Maverick County Taxpayers file petition with 1,867 signatures to Rollback $8.5 Million Certificates of Obligations approved by Commissioners Court

By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2017

A delegation of concerned Maverick County Taxpayers presented to and filed with the Maverick County Clerk’s Office a petition of 137 pages with a total of 1,867 signatures of registered County voters requesting a Rollback election of up to $8.5 Million in Certificates of Obligations approved by Maverick County Commissioners Court in late 2016 on Thursday, February 9, 2017.

Maverick County now has to review the validity of the signatures on the petition to determine if a minimum amount of registered County voters signed the petition to Rollback the $8.5 Million in Certificates of Obligations, also know as bonds.

Maverick County Taxpayers allegedly fell short by 99 controversial voters in an earlier Rollback petition to set aside the County’s 2016 Tax Rate of $.542309 cents per $100 valuation of ad valorem property taxes, which may be challenged in the immediate future in state district court.

The financial transparency tug of war between concerned County Taxpayers and Maverick County Commissioners Court intensifies with the two Rollback petitions filed to date.