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1st WordTime has run out

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Our inbox blew up over 1,000 Ways to Die and Hoarders producer Jay Hix Jones’ plan to stage, and then film, a Christian revival event on local rivers this Memorial Day Weekend. There’s so very much to say about this, and we’re going to say it next week, rapture notwithstanding.

Meek’s Defense, DeconstructedOk, this 4-B thing is getting out of hand. Every time 4-B Uber-Consultant/Chamber of Commerce President Michael Meek speaks to the press about 4-B, he’s careful to note that the program was approved by voters. This is intended to relieve Meek and 4-B from any responsibility regarding the City’s corporate welfare program. We think it’s important to clarify, once and for all, exactly what the voters approved, so we went back to the Microfiche and pulled the language right off the ballots. Commit the high points to memory, and repeat them back when Meek, or 4-B President Bob Gray, or any member of City Council tells you anything otherwise. The emphasis is ours. Take notes.

Back in 1995, New Braunfels voters approved the following: “The adoption of an additional one-fourth (1/4) of one percent sales and use tax within the city, with the proceeds thereof to be used and applied in the manner and to the purposes authorized by Section 4B of Article 5190.6, V.T.C.S., as amended, one-eighth (1/8) of one percent restricted to street and drainage projects and the other one-eighth (1/8) of one percent to be used for projects restricted to land, buildings, and equipment for library/learning centers, parks/golf course, public safety, municipal buildings, convention center, and other related facilities, including the maintenance and operating costs of any such projects mentioned above.”

It’s pretty clear that voters thought they were getting roads and drainage.

In 2000, after the tax had been running for a while without anybody taking too close a look at the situation, a curve ball was tossed into the the situation, and a few minor tweaks were made to 4-B. This ran as Proposition 1: “Authorizing the use of economic development sales tax collected pursuant to Section 4B of

Article 5190.6, V.T.C.S., capital improvement fund to be used

for the purchase of land, buildings, equipment, facilities and improvements of amateur and youth sports venues,

including ball parks, athletic fields, stadiums, related facilities

and including the maintenance and operating cost thereof.” This appears to the casual reader that the community would be getting more of something, but only through comparison to the original, 1995 ballot language can one see that a whole pack of goodies were being taken off the table. All kinds of stuff. Hmm.

Then there was Proposition 2. This is where it gets really interesting. In one move, they abolished a previous one-fourth of one percent tax, which had been administered under 4-A, and then reinstated it under 4-B. This plan looked really good to whomever took the time to read the ballot. Emphasis is ours:

“The abolishment of the economic development sales tax collected pursuant to Section 4A of Article 5190.6, V.T.C.S. within the City for the promotion and development of new and expanded business enterprises at the rate of one-eighth of one percent and the adoption of an additional economic development sales tax within the City at a rate of one-eighth of one percent to be used to undertake all lawful projects as described in Section 4B of Article 5190.6, V.T.C.S., including but not limited to auditoriums, projects related to entertainment, convention, tourist and exhibition facilities, amphitheaters, concert halls, and public parks, park facilities, and events, open space improvements, learning centers, municipal buildings, museums and related stores, restaurant, concession, and automobile parking facilities, related area transportation facilities, and related roads, streets, and water and sewer facilities, recycling facilities, and related roads, and projects to promote new and expanded business enterprises including facilities to promote job creation and retention, job training facilities, and public safety facilities, streets and roads, drainage

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Development PulledPlans for a government-assisted apartment complex in Canyon Lake met verbose resistance from some home dwellers in that area who have expressed concerns that such a development will bring unwanted problems to their area.

The project’s coordinator, Rainer Andrews, had initially sought approval from County Commissioners for his project. While the facility doesn’t require approval from the Court, having it will award the project two pointsq. The awarding of government contracts for such facilities is a competition, whereby the award goes to the project with the most points within that project’s district.

However, after a raucous February 25 meeting with citizens about the project, Andrews withdrew his recommendation for support from the Court, with the hopes of resubmitting for approval after he holds another meeting with area residents on March 11.

“The meeting wasn’t that bad, but at one point there were five or six people talking or shouting at once and it just wasn’t productive, from my perspective,” said District 3 Commissioner Kevin Webb. “Because the developer ended up pulling his request for a resolution of support, I guess it was an effective meeting for those protesting.”

The Terrace at Canyon Lake is planned to be a 62-unit complex for economically struggling seniors aged 55 and over, which is the government definition of a senior. Those qualifying for residency would have to make $12,360-$28,260 per year.

