City Manager Suggests 4% to 5% Pay Increases For Some Employees. Overpaid Police Chief Agrees. Uses Age-Old Bullshit To Justify.

In a totally unexpected move, City manager (current salary and benefits of roughly $210,000 or over $4,000 per week) suggested 4% to 5% pay raises during this budget cycle. This on TOP of raises and COLAs last year.

I find this odd, because according to local democrats, the CPI is only 3% now.

As you can see, police Chief Jodi Cummings agreed heartily. He uses the age-old bullshit of “keeping up with the other cities” as his ammunition. Because, we are like, right on the edge of Austin…or something.

Ryan Ward likes to use towns like Fredericksburg and Marble Falls to compare salaries, so that they all look underpaid. However, when he did that last year, it showed our police chief is actually OVERPAID by 7.9%!!

That’s right: according to our OWN assistant-to-the-City-manager Ryan Ward and his “salary study” from last year, Cummings is ALREADY overpaid by 7.9%!

Whoops! So you think they’ll lower it 8% this year? I’m guessing not.

They always trot out the old “these people will leave for Austin if we don’t pay them!” nonsense every year. You know what I say? Fuck it – let them go to Austin. They get paid more there because it is a liberal shit hole with a much higher cost of living and has the worst traffic in the state. Go right ahead and leave for Austin, if you are that stupid.

You want to know how else I know the police chief is overpaid (besides the fact that Ryan Ward told us so last year)? Because Brian Lee, the police chief of Burnet (right down the road) makes a lot less than Jodi Cummings! Imagine that!

Lee pulls down $73,544 and Cummings makes 36% MORE at $100,000. Something tells me you could inform old Jodi he’s only going to make $90,000 next year and he would not go anywhere. And if he did? I could think of a few coppers who would be more than happy to step into that position for $90,000 (plus another $36,000 in benefits!)

In fact, when Burnet searched for a new chief two years ago, they had EIGHTY APPLICANTS for the job! When you have 80 applicants for a job, that is the free market telling you that you are offering a mighty fine salary and might want to lower it a bit.

I’ll repeat: Burnet pays their chief $73,500 and they got EIGHTY APPLICANTS for the job.

But according to some, if we do not pay six figures to every Tom, Dick and dickless, they will immediately run to the big city with more traffic, higher costs and more pains in the ass.

OK. If you believe that one, I have a bridge to sell you.

If I’m not mistaken, when Lampasas was searching for an assistant City manager, they had over FIFTY applicants! Of course, that didn’t stop Finley from overpaying for the “talent” by about $25,000. Ward was offered $110,000 (bumped to $116,000 very quickly) when the national average for ACM is more like $85,000.

I do all this research as a public service for City council: do NOT fall for the bullshit that anybody will leave if they don’t get 5% more money this year. Council has ALREADY been EXTREMELY generous in years past when there was no inflation at all:

City Big Wigs Want Raises For Everyone Because of Inflation. Conveniently Forget All The Big Raises When Inflation Was Negligible

Time to reign in the reckless spending and show some of these highly-paid bureaucrats that they can’t put a gun to your heads with this “we’ll move to Austin” bullshit.

Local Socialists Offering Free Food On Labor Day – Mark Your Calendars

The Lampasas ~~Democrats~~ Communists are offering FREE food to anyone! It appears the socialists are practicing what they preach. The chairman of the Lampasas Democrats is a communist who is constantly demanding “free” school, “free” health care, and “free” housing, among other things. I guess he is drinking his own bathwater and offering FREE food to anybody who wants it!

Monday, September 04, 2023 at 12:00 PM
Lampasas VFW in Lampasas, TX

We invite you & your family to join the Lampasas Democrats for our annual Labor Day Celebration.

Join us to enjoy friendship, Nothing Butts BBQ, ice cream, & great speakers!

Entry is free. We do ask for a $15 suggested donation for food, however, if you are on a fixed or limited income, this donation can be waived. If you have a recurring monthly donation to LCDP, you’ll eat free.

So, my suggestion to all patriotic, America-loving citizens of Lampasas is to show up at noon and inform them you are on a limited income. After all, it is a SUGGESTED donation. Take their suggestion under consideration and then ignore it entirely.

Eat as much as you can. Stuff yourself with BBQ and ice cream and don’t bother talking to any communists. Don’t even thank them. Just demand more free food when you are done with the first round. If they whine, tell them that food is a human right and you will not be denied that right.

