPASS $11.5 BILLION
We are the only media source that reports the total debt of our local taxing entities. On March 28 we shared statistics from the Texas Bond Review Board showing that…
THE PERFECT STORM: SAMANIEGO AND JOHNSON
County Judge Ricardo Samaniego ran on a platform of fiscal conservatism and assumed office January 1, 2019. Since that time, he voted to increase his salary to $152,700 and to…
EL PASO COUNTY WILL OWN THE DECK PLAZA OVER INTERSTATE 10!
This past Monday, the El Paso Commissioners Court voted 4-1 (with Iliana Holguin dissenting) to contribute $1 million toward the design cost for building a five-block deck plaza over Interstate…
EL PASO COUNTY IS A FINANCIAL GODZILLA!
The El Paso County Commissioners Court is planning to authorize a total of $894 million worth of bonds by the end of this year, which will explode our property tax.…
DAVID STOUT DEFENDS COUNTY SPENDING BINGE IN DISHONEST OPINION ESSAY
Commissioner David Stout published a guest column in the El Paso Times defending the County’s tax increase and its authorization of $720 million in general obligation bonds and COs. He…
CITY IS ON RIGHT COURSE, BUT COUNTY SPENDING IS OUT OF CONTROL: MAX GROSSMAN
Max Grossman: Guest columnist, Published 7:01 a.m. MT Aug. 15, 2024 Our city and county have adopted opposite approaches to borrowing and taxation. While the mayor and majority of City…