Legal Challenges by Taxpayers in Texas Underway
Its official now! The State Comptroller’s Office punted regarding the collection of tax receipts and the validity of Chapter 313 Agreements signed by school districts in six counties in the North Cental Texas area. Taxpayers have been waiting on a response from Glenn Hegar’s office regarding multiple issues found with the application and contracts signed by over a dozen school districts in Texas located in Bosque, Ellis, Hill, Limestone, McLennan and Navarro Counties. School districts and Central Appraisal districts and public officials and school board members will bear the brunt of the complaints filed by taxpayers. It was the position of taxpayers the State of Texas would throw school districts under the bus regarding the fraud and corruption that has been exposed regarding tax abatement contracts with solar farm owners and operators totaling $5.2 billion dollars. School districts have forfeited over $1.0 billion dollars of available tax revenues to school districts over a twenty-five-year period. Legal challenges by taxpayers in Hill County Texas are underway to expose and stop fraud and corruption by school district administrators and board members regarding taxpayers’ rights under the US Constitution. Lawyers and Consultants have made over $2.5 million dollars in fees while putting taxpayers on the hook again for property tax increases in several north central Texas school districts. Based on the letter and response from State Comptroller Glenn Hegar’s office taxpayers can move forward with their complaints regarding the misappropriation of public funds and financial conduct that has impacted the taxpayers in several school districts. The first complaints being filed involve the Itasca ISD in Hill County. Taxpayers in other counties and school districts are finding out now what has happened in their districts and following the lead of taxpayers in Hill County.
Click Here – Short List of School Bond Debt in Texas School Districts
Click Here – Memorandum of Understanding Letter Sent to Itasca ISD
Click Here – To See Letter Sent to The State Comptroller’s Office
Click Here – Letter of Notification to Hill County Central Appraisal District
Click Here – Partial List of Solar Farm Contracts Executed in North Central Texas
Click Here – Sign the Petition at Mockingbird Properties and Get Involved Today!
Legal Challenges by Taxpayers 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 |
Legal Challenges by Taxpayers are underway at this time. Taxpayers must take these measures to stop the fraud and corruption across Texas in school districts.
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
Legal Challenges by Taxpayers and 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
> Itasca ISD Board of Trustees and Superintendent of Schools
> The Texas Education Agency (TEA)
> State Comptroller’s Office
> Hill County Commissioners Court
> Hill County Central Appraisal District
>Hidalgo County Central Appraisal District