2009 FBISD Tax Hearing (On YouTube)

CLICK HERE FOR THE 2009 FBISD CONTROVERSIAL TAX HEARING (YES THEY ARE RAISING THEM AGAIN--see petition of over 500 district taxpayers asking for board accountability) --In case anyone missed it they raised the property tax rate again (4th time) in 2010 and more than likely will do so again in 2011 facing another projected 15-20 million dollar budget deficit, according to some media reports. ***NEW*** ..Petition TO STOP THE GSTC (Global Science Museum being planned at the district central office--near $30 million dollar project that superintendent Jenney is pushing): http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/stopthegcst/ (see update below on this apparently ending this project after 2 years)

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Houston Chronicle Blog: Opposition to FBISD bond mounts as district refutes "accusations"

Follow the link provided for the latest chronicle piece:

http://blogs.chron.com/fortbend/archives/2007/10/opposition_to_f.html

Opposition to FBISD bond mounts as district refutes "accusations"

As the Nov. 6 Fort Bend school district $429 million bond election nears, a group of opponents of the bond is stepping up its fight.

One of its undertakings has been a computer-generated telephone call to 2,200 homes in the district urging voters to vote against the proposal, according to Carlos Cain, a resident who helped organize the effort.

Cain, whose daughter is a Lakeview Elementary first-grader, has been serving as an unofficial spokesman for what he described as a "loosely organized group" of opponents.

Through the Freedom of Information Act, Cain also obtained financial documents pertaining to past bond referendums from the school district. He said he discovered that $176 million bond proceeds from the 2003 bond issue has not been used for the bond projects and a review of the documents gave rise to his suspicion that the fund was transferred to a trust for purposes other than what was initially approved by voters.

Cain said he also has personally met with Superintendent Tim Jenney and spoken with school board trustee Laurie Caldwell on the phone about his concerns on a range of issues such as the size of the current bond, projects from past bonds allegedly repeated in the current package, and the completion status of past bond projects.

Several other opponents said they shared the same concerns. One of them said there is no legal guarantee that the district must spend the bond money in a way approved by voters. Another critic said until the school board becomes a single-member district board, there will not be equal representation of communities of different parts of the district nor equitable bond proposals....(follow link above for more).