Now that a certain local blogger is trying to instruct us in the budget process and states that once the board members of an elected entity pass the budget at the beginning of the fiscal year everything is set in stone, we beg to differ.
Yes, elected bodies pass budgets as state laws require. Hopefully, they are balanced. If not, then some overestimate the projected income to make them so. The Gilberto Hinojosa county budgets are a case in point. Hinojosa and his former commissioner courts would approve budgets with inflated income projections and hoped that sometime during the year they could tap into lapsed salaries of bond interests to make up the deficit they knew was there.
And if you look at any agenda from almost every entity, you will notice that there are countless budget amendments made at almost every meeting. These can address salaries, outlays for products, materials and services, etc.
That an entity passes a budge at the beginning of the year does not mean that they automatically approve of the expenditures throughout the out of hand.
If so, why did board president Kiko Rendon and TSC President Lily Tercero place the item on the agenda in the first place then?
Jacks of all trades and masters of none like the blogger we speak of like to lecture folks loudly and long about how they should go about doing the people's business without ever having held an elected position. This particular individual lectures the Brownsville Independent School District board members and administrators on how to educate children, TSC on how to educate the bigger kids, the county on how to run its business, the judiciary on how to administer justice, the FBI on how to investigate crime, the president on how to execute the law, and God on how to be celestial.
To reiterate our point. The TSC trustees never voted to give $25,000 to United Brownsville. They did discuss and failed to act on giving the $25,000 to that organization.
The vote that was taken was a negative one. A majority of the trustees voted against a motion that would suspend any pending cash outlays or future payments to United Brownsville made by trustee Dr. Rey Garcia. They did not vote on any motion to make the payment because no one made it.
Does that mean that a negative vote on the motion will replace a positive vote on a motion to make the payment. That's not the way it works.
Trustees Art Rendon and Ramon Hinojosa wanted to delay the vote until there was a legal opinion and a presentation by United Brownsville before they voted. In other words, they would have been "nay" votes on a cash outlay if the motion to fund it had been taken.
If anything, this trivial issue on the part of the blogger gives him the opportunity to bash Adela Garza and others gratuitously. That, apparently, makes it all worth his while. Ah, those are that little man's trivial pleasures. What a life. What a waste.
4 comments:
Bobby ta pendejo.
Si esta pero bien bien, and his friend Ed Rivera supplies him with all the info. Ed tira la piedra y esconde la mano. Oh yea cause he is the Harvard graduate. He simply is above all of the other trustees and follows the great Kiko Rendon.
The Blimp! Is Limp!!
Nicer ways to describe Bobby The Idiot:
*The lights are on but no one is home.
*Smart as bait.
*The stove is on, but nothing is cooking.
*The wheel is spinning, but the hamster isn't moving.
*One taco short of a combo plate.
*No grain in his silo.
*Not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
*As bright as Alaska in December.
*Eating with only one chopstick.
*Missing a few buttons on his remote control.
*His antennas aren't picking up all the channels.
*Just a few feet short of the runway.
*The gates are down, the lights are flashing......but the train isn't moving.
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