FB Herald Editorial: Americans Distrust Both Parties!--click here for more--

"People are saying, ‘We don't like what we have, we're going to throw them out and we're going to trust that they're going to read the signals right and do something different,'" said Stanford University professor Morris Fiorina. FBH

Chron: Missouri City Raises M&O Property Tax Rate (Continue to draw on "reserve funds" to give the appearance of a balanced budget)

Missouri City council members on Monday officially approved the property tax rate for 2010-11, which will be 52.84 cents per $100 of valuation.

While the overall rate remains the same as last year's, it includes a slight increase in the part of the tax rate that goes for city maintenance and operations.

Council members stuck with this tax rate despite final appraisal numbers from Fort Bend and Harris counties that represent an 8.8 percent drop in taxable value from 2009 to 2010. City Manager Frank Simpson said the tax rate will bring in $450,000 less than budgeted for city expenditures...(click the title link above for more)

Find Out More On Your Individual Property Rights In Texas (or lack of them)--click here--

Find out which lawyers and management groups control and feed off this industry and your property equity:

http://pages.prodigy.net/hoadata/

FBN: Update On Split FBISD BOT Vote On Property Tax Rate Increase--click here--

FBISD Moves Towards Raising The Property Tax Rate Again (3rd time in as many years)

Higher tax rate expected in FBISD
September 13, 2010 4:26 pm
Zen T.C. Zheng, Houston Chronicle

In a few hours, the Fort Bend school district board of trustees is expected to approve a 3.5 cent tax rate increase for 2010-11.

The increase would occur on the debt service portion of the property tax rate while the maintenance and operation portion of the rate has been frozen at $1.04 per $100 assessed value.

If the board takes that action, the total property tax rate will go up to $1.34 per $100 assessed value from the current rate of $1.305.

District Chief Financial Officer Tracy Hoke said the rate hike is needed to service debt for part of the bond package voters approved in 2007, this time mainly the construction of the district’s 14th middle school in the Pecan Grove area....(this is the same bond package that was based on faulty growth and projection numbers and pushed by a special interest PAC headed up by the superintendent and Charlie Howard in 2007. Later at the 2008 district tax hearing Mr. Howard would oppose the 1st of 3 rate increases to cover the debt created by his 2007 PAC--ironic--)

FBStar Compares Local Issues Facing Fort Bend Schools

See: http://www.fortbendstar.com/090110/n_SchoolDays.htm

Recent transportation concerns hit home too (remember the supt cut over $20 million from the transportation budget last year after running consecutive record budget deficits for 3 years while increasing our taxes over the same time period)...

http://www.fortbendstar.com/090810/n_Parents.htm

-Plans are still in the works for the "Global Taj Mahal" ($30 million dollar duplicate museum, according to district insiders). This was a non-voter approved project...

Stay tuned for more....