Comments on: Discussion Evolving

By: retired from DRG I

retired from DRG I — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:39:42 +0000

I have asked Rep. Fleischman, at a CABE legislative breakfast about the ECS increase and tax relief. It seems the legislators want to tell taxpayers it’s relief and Bds of Ed it’s for education. We say, you can’t spend the money twice.

One catch is that our budgets are settled prior to the state’s budget. Therefore money the state may send out is most likely not included in the budget already- if not expected or strongly listed in DGM.
When I asked about that – I was told to go to the town and ask for that money from Bd of Finance.
Sure!
They’re just waiting to give us more money than is already in the passed budget and that we didn’t plan on spending. ?
The budget time frame for state and local is not working.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:30:42 +0000

Thanks for informing me about how school finances work. It really is a shame that local decision makers get to chose between tax relief and spending more money on schools. Today’s students are more needy than ever. I would like to hear you talk more about how schools can receive additional financing, rather than hearing reasons about why tax relief is a legitimate issue.

By: retired from DRG I

retired from DRG I — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:52:49 +0000

Now on the BOE in my town (DRG C) our board was warned that if we cut the budget too much to comply with our BOF 3% bar- we would be liable for cutting beyond what is needed to maintain “good schools” and be personally liable for the difference. I would suppose it is rare to be charged but it is on our minds – when the cuts get down to being so tight we can’t breathe!