When is $535,729,345 not enough?

Answer: When you are the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District School Board. And the governor of your state signed a special session bill earlier in the summer allowing you to raise your tax rate up to 4 cents without voter approval. And you just can't seem to find $10,000,000 worth of savings in over half a billion dollars of spending. You can watch the whole discussion here if you'd like, or (my recommendation) you can read fellow Lone Star Times contributor Ree-C Murphey's excellent summary.

In completely unrelated news that has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with runaway school district spending, the Berry Center, Cy-Fair ISD's new $80 million state-of-the-art stadium, arena, conference center, and theater facility, will present Cinderella on November 17 through December 10. Tickets are $10.50 for adults and $9.50 for children and seniors.