Anyone remember that tourist dollars spent in Charleston County were going to generate the revenue lost by cutting local property taxes to support the Charleston County School District's operating costs?
What is the cost of stupid anyway? Not to mention shifting the tax burden to the poor.
What the residents of Charleston County see are expensive facilities and projected massive football stadiums at tremendous cost. The average Joe figures that the school board is always going to cry wolf and overspend its budget on frills.
Multi-million-dollar stadiums are easy to see; underpaid teachers and crowded classrooms not so much. Maybe it's time to rein in capital spending and devote some time to educating the public about operating expenses.
"About 83 percent of Charleston County Schools' $483 million operating budget goes to personnel costs, including annual salary increases, health plans and retirement contributions that are all mandated by the Legislature. 'They set our expenses, but they don’t allow us to meet our expenses,' said Todd Garrett, chairman of the Audit and Finance Committee on the Charleston County School Board."
As long as CCSD spends like a drunken sailor on new facilities, not much sympathy will arise for its whining about operating expenses.
It's one more cost of poorly educated public, stupid.
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