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…
SALARIES OF COUNTY VS. CITY LEADERS FY 2007-2024
We recently submitted a round of public records requests asking for salary information on both County and City leaders from FY 2007 through the present. The result is the attached…
EL PASO COUNTY COMMISSIONERS COURT SALARIES, FY 2007-2024
We recently reported the salaries of the El Paso County Commissioners Court for FY 2015-2024, but we decided to do a deeper dive and investigate their salaries going back to…
RYAN WOODCRAFT TO EL PASO TIMES: “A VOTE FOR ME IS A VOTE AGAINST HIGH TAXES, FISCAL IRRESPONSIBILITY, AND DEFICIT SPENDING”
Ryan Woodcraft, Guest columnist, published 6:01 a.m. MT Nov. 2, 2023 “The biggest concern I hear daily from El Pasoans is how excessive property valuations coupled with high tax rates…
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…
EL PASO COUNTY EMPLOYEE SALARIES, SEP 2023
We filed an open records request with Human Resources at El Paso County requesting a list of all employees, their titles, and their salaries. The El Paso County Attorney’s Office…
ABC-7 XTRA: SAMANIEGO VS. CARBAJAL
In 2016 our County Commissioners earned $62,680 per year, but starting October 1, thanks to their recent vote for yet another double-digit raise, they will earn $133,500, an increase of…
COUNTY VOTES 4-1 TO INCREASE PROPERTY TAX
Today the County Commissioners Court voted 4-1 to increase the County property tax rate to $0.458889 per $100 of assessed value, which is five cents more than the no-new-revenue rate…
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.…
COUNTY VOTES TO POST NOTICE TO ISSUE $100M IN NON-VOTER-APPROVED DEBT
Today the El Paso County Commissioners Court voted to post notice to issue $100 million in non-voter-approved debt. On November 17, the Court had already considered this debt issuance but…