A Lawsuit!
http://www.caller.com/news/2009/nov/21/rockport-to-challenge-texas-open-meetings-act-n/
http://www.kwes.com/Global/story.asp?S=11540032
Local governmental entities want to use your tax dollars to gut the Open Meetings Act in Texas. They feel they need more ability to discuss issues and come to conclusions outside a public meeting. Will you accept their present?
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Our local government entities have been violating the Texas Open Meetings Act since day one.
PISD is by far the worse. There always seems to be one or two loud mouths on the school board that runs Twi-lite Super. What ever decisions she makes comes from the loud ones.
This type of management causes much turmoil. The value gyro spins crazy when you are guided by such foolish input.
Whether a person succombs to such pressure from individual board members determines what level of character they possess.
In Camp County the meetings act has been gutted for quite some time. Nothing new would come as any surprise.
Until we expect more we do not deserve more.
The PISD school board makes all major decisions outside of the open board meetings.
Twi-lite Super would refer to it as "consensus polling".
These polling sessions set the ground work for the actual decisions that will be made in open session.
Violations of the Texas Open Meetings Act carry penalties but this is Camp County and we don't seem to care how our business is conducted.
We are overtaxed annually and the overage is placed into fund balance (savings).
The fund balance is tapped regularly to cover the out of control spending. Money is spent during the year that was never thought of and definitely not placed in the annual budget that was presented and approved.
When the budget is approved it becomes a legal document and government entities are charged with following that budget.
Money to spend at will that is generated by tax rates that collect more money than is needed to run the school seems to be taxation without the proper representation.
That has happened somewhere before, hasn't it?
Our elected board members are not looking out for the interest of the taxpayers. They are elected and fall into the same old mold that has to be broken.
They do not represent the majority of the community. They definitely favor small interest groups and attempt to pass bonds to build new schools.
It could be called "theft of taxpayers money by non-representation". It is certainly a dereliction of duty.
It is time to start clean sweeping the board. New representation might be wise enough to send Twi-lite Super packing.
A new knowledgeable leader might guide the board with sound decision making.
We could use such thinking when it comes to developing an annual budget and setting the tax rate.
When will we say we have had enough?
During the American Revolution 30% of the people fought and founded a nation. The other 70% were apathetic.
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