{"id":38658,"date":"2019-08-29T03:18:37","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T03:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38658"},"modified":"2019-08-29T03:18:37","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T03:18:37","slug":"canyon-isd-does-the-seemingly-impossible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38658","title":{"rendered":"Canyon ISD does the (seemingly) impossible"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=CanyonISD%20%23AGNMedia%20%23propertytaxes%20%23publiceducation&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>My jaw dropped when I saw this story on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amarillo.com\/news\/20190827\/canyon-isd-approves-tax-rate-decrease-for-2019-20-school-year\">Amarillo.com<\/a> &#8212; the online version of the Amarillo Globe-News: The Canyon Independent School District Board of Trustees has approved a budget that will <em>decrease<\/em> the tax rate for CISD constituents for the upcoming fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p><em>What? Huh? How in the world?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I lived in the Canyon ISD for more than two decades. Most of that time I owned a home in southwest Amarillo. The Canyon district reaches into the southernmost portions of Amarillo. I don&#8217;t recall ever benefitting from a tax decrease from the governmental entity that comprises the largest portion of property owners&#8217; tax bill.<\/p>\n<p>This is a good deal.<\/p>\n<p>I want to cheer the Canyon public school system that I used to support with my property tax money. It&#8217;s not every day when government can make such an announcement.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not that dislike paying taxes. I know they are an essential part of financing the myriad duties we demand of our government. I don&#8217;t mind paying federal taxes, or college taxes, or city and county taxes \u2026 or <em>public school district taxes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The good news for my wife and me is that we&#8217;re old enough to quality for a Texas homestead exemption that freezes our tax burden.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the news out of Canyon ISD puts a smile on my mug. CISD managed to give its teachers a raise, build a new school, maintain and hopefully improve existing campuses \u2026 and decrease the tax burden on the residents who foot the bill.<\/p>\n<p>CISD board president Bruce Cobb called the decrease a &#8220;momentous&#8221; occasion. That might be a bit of an overstatement \u2026 but not by much.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=CanyonISD%20%23AGNMedia%20%23propertytaxes%20%23publiceducation&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My jaw dropped when I saw this story on Amarillo.com &#8212; the online version of the Amarillo Globe-News: The Canyon Independent School District Board of Trustees has approved a budget that will decrease the tax rate for CISD constituents for the upcoming fiscal year. What? Huh? How in the world? I lived in the Canyon &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38658\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Canyon ISD does the (seemingly) impossible<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6251],"tags":[179,841,3759],"class_list":["post-38658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-news","tag-agn-media","tag-canyon-isd","tag-property-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38659,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38658\/revisions\/38659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}