By Special to El Paso Matters, El Paso Matters By Joe C. Pickett The city of El Paso floating the idea of yet another fee, this one for street maintenance and repair, should be looked at with real concern and questions about what they are doing with our property tax dollars now. There is a reason to be very doubtful they will do what they say.

Joe Pickett I was successful in court in bringing attention to the $6 a month franchise fee the city charges on the garbage side of our water and sanitation bills. Even though the city is appealing, the facts do not change. The city created an ordinance to collect this fee, which generates almost $14 million a year, and the ordinance said the revenue is for “wear and tear on city streets.” We proved that the city indeed does not spend all that mone

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