2012 QUALITY OF LIFE BOND $63,607,763 OVERBUDGET
Yesterday we attended the meeting of the the Bond Overview Advisory Committee, at which City staff presented a chart detailing the expenditures from the Quality of Life Bond, which was…
COUNTY APPOINTS FIRST FIVE MEMBERS OF BOND ADVISORY COMMITTEE
During the January 8 meeting of the El Paso County Commissioners Court, the first five members of the new Bond Advisory Committee were appointed. According to the backup to agenda…
COUNTY POISED TO APPROVE $500 MILLION IN NEW DEBT!
We warned you this was coming. Today under agenda item 13, the El Paso County Commissioners Court is discussing its FY2024 Multiyear Capital Plan, which includes $500 million in new…
INTRODUCING OUR FIVE LOCAL TAXING ENTITIES: CITY, COUNTY, SCHOOL DISTRICT, UMC, AND EPCC
These are the five entities that together comprise our property tax bill and greedily consume our property tax dollars. All five eat from the same trough and each tries to…
LIBERTARIANS ADDRESS THE EL PASO COUNTY COMMISSIONERS COURT
Today Max Grossman, Chief Instigator of the El Paso Taxpayer Revolt, and Ryan Woodcraft, Libertarian candidate for County Precinct 1, addressed the El Paso County Commissioners Court to respond to…
ALERT: COUNTY TO DISCUSS FUTURE BONDING CAPACITY TOMORROW!
In October we reported that the County may hold a bond election in November 2024 and ask the voters to issue up to $350 million in general obligation bonds, and…
SAN ELIZARIO INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT EMPLOYEES HAPPY WITH FOUR-DAY WORKWEEK
There are nine public school districts in El Paso County, including the San Elizario Independent School District, which has about 3,000 students enrolled. Of the more than 1,250 public school…
THREE EL PASO SCHOOL DISTRICTS SUE TO PREVENT RELEASE OF NEW ACCOUNTABILITY RATINGS
Claudia Lorena Silva of El Paso Matters recently published a report on the dozens of Texas school districts that are suing the Commissioner of Education to prevent the release of…
MORE THAN 900 TEACHERS LEFT EPISD, YISD, AND SISD IN ONE SCHOOL YEAR!
According to Claudia Lorena Silva of El Paso Matters, more than 900 teachers left the County’s three largest school districts during the 2021-22 academic year! That is a catastrophic figure.…
COUNTY MAY HOLD BOND ELECTION, COULD ISSUE UP TO $500 MILLION OF NEW DEBT BY JANUARY 2025!
On Monday, October 23 the County’s financial advisers, Brad Angst and Nancy Rocha, gave the Commissioners Court a Q3 market update under agenda item 8. Toward the end of their…