Andrews’ project proposal states that there is, “Zero affordable apartments units for senior citizens in the Canyon Lake area,” but that analysis shows a need for more than 1,000 such units and that as the senior population increases, so will the need.

“While I don’t really think government should be in the housing business, my experience in retirement planning tells me that it is nearly impossible for us to plan for our increased life expectancies and – even though we hate to think about it – a lot of folks will end up in this type of housing,” Webb noted. “So, I do think these developments have a place in our community. I think that had this particular one been proposed in another location, it may have been successful in garnering community support.”

Precinct 4’s Jen Crownover laid out a case for the need of such housing during the Commissioners’ Court meeting.

“I have seen firsthand the poverty-stricken conditions that some of our own friends and neighbors live in,” she said. “To ignore that is unacceptable, in my opinion.

“I have personally knocked on more than 2,500 doors,” she continued. “In this area, I have been bitten by dogs and fallen through wooden decks at the front door to talk to voters, and sat on couches in rundown RV dwellings with tarps for roofs, and no AC or heating.”

“I do believe that something like this would be a good thing to provide an affordable, respectable, clean and safe alternative for folks in this situation,” Crownover argued. “If you believe that this doesn’t exist on ‘this side of the lake,’ in our precinct, then I urge you to try to better understand our community.”

Some of the facility’s opponents, however, are concerned by what they claim are “north side” crimes filtering into their “south side” area.

One opponent, who only introduced himself as Tom, said that the project would bring “the projects” to the area. Tom’s apocalyptic vision included “some 55-year-old construction worker” who gets drunk after work who comes home “and shoots his wife.”

However, calls to government-assisted senior living apartments within New Braunfels, was met with chuckles and emphatic denials when asked if they had seen an increase of crime at their facilities.

Opponents also argued that a senior living facility should be closer to the hospitals in New Braunfels, and that there aren’t enough emergency responders to handle the 62-unit complex. Many of the opponents, including Tom, who showed up to the Commissioners’ Court meeting were older than 55.

Canyon Lake’s EMS division, however, doesn’t foresee any such problems.

“Adding 62 living units would mean less than 100 people and that’s a very small percentage of the population we serve, therefore it would have a relatively small impact on the number of EMS transports we would anticipate to respond to,” said Shawn Wheery with the Canyon Lake EMS/Fire Department. “I’m not overly concerned about the increase of potential call volume.”

Both Webb and Crownover lamented the amount of “misinformation” being spread among opponents.

One such piece of misinformation is that the apartment complex would dominate the site line to Canyon Lake. However, the complex will only sit on six of the 30 acres at the intersection of FM 3424 and FM 306. The other 24 acres cannot be developed on for 30 years, according to Andrews’ proposal. As well, while the complex calls for a three-story and a two-story structure, the buildings will be terraced far below the site line of surrounding neighborhoods.

Jeanne Slupik complained to Commissioners that Andrews sought the Court’s support before he met with area residents. She then asked that at citizens’ committee be formed to discuss the proposal, calling it a “Canyon Lake betterment issue.” Slupik lost to Crownover in last year’s primary race.

Crownover warned that if the senior living facility is scuttled, another contractor could develop the entire 30 acres with something residents could find much more invasive.

“One thing I would caution my fellow resident with, is the fact that this is an unincorporated area of the County,” she said. “The only thing we can truly control lies within the boundaries of our own property lines. On this very piece of property, in our current situation, it would be completely possible and conceivable for a developer to come in, buy it, and cover it with a 500-unit high-rise apartment complex. Yes, this example is extreme, but believe me, it could be done.”

Webb is hopeful that opponents will gain a better understanding of what is being proposed, first of all by noting that the facility is not a Section 8 housing system, but a “Section 42 project, which is very different. These developments should stay well maintained for at least 30 years.”

“I think as people understand how these projects differ from the old housing projects and see the benefits they could provide, we may see some of these applications be successful in some areas of the County,” he said, with a caveat. “However, in some parts of the County, as long as anything is subsidized by government in any way, it’s going to be unpopular.”

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and related improvements, demolition of existing structures, and general improvements that are municipally owned, development or redevelopment of closed military bases, development and expansion of affordable housing, as well as any other improvements or facilities that are related to any of the above projects and any other project that the board determines will promote new or expanded businesses enterprises, and the acquisition of land, maintenance and operations expenses for any of the above described projects and removing all cap restrictions currently imposed on the Section 4B Corporation allowing free and unencumbered use of all money collected.”

