TODAY IS
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2019
Trump’s 1,000th Day In Office
Angry Andersonian Corbly Clough says the Forest Hills School District’s apocalyptic wailing warns that they will have to cut 30 jobs if their operating levy fails. Is the district saying that cutting 30 jobs keeps them in business and taxes stable? Could those 30 jobs a little fat-trimming that over-taxed payers need?
We The Over-Taxed Payers should give this situation some consideration. Why aren’t they asking:
- How many students are there now and how many were there at the time of last operating levy?
- How many employees are there now compared to then? How many teachers? How many administrators?
Then informed voters can do the math. How many employees, teachers, and administrators per student? Did the district become more efficient or less efficient? Add overhead or trim overhead?
Voters also should ask about how many jobs will be added if the levy passes. Not just the first year. Over the five years of budget projections. Does the district need those new jobs or just want them? Do over-taxed payers need to fund those jobs or are they being quietly led to fund them with a new levy?
School districts subscribe to Twisted Lyrics: “You can always get what you need; but if you try sometime you find you get what you want.”
After that bond levy hosing, it would seem over-taxed payers should be careful about being led easily to the bank. “It’s sad, so sad; It’s a sad, sad situation; And it’s getting more and more absurd; Sorry seems to be the hardest word.” (as in “Sorry. Maybe next time.”)