Then complain about the ice cream flavor being shit.

Then you leave. Do not bother listening to any communist drivel or speakers. Just devour the resources and walk away. That’s what they are doing to America. Time for some payback.

Moron Libs Tell Us These “Diverse” Border Jumpers, “Refugees” and “Asylum Seekers” Are a Benefit To Our Economy. That Is Utter Horseshit.

These stories enrage me more than just about anything else. A bunch of third-world illiterates being shipped 8,000 miles over here thanks to idiot liberals who keep repeating the lie that they are somehow good for the economy. They aren’t. They are deadbeats are freeloaders. We have enough of those already.

Refugees Feel Abandoned After Texas Resettlement Agency Closes

Here are some snippets:

First up, we have a couple of clowns from the Central African Republic who are supposedly “fleeing the war” in their shit hole nation:

First off, the war they are fleeing has been going on for over 10 years. So why are they being shipped here now? Secondly, they don’t speak a lick of English – they speak French. So why not ship them to the oh-so-generous French? France is a hell of a lot closer to their home country. Plus European retards like Christine Seefeldt keep telling me how compassionate they are.

They say that life here has been “difficult and upsetting.” Gee, what’s wrong, Mahamat? All the free food and wifi not to your liking? You can’t figure out the indoor plumbing?

Keep in mind these “refugees” also have kids who don’t speak a lick of English. Mahamat and those like him are trying to stick these kids in our Texas schools. Hey, don’t worry about who is going to pay millions more to hire a bunch of ESL teachers. Mahamat sure isn’t worried about it. He sure as hell isn’t chipping in. Just gimme, gimme, gimme.

I wonder why morons like Clayton Tucker (who has stated that border walls are “racist” and that Austin should be allowed to be a sanctuary City if they want to be) and Bruce Haywood don’t invite 5 or 6 Africans into their homes and open their own wallets to pay for little Mahamet Junior’s education??

Keep in mind that Bruce Haywood has not paid any taxes (federal OR property) in a VERY long time. Clayton lives with mom and appears to have no income, so he pays ZERO (federal income or local property) into the school system either. Yet both of these ass hats are demanding MORE illegals pour into Texas and get set up with a first-world education at the expense of YOU and ME.

Then we have Iranian “refugee” Yeganeh Bahraminejad. She’s looking for some free shit too! Last I checked, Iran was ALSO about 7,000 miles away from Texas. No matter. Cough up some money, chump:

Yeganeh Bahraminejad sorts through a stack of papers inside her Dallas apartment. There’s a bill from the electric provider about an overdue payment — a reminder that she’s not sure how she’s going to keep up with all of her expenses.

“It’s not my problem that they don’t have the money,” Bahraminejad said. “They accept my case. If they don’t have the money, why [did] they accept new case[s]?”

“I go everywhere [by] myself. No one translate[s] for me in a hospital or anywhere. But I just need help for my rent.”

*She and other ‘refugees’ are angry and frustrated and feel they’re being ignored.*

Oh! You just need help with the rent! Feel free to give Comrade Clayton a ring. He’s been busy yammering for years that illegal immigrants are a net BENEFIT to society! They are oh-so-skilled and smart! They can take care of themselves!

Sure they can, buddy.

Report: Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $116 billion annually; Californians, Texans, Floridians pay the most

NYC Faces $1 Billion Tab From Migrant Influx as Economy Strains Budget, Comptroller Says.

Even one of the biggest dumbshits in the country, Eric Adams, has finally started to realize these parasites are a huge drain on resources. Not to mention the way they completely trash and destroy their “free” housing.

We as a nation are the biggest cuckolds and pussies on the planet for allowing these scumbags to walk all over us.

The solution, of course, is to send 3 or 4 third-world parasites to the homes of every liberal idiot who tells us how awesome they are and let THEM take care of the parasites directly.

That means Comrade Clayton gets four African parasites, Bruce Haywood gets four Haitian parasites, Potato Head Stephanie Fitzharris gets four Nigerian parasites, Julie Cain Landrum gets four Iranian parasites, Christine Seefeldt gets four. Janet “Crazier” Crozier gets four. Kristi Lara gets four.

We’ll see how they like it after about 5 days of that bullshit. Time to make the idiots pay for all of their stupid ideas.

City Admits Again That The LEDC Lied Shamelessly and Repeatedly. LEDC Re-prints Lies In Packet For July 19th Meeting.

