It might have been: after INCREASING 8.7% YOY last month,Lampasas has shown NEGATIVE sales tax receipt growth for the first time in a LONG time. [see row 585]
Receipts last May were $237,387 and this May was $233,865.
Considering inflation is still running around 7%, the REAL sales tax decline is more like 8.5%
Bump in the road or is recession finally sinking in? Just wait until all those student loan deadbeats have to start paying the loans again in a couple months. That certainly won’t help things at all either.
Council will be discussing the fact that “preliminary solutions and costs have been assessed” for Park and City asset security [see page 122]
Estimates are in the $80k to $100k range. I will go out on a huge limb here and say that with Ryan Ward and Finley in charge, the final cost will easily exceed $150,000 – at which point you have to ask: is it cheaper to just repair the vandalism every now and then?
One thing is for sure, they better sure as hell put it out for bid and if Azbell Electronics is involved again, you can be sure some serious fuckery is afoot.
I can see why they don’t want to be “transparent” – if they DID sell the land already, they look like utter chumps. They spent $7,000 on their hack lawyer JC Brown to draw up an agreement that was completely ignored by Martin from the very first day. There WAS no “Phase I” – it was all a bullshit ruse.
Wednesday was a great day for the pool over at Hannah Springs. The skate park? Not so much.
So does “it’ll be used every single day” actually mean it’ll be used “every now and then…but not when it gets hot out”? Only Mike White knows for sure.
Maybe we should spend another $400,000 to put a big giant canopy over it. We wouldn’t want anyone living in Texas to get sun on their face. At least that’s how cretins like Jennifer Moron-o Sanchez think:
We have shade at the parks. They are called “trees”
[There is only one word in the English language I hate more than the word ‘kiddos’ – and that is the word ‘supper’. Is “kiddos” a Texas thing? I never really heard it before moving here 15 years ago.]
Maiden name Moreno and married name Sanchez…hmm. You’d think her kids would probably tan pretty easily. But no…let’s spend a big pile of money on an awning because you are too lazy or stupid to put on a baseball cap and some $8 sunscreen!
Luckily she is too ignorant to know about the existence of a “City Manager” and “City Council.” Probably too busy making sandwiches to learn those basics. We shouldn’t doubt her ability to raise the hundreds of thousands of dollars for a canopy, though. Just look at her determination! She’s going to read an ENTIRE 30 MINUTES in a DAY for another cause!
Wow. Impressive.
I can’t help but wonder if that $400,000 spent on the skate park could have been better spent.
I know for a CERTAINTY that a splash pad (remember that idea?) would be a big hit. Too bad former mayor Misti Talbert pilfered almost a million dollars from the City to incinerate at her “Business Pork Project”…we could have built like 12 splash pads for that!
I’m sure it will be put to good use by Eco-Turd when they move in over there. Alan “I have a private jet” Champagne appreciated the donation from the taxpayers!
**UPDATED JUNE 9th**
ANOTHER beautiful summer day with ZERO skaters. Wow.
We are coming up on the June “deadline” for “Phase II” of the Industrial Park agreement. You know, that project where Phase I was completely ignored and the details of the agreement (which the City paid their hack lawyer $7,000 to create) were violated non-stop from Day One.
“Don’t you even THINK about a cigar shop!!! WE are doing one!!”
The property has been purchased?!? Whoa there! When did THAT happen? I sure didn’t see anything in the City council minutes about that event. Phase One (the RV and boat storage phase) never even happened yet! Nor has any preparations for “food trucks” or the “training facility” that were talked about. Barber shop? Micro-brewery? Those have never been mentioned again since the Mandy Walsh era. I think we can safely say that will never happen.
So, is Jennifer Conklin (who works across the street at Martin Rod & Custom, according to her Facebook page) lying to scare off the competition? Or did Martin ALREADY buy the land – even though they have done absolutely nothing that was promised so far?
I have asked the City secretary that very question….we await an answer.
“Diversity” is so awesome, isn’t it? Especially the third-world illiterate ass-backwards kind.
Anyhow, when the idiot krauts aren’t busy letting in African and Middle Eastern filth to gang rape all their women, they are occupied shutting down their nuclear reactors in order to completely fuck themselves in the ass going forward. So smart!!
Weeks before Germany’s nuclear closed, utility giant RWE_AG CEO Markus Krebber rejected calls to save them:
“There is still enough electricity”
The reactors close. Six weeks later Krebber says:
“Germany has a serious problem: We don’t have as much energy available as we need”
The krauts deserve everything they get. I once again repeat my offer to pay the moving expenses for Christine Seefeldt of Killeen Texas if she signs a contract promising to move back to Germany and NEVER set foot in the United States again. This offer good for up to $10,000 in moving expenses.
THIS is how you deal with scumbags. Not social workers. Not kiosks suggesting they take a different path in life. Just run them over and toss them in the dumpster. Once you start shooting at cops, you just gave up all your rights.
Of course, a bunch of bleeding hearts will be interviewed in the paper to tell us how he was “just about to turn his life around” and was “going to apply to med school.” His mom will also tell us he was a good boy who “dindu nuffin”.
Somewhere in St. Louis is a doughy socialist kid who lives with his mom posting tweets about how terrible the white supremacy is here. Fuck him too.
Great way to start my day!! Score one for the good guys.
Clayton Tucker SDEC-24 TX, Chairman of Lampasas Democratic Party (who may or may not be gay) is ANGRY that some big corporations donate to “anti-gay politicians” – whatever that means. I’m guessing it means politicians who have come out publicly against child mutilation – a barbaric practice that the Chairman of the Lampasas Democratic Party is most definitely in favor of.
Well shit, I literally JUST got rid of AT&T because they are a dogshit company. I may have to go back to them now! I’ll also bet you a MILLLLIIION DOLLARS that Comrade Clayton (as well as his mom and dad, who he lives with) have used Amazon many, many times over the course of the last few years.
AT&T and Amazon? Didn’t they donate to Robert Francis O’Rourke? Why yes, yes they did. They were among his top six biggest donors!!
[I’m also curious to know why the University of California is squandering their money on a clown running for governor in Texas who had zero chance of winning. I guess that’s the “California Way” or something.]
So somehow this money is preventing you guys from having buttsex?
Who is this “O’Rourke” fellow, you ask? Well, he is another guy who never had a real job but thinks he should be running your life. A year ago, Clayton Tucker was a huge fan! Such a huge fan, in fact, that he took photos with him whenever possible…
NAMBLA recruiting poster
“Robert’s ass in one hand and my purse in the other. Heaven.”
Thank god for natural gas, nuclear and coal. Otherwise we would all be sitting in the dark with food rotting in our refrigerators while entire industries ground to a standstill for lack of power. All those thousands of blades sitting there as calm as Hindu cows…
This is the third or fourth time in the last 10 days that wind has produced next to nothing for the state’s power grid. That is what we call “unreliable” and it’s the main reason why pinwheels should be banned from the state of Texas.
Actually, you don’t need to ban them. Just eliminate those tens of billions of tax dollars for pinwheel subsidies, and it would disappear overnight.
Anyone who promotes wind as a workable power source is either a complete moron who fails to understand basic math or is a scam artist who’s lining their pockets with government subsidies. There is no other possibility.
“On wind energy, we get a tax credit if we build a lot of wind farms. That’s the only reason to build them. They don’t make sense without the tax credit.” – Warren Buffett
Funny how local socialist Clayton Tucker is so concerned about the “rich” paying their “fair share” but he is perfectly fine with Warren Buffet (net worth $115 BILLION) collecting subsidies for idiotic wind farms.