Wow! Look at all that great stuff we were going to get!

What this new language did was introduce the concept of “related roads”, rather than roads in general. This is how they are trying to get around the fact that “their” money can’t be used on streets. What they really mean is “won’t” or “not obligated to”, which is different that “can’t”. My 12 year-old understands this concept. It’s matter of will, not rules. And certainly not what the voters had in mind in 1995 when they approved the original tax, nor what they were expecting when they agreed to adjust the language in 2000. They thought they were getting a bunch of cool new junk for the community.

I’m pretty sure we could make a good solid case that just about every road in town is somehow “related” to - and we’re paraphrasing here - auditoriums, projects related to entertainment, convention, tourist and exhibition facilities, amphitheaters, concert halls, and public parks, park facilities, and events, open space improvements, learning centers, municipal buildings, museums and related stores, restaurant, concession, and automobile parking facilities, related area transportation facilities, water and sewer facilities, and recycling facilities.

In the end, that thing they threw in as a afterthought about taking the handcuffs off as far as spending as much as they want was the coup d’grace. “…removing all cap restrictions currently imposed on the Section 4B Corporation allowing free and unencumbered use of all money collected.” Oh man, that was great. Heck, if we’re getting all those sweet tasties, why not let 4-B spend without restriction?

Just in case you harbor any lingering doubt about what the voters’ intent was when they approved the 2000 scenario, here are some quotes right out of the Houston-owned

Herald-Zeitung from the weeks leading up to the 2000 election. Emphasis ours:

From the Editorial desk of the HZ: “The city also collects a one-fourth of 1 percent sales tax called the 4B tax, which also refers to its enabling legislation. One-eighth of that goes to streets and drainage projects and one-eighth of that goes to other improvement projects.”

And, if that weren’t damning enough, the editorial goes on to say:

“If approved, no limits would be placed on the amount of money spent on needed streets and drainage or any other legal project for the 4-B sales tax.”

We know. That’s more then enough evidence to shut both Meek and 4-B President Bob Gray down on the subject, but these guys have moxie. They will continue to insist that 45-B monies cannot be used for streets and drainage, and furthermore, that the electorate wanted it that way. So here’s another tidbit from the HZ, this time from a member of Council serving at the time of the election, to drive home the point. Former District Three Councilwoman The Debbie Flume had this to say at the time:

“Should Proposition 2 pass, my hope is that the 4B board and city council will heed the words of the people and allocate a large portion of this fund to address the immediate problems pertaining to streets and drainage.”

Looks like The Debbie already had concerns that we might get screwed on this deal, and she was right. There’s more, from more people, but space is limited and this horse has been dead for a while. We’ll rest our case with that. Put Meek’s excuses on notice that they will no longer be accepted as valid.

Here’s what the voters didn’t approve: Millions of dollars to the Scooter Store, Grande Cable, Silver State Helicopters, Leisure Pools, Ashley Furniture, New Braunfels Smokers, Buc-ee’s, etc. None of that was explicitly mentioned on the ballot, or even conceived of by the voters, but Meek managed to get it done. 4-B has the will for those projects. Nobody said “can’t” to those deals. Nobody’s saying “can’t” to new ones, either.

Dead. To. Rights.Recently, we found out that 4-B has been doing Chapter 380 deals for years. These are arrangements that use cash directly from the City’s general fund for corporate welfare purposes. So, while Meek and Gray will steadfastly maintain that 4-B funds can’t be used for roads, and that the voters wanted it that way, there’s no argument to be had that General Funds can’t be used for streets and drainage. None. So if you don’t feel like listening to the excuses made about voters

approving a massive corporate welfare program, bring up Chapter 380. Let them squirm under that heat for a while.

For the record, none of the cities that City Hall has cited as examples of great Chapter 380 success stories - namely San Antonio, Austin, El Paso, Arlington and Plano – have 4-A or 4-B boards. These guys are double-dipping the living heck out of the local taxpayer for the purposes of corporate welfare. Hooray. We’ve said it before and we stand by it: Michael Meek is a flipping genius. Disingenuous, to be sure, but brilliant nonetheless. As for Bob Gray, well, the jury’s still out on him. Depends on how long he allows himself to be Meek’s whipping boy.

