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Boerne & Comal ISDs, Any Others, Should Join Midland ISD’s Chapter 49 Lawsuit
Dear Texans,
If you haven't heard, the Midland ISD School Board of Trustees has had enough and unanimously voted on 21 July 2026, to sue the State of Texas over Texas Chapter 49.
See story here: Midland ISD Votes To Sue Texas In Fight That Could Rewrite School Finance (Dallas Express News).
If you're not familiar with Texas Chapter 49, it's basically a socialist's argument that communities are "too unfairly wealthy" and it's "not fair" that a community can gain higher property tax revenue as a result into its school district. Thus, wealthier school districts had to give up significant portions of their local property tax revenue (your hard-earned money as a Texas taxpayer) to poorer school districts.
And low and behold, this socialist argument all started right here in the San Antonio area, with SAISD and Edgewood ISD suing the State of Texas over Alamo Heights ISD over different years, in what resulted in the creation of Texas Chapter 41, and later renamed Chapter 49.
Boerne ISD has paid almost $120 million dollars to Texas Chapter 49.
Comal ISD has also been subject to Texas Chapter 49 over the last 20 years to the tune of $75 million dollars and counting, all the while it has at least 10 Title I campuses in its geography.
There are others, such as Fredericksburg ISD, paying a whopping $205.5 million to Texas Chapter 49.
Notice any trend? Midland ISD, Fredericksburg ISD? Boerne ISD? Comal ISD?
These districts and their feeder patterns are full of hard-working Texas taxpayer communities, with Texas grit in their teeth and red blood in their veins.
There are others. Not to say districts, like Eanes ISD in the Austin area who have paid a staggering $1.872 billion to Texas Chapter 49, don't deserve their money back either.
For far too long, these ISD's hard-working Texas taxpayer communities' monies have been rustled by "special interests" and their attorney-lobbyists outside their districts and sold to the Texas Legislature under false narratives.
Comal ISD faces yet another $28 million dollar deficit, with those 10 aforementioned Title I campuses in its geography. If this is the case, why is the State of Texas taking Comal ISD's local property tax revenue and handing it to some other community, or using it even in the general treasury, with no accountability or traceability of the money, when the monies are clearly needed to stay inside Comal ISD?
Makes you scratch your head.
And as far as "special interest goes," all of these ISD's best interests are the "most special of all": keeping every cent of their very own local property tax revenue.
They've earned it! That's Texan! That's American!
These communities are compassionate. But anyone's compassion should only extend as far as their trust. And for many decades, these ISDs and their feeder pattern communities have been exploited.
Any and all ISD's that have ever been subject of Texas Chapter 49 should intervene as a co-plaintiff and permissive joinder in Midland ISD’s Chapter 49 lawsuit.
At a minimum, every ISD that has ever been subject of Texas Chapter 49 should file "amicus curiae" onto any court case and lawsuit Midland ISD has filed.
Texas Community Preservation stands in solidarity with Midland ISD and their hard-working Texas taxpayer communities. We too have Texas grit in our teeth, and red blood in our veins.
Texans deserve better.
Texans deserver the best.
Stop the 281 Steal!
Stop the 281 Steal!
Scan the QR code to the left, to sign the petition, or click here.
The City of San Antonio (CoSA) is trying to saddle Comal County taxpayers with CoSA's bill.
Don't forget, Bexar County has a similar "Affordable Housing" program. Bexar County should not be able to pass of a tax burden onto Comal County taxpayers either.
Years ago, Comal Independent School District (ISD) and Comal County taxpayers were generous enough to agree to provide public school services in northern Bexar County, along with other areas outside of Comal County's actual borders.
Through a crafted strong-armed political manipulation of Bexar County Precinct 3 Emergency Services District (ESD) board members by targeting their own personal neighborhoods with forced annexation, prior to Senate Bill (SB)-6 passing in the 86th legislature, CoSA coerced these ESD board members into signing an Interlocal Agreement (ILA) that allowed CoSA to annex 1000 feet to the left, and 1000 feet to the right, of Highway (HWY) 281 North all the way up to the Comal County border.
Virtually, CoSA would not have been able to annex these lands without demonstrating a fire and ambulance services plan to the area.
But, by politically strong-arming the Bexar County Precinct 3 ESD board members as described above, CoSA was off the hook.
As a result, CoSA has scale-level plans through its Transit Oriented District (TOD) concept to erect Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) projects along HWY 281 North in this area that receives public school service by Comal ISD.
We sat down with a source and examined real estate data from high confidence sourcing.
We cross-referenced, and tried to export from our data sources, a million different ways to one, to determine if there are any single family residential Comal ISD property taxpayers that live inside CoSA city limits. This would mean they would be eligible to vote in CoSA city elections, including to have been eligible for CoSA's "Affordable Housing" bond that was put to public vote.
We couldn't find....a single....one.
This has been one of CoSA's arguments: "We put our Affordable Housing bond program to public vote and it passed."
There are virtually no single-family residential Comal ISD property tax payers inside the CoSA city limits that would have been eligible to vote for CoSA's "Affordable Housing" bond.
On the side of error, we are willing to give CoSA 100 households and two eligible voters per household in that graphic that are zoned for Comal ISD that would have been eligible to vote for CoSA's "Affordable Housing" bond for these LIHTC projects.
So, let's say there are 200 voters in that CoSA geography that happens to be zoned for Comal ISD.