Absolutely shameless. Every single person involved with this “Economic Matrix” bullshit is a bald-faced liar – and they don’t care at all.

After yet another Open Records request for any and all documents pertaining to the “Announcements/Project Wins: 1” listed in the May and June LEDC packets, I was told the following yesterday (after the maximum 10-day wait allowed by law):

We appreciate your continued interest in developments in the City of Lampasas. Nothing has changed from your prior requests regarding the ‘Lampasas Economic Development Matrix’ that is used by the LEDC board and staff. Accordingly, there are no responsive documents to your request and this open records request is considered closed.

So, just to recap:

This “matrix” first appeared in the May LEDC packet. It sure as hell makes it look like some kind of deal was done – and thus some papers had to be signed, or it really isn’t a deal at all. That’s how it works out here in the real world.

I requested the name of the company creating these “20 to 35 jobs” and investing $700,000. I was ignored repeatedly.

I filed an official Open Records Request. After dicking around for over 10 days, I was told “there are no responsive documents” to my question. So the LEDC lied and got caught red-handed lying.

The LEDC AGAIN printed the “matrix” in their recent July packet….even though they know it’s a lie.

I made ANOTHER ORR for the name of the company “won” the project, according to the packet where it says “announcement/project wins: 1”

I waited ANOTHER 10 days (max allowed) before being told AGAIN “no responsive documents” for that either.

I emailed City council member Zac Morris. He did finally respond and didn’t have an answer for me except that “I’ve been asking for updates on progress related to prospective businesses from Stacy at the past couple of meetings I believe. I’ll keep asking. “

So Stacey Ybarra, the Economic Development Director, cannot be bothered to answer to the boss and explain these lies. And no, I’m not talking about Finley. He’s not the boss. City council (which is to say, “the citizens”) is the boss.

Then she went and put the SAME LIE into her July LEDC report. Stacey has worked for the City all of about 6 months and costs the taxpayer roughly $119,000 to do pretty much nothing that can be quantified.

Or is it Misti Talbert printing up those lies, as president of the LEDC? Is she so desperate for some kind of return on the $971,000 she swiped from the City 18 months ago that she is resorting to making up complete bullshit?

Speaking of “announcing project wins” and “jobs created,” let’s check in on the Industrial Park deal with Martin’s Rod. After all, it’s been another month since the first deadline on June 30th:

Ah. Still no boats or RVs there! But don’t worry. Stacey Ybarra is all over it. She had a “meeting with Martin on July 11th regarding the Industrial Park” (page 7) – so we should see some major action any day now.

Question For The LEDC’s Business Pork Project: What About Water???

The LEDC was very busy yesterday morning re-posting what 10 other pages have ALREADY reposted….

This is a lot of what the Economic Development Director does: duplicates efforts and makes posts that are already more visible elsewhere. It makes her look busy and justifies her $119,000 cost to the taxpayer. We already have a TON of other places where news gets out faster. Such as:

The City website, the City Facebook page, the City TWITTER page (yes we have one), the Chamber of Commerce website, the Chamber of Commerce Facebook page, Lampasas County Breaking News Facebook page (they have 22,000 subscribers!), the Mayor’s Facebook page (Misti had this back in Feb 2021 during the storm – TJ Monroe can’t be bothered), Lampasas ISD Facebook page, Lampasas ISD website, Lampasas Dispatch Record website, Lampasas Radio Facebook page, local TV and the LEDC Facebook page AND website!!

Instead of reposting news everyone already knows about, perhaps Stacey Ybarra or LEDC Prez Misti Talbert could answer the question I have been asking for over a month now: What is the name of the company that “won” a project from the LEDC and what are the details of this project? Including jobs created and capital investments made?

“Announcement/Project wins: 1” – what are the details???

Also, in light of recent water supply humiliations, HOW MUCH WATER ARE THESE NEW INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS GOING TO BE USING? DID YOU CUT THEM ANY DEALS FOR CHEAP WATER? ARE THEY AWARE OF THE RISK THAT THEIR WATER MIGHT RUN OUT ONE FINE AUGUST MORNING?

Are you going to give some company a “free” $500,000 worth of land and let them pull 30,000 gallons of water per day out of the system? How’s that going to work, exactly? We’d love to know, if you aren’t too busy re-posting news from yesterday morning.

