An Interview with Randy Pittenger, Board President of Belton ISD
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Equity Center Radio |August 13, 2010 | Randy Pittenger, the Board President at Belton ISD, Talks with the Equity Center’s Executive Director, Wayne Pierce, About the Educational Financial Crisis Facing his District and how Belton is Weathering the Storm.
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Today’s Equity Center podcast guest is Randy Pittenger, School Board President at Belton ISD. Speaking with our Executive Director, Wayne Pierce, Randy eloquently discusses the lack of taxpayer equity in our school finance system and the difficulty of explaining to taxpayers why their tax rates are higher than neighboring districts’ rates when their district’s revenue is lower than those same neighbors. He talks about the negative impact of a Maintenance & Operations (M&O) Tax Ratification Election (TRE) on a subsequent bond election. Randy describes his consternation that elected officials don’t see an urgent need to level the playing field.
Randy has served on the Belton ISD Board of Trustees for the past 16 years, and as Board President for the past eight years. He is a graduate of Abilene Christian University and currently works for Metroplex Health System in Killeen as the Director of Behavioral Health. Randy and his wife, LaGay, have three children and two grandchildren.
Randy Pittenger
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