Hill County Center of Corruption in Texas!
Hill County center of corruption and taxpayers in Hill County have found themselves in the crosshairs of corrupt county government, the central appraisal district and local school districts. Taxpayers are in an all-out war against corruption at every level in Hill County. Fraud and corruption are rampant and costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars with corrupt energy contracts and Chapter 313 Agreements executed by local school districts. Taxpayers are subsidizing the “Green Energy” industry via lucrative tax abatement contracts signed by local school board members. Current contracts that have been signed and under investigation by taxpayers in Bosque, Ellis, Hill, Navarro, Limestone and McLennan Counties have a total value of to $5, 145,000,000.00 to date.
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The JETI Now in Texas!
Austin bureaucrats have done it again to taxpayers in Texas. Just when taxpayers think things may be getting better their trustworthy elected leaders in Austin pulled another fast one. When state leaders started getting pushback and were called out for subsidizing big business on the backs of taxpayers with what were formally known as Chapter 313 Agreements, they decided to let the program expire with the sunset clause in December of 2022. During the next legislative session in 2023 slick “Willies” pulled a fast one and created a new program with a catchy title, ” The Jobs, Energy, Technology and Innovation Act” also known as the JETI! Austin bureaucrats are no different than leaders in Washington and are addicted to money and kickbacks from big business. This was a stealth and run-around tactic used to distract the taxpaying public from what goes on behind closed door meetings and school board sessions across the state of Texas.
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Hill County Center of Corruption in Texas
School Districts and Central Appraisal Districts have robbed citizens of their wealth and taken their homes to keep the government run school systems in operation.
Corrupt Central Appraisal Districts
The Hill County Central Appraisal District has helped give Hill County the center of corruption in Texas award! Crooked and corrupt central appraisal districts across the state have for decades funded school districts by elevating property values to fund fraudulent school budgets submitted by school districts year after year in Texas. The money that changes hands between government entities just to keep people employed is staggering, but it is the taxpayers and homeowners that are paying the ultimate price. Many have lost their most valuable asset due to fraud and corruption by elected public officials.
School Districts Out of Control
No one in Texas actually knows and understands how much it cost to educate a single child in Texas schools. The budget approved by the Itasca Independent School District in north central Texas is just another example of out of touch school districts are with the real cost of education. Each year school districts simply bump up the budget from the previous year based on what they hear from the central appraisal districts in May of each year. Every year the cost of education to taxpayers climbs exponentially with little to show. This is nothing short of a unified effort between school districts and central appraisal districts across the state of Texas. Year and after year increasing property taxes has caused many people to lose their homes. Many of these individuals are elderly and have worked for years to own their own home but now have nowhere to live.
Hill County Center of Corruption in Texas – Elected Leaders Put on Notice
Taxpayers have sent a letter to attorney general Ken Paxton demanding he take immediate action regarding issues with the Itasca Independent School District in Hill County. Four and a half years have gone by and not a single elected official at any level has taken a stand to stop the fraud and corruption surrounding a fraudulent energy contract and multiple Chapter 313 Agreements signed by the Itasca ISD. The district has forfeited millions of dollars of available tax revenue by granting lucrative tax abatements to solar companies and the district is subsidizing this industry on the backs of the taxpayers in Hill County.
Itasca ISD Center of Corruption in Hill County
The Itasca ISD located in Hill County in north central Texas has been the subject and focus of several probes and investigations by taxpayers to expose fraud and corruption. This is regard to multiple Chapter 313 Agreements worth $965,000,000.00 the district signed to subsidize the green energy industry on the backs of taxpayers.
What are Chapter 313 Agreements?
These agreements were designed and put in place by elected state leaders and to provide lucrative tax breaks to big business. Local school boards were used as pawns by state leaders to provide a cash cow for developers and owners of solar farms in Texas. These agreements allow solar farm investors to use the guarantee made by local school districts to leverage the tax breaks over a ten-year period and as collateral to secure funding to construct solar farms across Texas.
School Boards Operating Above Law
School boards in several north central Texas counties including the Itasca ISD have put themselves in a very difficult position by making a loan to solar farms by sacrificing tax revenues that should be flowing into the local school districts. School districts and board members will soon realize the state of Texas and the state comptroller’s office have overstepped their authority and violated the rights of taxpayers in Texas. These actions between the state of Texas, local central appraisal districts and school districts and board members are nothing short of extortion and racketeering by elected public officials.
School Districts Refusing to Cooperate with Taxpayers
The Itasca ISD school board and former superintendent(s) in place at the time the Chapter 313 Agreements were signed refused to listen taxpayers in their district regarding the legal issues and problems with these agreements. The Itasca ISD moved forward and have financially obligated the taxpayers without their approval or vote. These actions are direct violation of taxpayer’s rights in Texas. Efforts are underway to bring these matters forward and to file lawsuits in federal court against the district and the board members involved.
| Attention Homeowners and Taxpayers in Hill County and the Itasca ISD! |
Click Here to see the Memorandum of Understanding sent to the Itasca ISD.
If you’re a homeowner living in Hill County and within the Itasca ISD taxing jurisdiction and have a complaint or issues regarding your property taxes for the Itasca ISD and want to file a complaint or join with taxpayers in the district, please contact Jeff Mashburn at: jeffm.tca@yahoo.com, send your name, address and a brief statement describing the nature of your complaint. I’m working to get this information out to as many homeowners and taxpayers till the middle of January next year. We are aiming to have our cases filed by mid-February.
The process is underway to file multiple lawsuits in court regarding the conduct of the Itasca ISD since 2016 and issues pertaining to the financial accountability of the district with taxpayer funds that violate the constitutional rights of taxpayers living within the taxing jurisdiction of the district. We are waiting to find out which federal district court the cases will be filed in. The lawsuits involve the Itasca ISD, Hill County Appraisal District, Hill County Commissioners Court, Texas Education Agency (TEA), State Comptroller’s Office and the owners of the Solar Farm projects that received lucrative tax abatements from the district. These cases are being filed in regard to three Chapter 313 Agreements signed totaling $965,000,000.00 without taxpayer approval or a vote. The district has obligated the taxpayers financially within the district for ten years in the amount of $84,600,000.00 dollars. There are multiple issues with the district’s financial status in regard to existing bonds issued by the district that have failed to be paid off and discrepancies with the annual school budget adopted and passed by the district on August 26th, 2024. Multiple formal requests in writing have been submitted to obtain financial information from the district. As of November 5, 2024, the district has informed me in a meeting at the administration office the district is not going to release information that has been requested. See the Memorandum of Understanding that was sent to the district above in the link.
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