Hey kids, let’s put on an audit!We’ve requested every 4-A and 4-B contract ever entered into by the City, along with the City’s contracts with Meek’s Chamber of Commerce. We’re going to audit 4-B’s history and throw it down in black-and-white for y’all. The cost for the discs is about $500. We’re having a bake sale, so to speak, and selling our extremely rare, incredibly elegant TX Citizen bumper stickers for $25 each in an effort to raise those funds, and give you a chance to participate in some journalistic adventurism.

If you’d like to get a piece of this, visit our Facebook page at facebook.com/txcitizen and check out the post we’ve pinned to the top of the newsfeed.

Time is of the essence, as we only have until Monday to get these funds raised - information requests have a deadline for pickup, and if that deadline is missed the City can legally deny any future requests for the same data. Then we’ll never know what happened to all those amphitheaters, museums, and parking lots.

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Dear Mexican: Recently, I visited

a viejecita in an assisted living home.

As I’m getting on in years myself, I

wondered how I would fare in such a

place. Fortunately I like to eat cottage

cheese, but I would like some salsa

with it, or better yet, an occasional

jalapeño en escabeche. Are there

places for those of us who like spicy

Mexican food? Perhaps you have

answered this question already in

Taco USA, but I have been so busy

lately that I have not yet cracked the

cover of my copy.Sabor Para Mi

Dear Flavor for Me: Time was when the

Mexican could boast that we raza would

never join cruel gabachos in exiling our aging

parents to senior homes—that we let them live

by themselves because mami y papi were tuf

enough, or at the most housed them in their

golden años in the casas of our youngest

sibling because that’s what mija was born

to do. But Mexicans tend to embrace the

gabacho proclivity to abandon the familia the

longer we’re in the U.S.

“Growth Of Racial And Ethnic Minorities

In US Nursing Homes Driven By Demographics

And Possible Disparities In Options,” published

in the July 2011 issue of Health Affairs,

showed that the number of Latinos in nursing

homes grew by 54.9 percent between 1999

and 2008, while the number of gabachos

decreased by 10.2 percent.

While the researchers blamed poverty

and a lack of access to better medical options

for the increased rates, maybe all those old

gringos are moving out because they don’t

want to spend their last days living with

Mexicans? Anyhoo, the way those nursing

home rates are going, Sabor Para Mi, I

don’t think you have to worry about the lack

Mexican food at your retirement home, but

rather cottage cheese—what Mexican likes

that cochinada?

Dear Mexican: Why is it that when

black families are shown in commercials

on TV they are usually— scratch

that—always portrayed living in nice

neighborhood, living in nice houses and

even though they seem to just be chilling

at home, they’re all hanging out dressed

to the nines. Not to mention the youngest

member of the family usually talks like he

just graduated from Harvard! Meanwhile,

when a Mexican family is portrayed on

television, the only thing that’s missing is

the cockroaches crawling down the kitchen

walls in the background? And why and

where is the so-called Mexican American

Defense League or some other kind of

worthless raza representation arguing

this point? Are they afraid their corporate

media masters might call them out as

INTOLERANT or HATERS or any other tag

that might threaten their important JALES

and big fat City Hall payChecks???

Growing up in Los Angeles, I was

always taught that the raza was brave

and strong and fighters when it came

time to get down. But unfortunately,

that seems to be nothing but a fairy tale

because for the most part, all I’ve ever

seen in my people is a bunch of meek,

subservient pushovers. We seem to be

more preoccupied these days about

how “Black Lives Matter” than our own

social political situation.

Shame on Us

Dear Wab: It’s one thing to be rightfully

concerned about the horrible representation

of Mexicans on television (a good antidote?

The wonderful Cristela on ABC), but to whine

that blacks are getting too much positive love?

After more than a century of being depicted as

toms, coons, mulattoes, mammies and bucks?

The Republican Party called—they want their

token racist Mexican back. OBLIGE THEM…

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On Net NeutralityPart of the reason why we need less

government is because, even at current

levels, it’s a full-time job trying to keep up

with the ways The Man is sticking it to you.

It’s like dealing with an octopus pickpocket:

no matter how many hands you’re watching,

there’s always one more finding its way to

your wallet. Because of this, you could be

forgiven for missing the administration slyly

bypassing Congress and deciding to have the

FCC apply Net Neutrality to the internet. Take

notice that Net Neutrality is capitalized; it’s a

title, not a description, and the title is about

as deceptive as any other euphemism coming

out of Washington. Net Neutrality probably

won’t usher in the apocalyptic damage that

some of its opponents have described, but you

can be certain it will not be benign. In the

long run, Net Neutrality will damage the very

nature of the Internet (exactly the opposite of

what it was supposed to do) and ensure that

long-term innovation is stifled.

