The Fort Bend Independent School District Board of Trustees will hold two workshops and a regular meeting tonight, Jan. 24.
The first is a budget workshop scheduled for 5 p.m. Trustees have been warning residents that the state’s looming budget deficit will likely have a large impact on the district, which has already struggled with three budget deficits in a row, leading to the reduction of force this year of more than 400 employees.
Following the budget workshop, the board will meet in closed session from 6-7 p.m.
At 7 p.m. the board will reconvene in open session for their regular board meeting, followed at 8 p.m. by the fifth zoning workshop.
All of these meeting will be held in the Board Room of the Fort Bend ISD Administration Building, 16431 Lexington Blvd., in Sugar Land.
“Trustees have been warning residents that the state’s looming budget deficit will likely have a large impact on the district”
Meanwhile, our tax dollars are STILL being passed out readily to developers of new low-income apartment complexes, so that the developers can become wealthy and existing neighborhoods where they’re built can die a slow death. Until these tax credits can instead go toward something more useful (rehabbing old apartments rather than building brand-new on virgin land in the suburbs where no one wants them), TDHCA funding should be cut!
Millions upon millions from TDHCA given to these developers, yet let’s remove funding for education… where are the state’s priorities?!?
Here’s a list of the upcoming low-income project applications:
http://www.tdhca.state.tx.us/multifamily/htc/docs/11-PreAppResultsRegLog.pdf
If you live in Westheimer Lakes, Longmeadow Farms, Greatwood, Canyon Gate, they want to come to your neighborhood! Better learn the system, start preparing for protests, and be on the lookout for anything fishy going on with the developer.
Developers will not hesitate to turn your area into another Alief or Spring ISD, given the chance, especially if the state (TDHCA) helps pay for it!