Betty Culbreath

You are so right about DISD and how they use their tax money.

On what "education" can the City of Dallas spend $31M from operating budget?

Capital is facility improvement in most budgets, on what education facility does the City have to spend $12m?

This is fancy language to make Mayor Leppert's education promise come true. The money probably is for libraries! They are in the education business.

I worked for thirteen years with City staff on transferring Health and Human services to Dallas County. Each year a new City Manager would bring this subject up. The Commission on Productivity and Innovation had it on their agenda, and we went nowhere.

First: City of Dallas does not want pay the County for their residents. All other cities in Dallas County pay a certain amount each year for service.

Second: The city's Human Service Department is a feel good department with its own citizen committee. The city council members appoint these boards and committees.

Again, we have gotten into a position in this City that everything has a reason for being done other than the PEOPLE.

The DMN says the City Manager's proposed tax increase is 3%. Down into the story is the 7.7% water increase

with .68 cents on waste water. That adds up 10.7% in my math book because the 7.7% is on the base water fee not usage.

The DISD reorganization is already a mess from nepotism to Trustees asking question on specific job being cut based on race, etc.

I sure wish I could read this stuff and not think about it. I cannot. I know the job can be done correctly and it does not cost an arm and a leg to do it.