Chronicle Report: Not everyone happy with appraisal district's building proposal (Which will use some of the school tax surplus)--
Click the title link for more and visit http://fbisdwatch.blogspot.com/2008/01/fort-bend-county-appraisal-district.html for follow-up...
posted by responsible_dvlpmnt at Sunday, January 20, 2008
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"Fort Bend school board in hopes of persuading skeptical trustees that it's a wise move to use a $434,425 tax revenue surplus -- part of which came from the school districts' taxpayers -- for a new appraisal district building."
Isn't that nice of the tax collectors to take our excess and use it on themselves. How lovely. Why not rebate it?
"Whitehead told me Friday that in most years the district has had more revenue than budgeted, but never as much as the surplus for 2007,"
Leave it to our tax paid officials to seek record bond debt, raise our taxes and then keep any surplus. I think this is a horrible idea. The school district should never have let the county take over their tax collection duties. This is what happens. The schools need it first after the recent record bond/debt election.
Posted by: taxpayer at January 19, 2008 11:15 AM
what is this,"The rest of the entities took no action by a Dec. 4 deadline, which the state property code renders as meaning approval."---sounds like we need to change the property code developed by special interest lobbyist so they can get their clients grubby little hands on more of the publics money. Why doesn't this law default to NO instead of yes?
Posted by: CADprotester at January 19, 2008 11:21 AM
I think the fact that over 20,000 taxpayers protested (a record) last year speaks volume on the trust level this group has with our money. Basically it looks like if they want something, since they already have our money, they will just take it.
Posted by: taxpayer at January 20, 2008 08:38 AM
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I find this action by the CAD high handed. This property tax law probably pushed through by county lobbyist paid for with our tax dollars should be full repealed. The law should default to a NO if the entities do not respond, not a yes causing the schools and other 168 participating districts to lose their funding. Is this what happens when anyone gives their money to the county?
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anonymous said...
Unbelievable! Have we all lost our way?
January 21, 2008 6:27 AM
silk pen said...
Can someone explain the nexus between a school district's surplus tax revenue to the county's responsibility to build a new appraisal district building if, indeed one is needed???
If a school district has surplus tax revenue, a logical reasoning is that it should be returned to the school district for the benefit of the children that it serves.
Furthermore, this is a very bold and cheeky request from an Appraisal District that is not property taxpayer friendly in the first place.
January 21, 2008 7:05 AM
anonymous said...
"this is a very bold and cheeky request from an Appraisal District that is not property taxpayer friendly in the first place."
I couldn't agree more silk! We need a strong taxpayers union/association in this county and we need some of the local parties to offer bona fide support.
And not just so they can turn around and rebate it to relocating elite "edc insider" corps, IMO. The children should come first!
January 21, 2008 8:39 AM
anonymous said...
I wonder if the fb cad will build a building for me?
January 22, 2008 7:57 AM
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