EPISD SALARIES REVEALED
If you live within the El Paso Independent School District as we do, you will notice that 44.4% of your property tax bill supports K-12 education. Since we are curious…
COUNTY VOTES FOR 16% SALARY INCREASE FOR COMMISSIONERS, UP 113% SINCE 2016
Our County Commissioners Court consists of four Commissioners and a County Judge. In 2016, our four County Commissioners were paid $62,680 per year and the County Judge was paid $87,577.…
EL PASO COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT TAX RATES
The Socorro Independent School District recently posted the attached chart on their webpage showing the tax rates for the nine school districts in El Paso County. If you reside within…
CITY COUNCIL VOTES TO NOT INCREASE PROPERTY TAX!
At today’s Special Meeting, our City Council voted unanimously to cap the City tax rate at the no-new-revenue rate of $0.832001 for each $100 of property valuation. That means that…
CITY DEBT APPROACHING $3 BILLION!
According to page 79 of the FY 2023 Budget Book, our City owes $2,257,059,064, of which $851,565,991 is principal and interest on ten certificates of obligation that were issued without…
CITY BUDGET TO INCREASE TO $1.3B FOR FY 2024, HERNANDEZ WANTS MORE DEBT
Cindy Ramirez of El Paso Matters published a substantive report on the ongoing budget talks in City Council. To summarize, Interim City Manager Cary Westin and CFO Robert Cortinas proposed…
THREE CITY REPS. AND MAYOR REFUSE TO INCREASE OUR PROPERTY TAX
Our City Council and staff are in budgetary discussions in preparation for the vote next month to set the City property tax rate. Our property tax has increased every year…
THERE IS ENOUGH SUPPORT ON CITY COUNCIL TO PREVENT A PROPERTY TAX INCREASE!
Yesterday we reported that Rep. Kennedy, Rep. Molinar, Rep. Fierro, and Mayor Leeser each made an iron-clad commitment to vote against any City budget that would increase our property tax.…
MAX GROSSMAN: CITY BOND RATING NOT WHAT IT APPEARS
City bond rating not what it appears: Letters to the Editor El Paso Times, Published 6:00am MT May 12, 2023 “Terrell Blodget wrote to this newspaper claiming the recent bond…
318 BANKRUPTCIES IN EL PASO FROM JANUARY TO MARCH, UP 32.5% OVER LAST YEARÂ
According to today’s issue of the Paso del Norte Economic Indicator Review of the Hunt Institute for Global Competitiveness, “the El Paso Office of the Western District of Texas U.S.…