While this falls squarely on the

shoulders of the Obama administration, that

this is the fault of the Democrats is purely

coincidental. Stupidly expanding government

is a bipartisan enterprise. The Republicans

could have just as easily been on the wrong

side of this one, and unless there are some

surprising and much welcomed changes to

the Republican Party, it’s certain that what the

Democrats have wrought, the Republican will

not tear asunder (They’ll even use it to their

own advantage, in time).

Net Neutrality was billed as a way to

ensure that all Internet traffic was treated

the same. Like most liberal causes, it was

wrapped in the cloak of fairness and big

business interests were held up as the

danger. Also like most liberal causes, it had

no basis in reality.

The argument went that ISPs could

decide to offer priority to certain types of

traffic and slow down other types. Such

a plan had been suggested for services

like Netflix, but nothing of the sort had

ever been implemented for any prolonged

period. Even ISP giants with near-

monopolies couldn’t manage to control

content flowing to their customers as they

wanted. The free market had done an

admirable job of keeping the Internet open

without regulation. The customers want

what the customers want, and no business

could stand in the way of that economic

truism for any length of time.

In essence, the FCC is instituting new

rules in an effort to solve a problem that the

free market has already solved. Some content

is more difficult to bring to the consumer than

others. Netflix provides an excellent example

of this. Streaming video content requires a

good deal of bandwidth, and that requires

more, and more expensive, hardware for the

ISP. Because this represents a cost, it must be

covered somewhere. ISPs might love the idea

of telling Netflix that they must pay more for

access to the ISPs consumers, but the reality is

that those consumers aren’t willing to accept

that they can’t get Netflix from their ISP. Up

until this point, ISPs have charged varying rates

to consumers for greater levels of consumption.

Time brings down the cost of the bandwidth

and, in the end, all consumers benefit without

paying extra. Problem solved.

Fans of Net Neutrality have suggested

that ISP giants that have a monopoly

or near monopoly in certain areas will

change this equation and be able to censor

content. These types of monopolies have

been in effect for longer than the Internet

has been publicly available, though, and

they haven’t done so yet. What have they

been waiting for? More to the point, who

cares? What business of the government’s

is it how these entities do business? If your

response is that the ISPs have monopolistic

powers that are damaging to the market,

ask yourself who gave them these

monopolistic powers in the first place.

The greatest danger of Net Neutrality,

of course, is that it trades a nonexistent

overlord for a very real one. The FCC

placed the Internet under Title II control

(something that they probably don’t have

the authority to do) in order to give them

the power to decide how content is treated.

They’ve promised us that they intend to use

this power to ensure all content is treated

equally, but that isn’t a requirement. Even

if the current administration uses this power

with restraint (something they have shown no

propensity for), the next administration might

not be so noble. In theory, the FCC is free

from partisan influence. In practice, nothing

could be further from the truth (something

that this move, encouraged by the Obama

administration, shows pretty clearly).

The power to determine how content is

treated is just the beginning. Title II is a wide-

reaching designation. It affords the FCC the

same regulatory power over the Internet

that it has over telecommunications. That

means control over regulation, pricing and

taxation. I expect that we will see a stealth

attempt at censorship and the collection of

sales taxes before Obama leaves office.

Not that it matters if we don’t; the power

that this move provides is not going to be left

unwielded for long.

I suppose the promise of a free and

open Internet was always too good to be

true. I expect that Net Neutrality will mark

the beginning of a slow, winding slide into

regulatory hell for the Internet. Regulatory

capture will ensure that innovation is

strangled. Taxing authority will diminish its

utility as a medium of trade. Last, but not

least, political correctness and special interest

will reduce the content to pabulum.

Make no mistake, I’m not trying to

apply the apocalyptic vision I mentioned at

the beginning of this article to the passage

of Net Neutrality. The Internet is such a

marvelous invention that it will mostly likely

be decades before the government is able

to ruin it in any meaningful way. When they

finally do, it may mark the end of an era,

but it will hardly be the end of the world. I

expect that some new innovation will make

the Internet unnecessary or anachronistic

with time, but it’s a shame that it will have to.

An even greater shame, though, is that the

people who helped to pass Net Neutrality

have absolutely no sense of irony. Perhaps

the coming lesson will help.

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