Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 06:55:15 -0400
From: chathammatters
Subject: Response to Al Manning
To Al Manning: Al, there is no contradiction:
The County provides funds for school infrastructure such as property and buildings, the state provides funding for operating expenses like teacher and administrator salaries.
1) Our new Chatham County Commissioners kept funding to our schools exactly the same (no cuts), and did not raise our property or sales taxes.
2) The State, however, did cut funding. Unfortunately, under prior leadership, our state legislature relied on “Stimulus” money instead of making necessary changes. Well now the “Stimulus” money is gone, now we have to make the changes, and we are left with an enormous Debt hangover from the “Stimulus.
RE:
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:40:07 -0400
From: “Al Manning”
Subject: Which is it?
In the June 23 edition of the Chatham Record, there is a letter to the editor
from Cathy Wright, Chairman of the Chatham County Republican Party that states,
in part, “The Chatham Board of Commissioners recently passed a budget
…[that] does not raise property taxes or reduce funding to core priorities
such as schools…”
In the same issue, on page 1, there is an article with the headline SCHOOL
SYSTEM FACES CUTS, which states some 29 positions will be lost.
Is there not a contradiction here? If funding is not being reduced, why
is the School System losing positions?
Al Manning
The Resident Curmudgeon