Local Commie Clayton Tucker Forms New PAC With Kristi Lara – A Female Commie Deadbeat From Dallas Area. Like Tucker, Has Never Held a Real Job At Age 46.

When doing my corporate searches to try and find ANY ranch or farm business AT ALL associated with local communist Clayton Tucker the fake rancher/farmer (there are none) I DID come across an interesting nugget….

Comrade Clayton formed yet ANOTHER commie organization called Bluebonnet PAC a mere three months ago! Let’s see who else is involved:

***208 S Western Ave is where Clayton Tucker lives. His parents’ house. It is Bernie Sanders Central for the city of Lampasas***

Kristi Lara is an even bigger communist than Clayton Tucker. Which sounds impossible. She has reached the age of 46 without really working a job while bumming off of people for money and being a “community organizer.”

The type who (like Comrade Clayton) posts about how difficult life is as she lazes around the house at 2pm on a work day – clearly with time on her hands to gaze at her navel and complain about how horrible it all is…

***You literally don’t have to do any of those things to be a woman. All you need is a penis, according to most radical lefties.***

Bernie Sanders would be proud.

She has been bumming around with Comrade Clayton since before he adopted his fake rancher persona and was just a spoiled trust-fund nerd without a job…

***Two commies wearing their Bernie Sanders garb.***

Oh, speaking of Bernie…she even grifted her way to the 2016 Dem convention to support that hardcore communist in person! Can you imagine? Being 39 years old and begging strangers for money to go to a convention (i.e. – a big party) to schmooze with other deadbeat socialist losers and praise an old bag of shit commie like Sanders!?

She tells us:

“My Journey with Bernie materialized in 2011 with the Occupy movement. Like millions of Americans, I became an active organizer and supporter of Occupy Wall Street. I traveled to New York to sleep out on Wall Street. For almost 2 months, I maintained an Occupy tent here in Dallas in protest of a system that I knew denied millions of Americans access to Economic, Social, Racial and Environmental Justice.“

So at age 34, she slept in a tent with a bunch of other unwashed bums and accomplished absolutely nothing. NONE of those banker scumbags went to jail for fraud. Well done! Must be nice to have zero responsibilities at age 34 and sit around in a drum circle with a bunch of other hippie morons living off of mom and dad’s credit cards. I’m sure Comrade Clayton would have been there too, but he was busy in college acquiring his useless $80,000 International Relations degree.

Much like Comrade Clayton Tucker SDEC-24 TX, Kristi Lara the communist runs around getting photos with the most anti-American scumbag commies she can find and proudly posts them for all to see:

That’s not all Kristi Lara has in common with Comrade Clayton. They are also both accomplished at getting their asses kicked in elections. In between doing nothing and having no job, Kristi Lara ran for school board (despite having zero kids) and got her ass whipped hard by Miguel Solis by about 44 points.

Miguel Solis Defeats Kristi Lara To Win Dallas School Board Seat

She even resorted to typical commie cheating and lying to help herself out – which is what commie scum does now, as we saw in 2020. She STILL failed miserably:

Dallas ISD District 8 Candidate Kristi Lara Accused of Campaign Violation

So – what are these two dirtbag commies up to with their new Bluebonnet PAC here in Lampasas? Yet to be seen, but you can bet that it isn’t good for Texas or America. The problem with communist vermin and serial grifters like Clayton Tucker and Kristi Lara isn’t that they are smart or capable. They most certainly are NOT. The problem is that they have nothing but piles of time on their hands to try and undermine freedom and the Constitution every waking hour of their day.

Most America loving patriots are working hard all week to try and take care of their families while being robbed blind by the IRS to hand over money to losers and grifters like this. THAT is the problem. Hardworking Americans are literally funding their own demise. Bums and deadbeats like Tucker and Lara have all the time in the world. Like the stream that wears away the boulder – they have time and persistence on their side.

Honest, freedom-loving Texans had better wake up fast to the threat that faces them and take these commie pieces of shit seriously. If I had my way, they’d be forcibly deported to California or Venezuela and barred from ever entering Texas again.

Dancing COVID Nurses Who Supported Draconian Mandates Switch To Climate Change.

Perhaps one of the most unsettling narrative relationships during the covid pandemic lockdowns was the assertion by various governments, think-tanks and media pundits that the mandates weren’t just good for “stopping the spread,” they were also good for “saving the environment” from what they claim will be inevitable Apocalyptic climate change. While the covid agenda has all but disappeared thanks to millions of people and half the states in the US rejecting the restrictions, climate hysteria is still alive and well.

