TX Hospital District Establishes Nonprofit To Dodge Open Meeting Rules
Tax money goes in, but no information comes out
Having endured those galling laws requiring tax increases be voted on in public, the Travis County hospital district would like to get down to the business of spending your $54 million without your help, thank you.
The district might have preferred not to tell you how they plan to do it had the Austin American-Statesman not made its usual, irksome inquiries.
You see, rather than distribute your property tax increase and as much as $76 million more in matching federal tax money a year through its own board, subject to the nettlesome state Open Meetings Act, the district established a nonprofit Central Health Collaborative, the Statesman is reporting.
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