It would be more accurate to expose that the bond issue, $185,500,000, includes some amount, it might be $500K (nearly 3 tenths of one percent), to perform a study of drainage in BV. No doubt, we all wonder what they might find.

Bit of a thin reason to bite off on $185+ million - a little over $500 per man, woman, and child in the county.

The "no tax increase", of course, depends on the appraisals automatically going up 10% per year so taxes increase without "a tax (rate) increase".