One of the most obnoxious trends in covid propaganda was the constant TikTok dance videos. Dancing politicians, dancing talk show hosts and dancing nurses all telling us to comply while frolicking around like maniacs. Well, it’s not over, because the dancing covid nurses are back, and now they’re here to tell us that accepting carbon controls is just as important as the mandates.

Beyond the numerous question on how nurses managed to have time to make so many group TikToks if the hospitals were “overrun” with patients dying of covid as the media asserted for the first year of the pandemic, we must also ask: If they lied about the effectiveness of the mandates, why should we listen to them about climate change?

Not one draconian policy enforced by governments made any difference whatsoever in the transmission of the covid virus. The lockdowns were pointless. The masks were pointless. Social distancing was pointless. And the official median Infection Fatality Rate of covid is a mere 0.23%, which means that 99.8% of people were never under any threat from the disease anyway. These facts were well known by medical professionals by early 2021, yet many of them continued to push the mandates.

Invariably, as the summer heats up so does the hype surrounding climate controls which would do little or nothing to shift the existing state of the Earth’s temps. “Record temps” are often touted, but these records are limited to a short time from of around 140 years of official data (since the 1880s).

But what about before then? When we look at the real history of the Earth’s climate, the temps today are incredibly mild. Not only that, but the global warming events of the past all occurred without human involvement.

One has to wonder, if this is the case, why are no carbon control proponents or climate scientists talking about it? Is the situation much like covid, where they tell you to “believe the science” except for the science that contradicts their claims?

And let’s not forget, these same people have been telling us the Earth is on the verge of burning for a very long time.

Or was it freezing? I forget….

People stopped idolizing nurses after the pandemic scare. Dancing for the climate feels more like a desperate act to regain relevancy, rather than legitimate activism.

All of the morons pushing “global warming” now and telling us to live like cavemen to “save the planet” are just watermelons: green on the outside but commie red on the inside as they seek “climate justice” – which is just another name for communism.

Beware! It will “devistate” [sic] us all!!!

Reminder: There are ZERO solar panels or wind turbines at Comrade Clayton’s parents’ house where he lives or at grandpa’s “ranch” where he pretends to be a cowboy/farmer. Hypocrite!

Reminder: commie piece of shit Obama doesn’t seem too worried about rising sea levels either at his 6,892-square-foot mansion with seven bedrooms and 8.5 bathrooms at Martha’s Vineyard. Hypocrite!

Scumbag Communists Infesting Lampasas. Beware.

The communist is not “the worker.” He is not the aggrieved peasant. He doesn’t have a specific label. He is the bitter, envious malcontent in your society.

Communism is the religion of the malcontent.

The malcontent is drawn to this religion because it promises him power. Power to take what isn’t his.

Power to exact vengeance on the neighbor who has what he wants. Karl Marx’s ideas speak to the loser because it sets him above all other people and tells him that he will inherit the world.

The communist has a deep-seated dislike of the working class because the communist is no longer a product of the working class. In truth, he never was. The communist leaders of the past – including Lenin, Mao and Pol Pot – were just spoiled rich kids. He can’t be motivated by the dream of “breaking off the shackles” of factory work, because he’s unlikely to have ever SEEN the inside of a factory. He has nothing in common with with the people of this nation who work with their hands, wear hard hats, or punch in and out five days a week.

Let’s take a look at Karl Marx…you may see some striking parallels with a few local commie parasites here in town (Haywood, Lucas, Tucker, Fitzharris, etc)

Karl Marx was a fat and lazy man who spent his days living off the generosity of his parents and wealthy friends.

This self-described “advanced” member of the working class never shed a drop of sweat in his life, and the only jobs he ever held were as a journalist and writer. Even his output as a writer reveals his laziness, as a single book (Das Kapital) took him 30 years to produce. He was also a noted liar, a slob, and a serial adulterer who refused to take responsibility for children he fathered out of wedlock.

Many found Marx’s personal appearance and manner off-putting or even revolting. In 1850, a spy for the Prussian police visited Marx’s home in London under the pretense of a German revolutionary. The report the spy wrote was shared with the British Ambassador in Berlin. The report said, in part:

[Marx] leads the existence of a Bohemian intellectual. Washing, grooming and changing his linen are things he does rarely, and he is often drunk. Though he is frequently idle for days on end, he will work day and night with tireless endurance when he has much work to do.

