Friendswood city council gets the message CLOUT has been sending. : Lone Star Times

Friendswood city council gets the message CLOUT has been sending.

by Rorschach · 06/04/2006 9:18 pm

Freshman City Councilman Jay Horecky will put before the Friendswood City Council a measure to refund 10% of the city’s 2005 taxes. This measure fulfills one of his original campaign promises. John LeCour, a more senior member of the council supports this measure and was quoted in Galveston’s The Daily News as saying "We could have given back more in my opinion". But Mayor David Smith is not so saguine, He says he supports the concept of tax relief but he is concerned that the measure would deplete the city’s reserve funds so much that if a catastrophic emergency were to occur such as a major storm impacting the area, or an emergency capital expense, or a budget shortfall due to a collapsing tax base, that the city might not have the funds to meet it’s needs. He did say that he is however open to debate on the matter. This is just one of 22 different items on Monday’s agenda, 10 were added by Jim Hill and Jay Horecky, the two freshmen councilmen, and another 8 were added by Chris Peden and John LeCour, including a call by LeCour to repeal the city’s ethics ordinance. That ordinance was written at council’s request by the city’s law firm Olsen and Olsen. But an outside, independent, study has revealed that much of the ordinance is unenforcible. Glad to see that the council has been getting it’s money’s worth on that……

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6 Responses to “Friendswood city council gets the message CLOUT has been sending.”

KRogers on June 5th, 2006 at 4:55 am

FIRST!

And what a great issue to be first on! LST readers should go to the City of Friendswood website http://www.ci.friendswood.tx.us/NR/rdonlyres/089645CD-0C95-4DD4-88ED-CA0B6A42A1E1/0/cc060605a.pdf and see the ambitious waste-cutting and personal freedom encouraging agenda the new conservative majority has proposed!

The City has even posted a meeting notice for the next day, in case the Monday meeting (starting at 7:00) goes past MIDNIGHT!

I encourge everyone to attend!
DeborahWC on June 5th, 2006 at 7:24 am

The Taxpayers of Friendswood, the people and families who pay all the bills of the city, finally have a majority on the Council! I look forward to many issues in our town being corrected swiftly, with “common sense” finally prevailing at the helm of all decisions being made with our hard earned dollars. God bless John LeCour, Chris Peden, Jay Horecky, and Jim Hill! Keep up the good work gentlemen…for the City of Friendswood!
tedtam on June 5th, 2006 at 8:46 am

Today….Friendswood.

Tomorrow…
joebexar on June 5th, 2006 at 10:08 am

Wow! Government working…I thought this was an oxymoron.
TJohnson on June 5th, 2006 at 1:07 pm

Mayor David Smith calls for TML spec ops hit men to silence the people’s councilmen….
jimbow on June 5th, 2006 at 1:27 pm

A little off topic, but …

the San Antonio Express-News and the educrat lawyers have finally discovered the Ogden amnendment:

“Another provision of the school funding law would make it harder for districts to take advantage of rising property appraisals.

“A little-known but key part of the legislation includes the strongest protection against appraisal creep in modern Texas history,” House Speaker Tom Craddick said.

Starting next year, tax rollback elections will be required whenever higher appraisals produce a tax increase equivalent to more than 4 cents per $100 property valuation. Currently, a rollback election is triggered by the equivalent of a 6-cent increase.”