With changes in state numbers coming almost daily, the tentative 2011-12 school budget is still in flux but will not change enough to require a millage rate increase.
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Taxes were raised! When property was reevaluated, the school system held the tax rate the same resulting in a tax increase. My taxes went up over 30%.
It is true that the tax rate has not gone up, but it is not true that you have not raised taxes in 5 years! By not lowering the milage rate equal to the revaluation rate, you raised taxes.
Please post how much tax revenue you received 5 years ago and how much tax revenue you receive now.
I knew it. Don't vote Obama... want cut schools. He want cut schools and jobs. Big gas prices. Big tax. No new budget 2013. Bad economy. $15, 16, and 17 trillion dollars. Please don't vote for Obama.
Wasnt it disclosed that the School Board had over a Million and a half stashed? If this be the case, a millage increase should generate a number of recalls.
Just think of how much more your taxes would have gone up if it had not been for the school system not raising their rates. They are operating on a bare bones budget and doing very well.
Lay the blame where it really lies. On the liberal big spenders you probably helped put in office at home and abroad.
The problem with the school system is the few that make big bucks and pet projects. It is not with the teachers. Also the federal mandates that are placed on our system.
The federal reserve is to blame and decades of federal mismanagement is to blame for the economic problems that the country is facing on national, state and local levels. The problems all started when the dot com bubble popped and the economy was artificially propped up with record low interest rates from Alan Greenspan at the Federal Reserve. This created the housing bubble which allowed those who could not afford to be homeowners to get cheap money from notes that they were destined to default on. Rating agencies like Moody's fraudulently rated this junk as triple A investments, leaving big institutions holding junk. When it all came crashing down, this led to the bailouts and government intervention designed to save the 'too big to fail' while the rest of America was left to sink. The combination of deflationary collapse in real estate and the job market as a whole, combined with the price inflation caused by the debt monetization and quantitative easing programs of the federal reserve has caused the current economic stagflation. Its only going to get worse too because if the government and fed quit the QE program, the economy will collapse into total, great depression level deflation. If they keep printing and debasing the dollar, we will experience inflation and possibly hyper inflation. Interest rates hikes will not be an option to control this inflation because it will kill the economy as cheap credit dries up and it will mean that the interest payments on the multi-trillion dollar debt will be so high that no amount of tax hikes and cuts will be able to pay it. The combination of cuts on a state level, pay freezes, inflation and poor tax revenues are causing the budget problems. The only option I can see is a total default on the trillions of dollar of debt. The national debt doesn't even begin to account for the hundreds of trillions in potential derivatives liabilities that exist on Wall Street. Only a total default, with all dollar debts squashed will save the United States. The federal reserve needs to be abolished and the a new dollar, backed by precious metals needs to be issued. Sound money, reforms in foreign policy, reforms of Wall Street, energy independence, a return to manufacturing and smart trade policies are the only solutions to these problems. There are budgetary problems at a local level and some are due to waste, but much is to do with rules of accounting regarding how money can be spent, state cuts and the aforementioned federal level problems.
NO! That is a revenue increase. It could be from increased tax rates, increased property values based on reassessments, increased property values due to more building/improvements across the county or many of other things.
So Truby is cutting teachers, coaches, and increasing students in classrooms b/c of the lack of state funds and low millage rate, but he can choose and get the board to approve his replacement???!!! Come on "Yes Men"...how can you let Truby bring on a "part-time" assistant superintendent and pay this guy when he is cutting teaching positions?
Well part of the problem is that the board is full of idiots. Most of them are so timid and scared to exercise their real power as elected representatives that they simply rubber stamp anything that the superintendent recommends. Most of them are either too timid, too stupid or care too much about trivial things like the football team, that they fail to hold the superintendent to account. But hey, the people get the rulers they deserve, as the saying goes.
My property taxes were accessed at $400 more than they were last year? If that is not an increase then what is? How can the tax accessors rank the property value much higher that you can get a mortgage for. I am sick and tired of paying for these children from single family homes while they get more in welefare and food stamps than I make in a month.
Where did you get your information from? The primary school is reducing class sizes in 1st and 2nd grade and has hired two additional teachers. I am not 100% certain, but I believe all teaching vacancies have filled and there have not been any positions cut. Dr. Truby has done a fantastic job as far I am concerned. Look at the surrounding counties and the furlough days the students and teachers had to take this year. Monroe County had 15 furlough days. Pike had 6 furlough days. How many did Lamar have? None - thanks to proactive management of Dr. Truby and the school board.
Monroe County did not have 15 furlough days...there were 10 this year and plans are to have only 5 next year pending the finalized budget from the state.
Check the high school not the Primary school.
Reduced class size results in more funding from the state. That is from Steele's push to let Truby know. Take off your rose trimmed glasses. And we will have furlough days next year that has already been stated.
Obama same like Bush. Obama gets an f. Too big too fail. Like no future. Obama has quit job. Can't fix the economy and jobs and middle class and health care. Both Obama and Bush. But in 2013. Change back for the better. Future America.
I don't see how the city and the county are both going to stay afloat financially. When the bean counters that manage the county money are under close to a half million dollars in personal debt and can't even keep it in her pants long enough to run the numbers. Taxes are going to have to be raised and services are going to have to be cut. However, before the county and city have to raise taxes, I would get a new auditor and see where the county REALLY is financially. If we continue to let someone who is morally bankrupt review all county spending, we will be financially bankrupt before you know it.
Cry!! cry!!cry!!
Truby will do what he wants for the good of his friends in the system and screw everyone
else. What ever it takes to keep the BIG salaries BIG
Explain how an auditor MANAGES ANY county money, I did not realize an auditor made ALL the decisions. An auditor only issues a report which the PUBLIC can view. If you don't like how the county spends money, then talk to and about the right people before you make yourself look stupid... oh... too late.
It is true that the tax rate has not gone up, but it is not true that you have not raised taxes in 5 years! By not lowering the milage rate equal to the revaluation rate, you raised taxes.
Please post how much tax revenue you received 5 years ago and how much tax revenue you receive now.
This is a tax increase!
Lay the blame where it really lies. On the liberal big spenders you probably helped put in office at home and abroad.
http://m.usatoday.com/article/money/46858612?preferredArticleViewMode=single
or this
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5aAsxFJOeMw/R_t1FvDtjHI/AAAAAAAAA6o/iECKyZxgikw/s1600-h/1954-vs-2006-marginal-income-tax-rates-0-17HH.JPG
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/04/us-tax-rates-1916-2010/
What has decreased is the share the wealthiest people pay....down from up in the 90% range to the 30% range for top earners.
All the tax cuts in the world won't let people live on incomes from Burger King or WalMart.
This is his golf buddy afterall...
How fast people forget!!
I agree with that!!!
I guess I will put the wool back over my eyes now!
Reduced class size results in more funding from the state. That is from Steele's push to let Truby know. Take off your rose trimmed glasses. And we will have furlough days next year that has already been stated.
Truby will do what he wants for the good of his friends in the system and screw everyone
else. What ever it takes to keep the BIG salaries BIG