He has no fixed time for going to sleep or waking up. He often stays up all night and then lies down fully clothed on the sofa at midday, and sleeps till evening, untroubled by the whole world coming or going through [his room] …

There is not one clean and solid piece of furniture. Everything is broken, tattered and torn, with half an inch of dust over everything and the greatest disorder everywhere …

When you enter Marx’s room smoke and tobacco fumes make your eyes water … Everything is dirty and covered with dust, so that to sit down becomes a hazardous business. Here is a chair with three legs. On another chair the children are playing cooking. This chair happens to have four legs. This is the one that is offered to the visitor, but the children’s cooking has not been wiped away and if you sit down you risk a pair of trousers.

Lampassholes Ready To Break Out Pitchforks and Torches Over Water Restrictions. Reminder Who To Blame: Talbert, Monroe, Williamson, City Hall

OOOOHHHHHH – the natives are getting very restless. I don’t blame them. I blame past mayors and City council members. Morons like Misti Talbert, Chuck Williamson, TJ Monroe, Finley deGraffenreid, Ryan Ward and the LEDC have been pushing the “growth at any cost” narrative for years now.

[Between 2012 and 2015, the City added just under 16 houses per year. Between 2016 and 2020 that number jumped to over FORTY per year. I have not seen the data for 2021 or 2022]

Here is the result:

Not only have they NOT been hitting new houses with impact fees to pay for future water infrastructure, they have been HANDING OUT SUBSIDIES to builders for years now.

Of course, I have been harping on this point forever. Instead of listening to my wisdom, idiots like Talbert scoffed at me as a “keyboard warrior.”

TJ Monroe and Chuck “The Vampire” Williamson EVEN VOTED TO WAIVE BUILDING PERMITS FOR STONE VALLEY (March 29, 2019)!

Incentives Approved For New Subdivision

That idea ultimately failed, but the equally stupid idea of waiving $72,000 in electrical hookup fees for Deorald Finney was implemented. It was all part of Misti’s plan to “grow the tax base.” Of course, the more they “grow the tax base” the more expensive it gets for all of us, so I am wondering what the point is at all? So we can pay Finley deGraffenreid $160,000 instead of $150,000? So we can hire even more useless turds to populate City hall and cost the taxpayer over $110,000 per year, like Stacey Ybarra?

Oh, and don’t forget the best part! The $7 million “Business Pork” project that will supposedly draw even MORE people here to work! Ryan Ward and Stacey Ybarra got grilled by Ron Witcher a few months ago and Witcher actually asked where all the labor was going to come from to work there?

Ward’s answer?

Witcher: “I wonder…does Lampasas have the labor…for these businesses“

Ryan Ward: “You know, that’s kind of an interesting thought…we have to reach further out…you hope you can find enough work force…to hire more staff…and that’s always the first priority…not only that there is housing…how are we developing those housing communities? But the growth is coming here…”

So don’t worry about all the people we will have to import to work in the Business Pork, we will just “develop the housing communities” more and “add more rooftops” as Finley likes to say. I doubt Finley gives a fuck about any of this. As soon as he retires this year, he’ll take his oversized pension and move to another place and leave us holding a big bag of shit….just like Mike Talbot did back in 2006!

City Debt Obligations By Year, and Other Tidbits.

Budget talks are beginning now. I like to post this nugget every year….

City debt obligations by year:

2016/2017 – $475,300 [Toups]

2017/2018 – $660,385 (+39%) [Talbert]

2018/2019 – $746,171 (+13%) [Talbert]

2019/2020 – $872,995 (+17%) [Talbert]

2020/2021 – $864,768 (FLAT) [Talbert]

2021/2022 – $978,784 (+13%) [Monroe]

2022/2023 – $1,400,004 (+43%) [Monroe]

Other tidbits:

Debt obligations up 195% in 6 years (20% per year)

IT Department – up 47% in 6 years (7% per year)

City manager department – up 107% in 6 years (up 13% per year)

Population of Lampasas up approximately 6% during this time (1% per year)

Debt obligations rising 20x faster than population growth!

City Manager spending rose 13x faster than population growth!

IT Department spending rising 7x faster than population growth (and they STILL allowed a costly ransomware attack to cripple the City!)

P.S. – Parks and Recreation spending is up only 3.4% over SIX years:0.61% increase per year