Regarding the bond issue Prop. B for the new high school. There will be two new high schools eventually. The west side high school was dropped out of including it in this bond issue because the cost of it might make the east side high school bond issue fail.
I am sure the strategy is to pass this east side high school Prop. B now, build it, then split up the Permian population with the new one. There will be soon, a new, different smaller bond issue for the west side new high school.
The OHS population will then be split up with that new one. All 4 will be 6A schools. My property valuation for tax purposes has been raised $54,000 in five years.
I shudder to think what it will be with hundreds of millions in new fixed spending. I feel for the businesses that have to pay the new taxes. They will have to pass on the tax to their customers (inflation), while the homeowner cannot.
Homeowners cannot do this. They have to pay it out of their paycheck. The annual cost of the proposed bond issues and operating two new high schools will have to be paid out of tax money, either through budget increases or the blank checks of the TRE. I can’t afford it, can you?
Jimmy Edwards
Odessa
