FISCAL
RESPONSIBILITY
AS TAX REVENUES
DECLINE, EANES ISD SEEKS A NEW ADMINISTRATION BUILDING
April 8, 2010 - Today's Austin American-Statesman reports a 5.3 percent
drop in Travis County property tax values. "The news means tough
decisions for local government leaders, who must decide whether to raise
tax rates, cut budgets or both to compensate for tens of millions of
dollars in lost property tax revenue."
Link to the article here.
Yet, on Monday morning April 12, 2010 the EISD Board of Trustees will
review architectural plans for a proposed new $4 million administration
building.
Link to plans for that building here. In a climate of
declining revenues for a district already operating in the red, is this
really the time to build a new administration building? And how will the
Eanes ISD Board decide "whether to raise taxes, cut budgets or both" to
do so?
And just as a frame of
reference, what is the square footage is for the current administration
building. Remember that the district just
spent a large sum of money from
the last bond to paint, carpet and buy all new furniture and
landscape for the current central administrative structure next to the high
school. The 20,000 square feet that is defined as "administrative
space" in the attached Valley View proposal seems a whole lot bigger the
current building.
Related links:
Nola hides
her travel receipts.
Nola says Charge
It and we pay the bill.
Why didn't Eanes ISD
Nola H. Wellman pay her fair share of property taxes?
Central Administration salaries up a whopping 50% since Nola arrived.
Just
how many new administrative positions has Nola created and hired?
And why is the district hiding that number?
As the classes
sizes soar, why can't we hire teachers?
Duct Tape Syndrome in
Eanes?
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