CoSA has already placed one of these LIHTC projects called Canyon Pass apartments at 281 North and Overlook Parkway that is zoned for Comal ISD, with again, very little public notification if at all.
Virtually no one knew about it being a LIHTC project.
Now, CoSA is placing another LIHTC project called "Creek Bend" at 281 North and Borgfeld Drive that is zoned for Comal ISD.
Each one of these projects bring in hundreds of students into Comal ISD schools and won't pay millions upon millions of property taxes to Comal ISD while the rest of Comal ISD property taxpayers obviously have to foot the bill.
Most sources put Comal County registered voter numbers around 143,000 - 146,000 registered voters.
We'll give CoSA the low end for comparison sake: 143,000 registered voters in Comal County.
So, 200 out of 143,000 is about 0.14%.
This means that an estimated 99.86% of Comal ISD property tax payers have no political representation to CoSA and would have not been eligible to vote for CoSA's "Affordable Housing" bond that will overwhelm local Comal ISD schools in the 281 North area with enrollment numbers. The schools are not even inside CoSA city limits, but provide public school service to that geography.
These CoSA LIHTC projects will force a property tax burden increase onto Comal County taxpayers.
Folks! This is taxation without representation!
Not to mention CoSA's overt policy on placing "undocumented migrants" and "criminal justice system involved" people in these projects.
So, while CoSA plans on placing Tren de Aragua in Comal ISD schools through these LIHTC projects, hard-working Texas taxpayers in Comal County and those in Bexar County outside CoSA city limits, need to press your State Representatives and your State Senators to put a stop to this in the next legislative cycle, or even sooner.
Remember, CoSA has big plans for even more of the LIHTC projects through its TOD concepts.
Don't forget, as a Comal ISD property taxpayer, you're already paying for other school districts' "hand up" through Texas Chapter 49 (aka "Robinhood Act") that has depleted Comal ISD out of $75 million dollars and counting, with no accountability of the use of the money.
Don't forget, Bexar County has a similar "Affordable Housing" program. Bexar County should not be able to pass of a tax burden onto Comal County taxpayers either.
Stop the 281 Steal!
Sign this petition and promote its awareness to Comal ISD property taxpayers and to Comal County taxpayers at large.
Texans deserve better.
Texans deserve the best.
Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) Terminated by Secretary of HUD Scott Turner
Under President Trump, new Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Scott Turner announced on February 26, 2025, the termination of the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule that President Obama had originally enacted, as President Obama's means to politically and socially engineer changes into suburbs and rural America.
During President Trump's first term, he rescinded this rule, with President Biden turning it back on.
In general, the relinquishing of this rule again, is a broad positive effect on hard-working Texas taxpayer communities who have spent the fruits of their lives' long labor, to earn the ability to live where they do, because of their strong work ethic, Texas grit, and personal fortitude and perseverance.
Thus, at a level, the vanquishing of the rule, is a partial effect, into removing a national political and social goal and objective to force low-income and Section 8 housing into hard-working Texas taxpayer communities.
Notwithstanding, with the rule now gone, hard-working Texas taxpayer communities should also understand, that in practicality, the departure of this rule simply removes a higher amount of bureaucratic red tape and paperwork the Obama administration required by organizations such as the San Antonio Housing Trust (SAHT), municipalities, or even counties, to prove that they were in fact "Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing."
Thus, if legislators at the State of Texas level, and politicians and their bureaucratic staffs at the municipal and county levels, and the special interest lobbyists behind them (who make millions of profits off of these programs), maintain their current political and social goals and objectives towards forcing low-income and Section 8 housing into hard-working Texas taxpayer communities, organizations like the SAHT simply don't have to fill out as much paperwork bound for the federal government.
Thus, the importance of hard-working Texas taxpayer communities still remains at an all-time high, to have to champion legislatives changes, as revealed on https://www.texascommunitypreservation.org, in order to preserve our Texas communities.
Amicus Curiae Window Extended to 10 March 2025
The Justices of the Texas Supreme Court ruled to allow an extension to 10 March 2025, of parties claiming "injury" from forced ETJ to file their "Amicus Curiae" brief and letter on Elliott v. City of College Station.
Elliott v. City of College Station, Texas Supreme Court, Oral Arguments Start in mid-January 2025
Elliott v. City of College Station is a legal battle between a property owner fighting ETJ status with the City of College Station, that will be decided by the Texas State Supreme Court. The outcome of this case, which may take years, could result in a crushing defeat to the concept of ETJs altogether. This would be a huge victory for Texans who bought outside of city limits and are currently in an ETJ status. Essentially, depending on the outcome, ETJs would disappear altogether and hard-working Texans can enjoy more of the fruits of their lives' long labor away from the political claws of municipalities.
Regardless of the outcome of this case, municipalities and the politicians who lead them, will continue to attempt find ways to circumvent the will of the people, through special interests lobbyists and the attorneys who represent special interest organizations. Thus, as the outcome of the case is critical to like-minded hard-working Texas communities, changes in the legislature are still needed.
Elliott v. City of College Station, Texas Supreme Court, Oral Arguments: 1/15/2025
Opening Oral Arguments for Elliot v. City of College Station, Texas Supreme Court.
Case 23-0767
NOTE: Multiple cases' opening oral arguments were heard on this day. Elliott vs. City of College Station begins around the 1:04:06 mark in the YouTube video.
Elliott v. City of College Station, Texas Supreme Court, Case Page
Periodically check back on the link below for key documents, summary updates, and events related to this case.