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BexarMet delayed the release of contract
November 20, 2008: As the Bexar Metropolitan Water District was fighting for its life last year in the Texas Legislature, the utility stalled the release of public information that could have shed light on a controversial contract worth an estimated $177 million.
“I want us to delay anything as long as we can,” BexarMet's spokesman, T.J. Connolly, privately wrote in an e-mail to BexarMet's lawyer and general manager on April 17, 2007. Read the full article here.
Dallas school trustees are told new audit won't be positive
November 7, 2008: Dallas school district administrators warned school board members Thursday that independent auditors are likely to issue another critical report next month.
Chief financial officer Steve Korby said that's because the district did not have time to fix problems highlighted in last year's stinging audit before the 2007-08 fiscal year ended. Read the full article here.
Top state university leaders often go without written performance evaluations
November 5, 2008: Top administrators of four-year Texas universities are evaluated unevenly and often out of the public eye, a survey of documents obtained by journalism students at three state universities has found.
No hard and fast rules exist for how administrators are evaluated at Texas schools, nor are there overarching standards for what criteria appear on evaluations, the documents show.
Last year, the Texas Legislature debated how much information should be available to the public on the performance of higher-education administrators. Lawmakers considered a proposal to make evaluations exempt from public disclosure under the Texas Public Information Act. Read the full article here.
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