Raid the contingency fund! What's a contingency anyway?
Sell that old real estate that's just hanging around! Next year's budget will be harder? Sell the Fraser campus for next year's budget. Sell the Rivers campus to balance the budget the following year. Sell the Charleston Progressive campus. Sell, sell, sell--cover those operating costs with sales of capital until. . .
Stoke Gregg Meyers's ego with *Meyers* provisions to the budget; he needs more self confidence!
Up those taxes on businesses! It was a forgone conclusion when the new state funding rules went into effect! Why do businesses matter anyway?
Get used to it, folks. Charleston County School District gets funded from the state sales tax on the same basis as every other school district.
Not fair, you say? There's nothing fair about a sales tax.
Why did CCSD get the short end of the stick while other districts' finances actually improved? It doesn't take a rocket scientist or accountant to figure out that CCSD was spending more per pupil than the others--and getting less in results. Now it's on a forced diet, except the Board is raiding the refrigerator.
Thursday, June 26, 2008
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Are we suppose to thank Gregg for actually ADMITTING Buist gets more funding than our other schools? Silly Gregg. He thinks we're suppose to thank him for giving two of our schools supposedly equal "staffing" to Buist. What about the rest of them? Now, I'm just trying to figure out what Memminger did with their extra 3 foreign language teachers. Maybe they're hiding in the SAIL teacher's closet.
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We don't need more money. We just need to get rid of the crazies who think they now how to spend it.
Kind of makes you wonder about the fiscal experience and wisdom of those running the local Chamber of Commerce. They endorced Al Parrish didn't they. They're also the ones saying CCSD knows what it's doing with our money and our schools, too. Just to show you how committed the Chamber of Commerce is to this kind of school financing, to Gregg Meyers and the status quo at CCSD, they are putting up a real estate developer to assume the seat that appears to be reserved for them.
Yes, I know it's for the West Ashley constituents, but as Toya Green has said, no one expects county school board members to actually represent the people they were elected to serve. This CCSB seat is currently occupied by their man, the token CPA, and they expect to keep it.
These people at the Chamber must be really deaf, too, because they raised not a peep when Nancy McGinley announced that only "bad old" businesses would get hit with this school tax increase. I thought business owners were supposed to be smart. Did any of these people think to ask questions or do they just go along with this and hope for the best?
Geeezzz, I'm glad they're not handling my assets! Oh, but they are, even if I wish they wouldn't.
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