County Commish vs. RMA Cage Match in San Antonio!

Bexar County Commissioner Lyle Larson is out to stop the Alamo RMA bureaucracy by keeping tax dollars from flowing into its coffers. Like leaches onto host tissue, Perry's RMA's need Tax dollars to sustain themselves. And, today Larson is out to choke off those dollars - so the freeway tolling authority will die on the vine! Go Lyle Larson!

FROM SA EXPRESS: "Larson, angry about the state's look at a private bidder to build North Side toll road projects after encouraging the county to set up the local entity, has been trying to line up votes to delete part of the RMA's funding at today's commissioners court meeting.

"I'm really not a proponent of creating layers of government when they're not needed," Larson said. "We've never wanted to toll the roads."

"Commissioners have funded the RMA with $750,000 in loans, with another $500,000 coming from the city. If the county cuts off the RMA, it would be tough to operate beyond a year, said RMA board member Jim Reed.

More importantly, he said, it would be seen as a vote of no-confidence by the county at a time when the RMA is working up a memorandum of agreement with the state that would outline its role in setting up an agreement with the private developer — Spain-based Cintra and locally owned Zachry American Infrastructure."

"It opens the door to open-ended new taxation that will
amount to the largest tax increase in Texas History.”
– Lyle Larson, Bexar County Commissioner
(Give Lyle some love!: llarson@co.bexar.tx.us)