Taxpayers in Action in Texas
Districts Involved
Is This Your District?
The school districts listed below have signed Chapter 313 Agreements to subsidize the Solar Farm Industry with taxpayer’s dollars. The contracts signed by these districts total $5,145,000,000.00 dollars to date.
| Itasca |
| Hillsboro |
| Blum |
| Covington |
| Corsicana |
| Hubbard |
| Abbott |
| Italy |
| Bynum |
| Coolidge |
| Axtell |
| Clifton |
| Groesbeck |
| Kerens |
| Mt. Calm |
Fraud and Corruption
How Districts are Involved
School districts in Texas have forfeited millions of dollars to tax revenues by entering into agreements with solar farm companies and giving them lucrative tax abatements. Taxpayers in school districts have no voice in these decisions made by school districts in closed door board meetings. Lawyers and consultants make big money by representing the solar farm companies involved while school districts sacrifice the rights and interests of taxpayers in their districts. School districts across the state of Texas have been hiding the cost of operating school districts for decades from taxpayers using another end-around third-party financing arrangement and off-balance sheet long-term-lease purchase agreements. This has been exposed in the Rio Grande Valley and now districts in the north central Texas area are being exposed as part of the investigation by taxpayers who are digging in deep to fraud and corruption in school districts across Texas.
Cases Being Filed
Reasons for Cases Filed
Itasca ISD
>Failure to protect the taxpayer’s dollar
> Violating the constitutional rights of taxpayers
> Failure to follow standard contracting protocols required by school districts
> Failure to produce records that have been requested pertaining to taxpayer dollars and how money was used by the district
> Refusing to cooperate with taxpayers who are investigating the financial conduct of district
> Refusing to provide financial records and cost used to create the annual 2024-2025 budget for the district
> Obligating taxpayers with bond programs using unsecured tax revenue funds from Chapter 313 Agreements as source of the debt payment. Tax revenues from solar farms are not guaranteed and not backed by a performance or surety bond leaving taxpayers exposed for the debt without taxpayer input
La Joya ISD
> Failing to disclose $51.7 million dollars of debt to the taxpayers since 2019 in regard to the Energy Contract with Performance Services Inc. implicated in the US Justice Departments fraud and corruption investigation that led to multipole indictments of public officials for bribery and kickback schemes that were exposed.
Government Entities Involved
Named in the Lawsuits
> The Texas Education Agency (TEA)
> State Comptroller’s Office
> Hill County Commissioners Court
> Hill County Central Appraisal District
>Hidalgo County Central Appraisal District